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Oops I noticed that I forgot to say that Mario Kart is of course must own and shouldn't be rebranded or anything...

Of course the way Nintendo is going this gen, I wouldn't be surprised if we get a Mario Kart Wii Plus with 10 new tracks, a couple of new paint jobs, and a $50 price tag to sell to the casuals suckers.

I just hope they'll use orchestrated music again, that's my only concern. I hope Nintendo doesn't take the easy, cheap-ass route and uses midi...

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The trailer was Midi

Exactly, that's why I'm concerned... That midi music from the trailer was actually a song that already existed in the original Galaxy as an orchestrated piece, so why the heck they had to re-do that in midi and put it in that trailer is beyond me... :s I just hope it's not a sign of things to come, 'cos imho the music was one of the highlights of the game, suddenly switiching to midi would be retarded.

Good. Yoshi is more important than mario. Yoshi's power ups will be awsome.
And this game is harder sweet!

Mario has found the Sands of Time. Mario is the Prince of Persia descendent confirmed.

That's not quite correct: the music used in the trailer is an arrangement of a number of pieces from Galaxy. The fact that it is a midi recording (technically an incorrect use of the term, but whatever) is not very surprising as it is actually quite common for composers to make midi mock-ups of their works to show the director before hiring an orchestra to do the final recording - something that is usually done at a very late stage of production. For reference, the original Galaxy also used midi music for the first demo/trailer.

Of course, Nintendo may still try to cut some corners where they can (I assume they will implement at least some music from the original sountrack) but there is no indication that they will lessen their standards in terms of orchestration of any new material at this point.

thats kinda what i was thinking of too. they always use an orcestra for recording for only 1 day, and before they could do that, they would have to be far enough along in development to know all of the music that will be in the game, and have the sheet music for all that written out, and they probably aren't that far along yet. remember that this game still has about a year or so (give or take a few months) before release.

I think its good news all around.. none of the suits in SMG were all that innovative although the bee one was pretty cool..

Its also very good to near that SMG2 will be more difficult.

Yoshi >>>>>>>>>>>> new suits