![]() ![]() I want the music from the sports games, the Wario titles, the Mario Karts, the RPGs, Paper Mario, that one Princess Peach game, you name it. A multidisc box that collects everything. This just makes me want a proper, massive Mario music box set all the more. And as someone with a disturbing amount of Mario music releases (on vinyl, CD and even one on cassette), I know that there’s so much more out there that it overlooked. That being said, it still leaves me wanting. ![]() If you’re a fan of the Mario series and don’t have many soundtracks from it, then I highly recommend it. misgivings aside, this is a quality collection. I hope the music in future Mario games follows its lead, referencing the past while advancing and trying new things as the same time. It’s great, with an interesting modern electronic sound that recalls the bleeps and bloops of the original music with a fidelity and clarity that was impossible in the 80s. There is also one new tune here, a brief two minute song from the brand new Super Mario Maker. The songs from 3D World are also great, and manage to take the few good aspects of the “New” music (upbeat tempo and an overall sense of whimsy) and combine them well with the grandiose feel of the Galaxy compositions. It feels as original and beautiful as the games from which it came. Moreso, it does it while rarely overtly referencing the original themes. Often fully orchestrated, it has the gravitas and an epic scope that the series has always deserved. The soundtrack to the original game is a timeless classic, and music from just about all of the original games up to the “New” series hold up remarkably well.Īnd there’s of course the music to the Galaxy series of games, which is some of the grandest and most ambitious music ever to grace a Nintendo title. And so much of this music is just utterly fantastic even still. Ditto for the songs from Super Mario Land 2, which are also getting their first proper soundtrack release with this collection. Yeah, there’s a lot of Sunshine accounted for here, but that game actually never got a proper CD soundtrack release, so getting any of it is a bit of a treat. I guess I am nitpicking a bit, and some of the inclusions are a pleasant surprise. And it would have given us room for at least some “Rainbow Road” action from Super Mario Kart. One track, at most, from each game would have been more than sufficient. And the music from that version sounds like the music from the Wii version, and so on. The music from the DS version sounds like the music from the 3DS version. And not only is the music from those games ungodly horrible, but it’s all endlessly derivative. Also, nearly half of the second disc is dedicated to games in the “New” Super Mario series, and that’s just too much music from a series that is widely criticized for having absolutely lousy music (that “wah wah” sound is just the worst sound in history). ![]() Super Mario 64 gets just five tracks, while Super Mario Sunshine gets a whopping nine. The distribution of music, how many songs each game gets, seems odd as well. I get that they couldn’t fit everything on a two disc, but I wish that they would have opted for a more diverse selection of games, even if it meant less music from some games. Donkey Kong games, any of the Mario RPGs, or any sports games that featured the Mario characters. Yoshi’s Island didn’t make the cut, neither did any of the Mario vs. But a lot is also excluded from this collection. That’s seventeen games in all, which sounds like a lot. Specifically, it includes music from the following: ![]() Music is a 2CD set collecting over two and a half hours of music from various Mario games. There was the festival, the Tower Records promotion, the video game, and now there’s the CD. Mario’s 30th Anniversary celebration continues. Credited Composer: Nintendo ( Koji Kondo, Hirokazu Tanaka, Kazumi Totaka, Shinobu Tanaka, Mahito Yokota, Ryo Nagamatsu, Asuka Hayazaki). ![]()
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