Hot take: if you post in this thread without a link or a YouTube containing some great tunes you shouldn't post in this thread.
Raydon4 wrote:Personally prefer 2’s OST over 1’s but I do really like 1’s OST as well. Same goes for gameplay.
I challenge you, then! What are the tracks that, for you, make SMG2's music better than SMG1's? I can think of the excellent
Puzzle Plank and that's it. (Also, Cloudy Court is an attempt to recreate the magic of Gusty Garden but without the originality to do so don't @ me.)
Squinty wrote:I love the F Zero X soundtrack, it's ridiculous. There's a really good guitar arrange album for it on YouTube.
SILENCE MATE! Never has a track's name been so inappropriate. Oh well, it's good stuff.
Hot take two, while we're on the subject:
F-Zero GX's Big Blue is better than the original Big Blue.
Ironhide wrote:I've been playing Baba is You recently and I really like the chilled out chiptune-esque music. Much better than some instantly forgettable orchestral soundtrack that most games seem to have these days.
This is interesting, because I was close recently to calling Baba's soundtrack rubbish. Then I went back and had a proper listen and reversed my view. It's very low-key and not very hummable and I didn't notice it initially while swearing at my brain's inability to function, but it's got a good creepy vibe to it and the occasional splendid tune.
Not letting you have Cog is Push though, that's the stuff of nightmares.
Rex Kramer wrote:Not sure much could have beaten walking into an 80s arcade when you're surrounded by absolute classic machines pumping out great tunes at ear splitting volumes and then you round a corner and the single greatest piece of game music ever created is playing.
The nostalgia is
very strong with this one.
Incidentally in my very personal opinion
this is the best gaming music ever.And finally!
The Watching Artist wrote:I'd argue all day long in favour of the MIDI stuff to. Personally I find that whilst its obvious lots of it is mimicking real instruments, the sounds themselves are distinct enough to become something else.
Fair enough: I think it is the wrong side of Uncanny Valley for me. Chiptunes are distinct, but MIDI, be it OoT or TP (I agree with you by the way that both are still tremendous) is just a bit too close.
Speaking of valleys, though, we've got this far in a thread about OoT's music without
posting Gerudo Valley and we should all be ashamed of ourselves.