Get ready for a beautiful aural experience (I didn’t even mention the sound design… underwater effects are awesome!), and watch for our review in the coming days!Ĭastlevania ~Lords of Shadow~ Exclusive Director’s Cut Soundtrack

That means I’ll pay $50+ to gouging importers because it’s that good. This soundtrack looks to be a Club Nintendo exclusive in Japan. It’s all amazingly well produced, and the cheesy game-y synth sounds that Nintendo is apt to use are used tastefully in this game. In terms of the new, there’s the infectious theme that everyone has heard in trailers, tons of catchy overworld tracks (disco meets brass for one of the final stages? Yes please!), epic orchestral for the castle stages, a great Christmas-esque snow theme, a beautiful yet spooky ghost house theme, some smooth jazz (very good!) for the beach, some fun woodwind-meets-funk bass, more disco, more funk, cool synths, traditional Japanese sounds… it goes on and on. 3 death jingle (I almost wanted to die just to hear it), to tons of references to past Mario titles that I won’t spoil here. Fortunately, they’ve brought together the best of both worlds, both in terms of a big orchestral sound and the traditional Mario big band jazz that’s been missing for so long.Įvery bit of this soundtrack is a love note to fans, from the arrangement of the character select screen from Super Mario Bros. I’ll say that Mahito Yokota and Koji Kondo (interviewed here) had a lot to live up to after their work on Super Mario Galaxy. We’ve got reviews of a lot of other great soundtracks as well, including the recent re-release of the Castlevania: Lords of Shadow soundtrack, and finally a release for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate, but also an amazing Sonic the Hedgehog album, Club Needlemouse, a BlizzCon exclusive StarCraft II CD, a Mega Man 25th anniversary project, and much more.Īs always, enjoy some streaming music courtesy of the Destructoid SoundCloud account and Bandcamp.Īrtist(s): Mahito Yokota, Koji Kondo, Toru Minegishi, Yasuaki Iwata Top honors go to Super Mario 3D World, and there are so many reasons why that you’ll read about here in a second. Note Worthy 022: Soundtracks you should be listening to!Ĭoming to the end of the year, there’s always a lot of great game music releases planned.

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