By LUDWIG VON KOOPA - Plus a sample of their works.
Last Friday, the official website for Super Smash Bros. For Wii U and 3DS updated with the full list of composers for the 3DS version. All in all, there are a whopping 40 musicians listed, the vast majority are from Nintendo or Bandai Namco. If you're a videogame music buff, you might happily recognize some of the names and their works. You might also realize that some of your favourite musicians (like Koji Kondo or David Wise) are not on the list. If you recall, over seven years ago Sakurai published a similar list for Super Smash Bros. Brawl's composers. That list had 38 people on it.
Fret not! This is only for the 3DS version, which has a significantly less amount of songs in it because there are only two songs per stage in that version. The Wii U version will have much more, and therefore, more composers that are not part of the 3DS project. Also, these musicians definitely are more than capable and will make arrangements of songs that belong to franchises they have never worked on before.
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But for those working on the 3DS version, this article wants to make you feel more acquainted with these guys. Musicians also in the Brawl list will be underlined and one of their Brawl contributions will also be included. Music may or may not be spoilers. ...Oh, and all of these are embedded. So this may load very slowly for you. Apologies in advance.
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Last music update: September 11 2014.
Update: Shohei Tsuchiya's Kapp'n's Song & Hirokazu Tanaka's PAC-MAN (Club Mix)
ACE (TOMOri Kudo / CHiCO) Xenoblade Chronicles
Music for "ONE PIECE exhibition" under the editorship of Eiichiro Oda
El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron
Masashi Hamauzu Final Fantasy XIII
Saga Frontier II
Kenji Ito Romancing SaGa series
Puzzle & Dragons
Noriyuki Iwadare Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies
GRANDIA
Shota Kageyama Pokémon X and Pokémon Y
Pokémon Black Version and Pokémon White Version
Yuzo Koshiro (Ancient-corp.) Etrian Odyssey, Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune
Yasunori Mitsuda (PROCYON STUDIO) CHRONO TRIGGER
Inazuma Eleven
Michiko Naruke (Naru2 Co., Ltd.) Wild Arms
Nora to Toki no Kōbō: Kiri no Mori no Majo
Keiichi Okabe (MONACA) NieR Replicant / Gestalt
TEKKEN series
Hideki Sakamoto (noisycroak Co., Ltd.) Toukiden
TIME TRAVELERS
Motoi Sakuraba Tales of series
Dark Souls series
Tetsuya Shibata (Unique Note Co., Ltd.) Devil May Cry 2, 3, 4
Merc Storia
Yoko Shimomura Kingdom Hearts series
Mario & Luigi RPG series
Masafumi Takada (Sound Prestige LLC) Danganronpa series
Earth Defense Force series
Yusuke Takahama (TARGET ENTERTAINMENT INC.) Digital Pinball: Last Gladiators
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Hirokazu Tanaka Metroid
Dr. Mario
Kumi Tanioka FINAL FANTASY CRYSTAL CHRONICLES series
Ragnarok Odyssey series
Nobuko Toda (FILM SCORE LLC) Metal Gear Solid 4
TIME SCOOP HUNTER
Shohei Tsuchiya (TAITO / ZUNTATA) DARIUSBURST series
GROOVE COASTER series
Atsuko Asahi (Nintendo) Mario Kart 8
Animal Crossing: New Leaf
Daisuke Matsuoka (Nintendo) StreetPass: Find Mii series
Tomodachi Life
Toru Minegishi (Nintendo) The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
Wii Fit
Ryo Nagamatsu (Nintendo) Nintendo Land
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
Mahito Yokota (Nintendo) Super Mario Galaxy 1&2
Super Mario 3D World
Keiki Kobayashi (BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc.) ACE COMBAT series
THE IDOLM@STER series
Rio Hamamoto (BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc.) TEKKEN series
THE IDOLM@STER JUPITER
Hiroki Hashimoto (BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc.) TANK! TANK! TANK!
PAC-MAN & Galaga DIMENSIONS
Yoshinori Hirai (BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc.) Taiko: Drum Master series
THE IDOLM@STER
...Sorry, I have no idea.
Taku Inoue (BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc.) TEKKEN series
THE IDOLM@STER series
Jesahm (BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc.) Donkey Konga series
THE IDOLM@STER series
Saki Kasuga (BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc.) (Also known as "Saki Haruyama") Fire Emblem series
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Hiroyuki Kawada (BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc.) Walküre series
Shadow Land
LindaAI-CUE (BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc.) (also known as "Akihiko Ishikawa") Taiko: Drum Master series
Tokyo Wars
Yuji Masubuchi (BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc.) Taiko: Drum Master series
Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil
Junichi Nakatsuru (BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc.) SOULCALIBUR series
ACE COMBAT series
Katsuro Tajima (BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc.) SPLATTERHOUSE
Katamari Damacy
Torine (BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc.) Taiko:Drum Master series
THE IDOLM@STER
See Yoshinoro Hirai. AKA I don't have a clue.
Ryo Watanabe (BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc.) RIDGE RACER series
THE IDOLM@STER series
Yoshihito Yano (BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc.) Katamari Damacy series
SOULCALIBUR series
Ludwig had fun compiling this list of great music together. He hopes you had fun listening to it too! Share it with your friends who might doubt the Smash 4 3DS soundtrack, or who want to know about the musicians other than a list. If you have any corrections to make, do not hesitate to leave a comment!
Ooh, lots of good names here!
ReplyDeleteJust a comment, since for some of them you mentioned if they did a series, multiple games in a series, etc.--Michiko Naruke did the music for Wild Arms 1, 2, 3, 4 (one of a few composers), and Alter Code F (remake of the first game). Which means she's responsible for the prophets' theme in WA3, which I've probably linked you to before because it's awesome! XD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09_nn0c_Jqg
...This list has mainly reminded me of all the games I still need to play. XD
The games they did was off the Smash 4 site.
DeleteThe music they did was from research.
(You can especially see the research if the music I embedded wasn't one of the games/series listed!)
I listened to a bit of Wild Arms 1's soundtrack today. Good stuff.
Ah, okay.
DeleteYes, I did notice that.
*holds up Wild Arms 1 disk* You bet!
Oh hey you got a disk.
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