Poll: Nintendo Music

[Peteron]

For those of you who play Nintendo games, I am sure most of you enjoy the soundtracks in their games. So my fellow Escapists, which game series do you believe have the best music? In my personal opinion, it is probably the Legend of Zelda series. Pokemon and Kirby are close behind though. I only have 8 options, but if you have any other choices, feel free to post.

 

[Guffe]

I am not going to vote since they are all great in their ways and I am unable to choose. There, Mario: simple but still great and everybody knows what it is. Zelda: some of their songs are made with orchestras, that is around 100 instruments bashing on for full fro a game!!! Pokemon: about same as Mario, legendary and memorable. Metroid: Can be scary and spooky but fits every mood and situation of the games and so on and so on. I refuse to vote!!

 

[Geekosaurus]

I chose Kirby, just because it's so damn catchy. Oh, and for this Kirby/Snoop Dogg mix:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b2w4CU6Vc4&feature=search

 

[Eumersian]

Zelda always had more epic music. Even when it was all crappy MIDI and that stuff, it was still really well written. Mario was fun music, but to me it's more novelty music that can't be taken seriously out of context (or in context for that matter).

From the few other I noticed before I instantaneously picked Zelda, that music doesn't stand out as much. The music from Twilight Princess was incredible, and very effective. The other stuff like from Metroid is just kind of there to fill the hole where there should be music.

More Nintendo games need epic soundtracks. Especially Metroid in my opinion.

 

[Blue_vision]

I voted Metroid solely for the Metroid Prime trilogy. The other games were pretty good too.

EDIT: Zelda comes in a close second though.

 

[Peteron]

I love the Kirby Snoop Dogg Mix! Well, my favorites would have to be...Zelda: Song of Storms, Clocktown, Temple of Time, etc. Then for Pokemon it would be like the Gym themes..well all of the Pokemon music actually. Same goes for Mario, its just plain classic. Then we have Green Greens, Gourmet Race and some of Meta Knight's music for Kirby. And for F-Zero, Mute City of course.

 

[The Rascal King]

Zelda. Ocarina of Time soundtrack = euphoric masterpiece

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

I'm going with Zelda here. Those games have always had the most catchy and memorable melodies.

 

[Pat728]

Has to be fire emblem even though a lot of the other series are great too.

 

[thedeathscythe]

Zelda, even though Pokemon is a close second...and then everything else is a close tie for third

 

[XUnsafeNormalX]

How in god's name is F-Zero not destroying these other options?



Best racing music of all time

 

[Brainst0rm]

Metroid's music is perfect for the game, but not spectacularly awesome. I could listen to Zelda music all day, though. Every game except Phantom Hourglass has at least one blow-your-mind amazing track.

 

[TheSchaef]

Zelda is the best collection of game music available, not just for Nintendo but it belongs in the discussion across the industry. That's kind of a high bar for these other franchises to reach.

Mario is excellent but it's a strange combination of carribean flavor and at times (mainly SMB 2 and SMWorld) joplin-esque ragtime that it kind of can't exist outside of itself. It is ingrained in the public consciousness as part of the Mario mythos. The irony is that makes Sunshine the best fit for the music because it actually takes place in a tropical locale.

Star Fox is excellent but seems not to live up to its own potential. It has great moments but for whatever reason they can't seem to make the whole package live up to, for example, the Star Wolf theme:

It's kind of like how you think the soundtrack for Perfect Dark is awesome until you start listening to the tracks isolated from the game and realize they set a great MOOD but weren't really memorable as music.

Which brings me to my last point: I notice that all these titles are first-party titles. If I were allowed to nominate second-party and still have it count as "Nintendo" music, I would submit Jet Force Gemini and campaign tirelessly for it. Best thing to happen to video game music since the Mega Man series:

 

[ICanBreakTheseCuffs]

this song will heal your brain so you bow down to the might of the zELDA soundtrack!!!!!!
(yeah I went over the top on that)

 

[Mr.PlanetEater]

Well the Mother series has the best music if you ask me, but as you forgot to add it to the poll..I voted Zelda which comes in a close second. I do enjoy a good Zelda Tune from Majora's Mask or Wind Waker. :3

But to prove my point that Mother has some awesome music;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FnIjibs8As&feature=related
^Best song from Mother 3 if ya' ask me.

 

[icyneesan]

Kirby for the lolzy awesomeness and Zelda for the Epic Awesomeness