Sure, there’s that annoying “Press Any Button” prompt in the bottom-right of the screen, but the decision that Monolith Soft makes to present this imagery and music before even showing the title of the game I think is a pretty bold statement. Between the vast field begging to be explored, the intrigue of the Monado, and the emotive music, this screen almost becomes a microcosm for the game itself. Most games, even wonderful games, are content to just have a simple menu for starting your game, a spiffy background, and some sound effects if you’re lucky. It borders the line between a minimalist launching point and a dramatic introduction to the game.
I don’t know about you, but when I sit down to play this game, I insist on watching this entire scene without even thinking about touching my controller. Upon finally getting this game in our hands, inserting the disc and loading it up, the first thing that is experienced before anything else * is this title screen. It was finally announced on Decemfor North America, and released on Apalmost two years after its initial launch in Japan. It was released to rave reviews in Europe on August 19, 2011, and in Australia on September 1, 2011, with no word of a North American release. After being retitled Xenoblade, it was released for the first time in Japan on June 10, 2010, and after much waiting, announced for Europe on Maas Xenoblade Chronicles. It was first announced as Monado: Beginning of the World at E3 2009, a North American event, and the localization was included on several financial reports after that time. We waited a very long time for this game. Known for the music behind Street Fighter 2, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Kingdom Hearts, Mario & Luigi, Legend of Mana In addition to talking about the music itself, we’ll look up information on the composer, interviews with the music team and people behind the game, as well as recurring themes in the soundtrack, arrangements, covers, and more. Despite the name, this isn’t actually a review of an entire OST, but a focused collection of analysis and content behind a specific track or song, while raising awareness of musical concepts and the composition process. It’s cute, but warm light, but sentimental.As a follow-up assignment to our musically-inspired class discussion, we here at oprainfall are trying out a new feature called Soundtrack Study where we go in depth with coverage on your favorite pieces of music from video game history, and help figure out what makes them classic themes. The piece again is a fantastic work of Kondo’s, not doing anything too serious, but not coming off has hackneyed or cliched. The music box as an instrument often serves the purpose of imbuing a sense of memory into the music, as though to give the sense that whatever happened was a long time ago or, at least, harkens back to a sentimental time. The “Story Organ” has a real sense of kindness and warmth in it. All of the music is fun, like dancing with your grandmother in the kitchen as the pot of stew is cooking.Īnyway, it’s light and kind. Musically, the game doesn’t take itself too seriously, which is its greatest strength. The art in this game is just so lovely, I am in love with this world.
You really feel empowered in this game because you’re taking care of the protagonist as he looks for his baby brother. In fact, it was like the player had drawn it. When we look at the artistry in this game, the designers really tried to push the imagery of crayons, colourful shapes, nothing too precise, and everything is just really happy (like the hills, who are smiling in the picture below). It’s not that the life of your hero is in your hands (because that’s always the case in every game), but it’s that your hero is a baby and is unable to take care of himself, so you have to. Now, put yourself in a young person’s shoes and just think about that for a second. When you take on the role of Yoshi, your job is take care of baby Mario. I think that Yoshi’s Island speaks to that demographic… really, I do. I think it’s that he understands that there are different elements in every kid (or every person, really): There are adventurers ( Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time), explorers ( Super Mario Galaxy) or care-givers.
It’s not that it’s terribly clever, motific or well-structured, but there is something that speaks the kid in all of us. There’s something magical about the music of Koji Kondo.
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