Now, admittedly there's an old-school quality and sense of musical continuity with the rest of the series that this simplistic, minimal approach captures, but come on. When Nintendo said that Skyward Sword would feature a live orchestra, I'm sure we were thinking of something more along the lines of Super Mario Galaxy in terms of ambition. Instead what we got was a comparatively conservative use of live instrumentation.
Article discusses how the soundtrack isn't everything they were expecting. I think it's a fantastic soundtrack myself, but then they do think it's good just not how they expected it to be.
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Mar 11, 12 at 4:25pm
sfree36
Whoever wrote the article about the soundtrack musn't have been playing the write game. The music was great, admittedly I like the music from twilight princess more, but still Skyward Sword's soundtrack was great as well.
Mar 09, 12 at 6:42pm
Symphonic Abyss
Yeah. I like the Song of the Hero, but I just don't know it like I do most Mario songs in the history of forever, specifically the Galaxy songs. SMG games are the only Wii OSTs that stood out to me.
Mar 09, 12 at 6:36pm
bbb7002004
I still hum the Symphony of the Goddess regularly, I can't even remember what most of SMG's music sounded like.
Different strokes I suppose.
Mar 09, 12 at 6:30pm
Symphonic Abyss
This is majestic. Peaceful, simple and powerful. Good music can really get that, and while I loved the Skyward Sword soundtrack, it didn't live up to the hype it had. All SMG music was just as powerful, even more so with SMG2.
I really liked the Skyward Sword song track. ^^ The songs were really powerful and very memorable. I have no complaints. Normally I don't really regard Zelda soundtracks as amazing but it really stuck out.
I don;t agree with the author's last paragraph that the sense of majesty is gone from the opening screen. I think quite tracks are more suspenseful and majestic in how peaceful they are. Skyward Sword has loud and majestic tracks when it calls for them but has a good mix of peaceful tracks too. Too many louder "majestic tracks" don't have the same effect as when there are gentler ones that flow better.
Now, admittedly there's an old-school quality and sense of musical continuity with the rest of the series that this simplistic, minimal approach captures, but come on. When Nintendo said that Skyward Sword would feature a live orchestra, I'm sure we were thinking of something more along the lines of Super Mario Galaxy in terms of ambition. Instead what we got was a comparatively conservative use of live instrumentation.
Article discusses how the soundtrack isn't everything they were expecting. I think it's a fantastic soundtrack myself, but then they do think it's good just not how they expected it to be.
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