Yes, while Audun spotted the Metroid: Other M teaser website some months ago with a nice piano ballad accompanying it, Nintendo has launched an official website for the game, featuring a remix of the title BGM from the original Famicom Metroid. While Kenji Yamamoto often included references to past Metroid titles in the Metroid Prime series, Other M composer Kuniaki Haishima pays tribute to the very origins of the series with this chilling orchestral arrangement.
While I am a bit disappointed that Kenji Yamamoto isn’t handling the game’s music (I wonder what he’s up to?), I have enjoyed everything that I’ve heard from the game thus far. At least it seems as though Nintendo is ditching the terrible MIDI-based score that plagued some of the most important moments in the Prime series. Now we just have to wait for a soundtrack release. Cross those fingers!
What do you think of Haishima’s arrangement? Are you looking forward to the game and its soundtrack?
[via Nobuooo]
Tags: Arrangements, Kuniaki Haishima, Metroid, Metroid: Other M, News, Nintendo, Previews, Videogame
…terrible MIDI-based score that plagued some of the most important moments in the Prime series.
I… uh… what? Just wow, Jayson. Wow.
Post after post demonstrates how you really shouldn’t be writing here, EIC or not.
You mean you missed the terrible MIDI-fied version of the “Theme of Samus Aran” in Corruption? It was terrible.
Anyway, I loved the Metroid Prime scores, so maybe that came off as too harsh. The cutscenes (which is what I meant by “some of the most important moments) all featured the MIDI garbage though, which was a shame. In-game stuff was great.