The Music of 'Other M'

2009-10-18 08:13:12 am

Who would you like to compose and arrange the soundtrack for Other M?

Personally, I'd love it for Yamamoto to return, but I'd be interested to see what someone new could bring the the Metroid sound.

Also, it'd be great if the credits theme was Metroid Metal, don't you agree?

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ninja9393

2009-10-18 11:20:19 am

REMEMBAH ME?

Stemage doing some tracks would be epic

TheGreenManalishi

2009-10-18 12:06:20 pm

Votes but no comments? Come on people, tell us what you think!

Ebithio

2009-10-18 12:25:19 pm

Obviously Kenji. Super alone proves that ;)

Quietus

2009-10-19 05:12:42 am

Super Secret Area - Dead Ahead!

Quote from TheGreenManalishi:

Votes but no comments? Come on people, tell us what you think!

If I'm honest, I have no idea who any of them are. I therefore have no idea which one I'd prefer to do the music. In the same way that I don't give a monkey's who directs a film, I have no interest in who makes / composes music for a game. The film is either good, or not good. The game is either good, or not good. The music for a game is either good, or not good. Who is responsible is all but irrelevant. I have never bought a game based solely on which company it was developed by.

TheGreenManalishi

2009-10-19 02:19:04 pm

You've played the games, you're likely to be familiar with the music and, therefore, have an opinion on it. No opinion is kind of an opinion, too.

Prime Hunter

2009-10-19 02:22:59 pm

I didn't choose, but at this point I'd almost go with any of the composers who have worked with the series before. The music completely depends on the mood of the game, and as far as Metroid goes, they've pretty much always had fitting music given the situation Samus finds herself in.

FirePhoenix

2009-10-19 03:11:50 pm

Kenji Yamamoto for sure. All of the main memorable tracks with the exception of M1's Brinstar and Kraid themes, and M2's tunnel theme were done by him. The Primes and Super all had phenomenal OSTs and he'd be perfect for the job again I'm sure.

Prime Hunter

2009-10-19 03:49:37 pm

Good point that I hadn't really though of when I made my post. I'm going to vote for him, seeing as a lot of the tracks from Super have been remixed over the course of the series, and he was there for the Prime series completely right?

TheGreenManalishi

2009-10-19 05:36:46 pm

Quote from FirePhoenix:

M2's tunnel theme were done by him.

is this true?

RT-55J

2009-10-19 06:19:45 pm

Armor Guardian

FirePhoenix phrased his sentence awkwardly. To rephrase his sentence, he said "M1's Brinstar and Kraid, as well as M2's tunnel theme, are the only memorable tracks in the series not composed by Kenji Yamamoto."

Anyways, I voted for Yoshitomi, mostly because I like Metroid 2's eclectic soundtrack. Granted, if he actually did compose something in that style it probably wouldn't fit in with the game at all.

Apple

2009-10-19 07:42:07 pm

Definately Yamamato. It will probably be somebody new though, as they're working with Team Ninja...

TheGreenManalishi

2009-10-20 04:02:50 pm

I'd say that Hip Tanaka's soundtrack is only inferior (for lack of a better word) to that of SM and even Prime's is mainly due to the limited technology. In terms of melodies and musicality, it's on a par with Yamamoto's work. I like the redone music form Zero Mission, but they left out the elevator/item room theme!

nate

2009-10-20 06:26:23 pm

no love for the hunters ost? it rules! was extremely hard to choose between those dudes and stemage ...

FirePhoenix

2009-10-21 12:14:07 am

The only track I liked from Hunters was Arcterra...II I think.

Prime Hunter

2009-10-21 11:15:45 am

Quote from TheGreenManalishi:

I'd say that Hip Tanaka's soundtrack is only inferior (for lack of a better word) to that of SM and even Prime's is mainly due to the limited technology. In terms of melodies and musicality, it's on a par with Yamamoto's work. I like the redone music form Zero Mission, but they left out the elevator/item room theme!

I'd actually agree with that. No matter what level of technology a Metroid game was made for, the music almost always sounds great for that time period. Same with Mario, Zelda, or pretty much any Nintendo franchise for that matter.

Gamma_Metroid

Edit history:

Gamma_Metroid: 2009-10-26 05:10:48 pm

2009-10-21 01:30:49 pm

I went with the guys whe did the Fusion soundtrack. Second is a tie between Hip Tanaka and Kenji Yamamoto.

rekameohs

2009-10-21 09:56:28 pm

Anywhere, everywhere

Hunters' music is actually pretty good. The game itself kinda sucks, but the soundtrack has some nice remixes and original stuff, too. That said, Kenji's still the best way to go.

Tyjet66

2009-10-21 10:26:44 pm

What'd you say?

I'd like to see who ever made Super Metroid's music work on other M.

MetalWarFighter

2009-10-26 02:48:48 pm

Kenji makes awesome music.

Terrization Zillion

2009-11-05 06:43:35 am

Believe it or not that's actually a floppy disk.

Since we have a new company making it, why not have someone else take a shot.

Super KB

2009-12-02 07:52:04 pm

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Quote from Tyjet66:

I'd like to see who ever made Super Metroid's music work on other M.

kesvalk

2009-12-28 06:59:01 pm

Indie Lover

man, i hated fusion music, except for the X's theme

creXALBO

2010-01-04 04:16:56 pm

Part-time philosopher

I want Metroid Metal and whoever did Super Metroid's music to do MOM's Music!!

Opium

2010-01-04 04:28:48 pm

I'd like to hear music that has a dark /tech sounding tone to it. Stuff like Phendrana just doesn't sound metroidy to me.

	Hip Tanaka (Metroid)	(1)
	Ryohji Yoshitomi (Return of Samus)	(2)
	Stemage (Metroid Metal)	(5)
	Minako Hamano and Akira Fujiwara (Fusion)	(4)
	Lawrence Schwedler and James Phillipsen (Hunters)	(0)
	Kenji Yamamoto (Everything else)	(22)
	Someone new	(2)