Nintedo Composers Discussion

Originally Posted by CHz

Jun Ishikawa and Hirokazu Ando are where it's at.

HAL sound staff for the fucking win. And not just the Kirby series; Arcana has an excellent soundtrack and Alcahest and Hyper Zone are pretty good too.

I certainly can't disagree with this.

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All Kirby games but two were worked on by Ishikawa or Ando (or both). Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble was done by Takuya Maekawa, Yuichi Ozaki, and Masami Yone, but that game's music is terrible so we can disregard it. Kirby's Block Ball's music was done by Sukezo Ouyama and Ryoue Takagi. Bloody fantastic job they did too; KBB has my favorite GB/GBC soundtrack in the Kirby series. Ouyama has no credits anywhere else, but Takagi has a rather eclectic group of other soundtracks worked on: Resident Evil Zero, Dragon Quest VIII (not Nintendo, clearly), and the GBA remake of FFIV.

I'm not so sure. There weren't ever any credits given for Kirby's Pinball Land, so I don't really know if either of them were involved with that game. And Kirby & the Amazing Mirror's credits list Hironobu Inagaki and Atsuyoshi Isemura under Sound.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Well, according to the credits listing for Avalanche at Mobygames, Ando is there under "HAL Laboratory Staff", but they don't say what he did. I haven't played it in a while, so I don't remember exactly what it said either (I do recall his name being there, though).

There's nowhere I can't reach.

For Sim City, the only thing I can find are the credits to Game Music Concert 2, which featured two tracks from that game. The composer is listed as Motoyo Oka.

Super Metroid was a collaboration between Kenji Yamamoto and Minako Hamano.

Stunt Race FX was by Shinobu Amayake.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.