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Mario Kart 8's Soundtrack is Amazing

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Neoxon

Junior Member
Seriously, it's hard to go back to the older Mario Kart games after listening to the new tracks. This is literally the first Mario Kart soundtrack I keep finding myself listening to.

Mario Kart 8 Main Theme
Rainbow Road 64
Bowser's Castle
Piranha Plant Slide
Tick Tock Clock
Rainbow Road
Bone Dry Dunes
Moo Moo Meadows
Mount Wario
Mario Kart Stadium
Mario Circuit GBA
Toad Harbor
Dry Dry Desert
Yoshi Valley
Royal Raceway
Sherbet Land
Toad's Turnpike
Dolphin Shoals (Thanks Richie for pointing this one out for me)
Cheep Cheep Beach
Online Waiting Room
Sunshine Airport
Donut Plains 3
Shy Guy Falls
Mario Circuit
Thwomp Ruins
Sugar Ru.....Sweet Sweet Canyon
Water Park
Grumble Volcano
Music Park
DK Jungle
Cloudtop Cruise
Twisted Mansion
Electrodrome
 
R

Richie

Member
You forgot my favorite moment of the Direct, OP!

Dolphin Shoals

The saxophone to win my soul.

EDIT: Thanks, OP! Between this and DKCTF, Nintendo needs to start releasing OSTs a.s.a.p!
 
Y

Ysiadmihi

Banned
I will never get tired of the MK64 raceway theme. Kind of a shame that with this we won't hear it again unless they reuse retro tracks in the future.
 
B

blankempathy

Member
Really though Nintendos been killing it with the music in their games. Even crappy games like mario and sonic at the sochi olympics had awesome music. Right now they're to me what squaresoft was in its glory days regarding their soundtracks.
 
L

Lunar15

Member
Nintendo freakin' KILLING it on soundtracks.

Soundtracks in general have been way way up in quality as of late, in my opinion.
 
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Azure J

Member
Bowser's Castle reminds me both of Super Mario 3D World and Outlaw Star. How the fuck does that work? :lol

Edit: Hot DAMN I love the new instrumentation for Toad's Turnpike. DS Tick Tock Clock is also beautifully playful. It also makes me crave a new Paper Mario.
 
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RK128

Member
Man, this has to be the most surprising part about this game to me :).

I did not expect to be impressed with a Mario Kart soundtrack...but man, they really pulled all the stops out for this (close to Mario 3D World and DKC: TF in terms of soundtrack quality :O!)

Great job Nintendo :).
 
B

braves01

Banned
Tick Tock Clock is great. Nintendo's gonna clean up soundtrack of the year awards if it keeps putting out stuff like this and Donkey Kong.
 
G

GenericBadGuy

Member
Much jazz, so violin, such saxophone.

Sounds great. I agree nintendo OSTs have been great recently, the Sochi Winter Olympics being a hidden gem. Maybe they will obtain Sega status where the games can be awful but the music is always good?

Who's the composer?
 
1

1000 Branches

Banned
Holy. Fucking. Shit.
I need to put this shit on my iPad.
GenericBadGuy said:
Much jazz, so violin, such saxophone.

Sounds great. I agree nintendo OSTs have been great recently, the Sochi Winter Olympics being a hidden gem. Maybe they will obtain Sega status where the games can be awful but the music is always good?

Who's the composer?
Click to expand...

I mean, what Nintendo game is awful, exactly?
 
G

gate stormer

Member
This game so far seems to exude nothing but QUALITY. I was beyond floored while watching the direct and listening to these songs.
 
A

axisofweevils

Holy crap! Today's real megaton is that more than two people can have the same first name.
I really wish Nintendo would release their game soundtracks on iTunes. It would be easy money.
 
R

Rogue_Ledr

Banned
Nintendo always enthralls and delights with game music. They are some of the best out there with this and their composers are adept masters of melodic brilliance.
 
F

Formless

Member
Liking the jazz/big band stuff from Nintendo lately. It's like that phase Capcom had in the late 90s/early 00s.
 
T

Terrell

Member
TreIII said:
I hope Nintendo never loses its love affair of big band OSTs. Simply a joy to listen to.
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Agreed. Some of the best music for video games is the stuff that you don't hear anymore. From big band in MK8 to the elements of jazz and ragtime in prior SMB soundtracks which are NOTABLY missing from modern iterations.

braves01 said:
Tick Tock Clock is great. Nintendo's gonna clean up soundtrack of the year awards if it keeps putting out stuff like this and Donkey Kong.
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Depends who's giving the awards.
 
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