Satanic. Can't believe Nintendo sanctioned this product, though I guess they're still hoping to conjure up the long gone "New" loving crowd. It's like the anthesis of the Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze OSTsus.
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Please Nintendo, patch Yoshi's New Island's music... :(
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Satanic. Can't believe Nintendo sanctioned this product, though I guess they're still hoping to conjure up the long gone "New" loving crowd. It's like the anthesis of the Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze OSTsus.
I have to assume there is a scene where a group of Yoshi characters clumsily (but cutely?) play this song. Or something along those lines. I can't imagine we're supposed to listen to it outside the game, or that it's supposed to be a good song.
Granted, Yoshi Clan is the one song that's EXTREMELY bad. I'd like to hear some more personally. I know that I really like Bouncy Beanstalk Walk.
It only plays when the Yoshis first find Baby Mario in the pouch I believe.
...Geez, I didn't think it was -that- bad...
Metallix87
Member
Yoshi's Island is my favorite game of all time, yet I still understand why Nintendo has Arzest making the new games. Arzest, like their predecessor Artoon, have a fine pedigree because of their Sega heritage, and their games sell well, and I'm guessing are likely very cheap to make. Do I wish Nintendo would make a new Yoshi's Island themselves? Yes, absolutely, but I can't deny that Yoshi's Island DS and Yoshi's New Island are excellent games in their own rights, the former hampered by a non-existent soundtrack and the latter hindered by a negative campaign fueled by a bad song you hear for all of a minute in the game.
BinaryPork2737
Unconfirmed Member
Ehh, it's actually kind of an okay game. It's better than anything made when Arzest was Artoon.
The music on the whole is mediocre with a few decent tracks, if it wasnt for total drek in YNI like The Yoshi Clan the two games would be on par. Really not getting where youre coming from by constantly hammering "its not YIDS!"
Metallix87
Member
Yoshi's Island DS is a superior game compared to Yoshi's New Island, but it's soundtrack is absolutely atrocious. There is not a single worthwhile song in it, unfortunately.
Yoshi's New Island has one bad song, a bunch of decent ones, and a bunch of really solid ones. The one bad song, which again plays for only about a minute of the game, is the go-to reason to condemn it.
Yoshi's Island still contains the superior soundtrack over the two, and a part of me wonders why they don't just remix that soundtrack for sequels, but regardless, YIDS has the worst soundtrack of the three by miles.
Yes, Yoshi's Clan gets the beef of the attention, but I will say all the songs are lack luster. They just do not engage me. They come off as more passive and simply fail to get me into the game.
Every simple song in on the SNES game felt like it was just as integral to the levels as the enemies, backgrounds, animation and puzzles. It almost felt like Yoshi was moving to the beat of the music. New Island just feels so disconnected from it's music.
Every simple song in on the SNES game felt like it was just as integral to the levels as the enemies, backgrounds, animation and puzzles. It almost felt like Yoshi was moving to the beat of the music. New Island just feels so disconnected from it's music.
balladofwindfishes
Member
There's good music in YIDS, it's just put together poorly and low quality.
The Brawl version of this YIDS song for example, makes it seem great. The composition and quality is far better and it sounds more like a Yoshi Island song.
Metallix87
Member
That remix is better than the version in the actual game. The version that plays in the game sounds completely out of place, and not matching the feel of the series or even the stage.
This one's surprisingly good. Like, not even by Yoshi's New Island standards, but by normal standards.
What the hell happened with the rest of the soundtrack? That Yoshi Clan song is pure torture.
What the hell happened with the rest of the soundtrack? That Yoshi Clan song is pure torture.
balladofwindfishes
Member
No, but the song itself is workable. I don't know, I think if it didn't have that really goofy and annoying bass it would be a lot better.
I mean, nothing is coming close to Yoshi's Island's Flower Field. It lives in a whole other tier of Mario music, but the DS version is a decent song, just a poor composition.
Metallix87
Member
It's not the rest of the soundtrack. The Yoshi Clan is the only truly bad song, and it plays for a minute at the beginning of the game. Please stop condemning the entire soundtrack over it.
Yeah, Bouncy Beanstalk Walk is one of the best ones. Aside from the main theme that everything else is based off of and Bandit Valley that CronoShot linked above, I also like Ski-Lift Leap, the Special Levels, and Koopa Canyon.
I wouldn't say the soundtrack is amazing or anything, but the majority of the songs are just nice background music, with some really good tracks and a few really bad ones which seem to be all that anybody can remember.
EDIT- Hotfoot Hurdle is really good! Its too bad they only use it for one stage. The mellow cafe jazz mixed with being inside of the volcano was strangely a good mix. Thats the kind of weirdness this game should have relied on but mostly doesnt.
I completely disagree on the counts of YNI having only one bad song and YIDS having no worthwhile ones. I like the main theme in YIDS more than YNI, even if it makes some baffling music decisions (the fortress theme is so bad for one!)
I mean come on, you have to at least admit this is superior to the weird spedup kazoo mess that is Yoshi New Island's menu theme
I completely disagree on the counts of YNI having only one bad song and YIDS having no worthwhile ones. I like the main theme in YIDS more than YNI, even if it makes some baffling music decisions (the fortress theme is so bad for one!)
I mean come on, you have to at least admit this is superior to the weird spedup kazoo mess that is Yoshi New Island's menu theme
Metallix87
Member
Not really. What it is is that, much like the NSMB games and the Mario 3D games, they take a common musical motif and create different songs with it. They've been doing it with their Mario platformers since Mario 64, I believe.
Metallix87
Member
I'll agree with you on the title theme, which I forgot to consider since it doesn't play during the actual game, but the YIDS one isn't good. YIDS just lacks good music, while YNI has some bad tracks and a good amount of solid ones, IMO.
SteveWinwood
Member
this is literally the funniest thing ive heard in the last week
im crying and my stomach hurts jesus christ
its fucking so hilarious
they just let a cat walk on a keyboard and said fuck it that sounds good
that's wack as shit.
Calling Artoon a "B team" is way too generous. Handing Yoshi over to them was essentially sending him to a farm upstate.
It's odd that Nintendo is so protective of certain characters, but willing to release abominable games with others. Publishers the world over would have killed to have a character as beloved and recognizable as Yoshi, but the selling power of Yoshi games is basically gone after the last few boxes the name has been slapped across.
redmetal86
Member
Was this someones first try at playing Wii Music?
Also, yeesh those Sonic Brotherhood and RE
irector's Cut tracks. So glad I never heard those before. Well, until now.
Metallix87
Member
Hyperbole strikes again...
I guess this is just where musical taste kicks in. I think the theme in the DS game is more jaunty and rollicking, which is more fitting for a platformer. New Island's theme (and the majority of its variations) is just too sedate for the type of game its in. Comparing Windblown Wilderness and Bandit Valley and to me theres just no comparison.
Neither game comes anywhere close to matching the original soundtrack but YIDS more often than not is more energetic.
I'm amazed at how many people don't get that the Yoshi Clan song is supposed to sound dopey.
Do you guys also think the RE composer was being serious with this track?
EDIT: Just skimmed the rest of the thread and yes, people actually do think that.
Do you guys also think the RE composer was being serious with this track?
EDIT: Just skimmed the rest of the thread and yes, people actually do think that.
Why does this game seemingly use the exact same chord progression in every single one of its tracks?
Metallix87
Member
It's a recurring musical motif. Super Mario 64, the New Super Mario Bros. games, and Super Mario 3D Land did the same.
But at least from what's been posted in this thread, it seems like it's heavily used in every single track in the game. That's too much, in my opinion.
You do realize that everyone of those songs in the exact same song, right? They just remix them. This is what they game suffers so much... needless repeating.
bobawesome
Member
This is the correct course of action.
Why not? They did the same thing in Yoshi's Story. As long as instrumentation, tempo, etc. is unique in every track, I see nothing wrong with it (in fact, I find it an interesting method).
Oh, thanks for letting me know. Actually, now that I think about it, Beethoven did the same with his Diabelli variatons. What a slouch!
Hell, Super Mario World is the mega mack daddy in this style of composing.
But then it wouldn't have been on a Nintendo platform, if they had.
...The Wii U and 3DS are bad coma dreams, right? I'm gonna wake up and see that Earthbound 4 was released on the Giga NES, right?
/s.
Mysterious
Banned
THE FUCK IS THIS.
polyh3dron
Banned
So I guess it's a good thing that I passed on this game then?
polyh3dron
Banned
Yeah but there were quite a few different themes that got used, it wasn't just one or two. And they did cool stuff like take a theme that was done in a major key and completely flip it by putting it into a minor key.
And the arrangement of each variation was unique and amazing.
Metallix87
Member
If you like good, solid platformers, you should not have passed on this game.
Only if you're physically incapable of tolerating a song that only plays once throughout the entire game. I would recommend NSMB2 or DKCR3D before Yoshi's New Island, but it's definitely an enjoyable platformer. Yoshi Clan isn't indicative of the soundtrack as a whole.
mrmickfran
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TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
I hope the thread title is a joke.
The sound it makes every time you select it on the Home screen
The Title Screen
Cruise In the Clouds
Cave Theme
Gargantua Blargg isnt like super bad or anything, but its really not my cup of tea.
Anything with a kazoo in this game is pretty poor, its like the opposite of a Rayman soundtrack in that regard. Its best stuff are when it veers into lounge music
