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koji kondo is kinda mid once you put aside the emotional attachment

(my feelings on his work is actually more nuanced than that, some of his songs are all-timers - hell yeah dire dire docks - but his reputation is really overblown and i dont even think hes a top 10 in terms of "recurring mainstream nintendo franchise composers")
Champion of Hyrule
Champion of Hyrule
I get what you mean (and I also don’t like how there’s almost a great man theory around certain game composers) even if I disagree but I don’t really think you can put aside “emotional attachment” from video game music. Game music is inherently about making you feel certain emotions within a video game, and enjoyment of a game can’t really be cleanly divorced from enjoyment of its music. I guess my point is if you’re more emotionally attached to a sound track because of the game it’s in, that soundtrack was doing its job.

There’s also the fact he was responsible for sound effects from all the older Nintendo games. His sound effects are easily the most recognizable in video games and basically completely set the mood in older Nintendo games like Mario, Zelda and Punch Out and that’s important to note with his legacy too.
I don't usually like platfighters having the FD equivalent be spooky/epic, both for being derivative of Smash and being reflective of the layouts diegetic use in Smash and not its functional use in competitive Smash, BUT it makes perfect sense for London in Royalty F4A, since that's a strictly casual game and FD is the "epic final stage" in most casual play sessions. Watched the Heat Wave stream and it does look really fun for casual play, absolutely loved the two Dorothies ganging up on Lancelot, which is the exact type of shenanigans a game like this would need. Light-mid-strong attacks sounds interesting too. 100 Acre Wood looks like a hilarious stage particularly, it's just Rooftop Rumble, but the platform is astronomically high, which strikes me as something that is deceptively wacky, not unlike the Ascend Zone in Slap.
When people talk about future PD entries, I think people really ignore that in '38, Dumbo will finally be able to join his old-school Disney brothers in the proper fairy tale pantheon. I'm excited to see how people way more knowledgable than me handle the crows, without context I naively thought they were the coolest Disney characters as a kid lmao.
Wario Wario Wario
Wario Wario Wario
I think that's really the most exciting thing about the public domain's "re-opening" to me, I'm all for sticking it to Big Disney by having Mickey support union strikes or putting Pooh in a violent video game, but the real exciting thing is that the likes of Mickey, Minnie, Oswald, Pete, Pooh, Tigger, Rabbit, Bambi, e.t.c. can now exist independent of a brand or corporation, neither in support nor opposition, if that makes sense? As in, they can be real fairy tales now, reinterpreted more than just giving them a scooter and a blue sweater (no shade to mftap), and capturing children and adults' imaginations in many different ways instead of a single brand and a few obscure spin-offs.
Wario Wario Wario
Wario Wario Wario
That goes for non-fantasy/children's characters too. It'll be neat to see all the classic movie monsters like Gillman become part of the generic Halloween/horror iconography, or Gandalf and Bilbo Baggins as stock fantasy characters.
When super mario odyssey came out I remember seeing some review for the game that was fascinating because it slowly became clear the guy hasn't really played much mario since like, the gamecube era because they were shocked that airships and chargin chucks were in it and even was like "this would've been the perfect game to reintroduce the koopalings!" when talking about the broodals.

I wanna know how they managed to live in a shoebox for all those years
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