https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeQGo6L-kYo This is one of the songs of the trailer. The other one is the Overture of the entire saga of Dragon Quest, but there a lot of symphonic versions of it and I don't know exactly which it is. The real concern is how are they going to depict the Dragon Quest music in the game. Koichi Sugiyama, the composer, is very restricitive about his authorship. While in the games he only allowed to depict the music in MIDI format, he after release the soundtrack by himself performed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphonic Orchestra (in the DQ trailer you can actually see a Copyright mark for Sugiyama and the orchestra). Maybe Nintendo will have to pay a lot of money to use his music or arrange it.
Hmm, so none of the songs in the trailer were new Smash-exclusives? Dang, I had a bad feeling DQ would end up in the exact same boat as Final Fantasy.
I just did a quick YouTube search and yeah, there are a
ton of orchestral versions of the Dragon Quest Overture, its going to be really hard to identify specifically which was used in the trailer. Think we might need to just wait this one out.
I still can't get over this new Spiral Mountain remix, I've been listening to it repeatedly. I can't believe they reached out to Grant Kirkhope to do it! That's honestly huge - he's the first western composer who has ever contributed an arrangement to Smash.
Here's an interesting interview about how it happened! The Smash Team clearly recognized that Grant's music was such a huge part of what made BK so special. I hope it paves the way for more overseas collaborations in the future, maybe from David Wise and the like!
Also, I'm sure others have noticed already - the part that starts around
0:36 in the preview incorporates little motifs from a bunch of area themes from Banjo-Kazooie!
In order:
-Treasure Trove Cove
-Freezeezy Peak
-Gruntilda's Lair
-Mayahem Temple
-Rusty Bucket Bay
Finally, I want to remind everyone that
the poll is still going, now updated with Spiral Mountain! Please retake it with your current top 10! Spiral Mountain is definitely in my list of favourites!