The Super Mario Galaxy media frenzy continues with a bucketful of new videos. Naturally, we're emptying that bucket over your head, partly to douse you with fresh movies, but mostly for comedic effect.
You'll find the streaming clips in the Japanese site's powerups and galaxies sections, yelling out with orange word balloons, "New!" You can watch them past the post break, too. Also on the list of updates for today, the third volume of Iwata Asks (Super Mario Galaxy edition) has some great footage of a live orchestra recording one of the game's songs while Koji Kondo and Shigeru Miyamoto watch, an overturned tea table likely nearby. According to the interview, 28 tracks in all have been recorded by the orchestra.
It's likely just us -- in fact, we're sure of it -- but there's something about Super Mario Galaxy's main theme that reminds us of the Perfect Strangers opening credits, particularly the part where the song crescendos, "Staaanding tall!" Also, the action-platformer's music makes us break out into the "Dance of Joy" whenever we hear it, causing us to jump into the arms of anyone nearby. It's really quite embarrassing for everyone involved.
Powerups:
Galaxies
Perfect Strangers
It's my life and my dream
Nothing's going to stop me now
Nothing's going to stop me now
[Via NeoGAF]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
10-18-2007 @ 10:47AM
sly said...
Co-Sin Larry! Thanks, now it's stuck in my head. The fire flower looks pretty badass - also, did they steal a puzzle from the Zelda franchise? Spring Mario looks awesome.
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10-18-2007 @ 11:13AM
troy said...
Iwata Asks English Translation NOW! I LOVE THOSE!
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10-18-2007 @ 11:13AM
samfish (MSDF- Nurse Outfit!) said...
Holy crap! Nintendo shelled out for orchestrated music?!
This on top of Street Fighter IV yesterday and, supposedly Okami Wii Edition?
What's next? Actual voice acting?!
The End Times truly ARE upon us.
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10-18-2007 @ 12:13PM
troy said...
Samfish, are you in Europe or Japan where Metroid Prime 3 isn't out yet? More voice acting than a radio show, and actually pretty good too! Brings you into the story. But the music in this is just awesome. I love that its an actual orchestra, I wish they had a film of that main theme that plays during the trailer. I am so pumped for this game.
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10-18-2007 @ 12:38PM
comtar said...
@3
Well you have to think about it, Nintendo has two devices that print money... They bought the company who made the Xenosaga games a couple months ago, now they are paying for real voice actors and symphonies. Who knows, if they keep banking all their cash, they might just have enough money in 2010 start development of a new portable game console or a Wii2 that has PS3 level graphics and costs $250.
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10-18-2007 @ 1:31PM
Metayoshi said...
Wow. So they choose an Orchestra for this game and not something like Twilight Princess? So... Whatever happened to having music that changed with the situation and environment and that's why they stayed with MIDI for TP?
Not that this decision is wrong or anything. It's just, Nintendo's logic baffles me sometimes. Now I can't wait for SMG even more... E for all is today, huh? All you lucky people with no school and those that CAN skip school get to go today... I'm jealous... But I'll be there Saturday! Brawl and SMG will make E for All worth going for two days.
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10-18-2007 @ 2:01PM
Matt said...
Wow, we get fireballs back in 3D Mario! I was considering not buying this game. That all just changed...haha
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10-18-2007 @ 3:08PM
Ethan said...
This was the last hurdle for mass gaming - non-gamers always complain about the repetitive 'plinky plonky' music.
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10-18-2007 @ 4:42PM
the common cold said...
If Twilight Princess was re-released with just orchestrated music at a budget price, I would seriously consider rebuying it.
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10-18-2007 @ 5:36PM
flameofdoom666 said...
The music is grand, and the gameplay is amazing. day 1 purchaseeee
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10-18-2007 @ 5:41PM
Mr Khan said...
@ metayoshi
people seem to forget that Twilight Princess was a GC game at heart, and that means that they had to deal with one particular limitation of the GC that many people overlooked, Mini-DVD's were small, only 1.5 GB, and they couldn't afford to put full-scale, orchestral music on there
Much like how GC FMV < Xbox/PS2 FMV, for the same reason
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10-19-2007 @ 12:37AM
Jeff said...
I watched the orchestra video about 10 times today...I love orchestra and I love video games. Put the two together and it equals AWESOME.
Watching the video the first time, it kinda brought a tear to my eye (literally), as if this has been something I've been waiting for all my life. Sure there's been orchestra in games before, but never a Mario game. This is going to be epic.
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10-19-2007 @ 2:48AM
Anticrawl said...
Music can make a game, this game was already made with Miyamoto at the helm but this music is incredible! I can't wait any longer for my spiritual successor to Super Mario 64. Hopefully the score in this game is something grand enough to burn into our memory with the likes of the Zelda theme, Super Mario Bros. level one music and Halo's epic theme.
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10-19-2007 @ 10:32AM
Kenology said...
That orchestra segment was NICE!
To #6 (Metayoshi) - Console Zelda games since Majora's Mask have had well over 100 songs. You'll never see a soundtrack of that magnitude completely orchestrated. Though it would be nice for the standalone, non-interactive pieces to be orchestrated, I agree.
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10-19-2007 @ 12:58PM
gorecki said...
Soooo glad to see they've got an orchestra in for SMG. I see no reason why games should have crappy MIDI scores that sound rubbish in the 21st Century. Compare it to movies. We spend a lot less on going to the cinema or buying a DVD but would never tolerate a crap soundtrack. Games are more expensive with typically inferior sound, and overall it is their most prevalent weakness. Does anyone else agree or is it just me, being an audio engineer it may bother me more than most.
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10-21-2007 @ 11:02PM
Leminnes said...
Great music but it's not sync'd up correctly. Really bothered me while I was watching it. Watch the bows, and how the music and video fades at different places. ugh.
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