Oh man I love it... it's got the energy I want and the instruments are so clean. Small difference I appreciate from the original is the additional instrument layered on top of the strumming in the intro.
@@sansgriffin8945 : there's zero rubato within the harmony. It's like they rendered from music composition software or an extremely bland classic musician play the harmony. Lots of swing music use rubato religiously to place mad emphasis on swing notes. And the melody... Holy shit, this was the worst example of the "swing" not having any character. Might as well be playing grace notes.
@@aaronowens8941 Well, because it's likely that Kageyama just took the Gen 4 MIDI and just replaced the virtual instruments (+ some other small changes). Not that MIDI is bad (given that most games do use it), but anyone with a sense of musicality knows just how bad the BDSP soundtrack actually is because there are no dynamics or expression. So I'm not sure why all the other comments are fawning over how good the music is. Sure the composition is good, but that was from Gen 4. And there are 20 year old games that have better musical production than this.
My only complaints: The guitar fretboard squeaks were removed (but I guess it no longer makes sense to have them since the ostinato is now played by pizzicato violins rather than guitar) Kageyama forgot to add the pizzicato strings at 1:14 (when the song starts to transition back to the same instrumentation as the beginning), so they randomly appear again out of no where when the song loops at 1:35.
@@saph_fire Yeah that's what it seems like. I considered the idea that it was a decision made by him, but I feel like it is more accidental. If he were to keep the guitar without the pizzicato before the theme loops intentionally, he would have probably used a suspended cymbal roll just before the loop begins to make the sudden reintroduction of the pizzicato strings seem less sudden. Just my thoughts though lol
@@Solargress as I'm listening, I'm imagining a big stage and being more in the middle or the back of the audience, making subtle details like that harder to hear. For the Canalave theme I was listening to before this, I was also listening for the piano hammers or the keys being pressed and I couldn't hear it, which would probably be right if you're listening to a stage performance rather than individually recorded tracks.
Ahhhh yes... Maybe the game wasn't everything what we expected, but one of the things Nintendo knew they had to totally nail, was the soundtrack, and hell they delivered
It's a lot more muted, probably an electric guitar sound rather than acoustic. Would also argue that the sax is fine, I think it sounds more realistic. Both instruments definitely have a different timbre than the original though.
I’m glad they at least did a good job with the soundtrack for these games. BDSP had so much potential. All they had to do was include platinum content. So sad man
They remove everything from platinum that made it fun. They only remastered the original games which had most of the same problems. So you could argue this is better than the base purely because of the modern graphics if you prefer them.
