I’m talking about the music for Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the Wii. The main theme is totally listenable-to, and it appears in at least 7 different arangements at various points in the game.
Compare these versions:
Die Hard (main menu theme)
Spanish ska? (practice stage)
‘Lounge Jazz’ version (trophy collection) (theme starts at 1:20)
Russian Cossacks (target smash)
Ode to Ravel? (stage builder)
Cheesy soap-opera (all-star waiting room)
Opera chorus (final credits, text in Latin)
And while you’re at it, check out “Mario goes canonic” from Super Mario Sunshine.
Nice to see someone’s doing a good job out there!
Mmm, to me the opera one actually sounds a bit like the Verdi Requiem, but that may just be the (oddly accented) Latin…
No, you’re right – there’s a chromatic descent in there that’s very reminiscent of a passage in the Dies irae. I said exactly the same thing to a friend of mine last week! Great minds…
…sing alike?
You know, I actually have the soundtrack for Super Smash Brothers (I think the gamecube version) played by a live orchestra and I absolutely love it. The music was very well done and I have been listening to it for years and have yet to get sick of it (and this is all coming from a music conservatory student studying music performance).