The Australian edition of Kotaku is focused on taking all this fantastic news and crafting it into a tasty treat for all you Aussies and Kiwis. Whether it’s the latest info on a new game, or hot gossip on the industry’s movers, shakers and smashers, you’ll find it all here and nicely packaged at Kotaku. They’d be one in the same in every lexicon on the planet if it were humanly possible. Now, when’s the live concert? More From Kotaku Australia Nintendo took a big chance on creating something that very few video games have, and hit a home run. An original, up-tempo vocal swing number for a game - I mean, that’s ambitious. Actual Musician Kirk Hamilton says that the Odyssey song immediately reminded him of the Broadway standard “ Almost Like Being In Love“.
Thematically, it reminded me of the openings to Disney Afternoon cartoons. In an AMA on Reddit, Super Mario Odyssey producer Yoshiaki Koizumi said that the song is in the game, and it’s sung by Pauline, the Donkey Kong damsel-in-distress who is now the mayor of New Donk City in Odyssey. But neither of these songs were actually used in games, just soundtrack albums. There was also a beautiful steel-guitar rendition of “Epona’s Song” from Ocarina of Time, with lyrics written by Shigeru Miyamoto himself. There was one in 1986 that’s appeared on official Nintendo soundtracks, but it was never in a game. Vocal songs tied to Mario games have been around almost since the beginning of Mario games. “Snake Eater” from Metal Gear Solid 3 gets into some ill-advised stuff about tree frogs. “Eyes On Me” from Final Fantasy 8 is well-liked but the lyrics have some trouble with English syntax. It’s easy to put a vocal song in your video game, but it’s difficult to do one that actually resonates as being good and not unbearably cheesy, awkward or grating. The lyrics perfectly ride the line of being on-the-nose about the game’s action while also feeling like universal sentiments. I love the musical phrase on the line “we’re the ones who made it this far” (and the vocalist nails it). The melody is instantly catchy and distinctive. The first indication to me that this song was really good was that I was humming it to myself after the trailer.
During the breaks between its Treehouse Live performances, Nintendo played the full four-minute version with all the verses and the big finish. You heard an abbreviated version of it during the Super Mario Odyssey trailer: A big brass band-backed swing vocal performance, a woman belting out earnest lines about jumping and collecting coins and moustaches. For my money, the best thing announced at E3 is the Super Mario Odyssey theme song. Metroid Prime 4? Shadow of the Colossus? I don’t know.
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