Kirby's Return to Dream Land (#8347)

RBM95 · #1 Feb 13, 2023, 04:25 AM

Just a heads-up: Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe will also include the colored musical notes from other Kirby titles, so I guess this means we finally will have full confirmation of who composed what in the original Wii game (since AFAIK the original soundtrack seems to be pretty much unchanged):

https://twitter.com/Kirby_JP/status/1624966890799108096

This also confirms at least Hirokazu Ando (blue) and Yuki Shimooka (green) are involved with some of the new music added to the remake.

RBM95 · #2 Feb 25, 2023, 03:15 AM

I have compiled a list with the official English titles of songs in the jukebox of Return to Dream Land Deluxe, with their "artist" attribution (except for external composers, which are marked with white notes).

We know from other sound tests that:
-Blue = Hirokazu Ando
-Red = Jun Ishikawa
-Green = Yuki Shimooka
-Yellow = Yuuta Ogasawara

Sources:
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eALk7e3Wsc: songs unlocked after completing the Main Mode and unlocking the Jukebox
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g6WNe3w2RM: songs unlocked after completing Magolor Epilogue: The Interdimensional Traveler
-https://w.atwiki.jp/gamemusicbest100/pages/2174.html and https://wikirby.com/wiki/Jukebox/Kir..._to_Dream_Land: remainder of the songs

(also, songs marked with (*) are brand-new additions to the remake)

Spoiler:

There also seems to be a new sound member in the credits (Yuki Kato), but I don't think we have much information about them (if they are part of HAL they should have another colored note added to them, but if they are an outside composer like Kiyoshi Hazemoto then they should be under white notes). Of course, that's even assuming they made music, as their role is credited under a generic "Sound" label on the credits.

Interestingly, it also looks like tracks 93, 94 and 97 (the typical minigame fanfares) have been re-arranged here, as the previous sound tests since Triple Deluxe (which have reused the exact Wii fanfares) credited Ishikawa and here they are credited to Ando.

A couple more points of interest:
-While the Scope Shot minigame was removed from the Switch version, some of its associated songs seem to have been repurposed for secret HAL Rooms (113, 114).
-131 was originally used for the game's banner on the Wii (which obviously couldn't be reproduced on the Switch)
-It looks like all of the minigames featured in Merry Magoland can also play the original versions of their songs and their associated menu themes (135-149), which means that on top of everything we also have a few more song confirmations for various games of the franchise (maybe except for Amazing Mirror as it was by non-HAL composers). This also applies for the original Wii game's "Ninja Dojo", as the original songs are located in 150-153.

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