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WHOOOOO-HOOOO!
FINALLY! This is a game that REALLY warranted a soundtrack album. It's one of the best soundtracks in the ZELDA series IMO. I cannot tell you all how thrilled I am to hear about this game finally getting the soundtrack it deserves. That it's by Nippon Columbia, who did such a great job issuing Breath of the Wild and Link's Awakening on CD makes it even better. I expect nothing less than excellence on their part. |
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Oh this is some amazing news!
Has it leaked a bit early (like the Animal Crossing New Horizons soundtrack did ?) ? I can't find anything about it elsewhere. |
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The official announcement will be in 2 days.
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I knew it! I knew it! I knew it! I knew it! I knew it! no real surprise that it's Nippon Columbia, as they did marvelous jobs with recent Zelda soundtracks.
Finally, after all these years ... thank you, Nintendo. |
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Their Link's Awakening soundtrack is just as excellent IMO. The composer crediting, again, is very commendable. Only negative: missing liner notes, but the composer crediting, presentation, etc., all of that was excellent. I hope Skyward Sword's soundtrack lives up to their past efforts. |
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Finally, after all this time, I get to listen to Faron Woods in 44.1kHz! Glad to finally be able to get this as a CD release. The game's audio is so poor at 32kHz.
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Glad the tracklist is here. Hopefully someone can take the time to translate.
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Is there a sound test in the game with track titles? Or are the track titles all around YouTube just fan names?
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Finally! I've been waiting so long for them to release the soundtrack to Skyward Sword. Can't wait for this!
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As with most rips, it's just fan titles based on where it plays in the game.
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There is no in-game sound test in Skyward Sword. Even with the release of this soundtrack, there will still be no official English track titles.
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So I've decided to take a crack at translating this track list. Granted, I don't know Japanese, so I'm basically working with Google Translate here, and I'm also relying heavily on the game's text dump to get the localizations right. As such, this list is more localized than overly literal.
Anyway, I figured those who actually know Japanese can give my list a look before anyone actually adds this to the track list on the soundtrack page: Spoiler:
Last edited by Rew; Sep 18, 2021 at 04:45 AM. |
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Seems like this one is too late:
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Source: Will graduate in Japanese studies soon (it's a party...). Cross-referenced with the English text dump, so this is a localised track list. Ignored some of the spaces. By 3-04 I was starting to think not all of these were meant to be. Notes: 1-03: Alternatively: "Select a File" as displayed in the English version. 1-10: When Zelda pushes Link off Skyloft and his Loftwing doesn't come. A more direct translation would be "Oh no!!" 1-13: ときめき refers to a throbbing heart when excited or having a crush on someone. 2-13: Alternatively "The Demon Lord: Ghirahim" when acknowledging the space. 4-23: Alternatively "The Great Spirit of the Skies: Battle with Levias" when acknowledging the space. 4-24: Alternatively "The Ocular Parasite: Battle with Bilocyte" when acknowledging the space. 2-05, 2-07: Hard to accurately translate without knowing the tracks associated with the titles. @Rew: If you have problems understanding Japanese, you can always use DeepL. Google Translate is trash. It really shouldn't be used anymore, especially for Japanese. Last edited by zierts; Sep 18, 2021 at 02:19 PM. |
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There is one track on the list that seems to be missing, and that is the "Isle of Songs." I hope that track was not accidentally omitted.
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I'm not sure why you assume it's missing. It probably just has a unique track name.
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And small note aside about the translation proposed by Rew : I think "Premonition" would fit better than "Prophecy" (meaning-wise) for tracks 1.05, 1.24 and 2.02. I'm not a native english speaker though so I might be wrong! |
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Ohhh, of course! I forgot about that. I had made a rip of the soundtrack too because I'm such a huge fan of this music and I pretty much know every cue that counts, but I wanted to make sure nothing was missing from here. (Not that I doubt Columbia; they've been doing spectacular work lately.) More intriguing is the potential of seeing who composed what. That was one of the things I was so annoyed about with the releases of WindWaker and Twilight Princess. They didn't tell you who composed what.
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So I noticed an English version of the tracklist was never added, so I went ahead and did so--based on zierts' and others' suggestions.
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How is it that the track times are available now? The album is not even out yet. Also, the composer information--where'd it come from?
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This is fantastic news
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I simply cannot wait to finally be able to enjoy this soundtrack in 44.1khz cd quality.
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Cross-referencing the old rip with composer credits stream is over
Some surprises, but many of my guesses were correct. Some solid comments from other contributors too. (The doc is now re-opened for comments)
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But can I say that Nintendo albums can be a bit strange when it comes to composition and arrangement credits? I don't get why they would credit Koji Kondo for 1-33 "Inside a House" (seeing how he did the original one for Ocarina of Time but most likely didn't contribute to the Skyward Sword arrangement), yet not for things like 1-03 "File Selection" or 5-37 "Treasure Chest" which would certainly fall into the same category. Odd. Any ideas as to why that is? Also compare this to the Twilight Princess HD Sound Selection which is just as coy about whether Koji Kondo actually worked on the Twilight Princess tracks or if he was just the original composer for earlier games (though it credits him much more consistently for arranged music). There, we have at least one instance in which he participated as lyricist at the very least, but we don't know if he also composed/arranged the "Title Theme" in collaboration with Toru Minegishi. Or, if Koji Kondo did the entire thing and Toru Minegishi is only credited for the use of "Midna's Theme" at its end. Last edited by zierts; Nov 21, 2021 at 10:19 AM. |
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It's a shame Hama hasn't done more work with Nintendo. I remember being somewhat disappointed by the soundtrack when I first played the game, but Hama's tracks always stood out to me.
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Looking over her contribution, it seems she her role was almost entirely delegated to field/dungeon music. And only one battle theme? (her interview suggests multiple).
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Just as expected, the Columbia release has extensive credits on who performed the instruments. Given the name of the engineer, I can assume the music was probably recorded at Avaco Creative Studio, since the person in question also engineered the music for Ni No Kuni II, which was done at the same facility.
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