GS-002: Shovel Knight The Definitive Soundtrack

[Nintendo]

This album has already been added. Delete this page, it's useless.

[BoneSatyr]

Shouldn't different formats be individual entries?

[Nintendo]

I just noticed that this one is a CD release instead of the vinyl one I was mentioning. Absolutely my bad, I apologize. But what threw me off was that both have the same catalog number, which is why I though this page was a duplicate.

Are you sure the catalog number is the same for both of them? I highly doubt it.

[Raizen1984]

You know, Shovel Knight has an incredible soundtrack, but am I the only one bummed that this is what Brave Wave chose as their second Generation Series release?

After the excellent Street Fighter II album, I was expecting them to do more sought after, out-of-print stuff, or at the very least, albums that could use a good remastering. Shovel Knight's soundtrack has already been released and, last I checked, can still be obtained from Jake Kaufman's personal bandcamp for a "pay-what-you-want" price. I guess they could remaster it and make it sound better, but it already sounded pretty good.

I still double-dipped, so I guess I'm a hypocrite, but man, I could probably think of a hundred more games that needed the treatment more than this.

[BoneSatyr]

Originally Posted by Nintendo

I just noticed that this one is a CD release instead of the vinyl one I was mentioning. Absolutely my bad, I apologize. But what threw me off was that both have the same catalog number, which is why I though this page was a duplicate.

Are you sure the catalog number is the same for both of them? I highly doubt it.

That's how it was with Street Fighter II at least, so I expect it to be the same now. Vinyl / CD.

Originally Posted by Raizen1984

You know, Shovel Knight has an incredible soundtrack, but am I the only one bummed that this is what Brave Wave chose as their second Generation Series release?

After the excellent Street Fighter II album, I was expecting them to do more sought after, out-of-print stuff, or at the very least, albums that could use a good remastering. Shovel Knight's soundtrack has already been released and, last I checked, can still be obtained from Jake Kaufman's personal bandcamp for a "pay-what-you-want" price. I guess they could remaster it and make it sound better, but it already sounded pretty good.

I still double-dipped, so I guess I'm a hypocrite, but man, I could probably think of a hundred more games that needed the treatment more than this.

I actually agree. When they first announced the Generation Series they made it sound like they were going to focus on old classics that were impossible to find and make them sound so much better. The difference, in all regards, between an arcade game from the '90s and a new indie game released on almost all current platforms couldn't be bigger.
I missed out on supporting the Kickstarter for Shovel Knight so I'm still glad that I'm able to get a physical copy of the soundtrack, but I hope that this was an exception from what they're intending to do (simply because Manami Matsumae had worked on the soundtrack).

[TerraEpon]

Originally Posted by Raizen1984

I guess they could remaster it and make it sound better, but it already sounded pretty good.

I disagree, it actually souds very hard to listen to, on headphones at least. It's essentially in mono, as it it were actual NES music.....and what's most odd is playing the game this isn't true. Not sure what's going on with it.

[BoneSatyr]

Seems this was delayed almost a month despite no announcement. Shipping confirmation went out today, so I'm changing the date. For comparison, SF2 shipping confirmations went out at about the same time as the predicted date.