For the past week Super Smash Bros fans were excited about the possibilities of a new Brawl character being unveiled as the Smash Bros Dojo homepage counted down. To be honest I got carried away with what new character could show up next as well, so I was disappointed to find out no new characters were announced. Yesterday I didn’t even post the news, but I realized that what was announced still has a big impact on the gameplay itself. The music.
Besides, those new characters will no doubt come soon as “daily weekday updates” are promised by the game’s creator Masahiro Sakurai.
A huge list of song composers was revealed. To quote: “To have so many of these individuals providing music for a single project may very well be an historic event in the history of video game music! It’s almost unthinkable! Smash will let you enjoy music from a wide variety of Nintendo games. A number of individuals have put their touch on these arrangements.”
The contributing SSBB musicians include:
1. Akihiro Honda (Konami) – Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns Of The Patriots / Metal Gear Solid Portable OPS
2. Arata Iiyoshi РPok̩mon Mystery Dungeon / Beatmania II DX
3. Asuka Ohta (Nintendo) – New Super Mario Bros. / Yoshi Touch & Go
4. Hajime Wakai (Nintendo) – Pikmin series / Star Fox series
5. Jun Fukuda (Grasshopper) – Killer7 / Contact
6. Kazumi Totaka (Nintendo) – Animal Crossing series / Yoshi series
7. Keigo Ozaki (Game Arts) – Project Sylpheed
8. Kenichi Okuma – Melty Lancer series / Welcome to Pia Carrot!! 3
9. Kenji Ito – Romancing Saga series / Culdcept Saga
10. Kenji Yamamoto (Nintendo) – Super Metroid / Metroid Prime series
11. Kentaro Ishizaka (HAL Laboratory) – ?
12. Koji Hayama – Cho Aniki / Ape Escape 2
13. Koji Kondo (Nintendo) – Super Mario Bros. series / The Legend of Zelda series
14. Masaaki Iwasaki – Mother 3/ Chelnov (Mega Drive)
15. Masafumi Takada (Grasshopper) – Killer7 / God Hand
16. Masato Kouda – Monster Hunter / Devil May Cry
17. Michiko Naruke – Wild Arms series
18. Minako Hamano (Nintendo) – Metroid Fusion
19. Motoi Sakuraba – Golden Sun series / Mario Golf & Tennis series
20. Noriyuki Iwadare – Grandia series
21. Ryoji Yoshitomi (Nintendo) – WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$!
22. Seiji Momoi – Meteos / The Glory of Hercules III – The Silence of Gods
23. Shogo Sakai (HAL Laboratory) – Super Smash Bros. Melee / Mother 3
24. Shota Kageyama – Luminous Arc
25. Takahiro Nishi (Game Arts) – Grandia series / Project Sylpheed
26. Tomoko Sasaki (Tokioheidi) – NiGHTS
27. Toru Minegishi (Nintendo) – The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
28. Toshiyuki Sudo (Nintendo) – Wii’s Everybody Votes Channel
29. Tsukasa Masuko – Star Force / Magical Starsign
30. Yasufumi Fukuda – Kamaitachi no Yoru 2
31. Yasunori Mitsuda (Procyon Studio) – Chrono Trigger / Xenogears
32. Yoko Shimomura – Kingdom Hearts series
33. Yuka Tsujiyoko – Fire Emblem series
34. Yusuke Takahama (Target Entertainment) – Digital Pinball series
35. Yutaka Iraha (Game Arts) – Sylpheed series
36. Yuzo Koshiro (Ancient) – ActRaiser / Streets of Rage