Video Game SotW #007 – Super Mario RPG – “Boss”

"If you defeat me, you STILL won't beat me! Beware the flood!"

If you’ve ever played Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars on the SNES (or Virtual Console), it is more than likely that this song will ring some bells as “the one where that guy was mean and unfairly depleted my health points after illegally reappearing stronger a third time for no apparent reason.” Maybe.

Despite many songs in the SMRPG soundtrack are somewhat awesome in their own right, this piece stands out as being super catchy, memorable, and setting the mood nicely. Everyone likes complicated, suspenseful beginnings and simple but somewhat epic melodies! 😉

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Boss Battle

Composer: Yoko Shimomura

Hint for Next Week Update (sometime this week, along with two more!!):

Apples in Whispy Woods?

My Sammer’s Kingdom Arrangement on Piano!

For those who don’t know, I do a little arranging at NinSheetMusic, and I’ve found a video on YouTube of user Tangeh playing one of my arrangements! 😮 It’s Super Paper Mario – Sammer’s Kingdom. Check it out, it’s pretty awesome.

I’ve learnt one of my songs, which is coincidentally the song featured in the first entry of The Video Game Song of the Week, but I’m not going to post a video of it just yet for reasons known only to me. 😉

Video Game SotW #002 – Super Mario Galaxy – “Battle for the Grand Star”

Aha! This feature actually managed to get to the second post! Huzzah! This time, we’ll be seeing a more recent song from a more recent game, and is quite epic in its own right. I know what you’re thinking, “Why describe the song so epically when I’ve already read the title?” Well… the feature would be a little too short if there wasn’t any waffle. Speaking of which… *eats several waffles*

Here we go, Battle for the Grand Star!

Super Mario Galaxy – “Battle for the Grand Star”

Composer: Mahito Yokota

Sorry I couldn’t get a direct link. But seriously, wasn’t that great? No? Not good enough for you? Then have a piano arrangement! MUS MID

Keep an eye out for next week’s update!