Banjo Kazooie Music is always the perfect Holiday music. I like listening to Click Clock Wood in Easter, Madmonster Mansion at Halloween, and Freezeezy Peak at Christmas
Can never get enough Banjo Kazooie! Random bit of trivia - the Haunted Church in this level is modelled after a church near where I live! If I remember right, Rare's office was down the road from it
Grant has been described as creating a whole genre based on “Oomp-Ah” Rythms, dubbed “Kirkhopian” because of. And Mad Monster Mansion is one of those tracks which really tell you how fitting it is just in the transition from the opening alone. Stellar composition from a stellar guy, and I’m glad ya liked it too
Grant Kirkhope actually did do an arrangement himself for Smash Ultimate with the Spiral Mountain theme, also from Banjo-Kazooie. Smash Ultimate has a lot of composers, and like you said, a lot of what you'd call guest composers. It's feels like basically every famous japanese VGM composer did at least one arrangement, and mostly not of one of their own songs.
Grant Kirkhope is one of those composers where you can always pick his music out when hearing it. His style is great, and if I had to pick one word to describe his work, it’s “whimsical”. That’ll become very obvious once you hear more Banjo, or some of his other works, like Donkey Kong 64 (whose soundtrack is literally just Banjo 3) or even Mario + Rabbids (I always call Kingdom Battle’s OST a modern day Banjo OST because of Grant, lol). One of my favorite composers for a reason.
Wait till you hear Click Clock Wood from Banjo Kazooie. The level takes place in all 4 seasons and the song changes with each season. Grant at his best.
Banjo Kazooie was huge for me as a kid, one of my biggest things that I would replay all the time. I played BK till I got 100% in about 5 and a half hours, and Banjo Tooie down to about 11 and a half. Mad Monster Mansion is one of my favourite levels, great theme, and the game owns it. It has a good mix of larger open areas and smaller divisions or rooms, it's just a fun level to explore. A fun one is a room with a Ouija board where you have to spell out "Banjo-Kazooie" 😆 This theme sounds simple at first, but it just keeps building and adding different things, it has some great melodies and layers in there. The N64 era for Kirkhope was like the PS1 Final Fantasy era for Uematsu, they were just on another level of inspiration and creativity.
If I recall what Sakurai more or less said, they basically have a bunch of composers they contact for Smash and generally let them pick something that they'd really like to go with on their list, or who they feel fits, etc. It's a mixed approach that clearly comes with solid results. and yes Smash Ultimate is well, the "Ultimate" Smash Bros, and probably due to the sheer amount of licensing to get around 90 characters, 1000+ songs and over 100 stages in a single game (and at the level of quality), probably a once-in-a-lifetime crossover of its particular style in gaming. Fortnite kiiind of compare but it more just slapdash grabs whatever's popular to throw in as a skin, etc. Sakurai appears to have stepped back for the last couple years once it finally finished and there's no sign of a new one on the near or far horizon for probably the first time in what feels like a decade.
Woo! It's awesome finally seeing a request I put in (even if I mostly just piggy-backed off someone else's) and just in time for spooky season! Honestly, I'd call the whole Banjo soundtrack "Video Game Hall of Fame" but only a handful of the tracks got remixed for Smash and it says something that this was one of them. Don't worry, I've already made plenty of Banjo requests and more will be coming. :)
For those who recommended Banjo Kazooie ost, i salute you One of my top 5 favorite soundtracks ever. Looking forward to Gobi's valley OG and Smash Bros version, that was incredible
I love that Marble Gallery from SotN is playing in the background in the intro. Also, the Banjo-Kazooie song is top-notch spooky/Halloween music. I get why the Smash track is the way it is, but it takes out all of the spookiness.
Grant Kirkhope is an absolute legend, one of my favorite composers for sure. I love the soundtracks to Kazooie and Tooie, they are so fun to listen too with those great layered melodies.
If there’s any Smash song I’d love to see you react to, it’s the smash remix of Persona 5’s Beneath the Mask, imagine Beneath the Mask, this chill, calm song, redone as a fight theme.
Banjo-Kazooie... one of the defining games of the N64 with an amazing soundtrack! Dunno why, but the Smash Bros version reminded me A LOT of "Dancing Christmas in the 13th month" from Ragnarok Online.
This is def one of my favorite songs from Banjo-Kazooie, though it is a tough top 3 tier with it and Rusty Bucket Bay *and* all four versions of Click Clock Wood. Overall, this game has a nice soundtrack. =3
Good old Grant, he really mastered the jaunty jingle on N64. The final battle tunes from Kazooie and Tooie are both great, but really I love every single one.
Smash is great because the devs know every franchise they put in, every character, every song, is someone's favourite, and they really try to put in the effort to make sure every one of them is well represented. Except maybe Little Mac, poor guy has no air game whatsoever, that man needs some buffs.
That goes hard for a lot of ppl i know and their childhood. I always argued that the dk 64 were better with them. Of course we knew both were form the same company so we always ended laughing and trolling ourselves. When banjo got added to smash they got crazy because the songs. Btw, a simple triple request if there is time to spare. Howling Gears (the full track), Vanaheimr (Book VII Opening Movie song) and book 3 boss theme (full track) from Fire Emblem Heroes. You will find something very unique on that that ones goes on a diferent way of other fire emblem games.
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This piece, especially the original, epitomizes "spooky" as a concept distinct from "scary". It's like capturing Halloween in a bottle!
Banjo Kazooie Music is always the perfect Holiday music. I like listening to Click Clock Wood in Easter, Madmonster Mansion at Halloween, and Freezeezy Peak at Christmas
Can never get enough Banjo Kazooie! Random bit of trivia - the Haunted Church in this level is modelled after a church near where I live! If I remember right, Rare's office was down the road from it
Awesome
Grant has been described as creating a whole genre based on “Oomp-Ah” Rythms, dubbed “Kirkhopian” because of. And Mad Monster Mansion is one of those tracks which really tell you how fitting it is just in the transition from the opening alone. Stellar composition from a stellar guy, and I’m glad ya liked it too
that is literally taken from Danny Elfman
Yeah, it’s just Danny Elfman’s style. But his compositions are still excellent.
Grant Kirkhope actually did do an arrangement himself for Smash Ultimate with the Spiral Mountain theme, also from Banjo-Kazooie. Smash Ultimate has a lot of composers, and like you said, a lot of what you'd call guest composers. It's feels like basically every famous japanese VGM composer did at least one arrangement, and mostly not of one of their own songs.
Of note, I believe Grant was the FIRST western composer EVER to do a new arrangement for Smash!
And it's an absolute masterpiece, too!
everything from the Bnjo series are straight bangers, hall of fame stuff for sure
Grant Kirkhope is one of those composers where you can always pick his music out when hearing it. His style is great, and if I had to pick one word to describe his work, it’s “whimsical”. That’ll become very obvious once you hear more Banjo, or some of his other works, like Donkey Kong 64 (whose soundtrack is literally just Banjo 3) or even Mario + Rabbids (I always call Kingdom Battle’s OST a modern day Banjo OST because of Grant, lol). One of my favorite composers for a reason.
He does have some range with some more grounded work like Kingdoms of Amalur and his stuff on World of Warcraft! I really like Grant Kirkhope's style.
Couldn't have said it better.
Wait till you hear Click Clock Wood from Banjo Kazooie. The level takes place in all 4 seasons and the song changes with each season. Grant at his best.
Oh, he will. I seperately requested all four seasons of Click Clock Wood in the hopes of getting one big mega vid on them. XD
Of course if that happens that also means we'll need videos on Gruntilda's Lair and Isle O' Hags.
Banjo Kazooie was huge for me as a kid, one of my biggest things that I would replay all the time. I played BK till I got 100% in about 5 and a half hours, and Banjo Tooie down to about 11 and a half. Mad Monster Mansion is one of my favourite levels, great theme, and the game owns it. It has a good mix of larger open areas and smaller divisions or rooms, it's just a fun level to explore. A fun one is a room with a Ouija board where you have to spell out "Banjo-Kazooie" 😆
This theme sounds simple at first, but it just keeps building and adding different things, it has some great melodies and layers in there. The N64 era for Kirkhope was like the PS1 Final Fantasy era for Uematsu, they were just on another level of inspiration and creativity.
Crystal caves boss theme by Grant kirkhope from DK 64 is a really good sound track
If I recall what Sakurai more or less said, they basically have a bunch of composers they contact for Smash and generally let them pick something that they'd really like to go with on their list, or who they feel fits, etc. It's a mixed approach that clearly comes with solid results.
and yes Smash Ultimate is well, the "Ultimate" Smash Bros, and probably due to the sheer amount of licensing to get around 90 characters, 1000+ songs and over 100 stages in a single game (and at the level of quality), probably a once-in-a-lifetime crossover of its particular style in gaming. Fortnite kiiind of compare but it more just slapdash grabs whatever's popular to throw in as a skin, etc. Sakurai appears to have stepped back for the last couple years once it finally finished and there's no sign of a new one on the near or far horizon for probably the first time in what feels like a decade.
Woo! It's awesome finally seeing a request I put in (even if I mostly just piggy-backed off someone else's) and just in time for spooky season! Honestly, I'd call the whole Banjo soundtrack "Video Game Hall of Fame" but only a handful of the tracks got remixed for Smash and it says something that this was one of them. Don't worry, I've already made plenty of Banjo requests and more will be coming. :)
For those who recommended Banjo Kazooie ost, i salute you
One of my top 5 favorite soundtracks ever. Looking forward to Gobi's valley OG and Smash Bros version, that was incredible
I love that Marble Gallery from SotN is playing in the background in the intro. Also, the Banjo-Kazooie song is top-notch spooky/Halloween music. I get why the Smash track is the way it is, but it takes out all of the spookiness.
Man, Rare really was something special...
Grant Kirkhope is an absolute legend, one of my favorite composers for sure. I love the soundtracks to Kazooie and Tooie, they are so fun to listen too with those great layered melodies.
If there’s any Smash song I’d love to see you react to, it’s the smash remix of Persona 5’s Beneath the Mask, imagine Beneath the Mask, this chill, calm song, redone as a fight theme.
Banjo-Kazooie... one of the defining games of the N64 with an amazing soundtrack! Dunno why, but the Smash Bros version reminded me A LOT of "Dancing Christmas in the 13th month" from Ragnarok Online.
Very happy to see all the the variation your spooky season "event" brings!
Good luck with SSBU. There are 1068 tracks total.
This is def one of my favorite songs from Banjo-Kazooie, though it is a tough top 3 tier with it and Rusty Bucket Bay *and* all four versions of Click Clock Wood. Overall, this game has a nice soundtrack. =3
Good old Grant, he really mastered the jaunty jingle on N64. The final battle tunes from Kazooie and Tooie are both great, but really I love every single one.
You can’t go wrong with grant kirkhope he needs to listen to his dk 64 works
Smash is great because the devs know every franchise they put in, every character, every song, is someone's favourite, and they really try to put in the effort to make sure every one of them is well represented. Except maybe Little Mac, poor guy has no air game whatsoever, that man needs some buffs.
I always figured the animal noises were ambience, but they're apart of the song.
Great video!!! I love this theme!!!! You should really listen Colgera boss battle theme from The Legend Of Zelda Tears Of The Kingdom!!!
Gotta love anything from the composer of the DK rap, the Twerk Pope himself... You know it was gonna be great lol.
holy cow, I've never actually heard the smash version, despite having the dlc, and _man_ that's not what I expected! But in a good way
Didn't see this coming lol..but great for Halloween time
That goes hard for a lot of ppl i know and their childhood. I always argued that the dk 64 were better with them. Of course we knew both were form the same company so we always ended laughing and trolling ourselves. When banjo got added to smash they got crazy because the songs. Btw, a simple triple request if there is time to spare. Howling Gears (the full track), Vanaheimr (Book VII Opening Movie song) and book 3 boss theme (full track) from Fire Emblem Heroes. You will find something very unique on that that ones goes on a diferent way of other fire emblem games.
smash osts u gotta react to em all
has anyone requested one of the newer versions of burning town from shantae yet?