The Mezunian

SimCity (SNES) Composer: Soyo Oka The PC version has no music, if I recall; but the SNES version’s superior, anyway, & it has amazing music. While the latter games had mo’ jazzy tunes, this 1’s were symphonic; & I must confess, I prefer this game’s to the later iterations’, e’en if there’s not as big […]

What makes Super Mario RPG’s music work so well is its mix of virtually everything good about music: It can somehow be both heavy and melodic at the same time, mixing catchy beats and swelling orchestra at the same time. While most good music has at least one of these elements, and many games have […]