Some of my favorite music in Super Smash Bros. Brawl - Part One

Anyone who knows me really well knows that I cannot wait until Super Smash Bros. Brawl is released for the Wii. Melee was my favorite game on the GameCube, and the additions made to its sequel, Brawl, are simply amazing. Be it the stage creator that lets gamers design their own battlefields to play on, the eye-popping graphical enhancements, the fact that Sonic the Hedgehog and R.O.B. are playable fighters...the list goes on and on.

But one of my favorite new additions to the game is called "My Music". The Super Smash Bros. series has always been a kind of melting pot of Nintendo's video game history, mixing its characters, locations, games and music all together at once. With the expansive history that's covered in Brawl, along with the vast array of characters and franchises referenced, creator Masahiro Sakurai decided that having just one tune per pre-built stage was not enough and so implemented "My Music," a feature that allows not only for multiple tunes to find a home on a stage but actually lets the players determine which will be played and how often!

Brawl is already out in Japan and some folks there have already unlocked the over 300 individual pieces of music in the game and uploaded them onto YouTube for the world's listening enjoyment. Here are a few of my favorites that have been revealed--songs that I've already picked to definitely play most of the time on the stages they'll call home in Brawl:

Lip's Theme - Panel de Pon



I have no idea who Lip is, what Panel de Pon is or what stage this song will play on; I just know that I love this tune and it will be set to be played as often as possible on whichever stage it gets attached to in the game!

Go K.K. Rider! - Animal Crossing



I'm pretty certain that the first stage I'll play on when Brawl comes out is "Smashville" and that I'll have this song set to play on it then. While most of the music in the Animal Crossing games is very serene and calm, this remix is the perfect blend of rustic town serenity and all-out brawling.

The Dark World - The Legend of Zelda



My favorite era of video games was the 16-bit era, before everything moved to sloppy 3D action and 2D gaming was at its peak, so it's probably not a big surprise that most of the music I really like in Brawl has been brought in or remixed from that time period. For the Legend of Zelda franchise, I think this song will get the most play for me in Brawl; it's the overworld theme for the "Dark World," kind of an "evil parallel universe" in the Super Nintendo game The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. I can still recall the day I "unlocked" the Dark World and was amazed an excited to explore a whole 'nother land parallel to the one I'd been exploring for weeks in A Link to the Past already.

Tetris A Type - Tetris



Ah, Tetris. One of the greatest games ever on the original Game Boy. I really dig this remix of this great tune. Though it hasn't been officially announced yet, there's a strong rumor that this tune appears as a soundtrack option for the Luigi's Mansion stage in Brawl. That would be awesome, as the slightly creepy flair of this remix makes it a perfect fit!

The Underworld - Kid Icarus



When I first bought Kid Icarus for the Virtual Console I had been caught up in the hype and fanboy praise for this "classic," and perhaps my expectations were set too high. It's a TOUGH game! I still haven't cleared the second stage yet, and the frustration that's resulted has led me to scarely return to playing the game. One thing I will give the game though is that I love the main underworld music theme and I especially love this remix of it in Brawl. In fact, it may just be my favorite tune in the entire game so far!

Stay tuned, as I'll be posting more of my favorite tracks from Super Smash Bros. Brawl soon!