Working On The Mario Party Soundtrack Is A ‘Bitter Memory,’ Chrono Trigger Composer Says - Kotaku

You’ve heard Yasunori Mitsuda earlier adjacent if you haven’t heard of Yasunori Mitsuda before—the Japanese composer created respective quintessential video crippled soundtracks, including those for Xenogears and Chrono Trigger. He’s besides liable for the cascade of boops that marque up the soundtrack to 1998’s archetypal Mario Party, but helium revealed connected November 1 that his clip moving connected those songs wasn’t astir arsenic sunny arsenic they sound.

That day, Nintendo’s Japanese Twitter posted that Mario Party and Mario Party 2 were coming to the Switch today, November 2. Along with the news, Mitsuda’s bitter memories, perhaps, came rushing back.

“Mario Party was my archetypal freelance gig [after leaving Square]. The euphony manager told maine they wanted ‘jazz’ but each of my songs got rejected,” says a translation of Mitsuda’s Japanese Twitter thread. “When I caved and asked for pointers, I learned helium specifically wanted ‘big set jazz,’ truthful I person the bitter representation of being like, ‘seriously?!’”

Mitsuda goes connected to accidental that Mario Party acceptable his idiosyncratic grounds for fig of rejected songs—200 jazz tunes that Nintendo decided simply didn’t boop large oregon hard enough. More pleasantly though, Mitsuda says helium hasn’t encountered specified a wide chasm successful anticipation successful the 2 decades since helium worked connected Mario Party.

He besides seemed to contradict oregon downplay his engagement with the Mario Party 2 soundtrack, though his sanction does appear successful the 1999 game’s extremity credits nether “Music.” Mario Party is tearing america apart.

But there’s much to beingness than being an Italian-coded plumber, or, arsenic it turns out, a composer connected 1 of his games. In summation to contributing to caller installments of the Xeno bid and commanding a impermanent spot connected the Final Fantasy XV: Episode Ignis soundtrack, Mitsuda also impermanent composed for the indie turn-based role-playing crippled Sea of Stars, retired successful 2023.