Posts Tagged “super mario galaxy”

Objectivity

March 29, 2008

On my earlier Brawl post, commenter “Misha from Mefi” says she’s been having trouble buying Wii games: We based our choices on game ratings, but it seems we lack the shared experiences of the Nintendo crowd and so, for example, Super Mario Galaxy has been a huge disappointment. We cannot fathom why in the world (…)

Koji Kondo’s favorite cadence

March 24, 2008

Inspired by Michael Abbott’s post on music in the Legend of Zeldacite series, I’ve been working up harmonic analyses for the songs Link learns to play in Ocarina of Time. I’ll post the whole thing when it’s ready, but in the meantime I wanted to share something interesting I noticed about Koji Kondo’s harmonic palette. (…)