You’ve heard Yasunori Mitsuda before, even if you haven’t heard it before from Yasunori Mitsuda previously – the Japanese composer created several foundational video game soundtracks, including those for Xeno gearbox and Chrono trigger. He is also responsible for the cascade of boops that make up the soundtrack to the 1998 original mario partybut he revealed on November 1 that his time working on those songs wasn’t nearly as sunny as they sound.
On this day, Nintendo’s Japanese Twitter posted this mario party and mario party 2 came to the switch today, November 2nd. Along with the news, perhaps Mitsuda’s bitter memories came back.
“mario party was my first freelance gig [after leaving Square]. The music director told me they wanted ‘jazz’ but all my songs were turned down.” says a translation from Mitsuda’s Japanese Twitter thread. “When I caved in and asked for leads, I found out he specifically wanted ‘Big Band Jazz,’ so I have a bitter memory of, ‘Seriously?!’ accept.”
Mitsuda goes on to say that mario party set his personal record for the number of rejected songs – 200 jazz songs that Nintendo determined just weren’t booping big or hard enough. More encouragingly, however, Mitsuda says he hasn’t encountered such a large expectation gap in the two decades since he’s been working on it mario party.
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He also seemed to deny or downplay his involvement in it mario party 2 soundtrack, though his name pops up in the credits of the 1999 game under “Music”. mario party tears us apart
But there’s more to life than being an Italian-speaking plumber or, it turns out, a composer at one of his games. In addition to the contribution to the last installments of the xeno series and commands a guest appearance in the Final Fantasy XV: Episode Ignis Soundtrack, Mitsuda also composed for guest the turn-based indie role-playing game sea of starswill be released in 2023.
