Nintendo Music is dropping more new releases than Anbernic drops handhelds, which is saying something considering their on double digits this year! Hot off the heels of the Wii Sports theme tune and memorable tracks hitting Nintendo’s new app, they’ve now added tracks from Captain Falcon’s seminal N64 title ‘F-Zero X’.
If you’ve never played the game before, then the music is designed to keep your pulse racing as you hurl your craft around crazy tracks at insane speeds. They’re definitely the kind of tracks that will have inspired bands like Dragonforce to pick up guitars and shred like there’s no tomorrow, with lots of guitar and synth solos as well as some epic drum fills that will have you tapping on the table at the coffee shop and annoying everyone around you.
There are 14 tracks lasting a grand total of 34 minutes… and after half an hour of what definitely sounds like thrash metal (‘A Devil’s Call In Your Heart’ even has some metal growling in it alongside some awesome double bass pedal work), the crafts won’t be the only thing moving at insane speeds. I feel like I could run to the moon and back after listening to ‘Fall Down To The Stream’.
Some people have given Nintendo a hard time for the new app, what with them taking their music down off YouTube channels in order to play it on their own app. I love Nintendo Music because, as a former musician myself and someone who studied Music Production at Uni, it allows you to hone in on the nuances of the individual tracks and give them your full attention. Most of the time when I’m playing F-Zero X, I’m concentrating too much on not crashing to pick out all the notes in the arpeggiated guitar solo that’s happening at the same time, and Taro Bando and Hajime Wakai did an absolutely incredible job writing all these tunes!
Nintendo Music is available to download now from the App Store or Google Play!
