Better music than in Super Mario 64!
Reader review by Kenneth Locke
This two-disc set is one of my favorites in my collection. The first song, "Tanoshii Boken Yukai Na Boken" ("Happy Adventure Pleasant Adventure"), is a catchy three-and-a-half-minute mix of several songs found in the game. Track 5 is a fast-paced version of the Bowser battle song from Super Mario Brothers 3. The ninth and tenth tracks are happy, upbeat, and great. Track 19 is just about the best theme in the whole game. It plays whenever you fight a particularily difficult boss, and it conveys a real sense of intensity of how tough the battle is. "Docaty Mountain Railroad" is fast-paced country music. Usually I despise country-style music, but this is a rare exception, because it's just such a good song. "Long Long Ago" should definitely bring back memories, it is the original 8-bit music from Super Mario Brothers! More treats are on disc 2, including track 7, which is from Final Fantasy, and track 15, which is a more upbeat version of the underground theme from Super Mario Brothers. With such tracks as these and most of the others, I just can't describe how great this album is words.