Composer Appreciation: Yoko Shimomura - General Discussion Forum

N00BiSH · 2025-11-04T02:23:01+00:00

That's it. That's the thread. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkdz9hl-cVQ] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk-7eifOh1E] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gnUGaEBCps] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldOW7yW3ykc] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw7bxZQLUsA] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4mib-ltBVs] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzipTmFOStg] This woman never misses.

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N00BiSH
Tue 4th Nov 2025

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That's it. That's the thread.

This woman never misses.

[Edited Tue 4th Nov 2025 by N00BiSH]

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kkslider5552000
Tue 4th Nov 2025

I'll be honest, I always forget she did Street Fighter 2. Which sums up better than anything could that I'm not a huge fighting game guy.

Hot take I have is she has a top contender for the best ever version of THE Super Mario theme...twice.

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Magician
Thu 6th Nov 2025

Respect

Although if we start talking about video game composers my mind defaults to Hitoshi Sakimoto, Yuzo Koshiro, Yasunori Mitsuda, Daisuke Ishiwatari, Akira Yamaoka, Nobuo Uematsu, etc.

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kkslider5552000
Fri 7th Nov 2025

Magician wrote:

Respect
Although if we start talking about video game composers my mind defaults to Hitoshi Sakimoto, Yuzo Koshiro, Yasunori Mitsuda, Daisuke Ishiwatari, Akira Yamaoka, Nobuo Uematsu, etc.

My vote goes to Hirokazu Ando and Jun Ishikawa, the most notable Kirby composers that have reliably made great music for the series (though with huge gaps between Ishikawa's contributions IIRC) for decades.

Also I posted Pipe House from Super Mario RPG and its been removed already lol.

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Nep-Nep-Freak
Sat 8th Nov 2025

Yes, I love Yoko Shimomura's music. She even composed some of the music for one of my favorite games of the past few years, Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope. The song below is from her.

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