The launch of Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee! is just over two months away now, and additional products are slowly starting to find their way into eager customer's pre-order baskets. One item that will no doubt continue that trend is this complete CD soundtrack, which unsurprisingly comes with extra goodies to tempt you into splashing the cash.
The release comes with two CDs containing the new games' full soundtrack, with every song that can be heard inside the games being present. On top of this, there will also be a "luxury booklet" which contains 60 full-colour pages with information on the games, including words from Junichi Masuda, the composer of the original games, and Shota Kageyama, who has been responsible for the arrangement in the new titles.
If that's not enough, a bonus disc is also included which features newly remastered versions of songs from Pokémon Red and Blue and Pokémon Yellow. If you want to compare how the new arrangements sit alongside the old classics, this collection would be a great way to do just that.
The soundtrack is scheduled for release in Japan on 1st December for 3,500 yen excluding tax (approx. £24 / $32). No western release has been confirmed just yet, although Pokémon soundtracks do tend to receive at least a digital release in Europe and North America. Importing will also likely be an option, of course.
Do those classic Pokémon tunes fill you with tearful nostalgia? Would you like to own the soundtrack alongside the games themselves? Why not tell us below?
[source over-lap.co.jp, via serebii.net]
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Pikachu's head isn't round. Whoever's been doing that... STOP IT.
Maybe that's one of those, "dude, chill, it's not a big deal," but it's literally the most recognizable Pokemon, to start, and...
I mean, can you imagine if the screwed up Mickey Mouse's ears?
Also, not a "big deal," but from a design standpoint... It just is the most irritating thing.
Always down to jam some tunes, though. I hope these don't stick in my head like those old game boy ones.
Man, I'd hear those songs constantly. I wouldn't hold your breath for a localized release. I remember my mom getting me the old Zelda Ocarina of Time CDs years ago. That was a damn good woman, there, guys.
Luckily, there's no region locking on music CDs. It's always really to cool to see how songs are ultimately arranged for album releases, since we only ever hear an intro, and then an eternal loop in most cases.
These will of course be unavailable on Spotify, so whatevs.
@nonprophetmusic Pikachu's design has always been constantly changing. I think out of all the Pokemon design wise, Pikachu has changed the most. The original didn't even have a defined head, it was just like a round body.
@KaiserGX Yes, in its original conception it was actually much more rodent-like anatomically.
Many rodents don't have distinct necks on their small round bodies. That's still very much the case for something like Raticate even with its chubbier Alolan form.
I am a pretty huge Pokemon fan, and maybe playing this game will change my mind, but the gen 1 music, while very nostalgic and fitting to the games, isn't that enjoyable to me on its own. There have been some great pieces of music over the years in the Pokemon games, but there's also be a lot of... I don't want to say dull or basic because those sound so bad but... kinda yeah, dull and basic.
The most memorable gen 1 song for me is the Champion theme.
Ughhhh I hope this ends up being good, and I’ll keep an open mind, but Shota Kageyama is the worst composer to have ever worked on Pokémon games. He didn’t work on Sun and Moon at all, handing the reins over to the likes of Minako Adachi and Hitomi Sato, and those two women (along with a few tracks by Go Ichinose and Jun’ichi Masuda) composed a soundtrack six times as good as X and Y, which was dominated by his sound. I sincerely hope Kageyama’s technique has improved from the bland style he’s had before, because even his arrangements of the great tracks in Ruby and Sapphire sort of “sanitized” them in ORAS.
As an avid video game soundtrack collector, this excites me greatly!
...No iTunes?
Gotta love Junichi Masuda 😄
FireRed was my first Pokemon game, and I'd love to play through Kanto again. If it weren't for stupid motion control, I would actually be looking forward to this game.
@KaiserGX I cannot fault you for being right, 'cause, yeah. But I feel like that was more of the design actually developing. Compare any lead character in the first chapter of a long-running manga to chapters at the end, and yeah, subtle differences exist because a style was developed more or less.
By the time the original Pokemon anime hit, the designs were pretty cemented, I'd say. It's just a thing of personal preference, but I think it looks so silly with a round head.
@nonprophetmusic One thing to remember though the in game 3D model has been pretty much the same, it's only in the illustrations that Pikachu looks a lot rounder and maybe Pokemon Generations.
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