If You Like Paper Mario's Newest Entry, This Nintendo Music Update Is For You

It's about time! Gonna be listening to Snif City while I'm working tomorrow! Can this game and TTYD just have a baby together already? Need something with the world exploration and cinematics from TOK, but with combat from TTYD!

Origami King is such a phenomenal RPG.
The song Sad Olivia will forever haunt me.

I think Origami King's mostly an, "Eh, it's fine," game - I'd probably say it's about on par with Super but pales in comparison to the first two, but that still makes it miles better than Sticker Star, Color Splash, and Paper Jam - but it does have a pretty sweet soundtrack.

Such an underrated gem in the franchise, potentially my favourite. Love me some Origami King soundtrack Nintendo. THANKS

That's a really strange headline lol

Anyway, this is easily the best addition in ages!

The entirety of the Blue Streamer Area (Autumn Mountain and Shogun Studios) and its soundtrack will forever live rent-free in my memory.

YEAH BABY MORE YOSHITO SEKIGAWA REPRESENTATION LESGOOOO

I haven't even played this game, but I would've been stupid to not listen to Red Streamer Battle and Battle With King Olly.

Now, if only they added Radiant Dawn.

It's a solid soundtrack, but nothing to write home about. I liked the Autumn Mountain tracks.

I never got around to playing Origami King because I was catastrophically disappointed by Sticker Star, and Color Splash wasn't that much better. Everything I've heard about Origami King is that it's just "sticker star 3", so it's currently very low in my priority list in the backlog.
I am really really curious to see what the next Paper Mario game will be like. If it can win me over, maybe I'll be a little more inclined to give Origami King a chance.

@UpsideDownRowlet Nothing to write home about?! This is probably the soundtrack I’ve been most excited to see since the service launched, and I’ve been playing Nintendo games since the NES days. It’s a phenomenal soundtrack.

@EarthboundBenjy even as someone who hasn't played it, I'd say the opinions are that it's basically Chuchu Rocket with Mario characters, and that it's on par with (if not better than) Super Paper Mario, assuming you believe the first two to be the best, as most PM fans do. I know I'm interested enough to play it.

@LastFootnote my only guess is maybe they're not a fan of how many songs are "hard rock guitar with bwaow synth" but it definitely is just lying to say nothing stands out

There’s some really solid metal arrangements of this OST out there (as if this OST didn’t go hard enough as it is).

@batmanbud2
Chu Chu Rocket...? like the wheel battle system? That's an interesting comparison.

I'm one of the Paper Mario fans who holds Super Paper Mario in super high regard, actually. I don't think Origami King could hold a candle to Super if it still isn't allowed to have real characters with names. Since one of Super's biggest strengths is its characters and story.

I was thinking that they might do a soundtrack for one of the Mario & Sonic at the Olympics games. Seems like it would be timely. But maybe those have weird licensing hurdles.

@EarthboundBenjy At least personally I feel like people tend to forget a lot of really down points of Super's writing. It has its peaks for sure, especially in the endgame, but whole chapters go by with basically nothing happening, it's prone to clumsily introducing new plot points or just waving off things, it constantly tries for big emotional moments just to either have not set them up at all (chapter 5) or immediately wave them off like it's nothing (Luvbi), and pretty much every single second of screentime given to the whole Dark and Light Prognosticus subplot never makes the slightest bit of sense (especially how they freely acknowledge the Light Prognosticus was entirely written as completely unfounded propaganda to put a more positive spin on things and yet still slavishly follow it and act like it's in any way important) and ultimately winds up pretty much going nowhere anyway.

It was a great game. It felt too long at times, but I enjoyed it. Glad they added this soundtrack. I’m hoping that Nintendo adds one (or all) of the Famicom Detective Club soundtracks soon. I really enjoyed Emio, and I would enjoy re-experiencing the OST.

Will they ever better Thousand Year Door?

@Notsoavid Would be nice if those go up at some point, though I could see them being one at a time if only because Girl Who Stands Behind gives you three whole soundtracks on its own.