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... is that the music is so damn good, it makes me want more franchises to start showing
up on the Wii. And the fact that they're not announced is driving me nuts. For example, take a listen to some of the re-mxed F-Zero tunes on the Web: OK, did you hear that? Specifically, did you hear the new Mute City, Fire Field and White Land remixes? I keep listening to them as if they're crack for my ears, and every time I hear them, I want a F-Zero Wii title that much more. Now, I've been demanding one for quite some time and threatening to toss my Wii out a window if I don't get one (no, not really, but you understand the point), and the fact that nothing has been announced concerning a new F-Zero has made me uneasy. Especially considering that the Wii lacks any solid racing titles outside of Excite Truck, and that was a launch game. My Xbox 360 has been getting more love recently because I have racing games on there I can play like Burnout Paradise and Forza 2, and that's what I have been doing. There's also CoD4, Halo 3 and The Orange Box, but that's another story for another time. F-Zero isn't the only one, though. I've been waiting for a proper Star Fox title on the Wii to be announced, and again, no news on it. Now, like F-Zero, I'm expecting one will eventually make it to the Wii, but the damn wait is killing me! And after hearing the remixed Space Armada theme from the original Star Fox, it's only gotten worse. The music alone fills my mind with wonderful images. Kirby, Animal Crossing, Kid Icarus... same story for them. Their Smash Bros. Brawl songs make me want new incarnations of each so badly. I'm literally at the point where this game is both exciting me and driving me nuts because I'm beginning to realize that Nintendo hasn't thrown some of their bigger franchises out there. And to be honest, I'm worried that the Wii's turn towards the casual crowd will mean that we don't get a new F- Zero or Star Fox or Kid Icarus anytime soon. I hope my worries are completely unfounded though. I don't know if anyone else is going through the same thing I am, but if you are, let me know I'm not alone. Hopefully Smash Bros. Brawl is the start of many great things for the Wii, and hopefully I'll get my F-Zero Wii with 30 player online races.
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Pretty cool tunes, I really like video games tunes all 8bit goodness!
Golden Sun theme in Brawl is the sex. For real.
And Nintendo couldn't be arsed to make an F-Zero or a Star Fox for Gamecube, they outsourced those to Sega and Namco, with mixed results. I'd say the N64 versions of both those games were superior to their GC counterparts.