[echelon]

> I was very sad when I bought the Switch Link's Awakening game, because it looks beautiful and plays well but the music went in a direction I really don't like. They took gritty and energizing chip tune music and replaced it with breathy, gentle wind instruments. It fits the aesthetics of the game but it's so boring.

Same with Super Mario RPG's music. Yoko Shimomura didn't quite capture the same feeling with a lot of the tracks, such as Forest Maze [1, 2]. It's cool that they rehired her and it's cool that they let you switch the music between the two versions in the remake.

I wasn't a fan of either art style reimagining, either. The mood of both games was changed entirely.

[1] old: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmbqeMTfoXs

[2] new: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYiRpciZ6_g