Rob Price
Gutbrain Records
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2024 November 11 • Monday

The 830th Soundtrack of the Week is video game music: Michiharu Hasutani and Junko Yokoyama's score for Super Godzilla, a Super Nintendo game that came out in 1993.

The story of the game picks up from where Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah, one of my favorite movies, leaves off.

Hasutani and Yokoyama do a great job creating effective and stirring cues in a very low-bit audio format. Some of reminded me of old Doctor Who music.

There's also the novelty of hearing some of Akira Ifukube's classic Godzilla cues, which are very heavy, transferred into this tiny video game sound. It's actually kind of wonderful and is a tribute to how fundamentally powerful the music is.