Yoko Shimomura

Big clown shoes.

And also, again, Yoko Shimomura, all-time composer.

We're looking at Princess Aurora Dannen here.

That's my daughter's favorite Disney princess.

And that gets me so excited, uh, 'cause it is one of the greatest game soundtracks ever.

And I wanted to jump, uh, to Yoko Shimomura's website.

The composer.

Okay.

And there is an amazing write-up on her website that is just like, dude, flex girl.

"This is the score that started it all.

Yoko Shimomura was 23 year olds in her..." Sorry, "23 years old, in her third year at Capcom, when she was offered the choice of which game to score next.

The Capcom sound team in 1990 had both of its top composer roles filled by women, which Shimomura later cited as making the studio unusually welcoming for a female composer entering the industry.

Uh, Tetsu- Tetsuya Nomura again on, on artists and story, along with other writers Yukari Yoshida and Tomoco Kanemaki.

Uh, composer for the whole series, consistent, is Yoko Shimomura.

And it came out on the Nintendo DS.

And I think one of the more interesting things here, um, and Leah, I don't mean to, to punt to you already once again but, uh, in the green room for this podcast you were talking that you did, um, watch the, the companion, I guess-

I mean, I, I've got loads of notes on this game looking down them.

I don't have any on performance, which suggests to me if there were issues, didn't impact me at all.

So before we get kind of into the meat and potatoes of the gameplay, look, we should talk about the audio, um, Yoko Shimomura's soundtrack.

The, the reason that I say we should talk about the audio is that if you've played any of the three games prior, um, I think [laughs] almost all but one of the audio tracks are going to be very familiar.

I'm trying to remember who composed it.

Suyoshi Sekito, who is just sort of a Square Enix in-house composer, just has tons of stuff where it's like, yeah, worked with Shimomura or Ishimoto or... someone on this game on this game on this game but also just did this really kick-ass soundtrack for brave fence or musashi

yeah it's really good despite it being my least favorite uh favorite dungeon i really like the the song in the mines it just it has like two very different like an a and b part the a part is very like adventure and then the b part is very like bouncy and cute and the back and forth between the two is very cool and i i enjoy that one a lot

speaking of back and forth you have to rotate back and forth a lot during the what is what is it it's like some sort of like it's not a you're you're like on sort of like some sort of hanging cart thing in the mine

They're just, they're overall better.

And outside of Yoko Shimomura's music and Superstar Saga, there's nothing else redeeming for me personally in the Mario & Luigi franchise.

This is going to be painful to hear.

When I heard that news that Alpha Dream was closing, I know a lot of people shed a tear.

Yeah.

While you listen to, like, Yoko Shimomura's most somber and mellow oboe music.

Right.

Yeah.

Yoko Shimomura is such a good fucking composer.

Just an amazing composer,

yeah.

And it can be found on the Sony PlayStation 2.

This is Traverse Town, composed by Yoko Shimomura.

That was Traverse Town, from the game Kingdom Hearts, composed by Yoko Shimomura.

Kingdom Hearts is a single-player action role-playing game that combines the worlds of Final Fantasy and certain Disney animated features at the same time, with characters meeting each other in different settings.

You'll play as Sora, a teenager from a lonely island, trying to find two of his friends, Kairi and Riku.