Marcato Classic: Mina the Hollower

So this game came out in late May.

So we're just about a month late on this incredible soundtrack by Jay Kaufman.

I have not played the game, so I am just responding musically, kind of the classic Mercado Bros. approach.

And one fun thing about this episode is we are going to be hearing Will's first reactions of this music.

I made this playlist, whittled it down.

It was tough to do that because there's a lot of amazing music on the score.

One shout out I want to give, something that did have to be cut.

because we will definitely do a part two at some point, is Yuzo Kishiro's two tracks that he composed are not featured on this playlist.

So we will have opportunities to play those in the future because they're great.

They just didn't quite make the cut today.

So really quickly want to talk about this soundtrack.

So the game is a love letter to Game Boy titles in every sense, but musically it is as well.

So it uses the Game Boy sound chip.

but he combines it with the Konami sound cartridge, SCC+.

It's basically an expansion chip for the MSX.

So imagine that sound combined with Game Boy, that's what you have.

Wow.

So I'm curious how he actually tracked this, if it was like in separate passes the way that I know like Marty has done for things.

Luckily, it sounds like his workflow was really easy because he used Furnace.

And in that tracker, you're able to combine different ships and do a bunch of crazy stuff.

So he was able to do it all in a pretty seamless workflow, which is great.

Yeah.

That's cool.

So let's just get into the music.