• Light/Dark
  • Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.

Which franchise in Smash has the best/worst music lineup?

Layell

Layell

One Winged Slayer
Member
Apr 16, 2018
1,982
With the final DLC, we now have over 1100 songs in Smash.

It's time to pick and choose, what franchise has the best tracks, what franchise has the worst. Remixes should matter, and franchises being robbed of their iconic songs is a legitimate reason for putting them as worst.

BEST: Banjo Kazooie



The first Smash remix with a western composer. Kirkhope killed it, and it's a fantastic tribute to the original games. I'm really glad MIcrosoft played ball, and got a good 7 remixes in total. The original Freezeezy Peak was a good choice, and all the other remixes certainly understood the Banjo tone.

WORST: Dragon Quest

Fuck this lame 90s midi shit. Glad the composer is dead, maybe we can get better quality tracks in a sequel.
 
Anonymous Tipster

Anonymous Tipster

The Fallen
Nov 4, 2017
518
BEST: Mega Man
WORST: Final Fantasy

Mega Man was given tons of amazing remixes and medleys, probably the most of any series. I'd give Castlevania a close-ish second.

FF has some of the best music in the industry and what we got was limited to a small sample of FF7 music— which is fine but misses out on the potential of awesome remixes (at all) across the whole series.

Edit: Dragon Quest music is awesome— you crazy OP.
 
TheDinoman

TheDinoman

Member
Oct 25, 2017
17,093
The worst is Dragon Quest by a high fucking mile lmao. Burn in hell, Sugiyama.

Can't decide the best, lots of good music from the other series.
 
PlanetSmasher

PlanetSmasher

The Abominable Showman
Member
Oct 25, 2017
115,550
The worst is 100% Dragon Quest. FF's is a little embarrassing but considering both FF characters and both stages are from VII I don't mind the fact that the music is focused on them specifically.

Meanwhile, Dragon Quest's music is both bad compositions and bad sound quality, so it's the worst of every world.
 
steviestar3

steviestar3

One Winged Slayer
Member
Jul 3, 2018
4,434
Best: Mega Man

Lots of great remixes. The selection was pretty bad in Smash 4 but Ultimate made up for it a good deal. Big shoutouts to We're the Robots in particular.

Worst: Dragon Quest

Boring answer but yeah. I actually like the DQ3 songs but the other ones sound terrible as MIDIs (or just aren't that great anyway in the case of DQ11). The variety is also terrible.
 
Kewlmyc

Kewlmyc

Avenger
Oct 25, 2017
26,689
Best is either Megaman, Castlevania, or SNK/KoF

Worst is Dragon Quest by a powergap.
 
ThisIsMyDogKyle

ThisIsMyDogKyle

Prophet of Truth - One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 25, 2017
2,136
Best: DK or Mega Man, a ton of great remixes in both of those.

Worst: Dragon Quest, easy answer but it legit is, DQ11 music already isn't that good compared to past entries and makes up a chunk of the songs and then it's midi.
 
Lord Vatek

Lord Vatek

Banned
Jan 18, 2018
21,507
All of the people saying Dragon Quest is the worst have never seen Pac-Man's absolutely pitiful lineup.

Pac-Man has three songs.
 
Foffy

Foffy

Member
Oct 25, 2017
16,379
Dragon Quest takes it, if only because Sephiroth actually added more FF music besides the appalling two tracks Cloud did. Square-Enix is bottom tier in terms of companies and their music selection here, too.

Castlevania might have the "best" lineup if you consider as a debuting IP, it's brought the most amount of tracks regarding a franchise. I don't know the number of actual tracks Terry Bogard added that are specific to Fatal Fury/King of Fighters, which might need to be distinguished here if we're talking franchise and not company. Terry brought an SNK album, and not all of it is related to the core franchises he's a part of.
 
Lord Vatek

Lord Vatek

Banned
Jan 18, 2018
21,507
PlanetSmasher said:
Even with only 3 tracks, Pac-Man's music is still better than the horrible cluster of bad MIDIs written by a fascist.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
You're not wrong but as far as Dragon Quest music goes, you're not going to get anything better than what it has.

It's all bad MIDIs written by a fascist for the whole franchise.

I know that Pac-Man can do better.
 
TheDinoman

TheDinoman

Member
Oct 25, 2017
17,093
Lord Vatek said:
All of the people saying Dragon Quest is the worst have never seen Pac-Man's absolutely pitiful lineup.

Pac-Man has three songs.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

To be fair all those old arcade Namco remixes/music rips are supposed to count for his music line-up as well. Just like how Terry has music from all of SNK's series.

So according to Ultimate, Pac has 11 tracks.
 
Dyle

Dyle

One Winged Slayer
The Fallen
Oct 25, 2017
29,915
I'd point to Megaman as the best, it got extremely lucky with its remixes in 4 and Ultimate. The only ones that can compete there in my mind are Donkey Kong. Pokemon, and Caslevania

Dragon Quest is clearly the worst, just on sound quality alone even without considering the amount of music and some of the issues with its representation.
 
Renna Hazel

Renna Hazel

Member
Oct 27, 2017
11,557
The best is F-zero because it has the Mute City Melee remix, which is the most hype song in gaming.

The worst is Game and Watch. I don't like him, his stages or his music. I feel he brings nothing to Smash.
 
cardboardboxer

cardboardboxer

Member
Oct 28, 2017
2,737
Best is Donkey Kong. All the hits are there including DK Rap. That alone is a winner.

Worst is Splatoon to me. Why doesn't it have every Splatoon 2 song?
 
Giever

Giever

Member
Oct 25, 2017
1,756
The best is Mario because it has the Super Mario World Medley:



To me, the worst is Final Fantasy because I don't really care about Dragon Quest. The lack of FF songs bothers me way more than whatever low quality DQ music there is.
 
Palmtree Panic

Palmtree Panic

Member
Oct 28, 2017
181
Dragon Quest music is the absolute worst. Farting trumpets & horns in MIDI glory.

Sugiyama was a hack. Rest in piss.
 
naw

naw

Member
Oct 25, 2017
613
Tekken-OST-in-Super-Smash-Bros-Ultimate-1536x864.png


best
 
ROM

ROM

Member
Dec 28, 2017
97
Best: This is tough but I'm going to go with Persona because I never get tired of it.

Worst: Dragon Quest by far. The orchestral trailer got me really excited and I was totally let down with the result.

Criminally abandoned: Mother. Mother 3 alone would have given the series like 50 tracks and they couldn't even bother with more songs.
 
AnimeAvatar

AnimeAvatar

Member
Apr 28, 2021
607
At first I was gonna say the best was either Mega Man or Castlevania but the more I think about it the more I might actually say the best is Fatal Fury. 50 songs for a DLC character was unheard of, with plenty of quality remixes that span the greater SNK catalogue.

Worst is easily Dragon Quest. Even putting everything about the composer Sugiyama aside it's still the worst easily. Eight songs, no remixes, all the shitty midi versions, and honestly I just don't think Dragon Quest's music really fits a fast paced fighting game.
 
LostSkullKid

LostSkullKid

Member
Nov 27, 2017
4,687
I'm gonna come out and say Kingdom Hearts is the worst. At least Dragon Quest has music from multiple different Dragon Quest games and at least Final Fantasy got remixes and Advent Children versions with Sephiroth. Kingdom Hearts music is limited to Kingdom Hearts 1 with no remixes. Cloud and Sephiroth being limited to just FFVII songs sucks but there's some sense to it considering that Cloud and Sephiroth are not in other mainline Final Fantasy games. But Sora is in all the fucking Kingdom Hearts games, so there's no excuse not to use music from all the different games he's in.
 
Diogo Arez

Diogo Arez

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 20, 2020
17,626
LostSkullKid said:
I'm gonna come out and say Kingdom Hearts is the worst. At least Dragon Quest has music from multiple different Dragon Quest games and at least Final Fantasy got remixes and Advent Children versions with Sephiroth. Kingdom Hearts music is limited to Kingdom Hearts 1 with no remixes. Cloud and Sephiroth being limited to just FFVII songs sucks but there's some sense to it considering that Cloud and Sephiroth are not in other mainline Final Fantasy games. But Sora is in all the fucking Kingdom Hearts games, so there's no excuse not to use music from all the different games he's in.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Not to mention FFVII on Smash has One Winged Angel and Cosmic Canyon banger remix, KH definitely doesn't have something like that
 
Laser Ramon

Laser Ramon

Member
Oct 28, 2017
2,629
I was going to say Minecraft since none have really stuck with me but I just listened to the Smash songs they included and they're pretty good.
 

Deleted member 33533

Banned
Nov 17, 2017
12,864
Megaman probably got the best treatment out of all.

Xenoblade got the worst by virtue of having no X music at all and also missing Unfinished Battle
 
TheDinoman

TheDinoman

Member
Oct 25, 2017
17,093
LostSkullKid said:
But Sora is in all the fucking Kingdom Hearts games, so there's no excuse not to use music from all the different games he's in.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

The excuse is Disney lol

At least the KH tracks they have are the remixed versions from the HD remasters (plus Melody of Memory), so it's still better than DQ and all of its crappy sounding MIDIs.

Fun fact: There is actually ONE track taken from KH2: its version of Fragment of Sorrow.
 
OP
OP
Layell

Layell

One Winged Slayer
Member
Apr 16, 2018
1,982
Laser Ramon said:
I was going to say Minecraft since none have really stuck with me but I just listened to the Smash songs they included and they're pretty good.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

This is where I am at, they are all decent. The biggest disappointment with Minecraft is that the iconic original songs weren't up for use due to C418. I guess he just doesn't want to be known as the "guy who made Minecraft music".
 

Deleted member 33533

Banned
Nov 17, 2017
12,864
LostSkullKid said:
I'm gonna come out and say Kingdom Hearts is the worst. At least Dragon Quest has music from multiple different Dragon Quest games and at least Final Fantasy got remixes and Advent Children versions with Sephiroth. Kingdom Hearts music is limited to Kingdom Hearts 1 with no remixes. Cloud and Sephiroth being limited to just FFVII songs sucks but there's some sense to it considering that Cloud and Sephiroth are not in other mainline Final Fantasy games. But Sora is in all the fucking Kingdom Hearts games, so there's no excuse not to use music from all the different games he's in.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Yeah KH got really screwed. I guess there must have been some red tape around it but it's a crime either way. They didn't even get all the best KH1 tracks.
 

Vector

Member
Feb 28, 2018
6,641
Best is... fuck it, it's WarioWare - you get amazing renditions of absolute CLASSICS like Mike's Song, Ashley's Song and Mona Pizza. I always pick the WarioWare stages because the music is fantastic.

Worst? Idk, probably Dragon Quest as I can't recall a single track from that.
 
Zyrox

Zyrox

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 25, 2017
4,619
Best hmn it's kinda hard to say, but I'd say Mega Man, Castlevania and SNK are up there. They just got a crapton of love. Wish I could say Persona was up there as well but it honestly got too little music for how amazing the music in that franchise is. At least the Beneath the Mask remix is an absolute winner.

Worst is...I dunno. Animal Crossing maybe? Maybe it's just the more competitive player in me speaking who gets overexposed to those tracks but they still don't feel like fighting music.
 
Rockets

Rockets

Member
Sep 12, 2018
3,010
Easily Terry/SNK. I'm not even a fan of KOF and the amount of music they added is insane and pure quality
 
Poltergust

Poltergust

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 25, 2017
11,821
Orlando, FL
OK, so second worst music lineup (because we all know the worst *coughdragonquestcough*) probably goes to either Sonic or Kingdom Hearts, and that is solely due to the lack of new arrangements in both.

Considering the legal nightmare that is Sora though, I'm willing to give that one some slack. Sonic's music situation however is unforgivable. Only one remix and it's been around since Brawl, a game that released over 13 years ago! Been in 3 separate Smash games and yet basically nothing new has shown up. No idea what's going on with that considering Sonic has so many good tracks just itching to be remixed into Smash, yet the opportunity has so far been completely squandered.

On a more positive note, I would say the best music track selection is a toss-up between Banjo-Kazooie and Earthbound/Mother. Not a single miss in either of those franchises.
 
PlanetSmasher

PlanetSmasher

The Abominable Showman
Member
Oct 25, 2017
115,550
Poltergust said:
OK, so second worst music lineup (because we all know the worst *coughdragonquestcough*) probably goes to either Sonic or Kingdom Hearts, and that is solely due to the lack of new arrangements in both.

Considering the legal nightmare that is Sora though, I'm willing to give that one some slack. Sonic's music situation however is unforgivable. Only one remix and it's been around since Brawl, a game that released over 13 years ago! Been in 3 separate Smash games and yet basically nothing new has shown up. No idea what's going on with that considering Sonic has so many good tracks just itching to be remixed into Smash, yet the opportunity has so far been completely squandered.

On a more positive note, I would say the best music track selection is a toss-up between Banjo-Kazooie and Earthbound/Mother. Not a single miss in either of those franchises.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

I'm willing to at least give them credit for the Dearly Beloved remix, which is jazzy enough that it FEELS like a Smash Bros. remix despite originating in MoM.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.