Nintendo actually did an idea I'd had in mind for a few years now. An app for their OSTs to play and stream their music. I've seen people complaining for some time about Nintendo issuing copyright takedowns for people on YouTube who have put up videos and compilations of Nintendo OST. Often with comments from users that they wish Nintendo would make their music available to stream or purchase instead of just taking down the OSTs other people have gone to the trouble of making available. Well, now that request is finally happening but will it give the people what they want?
Nintendo's going the NSO approach of having a few titles available at launch and then slowly adding more soundtracks to the app. It appears that there will be an addition every Monday evening. It's one of those things that will no doubt garner complaints from fans who would like to see some specific OSTs now and question why Nintendo won't just put everything they have up at once. It does seem like they could probably at least done two OSTs a week but one per week is what it's been so far. I do get that by doing the slow drip release, it does keep a conversation happening about the app. It's a way of marketing even if sometimes that conversation might be hearing that Brain Age music has been added might get a shrug and everybody immediately forgets about it for the week.
Personally, I've liked having the app and have been relistening to a few OSTs that I hadn't heard in a while. Usually been playing it when driving, not so much at home on its own. There are some soundtracks I'd really like to see added sooner than later so hopefully the wait isn't long for some of the good stuff. I'm also ok with the drip feed because it's been letting me work through what's available a bit more slowly while replaying some stuff and to keep up with what's being added. I still haven't listened through everything although part of that also is because I'm not sure yet if I want to listen to some soundtracks for games I haven't played before and hear the music now instead of possibly later.
I also just discovered yesterday that I was missing some tracks. I downloaded DKC, DKC2 and BotW so that I could play them while driving and after listening to them a couple times over, it occurred to me that they were incomplete soundtracks. DKC was missing a couple tracks I could think of instantly and BotW didn't have the music for exploring inside the Divine Beasts which I rather liked. I was wondering why Nintendo was only selecting some songs for an OST instead of putting the whole thing on the app. Surely, that would get people complaining. On closer inspection,
these are loafers I discovered I had just been clicking on the Top Tracks selection that first appears when selecting a game and not the All Tracks option just a bit further below. D'oh!
On doing some comparisons now, it seems like most of the OSTs are getting loaded. For DKC, I see nothing missing when comparing all the tracks to an OST on YouTube and their track listing. With DKC2, the only track I see missing on the Nintendo App is for The Flying Krock (the overworld map screen in which you can fight K.Rool in his airship) and the Bonus Level Intro. Not really dealbreakers or anything I'm going to seek out but I'm not sure why they'd have been omitted either. Considering today's update with Brain Age has like 6 tracks that are 5 seconds or less, it would seem like Nintendo would be including everything for a game's OST.
From the reveal trailer of the app, when it said more music would be added over time, the following games were shown:
Wii Sports (Now on the app)
Super Mario 64
Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Splatoon 2 (Now on the app)
Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Donkey Kong Country 2 (Now on the app)
F-Zero X (Now on the app)
The updated music so far has been:
Super Mario Bros. Wonder
Donkey Kong Country 2
Wii Sports
F-Zero X
Brain Age
Splatoon 2
Wave Race 64
What music are you hoping to see show up? Should we do a competition to guess what next Monday's OST addition will be?
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