Music of the Week, Vol. 9

And the Audiovisual Trifecta of the Week returns! The last week only lasted 202 days... let's hope this one will be a little shorter! Also, this time I had to rip 3 of the 5 songs myself - Anon doesn't deliver soundtracks, obviously. Luckily, my trusty Windows Sound Recorder didn't fail me, so here we go!

Reminder and instructions: (skip if you already know)
In the right column, under the links, you will find a player with five songs. Choose one of them and click the Play button to listen to that week's wondrous tracks! Beneath the player is a link to the corresponding post containing the download links plus their descriptions.
Please note that the downloads of previous weeks are no longer available - so be sure to check back every week if you are interested.

The Music of the "Week" is...

~Main Theme (Undake30 Same Game)
From all public-domain, mainstream puzzle games, the developers at the hit-and-miss Hudson laboratories carefully picked the most tedious and boring to Mariofy. It's the Same Game, so lame, what a shame, its only claim to fame is that it's remarkably tame (that is, it has no time limit). Just click on any group of more than two identical adjacent objects (Mario heads, Yoshi eggs, Fire Flowers, Mushrooms and coins) and they disappear. Fun for the whole zombie family. This particular version only has one mode, one field, and one song. Don't sing along. It would be wrong- I'll stop now.

~NES Remix (Wario Ware: Twisted!)
9-Volt and his strangely-large-for-his-age Player 2, 18-Volt (no relation), are very big fans of all things retro. So it's no wonder that their theme song in Wario Ware: Twisted!, the motion sensor microgame agglomeration, is so 8-bit that it'll make your eardrums square just by listening to it. Does anybody know who that guy on the song's record is supposed to be and what the Japanese letters say?

~Lava Dome 1 (Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2)
The castle level tune is surely the Super Mario Bros. song to get remixed the least of all - the weird slow melody and the fingerbreaking repeating background don't make it the performers' favourite, and even professional computer-based rearrangers like the gentlemen at OCRemix have to alter it a lot to include it in their works. Thus, a straight-to-the-axe, no-bridges-attached mix like the one heard in the fifth world of Mario vs. DK 2 is always welcome. There are 3 slightly different variations in-game, but this first one is the most succinct.

~BGM 2 (Picross 2)
Picross 2, the sequel to the wildly successful (not really) Mario's Picross, was only released in Japan, just like all other good Mario games (definitely not really). This installment has a lot more content than the series' debut, but in case of Picross, more content isn't necessarily something to be excited about, especially if it's about as Mario-related as a game of Lacrosse without items. Out of the five available background songs, the second one is the least annoying - curiously, the same holds true for Mario's Picross and Mario's Super Picross, too.

Attention! Do not listen if unprepared for aural pain!
~Heinous Enormity of a Castle Song (Yoshi's Island DS)
I have raged, raved and ranted about this abomination long enough. Now is the time for those with courage, with strong stomachs, with endless determination, with will and self-confidence, with a belief in humanity that doesn't break too quickly, to listen to this song. To imagine harsh and severe passages filled with lava and unforgiving enemies, to imagine heart-rendingly fast and nerve-cuttingly dangerous trips over spikes and deadly traps, to imagine losing 100 lives in a row while BABIES ARE CRYING, THE BABIES! THE CRYING! IT WON'T STOP!
...set to this song.

The Picture of the Week is the "world map" from a very obcure Japanese game, "Yoshi no Kuruppon - Oven de Cookie", which I can only guess means "Cooking Mama with Yoshi". I am being completely serious, people, this is a cooking simulator. You get dozens of tutorials, lessons, tests and mini-games all based on baking cookies. (There's also the original Yoshi's Cookie puzzler in there, but the simulation kind of overshadows it.) One notices that baking is serious business when you have to weigh the ingredients gram-wise.

And the Video of the Week is another rare sight - a completely 3D Mario fangame! While there may be more rendered demos and SM64 hacks out there than you can shake a Control Stick at, a 100% original, three-dimensional fangame is worth 100 of the regular ones (or 1000 of those Flash ones). This should be made into a full game, or at least the source code picked up by someone willing to expand on it.

It's very possible that there will be stuff even more obscure than that next week! Very possible!

~Waluigious: THE BABIES!