Wednesday, February 1, 2023

MIDI Week Singles: "Menu 2" - Bakugan Battle Brawlers (Wii)

 


"Menu 2" from Bakugan Battle Brawlers on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, PlayStation 2, & Nintendo DS (2009)
Composer(s): Tsuyoshi Yukawa, Yasushi Asada, Hideki Sakamoto, Kenji Ichio, and Masaya Imoto
Album: No Official Release
Publisher: Activision
Developer: NOW Production

So apparently there is a Bakugan Battle Brawlers anime that the 2009 video games were all based on, and even though there are two CDs of soundtracks from the anime, I could not find them online to listen to in order to compare if those themes were reused/arranged for the game.  All of that to say that what I like about "Menu 2" is that the energy and the melody sound like a cross between a GameCube-era skateboarding game and appropriately so, the opening theme for an anime about people fighting, cracking jokes and trying to fall in/out of love while attending high school.  With 0-0:20 skateboarding / 0:21 - 1:00 anime / 1:01 - 1:20 skateboarding and repeat.   I find it to be an upbeat high-energy tune that is fitting for what we want to share with MIDI Week Singles.

There was not a lot of information that I could find about who wrote the music outside of all of the composers who worked on the game in one capacity or another, so everybody gets equal credit on this one.


~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian
Instrumental

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