“What is the best Wii soundtrack?” – #SoundtrackShowdown Week Fifteen

“What’s the best Nintendo Wii soundtrack?”

Welcome back to Soundtrack Showdown! I’m sad my nominee didn’t take the win last week in our best PS3 soundtrack poll, but that’s the way it goes. C’est la vie! Congratulations to Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, which I did not nominate despite the fact I’d just done a podcast on that game.

Now on with this week’s event!

You can visit the main event page here for more information but in short, we’re looking for nominations from you today and tomorrow (Monday and Tuesday) for the best Nintendo Wii soundtrack! All nominations received will appear in a poll open from Wednesday through Saturday when you’ll be able to vote for the best Wii soundtrack. We’ll determine the winner on Sunday!

Reminders

-Nominations can be left in comments on this blog or on Twitter, just tag @thewellredmage and/or use #soundtrackshowdown.

-Please keep it to ONE nomination per person but if your first choice is already taken then feel free to nominate a different soundtrack.

-If you name more than one soundtrack, I’ll have to ruin your day and ask you to choose! 

-We’re looking for exclusives, not ports, within reason. You can mention timed exclusives provided they were originally on the Wii.

As we return back to a Nintendo console, it seems in a sense like we’re returning to a sensibility of exclusives. A lot of difficulty was had with Xbox 360 and PS3 trying to choose exclusive game soundtracks. I anticipate we won’t have so much of a problem now. When we get to the Wii, we get to Nintendo deliberately just doing whatever the heck they want and games simply couldn’t be multiplat with it a lot of the time.

And no you can’t say the Wii system music…

Name ONE soundtrack below or on social media! Share tracks. Tell us what team you’re on. Appreciate the artistry behind the music!

NOMINEES FOR BEST Wii OST

(updated throughout the day)

Kirby’s Return to Dream Land
Marble Saga Kororinpa
Metroid Prime 3
Muramasa: The Demon Blade
Opoona
Punch-Out!!
Silent Hill Shattered Memories
Super Mario Galaxy
Super Mario Galaxy 2
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
The House of the Dead Overkill
The Last Story
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Wario Land: Shake It!
Wii Sports
Wii Sports Resort
Xenoblade Chronicles

Red formerly ran The Well-Red Mage and now serves The Pixels as founder, writer, editor, and podcaster. He has undertaken a seemingly endless crusade to talk about the games themselves in the midst of a culture obsessed with the latest controversy, scandal, and news cycle about harassment, toxicity, and negativity. Pick out his feathered cap on Twitter @thewellredmage, Mage Cast, or Story Mode.