Full Galaxy 2 soundtrack on YouTube

By Oli Welsh Published 24 May, 2010

The next best thing to playing it.

Super Mario Galaxy 2's composer Mahito Yokota - or someone purporting to be him - has uploaded the entire soundtrack for the game to a YouTube playlist. (Thanks, Kotaku).

It's required listening for people with souls, and a nice way to look forward to the game without spoiling it if you're not lucky enough to live in North America, where it was released yesterday. Europeans will have to wait until 11th June to pick it up.

Frankly, the entire soundtrack is brilliant, but if you just want a taster, we suggest you try out the themes for Sky Station Galaxy 1, Puzzle Plank Galaxy and Slipsand Galaxy. Listen to those without grinning. Go on.

Then go read our 10/10 Super Mario Galaxy 2 review and grin some more.

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Comments (15) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • harzo #1 2 years ago

    What a soundtrack! All the links in this article point to the same tune or is that just my PC? My fav theme has to be the one from Throwback Galaxy, classic Mario 64 music!

  • Fixxxer #2 2 years ago

    You've got the Sky Platform link pointing to the Shifting Sands one.

    Great music though.

  • MiniAmin #3 2 years ago

    Yeah but it's on the Wii so the soundtrack is clearly rubbish. Like everything on the Wii. It isn't a gamer's console so it doesn't do gamer's music. This doesn't even qualify as music, it's just a bunch of orchestral shovelchords.

    (Thought i'd get those in before the anti-Wii brigade arrive - again)

  • ChthonicEcho #4 2 years ago

    I'm not demeaning the soundtrack itself, but you can find the soundtrack of nearly every game and film on YouTube, so this is hardly news.

  • Oli Verified Reviews Editor, Eurogamer.net #5 2 years ago

    Apologies for the link errors, fixed now.

  • vizzini #6 2 years ago

    Although I was happy to wait for an opportunity to play this game; having listened to some of the soundtrack today and remembered just how awesome Nintendo do evocative game audio, I would happily play both Mario Galaxy 2 and ModNation Racers at present, if I could.

    It is also easy to see why it was hard to mark a good game like this down, when the soundtrack drives the games action and mood so well.

    The only other developer I can think of that uses audio equally well, to set a game's moment, is Team Ico in Shadows of the Colossus and Ico.

  • bluem4gic #7 2 years ago

    awesome soundtrack

    I WANT THIS GAME NOW

  • ignatiusjreilly #8 2 years ago

    Sorry for the off-topic, but there may be some knowledgable video game sound nerds reading this - does anyone know what game I recognise this music from? I love it :)

  • RobotRocker #9 2 years ago

    @ignatiusjreilly

    Its one of many remixes of Gershon Kingsley's classic "Popcorn". Not a video game track.

    Back to Mario. Some of it is not great (The Bowser theme sounds a bit lame compared to the Mario Galaxy version), but the majority of it is absolutely spectacular. Cannot wait to get a hold of it.

  • leftlion #10 2 years ago

    No track can beat M64's Dire Dire Docks....ever!

  • Rizzle #11 2 years ago

    Absolutely love the Haunty Halls Galaxy soundtrack. Mind you, I'm a complete sucker for the music in Mario games; this one is a lot less Summer-y than most but it still feels like a holiday.
    Edited by Rizzle at 24/05/10 @ 12:41

  • Trigga_Tybalt #12 2 years ago

    Post deleted at 15:43:01 23-02-2012

  • ignatiusjreilly #13 2 years ago

    @RobotRocker

    Thanks. I'm 99% certain it was the soundtrack to something I used to play, but know I know it's Popcorn that gives me something to go on, cheers.

  • abot #14 2 years ago

    Good Soundtrack!

  • Iranecus #15 2 years ago

    The youtube account seems to have been closed. I really wanted to listen too :(