Kenji Yamamoto (山本 健誌, Yamamoto Kenji, born April 25, 1964) is a Japanese v… Read Full Bio ↴Kenji Yamamoto (山本 健誌, Yamamoto Kenji, born April 25, 1964) is a Japanese video game musician working for Nintendo, notable for composing music in many titles of the Metroid series, mainly Super Metroid and the Metroid Prime trilogy. Yamamoto also plays a role as a music director at Nintendo, overseeing audio for several of their games. He frequently collaborates with fellow composers Minako Hamano and Masaru Tajima.
Yamamoto's music utilizes heavy drums, piano, voiced chants, clangs of pipes, and electric guitar. In development of Super Metroid, Yamamoto came up with some of the game's themes by humming them to himself while riding his motorcycle home from work. He was asked to compose the music for Metroid Prime to reinforce the series' continuity. Developers from Retro Studios noted how the process of fitting all the sound effects for a world in Metroid Prime into 6 MB of space was crucial in producing a quality aural experience, as each sound had to be of very high quality. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption took advantage of the increase in the amount of RAM that took place when the series switched from the GameCube to the Wii; this allowed for higher quality audio samples to be used and thus a better overall audio quality.
Yamamoto's music utilizes heavy drums, piano, voiced chants, clangs of pipes, and electric guitar. In development of Super Metroid, Yamamoto came up with some of the game's themes by humming them to himself while riding his motorcycle home from work. He was asked to compose the music for Metroid Prime to reinforce the series' continuity. Developers from Retro Studios noted how the process of fitting all the sound effects for a world in Metroid Prime into 6 MB of space was crucial in producing a quality aural experience, as each sound had to be of very high quality. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption took advantage of the increase in the amount of RAM that took place when the series switched from the GameCube to the Wii; this allowed for higher quality audio samples to be used and thus a better overall audio quality.
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山本健誌 Lyrics
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JS Wayne
Power Suit: Takes damage just from being in a certain room.
Varia Suit: Allows you to venture into these hot areas, but still takes damage from lava.
Gravity Suit: Allows you to move through lava like it's not even there.
I love how powerful Samus becomes as you progress.
Wayne Carr Jr.
@Tailpig I think the liquids that can damage the gravity suit are more like acid than lava
Tailpig
However, there's also some lava that's too hot even for the Gravity Suit
Panoplie
This music perfectly fits heat waves.
Novus Talks
There's better
MysticMisdreavus
Panoplie That, and volcanoes!
Conny Komen
so much atmosfere in so many of these tracks.
EPIC GAME
Novus Talks
@RedWings51930 yes
RedWings51930
@Novus Talks nah
Novus Talks
Still overrated though