Kid Icarus: Uprising: Difference between revisions

''Kid Icarus: Uprising'' is one of the few first-party Nintendo games to feature full voice acting. Voice over recording was done by [[wikipedia:Soundelux Design Music Group|POP Sound]] (previously known as Soundelux DMG).<ref>http://www.popsound.com/portfolio_games_2012.html</ref> The voice cast was directed by [[wikipedia:Ginny McSwain|Ginny McSwain]]<ref>http://www.ginnymcswain.com/resumeenlargemen.html</ref>, a veteran voice director and Emmy Award winner.  

The original soundtrack was composed by well-known Japanese musicians such as [[wikipedia:Yasunori Mitsuda|Yasunori Mitsuda]], [[wikipedia:Motoi Sakuraba|Motoi Sakuraba]], [[wikipedia:Yuzo Koshiro|Yuzo Koshiro]], [[wikipedia:Masafumi Takada|Masafumi Takada]], [[wikipedia:Noriyuki Iwadare|Noriyuki Iwadare]], and [[wikipedia:Takahiro Nishi|Takahiro Nishi]], along with [[wikipedia:Hirokazu Tanaka|Hirokazu "Hip" Tanaka]] who composed the original NES game's music and jingles.<ref>http://www.wayorecords.net/kidicarus/en/</ref> Most of the music in this game is performed by a live orchestra or real instruments, with few tracks using MIDI. A selection of the game's music was released on the Japanese Club Nintendo<ref>http://club.nintendo.jp/present/itempop_p138.html</ref>, and eventually a full official three-disc soundtrack was released in Japan by Sleigh Bells.<ref>http://www.procyon-studio.com/sleighbells/index.html#partena</ref> The album was awarded the best score by [http://www.squareenixmusic.com/index.php SEMO] in the eastern category of 2012.<ref>http://www.squareenixmusic.com/features/awards3/bestscore.shtml</ref>