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Added Area Selection, changed "Choose a Data File" to "Saved Game Selection" because the name is ambiguous, fixed colons, added other subheadings for later, and added some trivia about the saved game selection music with a link to a Youtube video.
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*[http://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/pikmin-worlds-original-soundtrack/01.-pikmin.mp3 Main Menu:] The main theme of ''Pikmin''. This menu is not visited very often during a playthrough, so the percussion is soft-spoken and an instrument resembling a Native American bass flute is not extremely prominent. Eventually, the flute does play the five-note motif (D Bb Eb D Bb) that becomes the main theme, but this is only heard if the menu is left running. Without pressing start, the main theme will not finish before a demo cutscene begins. | *[http://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/pikmin-worlds-original-soundtrack/01.-pikmin.mp3 Main Menu:] The main theme of ''Pikmin''. This menu is not visited very often during a playthrough, so the percussion is soft-spoken and an instrument resembling a Native American bass flute is not extremely prominent. Eventually, the flute does play the five-note motif (D Bb Eb D Bb) that becomes the main theme, but this is only heard if the menu is left running. Without pressing start, the main theme will not finish before a demo cutscene begins. | ||
*[http://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/pikmin-worlds-original-soundtrack/03.-level-select.mp3 | *[http://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/pikmin-worlds-original-soundtrack/03.-level-select.mp3 Saved Game Selection:] This theme is heavily synthesized, to enhance the theme of recording and storing data files. Its simple melody is chosen from one diatonic scale and hidden under softened sound effects, such that it does not distract from the file select menu itself. | ||
*[http://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/pikmin-worlds-original-soundtrack/05.-view.mp3 Area Selection:] This highly recognizable theme does not develop its natural-sounding melody before an area would presumably be chosen, leaving the normal time spent in this menu to be split between a synthesized pad at the beginning and trills in a flute and celeste later on. The melody comes much later in the track, yet is one of the strongest melodies in the game. | |||
*[http://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/pikmin-worlds-original-soundtrack/13.-challenge-mode.mp3 Challenge Mode:] This theme contains a more agile melody than the file select music, and it shines throughout the piece, even in a call-and-response pattern. The beat is more pronounced and the instruments all have more clout, to give this mode's menu more excitement than the main game's. | *[http://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/pikmin-worlds-original-soundtrack/13.-challenge-mode.mp3 Challenge Mode:] This theme contains a more agile melody than the file select music, and it shines throughout the piece, even in a call-and-response pattern. The beat is more pronounced and the instruments all have more clout, to give this mode's menu more excitement than the main game's. | ||
*[http://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/pikmin-worlds-original-soundtrack/25.-today-s-results.mp3 Today's Results] A theme that will carry over to other games. All the instruments are intended to sound synthesized; at this point the game's referential environment has switched from the natural ground to the [[S.S. Dolphin|S.S. Dolphin]] in low orbit. Also, the beep-like tone that arpeggiates throughout the theme is a sound unique to [[Pikmin (game)|''Pikmin'']], which can be heard in other tracks. | *[http://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/pikmin-worlds-original-soundtrack/25.-today-s-results.mp3 Today's Results:] A theme that will carry over to other games. All the instruments are intended to sound synthesized; at this point the game's referential environment has switched from the natural ground to the [[S.S. Dolphin|S.S. Dolphin]] in low orbit. Also, the beep-like tone that arpeggiates throughout the theme is a sound unique to [[Pikmin (game)|''Pikmin'']], which can be heard in other tracks. | ||
*[http://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/pikmin-worlds-original-soundtrack/31.-journey-complete.mp3 Final Analysis] This theme represents success in its orchestral instrumentation, and its rhythm is rigidly defined by snare drum and timpani. This is the most harmonically driven theme in the game; no instrument's voice exists alone. | *[http://downloads.khinsider.com/game-soundtracks/album/pikmin-worlds-original-soundtrack/31.-journey-complete.mp3 Final Analysis:] This theme represents success in its orchestral instrumentation, and its rhythm is rigidly defined by snare drum and timpani. This is the most harmonically driven theme in the game; no instrument's voice exists alone. | ||
== Areas == | |||
== Bosses == | |||
== Trivia == | |||
*In the [[New Play Control! Pikmin| New Play Control! version of ''Pikmin'']], the saved game selection menu has a slight change in its music. The sound effect that plays in the beginning is slower than in the GameCube version. The slower sound effect can be heard briefly at the beginning of [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NHxu-nacXg&list=PL67D9B2451819D268 this video]. | |||