Nintendo Music Adds 23 Kirby Switch Songs, With Rest Coming “Later This Year” – Nintendo Life
GuestGuestLogin | Sign UpNintendo LifeGuestLogin or Sign UpListen to some of Kirby and the Forgotten Land todayNintendo has been regularly updating its Nintendo Music app with different soundtracks but this week it’s slightly differentFollowing the addition of multiple albums last week, today we’re getting just part of an album. It’s 23 tracks from the recent Switch title Kirby and the Forgotten Land – with the rest of the game’s songs scheduled to arrive on the app “later this year”.Here’s the official notice about this:”Twenty-three of the game’s tracks are here today, and the rest are coming later this year!”Nintendo hasn’t explained why exactly it’s doing this, but this is the first time an update has included a notice like this. The Kirby and the Forgotten Land “complete” soundtrack contains over 100 songs, so this initial drop is a warm up ahead of the full album drop.Here’s what you can listen to in the first part of this update:To listen to this latest album update, you’ll need to have an active Switch Online subscription and have downloaded this app to your mobile device. It follows on from Nintendo’s addition of two Tetris soundtracks and a Dr. Mario album last week.A celebration of classic puzzle gamesA mobile music app exclusive to Switch Online membersFinally!What are your thoughts about Nintendo releasing just some of this soundtrack today? Let us know in the comments.About Liam DoolanLiam is a news writer and reviewer for Nintendo Life and Pure Xbox. He’s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of Mario and Master Chief.Comments 62This soundtrack is worth a hear….Weird….only some of the songs…I mean, they cover most of the good ones. Only one I’m salty about is Decisive Battle: Ultimate Z.Can’t wait for the rest of the tracks, weird they didn’t have all right away. Very good music so far, look forward to putting these in my playlists!I assume this is for the game’s 3rd anniversary, really happy to see them acknowledge this game again! One of the few Nintendo games to stay at v1.0.0Abandoned Beach is def in my top 3 for this OST.The important one is Roar of Dedede, but i already have the CD version (Thanks, CD Japan) so i was never going to need this for the De Power o De DE when doing power squats, but now people who are insane/dumb enough to pay for subscriptions for multiplayer have no excuse.im a little weirded out that they arent doing the whole soundtrack, but all my favorite tracks are accounted for here so i cant be too mad! Northeast frost street is a wintertime BANGER. I just hope that nintendo collabs with sega at some point for this service because my winter playlists are not complete without persona and sonic music lolGood OST, but this is by far the worst and most disappointing update yetWell that’s… incredibly dumb. There has to be some sort of reason for this (physical soundtrack release?) because this makes no senseIf only this OST had the creepy “And here we are!” theme. lol(it’s technically in the soundtrack, but for whatever reason the sound test version doesn’t have the “And here we are!” part. >.>so weird there’s only a chunk of the OST present here. there is probably a reason but to me it makes no sense.I’ve been waiting for this one to drop but a partial drop? Weird decision, man.@SplatRay001 Yeah! I don’t know why they drip-feed with Nintendo Music instead of releasing tracks physically alongside games all these yearsThat’s really strange. Are they selling the soundtrack? Or maybe performing a concert of it? Or are they just not finished doing whatever they do to get these songs app-ready? How much later this year, I wonder.This is a weird decision. Gotta be some sort of reason for itI guess it’s split like this to not interfere too much with the sales of the physical OST? IDK, releasing it like this is strange and this is the only reason I can think of as to why it’s only a partial release for now.If this is the case, it would also explain why Splatoon 3 doesn’t have Side Order tracks since the physical release of Ordertune is still relatively newI’ll take it! Glad we got a modern partial OST this week to mix it up. This was a good soundtrack too.This update alone means it’s gonna be like 5 years until this thing has a respectable library instead of 3, if the precedent is being established for small updates like this. At least they didn’t leave out most of the soundtrack for Splatoon 3 or New HorizonsHmmm…for some reason I can’t help but imagine someone about to shoot themselves in the foot.This takes drip feeding to a new level.Nintendo really eating half their sandwich, saving the rest for later with this oneI hope this doesn’t become a trend, I would prefer to hear the whole thing later then bite sized pieces.I just need that credits remix from Smash and I’m good@batmanbud2 Do they? The only one I really like from this bunch is A Trip to Alivel Mall, most of my favorites aren’t here. I’m waiting on Through the Tunnel, Faded Dream of a Psychomeddler, and Scattered Souls Across Isolated Isles.Masked and Wild: D.D.D alone makes this worth itWhat? The drip feed can be painful enough and now this? It’s not the same without the best track in the game… The second act of the Ghost House!Why does Nintendo always like to **** with us and make such random and weird decisions without explanation… -_- Ditto the way some songs on the app like DKC 2’s Stickerbrush Symphony aren’t extendable when they could be. At times it feels like they’re run by trolls.Roar of Dedede slaps harder than it has any right to.For whatever reason they can’t release it all now, it’d be better to wait to release all of it together.That poor intern is having a rough go of trying to meet the weekly deadlineSo last time we got 3 soundtracks (albeit small ones), this time we get… less than 1?That checks out…(I look forward to the rest of the soundtrack, but man I hope it isn’t the only thing added that week!)Ohhh, I hope this won’t become a regular thing! 😳 There goes the hidden gems!Oh, well, that’s typical Nintendo weirdness for you. I can’t see any reason for doing part of a soundtrack other than padding the release schedule… which is admittedly a bit worrying. Makes me worry some of the less mainstream titles might be forgotten about…Stuff like Paper Mario, Princess Peach Showtime, stuff like that, they got loads of stuff to choose from, so why are they already resorting to padding?Bit weird but ok!That’s a good game. This Kirby may be my favorite Kirby of them all and the music is very good. I also thought it had the most interesting setting. It’s not what you’d think you’d find in a Kirby game. It’s a doomsday world that has been long gone and forgotten, so you see nature has taken over these once great city landscapes. So you have both beauty and despair.@IceClimbers @AussieMcBucket @digitalspade @SplatRay001 The reason is definitely because the soundtrack release is very recent, it’ll be 6 months in a few days. Fact is that Nintendo Music is a cheap service, and OSTs are expensive. It doesn’t really make sense to give people the full thing for “free” only a few months later, and on a similar note this can also act as a kind of “free” preview of the OST to entice people to purchase it.While you generally shouldn’t get your hopes up about those, games that haven’t gotten releases and probably won’t should hopefully take less time (still wouldn’t ever expect anything close to adding them day and date with the game, I mean we haven’t even gotten a 2024 game yet even though they should have no problem adding like Princess Peach Showtime or something).From the start I expected games with newer OSTs or guaranteed releases to not be added to the app at all for a long time, so I see this as an upgrade. Also appreciate the transparency that the rest will be added within the year.@Clyde_Radcliffe Most tracks that don’t extend, can’t extend, including Stickerbush Symphony as it starts fading before reaching the loop point. This is to blame on them using masters from previous OST releases which were obviously not designed with such a feature in mind.Only track I’m personally aware of that I think should be able to extend but doesn’t support it is Inkopolis News / Off the Hook from Splatoon 2.Love to see Forgotten Land coming to Nintendo Music even though partially at least for now (looking forward to the remaining tracks), such a great soundtrack!Also, Return to Dreamland Deluxe soon, please?Seems like a good opportunity to go listen to the full OST on YouTube.Uninstalled the app. It was disappointing enough that they only added one game a week after they launched the app with barely anything on it, with some of the games having less than 10 minutes of soundtrack. But now they started to add partial sountracks, which means this game will on it’s own take up several weeks this year.I don’t care what crappy excuses they have. We might get less than 20 game OSTs a year this way. Don’t care anymore. Most of the Nintendo soundtracks I care about are going to be added in 10 years or never anyways.They could have just waited then. The only good part for me is that I can’t remember all of the songs from it, so it’s not a complete loss at the moment. Unrelated, I’m just waiting for Super Metroid.So the app launches with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe having all of its DLC tracks, but Splatoon 3 only has music that was added through Fresh Season ’23, then Splatoon 2’s OST launches with all of its DLC music, but then Nintendo removes a song from a trailer that was hidden away and you had to actually search for it, meanwhile, Breath of the Wild’s trailer music is still available in the app as part of its OST… And now the app is launching Kirby and the Forgotten Land’s soundtrack with not even half of its music! Why did they even release this app if they’re only willing to add content in the most stupidly inconsistent ways?Northeast Frost Street is one of my ringtones. Additionally, I have listened to that on loop for entire workdays before.Oh I wondered why this was so small. Anyways, I’ve actually been going through to 100% this game recently, and I was hoping they’d add this game!Very odd that we’re only getting a partial soundtrack, but if we’re still getting the rest later, that’s fine I suppose.I’ve been a big apologist for the rate these soundtracks have been releasing. My stance since before we even knew the release cadence has been that one soundtrack per week is the minimum they could release to feel like we’d someday have all the music available. This partial soundtrack sets a very bad precedent though.Ehhh… the rest are coming when we feel like it, I dunno.Whats weird is how many comments here are calling it weird. As if any of you know how a corporation let alone Nintendo operates. We get 23 great songs. We’ll get more later. Thats fine!Stay positive people! You’re nintendo fans arent you? Leave the negativity to the pc goons.@Polley001 Those are all good points. Thank you for your insight. I was not aware that they have just released the OST for sale.When I saw this, I thought they were just gonna add the first 23 songs in the soundtrack, but it seems like they went out of their way to specifically pick all the best and most important songs in the game. So, while I would like to complain about this… I’m also kinda satisfied at the same time?@Polley001 That is just an excuse IMO. Most Zelda tracks loop naturally within the game, and yet for artistic reasons they wanted to curate the village themes as a comprehensive listen between Day and Night versions. Just because they’re apparently so proud of the seamless transition. And I get it; it’s nice, but I would much prefer the village themes split into Day and Night versions just like the other tracks.And if amateur sound editors on Youtube can find ways to extend all of those tracks themselves on their own time, and still sound perfectly functional, then it’s completely possible for Nintendo’s editors to do the same. This just comes down to an artistic choice on Nintendo’s part to exclude the Extend feature from most of Zelda’s best tracks, across both BOTW and Skyward Sword.@Ulysses It’s a nice opinion, but how about we stick to some facts. The Zelda tracks for BotW and Skyward Sword are taken from the original soundtracks, that’s a fact. Said original soundtracks were not designed with the assumption they’d eventually end up in a streaming service with seamless extension feature, another fact. These soundtrack renditions of these tracks are higher quality and took infinitely more effort than YouTubers throwing some games files into Looping Audio Converter, and I know that for a fact too.They’re not going to put in the time and resources to master these tracks again just to support the extension feature, and anyway some of your issues will most likely be fixed when Tears of the Kindom is added anyway.@Polley001 Those may be facts, but the practical ease of booting up a Youtube video over the Nintendo Music app when I want to listen to a favorite Zelda track for 10 minutes overcomes any high-minded excuse for porting the soundtrack versions over taking the time to remaster their music for their dedicated streaming service.Because that’s what it is at the end of the day, a streaming service that they have committed to and one that we pay for, even if only as a partial collage of many NSO perks. They absolutely should take the time to remaster their music instead of porting older versions, and especially because of the effort involved in porting the older soundtrack versions. It only amounts to a waste of time and effort, and is only touted as a badge of honor in hindsight to excuse the streaming service’s corner cutting.@Ulysses Literally what are you talking about? Most content on streaming services are ports from soundtracks. Mastering tracks that have already been mastered again just so the tracks would support a neat bonus feature would be great but not doing so is absolutely not corner-cutting, in fact it’s rather ridiculous to suggest that just ripping the lower-quality versions from the game because some people can’t tell the difference would somehow not fall under that category.Don’t complain about things you know nothing about.Kirby’s Epic Yarn next, please! Stellar Way all the way @Polley001 What I am talking about is I don’t like how Nintendo markets the Extend feature as a selling point only to include it in a fraction of the total content. And yes, I would appreciate the option to play a relatively lower quality version of the song in order to enjoy the Extend feature on over 98% of the app’s offering.To a lesser extent it’s comparable to Apple marketing Apple Intelligence as a major selling point for their iPhones, but lo and behold most of it wasn’t available to users. It’s deceptive marketing and it’s frustrating to see.And I am fully allowed to complain as much as I like because I am experiencing shortcomings from my personal opinion, from a product I am paying for.Your condescending tone does nothing but frame our conversation in an unnecessarily hostile context.@Ulysses If you want people to take what you say seriously and act respectfully towards you, have the decency to make a compelling argument instead of presenting a bunch of baseless conclusions.Extending is currently supported in 58% of the library, which yeah isn’t as much you’d like but you’re acting like they advertised it as being 100%, when in reality pretty much every mention of it says something like “select tracks”. It also absolutely is a selling point. As someone who actually uses the app, it is one of the major reasons I opt to use it over my collection of gamerips and soundtracks.Complaining is fine, great even, but there’s a difference between complaining that Zelda has been on the lower end of extendable tracks due to the series’ history of soundtrack releases, and making a bunch of bogus accusations of corner-cutting because they didn’t opt to use the same crummy gamerips anyone can put together in an hour.@Polley001 My original phrase was shortcomings instead of corner cutting, and I edited it in without thinking too much about my convictions. That “accusation” I can retract, but it still is a strong impression I feel from the difference in Extend availability between games that Nintendo is making intentional choices that ultimately discourage the feature on Zelda albums.The fact is we don’t know exactly why Nintendo includes the Extend feature on only 58% of the available content, so my impression that it’s an intentional choice does not have to be received with such offense on your side. We probably will never know fully.@Ulysses I’ve already explained why, this happens with a lot of tracks that were taken from soundtrack releases. Tracks like Skyward Sword’s File Select and Donkey Kong Country 2’s Stickerbush Symphony fade out before reaching a suitable loop point, and other songs like you’ve mentioned with multiple variations pretty naturally would not support being extended unless they looped back to the first variation prior to the fade out (which is uncommon). You’ll find that soundtracks that were mastered specifically for Nintendo Music due to not having a prior release like Super Mario Bros. Wonder don’t have this problem.The only major exceptions are the two Pokémon games on the service. The grand majority of tracks from both of them should be able to support the feature no problem, but there’s seemingly some kind of mandate from The Pokémon Company to not allow extending on any tracks (among other things like removing certain jingles and not including screenshots for certain spoiler-heavy tracks).The only non-Pokémon track I’m personally aware of that is non-extendable despite it seemingly being possible is Splatoon 2’s Inkopolis News theme.@Polley001 But again, the reasons you give just appear to be a lack of imagination from my perspective, rather than taking them for granted.Skyward Sword’s File Select, for instance, begins the second loop at 50 seconds, 8-9 seconds before the track begins to fade out. No, I am not an experienced sound editor, but why not just isolate that first loop for the Extend feature? To me it seems like an artistic liberty to move the listener on to the rest of the album.Now I understand you have very strong opinions formed by isolated* facts as to why you believe it is naturally impossible, but Nintendo has developed a strong reputation over many console generations for believing in limiting their audience’s available options for a more streamlined experience. While that is all well and good for their tentpole video games, I can’t help but suspect that general ethos has bled into their handling of this streaming app. Which I personally do not appreciate, despite loving the app and using it practically every day.Where my Burning, Churning Power Plant be at?I’m lucky enough to have gotten the complete soundtrack as an imported Christmas gift, but it’s very unfair to the rest of the world outside Japan that an app just gets the sound selection for now. It still has my top five tracks, but still!My (belated) top five are:1. Running Through The New World2. Two Planets Approach The Roche Limit3. Roar of Dedede4. Burning, Churning Power Plant5. 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