The
Pokemon X and Y soundtrack was released worldwide today on iTunes, in case anyone browsing this thread was unaware of the news.. :) I'm ecstatic that the album has finally been released; I hope to purchase it and the other Pokemon game music albums someday. :) It's interesting to see what the English titles for the songs are now, since this is the first time that we get English titles for Pokemon main series music (excluding the remixed stuff that made it into
Super Smash Bros. Brawl). I'm glad that a lot of the battle themes use the "Battle! _____" format rather than the "______ Battle!" format that
SSB Brawl used (then again, I'm guessing that different localizers than the
Brawl ones might've worked on the XY album).
Minor thoughts:
* The strange capitalization conventions just bugs me so much. >_> I mean, "Gts"? "Pr video"?
Really? It's like the translator didn't even bother to capitalize abbreviations properly; it's jarring because it seems like almost everything else that doesn't use an abbreviation
is capitalized correctly. It's really glaring with the "Pr video" tracks; there's like 30+ songs related to that feature alone!
* I think some of the titles overuse the parantheses a bit (as in, you could have easily used
"Battle! Trainer" rather than
"Battle! (Trainer Battle)", not even speaking of the
Department of Redundancy Department issue that that specific English phrasing brings up), particularly with the
Origins remixes of RBY remixes, where they have to use square brackets ("[]")
alongside parentheses ("()"), such as in "
Battle! (Trainer Battle) [Pokémon Origins Version]"...
* The parentheses could have been used to better effect...from a glance, multiple sets of two tracks share the same name, such as "
Battle! (Trainer Battle)" (there's the Kalos version, and then there's the Kanto version from RBY)... It seems that they are only differentiated by track number (#21 and #207, respectively), which could get confusing when you're looking through the album, and that's not mentioning the
Origins remix of RBY's Trainer battle theme (which at least have brackets to help distinguish it).
** I can only wonder what will happen with the English name of songs of the 2014 album releases (concentrating on pre-XY albums except RBY and GSC), each of which have their
own "Trainer battle themes":
(the FRLG Kanto one, the HGSS Johto one, the HGSS
Kanto one, the Hoenn one, the Sinnoh one, the BW Unova one, the B2W2 Unova one, all of which need to be distinguished with the Kalos one
and "the
Origins remix of the RBY 'Trainer battle theme' that is featured on the Kalos-based CD". That's
nine tracks!)
**Something inspired from the B2W2 album naming scheme (which used regions to differentiate music tracks, since the PWT of B2W2 caused music tracks from 5 different regions to be within one game), such as:
"Battle! Trainer (Kanto; Pokémon Red/Blue Version)"
"Battle! Trainer (Kanto; Pokémon Origins Version)"
"Battle! Trainer (Kalos)"
...could at least help to distinguish everything properly, in my opinion. :/
Also, just realized that the "RBY Gym Leader battle theme" track
isn't a bonus track on the XY CD, and it's the only RBY battle theme that's left out. Dudes and dudettes, you can't just exclude the best (
one of the best?) battle theme that RBY has to offer from the XY CD's bonus tracks like that. I mean, really? XD I can't tell if it had an
Origins remix (but why wouldn't it?; it's awesome, memorable, and Red fights Brock at one point!), but if it didn't that *might* be a reason why, since all the other RBY bonus tracks have their own corresponding
Origins remixes...
