Talk:Koji Kondo

Super Mario Sunshine

There are some inconsistencies both on Kondo's page and Shinobu Tanaka's page, the two credited composers of Super Mario Sunshine. According to Tanaka's page, she is the "credited" as the composer for "Polluted Packun" and "Manta". She supposedly arranged a piece called "Fake Mario" as well. However, on Kondo's page, he is credited as the composer for "Mini Boss Gatekeeper", "Mini Boss Manta", and "Shadow Mario". Based on the fact that these pieces attributed to battles against the Polluted Piranha, Phantamanta, and Shadow Mario respectively, I'm inclined to believe that these are the same pieces listed under different names on each composer's page. With this in mind, I have a few questions:

1. So what's the story here? Who composed which?
2. Where did these claims even come from? No official soundtrack for Sunshine has ever been released. We only definitively know the credits for a few songs that have reappeared on compilation albums over the years.
3. With question #2 in mind, how do we know the names of all of these tracks? Is there some sort of official track list for Sunshine unavailable to the public? Where else would the names of the tracks come from? Why are they different between the two composers (i.e. "Mini Boss Manta" for Kondo, "Manta" for Tanaka)?

Nintendo101 (talk) 16:02, 12 January 2019 (EST)