16: Bad Girls Club
I'm celebrating Valentine's Day with the video game characters I love most: bad girls. This is a collection of music associated with big bads, supervillainesses, henchwomen and general badasses who don't fit the mold of damsels in distress, with music from DarkStalkers, Shovel Knight, Sonic, Breath of Fire, Battletoads, Final Fantasy, Samurai Shodown and more. You go, girls.
Track listing:
0:13: Morrigan’s Theme / Darkstalkers / Takayuki Iwai and Hideki Okugawa
2:09: Medusa Battle / Kid Icarus / Hirokazu Tanaka
4:06: The Pirate Shop / Wario Land: Shake It! / Tomoya Tomita and Minako Hamano
7:25: Succession of Witches / Final Fantasy VIII / Nobuo Uematsu
11:04: Mizuki Rashojin / Samurai Shodown V Special / Kennosuke Suemura and Haruhiko Kuroiwa
14:11: Dark Queen Battle / Battletoads in Battlemaniacs (Super NES) / David Wise
16:55: Tron Bonne’s Theme (The Flutter vs. The Gesellschaft) / Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds / Hideyuki Fukasawa
19:15: Rottytops! / Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse / Jake Kaufman
21:47: Zeal Palace / Chrono Trigger / Yasunori Mitsuda
25:10: A Curious Happening / Secret of Mana / Hiroki Kikuta
27:45: Pirates Ahoy! / Final Fantasy V / Nobuo Uematsu
30:02: I’m a Spy / Sonic Adventure 2 / Fumie Kumatani
33:03: Barbara the Bat’s Theme / Daigasso! Band Bros. / Masami Yone
36:16: Kotake and Koume / Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time / Koji Kondo
38:44: Deep Purple / Breath of Fire III / Yoshino Aoki and Akari Kaida
42:03: Cackletta’s Theme / Mario & Luigi: Superstar Story + Bowser’s Minions / Yoko Shimimura
44:32: Magic Square / Red Earth / Takayuki Iwai (a.k.a. “Anarchy Takapon”)
47:33: Devilotte’s Theme / Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo / Tatsuro Suzuki, Isao Ave, Yuko Kadota, Syun Nishigaki, Setsuo Yamamoto and Anarchy Takapon
51:11: Gypsy Heart / Lunar 2: Eternal Blue / Noriyuki Iwadare
55:53: Distant Traces of Beauty / Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney — Trials and Tribulations / Noriyuke Iwadare
59:33: Margarie Margarita / Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars / Yoko Shimomura
62:26: Sofia’s Theme (Take 1) / Battle Arena Toshinden 2 / Makoto Mukai
65:18: Vanessa Plots / WarioWare: Touched! / Masanobu Matsunaga, Yasuhisa Baba and Masaru Tajima
66:05: Cordelia’s Theme (The Place Where Evil Sleeps) / Panel de Pon (Nintendo Puzzle Collection) / Composed by Masaya Kuzume, arranged by Masanobu Matsunaga, Noritaka Misawa and Yoshito Sekigawa
67:40: The Possessor / Shovel Knight / Jake Kaufman