This. It is not bad music, it is just weird music, at least in style, for the game. It might been something akin to "Worked for Daytona USA" that was the thought process but there was many stars aligned right when Daytona USA's soundtrack was made and gilded as legend. Of course, especially at that time people wanted to expand horizon of racing music but Sonic R's soundtrack, while not bad, makes the whole feel off, it is not like Sonic music, and it is not like racing soundtrack either.
because they weren't around in the 90s and have no taste in music.
There was someone on Twitter who actually modded one of the newer "Outrun" games (I THINK it was "Outrun 2006" but my memory is a bit fuzzy) to replace the game's music with "Sonic R's" music. It fits perfectly.
That is a weird argument, like saying they set out to make a bad game on purpose and thus also chose the sound track for that goal on purpose or something? I know you likely meant that is how the stars fell but still, the soundtrack is very off given what type of music Sonic had at that point. Of course, jump to something with CD quality music would be first with Sonic R, so there was no guiding principle but I am pretty sure more people agree they nailed that with Sonic Adventure and just about every game henceforth, even the "bad" sonic games have universally liked, and fitting music like 2006 and Air Riders series. Compared to that, the style and vocals are very weird choice. Vocals is not the issue even, vast majority of sonic games have vocals and even cross to pop style music, but still, Sonic R is very off in style that would be fitting to sonic game. It would not be off for a kart racing game, maybe, but still.
Oh, Oh I can be feeling it for past several weeks and I hope very much it could stop, even if I know of the ramifications.
Nah, Sunshine generally rocks and it has exactly a fitting soundtrack that includes pho-acapella rendition of SMB Theme for bonus stages and so much more. Sunshine does not suck it was just seen that way at the time, as was Wind Waker. At it's time, games on GameCube were seen as sucky because they were on GameCube. Now it is has an inverse effect though generally, most nintendo GameCube games are all time hood classics in their own right. Melee, for sure is one, agree with it or not, there is like, a 20+ year old tournament scene telling their side of the story.
More like both Sunshine and Wind Waker suffered from rushed development in order to sell GameCubes and it showed. After all, Wii was a much more casual console and had all the more reasons to attract gamers ire, yet Galaxy and Twilight were overall much better received at launch.
I think Galaxy is a better game than Sunshine (that's coming from a big Sunshine fan), but Wind Waker is much better than Twilight Princess in my opinion.
