Yay, it's my request! Glad you enjoyed it! One thing I wish you could hear would be the use of motifs in this track - Kirby games love to sprinkle in 3-4 motifs in over the course of the game, then throw them all at you in the final boss's theme. This one in particular has Triple Deluxe's title theme, first level theme, and boss theme in it, I believe! Too bad that's not really something you can hear unless you've heard the rest of the game's soundtrack, haha.
Since you were curious, Fatal Blooms in Moonlight's composer is Hirokazu Ando, and Eternal Dream's arranger is Megumi Ohara (the singer is Oriko Takahashi). The Kirby series's main composers are Jun Ishikawa and Hirokazu Ando, who have been working on the series since the beginning. Ishikawa is known for his high-energy, electronic tracks (like Gourmet Race) while Ando is known for grand orchestral tracks and incorporation of motifs (like this track; he also wrote Two Planets Approach the Roche Limit). There's plenty of other composers though, like Ohara, who have mainly worked on spinoffs and arrangement albums in the past, but are more recently also working on mainline titles. The Kirby sound team is just blessed with so many incredible composers :)
anothersky
2023-07-08 06:20:03 +0000 UTC
"Kirby music is..."
It's own beast. There's nothing quite like it.
Shinigamisparda
2023-07-07 21:47:52 +0000 UTC
I’m convinced Kirby composers go “ok, how can we have this still sound good but include AS MANY different instruments and sounds as humanly possible?”
benjamin Miller
2023-07-07 17:23:40 +0000 UTC
I was hoping for Sullied Grace as well but it is technically not the same song so oh well. For context consider it as the "Phase 1" boss theme and Moonlight is the 2nd phase.