Gold Armor Don Katsu Fight Theme Song
「ドンカツファイト」テーマソング
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gldarm (Gold Armor)The conventionally yellow-clad metal is the leitmotif of our latest Saturday Namco Original feature, as well as for one of the many post-launch Nintendo Switch firsts. As you're about to find out, this peculiar piece of music would greatly fit the Tobikkiri! Anime Special's Game Music-inspired original song production as well!
Debuting on May 2 years ago as a temporary piece of free DLC, Gold Armor made its debut as the theme song for the first of the update-introduced mode for the first Nintendo Switch game: the Don Katsu Fight mode which is sure to be really familiar to Wii/Wii U multiplayer veterans. This, however, is not the one and only wink to Namco's gaming past, as it's been customized to be some sort of callback to the company's 1984 arcade game The Tower of Druaga, with some sound effects from the game playing at the beginning and the name of the song itself referencing one hilarious typo from the original coinop release's Attract/Demo screen (later fixed to "Wore Golden Armor" for the subsequent Famicom/NES version). To further strengthen the gaming bond speculation, let's not forget how Bandai Namco is keen on celebrating their products' anniversaries in some shape of form, as The Tower of Druaga itself had its 35th anniversary in 2019, one month later than Gold Armor's debut month.
With the identity of Gold Armor's singer currently unknown, we at least are aware of the seasoned BNS sounds talents that are behind its composition and execution; on the composing/arranging side, we find once again Yoshinori Hirai (平井克明), the maker of Phoenix as well as the more-recent Welcome to the Taiko Stadium!, with the guitar backing of Takanori Goto (後藤貴徳; already on Ninja wa Saikou and Chiriyuku Tsuduru Ran no Uta among others) and the drums performance of Yuji Masubuchi (増渕裕二), as penned by the man himself on his online blog.
