Guide: Relaxed music video game: Relaxing playlist

Throughout Nintendo Life VGM Fest, our season music-centric features, interviews and other audio clips, we will present some personal playlists of Nintendo Life team with the best music of all video games. Our gaming experience collective spans many decades of amazing audio from the nostalgic 'blips' and 'beeps' era recreational (for some of us, at the least) to full orchestral majesty of the triple-A today, and all the glorious intermediate variations.

Here are some of our best songs of games to relax the end (or the beginning or middle) of the day. The only self-imposed rule that we had selecting these clues to our relaxing playlist of VGM era that should have appeared in a game on a Nintendo platform. Simple!

Is this a complete list of all the great relaxing tracks of video games on Nintendo consoles? Of course, no; how can it be!? This is just a small sample of some of our favorites, but feel free to nominate their own personal choices in the comments and share the love: we are completely open to expand the list over time.

Meanwhile, take a headset, sit back and enjoy ...

Key personnel: Gavin Lane (GL), Thomas Whitehead (TW), Kate Gray (KG)

Jolly Roger Bay / Dire, Dire Docks (Super Mario 64, 1996)

Composer (s): Koji Kondo

One of the most relaxing Super Mario 64 tracks, this reassuring Koji Kondo number of lulls you into a false sense of security and makes the appearance of the Eel Unagi even more disturbing casually while enjoying the waters of Jolly Roger Bay. GL

Listen to him at: Super Mario 64, Super Mario 64 DS, Super Mario 3D All-Stars

Rito Village (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, 2017)

Composer (s): Manaka Kataoka, Yasuaki Iwata, Hajime Wakai

I have no idea if this is my favorite song of BOTW, or even my favorite song of Zelda, to relax. But that's the point: they are all so good. Rito Village is a full high track birds full of Spanish guitar and somnolent wind wood; the Night version is even more languid, and it sounds exactly like the moonlight on a lazy river. KG

Listen to him at: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Aurora ## Theme (Child of Light, 2014)

Composer (s): Béatrice Martin (Cœur de pirate)

When I played Child of Light for the first time, I was impressed by his surprisingly dark but hopeful tone, told through a misty, dreamy watercolor. They soundtrack fits perfectly with the tragic theme of the fairy tale with its slow and painful cords; you can almost follow the whole story on this song alone. KG

Listen to him at: Child of Light

Subject of the title (Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005)

Composer (s): Kazumi Totaka / Asuka Ohta

He could have chosen any number of tracks in this series (2am is always nice in any of the games, and Kate chose another nearby well), this entry was my first Animal Crossing and this melody makes me feel nostalgic for a time I visited my people DBLY every day for a period of 18 months. Every. Single. Day.

Good times. GL

Listen to him at: Animal Crossing: Wild World

Japan / Theme Hōjō Tokimune (Sid Meier's Civilization VI, 2016))

Composer (s): Organized by Geoff Knorr / Phill Boucher

Civilization VI is a relaxing game for me, one in which I feel comfortable and let the hours fade away, often in the portable mode switch. Every civilization has a fantastic music, but the arrangements to the touch as Japan / Hōjō Tokimune are particularly soothing and relaxing. Beautiful and sometimes inspiring. TW

Listen to him at: Sid Meier Civilization VI

Yarn takes shape Yoshi (Yoshi's Woolly World, 2015)

Composer (s): Tomoya Tomita / Misaki Asada / Kazumi Totaka

Another choice that could have gone with a dozen other examples of the Yoshi series or the incredible Kirby's Epic Yarn of Good-Feel, I love the instrumentation on this track in particular: the introduction perfect one of the most enjoyable games and Wii U relaxants .GL

Hear in: Yoshi's Woolly World

Sanctuary in the Glades (Ori and the Will of the Wisps, 2020)

Composer: Gareth Coker

Is a delight and a wonder that this game is in Switch, not only because it is a wonderful adventure / platform game, but by the pure soul he has. The soundtrack is a big part of that, and during my play, I actually diverted to the Glades area no other reason than to sit and listen to this track for a few minutes. TW

Listen to him at: Ori and the will of the Wisps

to celebrate and say goodbye (Opus: Rocket of Whispers, 2017)

composer (s) : triodust (huang, zhen-yang)

Complete Revelation, once I worked on the release of the SWITCH ESHOP release of this game, as well as I found it and your soundtrack. However, for a smaller download experience, the opus soundtrack: Rocket of Whisper really moved me; It is quite minimalist in parts with a piano approach, and I think several of their tracks are particularly beautiful to hear both in the game and when it relaxes. TW.

Listen to it in: Opus: Rocket of whispers

7 p.m. (Animal Crossing: New Horizons)

Composer: Kazumi Totaka

Oooof This small number of funky jazz and Snozy sounds as if you should have a letter, and I should play in a bar in the basement full of smoke during the hours of the morning. Thank God, one of the best ACNH tracks is at 7:00 p. M., the main time to detect errors, and is not lost in block from 2:00 a. M. at 7:00 a. M., when absolutely nobody should play Animal Crossing. Go to bed! KG.

Listen to it in: Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Yellow giant (Doshin the Giant, 1999)

composer (s): tatsuhiko asano / yasuyuki suzuki

In honor of our video producer Senior Alex, we have decided to add this small piece of guitar from another world from one of him's favorite games (well, he certainly likes the titular giant). Certainly a quiet melody. GL (for AO)

Listen to it in: DOSHIN The giant

Those are just some of our personal favorites, but what about your own? Let us know your favorite video game tracks to relax in the comments below, and if your choices vibrate with us, you may see them migrate north from the comments at some point.

Make sure you check the other items by Nintendo Life VGM Fest in our interview season and music centered features.