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Compared to previous games in the Super Smash Bros. series, the music of Super Smash Bros. Brawl has a much larger significance to overall gameplay. Where Brawl's predecessors had no more than two songs per stage, some stages in Brawl, such as Halberd, have as many as twelve. Brawl director Masahiro Sakurai stated on the Smash Bros. DOJO!! that his group of arrangement supervisors were asked to listen to "an elite selection of Nintendo music" and arrange several of their favorite songs, which "means there will be quite a number of songs." In fact, there are 258 different songs one can listen to in the game's Sound Test feature. However, not all of these songs are available from the start; many require unlocking or are collectible CDs... (more)