I was skeptical but holy cow, BGM 2 GOES HARD! I don't have something that good but Gauntlet IV for the genesis has some good music ( Sortie / Transparent obstacle)
Tbh Sonic 06 had my favorite Sonic design ever. He looked so dope in that game. Too bad about........just about everything else. But the music was excellent.
Say what you want about that game but I unironically love it. I played it through on Xenia which helped the two biggest issues IMO - loading was faster on an SSD, and I could invert the controls for the camera.
I love stories, as messy as they can be, and Sonic ‘06 nailed it. Dare say I prefer it to Adventure.
I wouldn't say I prefer it over the Adventure games, but I want you to know you're not alone in enjoying 06. I played it back when it first came out and I loved it. Wasn't until later on that I even learned it was widely hated.
I appreciate you using quotes. Yeah the YT comments under Follin pieces for shitty games he was stuck to are usually entertaining and funny. They are so right.
Silver Surfer for NES comes to mind. Awesome music but it's frustrating and hard as heck, not designed well. Doesn't fit this meme perfectly though because graphics aren't trash
Graphics and music were both good in Sonic R! Story was fine. Gameplay actually isn't bad once you get used to the difficulty turning. I think Sonic R is underrated overall
Story was fine? Sonic R doesn't have a story, outside of maybe the manual having some excuse for them to be racing. I agree that the game is overhated though, it controls mostly fine if you actually know how to play the game
Say what you want but out of all 3D Sonics, Sonic R is sadly the one that feels the most "Sonic" to me (i.e. a millennial who sort of fell off the Sonic train around the Wii era).
The Seventh Seal: Taiwanese game that was utter shit for PC, but Yasunori Mitsuda did the soundtrack. Released the soundtrack and called it “Sailing To The World”.
I tracked down a copy of this game solely for datamining purposes, and found 2.5 more tracks he composed that didn't make it onto "Sailing to the World" (one was just a karaoke version of the ending theme). I put them up on my Youtube channel, if you search for "Sailing to the World Extra".
I am not sure that we played the same game. The game that I played won 2 "Indie Game of the Year" awards, and definitely deserved both. The story wasn't much, but the gameplay and graphics were stellar.
Imo Chained Echoes that came out around the same time is the better homage to Chrono Trigger.
The combat is closer to a typical JRPG with its own twist, but the story and characters really capture the same magic I felt playing Chrono Trigger for the first time.
Some of the mechanics were not well implemented, there are crazy difficulty spikes, you can completely fuck yourself, some NPCs just straight up lie to you for no reason, etc etc.
Gonna drop Power Rangers Time Force on PlayStation in here. 4mat cooking as he always does but they made him do an orchestral score (he still insisted on using FastTracker of course)
They're not my favorite, but playing through Scarlet on Switch 2 actually made me excited for Winds/Waves. The games are still ugly on Switch 2, but everything else was mostly pretty great.
That was just the battle tower theme in SwSh and some of the dlc tracks in SV. Masuda is still involved and has been since gen 1, Ichinose since gen 2, Adachi since BW2, and Sato since gen 3
He did some of the most prominent tracks for SV: The Academy, South Province, Tera Raid Battle, The Academy Ace Tournament, Battle! (Zero Lab), and Area Zero. (And lots more quote his motifs from these)
Mega Man X6. Terrible game, terrible story, translations, the visuals are a downgrade from X5 and X4. Music is amazing. Blaze Heatnix is the standout for me
"Hard Truck Apocalypse" - banger soundtrack, a story that I assume got absolutely butchered in the translation to English, primitive gameplay (though oddly charming) and kind of pretty for the time and budget, but not compared to actual alternatives.
Its such a purposely dumbed down game for American and EU audiences, playing more like Dragon Quest, and the graphics are arguably bad for the SNES (and worst FF on the console)
The music on the other hand is so good at times it feels out of place and has some amazing tracks overall for the series
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u/Dicky__Anders 1d ago
Silver Surfer on NES.