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A collection of my favorite videogame music. Note that most of them are from games I played so I might miss some great ones from games I never played.
SNES
Radical Dreamers (1996)
Day of Summer
Yasunori Mitsuda
Imagine if this version was implanted onto the chrono cross game...
盗めない宝石 (Unstealable jewel)
This is beautiful. Thanks for this one.
Amazing game. A Square gem that most have never heard of much less played.
Iv played this it had a great story :)
I finally finished listening to this entire list of great songs. I even got to appreciate songs from games I've never played, or even heard of in some cases. Through this entire list, there isn't any really bad songs either. You know how to pick them well SupraDarky. 1475 songs and you're still posting them, keep it up. I'm loving this list so far.
And I come back to this point yet again. This is my second time going through, and it was just as entertaining as the first time. Except this time it seems I have a bit more ahead of me. Who knows, maybe after this I'll go through a third time! Thanks again for a fantastic list of great music.
I'm sorry, but as much as I like pretty much every genre and I can play as much NES as PS3, I don't see the appeal of a text adventure game... If I want to read a book, I prefer to have a physical book in my hand than reading a lot of text on my TV. I guess the music helps a lot in the experience department (here I would guess it's its greatest asset). I just don't see what is appealing about it. Same is true for other visual novels. I guess I should play one before judging, but the prospect of having no actual gameplay is not really exciting in itself...
Well, the thing that sets Text Adventures/Visual Novels apart from regular books is, most of them are interactive, like a choose-your-own-adventure book. For example, if you remove the puzzle element from 999, it's just a visual novel, but it has questions that you need to answer in it that drastically affect the game's ending.
Wow - I just beated this "game" day ago...just wow...
What a coincidence, I'm playing this game right now :D
Haha, I recently discover this great theme on "SomeVideoGameMusic"
So starting at 0:28 was the part remade into 'Dream of the shore near another world' in CC right? I'm not very musically inclined ;p
Yup the Home world overworld theme was a remake of the Chrono Trigger theme and the Another world overworld theme was a remake of the Radical Dreamers theme. Pretty cool, huh?
Wow, so many parts of this song remind me of different pieces in Chrono Cross.
It strangely has a touch of Donkey Kong Country Music in it. Melikez :3
I don't get why people give chrono cross so much shit, I thought it was a great game...
People were too quick to judge it before playing it. At least it did make it to greatest hits on the PlayStation.
yeah I agree too that it's absolutely great, it is just that trigger was on a whole different level when it came to story, characters, and gameplay.
I always figured it was because it had such high expectations to live up to after Chrono Trigger
I preferred alot of the songs on dreamers over the cross variant personally. Something about the sound chip on the SNES compared to the PS1 era.
Too many feels in this game. D:
I love the music from this game. It is easily one of the 15 best soundtracks i have ever listened to. Mitsuda's compositions for this game are absolutely soothing. I know you will upload Le Tresor Interdit soon enough Gabe, but i have a feeling it could be awhile till we see that song added to the list.
Seems like Radical Dreamers is valuable mostly for providing back stories that help bridge Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross, along with providing a basis for the story and soundtrack of Chrono Cross. Still, it's really nice to hear how nice the songs in Radical Dreamers sound. Yasunori Misudia is absolutely brilliant. :)
I agree yasunori mitsuda is brilliantly amazing :)
*Song Name: Day of Summer: Implying light and happy theme.* *Sounds like something that would be played in the background of a terrible event/story.* Seems legit.
+Mdude360 Meh, it feels more melancholy than terrible or sad. Like that bittersweet feeling when you remember the days of summer long past.
In the game it's supposed to evoke a feeling of nostalgia and sadness over past days. So yea, it's a bitter sweet song not a happy one.
Or like... You know when u play a game. There will be this small calming village.
I haven't played too many text adventures, but this one was alright. I couldn't help but be slightly disappointed though, seeing as it's (loosely) connected to my favorite game of all time. The soundtrack has very few tracks, but they're all quite memorable and most of them were remade for Chrono Cross.
I think this qualifies as a visual novel, not a text adventure.
I agree that it was kind of disappointing, just gives a little more story about Lynx and Viper Manor. I absolutely love Chrono Cross, so I had to play this when I first discovered it but was a little underwhelmed. Great soundtrack, though.
not sure if you are reffering to trigger or cross,Radical Dreamers is a side story of chrono trigger and the story of cross is based on it,so it dosen't complement cross it is just the original story.
@daniel cardoso I didn't say it served as a complement to Cross' story, but it does sort-of fill that role because, as you said, it's what Cross is based off of. You get more insight into Lynx, Serge, Kid, Viper Manor, the Acacia Dragoons, and the frozen flame. Even though the story differs in RD and Cross it doesn't mean you can't use RD to read more into Cross if you so choose.
@sammanzhi that's true,but i think since cross was realesed radical dreamers is no longer canon i think.But i did not play enough of radical dreamers to say a lot but i got the feeling the a few characters personalities were a bit diffrent it might just be my impression of playing for arround 30 mins tough. If the personalities are the same then yeah i can see this has a way to get to know the charecters better.
Well, the personalities are a bit different, but I'd say Kid's is pretty close and Serge, well Serge never really had a personality in Cross. Lynx is definitely more venomous and woeful. You're right that it's not canon, but you can notice things in RD that carried over to Cross for sure.
@sammanzhi Sorry to be "that guy" but I have to say that it's not Chrono Cross. In fact it's canon that the story in RD is a parallel universe. When you get to Chronopolis and find the Research Centre, if you inspect one of the compuers, you'll find a log that is a word for word replay of the very begining of RD that ends with a cliff note from the researcher saying that this book confirm the hypothesis of multiple realities. So the Chrono series was already rocking the multiple realities theory way before Bioshock Infinite had come out.
@andrey22 It's tied to Chrono Cross. Chrono Cross was made after RD and was modeled after RD. You can make it canon if you want, especially if you take into account that CC's entire plot is centered around parallel universes. Just because it's also tied to Trigger doesn't mean that the story doesn't run into Cross. If anything it sort of bridges the two.
@sammanzhi It was tied off and then dropped off a bridge. It's proto Cross if you will (and one of the characters IS well..."one of the cast from Trigger" to avoid spoilers, so you can't deny the tie in with trigger) and to be honest, instead of the 42 character madness we got in cross, I'd much rather we had the 3-man party of Dreamers. But I'm ranting, sorry, what I meant to say is that Cross recognizes the full plot of Dreamers and integrates it inot it's story but you can skip RD and not miss a thing because it doesn't add any new information that wasn't in Cross. Hell, if anything, it makes things more confusing by adressing the Masamune as "The devil sword" and the Accaccia Dragoons out of nowhere! So I say that, to get the Chrono Experience one should play: Trigger first, Cross second and RD third. It's a canon spin-off and I can find the exact text in the game that proves it, if youu want.
@andrey22 does it even metter if its canon or not? cross is a good rpg regardless but i'm sure a lot of the fans of trigger did not like the direction cross took,especialy becuse of that scene with the fire. Also it happens in a paralel universe so even for those who consider it canon to trigger it kinda of a paralel story and not directly related.
@andrey22 I'd agree with that play order.
@sammanzhi Thank you very much.
@daniel cardoso I wholeheratedly agree with the campfire part. Cross was born in that scene, so it's normal some fans think of Cross as a fanfic of Trigger. Cross is polarizing but, the way I found the experience to be most enjoyable is to think of it as a "Serge" story. Don't bother with any other characters and just focus on Serge. The moment I finally get the whole time travel fuckery (pardon my french), I saw the story in a new light and loved it all the more. And if I could, I'd also have removed the whole "Greenpeace" aspect of the game. The preachy, moralizing Dwarves part and the "Give us back our planet" bit in the end game dungeon (was it Dinopolis or Terra Tower?). I mean, it didn't make sense since the world was pretty clean and nature untouched, or, if you want to add that message they should have made the setting more steam-punky (but just to make sense, mind you). The problem I have with the "Earth" is that her motivation for.....doing her thing (againg, massive spoilers, so not saying anything) is that it was more Tree-loving than existential nightmare. And I think it was a wasted opportunity, since it's a plot thread that is blurted by Lucca if you have her fighting Lavos' second form, so you can't say it's not canon.
@andrey22 defently the best way to play cross is has a solo game,when i played cross i had only played a few hours of trigger so i made little to no conection to the two,and i'm going to say now that i like cross better,the music,the places you visit the story,its a great rpg. I think you only get the whole chrono trigger is the best rpg ever if played at the time of release becuse i finished it 2 years ago on a ds and its a really good snes game but not one of my favourite rpg's.
+SupraDarky I never thought I would enjoy a text adventure so much.