Even over two years after finishing it, I listen to the Chrono Trigger soundtrack regularly as concentration/chill out music. There are some seriously lovely things on there, especially Corridors of Time and Wind Theme.
If anyone's a fan, I've made a Spotify playlist of Chrono Trigger music, with some Earthbound and Final Fantasy VI stuff thrown in: https://open.spotify.com/user/1153731601/playlist/1LArAWIwZLQmH7tnhS0ZnO?si=Fs0hDblDTICIuRMlo391ig
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 08:21 (five years ago) link
great revive
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 08:22 (five years ago) link
(I mean it this time, thanks for this!)
Cool, glad to be of service. The only rubbish thing about this is that Spotify now thinks 'TPR' is my all time favourite artist and 'Wind Theme' is my all time favourite song (which it is, I mean)
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 09:16 (five years ago) link
'Wind Scene' I should say. It's perfect. Those pizzicatos get me every time. It's a SNES game.
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 09:18 (five years ago) link
Corridors of Time is all-time for sure
― ufo, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 10:29 (five years ago) link
Subscribed! This is A+ fan service DL, thanks much!
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 11:20 (five years ago) link
corridors of time is an all time classic even if logic did rap over it
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 13:59 (five years ago) link
i'm absolutely worse off for having heard that
― ufo, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 14:06 (five years ago) link
if I had to hear it so does everyone else
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnPY4BD8IzI
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 14:16 (five years ago) link
there's also this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKWFvbgkWls
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 14:17 (five years ago) link
I have logged way more hours with the Xenogears soundtrack than the game itself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFbVhFlqt3k
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 15:09 (five years ago) link
(that song is one of a couple that Mitsuda says came to him in a dream)
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 15:14 (five years ago) link
i have never played xenogears or even listened to the soundtrack but i guess i really should give it a listen
― ufo, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 15:17 (five years ago) link
in a better world there would be dozens of remixes of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmI93WqFLXQ
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 15:27 (five years ago) link
wow, I've never heard a video game theme that sounded more like Jethro Tull than that it's awesome
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 15:44 (five years ago) link
I have a lot of love for the SNES era of VGM but Mitsuda was on such another level than everyone else. I love the Xenogears soundtrack despite never having played the game
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 15:47 (five years ago) link
hahaha, Mitsuda's wikipedia page is kinda unintentionally hilarious, it is super-Japanese in tone:
He took piano lessons beginning at the age of five, but was more interested in sports at the time and did not take music seriously, quitting by the age of six.
but it did confirm for me that he was a big time Vangelis fan
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 15:50 (five years ago) link
i quite like the secret of mana soundtrack. not as much as my brother, who has the opening theme played by a flautist at his wedding
https://youtu.be/T6YAiLHXw_c
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 18:37 (five years ago) link
man, I need another snes jrpg to get hooked on. sadly I've completed what I believe to be the best ones: Chrono, Earthbound and Ff6. Not sure I really got on with Mana,the text was hard to read and I didn't like the handling, plus the storyline felt a bit arbitrary but maybe I shod give it another shot
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 23:13 (five years ago) link
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver)
i got super into the seiken densetsu iii soundtrack, hiroki kikuta just got completely _into it_, like you can tell listening to it that this is music made by somebody who has given up on sleep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX6W_6pqUDA&list=PL4649F0DBF0FC09E3&index=29&t=0s
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Thursday, 16 May 2019 00:45 (five years ago) link
ah fuck i forgot ilx doesn't do playlists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX6W_6pqUDA
secret of mana is frustrating because it has an excellent soundtrack but kind of sucks as a game (partly because it apparently got gutted significantly during development, but still)
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Thursday, 16 May 2019 05:06 (five years ago) link
I really enjoyed it. I was about 9 and played the thing through on coop with my brother-he was main dude,I was the sprite
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 16 May 2019 05:09 (five years ago) link
even Earthbound is really frustrating to me - fantastic music, writing, general atmosphere etc. but the gameplay itself is pretty mediocre and frustrating with weird difficulty spikes even by the standards of SNES RPGs
― ufo, Thursday, 16 May 2019 05:38 (five years ago) link
I love Chrono Trigger et al but all JRPGs are unbearable slogs to me nowadays
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Thursday, 16 May 2019 05:51 (five years ago) link
At one point when I was thinking about making a dark Super Mario World hack I made a youtube playlist of creepy, atmospheric, Super Nintendo tracks with a little bit of high-BPM boss music and "the journey will be tough but tonight we rest" songs.
SMW Music - Dark And Demented With Moments Of Respite
― ilm jive mind (FlopsyDuck), Thursday, 16 May 2019 13:24 (five years ago) link
(not snes, but mother 3 fixes a lot of the gameplay/tonal consistency issues)
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Thursday, 16 May 2019 13:40 (five years ago) link
Romhacking.net has a lot of Secret of Mana tweaks like equipment progression balance. If I ever attempt a play-through again I will probably use a few that are compatible. I have often started (on an emulator) and given up because I died a lot and I don't have time for that.
― ilm jive mind (FlopsyDuck), Thursday, 16 May 2019 13:54 (five years ago) link