4th June 2015, 5:46 PM
Ouch, I remember the Tails theme song from that game. Specifically, I remember saying that, but in a positive way, because I was trying to see god in everything. Sweet genius but that brings back some painful memories.
Anyway, if we're going to put Sonic Adventure songs in here, we'll be here all night. That's why I'm trying to exclude games where the ENTIRE sound track is like that. Besides, for Sonic it all "fits", in that both are painful memories of the worst excesses of the 90's. Sad but true, kids today don't see Sonic as "cool", but rather "retro".
Anyway, I'm going to go ahead and skirt my own rules just a tad with a couple of songs from Lunar: Silver Star Story. It doesn't matter if you played the Sega CD, Playstation, or PSP version, they all had two songs in them, and they all come across like anime's attempt at a Disney musical number. The reason I'd say this skirts my own rules is because, well, it does still sound like the rest of the music. There were actually two opening themes. The Sega CD version has a very electro 80's vibe to it, but the later one switches to that Disney style. The midway song is a flat-out musical number. To be fair, at least the character singing is actually a singer (the same excuse The Little Mermaid uses). It's still a bit weird to see that in a video game though. As a teen playing this, it was the sort of moment where you hoped no one else was in the room, but at the same time, kinda did, because holy spit, there's a Disney musical number in your vidjamagames! I TOLD you games were the future of art! (Toooold yoooouuuu...) Teenagers are idiots... Moving along though, I think my favorite part of Lunar's opening, from Sega's perspective, is how they basically decided to say "Oh hey, you say RPGs on the SNES are better because the SNES has so much better music? How about THIS you little runts!"
Next time, I might track down the Metal Gear ending themes.
Anyway, if we're going to put Sonic Adventure songs in here, we'll be here all night. That's why I'm trying to exclude games where the ENTIRE sound track is like that. Besides, for Sonic it all "fits", in that both are painful memories of the worst excesses of the 90's. Sad but true, kids today don't see Sonic as "cool", but rather "retro".
Anyway, I'm going to go ahead and skirt my own rules just a tad with a couple of songs from Lunar: Silver Star Story. It doesn't matter if you played the Sega CD, Playstation, or PSP version, they all had two songs in them, and they all come across like anime's attempt at a Disney musical number. The reason I'd say this skirts my own rules is because, well, it does still sound like the rest of the music. There were actually two opening themes. The Sega CD version has a very electro 80's vibe to it, but the later one switches to that Disney style. The midway song is a flat-out musical number. To be fair, at least the character singing is actually a singer (the same excuse The Little Mermaid uses). It's still a bit weird to see that in a video game though. As a teen playing this, it was the sort of moment where you hoped no one else was in the room, but at the same time, kinda did, because holy spit, there's a Disney musical number in your vidjamagames! I TOLD you games were the future of art! (Toooold yoooouuuu...) Teenagers are idiots... Moving along though, I think my favorite part of Lunar's opening, from Sega's perspective, is how they basically decided to say "Oh hey, you say RPGs on the SNES are better because the SNES has so much better music? How about THIS you little runts!"
Next time, I might track down the Metal Gear ending themes.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)