Hey everyone on this update its Sweet Home. Easily one of the first horror based rpgs to ever hit the market and its the Grandfather of Survivor Horror games. Many of those who worked on the Resident Evil series drew inspiration from this very game. It has a unique party system and causes you to manage your items and equipment effectively in order to advance to the next part. Enjoy!!!
Hey everyone its time for another Cornshaq update and this time around I bring you Battle of Olympus and Faxanadu two of my all time favorites. Not just in gameplay but especially because of the soundtracks. Battle of Olympus was composed by Kazuo Sawa who also worked on Super Dodge Ball, Nintendo World Cup, and River City Ransom. Enjoy!
Next up is Faxanadu a game in the Dragon Slayer series by Falcom. This game is another example of great adventure gameplay on the NES. The soundtrack composed by the team at Falcom who are also responsible for other great games including the Ys series show how to create a great soundtrack that fits the mode of each area of the game. Enjoy!
Hello all its time for another Song of the Week and its yours truely White Mage Whitney with another pick. For my pick I went back to the days of the Super Nintendo which easily has some of the best soundtracks ever composed. One of my favorite games for the SNES is Secret of Mana which was put out by Sqauresoft. It was officially the second game in Seiken Densetsu series with the first being Final Fantasy Adventure. The thing that made the game so fun was the action based battle system. It was like combining the best of Legend of Zelda and Final Fantasy into one great game.
With it being a Squaresoft title it should not shock anyone that it has a great soundtrack. It was composed by Hiroki Kikuta and was his first soundtrack. He has since composed soundtracks for other great games including this games sequel Seiken Densetsu 3 and the first game in the Shadow Hearts franchise Koudelka. The whole soundtrack of Secret of Mana is great but I had to choose just one song so I went with Tell a Strange Tale.
For more information on Secret of Mana check out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_of_Mana
http://www.seikens.com/secret-of-mana.html
http://www.mobygames.com/game/secret-of-mana
For more information on Hiroki Kikuta check out
http://www.zephyr.dti.ne.jp/~deadtech/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroki_Kikuta
http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,61509/
Hey everyone, welcome back to another edition of the True Gaming Song of the Week. Again I set up with another American Composer, Mr. Bobby Prince, and my song is DOOM Victory Music from the obvious…DOOM. Bobby Prince is known for his other works such as Wolfenstein, Duke Nukem, Commander Keen, as well as Spear of Destiny.
Now, everyone should know DOOM. It’s the landmark title for First Person Shooters, as well as First Person Gaming in general. It is widely recognized for pioneering immersive 3D graphics, networked multiplayer gaming on the PC platform, and support for custom expansions.
For more info on DOOM or Bobby Prince check out these sites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Prince
Hey everyone its time for another update from me Cornshaq and this time is another great Game Music Appreciation Theater of the game Batman Return of the Joker. This game was created by the great team at Sunsoft who worked on great titles such as the first Batman game as well as Blaster Master, and Gremlins 2. The soundtrack was composed by the great team of Naoki Kodaka and Nobuyuki Hara. Enjoy!
Hey everyone its time for another song of the week and its time for me Cornshaq to get another choice. I have chosen a song from one of my all time favorite games Jet Force Gemini. Released on the Nintendo 64 back in 1999 it quickly became one of my favorite after I rented it from a local blockbuster and I just had to get it right away. The controls were pretty unique for the time and many may even say they are bad especially if you go back and play it today but as far as I am concerned this 3rd person action/platform/shooter game is one of the many gems on the N64 and why an N64 is never not hooked up to my TV. The only thing that gets on my nerves is the collecting fest the game becomes in the second half. While it does make the game longer which is great it just ends up dragging and becomes unfun. Rare the developer has always had a habbit of making games with a lot of collecting something I am not a huge fan of unless done in moderation.
The soundtrack for this great game was composed by the Rare music team. Mainly Robin Beanland and Graeme Norgate. Robin Beanland has worked on many of the best soundtracks Rare has ever produced including Donkey Kong Country, Killer Instinct, and Star Fox Adventure. Graeme Norgate also worked on Diddy Kong Racing (another personal favorite of mine) and Perfect Dark (wait I love that game to). This great team will be working together again on the upcoming Banjo Kazooie 3 Nuts and Bolts. Rare is one of the greatest developers of all times and the music that goes along with each game they do is always top notch. The song from Jet Force Gemini that I have chosen is Sekhmet. Enjoy!!
For more information on Jet Force Gemini check out the following sites.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_Force_Gemini
http://jetforcegemini.3dactionplanet.gamespy.com/
For More Information on the Composers Robin Beanland and Graeme Norgate check out
Hey everyone its time for another update and this time its a Game Music Appreciation Theater for the last great platformer to ever grace the Nintendo Entertainment System Kirby’s Adventure. The music in the game was composed by Jun Ishikawa and Hiroshi Miyauchi the team behind most of Hal Laboratory game soundtracks over the years as well as most of Kirby’s music. The team most recently worked together on Kirby Squeek Squad on the Nintendo DS and with a Kirby wii game coming out I am sure they will be called on again to grace us with another awesome Kirby soundtrack. Enjoy!!
Hey everyone its time for another Play it Through and this one is a reuploaded video I did back in November. This was one of the first longer games I did and this run comes in at just over 2 hour and 20 minutes and is of one of my least favorite games of all time Back to the Future Part 2 and 3 brought to us by LJN. This video only covers Part 2 but part 3 will be coming soon during my summer blockbuster movie month in July.
Hello all its time for another update from yours truley White Mage Whitney and its guess what……more Breath of Fire 1 on the snes. In part 31 I leave Wisdon and head back underwater to a underwater volcano. In the volcano I dorp the egg Bleu gave us into the Volcano then head back to Bleu who now joins the team. With Bleu apart of the party I head back to Prima and get ready for the showdown with the invading army. After the Typhoon Bug that was inside the egg takes out half of the troops the rest of them retreat. I then do battle with one of the generals who turns into a giang crab.
In part 32 the battle with the giant crab is finished. After the battle my team is congratulated by the leader of Prima and Gobi gets his license back and the ability to turn into a giant fish. With this ability I head to Tunlan and get Rod 5. I then head back to Romero and travel through the forest to a well that sits alone at the edge of the forest. I use the rod I got in Tunlan to fish out the Dragonsword. The Dragonsword is used to get the next Dragon abilities for Ryu.
In part 33 I head to the second Dragon Shrine and do battle with another boss to get Ryu his second group of dragon abilities. I then head north of Tunlan to the town of Gust and into the cave just north of it. Inside we run into the evil Cort who shrinks the team. Now very tiny I head into a crack in a wall and meet some mice who are in need of help.
