When I was a kid, our household rented games far more than we bought them. For years I've had the impression of one like a nail in my head, extremely distinct but frustratingly narrow. I knew it was for the Sega Saturn, I knew it was some kind of Zelda knockoff (in fact, it's the exact game I was thinking of when I described Eastward as "one of those games from the early 32-bit era before they'd fully transitioned to 3D and just tried to beat Zelda with higher-resolution sprites but worse gameplay"), and I knew that early in the game you got the ability to transform into a monkey, which changed the background music to a particular theme that has been stuck in my head for the intervening twenty years, resurfacing here and there and making me say "Man, I wish I knew what that game was". (I probably remember the theme so well because I got absolutely hard-stuck in that dungeon and spent hours in the monkey form trying to figure out what the game wanted from me.) that I'd originally planned to tell this story to a particular games-enthusiast crowd I roll with who love Guess The Game and might be able to turn up a lead, but I decided to at least do my due diligence and try to find it myself.
Cramming "video game like Zelda for the sega saturn where you turn into a monkey" into Google landed me a thread on an obscure discussion board (the same kind of relic of the old Internet you might think of this place as) titled, if you can believe it, "Zelda-like games for the Sega Saturn?" That cut the possibility space down from the 800-odd Sega Saturn titles down to just three or four. Herc's Adventures was clearly wrong, but the second one, Shining Wisdom, might have been it. Looked it up on Youtube, scrolled around a bit in a longplay, and by blessed chance happened to stop on a frame with the inventory open... and there was a monkey icon in the inventory. Armed with the game title and the word "monkey", I made Youtube cough up the track in question. It's exactly what I remember.
Johnny ChopsockyScootaloo! We have to cook!Grillin' HaysenburgersRegistered Userregular
edited November 2023
For my money, few developers can pull off lyrical songs in their games quite like Remedy Entertainment, and Alan Wake 2 is in another level even from what they've previously done.
It's a shame in my experience not many people get this far in the game because of the convoluted levelling system to hear this. At least FF9 gave it an interesting spin
BIT.TRIP RERUNNER, the remake/remaster of RUNNER that came out a few weeks ago, now has a full music creator you can use to make custom tracks to go with the level creator:
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Cramming "video game like Zelda for the sega saturn where you turn into a monkey" into Google landed me a thread on an obscure discussion board (the same kind of relic of the old Internet you might think of this place as) titled, if you can believe it, "Zelda-like games for the Sega Saturn?" That cut the possibility space down from the 800-odd Sega Saturn titles down to just three or four. Herc's Adventures was clearly wrong, but the second one, Shining Wisdom, might have been it. Looked it up on Youtube, scrolled around a bit in a longplay, and by blessed chance happened to stop on a frame with the inventory open... and there was a monkey icon in the inventory. Armed with the game title and the word "monkey", I made Youtube cough up the track in question. It's exactly what I remember.
If I haunt the earth as a forlorn revenant when I die, at least it won't be because of this song.
I would say it is at least demoscene adjacent, if not fully enclosed.
Chris can do no goddamned wrong
The choice to commission new songs instead of simply licensing old songs was a masterstroke on Remedy's part.
And don't even get me started on the Old Gods of Asgard songs.
There are others, but they're a bit spoilery so I'll hold off for now.
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It's a shame in my experience not many people get this far in the game because of the convoluted levelling system to hear this. At least FF9 gave it an interesting spin
I have no interest in playing it myself but I can't stop watching big group lobbies on Twitch
Cobalt Core's soundtrack fuckin' whips