My friend Zoiy who also enjoys a good remix, he’ll be one of my main sources to find new songs to write about, sent this song to me earlier, and it’s actually a remix of one of my favorite songs from Final Fantasy VII. While the beginning of the song made me think about the IIDX song 5.8.8, which is also good, it soon plays the familiar melody of Cosmo Canyon. The piano arrangement is great and the strings just adds to the greatness. When the wonderful bass line begins there’s also some very nice deep drum sounds that makes me think about those big taiko drums. Just listen to it and you’ll probably get what I mean. Reuben Kee managed to make a great song even better, and it might be even more in the line of what Nobuo Uematsu intended to create while he was limited by the specs of the Sony Playstation.

Here it is, Ascension to Cosmo Canyon by Reuben Kee, enjoy!

source: http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR01306/

I first heard this remix while playing Osu! with a friend, and I think he’s the one who found it. It’s made by REDALiCE, and if YouTube’s correct it’s called Porky of Porky of Porky of Porky.

And if you want to hear the original song here’s a link to it at YouTube.

The picture above is from another great game. Simon the Sorcerer. The first two games are great and Simon the Sorcerer 2 was the first point-and-click adventure I played. It’s not my favorite series in the genre but I still think you should check it out if you want two good adventure games. I’m not too fond of the later games in the series, mostly because of the 3D-graphics. Point-and-click-games should be in 2D, if you ask me at least. Another great series that you probably heard of is Monkey Island. And it’s the same thing there. The 3D games are inferior to the 2D games. Although the fifth game of the series, Tales of Monkey Island were pretty good. Mostly because the controls were a lot better than part four; Escape from Monkey Island. Just to add some more recommendations, try the first three games, the special editions of the first two are also great, especially the second game. Other good SCUMM-games from LucasArts are Sam n’ Max: Hit the Road, Day of the Tentacle, The Dig and LOOM.

But not all 3D games are bad. As I mentioned earlier, Tales of Monkey Island is worth playing, and so is Escape from Monkey Island if you can stand the awkward controls. But the best of those games might be Grim Fandango, which is also made by LucasArts. It’s a lot different in theme and story, and the controls are as awkward as they are in EMI, but it’s still worth a shot if you want a great Adventure Game.

I tend to prefer the SCUMM-games from LucasArts over the SCI-games from Sierra. The Sierra games (like King’s Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest and Leisure Suit Larry) got some great games, but the thing I don’t like is that you can die if you make a small misstake. Sure it makes the games more challenging, but it can also be a bit tedious to replay large portions of the game just because you forgot to save. Good game to try are Space Quest 4 & 5 and King’s Quest 6. I haven’t played all of them but those are the ones I enjoyed the most of the ones I’ve played.

A newer game that I still haven’t beat, too many games to play and too little time, is Machinarium. The graphics are great and the puzzles are challenging enough. It shouldn’t be that expensive if you manage to find it, I got it from one of the Indie game bundles from humblebundle.com a while ago. I might do some more recommendations later as there are way more good adventure games and I think my next post about this might be about two games inspired by a world created by one of my favorite authors, Terry Pratchett.

Once again I managed to squeeze in a song from the Heroes of Might and Magic-series, though it’s now called Might & Magic Heroes because Ubisoft decided to change the name. This song is called Summer Plains from Might & Magic Heroes 6. Originally it was composed by Paul Anthony Romero and Rob King for Heroes of Might and Magic 2 and was then called Grasslands theme.

From Beatmania IIDX 10th style, here’s Mr. T – GRADIUS – FULL SPEED. As the titles says it features some songs from the old NES classic Gradius. The game the  Konami Code was invented for. Even though the original soundtrack is really good, I do prefer this remix as I get to listen to some of my favorite video games tunes in two minutes, and it’s pretty fun to play in IIDX too!

The game I’m talking about is of course Out Run, the high action road racing adventure from Sega. The only version of it that I’ve played is the Sega Master System. But the song is also featured in most , if no t every, of the sequels. The fun thing about Out Run, and Out Run 2 SP which I’ve played, is that you can choose music yourself, by switching channels on the games “radio”. The radio stations only feature one song, but who cares, if you can play to Magical Sound Shower as many times as you want, it’s just that great.

And as a bonus, if you want to hear a cover version by a great Danish band called Press Play on Tape, click here.

The game is called The Guardian Legend, a hybrid action-adventure/shoot ‘em up released in 1988. In the Adventure part of the game you explore different areas and look for clues to the next dungeon, and the dungeons are where the shoot ‘em up part of the game takes place. The game is pretty fun but becomes really hard and a bit confusing really fast.

The game I’m talking about is called Top Gear, or Top Racer if you played the Japanese version of it. The gameplay is pretty similar to other racing games of the time, especially games like Lotus, which was made by the same developers. Coincidence? I got no idea to be honest, but those games got great music. I’m not a big fan of racing games myself, but it doesn’t matter as long as I get to listen to great tunes like these, I’ll play them.

The Adventures of Bayou Billy. Just writing the title of the game reminds me of the horrible samples used in the game. The game got three modes, and while you play the game you’ll encounter all of them. The song is from the  first of them, which feels like a bad copy of Double Dragon or River City Ransom. You’ll walk around and punch, kick or even jump kick thugs and alligators. And that’s about it. In the second mode you drive around in a car, shoot stuff and throw grenades at aeroplanes. And the third one is when the game switches to a first person view and you get to use the good ‘ol zapper. And apparently you can shoot a stick of dynamite in mid-air to make sure it doesn’t explode.

The song is from the fighting-mode of the game, which suits the theme, it might not be the best song in the game, but i really do like it. The good part of the song doesn’t start until around 00:24 though.

Tetris: Type B!