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RE: The Quintet Quintet | Soundtrack Review: Terranigma
DUDE! Followed and upvoted, Quintet is such an underrated game developer that died before its time. We never got Terranigma in the US but I imported an Australian copy and a ridiculously expensive PAL converter just to experience it.
I think it's the best action RPG for the SNES, hands down.
And the music... gawd, the MUSIC! ActRaiser and Terranigma in particular. So good.
Thanks for responding! Yeah, Quintet really is underrated. I can't say I've played any of their games unfortunately but they have a really diverse set of soundtracks. They may not always be the best soundtracks, but god damn if they don't have variety!
For sure, man. The Super Nintendo had some top-notch soundtracks, especially JRPGs. Nobuo Uematsu and Yasunori Mitsuida's work on Final Fantasy VI and Chrono Trigger respectively are some of my favorites:
Oh, same here! Square had the best composers in the industry. Uematsu, Mitsuda, Kikuta, Sasai - they assembled a sound team of truly incredible composers. I don't think any company has ever matched them for such a great sound team.
To be sure there are other great composers from the time - Shiono springs to mind, as does the Terranigma team and Akihiko Mori - but the best RPG scores of the SNES era were, on average, products of Square.
Haha, so you've listen to the Quintet Saga music but not played the games, I've rocked out to Lufia and am ashamed to say I've never played it! Agreed, Square/SquareSoft composers were arguably the most talented of the 16-bit era. Really diggin' your encyclopedic knowledge of game music, man.
Sugiyama made some fantastic DQ music for the SNES, too, but that's another series we were robbed of in the West :(
I'm ashamed to say that I've never actually dived into the DQ soundtracks. A shame we missed out on the games, though! I loved playing DQIX on my DS. Back when I had DQIX, anyway. To be totally honest I've listened to more soundtracks more then I've played the games the soundtracks were written for. Lufia one among them. I expect this trend to continue as the soundtracks interest me more then the games most of the time.
If you liked FF and Chrono Trigger in the SNES era you might like to check out Front Mission: Gun Hazard. It's Uematsu and Mitsuda's only collaboration on a single score and it's fantastic from what I remember. It's where Uematsu's more "industrial" style in FFVII was born.