A playthrough of Sunsoft's 1988 light gun shooter for the NES, Freedom Force.
Since YT kindly wiped out the entire description and metadata stuff for this vid, I'll have to redo it.
I haven't covered MM6 in a while! While I generally love the MM6 Complete Works, Yamato Man's one sounded really bland and empty, so I thought I'd give it a shot!
Also after nearly 9 goddamn years of arranging, I only just now figured out how to solve the clipping issue in my vids/downloads - lemme know if it still needs improvement!
I'm sure most of you haven't played this -- I hadn't either until just recently. This game is kind of like a serious version of Cho Aniki in the sense that they (Technosoft) took their top down shooter formula and decided to try to apply it to an RPG setting. It kind of works, but it's... weird. Plays like any other top down shooter except instead of a space ship you're a dude. The game's pretty obscure, so there's absolutely no art available for it. As a derpy little last resort, I used the Elemental Master from Elsword for the hell of it since pictures of her are basically all that shows up when I google Elemental Master anyway. The game's pretty good by the way.
Anyway, the soundtrack is by Toshiharu Yamanishi, aka the dude who wrote the Thunder Force III and IV soundtracks. Needless to say, it's totally awesome and I'd love to do more from it, but considering the fanbase this game has I doubt I'll revisit it.
Totally new mix in this one with a heavy focus on the orchestral crap. As a result it doesn't quite "punch" as hard as I wanted it to, but there are like 30 channels in this thing all doing their own thing which made it very, very difficult to get everything to sit right in the mix. Although the ending feels a tad underdeveloped and the solo could use a bit more variation and better transitions, I really don't want to postpone this for another week for those minor blemishes, so I'm going to go ahead and release it now and hope the following week ends up being less brutal. All that said, I'm actually pretty happy with the result here as this has been one of the most difficult mixes I've done so far.