the sneakiest of n++'s soundtrack, crept deep into my brain without me taking a lot of notice
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love this game - have been a fan since i played it in high school and it’s one of the things i continually evangelize to an audience of no one in particular. i have a little Anachronox keychain i carry around with me that a drunken Tom Hall gave me about 10 years ago when i said i was a fan.
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FUCK YEAH
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oh btw i think this is my favorite theme from Anachronox
the Bricks music would fit well in a more serious Blade Runner type game, which the game makes you think it’s going to be until it isn’t lol. i was always happy to get out of the Bricks in my playthroughs of the game but i always liked the theme.
but yeah also like the Sender Station and Democratus music too. they have that sort of optimistic futurey feeling that fits the vibe of those areas and always made them among my favorite locations in the game (along with Haphaestus).
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I always mix this game up with Nox which is a subpar Diablo clone. I need to play this
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it’s a really pretty unique game! which is probably part of why it was famously poorly advertised. the idea of a silly JRPG that also looks like Quake Blade Runner on a platform filled with like FPSes and CRPGs was always going to be a difficult sell. the confusing and hard to pronounce name doesn’t help either. even the cover and advertising materials of the game don’t really reflect the tone at all.
i mean, it’s not perfect - the combat is merely “okay” tho it becomes slightly more interesting with the FF7 materia-like system introduced midway through. you probably wouldn’t miss much by putting it on easy mode and then using the speed up button to push through. the first area is fine but it also takes too long to get through and is kind of overly linear and means a lot of people might miss all the cool stuff after. the game’s storylines also famously had to be cut due to Ion Storm Dallas being a house of cards and and the game ends a bit abruptly.
some patches fix the slowness of the beginning of the game and some other stuff a bit, though. cuz once you get off the Bricks part of the planet Anachronox at the beginning the game really pickes up.
but yeah - def a flawed masterpiece! the writing is consistently very funny and it does meet the promise of being a Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy-style JRPG in a lot of ways. i also love the vibe of a lot of the areas - both musically and visually. it’s like somewhere in between Deus Ex and Chrono Trigger. it also does manage to feel really “sci-fi” in a way that is distinct from the anime sci-fi feel of a lot of JRPGs.
also Waypoint ran a pretty good article about the Anachronox dev team several years ago:
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I remember picking up Anachronox because PC Gamer at the time was raving about it, and they were absolutely right. Just an incredibly charming, fun, well-told JRPG, and I think the first time I’d ever seen one made in the US in that style.
In hindsight I guess the combat system kind of sucks but whatever. Maybe best enjoyed these days as that movie that somebody pieced together from the cutscenes.
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i genuinely think this song whips ass even if its also fuckin cringe it’s like the “misery business” of sonic music
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have been looping this for browsing SB, has the right attitude for bloodposting gains
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Not videogame music, but this album is Spyro the Dragoon Zwei
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The menu theme to Nightshade is so strong my partner and I are helpless. We bop to it whenever I turn the game on.
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Dismissed this from the title but the first track got me.
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