Ramona

Catching up on AGDQ. Man, wanna know what rules? Resident Evil 4. This remake looks cool (I am very intrigued by Seperate Ways) but that original is like a fucking keystone. Just so fun, manages to keep a campy tone while still being basically the coolest thing ever. What a great thing they made.

A couple months ago thanks to an AGDQ run I discovered for the first time the Satellaview, and the game BS Zelda no Densetsu: Inishie no Sekiban (or BS Legend of Zelda: Ancient Stone Tablets), a riff on A Link To The Past featuring an hour time limit and certain planned events in the game itself, such as unlimited bombs or a convenient lightning attack. It's such a cool premise for a game, giving the inherently fading nature of it, and it turns out it is not the only Zelda game to get the Satellaview treatment. Before then there was BS Zelda no Densetsu, a remake of the original Legend of Zelda for the NES. It has the same basic premise as Ancient Stone Tablets, where you can only visit a couple dungeons per weekly broadcast and includes timed events to keep the whole thing moving. I watched a stream of the game thanks to my favorite gaming related channel Retro Pals (Hi @sardoose! Hi @alexcat!) and was amazed by it's soundtrack! It's really synthy and grand, and also adds in weird sound effects that aren't really like any other Zelda soundtrack. Perhaps it's no surprise that the music was so on point, considering the Satellaview was part of the avant garde satellite radio group St. GIGA. Amazingly I couldn't find it anywhere online outside of this Archive page with like 11 views, so I uploaded it to YouTube to make it easier to listen to. The whole playlist is embedded on the top but a couple of my favorites below the break: