As tired as I am of april fool game announcements, I have to say Kanon 16bit Edition is actually pretty cute. Mainly because they put real work into the music.
I guess if any company's allowed to do the 4/1 fake VN joke, it's this one.

As tired as I am of april fool game announcements, I have to say Kanon 16bit Edition is actually pretty cute. Mainly because they put real work into the music.
I guess if any company's allowed to do the 4/1 fake VN joke, it's this one.
Personally, I find the instrumentation to be a bit uncanny. The sampling calls to mind the SNES, a system not known for its visual novels.
I was coming in here specifically to grouse about how it doesn't sound like PC-98. I feel like this is unsettlingly close to "you had one job" territory. I should figure out how to get OPNA stuff working in furnace...
I would love a PC-98 mix of Kanon music, but I guess "PC-98 demake of a newer VN" is also kind of a cliche of its own at this point. So I'm not too upset they decided to go a different direction for this one. (Actually, there's already a bunch of fan-made Kanon PC-98 mixes, so maybe that influenced their decision to do something else.)
Fair enough. I mean you get stuff like tokimemo and angelique on SNES and those are probably the two biggest (at least general-audience) titles in the genre of the era -- and I suppose, push-to-shove, I'd rather the sound be more SNES-like than PCE-like...
I recognize the samples used in that music and it's unnerving me a bit.