0:00 "Premonition" 4:13 "Atland" 6:37 "Shop" 7:48 "Keep the Faith" 8:24 "Voloh" 10:00 "Walking in the Shadows" 11:32 "Armed and Ready" 12:51 "Valley" 15:30 "Town of the Deceased" 16:13 "Castle Mark Philips" 18:11 "Desert Plains" 19:22 "Dominion" 19:42 "Sengul" 21:09 "Shrouded Mystery" 21:36 "Desperate Dreams" 23:21 "Reach for the Sky" 25:40 "Voice of Spirits" 27:37 "Castle Sigfried" 30:08 "Living on the Edge" 31:44 "Ice Cave" 33:38 "Battles of Fate" 35:48 "Run to the Hill of Phantom" 37:42 "Lilaty" 38:30 "Master of Water" 40:24 "When Death Call" 42:00 "Prince of Darkness" 46:41 "Tales From the Peaceful World" 49:33 "Moonchild" 53:22 "Item Get" 53:31 "Game Over" 55:42 "Say Zoom" Noticed there wasn't any list for song times.
Well, since other people are sharing their stories... I'm a completionest when it comes to great games and I go to unreasonable lengths to make it happen. Lagoon was my best friend's game and I used to borrow it from time to time, and I wanted to return it to him in a flawless state. I obtained all the weapons, shields, armour and spells and even that shiny ball that you had to go back to the beginning of the game and pay 10,000 gold to achieve. I then earned another 10,000 gold on the account for perfection sake... We were about to return the game and my mom said we had an additional 5 minutes to wait, so I decided... 'What the heck, let's listen to that amazing opening theme again!' So I put the game in and cranked the volume... 2 minutes after, the game froze during the opening and I had to turn it off. I checked the game to make sure it was ok, since it had never froze before, and when I tried to load the save file, I noticed it had been completely erased... Sad sad day...
I think it was Lagoon. None of my other SNES games ever erased on me except for this one, which if I recall happened twice to me. The funny thing was the second time, I turned it off and when I reloaded, the save file returned. I know Lagoon was one of the earlier SNES games so I wonder if that had anything to do with it.
Oddly enough, I'd say my favorite song from this game is "Town of Decease." I know most others would say "Valley" or "Moonchild," but there's just something about that song's atmosphere that really brings the nostalgia vibes. It's the one I constantly come back for.
Glad to know I'm not the only one who played jumping sword music. It was one of my favorite ways to pass the time while wandering around dungeons with no map. :P
I narrowly missed this game; I picked it up as a last pick item in my shopping spree at toys r us one xmas as a kid. I had wanted final fantasy 3/6 the most, and had zero expectations for lagoon to be the one I beat first :) I would listen to the opening theme over and over sometimes taking idk 20 mins or so to start the actual game. There were places I'd stop playing and listen to the music; it's cool knowing now how limited musicians were then but still managed to capture themes and evoke the emotion out of me in response. I am grateful I can listen to these snes sound tracks and remember with ears that recalled the newness and epic awesomeness it was to a kid in the early to mid 90s that already loved fantasy and then found the music to that life in videogames like Lagoon.
It just dawned on me that Drakkhen is made by the same company and it also had that "funky medieval" feel (but it was a lousy game). I recognize all the same sound fonts.
@@RetroWill Every major developer had a very distinct music sound. Capcom's music is incredibly recognizable (it always seems to sound like it was pulled straight from an anime). Even the legendary Super Metroid soundtrack had enough timbral commonalities with Super Mario and Zelda to be a distraction. Of course, it all sounds like childhood to me now.
I remember renting this game way back in 1992, the Atland theme is what stuck with me all these years along with the dungeon theme. Couldn't beat it on my first rental haha...took me another try to beat it.
@@Hockexx Blows Donkey Kong out of the water. When everyone in 1994 was losing their minds over the DKC soundtrack, I was like, “Yeah, this is good, but you can just admit you weren’t playing video games three years ago.”
I was not very good at this game as a wee girl, but I did enjoy the music more than anything. I had a habit of leaving my SNES on simply to listen to my favorite songs.
I have a weird true story about this game. I bought it when it was new at a store in a mall, and as I was getting in the car, I opened the box, only to find that the game inside the box was Super Mario World (at least the sticker on the cartridge was?). I was scared that the mall store wouldn't believe me, but we went right back in and they exchanged it for a proper copy without any argument. I played this game all the way through dozens of times, probably, in the years after that.
Happens. How I actually played Breath Of Fire for the first time and my first RPG as well, was one day at the rental store I rented Final Fantasy III. Well so happens even though it had a FFIII sticker, box, and manual, it was freaking Breath of Fire! Imagine my surprise.
I love this game so much, mechanics flaws and all! When I was a child, this was by far one of the more complex rpgs that I played and to this day has one of my favorite soundtracks. The storyline was pretty good too, as I remember, and pretty dark for that era of gaming. I will have to replay one of these days!
My brother rented Lagoon from Blockbuster when we were little and I loved the music so much that I got it for my 6th birthday! I didn't care that the sword was so short and difficult to use. I still have that cartridge in my collection. When I found out about the original X68000 version when I was a teenager, I played that version and was surprised by the Ys-style bump combat and every other difference. Whenever I play Lagoon now, it's always the X68000 version, especially after the English fan translation came out.
I played the x68k version years before the translation, I got by just knowing what to select. I did play the English patch when it came out, that was a dream come true.
@@Red88Rex So did I! I thought the chances of getting an English translation for the original were very slim. It was a dream come true for me, as well.
Is that why the sword swing is so absurdly short, because it had Ys style combat in the X68000 version? For as much I've enjoyed the game that was always my biggest gripe with the game.
these had incredible soundtracks for what platform they had to work with. I recall my brother got this game and when he completed it I started a new game and also completed it. there is only one save slot. this, and Drakkhen and other obscure titles had some of the best music in a video game in that time, 1991, I recall.
Yeah, the original Lagoon on Sharp x68000 was 1990 then this port was 91, sounds right. If you're interested in that, I've got a playlist on my channel dedicated to this game and it's many iterations.
Way late to comment but Drakkhen was awesome! It wasn't perfect but we had a lot of fun playing it anyway. Was before it's time really because it was as close to open world as games could possibly be back then. Glad some people remember it!
@@mackinn8460 Drakken was certainly a beautiful game. Did you ever find the water Kemco symbol in the icelands that regerates your health when you swim in it? One of my favourite places.
I really enjoyed this game a lot, but the music is really what stood out to me. It really distinguished itself with it's unique style that I would play the game just to listen to it. The game wasn't perfect but it always felt unique in a way not many games did. And even if you're listening to a compilation of RPG music, you can pick out Lagoon tracks that you're not even familiar with just because nothing else sounds quite like it.
I have been trying to remember what game the Atland music came from for YEARS off-and-on - it got so stuck in my head!!!! Every time I tried to search through game names I found online I never recognized any of them. YESSSS
+Mitch Tate I will also be adding the Sharp x68000 version here shortly. There is no way to get the actual soundtrack so I just ripped it from the last time I played that version of the game.
I always come to this video to listen to the music. This was such a childhood game playing it with my dad and my brother. It brings back so much memories. Got Dang moon cave and needing to pull the moonstone from there hahaha So many good things about this game. Would be crazy if they did a remake of it =)
Could it be that the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, was kind of loosely based on this RPG game? But unlike the hero Nasir who solves his land's water crisis in Lagoon, Flint's troubles with its water are still not over.
The music in this game was incredible, but oh my gosh why did the sword never get larger than a plastic knife held pinned to the hero's body? I could never beat the thunderbird/Thor at the end either, never. Just kicked my ass!
The short sword took some getting used to, and it mainly turned combat into a game of timing. Not that it was a great mechanic, but it didnt make the game unplayable like so many probably feel when they first try it. It's tough, but you can save anytime and grind out levels if need be to get past parts you're stuck at (which is ideally how a level and xp system should work imo). I was able to beat it just from rentals, though there were a few roadblocks (ice cave boss wtf)
If you want to see the original version on the Sharp x68000, you actually hold the sword out and ram things like Ys style. It was only released in Japan, but I played it on an emulator and someone was kind enough to make an English patch.
The Genesis is a poor mans X68000. Thats what I call it nowadays. The Sharp X68000 was Sharp's ambition to bring out a computer that had arcade quality hardware. The problem was that it was so expensive that no one could afford it (try paying $3000 for a computer in 1987, or $8000 in todays dollars) for years, mostly game/arcade developers bought it to develop their games. In short, the X68000 uses a Yamaha YM2151, the Genesis uses a YM2612. The YM2612 was designed for consoles and computers in mind, the YM2151 was designed for Yamaha synthesizers. The YM2151 has 8 voices, the YM2612 has 6. If you want to hear the difference between the 2 chips, listen to the Genesis version of the game Arcus Odyssey, then listen to the X68000 (original?) version.
I really liked this game as a kid, but let's be completely honest, outside of the (absolutely stellar!) soundtrack, this game was CRAP. Tiny fucking sword is tiny. I JUST FELL IN ANOTHER FUCKING BOTTOMLESS PIT!??!?? Super unforgiving grinding required bosses that take 0 damage if your sword isn't a high enough level. The worst magic system ever conceived outside of Ys' rings. Use your only medical herb? Hope you find one in a chest. Or you can backtrack ALL THE FUCKING WAY BACK TO ELFLAND, which you have to do if you EVER want to buy a Shiny Stone in this game. I loved this game as a kid, but it is a bad game. There, I said it. Now I'll listen to the Lagoon Castle theme on loop for a few hours because it's that awesome.
+DancesWith Chihuahuas Haha, well, I kind of agreed until I played the original version on the Sharp x68000. It's much better. You push the sword into enemies, Ys style, instead of swinging it and it works out much better. The graphics and sound are much better, and the story seems to be better although I admit I can't read Japanese so I don't know exactly what they were saying. But it's much different, I can definitely say that.
I rented this game as a kid and loved it. I have tried to go back to it to rediscover what I loved and I can't seem to find it. I want to take a deep dive one day. See what I can find.
I would have to play through it again to give a comment on the matter, because the last time I played "Lagoon" I was about 11 years old. I do recall the tiny sword part though :P
+David Simmons I know, the names on the list are wrong but I kept them the way they came with the soundtrack. I fixed the names as best as I could on the Sharp x68k version.
Great game, one down fall, swinging your sword is like using tooth pick, no disrespect, great game, great soundtrack, wished the attack was long as game like soul blader, great game nonetheless.
11:33 my favorite track, the boss theme is sick, but the game is terrible despite having a great soundtrack, I saw gameplay on PJ's speedrun would never play this crappy game though.
The only negative thing when i played it in my childhood was that the sword has an extremely short range, you basically had to stand right next to the monster to hit him. Even worse for the big stone boss, that could only be hit in the mouth.
The box is hilarious. "The 3-D action fantasy that is attracting RPG players in waves." 1. The game is not remotely 3-D. Not even. It is 2D, not even isolinear. 2. The graphics are really poor. The people look like they are made of Play-Do. 3. The only saving grace really is the music, which at times is epic. Especially the opening.
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0:00 "Premonition"
4:13 "Atland"
6:37 "Shop"
7:48 "Keep the Faith"
8:24 "Voloh"
10:00 "Walking in the Shadows"
11:32 "Armed and Ready"
12:51 "Valley"
15:30 "Town of the Deceased"
16:13 "Castle Mark Philips"
18:11 "Desert Plains"
19:22 "Dominion"
19:42 "Sengul"
21:09 "Shrouded Mystery"
21:36 "Desperate Dreams"
23:21 "Reach for the Sky"
25:40 "Voice of Spirits"
27:37 "Castle Sigfried"
30:08 "Living on the Edge"
31:44 "Ice Cave"
33:38 "Battles of Fate"
35:48 "Run to the Hill of Phantom"
37:42 "Lilaty"
38:30 "Master of Water"
40:24 "When Death Call"
42:00 "Prince of Darkness"
46:41 "Tales From the Peaceful World"
49:33 "Moonchild"
53:22 "Item Get"
53:31 "Game Over"
55:42 "Say Zoom"
Noticed there wasn't any list for song times.
Thank you.
ありがとうございます！。
凄く助かります！。
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Well, since other people are sharing their stories...
I'm a completionest when it comes to great games and I go to unreasonable lengths to make it happen. Lagoon was my best friend's game and I used to borrow it from time to time, and I wanted to return it to him in a flawless state. I obtained all the weapons, shields, armour and spells and even that shiny ball that you had to go back to the beginning of the game and pay 10,000 gold to achieve. I then earned another 10,000 gold on the account for perfection sake...
We were about to return the game and my mom said we had an additional 5 minutes to wait, so I decided... 'What the heck, let's listen to that amazing opening theme again!' So I put the game in and cranked the volume... 2 minutes after, the game froze during the opening and I had to turn it off. I checked the game to make sure it was ok, since it had never froze before, and when I tried to load the save file, I noticed it had been completely erased... Sad sad day...
I think it was Lagoon. None of my other SNES games ever erased on me except for this one, which if I recall happened twice to me. The funny thing was the second time, I turned it off and when I reloaded, the save file returned. I know Lagoon was one of the earlier SNES games so I wonder if that had anything to do with it.
this music... I have been transported to my childhood bedroom, playing this on a too-gaussy TV built into a wooden cabinet
What does gaussy mean?
Dean R it’s when an old CRT TV would get blurry
And when that tv dies, the new tv is placed on top.
I feel I'm among kindred spirits. Ah that old wooden console t.v. . . . the memories.
Oddly enough, I'd say my favorite song from this game is "Town of Decease." I know most others would say "Valley" or "Moonchild," but there's just something about that song's atmosphere that really brings the nostalgia vibes. It's the one I constantly come back for.
Me with Walking in the Shadows, such an eerie track. That music scared the hell out of kid me and getting lost made it so much worse
I used to jump and swing my sword rhythmically to all the songs while running to, between, or away from enemies. I may have to bust this game out.
Glad to know I'm not the only one who played jumping sword music. It was one of my favorite ways to pass the time while wandering around dungeons with no map. :P
@@joshdillon9637 I'd rather do that then spend half of my time playing a game staring at a minimap rather than my surroundings.
@@phyein4815 You stare at minimaps, rather than just glancing up at them from time to time? How do you manage driving?
I narrowly missed this game; I picked it up as a last pick item in my shopping spree at toys r us one xmas as a kid. I had wanted final fantasy 3/6 the most, and had zero expectations for lagoon to be the one I beat first :) I would listen to the opening theme over and over sometimes taking idk 20 mins or so to start the actual game. There were places I'd stop playing and listen to the music; it's cool knowing now how limited musicians were then but still managed to capture themes and evoke the emotion out of me in response. I am grateful I can listen to these snes sound tracks and remember with ears that recalled the newness and epic awesomeness it was to a kid in the early to mid 90s that already loved fantasy and then found the music to that life in videogames like Lagoon.
The use of funky and futuristic music against a medieval background definitely gave this game a unique feel. Nothing else out there like it.
Those were the days...
It just dawned on me that Drakkhen is made by the same company and it also had that "funky medieval" feel (but it was a lousy game). I recognize all the same sound fonts.
hehe! yeah the music for games made by Kemco sounds similar. Listening to this somehow reminds of Top Gear OST.
@@RetroWill Every major developer had a very distinct music sound. Capcom's music is incredibly recognizable (it always seems to sound like it was pulled straight from an anime). Even the legendary Super Metroid soundtrack had enough timbral commonalities with Super Mario and Zelda to be a distraction. Of course, it all sounds like childhood to me now.
@@EminencePhront agreed
I have been back here to listen to this so many times since 2015. I hope it's here forever.
Some really nice tracks in this game, somehow I like the SNES version even better.
I remember renting this game way back in 1992, the Atland theme is what stuck with me all these years along with the dungeon theme. Couldn't beat it on my first rental haha...took me another try to beat it.
The Ice Cave is just so serene, man that brings me back.
I love Lagoon! The Valley music and oddly Phillips castle is my favorite.
Castle Siegfried is my favorite the knights moved the swords with the beat of the music
Valley is on par with music like Donkey Kong and ALTTP.
@@Hockexx Blows Donkey Kong out of the water. When everyone in 1994 was losing their minds over the DKC soundtrack, I was like, “Yeah, this is good, but you can just admit you weren’t playing video games three years ago.”
I loved this game when i was a kid. I just always wish his sword didn't look like a butter knife!
Yeah not sure how that got approved. People literally sat in a meeting room and went, "yeah that looks good! ship it!"
Lagoon is my favorite soundtracks thank you Red88Rex for watching this video downloaded 👍👍👍
I was not very good at this game as a wee girl, but I did enjoy the music more than anything. I had a habit of leaving my SNES on simply to listen to my favorite songs.
I have a weird true story about this game. I bought it when it was new at a store in a mall, and as I was getting in the car, I opened the box, only to find that the game inside the box was Super Mario World (at least the sticker on the cartridge was?). I was scared that the mall store wouldn't believe me, but we went right back in and they exchanged it for a proper copy without any argument.
I played this game all the way through dozens of times, probably, in the years after that.
That is definitely weird! Did you also end up getting Mario World?
Mario World was the bundled game with every Super Nintendo. Everybody had it.
Yeah, I remember that now
Happens. How I actually played Breath Of Fire for the first time and my first RPG as well, was one day at the rental store I rented Final Fantasy III. Well so happens even though it had a FFIII sticker, box, and manual, it was freaking Breath of Fire! Imagine my surprise.
@@SWolfFreki Well as much as i place FF(6)3 at a much higher standard then Breath of fire, this deffinitely could have been worse.
I love this game so much, mechanics flaws and all! When I was a child, this was by far one of the more complex rpgs that I played and to this day has one of my favorite soundtracks. The storyline was pretty good too, as I remember, and pretty dark for that era of gaming. I will have to replay one of these days!
My brother rented Lagoon from Blockbuster when we were little and I loved the music so much that I got it for my 6th birthday! I didn't care that the sword was so short and difficult to use. I still have that cartridge in my collection.
When I found out about the original X68000 version when I was a teenager, I played that version and was surprised by the Ys-style bump combat and every other difference. Whenever I play Lagoon now, it's always the X68000 version, especially after the English fan translation came out.
I played the x68k version years before the translation, I got by just knowing what to select. I did play the English patch when it came out, that was a dream come true.
@@Red88Rex So did I! I thought the chances of getting an English translation for the original were very slim. It was a dream come true for me, as well.
Is that why the sword swing is so absurdly short, because it had Ys style combat in the X68000 version? For as much I've enjoyed the game that was always my biggest gripe with the game.
"Run To The Hill of Phantom". I see what you did there, Lagoon Snes composer.
Never could get into the game itself but the soundtrack is PHENOMENAL - 34 now and still absolutely adore!
Thank you so much!!!! Love for this OST... both versions are so awesome!
i wanted zelda for christmas, my parents get me this and baseball simulator 1000 , and i cant thank them enough
the most badass soundtrack ever in a game
The days when actual melodic composition mattered.
Oh gosh, my nostalgia is showing.
Such a wonderful game. Good music and challenging combat.
The charm of antique(?) Retro synth-midi sound.🎹🎵
42:00 The Evil Spirit awakening to Prince of Darkness is one of the most badass moments in RPG history.
I've never heard of this game before, but someone recommended me the soundtrack, so I had to take a listen. And wow, this is an incredible soundtrack!
The games fun even if it can be a little rough to come to terms with at first, took me ages to figure out the hit box on the melee attacks as a child.
these had incredible soundtracks for what platform they had to work with. I recall my brother got this game and when he completed it I started a new game and also completed it. there is only one save slot. this, and Drakkhen and other obscure titles had some of the best music in a video game in that time, 1991, I recall.
Yeah, the original Lagoon on Sharp x68000 was 1990 then this port was 91, sounds right. If you're interested in that, I've got a playlist on my channel dedicated to this game and it's many iterations.
Way late to comment but Drakkhen was awesome! It wasn't perfect but we had a lot of fun playing it anyway. Was before it's time really because it was as close to open world as games could possibly be back then. Glad some people remember it!
@@mackinn8460 Drakken was certainly a beautiful game. Did you ever find the water Kemco symbol in the icelands that regerates your health when you swim in it? One of my favourite places.
This game had a great soundtrack.
I really enjoyed this game a lot, but the music is really what stood out to me. It really distinguished itself with it's unique style that I would play the game just to listen to it. The game wasn't perfect but it always felt unique in a way not many games did. And even if you're listening to a compilation of RPG music, you can pick out Lagoon tracks that you're not even familiar with just because nothing else sounds quite like it.
Track 15, "Desperate Dreams" is terrifying for a kid to hear coming from a video game.. At least it was to me lol
Agreed. I hated it so much, especially the first time it played after you found that guy dying after escaping the Mines.
@@KailTirasleen that scene was big time nightmare fuel to my 5 year old self, and the music was half of it!
Right, my heart gets racing even after all those years.
The Shop theme makes me feel super happy, and content.
thanks for uploading this. I enjoyed this ost
I have been trying to remember what game the Atland music came from for YEARS off-and-on - it got so stuck in my head!!!! Every time I tried to search through game names I found online I never recognized any of them. YESSSS
I have always called it Care Bears music. For some reason, that's what that particular song reminded me of when I was younger.
Oh my God, thank you. I've been lamenting the last of a full ost video on UA-cam for this game.
+Mitch Tate I will also be adding the Sharp x68000 version here shortly. There is no way to get the actual soundtrack so I just ripped it from the last time I played that version of the game.
Wow, that is really cool!
Sweet. Thanks for uploading!
Wonderful game......I, still, love it!
Poppy-gamer since the days of Atari & Colecovision*
The music greatness in this game is inversly proportional to all it's other assets
Thank you so much for uploading this. I have needed it in my life for a long time now. :)
I always come to this video to listen to the music. This was such a childhood game playing it with my dad and my brother. It brings back so much memories. Got Dang moon cave and needing to pull the moonstone from there hahaha So many good things about this game. Would be crazy if they did a remake of it =)
Desert Plains has been in my head on file for the last 25 years. That's saying something.
I love this soundtrack!
LOVED this game, probably largely due to the scoring!
Town of Deceased is so dreamy and austere. I love this tune so much.
Absolutely, just beautiful. I recorded it with a tape recorder pressed against my TV back in the day!
"Desperate Dreams" was always my favorite track from this game. Would make for an epic boss theme.
there's one boss that uses it.
@@Biospark88 Oh is there? I couldn't ever figure this game out to get anywhere. Maybe I'll watch a longplay later or something.
I care for this game and its music almost as much as I care about Ys.
Best thing my older bro did 4 me was show me this when it first came out,one of the greatest vg soundtracks ever=)!
Castle Siegfried is my favorite the knights move the sword with the beat
Hey thanks the sound quality is totally awesome !!
I still love this
Holler if you heard the "GAME OVER" song more than any other RPG you've played! And you thought early Dragon Quest games were rough...
I remember good souvenirs with this game :)
Number 26, "Prince Of Darkness" is the opening song. You're welcome. :)
I like this soundtrack
I remember my late older bro playing the game good times.. To D.R.A
38:30 The Master of Water......
best fucking song for 30 years
Voloh theme puts me in another place
@6:36 I used to spend hours in the shop for this song.
"Castle Mark Philips" 16:29 does it for me. has the exact same drum beat as "King of the World" By Steely Dan, "Countdown to Doomsday".
Why?
Zero wing also has amazing soundtrack. Weird when the songs in a game makes you feel all squishy bc they are so awesome. Make your time
Could it be that the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, was kind of loosely based on this RPG game? But unlike the hero Nasir who solves his land's water crisis in Lagoon, Flint's troubles with its water are still not over.
Nah tons of games have poisoned water style quests. Diablo 1 being a big one I remember.
very nice
This one was a good one for rent at Blockbuster. It was very easy to beat in 2 or 3 days. The music was pretty good.
Action/RPGs always had the best music.
I love this game its so fun and cool places and magic. unique and awesome style and great music.
Que de bon souvenir pour ce jeu tout simplement magnifique
'Walking in the Shadows' : Straight creepy, still gives me chills
top gear 2 with a whirly sword
Track 17 Voice of Spirits is the perfect music to listen to during the covid pandemic.
yes and the village of Poper is the setting :/
Did the composer of this game do anything else? Because what a great soundtrack this is!
@@grillskillz not that I’m aware of but it’s possible
Awesome.
Great example of fantastic music and decent story making up for an otherwise meriocre and very flawed game.
+Kaiwano You should check out the original Sharp x68000 version, it's much better.
Kaiwano castle mark philips theme should be its own gane
The music in this game was incredible, but oh my gosh why did the sword never get larger than a plastic knife held pinned to the hero's body? I could never beat the thunderbird/Thor at the end either, never. Just kicked my ass!
Kicked mine, too.
There's a speedrunner Solarcell007 on twitch giving this game alot of love working on sub 2hr runs!
Castle Mark Philips is still my favorite from this game.
The short sword took some getting used to, and it mainly turned combat into a game of timing. Not that it was a great mechanic, but it didnt make the game unplayable like so many probably feel when they first try it. It's tough, but you can save anytime and grind out levels if need be to get past parts you're stuck at (which is ideally how a level and xp system should work imo). I was able to beat it just from rentals, though there were a few roadblocks (ice cave boss wtf)
If you want to see the original version on the Sharp x68000, you actually hold the sword out and ram things like Ys style. It was only released in Japan, but I played it on an emulator and someone was kind enough to make an English patch.
Ice cave boss was where I first got stuck... I think I went and grabbed the shiny stone to be able to beat it.
this game hade so much amazing music, to bad the game itself wasent that amazing culd easily have been a real classic.
que alguien haga unos cover metaleros de estos temas ya los busque y no hay
I would have liked this game more if you could fight with something bigger than a toothpick
I think the songtitles got messed up cause they left out the banging jam hobbit valley
I play this soundtrack when I play Path of Exile on PC.
16:13 Is what you came for.
What I came to stay away from. All the time navigating that endless purple maze... aye.
@@EvanCastor I usually come here for Valley
Oddly, some tracks in this game, like 16:13 could be in a racing game, just as Kemco's Top Gear.
I kinda want to hear what this soundtrack sounds like with genesis soundfonts. Lots of bass...
did you hear the original Sharp x68000 version? Definitely different sound chip, better I think
The Genesis is a poor mans X68000. Thats what I call it nowadays.
The Sharp X68000 was Sharp's ambition to bring out a computer that had arcade quality hardware. The problem was that it was so expensive that no one could afford it (try paying $3000 for a computer in 1987, or $8000 in todays dollars) for years, mostly game/arcade developers bought it to develop their games.
In short, the X68000 uses a Yamaha YM2151, the Genesis uses a YM2612. The YM2612 was designed for consoles and computers in mind, the YM2151 was designed for Yamaha synthesizers. The YM2151 has 8 voices, the YM2612 has 6.
If you want to hear the difference between the 2 chips, listen to the Genesis version of the game Arcus Odyssey, then listen to the X68000 (original?) version.
Castle Mark Philips lol
This game's music screams late 80s.
Well, it is. The original version on the Sharp x68000 came out in 1990, the SNES version a year later.
Does anyone happen to know who composed the music for Lagoon?
Not fantastic, but very very good. You can feel emotions in it.
The box art is so cool looking but so misleading about the game within.
Amazing soundtrack. Amazing story. But the game could have been a lot better.
Sharp x68000 version - no more?
Sorry, I updated it!
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@@Red88Rex Thanks, never heard it before. It is Lagoon and Castlevania IV tracks that sound in my head recalling those days...
number 5
I really liked this game as a kid, but let's be completely honest, outside of the (absolutely stellar!) soundtrack, this game was CRAP.
Tiny fucking sword is tiny.
I JUST FELL IN ANOTHER FUCKING BOTTOMLESS PIT!??!??
Super unforgiving grinding required bosses that take 0 damage if your sword isn't a high enough level.
The worst magic system ever conceived outside of Ys' rings.
Use your only medical herb? Hope you find one in a chest. Or you can backtrack ALL THE FUCKING WAY BACK TO ELFLAND, which you have to do if you EVER want to buy a Shiny Stone in this game.
I loved this game as a kid, but it is a bad game. There, I said it. Now I'll listen to the Lagoon Castle theme on loop for a few hours because it's that awesome.
+DancesWith Chihuahuas Haha, well, I kind of agreed until I played the original version on the Sharp x68000. It's much better. You push the sword into enemies, Ys style, instead of swinging it and it works out much better. The graphics and sound are much better, and the story seems to be better although I admit I can't read Japanese so I don't know exactly what they were saying. But it's much different, I can definitely say that.
It was referred to as "Toothpick" or just "Pick" when I was a wee lad among my friends.
Me and my sister called it Nasir's butter knife.
I rented this game as a kid and loved it. I have tried to go back to it to rediscover what I loved and I can't seem to find it. I want to take a deep dive one day. See what I can find.
I would have to play through it again to give a comment on the matter, because the last time I played "Lagoon" I was about 11 years old. I do recall the tiny sword part though :P
number wasn't volah,it was that cafe not sure the name.
+David Simmons I know, the names on the list are wrong but I kept them the way they came with the soundtrack. I fixed the names as best as I could on the Sharp x68k version.
+Red88Rex oh my bad I actually just noticed that in your description. thanks alot
Great game, one down fall, swinging your sword is like using tooth pick, no disrespect, great game, great soundtrack, wished the attack was long as game like soul blader, great game nonetheless.
you should watch the original Sharp x68000 version then ;)
Attracting rpg players in WAVES! Ha ha! 'Cause there's waves on the box art! Oh that joke is terrible.
Lakeland has a drinking problem
11:33 my favorite track, the boss theme is sick, but the game is terrible despite having a great soundtrack, I saw gameplay on PJ's speedrun would never play this crappy game though.
The only negative thing when i played it in my childhood was that the sword has an extremely short range, you basically had to stand right next to the monster to hit him. Even worse for the big stone boss, that could only be hit in the mouth.
The box is hilarious. "The 3-D action fantasy that is attracting RPG players in waves."
1. The game is not remotely 3-D. Not even. It is 2D, not even isolinear.
2. The graphics are really poor. The people look like they are made of Play-Do.
3. The only saving grace really is the music, which at times is epic. Especially the opening.
Great music. Horrible 3-inch swords.
I need an extended version of castle mark Phillips. such a great ost for this piece of shit game hahaha