Pixelated Audio
Pixelated Audio
bmosley, jbrunner, gdreyband
Advanced Fantasian – PA155
1 hour 6 minutes Posted Nov 2, 2021 at 10:00 am.
Holy Legend (Opening Version)
Encounter
Quest
Chaser
Main Menu Pebble Beach Golf Links (SNES) - by Yumi Satake
Chaser (excerpt from Sharp X1)
Dirty Cave
Omens
Black Knight
Ruin
Curst Valley
Bad Sigh
Finale
Ending
Wisdom
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Show notes
Today we're talking about an old school dungeon crawler RPG called Advanced Fantasian. The game was released by Xtalsoft in 1988 for the PC-88 and Sharp X1 in 1989. Xtalsoft was a small RPG-focused developer that eventually merged with T&E Soft, a topic we covered last episode. The composers Chihiro Fujioka and Yumi Satake (nee Kinoshita) did a great job with the soundtrack and more than that they're both interesting people with a long history in game development going to the present day.
Advanced Fantasian is a dungeon crawler RPG based heavily on Wizardry and by proxy, Dungeons & Dragons. You take a fixed class (but customizable) party of 5 characters through various dungeons, walking around in 1st person Wizardry style until combat commences in a top down grid where characters move independently. We spend most of our time listening to the OPNA version of the soundtrack from the PC-88 with a short sample from the X1 version. As always, we hope you enjoy the music as much as we do!
All tracks using the YM2608 (OPNA) chip unless otherwise stated
Composers: Chihiro Fujioka and Yumi Satake
Track List:
LINKS
Advanced Fantasian manual for the wonderful character art