The other day, I was sorting through my YouTube playlist and I noticed some things I'd long forgotten. These are soundtracks from an old game on the Nintendo 64 console. It's amazing how this is over 20 years ago. Here's the box art from Wikipedia:
Some of you may remember Quest 64. It has some other alias like Holy Magic Century in Europe, and some other spinoffs. Without going too much into the game itself, I can tell you it wasn't the most stellar title out there. What gave it replay value was customization of the player character. You could make it as interesting as you wanted based on how you choose to build your spell tree.
Despite that, the game still felt incomplete, be it the story or gameplay mechanics. The leveling logic can sometimes be baffling. For those of us who understood the game, we know there are some game breaking combos that made the game way too easy. Despite its many shortcomings, it was bug free and it made good memories.
While the game itself could use a lot of improvements, the soundtracks were pretty good. Sometimes, the original soundtracks is what made a mediocre game better. Too bad the main battle theme always interrupted everything. One of my favorite tracks in Quest 64 was the theme for the last city in the game. The track illustrated the setting of the location.
To the surprise of some, there are actually a number of artists making arrangements to the track. In fact, entire orchestrated versions of them. You will have to skip to timestamp 2:20 for the orchestrated version of the track above.
Sometimes, it's fun going down memory lane. This was definitely a game I spent quite amount of time on with my siblings growing up.