Illusion of Gaia has a very special place in my heart because I got so invested in the game’s story and characters. For the upbeat bassy tunes, I recommend “The Mine,” “Lostside March,” and “Solitary Island.” “Leo’s Laboratory” is pretty neat too for it’s craziness.
Soul Blazer’s soundtrack was pretty good, Seinfeld-inspired SNES bass and all (I’m actually in the early stages of making an article about that SNES bass guitar). Hardcore Gaming 101 did a great retrospective on them, it’s worth a read: Like Actraiser, they all carry themes of death and reincarnation and a bunch of them share similar text fonts and sounds (like the Actraiser “grunt.”). Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia, Terranigma and the PS1’s Granstream Saga are all considered as part of an unofficial quadrilogy that was developed by Quintet. I still can’t get through the first level. I enjoyed the slight against Actraiser 2. I really wish the Actraiser Symphonic Suite wasn’t so impossible to find, it’s really good. He ended up playing a bit from “Sacrifices.” It was magical. ĭuring Koshiro’s MAGfest Q&A panel, a fan asked him to perform an Actraiser track on his keyboard. I recorded Koshiro’s entire live set where he DJ’ed tunes from several games he’s worked on (including Actraiser, Streets of Rage, Revenge of Shinobi, Wangnan Midnight, etc.). It was pretty amazing to have him sign my Actraiser SNES cart (he was really fascinated by it, I’m guessing it’s not often a composer sees the North American version of a SNES game he’s composed for). It’s great that you’ve now done an Actraiser episode, as I had the great pleasure of meeting Yuzo Koshiro this past MAGfest.
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