I’ve been revisiting a childhood curiosity of mine with Azure Dreams. I never did beat it, and grew tired of the tower crawling, but I loved pretty much every other aspect around the game– specifically all of the town building, character relations, art, and music.
Oh, and here’s some gameplay:
Dragon Seeds falls more in line with a sim, but still has RPG elements, so I’m not sure how much it counts here, but it’s a game that I’m mostly revisiting for just the music. Still poured hours into and enjoyed it when I was younger, though. Also, Dragon is a term used very loosely here, as further evolved forms of dragons would be something closer to a bug, robot, angel, jellyfish, whatever you can think of.
The soundtrack, though, is beyond amazing. It’s spectacular, and buried in a game that I feel people never paid attention to when it came out, and have long forgotten today. Thankfully, I guess someone didn’t forget the soundtrack, as it did have a very recent release.
I’m ready to fight someone!
The shift from something vast sounding to a more personal and-now-back-to-you-and-your-place-in-this-city tone feels good.
This goes from a poppy pleasant tune to suddenly everyone’s dancing in this place.
“Destrooooy!”
Just phenomenal. The art in the game was also super good. Weird, following-the-trends-of-monster-raising-sims, Jaleco developed game that really went hard on making a personality of its own rather than a quick cash-in.
Also, some gameplay:
