Oh I'd give anything to return to 1991. I worked during all summer break in order to buy a SNES. My mother got me this game as an xmas present that December. Sometimes I'd just turn it on to listen to the music while doing homework.
This game was such a mental vacation when I was 13, I really got lost in it. The music is great. It's funny now to see this game get awful reviews... you have to have been there to appreciate it.
@@andrewflanders262 To be fair, the game was originally made for the Amiga and this port was really confusing with all the UI buttons, not to mention some of the puzzles made no sense. I never finished it but honestly it didn't matter, the music, graphics and the boxart cemented themselves in my young mind as a core childhood memory (along with the game Dungeon Master).
@@nelsoncabrera6464 as a kid I didnt really have a point of comparison, I owned maybe ten SNES games and a bunch of NES games, so I guess I was lucky to have low standards. How the game turned between night and day as you travelled was really cool.
So the things in the sky creeped me out when I was like 10 when this came out, I would just go sit in front of a shop for it to become daylight again LOL
This is late, but SAME. When I was a tiny child, few things spooked me as hard as that sudden, jarring, "the constellations are about to beat your ass" sound.
@@FollowMe4REP nope I can’t believe I was such a wimp, a few pixels could scare the shit out of me, I’m pretty sure it’s because it was so randomized and it jumped out. The whole game itself was kind of creepy in a weird way, so not traditional game like for the snes
Same. The constellations scarred me for life. Now when I go outside at night, and look up, I have a slight fear they'll start moving. Never did learn what those things were supposed to be and why.
@@zythr9999 The first overworld theme, the character creation theme, and… I guess the pub theme is supposed to be upbeat, but combined with the drunk goblin picture that accompanied it and my own unease about other people’s drinking when I was a kid, that one was possibly the scariest music in the whole game for me.
The shark, the constellations, the giant, not realizing you’re drowning until a couple of you have died, the giant panther head… at least the heap of rats was possible to defeat, but it still piles onto the terror for me.
God, what an f'n absolute banger. Words can't even describe what this soundtrack is. Decades have passed and I still keep coming back. Otherworldly and underrated.
One of the most beautiful game soundtracks ever. Seriously though. Almost all music past the day theme for earth area is oddly beautiful and fitting for an open world game of this sort.
What's crazy is that Drakkhen was actually super far ahead of its time being the first open world RPG with a pseudo 3D art style and real time elements like a day and night cycle along with a myriad of other concepts that were quite novel for the time.
At first the music sounded really weird, like some dude just said fuck it, close enough but after many listens it’s actually really great music. Some themes really give you an atmosphere of loneliness but a happy one. The game is pretty great too.
Vastly Underrated OST. Yet, somehow, there is a vinyl release for every single throwaway, indie, toilet-bowl level, wiped, flushed, and forgotten about in 5 years time "limited edition" game these days? *SNES or DIE*
I remember owning this 7th Saga FF4 and 6 on the SNES back in the day. One thing always got me was the musical scores. Drakkhen had a very memorable score. God why didn't I keep any of those games.
long long ago i got this game for my birthday for SNES.(1992?)....i got way into it, really like this game and the great music. this game is truly a hidden gem of a game.
I recently watched a review of Drakkhen by the channel Hungry Goriya. What most entranced me about the game was the music. As said already, it’s haunting- hauntingly beautiful. It brings me back to a simpler time, when the world seemed magical and full of possibilities. I was born in 1991 so I wasn’t given the chance to experience this game on release. Even so, I was exposed to NES and SNES games as a child simply because they were easy to emulate on our home PC. Through these magical portals called NESticle and ZSNES I got to experience a wide array of beautiful pixel art and music. However, I never played Drakkhen - or if I did I most likely didn’t get past the character creation screen. Maybe I wouldn’t have enjoyed the game even if I did, but I’m glad I’m able to enjoy the music today. I’ve had a really awful year mentally, going down some really dark places and overall just feeling really lost and confused. Every now and again though, I stumble upon experiences such as this; a brief respite, a tiny island of tranquility amongst a stormy, dark sea. Each one a reminder of the beautiful things in life, that which makes life worth living. Every time I reach one of these island I am both relieved and amused. Relieved by the mental break; amused by what the island is composed of. Mostly music and video essays, but it can be almost anything. Anything except social media. I’m done with social media. Thank you for this break. I needed it.
That Hungry Goriya review was really good! I almost want to give this game another shot, but the thought of facing the Hellhound has me stressed. That thing would always wreck me when I played this as a kid 😂. Thanks for sharing, Pigmassacre!
Hang in there brother. I know exactly how you feel. I am here if you need someone to talk to. What a beautiful way to describe a video game soundtrack, and anything else that makes life worth living one more day. Take care everyone.
It was 1991 and summer was beginning in Chile. I had recently moved to a new house with my family. I still remember as a 10 year old playing this game during the warm evenings of early summer, hypnotized by the atmosphere of this game.
My family loved the Zelda, Dragon Warrior, and Final Fantasy games back in the day. We were always buying new RPGs for the NES and SNES. Buying this, we got WAY in over our heads. I know today that this was originally an Amiga game that suffered from the port to the SNES, but back then, yo, we had no idea what to do. All I remember is having the shit scared out of me when the constellations came to life and attacked me. I've always meant to come back to this and really learn how to play it.
This game has a lot of songs I enjoyed in 1996 when I got this. I especially enjoy the 'Area' tracks (Day & Night versions) as well as 'Character Making' and 'Transference'. Was anyone else afraid of that thing that happened in the game where the stars moved and all these enemies popped out at dawn right before the music flipped back to the Day music?
As a kid I remember loving the music when entering the Lively Inn. I would sometimes turn it on at night just to listen to the song. Other tracks in this game are also beautiful. Now I listen to it to get work done!
I used to play this game on a pull knob television that was massive with hundreds of channels on flip dial. The hand me down that used to be my parents. Id lay prone for hours playing this game getting lost in the soundtrack. My abaolute favorite was earth area at night....of course until the stars start dancing and a dragon comes to eat you.
I love to see so many positive comments about this game and this soundtrack. I absolutely love this game and did not actually play it until 1993 even though I got my SNES for Christmas in 1991. It was a time of early teenage angst and anxiety for me. This game (and soundtrack) as well as Final Fantasy II (IV in actuality) and my Dragonlance books gave me comfort. I really wish I could find a solid fanedit rom of this game to relive it on a new way. Typically, I crank the soundtrack here and there because I love it so much. I'm also a big fan of some of the other music this composer made in other Kemco games like Shadowgate, Deja Vu, and The Uninvited. Drakkhen is the true gem, though....appreciated by so few.
i played that game as a kid....and at first i didnt get it....then i started to get it.... it's still on my list of games to beat......but there are a lot of games before that one....almost done with ff2 for the nes.
Hey Thanks so much for uploading this! I remember searching a few years ago for this and there was an incomplete playlist at best. This was a game my brother and I poured hours into once upon a time.
2:50 Yep, it's definitely a Kemco game. This track reminds me of the annoying level music in Bombuzal/Ka-Blooey, which they would later port to the SNES and Super Famicom.
What a fascinating soundtrack. You have some tunes that are straight out of the Kemco playbook like the character config screen and Earthland day, then you have ambient tunes like nothing I've heard on SNES, like all the night tunes, and then there is the ... what do I even call it? Dragonfunk? If they could have made a game as compelling as the soundtrack, this would be on par with FF6 and Chrono Trigger. Too bad they didn't.
Do you have the sound whenever you are on attacked by one of the constellations at night? Edit found it ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yM0YhyGOLpQ.html
The constellations! The first time that happened to me it totally tore me apart. This game has such an fantastic creepy feel. Even though it was a PC port, they fixed it up nice and it was ahead of its time in some ways, particularly with the day/night transitioning. I would have loved a truer sequel.
@@WiShBone-kl8wk I know, sometimes, I hop on an emulator and start wandering at night just to spark that creepy feeling. I loved the first person view that broke down into a cinematic upon combat. Reminded me of a d&d game called stronghold, it was on PC in early 90s.
