PixlBit

I think it's interesting how many versions of Puzzle Quest there are out there.  Like a Marvel version and an Adventure Time Puzzle Quest.

I barely remember this one on the collection.  Don't you like, punch a tank as the first boss?

I'm not a big Castlevania fan, but I did give this one a try many years later after it had came out.  The music in Castlevania games are good, but since I'm not a fan of them, I don't really revere the songs either.  My favorite Castlevania game is Kid Dracula, and I do like how the stage 1 theme in that is a cutesy remix of the stage 1 theme from Castlevania 3.

I wrote a blog about the games I'm looking forward to this year, too:

http://www.pixlbit.com/blog/20143/cary_is_looking_forward_in_2022

I never liked the original Qix much, as that waving line thing always made me nervous.  The sequels like Super Qix and Volfied were a bit better, though.  My brother Jeff LOVED Qix games, though.  I always think it's interesting what classic arcade games I liked, and how they differ from what Jeff gravitated toward.

You'd think I'd really like this game, but I don't understand the appeal of it.  Gameplay-wise anyway.  The theme is interesting and the music is good in spots anyway.  But when this first came out, I would see games like this and Crash Bandicoot and think, "How is this going to compete with Super Mario 64?"  I even gave the Wii sequel a chance and couldn't get into it there either.

I finally got to try Sonic Colors when it was remade for Switch.  I did not like it.

Island Saver sounds interesting.  Especially since you compared it to The Maw.  I loved that one.

Sorry to shill out my podcast so much, but you're just hitting all the right notes here!  Nobuo Uematsu is also on my list of favorite composers in Episode 4, but FF6 is also one of my top five favorite games of all time that I listed in Episode 1!  Terra is my favorite FF character and Kefka is my favorite FF villian ever, naturally.

I consider FF6 to have the perfect soundtrack.  Every song fits and I love how they use themes in different songs.  There's a lot of obvious ones, like Locke's theme and Forever Rachel being the same, but there are some others that are more subtle.  Like Devil's Lab being the same theme as the mage village/Strago's theme.  Or the fact that Kefka's theme plays during parts of Dancing Mad!  Speaking of which, Dancing Mad is a way better final boss theme than One Winged Angel.  Fight me.

I liked Terra's theme so much that I learned to play it on the piano with no sheet music.  Granted it's not that hard, just a bunch of arpeggios.  And you can't talk about FF6 without mentioning the opera scene.  As a teen when first playing this game, I was a bit of a band nerd so I always thought it would've been neat to see this opera scene live on stage.  But I figured it would never happen.  But then, many many years later, I attended a FF orchestra concert where they played the opera scene.  It was a bit of an emotional experience to have a dream come true like that.

Here's a cool thing you can do when playing SNES FF games while hooked up to a stereo.  When you do this, the instruments that sit on the left side of an orchestra play on the left speaker, and instruments on the right side of the stage are on the right speaker.  I always thought that was a neat touch.

I've played them all, even the newest one: Point Blank X.  It came out a couple of years ago.  I've also played all the home versions, including the 3 on PSOne, and on the DS and mobile devices!