Today we're talking about an old school dungeon crawler RPG called Advanced Fantasian. The game was released by Xtalsoft in 1988 for the PC-88 and Sharp X1 in 1989. Xtalsoft was a small RPG-focused developer that eventually merged with T&E Soft, a topic we covered last episode. The composers Chihiro Fujioka and Yumi Satake (nee Kinoshita) did a great job with the soundtrack and more than that they're both interesting people with a long history in game development going to the present day.

Advanced Fantasian is a dungeon crawler RPG based heavily on Wizardry and by proxy, Dungeons & Dragons. You take a fixed class (but customizable) party of 5 characters through various dungeons, walking around in 1st person Wizardry style until combat commences in a top down grid where characters move independently. We spend most of our time listening to the OPNA version of the soundtrack from the PC-88 with a short sample from the X1 version. As always, we hope you enjoy the music as much as we do!

All tracks using the YM2608 (OPNA) chip unless otherwise stated

Composers: Chihiro Fujioka and Yumi Satake

Track List:

0:00:00 Holy Legend (Opening Version)

0:05:40 Encounter

0:09:09 Quest

0:13:34 Chaser

0:16:22 Main Menu - Pebble Beach Golf Links (SNES) - by Yumi Satake

0:19:11 Chaser (excerpt from Sharp X1)

0:23:05 Dirty Cave

0:30:20 Omens

0:33:56 Black Knight

0:36:38 Ruin

0:42:38 Curst Valley

0:46:49 Bad Sigh

0:57:00 Finale

0:59:25 Ending

1:04:25 Wisdom

LINKS

Advanced Fantasian manual for the wonderful character art