Game: Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge
Song: Praying Hands
Composer: H. Funauchi
Above: Praying Hands from Belmont's Revenge
About a week ago, Nintendo announced it was creating a new Virtual Console for the 3DS, one that would primarily feature re-released Game Boy and Game Boy Color games. We quickly澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:rattled offa dozen of those lost classics we'd love to see return, but one I n꧙eglected to mention was Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge. While its run and jump action and dinky graphicswill ind▨eed feel dated, the music remains one of the best uses of the Game Boy hardware and further reveals why chiptunes have become such a popular form of music.
Praying Hands is one of the slower songs in the ❀game, but it nonetheless exemplifies how much variation you can get out of the ♔ancient Game Boy. The fittingly morose beginning slowly accelerates into a rising melody, becoming one of my all-time favorite pieces of VGM in history. And that's just one level!
Above: New Messiah is from another early level. Much faster, more game-y and undeniably exciting
Above: Ripe Seeds was always the "main theme" to Belmont's Revenge for me
Above: And now a face-shredding version of Ripe Seeds from
Konami loves tossing out re-released classics as much as the next company, so there's a very strong chance you'll see this on the 3DS Virtual Console within the next year. I'd be equally pleased with a WiiWare remake, as was done with this game's predecessor, Castlevania the Adventure. The Game Boy original was touched up and re-released as澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Castlevania the Adventure Rebirthi🐎n 2009 (a great remake, btw), but that obviously took time and money - why go to the trouble to remake Belmont's Revenge when there's a brand new Virtual Console on the way, one that'll allow you to justifiably release the original, unaltered game? Whatever the method, definitely give it a shot, if for no other reason than to check out the rest of the soundtrack.
Colony by Akiropito, Adachi and Kudou
Spark Mandrill by Tomozawa, Yamamoto, Horiyama, Iwai an♛d Takehara
Nate's Theme 2.0 by Greg Edmonson
A fomer Executive Editor at GamesRadar, Brett also contributed content to many other Future gaming publications🎐 including Nintendo Power, PC Gamer and Official Xbox Magazine. Brett has worked at Capcom in several senior roles, is an experienced podcaster, and now works as a Senior Manager of Content Communications at PlayStation SIE.
