Crystalis (NES) Soundtrack - 8BitStereo [UPDATED]

[@joshdillon9637]

Back in the day when I talked about Crystalis, none of my friends knew what it was. It's so nice to come to this comment section and see so many other people who love it.

[@jeremyfox4186]

I don’t think anyone I personally know has ever even heard of it, besides my immediate family

[@assassinmanx6128]

It was one of those games only YOU liked and had to say forget everyone else lol. It was an underdog game but so good. My fav nes game!

[@erikochristy]

The guy on the game box art cover always looked like a young Tony Danza.

[@murkethecow9296]

Amazing game. It was also nice to come to this comment section and see someone using the same avatar as me

[@JamesJNothingIsTooSensitive]

Just found the rom for the GBC version which supposedly has a better translation... was looking to replay after all these years. The new music SUCKS!

[@ravenlord4]

My two favorites are Mt.Sabre (7:25) so rocking, and the great pyramid (18:21) so haunting .

[@mikereynolds483]

i think this game was one of the best for nes

[@118andrey]

it kicks zeldas ass

[@brandonmaboroshi9561]

Aye me too it spawned my imagination.

[@GreyDintZ]

Same

[@BestScents]

Agree!

[@High_Priest_Jonko]

You clearly never beat this game then

[@LilRocker2005]

Ohhhhhhhh such a underrated and very much a great game but also a hidden gem, if you have a NES and you don't have this game, grab it! you won't regret it.

[@godmode3611]

I think it is in Nintendo Switch online

[@karnov27]

One of my first RPG along with dragon warrior!

[@aasdf6460]

Oh, dragon warrior was awesome

[@NevTheDeranged]

that's a double banger way to get into RPGs!

[@lanterninthedark8926]

This was and probably still is my absolute favorite video game of all time.

[@jeremyfox4186]

Definitely one of the best!

[@jaysonvalentine]

Comparable to the works of Uematsu and Kondo. A true 8-bit masterpiece.

[@MajorIronwood]

This era of Japanese video game composers was definitely a golden age.

[@noahsarcade538]

Literally every song is absolutely perfect.

[@lawrencefitzgerald4744]

One of my all-time favorite games! This was truly an overlooked gem. 15:20 & 20:50 I have remembered those songs all these years. Something about them always stuck with me...

[@Hatchet2k4]

Yes, the Shyron theme never fails to give me the feels, as I know what is coming soon when I hear it...

[@theJingaja]

20:50 always hits me in the heart. How it's the end of the long journey, all the friends I lost along the way, and it's finally time to put an end to the evil that caused it all. Made me think as a child that someday I would rise above it all and save the day and be important. That never happened.

[@keithatwork2493]

Possibly the best game released for the NES. Definitely in the same league with Low G Man, MegaMan 4, Super Mario 3.

[@keithatwork2493]

Originally rented this from Wegman's for $1 back in the day and realized that I had to have it. There was one summer where every time I beat this game, I'd just play through it over again, and again.

[@baboracus]

How did you come up with those titles?

[@Nikos8BitStereo]

It's a special week for these 8BS uploads, as this is the first time 8BS Monday falls on my birthday! So were taking a blast to the past with these uploads being updated/fixed versions of my very early uploads. Starting with Crystalis, now of course this upload has the mix with less reverb, and more sound team information, but the main thing is that the DPCM drum samples don't have after static which can be heard on the old video, so enjoy this great soundtrack again!

[@AJF786]

w00t! Happy B-Day!

[@inspector4204]

Happy Birthday man!

[@charlesdiamond1904]

WiiGuys 8BitStereo happy birthday and thanks so much for this upload as it's one of my favorite nes games of all time and nes soundtrack as well 😃

[@RaxiazRedux]

I'm playing this now on the Switch. Great game. Truly a classic in my eyes, wish it had seen more initial success. I could see where people would get lost without a guide though.

[@qayss8977]

As a little kid, this game was fun, and I explored it forever, thinking I was SO FAR. . . . I've since revisited (and loved) the game, and realized I probably never made it past 30% as a kid. Lol.

[@NevTheDeranged]

hm, a good reason to pick up a switch...

[@charlesdiamond1904]

Omg yes awesome soundtrack for a very awesome and very underrated game. Such nostalgia. 😏

[@Comalogy]

RIP Shyron :( Was the saddest moment in a RPG for me until FF VII

[@qayss8977]

For me Stom dying always hurt the worst. The game's soundtrack really helped make everything seem more epic/emotional.

[@joaoaugustopinochet2588]

true it was an excellent game

[@darth-megaman919]

A great example of storytelling, between the actual story and the music

[@Deucehoru]

Please update this one with gameplay! It deserves it!!

[@o_o_o_o_o-o_o_o_o_o]

Your Castlevanias and Follinses and whatnots are great and all but... I think this might be the best NES soundtrack.

[@o_o_o_o_o-o_o_o_o_o]

AHH but goddamn right there it's KLAX as the next entry in the playlist!! Wow maybe I wrote too soon. Well probably not. But... maybe?? I mean... Giganticus Breathalizer is a transcendent masterpiece. Ahh that's more like Follin's Solstice though, in that there are great tunes but not too many of them and they don't form as complex a whole all together. Well anyway. These games all have great music!

[@robinmarks4771]

I'm literally dying of nostalgia while I listen to this. Thanks so much for uploading it. Cheers!

[@micahbeene3939]

loved this game and its soundtrack. another missed opportunity for a sequel. just like the magic of scherezade

[@wardrich]

When you arrive in Shyron and hear a new song... then you return back to some sad news. Definitely a heart-wrencher when I was a kid. The text in all the stores still haunts me. :'( F

[@NevTheDeranged]

True story, it took me like ten tries to defeat Mado, crying in sadness and rage the whole time, but I wasn't giving up until I'd avenged every one of them. My mom was like "why are you freaking out at the television, it's just a game".

[@wardrich]

@@NevTheDeranged 🫂

[@NevTheDeranged]

@@wardrich thanks. It's strange how it doesn't require amazing graphics or incredible voice acting to pull at our emotions- just a compelling story, and some bloopy 8 bit music!

[@wardrich]

@@NevTheDeranged For sure. I really appreciate that they went with a totally different song for that town. I think it made it feel more important in some way, so when the event happens you feel even worse.

[@qayss8977]

@@NevTheDeranged Gameplay, atmosphere and story will always trump graphics. Lol, and I suspect anyone commenting on this page already knows that ;)

[@kaiser1one]

God, this music takes me back to the Friday nights i'd be playing this game when I was 6 years old. I used to wonder if the stuff that happened in the game would happen once 1997 rolled around so it always stuck in my head.

[@jamied3425]

Thanks for uploading this. Loved this game and loved the music

[@baboracus]

Tower in the Sky certainly encapsulates the situation you're in moreso than most movie soundtracks.

[@anniemysweet2085]

i loved this game, there were so many things to find, do, buy, use, places to explore...it took ages to earn the money to buy expensive things because most enemies gave you just a few coins, so you didnt finish the game in just a couple hours time...and it was heartbreaking to realize that because YOU built the ice bridge to get to town, the enemies were also able to get there and killed everyone because of it

[@emmanuelleon4539]

Love this game!

[@rd76pag]

This is one of my favorite NES games. I always love the music to this game. The Pyramid song is one of my all time favs.

[@gphoenix51]

Love this soundtrack, love this game. One of the greats! Thank you!

[@ReaperEnix]

The dungeon and boss tracks terrified me and gave me nightmares as a child

[@NevTheDeranged]

They're so jangly and nerve wracking!

[@jfrancisbf]

0:31 It took me months to find this tune... It’s been stuck in my head for-like-ever.

[@tomwalsh63]

Loved this game. Had it twice for nintendo and once on gameboy…i have loved this game since I was 10 😊

[@ShawnPerolis]

thank you for making these! I jam out to your mixes at work all the time! :)

[@howieg2019]

wow, i miss this game, spent most of the 90s on this.

[@viajerosdelabismo]

Happy Birthday Wiiguy!

[@UlysisAM]

One of the greatest and most underrated NES games of all time. I actually enjoyed this game more than The Legend of Zelda. Too bad SNK will never make a sequel. P.S.: The GBC remake sucks. Avoid that and play the NES original.

[@scissorman44]

Well, the game is more like YS than Zelda(as in, it's an RPG) and has an advantage over them of 4 years at least. That being said it beats both in various categories and by a wide margin.

[@v8diet]

They butchered the music on the GBC version. No reason for them to do that

[@Jaconian]

It looks like the NES version is going to be released on the SNK 40th Anniversary release on the Switch.

[@danielgutierrez2683]

I remember being crushed when I bought the GBC cartridge as a kid.

[@i8thebaconcheezburgr]

and the PS4

[@houstonsanderfield6074]

OMG I used to love this game

[@Feelin_DanDy]

I still love it, my favorite NES game!

[@GreyDintZ]

Used to...

[@albertorkenbjorken]

i can't believe this is over 30 years old

[@moldypotatochip]

The Fortune Telling one was always my favorite 😅 I would just go hang out in that room to hear the song.

[@fifasbass2228]

10:21 Awesome!

[@darth-megaman919]

Now I wanna play this game again

[@aasdf6460]

This and Dragon Warrior were my favorite when I was a kid.

[@burntyper]

Inner mountains theme is awesome

[@mopbrothers]

Great upload Wiiguy!

[@spookymulder945]

I remember renting this as a 10 year old at my local video store here in Woodland, CA. R.I.P Mr. Video By the way, that cover art is hella sick!

[@Feelin_DanDy]

Thank you!

[@fonze5664]

❤ Crystalis. Both versions of the game are super fun and have great music. Nes definitely has the better music but gbc's music ain't lacking either, would be cool to see a video with all of its tracks! I tend to prefer the gbc version simply from not having the gameplay broken up by grinding and constantly swapping swords, but the limited screen space makes it questionably less worth lol.

[@megalisa830bright6]

I love ‘Crystalis’ on Nintendo Entertainment System! ^_^ I I love the town/village theme music track the most! :D I wish that they hadn’t changed the music tracks in the Game Boy Color version of the game! :(

[@DragonofDarkness13]

Published Oct 3 In the Game the END DAY was Oct 1 Your B-day Oct 3 (from your comment) Mine is Oct 1 XD Plus I Freckin' Love this game !

[@efraincordero9944]

omg omg omg i wanna cry in 5 4 3 2.... awesome work

[@heyarnoldce]

Fields SLAPS BRO! :O :D

[@smooveking773]

by far better then zelda

[@OswaldMiyake35]

When SNK used to publish games.

[@MrNorbert1994]

Apart from usual bankswitching issue, this one didn't had problems to my knowledge (only the SFXs are missing that's all).

[@rosem5062]

Luckily, I found this in the bargain bin back in the day. This was my first RPG. It was also the first game in which I saw an NPC die in an emotional way. After talking to the NPC, then trying again, only to read "He's already dead" really struck me. I was just a kid, so I was like "They can do that??" At the time, I thought killing off an NPC so dramatically was innovative. This is such a great game, in many ways. Awesome music, gameplay, story, and environments.

[@phubans]

Kazuto Kohno: *watches Nausicaa and Laputa once* "Watashi no bīru o mottete..."

[@Toolness1]

I got really far in this game when I was a kid, and my save got corrupted and had to start over. I ended up giving up. I was pissed.

[@GreyDintZ]

Happened to me several times

[@Harjawaldar]

lots of good stuff, think I need to try this game!

[@NevTheDeranged]

It's one of the best of its day.

[@Harjawaldar]

@@NevTheDeranged Thanks, for reminding me, cause I haven't tried the game yet, lol!

[@jeremyfox4186]

Definitely recommend

[@GRAHFXENO]

One of my all time favorite games, what a masterpiece! The GBC re-release isn't quite as good, but is still pretty awesome. I HIGHLY recommend playing either one.

[@livingace]

top tier game and soundtrack 10/10 replay it in full once a year every year

[@Skycrusher]

I really enjoy this and appreciate the work you put into it. Happy belated birthday! Or rather, should I be wishing you a Happy soon to be birthday? Ah. Um. Well. Cheers mate.

[@NevTheDeranged]

My all time favorite NES game. I remember waiting for "The End Day" to come, and being disappointed when nothing happened =\

[@darth-megaman919]

Same😂someone even wrote a "goodbye letter" to Nintendo Power magazine that they published in '97 for that reason 😆

[@topfranluis1]

Who would have thought that a game with such a generic cover art would be one of the best games for the NES

[@PedroPlanas777]

love the fields theme. Jesus loves you.

[@MixMasterLar]

awesome

[@wildwest1832]

too bad this game never got any sequels on snes or something. Was a pretty good game

[@TheJigen]

So crisp :)

[@kennyp7434]

Who the hell is the one dislike?

[@billny33]

That theme at 22:34 you called Mesia. I'm surprised you saved it for so late in the OST and called it Mesia considering you meet a wise man in a cave very early in the game with this theme, I was starting to wonder if you had overlooked it entirely.

[@Skycrusher]

I always named my character ICEMAN. What did you name your's?

[@Peter_1986]

I name him Peter, since that's my own name, lol. Also "Peter" seems to fit him very well for some reason - he looks like his name could be Peter.

[@Kydaman19]

I went with Blaze!

[@jcmick8430]

I can't remember :'( was there a default name?

[@NevTheDeranged]

Calven. I don't remember why, it just seemed to fit.

[@NevTheDeranged]

@@jcmick8430 Not in the original NES version, no. They gave him one in the crappy GB remake, but I don't remember what it was.

[@MelissaHash]

Honestly wasn't any f'in good at playing Crystalis but i lurve the music most definitely ❤

[@bsdims]

Why was this updated?

[@ff11dream]

JRPG

[@saraa538]

Love this soo much!! Any plans to work on the GBC version of Crystalis' OST? You can't find it anywhere and I enjoyed a few tracks from there ^_^ Keep up the fantastic work!

[@GiordanDiodato]

When I saw this game when I got SNK 40th Anniversary Collection, I thought for sure that this game would end up being one of those ARPGs that was good back then, but age like milk Glad I was wrong, this is one of the best-aged RPGs on the NES. I only wish we had another RPG from SNK.