Posted July 22, 2009
I'm a huge Earthworm Jim fan, I own them both (original and sequel) for the SNES, and I occasionally play them, but I decided I would start my GOG collection by buying nothing else than Earthworm Jim 1 + 2, and it's obviously the PC (DOS Box) version, that's fine (well, I've read there's a missing level in the DOS Box version, not sure if it's true so far). I thought that the added animated GIFs and Avatar pictures were neat, but the one thing I was mostly looking forward to was the sound track. I told myself that since they were the PC version that the sound track would sound clearer and crisper, but I was absolutely astonished when I started listening to it, and not positively so.
It actually sounds different, the melodies for the main levels tracks were altered, some of them a lot so, and you know that when Banjo Race and Darkworm Rag are the only two tracks that come close to what it sounded like on the SNES you've got a problem. I mean, at least... if at least the "difference" would sound as good as or better than it was, I wouldn't complain, but dammit, don't go around and scrap and botcher Buttsville, Junkit and Submerged. The same goes for EWJ2 as well. I'm wondering if the composer is the same, or if those "PC version sound tracks" were just some remixes done by one of the guys at GOG?
Anyhow, original composer or not, I must say to conclude this that the 16-Bit SNES version of both sound tracks was MUCH better, I would go as far as saying that even the poorly sounding Genesis version sounded better simply because at least even that version retained the same melodies and beats intact. But... anyway, other than that, I guess I'm happy for buying games at GOG. My next one might be Beyond Good and Evil, or Fallout, I'm still not sure.
It actually sounds different, the melodies for the main levels tracks were altered, some of them a lot so, and you know that when Banjo Race and Darkworm Rag are the only two tracks that come close to what it sounded like on the SNES you've got a problem. I mean, at least... if at least the "difference" would sound as good as or better than it was, I wouldn't complain, but dammit, don't go around and scrap and botcher Buttsville, Junkit and Submerged. The same goes for EWJ2 as well. I'm wondering if the composer is the same, or if those "PC version sound tracks" were just some remixes done by one of the guys at GOG?
Anyhow, original composer or not, I must say to conclude this that the 16-Bit SNES version of both sound tracks was MUCH better, I would go as far as saying that even the poorly sounding Genesis version sounded better simply because at least even that version retained the same melodies and beats intact. But... anyway, other than that, I guess I'm happy for buying games at GOG. My next one might be Beyond Good and Evil, or Fallout, I'm still not sure.
Post edited July 23, 2009 by Zenoth