Arumana no Kiseki (Miracle of Almana) Remastered OST アルマナの奇跡 BGM Konami Famicom Disk System
8This game feels like a combination of many games familiar to Western games, it is a shame it was never ported to NES and instead remained another Famicom Disk System exclusive. Since it has the traditionally hot jams of a Konami game and is a great game on top of that, I simply have to feature it here.
The gameplay is kind of similar to some combination of Rygar or Bionic Commando, Castlevania (or any multi-weapon NES game) and Spelunker games like Spelunky or La Mulana. It is pretty difficult without save states but if you learn the tricks of the stages you can extend your life or farm weapon ammo, and since it is a pretty short game the difficulty makes sense. It would have been amazing to have a few more songs but I am sure there was limitation either on development budget or physical disk space.
The composer Kinuyo Yamashita should be much more famous than she is - she is the composer of original Castlevania and while the organizer of the event is now an Internet meme it is good to hear that she was invited on stage at many video game related concerts in the US (Video Games Live).
My pal ripped the maps from this game many years ago, check them out here: http://daifukkat.su/blog/archives/2013/08/02/almana_no_kiseki_map_rips/
I see the album up on iTunes if you want to check out the official version (this is a link to the Japan store):
https://music.apple.com/jp/album/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%8A%E3%81%AE%E5%A5%87%E8%B7%A1-%E3%82%B5%E3%82%A6%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%88%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF-fc-disk%E7%89%88/1450776490
Composer: Kinuyo Yamashita (Castlevania, Power Blade, Pocky and Rocky 2, Mega Man X3, etc etc)
0:00 Stage 1/4/6
1:48 Stage 2/3
4:34 Stage 5
7:30 Boss Music
8:34 Final Boss Music
9:43 Boss defeated / Ending / Game Over
10:17 Opening
10:28 Almana Recovered / Restored / Exit / Victory
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