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[MrMatthews]

Good call on your end credit music, Joe. Wandering Ghosts is my favorite track from the Symphony of the Night OST

[Cucollins12]

hell yeah! a new video game channel for me!! lets check it!

[Joe Redifer]

Check out our latest episode:

[eddiespruce]

Great video! I too, like both the "Cotton" and "Thunder Force" games, they're a nice addition to any Shooter/Shmup fan's collection.

[sheath]

Ooh, I see Thunder Force V, that one might be my favorite in the series. I must watch after the kiddo finishes dinner and we go walking to strange people's houses for items we can't possibly allow him to consume.

[M4R14NO94]

Loved this one. Mostly because of the Thunder Force I and II voice stuff (THUUUUNDAAAA FOOOORCE)

Also, those fairies from Cotton (or at least Silk; I'm not sure how the rest are) are pretty hot.

[zetastrike]

Great video, Joe and Dave. I had never seen Thunder Force 1 or any Cotton other than Panorama before. Is TF6 really as phoned-in as people make it sound? It looks a lot better than TF5.

[The Coop]

No mention of the horrid Broken Thunder?

The "spiritual successor" to TF5, it made TF6 look like a big budget installment. Factory Noise & AG did so many things wrong with the game. Dull stages, sub-par graphics and effects, WAY too easy until the final boss fight (which turns brutally unfair)... it was an abortion of a shmup. The only two high points in the game were the music, which was done by the same person responsible for working on the soundtracks to Tecno Soft's Blast Wind, Hyper Duel and Thunder Force V (Tsukumo Hyakutaro), and the cut scenes. It could have been good, given some of the people who worked on some parts of it (like Garow, for either ship designs, 3-D work, or both, and the aforementioned musician), but it just didn't come together at all, making its name truly fit.

Fun fact: Broken Thunder was never finished. It was released incomplete at full price ($50-$70 depending on the version), and the extra stuff that needed to be added was going to be done so via a patch. However, the game was pulled from store shelves not long after it went on sale when the people who made admitted it wasn't done, and the patch was never released as a result.

[Joe Redifer]

I have the soundtrack to Broken Thunder and Absolute Area but I have never seen the game. What was it released on? A computer? Fan/unofficial stuff doesn't count. I wouldn't cover Beats of Rage in a Streets of Rage retrospective.

Anyway, the music is good, but the Thunder Force 5 guy just can't compete with the Thunder Force 2 and 3 (and 4??) guys.

[The Coop]

I have the soundtrack to Broken Thunder and Absolute Area but I have never seen the game. What was it released on? A computer? Fan/unofficial stuff doesn't count. I wouldn't cover Beats of Rage in a Streets of Rage retrospective.

It came out on PC, only in Japan. And at least some of its music was going to be on the Tecno Soft made (and cancelled) TF6, so there is an actual connection.

[Joe Redifer]

I feel so bad for Techno Soft. They can't even spell their name the same in different countries. I wonder what became of their team? They made some outstanding games with some of the best music. I even heard that some guy did a remix of a Thunder Force 4 tune but that is probably just lies.

[The Coop]

What an odd coincidence. It's funny you mentioned that, because I found this earlier tonight on some site tucked away in a corner of the Web ...

Bio Tech v3

[Genesis Knight]

Nice track, Coop. I've had it in my OCRemix collection for some time. http://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00838/

[Kollision]

Excellent stuff!
You guys have risen to great heights in the YT gaming comunity IMO.
Top notch editing production values + humor = win.

You're probably my favorite online reviewers today, alongside snowcon.

[Lastcallhall]

One of my favorite episodes so far. Thanks for the good work!