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Post by Discoalucard on May 23, 2011 12:16:16 GMT -5
hg101.kontek.net/kgb/kgb.htmThis is one of those games that's just so maddeningly, confusingly difficult, but I really just love the atmosphere. It's a first person adventure game from the French studio Cryo (who did Dune, Lost Eden, Dragon Lore and a bunch of other games that aren't terrible good) and has a really unsettling, creepy atmosphere, plus completely out of place Donald Sutherland FMV in the CD version. I definitely recommend checking it out.
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Post by Blake Casimir on May 23, 2011 14:54:04 GMT -5
I remember playing this back in the day, and completely failing to understand anything in the game. Well, I was about 14... It's another great article Kurt, but I particularly want to thank you for uploading those nice HQ rips of the soundtrack. It is excellent stuff indeed, hugely memorable melodic tech-rock with some deliciously vicious OPL2 FM leads. Tasty! Stunning work for an under-powered FM synth like the Adlib, in 1992! (is 1990 in the header a typo?)
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Post by Discoalucard on May 23, 2011 15:11:52 GMT -5
Yeah, that's a typo - should be 1992 (copied over the template from Circuit's Edge.) This game got me on to Stéphane Picq, who really is a fantastic composer. He also did Dune, Lost Eden and a few other Cryo games, and while they aren't as excellent as KGB, there's still some pretty good stuff. What frustrates me is that the credits mention that the music came was released on a CD (perhaps in non-Adlib FM form?) but doesn't appear to have been released. I'm half tempted to track him down and ask, and maybe beg for some of it, if they're different arrangements. His website is here, and hasn't been updated since 1998, when he moved to Madagascar: membres.multimania.fr/esteban/english/whocarz.htm |
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Post by Weasel on May 23, 2011 15:24:52 GMT -5
If there is a CD version of the soundtrack, it wouldn't be the first time - Picq's soundtrack for Dune was released on a (very rare, apparently!) CD called Dune: Spice Opera.
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Post by Discoalucard on May 23, 2011 15:39:05 GMT -5
If there is a CD version of the soundtrack, it wouldn't be the first time - Picq's soundtrack for Dune was released on a (very rare, apparently!) CD called Dune: Spice Opera. Fairly rad CD too. (Don't own it, obviously, but the MP3s are worth tracking down.) |
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Post by lanceboyle94 on May 23, 2011 19:49:20 GMT -5
Picq also composed the music to another Cryo game (and a favorite of mine), MegaRace. It also features some awesome use of the Adlib's FM synth. It sounds like something out of a Genesis... which makes me ask why the music in the Sega CD version is just average GEMS-based music.
On topic: KGB is quite good, although it is quite hard. Even though I played the later release, and I did use the "hints" once. It was one of the two games I tried out with the PSP DOSBox (the other one being Jazz Jackrabbit)
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Post by KeeperBvK on May 23, 2011 22:18:37 GMT -5
The system list is also missing the Amiga version. Don't know if that's to blame Circuit Edge's template as well.
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Post by Discoalucard on May 24, 2011 7:55:34 GMT -5
Fixed that (and the LGOP 2 thing, no point bumping that one.)
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Post by sco on May 26, 2011 2:17:14 GMT -5
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Post by Sac (a.k.a Icaras) on May 26, 2011 18:56:43 GMT -5
I 1st came across KGB when a local shop had a demo running on a PC. I believe it allwoed you to play the very start up to the private eye's office and ended when you returned to the KGB HQ after that.
it prompte dme to track down and buy a boxed copy (Which I was lucky enough to locate. Mine was the floppy disk version called KGB. I didn't realise until years later there was CD version).
I spent HEAPS of time on the 1st mission (which was never able to solve without a walkthru).
But I remember spending heaps of time trawling the strip it put you in and slowly discovering events and people and such. I'm pretty sure I eventually figured out to keep a save at the start of the "night" so I could screw around in the various areas and look for events.
I really need to re-play this game soon, and see how far I can get without a walkthru.
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Post by A Winner Is You on Jul 4, 2011 23:32:59 GMT -5
The article makes me want to dig this one out and have another attempt at finishing it. I take some small amount of solace knowing I'm not the only one who found it maddeningly difficult. I believe I was the victim of not managing my limited save slots very well and ended up at a complete dead-end roughly halfway through the game and eventually gave up in frustration.
I do recall enjoying the heck out of the tension-filled atmosphere and the occasional bit of gallows humor the game throws at you though.
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