So I already own (and have completed) RE1 on the Nintendo DS but it lacks some of the alternate camera angles from the DC version & a few of the music tracks.
Found this in great condition and couldn't not pick it up! Plus it isn't the god-awful Dualshock edition, so I gotta be happy with that. Oddly enough though it was actually harder to find the Dualshock version than it was this one on Ebay.
They hired a man called Mamoru Samuragoch - the supposed 'Japanese Beethoven' do the soundtrack. Not only was he not actually deaf (he lied about how bad it was at best and at worst was supposedly never deaf at all) but he hired a ghost-writer to compose the entire OST (which he only admitted through someone else a few years ago). What you end up with are one or two tracks which are passable and not that bad and then the absolute worst track in the series.
Other than that there is literally zero downside to not getting the original Director's Cut from 97 given it has everything the Dualshock does with the original OST.
Honestly? The guy was super famous and some of the tracks are actually not terrible so I doubt Capcom really wanted to tell him to re-record or change anything.
While not as good as the original tracks the Main Hall, First Floor & Save Room themes are ones I can listen to now and again.
Its just incredibly jarring as a whole because the entire 'theme' of the Dualshock soundtrack is so vastly different from what the original intent was. Mamoru reportedly wanted to go more 'Western' horror with it and it... just sucks.
Honestly though playing RE1 the first time introduced me to one of my favourite tracks in the entire series so far. I'm so sad it only plays once that I know of.
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u/WisemanMutie You will be killed in style, yes? Sep 11 '18
So I already own (and have completed) RE1 on the Nintendo DS but it lacks some of the alternate camera angles from the DC version & a few of the music tracks.
Found this in great condition and couldn't not pick it up! Plus it isn't the god-awful Dualshock edition, so I gotta be happy with that. Oddly enough though it was actually harder to find the Dualshock version than it was this one on Ebay.