Advanced Fantasian – PA155

By | November 2, 2021

Today we’re talking about an old school dungeon crawler RPG called Advanced Fantasian. The game was released by Xtalsoft in 1988 for the PC-88 and Sharp X1 in 1989. Xtalsoft was a small RPG-focused developer that eventually merged with T&E Soft, a topic we covered last episode. The composers Chihiro Fujioka and Yumi Satake (nee Kinoshita) did a great job with the soundtrack and more than that they’re both interesting people with a long history in game development going to the present day.

Advanced Fantasian is a dungeon crawler RPG based heavily on Wizardry and by proxy, Dungeons & Dragons. You take a fixed class (but customizable) party of 5 characters through various dungeons, walking around in 1st person Wizardry style until combat commences in a top down grid where characters move independently. We spend most of our time listening to the OPNA version of the soundtrack from the PC-88 with a short sample from the X1 version. As always, we hope you enjoy the music as much as we do!

All tracks using the YM2608 (OPNA) chip unless otherwise stated

Composers: Chihiro Fujioka and Yumi Satake

Track List:

  • 0:00:00 Holy Legend (Opening Version)
  • 0:05:40 Encounter
  • 0:09:09 Quest
  • 0:13:34 Chaser
  • 0:16:22 Main Menu – Pebble Beach Golf Links (SNES) – by Yumi Satake
  • 0:19:11 Chaser (excerpt from Sharp X1)
  • 0:23:05 Dirty Cave
  • 0:30:20 Omens
  • 0:33:56 Black Knight
  • 0:36:38 Ruin
  • 0:42:38 Curst Valley
  • 0:46:49 Bad Sigh
  • 0:57:00 Finale
  • 0:59:25 Ending
  • 1:04:25 Wisdom

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2 thoughts on “Advanced Fantasian – PA155

  1. steve88ys

    Very cool soundtrack. I was aware of T&E golf games and their music, but didn’t know Yumi Satake’s earlier works. Thanks!

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    1. Gene Dreyband Post author

      Thanks for the comment steve88ys! We were surprised to learn about the merger of Xtalsoft and T&E and thus Yumi Satake’s involvement in both companies. It’s also a nice coincidence that it happened right after our show on Greatest Driver by T&E, although that game was pre-merger as well.

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