I'm not attempting to
invalidate the opinion in the article by any means, but I do hold some skepticism that you can point to one blog's post as "professional", and treat it as more valid than anyone else's opinion. My (real life) friends and acquaintances Zen Albatross and Audun are contributors to that site, so it feels like I'm reading the opinion of a peer. Although I haven't contributed to the site before, I don't see a reason why my opinion would be any more or less professional, which is made
here in short..
That being said, Original Sound Version is a very cool site with lots of neat stuff on there...
Unrelated,
Woo, Fabio Frizzi. The Beyond and those other Fulci flicks have got some real eerie, moody sounds. I could totally see the Splatterhouse music being inspired by that.
'Cept there's no funky bass guitar in any of those games, lol.
There's this one PoR track that sounds like it's taken straight from a Goblin soundtrack (Tenebre, Dawn of the Dead, Suspiria, etc). Funky, jumpin' bassline and all...
MUSIC: Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin - Gears Go Awry (DS)I have no idea who composed it though. Based on the style I would assume that it's Yuzo Koshiro, but I'm not certain who-did-what.