Great clip! I really should play through Solstice the next rainy day... (of which there are quite a few here in the UK)
What I'd be most interested to hear the developers talk a bit more about is the heavy influence from the legendary
Knight Lore that I used to play as a kid, which was already 5 years old by the time Solstice was released. While they may just have decided to make a copycat based on scores of a top-selling game for an older platform, I'd like to think they must have been some pretty heavy fans of the original. Maybe Knight Lore was even what inspired them to venture into game design itself? But I guess we may never know...
I find the interview with the young Tim Follin a gem as well... I don't think any other composer managed to make videogame music sound so alive like he did, and I'm still pretty impressed that he started his game music career at 15, and made his most memorable tunes as a teenager.
Fun trivia: At the time when
Years Behind was being developed, PhD of Retrocoders was discussing with Tim Follin about including a new original tune from him in it. For some reason none of us ever got to know, he suddenly stopped answering his mails so it never happened. Might have been related to his emotional farewell to his videogame music career I guess... anyways, Years Behind turned got some pretty damn cool tunes anyway to stand on its own, but I can't deny it would have been cool to have an original Tim Follin tune included in its release... :)