but the author stills refers to the music in the TG-16 version as "typical Turbo Grafx, with your PSG-heavy hums and buzzes" and says "Believe it or not, these voices sound much better on the TurboGrafx-16".
That's a pretty good description on TG-16 sound. Doesn't mean it is bad.
"Beleive it or not" is a reference to the idea that it's
unbeleivable for the TG-16 to match or top the mighty Genesis.
As for refering to the TG-16 music as "typical", it's not. It may work with the vanilla PSG sounds that most earlier PCE games do, but it does some amazing things with them, both effects-wise and in composition. Then it's all balanced with some of the best use of samples in a TG-16 PSG soundtrack.
The main reason I prefer the TG-16 music, is the actual 'performance'. The Genesis version has some really cool sounds and effects of it's own(and some negatives that I won't get into), but almost every track which appears in both versions sounds like it's being played by a band of souless skilled robots instead of a group of talented humans putting real emotion into it.
It's kinda like the difference with Lords Of Thunder. The Sega-CD version has a heavier sounding more modern recording and although messing with the timing of a song can really improve it, as many bands do in live versions, instead it loses a lot and although all the notes are there, it's just not
performed as well.
It's also kinda like when someone programs a midi that contains every note and although they seem to have technically gotten the timing reasonably correct in each channel/instrument, somehow it just doesn't sound right as it alls comes together.
But, there isn't a
huge difference between the TG-16 vs Genesis games' soundtracks(this is probably the closest any TG-16 & Genesis port will ever come), I'm just trying to explain the main reason(along with how the Genesis version's tracks aren't as balanced) why for me, the TG-16 version has the edge. I love them both.
Anyways, as for the slight bias, the author either forgot, or had his review edited to remove comments like "just another one of these wavy warbley sounding Genesis games" and "Surprisingly for a Genesis game, the new art in bonus rounds actually looks somewhat colorful."
I mean, I can think of a couple reasons why... but it makes about as much sense as these-
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DW52Uboel6g
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QXh0y8IobrQ
Haahhahaahahhhahahhhahahaa. Holy crap, that is the funniest dig at what's-his-name that I've seen yet! Insanity . Sorry AirRaidX (if memory serves me).
Hey, the SMS vs Arcade description uses 97% of his own words. If it
is a dig, he only makes himself sound crazy.
Of course, that's how he wound up on YouTube taking swipes at the message boards that he got booted from.