Today, we're talking floating animals, tornadoes
to the past, and whatever the hell Ascenti is,
it's Crusader Ascenti for the Sega Genesis. Hello
everyone, welcome to Retro Gaming Beyond presents
Retro Game Club. We're your hosts Joe, Eric,
Ryan, and Jacob Vanderloski. And today we're
talking Crusader of Senti for the Sega Genesis.
But as usual, before we get to that, we're going
to do our little Word of the Nerd section here.
Just let you guys know what other things we're
into. So what have you guys been enjoying lately?
I've been still reading Berserk, making my way
through that. Getting close to the end. Yeah.
Is that still going? Yeah. So the Arthur died.
But his good friend is picking up the series
to hopefully finish it up. Oh, OK. All right.
But did it like did it conclude at all or is
it just. No, I'm pretty sure the story was still
open. Oh, OK. Yeah, I haven't made it that far,
but I'm pretty sure he didn't get to finish the
story, unfortunately. Yeah, that kind of sucks.
Do you know if he like left notes or whatever?
I'm not sure. I know the guy that is working
on it was really close with him. Okay, so he
probably knew stuff then. Yeah, I'm not sure
if he worked on it with him. I'm not 100 % sure.
It's kind of like those Wheel of Time. I like
the Wheel of Time books. He passed away before
he got to finish, but he left a ton of notes
for the next guy. He left it with his wife, and
she found another author to finish it up for
him, which is pretty cool. Yeah, that's cool.
Yep. And then I've been playing Kirby's Dream
Land on the Switch online thing that they had.
Oh, yeah. Okay. Nice. I played that. That game's
good. I like that game. Yeah, it was quick. I
played it in one sitting. Yeah. You got to play
the second one. The second one's better. The
second one's good. I remember that's the one
we had, right? Yeah, that's the one we had, yeah.
Yeah. Is that the one with Rick? Yeah. The hamster?
Yeah. Yeah, the animals. That one's good. Yeah,
yeah. I forgot. There's a fish and a... And Owl,
too. I forget their names. Yeah, I just remember
Rick. Yeah, he was the hamster, yeah. Yeah, Rick
is awesome. Yeah. And then the third one's on
the Super Nintendo, which I never played that
one. Yeah, I don't think I ever played that one
either. Yeah, I don't know if that one's good
or not. Alright, cool. You said you beat it.
You did beat it? Yeah, I beat it in like one
sitting. It was quick. That one doesn't have
the collectibles, right? With like the little
collectible things? That was only the second
one, I think. No, I don't think there's anything
like that. Okay. And the second one is, like,
each world has, like, a special collectible.
And then, like, if you get them all, you get,
like, a secret ending or something. It's like
an extra boss fight or something. Yeah. No, that
doesn't have that. This one, like, once you beat
the game, there's, like, a hard mode afterwards.
And then it gets harder. Okay. That's still pretty
cool. Yeah. All right. Cool. Anybody else? Yeah.
I haven't been doing too much playing Senti,
obviously. Yeah. But I started playing some Project
Zomboid. It's a pretty popular game. It's like
a realistic zombie survival game. And it's pretty
in -depth of how you have to survive and what
you have to look into and stuff like that. But
it's a pretty fun game. That's pretty cool. It's
like a survival game where you collect... items
and then is there like a story you just see how
long you can last no it's just to see how long
you can last i mean the game wouldn't say it
tries to kill you as much as it can but there's
pretty much everything that goes against you
in that game like if you break a window you have
to uh break the glass around it because if you
jump through it can get cuts on your arm oh that's
pretty crazy If you step on broken glass on the
floor without shoes, you cut your feet. If you're
carrying too much weight and you jump out of
a window, the second floor in the house, you
can break your legs. It's just crazy stuff. Yeah,
that's pretty involved. That's pretty cool. It's
like a really in -depth game. There's a field
of view or your line of sight. You can only see
what's in front of you, so you can turn. stuff
like that and see behind you because everything
that's not your point of view disappears so it's
got like it's like rpg skill sets you can learn
mechanics farming woodwork you know you can upgrade
your sprinting all that type of stuff so that's
cool but yeah it's it's hard dude yeah have you
made it very far uh not really i'm still trying
to learn it because it's it's a pretty big learning
curve but um I mean, literally when you load
in your character, it literally tells you, it
says, this is how you died. Oh, really? That's
cool. Yeah, yeah. So it's a really hard game,
but it's really fun. It's fun to learn it because
there's just so much different shit to learn.
All right, that's cool. I don't think I've ever
seen that one. I'm going to have to check that
one out. Yeah, it's good. Cool. Anything else?
I've been getting into the Resident Evil games.
I bought 7 and 8 on a Steam sale. It was really
good. It was $30 for both of them. And I've been
going through them, and they're really fun games.
I think they're like the first mainline Resident
Evils to be first -person, and they just work
so well in that perspective. I also really like
the story and the gameplay and the environment
of both games. It's just amazing. Everything's
so good about them. So I beat those. I beat the
Resident Evil 3 remake. It's pretty short, so
now I'm playing Code Veronica, and that's one
of the older games that has those tank controls,
so it's an adjustment. That's a Dreamcast one,
right? Yeah, uh -huh. Are 7 and 8, are they related
at all? Are they in lore to the other ones at
all? Yeah, uh -huh. Well, Chris Redfield is like...
He's a part of 7 and 8. And you know, Redfield
goes back all the way to the first game. Yeah.
Okay. I want to play those. They have the PSVR
versions of those that I want to play. Those
look pretty cool. Yeah, that would be cool. 7
and 8 are good games, man. I enjoyed them a lot.
I've never played a Resident Evil game. It's
crazy. Really? Yeah. I know. We've got to fix
that with this show. We've got to play some Resident
Evil. For sure. 7 and 8 are a lot more atmospheric,
I guess. More horror. But I enjoyed them because
I played them a long time ago. I mean, they're
kind of survivalist. That horror survivalist.
Yeah. I would say they're more horror games than
anything. Yeah. I mean, ammo was kind of scarce
in some points and stuff. Depending on how you
played the game, obviously. Yeah, yeah. They're
nowhere near as bad as the old PS1s, though.
PS1s. Oh, yeah. Nowhere near as bad. I'm sure.
But they are good, though. Yeah, I mean, I've
always wanted to play them. I do need to play
them. We need to add those to the list or something.
We'll have to look into that. For sure, yeah.
Yeah, I think I tried playing the first one a
long time ago, but it was tough. Yeah, I mean,
it's going to be tough. But that's all right.
I mean, that's kind of the point of the show.
Just kind of... you know get into these things
make us play things that we kind of be like i
don't know if i want to play this but you know
kind of force our stuff force ourselves but give
us more of a reason to incentive yeah yeah to
kind of deep dive into the game instead of playing
for 10 minutes and be like i don't like this
you know what i mean so yeah yeah yeah play games
we haven't heard of before right yeah yeah Well,
it's just out of the comfort zone a little bit.
And then just, you know, nowadays we're all just
so inundated with choices of stuff. You know,
it's nice to pick something, be like, we're playing
this. You know what I mean? Kind of gives you
a reason to keep going. So, but yeah. Yeah. All
right. Cool. Anything else, Jacob, or just Resident
Evil this week? Yeah, that's about it. Really?
Okay. That's cool. Yeah, I've finished up Pac
-Man. I was watching the Pac -Man cartoons, and
I actually enjoyed it. It was actually pretty
good. I thought it would be kind of stupid, but
they actually did a pretty good job of making
a cartoon off an arcade game. Yeah, I know. That's
kind of surprising, you figure. Yeah, I mean,
it was 80s goofy, but it wasn't bad. It was actually
pretty good. I mean, it's Hanna -Barbera, so
they had some quality there already. Yeah. And
then I started a new cartoon. They had an Earthworm
Jim cartoon in the early 90s. I didn't even know
this existed until like a week ago, and I just
started watching it. But it's actually very good.
I'm actually impressed with it. It's got good,
like, the animation's good, the voice acting.
There's a ton of famous voice actors in there,
like Earthworm Jim's voice by Dan Castellaneta,
who does Homer Simpson. Yeah, nice. That's cool.
But yeah. Actually, and it's not like... a video
game cartoon that has like nothing to do with
the video game. There's actually a lot of like,
like if you play the game, you'd be like, Oh,
okay. And you know, it's, it's a similar, uh,
you'd feel familiar with it, you know? Yeah,
that's cool. So I'm enjoying it so far. I think
there's a little, I think that's before like
video game adaptations were not good before.
Like, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I guess for the time.
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the only other thing I think
I can think of at the time was, like, the Mario
Bros. show, so... Oh, yeah. I think this is kind
of when it just started, like, video game stuff
just kind of started getting into cartoons, you
know? Yeah. But... I just mean, like, video game
adaptation, like, movies and stuff usually just...
Oh, yeah, well, movies, yeah, yeah. They were
good, so... I mean, even today, like, you know,
the movies today are still kind of... Like, even
the Sonic movies are good and stuff, but... Yeah.
Even sometimes today, like, video game stuff
is, uh... I mean, it's definitely gotten way
better than it used to. Like, go watch any old
90s video game cartoon or movie or something.
You'd be like, man, what the hell am I watching?
Like the Super Mario Bros. movies from the 90s.
I don't think I ever finished the Mortal Kombat
ones, but I know those were notoriously bad.
Yeah, those are like a B -movie. The Street Fighter
ones. Same with the Street Fighters and the...
Were the Resident Evil ones any good? From what
I heard, no. Yeah. The ones with, what's her
name, Naila Djokovic or whatever? Is that the
ones you're talking about? I don't remember which
ones. The live action ones? Yeah. They're fine.
I think they're actually pretty decent movies.
Oh, okay. There's like six of them, or five or
six of them. Yeah, I've seen like random ones.
I don't remember which ones I've seen, but. They're
not horrible. I mean, they're pretty typical
B -movies. Yeah, yeah. But, I mean, for what
they are, they're not horrible. Yeah, I agree.
The first one is more... The first one's like
an actual Resident Evil movie, and then the other
one's just kind of turned into action movies
with Resident Evil in them. Oh, okay. But, I
don't know. I enjoyed them. I thought they were
decent. Yeah, and then... Was that Resident Evil,
the TV show they had on... netflix not too ago
yeah i think there's a new cartoon right an animated
one no it's like a actual um i don't know show
on netflix could be i can't remember they're
making so much crap nowadays i don't even know
yeah that's what it was yeah that actually wasn't
half bad oh okay i don't know there's too much
stuff to watch nowadays it's crazy out of all
the things i do like tv and movie wise that's
i'm not like a movie buff so yeah yeah Yeah,
we're more into video games. Yeah, other than
that, I've just been banging away on AC Shadows.
I finally unlocked Yasuke. Took a while, but
I finally unlocked him. Yeah, I didn't know you
had to unlock him. I thought you just kind of
switched back and forth as needed. No, you start
as Naoi, and then... I mean, I did a ton of side
stuff. I've been playing for about 20 hours now,
and I finally got him. But I think if you just
do just straight through the story, it'd probably
be like six, seven hours before you get to him.
Yeah. So... Which, I mean, is not too long. I
mean, it's probably like a 20 -hour game if you
do just story stuff. Yeah, I mean, it's still
good. I'm enjoying it. It's a fun game. I'll
probably be playing that for a while since I
always 100 % those games like a maniac. Yeah,
that's pretty crazy. I don't know. We've already
discussed this, but I don't know. Open world
games, I just... I'd like to torture myself with
them. And I do not. I want to go through the
Far Cry games, but I know that's going to take
a while. Yeah. Because we beat the first one,
which is completely different. Yeah, we were
playing the first one. Yeah. Well, I don't know
if we were playing it. I had to mod that shit
because that game is so hard, dude. We went through
it, yeah. God, that game is impossible. Dude,
even with God mode on, it was impossible. I know.
I still died. It was nuts, dude. That game is
insane. I don't know how anybody played that
game. I don't know. All right. That's what we've
been doing this week. So let's go ahead and get
into our game. All right, so we've been playing
Crusader of Senti, which was developed by Nextech
in 1994 and released for the Sega Genesis. It
was kind of an initiative by Sega to create more
RPGs for their system because they were kind
of being honestly dominated in the market by
the Super Nintendo. In Japan, it was published
by Sega. But for some reason in America, I don't
know, they just did not like RPGs in America
at the time. So Sega of America actually passed
on it. And Atlas is the one who published it
in America, which Atlas did a ton of like Japanese
imports stuff. So which was actually pretty cool.
So this game is a top down action adventure game
where you I mean, it's kind of just. You can
tell it was kind of a copy of Legend of Zelda,
honestly. You take the role of Corona, who is
a young 14 -year -old boy who has come of age
and must train to protect his village against
the monsters that have recently reappeared in
their world. So you start out... You have just,
like, a sword, and you have to go to the training
ground. Like, you talk to the king, and then
you go to the training ground. And then, like,
immediately you can just tell, like... I don't
know about you guys, but that sword is awful.
Yeah, it's horrible. I don't know what it is
with these old games, but, like, the hitboxes
never, like, line up with the, like, sprite work.
It's crazy. The hitbox is awful, this thing.
I was constantly frustrated with the sword, man.
Yeah. yeah it's a pain in the butt you have to
like be facing the same way too yeah i know it's
even though it like sweeps it still doesn't like
you know actually hit in that area yeah they're
more it hits more in the middle more than anything
yeah it's weird like the tip of the sword is
useless yeah yeah yeah well so luckily though
you get in an upgrade pretty early on where you
can throw the sword uh and honestly that kind
of becomes the main attack honestly like the
main just like swing of the sword becomes useless
and then you just throw this after that point
it's it's yeah there's no really other reason
to swing the sword at that point yep so the kind
of gimmick of this game is that um Early on in
the game, a mage or wizard or whatever the hell
that thing was, takes your ability away to talk
to humans. So throughout the game, you can't
talk to humans, but then you can talk to animals
and plants. And so along the way, along your
journey, you bring in animal allies to help you
along the way. And you can equip two at a time.
And each one gives you like a certain ability.
Uh, like one allows you to throw your song, throw
your sword for longer. Um, one gives you like
fire magic. Uh, and then there's like ones you
can't equip. They're just kind of like passive
ones. Like there's like the cat that gives you
like a, uh, like when you die, it like gives
you another life and stuff and everything like
that. And then you can also do combos, which
there really wasn't that many. There's like 15
animals, but there's only like two or three combos
that I noticed. There really wasn't that many.
Yeah, they were all kind of worthless, honestly.
Yeah, it really was. I think there was only like
one boss fight or two boss fights that was actually
like useful in. So yeah, that part was kind of
kind of lame. So yeah, that's kind of the thing
with this game is let's just say real quick before
we really delve into this. Let's make sure that
we push the achievements in the game, like pull
those apart and not and not. review those together
because i know that was a problem for this one
but it is a major problem yeah i know so if we
can let's kind of keep the achievements to this
side right now um but yeah this game is like
way too easy it's it's literally like baby's
first like action adventure game So you start
in, like, a little town area, and then when you
go to the overworld map, it's not like a free
roam map. It's just kind of like a stage select,
and honestly, it's super linear. You just kind
of go to the next area, and then you kind of
just kind of have to figure out what you're supposed
to do in the next area, but there's really no,
like, there's not really exploring in this game.
Not to me, anyway. I didn't think so. Not really,
no. Not exploring, but, like, getting to where
you need to go. How so? What do you mean? Like,
you know, you just kind of like go into the stage
and then you just have to figure out where you
got to go. Yeah. Yeah. And then I'll admit there's
not like a clear path, but I mean, it's kind
of set. Yeah. So like you kind of need you kind
of know where you need to go, but you don't necessarily
know what you need to do. Yeah. I'll admit there's
a couple of times I definitely got stuck. Like
there was a part where I just could not think
of this, but you have to throw your sword diagonally.
And for whatever reason, I just did not think
to do that. Yeah. And then there was another
part where you have to pick up you get this this
animal that you can turn into like a I don't
know, some kind of like a tablet thing that you
can like throw and he can push buttons. And it
took me it took me a few hours to figure that
one out. I got fed up and I looked it up. I I
just. Yeah. I was like, what am I supposed to
be doing here? I had no idea I could pick him
up. Yeah. So I I've imposed like some like. These
are just my own rules that I just imposed to
like enjoy these games. Because I just want to
I want to try and play these games like they
would have been like when they originally came
out, like without Internet and all that stuff.
So I can only ask you guys for help if I had
known you guys haven't like looked anything up
and I can read the manual. That's kind of like
and I'm not like super strict on it. Like there's
I think what was it the last Castlevania? I know
I looked up a couple of things, but for this
game, I was trying to I was trying to stay in
that. Yeah, I could not figure out what to do
for hours, bro. And then I read the manual and
it's like, you can pick stuff up and throw it.
And I was like, oh, of course. It just like immediately
clicked. I was like, that was so obvious. Yeah.
I mean, I agree. I try to play these games without
guides as much as possible. But I don't know
if I just don't have the time like I used to.
So if it's taking me too long, I just I just
look it up. Yeah, that's fine. I just I just
need to get through things sometimes. Yeah, that's
fine. Like I said, it was just a self -imposed
rule that I put on myself. But yeah, I mean,
I agree. Like I if I just just I can't sit there
for hours like you did 20 minutes or more. Yeah,
I think I'm I think I'm done. Well, that was
my day off. And I think I played for like eight
hours that day. So, yeah, dude. Yeah. But I mean,
but other than that, I think for the most part,
I I breeze through this game. It was pretty easy.
The boss fights are jokes, honestly. I don't
think there's any boss fight. Other than maybe
that one stupid beetle thing with the rotating
platform one. I mean, it's not hard. Just not
getting hit is hard. Yeah, yeah. But, like, honestly...
Almost every boss in this game is pretty simple.
Yeah, they're all pretty easy. Even the final
boss is a joke. Mm -hmm. Yeah. Yeah. There's
a combo to certain animals. It lowers the boss's
health, too. Yeah. Is it like the lion and the
penguin or whatever? Yeah. It's that or MOA.
Oh, okay. It was some combo, but it literally
lowers their max health. So when you start a
boss fight, they have less health. Oh, really?
Before you even touch them? Yeah. I think so,
yeah. I didn't even know that. Yeah, the lion
and the... penguin do uh like continuous damage
yeah they do like a special yeah special attack
like if you hit them it keeps yeah it's like
a tick damage yeah i mean other than that combo
for boss fights there's really nothing yeah and
that was that was the other thing i was gonna
say this game touted itself as like an rpg i
i argue this game's not an rpg at all i mean
i agree with that there's no like leveling system
or yeah there's no leveling up there's no experience
you don't even get extra weapons you have one
weapon the entire game um i mean you get some
you get some upgrades for that weapon but they're
so simple that it's i i would not call this game
an rpg at all i mean technically there are two
swords but they do the same thing yeah oh yeah
you get you get like an upgraded holy sword or
something yeah it's just more damage yeah i think
so yeah and it doesn't really help that much
anyways no no yeah but i don't think there's
anything else right you don't get a shield you
don't get any other kind of weapon i don't think
right i don't remember no your animal recruits
are yeah that's technically your weapons But
yeah, you specifically, you don't get anything
besides health upgrades. But again, you really
don't use them much except for when you need
to. Yeah, the game tries to implement them as
much as possible. Yeah, it just didn't do that
good of a job. No, they didn't. My biggest gripe
with this game is it just, I don't know, the
fun factor there, it just wasn't there for me.
Yeah, I agree. I don't know. It never, like,
pushed me to do anything. I felt like I had no
reason to continue. Like, why go on if I'm not
getting, like, leveled up? Or, you know, like
you said, there's just no upgrades. Yeah, I mean,
I guess I can see that. I don't know. I enjoyed
this game. I thought it was pretty good. I guess
it was more just, like, continuing the story,
which, I mean, the story wasn't that great either.
I guess you're just trying to eradicate monsters
from the world, I guess, and then get your ability
to talk to humans back, which eventually you
do. And then by the end of it, you kind of realize
that the monsters aren't actually evil. You were
just told to, like, go and destroy them. It's
kind of like, you know, man is the real monster,
like the zombie movies type of stuff. Yeah. Well,
that's the thing. Like, the game just starts
and they're like, oh. you're of age to have a
sword go yeah at 14 just go yeah that's true
there really is no why yeah that's true there
really is no incentive to like why you're doing
this it's just kind of like you're doing this
yeah so yeah i can see that i don't know just
like no motivation to continue on like the story's
kind of blah and realistically the gameplay is
just kind of mediocre for me yeah i mean having
the having pets and everything that help you
fight and you can unlock new ones and stuff.
That's a cool concept. Yeah, the concept is definitely
cool. This game did just not execute it, right?
No, it's not executed the way I thought it was.
No. I guess so. I don't think it was done wrong.
I just think it was too simple. That would be
my complaint. Yeah, I don't know. When you get
the dinosaur and he can swim over hazardous areas,
When you in like the beginning of the game where
you get him he's useless You have to like swim
on like the border of the walls and yeah every
used him No, he's useless until like the end
of the game. He's like good and end of the game.
He's good, but that's it Yeah, and then there's
just some useless animals in there that you want
the beginning of the game You get him just to
swim over that lake and then after that you don't
really next area. He's not used specifically
for for your use yeah yeah in the level just
to get to an area yeah which is kind of dumb
but yeah yeah i can see that again everything
is just kind of too simple but yeah i mean you
can tell that they were trying to um you know
not copy but have a kind of uh competitor to
legend of zelda in this one you know with like
the upgrades and all that stuff and everything
and then um the other thing too is they kind
of had tried to have like a like a second world
like the dark world in link to the past where
um in this in this world or in this game it was
a tornado but it didn't make a whole new world
the tornado just kind of moved to past areas
and then when you went to that area it was just
kind of a different scene they really didn't
even change the area that much it was like a
slightly different shade of color yeah back in
the past right yeah and then once you Once you
hit the story beats in that past, it moved on
to the next one and it went back to normal. Which,
this made no sense to me. This just didn't add
anything, really. Yeah, I agree. I don't think
going back in time did anything for this game.
It just didn't make any sense. But, I don't know.
I think the whole point of the game was you go
back in time and you're trying to eradicate monsters.
And then when you go back to present time, they
just don't exist anymore. But I don't understand
that. Yeah, I think the idea was that the monster
just appeared out of nowhere a long time ago.
And you're going back in the past to trying to
kind of figure out what happened, why they started
attacking. And then I think I said, like I said,
that's when you kind of figure out that it was
actually kind of man who was the aggressor and
not the monsters. But then, and then you kind
of, the ending kind of doesn't matter anyway
because you just send all the monsters back to
where they came from and nobody learned their
lesson, so. Well, they just never existed because
you killed the things in the past. Yeah, exactly,
yep, yep. Yeah, I know. Yeah, so. So, exactly,
like the whole, this, the whole story was contradictive
to itself. I don't know if that was like a. translation
thing or if the original game was that way too
because you know you gotta remember this is early
90s so the translation may have not been perfect
either yeah did did you go to the um what's at
the elephant's house um towards the end of the
game you like walk in there and he's like how
have you been and then there's like a selection
for yes and no oh yeah yeah there's there's a
lot of like translation issues in this one for
sure it's it's not perfect uh there's definitely
some like spacing issues and there's where there
is grammar stuff as well too so yeah no i mean
that's understandable but yeah the story to just
not really make any sense yeah and then i heard
too that the the european version actually has
a different translation so i don't know if it's
any better or not but yeah i mean i don't know
i thought the so that story and and uh presentation
and everything in the game, but I don't know.
I thought the gameplay was fine. You guys didn't
like the gameplay of the game? I don't know.
The platforming was kind of annoying. Really?
You think so? Yeah, the jumping was stupid, and
then you keep falling off the side of the edges
and stuff. Yeah, that was kind of annoying. When
you're on an edge, you keep sliding off towards
the edge. That was annoying. That was really
annoying, yeah. And then that stupid room in
the Tower of Babel with the... rubber bands or
ropes or whatever they are oh yeah yeah yeah
and then like with the the moving floors you
had to like jump on them and then go backwards
and then like jump farther or whatever yeah you
have like a momentum yeah yeah that took me a
while to get to get used to i was like what the
hell's going on here with that yeah i don't know
i just found it more annoying than like fun i
don't know i don't know i i thought it was fine
i was enjoying myself for most of the game Nothing
was consistent. I don't know. It's hard to explain,
I guess. In older games, if you can keep doing
something with a rhythm or whatever, it stays
consistent and then you can learn it. Almost
like bomb jumping in Metroid or whatever. I felt
like there was just no consistency with this
where I could learn the movements. jacob you
got any thoughts over there would you would you
think of the game i i like this game i mean it's
not like the most fun thing in the world it's
like a must play but i mean i don't know for
like simple action adventure stuff it's it's
all right it's not bad um i don't think i really
uh what's it called I didn't do anything crazy
in this game. As soon as I got the cheetah and
the leviathan, I pretty much used them for the
rest of the game, except for when I had to change.
I think they make the game pretty easy. One thing
I did want to touch upon is we all agree this
game is really not that hard. It's fairly easy,
and the puzzles really aren't hard to figure
out. If you just go around talking to people,
you'll... figure out what you need to get and
what to do and stuff like that and i think that's
pretty contradicted to like games during that
time because especially like adventure games
like like you like legend of zelda right like
the first two games you really had to you you
practically had to look up a guide to know what
you're doing yeah well especially for like rpg
games too yeah exactly and um but like this game
it's it's pretty straightforward right i only
need to use the guide like twice or so um You
know, but if I had to if I was playing like the
original Legend of Zelda, I had to, you know,
really have a guide by my side to figure everything
out. But a game like this, it's I think you could
figure everything out if you really, you know,
took your time. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, like I said,
I pretty much did. I mean, I had one I had Eric
had to give me one hint and then I had to read
the manual one time. So I don't I don't really
feel like I I don't think I really used a guide
at all. So, yeah, I mean, I guess I agree with
that. I mean, like I said, the gameplay is pretty
simple. You just have the sword attack. I mean,
that's literally all you have is a sword attack.
You don't have anything else. You get to upgrade,
like you said, with the cheetah. You can start
dashing and jumping. You don't even start out
with a jump, actually. You have to learn how
to do that. Yeah, you have to learn how to jump.
Yeah, from a bunny rabbit with a cape on. Then
you have to learn how to throw. Yeah, throw your
sword. And then there's kind of like some backtracking
to where you had that there is like upgrades.
There's like golden apples that you could get
to upgrade your health. And then some of those
like you couldn't get right away. You had to
get like upgrades or whatever, and then you could
go back and get them. There's also the money
bags, too. They had money bags. That was another
thing that I was going to say is the money is
kind of useless. Like once you get that one eight
hundred dollar apple and then the money is there's
really no point for the money in the game at
all. Yeah, you don't really buy anything besides
the animals, I guess, if you. Yeah, you got the
animals, and then that one apple, and then that's
literally it. I don't think there's anything
else to buy. Yeah. And even then, I don't think
that, like, the animals that you can buy are
really that useful. In my opinion, of course.
No, not really. The only good one is the cat.
He's the only good one that's worth having. Yeah,
for, like, revives and stuff. But then again,
like, you never die in this game anyway, so...
Yeah, you get health after, what, every boss
fight, so... Yeah. That is one thing I thought
was annoying, was, like, there wasn't enough...
health around the maps especially if you're like
trying to figure out things yeah you're constantly
getting hit yeah that's true i mean we say the
game's easy but there were some parts like if
you were trying to get somewhere kind of too
quick and you weren't if you didn't do like a
mob control or whatever the enemies would gang
up gang up on you pretty fast and knock you out
yeah that definitely happened um you kind of
had to pay attention to what was going on around
you and make sure there weren't too many enemies
which i think i took more damage falling off
the map and yeah probably yeah stupid platforming
wise instead of getting hit by enemies yeah yeah
so the enemies in the game there there were quite
a few i think but nothing nothing to like they're
all kind of similar i think right yeah yeah i
don't know nothing really stands out honestly
yeah i'm trying to think they were just kind
of there yeah yeah i mean there was like the
stumps that shoot Yeah, and then Forrester, yeah,
yeah. And then... But that was really it, though.
Most of everything in that game is contact damage.
Yeah. Besides bosses, obviously, but... Right,
yep. Everything's usually contact damage. Which
I have to say, the boss fights, although they
were easy, they were kind of cool. Like, there
was one where that was kind of like a puzzle
where he made a bunch of copies of himself and
he had to find out which one was the real one.
That was kind of cool. If you swiped the wrong
one, you took damage. Yeah, that was cool. That
was neat. There was one boss fight where he was
a thing of goo, and you had to switch your magic
back and forth to do damage to him. That was
kind of cool. Yeah, because you had to use the
opposite of what form. Yeah, like if you hit
him with the ice sword, he turned into ice, and
then you had to switch over to the fire sword,
which was pretty cool. That was pretty cool.
Yeah, yeah. The puppet guy was pretty cool, too.
Oh, yeah, the puppet master guy up here was cool.
Which, that was annoying, because... You only
have one animal that does damage to them. Yeah,
true. That's another thing too. I don't know,
man. Some of the animals are just so useless
and some of them you have to use them all the
time. Yeah, there's only like two or three that
were really the ones that you needed really just
to beat the game, honestly. The other ones were
kind of just extra. Yeah, yeah. Anything else
on gameplay? Controls? I guess we can talk controls.
I don't know. You guys said you didn't like the
controls. You thought jumping wasn't good or
anything. Yeah, I guess it was just like too
floaty, I guess, maybe. Yeah, I guess I could
agree that the controls were a little stiff.
Yeah, I agree. Turning and just trying to, I
don't know, just aim. with the sword too oh man
well they did this thing with the graphics too
where like your character kind of turns into
a 3d object whenever you rotate like you don't
just go from left to right your entire body actually
rotates from left to right which was pretty cool
but yeah when you're trying to like attack something
that's behind you it takes like an extra couple
of seconds and it's kind of annoying for sure
um and yeah it definitely makes your character
feel a little bit slower uh over time but i mean
You are only a 14 -year -old kid with a sword.
You're fighting these giant monsters. I did like
how you could fall in holes and then you'd just
have the Puyo Puyo eyes sticking out of the holes.
That was pretty funny. That was pretty funny.
Okay, let's jump over to the graphics. The graphics
in this game are pretty damn good. This is a
pretty good -looking Sega Genesis game. Yeah,
I agree. It's got, like, Kind of like its own
charm. Yeah. Like, we just talked about it, but,
like, your character kind of has, like, a 3D
effect. Like, there's not just, like, a left
sprite and then a right sprite. Your character
actually rotates over to whatever direction you
want to face, which I thought was pretty cool.
And then, like, the backgrounds in this game
are really cool. They're really, like, animated
and vibrant. There's a cool part, like, when
you're fighting that dragon, Maldra, dragon or
whatever. It's like you're above the clouds,
but then the birds came up from out of the clouds,
and they had that cloud effect. You guys see
that? That was cool. Yeah. I like that. That
was a pretty cool -looking effect that they had
on there. They also had the parallax scrolling.
They had trees that went over the screen, over
your character and everything, which was kind
of cool. There's a lot of nice use of effects
in this game. I think they did a pretty good
job of... Maybe they didn't... nail it on gameplay
but on the graphics i feel like they did a pretty
good job yeah i agree it's definitely like the
stronger suit of this game yeah there's a lot
of uh depth to it yeah like you said you can
walk under the trees and the clouds and all that
stuff i mean it looks like you're you know it's
like it looks like an actual 3d game yes it's
definitely more like a mature uh top down for
sure yeah I mean, this came out in 94. The Sega
Saturn was only a year away at that point, so
this was pretty late into the Genesis' life.
Yeah. Speaking of graphics, did any of you notice,
like, in the beginning area, that village, there's,
like, this old man that you can speak to, but
it's, like, standard sprite. Like, his hair is
covering his eyes, but if you go right up to
him... like one of his eyes will be exposed and
it's like you know he's waiting for you to say
something i don't know his sprite changes when
you get closer yeah uh -huh so like before you
before you go up to him like his hair is completely
covering his eyes right but if you go like right
up to him you can see like one of his eyes like
opens and it's like he looks at you like you
know he's waiting for you to say something no
i didn't notice that that's cool I did notice
the giant Sonic the Hedgehog, though, that was
in there. Yep. Sitting on the beach. It's hard
to miss that. Yeah, the Gallant Hedgehog. That
was a nice little reference in there. I thought
that was funny. Yeah. Yeah. Which is a good segue
to sound. Sure, yeah. Because this soundtrack
sounds... Very heavily influenced by Sonic. Yeah,
that's how I felt too. I felt like there was
a few of the songs that I was like, this could
be in a Sonic game. Like it sounds just like
Sonic the Hedgehog. Yep. And I don't know if
that's just the Genesis. Like when you make good
music on the Genesis, if it just sounds like
Sonic the Hedgehog or what it is. Yeah, Sonic
music is like the standard for the Genesis. Yeah,
I mean the Genesis has such a unique sound. Like
if you do it right, you can't get away from it.
Yeah. Yeah, I agree. I don't know. I think this
just sounded like Sonic. Yeah, especially that
one desert song. I was like, this sounds exactly
like the desert song from Sonic and Knuckles.
It was so good. And it was good. I liked it.
I thought it was all pretty good. I think the
village song, their starting village song, I
was immediately humming that song within minutes
of listening to it. Yeah, yeah. It's good. Even
the intro music was pretty good. Yeah, yeah.
It's just like a nice upbeat song. But yeah,
I will say that the sound was pretty good. Yeah,
I enjoyed it. The sound effects were decent,
I guess, right? I don't really remember sound
effects too much. They're okay. Make a little
sound when you kill the enemies and stuff like
that. I do like when you get it. I do like when
you get hit and you're like, ow. Yeah, you scream.
It got a little annoying after a while, but yeah.
It's kind of a weird scream for a 14 -year -old
boy, wasn't it? Yeah, it was. Yeah, I mean, just
a couple other things. I was thinking, I wonder
if they made their character green, like Link
on purpose, just to kind of, I don't know, I
guess give a middle finger to... nintendo i don't
know if they did that on purpose or not but uh
i don't doubt it yeah i'm sure there was thought
behind that yeah yeah there's also a lot of little
funny things in here too like um with like the
cyclone with the tornado the the girl that went
back in time her name was dorothy like a wizard
of oz reference um yep yep and the shoes that
you get are the yeah yeah and then um They had
the rock of prostration and reflection. I don't
know if you guys found that or not. Yeah, I've
seen that. It's so weird. I guess when your character
sprite is pushing on the rocks, it looks like
that. It's such a weird thing they put in there.
Yeah. Oh, that's something I wanted to talk about
too. I thought it was a weird design choice that
they made the animals float behind you. I don't
understand why they thought... I don't know why
they didn't just have them follow you. It made
no sense to me. yeah i don't know i just maybe
game limitations or magical i guess yeah i mean
there were games in the nes where you had party
members follow behind you so yeah i don't know
just maybe time constraint i don't i'm not sure
yeah it could be i don't know i just thought
it was a weird choice when when i first equipped
my dog and he was just floating behind me i was
like what the hell is going on here yeah i wasn't
expecting that either yeah I thought it was going
to be, like, Pokemon Yellow or something. Yeah,
when you have two of them, they're, like, diagonally
behind you. Yeah, it's just weird. Weird design
choice, yeah. It is weird, because, like, one
of them, is it the penguin? I can't remember,
but, like, their feet do, like, walk, but they're
floating. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, like, his animation,
his sprite animation looks like he's walking,
but he's just floating behind you. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, that was weird. all right so uh let's go
ahead and get into the achievements then so this
is where it's gonna get even worse i guess really
i mean to be fair i enjoyed this game i know
jacob you enjoyed it too i think eric and ryan
you guys kind of struggled with this one um but
for the achievements i think we all agree that
uh these i'm sorry listen i think it's cool that
this is all free There's people that put their
time into this all for free, asking nothing for
in return, but man, this list fucking sucks,
dude. This set is terrible. It is. Absolutely
terrible. It's one of the worst ones I've seen
in this website. It's awful. It's just all the
same thing. It's just beat every boss without
getting hit. As like the game itself, there's
really not much of innovation in these achievements.
But they're just a pain in the ass and they suck.
Yeah, they're annoying. Every single one is basically
missable, but they're not marked. Yeah, that's
what I don't understand. Unless I'm misunderstanding
something. Almost every single one of these achievements
should be missable, but none of them are marked
that way. I don't understand why. I don't know.
I locked myself out a bunch of them. Yeah, I've
missed a couple. of the early ones luckily they
were early ones and i realized right away that
i was missing them so i had to start over but
it only took me like an hour i think to get those
ones but yeah yeah i'm the same way i missed
a couple early ones i locked myself out a couple
of them and i'm just it's just frustrating dude
because they're not marked or anything yeah i
know yep yep like the gold medal one you have
to like make it all the way there without getting
taking any damage yep yep like And then I'm going
to make it all the way there and then not get
it and then die or start the game over and then
go do it again. Right. Yep. It's just stupid.
And then for some of the boss ones, too, you
could only have like no animals equipped, only
certain ones equipped. But like you don't know
when the boss is going to show up. So if you
have something in there, it's you're already
locked out of it. Yeah. So you have to restart
and do the whole area again and then know where
it starts and then you have to take them off.
That's another thing that sucks with this game
is there's a save option. Yeah, we didn't touch
on that. But the save option only stays at the
beginning of the stage. Yeah, so sometimes you
have to redo the whole dungeon before you get
to the boss again. Yep. And just because you
didn't know when it would start and you have
an animal in the wrong slot. Yeah, exactly. yeah
those were really annoying yeah i agree i agree
with that and then dude there's the at the end
with the five bosses god that is annoying not
to get hit there's like at the end of the whole
dungeon yeah you have to fight well you wouldn't
you have to like learn all of them well on that
one luckily if you um you just have to beat one
of them one time and then you can save And then
you're in that area. You just have to beat one.
And then you can start the next boss and start
over from the last boss. It's still annoying
though because you have to beat one without getting
hit. So you have to know which one's the easiest
to do it and then get that achievement and then
save. I did it with the eye one. But I mean,
how do you know which one's the easiest one?
Dude, I was getting so frustrated. I was getting
so frustrated. Yeah, I know. That put was annoying.
I ended up just saying screw it. Because I'm
missing fucking achievements anyway. Yeah, yeah.
Because this is the first time I've ever had
problems. Yeah, that's right. One of yours didn't
unlock, right? One of them didn't unlock. And
then I beat the game. And Retro Achievement says
it's unfinished. Oh, really? Maybe because I
don't have that one achievement. Maybe. Maybe
it looks wrong. Because it is a progression achievement.
Yeah, that might be why, yeah. Luckily, it's
an earlier one, so I might just run through and
grab it and see. Yeah. Of course, they never
got back to you either, right? No. Yeah. I had
low hopes on that anyway. Yeah, I know. It was
worth a shot. Yeah, I know, I know. But, all
right. Anything else on the achievements? They
suck and ruin this game. I mean, kind of. I don't
disagree. There's some good ones that collect
the golden apples and the money bags and stuff.
Those are hidden, so I understand that. I don't
think that some of the boss ones are bad, but
it's the same thing for every boss. That's what's
annoying. I don't mind a no -hit boss. I'm okay
with that, but the stupid... have this animal
equipped or nothing in slot b and you can't jump
right like what yeah yeah and then setting up
for him to not knowing when the boss is going
to be so if you already have that animals equipped
yeah you automatically miss that achievement
so yeah by halfway through the game i didn't
have animals equipped most of the time yeah every
time i went through like a room or whatever i
just unequipped everything i wanted yeah which
is again stupid very annoying and time consuming
yeah I probably would have definitely enjoyed
this game a little bit more if I didn't have
this in my mind. Yeah, that's what I was saying
before the beginning of this episode. See if
you guys can kind of separate that. I don't know.
This is just like one of my least favorite genres
of games. And yeah, this game is just like I
said, it's just nothing special and time constraint.
And I don't know. I think everything just kind
of clashed with this one for me. It's crazy.
I thought it was just a fun little jaunt through
the... through a monster world but i just i can't
agree on all of them yeah that's fine so i don't
know fun fun just wasn't there for me frustration
was yeah i agree all right well you guys can
pick the next game yes all right well with that
said let's go ahead and get on to our final reviews
All right, so who wants to go first? Go ahead,
Jacob. Yeah, let's start positive. Jacob, you
go ahead, go first. Yeah, I think it's a good
game. I liked it. I thought it was a pretty,
you know, simple adventure game. You can just
kind of sit back, kick back, and just relax,
you know. I wouldn't say it's like, you know,
a must play or anything, but if you want to...
Like a light adventure game. I definitely give
it a go. All right. Brian, Eric, did you enjoy
it? I don't know how negative you want. You want
extreme negative? Go for it. I mean, that's what
the point of the podcast is. It's your opinion.
No, I didn't enjoy this game. I didn't. I just,
I felt like it added nothing to, I don't know,
just kind of like a waste of time, honestly.
I mean, isn't that what video games are? I could
have spent my time better. In a joyful waste
of time. With a game that I enjoyed. I mean,
if that's how you feel, that's how it is. I agree.
That's what I'm saying. I'm with Sega of America
on this one. Ryan, what do you say? Do you agree
with Sega of America? I don't know. Yes. I mean...
It just depends what you want, I guess. If you
want an easy RPG and you don't like just grinding
and going to the same rooms and trying to figure
out what you have to do for hours on end, I mean,
you would probably like this game because it's
not hard. It's pretty linear. Most of the time,
you pretty much know where you have to go, just
not what you have to do. So, I mean, figuring
things out in this game is not going to be hard.
It's not going to take a long time. But it's
just, it's not very enjoyable, I guess. Like
I said, the concept was really cool. Having enemy
or animal allies to help you. They have different
abilities that they can do, but it just wasn't
executed right. It's just, I don't know. You
unlock all of them and some of them are useless
and some of them you use for the whole game.
So, I don't know. I want to say I'm 50 -50 on
it. I don't think this game was... absolutely
horrible and i should think it should never exist
but i don't know no i didn't really enjoy it
but there was times where it was it was doable
right yeah fair enough i mean I would say I enjoyed
this game. It was just a simple romp through
a fantasy world. Like I said, I like the idea
that they took items and turned them into animals.
That was kind of cool. Kind of gave them a little
bit of a character and stuff. I mean, I guess
that's something they could have elaborated on
is giving those animals more story. That might
have given the game more reason to be played.
Like trying to figure out their backgrounds and
stuff. That would have been cool. Which, I mean,
they had a tiny little bit of that, like with
the penguin and stuff. But yeah, I don't know.
It's just a simple game. You didn't have to think
about it too much. So yeah, I enjoyed it. OK,
so this is kind of where the reason why I have
the enjoyed and recommended. OK, so just because
you guys didn't enjoy it doesn't mean necessarily
mean that you wouldn't recommend it to people.
So, Jacob, you went first. Would you recommend
this game to people? Yeah, I recommend it. I
wouldn't say it's like a must play, but, you
know, again, it's just a simple, fun little little
adventure. You can just go through, you know,
just sit back, get back, relax. So I do recommend
it. Yeah, I'll agree with you, Jacob. If you
just want to sit back and play like a simple
classic Genesis game, this is one that you can
just you don't really have to think about it
too much. You just kind of play through and have
some fun. So, yeah, I would recommend it, too.
All right, Eric, what do you say? I mean, if
you literally got nothing else to do, and you've
played every other video game you've played before,
I guess, but I don't think so. It's just not
worth it. Your hate for this genre makes no sense
to me, man. It's just not worth it, bro. It makes
no sense to me. There was not one time I was
playing this game and was like, oh, wow, yeah,
this is great. Really? Like the first time you
got your animal and the dog was floating behind
you, you didn't think that? I mean, I was like,
wow, okay. Like, why the hell is he flying? He's
a dog. I guess that's a big no. Ryan, what do
you say? Hmm. I mean... Go ahead, bro. Lay it
on him. No, you're the only one here, I think.
If you're like five years old and you want to
play an RPG, I think this is good to start. But...
I just, I don't know, man. I'm not a big fan
of JRPGs either. I mean, I'll play them. I've
played RPGs before. I just think if you want
to play one, this is not the one to play. I mean,
if you want something basic or you want something
easy, sure, I'd recommend it. But it's just,
it's not really much to this game, man. If you
want to find something in the RPG genre. There's
plenty of other games to play. This isn't an
RPG, though. That's something we keep harping
on. What is this game, then? It's just an action
-adventure game. I guess. They say it's an RPG,
but I argue that it has nothing to do with RPGs.
I agree, but I'm just saying it because that's
what it's labeled on the record. Where was the
action at, though? Bro. There was adventure,
but there was no action. You're not going to
be in the next episode, bro. the worst game i've
ever played but i i can see where it's coming
from because it's it's just really not that impressive
i guess i mean like i said cool concept poor
execution but if there's just so many other games
like this that are better just this one could
be a pass yeah but we're never gonna play him
now because eric won't he'll be like oh that's
an action rpg i'm playing well well i mean as
long as it's better than this game yeah well
you don't know that until you play it though
It can't be any worse than this game. This has
been the least enjoyable game as of so far. Really?
Wow. I mean, honestly, I think I'd agree with
you. But not that I didn't enjoy this game, just
compared to the other ones we've played so far.
Yeah, we have played some pretty banger games.
I had more fun playing Galaga for hours. Yeah,
you would. Alright, that's enough of that. I'm
50 -50 on it. Take your pick. 60 -40. That means
no. If it's not a 100%, it's a no. Yeah. All
right, well, that's what we think about this
game, so that'll do it for this week. Let us
know what you thought, what your thoughts on
playing this week are. If you enjoyed it, if
you recommend it, we'd like to hear from you
guys. If you're Team Sega of America, let me
know. Team Atlas. Team Atlas or Team Sega of
America? You want to do for two or two for two
right here, so I had to find a tiebreaker. Yeah
Well our community what I'll pull it. I'll pull
it. Yeah, there you go. Yeah All right enough
of this game. We've talked enough. We should
have an Instagram a page So I'll maybe I'll put
it up on there. Oh, that's true. Yeah, we what
is it retro gaming? RGB game club, I believe
it was okay game link. Yeah, that's true. We'll
put it in it openly Alright, that's enough. Let's
move on from this game. We've shit on it enough.
So, we're going to start to talk about our next
game, which is going to be Schoon for the NES.
So, let's go ahead and take a look at Schoon
here. The front cover here, it's kind of a odd
color choice for an NES box. It's like a black
and white. And then you got a pink submarine
on here shooting at, looks like an angler fish
and some sharks in the background there. Yeah.
Completely missing. Yeah, that's true. He must
be shooting at something. But it's like, why
does it look like he's in the air though? Because
the sunrise is coming up. Is that just another
angler fish back there? I don't know what that
is. No, it looks like mountains with the sun
coming in. No, it's underwater, bro. Come on.
That's just the old 80s design, bro. That's how
they break it up. Yeah. I like them sharks, though.
Them sharks are looking good. Yeah. They're pretty
cool, yeah. I like the anglerfish. He looks unhappy.
Yeah. He doesn't like pink. Yeah, he's grumpy
for sure. He's like, you just shot those missiles
at my house, bro. Wow. This was supposed to have
gone pretty deep because anglerfish live pretty
deep in ocean waters. That's true. But what the
hell is a schoon anyway? It's the boat. Schoon
squad. What's a schoon? Schoon squad. We can't
talk about schooning. Alright, let's read the
back of this thing. This episode is deteriorating
fast. The back of the box here, we got SOS. The
world is sinking. This is the beginning of Neptunian
invasion of the earth. Humans are becoming food
for the aliens. You must rescue the people and
bring them to safety. Destroy the hot water factories,
which are making, which are melting the ice caps.
Destroy the bio factories, which create the scary
pirami and anchos, et cetera. Pyrami. Pyrami,
anchos, et cetera. Destroy the base where hateful
Neptunians live. You must rescue the Earth. SOS,
SOS, the world is sinking. Neptunian invasion
has begun. So I guess there's aliens from Neptune,
I'm guessing here. I guess so. Maybe they're
controlled by Neptune. Yeah. By the way, I just
want to mention, at the top of the box or on
the back, there's just this... random phg of
the submarine like it looks so awkward yeah this
box is weird bro there's a really weird box they
spelled neptunian two different ways on here
too neptunian invasion and neptunians yeah that's
nice that's like good old 80s quality yeah and
then they spelled it neptunian invasion again
so nice gotta love it Maybe just trans -Lahitian
or something? Yeah, definitely. It was just a
typo. I mean, this sounds pretty cool. Yeah,
it looks interesting. I don't know if Ryan and
Jacob, you know the game, but me and Eric are
huge fans of In the Hunt. Yeah, yeah. I don't
know, I just saw some screenshots of it and it
kind of reminded me of an NES version of that
game. So I was like, alright, this is a good
one on the list. Yeah, definitely. so yeah i
mean it looks pretty cool it just looks like
a you know regular shoot them up got the pictures
in there too looks like it's got mermaids in
it oh yeah oh yeah it's like a siren and then
like an alien or something yeah that's the netpunians
whoa yeah it looks like you got fuel too yeah
and it's it's by irem which uh The Famicom version
of their games had like a little light in the
cartridge whenever you plugged it into the system.
Oh, that's cool. Yeah. The American ones didn't
have that. They were just the regular NES cartridge,
but... Nah, we never got the cool stuff. Nah.
For sure. Yeah, all the IREM games in Japan for
the Famicom had like a light in the cartridge.
Hmm. I'm gonna look that up. That's actually
pretty cool. Yeah, they're pretty cool. They
made In the Hunt. Who, Irem? Yeah. Did they?
Yeah. I thought it was whoever made... They made
Metal Slug, too? So this is a... Oh, yeah. Well,
it was published by Irem, but yeah. It says developers
and publishers. Oh, yeah. Oh, shit. All right.
Fair enough. So I think we're going to like this
game. Yeah, probably. This is a predecessor to
In the Hunt. Yeah, kind of, I guess, yeah. These
guys really like submarine games. That's cool.
I didn't know that. All right, well, cool. I
mean, none of us have any experience with this
game, so we'll all be playing this for the first
time. Yeah, yeah. All right, well, we hope you
guys out there join us, and then we'll see you
for the next episode. So thanks for joining us
this week, and we look forward to playing some
games with you guys again. So see you. See you,
guys. Peace out.