Today, we're talking fire -breathing demons,
six crests of unimaginable power, and one of
the most infuriating boss fights ever created,
it's Demon's Crest for SNES. Hello everyone,
welcome to Retro Gaming Beyond Presents Retro
Game Club, the self -proclaimed brothers grim
of video games. We're your hosts Joe, Eric, Ryan,
and Jacob Vanderloski, and today we are talking
Demon's Crest for the Super Nintendo Entertainment
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guys. All right. With that being said, let's
go ahead and move over to our Word of the Nerd
section here. What have you guys been doing this
past few weeks? I started playing the Resident
Evils. I'm playing the remasters right now, but
I beat 2 and 3. So I beat 2 and 3, and I'm on
4 right now. Did they remaster the first one?
Not a modern one. They remastered it, but they
didn't remake it. So 2, 3, and 4 remakes. They're
not really remastered. The first game was remade
for the GameCube, but it still has the fixed
angle stuff. I know what you're saying. They
have one on the PC, but it's not remade. Why
did they always skip the first one? What is up
with that? I don't know. Oh, actually, did you
see that the new Silent Hill is getting remastered?
The first one? Yeah, yeah. Me and Jacob were
just talking about that earlier. That's crazy.
I don't know why they went to the second one
first. I don't understand what the idea behind
all that is, but whatever. Anyway. Yeah, I said
the same thing. I thought it was weird. It's
so weird. Whatever. So you've said you beat the
second and third one, you said? Yeah. I'm on
the fourth one right now. Nice. Third? pretty
good so far but uh dude for whatever reason two
i didn't have this problem with three but two
and four the i don't know what's wrong with it
it's if it's an engine problem or how they're
coded but dude they they crash so much the games
you mean yeah dude so for resident evil 2 i had
to go back to dx11 and it never crashed after
that But for whatever reason, DX12 on these games
is just god -awful. It's weird. So, I don't know.
I had to do it. 3 was the only one I didn't have
a problem with. I think it crashed like once.
And then 4, I rolled that back to DX11 and I'm
still getting crashes, but just not as much.
And I don't know what to do. Everybody's also
a fucking doctor on the internet. But everybody's
like, you got your graphics, your settings are
too high. Like, dude, I have a 16 or an 8 gig
GPU and I'm using like 3 gigs of it on this game.
Yeah, I know. Because the games, now modern games
tell you how much you're using and stuff. Yeah,
yeah. I'm even using half of my GPU and it's
crashing. You can't tell me that I'm using too
much of my GPU. And then half of everybody's
like, yeah, it's just a DirectX. It's all shit.
I don't know. I just have to crawl. through it
and yeah i guess sounds like you've been having
a fun week i don't the crashes i don't care too
much i mean i do i don't care if it does it every
now and again but it's just a fact of this game
it's like you make progress and then i don't
know if i'm just scared that's the problem yeah
like i go make progress and then i do something
hard or i find something hidden or something
and then it crashes and i have to do it all over
again oh yeah bro you preaching the choir playing
these old games here yeah But at least they work.
True. These are brand new video games that don't
work. Yeah, I know. By a AAA studio that they
were running perfectly fine. I'm sure they run
fine on the consoles. I'm sure they run fine.
Yeah, I'm sure they do. Of course, looking it
up online, there's... 20 different problems.
Well, dude, that's just PC gaming in general.
Yeah, I know. I just can't figure it out. Everybody's
telling me to turn off ray tracing, which I did.
It still crashes. It's just such a pain, man.
But once I fixed two, it was perfectly fine.
Two and three were really good. But I'm enjoying
four. That's just the only downside. They run
good. I'm getting 120 frames constantly. They
run... Smooth, but it's just a crashing and I
don't understand you're playing the for remake.
Yeah. Okay. Yep Yeah, I bought that one. I need
to put it Good luck. Yeah, hopefully you don't
have that problem Some people do some people
don't Jacob was saying he had no problem with
two. So okay. I don't I don't know Yeah, I've
I've actually never played a Resident Evil. We
need to I need to fix that. So Yeah, we have
to play some show for sure I got them because
they were on sale because they announced the
ninth one coming out. I was like, oh shit, I
got three and four for like 40 bucks. I was like,
that's good. Because I played five, we played
five a lot, and then I played seven and eight,
which I liked all three of them. And then I played
the first one a long time ago. and then I was
like I had two I bought three years ago and never
beat it because I just I couldn't get into it
so I tried playing it again I was like okay this
is pretty good so I just bought the other two
but they're all pretty good games man they really
are well yeah obviously I mean there's so many
of them people obviously like them so yeah yeah
I've been so excited for four because I know
everybody loves four it's really good so far
but god damn it man why Why can't it just not
crash? It's just something I just don't understand.
It's just how it goes sometimes, man. Yeah, I
don't know. And apparently it's been a problem
for over a year and hasn't been fixed. I don't
know. Thanks, Capcom. Speaking of Capcom, bet
you made this game, but we'll get to that. Anything
else? Anybody else? Just reading my berserks.
Got one more book left. Almost done. Getting
towards the end there. I went through and played
some Streets of Rage 2. I mastered that. Went
back and played some TMNT Shredder's Revenge
for a little bit. Nice. And as you guys know,
I was playing some Need for Speed Hopper 2. There's
new content for the Shredder's Revenge, right?
Yeah, they had like DLC for... Is there like
new story stuff or is it just... They had Mondo
Gecko and who else did they have? I don't remember.
Isn't it Usagi? Usagi Yojimbo? Yeah, Usagi. Is
it just characters though? Is there like new
story or levels or anything? I think there's
like an attack mode or something. Oh, okay. Yeah,
I don't remember. I didn't look into it too much.
I don't have it. We need to play that Power Rangers
one. Yeah, dude, that Power Rangers one. Yeah,
that one looks cool. I want to play that. I heard
that got some mixed reviews. I don't care. Yeah,
I know. As long as it doesn't crash all the time.
Yeah. Yeah, good luck. Yeah, that one does look
cool though. Yeah, that's cool. Modern gaming
is just... Bro, go hook up a Sega CD to a Sega
Genesis and you'll see that it's always been
that way. Yeah, but once the game starts running,
you know it won't crash. I don't know about that.
I have a $2 ,000 computer and I can't run a game.
And then everybody blames you for having either
a shit setup or you want your graphics too high.
Can't be the game's fault. No, it's never the
game's fault. Jacob, what do you got going on?
Getting a little away from video games. What,
bro? Are you crazy? It's worth the nerve. We
can do whatever. Getting a little away from video
games. Last week, I finished up a book series
known as The Books of Elsewhere. There's only
like five books. They're only about, I don't
know, a little less than 200 pages. I really
enjoyed those books. They're like slightly fantasy
books. They have like a little bit of magic and
stuff like that. They're fairly easy to read,
but they were really nice to go through. The
characters were all, I mean, I love the characters
in the books. They were all just so well written
and the plots and the environment. It was all
just really good, I think. I don't know if you
guys have ever heard of it. No. What's like a
quick synopsis of it? um so a family of three
moves into like a really old house and this house
has a lot of uh secrets to it because it was
owned by um someone that can make like magical
paintings you could like go inside the paintings
there's like an entire world in there oh so super
mario 64 yeah exactly but the person that did
that is like um they want the house back but
they're like not completely human they're like
dead but not dead so They want to get the house
back from the family of three, but the daughter
stops that because she really starts to get attached
to the house. All right. Sounds interesting.
It's pretty good. I might have to check those
out. All right, cool. I finished that footfall
book. It was pretty good. The ending kind of
just fell flat, but overall, I enjoyed it. It's
just an invasion of intelligent elephant people
on Earth. It's pretty crazy. yeah that sounds
weird yeah it was different um like i said it
took forever to get started but once it did it
did pretty good and then the ending was kind
of it was mediocre but i enjoyed it it was a
decent book and then uh since eric's been talking
about his mangas i went and bought some of my
own now i got a i got ghost in the shell i've
seen that anime i love the anime so i wanted
to read those they had like the complete edition
on amazon for a pretty good price nice yeah i
have that i have that book i need to read i need
to go through it the ghost in the shell one oh
yeah nice okay yeah and then i bought trigun
too which i've watched that anime and i like
that too so walmart had that like a nice hardcover
book of that one too so yeah those are cool i've
seen those yeah it's a nice like red like it
looks like a velvet red cover it's pretty cool
but yeah so i need to i need to read them i haven't
actually read them yet but oh and then i bought
one called the walking cat It's about zombie
apocalypse from like the eyes of a cat or something.
I don't know. That sounds awesome. Yeah, it was
cheap and it looked pretty good. That is pretty
cool. Yeah, I was like, all right, I'll buy that.
It looks cool. You haven't read that one yet?
No, I haven't read any of them yet because I
was finishing the footfall book, but I'll probably
start sometime this week or something. Yeah,
let me know because I might check that one out
because it sounds cool. Yeah, that one sounded
cool. I actually also started Dr. Zhivago. I
don't know how to pronounce that, but I just
started that book. It's interesting. I think
it's about like the Russian Revolution. Like
the early, I think 1900s, I think it is. Okay.
So I've heard of it. I don't think I heard of
that one. Yeah, it's like, it's not like a super
classic, but it's a well -known book, you know.
There's like movies and stuff based off of it.
Okay. Yeah, that's books. I've been doing books.
And then I've actually been like listening to
other podcasts just since now that we're doing
it. I just kind of see what else is going on
out there. I didn't really listen to a lot of
podcasts before, but I've been trying to. just
delving into them more recently. And I actually
found one called The History of the English Language.
It is so fascinating, dude. He just goes over
how our English started and the languages before
that that became our English. And it's just pretty
crazy how long words have been around and that
we still use words and stuff and just where they
came from. I don't know. I find that shit fascinating.
And how the evolution of people and the communities
helped shape all that stuff. I don't know. It's
just a really cool, interesting podcast. I like
it a lot. Yeah, that sounds pretty dope. Yeah,
but let's do it at work. It helps work go by
faster. For sure. Yeah. But yeah, if you're into
any of that history or English stuff or anything,
it's really cool. Check it out. And then me and
my friends started watching a show called Warrior.
It's pretty good. I don't know if you guys ever
heard of that show or not. No, I don't think
so. It's pretty good. I don't know if anybody
knows Kung Fu. It's kind of like a Kung Fu. type
of show but this uh guy comes over to I think
it's like San Diego or something from Chicago
um China and he's just it's just about him like
he gets caught up in gangsters and he's just
trying to make his way over here so it's pretty
good it's pretty interesting I like it gotcha
yeah that's pretty much all I got I haven't played
too many other games I don't think just still
playing shadows finishing that game up I was
like I can finish that up soon no no that game's
so much shit in that game jesus christ video
games have gotten too big yeah that game is rather
large and i don't even think it's the other two
before it i think were even bigger so they actually
they actually toned this one down and it's still
this one yeah but i could never play that game
you might have to bro in 20 years no be on the
podcast i mean i need like a year to record yeah
you need a year to play it not to record You'll
be retired at that point. You'll have plenty
of time. So yeah, that's just what I've been
doing. I don't know. Anybody else got anything
else? Nope. Nope. Alright. Working around stupid
cars. Yeah. Yeah. Still? What do you want, dude?
What do you want from me? I told you, it's not
easy. Yeah, I know. Alright. Okay, let's jump
over to our game. All right, so we're playing
Demon's Crest for the Super Nintendo Entertainment
System. It was developed and published by Capcom
in 1994. It's kind of a, I don't know, spiritual
successor. There's two games before this called
Gargoyle's Quest 1 and 2, which were on the Game
Boy, and then the second one was on the NES and
the Game Boy. I don't think they're directly
related. I think it's just the same character.
I don't think there's any story or anything related
to the two, or between the three. So were you
guys able to complete this game? Yes. Did everybody
beat the secret ending, the secret boss? I did.
What's the secret boss? The dark demon. Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I did too. I think we all did it. Jacob,
you did do it? You said you beat the dark demon?
No, I just got the, I guess the bad ending. Oh,
you just got the bad ending? You didn't fight
phalanx or anything? Yeah, I fought him. Oh.
Just the once. You didn't do his second form
or third form or anything? Mm -mm. Oh, okay.
All right. You only played like half the game,
bro. Yeah, I know. You can do that in like 10
minutes. Yeah. All right. Well, that's fine.
Yeah, so the idea... So I guess we'll go over
quick. The Demon's Crest, there's two worlds.
There's the humans and the demons. And then one
day there's this crest, these crest of... power
just fall from the sky i don't really say where
they come from and firebrand uh goes through
and defeats everyone uh and then gets all of
them and then when he gets the final one his
i guess that battle made him weak and phalanx
comes by and attacks him and then takes them
all from him and you have to start over again
to get them all which this is so weird to me
why did they write it that way why did you get
them all lose them and then i had to go back
and get them all why didn't you just start with
you getting them all Right? Yeah. What was the
point of that? That's so weird to me. Yeah, I
didn't follow that too well. It's just weird.
Why didn't they just start with, hey, these crests
fall down, go and gather them. But you already
gathered them, lost them, and now you're going
back to get them again? Okay, I don't know. Yeah,
you're just doing the same thing. Just a convoluted
story for no reason to me. I don't know. I wonder
if there's some translation stuff there. Who
knows back then in these days. But anyway, which
is pretty cool, actually, because it has this
cutscene. of that kind of showing that real quickly
and then it goes straight into the gameplay which
i thought was pretty cool for an older game like
this it kind of just throws you right in the
action when the solemn solemn mule solemn something
like that that big dragon guy comes out of the
coliseum and starts attacking you which dude
what an opening for a game that was so cool yeah
that was that was awesome yeah such an awesome
opening yeah And then even like the title screen
before it too, man, the animation in that title
screen was sick with the way the fire showed
up and the parchment. Like, oh man, I wonder
how long it took them to make that intro because
it was so awesome. Yeah. I sat there and I was
like, whoa. Yeah, dude. I was like, this game
is going to be sick. Yeah. Oh yeah. I can't wait
to play this. Yeah. So yeah. So then you, uh,
you, you fight Solomon, whatever his name is.
I keep, I forgot how he said his name, but you
fight him. And then, um, you're basically into
the game after that and it's it's an action platformer
uh it's got some i guess some rpg elements to
it um you play as firebrand which i like i like
the movement in this game because you can uh
you can jump but then you can also fly around
which is pretty cool i mean you can only fly
like to the left and the right but i thought
that was pretty cool there's not a lot of games
that i can think of where you actually uh can
just fly around like that it's pretty cool you
also have an attack you have a fire shot which
can get upgraded later on and then you can like
attack statues and stuff in the background and
stuff too so and then so later on in the game
you get like uh power -ups you can like upgrade
your shot you can uh even get like a when you
get the crests the power crests they give you
like a new form which i thought it was pretty
cool that every form every form wasn't just like
a palette swap it was actually like a whole new
uh sprite which i thought was pretty cool this
game kind of reminds me of like megaman It had
like Mega Man vibes to me because you get like
upgrades and stuff and then you can like switch
between them. I don't know if you guys felt that
at all. And certain ones do a little bit more
damage than other. Yeah, you had to use like
certain ones and certain bosses and stuff. Yeah.
I don't know why because I think Mega Man X had
come out at this point and had this. Why was
there no way to change those forms with the L
and R buttons? They're not used at all in this
game. Why did they not map that to those to those
buttons? Yeah, I'm not sure that they had no
purpose. Yeah, it wasn't used for anything. They
could have just made it to where you could change
your power with those buttons. Like I said, I'm
pretty sure Mega Man X did that. So, I don't
know. That was a weird choice, I thought. Maybe
they just didn't have the coding or knowledge
or physical capability. Who knows? I'm sure there's
a reason. It's just a weird choice. This is Capcom,
though, so they should know. Yeah, it's the same
company. That's what I'm saying, yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, I don't know. Maybe they didn't want to,
like, make animations or something to change
from form to form. I don't know. Just swap the
sprite out. That's all you gotta do. Yeah. Maybe
because it was a different sprite and not just
a palette swap. Maybe that's why. I don't know.
Maybe. I don't know. I guess, too, because some
of the forms have different powers, I guess,
because, like, the one couldn't fly. So maybe
that was one of the reasons why, too, but...
Yeah. Who knows? I mean, it was an incredibly...
No, it's just... Like a pain to change. Yeah,
it's just one of those old school things that's
just kind of annoying that we don't really have
to deal with anymore. That's nice. Yeah. Because
anytime you want to change a form or upgrade
your power or whatever, you have to pause the
game and select it and then unpause the game,
which, like I said, it's not a big deal, but
it can kind of interrupt the flow of the gameplay
a little bit. Yeah. I mean, you don't really
do it too often anyway, so... No, and that's
one of the things is, like... You don't really,
there's no really reason to use a bunch of the
power -ups. Like, you use them one time to get
through the section, and then you're just kind
of back to the strongest shot that you have,
you know. That's how I played a lot of the game
anyway. One thing that I really like, though,
is when you're, like, changing in between forms,
it keeps you, like, where you were. Like, if
you're flying, you stay flying. Oh, yeah, yeah,
you don't, like, yeah, fall or whatever. Yeah,
that was pretty cool. Yeah, I thought that was
pretty nice. Yeah, and then there was some collectibles
you had to find, too. There was Valums that you
could put spells on, and then the bottles you
could put potions in and stuff, which I don't
think I even used a spell once in this game.
Yeah, I don't even know what they do, honestly.
Yeah. I didn't even look at them. And then I
didn't use the potions at all until the final,
that Dark Demon boss. That's the only time I
used potions. Yep. Yeah. Which is probably why
I thought this game was so hard, but... Honestly,
this game really isn't that difficult. No, it's
not too bad. It kind of reminds me of the Castlevania
we played where going through the game is not
hard. It's just figuring out the stupid bosses.
The boss fights are tough. Dude, these bosses
are like some of the most random generated bosses.
Bullshit, yeah, for sure. It reminds me again
where in Castlevania I said that... It feels
like some of these bosses, you're just trying
to do more damage to them faster than they are
to you. There's no, like, strategy. You just
hit them as fast as possible. Well, most games
you can, like, cheese bosses, but they were pretty
difficult to do in this game. Yeah. Well, and
then a lot of things, too. A lot of bosses sometimes...
Yeah. Well, they'll have, like, tells, you know?
Like, they'll do something right before they're
about to do their giant attack or something,
you know? There wasn't a lot of that in this
game. No. So you would just randomly be getting
hits by crapping. You're like, dude, God damn
it. And then they just get more and more tough
because that frigging lava boss. Dude. Oh my
God, bro. That is one of the hardest bosses that
I've had to fight in a long time. Yeah. Yeah,
for sure. Definitely one of the hardest on the
SNES. Probably one of the hardest of all time.
It's infuriating. So obviously there's going
to be some spoilers when we talk about these
games, but the final boss, Phalanx, if you find
all of the pieces, actually, So this kind of
annoyed me a little bit. You have to find all
the pieces. There's five potion things. There's
five spell things. And then there's five talismans,
which the talismans give you like a quick upgrade.
Like they make you take less damage. They make
your weapon do more damage, which I didn't realize
at first that those are not passive. I thought
you just got them. You actually have to turn
them on. Yeah, you gotta select them. I didn't
realize that until I was almost done with the
game. Again, same freaking thing that happened
in Castlevania. So annoying. And you can only
have one on at a time, which is kind of annoying,
too. Yeah. Well, you beat so OP with all of them
on. It's true, I guess. So, you have to get all
the talismans, the potions, and the spells to
get the good ending. But Retro Achievement doesn't
give you the good ending unless you get all of
the health upgrades, too, which is not required
for the good ending. I'm not really sure why
they did that. That was weird. I guess it's just
for the password thing. I don't know. Oh, you
can get the good ending without the health upgrade?
Yeah, that's why I couldn't figure out what the
fuck I was doing wrong, because I was getting
the good ending. Oh, okay. But I didn't have
all the health upgrades, so it doesn't give you
the password. Yeah. So I guess they have it hooked
up to the password, I guess? Yeah, it's probably
password. Dude, that was annoying the shit out
of me. Because that achievement doesn't pop up
until pretty late. Well, I think they should
fix that. I think it should be when you... get
the good ending, not when you get the password.
I didn't know you could get the good ending without
getting everything. Well, I had everything except
my health upgrades. It's the only thing I didn't
have. Yeah. I still had all the other stuff,
the potions and all that stuff. Which ones were...
Were you just missing one or a couple? I think
I was missing like four of them. Oh, okay. So...
Yeah, it was just... I couldn't figure out what
I was doing wrong. That was annoying the shit
out of me. Yeah, so that's another thing, too.
There's three different endings in this game,
which, Jacob, you only got the bad ending. Technically,
four. I guess so. A secret ending, I guess, yeah.
What happened, Jacob? You just didn't want to
look for stuff, or you couldn't figure it out,
or what? Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I don't
dislike this game. It just wasn't really my cup
of tea. That's it. I just kind of got done with
it, and I was like, okay. You just didn't feel
the drive to continue on? Yeah, that's about
it. Yeah, it's kind of... because i did the same
thing too well not that but i i went to the phalanx
boss kind of early i didn't realize you know
that i wasn't supposed to fight him yet and i
beat the game and i was like what what happened
there i already beat this but then you gotta
go the first time i got the bad ending yeah i
didn't even realize what i did i tried going
i thought i was going into that town level but
i actually i guess i went to the boss level so
i was like oh he shows up here oh and that you
thought it was the town yeah Yeah, and I beat
him. I'm like, oh, I didn't even know that was
the end of the game. Yeah, that was a funny little
thing. I'm not sure why they did it that way.
I wonder how many people bought this game back
in the day for whatever it was, 80 bucks, and
then beat it like that, and they're like, okay.
That was fun. I mean, you can literally do that
in like 10 minutes. Yeah, I know. Unless you
go back and start looking at everything again,
which... Yeah. It has a little bit of a Metroidvania
stuff to it, too, because there are parts of
the maps that you have to go back to after you
get upgrades, and then you can continue to new
areas. There was a couple spots where I was like,
where am I supposed to go? Yeah, that happened
a few times, too. Especially that water level.
That took me a minute to figure out. Yeah, that
one's a pain in the butt. This game's not too
bad, though, because you just need to go back
and just kind of go over the level real quick.
There's nothing that's super hidden or anything
in this game. No, you just gotta kind of pay
attention. A couple of the potion things or the
spell things are a little bit hidden, but I wouldn't
say anything too crazy in this game. No, not
tremendously crazy. But yeah, like I said, I
think most of the difficulty comes from the boss
fights in this game. Honestly, they're not too
bad. Once you start getting into the achievements
and the no hits. Yeah, that's different. The
no hits are tough on this one. Yeah, I bet. Some
of those I had to go through, like, I don't know.
40 or 50 freaking tries. Yeah, I know. Because
again, these bosses just, like you said, they
have no tell. I don't know how many times I died.
It's just so random. I don't know how many times
I died in that lava boss. Dude. It took me a
couple hours the first time just to beat him.
Yeah, I was trying to do that achievement where
you don't use the potions and I gave up. Yeah,
yeah. He was tough. Yeah. He was tough. I was
getting so mad. Yeah, me too, bro. I almost broke
my controller for sure. It was a pain in the
ass. Yeah. Well, the game doesn't help either.
The freaking slowdown. Yeah, there's a lot of
slowdown. It's terrible. Yeah, this game lags
a lot. Yeah. So the game's lagging and you're
trying to put input, but it doesn't work. Yeah,
there's definitely a couple of times I got dropped
inputs for sure. The controls just fall apart
on that last part. For a boss, it's already annoying.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Dude, there was times where
I couldn't even move. Yeah, dude. Annoying. One
wrong button placement or just one wrong lag
and you get misplaced so bad. Yeah, and then
that whole fight's over, yeah. One of the things,
though, that does make this game much, much easier
is that you can just continue on the screen.
There's no life, so to speak. So if you die,
you can just start over on that same screen that
you were on. If it wasn't for that, I don't know
that I would have beat this game, honestly. No.
If I had to go through the freaking level like
Crusader or Sancti. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. There's
no way I probably would have done this. Yeah.
Yeah. But since you start right before the boss,
it's pretty easy to restart. It's not even a
difficulty thing either. It's just a time thing.
The levels really aren't that hard. They're actually
pretty easy. Yeah, you can fly through them pretty
easily. Yeah, the bosses are what makes this
game hard. Really, nothing else does. The levels
are just so easy. It's true, yeah. But the boss
spikes, dude, it's a night and day difference.
Yeah, they were pain in the ass. A couple of
them were really tough. Yeah, I feel like there's
not getting good at some of them. Like I said,
some of them are luck -based, it seems like.
Yeah, absolutely. dude gray one oh my god the
first time i fought him yeah oh that dude was
tough he's still tough uh you can choose him
pretty easy now i figured that one out but yeah
he's still tough yeah and then let's see what
else uh so this game has um it's like i said
it's pretty tough but you can also you know you
have the continues in the staging and then you
can also use it it has a password system as well
so anytime you get collect something or beat
something you can uh Put in the password. The
password's not too bad for this game. Some of
those old games with their passwords are a pain
in the butt, dude. This one's actually pretty
straightforward and pretty easy. The only thing
that sucks about that is that if you want to
get the password, you have to die and end the
game. Yeah, you have to end the game. Yeah, that
part's annoying. You can't just get it and then
go back to playing. You have to end the game,
write it down, and then restart the game. Luckily,
when you restart it right away, it keeps that
password in there, so you don't have to enter
it every time. Yeah, the password is in there.
So technically you just have to go through the
level again. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's not too
bad. No, it's not the worst. It's definitely
not the worst. But it does suck when you try
to take a picture of it and the picture's all
blurry. I don't know what you did with that.
That's modern problems. You didn't have that
problem back then. Don't you look at your pictures
before you... Dude, I was on the last boss. It
was like 2 o 'clock in the morning. I was so
frustrated. Bro, you should have seen the picture
he sent me. I couldn't even see. Oh, I've seen
it. I couldn't even see the letters. He showed
it to me. Yeah. I've seen it. Dude, I was so...
And that, of course, that's the good ending when
I had to collect everything. Yeah. And I couldn't
continue off from there. Oh, I was so mad. When
I went to go back and look at it, my heart sank.
Yeah, I bet. I bet. Well, my phone... Yeah, whatever.
I don't want to get into it. Yeah. Yeah. Because
that's another 15 minute rant right there. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. We only have one rant per episode.
Yeah. Yeah. Ryan already took that one. Yeah.
He already took it right off the bat there. I
had to. The sprite work in this game is awesome,
dude. The sprites look good. The enemies are
cool. The backgrounds were freaking awesome,
bro. Some of those backgrounds. Yeah, they were
awesome. The images back there were so cool.
Super vibrant, super colorful. Yeah, just cool
imagery. Everything looked awesome. The first
level has that giant demon statue in the background.
That was so cool. There's the dragon thing in
the underwater one. Wasn't there a dragon statue
or something under there? That was cool. Yeah,
yeah. Which I hate that level. Yeah, but I think
that's part of why there's so much slowdown.
There's just so much stuff on the screen. The
game's having a bit of trouble keeping up. Yeah.
Everything's like... nice too i think that's
the problem yeah it's kind of a give and take
in those old games graphically like this game
is so so good looking yeah it looks great yeah
it also uses the mode 7 which is cool for the
map when you're like flying around so there's
also stages um you pick a stage and then you
know uh the the map that you go to when you pick
a stage is uh It's similar to, like, Final Fantasy.
It's just a world map, and then you can fly around
it, and then you can, like, dive down onto levels
and stuff and everything. But it uses, like,
a mode 7, which is pretty cool. You just fly
over. Which is a pain in the ass sometimes, because,
like, you have to, like, fly down into it, but
you, like, go at, like, a diagonal. Yeah, sometimes
you miss. Yeah, so you have to be, like, behind
it because you go forward and down. Yeah, it's
weird. I kept not going into it. It's so weird.
And then you're, like, spinning it around and,
like, trying to line it up. It takes a second
to get used to, yeah. It kind of reminds me of,
like, the Act Racer when you, like, go into the
level, like, spins and... Yeah, that's Mode 7
too, yeah. Yeah. That one gets you dizzy, bro,
if you stare at that too much. Yeah. Yeah, and
then there's a couple little minigames on there
too to find as well. So they had the levels and
then they had the minigame, which, man, that
thing was a pain in the ass. Yeah. We have to
crack skulls. So there's a mini game where you
have to, there's these skulls that pop out of
the wall and you do this attack up against them.
Um, but you have to jump and attack and there's
like this, such this weird delay on the way he
jumps and then attacks that it gets, it's really
challenging. It's really annoying. It's like
whack -a -mole, but kind of, but like up against
the wall. Yeah. But it's just the way that, cause
there's, You jump and then do the attack, but
sometimes depending on how high you jump is how
quick he does. It's just weird. Yeah. It takes
some getting used to. And that last one is tough.
It's tough. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It is hard. It
took me a couple of tries to get that one. I've
learned that the second row from the bottom was
the hardest one for me. So I just tried to avoid
those ones as much as possible. Yeah. Yeah. There
was. There was someone that I just didn't even
try. Yeah, like the first row and the top row
were easy, and then the third row was not too
bad, but that second row, dude, Jesus. I got
lucky on the one that I got. It's just RNG, but
there was like 10 that just showed up on the
bottom row. Yeah, that's definitely part of it.
Did you do any of those, Jacob? Did you play
that minigame at all? No. I didn't want to spend
money. Bro, you didn't even play this game at
all. Yeah, I know. You played like five minutes
of this game. You were too busy reading your
lost away books or whatever they were. Books
of elsewhere. Yeah. Yeah, you were elsewhere.
Yeah. We said there were different endings. So
the first ending, you don't really find anything.
You just kind of go straight to, you can kind
of just go straight to the boss and then you
fight him. And then he just, what? I don't remember
what happens. He just kind of. You just kind
of leave, right? Doesn't he just kind of disappear
and you just leave? After the first boss? Yeah,
on the bad ending. Oh, on the bad ending? Yeah.
I think he just accepts defeat and you just win.
I think that's really it. But you don't get any
of his crest or anything, right? I think he just
kind of... I think he said something about he
didn't have enough power to use the crest. Oh,
something like that. Like, he wasn't worthy of
using it? Oh, something like that, that's right.
And then you could just kind of fly away. So
I think it, like, flew away? Yeah. Because I
think it flew away from you, so you couldn't
even get it. Yeah, okay. Oh, okay, yeah. Yeah,
because you have to have all of them to get that
last one. Yeah, so you can go back and find all
of the crests. So if you find all the crests
without finding all the other collectibles, you
get the normal ending, which you defeat Phalanx,
but this time he disappears into another dimension
or something. He kind of protects himself. So
you don't actually defeat him, but then you just
kind of, again, just kind of fly off. And then
on the good ending, that's after you find everything,
not all the health power -ups, which we have
learned. You can get the good ending, which you
defeat him. He turns into his annoying final
boss form, and you defeat that. And then that's
when you're like... These crests are too powerful
and you just kind of throw them back in the ground.
Yeah, they fall from the sky. Yeah, exactly.
What a crazy game, bro. The story is just so
stupid. They fall from the sky, you get them.
Yeah, it's just like the circular thing. That's
true. He just throws them back down so now there's
probably some human that found them. yeah it
just doesn't make any sense and then yeah and
then he's like he flies away but then so if you
do have all the health upgrades you get the password
and you get a new you get the time uh crest that
phalanx had that you can use now which basically
just gives you all the powers in one which is
pretty cool you can fly swim uh and then uh slide
yeah slide as well which yeah which is a combination
of all the other crests at the same time And
then you also get to go and fight the secret
boss, which is the dark demon. And he is a pain
in the ass as well. Yeah, he's tough. Yeah. I
don't know. Eric, you said, well, there's an
achievement to beat him without using any potions
or any ginseng potions, which gives you full
health. I wonder if you could even beat him without
the potions. Somebody has. I'm sure somebody
has, yeah. But not me. Yeah, dude. I could not
beat that boss without the ginsengs. That was
so tough. I tried so hard. Yeah, dude. That was
crazy. That boss fight's tough. But then I watched,
somebody posted a video on that achievement.
Yeah. And I was watching it, and he started using
a potion. I'm like, what? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So
I went back and I read the thing, and I'm like,
oh. Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. Okay. So it
makes it a little bit easier. It's still a tough
achievement. It is, yeah. Because this boss has
two modes. He has a flying around mode. Where
he's just throwing sickles at you and that annoying,
stupid thing that follows you around. The other
boss had that too, the Phalanx third form. He
had those stupid things. If it wasn't for those
things, I don't think those bosses would be that
bad. No, those things are such a pain in the
ass. Stupid orbs follow you around all over the
screen and they're annoying to kill and they're
so fast and they make the bosses so hard. If
it wasn't for those things, those bosses would
be nowhere near as bad. Luckily, they only do
like... Yeah, they don't do much damage, but
they mess your flow up, so you can't friggin'
attack anything. That's the annoying part. You
gotta kind of, like, use them to your advantage.
Yeah. Like, if you're about to get hit by him,
try to get hit by that thing so you don't take
as much damage. Yeah, I guess so, yeah. So...
But... Because you have, like, a little window
where you don't take any damage. And then he
has a second form where, um... He just kind of
throws sickles all over the place. And it's so
hard to get away from him. And then he's slowly
turning the floor into spikes. So if you take
too long in the boss fight, then you won't even
be able to touch anything. It's so annoying.
It's tough, dude. That was a tough battle. But
eventually, if you beat him, you get another
ending where... I don't even remember what happens.
You do basically the same exact thing. You throw
the crest away. And then you're like, I'm going
to go find other demons to fight or something.
I can't remember. Yeah. You're going to like
find somebody worthy of your power or something
without the power. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know.
Weird endings. Weird endings in this game. The
good ending and like the secret ending are pretty
much the same thing. Yeah. They're pretty much
the same thing. I think it's just a secret one.
You just become fucking arrogant. Yeah. That's
it. You just want to fight somebody stronger
and now you have an inflated ego. I mean, he's
a demon, so it makes sense. Yeah, that's true.
But yeah, that was. That was pretty cool, though,
that they added an extra boss fight in there
at the end. They kind of like, oh, you beat the
game? Well, here's an extra mode. Here's a new
power -up, and then here's a new boss for you
to fight, which I thought was pretty cool. And
then I read that there's a boss rush mode or
something for one of the passwords. I didn't
try it, so I don't know how that worked at all.
Yeah, I didn't look into the passwords too much
for this one, because I think there's a couple
cheats and stuff. Yeah, yep. but there's like
a bosh rush as well i wonder if that gives you
anything probably not but just the satisfaction
of being good at this game yeah all right so
we've tucked on we touched on graphics a little
bit uh it's it looks pretty good this game look
pretty dope true yeah the sprite works pretty
cool i like the enemies some cool enemies in
here like i said i like how each each uh crest
you get like a new it's not just a color swap
it's a whole new uh sprite for the for the character
which is pretty cool which they were all pretty
sick looking too Yeah, they were dope looking.
Yeah. And they corresponded pretty good with
what power they gave you. Yeah, true. Like the
flying one, you get those big wings. Yeah, you
look like a bird. Yeah. Big bird. With the swimming
one, you look like the monster from the Black
Lagoon. Yeah. The swamp monster. The swamp monster.
He in the swamp now. 350. That's a Loch Ness
monster. Yeah, that's a Loch Ness. About 350.
The swamp monster just want onions. What does
he want with those? Isn't that what Shrek wants?
Oh. Anyway. So yeah, pretty good looking game.
I think we talked about that enough. So let's
talk about the sound. The soundtrack was pretty
good. I mean, it's just kind of like an orchestral,
moody soundtrack. Nothing really stuck out to
me too much. I don't know if you guys heard anything.
yeah i didn't pay much attention to it honestly
yeah really this this soundtrack is more of a
like i mean that's what it is but it sounds like
background music to me yeah it's definitely just
more background music doesn't really add much
to the game yeah i mean it's good it fits with
it it's moody you know it's got that yeah exactly
yeah it fits the vibe for the for the game definitely
yeah it didn't really stick out but i mean it
did its job so yeah yeah but you weren't gonna
be like jamming out to this stuff. Yeah, I don't
know if this one's going to be added to my playlist
or not. Yeah. Yeah, and then sound effects were
pretty good. Everything sounded pretty cool.
This ain't no Mega Man 2. No, it's not. It's
not. Dude, there's very few games that are Mega
Man 2. Yeah. There's very few games that are
Mega Man 2. Mega Man 6. Yeah, those are the two
good ones. All right. Yeah. Not much. Not much
to really say about the sound. No, it's good.
Nothing crazy, but it's good. It fits. I will
say, dude, I don't know what it is, but that
Capcom jingle at the beginning of the game, bro,
that does something to me. I don't know what
it is. That's like the PS1 boot up for me. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. Which is funny because I didn't really
play that many Capcom games when I was younger,
but I don't know, man. It's just such a... I
think it's because it's just such a Super Nintendo
sound. It's just such a representation of that
system's sound chip. It just, I don't know, gives
me feels, bro. Understandable. Alright, that's
pretty much Demon's Crest there, so let's go
ahead and jump over to the achievements, because
we like talking about the achievements here,
which we've done a little bit of. Have you guys
mastered this game yet? Nah. Nope. Yeah, I haven't
either. uh eric you're pretty close right i only
got three left they're just like extremely time
consuming yeah yeah and well for me to fucking
play video games uninterrupted for 10 minutes
is difficult so for me to do that what two hours
yeah well that's what you have your pocket for
right put it to sleep or whatever yeah i I don't
trust the achievements to stay connected, dude.
I get so worried. I guess so. You got to keep
that momentum, too. Yeah, true that. These achievements
gave me Castlevania vibes, although not as ridiculous
as those ones. No, not really. Some of them are
kind of crazy. Yeah, they're similar. Don't get
hit. Not way out there, though. No, not as bad
as Castlevania. Plus, this game is way, way,
way shorter, so it's much more doable. Yeah,
just a lot more straightforward, too. I just...
I don't know if anybody else thinks the same
way, but I hate achievements that did no hit
for bosses. I hate when they do that when it's
mostly RNG -based. I think that's just a stupid...
concept for an achievement because that's not
really being skillful you know yeah because you
can get really lucky on a boss fight and get
an achievement for not getting hit but then you
can get really unlucky and work your ass off
and still get that same achievement so yeah yeah
but the good gamer can deal with that bro yeah
that's the thing like i I don't have a problem
with no hits. It just takes time. You have to
learn. I don't either. For bosses like this game,
though, where everything is always different
and it's just RNG bullshit, I don't think that's
a test of skill. I think that's just you either
getting lucky or, on the other hand, it could
be you're really good at this game and you just
can take whatever's thrown at you. It's one hand
or the other. Yeah, I mean, it's just a little
bit of both. How well can you handle the RNG,
and do you get good RNG? That's what it is. There's
only two bosses that I really had problems with.
Yeah, those last two. Flamelord is a pain in
the ass. Yeah. I hate when he shoots the little
fireballs down. When he shoots the fireballs
down, dude, I could not avoid that. Yeah. Yeah,
he was a pain. But every other attack was just
a joke. Yeah, yeah, I'm just saying. That's the
thing, though. I know we talked a little bit
about it earlier, but that's why they call it
mastering the game, though. You know what I mean?
Yeah, true. They're not just going to give these
away. Yeah, no, and I completely understand that.
I'm not looking for just free achievements or
free points or something, but I don't know. No,
he was complaining about the ridiculousness of
this game, which I get. I thought you already
had a rant earlier. Yeah, no, that wasn't a rant.
That was just a complaint. It's an unpopular
opinion. Yeah, yeah. But I don't know. If boss
fights just have just a little too much RNG,
I don't think that's mastering it, in my opinion.
I mean, you have to be good at this game to get
to no hits, for sure. Yeah. I don't know. That's
where this game's difficulty comes from, is the
no hits. Yeah. Yeah. Because you can run through
these bosses no problem and get hit, but man.
Especially if you have the potions and stuff,
too. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Which you can't use magic.
No, I'm just saying if you're not worried about
the achievements, that makes the game even easier.
Oh, yeah. Like I said, I don't think this game's
actually... I don't think this game's really
that difficult. No, it's not. It's not that bad.
Like you said, you just have to put some time
into it, really, and then this game becomes pretty
easy. Yeah. The only really big spike is the
bosses. That's it. Yeah. The level is so easy.
Your first playthrough of this game, you're going
to struggle for sure. It's funny because I think
the two strongest people in this game, besides
the last form of Phalanx, they are a joke. Arma
and Phalanx's first form are... Oh, yeah. They
are the easiest people in this game. Yeah, once
you learn that pattern, yeah, and it's a pretty
easy pattern. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I'm saying.
They have a pattern, and you can cheese them
pretty easily. Yeah, see, that's what Ryan and
I were talking about, or kind of talking about,
yeah. Yeah. I don't know. It's just funny because
they're supposed to be like the strong ones in
that game. But they have tells, and so it's not
all RNG, so their stuff's not too bad. Yeah.
That's what we're getting at. But yeah. Yep.
But yeah, I don't think this one's... Huh? Yeah.
I don't think this one's too bad. I mean... Anything
after Castlevania, I'm going to say, isn't too
bad. Dude, those are some of the worst achievements
I've seen in my life. I'm sorry. Those were terrible.
That list is just work. It's not even fun. That's
just work. Yeah, this one's got some challenge.
It's definitely hard. It's definitely going to
make you put some work and time into it, but
I don't think this one's infuriating for the
most part. We haven't done the no -hit bosses
yet. I've done a few of them. Yeah. Did you do
Grey one? No, I haven't done him yet, no. He's
tough. I'm sure part of it is infuriating. I'm
saying the overall list of looking at it is not
going to infuriate you. I know we keep shitting
on it, but just looking at that list makes me
mad. I know, it's tough. There's also 70 -something
achievements of all that crap. This one only
has 40. Yeah, and there's 70 achievements in
the Castlevania just for bosses. That's what
I'm saying, I know, yeah. It's too much, man.
It's crazy. Way too much. This is more along
the lines of what it should be, I think. Yeah.
It shouldn't be an achievement to not get hit
by the boss and then use a specific weapon or
whatever set to fight the boss without getting
hit. It's too much. It is, I agree. So this one's
more, I think... I mean, there is one achievement
to beat the whole game without dying, so... That
one's going to be a pain in the butt. You can
just use Jinxing, bro. This game's not super
long. Thank God for the fast forward button.
I agree 100%. If it wasn't for that and no continues,
I probably wouldn't have beat this game. I would
have gave up like Jacob did. Way too much time.
Way too much time. I would have gave up like
Jacob did. I wouldn't have gotten 999 gold. Yeah,
I wouldn't have done that either. Which, I gotta
say, it's weird. You lose all your money when
you quit the game. Yeah, that's annoying. That's
annoying that they don't save that. I guess there
was no way for them to do that. I don't see why.
Again, same with potions, elixirs, all that stuff.
If you have that stuff, it's gone. Oh, you lose
that too? I didn't know that. Yeah, I guess there
was no way for them to put that in the password,
I guess. Yeah, I don't know. I don't understand
how that stuff works. You figured they could
change a character or something. I don't know.
My guess is that the password length, as long
as it is now, can only save what they save. And
if they wanted to add more to it, they'd have
to make it even longer. Yeah. But then it gets
to the point of those passwords are too complicated.
I'm sure it was a balancing game that they had
to figure out. Yeah, probably. Yeah, I mean,
it's not a big deal. I mean, you don't really
use money that much anyway, just to buy potions
and stuff. So it's not a huge deal. Yeah. Alright,
you guys gonna master this game? Are you going
to try and master this game? I'm trying. I'm
on the fence about it. We'll see. I'm gonna try.
Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I liked it, but I
just don't feel like doing the bosses. Yeah,
I'll probably, I want to, so I'm gonna probably
go back and try, and then I'll probably hit some
point and just be like, alright, I'm done. you
can do it that's understandable bro i know you
can do it yeah i i think this one you're an achievement
hunter so yeah and like i said i've been really
focused on shadows lately so once i get that
done i'll probably circle back and i'll probably
go back and uh finish some of this stuff but
i always try to do no hit bosses on my first
run yeah that way when i go back and do some
of these other achievements and just makes everything
so much easier yeah for sure yeah I don't know.
I go the other way. I don't worry about the achievements
too much the first time. I just want to play
the game and get through the game. Yeah, I understand
that. But I don't want to play the game more
than I have to. Yeah. Well, that's the thing.
I always try and see if there's any missable
ones. I always check that first and keep an eye
out for those. Otherwise, I don't care. I just
play through the game. Yeah. Well, that's if
the set. labels them as missable well that's
part of it too but but so like i said this game's
no more rants no more rants yeah yeah yeah it's
just like bro we could rant about anything it
doesn't matter it's just a little bit yeah i
mean yeah what was i gonna say i don't remember
oh yeah that's even if you miss stuff in this
one it's not too bad because this game is pretty
short it's not that long and once you like find
all the talismans and stuff like it's They're
not really hidden. You can find them pretty easily,
remember where they are. Yeah, if you do just
a little sleuthing, they're not too hard to find.
No. It's not really anything hidden in this game.
Yeah, I think I used the guide one time to find
one of the potion things, I think, because it's
behind the skull mounds or whatever. I didn't
know you could break those. Yeah. I didn't know
you could headbutt for the first 10 minutes of
the game. Bro, it shows you that you can do that.
Dude, I don't know. As soon as you beat the dragon,
he goes and headbutts a statue trying to show
you that. Which I thought was weird. I don't
know why he did that. It's teaching you that
you can do that. I guess. You're a goober, dude.
I don't know. You can pause on the overworld.
I had no idea which level was what. As soon as
I beat the dragon and got out of the first world,
I was in the third one. So, I had no idea what
I was doing at first. Which, I mean, you can
play this game in any order. Yeah, it's not a
huge deal. Yeah, you can. It tells you in the
manual all this stuff. Yeah. Yeah, we don't read.
It's got pictures in there, though. I ain't gonna
read to play a video game, bro. It's got pictures,
like comic books. You gotta go in there blind.
You gotta figure it out. Alright, so that's the
achievements. It seems like we like them. don't
hate them too much it's not the worst we've seen
they're tough but they're doable right yeah just
like this game that's the that's the yeah all
right so let's get to the reviews Okay, so just
a quick explanation. We're not doing numbers
or all that stuff. It's just a quick, did you
like this game and would you recommend this game?
So I'll hand it over to you guys. Who wants to
go first? 10 out of 10. Yeah. Really? No, I'm
just saying. Yeah, no, I thought it was pretty
good. I definitely enjoyed this game. I had a
lot of fun with it. I've been wanting to play
this game for a long time. I don't know, the
vibe's cool. Like, I like that, like, hell. demon
you know all that kind of stuff is is pretty
cool so the bosses were dope looking the artwork
was cool and the the gameplay is fun so and i
definitely enjoyed it so would you recommend
it yeah i would it's uh it's pretty easy to pick
up and kind of run through so i think anybody
can pretty much pick this up and play it All
right. Except for one of us. Yeah. Yeah, apparently.
Yeah. I mean, he did play it. He just didn't
finish it. Yeah, that's true. He should beat
one ending. Yeah. Ryan, what do you think? Yeah,
I enjoyed this game. The artwork in this game
is what I like the best. It's just so good, man.
For a SNES game, it looks so goddamn good. Just
the colors. There's a lot of games that look
good on the SNES, but this is definitely one
of the better ones for sure. Yeah, this is up
there for sure. All the bosses are just so badass
looking. You're playing as a demon that can shift
into air and water. There's just so much variety
to the enemies too. Capcom was on the top of
their game at this point, and they were masters
of the SNES, man. They were good. Yeah, the artwork
and everything in this game is so good to me.
The gameplay to me was, I would say, a little
above average. I didn't think it blew my mind
or anything, but it wasn't horrible either. It
just wasn't crazy to me. I thought it was just
average at best. But, I mean, this game is pretty
dope, though. just the shit you do and what you
fight and everything it's was pretty cool and
just the beginning of this game was so awesome
that's one of like the best intros to the game
i've ever seen oh it's so good yeah agreed it's
it stands up with like new stuff today with all
their fancy fmvs and shit for sure absolutely
dude because i thought it was just gonna be a
cut scene it throws you into it like oh what
the hell yeah that was sick so Right after that
cool intro screen, too. Yeah. I was like, hell
yeah, dude. This game's going to be awesome.
Cool. Would you recommend it? Yeah. I think this
is a really good SNES game. I would say, like
I said, I don't think gameplay is anything crazy.
I mean, it's decent, but just for the artwork,
man. Just to experience all the art. The demons
and ghosts and bosses that you fight, yeah. That's
such a cool sight, man. Cool. I agree with that.
Jacob, what do you got? You know, I actually
did enjoy this game. Like, going through the
levels and beating the bosses and, you know,
getting new upgrades and everything, that was
pretty cool. And as you guys keep mentioning,
the visuals were awesome, too. I just, I don't
know. I don't know why. I just didn't really
want to progress that much. I just don't think
I was really jiving with, like, how things unfolded.
I think, like, my number one thing about it is,
like, in my opinion, it just gives you too much
freedom. And, like, I don't know. I just, I wish
there was, like, maybe, like, even the smallest
of pointers. And maybe there was, and I just
didn't pick it up, but I don't know. Yeah, I
mean, that's what I said about the Castlevania
games. There was no direction. Right. I don't
know. I get that. too much you know just too
much things all at once you know it feels a little
more linear i think i would have been like really
really wanted to get into it but i mean i did
enjoy it it's just i didn't really want to finish
it though that's it right i mean that's fine
didn't enjoy it enough yeah i guess you could
say that hey that's gonna happen you can't like
every freaking thing we're gonna play so true
I mean, you go from left to right. I don't know
how much linear you can get. That's not what
I meant. For the progression. Yeah. So would
you recommend it, Jacob? What level you have
played? Honestly, yeah. I just think it's me.
Again, the gameplay is fun. And the game does
look great. I just wasn't really a fan of the
progression and how it goes. And it's just that
I wasn't really driving with. And I was just
like, well, I don't really want to beat it. But
I think a lot of other gamers are going to pick
this up. I think they would like get over that
and they would really enjoy it. So I actually
would recommend this game. Cool. Yeah. Maybe
someday you'll come back to it and play it again.
Who knows? True that, fam. Yeah. Yeah. We the
fam. All right. Yeah. I mean, I agree. I enjoy
this game. Like you said, the game is difficult,
but it's not it's not. I mean, the boss fights
can be, but it's not annoying. If you keep playing
it, you'll get through them. It's not to the
point where you want to freaking break your controller.
Eventually, you'll be like, all right, I got
through this. I got this. It's visually stunning.
It's such a good -looking game. The music sets
the mood. It's crazy to see that Capcom was able
to take a side character from another. popular
game and make him make a pretty good game for
him but like I said this is just Capcom at their
best man they they were they were at the top
of their game at this time and they they knew
how to work that SNES man they were they were
good at it uh so yeah I enjoyed this game and
I would I would recommend it too I think anybody
who likes old SNES games or or just old action
platformers or anything like that check this
game out because I think you'll like it It's
got some depth to it, but it's not overcomplicated.
It's pretty simple once you get into it. Alright,
so the next game we're going to be playing is
Rule of Rose for the PS2. Do you guys know anything
about this game? Nope. Never heard of it. Really?
You've never heard of it? Jacob, you know anything
about it? I've heard of it before. The only other
thing I know about it is that it has an ultra
-wide patch for PCSX2, which is the PS2 emulator
for anybody that doesn't know. Okay, fair enough.
Ultra -wide. Yeah, I don't know anything about
the game itself. I also collect, I collect games,
and I know that this one is super expensive.
It's a pretty rare one. Pretty much any of these
PS2 horror games are expensive. That's about
all I know. I know it's like a horror game. I
think it's got like a Resident Evil kind of style
and stuff to it. But that's about all I know.
Fitting. Yeah, right. As long as it's not made
by Capcom. Yeah. Well, no, this one's not. This
is actually imported. I don't think they developed
it, but it's Atlas again, which they did the
Crusader of Centi game, Eric. So hopefully. Oh,
no. Yeah. But they only they just do publishing.
They're not developers. So the developer is completely
different, I think. You might be good. Yeah,
you might be good. These are the same guys that
made Chulip. Oh, really? Chuplip? Chuplip. I
think it's Chuplip. Chuplip? Something like that.
I don't know. The developers? The developers
did? Yeah. Okay. Punchline? Yeah. Yeah. Alright,
so this is the front of the box. It's just, it
looks like a piece of parchment paper with like
a, I mean, it looks like a, like a tramp stamp
to me. Yeah, kind of. Right? Does it look like
a tramp stamp? Yeah, it does. It's got like tattoo
vines with a bunch of feminine animal portraits
on you. Hanging dog by vines. What's going on
with that dog? Yeah, I don't know. He's just
chilling, I guess. And a butterfly, which is
a classic. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Tramp
stamp, bro. Then you got the rose. The rose.
Then I'm assuming Rose is a person and this is
the game's her rules or something. I don't know.
Couldn't tell you. No idea. I'm not getting much
from the front here. Yeah. I think this game...
Take a look at the back, yeah. Yeah. Alright,
so... A story too cruel, too beautiful, to go
untold. Set in 1930s England, the game follows
the terrifying tale of a young girl, Jennifer,
who wanders unknowingly into a bizarre world
not governed by rational adults, but by misguided
children. innocence can give rise to absurd rules
and cruel behaviors as poor jennifer soon discovers
the children's desire to preserve their secret
society quickly leads them down the path to the
unthinkable how did jennifer end up in this surreal
world will the nightmare ever end the unimaginable
truth gradually comes to light as forgotten memories
are violently awakened assume the role of jennifer
and with the help of her loyal dog brown escape
the clutches of the aristocrats of the red crayon
This game, packed with shocking mysteries waiting
to be unraveled, will challenge your nerves and
wits like never before. I like that. Aristocrats
of the Red Crayon. What happened to the Green
Crayon? They got eaten. Yeah, they kept it red.
What's up with the hand -drawn stray dog there?
And then it looks like an actual picture of...
What's going on with that? This back cover is
very weird. What's with the upside down mouth
on the bottom half of this part? What is that
about? Why is someone sucking on a finger on
the top? This game is getting crazy. Very odd
back cover. Is she carrying a cross? Is that
what she's carrying? It's a revolver it looks
like. It looks like a gun. I don't know. I'm
meaning this picture on the right here. The bottom.
Right. Oh, they look like hedge trimmers. Yeah.
The other one looks like he's carrying a cross
like a sickly child with a cross or something.
Yeah. And the one in the middle looks like a
disfigured like monkey. Yeah. What the hell is
going on here? What is this game? It's giving
off like Silent Hill vibes, dude. Yeah. The Silent
Hill 3 is weird. I don't know if you know what
the ending of Silent Hill 3 is like, but. No.
Does it got dogs and ants? Dude. In Ladybug?
You don't even know. Yeah, no spoilers, no spoilers.
Why is there ants on the back? I don't know.
I'm curious to see what the dog mechanic is,
though. That sounds cool. Yeah, I want to play
as that dog. Yeah, brown, big brown. I wonder
if Jennifer has a tramp stamp. She might. Maybe
that's the twist of this game. That's the twist.
That's the rule. Everyone has to have a tramp
stamp. That's the rule. She has a magical tram
stamp that transported her to the world. Just
like Tattoo Man from DC. Anything else anybody
wants to say about this? I think we're all getting
loopy from lack of sleep. Probably. One player
memory card for PS2. It's got digital analog.
Nice. And vibrational function. Hopefully it's
not tank controls. Blood. Intensive violence
and suggestive themes. This game looks very fucking
weird. It does. So you guys excited to play this
game? Yeah. I've been trained. Yeah. It's been
on my list. I want to play as that dog. Yeah.
Yeah, I'm excited. That's kind of what I'm curious
about is that dog mechanics, see what that's
like. Yeah. But, yeah. I want to see some crayons.
Yeah, I want to see some crayons. The finger
sucking mechanics. Yeah. Whatever the hell that
is. Suck on the crayons. Didn't you eat enough
in the Air Force? No, that's a marine thing.
Yeah, same thing. Close enough. Debatable. Debatable.
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