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Rocky Rodent (SNES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
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- Опубликовано: 28 дек 2017
- A playthrough of Irem's 1993 action platforming game for the Super Nintendo, Rocky Rodent.
Rocky Rodent is a product of Irem's legendary in-house development team (best known for R-Type, and responsible for other classics such as Kung Fu, Kickle Cubicle, and the Hammerin' Harry series), many of whom would later go on to form Nazca (Neo Turf Masters, Metal Slug) and to work on Shenmue for the Sega Dreamcast.
Irem's SNES record was a bit hit-and-miss, though. R-Type III, Ganbare Daiku no Gensan, Irem Skins Game, Dino City, and Undercover Cops were all fantastic games, while others like GunForce and Street Combat were both complete garbage. So where does Rocky Rodent stand in the line-up?
Well, contrary to what this oddball platformer's poor North American sales might imply, Rocky Rodent (or Nitropunks Might Heads, if you prefer the Japanese title) is a thoroughly excellent platformer that sits comfortably in the upper-tier of SNES hop-and-bop action titles.
You play as the titular Rocky, an endlessly hungry creature that resembles a cross between a dog and Taz, trying to save a local restaurant owner's daughter after being promised a free all-you-can-eat meal. In order to do this, Rocky can don four different hairstyles that all give him different abilities. The hairspray gives him a pink spiky punk do that allows him to stab enemies and hang from ceilings; an electric razor gives him a purple mohawk that can be thrown like a boomerang or used like a trampoline; a 50s hair dryer gives him a big curly mop that can be used like a spring to jump on; and a sunflower will draw a butterfly to Rocky, providing him a green (?) Pollyanna braid that can whip enemies and be used to swing from hooks. There's no denying there is a lot of creativity at work here, no matter how dumb it might sound.
The graphics are quite impressively detailed and carry a good number of tell-tale signs of Irem's arcade work - the scrolling city backgrounds in particular look great, as does that highway chase set piece with the sun setting in the background. The music is also a high point, with some exceedingly catchy tunes, and for fans of Super R-Type's soundtrack, those orchestra hit samples make a return here with some unexpectedly cool results.
For as good as the presentation is, though, the real star is the gameplay. It's quite difficult, as you'd expect from Irem, but the whole thing is extremely smooth and controls well. The hair abilities add a lot to the typical platformer style and often give you multiple ways to get through each stage. For me, though, the real success in this game is the level design - there are few 2D platformers that I have played that have had layouts that were this well put together. There are several paths through each stage, but unlike most games with such large and open stages, there isn't ever one direct path to the end - you can take whichever path you want, and you won't find yourself running into dead-ends that require five minutes of backtracking to get back from. There's no mindlessly running around getting lost. Every path naturally and organically leads to the end, one way or another, and it's hard to overstate the impact this has one the game play. I really dislike many of the less linear platformers because of this issue, and there are few that I've ever played that handled it as elegantly and as effectively as Rocky Rodent. When you add this to the sense of speed the game carries, you could rightfully draw quite a few parallels between it and the Sonic games. If only all 16-bit games had this attention and care lavished upon their designs!
Rocky Rodent is truly one of those "hidden gem" type games that few seem to know about, and even fewer seem to like. Is it the odd main character? The difficulty level? I really don't know how it goes so underappreciated, but I will say that it's among my favorite platformers of its generation.
Even if the Japanese name is about the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
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I knew this game wasn't just a fever dream of childhood memories.
I felt the same way... I Just seen this game once in my life!! (well, twice, now)
I have this same epiphany every 4 years at least
I thought I remembered ghost piano level from somewhere.
I cane here to say this.. you stole my words almost exactly
Me too, I remember playing this like 20 years ago without knowing if it was real
Me, my mom and my grandma always played this when I was little. I remember my grandma would secretly let me stay up late to watch her play past my bed time. My mom was the one to finally beat it and my grandma was so mad. I miss those days. RIP grandma
I remember watching my Father playing this Game when I was 3-4 Years old 2004-2005.. the only ones in my family would play this game was mostly me.. looking back is Nostalgic.. I remember the good Old Days.. even in Kindergarten that Life was my Youth.
awesome, I never beat the game and now my super nintendo was stolen in my parents house
@@TimVanNieuwenhuyse I only made it far as the Third Level lol.
yes I might got to the fourth , but not further, good times @@jimothycurrie.5285
i used to rent this game from Pegasus Video in Brooklyn as kid all the time. I love this game to this day and eventually bought the copy i used to rent when the store closed down. So many weekend memories.
I also rented this game in my childhood, but from Jet Video here in Brazi! !
The name Rocky Rodent is virtually unknown to the overall gaming public, but this classic Irem platformer might just be one of the best "hidden gems" on the SNES.
Irem sure as hell made some pretty fine games.
I knew you were going to play this lol. Great playthrough as always.
You missed a lot of stuff I saw. Wasn't this supposed to be a walkthrough and not a speedrun? Because I hate speedruns.
It's a shame that more people are playing and bothering with the Bubsy SNES games as opposed to games like Rocky Rodent. I think the animal mascot platformer trope gets a little too much flak when considering that.
+NegaLimbo Neither, I was merely playing through it at my own pace. To show everything would've been super overkill - the levels werent designed to have one linear path through, like a lot of old Sonic games' levels were like.
Wow, this is pure nostalgia. I loved this game. Incredibly hard when I was a kid. Wish I could play this again.
same but i the end this game one time
Emulator + ROM
@@DeadHandXI tried and It crash all the time, im just too stpid to patch a game
@@AADPI'll teach you how to patch
I have had a vague memory of playing this as a kid and spent the last few years trying to remember the name of it my search is over and not even going to lie just the start up of the game in this video was enough to bring a tear to my eye. one of the best SNES games to ever come out.
9:30
I finally found it! The woman in the shower is the most vivid memory I have from playing this game in my childhood. I didn't even know what this game was called or if it was a false memory entirely.
PirateFunk oh yessss mmmm loves that part lol
Exactly !!!! changed my life!
Funny thing is once you leave the room, a midget guy encloses the door.
Lol dude WTF.
same lol
Same here.
I like how bad the ending was lmao
Don Garcia is like "welp you're a smart one, Rocky. I gotta go now, hope to see you again "
So that's the ending, I never could beat this as a kid..
me too 😅
No wonder. Awful game.
Good enough graphics (though not my preferred style) and pretty good music, but that gameplay is utterly horrible, just no fun.
Been playing it on a super retrocade with save states as well. Took over three months to complete. Must have been near to impossible on an original SNES with that awful dog bone controller back in the day.
MAN!!!! I was looking for this game for so many years! I played it a lot when I was a kid back in the 90's but forgot how it was called and I could never find it back again.
same !!!! I only remember the freeway level lmao game had me going crazy thank the sun I found it. xD
I have this game lmao
SAME! And yeah the only way I could find it was searching for "Snes platformer car chase" and the highway level came up. Never could beat this as a kid but it was a lot of fun.
My childhood renting this nonstop
I completely forgot about this game until I saw a snippet of it in a different video, immediately dropped what I was doing to rediscover this game. Honestly still has such a fun concept with the hair
That soundtrack for the highway courses always was my favorite part! And the noise for that blue hair spray sounded awesome too! I know it sounds crazy, but it does sound epic!
YES
I beat this game over and over as a kid during a 2 week rental... Looking back, I don't see how?!
I have been trying to find this game for more than 20 years and no matter how much I tried to remember it, I never did it and today 03-05-20 and thanks to your videos I did it.
I think you are the only one who has uploaded a summary of this game congratulations
Same. Well done sir. My brain can finally relax.
I couldn't get past the apartment level as a kid. I remember it being like a maze.
The stage music is seared into my mind, as I had to listen to it for tens of hours trying to beat that stupid stage.
The second half of this game is seriously hard. The first couple levels trick you into thinking it might be bland but it requires very serious platforming skills by the construction level. Agreed that it's a top quality platformer which still to this day doesn't get quite enough love.
But i love this game and i love Rocky rodent😊😊😊
Why isn't his character more famous? I would've expected sequels, reboots, TV shows, movies and more...this is iconic creativity!
Because he couldn't run fast enough to keep up the other Nintendo Stars
@@garbowler5202 😂😂😂😂😂
I don't know why but I really loved this game as a young teen.
look, I'm a teenager too and I play this game
Rocky Rodent is a game I probably would have played back in the day if I had a Super NES at the time it was released and if I heard great things about it. I think it's an interesting change that the anthropomorphic animal character you play as is actually an antihero in this game (since he's saving the damsel in distress for free food instead of out of the kindness of his heart nor out of love or revenge, although he does become thoughtful towards the damsel, Melody, in the ending). Honestly, I can picture RR being a non-Disney-animated film for kids at the time more than I can a video game, but as a video game, it looks and feels pretty good as a platforming, action/adventure game, with some elements I'm not going to get into withstanding. Great playthrough, and keep up the good work!
Very innovative......the hairstyles used as power powerups and to solve much needed puzzles.......impressive.
Ahh nostalgia. I could never beat this game when I was a child due to the limited lives. Only got as far as the final boss
crimson2knight “Only......”
there is a cheat code for infinite lives
Look at that!
It's a dog? It's a cat?!!
NO!
It's Rocky Rodent!
I love this game x33
Irem's mascot character is here!
15:42
Oh god, his eyeballs...they're ... floating..uhhhhh
Jajaja....that's true...
That's kinda terrifying
oh well it's a cartoon what do you want to do with it
ah yes.. the good old Days I remember watching my Father when I was just 3-4 Years old and Started Playing the Game the only ones in my Family would play this game would be me 2002-2005.
It was my first SNES game. Great memories. 👏🏽😁
I still find it hilarious that the armadillo enemies resemble Aero the Acro-Bat a bit.
especially the bat boss😂😂😂
I remember this game. A friend of mine had it and trade it temporary for one of mine. It was SO difficult for me and you could die so easily; I never made it through the end; the design of some characters creeped me out (like the ones that hold the door shut in the apartments building). And it was a game that FORCED you to speedrun if you wanted a "Dynamite" message at the end of each level. So frustrating xD . You moved quite well all over the game, congrats. The ending was so... err... well...
Fabrizio Vaccaro Mutze I thought I was the only one utterly creeped out by some of the character designs! As a child, it was disturbing.... like the guys who hold the doors are unusually sinister in appearance, as well as the human drivers on the highway, and those odd jogging “things”.
This has got to be on the top 10 of the hardest games on the SNES. I can make it up to the sewers pretty reliably and with minor troubles, make it to the clock tower. But that final boss...still haven't mastered that.
bubsy in second place of the most difficult games and you know it because the second! because the first one is BATTLETOADS!!!
I found the game that scared me as a kid...
Now looking at it as a adult I am really stumped on why I was scared of it...
Got the Japanese version of this one finally in the collection, Dino City must be the next SNES Irem game I get.
I love this game but I feel like no one I know ever played it growing up lol
Oh, my god I remember Rocky Rodent! I loved this game! What a wacky character and concept. Although it was executed pretty cleverly, from what I recall, the hairstyles had different abilities, he can throw his mohawk like a boomerang or have it stick to walls so he can bounce off it and he has a ponytail that can grapple and whatnot. Fun stuff. I remember the gargoyle guy being a pretty hard boss, though. Also, arbitrary shower scene in the apartment level as you can see at 9:31 What's not to love?! :P
It's okay you can touch me there da ze Haha the shower was one of my favorite parts! So random!
I remember playing this game as akid
I used to play this when I was younger
Awesome!
Thank you for sharing, sir!
Ah I remember loving this game as a kid, made it as far as the second bat boss who always destroyed me, very fun game
I watched this whole video to see where I failed. 2nd bat boss too!
it looked like aero the acrobat when you make radioactive liquids
Unos de los mejores juegos de mi infancia, cuanta nostalgia me encanta la canción de fondo de la Torre del reloj 🎸🎶🎵
Wow, I remember playing this game for the first time, and I was hooked ever since. Hopefully they bring it the switch system a remaster or something, this is a classic!! Thank you so much for sharing you don't know how long it took me to find the name of the this title
Irem is no longer around, so not sure who owns this IP these days to ever remaster it.
@@Bloodreign1but if I could design games I would make a remake for irem's justice!
Loved this game. Looking at it today it's like Super Mario and Sonic combined
This game was so weird when I was 7
I thought this game was a weird fever dream...
I remember playing this as a kid. Only beat it once though.
Okay it wasn't just me...the second level was extremely long and almost felt like it would never end
4:10 I didn't notice the sun moving down. Greatest background detail ever.
9:31 Lolwhat? 15:48 Rocky is not ashamed to put a girly hairstyle.
16:21 Sound like the plot for Taz Mania
The Clock Tower music sounds the Chill Out music remake by GZ Storm
1:02:41 Aaw! Rocky is wholesome!
This game is made in Japan?!
Beautiful gameplay beautiful game so nostalgic ❤❤❤
Wow! Awesome Job. I would never knew there so much to this game. Thank you for posting this
I have been trying to think of the name of this game for 20 years lol. I knew it involved a hair whip and maybe called rockos.
Thank god that mental strain is gone.
I would be VERY interested to know if Irem hired a special guest artist for the character designs of this game. It's like Ratfink crossed with Looney Tunes. I like how weird this is, including the fact that Rocky's eyes appear to float when he's walking on slopes (?!).
I finished this game when I was 10 years old. It was very hard. I played it a few times and I didn't finish it, but eventually I finished it too. proud gamer here! i'm 28 now :)
I have a theory, I think the inspiration behind Metal Slug's civilian cars were actually from Rocky Rodent.
Some of the people who worked on this game worked on Metal Slug.
@@NintendoCompleteI noticed the cars on Metal Slug 2's/X 5th mission were 1950s/early 1960s inspired. I also have a hobby, carspotting, and browsing on internet about those cars.
Este fue mi primer juego de Super Nintendo que tuve.🥹
Holy shit this unlocked memories I didn’t think I had
- Nintendo: We got Sonic at home
- Sonic at home:
Rocky Rodent, the Weaponized Dine-And-Dasher of Manhattan.
Rocky Rodent 4 president.
Y. A. R. A. B. A.
This was my holy secret for beat this game.
This was my very first SNES game, back in 1993-1994
Me dói o coração tantas noites perdidas para zerar esse jogo o cara vai e zera em uma hora
I remember this game. Got as far as the Chili Factory. I’ll always remember when you had to face Garcia in that microbus and I always thought of Back To The Future because of the Libyans.
MrJohnnyOTGS Lmao a bomb casing full of pinball machine parts
Indeed. They are *real* killers.
Funny how the glitch that makes him invisible never got fixed
Amazing game. Wonder why Nintendo has discontinued it
So if you don't have the bird at the end, what happens?
The first time I played it was when I was 8 years old with a friend who did not speak and did not listen, we lived in Mexico, but when he moved from town I would never know him or the game or his name again.
I could NEVER make it past the apartment level part 1😭
9:33 Oops😳
...and that's the character design they went with, huh?
At least it's unique
@@lbowler63the funniest thing about rocky's design is that on the cover he had brown fur with yellow eye backgrounds and no black eyebrows and with shorts whereas in the match he had no shorts and with yellow eye backgrounds and no shorts and with big black eyebrows ( a bit like crash and taz)eh nothing, like this😂😂😂😂
Typical Game that deversed more recongnition in its Time.
Its Rare to find?
Oswald Epic Loquendero It's not too difficult to get. I don't think there's much demand for it.
Probably because it was one of a zillion mascot platformers of the era.
It was going up in value for a short time, but it seems like that bubble popped, and it can be had for under $20 again. Might need to make my move on this and Dino City, also from Irem for the SNES, by the holidays.
@@NintendoComplete Recently got hit with "What games as a kid set me on the path of becoming a lifelong gamer?" ponderings. This was definitely one I was a big fan of, despite never being able to beat it ^_^
I was so happy to find a complete with no commentary video! Watching this, & some of the other games from the 80's and 90's is giving me such great nostalgic vibes I'm going to look into seeing if this game can be found somewhere to import into a mame cabinet a friend built! Would love to not only replay this as an adult but be able to introduce others to this!
Thanks again for posting this! d-^_^z
This game was actually hard to me when I had my super Nintendo back in the day. Looks like this player just breezed through it. I honestly don't remember finishing this though. I do remember leaving it for a much harder game Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure and even harder Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Irem games were known to be pretty tough, not everything they released mind you was hard, but games like this, X-Multiply (their easiest shmup), Image Fight, and the R-Type games tended to heavily test a player's skills, whether reflex, or memorization.
Then Irem had stuff like Ninja Spirit, which took a lot of balls to finish. loads of practice needed to finish it. Kung Fu Master, while easy on the NES, were pretty tough in the arcade version.
My childhood i end this game iwas 9 or 10 years old and im proud gamer
What? I know this game by the name Nitro Punks.
according to the japanese versions credits IREM, and Famicom Magazine held a contest to name the game.
This underrated crazy critter needs to be on SMASH. theres a Smash Bros. for switch in the works so lets all hope he makes it to Smash. his hair powers and spray paints as one of his attacks would fit perfect.
are there any save slots on this game
This game just popped into my mind wtf, used to play a lot with a friend 27 years ago
Unlike other irem platformer on snes dino city, rocky rodent much harder. Not only because there one hit you dead system, but also because even in japanese version only 4 continues. In dino city japanese version, continues infinity.
Well how the fuck was I supposed to figure this out when I was 5 damn! Cool playthrough though
It's so odd to see R-Type's IREM making a game in the Tiny Toons / Sonic direction!
They both use the same instruments, too
Man i had the Nintendo videogame and I could play everything so well...From street fighter, mega man, donkey kong to Super Mario. But damn this game was so hard I never ended it. I m kinda glad that in the comments many people couldn' t end it as well lol so the game was hard and not me that sucked
Rocky could had been a human, just like all the other people...
I ways relished this game as being caled Rocky Road, like the ice cream
Muito bom! Parabéns pelo video.
I loved this game when I was a kid, played it a lot but never finished! I'm glad that I saw the game. Also, the plot and dialogues are very sissy, but that doesn't mind when you are a small kid playing video games, right? ;D
Music is popping
You play very well!
Ty!
NICE GAMEPLAY
I guess people didn't really care because maybe they saw the gameplay and went 'Oh this is just another Sonic wannabe. Pass.'
@Condor Q-G-MacKie Not when there are, like, a million games on the SNES that fit that description. Things can get old fast.
nunca me lo pude acabar
No te preocupes amigo, siento que puedes terminarlo, vuelve a intentarlo, vuelve a intentarlo y vuelve a intentarlo hasta que aprendas a jugarlo mejor👍👍👍
Fun game
I swore this had the song thunderstruck by A/C D/C but then again, I was starting to think this game was never real and was all in my imagination.
so this garcia final boss not even fight with rocky , he just let go the girl
well if rocky rodent had had a sequel to his game as he surely fought it, poor rocky made me so sorry when I saw the ending of the game and that ending was definitely meant to make a reference to the sequel they had to createz R.I.P. rocky rodent😔😔😔😭😭😭
うわ〜🤣懐かしいw
小学生の時にやったなぁ〜
I was prob like 6 when I rented this game at blockbuster.
why isn't this game on nintendo switch online? and why isn't bubsy and aero the acrobat? these are the games we wanna see on nintendo switch online
I loved Bubsy and Aero on SNES and Genesis and too this game, I also wonder why I'm not on that console, same thing for the other video game mascots of the 90s
@@user-wj8sl5ue1z you have great taste in video games my friend. yes, maybe we need to message these
hints more often in the official nintendo online channels, as stated before games like rocky rodent are forgotten gems , nintendo online on switch has gotten a lot better but with those titles, aero the acrobat 1&2 , bubsy , rocky rodent , cool spot and perhaps pink panther goes to Hollywood, and ren and stimpy veediots
This game actually looks kind of beautiful and fun. I always assumed it was just another dumb shovelware game. It’s too bad the main character is indescribably awful and ugly.
I never came past 54 minutes. Terribly hard when I was young
I use to have this game. I beat it and lost it. I lent it to my sis boyfriend and he never gave it back. Dont blame him he gave me a ton of his own snes games including zombies ate my neighbors.
Better than sonic
Yep!
I FOUND IT
The second level is really creepy...
i have this game 2 love the graphics and the hair powers...
Too bad, There was no original Game Boy version, Beam Software can't ported the original Game Boy