fuck everyone above me. they are just trying to look cool on the internet. they watched the same speed run and marveled the same as you. its just hedonistic hubris filled snobbing.
@@nunyanunya4147 well not really. I played a lot of games of that time and Golden Axe wasn't a stand out game for difficulty. I'm trying to imagine saying "It's just hedonistic hubris filled sobbing." and being a real person... It's proving difficult 🤣
Do you PS4? There's a Sega genesis anthology with both games, plus golden axe 2 and 3 and other titles like streets of rage. (Dont mean to sound like an advertisement)
Those were the first two games I got with the system so I played them over and over and over. Something quietly satisfying in playing something for 12 to 15mins and being done.
Thanks! Timing that down stab is very difficult for me. Unfortunately I missed the timing for the second spin attack afterwards as I intended to hit two enemies but one of them moved down (off screen) out of the way.
I always picked Gillius - his standard attack has longer range, and his [B+C] attack has MUCH longer range, and can even damage things offscreen since that attack isn't blocked by the 'invisible wall' at both ends.
@Supergoon1989 he was the easiest to use but had the weakest magic. Sometimes you could get enemies stuck in an infinit hack loop it you hit the with "just the tip" of the axeI hated how axe battler's shoulder charge didnt hit enemies deep in the corners. Awesome game. The first game I got on my megadrive along with super shinobi and strider.
Having finished this a bajillion times as a kid I was doing a lot of these tricks myself already but seeing it all put together along with the predictive offscreen attacking its pretty incredible.
Golden Axe 1 is the First game I ever beat with one coin at my arcade in the '80s. It started my love affair with one life challenges! I also listen to the soundtrack in my car with subwoofers! Every car ride becomes an Epic adventure!
Fantastic sound design MOTO CBX1000, HAM TAK and WAKA! Let's not forget all the hard work KYONSY KYONSY put into the visuals! I also love IMOCKY and DECKY as a team, epic soundtacks! BROS 400 should direct feature films, I adore his work especially with OPA-OPA at his side....=P
There is a hilarious bug in this game. If you kill Death Bringer with magic while he is already in the air from a hit, the game recalculates his falling axe coordinate based on the height of his fall arc and it ends up looking like it sticks into the ground instead of his body.
Yeah about 20 minutes is what it takes me, though im not abusing the 1-hit kill moves. Also, I noticed that if you dont have a good controller, you cant execute those moves perfectly every time. So hes probably playing on an emulator which makes it way easier.
De niño jugaba ésta maravilla, pero no sabía ni leer... entonces nunca supe el nombre, hasta ahora que lo vuelvo a ver. Es cómo cuando se reúne un hermano con otro, gracias al internet, después de estar años separados ha ha 👌🏻🤘🏻
I actually broke a keyboard playing this. One of the first games I played, so I still remember the enemy placement, the way they couldn't reliably target you if you ram them back and forth all the time, and, of course, the power of the downward thrust. Tried this game a while ago on an emulator - and stopped half way. Not only my reflexes deteriorated in the last 30 years, but the bloody keyboards appear to have really ramped up their prices. Good run, makes it look much easier than it is.
Sad to hear about your keyboard, hope you can get a new one. I am playing on megadrive so I just use the 6 button gamepad. I don't think I could play very well without a good d-pad.
1:46 The perfect planning as already shown earlier by pre-attacking things not even on the screen yet, but this part here is absolutely perfect - for no reason, the player purposefully ignores the magic pots because they know that a strength '4' attack is enough to kill everything on the screen on the last battle of this act. Shows exceptional understanding of the game! :D
...actually, there might be a reason. I think that spell animation has a shorter duration than the max-magic dragon ability, and still kills everything on the screen...player uses the 4 strength spell at 4:20 as well...this must be intentional! wow!
Two things came to mind watching this: First, I never would have realized that there could be this level of technique in this game, and second, it's still good for a laugh that the Golden Axe is green in the Genesis version.
@@strastven5475 All the characters do the same damage, they just have different magic abilities. The down stab attack does significantly more damage than normal attacks but it is hard to land it as enemies will dodge it. A normal attack does 2 damage compared to 16 for the down stab. Enemies on stage 1 have 16-24 health so most of them can be killed with one down stab. Even the giants at the end of stage 1 only have 32 health so two down stabs is enough to kill them. There is a full list of attack damage and enemy health values here hackmd.io/RXGnpTdSQFOtWgHQr9zNmQ?view
Remember as a kid this was the second game i clocked after cool spot. Don't play games anymore but ive only ever clocked 3 games total with the last being medal of honour on the PlayStation 1. Good days those!
Back when I was a kid I Golden Axe, Streets of Rage ETC. Sure they weren't the longest games but it takes time to get good at them, plus you play as other characters and with 2 players so I never really got bored of the games. Especially since they were made so good.
Very very nice job, somehow you guys just keep squeezing the seconds out. I couldn't quite figure out which strategies were new but yeah with some lucky campfires there's even more to look forward to
@@DezorianGuy At a specific range the skeletons will either shoulder barge you are try a down stab. At the end of stage 4 I gamble with a skeleton hoping for a down stab (which paid off this time). The thieves on stage 7 are the biggest rng factor and with a bad pattern can waste a lot of time and kill the run. Fortunately since this run was performed we have discovered the 6-pak genesis cartridge can be used to overcome this (on all stages rng is fixed for the first 30 seconds). There is also some very tight positioning that is effectively rng unless you are a computer. At the start of stage 4 some good luck can get you a triple downstab on the first wave of enemies. At the start of stage 7 both enemies sometimes sprint onstage together and can be downstabbed in one go. Both are extremely rare though.
I love watching these because it makes me realize as a kid I was complete dogshit at this game and sunk crazy quarters and this guy didn’t even get hit lol
This is the mega drive/genesis console port. I lost track of how many tries it took but probably in the thousands. So not really fair to compare to casual attempts in a real arcade, don't put yourself down 🙂
i feel like this game would have been way easier back in the day if i'd realised the enemies were dumb enough to just yeet themselves into oblivion given half a chance
Very impressive. I managed to spam that attack and went through the game on the mega drive without getting hurt but I definitely didn’t do it that fast.
I think it might be harder with two players. You share continues and you can hurt each other. I remember playing with my brother when we were young and we always hit each other in the pit.
@@01garland01 yea it was hard. I remember you never know which enemy to go for it's like we both used to go for the same one and my mates like... No go for the other one. I'd be the one who always used to catch the magic button by mistake haha! I used to do it on Streets of rage too!
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finally, after almost 30 years I can see second half of this game and even final battle 😂
? The game is a doddle. lol
@@stevenlornie1261 innit. This person must have never played Ghouls and Ghosts 🤣
fuck everyone above me. they are just trying to look cool on the internet.
they watched the same speed run and marveled the same as you. its just hedonistic hubris filled snobbing.
fuck the guys above me as well. what was the part you got stuck in @marian20012 ?
@@nunyanunya4147 well not really. I played a lot of games of that time and Golden Axe wasn't a stand out game for difficulty.
I'm trying to imagine saying "It's just hedonistic hubris filled sobbing." and being a real person... It's proving difficult 🤣
The enemy suicides in the dungeon were glorious.
Lol I see that even speed runners still have time to attack the defenseless fleeing villagers.
You mean, the indestructible villagers :)
10:59 - the reason she missed is that those villagers were really short, and not carrying bags over their shoulders to slow them down
Everyone attacks them. Everyone
Classic 😂
this game and Altered Beast were my first Genesis games.... loved them both!
Gouls and ghosts for me!
Haha, yes me too! They were so good, also played Mystic Defender.
Do you PS4? There's a Sega genesis anthology with both games, plus golden axe 2 and 3 and other titles like streets of rage. (Dont mean to sound like an advertisement)
Not gonna lie, i hate altered beast. Love Golden axe though
Those were the first two games I got with the system so I played them over and over and over. Something quietly satisfying in playing something for 12 to 15mins and being done.
4:07 is some seriously skilled play.
Thanks! Timing that down stab is very difficult for me. Unfortunately I missed the timing for the second spin attack afterwards as I intended to hit two enemies but one of them moved down (off screen) out of the way.
I don’t recall this game being so easy
When I was a kid one of my favourite. Very hard for me
You grow older and once difficult games become things you finish while chatting with a good friend.
Exactly, playing with my friends for more or less an hour and really hard to beat this game.
There was no RNG back then, so you could easilly just memorize each step and learn how AI behave (walk themselves to a cliff, for instance).
He just makes it seem easy, try it out and its really hard still
First time I completed Golden Axe was with playing as Tyris Flare. Remember as a kid being absolutely mind blown knowing she could summon a dragon!!
Definitely the best part of the game.
@@siler7 oh yes indeed. Since we got Streets of Rage 4 I keep hoping for another Golden Axe, aahhh if only...
I always picked Gillius - his standard attack has longer range, and his [B+C] attack has MUCH longer range, and can even damage things offscreen since that attack isn't blocked by the 'invisible wall' at both ends.
I was amazed by her thong 😆
@Supergoon1989 he was the easiest to use but had the weakest magic. Sometimes you could get enemies stuck in an infinit hack loop it you hit the with "just the tip" of the axeI hated how axe battler's shoulder charge didnt hit enemies deep in the corners.
Awesome game. The first game I got on my megadrive along with super shinobi and strider.
I like how the final fight actually syncs up with the music.
The ending Is longer than the gameplay itself.
Soundtrack are absolutely amazing ! We don’t réalise how this game was good for his time !
Having finished this a bajillion times as a kid I was doing a lot of these tricks myself already but seeing it all put together along with the predictive offscreen attacking its pretty incredible.
What did I just witness, absolutely amazing.
What did you witness son?
RIGHT E O call 000 please press or say G and you should be able to tell of your witnessings
IKR?! If someone were to show me this live back when I was 8 years old, my head would literally explode!!🤯
TFW you spent years trying to beat this game as a kid and never could then you watch this guy destroy it in seven minutes.
You suck if you couldn't beat this game
2:22 that was so smooth o_o I can't BELEVE the speed I'm seeing here! This is AMAZING!!
Golden Axe 1 is the First game I ever beat with one coin at my arcade in the '80s. It started my love affair with one life challenges! I also listen to the soundtrack in my car with subwoofers! Every car ride becomes an Epic adventure!
I love how the ending makes the life or death struggle seem whimsical.
Skilled! Hats off to you. Those two attacks have the strongest hit
That was insane. I played this for years as a kid and considered myself a total boss for doing it without dying
This was my first time watching a golden axe speed run .. ur super great !!
I just rewatched Conan the Barbarian, and I recognized the bad guy death sound! Turns out they sampled a bunch of things. That's awesome.
This game got an awesome soundtrack…i love the music!
I couldnt stop lauthing at that poor guy 1:16.
Bro fell into the backrooms. 💀
Holy shiiiii.... That was amazing!!
7:23 Oh yeah, time for that awesome music
7:39 God damn it
wow every enemy is choreographed to perfection
That was the most impressive thing ive ever seen. And I watched the moonlanding!
yeah and they are both fake
@@joshuavd5194Nah, just the moon fake.
Well, the jumping downward sword attack was something I learned here!
Once you get into a rhythm with it you rule all. But you effectively are doing a reverse Shoryuken every time you try to pull it off :)
Fantastic sound design MOTO CBX1000, HAM TAK and WAKA! Let's not forget all the hard work KYONSY KYONSY put into the visuals! I also love IMOCKY and DECKY as a team, epic soundtacks! BROS 400 should direct feature films, I adore his work especially with OPA-OPA at his side....=P
There is a hilarious bug in this game. If you kill Death Bringer with magic while he is already in the air from a hit, the game recalculates his falling axe coordinate based on the height of his fall arc and it ends up looking like it sticks into the ground instead of his body.
Your deeds will be known for years. Yes that 10 minute sojourn to the palace and killing the henchmen, didn't even break a sweat.
This game was so hard for me as a kid speed runners are so amazing! Good job!
Wow, awesome game play! I think the last time I beat it, it was well over 20 minutes, so mad props!
Yeah about 20 minutes is what it takes me, though im not abusing the 1-hit kill moves.
Also, I noticed that if you dont have a good controller, you cant execute those moves perfectly every time. So hes probably playing on an emulator which makes it way easier.
I LITERALLY JUST PUT MY HEAD DOWN FOR A MINUTE...
And when I look backup, dudes over halfway through!! NICE!!
👏😯
Thank you for this
It gave me gooseBumps the good old days of pure simple fun .
Watching this i came back when i was a kid amazing run
this was like a flawless guitar solo.
De niño jugaba ésta maravilla, pero no sabía ni leer... entonces nunca supe el nombre, hasta ahora que lo vuelvo a ver.
Es cómo cuando se reúne un hermano con otro, gracias al internet, después de estar años separados ha ha
👌🏻🤘🏻
This brings back SO much memories.
I actually broke a keyboard playing this. One of the first games I played, so I still remember the enemy placement, the way they couldn't reliably target you if you ram them back and forth all the time, and, of course, the power of the downward thrust. Tried this game a while ago on an emulator - and stopped half way. Not only my reflexes deteriorated in the last 30 years, but the bloody keyboards appear to have really ramped up their prices. Good run, makes it look much easier than it is.
Sad to hear about your keyboard, hope you can get a new one. I am playing on megadrive so I just use the 6 button gamepad. I don't think I could play very well without a good d-pad.
Awesome tactic using the pitfalls. Well played, sir!
Omg! I use to play so much to this game arcade but wow this guy is sooo fast and effective! Bravo!
Wow..... appreciate the effort it took to be flawless. Well done
Thanks very much
Awesome speed run. Well done. Thanks for sharing
Seriously, I feel like the crappiest player now 😅
No bro, you are an amazing player. Never forget that ☺️
@@dannyx1791 💕
@@Nolasco. 🤮🤮🤮
that stab from high up is the bomb .... you did it well without a mistake !!!!
You’d have been t h e coolest kid on our block if we saw this. No doubt about it. You’d get the best controller every time, for life.
I'm just getting into Golden axe and find this casually. Simply fantastic
Thanks, hope you enjoy the game
Forgot how awesome the music for this game is.
Wow that blew my mind! I gotta try this. Dust out my Genesis and give it a go. Cool man!
Congratulations man :) Well deserved!
I never finished this game in the arcade. Im glad im seeing this now. Thanks for sharing
Wow, this is so amazing. Nice run, we're proud of you!!!
Absolute insane ability. Congratulations
1:46 The perfect planning as already shown earlier by pre-attacking things not even on the screen yet, but this part here is absolutely perfect - for no reason, the player purposefully ignores the magic pots because they know that a strength '4' attack is enough to kill everything on the screen on the last battle of this act. Shows exceptional understanding of the game! :D
...actually, there might be a reason. I think that spell animation has a shorter duration than the max-magic dragon ability, and still kills everything on the screen...player uses the 4 strength spell at 4:20 as well...this must be intentional! wow!
Two things came to mind watching this: First, I never would have realized that there could be this level of technique in this game, and second, it's still good for a laugh that the Golden Axe is green in the Genesis version.
The music on the mega drive was epic
Not even mounting the dragons after their riders fall?! Thug life dude...
It genuinely pains me not to use the dragons. It used to be in my speed run route but sadly I found a faster route. Stupid me!
@@strastven5475 All the characters do the same damage, they just have different magic abilities. The down stab attack does significantly more damage than normal attacks but it is hard to land it as enemies will dodge it. A normal attack does 2 damage compared to 16 for the down stab. Enemies on stage 1 have 16-24 health so most of them can be killed with one down stab. Even the giants at the end of stage 1 only have 32 health so two down stabs is enough to kill them. There is a full list of attack damage and enemy health values here hackmd.io/RXGnpTdSQFOtWgHQr9zNmQ?view
6:34 - 6:49 so smooth
Remember as a kid this was the second game i clocked after cool spot. Don't play games anymore but ive only ever clocked 3 games total with the last being medal of honour on the PlayStation 1. Good days those!
Like to point out the credits run almost as long as the speedrun
My parents got me the sega and golden axe to keep busy during bad weather imagine me beating the game in just over 7 mins.......parents be like refund
Back when I was a kid I Golden Axe, Streets of Rage ETC. Sure they weren't the longest games but it takes time to get good at them, plus you play as other characters and with 2 players so I never really got bored of the games. Especially since they were made so good.
@@EatMyShortsAU
Salute SOR series.
Sega Mega drive memory.
That was very satisfying to watch! Amazing run!
i love that 3 hit combo to do to the elves, lol.
This isn't how I played this game. :D
Try it and feel like a king.
I LOVE THIS OLD GAME 1,2,3 THIS PERFECT IN ALL
Still one of the best soundtracks ever
the best story and characters
Very very nice job, somehow you guys just keep squeezing the seconds out. I couldn't quite figure out which strategies were new but yeah with some lucky campfires there's even more to look forward to
Camp fires are the only random factor here right?
@@DezorianGuy At a specific range the skeletons will either shoulder barge you are try a down stab. At the end of stage 4 I gamble with a skeleton hoping for a down stab (which paid off this time). The thieves on stage 7 are the biggest rng factor and with a bad pattern can waste a lot of time and kill the run. Fortunately since this run was performed we have discovered the 6-pak genesis cartridge can be used to overcome this (on all stages rng is fixed for the first 30 seconds). There is also some very tight positioning that is effectively rng unless you are a computer. At the start of stage 4 some good luck can get you a triple downstab on the first wave of enemies. At the start of stage 7 both enemies sometimes sprint onstage together and can be downstabbed in one go. Both are extremely rare though.
@@01garland01 my cherished 6-pak has more value!! 😆
I’m watching this because I’m getting the golden axe arcade :)
Its on mobile version
7:38 And award goes to the Skeleton who finaly hits
Amazing player big Record 🇧🇷
How do you only have 21 subscribers? You should be in the millions.
Had to watch this for some beautiful nostalgia
Male enemies: ohhhhhh
Female enemies: ahhhhh
Boss: Uhhhhhhhhh
As InTheMug would say, "Everyone goes in the pit!"
I love watching these because it makes me realize as a kid I was complete dogshit at this game and sunk crazy quarters and this guy didn’t even get hit lol
Yeah, but playing the arcade, probably didn't get to practice it as much as this dude. I remember having only a couple of tries each time, that's it.
This is the mega drive/genesis console port. I lost track of how many tries it took but probably in the thousands. So not really fair to compare to casual attempts in a real arcade, don't put yourself down 🙂
No wonder Wind Waker Link's downstab was so powerful it ended Ganon for good.
Tyris showed him how it's done.
You’re an excellent player!
You sir are the Fahkin master
Woah so crazy awesome 👍👌
GG I was more impressed that you didn't lose any health ahahaha congrats
i feel like this game would have been way easier back in the day if i'd realised the enemies were dumb enough to just yeet themselves into oblivion given half a chance
When you watch your whole childhood fly by in 7 minutes...
When I was a kid I would always die on
To the Palace stage lol
tyris and blaze awakened things in a growing boy
Very impressive. I managed to spam that attack and went through the game on the mega drive without getting hurt but I definitely didn’t do it that fast.
Great playing
Brilliant! I've never finished it even with 2 players.
I think it might be harder with two players. You share continues and you can hurt each other. I remember playing with my brother when we were young and we always hit each other in the pit.
@@01garland01 yea it was hard. I remember you never know which enemy to go for it's like we both used to go for the same one and my mates like... No go for the other one. I'd be the one who always used to catch the magic button by mistake haha! I used to do it on Streets of rage too!
the true meaning of ankle breaking 1:15
I used to have a poster of this in my room as a kid.
07:24 You got the rhythm right old chap.
This is replacing the definition of precision in the dictionary
My brother and I made a point to play this game like pokemon trainers back in the day.
I was utterly shocked when they skipped all the mounts.
4:30 minutes is the world record
What a coincidence, I always choose Tyrus flare. For not only she’s sexy but her magic meter packs a heavy punch.
Very good!!!!
I just did it downstab on the boss After watching you do it an amazingly enough you can kill them with five or six of them
It takes me 7:33 just picking a character.
Superb gameplay
Very precise moves!