"Only WHO can prevent forest fires?" "You have selected 'you', referring to me, that is incorrect, the correct answer is YOU!" sorry, Simpsons reference, couldn't help myself.
46:10 Funfact about Jorg: He's actually a real person and also lend the voice for the character! He was a journalist for a Dreamcast magizine where he wrote an article about Illbleed. As thanks, the developers decided to include him in. It's very cute lol
I guess that's why he's such an afterthought of a character, only able to use in a couple of places once you get him lol It's a shame though, silly that you can't have a new game + with all characters unlocked specifically so you can play as them more
Yep. It was his first voice role too. Now he's done a few acting roles, aswell as been producer for some films, is part of the BAFTA awards staff AND is even making his own game with a crew of people called The Last Worker coming in 2023. Jorg Tittel, the Jorg from this game, has gone pretty far since.
Fun fact about the game: it apparently was the main inspiration behind the Danganronpa series which explains the similar horror comedy tone both series share along with its pop culture references. Edit: and I guess the Killerman level was kinda a blueprint for the investigations as well.
You can really see the influence from this game in chapters 2 and 3 of Danganronpa 1. The whole Genocide Jill and Robo Justice stuff is clearly inspired by Killerman and his level. Super cool.
that level is where it becomes solidified that this s a cmedy and anot a horror game, as the banbarrow level could easily give the impression of a proper horror game before you fight the giant banbarrow.
Even better is right before the old man's ghost appears, the ghost of the worm floats out of its body and shouts out "GRANDPAAAAAA" in a little girl's voice
What this game needed was an invincible Haunted House mode, definitely. Walk around and experience all the scares while being able to experience _all_ the scares.
One of Illbleed's fundamental flaws is that the trap animations are all unique and fun and you want to see them, but playing the game correctly means marking them, which disables the animations. It's like they're rewarding you for good play by gating off content. I think there's a trap early on in the first level or the hub's tutorial area where you still get the animation if you mark it, but with no blood, and doing that with the rest of the game's traps would have been a big step up.
Fun fact: My mom sold my copy of this game (and every other dreamcast game I owned) for 5$ at a yard sale without consulting me when I was in university.
I got introduced to Illbleed through a letsplay and the dude went the extra mile for it. The guy had clearly played the game a 100 times and could cleanly get most of the traps without getting touched, but for every trap he got right he had a quick cutaway to show off each trap before continuing on it was great and I loved every second of it.
ILLBLEED ended up being so much more wacky than I was expecting. When I heard about it as this "weird obscure Japanese horror game" so long ago, I was expecting some kind of bizarre and obtuse experimental work and then I got smacked with the goofiest horror spoof game I have ever seen.
I originally saw clips of this game when I was really young, on G4. G4 had time slots that would just have some sort of show that just play gameplay. I remember Eiriko calling for the ladder, her first picking up the bat and it started talking, and a segment where she was forced to crawl around.
@@Rabbitlord108 I don't blame you because both the arcade and the Saturn port never left Japan. And not to mention, it was the only game of the franchise that wasn't a beat em' up. It was a 3D fighting game and sadly a mediocre one and really rare and expensive as hell.
I genuinely love how much this game plays with the environment being a horror park. It's not just a one-off thing mentioned at the start; we regularly see and even directly interact with the behind-the-scenes of the running of an insane murder park
Shout out to Nitro Rad for finding a game I've never heard anyone mention and then spend the first 5 minutes of the video talk about how well known it is and make me feel completely out of the loop
it IS a fairly obscure game. I only first found out about it via a listing of dreamcast games in a retrogaming magazine and when I learned more about it I became more and more interested in it.
Tbf it makes a good deal of sense for Eriko to be the best character. As established she basically had childhood training for these types of traps. Though it does beg the question of why they did the character stuff in the first place if she was the obvious best choice thematically
Thing is, Eriko isn't the best. She's the mario and the most balanced, but that doesn't mean the best. TBH Michel or brainless randy tends to be better characters. Michel (especially if you pump all the upgrades into her) allows you to cruise through whole levels marking everything. A good example is: with brain upgrades: she can mark every trap in woodpuppets and the shopping mall while eriko can't. Eriko can get close, but she needs some encounters to recover adrenaline.While the speedy ladder upgrade also makes escaping from fights kinda moot. Like Eriko's HP is 250, while Michel's is 200. Not a big difference. While adrenaline for Eriko is 540 and Michel;s is 720. That's for 50 hp you get nearly 200 adrenaline. Especially since the whole game is about avoiding traps.
@@dragonlord564 cause he's funny. Okay he's not really that good of a character. He has no adrenaline which is bad, but he never falls down when scared if I remember right.
@@sarafontanini7051 that really sucks, I could imagine he would've gotten the game ported to the PS2 at the time, cause it was quite a popular system at the time, also would've increased chances of people actually playing the darn thing.
He was reallg int this for the art. He said something about not caring if the game sold a lot or not, as long as it make one person happy, then it was worth it. As we can see with this video, mission accomplished. RIP.
I swear hearing Lani Minella at the beginning made me jump because the voice she does for Eriko is the exact same voice she does for Nancy Drew in all of the Nancy Drew games. Had some deja vu from playing them all as a kid. Also I swear this video has the comedy equivalent of jumpscares, like a couple parts took me so off guard that I had to go back and rewatch them a few times just to make sure I actually heard what I thought I heard, laughing the whole time.
The problem with Illbleed is if you're good at the game, you don't get to see most of the interesting spook animations since you usually just get Eriko going KEWL. Plus the fact that the disk drive goes wacky any time you're setting something off.
Fun Fact: Zodick the Hellhog (Yes, that is his ACTUAL name) is based off of the Illbleed dev's past experience on working on Sonic Adventure 2, it was hell, so they made Zodick as a sort in-joke to vent there frustrations. Sega did NOT like him, yet ironically with Zodick still being a character from a SEGA game, he can theoretically cameo in an official Sonic game!
Fun fact: The creator of the Danganronpa series (Kazutaka Kodaka) stated in one interview that ILLBLEED was a huge inspiration for him when it came to visuals, atmosphere, and style when he was making the first Danganronpa game
You know, this doesn’t feel like a horror game based on bonkers B movies, it feels like a comedy game based on a horror game based on bonkers B movies.
Illbleed reminds me that we could use more “campy” horror games, games that are intentionally so unironically bonkers that it just runs with it. Not every game in this genre has to try to be like George Romero style serious, this definitely leans more into the Chioda Bros style of horror, and I love it.
I love how the game has technically four different final bosses, three main final bosses you get to choose (fun fact, Blue Stinger is apparently from the other horror game the devs made before). Sure they may be a bit easy but easy doesn't mean bad, necessarily, and they look stellar. Plus, OHNOMAN is the best name for a final boss ever.
Illbleed is such an underrated gem of a game. It manages that really cool tightrope between goofy comedy, and genuinely creepy horror. Really wish it would get a remake one day.
Early era video games really have some amazing concepts. A shame that the standards have changed in modern games so more experimental stuff isn't as common anymore.
@@quixebee8624 I believe we woulda got the sequel they teased at the end too if the port to Xbox went through. Like how we got jet set radio future after its port agreement. Understandable kinda hard with him passing and such sadly.
@@freshlymemed5680 I know what you mean. Really wish somebody of the big boys would try making an ultra cheap console at around the PS2 or Dreamcast level, but make it as easy to develop för as possible. Like the point & shoot VHS camcorders that horrified the proffesionell filmmakers, but opened up at least trying to make movies for an entire generation.
“I might just crap! my! pants! And! piss! my! pants!” I love the out-of-nowhere hysterical jokes in-between thoughtful analysis. I haven’t finished the video yet but I’ll update with my thoughts once I have Update: yup that was insane. What an interesting game. And great video as always!
Same! I learned about Illbleed from SuperGreatFriend years and years ago, he did such a great job showing off the game. Excited to see what Nitro Rad thinks about it!
I remember Steve and Larson from Top 10 FTW mention this game and thats how I know it, especially since I was a Sonic fan back then so Zondick made me confused yet interested
I'm guessing my comment got filtered but hey, I'm Retro, I speedrun the game and I run the Illbleed speedruns discord. I know Lani Minella and Jorg Tittel two of the absolutely wonderful and lovely people who worked on this game. To answer a question you asked. Currently SEGA doesn't own the rights to Illbleed and Crazy Games dissolved as a company after Nishigaki San had passed away. So, chances are game isn't owned by anyone. I've wanted to do work for it but, I've got too much on my plate right now. Thank you so much for bringing more attention to Illbleed. I'm sure if Nishigaki San was alive today he would be endeared and so happy to see that people could spend this long talking about Illbleed as he chose to make this over Blue Stinger 2. I hope you have a wonderful new year and thank you so, so much for bringing more attention to Illbleed 💙
53:30 that is the closest we’ll ever get to an official Sonic.EXE WHAT THE SHIT 😂 also that spin dash is really smooth especially for an old game on the Dreamcast you would only see that in animated scenes only
I remember when I had spare time in computer lab back in highschool, I would search Wikipedia for obscure horror games. Illbleed was one of the few I was fascinated by on text description alone. Seeing the gameplay years later and yeah... It's certainly *something*. The turn of the century zeitgeist will never cease to mystify me.
The porno mag is useful, but only in circumstances. When you're bleeding out a lot and your heart rate keeps falling, having the Erole would boost your heart rate up that little bit. You should only buy it if you expect to bleed and lower your heart rate a lot.
I got introduced to Illbleed via the speedrun of the game. It's a weirdly crazy run though i think Punchy is the only runner for it but he's great at explaining the game mechanics (like there's actually 3 different trap patterns). I know it's going to be shown at GDQ in January.
This might be my favorite video from nitrorad, the hour format fits your content so well, I ADORE listening to every single aspect of the game, its such a treat!!!
Shinya Nishigaki a legend for getting this game through publishers. Here was a quote from him about Zodick. "Sonic is almost like Felix The Cat. Sega did not like Zodick, maybe Mr. Naka hates me!" Illbleed is truly something special. Rest In Peace Shinya Nishigaki.
If I recall illbleed was meant to be re-released on 360. But that fell through. Tho I could be thinking of Blue Stinger. Either one deserves a re-release or even a bundle. Especially with one of the characters being voiced by Eggman's Adventure VA. Who sadly passed away soon after much like the director.
Oh awesome! I remember seeing you mention this on twitter and hoping there would be an episode on it. Also, the erotic magazine has one use: If you bleed for too long (but not at a bad enough rate to kill you), your heart rate goes down and eventually causes you to flatline - you can avoid this with the magazine. Of course, it doesn't really help with the bleeding so you're likely to end up in the same situation pretty soon.
Illbleed is one of my favourite horror games if not my absolute favourite, and it's a major inspiration for my work. Thanks so much for introducing more people to it!!!! :3
Over a decade before Sonic.exe was a thing, there was Zodick the Hellhog, and then almost a decade before Zodick there was Fun is Infinite, Majin. Seriously at this point they may as well make it canon that Sonic is satanic XD That said, I do think Zodick's design is kinda dope, considering they didn't JUST make him a demonic version of Sonic, he looks like he could be his own character. My favorite thing about the boss fight is the spin dash animation, which is exactly the same as the jump/spindash animation used in Sonic Adventure 1, and has never been used since, a shame because it looks really cool... Anyhow, I only discovered this game earlier this year, so I'm really happy to see you cover it!! I hope we see some Klonoa videos soon!!
I remember game informer doing a super replay of this game and loving every minute of it. For me this is a game I want to watch versus actually playing.
It's about freakin time! I've been waiting for this video for years and years, and man did you ever deliver. Illbleed is such a special thing; it hurts to know that an Original Xbox port was planned, but it never came to be.
Illbleed is my favorite game to hand out random snippets about. It makes everyone think you're making stuff up. Remember that time in Illbleed when... ...you get skinned alive and turned into a wood puppet so you can run through electrical traps? ...you get chased by a giant zombie across a lake but then find out it was an animatronic controlled by a brain damaged worker, who you then kill and also turns out to be an animatronic? ...a monkey steals your item by pulling it from the GUI? ...you get arrested for killing three eggs after they made fun of your girlfriend dying? ...it turns out the final boss is your father, who is a purple alien, and you expose him by walking up naked in front of him? ...the farmer raises his giant mutant worm like a baby and after you kill the worm there's a sequence where they go to hell together? ...a Woody parody named Cork walks the green mile and gets saved by a talking rocket just before he gets hanged? ...you fight Sonic the Demonhog in hell (not the same hell as the one the farmer and worm went to)? ...you can pick up free healing items but you have to fight them all at the end of the sequence? You can do this all day and it all happens in the span of 6 levels and a bossfight.
You should totally review the Splatoon single player campaigs. They just feel like the kind of... insanely weird, wacky games with crazy, strangely dark hidden lore that you'd talk about.
Obscure (2004) seems like it’s be up your alley in survival horror, with local co-op play and having characters with unique abilities (though some aren’t that great). It’s also a little bit perverted, but I think it captures the ps2/OG X-Box era survival horror with its own mechanics. It also has ideas seen in later survival horror video games that came out in the later 2010’s. Not perfect, but definitely fun.
Halfway through the video so far. There is an item to help the other characters get over their fright called the Shock Brace in every level. With it, they won't be on the ground crawling all the time. Eriko doesn't suffer from it because her father practically desensitized her. Yes, Eriko is the best character overall, but there is a way to make the other characters viable, albeit a bit more challenging. I do agree that the way multiple characters were implemented wasn't executed well enough, but they did have answers to the glaring issues.
Idk if it's the bias for Illbleed but this video has quickly become my favourite of yours. There's just something about the presentation, the way you approach the game. It slapped. B)
my favorite part about the tutorial area? they tell you about it in game its really easy to not understand it but in the opening cutscene the guy at the ticket booth says "through the tunnel to the right... the cemetary"
Really interesting that they have a drink called Hassy in the game. It makes me question if 2064: Read Only Memories got the idea of using that drink from this game. The drink even appears later on as a reference to 2064ROM in VA-11 Hall-A. Edit: Can confirm that 2064ROM used the drink as a reference from this game and Blue Stinger.
About using characters as lives(28:53), I went and played the game because of this video and there are a couple things he missed. One, the cost to revive a character you died as is way lower than the cost to rescue a character you never saved, and two, there are some invisible checkpoints where reloading as another character will save you some progress vs going back to the save booth. The only one I know of is in the woodpuppets level right before the woodcutter gauntlet, but there's probably a couple more I never needed. I think the cost to revive Eriko was around 75k which is steep but not that terrible, and since it's part of the ER you can use a discount ticket on revival costs too. Edit: re-watching the vid and there's apparently a save halfway through that gauntlet? Don't remember that, either I somehow missed it or just forgot it since I only died the once, but I'm pretty sure the invisible checkpoint I remember is for the start of the section.
I've been waiting for a long time for you to do an ILLBLEED video. As a big lover of B movies and campy horror, this game has a very special place in my heart. RIP Nishigaki-san
I remember hearing about games like this like once in my childhood in like old magazines or whatever, and sometimes I think of them, and then you make videos on them and im like “oh that was a real thing!!” I love ur videos sm
ive always been fascinated by illbleed from a distance, but never actually checked it out myself... to see that it is such campy, glorious fun is immensely satisfying!
This may be your best video yet. Incredibly well made and really fun to watch. Lots of great bits and jokes in there, while also being very informative. Awesome job. btw, the Sonic boss in this is called Zodick the Hellhog, and there's a mod for the PC version of SA2 to play as him.
2:05 When the back-of-box ad got to "over 1000 traps", I remembered what the gameplay is and my mind automatically lit up with the words " *OH DEAR GOD* "
When I started watching the gameplay footage, I couldn't help but notice that it's very familiar to me, the jumpscares, scary moments etc. I think i had Illbleed when I was a kid, however, I was too young to remember it clearly, just like Oddworld, it was mainly my father playing those games. Nice to see another one I have brief nostalgia for!
Its nice to have a really long video by you Nitro Rad, love your channel. I watch your old video's a lot, you even got me into Yumi-Nikki and all of its fan games.
A couple things i wanna say, one dude i love your content your a fantastic reviewer who actually sits down and dissects things instead of just being like BAD THIS GAME BAD you give reason, two your awesome for uploading 2 versions so everyone can enjoy and lastly never give up no matter how tough it gets you'll always pull through we all love you, stay rad
All Hail Zodick, Seriously tho, looks fascinating, could see this idea coming to life in the Indie Scene or returning with a Haunted House Mode, someone else mentioned that, just too wierd and hilarious to be forgotten
Thank You. This was a game I also played on a random deep dive Saturday of burned discs. Was a bit too confused to get that far. Glad to learn a lot more about the game. Seems a bit too cumbersome for me, but was very happy to watch you recap/review it. Great video ^_^
Finally, been waiting for NitroRad to review this for years. Played this at the beginning of the year. 1st stage pretty scary but the rest were comical. Definitely one of it's kind
This was probably one of your best works yet, my dude. You have all the wonderful informational content, in-depth analysis and humor like always but your humor here was top notch. The chopping to "Piss-my-pants-and-shit-my-pants" as well as "All sorts of memorable soft like Dino----" was so good. I don't know how much you read comments, and I know a lot of people enjoy your work so it's obvious, but I really wanted to let you know that you did a _very_ good job with this review-both in the review itself and in the overall construction of this video.
For the longest time I've always been so fascinated by this game ever since I watched Oneyplays do a video series on the game and I sadly never got the chance to play it! But, it makes me happy that one of my favorite youtubers did a video on this amazing game!
I remember wanting you to play this so bad that I emailed you and asked. I didn't even have a real reason I just thought it looked weird and couldn't get a copy. Also I love that low quality clip of majora's mask to show recovery on death, it gets me every time.
This should’ve been a Halloween special for this game. I’ve heard so much about this classic survival horror game and how much of a fan base it has,and I can see why. Nice enough to know that people still remember this game.
49:09 Those attacks… it’s… It’s Dr. Eggman! No, seriously! The circular room, the small projectiles that behave like homing missiles and have a very long reach, the big kamehameha-like laser, it’s straight-up the boss fight where you fight Dr. Eggman as Tails inside the Ark in Sonic Adventure 2! EDIT: 53:06 ok, now I’m convinced it was intentional.
YES!!! The video review I have been waiting for so long from Nitro Rad! Illbleed is by far one of my favorite games of all time! Even to this day there still hasn't been another horror title quite like it. Back in the good old days when game devs thought outside of the box and loved taking risks. I really miss those days.
Thank you for the hour long video! I have seen clips and snip-it’s of this game and had no idea where it was from (the devil Sonic has went around like crazy) and I always thought that it was a modded PS1 looking game artwork. Wow…its actually a part of one huge crazy horror game. This is definitely a game you’d never forget lol.
Hey, I recently found your channel because of the Adam's family video. While I might not like the selection of some of the games you cover I do really like your style and presentation. Good work. There's so many RUclipsrs that the algorithm recommends me and I quickly say "next." Keep up the good work.
But actually though, the game asking “can you guess who the killer was? That’s right! It was The Killer!” is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen
Its a REALLY funny bit, yeah
"who was the killer?. its the killerman, its in the name you dummy dum dum he is a man who kills, killerman"
"Only WHO can prevent forest fires?"
"You have selected 'you', referring to me, that is incorrect, the correct answer is YOU!" sorry, Simpsons reference, couldn't help myself.
46:10
Funfact about Jorg: He's actually a real person and also lend the voice for the character! He was a journalist for a Dreamcast magizine where he wrote an article about Illbleed. As thanks, the developers decided to include him in. It's very cute lol
I guess that's why he's such an afterthought of a character, only able to use in a couple of places once you get him lol
It's a shame though, silly that you can't have a new game + with all characters unlocked specifically so you can play as them more
Yep. It was his first voice role too. Now he's done a few acting roles, aswell as been producer for some films, is part of the BAFTA awards staff AND is even making his own game with a crew of people called The Last Worker coming in 2023.
Jorg Tittel, the Jorg from this game, has gone pretty far since.
That owns a ton actually, that's so funny
@@Xindictive but is it pronounced jorg or jorg
That's pretty good karma if you ask me
Fun fact about the game: it apparently was the main inspiration behind the Danganronpa series which explains the similar horror comedy tone both series share along with its pop culture references.
Edit: and I guess the Killerman level was kinda a blueprint for the investigations as well.
thats funny, i really love both games and it makes a lot more sense now why my brain keeps coming back to these two
You can really see the influence from this game in chapters 2 and 3 of Danganronpa 1. The whole Genocide Jill and Robo Justice stuff is clearly inspired by Killerman and his level. Super cool.
I can't believe Nitrorad didn't figure out that killerman was killerman
"At last, we can be together forever! Let's go back to hell." that part is so goddamn ridiculous that I almost laughed out loud.
I did laugh out loud
That exchange felt like a RUclips Poop in the best way.
That chapter has so good bits from the old man it’s great
that level is where it becomes solidified that this s a cmedy and anot a horror game, as the banbarrow level could easily give the impression of a proper horror game before you fight the giant banbarrow.
Even better is right before the old man's ghost appears, the ghost of the worm floats out of its body and shouts out "GRANDPAAAAAA" in a little girl's voice
What this game needed was an invincible Haunted House mode, definitely. Walk around and experience all the scares while being able to experience _all_ the scares.
That would be pretty cool since a good number of the scares/traps are randomized. Either having 1 of 2 or 3 possible scares or nothing at all.
If you want that run it on a emu or get a cheat master for dreamcast you can max out your health and bleeding so you can do just that 😄
Yeah a gallery mode where you can see every scare in the game? Seems so obvious I’m shocked that isn’t in there
One of Illbleed's fundamental flaws is that the trap animations are all unique and fun and you want to see them, but playing the game correctly means marking them, which disables the animations. It's like they're rewarding you for good play by gating off content. I think there's a trap early on in the first level or the hub's tutorial area where you still get the animation if you mark it, but with no blood, and doing that with the rest of the game's traps would have been a big step up.
Fun fact: My mom sold my copy of this game (and every other dreamcast game I owned) for 5$ at a yard sale without consulting me when I was in university.
That's not fun at all...
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Have her buy a copy for your birthday.
Oof
Every game individually for 5$ or all of them at once for 5$?
I got introduced to Illbleed through a letsplay and the dude went the extra mile for it. The guy had clearly played the game a 100 times and could cleanly get most of the traps without getting touched, but for every trap he got right he had a quick cutaway to show off each trap before continuing on it was great and I loved every second of it.
I think you're referring to a let's play of supergreatfriend, it's a superb watch with all the scarecams he put the effort in
@@nintendude19 Yep, review made me find and rewatch it again lol
ILLBLEED ended up being so much more wacky than I was expecting. When I heard about it as this "weird obscure Japanese horror game" so long ago, I was expecting some kind of bizarre and obtuse experimental work and then I got smacked with the goofiest horror spoof game I have ever seen.
Same. I only ever saw one or two clips a long while back and always thought it was a regular horror game.
“Survival horror Minesweeper roguelite” is definitely not what I was expecting
It's a shame the xbox port never happened, nor the planned sequel The Arcade.
This game is honestly up there with Deadly Premonition. It’s wacky goofy B-movie charm with dark moments.
I originally saw clips of this game when I was really young, on G4. G4 had time slots that would just have some sort of show that just play gameplay. I remember Eiriko calling for the ladder, her first picking up the bat and it started talking, and a segment where she was forced to crawl around.
Fun fact: In a commercial of this game, Jon St. John, known for his work as the voice of Duke Nukem, appears as a narrator.
Interesting how he voiced Big The Cat & Omega.
@@Rabbitlord108 And as the voice of Rolento in Final Fight Revenge for the arcades and the Sega Saturn.
@@juanmartinstehle5047 Interesting. Never heard of that game.
@@Rabbitlord108 I don't blame you because both the arcade and the Saturn port never left Japan. And not to mention, it was the only game of the franchise that wasn't a beat em' up. It was a 3D fighting game and sadly a mediocre one and really rare and expensive as hell.
That's right, Rouge, Sonic, and Big, together at last.
This has to be the most Dreamcasty game for the Dreamcast. It's such an oddity...
I think that goes more to D2 imo.
Sadly I can only think of D2 as "That follow up to the weirdo 3do console exclusive".
D2, Dynamite Cop, that Japanese Die Hard game, and Sonic Adventure (of course) are uber Dreamcasty as well.
Even more so when you realise that the voice cast has a good amount of Sonic alumni from the 1999-2004 games.
knew it was funky the moment i saw the sense UI
I genuinely love how much this game plays with the environment being a horror park. It's not just a one-off thing mentioned at the start; we regularly see and even directly interact with the behind-the-scenes of the running of an insane murder park
hell the killerman level is ALL ABOUT how this is a fucking murder amusement park that kills people
Shout out to Nitro Rad for finding a game I've never heard anyone mention and then spend the first 5 minutes of the video talk about how well known it is and make me feel completely out of the loop
Sameee
Same. Literally the only thing ive ever seen from this game before watching this video is the sonic cameo lol
it IS a fairly obscure game. I only first found out about it via a listing of dreamcast games in a retrogaming magazine and when I learned more about it I became more and more interested in it.
As a Stop Skeletons fan, it's like the 900th time I've heard of it, but first time I've seen it played.
Lol same
Tbf it makes a good deal of sense for Eriko to be the best character. As established she basically had childhood training for these types of traps. Though it does beg the question of why they did the character stuff in the first place if she was the obvious best choice thematically
Thing is, Eriko isn't the best. She's the mario and the most balanced, but that doesn't mean the best. TBH Michel or brainless randy tends to be better characters. Michel (especially if you pump all the upgrades into her) allows you to cruise through whole levels marking everything.
A good example is: with brain upgrades: she can mark every trap in woodpuppets and the shopping mall while eriko can't. Eriko can get close, but she needs some encounters to recover adrenaline.While the speedy ladder upgrade also makes escaping from fights kinda moot. Like Eriko's HP is 250, while Michel's is 200. Not a big difference. While adrenaline for Eriko is 540 and Michel;s is 720. That's for 50 hp you get nearly 200 adrenaline. Especially since the whole game is about avoiding traps.
@@benvictim Why specifically brainless randy?
@@dragonlord564 cause he's funny. Okay he's not really that good of a character. He has no adrenaline which is bad, but he never falls down when scared if I remember right.
@@benvictim mjkkn
@@benvictim whats Kevin’s specialty then? Is he just fast or something?
This video was a blast to watch.
RIP Nishigaki,
I think we lost something incredible with him.
apparently we would've gotten a port and a sequel had he not died :c
@@sarafontanini7051 that really sucks, I could imagine he would've gotten the game ported to the PS2 at the time, cause it was quite a popular system at the time, also would've increased chances of people actually playing the darn thing.
Yeah. He was working on an XBox port at the time.
He was reallg int this for the art. He said something about not caring if the game sold a lot or not, as long as it make one person happy, then it was worth it.
As we can see with this video, mission accomplished.
RIP.
I wonder what else he might have created had he lived on
32:04 *"a big haunted house funded by some super evil billionaire"*
Damn they put twitter on a game on the dreamcast
lmao
Look, as a haunted house fan...that's disrespectful. ;,(
Zuckerborg doing it again.
Nah, Musk owns twitter now, so that's a bit outdated
@@gabbagoo9774 I don't know. Seems like it stilk applies.
...I'd like to say it's more of a circus but that's insulting to hard-working circus folk. 🤣
I swear hearing Lani Minella at the beginning made me jump because the voice she does for Eriko is the exact same voice she does for Nancy Drew in all of the Nancy Drew games. Had some deja vu from playing them all as a kid.
Also I swear this video has the comedy equivalent of jumpscares, like a couple parts took me so off guard that I had to go back and rewatch them a few times just to make sure I actually heard what I thought I heard, laughing the whole time.
i literally went “thats nancy drew!” out loud lol
@@pjzza777 lol i did the same like i'm so used to her playing nancy drew that i can't unhear it
God me too, I was like “Nancy is in Illbleed???”
The problem with Illbleed is if you're good at the game, you don't get to see most of the interesting spook animations since you usually just get Eriko going KEWL. Plus the fact that the disk drive goes wacky any time you're setting something off.
The disk drive being a hint for traps is actually the coolest videogame mechanic ever
Nice pfp
@@phanto-64 Not really a hint so much as you already triggered the trap and the disk drive whirrrrrrrrs loudly to load the scene
@@soothsayingProfit that's still really neat
Fortunately, no one is good at Illbleed.
Fun Fact: Zodick the Hellhog (Yes, that is his ACTUAL name) is based off of the Illbleed dev's past experience on working on Sonic Adventure 2, it was hell, so they made Zodick as a sort in-joke to vent there frustrations.
Sega did NOT like him, yet ironically with Zodick still being a character from a SEGA game, he can theoretically cameo in an official Sonic game!
Fun fact: The creator of the Danganronpa series (Kazutaka Kodaka) stated in one interview that ILLBLEED was a huge inspiration for him when it came to visuals, atmosphere, and style when he was making the first Danganronpa game
interesting
yeah i see it
That would explain a lot
You know, this doesn’t feel like a horror game based on bonkers B movies, it feels like a comedy game based on a horror game based on bonkers B movies.
Illbleed reminds me that we could use more “campy” horror games, games that are intentionally so unironically bonkers that it just runs with it. Not every game in this genre has to try to be like George Romero style serious, this definitely leans more into the Chioda Bros style of horror, and I love it.
Choo Choo Charles is a good step towards that direction.
@@whoareyoutoaccuseme6588 What’s Choo Choo Charles?
@@benmalsky9834 Watch ManlyBadassHero‘s playthrough of it. Its campy as fuck, but still remains as a rather effective - and fun - horror game.
A Campy Horror game would be great with all of the interest in this Nostalgia Horror stuff.
@@benmalsky9834 It's an indie game made by one person. It's a bit jank but has a lot of heart. Definitely campy.
I love how the game has technically four different final bosses, three main final bosses you get to choose (fun fact, Blue Stinger is apparently from the other horror game the devs made before). Sure they may be a bit easy but easy doesn't mean bad, necessarily, and they look stellar. Plus, OHNOMAN is the best name for a final boss ever.
Ohnoman has the same energy of
"Peepeepoopoo man..."
YOU WONT LAUGH WHEN HE KILLS YOU
Illbleed is such an underrated gem of a game.
It manages that really cool tightrope between goofy comedy, and genuinely creepy horror. Really wish it would get a remake one day.
I like experimental games like this. The only downside is you need someone to explain how to play
Hell I wish we'd gotten the Xbox port.
Early era video games really have some amazing concepts. A shame that the standards have changed in modern games so more experimental stuff isn't as common anymore.
@@quixebee8624 I believe we woulda got the sequel they teased at the end too if the port to Xbox went through. Like how we got jet set radio future after its port agreement. Understandable kinda hard with him passing and such sadly.
@@freshlymemed5680 I know what you mean. Really wish somebody of the big boys would try making an ultra cheap console at around the PS2 or Dreamcast level, but make it as easy to develop för as possible.
Like the point & shoot VHS camcorders that horrified the proffesionell filmmakers, but opened up at least trying to make movies for an entire generation.
Honestly, the concept of the attraction is the attraction going wrong is such a genius idea, i wish I saw it more
I remember playing Illbleed at a friends house when I was young, one of the most memorable and unique horror game out there :)
@Don't read profile photo ok I won't
@Don't read profile photo okay man.
“I might just crap! my! pants! And! piss! my! pants!” I love the out-of-nowhere hysterical jokes in-between thoughtful analysis. I haven’t finished the video yet but I’ll update with my thoughts once I have
Update: yup that was insane. What an interesting game. And great video as always!
I understood hands instead of pants at that part.
The time stamp is 36:30, for those who were curious.
Time to add this to my "watching Illbleed" collection like the SuperGreatFriend LP
Same! I learned about Illbleed from SuperGreatFriend years and years ago, he did such a great job showing off the game. Excited to see what Nitro Rad thinks about it!
I remember Steve and Larson from Top 10 FTW mention this game and thats how I know it, especially since I was a Sonic fan back then so Zondick made me confused yet interested
Hikikomori Media has an excellent Illbleed video as well, which makes a nice companion to his Blue Stinger review as they're both Halloween themed.
SGF is my favorite LPer to this day because of his ILLBLEED and Deadly Premonition videos!
Dreamcast Hub recently did an Illbleed Let's Play which was awesome.
ILLBLEED is badass, rest in peace Shinya Nishigaki.
I’m gonna act like it’s still Halloween and eat my leftover candy watching this
36:29 caught me off guard and had me dead laughing. It just came and went and i short circuited.
If you’re touching more Dreamcast horror in the future, Blue Stinger would be cool since it’s from the same director
Wow it's almost like he mentioned that in the video
Yea he knows
God, that endslate gag was great. One of your best ones yet. Right up there with "Butts still fartin' "
The final level destroyed me. I feel like I dreamt all that up. How is it real?
I love that when you speed up the animation of her running and she looks like she's flying XD
I'm guessing my comment got filtered but hey, I'm Retro, I speedrun the game and I run the Illbleed speedruns discord. I know Lani Minella and Jorg Tittel two of the absolutely wonderful and lovely people who worked on this game.
To answer a question you asked. Currently SEGA doesn't own the rights to Illbleed and Crazy Games dissolved as a company after Nishigaki San had passed away. So, chances are game isn't owned by anyone.
I've wanted to do work for it but, I've got too much on my plate right now. Thank you so much for bringing more attention to Illbleed. I'm sure if Nishigaki San was alive today he would be endeared and so happy to see that people could spend this long talking about Illbleed as he chose to make this over Blue Stinger 2.
I hope you have a wonderful new year and thank you so, so much for bringing more attention to Illbleed 💙
Nitrorad omitted one part of the true ending
The implication that eriko's dad somehow survived
Yeah really not making this up at all
53:30 that is the closest we’ll ever get to an official Sonic.EXE WHAT THE SHIT 😂 also that spin dash is really smooth especially for an old game on the Dreamcast you would only see that in animated scenes only
This game is like a cheesy horror movie from the 80's and I love it.
same.
I remember when I had spare time in computer lab back in highschool, I would search Wikipedia for obscure horror games. Illbleed was one of the few I was fascinated by on text description alone. Seeing the gameplay years later and yeah... It's certainly *something*. The turn of the century zeitgeist will never cease to mystify me.
The porno mag is useful, but only in circumstances.
When you're bleeding out a lot and your heart rate keeps falling, having the Erole would boost your heart rate up that little bit. You should only buy it if you expect to bleed and lower your heart rate a lot.
I got introduced to Illbleed via the speedrun of the game. It's a weirdly crazy run though i think Punchy is the only runner for it but he's great at explaining the game mechanics (like there's actually 3 different trap patterns). I know it's going to be shown at GDQ in January.
Ooo. It's always a nice surprise to see a new NitroRad episode appear.
This might be my favorite video from nitrorad, the hour format fits your content so well, I ADORE listening to every single aspect of the game, its such a treat!!!
Shinya Nishigaki a legend for getting this game through publishers. Here was a quote from him about Zodick.
"Sonic is almost like Felix The Cat. Sega did not like Zodick, maybe Mr. Naka hates me!"
Illbleed is truly something special. Rest In Peace Shinya Nishigaki.
If I recall illbleed was meant to be re-released on 360. But that fell through. Tho I could be thinking of Blue Stinger. Either one deserves a re-release or even a bundle. Especially with one of the characters being voiced by Eggman's Adventure VA. Who sadly passed away soon after much like the director.
It was meant to be released on the original Xbox however while in talks to make that happen the director.. fukken died
Oh awesome! I remember seeing you mention this on twitter and hoping there would be an episode on it.
Also, the erotic magazine has one use: If you bleed for too long (but not at a bad enough rate to kill you), your heart rate goes down and eventually causes you to flatline - you can avoid this with the magazine. Of course, it doesn't really help with the bleeding so you're likely to end up in the same situation pretty soon.
I love how the game stops caring more and more as you go, until by the final level you’re playing as Woody from Toy Story
Illbleed is one of my favourite horror games if not my absolute favourite, and it's a major inspiration for my work. Thanks so much for introducing more people to it!!!! :3
It’s such a fascinating thing to see in an era where horror games seem to take themselves as seriously as possible.
This game is like if Conker’s Bad Fur Day was a horror game
Over a decade before Sonic.exe was a thing, there was Zodick the Hellhog, and then almost a decade before Zodick there was Fun is Infinite, Majin. Seriously at this point they may as well make it canon that Sonic is satanic XD
That said, I do think Zodick's design is kinda dope, considering they didn't JUST make him a demonic version of Sonic, he looks like he could be his own character.
My favorite thing about the boss fight is the spin dash animation, which is exactly the same as the jump/spindash animation used in Sonic Adventure 1, and has never been used since, a shame because it looks really cool...
Anyhow, I only discovered this game earlier this year, so I'm really happy to see you cover it!! I hope we see some Klonoa videos soon!!
Wait, here actually called Zodick the Hellhog!? That's amazing!
I remember game informer doing a super replay of this game and loving every minute of it. For me this is a game I want to watch versus actually playing.
It's about freakin time! I've been waiting for this video for years and years, and man did you ever deliver. Illbleed is such a special thing; it hurts to know that an Original Xbox port was planned, but it never came to be.
Illbleed is my favorite game to hand out random snippets about. It makes everyone think you're making stuff up.
Remember that time in Illbleed when...
...you get skinned alive and turned into a wood puppet so you can run through electrical traps?
...you get chased by a giant zombie across a lake but then find out it was an animatronic controlled by a brain damaged worker, who you then kill and also turns out to be an animatronic?
...a monkey steals your item by pulling it from the GUI?
...you get arrested for killing three eggs after they made fun of your girlfriend dying?
...it turns out the final boss is your father, who is a purple alien, and you expose him by walking up naked in front of him?
...the farmer raises his giant mutant worm like a baby and after you kill the worm there's a sequence where they go to hell together?
...a Woody parody named Cork walks the green mile and gets saved by a talking rocket just before he gets hanged?
...you fight Sonic the Demonhog in hell (not the same hell as the one the farmer and worm went to)?
...you can pick up free healing items but you have to fight them all at the end of the sequence?
You can do this all day and it all happens in the span of 6 levels and a bossfight.
You should totally review the Splatoon single player campaigs. They just feel like the kind of... insanely weird, wacky games with crazy, strangely dark hidden lore that you'd talk about.
_Gotta be honest, watched this version originally before the demonitisation, but still come back to it months later as a sleep aid!_ ❤😊
17:48 that regular ass kick from a a horror monster 🤣
Man i completely lost it when you said that killer man was the correct option, like that's the type of dumb humor that always cracks me up everytime
Obscure (2004) seems like it’s be up your alley in survival horror, with local co-op play and having characters with unique abilities (though some aren’t that great). It’s also a little bit perverted, but I think it captures the ps2/OG X-Box era survival horror with its own mechanics. It also has ideas seen in later survival horror video games that came out in the later 2010’s. Not perfect, but definitely fun.
"people hate tank controls"
I took that personally. Seriously though, give em back. I love them
Halfway through the video so far. There is an item to help the other characters get over their fright called the Shock Brace in every level. With it, they won't be on the ground crawling all the time. Eriko doesn't suffer from it because her father practically desensitized her.
Yes, Eriko is the best character overall, but there is a way to make the other characters viable, albeit a bit more challenging. I do agree that the way multiple characters were implemented wasn't executed well enough, but they did have answers to the glaring issues.
This game was the SPLATTERHOUSE 3 of Dreamcast for sure! me and my next door neighbor couldn't wait till Saturday morning to smoke 1 and play this!
Idk if it's the bias for Illbleed but this video has quickly become my favourite of yours. There's just something about the presentation, the way you approach the game. It slapped. B)
my favorite part about the tutorial area? they tell you about it in game its really easy to not understand it but in the opening cutscene the guy at the ticket booth says "through the tunnel to the right... the cemetary"
Really interesting that they have a drink called Hassy in the game. It makes me question if 2064: Read Only Memories got the idea of using that drink from this game. The drink even appears later on as a reference to 2064ROM in VA-11 Hall-A.
Edit: Can confirm that 2064ROM used the drink as a reference from this game and Blue Stinger.
About using characters as lives(28:53), I went and played the game because of this video and there are a couple things he missed. One, the cost to revive a character you died as is way lower than the cost to rescue a character you never saved, and two, there are some invisible checkpoints where reloading as another character will save you some progress vs going back to the save booth. The only one I know of is in the woodpuppets level right before the woodcutter gauntlet, but there's probably a couple more I never needed. I think the cost to revive Eriko was around 75k which is steep but not that terrible, and since it's part of the ER you can use a discount ticket on revival costs too.
Edit: re-watching the vid and there's apparently a save halfway through that gauntlet? Don't remember that, either I somehow missed it or just forgot it since I only died the once, but I'm pretty sure the invisible checkpoint I remember is for the start of the section.
That mechanic reminds me of Zanki Zero: Last Beginning
I've been waiting for a long time for you to do an ILLBLEED video. As a big lover of B movies and campy horror, this game has a very special place in my heart. RIP Nishigaki-san
4:40 "not all heroes eat crepes"
That's because no hero has ever been french
I remember hearing about games like this like once in my childhood in like old magazines or whatever, and sometimes I think of them, and then you make videos on them and im like “oh that was a real thing!!” I love ur videos sm
Cork Goes To Hell is probably the best thing I’ve seen in a long time
That toy level felt like an acid trip, just what the hell did i just watch?????
ive always been fascinated by illbleed from a distance, but never actually checked it out myself... to see that it is such campy, glorious fun is immensely satisfying!
This may be your best video yet. Incredibly well made and really fun to watch. Lots of great bits and jokes in there, while also being very informative. Awesome job. btw, the Sonic boss in this is called Zodick the Hellhog, and there's a mod for the PC version of SA2 to play as him.
This is my first time hearing someone react to something so sarcastically they turn into a RUclips Poop.
2:05 When the back-of-box ad got to "over 1000 traps", I remembered what the gameplay is and my mind automatically lit up with the words " *OH DEAR GOD* "
I was waiting all of October for a new video from you and Im so glad we got a big video to watch!! Your videos are always amazing!!
When I started watching the gameplay footage, I couldn't help but notice that it's very familiar to me, the jumpscares, scary moments etc. I think i had Illbleed when I was a kid, however, I was too young to remember it clearly, just like Oddworld, it was mainly my father playing those games. Nice to see another one I have brief nostalgia for!
That is the perfect speed up rate. Whenever you do it it makes the main character look like she's trying to moonwalk in reverse.
Its nice to have a really long video by you Nitro Rad, love your channel. I watch your old video's a lot, you even got me into Yumi-Nikki and all of its fan games.
A couple things i wanna say, one dude i love your content your a fantastic reviewer who actually sits down and dissects things instead of just being like BAD THIS GAME BAD you give reason, two your awesome for uploading 2 versions so everyone can enjoy and lastly never give up no matter how tough it gets you'll always pull through we all love you, stay rad
Honestly, I would love to see more horror games like this in the near future.
The concept and mechanics of this game are pretty neat.
All Hail Zodick,
Seriously tho, looks fascinating, could see this idea coming to life in the Indie Scene or returning with a Haunted House Mode, someone else mentioned that, just too wierd and hilarious to be forgotten
Thank You.
This was a game I also played on a random deep dive Saturday of burned discs.
Was a bit too confused to get that far.
Glad to learn a lot more about the game. Seems a bit too cumbersome for me, but was very happy to watch you recap/review it.
Great video ^_^
Finally, been waiting for NitroRad to review this for years.
Played this at the beginning of the year. 1st stage pretty scary but the rest were comical. Definitely one of it's kind
After the fever dream description of the last level, I think this might be the greatest game ever made?
I first heard about it from some website and grew to like it after seeing oneyplays videos on them so it's pretty cool that you are covering it.
This was probably one of your best works yet, my dude. You have all the wonderful informational content, in-depth analysis and humor like always but your humor here was top notch. The chopping to "Piss-my-pants-and-shit-my-pants" as well as "All sorts of memorable soft like Dino----" was so good.
I don't know how much you read comments, and I know a lot of people enjoy your work so it's obvious, but I really wanted to let you know that you did a _very_ good job with this review-both in the review itself and in the overall construction of this video.
Just found your channel and now I’m hooked watching all your old content now thanks!
For the longest time I've always been so fascinated by this game ever since I watched Oneyplays do a video series on the game and I sadly never got the chance to play it! But, it makes me happy that one of my favorite youtubers did a video on this amazing game!
I love that Killerman had a fake Bela Lugosi in the cast.
I was wondering if you were ever going to talk about Illbleed. Thank you so much for covering this one-of-a-kind game!
James and Dreamcast = Fun
Please consider reviewing the Hello Charlotte series it truly is a gem its quite surreal and just really well written .
I remember wanting you to play this so bad that I emailed you and asked. I didn't even have a real reason I just thought it looked weird and couldn't get a copy.
Also I love that low quality clip of majora's mask to show recovery on death, it gets me every time.
This should’ve been a Halloween special for this game. I’ve heard so much about this classic survival horror game and how much of a fan base it has,and I can see why. Nice enough to know that people still remember this game.
49:09
Those attacks… it’s…
It’s Dr. Eggman!
No, seriously! The circular room, the small projectiles that behave like homing missiles and have a very long reach, the big kamehameha-like laser, it’s straight-up the boss fight where you fight Dr. Eggman as Tails inside the Ark in Sonic Adventure 2!
EDIT: 53:06 ok, now I’m convinced it was intentional.
YES!!! The video review I have been waiting for so long from Nitro Rad! Illbleed is by far one of my favorite games of all time! Even to this day there still hasn't been another horror title quite like it. Back in the good old days when game devs thought outside of the box and loved taking risks. I really miss those days.
Thank you for the hour long video! I have seen clips and snip-it’s of this game and had no idea where it was from (the devil Sonic has went around like crazy) and I always thought that it was a modded PS1 looking game artwork. Wow…its actually a part of one huge crazy horror game. This is definitely a game you’d never forget lol.
Sonicsatan looks like if Sonic himself made love to Aero the Acrobat.
Hey, I recently found your channel because of the Adam's family video. While I might not like the selection of some of the games you cover I do really like your style and presentation. Good work. There's so many RUclipsrs that the algorithm recommends me and I quickly say "next." Keep up the good work.
I've always wanted to play or at least see gameplay of Illbleed and of course one of my favorite youtubers is now here to review it!
Me: "Wow, a Nitro Rad Halloween video a few days after Halloween??"
Nitro Rad: "Kept you waiting, huh?"