Claymates (SNES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- A playthrough of Interplay's 1994 platformer for the Super Nintendo, Claymates.
I always thought that claymation was so cool. The sheer amount of effort, talent, and resources required to do it well make it something of an rarity, but that just makes it all the more impressive on the occasions that you see it. That goes equally for video games as it does for film or TV: Claymates was one of the first games I had ever seen like it, second only after Visual Concepts' previous game, Clay Fighter.
Claymates is a mascot-style platformer in the vein of Mario and Sonic, and it makes a huge effort to leave its mark. You get several different clay animal characters (with 'tude, of course - it's 1994) that you can switch between by picking up the appropriately colored ball of clay, and each has a special ability - the mouse runs as turbo speed (hence the box's playful notice that the game features "blaze processing"), the duck can fly for a few seconds with a running start, the fish can swim and blow bubbles... you get the idea.
The levels are all designed to take thorough advantage of these abilities, and they are *huge*. You don't have to fully explore them to complete them, but there are tons of secret areas and hidden items for anyone that enjoys exploring - you can easily run out the ten minute stage timer out if you get too absorbed in wandering around.
There are also some novel little puzzles between each stage which I've never seen in another game, before or since. They're fun, light distractions that give you a nice break after clearing one of the huge stages. And you'll probably need the down time, since there is no save or password system. It has to be played from start to finish.
The levels all are pretty well designed and have about a million potential paths you can take through them, but be careful about your speed. It may look cute and friendly, but enemies are bloodthirsty and easy to blindly run into if your are reckless. It is not at all an easy game. I think I'd actually call it a fair draw between Claymates and Plok! when it comes to both charm and difficulty level. And length. And fun, for that matter.
And then there's the star attraction - the game's presentation. It looks absolutely awesome. The player character sprites, the bosses, and many of the regular sprites are digitized images of clay figures, and unlike ClayFighter, since the characters are so much smaller, the animation is far more fluid and impressive to look at here. I particularly loved the bosses - Sam, the giant puppy, was a real standout. Everything has some kind of silly body language or sassy facial expression, and those details lend the game a whole lot of personality.
So does the music, which is pretty incredible throughout. It reminds me of the stuff in the The Lord of the Rings game - the samples are of uncommonly high quality, and some of these songs are total ear-worms. My favorite has to be the piratey theme (fifes and accordions, woo!) that plays during the Pacific area's levels, but they're all good.
I rarely see any mention of Claymates on the internet, so I thought that I would give it a bit of exposure. It's an excellent game that deserves a few more people singing its praises. How does such a well-made game seemingly become all but forgotten?
There is a silver-lining to its lack of popularity, at least. Because nobody knows nor cares about it, even though its obscure, you can find a copy of it pretty cheap. You can get a cart for $10-15 without much problem, and there's even a sealed copy on eBay at the moment for a mere Benjamin. Go on... you know you want it ;)
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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My brother and I remember renting this game when we were kids, and I even came up with my own idea for a sequel or remake. So nostalgia-inducing!
Fun Fact: The clay animators, Angie Glocka and Owen Klatte, have worked on several other noteworthy stop motion projects, like Gumby, Bump In The Night, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, as well as some CGI and VFX works.
This game brings back so many memories for me as well. Very cool about the background info
Me too with my own brother, though I was disappointed that there wasn't a level that involved the carnival at 1:31
Could you share me your fanmade idea for a sequel/remake?
Wow…. I haven’t thought of Bump in the Night for many, many years. Was my favourite stay at home sick shows.
My most nostalgic SNES game EVER!!! THANK GOD someone played it and got it on YT!! I've been DESPERATE to see this game again!!
Claymates is a thoroughly slick, thoroughly fun platformer that gets nowhere near enough attention. Show it some love, you won't regret it!
IT IS a better game than Clayfigther
@@Invidente7 Oh yeah, definitely
It's okay, I guess. I've seen better clay games. Albeit on more advanced hardware.
Like Skullmonkeys! And Platypus! :)
@@therealseanw.stewart2071 Don't forget The Neverhood :) Oh, and The Dark Eye - super creepy. Still, for a pre-DKC cart game, it's pretty good.
Of course ha ha. Ah, Neverhood, one of my all-time fave adventure games. Never heard of Dark Eye though.
I just loved the shapeshifting aspect. Mario just gave you abilities, but you get brand new forms along with their special abilities. The ranged-option ball was cool too
Knuclear200X trying to not say nothing anything negative about nintendo: IMPOSSIBLE
@@JaxCoolKartunes what negative?
Oh, my God, I love the music!
Me too! :)
Very Tim Burton-esque
I especially like the Cape Claynaveral music :)
I got when I was a kid I would rent this game so many times in video mm back in the day I was never able to finish it thank you for uploading this now frustration can be at ease
I also had this game as a kid and couldn't find it anywhere anymore. I'm glad I got to see the first few levels again, those are the only ones I remember.
Same here. Always rented it and couldn’t understand why mom just didn’t buy it for me. Only played the first few levels but it’s always a favorite
Its crazy that i remember the music after so long. Humming the first level randomly this morning and had to find it! Good to know i spent my childhood well!
1:54 WHOA! THAT RAT IS GOING TOO FAST! Sonic The Hedgehog has got competition.
That's blaze processing for ya!
Gotta go fast
@@TheNawaf258 A symptom of IBS, eh? Hahaha
it's fast but....nowhere sonic 2 fast tough. gues a 3.58 mhz was still enough.
@@aryinc Not really lmao, this is fast AS FUCK. Watch on 0.25x speed.
I remember renting this game in the 90's. Nostalgic bomb dropped.
I have a special place in my artist heart for the claymation.
This game is as cheap as one piece of special clay for start making your own clay works.
What if the meteor that had crashed into the Playland circus was made of the serum and the characters in Clayfighter are the contaminated employees, similar to the child who was transformed by the serum?
°0°
Been looking for this forever. Takes me back to the video rental store. Omg. Distinctly remember the music 🎶
I absolutely loved this game as a kid!!! Almost forgot it existed!
I remembered playing this game when I was a kid. It was on Malaysia Airlines Boeing 747's in-flight entertainment system in the early 2000's. I didn't know its name until now. This brings me back memories.
I love it that they use the same instruments for the opening screen of Clay Fighter on the yard levels
I guess no one realized these are the same clay animals in this as the round numbers in the clay fighters game.
I played this on Nintendo Switch Online (SNES) I never could beat this game when I was little, (When it was in cartridge form) now I put a long years frustration to rest by beating it.
I just heard of this game on the Nintendo Switch Online, this game is cute and I like the music!!
I only went to this link to share how I loved the music. I still do, but it feels like it's in the past, because with a worn out controller and for a while finding only used ones, and with cable with a DVR, I stopped playing Nintendo. At first it was temporary, but I got used to it by the time I got it back. Now, I just enjoy the memories without actually playing anyone.
I loved the music, because I imagined the music as Clayton's view of the environment. He was playful, he was a kid, so he had fun in the yards prior to the abduction of his father. And that although he was in a crisis, he still enjoyed the environment throughout his quest. The style of the music seems indistinguishable to Clayton's joyful childhood mood and personality. But after playing through Japan, Africa and planet Clayvius, I realized that the music in Clayton's yard for example was just a style of American music. Even when it would say- "Clayton's Yard", I thought that the style of the music was an idea of the fun, exciting yard of Clayton. But later, it seemed to me that the music was more like a political welcome style music for kids. Mainly because if in the beginning, just after Clayton leaves the lab, if it said "Welcome to the United States", it would have played the same music as when it says "Clayton's Yard". And even though I also like the idea of childhood fun, joy and excitement, I really liked the idea- "Welcome to the United States". Because then the music would represent the fun, joy, peace and friendship of America. Also representing the joy of freedom compared to let's say... Russia or China. So since I thought of that idea, I have wanted to see such an animation in the game. So far, all I have done was copy and paste letters against the same background as when it says "Clayton's Yard". I like the background title- "Welcome to the United States" better than "Welcome to the USA." Until I finished elementary, I always thought that alphabets also represented or hid through symbolism emotional expressions. With S always appearing to represent the happiest expression.
Never heard of this before just Clayfighter
Thank you for playing Claymates!
i never knew about this game until i saw it on the snes Nintendo Switch online,i just recently defeated the first boss in got into the canon. i was kinda surpised as i did not expect any boss fights in this game.
24:38 also,i really like this bonus stage
This game had a ton of secrets. We loved playing it as kids, but I never beat it
Finally blast processing confirmed on the snes
This is SNES.
This is a sandwich. (You probably can't see it, but I am holding a sandwich.)
:O
Tartuffe the Spry Wonder Dog relax it was a typo
The original box actually said “blaze processing” lol
I’ve been searching for this game for about ten years lol
It's a real shame the backgrounds don't look clay-like, because I do like the digitized clay sprites. I grew up playing Clayfighter: Sculptor's Cut a bunch (so stupid you could only rent that game from Blockbuster!) and loved the style. They should've taken the concept all-out the way The Neverhood and others did, but I do think this is still something I'd like to play sometime and given the fact that they fit this all on a 16-bit system is still pretty cool, what with the high quality, clean sound and fun-looking giant clay boss fights.
my childhood :´) thank you so much
28:38 That Purple Fish Rock!
Weird game, but pretty fun. Definitely and overlooked platformer on the SNES.
One of my favorite games growing up, thanks for the nostalgia! Used to play this, bubsy, and battle toads. Those were the days....
An evil magic user turns the hero into a bouncing blue ball. Was there some guy just breaking in to game studios and writing that on the blackboards back then?
You've nailed one of the biggest problems in the game. Not that Sonic and Mario are any better, but this storyline is one of the worst made!
This games biggest problem is simple:
THE CHARACTERS SUCK!
Our hero (Clayton) has a face I'd just like to punch like Meg Bennett's dipshit "boyfriend" Bim from the Bionic Six (let alone being nothing special), that witch doctor is an unmemorable shit and don't even get me started on the final boss! Bowser, Eggman and Wily would mop the floor with these losers easily! And just wait till what Mario, Sonic and Mega Man do to that Clayton loser. It won't be pretty!
You may not like Bubsy The Bobcat, but there is a good reason why he had sequels (despite his games not being special either, let alone that 3D one killing him for good) and Claymates didn't.
Clay Fighter had memorable characters, which makes it all the more sad at how bad the controls were since that was a fighter I was pulling for back in the day.
If anybody wants to make a fan made sequel to Claymates, then CREATE BETTER MAIN CHARACTERS NEXT TIME!
Similar to the plot to Smart Ball (known as Jerry Boy in Japan)
This was one of my favorite SNES games as a kid and I still have this one too.
Nostalgia. Used to rent this game all the time when I was like 7 years old.
I just tried this game because it came to Nintendo Switch Online, and I CANNOT BELIEVE how fast you go in this game holy shit
Same here! I played the game, and came to love it
This game was fucking impossible, which was intentional, since people rented games from Blockbuster in those days. The harder the game the more times you would rent it
And a great way for a game to flop LONG TERM!
How do we convince Interplay to make a sequel or remake for this game?
this game is a SNES masterpiece! I love it!
1st Stage. as Sonic The Mouse.
no wonder sonic in Ohio called blue speed mouse
It's a shame they seem to only have clay-rendered just a few elements in this one (the ball, the title letters, the floating cloud) most everything is just normal pixel art. The main characters, the level art, etc... Guess they decided it was too much work since Clay Fighter...
A real sleeper. I always liked cutesy characters, but this was also a super fun game.
Another absolute classick!
Love the music.
Blast processing on a snes?
I wasn't expecting this to get re-released!
Claymates an alternate universe from Clayfighter
Thank you for posting
I never realised how convoluted the robot puzzles got.
So this is the game that made Fuwawa rage...
This just in, a random amount of living clay creatures have taken over the world, as a green duck,speedy mouse,cat,(walking fish?),and chipmunk(made out of clay?)(and a living ball of clay as well?) Attempt to save the world.
alright, you convinced me to get this
Good call, you'll have fun with it.
Man my dad took me to the video game store as a kid and let me pick out any game I wanted (I think as reward for doing great in the school play)
I remember pointing out Zelda Link to The Past and was so excited to get home. When I arrived home he passed me the bag and.....Claymates D:
I didn’t say anything, I just put the cartridge in and gave it a go. It’s not Zelda that’s for sure but I enjoyed it and it’s now probably the most nostalgic SNES game for me!
Man I rented it too, from this small/local video store called "Superstar Video" that was just a few blocks away from my parents house. I rented this there, me and my brothers democratically selected it and then the next weekend my brothers didn't go with the the video store so I got to pick the game, and I picked the game Spanky's Quest - my brothers were furious about it at first but Spanky's Quest is dope as well. Both Claymates and Spanky's Quest are interconnected in my mind now because of all that, getting them back to back like that I really associate the two games together. God it's so nostalgic to see this video because I had basically forgotten about both games until now, I stumbled upon this video by accident because I was watching an earthworm Jim longplay and it came up in the recommended and wow, my mind is just filled with so many things right now that I had not thought about in ages.
From the bonus levels, and the secret ways to warp to the next round, looking at the carnival and a would-be path to it, blocked by a bush instead of another part of the fence, I kept thinking that there was a secret way for a robot to reach and blast the bush and to go to the carnival. I'm surprised not, considering the bonus levels and the design of the picture/animation of the carnival. By the way, I never noticed until now, a chimney just like from Clayton's house, is at the bottom left corner of the field the carnival is in.
I remember playing this game when I was 10. Was completely addicted to it.
I almost can’t tell the sprites are digitized images of clay figures. Kind of just look like regular snes sprites
Some of the sprites are, but some of them look like they were just drawn to match the CG flat and shiny look.
This game used to be my favo. Thanks for this
The Lab Level looks like a sonic level :)
Music is great. The game itself, not so much.
Capcom and Konami rejects.
@@juicyfartsofjimcornette1154 when did you become sentient?
@@balbarith45 - I'm referring to the game being made by the equivalent of Konami and Capcom rejects, dummy!
@@juicyfartsofjimcornette1154 I can't help it when you give me a username like that.
@@balbarith45 - Like yours is any better!
does anyone know how to save the game? I have played several times but I cannot find a check point and I always have to restart
You can't. Unless you use save states, the whole thing has to be finished at once.
I use a save state on the Switch
This is a good game.
Oh my god I thought I would never find this game again and i found it on a random video about clay fighter.
I'm guessing it was Rebeltaxi's video?
Yeah. This game was the shit. I rented it a bunch and then had my parents buy it for me. I'm pretty sure I beat it once. The cover had a cool shape shift decal on the front.
Edit: nope. Never did beat it!
Now coming to Nintendo Switch. Yup.
@@EnchantedSmellyWolf I just saw that! How ironic.
I like the robot puzzles in between stages
My sister still has this one. Fun little game though I never managed to finish it.
Bosses list
Ben: 20:02
Corky The Clam: 46:48
Webigail: 1:13:12
Jobo: 1:42:31
Final Boss The Martian Leader: 1:57:33
Im so proud of beating this when i was 8 looking back
I could never complete this game.. Felt so long.
It's weird to think this game was made by the same people who make those NBA games.
Why does something so oddly specific-- a blue ball of clay with a big, horizontal punching attack-- appear in three different SNES games? I get that the two "Putty" titles from System 3 are directly related, but I'm still unsure if Clayton's basic attack in this game is a coincidence.
My animation teacher did a bunch of stop motion for this!
Really? That's cool af. I loved the dog.
@@NintendoComplete yeah its kinda sad all that stop motion work was put into it and it isn't really translated well on the snes
Como faço p baixar no celular esse jogo ?
This is a nice little💎💎💎.
PS : i hope it was a better experience than your last gameplay😖😖😖.
Much, thank you :D
What was your last gameplay? I hope it wasn't as bad as everybody says.
@@bjjackson7895 Wolverine Adamantium Rage on the SNES. That game broke me a little on the inside.
This actually was a pretty good game.
So you practice every game before you record them? How long does one game take? How much free time are you giving yourself? I ask this because you are so much better than I ever was, especially at this game. I love the first stage music, though. I used it in my RUclips videos.
It depends on the game, really. I played this one a fair amount when I was younger, but practicing this, i played through it 2 or 3 times to make sure I could reasonably play it for recording. I'd guess somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 or 6 hours total? Some games I can do super quick, others take forever. This was somewhere in between :)
@@NintendoComplete As long as you enjoy it. I will be watching until the end of time.
@@MFields2178 Most of the time I do :) thankfully games like Adamantium Rage are the exception rather than the rule
First time playing this game. Fun platform.
Is it weird that I learn about this game a couple days ago and suddenly it appears on NSO? It's like Nintendo's stalking me...
😒 I'm onto you guys...
Hey there’s this really cool game called Earthbound that you should check out around this time next month
@@mredbadger well, the switch online games haven't had a monthly release schedule in quite a while. They have been a lot less frequent and not on any set schedule. But funny comment nonetheless.
Shame Goopy isn't anywhere in the first area
What a classic, the kind of game you only rent though, can't take this one home to meet mom
Huh? I have no clue what that means.
I don't know, you're over-selling this one, I love claymation too and all, but it's a testament to the limitations of the SNES hardware that the game's main gimmick, the fact that these characters are digitized clay models, falls completely flat for me. Because most of the sprites are so small, and the 16 bit graphics are so limited in colors that you can just barely tell they're clay at all. Looking at these graphics, I think it just looks like regular 16 bit sprites rather than claymation. Clayfighter is actually somewhat better with this, because the sprites are much larger, where you can tell they're clay models made in 3 dimensions. Here, not so much.
The only characters that remotely look convincingly like clay sculptures are the bosses. They look excellent! This is because of how huge they are and therefore we see much more detail and the models' clay features are clearer. Other aspects look great too, the planet in the cutscenes and the little formless blue ball you play as initially. The music's nice too.
Claymates is all right, I guess, but I've seen better attempts at digitized models in this era, and with more interesting gameplay to boot.
I gotcha. It was pretty ambitious, and the idea wasn't necessarily ideal for the tech, but I loved it nonetheless. The dog boss and that mode-7 globe totally sold me! :) I thought that it had a ton of charm. I actually liked it a lot more than I did Plok, despite how weirdly similar they both are, and it felt like it had heart. Does that make any sense? Like it was more than a mere money grab, and like the people that were making it gave a shit. That just made me like it all the more.
But what can I say? I do my best to present my ideas in my reviews as subjective opinion and not the word of God or whatever. I presented my evidence and you didn't agree, but I love how that can turn into legit talking about classic games. Gaming is kind of a personal thing in terms of experience, right? If we all found the same exact things ideal, Google would've AI-ed the perfect game and sold it to us a hundred different ways by now, or so I'd imagine. Unless.... *cue X-Files music!* Btw, thanks for being classy in your disagreement. So many people are quick to leap to personal attacks, and it always leaves me like wtf?
The Real Sean W. Stewart I think it’s because the levels and backgrounds aren’t made of clay like the characters. It doesn’t have a unified look like the way donkey Kong country does.
@@NintendoComplete - You are not alone, but comments like this,
"You can get a cart for $10-15 without much problem, and there's even a sealed copy on eBay at the moment for a mere Benjamin. Go on... you know you want it ;)"
makes you come off like an ignorant fanboy. Which makes me proud of The Real Sean W. Stewart for putting you in your place in an appropriate manner.
As for Claymates, look no further then the shit main characters as one of the biggest reasons why BUBSY (let alone Mario, Sonic and Mega Man) destroyed this game!
@@SuperUkcats Why ignorant? I am a fan, and I wanted to encourage others to try it for themselves. I didn't think he put me in my place so much as he disagreed with my opinion, but I don't expect everybody takes the things I say as gospel. I'm Just expressing my opinions is all.
@@NintendoComplete - Read this part again.
"Go on... you know you want it ;)"
If that doesn't scream fanboy, I don't know what is. And he put you in your place because he basically DESTROYED this game with some great counter points. Not that it matters to you. But people who see Sean's opinion may think twice about this game.
And I'm going to repeat this game's biggest downfall,
THE MAIN CHARACTERS SUCK!
If anything Complete, you should be pissed at the idiot character designers for coming up with such an unremarkable cast, because once again, there is a good reason why BUBSY got sequels and Claymates didn't.
52:38 nice :)
Nice gameplay bro. :D
Claymates and some other games by Interplay such as Lost Viking 1 & 2 hold a special place in my heart as I played them when I was at the right age for them to make a lasting impression on me.
Even today I still think about these games from time to time and I have been tempted to collect them. Problem is I would probably not play them again or on an emulator and they are rather pricey on Ebay these days. (decent boxed version of Lost Vikings 1 will set you back a $120 and Lost Vikings 2 even more)
(I did actually buy a sealed copy of Claymates as I like the game so much but I don't think I can easily spend so much money on other Interplay SNES games I would like to own; Lost Viking 1, & 2, Rock N Roll Racing, Blackthorne/Blackhawk, Robocop Vs the Terminator, Star Trek Starfleet Academy, and sadly there was no English release of Castles on the SNES)
Other than the colorful graphics what drew me really into Claymates was that you get to play to play a cat and I happen to love cats. I still adore Muckster a lot today and have had some fan art made with him and I am considering having a custom made stuffed animal in his likeness made.
But the game could really be hard sometimes.
I can understand when people say that this game is not as good like for example Super Mario World, for that the game is perhaps a little unbalanced here and there. Still I do think it is one of the better mascot platformers on the SNES compared to many others that were released at the time on the same platform and I do wish there had been a Claymates 2 on the SNES or perhaps the Playstation 1, now everything looking like Claymation.
Heh as for the music, I had forgotten how upbeat it can be.
When you make a fanmade sequel, please come up with better characters.
Great memories of my childhoodreams
I remember the box art it had a homograic style to it
The last two stages ruined a great game for me
Nice, really nice
How do u Pick up the ax 2 chop down the tree
Now in Switch
I wish Cornshaq was back and play this game
I found the game in Nintendo Switch
It's a Shame they never used the SPC Sound Chip
I used to hate that you couldn't play a level in that theme park. Like why add it in if it's just a tease lol.
😭😭😭😭quero esse jogo
Can't share your enthusiasm. The music is chirpy and annoying and the characters don't look like clay at all, kind of defeating the point.
Truly underrated gem ❤
That would be Mega Man X3.
Cool
This game is an obvious rip-off of the obscure Master System game Psycho Fox. Main character can transform into other animals with special abilities.
But Psycho Fox comes with better characters, levels, music, storyline (for what it is) than Claymates. Hell, even Psycho Fox has a better ending despite being a WTF moment. If anything, I'd say Psycho Fox is the underrated one, not Claymates.
That's a pretty standard platformer staple, isn't it? A lot of games did something similar. I did love Psycho Fox, though.
NintendoComplete - Tell me how many plats had the main character transform into other beings?
@@SuperUkcats Let's see, there's Little Nemo, Totally Rad, Kirby, Monster Party, Amagon, Widget, Castlevania 3, Dragon Power, Jekyll n Hyde, Shatterhand... I'm sure there are a load more, but that's what I've got off the top of my head on NES alone.
NintendoComplete - Ah, Widget The World Watcher, I remember that cartoon. Somebody should do a Hell In A Cell match between Widget and Captain Planet!
this clearly shows you've put a lot of thought into thinking about these two games and how they compare, are you on the spectrum? I know some folks who are a little different who also enjoy spending lots of time doing deep analysis of things like games, especially classic ones
Amo esse jogo ♥️
Like jerry donald duck muddy mudskipper garfield and sandy
"The mouse can run faster than Sonic" said my SNES fanboy pal at the time.
Claymates was not great
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