@@deadjuice1880 Did we forget that in Ride to Hell the floor during those drives from Point A to Point B sometimes didn't work and you fell into the sky box void at least during its release date?
This is THE bargain bin game for me. I've never owned it, rented it, played it, seen a trailer for it, or so much as a SCREENSHOT of it. Yet I see that cover and I go "Oh yeah, I know that game."
"Drake shifts from animation to animation so abruptly, I thought I was having a seizure. Then I realized it was my brain trying to shut down because it couldn't withstand the massive SUCK emanating from this game." -Adam Sessler, The X-Play Review of Drake & The 99 Dragons After all these years, this quote sticks with me as the defining summation of the game's problems.
Adam and Morgan on X-Play was my childhood. And Morgan was my first huge crush. I always feel a warm tingle of nostalgia when I think of that show during that era.
My favorite thing about Drake is that even his concept as a character is flawed. Nothing screams "Assassin badass" like your superpower being able to revive after dying embarrassingly.
@@cartooncritique6625 Yeah, but I mean, SoM and Deadpool usually die for...Reasons? I mean, Deadpool may have jumped off a building thinking he's invincible but probably more for a joke, which Drake didn't intend.
@@cartooncritique6625 Deadpool is a jokester parody of heroes so when he dies in a weird embarrassing way it's supposed to be funny but drake does it it's supposed to be cool
the worst part about this whole debacle to me is how promising the aesthetic is. the game LOOKS like it would be cool and be fun if you dont see more than like ten seconds of it in motion
Hey Matt, I worked at Majesco from 2010-2014 (til mass layoffs). I would love to see more "What Happened" on Majesco games; most notably NBA Baller Beats for reasons. Funfact: A fellow QA buddy almost got fired years after this game came out for making a joke about drake accidentally in the presence of the wrong person, and had to explain himself.
I imagine it more like: Idol: Guys we haven't fixed all the bugs yet, can you slow down a little bit? Majesco: MULTIMEDIA EMPIRE!!! Idol: ...guys? Majesco: MULTIM- Idol: Fuck it, let's work on Nosferatu instead.
@@Painocus this is accurate. I'm a software dev and I've had clients who thought QA testing was a scam we invented to try to get more money or something. Like we're all wand-carrying wizards who could get everything right the first try if we wanted to, yet are still somehow powerless enough to have to work for them.
I ACTUALLY PLAYED GAST WITH MY DAD ON HIS COMPUTER WHEN I WAS LIKE TWO YEARS OLD I CAN'T BELIEVE IT I'VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR THE NAME OF THAT GAME FOR FOREVER
There's a Doom-esque fantasy game called Hexen and the game it's a sequel to, Heretic, that I remembered strongly because my dad borrowed them from a coworker and played for a few weeks. For the longest time I couldn't remember the names of those games, just that they were similar to Doom and that there was an enemy that looked like a bipedal dog with two heads (turns out it wasn't a dog, but with those graphics that's what I had always assumed they were as a kid), until I started buying Doom clones left and right on Steam and ended up with Heretic.
This was the first video game that Drake was in and it shows. Luckily, Drake would eventually be hired by Blizzard so he could play Reaper by putting a mask on his stupid face. I suppose it pays when you're so angsty, you're trying to be cool, have otherworld powers and can pull unlimited guns out of your pants.
I was genuinely surprised when i saw that Majesco published Psychonauts, I somehow had no idea of this it's probably one of the only good things they have published
Majesco will publish everything. They published the entire Cooking Mama franchise outside of Japan, they published Double Dragon Neon, they published Psychonauts. But they also published a bunch of games that Matt has talked about like Advent Rising and Girl Fight. They're like a firehose
...I... did actually play Gast. I’m Swedish and I played it as a kid. In fact it was even somewhat scary as a kid. An evil clown had stopped a magical carnival ride and turned everything scary. You went around this haunted carnival/mansion and everything was dark some really eerie music and atmosphere. Throughout the journey you will meet several creepy and unnerving characters like a Raven, a giant Venus Flytrap, an anthropomorphic Cat with some major Freddy Krueger claws etc. The most messed up part was you could either help them with issues they had... or you can literally feed them to the others. I used to always bring the Raven with me to the cat, just so the cat could kill him Now this was a children’s game... but it was one hell of a dark one.
You'd think that trying to make Drake Of The 99 Dragons into a huge thing would make the devs _more_ receptive to calls for improving their first impression, not less.
Whenever I look at this game I think of mixed bag of Batman Beyond, Jackie Chan Adventures and Jake Long American Dragon except with none of their good qualities. Also games really should consider having more "Hentai CG Shrine Galleries" that one got me good but I'm not against it.
Actually, the first thing that occurred to me was No More Heroes. Intentionally cartoony art style, the lead character being an edgy assassin....only, you know, not good.
As a Swede, I approve of the broken Swedish Pronounciation at 4:27 lol Jokes aside it's not a bad attempt at all! I Gave the video a Like for it alone.
Ooff, never thought I'd be used as the source for one of these videos! Super flattering but also kind of scary:) **EDIT** Holy shit! Thanks for plugging Mystik Belle! I'm currently making a Switch port and a sequel, not that it sold well enough to warrant those things: )
@@MattMcMuscles Oh, and there is an incredibly easy way to kill the final boss. Due to a glitch, things outside of Drake's cone of vision don't animate, so as long as you don't look at the boss, it can't hurt you. Clear out the mirror, glance at the boss long enough to lock on to the correct head, turn away from him and keep firing until the head switches. Rinse, repeat. Boss will die in about 35-40 seconds. And, oh yeah, the final levels weren't in the game until about a month before we had to go gold.
Back in the day, I remember seeing ads for this crap game in Mad Magazine a lot. Always showing off the art but almost never showing any screenshots of the gameplay itself. And when the ads did eventually show screenshots, they were thumbnail size. Like the size of your actual thumbnails as you're holding the magazine. You could just feel the lack of confidence in this game.
Damn, that wound's still kinda raw for me. Before it was announced, I had a slim hope, mostly out of wishful thinking, that Konami would treat the Metal Gear franchise with some measure of respect & tact, but... yeah.
I feel like there should be a spin off to this series where you cover games that didnt happen or studios that never reached their full potential, like amy kennings' star wars or the Warriors sequel Mods and Rockers that was never made... you can call it "Wha Woulda Happun?"
15:27 Well we finally got Double Dragon Neon on Switch and as someone who played said Switch version earlier this year, can confirm, Neon is incredible.
Action 52 would be a cool one for you to cover. That game is infamous and legendary for how awful it is and I bet you'd do a very entertaining episode on it.
For anyone who wasn't alive when this masterpiece came out, let me tall you: Drake was HUGE back in the day. When this game was unleashed upon our pathetic world it changed the rntire trajectory of video games. Max payne was considered lame and cheesy compared to Drake's effortless coolness. Halo was a game for virgins, chads played Drake. There were so many sequels and spin offs, Drake T-shirts and cereals and action figures and comics,live action shows, Drake was THE icon of 2000's. I still have my Undying Dragon T-shirt and that trenchcoat I wore every Halloween.And that kickass cartoon I watched on Jetix every Saturday morning that lasted 10 seasons, 26 episodes each.If you didn't have at least a few Drake related things kids at school wouldn't even want to talk to you. Drake's catchphrase "Out of this world" became the most quoted line of all time.Ninja turtles wasn't even a pimple of how huge Drake became. I remember that date: July 31, 2009 when the movie based on the game came out. It was fantastic. I watched it 5 Drakillion times that summer. The Matrix was so lame and stupid compared to the awesomeness of that movie. Still the parents complained it was too dark for kids. And that stupid sequel Drake 2: Secret of the Soul was so childish compared to that. A few more sequels and a couple of failed reboots by Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes followed, but none had the same greatness as the first one. I love Drake. Still my favourite franchise and the greatest franchise of all time . "I am Drake. The assassin. To me, life is all about Death". So badass!!! Thank you,Idol fx and Majesco and Stefan Joul Vern, whatever your name is. They knew they had a new icon on their hands and oh boy did they succeed!!!
@@alverdeo965 That game did have a troubled development but at least Square managed to make it into something up to the FF series standards. The same can't be said for FFXIII.
God, those cutscenes where he's just flapping that giant mouth open and close. I think that will always be the first thing I think about when someone mentions this game.
I have been waiting on this one for a long, long time. Glad to finally see it pop up; it’s one of those games I’ve had in the back of my mind for years as a “I wonder what the story behind that was?” When are we getting a “Virtual Boy - Wha Happun?” :P
"Nothing can stop me now!" *Smashes through a window and falls to his death on purpose* Yeah. It's because you stopped yourself you edgelord crybaby. XP
I've always wondered about this game. It was one of those things that got meme'd in the early social media days and then people stopped caring about because there wasn't enough material for analysis. I'm glad someone spoke up enough on it to give us this video Good work Matt!
It's hilarious how Drake of the 99 Dragons and Nosferatu: Wrath of Malachi relased within weeks by the same developer, and both are still talked about today. Except one is still talked about because it's rather excellent, and one is still talked about because it's horrifyingly bad.
Maybe this is a bit forward thinking, but I think an April Fools version of Wha Happen that focuses on a game with troubled marketing or development but turns out well (Bloodstained or Portal for instance) would make for anice change of pace. Also whoever is picking the music for these videos has some great eclectic taste.
A pro tip to all up and coming game developers: If you want to turn your game into a media empire, make sure said game is actually good. Or at least functional.
What about Contra: Rogue Corps? That game received mixed to negative reviews upon release, and is considered by many to be one of the worst games of 2019 and another failed attempt at making a 3D Contra game.
I remember being excited for this (even tho we were too broke for a game system) because I loved BTAS and the art reminded me of that. And then my friend’s brother got it and I watched him play and...w o o f
They made a comic to go with the release of this game. In about 2006 I went to a horror convention. A dealer gave me this along with some other weird books. It sat in the back window of my car for probably a year and died. Now I'm glad I never read it.
This is one of the rare instances where something genuinely unpopular stopped getting installments. Because in reality, that’s very uncommon. Modern comic characters keep getting new series, despite all their previous series’ getting sh*t-canned due to lack of sales, unpopular movies keep getting sequels, etc. And all the actually good sh*t gets written off for tax-returns, and/ or abandoned forever.
@@unicorntomboy9736 Indeed it has, but is there enough actual development drama to justify it? Not to mention how it's essentially one loon plugging away while wrestling with issues, both reputational and professional.
Breakpoint just a flop and none of it is a mess unlike the other game they cover. It still have a gaming population and there terrible glitch breaking stuff or horrible development issues. Disliking a game doesn’t mean it a nightmare.
The only way I even remember Loophole was because that IP was used as a call-in game on a, now long gone, Swedish children's program that ran in the mornings
Hey Matt, Just want to say good job with the videos mate. I love the advertising break cut screen which adds a nice touch that i havnt seen in other series.
I cheered up like a sports fan watching a last minute goal in a football game when I saw the thumbnail. Possibly my most hyped episode yet. Amazing job! Now, it’s time to cover Action 52 (because of Cheetahmen) in order to complete the unholy trinity of “crappy games that prioritized becoming multimedia IPs instead of good games on its own” that preceded Drake and Mighty N9. 4:18 Somecallmejohnny and Antdude collabs when? Also, Mystik Belle reminds me a bit of A Hat in Time, mostly because their MCs have similar designs.
Hi Matt ! It's pretty cool to hear some Under night in birth music (Elthun's theme) at 7:46 That's make me happy ! :D And I love your videos since maybe 2 years now, from the bottom of my heart, thank you so much your great content ! See ya and have a nice evening !
When I was a kid I was at Walmart and my mom let me get a video game. I was taking a long time to decide which one to get, and my mom, fed up with my shit, said "how about that one? It looks like a comic book. You like comic books." So I got Drake of the 99 Dragons and, after so many tries to figure out how the fuck to play it, it eventually ended up taken forever out of my Xbox, sitting out of its case next to our TV, and with a piece of chewed gum stuck to it, until it went into the garbage where it always belonged. God bless Drake of the 99 Dragons.
Matt, I don't know if it's been said but I really appreciate the Advertising breaks. I hate when the ads cut people off mid sentence so to see you do this makes me happy. It means you care and I just wanted to say I care that you care. No homo
While the plot would make it hard, the design and art style for everything in Drake I can defintly see making a good comic book and TV show. The angular proportions and color use reminds me of things like Samurai Jack and some of Brice Timm's work. So I'll give them credit for thinking ahead with the multimedia plan.
Every time I see this Bruce Timm- infused fever dream, I can't help but think of ways to make this work. 2 or 3 more passes in the drafting process and you would've had the bones of a servicable game. A fun exercise for wannabe game devs: Strip apart the game and make well-considered decisions of how you'd make it work as a game and a story.
3:12 I've heard about that franchise, in another episode of "What happened?" (Altough it was more of a "What's happening?"). I'm still surprised that this has sold more than Metroid or Devil May Cry, and only slightly less than the main Megaman games.
Ah Loophole and Legend of Tann, the 2 fantasy book series made by Niklas Krog that I absolutely loved when I were a kid. I remember how in a intermission show between cartoons, animes and irl programs on every saturday morning were calling up random kids to tell them what to do in the game based on Loophole. Thx for reawakening some of my most dear childhood memories Matt.
You got to be kidding me! I thout less than an hour ago after watchin Pro Jared n AVGN on this n wondered "wonedr if Matt will do one on Drake" IMMA A PSYCHIC
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Imagine making a game that only escaped being the worst of the year because you released it in the same year as _Big Rigs._
At least you can go to Ludicrous Speed in Big Rigs when driving in circles backwards.
Now I want a Wha Happun with Big Rigs.
A win's a win
@@deadjuice1880 Did we forget that in Ride to Hell the floor during those drives from Point A to Point B sometimes didn't work and you fell into the sky box void at least during its release date?
Drivin' around in fawkin' trucks!
This is THE bargain bin game for me.
I've never owned it, rented it, played it, seen a trailer for it, or so much as a SCREENSHOT of it. Yet I see that cover and I go "Oh yeah, I know that game."
@@Bl4ckD0g $3 too many.
That gives a bad name to some truly interesting but somewhat flawed Bargain Bin games like Eternal Eyes and Battle Hunter.
My "bargain bin" game was Starsky and Hutch.
NARC on PS2.
"Drake shifts from animation to animation so abruptly, I thought I was having a seizure. Then I realized it was my brain trying to shut down because it couldn't withstand the massive SUCK emanating from this game."
-Adam Sessler, The X-Play Review of Drake & The 99 Dragons
After all these years, this quote sticks with me as the defining summation of the game's problems.
Adam was a great reviewer, I really enjoyed him on X-Play.
Nothing like x-play on the fuzzy channel two numbers down from the fuzzy porn channel.
Adam and Morgan on X-Play was my childhood. And Morgan was my first huge crush. I always feel a warm tingle of nostalgia when I think of that show during that era.
Oh man, Morgan was a big time "celebrity crush" for me back in the day. Extended/X Play was my game review source for years.
@@jockslap Adam Sessler IS participating in the reboot of G4 and X-Play.
My favorite thing about Drake is that even his concept as a character is flawed.
Nothing screams "Assassin badass" like your superpower being able to revive after dying embarrassingly.
to be fair, Shadow of Mordor has that as a character power in an Ass Creed style game.
I mean there's Deadpool, but at least he has a quirky personality to go with it.
@@cartooncritique6625 Yeah, but I mean, SoM and Deadpool usually die for...Reasons?
I mean, Deadpool may have jumped off a building thinking he's invincible but probably more for a joke, which Drake didn't intend.
There's sekiro, but he's badass and not an edgelord
@@cartooncritique6625 Deadpool is a jokester parody of heroes so when he dies in a weird embarrassing way it's supposed to be funny but drake does it it's supposed to be cool
the worst part about this whole debacle to me is how promising the aesthetic is. the game LOOKS like it would be cool and be fun if you dont see more than like ten seconds of it in motion
Hey Matt, I worked at Majesco from 2010-2014 (til mass layoffs). I would love to see more "What Happened" on Majesco games; most notably NBA Baller Beats for reasons.
Funfact: A fellow QA buddy almost got fired years after this game came out for making a joke about drake accidentally in the presence of the wrong person, and had to explain himself.
Did the guy he told the joke to REALLY want Drake to be a hit?
Majesco: so guys, have you fixed the bugs yet?
IdolFX: **flailing arms around** BLAM! BLAM! RA-TA-TATA-TA
I imagine it more like:
Idol: Guys we haven't fixed all the bugs yet, can you slow down a little bit?
Majesco: MULTIMEDIA EMPIRE!!!
Idol: ...guys?
Majesco: MULTIM-
Idol: Fuck it, let's work on Nosferatu instead.
@@Snyperwolf91 Is that an AVGN reference??
IdolFX: DRRRRRRRRRRRRRRUGS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THUD
@@Painocus this is accurate. I'm a software dev and I've had clients who thought QA testing was a scam we invented to try to get more money or something. Like we're all wand-carrying wizards who could get everything right the first try if we wanted to, yet are still somehow powerless enough to have to work for them.
I ACTUALLY PLAYED GAST WITH MY DAD ON HIS COMPUTER WHEN I WAS LIKE TWO YEARS OLD I CAN'T BELIEVE IT I'VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR THE NAME OF THAT GAME FOR FOREVER
Felt the same when I saw a DYKG video on Altered Beast for the PS2.
Oh I know this feeling too well
There's a Doom-esque fantasy game called Hexen and the game it's a sequel to, Heretic, that I remembered strongly because my dad borrowed them from a coworker and played for a few weeks. For the longest time I couldn't remember the names of those games, just that they were similar to Doom and that there was an enemy that looked like a bipedal dog with two heads (turns out it wasn't a dog, but with those graphics that's what I had always assumed they were as a kid), until I started buying Doom clones left and right on Steam and ended up with Heretic.
@@Jolis_Parsec Yep, that's it. I believe it was also published by id, though I don't think they were the ones to actually make the game.
OKAY!
I'll never get over those flailing Drake arms.
They decided to skip the whole "bad licensed game" and go for the game first, license later.
That's a good idea. It lets you into Smash.
@@Gnidel oh shit you're right. Who the hell will want Drake in Smash though lol.
@Pyro Pack *So we can beat the shit out of him*
This was the first video game that Drake was in and it shows. Luckily, Drake would eventually be hired by Blizzard so he could play Reaper by putting a mask on his stupid face. I suppose it pays when you're so angsty, you're trying to be cool, have otherworld powers and can pull unlimited guns out of your pants.
Gabriel is so angry BECAUSE he was once Drake and can never live down the shame.
cant wait for the sequel, JOSH of the 99 dragons *canned laughter*
i dont fucking remember writing this
@@lunardogs2416 *Did you ever write this?*
There's writing here?
Lol
As a man named Josh this offends me
I was genuinely surprised when i saw that Majesco published Psychonauts, I somehow had no idea of this
it's probably one of the only good things they have published
Majesco will publish everything. They published the entire Cooking Mama franchise outside of Japan, they published Double Dragon Neon, they published Psychonauts. But they also published a bunch of games that Matt has talked about like Advent Rising and Girl Fight. They're like a firehose
...I... did actually play Gast. I’m Swedish and I played it as a kid. In fact it was even somewhat scary as a kid. An evil clown had stopped a magical carnival ride and turned everything scary. You went around this haunted carnival/mansion and everything was dark some really eerie music and atmosphere. Throughout the journey you will meet several creepy and unnerving characters like a Raven, a giant Venus Flytrap, an anthropomorphic Cat with some major Freddy Krueger claws etc.
The most messed up part was you could either help them with issues they had... or you can literally feed them to the others. I used to always bring the Raven with me to the cat, just so the cat could kill him
Now this was a children’s game... but it was one hell of a dark one.
You'd think that trying to make Drake Of The 99 Dragons into a huge thing would make the devs _more_ receptive to calls for improving their first impression, not less.
Pride cometh before a fall.
Whenever I look at this game I think of mixed bag of Batman Beyond, Jackie Chan Adventures and Jake Long American Dragon except with none of their good qualities.
Also games really should consider having more "Hentai CG Shrine Galleries" that one got me good but I'm not against it.
Yeah, the style made me think it was based on some obscure series by Warner bros./DC. I never knew until now that it was game first.
There's Blazblue so...
Actually, the first thing that occurred to me was No More Heroes. Intentionally cartoony art style, the lead character being an edgy assassin....only, you know, not good.
As a Swede, I approve of the broken Swedish Pronounciation at 4:27 lol
Jokes aside it's not a bad attempt at all! I Gave the video a Like for it alone.
Nailed it!
OniFox my man does a better job than I could of done 😂
Gonna be honest, as a Swede, I've heard way worse.
Yeah it was super fun! Also, I remember reading a Loophole book as a kid! I remember really liking it !
lol i wouldn't have a clue of what he was trying to say if he hadn't shown the actual title
In the words of M Bison
“YES...YEEESS”
My brother from across the pond is back again with another BANGER
Cheers Matt, don’t deserve ya
Honestly the game has a cool style, Drake reminds me of a Tim Bruce design and if the game was actually made properly it’d look so good.
Yea, that’d be great. Bad games also need to be remade and given a proper chance.
I appreciate the sentiment, but there are much more deserving games worth your attention then this garbage.
The bones are there. It's a good idea, but they didn't do the work and polishing to make it a decent game.
@@8Kazuja8 Play GunGrave on PS2 - similar premise, but MUCH nicer execution: )
The 2D art looks good, but 3D Drake has that weird slack-jawed underbite
Ooff, never thought I'd be used as the source for one of these videos! Super flattering but also kind of scary:)
**EDIT** Holy shit! Thanks for plugging Mystik Belle! I'm currently making a Switch port and a sequel, not that it sold well enough to warrant those things: )
Ohh shit! Wassup! I love Mystik Belle!
@@MattMcMuscles Oh, and there is an incredibly easy way to kill the final boss. Due to a glitch, things outside of Drake's cone of vision don't animate, so as long as you don't look at the boss, it can't hurt you. Clear out the mirror, glance at the boss long enough to lock on to the correct head, turn away from him and keep firing until the head switches. Rinse, repeat. Boss will die in about 35-40 seconds.
And, oh yeah, the final levels weren't in the game until about a month before we had to go gold.
@@darkfalzx this is literally "out of sight, out of mind" applied to game design. that's amazing.
PCachu my headcanon is that the final boss is related to the bugblatter beast of traal.
I bought Mystik Belle. Neat game.
Surprisingly this game is now probably one of the least controversial things involving a guy named Drake
Starts watching this series a week ago: "When is Drake of the 99 Dragons coming out."
Week later: "There we go." 🙃
god i wish i only had to wait like a week for this ;^P
welcome aboard
Back in the day, I remember seeing ads for this crap game in Mad Magazine a lot. Always showing off the art but almost never showing any screenshots of the gameplay itself. And when the ads did eventually show screenshots, they were thumbnail size. Like the size of your actual thumbnails as you're holding the magazine.
You could just feel the lack of confidence in this game.
[JaimeR] Considering how much of a joke the game was, it's only fitting that Mad Magazine ran ads for it.
For decades Mad refused to run any ads in their pages. Sad.
just commenting for the algorithm, love ya matt
Early gang
Yeah, no. That's not how RUclips works. That's nice of you though.
Another one down on the "Wha Happun" checklist.
Is there a Metal Gear: Survive episode in our distant future?
Yup
@@MattMcMuscles Oh boy!
I think Survive can be summed up as "Screw Kojima! We're gonna make our own Metal Gear, with blackjack and hookers!"
Damn, that wound's still kinda raw for me. Before it was announced, I had a slim hope, mostly out of wishful thinking, that Konami would treat the Metal Gear franchise with some measure of respect & tact, but... yeah.
@@bhull242 Yeah, I know. Like I said, it was mostly out of wishful thinking.
Well you know what they say: I got 99 Dragons but the glitch ain't done.
@@kenterminateddq5311 in the bottom.
I feel like there should be a spin off to this series where you cover games that didnt happen or studios that never reached their full potential, like amy kennings' star wars or the Warriors sequel Mods and Rockers that was never made... you can call it "Wha Woulda Happun?"
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@@MattMcMuscles Aw cheers G you've already got one! get on the Mods and Rockers on Gone Too Soon then
15:27 Well we finally got Double Dragon Neon on Switch and as someone who played said Switch version earlier this year, can confirm, Neon is incredible.
I loved the game on PS3 so when I saw the Switch was getting it, I was hype as hell~
Such amazing restraint to not use Skinner's "no, it's the children who are wrong" meme for that last quote. Keep up the great work Matt!
Thank you for reminding me of Adam Sessler's review of this on Xplay...
I miss those halcyon days.
Action 52 would be a cool one for you to cover. That game is infamous and legendary for how awful it is and I bet you'd do a very entertaining episode on it.
0:27 legit how I react whenever I'm reminded of this "masterpiece" of a game.
this should've started as a comic book. The art styles definitely got something going for it.
Every time Advent Rising gets brought up I die a little inside
I actually enjoyed it and the fact it never went anywhere bugs me to this day
i really appreciate that you chose an image of Andrew Bado that just screams "I worked on Drake of the 99 Dragons"
For anyone who wasn't alive when this masterpiece came out, let me tall you: Drake was HUGE back in the day.
When this game was unleashed upon our pathetic world it changed the rntire trajectory of video games. Max payne was considered lame and cheesy compared to Drake's effortless coolness. Halo was a game for virgins, chads played Drake. There were so many sequels and spin offs, Drake T-shirts and cereals and action figures and comics,live action shows, Drake was THE icon of 2000's. I still have my Undying Dragon T-shirt and that trenchcoat I wore every Halloween.And that kickass cartoon I watched on Jetix every Saturday morning that lasted 10 seasons, 26 episodes each.If you didn't have at least a few Drake related things kids at school wouldn't even want to talk to you. Drake's catchphrase "Out of this world" became the most quoted line of all time.Ninja turtles wasn't even a pimple of how huge Drake became.
I remember that date: July 31, 2009 when the movie based on the game came out. It was fantastic. I watched it 5 Drakillion times that summer. The Matrix was so lame and stupid compared to the awesomeness of that movie. Still the parents complained it was too dark for kids. And that stupid sequel Drake 2: Secret of the Soul was so childish compared to that. A few more sequels and a couple of failed reboots by Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes followed, but none had the same greatness as the first one.
I love Drake. Still my favourite franchise and the greatest franchise of all time .
"I am Drake. The assassin. To me, life is all about Death". So badass!!! Thank you,Idol fx and Majesco and Stefan Joul Vern, whatever your name is. They knew they had a new icon on their hands and oh boy did they succeed!!!
I remember plenty of ads of this game in gaming magazines back in the days. Kinda makes me wonder.
I'm so glad you are covering this! For the next one, would you consider covering the MMO disaster APB?
Still hoping to see the Final Fantasy XIII trilogy get its day in Wha Happun court. Someday.
@@alverdeo965 That game did have a troubled development but at least Square managed to make it into something up to the FF series standards. The same can't be said for FFXIII.
God, those cutscenes where he's just flapping that giant mouth open and close. I think that will always be the first thing I think about when someone mentions this game.
Holy mother of Mega-Man. The rendition of Star-Man's stage theme in your outro struck a cord with me. Nostalgia~
I have been waiting on this one for a long, long time. Glad to finally see it pop up; it’s one of those games I’ve had in the back of my mind for years as a “I wonder what the story behind that was?”
When are we getting a “Virtual Boy - Wha Happun?” :P
Swedish devs: "Nothing can stop me now!"
*Knock knock...it's yourselves*
DIC? That takes me back 30 years to watching Inspector Gadget on beta at my grandparents house. Good stuff
Do a what happened on Jurassic Park trespasser
I remember watching X-Play as young teenager years ago when this thing popped up.
Honestly for a long time I wondered if it was real
"Nothing can stop me now!"
*Smashes through a window and falls to his death on purpose*
Yeah. It's because you stopped yourself you edgelord crybaby. XP
Boy, Matt. Showing Adam Sessler reviewing the game for X-Play took me back to 2005. G4 was the shit back then. Hopefully it will be again
Me: "Alright, let's see what's on YT today..."
::sees this::
"Ooohh, this is gonna be good!" :D
Seriously, Matt, love your work.
the art-style kinda reminds me of the animated show "the batman"... so yeah, maybe should ahve started with a cartoon or comic instead of a game
I've always wondered about this game. It was one of those things that got meme'd in the early social media days and then people stopped caring about because there wasn't enough material for analysis. I'm glad someone spoke up enough on it to give us this video Good work Matt!
It's hilarious how Drake of the 99 Dragons and Nosferatu: Wrath of Malachi relased within weeks by the same developer, and both are still talked about today. Except one is still talked about because it's rather excellent, and one is still talked about because it's horrifyingly bad.
Maybe this is a bit forward thinking, but I think an April Fools version of Wha Happen that focuses on a game with troubled marketing or development but turns out well (Bloodstained or Portal for instance) would make for anice change of pace.
Also whoever is picking the music for these videos has some great eclectic taste.
A pro tip to all up and coming game developers: If you want to turn your game into a media empire, make sure said game is actually good.
Or at least functional.
*Matt McMuscles mentions all the good games of 2003*
Crash Nitro Kart: "AM I A JOKE TO YOU?!!"
What about Contra: Rogue Corps? That game received mixed to negative reviews upon release, and is considered by many to be one of the worst games of 2019 and another failed attempt at making a 3D Contra game.
Overheating guns.... in a contra game...
I just bought the physical version of this game out of pure curiosity and to have a piece of gaming history. Wish me luck as I start playing it
I like the change up in your style here. Especially the advertising breaks.
I remember being excited for this (even tho we were too broke for a game system) because I loved BTAS and the art reminded me of that. And then my friend’s brother got it and I watched him play and...w o o f
They made a comic to go with the release of this game. In about 2006 I went to a horror convention. A dealer gave me this along with some other weird books. It sat in the back window of my car for probably a year and died. Now I'm glad I never read it.
Hey Matt what's up I heard about this game before and I'm glad you made a video, I hopped over to se- *GAME OVER*
Keep up the awesome vids Matt!
This is one of the rare instances where something genuinely unpopular stopped getting installments.
Because in reality, that’s very uncommon. Modern comic characters keep getting new series, despite all their previous series’ getting sh*t-canned due to lack of sales, unpopular movies keep getting sequels, etc.
And all the actually good sh*t gets written off for tax-returns, and/ or abandoned forever.
Imagine going from publishing Drake of the 99 Dragons to Guilty Gear, Psychonauts and Serious Sam. Dreams really do come true.
I played the demo of this game included on the OXM Magazine like 99 times. I was a lot of fun as a concept.
I think Friday The 13th: The Game & Ghost Recon: Breakpoint would make fine additions to Wha Happun?
@@unicorntomboy9736 Yandere Simulator is still in development so I dont think that counts
@@unicorntomboy9736 Indeed it has, but is there enough actual development drama to justify it? Not to mention how it's essentially one loon plugging away while wrestling with issues, both reputational and professional.
Breakpoint just a flop and none of it is a mess unlike the other game they cover. It still have a gaming population and there terrible glitch breaking stuff or horrible development issues. Disliking a game doesn’t mean it a nightmare.
The only way I even remember Loophole was because that IP was used as a call-in game on a, now long gone, Swedish children's program that ran in the mornings
You forgot to mention that Stefan Ljunquivist is also the creative director of .... Biomutant
Hey Matt,
Just want to say good job with the videos mate. I love the advertising break cut screen which adds a nice touch that i havnt seen in other series.
I cheered up like a sports fan watching a last minute goal in a football game when I saw the thumbnail. Possibly my most hyped episode yet. Amazing job! Now, it’s time to cover Action 52 (because of Cheetahmen) in order to complete the unholy trinity of “crappy games that prioritized becoming multimedia IPs instead of good games on its own” that preceded Drake and Mighty N9. 4:18 Somecallmejohnny and Antdude collabs when? Also, Mystik Belle reminds me a bit of A Hat in Time, mostly because their MCs have similar designs.
Hi Matt !
It's pretty cool to hear some Under night in birth music (Elthun's theme) at 7:46
That's make me happy ! :D
And I love your videos since maybe 2 years now, from the bottom of my heart, thank you so much your great content !
See ya and have a nice evening !
Do one on Limbo of the Lost, that game had a crazy development history
Oh heck, was that Under Night In-Birth music? It's great to hear that soundtrack again!
When I was a kid I was at Walmart and my mom let me get a video game. I was taking a long time to decide which one to get, and my mom, fed up with my shit, said "how about that one? It looks like a comic book. You like comic books." So I got Drake of the 99 Dragons and, after so many tries to figure out how the fuck to play it, it eventually ended up taken forever out of my Xbox, sitting out of its case next to our TV, and with a piece of chewed gum stuck to it, until it went into the garbage where it always belonged. God bless Drake of the 99 Dragons.
Damn.
The original Cyberpunk before Cyberpunk 2077
Matt,
I don't know if it's been said but I really appreciate the Advertising breaks. I hate when the ads cut people off mid sentence so to see you do this makes me happy. It means you care and I just wanted to say I care that you care.
No homo
Great video. This game had to be covered eventually. Loved the UNIST music in there. Amazing soundtrack.
While the plot would make it hard, the design and art style for everything in Drake I can defintly see making a good comic book and TV show. The angular proportions and color use reminds me of things like Samurai Jack and some of Brice Timm's work. So I'll give them credit for thinking ahead with the multimedia plan.
I love that remix of Starman's theme from Megaman Network Transmission in the beginning!
07:46 Eltnum theme in this what happened episode fits so well lol
As a stupid kid in 2003 I took one look at that cover art and knew it was a bad game
As a kid the only thing that stood out to me about this game as is that the character' art style reminded me of the batman cartoons.
Every time I see this Bruce Timm- infused fever dream, I can't help but think of ways to make this work. 2 or 3 more passes in the drafting process and you would've had the bones of a servicable game. A fun exercise for wannabe game devs: Strip apart the game and make well-considered decisions of how you'd make it work as a game and a story.
I still remember the X-Play review of this game and it was glorious.
Nice use of the StarMan stage music from Mega Man Network Transmission. I'm hearing that game's OST surprisingly often...
you had my attention as soon as you used Network Transmission music in the video
Same! MMNT has an excellent soundtrack.
3:12 I've heard about that franchise, in another episode of "What happened?" (Altough it was more of a "What's happening?"). I'm still surprised that this has sold more than Metroid or Devil May Cry, and only slightly less than the main Megaman games.
Ah Loophole and Legend of Tann, the 2 fantasy book series made by Niklas Krog that I absolutely loved when I were a kid.
I remember how in a intermission show between cartoons, animes and irl programs on every saturday morning were calling up random kids to tell them what to do in the game based on Loophole.
Thx for reawakening some of my most dear childhood memories Matt.
The only interaction I ever had with this game was sticking $9.99 stickers on our remaining inventory before tossing them into a bargain bin.
Anybody remember the comic turned movie “Firebreather” about the half Kaiju kid?
ImmortalDeathGod holy shit I forgot about that
Wait, it was a comic?
@@letimartineznarvaez3129 yes it was an Image comic.(company that made Spawn, Invincible and Walking Dead)
Majesco : NOOOOOOOO You can’t just ignore Drake’s glaring issues!!
Idol: Haha Drake go shooty shoot shoot
shirtless in a long jacket. this would be dennis reynolds favorite game.
Gast looks like the nightmare before christmas game
You got to be kidding me! I thout less than an hour ago after watchin Pro Jared n AVGN on this n wondered "wonedr if Matt will do one on Drake" IMMA A PSYCHIC
I played this as a kid. I always enjoyed playing through it. I've played through it all the way through every so many years since I was little
What about Brave Samurai Musashi, the follow-up to the somewhat-obscure, but very solid, Brave Fencer Musashi?
A cartoon, comic and toy line. Huh....where have I heard that before?. The Cheetahmen? Is that you?
Hey Matt shoutout to you for pronouncing those Swedish names really well :)
Nice to hear Network Transmission getting some love.
They are the ones stopping the port of Double Dragon Neon? Now I know who to hate for that.