Praise the wheel! Kitarou looks so nice!! But I can't get over the fact that there are real albums out there made with a PS1 game, that's just mind boggling!
Another great video, thanks. The PS1 has such an interesting library. It was from such a weird and experimental time in gaming. PS1 gets a bad rap these days imo, with many people saying it's "aged poorly" I don't agree, I got a bunch of old consoles and a CRT this year and the PS1 might be the system I've played the most since.
They are not easy on the eyes. It can look quite good. But over the years I've really gotten into the aesthetic and appreciate what some were able to pull off. And I love the experimentation.
PS1 is dated in a lot of ways. PS1 was a experimental console, so a lot of the games are pure crap where they had no idea what they were doing. The 3D camera was a struggle for devs even into the early PS2 era. Same experimental focus lead to a lot of amazing games too. Probably more than we get today because the budgets and smaller dev teams made games easier to make and take risks.
To be fair I do think the console has aged poorly, at least compared to the 8bit and 16bit systems. That doesn't kean that it's bad and should be avoided though. One of the main problems was 3d gaming at the time was just trying to figure out what worked and what didn't leading a bunch or games to control poorly and some games can look pretty bad. With that said I do still love the console and there'w plenty of games on the system that haven't aged poorly and are still a good time like Tomba, Tekken 3 or Klonoa.
Man I love the playlists here. I was sure I could recite PS1 catalog in full off the top of my head and I've had that view rectified hard going through the Japan Only and Obscure PS1 games. Thanks for making these!
Gegege no kitaro is a great game but sadly a really expensive one too. Because it was literally one of the last few games ever released on PS1 it wasn't released in large numbers & sold terrible because most people had moved onto newer machines so there's not many copies out there in the wild. You're looking at a £200+ title if you can find one.
Yet another batch of curios games. Also, was pleasantly surprised to see Crisis Beat mentioned here. As a child, I loved this game. So many hours spent and I almost beat it! But later in life I think I've spent ages just to search for it - you see, it's because my pirated copy (it was Russia after all), had a different name, tying it to a local movie about criminals. Thankfully I found it again~
That’s funny - I’m almost certain the track at 8:13 in Lucifer’s Ring you said is among some of the worst you’ve ever heard is a reinterpretation of an actual Haruomi Hosono song from the 80s. An aggressively experimental electronic one called The Long History of a Humankind on the album The Endless Talking. Hosono and the trio he was in, YMO, were massively influential on video game music and Japanese music in general back in the day so it wouldn’t surprise me other than the odd choice of song to redo or at least be heavily inspired by.
hello seany sean seanson, seeing the disappointing music game here made me think of MTV music generator on the playstation. seeing how you have a strong focus on the music of the playstation i would love to see a video about the other music prod games on the system down the line. just an idea. cheers
28:14 I'm 2 years late but you're not missing out on much with the Kitarou menu! The options are just stereo/mono sound, vibration on/off, and game difficulty (you were playing on normal, the one to the left is easy and the one to the right is hard). Looking at reviews in Japanese it seems like the game was criticised for how hard it was given that the series was targeted towards kids!
@@SeanSeanson Not this time, at least! (All joking aside, I recently discovered your channel and have been binging both this series & the Obscure/Forgotten PS1 Games one. Your videos are very entertaining and I appreciate the balance of humour and factual review -- I'm sure it must be hard to get things like that right. Keep up the great work, hope you're doing well!)
Does anyone know the title of the game shown at 0:54? I swear I played this game on a demo disc included in the UK PS magazine back in the day and seeing this gave me a rush of old memories. Would be fun to check it out again
The game in the video is Mr. Driller G, but regular old Mr. Driller came out in the west so that's probably the game you played on the demo back in the day :)
@@SeanSeanson Yes, that's it! Thought it was weird having memories of a game that wasn't even released here, but I remember coming across the original Mr. Driller title back in the day after you mentioned it. Thank you so much!
Did the PS1 ever get a good beat'em up? Beat Planet Music looks interesting. I'd like to make some music with it. Is it hard for beginners? And it reminded my of iS, which you almost got next!! Kitarou is also cool. I love these 2D games. They're so pretty. PS: I appreciate fart guy. He tries his best.
My favourite beat em up on the PS1 is a game called Gekido, nice graphics and fun combo system, would be my top pick from what I've played at least! Thankfully it's very easy for beginners to get started BPM, it's very simple to just fiddle about with parts and create something that sounds good immediately, definately try it out if it seems like your kinda thing. Bless Fart guy, he's the heart and soul of the team.
Always want it to try KItaro, but (specially after the video) seems a little to old school for me. A little off topic, I remember you saying that you don't have a CRT in one of your videos (might be wrong though), but have you tried playing with CRT Shaders? In specific the ones available via Retroarch? People don't think much about it, but most of the games from this era and before it were made with a CRT display in mind, personally I believe it make the visuals that much better specially with 2D sprites and pre-rendered backgrounds. For comparison I will link two comparison one for Legend of Mana i.warosu.org/data/vr/img/0058/98/1569197993705.gif and another for FFVIII i.warosu.org/data/vr/img/0058/98/1569275093263.gif (the clouds look way better with the shader). Both images are with the xm29 preset shader. Wouldn't recommend using to capture image for your videos, might look weird for some, and if your GPU don't have the option for integer scaling you might need to play the game with a small screen to make the shader work properly (in all honest it looks fine even with fullscreen)
Cheers for the comment and you're absolutely right, I'll look into that. It's been a long time since I've had the space for CRT but it's always my preferred way play anything pre HD era. But if I can use a few tweaks to get the capture closer to the original look I'd be pretty happy. Thanks for the advice!
I know this might be talking to the void with an old video, but I found your channel and I watch things in order.... Please have a little text stating the title of the game you have on screen during the intros where you show a million cool looking games!!!! 😢
You might not like this answer, but I like to use the opening and closings to to get people inticed into exploring the libraries themselves rather than directing them to the source, sort of a visual taster of whats out there. I like to promote curiosity, because if you go out looking for these yourself you might end up finding a whole lot more in the process, these videos only scratch the surface, and if I did these till the day I die I still won't have shown everything. That being said if you ever want to know the name of a game just tag the timecode in a comment and I'm always happy to letcha know.
7:47 "Hello? My eyes are up he-... actually, nevermind" 8:13 What in the world, this reminds me of that one awful Resident Evil trumpet song I'd say I have pretty low standards when it comes to SNES and PS1 game music, stuff generally sounds good to me, especially from Japan... but this games soundtrack (I've looked up the other songs) is just objectively bad. The Crisisbeat soundtrack for example sounds totally fine, so something must've happened. Maybe they had no budget for a real composer? It's kind of sad, I feel like this had the potential to be a pretty decent game if it had more budget and development time.
Yeah it really is a shame. it's fun for what it is but it really could have been much better with a lil more time and budget. The soundtrack really is something. I've come across at least two or three objectively TERRIBLE songs in some of the Japanese games I've planned. Can't wait to see how many more I'll find along the way 😅
I’m a big fan of your work and love watching you when I’m painting. I use first generation 3d graphics in my work Like early PlayStation one and Sega CD and for more intricate details PlayStation2 graphics. Most people in art use gallery’s and museum and books to look at references. I love to use video games and bring them to live in my paintings. Would you happen to know any plug and play emulators that has all Japanese and American PlayStation1 or Dreamcast games on it? I’m not a technical person at all. In fact I don’t even have a computer lol just a tablet. Any recommendations would be appreciated. Thank you Check out my work Levochkingosha.com Nice to meet you Please keep making all your videos I love them.
Ah thank you! I really appreciate the comment. Emulators are thankfully a lot easier to set up nowadays. I'm not too sure what the best emulators are for mobile/tablets but I think the easiest from my experience is... PS1 - ePSXe Dreamcast - ReDream If you have any trouble setting them up, there's always an easy to step by step guide on RUclips. Finding the games is a bit tougher, but generally speaking archive.com should have everything you're looking for, just type "PS1 archive" or "Dreamcast archive" and you should have access to everything you need :) I'll check out your art for sure, Thanks for sharing! Should hopefully have more videos out in the new year! Thanks again for the comment, really appreciate it!
@@goshalevochkin877 I use ePSXe on PC just due to how easy it is to use, there's lots of options to upscale and enhance certain features, but I very much like to keep the experience as close to original hardware as I can and the emulator gives me some good options for that! Although most people would recomend retroarch and the beetle core for emulation, but it's a little more complicated and has given me some hassle in the past so I just stick to what works! Checked out your art by the way and it's amazing! You're so talented.
Praise the wheel!
Kitarou looks so nice!! But I can't get over the fact that there are real albums out there made with a PS1 game, that's just mind boggling!
Kitarou is stunningly good looking for a PS1 game, admittedly being 2D helps.
8:12 that's some nice RE Director's Cut vibes right here
You're editing takes me back to adult swim commercial bumpers! Really nicely done.
Lol that second Lucifer ring song you show is fucking amazing! RuhRUHRUHRUH!! ....tistingtingtingatingtang
You had me at "blastbeats fighting a dragon". Want to play that!
Man, the pixel art in Kitarou is beautiful. Aged very well.
8:13 eat your heart out RE Director's Cut Basement Theme. Holy balls that hurt my ears...
Another great video, thanks.
The PS1 has such an interesting library. It was from such a weird and experimental time in gaming. PS1 gets a bad rap these days imo, with many people saying it's "aged poorly" I don't agree, I got a bunch of old consoles and a CRT this year and the PS1 might be the system I've played the most since.
They are not easy on the eyes. It can look quite good. But over the years I've really gotten into the aesthetic and appreciate what some were able to pull off. And I love the experimentation.
PS1 is dated in a lot of ways. PS1 was a experimental console, so a lot of the games are pure crap where they had no idea what they were doing. The 3D camera was a struggle for devs even into the early PS2 era.
Same experimental focus lead to a lot of amazing games too. Probably more than we get today because the budgets and smaller dev teams made games easier to make and take risks.
To be fair I do think the console has aged poorly, at least compared to the 8bit and 16bit systems. That doesn't kean that it's bad and should be avoided though. One of the main problems was 3d gaming at the time was just trying to figure out what worked and what didn't leading a bunch or games to control poorly and some games can look pretty bad. With that said I do still love the console and there'w plenty of games on the system that haven't aged poorly and are still a good time like Tomba, Tekken 3 or Klonoa.
Man I love the playlists here. I was sure I could recite PS1 catalog in full off the top of my head and I've had that view rectified hard going through the Japan Only and Obscure PS1 games. Thanks for making these!
Gotta download beat planet music for the aesthetic alone.
The Kitaro series has stuff on Famicom too that's a similar 2D adventure game. Also a wii party game and a DS 2D adventure game too!
Crisis Beat and Lucifer Ring look a fun weekend waiting to happen.
I've been big into Japan ps1 games lately so I'm loving this!
Crisis Beat is a gem, rough as fuck, but super fun to play. I’ll have to check out Lucifer Ring.
This is such evergreen content! Thank you Sean!
Great content! Amazing production quality. Keep it up!
Appreciate the comment! Thank you 😁
Gegege no kitaro is a great game but sadly a really expensive one too. Because it was literally one of the last few games ever released on PS1 it wasn't released in large numbers & sold terrible because most people had moved onto newer machines so there's not many copies out there in the wild. You're looking at a £200+ title if you can find one.
Yet another batch of curios games.
Also, was pleasantly surprised to see Crisis Beat mentioned here. As a child, I loved this game. So many hours spent and I almost beat it!
But later in life I think I've spent ages just to search for it - you see, it's because my pirated copy (it was Russia after all), had a different name, tying it to a local movie about criminals.
Thankfully I found it again~
am i the only one who saw beat planet music and INSTANTLY thought of amplitude/frequency
What better way to start a Sunday
i don’t know if you’ve got to Fluid yet in your obscure ps1 series, but it is a beautiful house music maker game that deserves coverage.
It's in the regular wheel selection, but if you'd like to add it as a viewer pick under your name I can get that added for future episodes?
I’m always ready to be hurt again when it comes to an underwhelming beat em up
Oh shit I've seen kitarou before but not sure where. Gorgeous game obviously left an impression on me. Great vid as always.
8:12 And here I thought Evergrace could not be topped.
That’s funny - I’m almost certain the track at 8:13 in Lucifer’s Ring you said is among some of the worst you’ve ever heard is a reinterpretation of an actual Haruomi Hosono song from the 80s. An aggressively experimental electronic one called The Long History of a Humankind on the album The Endless Talking.
Hosono and the trio he was in, YMO, were massively influential on video game music and Japanese music in general back in the day so it wouldn’t surprise me other than the odd choice of song to redo or at least be heavily inspired by.
What an episode! I want to play all three titles for different reasons! I need to play Kitarou asap.
Came for the games, stayed for the wheel!
These all look fun to play, shame kitaro is sadly stiff to control, it looks down right beautiful!
would be interested in giving Gegege no Kitarou a go, though also sounds frustrating as hell.
Oh hohoh nooooooo 8:13 ☠️☠️☠️ that sounds SINFUL
Phantasy Star Online music on a ps1 video is a... unique choice.
hello seany sean seanson,
seeing the disappointing music game here made me think of MTV music generator on the playstation.
seeing how you have a strong focus on the music of the playstation i would love to see a video about the other music prod games on the system down the line.
just an idea. cheers
28:14 I'm 2 years late but you're not missing out on much with the Kitarou menu! The options are just stereo/mono sound, vibration on/off, and game difficulty (you were playing on normal, the one to the left is easy and the one to the right is hard). Looking at reviews in Japanese it seems like the game was criticised for how hard it was given that the series was targeted towards kids!
Thank you, nice to know I'm not that terrible at playing children's games!
@@SeanSeanson Not this time, at least! (All joking aside, I recently discovered your channel and have been binging both this series & the Obscure/Forgotten PS1 Games one. Your videos are very entertaining and I appreciate the balance of humour and factual review -- I'm sure it must be hard to get things like that right. Keep up the great work, hope you're doing well!)
that yokai game looks class
Dat PSO Character screen music tho
Had to squeeze a lil PSO in there somewhere :)
Organ-driven blast beats for the dragon battle seems oddly appropriate to me
It's the kind of music you'd expect from a band with dragon in their name, that also write songs about dragons
Does anyone know the title of the game shown at 0:54? I swear I played this game on a demo disc included in the UK PS magazine back in the day and seeing this gave me a rush of old memories. Would be fun to check it out again
The game in the video is Mr. Driller G, but regular old Mr. Driller came out in the west so that's probably the game you played on the demo back in the day :)
@@SeanSeanson Yes, that's it! Thought it was weird having memories of a game that wasn't even released here, but I remember coming across the original Mr. Driller title back in the day after you mentioned it. Thank you so much!
@@AkujiTheRestless np friend!
Did the PS1 ever get a good beat'em up?
Beat Planet Music looks interesting. I'd like to make some music with it. Is it hard for beginners? And it reminded my of iS, which you almost got next!!
Kitarou is also cool. I love these 2D games. They're so pretty.
PS: I appreciate fart guy. He tries his best.
My favourite beat em up on the PS1 is a game called Gekido, nice graphics and fun combo system, would be my top pick from what I've played at least!
Thankfully it's very easy for beginners to get started BPM, it's very simple to just fiddle about with parts and create something that sounds good immediately, definately try it out if it seems like your kinda thing.
Bless Fart guy, he's the heart and soul of the team.
So, Lucifer Ring is basically 3d DnD Mystara Duology, just worse.
Always want it to try KItaro, but (specially after the video) seems a little to old school for me.
A little off topic, I remember you saying that you don't have a CRT in one of your videos (might be wrong though), but have you tried playing with CRT Shaders?
In specific the ones available via Retroarch? People don't think much about it, but most of the games from this era and before it were made with a CRT display in mind, personally I believe it make the visuals that much better specially with 2D sprites and pre-rendered backgrounds.
For comparison I will link two comparison one for Legend of Mana i.warosu.org/data/vr/img/0058/98/1569197993705.gif and another for FFVIII i.warosu.org/data/vr/img/0058/98/1569275093263.gif (the clouds look way better with the shader). Both images are with the xm29 preset shader.
Wouldn't recommend using to capture image for your videos, might look weird for some, and if your GPU don't have the option for integer scaling you might need to play the game with a small screen to make the shader work properly (in all honest it looks fine even with fullscreen)
Cheers for the comment and you're absolutely right, I'll look into that.
It's been a long time since I've had the space for CRT but it's always my preferred way play anything pre HD era. But if I can use a few tweaks to get the capture closer to the original look I'd be pretty happy.
Thanks for the advice!
Stunning games for PS1 games!
Huh, so BPM is like, proto-Amplitude? At least in terms of the rhythm game.
Theres some similarities for sure!
I may get triggered by the way you say words that "thr" words, but you really did a great job on this video! Even better than the first video!
Hahaha thank you and appreciate you putting up with the Irish "thr" ;)
What is the game at 3:33? Just found your channel btw and I love it!
The game is Knights of The Round from Capcom.
Appreciate the comment, glad you like the channel! 😁
@@SeanSeanson Sick! Thank you
3:11 is this meant to be dart from legend of dragoon ?
I know this might be talking to the void with an old video, but I found your channel and I watch things in order.... Please have a little text stating the title of the game you have on screen during the intros where you show a million cool looking games!!!! 😢
You might not like this answer, but I like to use the opening and closings to to get people inticed into exploring the libraries themselves rather than directing them to the source, sort of a visual taster of whats out there. I like to promote curiosity, because if you go out looking for these yourself you might end up finding a whole lot more in the process, these videos only scratch the surface, and if I did these till the day I die I still won't have shown everything.
That being said if you ever want to know the name of a game just tag the timecode in a comment and I'm always happy to letcha know.
your great thank you for making this video
lol Hiro Protagonist.
Somehow kitarou makes me think of cuphead
7:47 "Hello? My eyes are up he-... actually, nevermind"
8:13 What in the world, this reminds me of that one awful Resident Evil trumpet song
I'd say I have pretty low standards when it comes to SNES and PS1 game music, stuff generally sounds good to me, especially from Japan... but this games soundtrack (I've looked up the other songs) is just objectively bad. The Crisisbeat soundtrack for example sounds totally fine, so something must've happened. Maybe they had no budget for a real composer?
It's kind of sad, I feel like this had the potential to be a pretty decent game if it had more budget and development time.
Yeah it really is a shame. it's fun for what it is but it really could have been much better with a lil more time and budget.
The soundtrack really is something. I've come across at least two or three objectively TERRIBLE songs in some of the Japanese games I've planned. Can't wait to see how many more I'll find along the way 😅
@@SeanSeanson Sweet, looking forward to it :)
I’m a big fan of your work and love watching you when I’m painting.
I use first generation 3d graphics in my work
Like early PlayStation one and Sega CD and for more intricate details PlayStation2 graphics.
Most people in art use gallery’s and museum and books to look at references. I love to use video games and bring them to live in my paintings.
Would you happen to know any plug and play emulators that has all Japanese and American PlayStation1 or Dreamcast games on it?
I’m not a technical person at all. In fact I don’t even have a computer lol just a tablet.
Any recommendations would be appreciated.
Thank you
Check out my work
Levochkingosha.com
Nice to meet you
Please keep making all your videos I love them.
Ah thank you! I really appreciate the comment.
Emulators are thankfully a lot easier to set up nowadays. I'm not too sure what the best emulators are for mobile/tablets but I think the easiest from my experience is...
PS1 - ePSXe
Dreamcast - ReDream
If you have any trouble setting them up, there's always an easy to step by step guide on RUclips.
Finding the games is a bit tougher, but generally speaking archive.com should have everything you're looking for, just type "PS1 archive" or "Dreamcast archive" and you should have access to everything you need :)
I'll check out your art for sure, Thanks for sharing!
Should hopefully have more videos out in the new year! Thanks again for the comment, really appreciate it!
@@SeanSeanson thanks for the reply all this info is very helpful
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@@SeanSeanson what emulator do you use?
@@goshalevochkin877 I use ePSXe on PC just due to how easy it is to use, there's lots of options to upscale and enhance certain features, but I very much like to keep the experience as close to original hardware as I can and the emulator gives me some good options for that!
Although most people would recomend retroarch and the beetle core for emulation, but it's a little more complicated and has given me some hassle in the past so I just stick to what works!
Checked out your art by the way and it's amazing! You're so talented.