Wing Commander (SNES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
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- Опубликовано: 2 янв 2020
- A playthough of Mindscape's 1992 space flight sim for the Super Nintendo, Wing Commander.
Wing Commander is a name that pretty much any PC gamer from the 80s or 90s is well acquainted with. The series is a huge space opera that desperately chased after Star Wars, and it was a series that was extremely influential in its earlier entries.
Origin's original PC game drew a lot of attention when it first showed up in 1990. Space combat sims were standard fare at the time, but Wing Commander introduced a number of innovations to the genre. A story told through animated cinematics, wingmen that you give orders to, scaling sprites that rotated smoothly to approximate a proper 3D game space, a campaign with multiple mission paths... the original game was a pioneer in many ways.
You play as the not-yet-officially named Christopher Blair (as he became known in FMV-heavy WC3, played by Mark Hamill), fresh out of the academy and reporting for duty aboard the TCS Space Claw. The Terran forces (Earth guys) are struggling in the war against the Kilrathi (giant bipedal spacecats), and of course, you've arrived just in time to make a difference.
Wing Commander puts a heavy emphasis on its story with its between-mission conversations. You can chat with the bartender and your fellow pilots in the lounge, and the conversation changes depending on how you've been playing. Everyone will love you when you're winning the war, but their tone changes if you find your side on the ropes. And if any of your wingmen die in battle, they're actually dead. The funeral scene is a bit sad and a bit comical, and you'll definitely notice the empty seat in the lounge if that happens.
You'll get to see that happen in this playthrough. Poor Bossman.
The flight portions require that you fly to different nav points making sweeps, escorting high value assets, and blowing up enemy transports and capital ships. Sometimes you might get stuck flying through a field of mines or asteroids, but overall, though missions are all fairly standard stuff, it is cool that the story actually justifies the objectives it gives you.
This SNES version of Wing Commander is an unexpectedly faithful conversion of the original PC game, though it comes with the cutbacks you'd expect in being ported down to a console.
The graphics are reasonable for an SNES game, but the game is slower and the pace is more deliberate, largely because the game doesn't seem to send more than a ship or two at you at the same time. On the rare occasion where you get a couple of enemy ships and your wingman and some bullets onscreen at the same time, the framerate eats it. It stays fairly steady most the time, but the controls can get twitchy at those moments. The scaling effect makes it a bit difficult to get a read on distance just looking at the sprites, but the UI does give you some useful info to help compensate for that. Still, I don't mean to sound too critical of the way the game has been adapted. The cinematics look pretty good, and the battles work well enough to stay enjoyable. The music's not too shabby, either.
(But does anyone else think that the lowered resolution makes Angel look like Shannon Dougherty? What's up with the eyes?)
The controls are a bit difficult to get your head around, though. They are easy enough once you memorize the commands, but there are a lot of things mapped to every button on the controller. If you want to use your hyperdrive, hit Select+Y. Wanna chat with your wingman? Select+X cycles between your computer displays. Need to shut off your engines before someone flies straight into you? That's L+R. It's all as intuitive as it possibly could be on a SNES pad, but be warned: it's not an arcade shooter, and it never tries to pretend like it is. The SNES's lower difficulty level does help compensate for the inherent clunkiness of it, though.
In this day and age there are far better ways to play Wing Commander than on the SNES (the PC game and the 3DO remake are definitely the ways to go here), but if you can overlook the limitations that the system places on the game, the story has a folksy and engaging charm that I felt made it worth a playthrough. I really enjoyed it.
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So glad I spent my nights playing this rather than doing homework. I mean, who's gonna look back 30 years and go "omg, I remember that english essay that was due March 17th, 1993!!"
The music when your ship is in critical condition and when one of your pilots dies is a very ominous feeling.
Masterpiece on the SNES
Wing Commander is one of the few space combat sims to ever appear on the SNES, and though it has lost a bit in the transition, it made the leap to the console surprisingly intact. Really fun once you get used to the controls!
You know you can skip the briefing cutscenes, right?
@@orinhill9097 I know. I left those scenes in on purpose.
Ok. Thanks for clearing that up
Any chance you could break down the controls. I am totally lost in the ship. I just keep getting shot from behind again and again and again
@@silveredgrunion7196Here you go www.wcnews.com/controls.shtml
I love Wing Commander on the mighty SNES since I was 7 back in 1992.
i've often thought about the sequence where you're running to the plane after the briefing. Love the music and the imagery. What great times!
You are NOT alone! Many are the ones who are GREAT fans of that cinematic & music!!! :))))) Including me ofc :)
I am old … very old … 🤫
Thank you for this memorys … 🚀
Love it … 😍
If anyone watched the original Doug cartoon show, this is the videogame that inspired the episode "Doug's lost weekend" both released around the same time.
I remember playing Wing Commander 3. I also remember that i was so lazy that i didn’t even finish the 1st CD.
This SNES game looks good. The music is nice.
Sam Powell did an awesome job arranging the David Govett-George A. Sanger-composed soundtrack.
Hopefully one day there will be a play-through of Wing Commander 2 for the SNES which may have been completed but was never released, said to have also used Super FX tech....
I really loved this game. Thank you for the memories! =)
My childhood.
The scramble cinematic & music
I always hated when an enemy got stuck at 3089m distance and I spent my afterburners trying to get him closer and always ran out of them. I wish there was a way to break that distance bug down so you can engage instead of chasing the enemy down. This was one of my favorite games on the SNES and the Secret Missions was even better. Love this play through.
" This ape has fangs " 😾
My dad always loved flight sims and this was one of the first we played. I was so bummed when you die and they have a ceremony for you. Such nastalgia
This Super Nintendo game, Wing Commander, is in Action/Adventure Series.
I remembered reading an article/walkthrough of this back in the day, and one of the captions stated that you really felt as though you were part of the Tiger's Claw crew(which I agreed). Particularly telling when you got to Rostov(or its equivalent):
Maniac: "Colonel still won't let me on the flight deck..."
Me: *Oh God, what did you do?*
*howl with laughter*
Rather ironic that the guy who flew the most suicidally(or was 'friendly fired' the most) ended up canonically being the guy who lived the longest through the franchise.
And damn, not only did you succeed in the hardest mission in the game, but you succeeded alone! Amazing...kudos!
Guess that proves who's the better pilot 😂
was very expensive in germany when it came out. With DOOM one of the most expensive games for the SNES
Love this game
This was a favorite video game from SNES when I was a kid I could beat this game (but I was using a cheat code)
Quite an enjoyable game, I remember renting it at one point... fun experience once you get over the controls. Also, congrats on 100k subs! I remember when you had less than 10k, hahah. Seems like ages ago at this point.
Thanks! Crazy isn't it?
Took me forever to figure out how to land on the tigerclaw
I made some achievements for this game on retroachievements. Sadly it ended up being my least played set which is unfortunate. But this game was my introduction to the Wing Commander franchise which later grew to be one of my favorites
That sucks, but it's cool that it has them now because of the effort. Maybe it'll convince someone to try it who hasn't played it before :)
@@NintendoComplete hehe hope so. Actually am working on making a set for Wing Commander 3 on PS1 now
Congrats on 100k subscribers 🥳 🎉
Ty!
I mean, thanks for the upload, it brings back incredible memories, but my word, your shooting! Sooooo clumsy, I’m surprised you weren’t despatched on the first reccy in the enyo system
The Kilrathi laser weapons sound like a cat or tiger growling/hissing and the human's laser weapons sound like birds. Was this done on purpose or am I just imagining it? Ironic if they did, since they're feline aliens and birds are one of cat's favorite prey.
100K subscribers!!
Classic...
the price of freedom is eternal vigilance
Says the guy that hangs himself in his cell. Good ol' Tolwyn. A real paragon of virtue, he was.
I played the PC DOS version of "Wing Commander" with keyboard and cheap charlie CH Flight Stick. The SNES soundtrack sounds better than Ye Olde Soundblaster. I see that the characters' faces are less detailed and look a tad younger/less ravaged by war. The Hornet's "Laser bolts" look like Mass Driver balls and do as much damage. Also, the Kilrathi fighters don't maneuver as much and your miss rate is very low.
The SNES had a lot of grunt under the hood. The Genesis needed the Sega CD's added power to pull the game off.
I'd say it probably didn't quite have enough grunt for this game without a DSP in the cart considering how it clearly slows nearly to a crawl when a lot of projectiles are on screen/enemy fighters fill the screen.
I thought it was a great game. As a kid I actually thought I was good to get medals and promoted lol. Simpler times lol
Maniac was a terrible wingman. I usually killed him myself just to spare myself the trouble.
I’ve been noticing lately, how much some of those Salthi? ships look like the Powerjet XT7 from Captain Power. I wonder if that was a coincidence? 😀
I remember having huge doubts this could even be remotely decent. I had played WC1 and WC2 on a friend's 486 DX2 66 (16 MB RAM) with a SoundBlaster and the speech pack. I was expecting it to have a frame rate similar to Race Drivin' on the SNES. I was a big fan of the SNES, but I wasn't crazy. I knew what its limitations were. And I hadn't forgiven Mindscape for Infiltrator.
Still, I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn't just playable, but fairly enjoyable, if you factored in the SNES's limitations. I still think the PC version was better, but if all you had access to on a regular basis was a Super Nintendo, this was a worthy rental.
I think the original PC release from 1990 required much less than that. I seem to recall a mid-range 486 would play it too fast without some trickery (a software CPU limiter or messing with jumpers to lower the FSB speed). On a Pentium 75 machine I had to disable the cache in the bios. Iirc the original one only required a 286 and 640k of memory. I remember loading it up on my Tandy at some point (a 286/8) and it was a bit slow, but any low-end 386 ran it just fine.
@@NintendoComplete You're correct. Pretty much ideal machine for original Wing Commander was 386 PC. 486 could indeed play original indeed way too fast.
Muito legal, nem parece jogo de snes. Gostaria de jogar, mas acho que no Brasil não teve venda.
Essa é a hora do querido emulador kkkkk tentei jogar mas é difícil pra porra esse jogo, desisti
Essa é a hora do querido emulador kkkkk tentei jogar mas é difícil pra porra esse jogo, desisti
"JO-JO-JO-JO-JOOOOY* (-stick, that is.)
02:08:50 Well, THAT’s not canon...
What do you mean not canon?
@@stevesvidsbb Bossman isn't supposed to die. Not part of the canon storyline.
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WC4 is the best one
have you watched it?
I loved the first four. I pretty much stopped after those. 3 and 4 were def my favorites.
4 did a better job being a movie then the actual WC movie
Probably the weirdest snes port ever