Is No Escape [SNES] Worth Playing Today? - SNESdrunk
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- Опубликовано: 7 авг 2024
- Fun fact: there is not one single mention of this game in any issue of Nintendo Power.
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I vividly remember 2007~8, a friend of mine had just discovered SNES emulators and had downloaded about a zillion ROMs, so of course we went through all the ones we didn't recognize, and I remember when we booted up this game, neither of us had ever heard of the movie, and we were floored by the long well-made intro that actually seemed to have an interesting story... and then as soon as gameplay started and we tried to move the character and get a feel for the controls... we exited and moved onto another game
I like this movie. Ray Liotta was awesome. And Stuart Wilson as Marek was very memorable. RIP Ray.
“Marek! You want it? Come and get it!”
KA-BOOM!
Stuart Wilson clearly had a fun time in that role
Searched for years to find this movie on Blu-ray, finally tracked it down a few weeks ago. Definitely a hidden gem in the film world.
@@gearhead22harley I only have it on DVD. Bought it many many years ago.
3:17 and a 16 bit Ernie Hudson!
Just watched the trailer for this movie, it happens in 2022. Got this review out just in time. Oh man, I have seen this movie. It is one of those movies you kinda remember but when you try to explain it people look at you weird. Now I know the name and maybe I'll watch it again one day.
Ha, really smooth timing indeed that what may be the last (or maybe second-last) video of 2022, is about a game set in 2022. Man, the 90's vision of the future... I guess corporations running prisons happened, but no cool island-prisons... that we know of.
Are you sure they're looking at you weird because of the way you're trying to explain the movie? Did you check for boogers? Or maybe you have food stuck in your teeth...
This seems like one of those games that could use one of those improvement fan patches, but that would require someone to care enough about this game to make one.
Hey hey hey, Time Trax is not forgotten. The adventures of Darien Lambert and his living AI Selma always have a welcome home in my heart. I know its been almost 30 years but I am still confident for a season 3.
Hey, it worked for Twin peaks.
But would modern Hollywood be OK with a story about a dark future where white people like Darien are banned from ever taking political office (which is a mostly forgotten, but real plot point from Time Trax)?
Very underappreciated series. Some cheesy effects, but the characters and stories were quite enjoyable.
Six seasons and a movie.
For almost 30 years I had no idea that a game for the movie No Escape exists. What a great find !
The cover @ 01:30 ist marvelous btw 😄
Same here. Wild.
Same. Seen the movie a million times growing up
Yeah, same here
That dude’s shirt is VERY low cut lmao
A game based on a movie I didn’t even know existed. If not for that cover art clearly being a movie poster, I do not think I would have suspected that.
@@rosselliswilkinson hey with a two dollar rental price tag on RUclips I bet it’s worth it
@@rosselliswilkinson oh, if it was called Escape from Absalon or something in Australia then yeah I saw it too. Thought it was cool, remember Ray Liotta jumping into the ocean that's about it.
I knew about the (hugely underrated) movie, but had no idea there was a (somewhat mediocre) game for it
@@samuelallen2831 for $2 it’s definitely worth it. Really cool 90s action / sci fi flick. I just rewatched it recently, came across it on Cinemax by chance
@@samuelallen2831 I'm not sure it's even worth the time even if you get it on the high seas
I have not seen the movie but i have one particular memory of No Escape. The corner store near my house had a small section of VHS rentals and they had a few movie posters up to promote it. This film's poster was quite large and situated right in the center where it grabbed your attention the second you entered the store. As was not uncommon with small time video rental at the time the staff were not that quick at updating the posters so the No Escape poster was up for probably a year, for a film that despite being new on video was obscure enough that I didn't remember its theatrical run at the time. But as a result if I see that poster now my mind immediately goes back to grade 8. So the poster is nostalgic for me but it has nothing to do with the movie itself.
I love the animation where the guy sticks his arms out and crouches to walk, it looks like Scott Hall (RIP) making his wrestling entrance
There's only one scene I remember in the movie and that's when one guy cuts off another guy's head and says, "Ha! Now that's funny!" 😂😂
I still use this movie as a prime example of how great of an actor Ray Liotta was. The whole movie is silly, but he sells it %100. He gives a fantastic performance, and you believe him.
...and yes, I know and love him from other movies: Goodfellas, Cop land, NARC, etc. But this specific movie was one where he sold it while everything around him was almost laughable.
Whenever SNESDrunk does that "totally rad" voice, he sounds like if Pauly Shore and the Macho Man had a love child.
I like how you were just endlessly kicking the final boss in the shins while you were talking about the helicopter.
Dear Diary,
Today I learned about a video game that I never knew existed. I also learned about a movie that I never knew existed.
I always love it when a new episode of sners drernk is out
Omergherd! Germsberms!
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@@guybrush1701 early 2000s called and would like there meme back
@@mattalan6618 still funny tho IMHO. Actually I just saw a video interviewing the girl in question. Really cool.
@@guybrush1701 wasn't funny then sure as shit ain't funny now
@@mattalan6618 you're entitled to your opinion
This movie is one of my favorite guilty pleasures. it's always been
right on the edge of cult status and now that Liotta has passed will
probably get there. Fun action flick. Definitely nothing else like it.
Absolutely agree on the movie, I loved it the first time I saw it and I've seen it several times since.
But omg, how did I completely miss that Ray Liotta died?? I loved him (and not just because he's a fellow Jersey guy)!
GI Joe and Transformers were on their way out during the SNES era. TF came back a bit with Beast Wars which did get a couple games during PS1/N64 era. But overall there wasn't even much in the way of enough nostalgia for those properties at that time. They weren't old enough to be retro-cool and they were just seen as replaced by the likes of Power Rangers and TMNT (which did receive many games on SNES and other machines of the time).
Yeah. It's sort of like how people wonder why there was never a Masters of the Universe NES game since both were huge in "the '80s." It's because the MotU cartoon and toys peaked in popularity between roughly 1983 and 1986, while the NES only became a true phenomenon in America around 1987. The windows of opportunity just didn't line up.
@@willmistretta it's the perils of just remembering the whole of the 80's as one continuous "chunk of childhood", instead of as it's own thing with it's own distinct moments. It's like with the NES, which I for a very long time just thought of as having "one look", only to then read up more about it and realize that after Super Mario Bros they started making a LOT of games with graphics boosting chips that allowed the machine to do far more than its earliest games could, so games before SMB looked and played quite differently than games after it. And just as such, the "80's kids cartoons" were also of different eras and from different circumstances.
@@goranisacson2502 That's true. A lot of people are surprised when I tell them I was never really that into the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles despite growing up in the '80. Thing is, I was born in the late '70s, so the peak of my 30-minute toy commercial watching, action figure coveting phase was the early-mid '80s, encompassing stuff like He-Man. G.I. Joe, and Thundercats, but waning right before Turtlemania.
The gaming landscape changed especially fast back then, too, and that's not just an artifact of memory. It's pretty wild to think that Pac-Man and Super Mario World came out almost exactly one decade apart, for example.
@@willmistretta And then we have to take into consideration how the eighties could have looked very different depending on where you were. I for one was born 87, and in Sweden. Turtlemania rolled RIGHT in around here to hit during my "action figure coveting"-phase, but I think that it might have faded sooner than that in the US (even if Turtles then happened to become one of those franchises who keep going throughout the ages, and I think we got all the Turtles videogames EXCEPT the third one for the NES). But even so, a game or toy could be "big" later over here, than it was over there. Thundercats, for instance- it didn't make it over here to Sweden until Turtles was already big, and that was practically early 90's!
@@willmistretta Yeah, there was a MotU live action movie in 1987 (which did receive a lil game on the 8-bit home micros) but it was a bit of a low budget affair and a bit of a bomb (even though it is certainly enjoyable in it's ways) and MotU as a brand was at a bit of a low point overall and the New Adventures of He-Man in 1990 didn't come even half close to achieving the same level of popularity that the first MotU wave had hit. No company wanted to put any money into making a NES/SNES game (the 8-bit home micro computer games were easy to make and release and cost just a couple quid to buy so much less risky that expensive cartridge manufacturing costs and such). The 2002 reboot series got a couple games before that show got axed halfway through it's second season due to low ratings and the toys not selling well.
In fact we're very likely in the most popular time of MotU since the original mid 80s popularity. Two popular Netflix cartoons that began in 2021 (Revelation and the CGI kid's show, with the She-Ra one from 2018 still popular with some folk too), several different popular toylines (Masterverse, Origins, Mega Construx being the main ones that I have and there's the more costly Mondo collector figures and all sorts of other merchandise available), I think there's a She-Ra live-action show being made by Amazon? I haven't kept up with that. And always talks of a new He-Man movie. MotU is doing alright for itself these days. Again not as huge as it was in mid 80s but it's doing better than it has in decades.
Now could finally be the time for a MotU NES game!
Well... I mean... a NES-style one perhaps. NES has become a popular retro aesthetic in indie video games (or games made by larger developers/publishers like Mega Man 9/10 by Capcom or those recent Bloodstained - Curse of the Moon games) anyways. :D Or go extra with SNES-style but that requires a fair bit more work. Maybe start with the NES-style, see how it does and then if successful, invest in the more time-consuming SNES-style. :)
I dunno. I'm just thinking out loud. In text form. So not loud at all. Except for the tapping of these keys. I shush now. :)
Who remembers the film Fortress with Christopher Lambert?
Loved that movie as a kid.
it's awesome. it's a similar concept to no escape. both are good movies. Fortress is more futuristic/sci fi.
Never heard of this movie & game until now
Sometimes I come to a SNES Drunk video to learn about a game I didn't even know existed. Sometimes I come to a SNES Drunk video to be told to have a great rest of my day. Today it was for both reasons!
I really like these in dept analysis of some unknown games. Its easy for us to pass by but not really think about it. Hope to see many others videos like this
I really like the extra humor you injected into this review with the occasional jokes/funny observations you threw in there!
great video
lol the high security guard
In the pantheon of long forgotten movies, No Escape has always been up there for me as one of the premier disappeared-from-the-public-conscious movies. It's a fun flick, I saw it in the theater, It has a very well rounded cast, Liotta, Lance Henrickson, Ernie Hudson, Armand Assante and Kevin Dillon, a ridiculous sci-fi premise and some fun action, yet in spite of this, I have seen zero people talking about it, it's never every played on TV, and even when Liotta died it was never brought up anywhere. That it wouldn't appear in Nintendo Power doesn't surprise me.
A little late but... MERRY CHRISTMAS friend!!!! and I wish you a happy new year!! thanks for your videos.
We had this movie on VHS growing up. NEVER knew there was a SNES game for it. Not surprised, just surprised I never knew.
In the early 2000's, I had this as a ROM and loaded it up during a vacation out in the middle of nowhere with my wife. I got about a screen in when the character start raising his arms up precipitously; I guess I got him into a crouch walk or something. I just screamed, "Look at me! I'm an airplane!" and we just started laughing so hard I shut it off. That was my experience playing No Escape.
Watching him crouch walk, are we sure that isn't supposed to be Scott Hall?
Hey yo
Seriously that is a laugh out loud funny observation and I'm disappointed I didn't see it myself
This is truly an excellent review and explanation of No Escape, but I feel like this must have been just a massive struggle to push through and learn like you did. You're the SNES Drunk. You play it, so we don't have to.
Fantastic video. As a fan of Out of this World I think I will have to give this a try. Seems like it would be fun to try out the crafting system in an early game.
I might be in the extreme minority that I own this game, but have never seen the movie. My mom got it for me, not knowing anything about the game or movie. I think it must have been in a discount bin or something.
Happy to see your review aligned with my experience as a kid. I always REALLY wanted to like this game because of the crafting and trading, but it just felt impossible to progress anywhere.
I never heard of this game! I really enjoyed learning about this game! Thank you for giving us some cool details! Awesome content yet again!
I would watch this movie for Marrick alone.
"I've had a long night, so I'll make this simple. I really want to be in charge."
Wow, how did I not know this was a game. I picked up the movie on Blu-ray, and it looks fantastic. I highly recommend it for anyone who hasn’t watched it.
@@AsylumSaint 🙏🏽
@@AsylumSaint i didnt even know about the movie until this video
The movie was called "Fuga de Absolom" here in Mexico. I remember watching it on a bus when I was a kid and never seen or heard of it again. I didn't know there was a videogame, though.
I’ve been a big fan of your channel for a long time now, but after finding out you’re a lebatard show fan… I’m a biggest fan yet!!!
3:44 this screen does reminds me of Mary Shelley Frankenstein. Maybe because it was made by the same studio ?
A big producer produced this movie, Gale Ann Hurd, and going by my memory from childhood it had a pretty decently big marketing campaign with a lotta commercials and whatnot, and I assume the game was a part of that marketing budget. She produced Aliens and other James Cameron movies (they were married for a lil' bit and she co-wrote and produced Terminator), so that's likely the Lance Henriksen connection.
It never looked that interesting to me as a kid, and after all the ads and marketing push it seemed to fade pretty fast. Martin Campbell directed it, he was up n' coming then, and right after No Escape he had a hit with Goldeneye and then the Mark of Zorro before kinda fading away (but still working) in the 00s. Gale Ann Hurd produced a trillion things, and The Walking Dead TV series is prolly her main thing now. I wouldn't mind seeing No Escape again, it was at least a decent movie to half-watch on HBO!
I love movie trivia, thanks for this.
The same Gale Ann Hurd from carlito's way?
Great trivia! Gale Ann Hurd is awesome. I actually used to work directly for her once upon a time (on her homes, not film). Spectacular lady IRL. SUPER accomplished with an insane filmography under her belt.
It is known as Escape From Absolom outside of the US/UK.
@@2WhiteAndNerdy extremely underlooked name in the industry for sure
No Escape is a GREAT film. One of the best actions films of the 90s.
I remember renting this movie as a kid, because it starred Ray Liotta, who I was a big fan of. He sadly passed away this year on May 26th. Never played the SNES or Genesis versions, but was familiar with them, because there were always ads for it in comic books and video game magazines. 😁👍
Ahhh a nice relaxing day with a new vid
When grading a game on a ten-point scale, the presence of Lance Henriksen necessitates at least one point tallied in favor.
happy new year!
King Arthur and the Knights of Justice might be 'forgotten', but at least the theme tune is a banger.
Awesome review man!
Total length of video: 355 secs.
Total length of "SNES Drunk": 4 secs.
1.13% of the video was spent listening to "SNES Drunk".
I've always seen this game around but I never played it, kinda glad I missed it, looks like I didn't miss all that much
4:52 was that a fork in the Garbage disposal song reference 😂😂😂
I don’t know, I like the concept of a gritty action movie platform on the SNES being connected plot-wise to an Atari game which features a guy riding a Pegasus on the cover.
Your videos are so entertaining
This is like the perfect opportunity for one of the developers to pop up in the comments. Love it when it happens!
I love your videos. Thanks for that.
great channel. great videos. no e begging either. youre one of a kind!
Uncharted for SNES, brilliant!!
Looking into this movie after your review! I start to wonder if parts of the movie were used in making the plot of "The Callisto Protocal" (with a more Alien Space Horror theming of Dead Space) as alot of the plot is making me think of that game after playing it! Could be just coincidence as I never heard of it before! Despite it having two actors I know (Ernie and Ray) going to try and watch the movie to see more (as TV Tropes can only tell you so much! Maybe someone has a good review with picture perfect video! Still you have to watch the whole thing to get everything)
the Villain from No Escape movie was the Villain from Mask Of Zorro! :)
I wanna chill with the security guard
Great work Sir thank you
I suspected from the movement and sound font that this game might be from Bits Studio, the same folks who did Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Bram Stoker's Dracula, but that crafting system is a dead giveaway. Seems like they didn't learn their lesson from those games, which have identical issues to this one.
God I remember this movie. But I think it was called Escape from Absolon, or something like that, here in Australia. And yeah, same deal. It was advertised for a bit then completely forgotten.
I didn't think it was old enough to get a snes game.
Now that you mention it, I’m surprised no one ever made a Nightmare Before Christmas video game! Not that I’m a HUGE fan of it, but it seems like a perfect fit.. all of the characters and the setting would made for a really cool game… not to mention it’s popularity. Even today I’m sure such a game would sell really well.
I actually know this movie as „Escape From Absolom“. Didn’t know it was simply called „No Escape“ elsewhere. 🤷🏻♂️
What I did NOT know till now is that the movie actually got a game. 🧐 Looks like some sort of Pitfall meets Blackthorne but bad.
Thanks, SNES Drunk! Always fun to find out about stuff like that. 🙂👍
I saw this movie in Australia where it was known as "Escape from Absalom". Pretty forgettable film, but it did have a great cast.
Didn't even realise there was a SNES game until now.
The movie, released in Australia was called ‘Escape from Absolom’
The helicopter sound effect sounds like it belongs on a Sega Genesis game... since this was actually released on the Genesis, it may be that the noise was designed for the Genesis sound chip and actually sounded halfway decent on the Genesis.
Love your videos but wish you would make them longer most finish before they start 🤣
I loved this movie when I was younger. One of Liotta’s best
the combat roll is so wonderful
Stellar work
The amount of "finding the sweet spot and cheezing an enemy" is off the charts in this one. I guess I played it on genesis.
Never knew there was a lawnmower man game on snes
90s games based on 90s movies, what a time capsule
Never seen the movie or played the game but damn is the image at 3:36 familiar to me. It had to have been in either Gamepro or EGM somewhere because this image is kinda burned into my brain.
I actually think it's a pretty good game, though i had SEGA version. Controls are "meh" but i've seen much worse. Delay is here but it is nowhere near the levels of Flashback or Prince of Persia. Combat becomes far too easy once you learn that you can kick instead of punching, or know where to get a knife.The best quality of this game is that it's non-linear: it's fun to explore the island, visit different locations, find new items and experiment with crafting. Once you figured what you need to do it is actually possible to finish it in 15-20 minutes.
Request: Do you think you could save your videos at a real 4:3 format? It'd be 960 x 720.
YT would add black bars and it would look the same as now on 16:9 screens, but those of us with an actual 4:3 monitor could gloriously fill it up entirely :P
No love for 16 bit Ernie Hudson? I loved this goofy movie as a kid, totally forgot they made a game.
I remember renting out the movie on vhs in the late 90's. Didn't even know they'd made a game!
As a kid I probably would've loved this game. I grew up mainly playing the more cartoony-looking SNES games aka the more fun ones. This one I would've liked for its dark, gritty and realistic looking sprites and in-depth gameplay. Never heard of the movie either but I think now it might be worth checking out.
Out of all the video game reviewers on RUclips, SNES Drunk is the G.O.A.T.
I remember seeing this movie on HBO (or equivalent) way back and thinking how I couldn't recall it coming and going like so many other movies. As stated, it's very serviceable in terms of it being and action movie and that's about it.
Love that movie, still have the vhs rental I never returned.
How can people not know about this game?! It was massive when it came out, there were even TV ads running for a couple months. Surprised if it was never in Nintendo Power, I guess their advertising budget was blown on the TV. Very strange that the review is so negative about it, it's one of the best games on the SNES. So much replay value too. If you don't have this game you should definitely move it to the top of your list to get, you're truly missing out.
It's a good game, but not without it's flaws. I played SEGA version and did not have any issue with controls. But there are problems that are shared by both versions like obscure item placement and badly implemented trading.
@@JohnDoe-lb2hp It does have some obscure parts, but I think that comes down to people's taste in games. I like the exploration and puzzle solving elements that provides, but I appreciate that could be tedious to others, especially if you're expecting an action platformer
The gameplay footage reminded me of Wolverine: Adamantium Rage.
Haha funny start !
I am oddly nostalgic for this period. For about two years, every single video game was exactly this. Sprites with too many frames of animation so they looked nice in the TV commercial, but were unplayable, in a realistic style based on some live action licensed property, but with nonsensical unrealistic 2D action platformer level design, trying to be more "cinematic" than was possible in 8 bit hardware, but with no idea what that means, and one weird game mechanic based on one scene from the licensed property so they could say it wasn't just an action platformer. I think there are like 300 of this game. By 1995, they were all gone because everything had to be 3D if you were making a licensed cash-in trying to chase the trends. It was pretty much only late-1992 to early 1994. But in that period, it was all games.
I can’t believe the cover for this movie is literally ray Liotta aiming a rocket launcher
At 1:12 that guy has Principal McVickers' face from Beavis and Butt-Head. Must be his brother, Warden McVicker.
With the snes coming out when it's did, it's no wonder we didn't get a gi joe or transformers game. When it's got its main stride, both cartoons were dead, on on it's way out. (Here at least) reason why we don't get a transformers game on the nes. The series was done in the states in 1987. And the nes blew up 87/88. Yes we got famicom transformers and fds. The fds game was based on the headmaster series, which we never got
Interesting fact: the story takes place in 2022, the same year Ray Liotta passed away.
MERRICK!!!!!!! You want it? Come and get it!
This movie is called Escape from Absolom over here. No idea why, they used to change movie titles all the time back then
I forgot this movie had a game.
I did love the movie and still remember it.
Never played this game or saw the movie. The 90’s was awesome and weird all at once.
This is a very paradoxical comment. "I never saw anything, and it was very weird..."
4am post! Let's go!!!
Oh man! Playing a side scroller as Jack The Pumpkin King would have been sweet!!
Another great Ray Liotta movie of the 90’s. RIP Mr. Liotta. Thanks for the video. Never rented the game as licensed games have always burned me. Might have to fire the rom up on this one though. 😀
I saw the inventory/crafting system and then it clicked with me. Did this group make the Mary Shelley's Frankenstein game, too?
looking at this I was immediately reminded me of the Last Action Hero game and it turns out its the same dev
I was just watching that King Arthur show the other day.