Wizards & Warriors X: Fortress of Fear (Game Boy) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- A playthrough of Acclaim's 1990 platformer for the Nintendo Game Boy, Wizards & Warriors X: Fortress of Fear.
The NES Wizards & Warriors games were pretty good platform/adventure games. They were fairly simple, but jumping into stuff with your sword searching for boots, diamonds, or whatever else was pretty entertaining. The Game Boy version, Fortress of Fear, changes the formula up a bit, though.
We still play as Kuros, who still looks completely not like the Fabio stand-in that always graced the box art, but rather, like a medieval knight. I'm assuming he's a English knight, because (1) The game was developed by Rare, a British development house, and (2) Even with as low-detail as the Game Boy graphics tend to be, it looks like he's got St. George's cross on his shield (and it's hanging on a wall in the FORTRESS OF FEAR - scary!). Not that it matters, but I've always thought of him as a Brit.
That digression aside, just how is the game different from the NES trilogy? It's not an adventure/exploration game anymore. It's a straight and simple platforming game, and (for the most part) you walk left-to-right, slashing and stabbing at anything that moves and picking up goodies. There are some secrets treasure nooks to be found, but the goal is always far more direct here than in the NES titles. The graphics have been simplified, but they are all nice and big, and stand out fairly well during the action bits where the screen tends to blur. What little music there is is great, but it doesn't take long to reach for the volume after you've heard the same 15-second loop play for the seventeenth time during a stage.
What I think will be the most deciding factor for most people with Fortress of Fear is the difficulty level. There's nothing particularly thought-provoking going on, but it is absolutely relentless with the platforming demands it puts on you. Many of the jumps are just barely makeable if leap at the last possible second, which wouldn't be so bad on its own except that in the later stages, these leaps have to be made while dodging around swarms of enemies that'll kill Kuros in just a hit or two, and you often can't even see them until you're halfway through the jump. Practice, memorize, hone reflexes - the OG gaming formula is truer here than it is in most Game Boy platformers.
Some people will instantly be turned off by that, while others will appreciate the stiff challenge. If you enjoy games that make you fight tooth-and-nail every step of the way, it's hard to imagine many other Game Boy titles that feel 'real' Dark Souls from the 8-bit era. If you keep practicing, though, it's totally doable, just so long as you don't get bored and give up first!
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I played this game a ton as a kid. Never got past the 3rd level, lol. Every few years I remember it exists and struggle to remember the name of it.
Word for word same.
Exact same for me if you have an android you could play it again for free search emulators
Trying to Remember what’s the name of this game for decades.
Now we have emulators so we can save the game
Same…. Seemed to suddenly get ridiculously hard
WOW! After allllll these freaking years, I never realized how close I actually was to the ending. Thank you
This is why my parents bought me headphones! Imagine this in the back of the car on a long road trip.
🤣🤣🤣
If it was the title theme on repeat I wouldn't mind at all!
MAKE IT STOP
Yep I used to play this game for what felt like hours
Specially the bloody circus music😂
Every time i listen the intro music of this game i got chills
Yeah, what is with that?
Same here. It reminds me part of my childhood that I was happy and also sad at times. But overall, I got chills
Been looking for this game for years love them music especially
Dear God is this game hard. If you can hack it, though, it's a pretty fun addition to the Wizards & Warriors series.
I keep hoping in vain that they'll revive the series someday.
kudos... I only made it to level 4 when I was 9years old
@@KenMantheUltimate It needs a 4th installment...
I so wanna do it but I have no help with an artist.
@@johnnywebb8696 How are you on the programming side?
Oh yes, this game is hard beyond anything else ever played on the Gameboy. The sluggish and unprecise controls are a nightmare in itself. On the original Gambeoy battery life was the most important factor playing this. Reason is the contrast settings had to be set to very high so you can see what is happening. Good job getting through it!
this game, gargoyles quest and final fantasy adventure impressed me so much as a child ... being a kid is so awesome :-D
I never got very far in this game, when I was a kid. Still looks hard today.
I listened to that intro song about ten times longer than I actually played the god damn game as a kid.
Lmao I get you. I remember starting the game just to hear it, and then after awhile just changing to a different game without playing it at all.
Whuahahhah lol
Same here that's crazy
I still have this game, as a kid I only got a couple lvls. I felt like clapping at the end, great video👏👏
Bought me a copy of this game i NEVER was able to play when i was a kid TODAY on the comicon for 10 bucks :) awsome thanks for your gameplay i finally can play it now 20 years later :)
I remember beating this game at 12 years old. what a memories
I still have the cartridge and the game boy on my chest, hahaha oh men great memories
I remember well the stage 2 because when I played it i was on my father cars going to my grandparents house, duuuuude what memories
Same here
Dark Souls 3 of the 90's
it was actually very harder than DS, you can't feel watching the video, but 90% of the gameplay, specially jumps, had to be so precise i had "cramps" because of muscle memory while watching it, newer games may require reflexes and attention, but this was on another level of pain.
One of my Favorites back in the 80s even thou it was HRAD as hell.. that sound track on the dot matrix was 🔥
That Skeleton Head...I am mad because of that jump.
This. So much.
This game has fantastic music!
Finally found the bane of my childhood. This was stupidly HARD. Remember trying those pixel perfect jumps as a 9 year old. Cool that I still somehow remember those secret areas where you first had to make a fake leap of faith jump followed by a pixel perfect leap of faith jump. Now to find that strange caveman gameboy game.
the hardest boss of this game was the jump damage... i remember calculating the pixels in my brain before jumping, and maybe falling in those elevators for an accidentally jump button tap and killing myself like an idiot
@u r No. Another month of searching and it was the gameboy version of Chuck Rock. All I remembered was his attack was him swinging his ass (actually his stomach) and some mechanic you have to carry rocks to drop on some catapult contraption to launch yourself up. The game is as bad as this but somehow even worse. Good memories though.
19:10 i remember that one!!!!!! Trauma from 30yrs ago
Wow! I loved the original on NES as a kid, and had no idea this existed!
11:30 my heart sank to the bottom when i saw the key count from 5 to 0
oh woooow, i used to steel away that game from my cousin when i was like 11 years old. thats 25 years ago. we were so happy when we were allowed as kids to play game boy 30 minutes a day and then we had to go back out to the fields and woods and play and make our own adventures.
Lol i love how they have the intro of crazy train as the boss theme. 😅🤘
Ahahaha you're totally right, I never noticed it before!
Can't believe I've finally found it! Played it in a "151 in 1" multicart long ago, and ever since then, the title theme was stuck in my head. Had to go through the entire game list, could never remember the game's name.
An absolute cult game for the Game Boy. As a child, I only ever made it to the second boss, but the day before yesterday I made it to the penultimate section for the first time. Nice that you showed where extra lives are hidden.
Can’t believe it took this person only 20mins to clock this game! I was there for months and I don’t think I got past level 3 … you made it look so easy and I know how hard it actually was to stay on those floaty level things with bats coming at you!! 😂 very impressive game play… seemed such a difficult task to overcome at the time when I was younger!
One of the ancestors of Dark Souls :p
On a serious note, I thank you for sharing this. I managed to beat the game once (and only once...) and the ending was soooooooo anticlimactic.
Dat music though.
Holy shit, it was only 20 mins long? what arip-off. If only i would have known. Imagine releasing something like that today. 20 mins! It was so blasted difficult too, and then "thats your lot!"
One of my fav games on game boy, I think most over looked game. Many people did not get to play this game.
I think it didn't help that it was quite a bit different from the W&W games. I wanted to have it so bad as a kid because I was a huge fan of the series but never played it untill later and can kinda see now why it wasn't loved like the others. The music like everything by David Wise is extremely good though.
This game was hard af as kid
Brilliant soundtrack to this gem
Dont let this fool you.This was very difficult.
Loved this soundtrack
The end is more than unsatisfying. :D
Merci ❤️ c'est des bons souvenirs 👍
dude, this game is hard.
Yeah, definitely one of the hardest gameboy games I've played for sure. Like Battletoads hard.
@@NintendoComplete Ironically though, the Game Boy Battletoads games are not that hard.
@@handsomebrick Very true. The NES and arcade games though >_
Now that I see the game is hard in unfair ways like many games of that time - but it doesn't matter when the title music has served as a fond memory to me
This game was so hard for me as a child, don't think I ever made it past the bat lol...had similar experiences w/ Empire Strikes back, Swamp thing, and Robocop 2
Got always stuck as a kid.
But damn is that damage sound ridiculous haha
Finally found the name of that game 😂 thanks!
Love this game.
Just bought the Nes version. Wizards and warriors 2: Ironsword.
😎💀👑🌟💥
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is better than best version. Atleast you go from point a to point b. Unlike the Nes version with hidden secrets and paths so unpredictable.
Thank you for the fond memories.
The Fortress of Fear is Chapter 10 of Wizards and Warriors? I remember the first three games on the NES, but where are the other six chapters?
It's just called X, this is basically the 4th game in the series.
@@Bloodreign1 Kinda like how Capcom made Mega Man X on the SNES when they had used Roman numerals for the six NES titles, which caused a bit of confusion back then.
to think i finished this game as a kid really make me wonder how weak i am now in videogames.. i mean, this, battletoads, contra... we had to be badass or give up.
now it's just about how much you farm or how much you pay....
Indeed, we are lucky that our childhood was in the glory days of gaming. 😎
Damn, I wonder how come Wizard and Warriors died after the NES series, they never came out in Super Nintendo sequels
A question worth asking.
2:56 - What's the point of this area?
This was another Game i owned....i liked it . I have to See how Far i Came...it got really Hard .
I think i never reached Level 3.
I could never get past the second level... Never even got to see where those cannonballs were coming from.
I had poor taste as a kid. This, Battletoad, Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, Simpsons Summer Camp (or something).... none of them possible... (still great memories)
@u r That I only picked games that a kid could barely be expected to finish :)
I love dis game whit the sound off
This game had a pretty cool look to it. But, my god, the controls make me want to cry.
Fall damage 😤🙅🏽
I love the music
sorry to ask, but what emulator is this?
Gambatte through Retroarch using shaders
Fucking childhood and yes it was so damn hard but i love the soundtrack so much!
NOSTALGIAAAAAA
You can tell when the developers didnt give a fuck about a game when you only got a single screen ending.
The farthest I got to was the level before the final boss I just got lost and ran out of lives xD
I was born in 89 and always played this with my big brother. And it reminds me of him so much, I could cry, rest in peace brother ❤️
Black Black Black Black No.1 !!!!!
Antes de Dark Souls, esto representaba mi frustración.
This was one hard ass game, got frustrated everytime I died because I knew the one time I did, that was the end of the game. Kids today wouldn't know what difficulty in gaming is til they play this shit. What was the point of having that damn shield?
Only for the look... and yeah, back then there were only true gamers or wimps who can't do shit. loved that time. today the wimps can buy their gaming "skills" 🤮
never able to get past the second boss
I break my game boy with my head bcz of this game . 🙄🤦.
It was the last game I played before I upgrade to Gameboy advance 😂. Maybe it was a good thing I break that Gameboy .
Never reached the last boss
the box art doesn't exactly match the game
Omg ...
Truly a horrible game - even by 90’s standards. Impossible to finish.
Who made the music was on crack