Claw: Monolith's Pirate Platformer for Windows 95 [LGR]
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2017
- This is a review of Captain Claw, an action platforming game for the PC from Monolith Productions. Not only was it notable for them following on the heels of Blood, but it was one of the first games released on DVD!
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• Captain Claw - Level 1... 
Игры
"It's payback time, LeRauxe!"
*Defeat*
*LeRauxe*
"I had a feeling you will catch up to me."
"Handover the gems Red Tail!"
DEFEAT RED TAIL
"Captain Claw! Now you'll receive what's coming to ya!"
"Prepare for a watery grave, Marrow!"
*Defeat Marrow*
"Captain Claw."
"We meet again Katherine."
*DEFEAT KATHERINE*
"I expected you to arrive,Joestar"
"I swear ill stop you evil deeds,DIO!"
*DEFEAT*
*DIO BRANDO*
"GORGH GORGH UGH OAAH BLORG RAHGR AH-YHYYYIEEEE"
"Looks like i'll need some heavy artillery!"
*DEFEAT AQUATIS*
“You feel powerful, while remaining vulnerable” truly encompasses my gaming experience with Claw
Elemental sword music to pump you up was great. Tough game. Do admit vid was fun, oh 7:25 quote.
A legendary game in Poland, everyone had it as a kid.
Pancake Now I understand why Gothic is ridiculously hard.
Magiczny pazurrrrrrr
It was very popular here in Brazil too. Most of my friends had it, but I've never seen the box (or the DVD version) before.
Kapitan Pazur Kurwa! :)
+Mauricio Munuera Really? Never met anyone who knew this :(
Our game offers an alternative to excessive violence!
(you stab enemies, you shoot enemies, you throw dynamite at enemies, you throw them into lava, you jump into spike pits)
ALTERNATIVE TO EXCESSIVE VIOLENCE!
See, it's not _excessive,_ it's just normal acceptable violence :P
Ha! Right? It literally starts with canons, guns, and swords :p
Before Kellyanne Conway's alternative facts there were alternative violence. :P
This time is just a bit of violence.
This is still an issue with publishers today - "LESS VIOLENT"/"NON VIOLENT" but still blasting and kicking and stuff, just not directly with guns or blood.
"Hairballs of steel."
That's it, Clint needs a position as a class-A videogame dialogue writer.
Holy shit, that's smoother frames and sharper images than I've seen from many modern platformers.
it reminds me of a donkey kong level of advance in frames
@@nzoth66 it was such a hard game :P !
In India, this game was the absolute favourite of kids in the early 2000s.
The top dude with the highest score at 3:29 is an Indian. 😂
Agreed, I had an absolute blast with this gem when I was a kid
Truer words cannot be spoken more
So damn underloved. I need this on GOG badly.
@@etienne18777 can you link it
@@superu4089 where can I get the disc from
I also have a downloaded copy. I could share it.
I want to play this too. Links? ! :D !
Link?
Been playing Captain Claw since I was a kid, and still to this day it's a quality game to play through. In my opinion, it had lots of potential to become a great ongoing franchise that sadly was lost in legal trouble.
ProClifo I still don't undeerstand where the trouble came from, monolith pretty much made the game and out of nowhere an obscure studio claims that the game is theirs.
The trouble came from the acquisition by Warner Bros in 2004, which left several games, most notably the No One Lives Forever series, basically in legal limbo where no one is sure who exactly owns the rights.
Questionable as their claim might be, WB's lawyers are unfortunately more than happy to shoot down any efforts towards releasing these games again, as was the case with a NOLF remaster by Night Dive Studios a few years ago.
True very true i 100 %agree me too i was playing this game since i was a kid and still playing it but only i had problems trying to get it to work on windows 10 pro 64 bit and still cant make it work propertly to be more precise it laggs like crazy
“The Claw is our master."
"The Claw chooses who will go and who will stay.”
ooooooOOOOOOOOoooooo!!!!!!!
Colonel Graff well played
"Furrious"
I heard that, don't think I didnt!
Also, "Clumps and littered."
I hate you, Clint, you mad genius.
Dang, this game looks like it could have been released last week!
yea, 3 years later and you're stil right. The look and appeal of the game aged very well..
@@marctestarossa a very hard game though! At least as hard as Ninja Gaiden from NES...
Not even close I just played it and used beat it back in around 2000-2009
If Claw were released today, people would be calling it the Dark Souls of platformers.
this game was incredible I remember playing it as a kid and I could never beat it. I got far but man and how the hell do you collect all those gems? Like you'd have to move like a God to get 100% on all the levels....I honestly don't believe it was possible. Such a hard game wow.
Dark souls is the Claw of action rpgs
This was the Dark Souls of comparisons.
They should remake this for the switch. The gameplay was absolutely perfect.
THUNDER CLAW! :D !
The best PC-native platformer. Claw's fate is a depressing one ;_;
My vote goes to Jazz 2.
Heart of Darkness is an amazing platformer, IMO.
Is it though? :D
Captain Comic
I don't think any of you are wrong they're all freaking glorious any of them could easily fill the role of best pc platformer
Been waiting for this one for yeeeeears. Thanks Clint!
Quite welcome :)
Fernando Alegre same here ☺ Thanks Clint!
holy cow never expected to see this game here, this is my childhood right there!
ahh the PJ's eating lucky charms joke just hit me just right
Released on a format that had a larger capacity than most hdd's of the time
My God! I spent hours after hours searching for the name of this game. I started questioning it's existence at one point. So, so glad you reviewed it!
Something I've learned recently is that there's no such thing as a truly dead franchise. Anything can be revived with a bit of public support from people who have a bit of money.
And sometimes that's not even necessary... like with the Bubsy 1 Remake.
So who knows? Maybe we'll eventually see Claw 2 - and maybe this video could even be the catalyst for that to happen.
that would be AWESOME! LETS GET IT!! Claw 2! and Claw 1 ;) !
Did you know Claw, among other games, came as a gift on a children's magazine in Argentina? Full game too.
heh, same in Poland
Sabes cual es el nombre de la revista?? Ando buscando uno de los juegos que venían en esa y juro que es imposible de encontrarlo
Si mal no recuerdo era en Billiken Compu.
Same in Brazil! Still got my copy!
omg, i cant believe you did a review on this amazing game, FINALLY!! hopefully it gets the well deserved popularity now
It was famous in India during until mid 2000s. Claw is one of the first games I have ever played and holds a special place in my heart.
How did I never hear about this game? It looks brilliant!
please make a walkthrough of the game :D
It's also good to mention that this game have good music.
Love this game! The music from the first level is probably permanently burned into my memory from playing it so damn much as a kid. SEQUEL PLS
Yes man this game is amazing i played it too as a kid its sad there is no claw 2 you are right i hope this game never gets old and forgot about
I might actually enjoy this. Will keep an eye out for the DVD copy!!
please make a playthrough of the game :D
10/10 recommend
As much PC gaming as I did back in the day, I have surprisingly never heard of this title. It looks like a killer game to play whilst in PJs enjoying Lucky Charms.
I worked at a computer company back then and I had it on my workstation. Played it on a lot of lunches!
They also had a Gauntlet clone called Get Medieval, check it out if you can find it, it's surprisingly fun for how obscure it seems to be.
Especially claws comments... “I don’t have all day, to run around in circles!!”
I remember seeing this game at a friend's house around the same time it was released, in 1997. I thought it was just an average platformer back then and never got the chance of playing it myself or even remembering its name. I was impressed to finally discover it again after all these years and after so many years I can appreciate how good the gameplay looks, and I take the word of Clint that it's a great platformer without the need of playing it myself.
I was amazed to see Monolith developing it. Monolith sure has some varied library of works, and each one is fantastic. Too bad they became victims to corporate greed with all that Middle-Earth: Shadow of War microtransactions fiasco.
YES YES YES, I LOVE THIS FREAKING GAME, i used to play on my aunt home and man this made my childhood afternoon a bliss, and recently she found the cd and gave it to me.
And i remember well how it was really tough to beat this game, i mean it still is.
I've played Claw 1.0, the most notable changes were that you only began with 2 lives (now 6 with the patch iirc) and the last boss fight against Omar took more hits to kill him in both his forms. Also I think that you needed more points to be awarded an extra life, but I can't confirm that.
Damage from bosses are reduced in the patch too. Or at least for the 3rd boss.
That sounds brutal
@@TheValentineEnemy Yeah, Wolvington was quite notorious back in the day because he decided whether or not he will let you get close to him or not and can and will casually give you a game over if he feels like it.
@@Danikah23 Ohh yeaaah I never managed to beat him in the 1.0 version and well I couldn't get my hands on the patches so my journey as a kid ended there.
Getting shot to death is just so oldschool. :D
Tried it again years later and got further...have yet to beat this game...will do. :P
Dude I also remember playing the infamous v1.0 when I was a kid. Since then after I lost my precious DVD, I've played v1.1, v1.3 and v1.4.4.4. So how did you manage to get the v1.0. Can you please help me?
i spent months playing the demo of this game as a kid, because you know, i didn't knew demos weren't the full game and was just fun lol thanks for the nostalgia!
Holy crap! Those graphics are great!
I always like these reviews. Gives me new games to be on the lookout for. Thanks for the hard work LGR!
HOLY CRAP! HOLY FUCKING CRAP!!!! I loved Claw when I was a kid, but honestly one of the most impressive games I've ever played was MicroMan. Except I was too young to remember the name of the game and never got to find what the freaking name was to search and play it again! And now... omg! Thank you so freaking much for mentioning both my childhood faves in this one video!
This is nostalgic as fuck for me. I got so frustrated as a kid playing this, but loved it deeply and always wanted to keep going, never got through the jungle though
Rei Bob I never leaves damned city
Oh man, this was the game of my childhood. The amount of hours I sunk into this thing
Me too it was one of my first games i ever played
I love all your videos, but I'm glad the classic games still come up from time to time
Techland knew what they do when they distributed Claw round here. This game was absolutely MASSIVE in poland thanls to it being dirt cheap on the release (like 17 bucks or so) and being included in basically every gaming magazine over the years. Gothic series was a great example of it as well
I had this game on a bootleg CD as a kid. One of those compilation discs with ripped games you could buy at the local Sunday market, or in this particular case, I'm sure it was from 'The Barras' (any Glaswegians about on this channel? Haha)
Loved this game and had forgotten all about it until a couple years ago it came up in conversation and managed to find it again through a little bit of Google-Fu.
My grandma has this game, I used to play it all the time as a kid!! Makes me so happy to see you review this awesome game!
Duuuuuude, I have been watching your channel for a good like... well ever since you did your first sim videos, but you keep reintroducing me to games I played as a kid that I had forgotten were a thing. All I remembered from this one was the treasure (and the treasure screen) but stuff like the platforms with the single spikes suddenly made so many memories flood back. tiny 5 or 6 year old me is soooo happy, I never knew this game was literally from the year I was born... I love games :D
please clint make a monolith tech tales, that company amazed me as a child with blood, i never knew what happened to them, they did pretty awesome games! they had so potencial
J Barba What about Shadow of Mordor?
They're releasing a new game next week
claw game? that sounds awesome ill play it never heard this game before, and honestly is very ahead of its time, it looks like a new good retro indie project, what i would love is a new blood game, but with the same graphics, i cant imagine that game in 3d in any way, and actually there was a sequel in 3d but kinda sucks
I pretty much just always click the thumbs up while the preroll ad is running. Because I know I’m going to like it... and it gives me something to do while I let ya get paid.
Not only did this video release so many nostalgic feelings for me, it was just interesting overall. I loved the commentary and I loved seeing Claw in action again. Thank you for making this ya scallywag!
Clinton I so love your sense of humor. Thus was a great video. You never disappoint.
I remember playing the demo for this game a lot on my Shogo disk. I also remember the Claw weapon in Shogo. Good times.
Man, I remember those package DVD thiiiings... I got Riven with ours, and never managed to beat it either. Great video as usual!
Yay a new game review! I've really missed these!
OMG this is so nolstalgic to me! I used to play it on my family's first computer with my sister, but we only had the demo version wich came only with 2 levels or so. For years we looked for the full game on various places, but couldn't find a single copy to buy. We thought that this was another forgotten game, but i've just found your channel! Thanks for caring about older stuff!!
MAGIC CLAW MAGIC CLAW MAGIC CLAW!
I clicked for LGR, but stayed for the animal puns.
This game, gruntz and crash were my childhood. I always come back to play them
YES! FINALLY! BEEN WAITING FOR A PROPER REVIEW OF THIS GAME BY *ANYONE* FOR YEARS!
oh, played it on launch without the patch, it was really fun, I miss the days when we seen companies put so much artistic effort into their games.
like I wish they would have made more Claw games, I just cant get enough of it.
64 PLAYER MP IN A PLATFORMER IN 1997? Battefield ain't got shit on this!
Have been waiting for Clint to do this review for years. I see, it was well worth it! :)
YAS! You finally came round to reviewing this childhood gem of mine, to which I lost a lot of pocket money at the computer rooms.
"... high quality game experience without resorting to excessive violence." they said before giving us a game where pretty much the only thing you do is slash, shoot, blow up, drown, dissolve in acid, skewer and punch to death hundreds of enemies. Well, it's Monolith Productions ... these guys really had a sense of humor back in the day.
truelazerlight there was no blood or suffering
@@marijajankovic3771 yes there was
"Dude this is quality stuff! I feel like I should be sitting around in my PJs downing lucky charms. Ah crap I am..." - LGR xD!!!
OMG I totally forgot about this game!!!! Man I used to play the heck out of it when I was a kid! Cheers for the nostalgia trip Clint!
I never knew about this game. There was so much going on my the later mid to late 90s, in erms of games alone, I guess it just passed me by. Great vid !!
There was even a claw reference in a mission in shogo.
Boots up Shogo.
Types cheat code.
MAGIC CLAW! MAGIC CLAW! MAGIC CLAW!
Never heard of till now, but it's definitely going on my must play list! Thanks Clint!
one of my most favourite games! it was so polished and original. i always thought it was an underappreciated gem!
I know right. I am very glad The Claw Recluse fan community still exists to preserve Captain Claw.
Yes! I've been wanting you to review this! Can you do one on SHOGO: MAD? Also by Monolith.
I plan to!
And the NOLF series too while you're at it... even if they are a bit newer than what you usually talk about.
I had a demo of that game from those old Maximum PC demo discs, I loved playing it!
I greatly look forward to it. (and I hope every day for a sequel. :( )
I came here to post this - there's a Captain Claw doll in Shogo MAD!
WoW it is surprisingly beautiful
Finally man!!! This is the game of my childhood. As always very good. Thank you for your work...
In Blood II: The Chosen, there is an easter egg poster of Claw in the Cabal's headquarters displaying the cover art featured on the big, glossy game box. I've played The Chosen countless times and was always curious about this game. Looks pretty sweet, and I never knew it had such a big following.
Until I had played dark souls, I considered this the I hardest game I ever played. Actually, I never got past level 12.
Diamond Productions This and megaman are still the hardest games for me.
I struggle to beat lvl 3 lol as a kid couldnt get past lvl 2
I can understand, man, levels 11 through 14 were absolutely brutal. The first time I beat them, I used cheats. Don't @ me, I was 7 years old at that time.
I love the irony in saying Claw wasn't an "excessive violent" game, meanwhile you shoot the bad guys, explode them with dynamite, slash them up with a sword, drown them and so on... I guess Jason Hall has a very _interesting_ definition of violence.
Compared to Monolith’s other titles it was downright G-rated 😄
Damn, I've never heard of this game and now I really want to play it! Sadly in 1997 I was wholly obsessed with 3D and Tomb Raider and I probably wouldn't have cared about Claw even if I knew it existed. They need to re-release this on Steam so I can buy it.
Claw was a game of my childhood! It was fully localized in my country and simply hypnotized me and my friend.I will never forget those magical, snowy evenings we spent playing this game .And indeed, in our country, it was released as The Captain Claw. I remember some sentences from the game till this day :)
Gee, I WONDER why the big box physical version of a game about anthropomorphic animals with art of anthropomorphic animals on the cover is extremely hard to find and/or expensive.
Truly a mystery.
Don't knock it, it was fun!
As if having anthropomorphic animals on it makes it worse somehow lmfao
imagine being a kid, playing this... and then finding Blood
Thanks for bringing attention to this one, it was a favorite of mine as a kid
I mean, it still is of course
Oh my god. I have been looking for this game FOR EVER and I could not find it what so ever. I remember it from my childhood. And just today I types " a game where you play as a cat pirate" and there it is, your video. I'm going to download it now and finish this game as when I was a kid I could not understand a thing about it. Thanks !
Check out The Claw Recluse fansite for everything Captain Claw related. :D
We should do some voodoo mumbo jumbo with pentagrams and s*it and then get straight into the GOG's offices shouting "AAAAAAAAYE SIR" demanding they acquire the license and publish this game for the newest generations.
Yoooo Clint! I wrote to you like 2 years ago about this game! You got a boxed copy now? Holy fuck! How did you get your grubby paws on that gem? and is there any left for the rest of us?
I have been looking all the time for YEARS for that box, haha. Finally imported it from Russia!
Yeah last time you only had the sleeve version you also showed. Good to know where to look now, congratulations on the find, even if you're almost entirely buying it for the box, it had to be worth it, that's a looker for sure.
Lazy Game Reviews WHAT!? This gem in Russia!? Wow, now I want to know where exactly they sell this kind of stuff!
some games have surprising cult status in easterneuropean countries, Claw is one of them
They like hard games nonetheless
Like mine deer Poland :) and yes Claw its one of these games who get own fanbase cult.
Oof. a childhood fav of mine. have been trying to remember the title for a few years. thanks for the great video as always 😃
The skit with you eating Lucky Charms in your PJs is why I subbed to this channel - keep it up Clint! =D
I got on your channle 2 minutes ago, no new videos. I check my subscribe area and BOOM, new LRG Video.
LRG
have places like GOG ever approached you for disc images for widespread release? Seems like you would be an ideal guy to come to
Oh man, my childhood of gaming revolved around this game! Thanks for bringing back those memories!
That big box is gorgeous! Look at the detail on Captain Claw's face and the nice glossy surface. That's the kind of stuff I love seeing in big box games.
A timeless title like Blade Runner, still don't understand why this isn't on GOG
Omg!!! I LOVE THIS GAME
I loved it tooi też jestem Polakiem
:)
I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS GAME FOREVER YOU ARE MY HERO
YES! This is my earliest video game memory and still remains a favorite of mine. Especially love the music.
"Claw... delivers a high-quality game experience without resorting to excessive violence"
_Proceeds to stab, uppercut into a pit of spikes, set on fire, throw into acid pit, freeze and explode enemies_
Unless that little blurb up there was written by Ed Boon himself, this makes no sense, considering that this game is just a bit of blood short of being basically a Mortal Kombat platformer.
How has this game not gotten a re-release? I'm sure plenty of people would buy it on Steam, GoG, and even on consoles.
Legal bullshit.
I've been waiting for this forever.
Thank you for this beautiful review. Claw was big in Norway.
MAGIC CLAW!!!!
*Adrenaline generator music plays in the background*
Wow this game?! Never heard of it, neither back then nor nowadays. Looks gorgeous, would buy it on GOG asap!
Holy crap! I've been looking for MicroMan for 20 years but never knew the name. Who would have thought this review would shed light on that?!?
Wait, what? I was just thinking "I've been splurging Monolith game reviews of their titles I never got to play back in the day... What about Claw? When will I find a review of this?" and BAM, there we go.
Thanks Clint. Helped make my day.