it was most likely inspired by it doug tanapel creator of earthworm jim actually worked on a ren and stimpy game on the sega genesis as a level designer
“But just because I can recognise the cult status of something, doesn’t mean I love it.” That right there needs to be said more often, someone who understands why something is beloved even if he/she doesn’t like it or has no interest in the product.
@@dantetouchdown9030 same on Witcher....still don't get the obsessive love TLOU gets. Don't get the appeal of Spongebob or FNAF either for that matter...
@@newageBoundhippie yeah those are something, i didn't want to say it out first, but i think Uncharted 4 is super overrated and on the same level as Uncharted 1, it doesn't come close to Uncharted 2 or 3
Same af, I had to use the debug cheat to play the other levels. Especially when you couldn't save at all, so even if you did beat the water stage, you had hella other hard levels to do lmao. I don't think many kids ever beat the game lol
If you want to talk about the game without bringing up politics, then just talk about the game without bringing up politics. Going on for several minutes about how you disagree with someone's views only brings attention to whatever you disagree with. Just talk about the game and not mention anything else. If people are gonna be upset, let them be upset. Can't please everyone.
If a bad man made a fine painting it's perfectly acceptable to like it, doesn't mean you're a nazi. Shut up about someone being homophobic or whatever shit you're talking about and start talking about the game.
Earthworm Jim was my jam when I was a teen! It is definitely dated in both art and play style. It is very much a product of the Invader Zim and Ren and Stimpy era. Levels being hard for the sake of being hard, non sequiturs, gross out humor and lots of tongue in cheek! They knew what they were making, who they were making it for and it's a glorious monument to an era that has passed.
Earthworm Jim is the original Cuphead, also how come you didn’t play the Sega CD version? It has all the levels from both the Genesis and SNES version plus a few more and it’s got additional cutscenes, I think it’s the best version and most accessible having an easy option for those who can’t play it on a harder difficulty.
The mega cd version has completion bonuses depending on what level of difficulty you finish the game on. Playing the mega cd version would definitely have suited the episode more.
Between its art style, gameplay variety, and humor, it’s hard for me to see how this wouldn’t blow people away - flaws and all. That being said, I grew up with it, so I can’t see it through the lens of anything but my own bias. To each their own!
Seriously. Watching some of the gameplay in this review, I kept thinking "Damn this game looks even more awesome than I remembered." Although it did really kick my ass when I played it for the first time... think I was 8 at the time? Rough stuff but I still loved it.
Spends half the episode whining about a cartoonist not liking the letter people. But if instead the creator had said that he hates European diaspora, you would ignore it.
I don’t understand why the politics or views of an artist are a factor in admiring their art when the art doesn’t convey those things. If I were to paint the most beautiful flower anyone has ever painted… would the price become ugly or uncouth to talk about if my politics weren’t very popular among certain circles?
This "call out" thing gets tiring. Having to denounce someone or face the consequences before reviewing their 25+ year old game is tiring. Everything revolves around politics and identity it kills creativity.
EWJ has to be one of the coolest games i ever played, there is nothing like him because you are literally playing a saturday morning cartoon down to the nonsensical cartoony wacky plot. But what makes EWJ so appealing its not just because its a "playable cartoon" but because of Jim himself, he has to be one of the most strange and downright charming videogame characters i ever saw, his attitude and way of doing things is so unique that most of what i create as characters and other sorts of ideas mostly comes one way or another from him and his game, also i always liked the art of Ten Napel (i know how bad the guy can be ok? i like his art not the person itself) mostly from the game The Neverhood where things are even wackier than Jim and always had Klaymen and Jim as one of my most beloved cartoon videogame characters of all time.
Hm, I own this game, but never got far into it. But, now that I know the creator's political stance, I want to try to finish it. Thanks for letting me know.
Just turned on my PS3 to maybe get legend of mana (pixel art over backgrounds remaster not my visual jam) and forgot I had earthworm jim HD on the sucker. That and earthworm jim 2 on the switch.
Hard to take anybody seriously anymore when they use the term transphobic or homophobic 😂 guy was a good artist and should be credited for it. Ignore the difference in opinion
I love this game. I haven't played it since it released on the SNES and I still remember soo many wacky moments from the game lol! It was a bunch of zany, nonsensical fun! I think i remember one of the quiz questions being "What color is Jim's RED gun?" and the answer was GREEN! Lmao... Ah lotta fond memories in that little cartridge...
Absolutely loved these games as a kid. Gameplay can be brutal at times, but I loved the art, level designs, characters, and music. Rented it so many times!
I don’t remember if I ever made it past the escort dog level, but so many of the sounds in this game still live in my head rent-free like the metallic clang and squawks. The ost was so funky too.
I'm not sure if I ever finished the game, even though I did enjoy it. And funnily enough as soon as I read what you said about the sounds, I almost immediately got the sound of those birds dying in my head as well as various other sound effects. Plus I can't remember which game it was, or if it was specific to one console or the other, but for some reason I also pictured that intro where Jim is playing what looks like an accordion. What a weird game lol.
I have not thought about this game in years. But I remember loving and playing the hell out of it as a kid. Launching that cow was always my favorite part.
Just want to say ty for everything you do for the gaming community. I played this game as a kid and love it. Also something you should know regarding youtube man the dumb algorithm has unsubbed me 6 times now from your channel over the last year just fyi. Plz dont ever stop, views and subs are a stupid judgement of how much people love your content due to youtubes dumb system.
When I was a kid I first started liking earthworm Jim simply because his gun shot really fast and he didn't have limited ammo, back then a lot of the games that were like that always regulated how fast you could shoot or just limited how much you could shoot. 🤷♂️ Then the art style was something I found appealing as well since it was so unique at the time
Earthworm Jim HD wasn't just removed due to copyright issues, but it also had some plagiarism issues as many of the assets used were taken from a fan artist.
Oh no!!! We better not let people know we enjoy art created by people with controversial opinions or lifestyles. I mean, in reality, we should only be allowed to enjoy art that is politically correct, lest we be saddled with guilt by association(by idiots)…And given that it’s 2022…that means I can’t enjoy anything that existed before 2016…My god, how society has fallen😂
It's worth noting the Sega CD version is probably the best version of the game. There's expanded sections of existing levels and an additional level on top of that. There's also a password system (sadly no actual save system), and some bonus endings depending on difficulty. The music ends up being the best of the three old versions as well.
The one thing I wanted to see was him completing For Pete's Sake the long way. He is the completionist so taking the easy way out isn't full completion!
"It is always hard to talk about art especially when the creatives behind it have the slightest hint of controversy." Uh...no it's not? You just talk about the art and not about what the people behind it think about unrelated topics. Ain't that hard.
There was a new Earthworm Jim cartoon announced in November of 2021,called "Earthworm Jim Beyond the Groovy".There is only a interview video with Jim as of yet,but I'm excited for it!
it's funny, games back then were made so stupidly hard because if they were easy, you would complete them in 1 to 3 hours and not bother actually buying, just rent. but like, with old arcade games, when you play them now, they will include infinite credits ability in some way., there's no "turn off the stupidly intense difficulty preventing you from beating the game in a timely fashion" from 90s console games.
The nostalgia is still there, even after decades. I still remember playing the last level as a kid and getting frustrated by the last boss the first time. Until I accidentally whipped her in the face and she just… exploded. Very surprising to say the least, and gruesome for such a cartoony game. One hit kill all the time after that play through.
I don't want to dwell on this, but regarding the controversy of the creator, I would recommend doing your own research into these things rather than listening to what people online say. I'm not sure if you did that or not with this video, but the impression I got was that you heard things about him that you disagreed with. I'm not saying that the creator is a good person per se, I really don't know much about it. But from my personal experience I've seen a lot of times where people will smear and slander people they disagree with, and it's becoming more and more of a problem (again, my experience). So when accusations of controversy pop up, I approach them with a grain of salt and try to do my own research, personally I'd rather be wrong about giving someone the benefit of the doubt, than accusing someone of something they didn't do. I don't feel like it was your intention but it came off like you believed the accusations despite providing no real reason why, instead of being truly neutral like your opening speech implied, so in future I think it would be smarter to make it more clear that you don't have an opinion on the person, or give more of a reason why you feel that way, just so viewers unfamiliar can get some context. Anyway small criticism. Great video otherwise. I played the sequel on Sega Genesis as a kid and have some fond memories of it, hope to see you cover it someday.
This is an amazing game, I haven’t been given the grace to play it yet but I have cherished memories watching my father play it back in the day. Good times. God bless you Jirard
Ren and Stimpy, Rocko's Modern Life... all kind of crazy weird hilarious animations from the mid 90's. This just for the nostalgic market that was captivating kids of the era. There were other cartoons in there as well that one could say this fit with.
Lol I would LOVE to see you take a crack at Earthworm Jim 3D. The bosses in that game are 100% Harder than Elden rings. That is not even remotely a hyperbole.
The first boss is not bad but everyone after is a nightmare. Me and my friend first tried several of the endgame Elden ring bosses but I'm 28 and still can't beat the second boss
Even though I'm a pretty big EWJ fan, I gotta admit: I too did NOT grow up with the series. It wasn't until much later in my life when I tried the first game on Game Boy Advance when I became a fan. Still, I respect Earthworm Jim for what it is: A batshit insane run-and-gun with plenty of good humor and surreal enviorments. Earthworm Jim 2 on SEGA Saturn remains to this day my favorite video game of all-time, and the animated series is just as warped and hilarious as the games are... Regardless, I understand the series may not be for everyone, especially those who did not grow up with it like I did, or people who hate the guts of his trashbag creator (seriously, the less we speak of him, the better...), because as humans, we're all different. Recently, a NEW Earthworm Jim animated series has been announced, and while it may not be the ideal comeback most fans want, me personally? I always found Jim more appealing in his cartoon than in his games. And while this time Jim is not being voiced by Dan "Homer Simpson" Castellaneta (yes, that's who voiced him in the OG cartoon...), I'm still gonna give it the benefit of the doubt and HOPE it's still a good series. And considering Te****el is not involved with this project at all, it's a step in the right direction already...
I've read Doug's comics based on EWJ, and tbh I don't think excluding him is a good idea. The comics are awesome: beautiful art and wonderful storytelling make it stand out as the gold standard for what Jim should be about. Weirdness, humor, action, and heart. Without the heart, the rest falls apart.
Ah, yes, believing in science, holding rational beliefs, and traditional views everyone until VERY recently did relegates everyone who isn't a Twitter person to "trashbag" status. Lovely.
I just looked up Doug TenNapel to see what the controversy was all about. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I'll now be 100% supporting all his work in the future. It's great to see a pro-family man of faith in the comics industry these days for once. I'm absolutely going to go purchase copies of whatever works of his I can get my hands on.
Haha at least one person in the comments with common sense. I cringed so hard when Jirard did this awkward disclaimer because he's afraid of twatter hate mobs.
This "call out" thing gets tiring. Having to denounce someone or face the consequences before reviewing their 25+ year old game is tiring. Everything revolves around politics and identity it kills creativity.
I actually have an Earthworm Jim game for the original Gameboy. While it’s not as good as the console versions, it does have its own charm. Well worth playing.
Earthworm Jim is the kinda game someone can point to and confidentiality say “that piece of media right there, that game captures what the 90s was all about. For better and for worse”.
I remember that there was another version of Earthworm Jim, some kind of "Special Edition" for Sega CD. What was so special about it, I have no idea, as from what I've seen for myself after playing it there was only one addition, a new level where Jim had to evade an invincible dinosaur Brutie. Also music was completely absent from the game.
Never apologize to the mob. They will never be satisfied. Stand your ground. Just the fact that you had to apologize in this video about 4 times. Like you said “ I was proud of the work I put into that video”. Enough said.
This "call out" thing gets tiring. Having to denounce someone or face the consequences before reviewing their 25+ year old game is tiring. Everything revolves around politics and identity it kills creativity.
This was one of those games I’d rent every so often when I was a kid. It was unique with its characters and their designs. I had fun with it, but I can understand you not enjoying it. Personally, I’m just a sucker for weird games. :P
Let's be honest, even if Aladdin for Genesis/Megadrive is amazing, Shiny Entertainment has never mastered the art of the hitboxes... You get use it, but it is hard work to finish any game they developped... I found many tricks to finish Earthwork Jim "easily" but it took me hours of play to find them and optimize my runs! And this is also why I still prefer Aladdin by Capcom on Super Nintendo. It is a pleasure to play the game, not hard work...
Yeah, the first Earthworm Jim game pretty rough around the edges, and way too hard for its own good. Earthworm Jim 2 is a VASTLY better game, and I strongly recommend it, especially now that it's out on Nintendo Switch Online.
you need to do Cris tales it's a game about time travel and it's very cute and it has a nice twist at the end there's not that many collectibles but I think you'll enjoy it.
i LOVED this game as a kid and i always drawn to the weird ( I.E watching ren and stimpy as a kid ) so this game's kinda strange side was super my jam.
I cant help but feel like you spent too much time in this video saying you didnt agree with the creators. Its fine if you disagree with the creators, but for me personally, I just wanna hear about the game itself more. You do you tho man, its your video after all.
I had earthworm Jim on the GBA I played that game non-stop my friends grandpa was one of the audio producers for the game which made it all the more cool to me
To me the main problem of this game was the same as in Aladdin from the same creator, they prioritized animation over visibility. In both games the character's sprite is quite big and moves fast, which has been a problem in a lot of 2D platformers with limited pixel counts. But nonetheless all the variety of level design puts them among the top tier 16 bit games in my opinion.
Had no idea about Doug Tennapel's views and that's definitely not anything I agree with either, but it's not the first time I've have to appreciate the art without agreeing with the artist. I've got a lot of nostalgia for this one. As kids my best friend and I both played this game seperately, renting it from the same game/movie rental store. He played the Genesis one and I played the Super Nintendo version. And now over 25 years later we still enjoy the games and relax with some of the music from them. It was super weird then, and it's super weird now. But I wouldn't have had it any other way.
I really enjoyed the cartoon as a kid with dan castellaneta as the voice of Jim. I was a LITTLE late to it, playing it around the time of the ps2 era, but still really enjoyed it. I appreciate your opinions of how some of the difficulty is a little bit unfair, and I can agree. Really, the only people who aren't Earthworm Jim fans I can recommend this game to are people who are looking for something distinctly 90s in it's humor and presentation, so the play it score seems more than fair to me. Great episode, great thoughts and great spreading awareness of the terrible opinions by the creator.
“I’m just going to talk about the game. But first, I’m going to make sure I get some virtue signaling out of the way because I’m so terrified of losing viewers.” 🙄
Dude, great episode overall! I respect your opinion and I agree that this game enters in the "niche" category of rock hard platformers from the 16-bit era. However, I think that the best way to experience this game is playing the Special Edition, available for both the Sega CD and PC. In this version, you kinda get a "completion bonus" for playing on easy and playing on hard. This is a very old game, but I recommend playing for yourself to check what these bonus are about, they are totally worth it in my opinion. (Also, there is an extra level in the Special Edition)
Discovered this game when I was a kid on the GBA, and at the time it was an amazing game to have on a handheld console. I like it even more today for it's weirdness, especially now that I completed it multiple times and gost past the trauma of Buttvile, but recognize it to be lackluster on the mechanics side since the mechanics are great and varied but not pushed as far as they could have
I’m glad to hear you enjoyed the original Earthworm Jim a little more this time around, Jirard - and I appreciate your opinion of this oft-forgotten gen of 90s zaniness. I’ve tried for years to find another game that could live up to Earthworm Jim’s pure off-the-wall sense of humor coupled with that rare breed of diverse level and character design, and I can’t say I’ve found one yet. I wonder how you’d feel about Earthworm Jim 2… I gotta say…I so excited at a Comic-Con once when I met Doug Tenapel…and then I found out about all you alluded to afterwards, and…it was such a bizarre and tough reality to conceive. It’s quite sad, to say the least. Talk about trying to separate the art from the artist. It’s hard to fathom how the same mind who came up with such a game could also be so close-minded and hateful toward certain groups of people. It’s a sad, sad thing…
You sound ridiculous. Maybe you should be tolerant of religion, or are Christians excluded from that? Realize pretty much every religion says the same as well. It's science. Bunch of cry babies.
People need to grow up and realize you can appreciate someone's work without agreeing with their world view. I swear the internet has turned into a bunch of cry babies incapable of developing any kind of independent thought.
This "call out" thing gets tiring. Having to denounce someone or face the consequences before reviewing their 25+ year old game is tiring. Everything revolves around politics and identity it kills creativity.
This game feels like a Ren & Stimpy or Cow & Chicken episode with the art style. I always loved that
They were from the same "school class" so to speak
it was most likely inspired by it
doug tanapel creator of earthworm jim actually worked on a ren and stimpy game on the sega genesis as a level designer
@@trickyz773 That Ren and Stimpy game was actually pretty fun, albeit it way too short if i remember correctly
One of the top 10 sleeper gits of the 90s. Awesome game
“But just because I can recognise the cult status of something, doesn’t mean I love it.”
That right there needs to be said more often, someone who understands why something is beloved even if he/she doesn’t like it or has no interest in the product.
I have this feeling with witcher 3, and the last of us
@@dantetouchdown9030 same on Witcher....still don't get the obsessive love TLOU gets. Don't get the appeal of Spongebob or FNAF either for that matter...
@@newageBoundhippie yeah those are something, i didn't want to say it out first, but i think Uncharted 4 is super overrated and on the same level as Uncharted 1, it doesn't come close to Uncharted 2 or 3
Agreed. It's possible to dislike something that's good, and it's okay to love something that's shit.
@@greylithwolf taste is subjective, somebody likes boring 100+ hour long games while somebody else likes shorter highly replayable games
Watching this footage gives me such vivid flashbacks of being an extremely frustrated little kid. I never made it past that cursed underwater level😤
It was the cracking glass dome that really boiled my piss! 😂😡😡🤬🤬😂
Mannnn F that level.
@@RichO1701e yes exactly!! I swear I still feel anxiety when I think about it🙄
Same af, I had to use the debug cheat to play the other levels. Especially when you couldn't save at all, so even if you did beat the water stage, you had hella other hard levels to do lmao. I don't think many kids ever beat the game lol
I remember really hating the level with the dog it took forever for me to beat. It was such a pain.
You think Earthworm Jim is a weird game?
Oh boy, you haven't seen "weird" until you've tried Earthworm Jim 2.
Earthworm Jim-weird
Earthworm Jim 2- weirder than ever
Earthworm Jim 3D- WTF is this crap?
a.k.a. Jim's Now a Blind Cave Salamander
Tender…
That doesn't mean #1 isn't weird
And #2 manages to pair it's weirdness with better gameplay and level design than it's predecessor, too.
If you want to talk about the game without bringing up politics, then just talk about the game without bringing up politics. Going on for several minutes about how you disagree with someone's views only brings attention to whatever you disagree with. Just talk about the game and not mention anything else. If people are gonna be upset, let them be upset. Can't please everyone.
Why would I care what the creators political views are? Lol I'm playing a game
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If a bad man made a fine painting it's perfectly acceptable to like it, doesn't mean you're a nazi. Shut up about someone being homophobic or whatever shit you're talking about and start talking about the game.
The creator of Earthworm Jim dares to believe in science, how evil!
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I have this game and the second one on the SNES and I can honestly say getting the big square arcade controller works really well for this game.
Earthworm Jim was my jam when I was a teen! It is definitely dated in both art and play style. It is very much a product of the Invader Zim and Ren and Stimpy era. Levels being hard for the sake of being hard, non sequiturs, gross out humor and lots of tongue in cheek! They knew what they were making, who they were making it for and it's a glorious monument to an era that has passed.
??? Earthworm Jim was a thing 6 years before Zim was.
@@Syger It's all the same era, though. The 90s and early 00s were culturally the same. It was either neon and weird, or gross and weird.
I had a love/hate relationship with this game and its sequel while growing up. I wouldn’t change a thing.
Earthworm Jim is the original Cuphead, also how come you didn’t play the Sega CD version? It has all the levels from both the Genesis and SNES version plus a few more and it’s got additional cutscenes, I think it’s the best version and most accessible having an easy option for those who can’t play it on a harder difficulty.
There was a SEGA CD version? Now I'm intrigued. 😀
The best version is the hd remaster because it included multiplayer :)
Wait what? This is news to me gonna find a copy now
He LITERALLY explained it and talked about it SEVERAL times in the video.
The mega cd version has completion bonuses depending on what level of difficulty you finish the game on. Playing the mega cd version would definitely have suited the episode more.
Between its art style, gameplay variety, and humor, it’s hard for me to see how this wouldn’t blow people away - flaws and all. That being said, I grew up with it, so I can’t see it through the lens of anything but my own bias. To each their own!
Seriously. Watching some of the gameplay in this review, I kept thinking "Damn this game looks even more awesome than I remembered."
Although it did really kick my ass when I played it for the first time... think I was 8 at the time? Rough stuff but I still loved it.
The line up when describing cult-classics made me tear up a bit. I see you, all you crazy Goemon fans!
Spends half the episode whining about a cartoonist not liking the letter people. But if instead the creator had said that he hates European diaspora, you would ignore it.
I don’t understand why the politics or views of an artist are a factor in admiring their art when the art doesn’t convey those things.
If I were to paint the most beautiful flower anyone has ever painted… would the price become ugly or uncouth to talk about if my politics weren’t very popular among certain circles?
This "call out" thing gets tiring. Having to denounce someone or face the consequences before reviewing their 25+ year old game is tiring. Everything revolves around politics and identity it kills creativity.
EWJ has to be one of the coolest games i ever played, there is nothing like him because you are literally playing a saturday morning cartoon down to the nonsensical cartoony wacky plot.
But what makes EWJ so appealing its not just because its a "playable cartoon" but because of Jim himself, he has to be one of the most strange and downright charming videogame characters i ever saw, his attitude and way of doing things is so unique that most of what i create as characters and other sorts of ideas mostly comes one way or another from him and his game, also i always liked the art of Ten Napel (i know how bad the guy can be ok? i like his art not the person itself) mostly from the game The Neverhood where things are even wackier than Jim and always had Klaymen and Jim as one of my most beloved cartoon videogame characters of all time.
Check out the tenaple interview with Steven crowder he tells all his opinions there in the topic
How bad TenNaple can be? What's he believe, men are men? How awful.
Hm, I own this game, but never got far into it. But, now that I know the creator's political stance, I want to try to finish it. Thanks for letting me know.
LOL
Bowie's Bulge is why Labyrinth became a classic Mr Completionist
I just saw this game at a retro game store and had to get it. Talk about lucky.
Earthworm Jim was a masterpiece in its day. Truly a hidden gem.
Lucky lucky man...... . ..
@Don't read profile photo it says to flag you because you want to blow up churches
This is so sick I just started playing earthworm Jim 2 on switch today. Haven't played earthworm Jim in years
Manta!
I’m still wondering why they only added 2 and not the first Earthworm Jim.
Maybe they will Earthworm Jim 1 to the Genesis app?
@@DaFro3713 They did the same for Joe & Mac, first released the 2nd game and after a while the 1st! Kinda strange tho.
Just turned on my PS3 to maybe get legend of mana (pixel art over backgrounds remaster not my visual jam) and forgot I had earthworm jim HD on the sucker. That and earthworm jim 2 on the switch.
Hard to take anybody seriously anymore when they use the term transphobic or homophobic 😂 guy was a good artist and should be credited for it. Ignore the difference in opinion
I love the fact games dared to be different back then. Earthworm Jim 1 and 2 hold a special place in my memory along with games like plok.
So many memories flooding back to me watching this gameplay
I love this game. I haven't played it since it released on the SNES and I still remember soo many wacky moments from the game lol! It was a bunch of zany, nonsensical fun! I think i remember one of the quiz questions being "What color is Jim's RED gun?" and the answer was GREEN! Lmao... Ah lotta fond memories in that little cartridge...
I remember playing this on my pc way back since it came with another game too. Also watched the cartoon so I have a lil nostalgia for it
Absolutely loved these games as a kid. Gameplay can be brutal at times, but I loved the art, level designs, characters, and music. Rented it so many times!
Still needs to do it's sequel. It is generally considered the best in the series for a reason. It improves upon it's predecessor in every way.
Ya idk what the hype is about part 2...I thought the first one was superior
I don’t remember if I ever made it past the escort dog level, but so many of the sounds in this game still live in my head rent-free like the metallic clang and squawks. The ost was so funky too.
I'm not sure if I ever finished the game, even though I did enjoy it. And funnily enough as soon as I read what you said about the sounds, I almost immediately got the sound of those birds dying in my head as well as various other sound effects. Plus I can't remember which game it was, or if it was specific to one console or the other, but for some reason I also pictured that intro where Jim is playing what looks like an accordion.
What a weird game lol.
I have not thought about this game in years. But I remember loving and playing the hell out of it as a kid. Launching that cow was always my favorite part.
FUN FACT: Earthworm Jim: Special Edition for the SEGA CD was released on August 2nd 1994: the same day I was born!
The idle animations are the best in this game.
So the best part of the game is when you don't have to play it?
Interesting , would you like a game of chess?
Just want to say ty for everything you do for the gaming community. I played this game as a kid and love it. Also something you should know regarding youtube man the dumb algorithm has unsubbed me 6 times now from your channel over the last year just fyi. Plz dont ever stop, views and subs are a stupid judgement of how much people love your content due to youtubes dumb system.
When I was a kid I first started liking earthworm Jim simply because his gun shot really fast and he didn't have limited ammo, back then a lot of the games that were like that always regulated how fast you could shoot or just limited how much you could shoot. 🤷♂️ Then the art style was something I found appealing as well since it was so unique at the time
Earthworm Jim HD wasn't just removed due to copyright issues, but it also had some plagiarism issues as many of the assets used were taken from a fan artist.
earthworm jim is a game overflowing with cool ideas and design that's totally let down by unplayable controls and a total lack of polish.
Oh no!!! We better not let people know we enjoy art created by people with controversial opinions or lifestyles. I mean, in reality, we should only be allowed to enjoy art that is politically correct, lest we be saddled with guilt by association(by idiots)…And given that it’s 2022…that means I can’t enjoy anything that existed before 2016…My god, how society has fallen😂
It's worth noting the Sega CD version is probably the best version of the game. There's expanded sections of existing levels and an additional level on top of that. There's also a password system (sadly no actual save system), and some bonus endings depending on difficulty. The music ends up being the best of the three old versions as well.
This version is the one they ported to Windows.
The one thing I wanted to see was him completing For Pete's Sake the long way. He is the completionist so taking the easy way out isn't full completion!
@@frostynukacola Good. Completion has been weighing him down for years.
The slightly dirty, punk line art is so much better than the clean lines of the remake.
I had the Game Boy version growing up. It wasn't that great, looking back. I always hated glass dome part of Down the Tubes.
"It is always hard to talk about art especially when the creatives behind it have the slightest hint of controversy."
Uh...no it's not? You just talk about the art and not about what the people behind it think about unrelated topics. Ain't that hard.
I agree with doug
I remember loving this game as a kid.
I get it. Even back in the day as a nineties kid, i could tell it was more style than substance.
These games are incredibly memorable
There was a new Earthworm Jim cartoon announced in November of 2021,called "Earthworm Jim Beyond the Groovy".There is only a interview video with Jim as of yet,but I'm excited for it!
5:35 Controversial? Not until the last ten years.
I had no idea the HD remaster of EWJ had been pulled from the PS store. I think I downloaded that onto my PS3 back in around 2009 and I still have it.
I remember I couldn't even beat this game with a Game Genie. Very very hard game for a kid to play!
it's funny, games back then were made so stupidly hard because if they were easy, you would complete them in 1 to 3 hours and not bother actually buying, just rent.
but like, with old arcade games, when you play them now, they will include infinite credits ability in some way., there's no "turn off the stupidly intense difficulty preventing you from beating the game in a timely fashion" from 90s console games.
Ah yes Earthworm Jim, my big brother rented that game a lot when we were kids.
(We owned a Super Nintendo at the time.)
Earthworm Jim Cartoon is awesome too!
The ole Earthworm Jim show was great.
Great game. Hilarious cartoon series.
The Sword of Rightousness: "Fear me, o' tree,"
The nostalgia is still there, even after decades. I still remember playing the last level as a kid and getting frustrated by the last boss the first time. Until I accidentally whipped her in the face and she just… exploded. Very surprising to say the least, and gruesome for such a cartoony game. One hit kill all the time after that play through.
I don't want to dwell on this, but regarding the controversy of the creator, I would recommend doing your own research into these things rather than listening to what people online say. I'm not sure if you did that or not with this video, but the impression I got was that you heard things about him that you disagreed with. I'm not saying that the creator is a good person per se, I really don't know much about it. But from my personal experience I've seen a lot of times where people will smear and slander people they disagree with, and it's becoming more and more of a problem (again, my experience). So when accusations of controversy pop up, I approach them with a grain of salt and try to do my own research, personally I'd rather be wrong about giving someone the benefit of the doubt, than accusing someone of something they didn't do. I don't feel like it was your intention but it came off like you believed the accusations despite providing no real reason why, instead of being truly neutral like your opening speech implied, so in future I think it would be smarter to make it more clear that you don't have an opinion on the person, or give more of a reason why you feel that way, just so viewers unfamiliar can get some context.
Anyway small criticism. Great video otherwise. I played the sequel on Sega Genesis as a kid and have some fond memories of it, hope to see you cover it someday.
So no acheivements/trophys from a 1990's action game? Seriously? THAT is a criticism?
My decades long dream of Jim being in Smash were dashed.
Same, he was my most wanted, after Banjo.
…but hey…at least he’s in ClayFighter 63 1/3…
Major Mucus didn't join the military to be called "Snot monster" SIR!!!!
This is an amazing game, I haven’t been given the grace to play it yet but I have cherished memories watching my father play it back in the day. Good times. God bless you Jirard
15:42 that was a brilliant music transition
Ren and Stimpy, Rocko's Modern Life... all kind of crazy weird hilarious animations from the mid 90's. This just for the nostalgic market that was captivating kids of the era.
There were other cartoons in there as well that one could say this fit with.
Lol I would LOVE to see you take a crack at Earthworm Jim 3D. The bosses in that game are 100% Harder than Elden rings. That is not even remotely a hyperbole.
The first boss is not bad but everyone after is a nightmare. Me and my friend first tried several of the endgame Elden ring bosses but I'm 28 and still can't beat the second boss
Even though I'm a pretty big EWJ fan, I gotta admit: I too did NOT grow up with the series. It wasn't until much later in my life when I tried the first game on Game Boy Advance when I became a fan.
Still, I respect Earthworm Jim for what it is: A batshit insane run-and-gun with plenty of good humor and surreal enviorments. Earthworm Jim 2 on SEGA Saturn remains to this day my favorite video game of all-time, and the animated series is just as warped and hilarious as the games are...
Regardless, I understand the series may not be for everyone, especially those who did not grow up with it like I did, or people who hate the guts of his trashbag creator (seriously, the less we speak of him, the better...), because as humans, we're all different.
Recently, a NEW Earthworm Jim animated series has been announced, and while it may not be the ideal comeback most fans want, me personally? I always found Jim more appealing in his cartoon than in his games. And while this time Jim is not being voiced by Dan "Homer Simpson" Castellaneta (yes, that's who voiced him in the OG cartoon...), I'm still gonna give it the benefit of the doubt and HOPE it's still a good series. And considering Te****el is not involved with this project at all, it's a step in the right direction already...
I've read Doug's comics based on EWJ, and tbh I don't think excluding him is a good idea. The comics are awesome: beautiful art and wonderful storytelling make it stand out as the gold standard for what Jim should be about. Weirdness, humor, action, and heart. Without the heart, the rest falls apart.
Ah, yes, believing in science, holding rational beliefs, and traditional views everyone until VERY recently did relegates everyone who isn't a Twitter person to "trashbag" status. Lovely.
@@gagnose26 But Doug knows biology, it's very problematic, you see. He must be unpersoned for wrongthink.
I'm probably the only person on Earth who liked 2 better than 1...that freaking underwater level.
I just looked up Doug TenNapel to see what the controversy was all about. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I'll now be 100% supporting all his work in the future. It's great to see a pro-family man of faith in the comics industry these days for once. I'm absolutely going to go purchase copies of whatever works of his I can get my hands on.
Haha at least one person in the comments with common sense. I cringed so hard when Jirard did this awkward disclaimer because he's afraid of twatter hate mobs.
@@napoleonfeanor Yep, pretty obvious virtue signalling from Jirard here. Really quite embarrassing.
This "call out" thing gets tiring. Having to denounce someone or face the consequences before reviewing their 25+ year old game is tiring. Everything revolves around politics and identity it kills creativity.
I actually have an Earthworm Jim game for the original Gameboy. While it’s not as good as the console versions, it does have its own charm. Well worth playing.
Earthworm Jim is the kinda game someone can point to and confidentiality say “that piece of media right there, that game captures what the 90s was all about. For better and for worse”.
I remember that there was another version of Earthworm Jim, some kind of "Special Edition" for Sega CD. What was so special about it, I have no idea, as from what I've seen for myself after playing it there was only one addition, a new level where Jim had to evade an invincible dinosaur Brutie. Also music was completely absent from the game.
Never apologize to the mob. They will never be satisfied. Stand your ground.
Just the fact that you had to apologize in this video about 4 times.
Like you said “ I was proud of the work I put into that video”. Enough said.
This "call out" thing gets tiring. Having to denounce someone or face the consequences before reviewing their 25+ year old game is tiring. Everything revolves around politics and identity it kills creativity.
@@Bradofosho amen. Evil hates good. Evil doesn’t create, it only destroys. Evil hates you, me and anyone who is an individual.
God bless brother 🙏🏻
Just because you dont share an someone's view you can still enjoy the product.
This was one of those games I’d rent every so often when I was a kid. It was unique with its characters and their designs. I had fun with it, but I can understand you not enjoying it. Personally, I’m just a sucker for weird games. :P
Let's be honest, even if Aladdin for Genesis/Megadrive is amazing, Shiny Entertainment has never mastered the art of the hitboxes... You get use it, but it is hard work to finish any game they developped... I found many tricks to finish Earthwork Jim "easily" but it took me hours of play to find them and optimize my runs! And this is also why I still prefer Aladdin by Capcom on Super Nintendo. It is a pleasure to play the game, not hard work...
Yeah, the first Earthworm Jim game pretty rough around the edges, and way too hard for its own good.
Earthworm Jim 2 is a VASTLY better game, and I strongly recommend it, especially now that it's out on Nintendo Switch Online.
Earthworm Jim All Oh No! Here we go again.
you need to do Cris tales it's a game about time travel and it's very cute and it has a nice twist at the end there's not that many collectibles but I think you'll enjoy it.
i LOVED this game as a kid and i always drawn to the weird ( I.E watching ren and stimpy as a kid ) so this game's kinda strange side was super my jam.
Bruh, I know you ain’t talking about controversy while being a main guest on x play 💀
I cant help but feel like you spent too much time in this video saying you didnt agree with the creators. Its fine if you disagree with the creators, but for me personally, I just wanna hear about the game itself more. You do you tho man, its your video after all.
I played it on my brother's genesis ....this video brings back memories...
I had earthworm Jim on the GBA I played that game non-stop my friends grandpa was one of the audio producers for the game which made it all the more cool to me
Just finished The second one this morning for The first time on My switch. .I could finish earthworm Jim 1 with Just a few deaths..love this games
Just a note, Earthworm Jim is also on NSO currently, so if you want the SNES version, there's an option there too.
To me the main problem of this game was the same as in Aladdin from the same creator, they prioritized animation over visibility. In both games the character's sprite is quite big and moves fast, which has been a problem in a lot of 2D platformers with limited pixel counts. But nonetheless all the variety of level design puts them among the top tier 16 bit games in my opinion.
I loved this game as a kid. Hard to go back to though. Style over substance for sure.
I've never played this or the sequel, but after this video I'm gonna give it a whirl.
Had no idea about Doug Tennapel's views and that's definitely not anything I agree with either, but it's not the first time I've have to appreciate the art without agreeing with the artist.
I've got a lot of nostalgia for this one. As kids my best friend and I both played this game seperately, renting it from the same game/movie rental store. He played the Genesis one and I played the Super Nintendo version. And now over 25 years later we still enjoy the games and relax with some of the music from them. It was super weird then, and it's super weird now. But I wouldn't have had it any other way.
You don't agree with science?
I really enjoyed the cartoon as a kid with dan castellaneta as the voice of Jim. I was a LITTLE late to it, playing it around the time of the ps2 era, but still really enjoyed it.
I appreciate your opinions of how some of the difficulty is a little bit unfair, and I can agree. Really, the only people who aren't Earthworm Jim fans I can recommend this game to are people who are looking for something distinctly 90s in it's humor and presentation, so the play it score seems more than fair to me.
Great episode, great thoughts and great spreading awareness of the terrible opinions by the creator.
I haven't heard the name Earthworm Jim in a long time. The nostalgia trip i wen ton, just reading the title.
Honestly loved that game so much.
I remember the cartoon
I've been getting clips from the TV show in my RUclips suggestion box for a while and, yeah it's pretty weird. Still hilarious, though.
I used to play the Sega version all the time. I never owned it but a family member did and I was over there a lot.
“I’m just going to talk about the game. But first, I’m going to make sure I get some virtue signaling out of the way because I’m so terrified of losing viewers.” 🙄
What do you mean??
I always liked Earthworm Jim 2 the best in the series.
As a zoomer, I grew up with Labyrinth and love both it and Willow
Please play Ico! It’s a cult classic and had a huge influence on gaming.
He'll just complain that Ico is a misogynist because he dares to lead Strong Woman Yorda around by the hand.
ah yes three types of games, Triple A, Indie, and FNAF
Dude, great episode overall! I respect your opinion and I agree that this game enters in the "niche" category of rock hard platformers from the 16-bit era. However, I think that the best way to experience this game is playing the Special Edition, available for both the Sega CD and PC. In this version, you kinda get a "completion bonus" for playing on easy and playing on hard. This is a very old game, but I recommend playing for yourself to check what these bonus are about, they are totally worth it in my opinion. (Also, there is an extra level in the Special Edition)
Discovered this game when I was a kid on the GBA, and at the time it was an amazing game to have on a handheld console. I like it even more today for it's weirdness, especially now that I completed it multiple times and gost past the trauma of Buttvile, but recognize it to be lackluster on the mechanics side since the mechanics are great and varied but not pushed as far as they could have
I’m glad to hear you enjoyed the original Earthworm Jim a little more this time around, Jirard - and I appreciate your opinion of this oft-forgotten gen of 90s zaniness. I’ve tried for years to find another game that could live up to Earthworm Jim’s pure off-the-wall sense of humor coupled with that rare breed of diverse level and character design, and I can’t say I’ve found one yet. I wonder how you’d feel about Earthworm Jim 2…
I gotta say…I so excited at a Comic-Con once when I met Doug Tenapel…and then I found out about all you alluded to afterwards, and…it was such a bizarre and tough reality to conceive. It’s quite sad, to say the least. Talk about trying to separate the art from the artist. It’s hard to fathom how the same mind who came up with such a game could also be so close-minded and hateful toward certain groups of people. It’s a sad, sad thing…
Lol he just believes in science, relax.
You sound ridiculous. Maybe you should be tolerant of religion, or are Christians excluded from that? Realize pretty much every religion says the same as well. It's science. Bunch of cry babies.
People need to grow up and realize you can appreciate someone's work without agreeing with their world view. I swear the internet has turned into a bunch of cry babies incapable of developing any kind of independent thought.
Worse than that, it's turned people into thinking having an opinion you don't like is akin to mass murder.
This "call out" thing gets tiring. Having to denounce someone or face the consequences before reviewing their 25+ year old game is tiring. Everything revolves around politics and identity it kills creativity.