I like the idea of killing a set number of enemies to recover hearts. It puts some value in killing little enemies sent out during a boss fight. Does anyone know of a better game that does this?
I was just about to buy this and then I remember "Ceril just reviewed that... better check it out." Just waiting for ads to finish..... Edit: so glad I watched this first lol and fav old school game... I really love Magic Sword on the SNES and Arcade. It's something you can always just pick up and play and have fun doing it everytime.
QOTD. Bomb Squad This is going back, my family bought a neighbor's used Intellivision before we got a NES. It came with a handful of games, and the add on for the system that let it do "speech" in certain games. It came with the whopping 3 title selection of titles that made use of the speech synthesizer. I dont know if you ever had the "privelage" to play any Intellivision, but some of it was pretty good. I think that stopped with Bomb Squad. The lack of knowing what to do, the repetitive beeping and siren noises, oh I feel like vomiting just thinking of it.
Plus, enemies, red things with white spikes, fire balls coming out of lava, spinning fire balls, seeing that makes me wonder where are the power up mushrooms, and that boss fight you showed, a giant bat. Sure he wasn't suppose to be fighting Simon Belmont? 😉As for the question about least favorite Old School Games, Last of Us 2. That game is so last year. 😉😂🤣 Couldn't resist when I added that part at the end, I didn't just go 2012, went 2020. But OK, serious answer, think I mentioned this game before, but may have to go Shuttle Simulator for Apple II. Mostly because getting it to the fun part, actually launching the shuttle, it is nearly impossible. Very much a pain to do.
I hated Crystalis from the original NES, because it was super easy to get lost. Back then if you needed a guide, you had to look it up in game magazines.
I'm replaying it now. I got so stuck on it with my brother when we were like 9, but we made it pretty far if not beat it. I'm getting stuck even today, so I think it was just an obtuse game. But yeah, my brother has passed, so it's a good memory even if it was a bit annoying at the time and I'm not a fan of this forced grinding (which we called "Building up" as kids).
QoTD: Zoop from SNES. A salesguy swindled me out of $40 as a kid for like 4 hours of enjoyment and 12 hours of stubbornly trying to enjoy the stupid puzzle game I bought.
Easy platinum tells me they know who to sell this "game" This isn't worth 3$ and for that amount money you can get real retro digital Gameboy games on 3DS. Hell I have recently pick up excellent rpg Battle Chasers Nightwar sealed physical copy for 5€ and digital copy of Oxenfree for 1€. QOTD I don't remember the name of game but it was some sort of Olympics/athletic game on C64. For example race on I think 800 metars you need to move joystick left-right fast enough,I really hate that, even playing against my friends.
QOTD:Are you seriously asking a 40 year old who at 6 years old, first ever game was Defender, (A random Hells Angel picked me and sat me on a stool that I was too short to reach.) my least favourite old school game? That's harsh man. OK, I think least favourite should be a game I played more than once and hated to play. I was going to say Galaxy Force 2. But I played that on the MD mini recently, and it was better than I remember. So... World Cup Italia '90 By God was that a game I didn't like playing. I played both the mega drive and the Spectrum version too many times. *shudder*
QOTD: For me its Batman Forever on SNES. Never have I been disappointed so much in a game than that one. Huge Batman fan. We just got off the heals of the phenomenal Konami beat em up game in Batman Returns and after seeing the screenshots of this game in Nintendo Power I was stoked. I went to a sleep over at a friend's house where he had just got the game and hadn't played it yet. We were pumped for playing thru this one all night! The frustrating controls and that aggravating "Hold On" screen and the bad music just totally deflated us. How do you go from one of the better games on SNES to this trash?
Agreed, that game is terrible. However, it did give us one of the craziest (and dumbest) video game magazine quotes of all time. This is a literal quote (including the punctuation) from Die Hard Game Fan: "Some people might say ... 'I've had enough with Batman ... the movies ... the hype ... the games ... the merchandising.' Well ... IT'S TIME TO SNAP OUT OF IT! Konami made one ... and you know what that means ... time to go out and buy another great game. No risk! No questions asked. It's Konami. I'd buy this one for the intro alone."
What on earth is that zoomy thing you're doing after a jump? That a separate button press or to just redirect in the air after a jump? QOTD, hmm Leave favorite old school game, I'd put it on Phantasy star 3. Part 2 was my first RPG, part 3 came out later and It was total trash overall. Cool concept and art, but the RPG game system was horrible it was a chore to play.
It's the dash move that is done with a different button press. You can dash up, over and diagonally, though I found that it didn't always work as advertised. I would want to dash left or right, but would actually dash diagonally. It's really annoying and something I was going to complain about in the review, but decided that it ultimately didn't matter. It's annoying, but it's also like the 8th worst thing about the game.
my least favorite old school game is a tie between knight rider for the nes and speed racer for the snes. i was a huge fan of both these shows growing up (still am own the complete series of both on dvd im a girl who loves her cool as hell cars and they dont get any cooler then k.i.t.t. and the mach 5) and i thought being behind the wheel of K.I.T.T. and the Mach 5 would be like the best thing ever.... boy was i wrong. i do think it was a neat idea that they tried to mix up the gameplay with speed racer by having the platforming beat em up part as speed but they were not done well either.... that being said even tho i hated them... i would over for someone to take another run at them given im still a fan of both properties despite them being like not at all relevant today
QOTD; This is a controversial pick I'm sure, but... Contra. I loved it to death in the old days, but after learning the ways of twin-stick shooters, I just... can't go back to the NES controls for a game like that. I so wish Konami would make a port of it with optional twin-stick controls, so I could re-experience the classics without my brain screaming 'why?!" Having an optional control scheme didn't ruin the Resident Evil remastered and for sure Contra would still be great even if didn't have to aim and move with the same D-pad.
@@DefunctGames That's smoother experience for sure... though I wouldn't mind getting to try that, too, with updated controls. I'm thinking of the original, though, as it's that combination of brutal arcade coin-muncher difficulty and archaic controls that really makes me shudder.
Do you mind expanding on that? There's personally a couple trends Half-Life started that really ruffle my jimmies, and makes me dislike the game. But ruining gaming in general? In what way?
@@sacta I think it forced gaming into being a "cinematic" experience, but this led the beginnings of games being very slow, boring, and uneventful to the point now that it seems like games don't really start until several hours in. Several games I've played in the past couple of years have had what seemed liked hours long tutorials, and it feels like Half-Life introduced this idea that the beginning of a game can just meander on and on. Half-Life put a lot of platforming sections into the game, but the controls and physics for it just aren't great. It all feels really slippery. Modern FPS have added parkour systems (the new platforming style), but haven't really mixed this movement well with the combat. Neither did Half-Life, there are just sections where you jump around and try landing on stuff, and when they add combat to these sections, it was annoying. I think that games now do a lot of trying to mix several play styles, but end up not doing any of them really well. Modern games have RPG systems with stealth elements with FPS elements and all three styles suffer, and Half-Life tried FPS with platforming and neither is super great. I guess Half-Life was seen as a huge leap forward for storytelling in gaming, but it's really nothing special. It has the same basic set up as Doom or other sci-fi schlock, but is for whatever reason hyped up. I personally think very few games have quality stories, but many modern games as viewed as storytelling masterpieces (like Last of Us and the new God of War) but they are weak when compared to movies or novels, and are also mostly b-movie style plots that we're all supposed to act like they rival the best of film. It wasn't really Half-Life's doing, but the mods for it like Counter Strike and Team Fortress led to the overt focus on multiplayer gaming today. I personally think Half-Life 2 is worse overall, but Half-Life started the ball rolling on things in modern games I don't like.
At first I thought this was a Ratalaika made game. I have a few of these because they were cheap. There is a reason they are cheap, because for the most part they are boring garbage.
I'm surprised you spent 7 minutes on a shit game. Usually your reviews are fairly short, even if the game was good. Must really want to keep ppl away from this one. 🤣 Least fav retro game...hmm that's a toughie. Milons secret castle? Idk, there's a lot of shitty ones, but my brain could only land on that ATM. I think I might've blocked the rest of them from my memory bank to protect what's left of my sanity. 🤪
I like the idea of killing a set number of enemies to recover hearts. It puts some value in killing little enemies sent out during a boss fight. Does anyone know of a better game that does this?
I was just about to buy this and then I remember "Ceril just reviewed that... better check it out." Just waiting for ads to finish.....
Edit: so glad I watched this first lol and fav old school game... I really love Magic Sword on the SNES and Arcade. It's something you can always just pick up and play and have fun doing it everytime.
Sorry for the autocorrect on your name I fixed it lol
It's least fav game Sancho 😘
QOTD. Bomb Squad
This is going back, my family bought a neighbor's used Intellivision before we got a NES. It came with a handful of games, and the add on for the system that let it do "speech" in certain games. It came with the whopping 3 title selection of titles that made use of the speech synthesizer. I dont know if you ever had the "privelage" to play any Intellivision, but some of it was pretty good. I think that stopped with Bomb Squad. The lack of knowing what to do, the repetitive beeping and siren noises, oh I feel like vomiting just thinking of it.
Outrun, outrun still holds up man. I'm 20 and love outrun
He asked what is your LEAST favorite old school game. It sounds like you liked Outrun. Did I misunderstand you? I'm not picking, genuinely interested.
@@jamergamer0076 twas I who hath misconstrued the question, and that is why I am making this comment so exquisitely erudite to make up for it
Plus, enemies, red things with white spikes, fire balls coming out of lava, spinning fire balls, seeing that makes me wonder where are the power up mushrooms, and that boss fight you showed, a giant bat. Sure he wasn't suppose to be fighting Simon Belmont? 😉As for the question about least favorite Old School Games, Last of Us 2. That game is so last year. 😉😂🤣 Couldn't resist when I added that part at the end, I didn't just go 2012, went 2020. But OK, serious answer, think I mentioned this game before, but may have to go Shuttle Simulator for Apple II. Mostly because getting it to the fun part, actually launching the shuttle, it is nearly impossible. Very much a pain to do.
I hated Crystalis from the original NES, because it was super easy to get lost. Back then if you needed a guide, you had to look it up in game magazines.
I'm replaying it now. I got so stuck on it with my brother when we were like 9, but we made it pretty far if not beat it. I'm getting stuck even today, so I think it was just an obtuse game. But yeah, my brother has passed, so it's a good memory even if it was a bit annoying at the time and I'm not a fan of this forced grinding (which we called "Building up" as kids).
QoTD: Zoop from SNES. A salesguy swindled me out of $40 as a kid for like 4 hours of enjoyment and 12 hours of stubbornly trying to enjoy the stupid puzzle game I bought.
Easy platinum tells me they know who to sell this "game" This isn't worth 3$ and for that amount money you can get real retro digital Gameboy games on 3DS. Hell I have recently pick up excellent rpg Battle Chasers Nightwar sealed physical copy for 5€ and digital copy of Oxenfree for 1€. QOTD I don't remember the name of game but it was some sort of Olympics/athletic game on C64. For example race on I think 800 metars you need to move joystick left-right fast enough,I really hate that, even playing against my friends.
QOTD:Are you seriously asking a 40 year old who at 6 years old, first ever game was Defender, (A random Hells Angel picked me and sat me on a stool that I was too short to reach.) my least favourite old school game?
That's harsh man.
OK, I think least favourite should be a game I played more than once and hated to play. I was going to say Galaxy Force 2. But I played that on the MD mini recently, and it was better than I remember.
So... World Cup Italia '90
By God was that a game I didn't like playing. I played both the mega drive and the Spectrum version too many times. *shudder*
QOTD: For me its Batman Forever on SNES. Never have I been disappointed so much in a game than that one. Huge Batman fan. We just got off the heals of the phenomenal Konami beat em up game in Batman Returns and after seeing the screenshots of this game in Nintendo Power I was stoked. I went to a sleep over at a friend's house where he had just got the game and hadn't played it yet. We were pumped for playing thru this one all night! The frustrating controls and that aggravating "Hold On" screen and the bad music just totally deflated us. How do you go from one of the better games on SNES to this trash?
Agreed, that game is terrible. However, it did give us one of the craziest (and dumbest) video game magazine quotes of all time. This is a literal quote (including the punctuation) from Die Hard Game Fan: "Some people might say ... 'I've had enough with Batman ... the movies ... the hype ... the games ... the merchandising.' Well ... IT'S TIME TO SNAP OUT OF IT! Konami made one ... and you know what that means ... time to go out and buy another great game. No risk! No questions asked. It's Konami. I'd buy this one for the intro alone."
My least favourite old school game is Adventures of Dino Riki. It’s awful.
What on earth is that zoomy thing you're doing after a jump? That a separate button press or to just redirect in the air after a jump?
QOTD, hmm Leave favorite old school game, I'd put it on Phantasy star 3. Part 2 was my first RPG, part 3 came out later and It was total trash overall. Cool concept and art, but the RPG game system was horrible it was a chore to play.
It's the dash move that is done with a different button press. You can dash up, over and diagonally, though I found that it didn't always work as advertised. I would want to dash left or right, but would actually dash diagonally. It's really annoying and something I was going to complain about in the review, but decided that it ultimately didn't matter. It's annoying, but it's also like the 8th worst thing about the game.
my least favorite old school game is a tie between knight rider for the nes and speed racer for the snes. i was a huge fan of both these shows growing up (still am own the complete series of both on dvd im a girl who loves her cool as hell cars and they dont get any cooler then k.i.t.t. and the mach 5) and i thought being behind the wheel of K.I.T.T. and the Mach 5 would be like the best thing ever.... boy was i wrong. i do think it was a neat idea that they tried to mix up the gameplay with speed racer by having the platforming beat em up part as speed but they were not done well either.... that being said even tho i hated them... i would over for someone to take another run at them given im still a fan of both properties despite them being like not at all relevant today
QOTD; This is a controversial pick I'm sure, but... Contra. I loved it to death in the old days, but after learning the ways of twin-stick shooters, I just... can't go back to the NES controls for a game like that. I so wish Konami would make a port of it with optional twin-stick controls, so I could re-experience the classics without my brain screaming 'why?!" Having an optional control scheme didn't ruin the Resident Evil remastered and for sure Contra would still be great even if didn't have to aim and move with the same D-pad.
Does that include Contra III?
@@DefunctGames That's smoother experience for sure... though I wouldn't mind getting to try that, too, with updated controls. I'm thinking of the original, though, as it's that combination of brutal arcade coin-muncher difficulty and archaic controls that really makes me shudder.
Least favorite old school game? Maybe Half-Life 1. It probably ruined gaming.
Oh my. You're coming in with the spiciest of hot takes.
Do you mind expanding on that? There's personally a couple trends Half-Life started that really ruffle my jimmies, and makes me dislike the game. But ruining gaming in general? In what way?
@@sacta I think it forced gaming into being a "cinematic" experience, but this led the beginnings of games being very slow, boring, and uneventful to the point now that it seems like games don't really start until several hours in. Several games I've played in the past couple of years have had what seemed liked hours long tutorials, and it feels like Half-Life introduced this idea that the beginning of a game can just meander on and on.
Half-Life put a lot of platforming sections into the game, but the controls and physics for it just aren't great. It all feels really slippery. Modern FPS have added parkour systems (the new platforming style), but haven't really mixed this movement well with the combat. Neither did Half-Life, there are just sections where you jump around and try landing on stuff, and when they add combat to these sections, it was annoying. I think that games now do a lot of trying to mix several play styles, but end up not doing any of them really well. Modern games have RPG systems with stealth elements with FPS elements and all three styles suffer, and Half-Life tried FPS with platforming and neither is super great.
I guess Half-Life was seen as a huge leap forward for storytelling in gaming, but it's really nothing special. It has the same basic set up as Doom or other sci-fi schlock, but is for whatever reason hyped up. I personally think very few games have quality stories, but many modern games as viewed as storytelling masterpieces (like Last of Us and the new God of War) but they are weak when compared to movies or novels, and are also mostly b-movie style plots that we're all supposed to act like they rival the best of film.
It wasn't really Half-Life's doing, but the mods for it like Counter Strike and Team Fortress led to the overt focus on multiplayer gaming today.
I personally think Half-Life 2 is worse overall, but Half-Life started the ball rolling on things in modern games I don't like.
Thank you for saving me time and money
thanks, saved me 2 bucks
At least it is not Rogue-like. Rogue-like games can be truly frustrating. But, I rather play Rogue legacy than this game.
At first I thought this was a Ratalaika made game. I have a few of these because they were cheap. There is a reason they are cheap, because for the most part they are boring garbage.
I knew Arthur.. Arthur was a friend of mine.. I fought Lucifer with Arthur.. And horned knight you’re no Arthur..
Yeah it does looks boring and uninteresting. I'd buy it for a dollar.
It's cheap as chips
I address that point in my review. Keep watching.
I did I couldn't think of a game I least liked 😄
I'm surprised you spent 7 minutes on a shit game. Usually your reviews are fairly short, even if the game was good. Must really want to keep ppl away from this one. 🤣
Least fav retro game...hmm that's a toughie. Milons secret castle? Idk, there's a lot of shitty ones, but my brain could only land on that ATM. I think I might've blocked the rest of them from my memory bank to protect what's left of my sanity. 🤪
This guy's voice is as bad as this game.
He has a great VO voice. Somethin wrong wichoo
If you don't like my voice, why the hell have you been a subscriber for 1 year??