So it seems Hellgate was never actually released! Which explains why I never heard of it! This was a leaked beta/demo and people are still uncovering it's secrets!
@@Alucard-A-La-Carte Forsaken was developed by Probe Entertainment for the PC & PSX, with a N64 version by Iguana UK. It was a bit more Descent-like, but I can see how Hellgate could bring it to mind. It was actually remastered by Nightdive in 2018! (For PC & XBox One)
I think that the Mega Drive version has a better aesthetic that works for the concept. You'll know what I mean about 10 minutes in when you fight your dad. It starts off overhead isometric like EarthBound but then you fight your dad and it goes into beat him up side-scrolling mode with relatively realistic sprites, there's a whole joke there when it goes into the fight that just isn't there in the Dreamcast ver and I think it's indicative of most of the differences between the two.
Speaking of "Creamcast", a Brazilian kid named leonan nutted on his, posted the story on a gaming forum and it was one of the funniest copipastas in BR forums for almost 2 decades.
Evil Twin is so interesting, it was first pitched as a cartoon depicting children's trauma, but was deemed too complicated to make and finished as a video game. The other voice you hear of Cyprien is his french VA, since In Utero is a French Studio. But yeah the English voices are rough, French's ones are much more childlike
"FARTLORD has become famous as the guy who stepped on poop!" needs to be on Matt's tombstone. And my tombstone. Put that on everyone's tombstone forever. That line needs to be remembered.
I was going to compare his wheezing reading of that line to the famous "try for baby with the Grim Reaper" line from Meterstick Jim's Sims patchnotes video. Then 19:29 happened and Matt wheezed at "Grim Reaper".
In the options menu for Evil Twin, there is an option to change the voices to French. It is highly recommended to do so as the voice acting in the developers' mother tongue is FAR superior to the English voice acting. It also enhances the arthouse film type vibe the game was going for.
The Cotton series is usually better known for its 2D side-scrolling sh'm'up games, so it's amusing to see Matt jump straight into one of the two from-behind 3D shooters of the series. The other one was Panorama Cotton on the Genesis. Speaking of which, Rent-a-Hero is from the Genesis as well. (there is a completely different Rent-a-Hero series from a different company). Anyway, a lot of Cotton stuff found its way to the Switch sorta recently. And if I'm not incorrect, I think Silk the fairy was as popular as Cotton herself? Also, nice Hironobu Kageyama song there in Rent-a-Hero!
Rent-A-Hero is definitely a game I'd like to see some more of. Maybe not a full LP but would be up to seeing yourself and Liam give it an extended look.
@@kadosho02 The game wasn´t developed by Ubi, it was an indie French studio called In-Utero that went bankrupt not long after the game's release, sadly...
I'm looking at the Out Trigger characters noticing something familiar about them. Then when I see their nicknames in the opening cutscene before title screen it hit me. They're the cops from Virtua Cop only they're renamed. The nicknames of the two guys in the opening text crawl were synonyms of the nicknames they had in VC. Rage is now Hot-Blood, and Smarty is Intelligence. Even Lina is Janet from VC2. I don't know if Talon has a VC counterpart, but if he does it's either a villain or someone from VC3.
about Evil Twin, in the French version (which is the original) they do in fact use child voice actors to voice the kid characters, as for the english adult voices i'm guessing these were meant for the suppose USA release (if it were to go thru) but then again those grown ass voices in small child bodies was a very common thing back in the 90's and early 2000's if you remembered so, much more especially in old anime dubs.
I got a SECA Creamcast back in elementary school. I owned: Chronic the Hedgehog Reality Boxer 3tb Crazy Uber 1 and 2 Boogie Disco Evolution Fatal Ferocity: Scar of the Coyotes MoMo's Intriguing Journey The Queen of Scrappers 2000-2002 Daytime Creatures 2 Denizen Evil 3: Best Friends Real Tournament The Apartment of the Deceased (and it's spinoff: The Texting of the Deceased) Fun times 😢
Fun fact about Rent-a-Hero: the opening was sung by Hironobu Kageyama. There's another version that appeared a few years earlier in Fighters Megamix, where it was sung by Takenobu Mitsuyoshi. However, only the Japanese version had lyrics.
Instantly recognized Evil Twin the monent old Ubisoft logo came up. If i had to describe it ,I'd say "janky, but very aesthetic, great soundtrack". It's not well known but it tends to stick with those who have played it just cause it's really weird and morbid-fairytale like. I've played the PS2 version, got about halfway through.
@@jurtheorc8117 Iirc this game was the composer's final work, which just adds to the overall vibe. The complete soundtrack and extras are up on Bandcamp at least.
As a massive NFS fan, please try The Run. The Wii/DS version is going to be right up your ally, but the "true" PC/PS3 version will be one of my favourites forever. Thanks for the great vids as always dude!
I really like these videos where you play unknown games from a console! I just bought an emulation handheld and it's great to look for new recommendations!
Rent a Hero was actually originally released as a Japan-only title for the Genesis in 1991. I learned about it due to SNESDrunk making an episode on it a while back - it also has a translation patch and the original works pretty much the same as this version at its base, but that one was 2D and top-down with a side-scrolling view for fights. The controls were way more clunky and the fighting was pretty shallow; as a result, the Dreamcast version is the definitive one. It also apparently came close to being released in the States, as there was an English version on the Xbox that was close to completion before it was canceled. You can apparently work your way up to stopping Yakuza schemes and doing more actual "action-hero" stuff later on in the game and the plot takes a serious turn as well. By the way, the reason you've probably heard of Cotton is because it's actually a fairly successful franchise in Japan. There's six total games dating all the way back to 1991 and Panorama Cotton, in particular, has a good-sized fanbase. Three of the first five titles (Cotton, Cotton 100%, & Cotton 2) are side-scrolling cute-em'-ups with role-playing and beat-em'-up elements, while Rainbow and Panorama Cotton are full 3D and pseudo-3D with the same basic formula. The Cotton series actually got a huge update in 2021 - Cotton 100% and Panorama Cotton were both released for PS4 & Switch for the first time along with a remake of the original Cotton (for those platforms plus Windows) and the series' first new entry in over 20 years, Cotton Fantasy: Superlative Night Dreams, which is 2D like the original and available for PS4, Switch, and Windows. I'd really recommend giving Panorama Cotton a shot - some of the stuff it does with the Mega Drive is just insane on a technical level and it doesn't look like you'd have the same perspective issues you had with Rainbow. I've seen it brought up in hidden gem discussions a lot. Also, if you haven't heard of it already, I think the Bimbows joke in Rent a Hero might be a reference to the Michaelsoft Binbows computer repair store. The name is a pun in Japanese, but I don't think it's referencing what you'd expect- Nick Robinson did a fantastic video on the story behind it that I'd suggest you check out, if you haven't already. Love these types of long-form videos! Weird, obscure Japan-only games are kind of my thing, so I really look forward to these.
Rent-a-Hero is on the Mega Drive, there is an English patch! Nesdrunk featured it in an episode, I've played it and it's definitely worth checking out. ❤️
some Rent-A-Hero facts: -the original game was actually for Mega Drive -Hardcore Gaming 101 basically says that the original game has good writing but plays kinda shit -the default/canonical name for the main character is Taro Yamada, which is the go-to Generic Guy Name in Japanese -this isn't a fact necessarily but to me he looks like a cross between Captain Commando and Booster Gold
Evil Twin is a game I very nearly bought at launch but went for something else instead. I think now it's best known as being in that batch of final PAL games (it might be the final official PAL game), and being really expensive to buy now
Unleashing years of pent up anger and frustration with your useless, alcoholic, neglectful father in one cathartic moment: punching him 3-feet through the air whilst he's dressed as a dinosaur and you're dressed as a power ranger. Revenge may not always play out the way you expect, but karma doth work in mysterious ways.
Having never played Evil Twin myself... It looks kinda nostalgic for me, I was REALLY into that type of "grimy" looking graphical style from the late 90's - early 2000's, it reminds me a lot of Shadow Man, maybe Soul Reaver and you're right on the money with the American McGee's Alice comparisons. I dunno, the low poly counts really brings out the "edginess" in some games from that era.
The Dreamcast is the console we love to play a lot during the weekends, and I never get enough of their obscure exclusive tiles that are made in the east.
I played a big chunk of Evil Twin on PS2. Its pretty good. And if you like the Alice games dark take on imagination, its also a nod to that (though a little more kid friendly)
I've never properly played Evil Twin myself and it's not really big here either. From what i've heard, it's kind of stiff gameplay-wise as you've already experienced. But if you really take the time to take in the music, the environments, the art direction... you can really feel a pretty unique and special atmosphere emanating from this game. It's a pity you skipped over all the lore that Wilbur gives, because it is very in-depth. And as you progress through the game, that becomes even more so. Wilbur tells that one day, the world of Undabed was conquered by a colossal flood, unleashed by a being called The Master. This mysterious and malicious being resides in a tower called Loren Darith, which soon after the flood rose up when the Master claimed control over what little was left of the world. The half-people you see are the Demis (French for "half" as you saw), which are dumb servants to the Master-- for the Master weaved a story of lies, that all other beings being whole does not allow the Demis to be whole, as they were meant to be, as well. Or something to that effect, at least. Throughout the game Cyprien has to rescue his friends from a number of different islands. First one is like James and the Giant Peach-- a colossal tree inhabited by bugs the size of dogs, horses, bulls and bigger. Though funnily enough, the spider you meet there is one of the few friendly bugs. It is there where you also meet a fun professor man in a kind of Dieselpunk/Steampunk-mix looking outfit, who is part of a people called the Folk (Gens in French). He's a regularly recurring character throughout the game, who also commends Cyprien to his fellow Folk once he makes his way to their home. The Folks live on a great Ark that was built soon after the flood, and pulled by a number of equally colossal sea creatures. which saved half their people at the time... but the other half was never seen again. For generations the Folk have lived upon this Ark, but also gained an arch enemy in the Flyers (Les Volants). Who, as their name says, live in the skies through the use of airships and planes. In any case, a funny thing that happens when Cyprien boards the Ark, is that first he gets boo'd and pelted with produce... until the professor tells them what a hero Cyprien is. And from then on, Cyprien's fanboys -and girls become the unique enemy type on that area. i'll not say much more in detail, but the game's lore is really fuppin' in-depth and quite well thought out. Script and writing's quite nice. And environments can get very cool too, from big robot factories to an island meant to only feed one big, gluttonous king (with a crazy kitchen, a farm spaces with mean cockney scarecrow, etc.) and a classroom with disparity in sizes between rooms where Cyprien may at one point be the size of a mouse, and in another be normal-sized but the rest of the room stretches up high into the darkness. It's very much worth checking out and remembering as a whole. Or simply for the music itself. The OST to Evil Twin: Cyprien's Chronicles can be very whimsical, saddening, depressing and playful in a musical identity all its own.
the furthest i remember getting to was the airship and couldn't figure out where to go next after but i do remember the giant tree and having to free ur friend that wears glasses first before going into this victorian lookin town (or village) after that level.
I definitely remembered Evil Twin showing up in gaming magazines back in the day and catching my interest because of the artstyle but then I never actually picked it up because it didn't release for the Gamecube. It's definitely one of those "did I dream this game up or did it actually exist" kinda games.
Re: Evil Twin - you know you're in for a great time when a platformer starts you off with the gray, lifeless world with toxic waters and small platforms. Surely you shouldn't work up to that. This definitely shouldn't be the borderland between the light-themed easy beginning and the dark later levels. You absolutely shouldn't provide a relatively safe place where players can get accustomed to the physics and camera. Bloodrayne 1 is my favorite game.
Forgot that Alien Front had a Dreamcast port! I remember the giant dual seat arcade machine for it that used to be at my local movie theater, it was a fun time.
I played a lot of Outtrigger locally against friends back in the day. It was a lot of fun, many different weapons and arenas. Our favorites were the mines that looked like health packs or ammunition.
Ah yeah, the Out Trigger, one of the random multiplayer games Yo Videogame did play at some point. Didn't recognize the intro but those menus instantly made me realize what game was it.
So, of course Rent A Hero seemed like Shenmue. And of course it was Yu Suzuki who was producer of Rent A Hero. U can see the similarities in both games.
I did NOT expect to see a Cotton game here, but I'm not complaining. If you ever play another one, maybe try the SNES game. It's a traditional horizontal side-scroller so it should be easier to get the hang of compared to the first person perspective of this one (personally not a fan of that). No cute anime clips though. Also more Rent-A-Hero please.
1:49 in and we have a Ken edit. Ken/10. Also, Dreamcast, yay. Never played one, so seeing these mythical legendary games for it only add to the legend in my brain
12:20 it is him. Also the first Kamen Rider. Also the UI looks familiar,it’s like from the SpikeOut games. Also Matt please try the Spikeout games and Slashout.
I really enjoyed this video, just letting you know lol. I watch them before going to sleep over several nights and just puts me in a really peaceful headspace. Appreciate ya ✌️
Definitely never heard of Frame Gride before. So I looked up some videos from people who knew what they were doing (no shade) and Frame Gride looks super awesome! Real shame this one missed me back in the day. Good pull Mr McMuscles. Some real hidden gold with this one. On a side note: I'll never forget the one time I needed to really block someone online when "name redacted", a person with a byline mind you, utterly lost their shit on me for complementing some fan art on twitter about a hypothetical FromSoft fantasy mech game and saying I'd love them to actually make such a thing. We're talking a real frothing screed, dozens of posts long, about how it was a crime or something, that fantasy and mechs don't go together, I'll be honest I didn't read most of it before I had to block the notifications. It was real crazy town. Now never mind that combining high fantasy and giant robots is a trope going back to at least the 80's, with tons on examples, it now cracks me up even more to learn that From Software had already literally done one themselves years earlier :P
I have such a weird memory. I never even played Evil Twin and totally forgot about it and when I saw that kid I remembered “Cypriens chronicle” out of .nowhere
Wow this episode has both heaven and hell... Rent-a-Hero No.1 is my favorite Dreamcast game, and Undercover... isn't great. But if you're intrigued, I translated a whole playthrough on my channel. She goes undercover after the hotel mission there. The guy who did the story wrote a book also, that got made into a movie with Kazuki Kitamura(the bad guy from Godzilla Final Wars and Kiryu from the first Yakuza movie) you do get to play as the cat at one point too. The control is shit but you can save-scum so it's not impossible to beat
I remember Out Trigger, not because it was good. I played it at a demo kiosk as a teen and asked for it for Christmas, right when the Dreamcast was on the way out. My mom gave me a heads up that she couldn't find it anywhere, so when I opened it Christmas morning, I lost my shit. She apparently forgot to check early 2000s Amazon. I have no idea what happened to my copy now.
You should check out the Genesis Panorama Cotton game, it's like the one you played here but faster pace and eye bleeding colorful sprite beauty. I don't know if there is a translated, but that's because I haven't bothered to look when writing this comment. Think Space Harrier with our plucky protagonist mixed with uhm... LSD or something.
Aqua GT looked like the punchline of "We have Hydro Thunder at home" or something, and Hellgate looked like if Descent and Sewer Shark had a possessed baby that was born with webbed digits and also later got smacked with a fish for being born ugly. XD
Man I played the heck out of Alien Front in the Arcade with my brother. It was one of the cabinets that link with each other so we would be able to either play co-op or against each other it was always a good time
Outtrigger was a pretty fun attempt at an arena shooter. IIRC the arcade cab used a stick and trackball to control. The story is that you're training for a private counter-terrorism unit called InterForce and each match is essentially the training sessions.
Every two days or so since this video was released, I queue it up and skip right to you wheezing out "FARTLORD has become famous for stepping on poop." and I absolutely cackle for about 10 minutes straight. My family is worried about me...
"I promise, I won't be back!" - That man was very brave to be so honest about being a coward. Frame Gride is cool looking, I have heard of it and seen footage. Definitely wish more media, video games in particular would embrace the Aura Battler Dunbine style thing of Fantasy + mecha.
Woo who! Nice to see the Dreamcast get some love! I had one back in the day and still think it’s a great system! You never flopped in my heart Dreamcast!
I remember reading about Rent-A-Hero in the Xbox magazine years ago and have spent years trying to remember the name of this ridiculous super hero parody looking game. Thanks for helping me finally remember...and see that it's even more ridiculous than the magazine made it seem
So it seems Hellgate was never actually released! Which explains why I never heard of it! This was a leaked beta/demo and people are still uncovering it's secrets!
@@Alucard-A-La-CarteForsaken rings a bell. Might even be made by the same dev team
🤔 Fascinating
@@Alucard-A-La-Carte
The only thing I remember about Forsaken is that commercial where they repeat the line "THE FUTURE IS FORSAKEN!".
@@Alucard-A-La-Carte Forsaken was developed by Probe Entertainment for the PC & PSX, with a N64 version by Iguana UK. It was a bit more Descent-like, but I can see how Hellgate could bring it to mind. It was actually remastered by Nightdive in 2018! (For PC & XBox One)
You should totally do a video on unreleased Dreamcast games... There's plenty, including Half Life
@@Alucard-A-La-CarteForsakenis that Descent clone with cool weapon effects (for the time), right?
I think I played that on PC
You absolutely should play more Rent-A-Hero
Agreed
I want to play it… but how? 😔
Fart Lord rules!!
@@CuCuz305anyway you can. Talk to Vimm.
Yes!
The world cries out for a Rent-A-Hero playthrough. I nearly choked at ‘ARE YOU THE GRIM REAPER?’
we need the full playthrough
I think that the Mega Drive version has a better aesthetic that works for the concept. You'll know what I mean about 10 minutes in when you fight your dad. It starts off overhead isometric like EarthBound but then you fight your dad and it goes into beat him up side-scrolling mode with relatively realistic sprites, there's a whole joke there when it goes into the fight that just isn't there in the Dreamcast ver and I think it's indicative of most of the differences between the two.
I love the Creamcast. A fun and exciting library of games, and some hidden treasures
Speaking of "Creamcast", a Brazilian kid named leonan nutted on his, posted the story on a gaming forum and it was one of the funniest copipastas in BR forums for almost 2 decades.
Can we start a petition so that Rent-A-Hero becomes the Game of the Year every year? I think it absolutely deserves it.
Glad more people are discovering Rent-A-Hero. Absolute gem of a game, that.
Evil Twin is so interesting, it was first pitched as a cartoon depicting children's trauma, but was deemed too complicated to make and finished as a video game. The other voice you hear of Cyprien is his french VA, since In Utero is a French Studio. But yeah the English voices are rough, French's ones are much more childlike
Oh and if you're curious of another game for the Dreamcast, I recommend Fur Fighters
@@shellmy227Fur Fighter's Viggo's Revenge on PS2.
"FARTLORD has become famous as the guy who stepped on poop!" needs to be on Matt's tombstone. And my tombstone.
Put that on everyone's tombstone forever. That line needs to be remembered.
Theme song by Tenacious D
I was going to compare his wheezing reading of that line to the famous "try for baby with the Grim Reaper" line from Meterstick Jim's Sims patchnotes video.
Then 19:29 happened and Matt wheezed at "Grim Reaper".
I DEFINITELY want to see you play more Rent a Hero, that seems like a fun time!
Please do a full playthrough of Rent-A-Hero.
yea bro ur hilarious
In the options menu for Evil Twin, there is an option to change the voices to French. It is highly recommended to do so as the voice acting in the developers' mother tongue is FAR superior to the English voice acting. It also enhances the arthouse film type vibe the game was going for.
The Cotton series is usually better known for its 2D side-scrolling sh'm'up games, so it's amusing to see Matt jump straight into one of the two from-behind 3D shooters of the series. The other one was Panorama Cotton on the Genesis. Speaking of which, Rent-a-Hero is from the Genesis as well. (there is a completely different Rent-a-Hero series from a different company). Anyway, a lot of Cotton stuff found its way to the Switch sorta recently. And if I'm not incorrect, I think Silk the fairy was as popular as Cotton herself?
Also, nice Hironobu Kageyama song there in Rent-a-Hero!
Alien Front Online was the first ever console game to have voice chat. Sega accomplished this amazing feat over a 56k internet connection.
The game looks to have a lot of other tech that was way ahead of its time too.
Gonna need a full Rent a Hero play through
Rent-A-Hero is definitely a game I'd like to see some more of. Maybe not a full LP but would be up to seeing yourself and Liam give it an extended look.
Rainbow Cotton is the hardest game in the series but it's also one of my favorites in general. Game is such a vibe
I believe the Rent a Hero intro is sung by Hironobu Kageyama, the same guy that sung both DBZ openings.
It is indeed by Mr. DBZ himself.
Protect my balls let's fighting love let's fighting love
The Dreamcast...a wonderful and iconic console that was too precious for this world...😢
Evil Twin was definitely on PS2 as well I remember playing it years ago, it was so weird.
And PC too. Its art direction is super strong.
@@jurtheorc8117so long as you don't look at any of the humans.
They all look like garbage pail kids
Ubi back then loved to experiment with wild stuff. Sigh. I miss that Ubi
@@kadosho02 The game wasn´t developed by Ubi, it was an indie French studio called In-Utero that went bankrupt not long after the game's release, sadly...
I'm looking at the Out Trigger characters noticing something familiar about them. Then when I see their nicknames in the opening cutscene before title screen it hit me. They're the cops from Virtua Cop only they're renamed. The nicknames of the two guys in the opening text crawl were synonyms of the nicknames they had in VC. Rage is now Hot-Blood, and Smarty is Intelligence. Even Lina is Janet from VC2. I don't know if Talon has a VC counterpart, but if he does it's either a villain or someone from VC3.
about Evil Twin, in the French version (which is the original) they do in fact use child voice actors to voice the kid characters, as for the english adult voices i'm guessing these were meant for the suppose USA release (if it were to go thru) but then again those grown ass voices in small child bodies was a very common thing back in the 90's and early 2000's if you remembered so, much more especially in old anime dubs.
Always thought it was weird that Rent-A-Hero was in Fighters Megamix but Sega never brought his two games over to the US.
I got a SECA Creamcast back in elementary school. I owned:
Chronic the Hedgehog
Reality Boxer 3tb
Crazy Uber 1 and 2
Boogie Disco Evolution
Fatal Ferocity: Scar of the Coyotes
MoMo's Intriguing Journey
The Queen of Scrappers 2000-2002
Daytime Creatures 2
Denizen Evil 3: Best Friends
Real Tournament
The Apartment of the Deceased (and it's spinoff: The Texting of the Deceased)
Fun times 😢
My Donald Burger has the best Chicken My Nuggets!!
Oh man to bad you didn't have
Reverb: the orca
Or Caves of bowling-allia.
@@samwisegame-geek3392 You? You're cool.
🤜🤛🍻
Fun fact about Rent-a-Hero: the opening was sung by Hironobu Kageyama. There's another version that appeared a few years earlier in Fighters Megamix, where it was sung by Takenobu Mitsuyoshi. However, only the Japanese version had lyrics.
Oh Matt I'd absolutely love to see you continue on with Rent-A-Hero for sure. That one could produce some good little bits of comedic gold!
Amazing. I am a huge Dreamcast fan and I've never heard of most of these.
Because these are on the Creamcast
Instantly recognized Evil Twin the monent old Ubisoft logo came up. If i had to describe it ,I'd say "janky, but very aesthetic, great soundtrack". It's not well known but it tends to stick with those who have played it just cause it's really weird and morbid-fairytale like. I've played the PS2 version, got about halfway through.
The soundtrack is really, really beautiful. Lots of whimsy, sadness, playfulness all throughout.
Quite deep lore, too, and the script's not bad!
@@jurtheorc8117 Iirc this game was the composer's final work, which just adds to the overall vibe. The complete soundtrack and extras are up on Bandcamp at least.
As a massive NFS fan, please try The Run. The Wii/DS version is going to be right up your ally, but the "true" PC/PS3 version will be one of my favourites forever.
Thanks for the great vids as always dude!
Dear Matt,
Please do a full LP of Rent-A-Hero
Thank you
I really like these videos where you play unknown games from a console! I just bought an emulation handheld and it's great to look for new recommendations!
Rent a Hero was actually originally released as a Japan-only title for the Genesis in 1991. I learned about it due to SNESDrunk making an episode on it a while back - it also has a translation patch and the original works pretty much the same as this version at its base, but that one was 2D and top-down with a side-scrolling view for fights. The controls were way more clunky and the fighting was pretty shallow; as a result, the Dreamcast version is the definitive one. It also apparently came close to being released in the States, as there was an English version on the Xbox that was close to completion before it was canceled. You can apparently work your way up to stopping Yakuza schemes and doing more actual "action-hero" stuff later on in the game and the plot takes a serious turn as well.
By the way, the reason you've probably heard of Cotton is because it's actually a fairly successful franchise in Japan. There's six total games dating all the way back to 1991 and Panorama Cotton, in particular, has a good-sized fanbase. Three of the first five titles (Cotton, Cotton 100%, & Cotton 2) are side-scrolling cute-em'-ups with role-playing and beat-em'-up elements, while Rainbow and Panorama Cotton are full 3D and pseudo-3D with the same basic formula. The Cotton series actually got a huge update in 2021 - Cotton 100% and Panorama Cotton were both released for PS4 & Switch for the first time along with a remake of the original Cotton (for those platforms plus Windows) and the series' first new entry in over 20 years, Cotton Fantasy: Superlative Night Dreams, which is 2D like the original and available for PS4, Switch, and Windows.
I'd really recommend giving Panorama Cotton a shot - some of the stuff it does with the Mega Drive is just insane on a technical level and it doesn't look like you'd have the same perspective issues you had with Rainbow. I've seen it brought up in hidden gem discussions a lot.
Also, if you haven't heard of it already, I think the Bimbows joke in Rent a Hero might be a reference to the Michaelsoft Binbows computer repair store. The name is a pun in Japanese, but I don't think it's referencing what you'd expect- Nick Robinson did a fantastic video on the story behind it that I'd suggest you check out, if you haven't already.
Love these types of long-form videos! Weird, obscure Japan-only games are kind of my thing, so I really look forward to these.
Taxi 2, the only France-exclusive Dreamcast game. As a Frenchie myself I don't know how to feel about it...
Rent-a-Hero is on the Mega Drive, there is an English patch! Nesdrunk featured it in an episode, I've played it and it's definitely worth checking out. ❤️
I am not a complex man, a game with lots of cheesy tokusatsu vibes is already on the right side of my heart.
some Rent-A-Hero facts:
-the original game was actually for Mega Drive
-Hardcore Gaming 101 basically says that the original game has good writing but plays kinda shit
-the default/canonical name for the main character is Taro Yamada, which is the go-to Generic Guy Name in Japanese
-this isn't a fact necessarily but to me he looks like a cross between Captain Commando and Booster Gold
Frame Gride is genuinely blowing my mind. It's kind of like Custom Robo, but less fun to control and with a cooler aesthetic
It's more Virtual On with Armored Core sprinkled in
Evil Twin is a game I very nearly bought at launch but went for something else instead. I think now it's best known as being in that batch of final PAL games (it might be the final official PAL game), and being really expensive to buy now
Unleashing years of pent up anger and frustration with your useless, alcoholic, neglectful father in one cathartic moment: punching him 3-feet through the air whilst he's dressed as a dinosaur and you're dressed as a power ranger. Revenge may not always play out the way you expect, but karma doth work in mysterious ways.
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Having never played Evil Twin myself... It looks kinda nostalgic for me, I was REALLY into that type of "grimy" looking graphical style from the late 90's - early 2000's, it reminds me a lot of Shadow Man, maybe Soul Reaver and you're right on the money with the American McGee's Alice comparisons. I dunno, the low poly counts really brings out the "edginess" in some games from that era.
These are your best videos, never watch RUclips but I'll watch this start to end 😅
The Dreamcast is the console we love to play a lot during the weekends, and I never get enough of their obscure exclusive tiles that are made in the east.
I played a big chunk of Evil Twin on PS2. Its pretty good. And if you like the Alice games dark take on imagination, its also a nod to that (though a little more kid friendly)
Record of Lodoss War is a great game that is based off of the anime/manga of the same name. The Dreamcast had some interesting features.
DREAMCAST FOR LIFE!!
Even if you are not a Sega fan boy you got to appreciate the Dreamcast
@@emperortrevornorton3119 I’m not a Sega fangirl but I love how amazing Dreamcast games are!
Your comment about the girl and the dog fused together killed me. Ed... edward? Friend?... sheesh
I've never properly played Evil Twin myself and it's not really big here either. From what i've heard, it's kind of stiff gameplay-wise as you've already experienced. But if you really take the time to take in the music, the environments, the art direction... you can really feel a pretty unique and special atmosphere emanating from this game.
It's a pity you skipped over all the lore that Wilbur gives, because it is very in-depth. And as you progress through the game, that becomes even more so.
Wilbur tells that one day, the world of Undabed was conquered by a colossal flood, unleashed by a being called The Master. This mysterious and malicious being resides in a tower called Loren Darith, which soon after the flood rose up when the Master claimed control over what little was left of the world.
The half-people you see are the Demis (French for "half" as you saw), which are dumb servants to the Master-- for the Master weaved a story of lies, that all other beings being whole does not allow the Demis to be whole, as they were meant to be, as well. Or something to that effect, at least.
Throughout the game Cyprien has to rescue his friends from a number of different islands. First one is like James and the Giant Peach-- a colossal tree inhabited by bugs the size of dogs, horses, bulls and bigger. Though funnily enough, the spider you meet there is one of the few friendly bugs.
It is there where you also meet a fun professor man in a kind of Dieselpunk/Steampunk-mix looking outfit, who is part of a people called the Folk (Gens in French).
He's a regularly recurring character throughout the game, who also commends Cyprien to his fellow Folk once he makes his way to their home.
The Folks live on a great Ark that was built soon after the flood, and pulled by a number of equally colossal sea creatures. which saved half their people at the time... but the other half was never seen again.
For generations the Folk have lived upon this Ark, but also gained an arch enemy in the Flyers (Les Volants). Who, as their name says, live in the skies through the use of airships and planes.
In any case, a funny thing that happens when Cyprien boards the Ark, is that first he gets boo'd and pelted with produce... until the professor tells them what a hero Cyprien is.
And from then on, Cyprien's fanboys -and girls become the unique enemy type on that area.
i'll not say much more in detail, but the game's lore is really fuppin' in-depth and quite well thought out. Script and writing's quite nice. And environments can get very cool too, from big robot factories to an island meant to only feed one big, gluttonous king (with a crazy kitchen, a farm spaces with mean cockney scarecrow, etc.) and a classroom with disparity in sizes between rooms where Cyprien may at one point be the size of a mouse, and in another be normal-sized but the rest of the room stretches up high into the darkness.
It's very much worth checking out and remembering as a whole. Or simply for the music itself. The OST to Evil Twin: Cyprien's Chronicles can be very whimsical, saddening, depressing and playful in a musical identity all its own.
the furthest i remember getting to was the airship and couldn't figure out where to go next after but i do remember the giant tree and having to free ur friend that wears glasses first before going into this victorian lookin town (or village) after that level.
I definitely remembered Evil Twin showing up in gaming magazines back in the day and catching my interest because of the artstyle but then I never actually picked it up because it didn't release for the Gamecube. It's definitely one of those "did I dream this game up or did it actually exist" kinda games.
Re: Evil Twin - you know you're in for a great time when a platformer starts you off with the gray, lifeless world with toxic waters and small platforms. Surely you shouldn't work up to that. This definitely shouldn't be the borderland between the light-themed easy beginning and the dark later levels. You absolutely shouldn't provide a relatively safe place where players can get accustomed to the physics and camera.
Bloodrayne 1 is my favorite game.
Everything about Rent-a-Hero feels like it was made for your channel, Matt.
Is the Part-time Hero sidequest in Yakuza: Like a Dragon based on Rent-A-Hero?
i actually never thought of put the two together, now you mention it, i believe it is supposedly
Yes it is
Breaking: Local man absolutely murdered by the term "Creamcast"
(It's me, I'm local man)
Forgot that Alien Front had a Dreamcast port! I remember the giant dual seat arcade machine for it that used to be at my local movie theater, it was a fun time.
I played a lot of Outtrigger locally against friends back in the day. It was a lot of fun, many different weapons and arenas. Our favorites were the mines that looked like health packs or ammunition.
Can't wait for you to get to Sega Saturn. There's bound to be a crap load of games you've never heard of on there
Yeah!
Bulk Slash! @@flophouseplays
Rent-a-hero had so many good ideas. Strangely it feels like Ryu-ga-gotoku before ryu-ga-gotoku.
considering it first started on the Sega Genesis and the Dreamcast/Xbox one is a remake
Out Trigger is actually really good - such a smart way to think about third person controls when yo don't have a second stick on your controller
Ah yeah, the Out Trigger, one of the random multiplayer games Yo Videogame did play at some point. Didn't recognize the intro but those menus instantly made me realize what game was it.
Oh hey Evil Twin, I used to play the fuck out of that on the ps2
So, of course Rent A Hero seemed like Shenmue. And of course it was Yu Suzuki who was producer of Rent A Hero. U can see the similarities in both games.
fun fact the guy that sings the rent-a-hero theme song is the same dude that sang the japanese dbz openings plus the game ones too
I did NOT expect to see a Cotton game here, but I'm not complaining. If you ever play another one, maybe try the SNES game. It's a traditional horizontal side-scroller so it should be easier to get the hang of compared to the first person perspective of this one (personally not a fan of that). No cute anime clips though.
Also more Rent-A-Hero please.
1:49 in and we have a Ken edit.
Ken/10.
Also, Dreamcast, yay. Never played one, so seeing these mythical legendary games for it only add to the legend in my brain
Update:
This is absolute gold. One of the best in a long time.
oh my deadlock reference BROTHER!
I had evil twin when I was a teen, I never got too far in it, it was pretty bad.
12:20 it is him.
Also the first Kamen Rider.
Also the UI looks familiar,it’s like from the SpikeOut games.
Also Matt please try the Spikeout games and Slashout.
Games like Rent a Hero and Rainbow Cotton are what I absolutely live for.
OMG yes! Absolutely please play more Rent a Hero! It looks mental and I think it's a good fit with your humor and personality.
I really enjoyed this video, just letting you know lol. I watch them before going to sleep over several nights and just puts me in a really peaceful headspace. Appreciate ya ✌️
These compilations are gold. And FWIW, I would love to see some old Need for Speed games like The Run and Most Wanted '05 on the channel!
As the #1 Frame Gride evangelist online, am excited to see its existence mentioned here.
We're all number 1 for the fact we like Frame Gride @@GELTONZ
Definitely never heard of Frame Gride before. So I looked up some videos from people who knew what they were doing (no shade) and Frame Gride looks super awesome! Real shame this one missed me back in the day.
Good pull Mr McMuscles. Some real hidden gold with this one.
On a side note: I'll never forget the one time I needed to really block someone online when "name redacted", a person with a byline mind you, utterly lost their shit on me for complementing some fan art on twitter about a hypothetical FromSoft fantasy mech game and saying I'd love them to actually make such a thing. We're talking a real frothing screed, dozens of posts long, about how it was a crime or something, that fantasy and mechs don't go together, I'll be honest I didn't read most of it before I had to block the notifications. It was real crazy town.
Now never mind that combining high fantasy and giant robots is a trope going back to at least the 80's, with tons on examples, it now cracks me up even more to learn that From Software had already literally done one themselves years earlier :P
I just had to give rent a hero a try after watching this. Interesting gem
Dreamcast version of soul reaver legacy of kain was legit a good port
Pouring one out for the Dreamcast
I have such a weird memory. I never even played Evil Twin and totally forgot about it and when I saw that kid I remembered “Cypriens chronicle” out of .nowhere
Wow this episode has both heaven and hell... Rent-a-Hero No.1 is my favorite Dreamcast game, and Undercover... isn't great. But if you're intrigued, I translated a whole playthrough on my channel. She goes undercover after the hotel mission there. The guy who did the story wrote a book also, that got made into a movie with Kazuki Kitamura(the bad guy from Godzilla Final Wars and Kiryu from the first Yakuza movie) you do get to play as the cat at one point too. The control is shit but you can save-scum so it's not impossible to beat
Never heard of Rent A Hero. The adventures of Fartlord needs to continue 😂
Gonna need a full playthrough of Rent-A-Hero lol. It was so funny
"This is hard to control, I don't know if it's coning across"
The sudden camera movements made it hard to WATCH, I can't think that was smooth to play
I remember Out Trigger, not because it was good. I played it at a demo kiosk as a teen and asked for it for Christmas, right when the Dreamcast was on the way out. My mom gave me a heads up that she couldn't find it anywhere, so when I opened it Christmas morning, I lost my shit. She apparently forgot to check early 2000s Amazon.
I have no idea what happened to my copy now.
You should check out the Genesis Panorama Cotton game, it's like the one you played here but faster pace and eye bleeding colorful sprite beauty. I don't know if there is a translated, but that's because I haven't bothered to look when writing this comment.
Think Space Harrier with our plucky protagonist mixed with uhm... LSD or something.
Aqua GT looked like the punchline of "We have Hydro Thunder at home" or something, and Hellgate looked like if Descent and Sewer Shark had a possessed baby that was born with webbed digits and also later got smacked with a fish for being born ugly. XD
"The cat would help."
That cat would never help you and you know it. I love kitties and I expect no help from them ever.
Finally someone who acknowledges the existence of Evil Twin. The game is available on PS2 and PC as well btw.
Man I played the heck out of Alien Front in the Arcade with my brother. It was one of the cabinets that link with each other so we would be able to either play co-op or against each other it was always a good time
Out Trigger is awesome. Especially is you play with the Dreamcast Keyboard and Mouse.
Good memories of playing Out Trigger and Alien Front Online via Sega Net. Connected at 26.4k... and having VOICE CHAT on Alien Front. Ridiculous!
This video unlocked deep buried memories of trying to play that taxi 2 game
Outtrigger was a pretty fun attempt at an arena shooter. IIRC the arcade cab used a stick and trackball to control. The story is that you're training for a private counter-terrorism unit called InterForce and each match is essentially the training sessions.
(Also, I think you can change the control scheme to use the stick to look and the face buttons to run and strafe)
(Also also, those missions were meant to teach you the ropes.)
Gunna need that full playthrough of rent-a-hero no. 01
Every two days or so since this video was released, I queue it up and skip right to you wheezing out "FARTLORD has become famous for stepping on poop." and I absolutely cackle for about 10 minutes straight. My family is worried about me...
Please continue this series. It's the best🎉🎉
"I promise, I won't be back!" - That man was very brave to be so honest about being a coward. Frame Gride is cool looking, I have heard of it and seen footage. Definitely wish more media, video games in particular would embrace the Aura Battler Dunbine style thing of Fantasy + mecha.
Woo who! Nice to see the Dreamcast get some love! I had one back in the day and still think it’s a great system! You never flopped in my heart Dreamcast!
Outrigger was made for multiplayer... And online it was so much fun.
Rent-a-Hero by far the funniest, I would watch a whole series on the adventures of FARTLORD
I remember reading about Rent-A-Hero in the Xbox magazine years ago and have spent years trying to remember the name of this ridiculous super hero parody looking game.
Thanks for helping me finally remember...and see that it's even more ridiculous than the magazine made it seem
Matt we are begging you as fans, as a community,..as...idk fuckin uh...floppers....you gotta play more Rent A Hero that thing is a gem
That first one feels like a parody of the Windows 7 Launch Party commercials but I'm pretty sure it predates them
I believe Alien Front Online was actually the first console game to ever have voice chat. It was a heavily advertised feature at the time.
Umm YES! More Rent-A-Hero please! Maybe even do a quick comparison between this version and the Megadrive original.