Ridiculous character names are just one of Nightow's trademarks, I think. Even in Trigun you had dudes with names like Legato Bluesummers or Knives Millions There is no doubt in my mind that he believes these names are extremely cool, and that kind of sincerity is super endearing to me. Like when I found out that Gungrave has a dude named Rocketbilly Redcadillac I just thought "Hell yeah that rules"
You and clemps just be carrying the weight of underrated gems on your soldiers. I cant wait for the next episode man thanks for covering this. Also trigun rules
Definitely. Love tf out of it. Watched as a kid and it's still really memorable to me and adds a lot to the original game. Just wish there were more places to watch it. Don't think it's on crunchyroll or anything.
"Sol Badguy" is such a dumb name, I love it. Especially because he's usually the good guy in the series. And if we're talking Guilty Gear names, we have to talk about That Man. Normally phrases like "that man" are used in Japanese media to obscure the identity of a character, but in Guilty Gear That Man is the antagonist who's manipulating events from behind the scenes. It's beautiful.
Gungrave Gore was one of the most "right place, wrong time" games to come out this year. I really need to get into the anime and games soon, it looks wild
I saw this game get reviewed with other ps2 action games. it's kind of a shame that its sleek and manga inspired art direction got subject to increased realism with its latest installment. In a weird way, its edginess and manga cliches make it endearing as opposed to the action games of today. if i got to make a game, it would probably be something similar to this. Glad you're covering more less known ips like this again!
I liked the second game more. Grave has a better design, I felt the difficulty actually made me think about what I was doing, and repeated passes through the game added more levels and bosses.
I've never played Gungrave 1 but this 5:44 legitimately scared me. I didn't expect that at all so playing that in real time sounds frightening af on the first go around
I love the first game being a weird thing thats way more style over substance, the second for giving options to the formula in the form of new characters, but the third... Oh man that games fuckin raw when you play the other two first. Enjoyed for all the wrong reasons Trust me, ive had grave as my profile pic for like 10 years now
I like G.O.R.E. I'm not finding it that difficult, but I'm playing the patched version (the train section in mission 5 is way easier, full auto mode is indeed a thing, cel-shaded too..) It does feel a bit on the unfinished side, but it's a solid game for me.
I played it on game pass, and I had a lot of fun with it. I did have to do the grind, but I had a lot of fun. I was able to even be it on the 2 hardest difficult I love it it was in something different And fun
You can always count on good old Gunslator "Jerry Eagleheart" Silverbullet to make some good fkin content about some obscure game trilogy you've never heard of~
I wish the new game kept up that cel-shaded style from the first two games. Obviously more updated but same look and feel. I actually liked the way the cutscenes looked. We should campaign to Studio Trigger to produce the anime coz it looks like something they would do.
Not gonna lie, the naming in this game is peak boyhood fantasy. I mean who-knows-who is one hell of an edgy name your inner boi will squeal while your adult body will cringe so hard you will enjoy it either way
the worst part of gungrave is, it's repetitive af. so a salaryman would feel right at home, grinding the excel in the office to just get screwed doing the same thing by torturing the shoot button.
I'm so happy I'm not the only one who remembers WHOOKOS. The guy just started making new animations again. I support him on patreon. Has cringes as old stuff is I can't help but love it.
I mean yeah, Grave from G.O.R.E does look like you, Kbash. 19:43 this is not the kind of game most people play at all my boy, I kid you not, I quit midway through chapter 2 because I realized what exactly kind of game this is, went back to DMC3 and never looked back, I've played too many of this sh!t as a kid to care or even try any more, the problem with the original Gungrave wasn't that you could beat it in 2 hours, MGR is anywhere between 2~3 hours and they're literally the best 2~3 of your life, the problem is how it feels like very little happens in those 2 hours, the game was so repetitive and felt really boring and mundane, what it needed was variety of enemies or at least weapons.
Vietnamese here its disappointing to see even a game like GORE, the Vietnam levels are just jungle it feels like people still think forests and jungles are the only landscape in Vietnam
Gore's art direction confuses me. A series with the anime style and cell shading, suddenly the vr and 3rd game go with realistic shading. It's kinda strange looking to me. Not terrible at all, just strange. Though what's even stranger is that the 1st game is still the best looking game in the entire series
You mean like Devil May Cry 5? Gosh I don’t know why people praise the art direction in that game so much. The graphics are great don’t get me wrong, but something about the realism of its design is just 🤢
@@BruceWayne-fj9bm kinda, but devil may cry had a realistic anime style for the previous games I think. Hard to say to be honestly. So the transition wasn't as hard. I mean still there, with some effects not being as impactful or some uncanniness (probably a brightness issue in some cases). But DMC5 does have a stronger art direction. Gungrave Gore is a lot more lower budget, so some of the art direction isn't as strong
Say what you will about Overdose, but I have to say, as a kid, and even to this day, the final boss was the coolest thing for me. Not in terms of gameplay, god no, but the music was absolutely phenomenal. "Calculator cannot help you" is one of my favorite pieces of videogame music every with how tragically hype it is, and (especially) as a kid, seeing Grave, a character who up to that point was completely stoic even in the worst of situations, completely lose his mind and go into a turbo rage mode, was absolutely baller, and I will not accept any other viewpoint. Very 0-100 moment there, done in the right way for me.
In 2002 the biggest trends in gaming were god of war, 3rd person bullet time shooters ripping off the matrix(Maxx Payne, ect.)/ time slowing and diving while shooting, and fkn sports games
Of course! It's great. Though it is very different from BBB, it has more of an emotional core if you ask me, and while blood blockade battlefront makes a joke of exaggerated violence and death, trigun is the opposite, the protagonist is a pacifist who has a rule of never ever killing anyone because every single life is sacred. Talking about that, trigun has an amazing protagonist, Vash is funny, charismatic and endearing while also being cool and badass (and of course he has an effective emotional and sad backstory that justifies his no killing rule and introduces the villain). Also, and I swear this is the last thing I say, the protagonist refusing to kill the bad guys might sound lame at first, but the story actually explores the consequences of it, both good and bad.
I remember watching the Anime and going, this story hit me..., it hit me real hard. Then played the game and was like, this was really fun, def not the story, but man was it a nice simple ride.
@@TerrorOfTalosLike everyone else, he’ll say the series fell off when it was trying to copy generic animated movies as opposed to continuing to do its own thing.
@@jman2856 Perhaps but he'll probably think ACiT was well executed when it came to strengthening RaCs relationship as characters. Also if we're being real outside of the appealing stylized art direction, cool/silly weapons, gadgets and diverse locations to explore their relationship was always the backbone of the series; outside of initially tackling capitalism/consumerism and pop culture.
@@TerrorOfTalos Ratchet and Clank is one of my favorite series. I think the whole series is great. I don’t know why people like the first one the best.
@@BruceWayne-fj9bm Late response but it's probably just in retrospect now as looking back while RaC 1 is the most flawed in terms of gameplay (from the mainline games) it was also the most experimental in terms of execution which some people really appreciate I guess. On top of that 2016 exists and that's another reason why some would appreciate 2002 even more now.
Christ in heaven the auto shoot was patched in post launch?! Fuck me.....well, thank goodness I'm only just now playing G.O.R.E. then and it was free on Game Pass.....fuck me....
gun grave gore is the worse game i played all year. The movepool cant even be changed into each other you have to stand still to switch between the moves, while the game is just stupidly hard with bland gameplay. Even mobas let you change abilities...
Alright K-Bash. You seem a bit tired. A bit frustrated with the last few videos. I get that. I have the perfect game for ya. I've been here for a bit, subbed and watching. You like games with deep meanings and an appreciation for the retro. I have a PERFECT game for ya. Go play Signalis. It's an Indie Love letter t survival horror made by rose-garden studios. Two people who made an entire game filled with literary meaning and with clear passion for the game. It's 20 bucks on Steam, or free if you have Xbox Game Pass. If you're worried about price, i will literally buy it for you. But i think the video would do well, especially since Signalis just dropped two months ago, and the fandom is very much in the process of being made. Good luck, and relax my guy.
Basically Gungrave is never going to be able to pull itself out of the small ditch it found itself in. It can be fun but it'll never be memorable. Save for people who _want_ to be invested in it as opposed to people being naturally drawn in.
I'd argue that GORE was unfairly panned on release because a lot of people weren't using their full kit I wouldn't say it was perfect but a 7-8/10 from me One example is, I can see a distinct lack of using the Charged shots and using the Storm Barrage to charge up his heat gauge in the gameplay They patched a good 90% of the issues with GORE at this point and I really want people to stop spreading misinformation because they didn't use their tools
Now I'll be honest, I don't know how this series managed to make it past the first entry. It definitely doesn't deserve it, given all its shortcomings, but I am so glad it refuses to die. It is the most solid 6/10 you'll ever see, and yet somehow it has become my most favorite thing ever. So, forgive the absolute dump of a love letter below. On the original, it's funny you say "citation needed" on the game being intentionally easy, because in an interview in the artbook they say exactly that. The game was intentionally designed to be a short and simple "palate cleanser" between your longer RPGs and the like. The devs wanted anyone to be able to pick it up and play and feel cool while doing it. In fact, that philosophy ran so deep that when Nightow did the initial pitch, he didn't think much about the story. Like at all. He just wanted the action scenes - Grave against hordes of enemies, now get to shooting. The rest of the dev team actually had to step in and say "well, if so many people are shooting at the player, the player is going to start asking why," so they put together the bare bones, yet nonsense story you see in the final thing. All of the information dumped at the end, and yet you're still left questioning what in the world you just played. Which is what makes the anime so funny, because it goes full in on the story instead of action. The first episode has about what you'd expect from the source material, but from episode two onward it hard pivots into a slow burn mafia drama. It does eventually loop around to the events of the game, but by the time it does you have the gift of context and everything has so much more weight to it as a result. Characters go from having a few lines before their boss fight to having full on personalities, backstories, and motivations. That old geezer you pressed square to shoot at the end of the game becomes the world's absolute worst best friend that you want to see suffer, but only because you saw how cruel he was and what he could have been instead. And the silent, walking death machine at the center of it all? Over the course of the anime you bear witness to the tragedy of his life, and by the end of it the name "Beyond the Grave" - no, Brandon Heat, evokes not a fit of laughter, but the shedding of tears. I have no idea what possessed them to turn Gungrave of all games into an anime, especially with how little content there was to work with, but they put in such a huge amount effort and it paid off. It's my favorite show of all time, bar nothing. Given the game's nature, I wasn't expecting much going in and I was blindsided in the best way possible because of it. I cannot recommend it enough. It's such a gripping, gut-wrenching ride that'll leave you hurting once it's over, but hey, at least it won't be from carpal tunnel. On Overdose, it's definitely rough around the edges, but I can see and even like what they were trying to do by making it a fuller package. I like the story, and the fact that it treats everything it can from the anime as canon is both really funny and completely understandable. I like that the three characters are different enough from each other to warrant repeat playthroughs, though I wish the differences in cutscenes were more pronounced, and perhaps instead of being nine stages the game was only seven, with each character getting two stages unique to them. I feel like on paper, the gameplay design is better than the original, with charged shots, expanded melee options, and more demolition shots that you have to use efficiently to maximize healing (the higher your special combo meter, the more health you regain, something I'm so upset they neutered in Gore to just be based off the shot's power level), there's a breadcrumb or two more to the chaos, but it just gets so bogged down by the feeling of "oh great it's this room again." And "this room" happens every other level. But it's still so earnest, still plays it straight without being cocky, like it knows it's here to entertain, that I can't really bring myself to hate it. If the first game is a bag of junk food, then Overdose is the family size that you decided to eat all in one sitting. While it still tastes good, you start to feel a little sick halfway through, but you kind of knew what you were signing up for by bite number three. The less said about VR and U.N the better. Both total less than an hour combined, the story (for the crazy people like me who still care) doesn't contribute or relate to anything meaningful, and most importantly you don't feel like a badass while playing it, which is arguably the whole series' selling point. Instead, you just feel stupid. That leaves Gore, and, it's definitely the best game, mechanically, out of the series. I actually like the ability point system since it allows you to customize Grave to your specific playstyle, but I agree you are way too weak at the beginning of the game. Things like shot and melee strength, health, and range should have been halfway upgraded from the start. As a masochist who's beaten the prior games on Kick-Ass difficulty, I'm used to the bullshit you face when these things finally bare their teeth and thought I could hold my own through Hard, but had to concede to Normal at Stage 6. Refusing to drop even further later in the game led to me trying out different kits, which I think was at least somewhat intended given you can reallocate your points at any time, but I think there should have been a disclaimer at difficulty select that the harder difficulties are more tuned to New Game+ playthroughs once you've got some upgrades under your belt. I never felt the need to grind, but I definitely understood the temptation at certain points. At the very least, I liked that, unlike part of Overdose's difficulty coming from how long the stages were, you can break up Gore into bite-size chunks, almost harkening back to the pick-up-and-play philosophy of the original. Despite the new team I think they had a lot of respect for the original games based on their marketing, and while the game was rough at launch, they seem genuinely concerned with improving the experience, listening to player feedback and rolling out patches in record time. When I heard Gore was reviewing at a "mediocre" 6/10 I was genuinely excited, because what is this series if not the most earnest swing and a miss you've ever seen? Gore is just like the other games, for both better and worse, and I wouldn't have it any other way. While I doubt they'll get the chance in this economy, I'd love to see Iggymob take another crack at the series with this experience under their belt, because they're so close to making something enjoyable without any major caveats. I'd love to be able to recommend a Gungrave game to someone who isn't a Gungrave fan for once. The tl;dr is that I obviously love this series more than is probably good for my mental health, and that regardless of what anyone says about the games, you are doing yourself a disservice not watching the anime, so get to it. Kick their Ass!
Yeah game run times are a silly metric in general, only really applicable to people who have unlimited free time. It was great when I was younger and had nothing to do between bouts of masturbation but these days unless something really grips me (in a non-physical manner) I prefer stuff I can get through in fifteen or twenty hours. A few exceptions exist of course, games that do a good job of splitting segments up in such a way I can jump in and out when I only have maybe one free hour a day, but if something is going to take me 40 or 50 hours it generally means either it's all I'll end up playing for two months or it's never getting finished.
The Anime is one of the best ever made. It's right up there with goodfellas. It's a truly excellent crime drama. Brandon Heat... That name makes my eyes tear up.
It blows my fucking mind you correctly callex Furyoku by name. Literally no one else I know that reads Shaman King refers to it as Furyoku if they ever mention it at all. I tip my hat to you.
I was interested in Gungrave because of it´s status as a cult classic but I quickly returned GORE It wasnt fun or stylish at all. It´s weird seeing the first game looking better & faster
I think rocketbelly is a reference to rockabilly, which is a genre of rock mixed with country or the blues. The music of this genre is actually pretty good in my opinion.
Just finished played the patched version of Gore and yeah it gets there in the second half I salute you sir fer stickin with the launch version fuck that second to last main boss fight.
So, the games are assuredly schlocky nonsense, but the anime is actually very, very good. The first half is shockingly grounded, poignant, and mature (with obvious references to classic mafia cinema given a dark anime twist), while the second half basically mutates into the madness of the games, but now with context. It's really worth a watch, even if you have no intention of playing the games.
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If there is a trilogy of games - KBash is gonna make a video about it.
Unlike Valve, KBash is capable of counting to 3
@@Dethmaster64 Based KBash
I wonder if he’s gonna cover Ultrakill
@@Dastankbeets9486 when Episode/Act 3 will drop.
I'm down for the ride
Ridiculous character names are just one of Nightow's trademarks, I think. Even in Trigun you had dudes with names like Legato Bluesummers or Knives Millions
There is no doubt in my mind that he believes these names are extremely cool, and that kind of sincerity is super endearing to me. Like when I found out that Gungrave has a dude named Rocketbilly Redcadillac I just thought "Hell yeah that rules"
I love those ridiculous early 2000's names
Basically
Our of all the names from nightow I have heard Rocketbilly RedCadillac was hands down my favorite and imo the coolest of the bunch
Nothing better for a Sunday like hearing the " SIMP... *GOD* " shout at the end of another great KBash review video. Thank you sir. I had fun.
Followed by a wholesome “YEET kun do!”
This video triggered (gun pun) me twice:
1. "There are no Trigun games."
2. KBash hasn't covered Dirge of Cerberus.
You and clemps just be carrying the weight of underrated gems on your soldiers. I cant wait for the next episode man thanks for covering this. Also trigun rules
thorhighheels too
@@MadassAlex Damn, I watch all three mentioned. Check out Majuular if either of you are into LONG videos about JRPGs.
@@MadassAlex GrimBeard too
The gungrave anime is insanely good. Much better than any of the games. one of the best anime game adaptations ever
It's so depressing, though!! But agreed, it's great
Insanely good, or good bc of what year it was, I'm really asking bc I didn't c the anime back then
@@Largentina. Cyberpunk is up there now, too.
I wish I still had it on DVD
Definitely. Love tf out of it. Watched as a kid and it's still really memorable to me and adds a lot to the original game. Just wish there were more places to watch it. Don't think it's on crunchyroll or anything.
"I'm just jumping and shooting!"
So what you're saying is that this plays exactly like Mega Man...
It's the Mega Man of spectacle shooters!
Wait, his name is actually Beyond the Grave?! Oh wait, Brandon Heat. Still, here I was thinking “Sol Badguy” was weird but endearing lol
"Sol Badguy" is such a dumb name, I love it. Especially because he's usually the good guy in the series.
And if we're talking Guilty Gear names, we have to talk about That Man. Normally phrases like "that man" are used in Japanese media to obscure the identity of a character, but in Guilty Gear That Man is the antagonist who's manipulating events from behind the scenes. It's beautiful.
Gungrave Gore was one of the most "right place, wrong time" games to come out this year. I really need to get into the anime and games soon, it looks wild
Awful game
Awesome anime
I saw this game get reviewed with other ps2 action games. it's kind of a shame that its sleek and manga inspired art direction got subject to increased realism with its latest installment. In a weird way, its edginess and manga cliches make it endearing as opposed to the action games of today. if i got to make a game, it would probably be something similar to this. Glad you're covering more less known ips like this again!
You are my favorite game review, you worked hard for that title and you deserve it….did you die your hair red? Filter?
I liked the second game more. Grave has a better design, I felt the difficulty actually made me think about what I was doing, and repeated passes through the game added more levels and bosses.
I've never played Gungrave 1 but this 5:44 legitimately scared me. I didn't expect that at all so playing that in real time sounds frightening af on the first go around
I love the first game being a weird thing thats way more style over substance, the second for giving options to the formula in the form of new characters, but the third...
Oh man that games fuckin raw when you play the other two first. Enjoyed for all the wrong reasons
Trust me, ive had grave as my profile pic for like 10 years now
I like G.O.R.E. I'm not finding it that difficult, but I'm playing the patched version (the train section in mission 5 is way easier, full auto mode is indeed a thing, cel-shaded too..)
It does feel a bit on the unfinished side, but it's a solid game for me.
I played it on game pass, and I had a lot of fun with it. I did have to do the grind, but I had a lot of fun. I was able to even be it on the 2 hardest difficult I love it it was in something different And fun
closest we'll ever get to a wolfwood game
this video is also how i learned that there was a 3rd gungrave
Yes, gimme the goth long hair boy with the guns, I don't care if his games are mid, he's mine !
Nu-Grave does like KBash but if he also fused with Gabriel Belmont.
You can always count on good old Gunslator "Jerry Eagleheart" Silverbullet to make some good fkin content about some obscure game trilogy you've never heard of~
Graves looks kind of like a Japanese Caleb from Blood, without a hat.
And no Red eyes
@@kingdomkey2262 Could barely see his eyes, past the fringe.
Somehow Gungrave 3 makes me appreciate Chop Goblin's simplicity more than I already did before
Chop Goblins is the best 4 ish dollars i spent this year
I wish the new game kept up that cel-shaded style from the first two games. Obviously more updated but same look and feel. I actually liked the way the cutscenes looked. We should campaign to Studio Trigger to produce the anime coz it looks like something they would do.
i don't know what "wucose" is and.. i'm glad that's the case?
Not gonna lie, the naming in this game is peak boyhood fantasy. I mean who-knows-who is one hell of an edgy name your inner boi will squeal while your adult body will cringe so hard you will enjoy it either way
The anime is a classic, but I never played the games.
the worst part of gungrave is, it's repetitive af. so a salaryman would feel right at home, grinding the excel in the office to just get screwed doing the same thing by torturing the shoot button.
I feel like KBash is just delaying the inevitable waiting so much to do a Valkyrie elysium review
I'm so happy I'm not the only one who remembers WHOOKOS. The guy just started making new animations again. I support him on patreon. Has cringes as old stuff is I can't help but love it.
I mean yeah, Grave from G.O.R.E does look like you, Kbash.
19:43 this is not the kind of game most people play at all my boy, I kid you not, I quit midway through chapter 2 because I realized what exactly kind of game this is, went back to DMC3 and never looked back, I've played too many of this sh!t as a kid to care or even try any more, the problem with the original Gungrave wasn't that you could beat it in 2 hours, MGR is anywhere between 2~3 hours and they're literally the best 2~3 of your life, the problem is how it feels like very little happens in those 2 hours, the game was so repetitive and felt really boring and mundane, what it needed was variety of enemies or at least weapons.
I was hoping you would make this video, I clicked as soon as I saw
There's a market for DMC but with more focus on the guns, I'm sad that it doesn't look like Gungrave wears that particular crown
KBash should get whatever conditioner he uses to sponsor his vids at this point, god damn
Vietnamese here
its disappointing to see even a game like GORE, the Vietnam levels are just jungle
it feels like people still think forests and jungles are the only landscape in Vietnam
Remember cryin' a little on some anime scenes. Neet to know that there was a game and it was before the anime. Cool vid as alwasy Ktrash!~
This show is about a remnant, plain and simple. Remnant lore goes back thousands of years. Missed the mark here.
Gore's art direction confuses me. A series with the anime style and cell shading, suddenly the vr and 3rd game go with realistic shading. It's kinda strange looking to me. Not terrible at all, just strange.
Though what's even stranger is that the 1st game is still the best looking game in the entire series
You mean like Devil May Cry 5? Gosh I don’t know why people praise the art direction in that game so much. The graphics are great don’t get me wrong, but something about the realism of its design is just 🤢
@@BruceWayne-fj9bm kinda, but devil may cry had a realistic anime style for the previous games I think. Hard to say to be honestly. So the transition wasn't as hard. I mean still there, with some effects not being as impactful or some uncanniness (probably a brightness issue in some cases). But DMC5 does have a stronger art direction.
Gungrave Gore is a lot more lower budget, so some of the art direction isn't as strong
I appreciate the detail of the Seinfeld mic having a bee aesthetic
Say what you will about Overdose, but I have to say, as a kid, and even to this day, the final boss was the coolest thing for me. Not in terms of gameplay, god no, but the music was absolutely phenomenal. "Calculator cannot help you" is one of my favorite pieces of videogame music every with how tragically hype it is, and (especially) as a kid, seeing Grave, a character who up to that point was completely stoic even in the worst of situations, completely lose his mind and go into a turbo rage mode, was absolutely baller, and I will not accept any other viewpoint. Very 0-100 moment there, done in the right way for me.
I literally sit here and wonder why cash the stampede and beyond the grave are not in guilty gear such a misssed opportunity
I can't begin to explain the level of excitement i get when there's a new KBash upload 😍😍😍😍
Rocketbilly Redcadillac is the most character name ever
my curse is that I can watch this whole video and all I can think is 'man, that guy's wall is SO wet now'
In 2002 the biggest trends in gaming were god of war, 3rd person bullet time shooters ripping off the matrix(Maxx Payne, ect.)/ time slowing and diving while shooting, and fkn sports games
Me when I say etc after listing one thing: 🧐🎩🤵🏻♂️
I love Nightow for making the best anime of all time Blood Blockade Battlefront, but I've never seen Trigun. Is it worth the watch?
Of course! It's great.
Though it is very different from BBB, it has more of an emotional core if you ask me, and while blood blockade battlefront makes a joke of exaggerated violence and death, trigun is the opposite, the protagonist is a pacifist who has a rule of never ever killing anyone because every single life is sacred. Talking about that, trigun has an amazing protagonist, Vash is funny, charismatic and endearing while also being cool and badass (and of course he has an effective emotional and sad backstory that justifies his no killing rule and introduces the villain). Also, and I swear this is the last thing I say, the protagonist refusing to kill the bad guys might sound lame at first, but the story actually explores the consequences of it, both good and bad.
This made me want to buy the first game, good job Kbash
I remember watching the Anime and going, this story hit me..., it hit me real hard. Then played the game and was like, this was really fun, def not the story, but man was it a nice simple ride.
I hope you cover the Yakuza series one day
You forgot desperado influences too 😉
I'm just waiting for the day he plays the Ratchet and Clank games
I don't know what he'll praise or criticize that hasn't already said a bunch of times but I can see him appreciating RaC 1 the most.
@@TerrorOfTalosLike everyone else, he’ll say the series fell off when it was trying to copy generic animated movies as opposed to continuing to do its own thing.
@@jman2856 Perhaps but he'll probably think ACiT was well executed when it came to strengthening RaCs relationship as characters. Also if we're being real outside of the appealing stylized art direction, cool/silly weapons, gadgets and diverse locations to explore their relationship was always the backbone of the series; outside of initially tackling capitalism/consumerism and pop culture.
@@TerrorOfTalos
Ratchet and Clank is one of my favorite series. I think the whole series is great. I don’t know why people like the first one the best.
@@BruceWayne-fj9bm Late response but it's probably just in retrospect now as looking back while RaC 1 is the most flawed in terms of gameplay (from the mainline games) it was also the most experimental in terms of execution which some people really appreciate I guess. On top of that 2016 exists and that's another reason why some would appreciate 2002 even more now.
Guilty Gear Vibes
Today i learned that gungrave have 3 games...that was unexpected.
Very nice game😍❤
Superb sharing😍❤
Christ in heaven the auto shoot was patched in post launch?! Fuck me.....well, thank goodness I'm only just now playing G.O.R.E. then and it was free on Game Pass.....fuck me....
K-Bash you sunnuva Gun.
Great stuff dude!
"G.O.R.E features me but cooler" got me super hard lmao. That does look like edgiest anime version of you.
Woah woah WOAH A FUCKING WOOKOS REFERENCE? 8:13 core memory unlocked
gun grave gore is the worse game i played all year. The movepool cant even be changed into each other you have to stand still to switch between the moves, while the game is just stupidly hard with bland gameplay. Even mobas let you change abilities...
Alright K-Bash. You seem a bit tired. A bit frustrated with the last few videos. I get that. I have the perfect game for ya. I've been here for a bit, subbed and watching. You like games with deep meanings and an appreciation for the retro. I have a PERFECT game for ya.
Go play Signalis. It's an Indie Love letter t survival horror made by rose-garden studios. Two people who made an entire game filled with literary meaning and with clear passion for the game. It's 20 bucks on Steam, or free if you have Xbox Game Pass. If you're worried about price, i will literally buy it for you. But i think the video would do well, especially since Signalis just dropped two months ago, and the fandom is very much in the process of being made.
Good luck, and relax my guy.
Rocketbilly Redcadallac is so fucking fire I don’t care what anybody says
The last one may have a mediocre design of levels and shit. But that story is so FUCKING GOOD
Basically Gungrave is never going to be able to pull itself out of the small ditch it found itself in. It can be fun but it'll never be memorable. Save for people who _want_ to be invested in it as opposed to people being naturally drawn in.
I'd argue that GORE was unfairly panned on release because a lot of people weren't using their full kit
I wouldn't say it was perfect but a 7-8/10 from me
One example is, I can see a distinct lack of using the Charged shots and using the Storm Barrage to charge up his heat gauge in the gameplay
They patched a good 90% of the issues with GORE at this point and I really want people to stop spreading misinformation because they didn't use their tools
Now I'll be honest, I don't know how this series managed to make it past the first entry. It definitely doesn't deserve it, given all its shortcomings, but I am so glad it refuses to die. It is the most solid 6/10 you'll ever see, and yet somehow it has become my most favorite thing ever. So, forgive the absolute dump of a love letter below.
On the original, it's funny you say "citation needed" on the game being intentionally easy, because in an interview in the artbook they say exactly that. The game was intentionally designed to be a short and simple "palate cleanser" between your longer RPGs and the like. The devs wanted anyone to be able to pick it up and play and feel cool while doing it. In fact, that philosophy ran so deep that when Nightow did the initial pitch, he didn't think much about the story. Like at all. He just wanted the action scenes - Grave against hordes of enemies, now get to shooting. The rest of the dev team actually had to step in and say "well, if so many people are shooting at the player, the player is going to start asking why," so they put together the bare bones, yet nonsense story you see in the final thing. All of the information dumped at the end, and yet you're still left questioning what in the world you just played.
Which is what makes the anime so funny, because it goes full in on the story instead of action. The first episode has about what you'd expect from the source material, but from episode two onward it hard pivots into a slow burn mafia drama. It does eventually loop around to the events of the game, but by the time it does you have the gift of context and everything has so much more weight to it as a result. Characters go from having a few lines before their boss fight to having full on personalities, backstories, and motivations. That old geezer you pressed square to shoot at the end of the game becomes the world's absolute worst best friend that you want to see suffer, but only because you saw how cruel he was and what he could have been instead. And the silent, walking death machine at the center of it all? Over the course of the anime you bear witness to the tragedy of his life, and by the end of it the name "Beyond the Grave" - no, Brandon Heat, evokes not a fit of laughter, but the shedding of tears. I have no idea what possessed them to turn Gungrave of all games into an anime, especially with how little content there was to work with, but they put in such a huge amount effort and it paid off. It's my favorite show of all time, bar nothing. Given the game's nature, I wasn't expecting much going in and I was blindsided in the best way possible because of it. I cannot recommend it enough. It's such a gripping, gut-wrenching ride that'll leave you hurting once it's over, but hey, at least it won't be from carpal tunnel.
On Overdose, it's definitely rough around the edges, but I can see and even like what they were trying to do by making it a fuller package. I like the story, and the fact that it treats everything it can from the anime as canon is both really funny and completely understandable. I like that the three characters are different enough from each other to warrant repeat playthroughs, though I wish the differences in cutscenes were more pronounced, and perhaps instead of being nine stages the game was only seven, with each character getting two stages unique to them. I feel like on paper, the gameplay design is better than the original, with charged shots, expanded melee options, and more demolition shots that you have to use efficiently to maximize healing (the higher your special combo meter, the more health you regain, something I'm so upset they neutered in Gore to just be based off the shot's power level), there's a breadcrumb or two more to the chaos, but it just gets so bogged down by the feeling of "oh great it's this room again." And "this room" happens every other level. But it's still so earnest, still plays it straight without being cocky, like it knows it's here to entertain, that I can't really bring myself to hate it. If the first game is a bag of junk food, then Overdose is the family size that you decided to eat all in one sitting. While it still tastes good, you start to feel a little sick halfway through, but you kind of knew what you were signing up for by bite number three.
The less said about VR and U.N the better. Both total less than an hour combined, the story (for the crazy people like me who still care) doesn't contribute or relate to anything meaningful, and most importantly you don't feel like a badass while playing it, which is arguably the whole series' selling point. Instead, you just feel stupid.
That leaves Gore, and, it's definitely the best game, mechanically, out of the series. I actually like the ability point system since it allows you to customize Grave to your specific playstyle, but I agree you are way too weak at the beginning of the game. Things like shot and melee strength, health, and range should have been halfway upgraded from the start. As a masochist who's beaten the prior games on Kick-Ass difficulty, I'm used to the bullshit you face when these things finally bare their teeth and thought I could hold my own through Hard, but had to concede to Normal at Stage 6. Refusing to drop even further later in the game led to me trying out different kits, which I think was at least somewhat intended given you can reallocate your points at any time, but I think there should have been a disclaimer at difficulty select that the harder difficulties are more tuned to New Game+ playthroughs once you've got some upgrades under your belt. I never felt the need to grind, but I definitely understood the temptation at certain points. At the very least, I liked that, unlike part of Overdose's difficulty coming from how long the stages were, you can break up Gore into bite-size chunks, almost harkening back to the pick-up-and-play philosophy of the original. Despite the new team I think they had a lot of respect for the original games based on their marketing, and while the game was rough at launch, they seem genuinely concerned with improving the experience, listening to player feedback and rolling out patches in record time. When I heard Gore was reviewing at a "mediocre" 6/10 I was genuinely excited, because what is this series if not the most earnest swing and a miss you've ever seen? Gore is just like the other games, for both better and worse, and I wouldn't have it any other way. While I doubt they'll get the chance in this economy, I'd love to see Iggymob take another crack at the series with this experience under their belt, because they're so close to making something enjoyable without any major caveats. I'd love to be able to recommend a Gungrave game to someone who isn't a Gungrave fan for once.
The tl;dr is that I obviously love this series more than is probably good for my mental health, and that regardless of what anyone says about the games, you are doing yourself a disservice not watching the anime, so get to it. Kick their Ass!
Fresh trim looking good 👌. I also think you dyed your hair (haven't watched the full video yet), it also looks amazing. ❤️
Yeah game run times are a silly metric in general, only really applicable to people who have unlimited free time. It was great when I was younger and had nothing to do between bouts of masturbation but these days unless something really grips me (in a non-physical manner) I prefer stuff I can get through in fifteen or twenty hours. A few exceptions exist of course, games that do a good job of splitting segments up in such a way I can jump in and out when I only have maybe one free hour a day, but if something is going to take me 40 or 50 hours it generally means either it's all I'll end up playing for two months or it's never getting finished.
The Anime is one of the best ever made. It's right up there with goodfellas. It's a truly excellent crime drama. Brandon Heat... That name makes my eyes tear up.
i tried to give two thumbs up. but i couldn't :/ youtube fix plz thx!
It blows my fucking mind you correctly callex Furyoku by name. Literally no one else I know that reads Shaman King refers to it as Furyoku if they ever mention it at all. I tip my hat to you.
I was interested in Gungrave because of it´s status as a cult classic but I quickly returned GORE
It wasnt fun or stylish at all.
It´s weird seeing the first game looking better & faster
I think rocketbelly is a reference to rockabilly, which is a genre of rock mixed with country or the blues. The music of this genre is actually pretty good in my opinion.
Kbash: but you'll tell me his middle name is curtis
Me: He said it, he said my MIDDLE name! :D
Are you going to make a video of Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal?
The music in this one got me thinking, I’d love to see you review the Banjo Kazooie “trilogy”
Just finished played the patched version of Gore and yeah it gets there in the second half I salute you sir fer stickin with the launch version fuck that second to last main boss fight.
Another amazing, entertaining video, thank you so much
Please talk about the Blazblue games i promise they're funny
now that Kbash has covered it the true Gungrave sweep will commence
I love your videos on games and all, but when will you do a video on your hair care routine, cause that noggin is immaculate.
I played the shit out of this game and it completely disappeared from my memory somehow
watching you grow into such a beautiful young lady over the past 5 or so years has been a pleasure, truly
Kbash looks like gungrave just needs to change his hair to black
So, the games are assuredly schlocky nonsense, but the anime is actually very, very good. The first half is shockingly grounded, poignant, and mature (with obvious references to classic mafia cinema given a dark anime twist), while the second half basically mutates into the madness of the games, but now with context. It's really worth a watch, even if you have no intention of playing the games.
SOMEONE ELSE REMEMBERS WHOOKOS?! HOLY SHIT I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE!
Kbash can you do castlevania 1/2/sotn/cotm?
I just got the first Gungrave so going to have fun Mandudeing it up!!!
Now make a video about the Xenosaga trilogy!
Gungrave is actually a quadrology, nice try do.
I heard Trigun got a remake or something
Do you think you could cover some gundam games?
There is a good John Woo game and it's the second half of Sleeping Dogs
These games are a fewer dream.........
I like all 3 though haha
If my day is shit, an upload of you will do. If my day is nice (like today), u'll only make it make it better.
I love you
I am so down with Rocketbilly Redcadillac.
Am I tripping how many times has this title changed…
WHY DOES GORE COST 70.33 CAD ON STEAM?!
at least it's kinda interesting that they went for southeast asia? ish. rofl
Did you color your hair Mr kbash sir? It looks lovely
one of my favorite anime. never played the games tho
The almost DMC..hmmmm
I did love the anime tho
I've been watching Seinfeld too