"Life was hard in ancient Greece.The amount of sandmen, armed skeletons, giant scorpions and harpies we had to endure was almost unbearable.You thought Leonidas from Sparta had a rough time? You haven't seen Issyo yet!" But seriously, this a pretty good Castlevania clone.You could easily pay good money if this was released on the NES back then.
"You wonder why we were so big on the Gods? Well, when you look at the wildlife, you understand. When at any moment a sand man can rise up out of the beach and need killing, you'll pray for help. And usually you might get a bit."
When you are in armor and put down, he defends with the shield. You did not use that once, incredible. Congratulations on the gameplay, great skill. this is an excellent game, well nostalgic.
There's not a single Locomalito game I don't love and this is no exception. I admire that he never dumbs down the difficulty of his games; Curse of Issyos is no slouch, that's for sure. But it's fun-- really, really fun. Really happy for Locomalito that his games are finally going to see the light of day on consoles; they deserve to be known and loved by more gamers.
Holy cow, this is like an amazing spiritual companion to the nes castlevania games. Super cool! This developer has a lot of passion and talent. Incredible work.
Sound effects from Natsume games on NES and Castlevania. The Sun in the BG is like taken out of Rygar on NES. The theme of the game is like Battle of Olympus. LOVING this game.
Endymion Considering that Hades is way before Dracula, its reasonable to say that Hades would be the much more earlier physical embodiment of evil, so just imagine Chaos making Hades in the Castlevania-verse one of his early Dark Lord?
So it gets to the point where Koji Igarashi buys out the rights to not only all of Castlevania but also Curse of Issyos where he actually say that Simon Belmont is the reincarnation of Defkalion and Sara Trantoul is the reincarnation of Defkalion's daughter, pointing out that Simon Belmont fought against far more then just Dracula and his minions. If something like that actually did happen, what would you do?
You know what's ironic? Earlier today, I got Castlevania: Lords of shadow from the library and it felt like it took a lot of inspiration from God of war. But this game looks like God of war if it took inspiration from classic Castlevania.
That's also possible. To be honest, Greek mythology can't be copyrighted so pretty much anyone can make a movie, TV show or videogame based on Greek myths.
The original "Clash of the Titans" had to have been the influence for this amazing game. Finding his items along the way, armour and so forth in these snake boxes of stone. It's as if the gods sent these items and weapons to help him.
Since Nameless Jedi mentioned Jason and The Argonauts, I should mention that the Hydra in this is exactly like the one in Jason and The Argonauts as well.
Truth be told, when I started watching this playthrough, the first thing that I thought was how much it reminded me of Rastan. I thought that until first boss appeared, was quickly dispatched, and the laurel fell down. It played out exactly like Castlevania. Anyways, it is a cool game!
Athena: Your help is needed. Defkalion: Look I'm just a fisherman with a wife and a daughter- Athena: One will become a spider, and the other will be with Poseidon if you refuse. ... *And thus Defkalion went on his quest!*
This has been by far an awesome Castlevania'ish game to play and always had me coming back to it. I'd wish Locomalito would've put this one on the Vita or the Switch.
Every now and then, I come back to playthroughs of this game and Maldita Castilla because of how well made they are and how faithful they are to the games that inspired them. I realised something when I rewatched this game's ending: What happened to the other mortals living on Issyos? Did they evacuate along with Defkalion and his daughter, or did they sink with the island? The game never brings it up and I'm a bit surprised by that.
I think this is probably the best indie game I've seen- it exactly looks like something KONAMI Computer Entertainment Japan would've done back in the day, along with the VRC-6 sounding music.
+Random7 I wish that raft in 6-2 was 2x smaller and those purple urchins were one-hit-killers (SPIKES IN CASTLEVANIA!) and anything in stages 6&7 deal 4Hp in damage per hit (3 with armour).
See also: Curse of Issyos All Bosses (No Damage) ruclips.net/video/y8i7RCPbKiA/видео.html l'Abbaye des Morts playthrough ruclips.net/video/mkdLj9FrFnQ/видео.html
This game is awesome, I love how it looks. How come I never heard or seen this game before, now I want to play this. I love ancient Greek stuff so this is right up my alley.
I've never heard of this game until I saw this video. Downloaded it and played it. I wish this game would have been made during the days of the NES, it would have blown everyone away and raised the bar!
Ngl when I saw that last line of the epilogue "...and all thanks to one brave fisherman!!" I was half expecting a sudden **BONUS ROUND** sequence where he's out on his boat frantically snatching in fish for extra points. =P
"Would you fight with gods then, little mortal?" "If home and family are not worth fighting for, then what use are gods?" "Madness! To speak so to your deities!" "Madness? Ha! THIS.IS.ISSYOS!!"
Very cool! An ancient Greek style Castlevania game! I'm surprised someone didn't think of this sooner. How about a feudal Japan/Samurai style Castlevania game next?!
El juego se basa en castlevania. Al enfrentarse a los jefes, la melodia es muy parecida al momento en que el quinto ario ordena hacer pruebas de velocidad a los remeros, previo al combate naval en la pelicula BEN HUR. Se ve entretenido.
Few levels in and I’ve been having a great time! 👍 Also for anyone looking for other games like this (other than curse of the moon which is good) there’s a couple upcoming games… Darkest Abyss coming in Q1 of 2024, demo available. Transylvania the Adventure of Simon Quest, coming in 2025 I believe idk about a demo but looks great. Not quite the same but Tiny Barbarian DX might also scratch the itch it’s great
I saw plenty of NES CastleVania in this, and I also saw some Battle of Olympus in this too. Only problem I saw with this game was that it portrayed The Gods and Goddesses in a very negative aspect. The game was saying that Olympus did not care about humanity at all. Which is anything but the truth.
I actually finished this game a couple of years ago, it took me quite a long time. I spent almost all my arrows searching for the soul so I had only about 10 or so for fighting Hades. I went all in at his final form because those flaming birds were too difficult to dodge. Luckily he died before I did. A great game.
I liked the blood-red explosions - no PG rating here, you are definitely killing monsters. Also liked how the first boss casually kills a giant scorpion with its first attack - lets the player know this is a boss and that it’s tougher than what you’ve faced before.
There are only so many keys in the game. Miss too many, and you cannot rescue your daughter. You MUST A: Save Hephaestos, and B: Defeat Medusa. Otherwise...
Crazy I always imagined an 8bit Castlevania type game set in ancient Greece were you play as a spartan warrior facing all types of monsters from Greek Mythology and Hades being the final Boos and this is it!, I had even imagined being able to change from swords to spears and bows. My only gripe is it seems a bit short ,the bosses seem kinda easy and a few too many recycled enemy types.
Imagine how this game would sell back in the day accompanied with the clash of the titans film! I will check it and play it,although in castlevania franchise using allot of mythical,creatures this game is much more based in ancient mythology.If in greece used copyrights for each mythical thing used outside our territory we would be one of the wealthiest countries in the world.
Misconceptions that Hades was like the Grim Reaper or even Satan, which is far too common I notice. It's commonplace even in RPGs that your deity of death is almost always evil, and even when there's one that's good (see: Kelemvor in Forgotten Realms) there's also an evil one either before or concurrent to balance it out, even though only a handful of death gods were actually evil creatures that wanted to see the world burn, and most were neutral at worst and just did their job of judging and/or watching over the dead, and weren't like monsters that took pleasure in torture; after all, actual punishment in Tartarus wasn't something handed out on a whim, it was for very specific and very grievous insults to the gods. Poor Hades.
I'm aware a lot of people assocaite hades and satan, hell Satan was likely modeled of hades in part and other death and underworld god in order to discredit older religion to a part, it's just... nowadays i jsut whoish people made an effort to come up with another villain for their greek mithology themed games and storry. How about Poseidon for once ? he was a much bigger jerk as far as Olympain went. Or Apollo, now that was a pretty petty one.
Ares, the cold hearted god of war, would make for a better villain (let's assume that the hero is a protégé of Athena. He can only be bound for antagonizing her rival)
If one needs a realm-of-the-dead villain for a Hellenic-themed game, there's always Hades's apparent predecessor, the titan Iapetos. Not that we know much else about him, other than him siding with Kronos, and his sons including Prometheus and Epimetheus.
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"Life was hard in ancient Greece.The amount of sandmen, armed skeletons, giant scorpions and harpies we had to endure was almost unbearable.You thought Leonidas from Sparta had a rough time? You haven't seen Issyo yet!"
But seriously, this a pretty good Castlevania clone.You could easily pay good money if this was released on the NES back then.
Defkalion from Curse of Issyos makes King Leonidas look like child's play for sure.
"You wonder why we were so big on the Gods? Well, when you look at the wildlife, you understand. When at any moment a sand man can rise up out of the beach and need killing, you'll pray for help. And usually you might get a bit."
It looks more like for PC Engine than NES, look at those graphics.
@@chibibeetle Yeah, the graphics and especially the music are very "PC Engine/Turbographx" to me.
you don't even have to pay a cent!
just go on their website and download it.
I like the fact that there is a reptile cooking a beef stew.
He’s got good taste!
That ain't beef
Is it a lizardman or is it a triton?
He was probably like 'Whew! Those Gordon Ramsay recipes on RUclips paid off..Oh what the.. Hey? You wanna sample thi--*Gets killed*' Lol
When you are in armor and put down, he defends with the shield. You did not use that once, incredible. Congratulations on the gameplay, great skill.
this is an excellent game, well nostalgic.
3:23 *middle finger in the air*
That's how you say "victory"!
Exactly!
There's not a single Locomalito game I don't love and this is no exception. I admire that he never dumbs down the difficulty of his games; Curse of Issyos is no slouch, that's for sure. But it's fun-- really, really fun. Really happy for Locomalito that his games are finally going to see the light of day on consoles; they deserve to be known and loved by more gamers.
I love how this game looks!
Holy cow, this is like an amazing spiritual companion to the nes castlevania games. Super cool! This developer has a lot of passion and talent. Incredible work.
@Deserve Not Desire Just blow in from Stupid Town?
Sound effects from Natsume games on NES and Castlevania.
The Sun in the BG is like taken out of Rygar on NES.
The theme of the game is like Battle of Olympus.
LOVING this game.
good catch on the Sun
The music in this is fucking FANTASTIC, especially the lead up to Medusa's temple. Very haunting. Please release this on Switch.
1:00 Stage 1
1:40 Stage 1-2
2:56 Stage 1 Boss
3:39 Stage 2
7:10 Stage 2 Boss
8:10 Village 1
9:03 Stage 3a
9:57 Village 2
10:44 Stage 3
12:24 Stage 3-2
13:20 Stage 3-3
14:00 Stage 3 Boss
14:59 Stage 4
15:42 Stage 4-2
17:45 Stage 4 Secret
18:40 Stage 4 Boss
20:36 Stage 5
21:01 Stage 5-2
24:25 Stage 5 Boss
25:39 Stage 6
26:17 Stage 6-2
27:57 Stage 6 Boss
28:57 Stage 7
30:18 Final Boss
31:10 Final Boss 2
32:53 Ending
Eufinity f
You forgot to benchmark 13:14 YOLO Skeleton.
3:16 "NOBODY HAS HURT ME!"
Manliest protagonist ever. Suck it, Kratos.
In other words, Simon Belmont before he became Simon Belmont.
Endymion Considering that Hades is way before Dracula, its reasonable to say that Hades would be the much more earlier physical embodiment of evil, so just imagine Chaos making Hades in the Castlevania-verse one of his early Dark Lord?
So it gets to the point where Koji Igarashi buys out the rights to not only all of Castlevania but also Curse of Issyos where he actually say that Simon Belmont is the reincarnation of Defkalion and Sara Trantoul is the reincarnation of Defkalion's daughter, pointing out that Simon Belmont fought against far more then just Dracula and his minions.
If something like that actually did happen, what would you do?
@@ancientone5903 This is sometimes the reason why Dracula is for me the god of the underworld.
These motifs are similar.
You know what's ironic? Earlier today, I got Castlevania: Lords of shadow from the library and it felt like it took a lot of inspiration from God of war. But this game looks like God of war if it took inspiration from classic Castlevania.
What if it took inspiration from Battle of Olympus?
That's also possible. To be honest, Greek mythology can't be copyrighted so pretty much anyone can make a movie, TV show or videogame based on Greek myths.
never seen this game thank you guy
Oh, My God! The sound production of this game was fantastic! Amazing!
The original "Clash of the Titans" had to have been the influence for this amazing game. Finding his items along the way, armour and so forth in these snake boxes of stone. It's as if the gods sent these items and weapons to help him.
All the Harryhausen films probably. Talos straight out of Jason and the Argonauts!
@@namelessjedi2242 awesome stuff.
Since Nameless Jedi mentioned Jason and The Argonauts, I should mention that the Hydra in this is exactly like the one in Jason and The Argonauts as well.
@@namelessjedi2242 Don't forget the Hydra.
gryzor87 is a great musician.
i would love to see a game music cd release with the ones of hydora, maldita castilla and this one also.
Truth be told, when I started watching this playthrough, the first thing that I thought was how much it reminded me of Rastan. I thought that until first boss appeared, was quickly dispatched, and the laurel fell down. It played out exactly like Castlevania. Anyways, it is a cool game!
"THIS IS SPARTA!!!!"
More like "THIS IS ISSYOS!!!!"
Athena: Your help is needed.
Defkalion: Look I'm just a fisherman with a wife and a daughter-
Athena: One will become a spider, and the other will be with Poseidon if you refuse.
...
*And thus Defkalion went on his quest!*
25:38
I like how this level is brought back in Super Hydorah and reworked for a horizontal shmup instead of a platformer.
Locomalito is one of my favorite indie game developers!
After watching this playthrough, this looks like a better Castlevania inspired game than 8-Eyes.
This has been by far an awesome Castlevania'ish game to play and always had me coming back to it.
I'd wish Locomalito would've put this one on the Vita or the Switch.
To the makers of this game.
Thank you, from the deepest of my heart❤
Every now and then, I come back to playthroughs of this game and Maldita Castilla because of how well made they are and how faithful they are to the games that inspired them. I realised something when I rewatched this game's ending: What happened to the other mortals living on Issyos? Did they evacuate along with Defkalion and his daughter, or did they sink with the island? The game never brings it up and I'm a bit surprised by that.
This looks fun as hell. Going to download it now.
Anyone else had flashbacks of Megaman 2 Quickman stage's laser beam at the start of Scylla's stage?
I didn't, but yeah, it's true they have both very similarhhazards and hazard placement.
The music to this is really awesome.
Love it!! The old days where golden. Your Haunted Castle vid brought me here. Subscribed.
I think this is probably the best indie game I've seen- it exactly looks like something KONAMI Computer Entertainment Japan would've done back in the day, along with the VRC-6 sounding music.
The knockback is colossal in this game.
+Random7 I wish that raft in 6-2 was 2x smaller and those purple urchins were one-hit-killers (SPIKES IN CASTLEVANIA!) and anything in stages 6&7 deal 4Hp in damage per hit (3 with armour).
Its like castlevania 1
Pretty standard for an early Castlevania game. (Or one that is paying homage to them.)
Conglaturation!
You have completed
A great game.
And prooved the justice
Of our culture.
Now go and rest our
heroes!
Congratulation!
Pray for a true peace in Space!
Locomalito is the coolest indie dev out there.
See also: Curse of Issyos All Bosses (No Damage) ruclips.net/video/y8i7RCPbKiA/видео.html
l'Abbaye des Morts playthrough ruclips.net/video/mkdLj9FrFnQ/видео.html
dude i just wanna know
is that your picture's vampire hunter D??
plz. answer me
cowhdfla Yes, it' Vampire Hunter D from Bloodlust Movie.
+Shadowserg wow what a awesome picture
i love it XD
+Shadowserg , I would love for a modified form of this game to be released on an actual NES cartridge.
Issyos looks like a fun place to visit
3:25 he's giving the bird.
Got some Castlevania sounds too.
This game is awesome, I love how it looks. How come I never heard or seen this game before, now I want to play this. I love ancient Greek stuff so this is right up my alley.
I've never heard of this game until I saw this video. Downloaded it and played it. I wish this game would have been made during the days of the NES, it would have blown everyone away and raised the bar!
thank you for uploading this footage and gameplay, looks like the developer make alot of old school games! yay more new classic to play!
Ngl when I saw that last line of the epilogue "...and all thanks to one brave fisherman!!" I was half expecting a sudden **BONUS ROUND** sequence where he's out on his boat frantically snatching in fish for extra points. =P
"Would you fight with gods then, little mortal?"
"If home and family are not worth fighting for, then what use are gods?"
"Madness! To speak so to your deities!"
"Madness? Ha! THIS.IS.ISSYOS!!"
*Dracula:* _Who is the jerk who cloned me?!_ 😂😂😂
Locomalito & Gryzor87 are so talented doing videogames! Wow!
Holy crap this beautiful masterwork of passion. This looks amazing.
1:22 i dont wanna ask what kind of meat in that stew. i eat wall chicken from an undead castle anyway
Да неужели?! Я уж начал опасаться, что сайт загибается... Рад, что ты вернулся)
Very nice! I'd played l'Abbaye des Morts but I didn't know about this one. Love this guy's work!
Very cool! An ancient Greek style Castlevania game! I'm surprised someone didn't think of this sooner. How about a feudal Japan/Samurai style Castlevania game next?!
There is one. It was released on the Famicom in 1987 and it's called "Getsu Fuuma Den". The developer was non other than Konami. Check it out.
giant greek soldier was a great boss fight like god of war 2 but with castlevania style
When you mix AC Odyssey with old style Castlevania!
This should've been on SNES or Genesis back in the day.
I love Castlevania AND Greek mythology 😁 It was really entertaining watching this
Poor Hades... possibly the nicest of the Greek gods, always made into the villain ;-;
El juego se basa en castlevania. Al enfrentarse a los jefes, la melodia es muy parecida al momento en que el quinto ario ordena hacer pruebas de velocidad a los remeros, previo al combate naval en la pelicula BEN HUR. Se ve entretenido.
wow! if this game came out when i was a kid it would have been one of my favorites
3:18 "I am nobody !"
Rule #1 Get the spear!
Rule #2 Get the spear!
Rule #3 Get the damn spear!
Locomalito also made Super Hydorah
Getting MSX vibes from the chiptunes. Though this isn't for the MSX.
Few levels in and I’ve been having a great time! 👍
Also for anyone looking for other games like this (other than curse of the moon which is good) there’s a couple upcoming games…
Darkest Abyss coming in Q1 of 2024, demo available.
Transylvania the Adventure of Simon Quest, coming in 2025 I believe idk about a demo but looks great.
Not quite the same but Tiny Barbarian DX might also scratch the itch it’s great
I saw plenty of NES CastleVania in this, and I also saw some Battle of Olympus in this too.
Only problem I saw with this game was that it portrayed The Gods and Goddesses in a very negative aspect. The game was saying that Olympus did not care about humanity at all. Which is anything but the truth.
I actually finished this game a couple of years ago, it took me quite a long time. I spent almost all my arrows searching for the soul so I had only about 10 or so for fighting Hades. I went all in at his final form because those flaming birds were too difficult to dodge. Luckily he died before I did. A great game.
I liked the blood-red explosions - no PG rating here, you are definitely killing monsters. Also liked how the first boss casually kills a giant scorpion with its first attack - lets the player know this is a boss and that it’s tougher than what you’ve faced before.
The hit detection is perfect.
Wow, the soundtrack's really good!
3:23 Is he flipping the finger?!
Good playthrough!
Better than I expected! 👍
Very awesome old school gaming!
damn wish this was on the 3ds or Switch.
looks like a cross between Battle of Olympus and Castlevania
Wow i never heard or seen this game before. But seems pretty awesome.
Rip the island and the folks living there.
What a game.
This is Sparta!
Why didn't you buy the life extender in the 1st store, then you bought the key in the 2nd?
Viva Locomalito.
There are only so many keys in the game. Miss too many, and you cannot rescue your daughter. You MUST A: Save Hephaestos, and B: Defeat Medusa. Otherwise...
Crazy I always imagined an 8bit Castlevania type game set in ancient Greece were you play as a spartan warrior facing all types of monsters from Greek Mythology and Hades being the final Boos and this is it!, I had even imagined being able to change from swords to spears and bows. My only gripe is it seems a bit short ,the bosses seem kinda easy and a few too many recycled enemy types.
This has no business being free. This is genuinely worth paying for.
Total awesome play through thank you!
This would've been the biggest blast of the 80s
Imagine how this game would sell back in the day accompanied with the clash of the titans film! I will check it and play it,although in castlevania franchise using allot of mythical,creatures this game is much more based in ancient mythology.If in greece used copyrights for each mythical thing used outside our territory we would be one of the wealthiest countries in the world.
So this is what the Belmonts were doing before killing Dracula
Major PC Engine/Turbografx-16 vibes from this. Good ones, too.
Looks like a fun game (but damnit, why is hades almsot alway the villain in these)
Misconceptions that Hades was like the Grim Reaper or even Satan, which is far too common I notice. It's commonplace even in RPGs that your deity of death is almost always evil, and even when there's one that's good (see: Kelemvor in Forgotten Realms) there's also an evil one either before or concurrent to balance it out, even though only a handful of death gods were actually evil creatures that wanted to see the world burn, and most were neutral at worst and just did their job of judging and/or watching over the dead, and weren't like monsters that took pleasure in torture; after all, actual punishment in Tartarus wasn't something handed out on a whim, it was for very specific and very grievous insults to the gods.
Poor Hades.
I'm aware a lot of people assocaite hades and satan, hell Satan was likely modeled of hades in part and other death and underworld god in order to discredit older religion to a part, it's just... nowadays i jsut whoish people made an effort to come up with another villain for their greek mithology themed games and storry. How about Poseidon for once ? he was a much bigger jerk as far as Olympain went. Or Apollo, now that was a pretty petty one.
Ares, the cold hearted god of war, would make for a better villain (let's assume that the hero is a protégé of Athena. He can only be bound for antagonizing her rival)
alxxpspqr Wasn't the god of death or embodiment of death in Greek Mythology called Thanatos? Also, I don't recall him being brother with Charon.
If one needs a realm-of-the-dead villain for a Hellenic-themed game, there's always Hades's apparent predecessor, the titan Iapetos. Not that we know much else about him, other than him siding with Kronos, and his sons including Prometheus and Epimetheus.
RIP that one skeleton that tried to take on the colossus himself.
I want this on the Switch!
>obtained armor
>only have a helm and a shield that serve as cosmetic only
perfect armor! owo)b
Kenshin 811 It reduces damage taken by 1 and while kneeling you shield your front. Far from a mere cosmetic addition.
the guy behind this games is such a badass
jasson and the argonauts ❤️
That music. Wow!
the greek "maldita Castilla"
taarnet castlevania*
Same developer
XD
Now it`s maldita greek XD
I'd buy this if it could play on an NES on a cart.
Nice work! I'm gonna have to give this a try
whoa , nice game , castlevania+contra+clash of the demond head O_O
Holy shiot. this looks cool
Locomolito makes the type of games I want to make.
Wouldn't the Hydra (5 headed serpet) just sprout extra heads?
The music is absolutely s tier
Looks good for Castlevania clone.
What a great looking game, they should sell it on Steam and consoles, yeah I know it's free, but for convenience and to support good devs.
May this bow will break our chains... SOMEONE SET US UP THE BOMB