New Adventure Island (TurboGrafx-16) Playthrough
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- A playthrough of Hudson's 1992 platformer for the TurboGrafx-16, New Adventure Island.
New Adventure Island was the fourth mainline game in the Adventure Island/Takahashi Meijin series, releasing between Super Adventure Island ( • Super Adventure Island... ) and Adventure Island 3 ( • Adventure Island 3 (NE... ). This was an interesting period for the series: whereas the numbered entries steadily evolved between iterations (AI2 introduced world maps, an item system, and dino buddies; AI4 became a Metroidvania), the games made for the next-gen consoles were largely rooted in the spirit of the original Wonder Boy.
Like Super Adventure Island, New Adventure Island rejects the additions made by Adventure Island II ( • Adventure Island II (N... ) and returns to the basics. Worlds are each split into four sub-stages that contain checkpoints, and the focus of the gameplay is on making it from point A to point B within the time limit. Our chubby islander hero still must gorge himself on whatever flying fruit he finds in order to keep the timer going. If it runs out, it's instant lights out for Higgins.
Of course, trying to thwart his attempts at speed-platforming across random tropical locales is a wide assortment of cartoony enemies. The usual suspects are all here - bug-eyed snails, flying swordfish, and flower-loving foxes are present and accounted for, alongside some unique new additions. I loved the occasional appearances of giant enemies (like the giant mommy snail) and the boss monsters that, though similar to the ones in AI1, pack their own unique powers and attack patterns.
Higgins can arm himself with his trademark axe, the boomerangs introduced in SAI, and the new throwing spears, but like always, he has to be careful about which eggs to break. If he's lucky, a 1up, an invincibility fairy, or a bottle of milk might hatch. If he isn't, well, that evil eggplant is still lurking about, prepared to make life absolutely miserable.
New Adventure Island is an excellent game. Now Production leaves behind many of the innovations they introduced in AI2, and as a result, it feels like a faithful, refined next-gen reimagining of the original game. It's still quite tough, but it feels like a fairer, better handling game than the original thanks to the improvements in control and stage design that it inherited from the sequel.
While the soundtrack doesn't hold a candle to Yuzo Koshiro's work in Super Adventure Island, the tunes are light and breezy and make good use of the TG16's sound chip, and the sprites are smaller than SAI's, but the game's improved speed and fluidity more than make up for the difference.
I've often thought that Now Production was a criminally underrated development studio, and as was the case with the TG16 version of Jackie Chan ( • Jackie Chan's Action K... ), New Adventure Island highlights their ability to deliver a quality game regardless of the platform.
And besides, where else are you going to find cutscenes of Master Higgins bustin' sweet moves like he's Napoleon Dynamite?
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New Adventure Island is a welcome throwback that really delivers the goods with its refined take on the original Wonder Boy formula.
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If Hudson did New Adventure Island 2 for the Turbo Duo CD, then it probably would have been a metroidvania game, much like Super Adventure Island 2 for the SNES.
@@Jac2Mac or Adventure Island 4 on the NES.
Having hudson's logo in checkpoint flags is such a nice detail 😊
Isn't it? I also like how killing the fox in this one drops a PC Engine controller, just like how he dropped a Famicom controller in the NES games.
Now that I think about, it actually looks like the first CoreGrafx pad given its coloring.
@@NintendoComplete*THAT'S* what that thing was? I thought it was a postcard or a letter. 😮
This is an incredible game/version of Wonderboy. I wish I would have found it years ago because I think it’s worth a ton now.
Me too. I remember when it came out, but I didn't have a TG16 as a kid so I pretty much ignored it. I really got into it after I grabbed the Wii Virtual Console re-release.
@@NintendoComplete Nice! I never owned a Wii, so I haven’t had the chance to play it. Great video btw. Looking forward to more of them - Dragon’s Curse! ;)
I played this on PS3 of all things. It was on their virtual console equivalent. Definitely not the optimal console for this!
@@BB-te8tcOh man, how was the input lag with a PS3 controller? Ouch hahaha
It certainly soured my expectation of the game! I'll have to try it on a MISTer at some point in the near future.
This has such an unusual soundtrack, but I found it pretty fun. Strikes me as odd that there's only seven worlds though.
The Showtime scenes were great!
0:36 - El Gordo Pepe XD
Playing through the adventure island series for the first time and this might be my favorite so far. The presentation is really nice and the controls are the tightest. Music and graphics might not be as nice as the snes games but they definitely dont fall far behind and are still great.
0:20 His face explains it all
I know he’s supposed to be running in place, but in all the games I’ve watched so far, and especially this one, it looks more like he’s doing the pee-pee dance.
Loving these vids. I remember renting the first NES one occasionally, but never beat it. I don’t know why. These games don’t look that tough. And I beat Cobra Triangle as a kid.
I never beat the first one either. The second to last stage has these falling platforms you gotta run and jump off of, with pixel-perfect precision.
This game should have came out the same time the TurboGrafx16 was release. And Hudson Soft should have made version 2,3,4. for the system.
Which one do you think is better...this one or Super Adventure Island? I wish Sega would have made their own 16-bit Wonder Boy like this. Maybe Mega Wonder Boy. Then we could have had 3 games go at it for the best.
I much prefer this one.
@@NintendoComplete
After watching you play both and getting the chance to try New Adventure Island myself...I think I agree with you. The Snes game is kind of strange.
On the sound department , sorry but Yuzu Koshiro's music was light years away from this music, on the gameplay this one is a bit better...
adveture island tuvo buena cultura gamaer ya que su filosofia es saber seguir adelante sin importar que roca te atraviese y premio te sorprende como los kinder sorpresas hehehe aun seamos capulina buen video
Looks like a reproduction of the original Wonder Boy from 1986. Gameplay is 100% identical. Prettier graphics for sure.
Yes even the graphics look like a 1986 arcade game
Sensacional....
Looks better than snes version of this series 🤔
One of my favorite Adventure Island games. Where’s the Adventure Island Collections on modern platforms?
Excellent video.
I'm guessing the bride is supposed to be Tina's new look (as of this game)?
The Bride Is Tina
@@ToddTheSnugglenugget Yes. That's what I was saying... it's just the NES version had her have black hair (though, giving the benefit of a doubt, the developers were still deciding what her look was to be).
@@DBoy2029 they always change Tina’s hair color
Nice game😊😊
Dark Castle
0:35 RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE
Master Higgins ANGRY!!!!
You should play PC Engine/ Turbografx-16 games more!!
42:54 Tina was way hotter than Lil' Miss Tuffet!
Great game but what a shity generic soundtrack.