Not owning either a PS1 or a Sega Saturn, Nightdive's port of PowerSlave was my first time experiencing PowerSlave in general. Me being a fan of 1990's shooters growing up with Doom, Quake, Dark Forces, Duke Nukem, GoldenEye, Half-Life, etcetera I was curious in playing the remastered versions of the classics including Blood: Fresh Supply, Shadow Warrior Classic Redux, and this upgraded gem in PowerSlave Exhumed. I've 100%ed the achievements in all three PowerSlave Exhumed, Shadow Warrior Classic Redux, and Blood: Fresh Supply. I love how PowerSlave with it's original 5th Gen console ports was Metroid Prime before Metroid Prime even existed. The lava snakes in level stages in Metroid Prime were clearly inspired by PowerSlave's enemies in the lava mantises. Nice video btw!
This remaster really caught me off guard with how good it was. It isn't a straight port of *any* version of the game, but more of a greatest-hits style collection of the PS1, PC and Saturn versions. I also want to point out that digging into the video options, you can enable a lighting mode that's more accurate to the Saturn version; heck playing with the graphics options will even let you make the game look almost exactly like the Saturn version from top to bottom, including capping the FPS to 30, making the game run in 4:3, making the pixels look nice and chunky, and even enabling texture warping just for that nostalgic feeling. It really impressed me! There's so many more games I want Night Dive to remaster, especially after seeing how well this came out.
As a Saturn veteran of the game, it will be a blast to replay this masterpiece on the PC. Especially since I saw some diferent stuff on the levels in this remaster. Thank you NightDive to bring this FPS to the modern era...and untouched.
So this game is basically Duke Nukem 3D with Metroid-style exploration? I used to own the Saturn version a LONG time ago, but I never got far into it and at the time, I assumed it was another run of the mill FPS. Boy, was I wrong! Your video has instantly sold me on this game! (rushes off to the Xbox store to get it)
Awesome you made a video about this. First time I played it was on PS1 with a demo. I played Exhumed a week ago on my Sega Saturn. Loved the smooth gameplay indeed 👌 Neverplayed the PC edititon the old one... giong to check out that new one .. Thanks ! 🤗
You just have to like that the developers took inspiration for this game with IRON MAIDEN and therer album Powerslave (1984) with the game's theme and setting ;-D Still, this is a game I had really missed-out on. Looks interesting indeed!
This game was a masterpiece on the Saturn. Lobotomy showed that Saturn was capable of great 3D titles. If only it's programming was easier for third party developers.
I think it was tricky because of the multiple processors. They all ran on the same bus except the sound processor. This would cause pipeline stalls if it wasn’t balanced just right. I don’t see why though. Those chips have cache on them for a reason.
@@markmeadows7093also apparently American developers got poorly translated manuals early on to develop for the system. plus game development was shifting over to using C, and although Saturn could have games made in C (and that’s what American developers mostly used) assembly was what achieved the best results.
@@costumeninja1914 Agreed, I think the main reason I hold Powerslave/Exhumed in higher regard is because it was more of an original IP rather than a port of a popular PC game. TBH it's very hard to rate all 3 of their FPS games for the Saturn in order of best to worst because they are all of a similar high quality.
If you put yourself in the mind of Doom (and Doom64, a contemporary game), and even Goldeneye's single player campaign, Powerslave will blow you away. Yeah, Goldeneye had cool music and everything was in polygons, but I felt like the Sprite enemies of Powerslave were more detailed and interesting, certainly more variety. Another sweet FPS from around this time was the Macintosh-exclusive Marathon series... which you can play on modern PC's and Macs thanks to the developer (Bungie!!) making the game a free license plus the Aleph One open source engine. Play Powerslave for the First-Person Metroid feel and sound design, Dark Forces to see what Star Wars is like for non-jedi, and Marathon for the story.
Bro because of your awesome videos like this I have gone back and played alot of the games you mention especially streets of rage remake and learning so much about Sega. Growing up in New Zealand we were in the asian market so sega was our Jam. Your vids are great bro keep it going
Nightdive Studios usually does a pretty decent job at remastering old FPS classics. Their work on Quake and Doom 64 is amazing, no surprise they did Powerslave justice.
I played this for an hour or so and put it down - then I came back months later and thats when I got hooked and finished it. It was way longer than I imagined, but I’m not complaining. Some levels you die many times but want to come back and try again. This game became one of my favorite shooters. Although I don’t have much interest in playing the remaster, because they didn’t change anything beyond surface level. I actually liked the pixelated textures of the original.
I hated those damn jumping spiders! This was a daily play for me for so long, it was amazing in it's time. Dodging enemy fire and watching the missiles go by you was a crazy experience. And don't forget this was the birth of Death Tank!
This was such an awesome game to play in the 90’s. This was my favorite Lobotomy game on the Saturn, even though they made a couple additional great games.
Duke 3D on Saturn was a thing of beauty and a game I actually felt compelled to complete (and did) in short order between college classes and skipping classes. In high school we blamed the PC Duke in Deathmatch as the teacher never bothered to check! To my delight, when alternately popping in the Saturn version, it played exactly the same (to me), and my eyeballs hadn’t ingrained any differences graphically that I ever nit-picked. This looks like a winner!
Was waiting for your take on this game after recently viewing the Digital Foundry technical review. Can you believe Nightdive studios came out with another banger? What's next...Stars Wars' Kyle Katarn saga?
I only just found this game on the Nintendo Switch eshop and I wanted to say thank you for the review as well! I had no idea it was there at all!!😆😆 SLX is the best reviewer on RUclips, period!👍
This remaster flew under my radar, despite coming out last month (and I always check the new releases on PS Store daily), which surprised me, since I'm a fan of old school shooters. It's on my wishlist on a possible sale.
I was always interested in playing this after seeing your earlier videos but wasn’t going to buy a Saturn to do so. But, because of this video I just downloaded Exhumed on my Switch.
Played through this at launch. Absolutely blew me away. Pure old school awesomeness, especially when settings are configured to reproduce Saturn-esque visuals as close as it can get.
Just got this update. I remember losing hours playing this in the mid-late 90’s on the SATURN & loving it, so I just got this remake on my series X,after randomly coming across it on the X Box Marketplace & this is easily still one of the best FPS’s of all time imo.
Regarding the lighting and effects, the developers have set up very intricate options in the options menu for the user to play around with and mimic the system in place from any of the original versions
Powerslave EX was based entirely on the PlayStation version, but are the levels in Powerslave Exhumed a mix of both PlayStation and Saturn, or just the Saturn ones? I do like how instead of choosing spiders over scorpions or vice versa, they included both - such a nice touch.
"Tell me why I had to be a Powerslave? I don't want to die. I am a god, why can't I live on? When the life-giver dies, all around is laid to waste. And in my last hour, I am a slave to the power of death." Iron Maiden - "Powerslave title song." Dating back to 1984 on the Powerslave album.
As soon as I heard this was remade I bought it instantly. Saw it from one of my favourite reviewers and my jaw dropped. Can't even remember if I watched the review or jumped right in and bought it. Either way absolute gem of a game. I had it on PS1 as a child and never got past Amune Mines. So when I played it last year I absolutely smashed it from start to finish. Collecting all the treasures and getting all the Steam Achievements. Game runs and looks beautiful and was far more exotic than I ever saw. I onlh acquired the mask and sandels. Didn't appreciate how wild the ride got. So to be able to play this as an adult was an absolute treasure.
Got at day one, great remaster and still pretty fun today, a bit short nowdays with a mouse and some knowledge of the stage. Overall a great experience
I am also hoping for a physical, as I would definitely double dip for this game. Would love it if they did a release with a Sega Saturn long box as an extra like they did with Panzer Dragoon remake.
@@Eldriftorm I would love that as the current Saturn version is asking rather crazy prices on ebay at the moment and it puts it way out of my budget. Man I wish that I had never sold my Saturn games when I was a kid. Dumbass me.
That music O_O I got so sucked into this game that I remember the first time hearing the choir section (6:52) I nearly sh!t my pants. XD One thing this remaster has shown me is that I will definitely take a locked 60+ FPS over graphical detail. This simply so easy on the eyes
I remember seeing this and playing it a bit on a friend's Saturn back in the day. I did recently start playing it myself via emulation but I didn't get too far and never realised there was so much more to the game but I'm going to pick this version up for sure.
The one thing I wish they would have fixed is the belt on the LMG (light machine gun). While the gun jumps up and down while firing it the belt doesn't move. It should be feeding into the gun and spitting out casings. Other than that this looks great! I will be downloading this on my Series X post haste!
The game has a couple of different shading options ("subtractive" and "modulate"), but none of those manage to fully implement Saturn-style lighting, yeah. However, the CRT filter is amazing. And I'm sure the community will eventually come up with either 3D models or high quality upscales for enemies and pickups. Great review! 👏🏻👏🏻💪🏻💪🏻
What does the CRT filter do, just add black interlaced lines? I don’t know if you ever played the SW: Rebel Assault games, but they included an “interlaced” option to improve performance, basically only processing half the vertical resolution and then stretching the image back to normal proportions by inserting black lines. So far, all the “CRT filters” I’ve seen just look like that, not how I actually remember seeing things on CRT monitors. They did 3D models for the Marathon series… but I preferred the sprites for some reason. The polygon models changed the look too much, like early PC Polygon characters instead of the hand-drawn feeling of the sprite pixels.
I'm assuming the hidden dolls are still there to find? Iirc they had the developers faces in the Saturn version, but I hope they're in the remaster as that was a huge part of the fun.
Though I have a vast Saturn library I was never able to find this for Saturn. Now I can enjoy it on my Switch OLED in its enhanced form. Woot! This game showed how powerful the Saturn really was.
I've said before and I'll say it again, if anyone from Lobotomy Software reads this, know that you people are legends, especially amongst Saturn fans. Still have vivid and wonderful memories playing Powerslave all those years ago. Definitely gonna pick this up. Great video man, cheers!
They came the closest to harnessing the Saturn's full potential. Sadly, they hated the machine with a passion. Regardless, their three masterpieces are among my favorites in my Saturn collection :)
@@AtariBorn if they hated it, they had a funny way of showing it, because their games are some of the very best in 3D FPS for the system. Only time and passion would deliver such excellent gaming experiences.
@@MaidenHell1977 They were good at what they did. That's not disputed. But they have made it clear the machine was a nightmare. I'm not trashing the Saturn. It's my all time favorite classic console but the devs at Lobotomy were very outspoken of their distaste for it's convoluted architecture. They were geniuses when it came to tricks and circumventing the Saturn's flaws but it did cost them in the long run.
Shining the Holy Ark is still the best dungeon crawler ever created, the attention to detail in that game is amazing. Now a days in Dungeon crawlers, wen you select Attack, you just see a slash on screen and a number( damage) that's it, on this game, you actually see trough the eyes of the main character, meaning wen you Attack your character goes there in First person and Attacks. Wen anyone from your party attacks, you actually see them going forward and conjuring the spell, also critical hits on this game are CRITICAL hits, instead of just a higher damage number, your character and your party do different Attacks. For example: Basso a Dragon warrior who looks like a dragon, wen he critical hits, he does a Shoulder charge, or a Fire breath attack, or an Ice breath attack or a Fire and Ice Breath attack. Rodi For example, a Ninja, wen he Crits, he throws a HUGE shuriken, or you see him dash forward, grab an enemy, jumping outside the screen in the air and slamming him down. It was beautiful, and remember this are just normal Attack commands, but if it was a crit you would see something amazing, and every character had a lot of deferent Crits. Shining the holy Ark, Dragon force, Guardian heroes, Final Fantasy 7 and The Witcher 3 are my 5 favorite games of all time, 3 of them are on the Sega Saturn.
Ion Fury (originally Ion Maiden) was inspired in part by Iron Maiden. This game is the one that should have Maiden playing in the background- "Tell me why I had to be a Powerslave..." I tried this not long ago (I don't remember which version) but didn't get far. Might have to pick it up again.
I loved the game and played the hell out of it when it was initially released on the Saturn. It raised the bar of what was possible on the Saturn at the time. I never completed it though, I found it too frustrating having to go back to the same areas so many times. (And dying too many times in the process, lol)
Awesome review, as usual. Found out about its existence not long ago and ended up being one of my fav games. What can you say about the level design of this remaster, SLX? Does it resemble more the Saturn version than the PlayStation one? Thanks in advance!
wishlisted it the moment it came out, sadly steam cards are hard to find and expensive to get, so i am crossing my fingers for a %50 discount in a few months or a year. Huge fan of the original but only on the PC, this game seems amazing, and i hope to get it soon and enjoy it. Amazing review as always SLX, keep these videos coming for remakes of old games, and have a great rest of ur day.
I remember you did a review of this on the Sega Saturn version and I became instantly interested in it. Then saw this on Steam a few weeks ago and put it on my wishlist. When I saw it, I was surprised you didn't review it yet on your channel!
I was one of the lucky "few" that had a pc back in the day of all the shareware. The amount of random FPS games was ridiculous around the time Doom 1 came out. This takes me back
I had a a demo disk that came with the Packard Bell PC that I had. It had a demo of Chasm on it. As a teen I didn't realise how janky it was and played that demo to death. That, Doom and Descent were unlike anything I had ever experienced and I was blown away. And then when Quake came out, man that blew my mind.
Yeaaaaah shareware and demos, so awesome. I played HOURS of Escape Velocity shareware (and eventually bought the third game… wish I had bought all three, RIP Ambrosia SW), loved my precious Dreamcast demo discs, and there indeed were just so many super random games in shareware in the 90’s. It’s interesting to see some of the shareware game concepts show up again in shallow/lame Freemium mobile games, like the stupid fishdom game that is yet another match-3 game at its core but the ad shows only a mini game where you swim/dodge bigger fish and eat smaller fish to grow inside… I played a whole game that was just that Mini-game, and I’ll always associate that game with “Lovefool” by the cardigans because the fish would bob up-and-down in time to the beat 😂
In my opinion, keeping the 2D sprites was a good decision. Otherwise, they would have to completely rework the textures and geometry of the space to make the graphics consistent. It looks more like a Saturn emulator on steroids. Even wall textures are unfiltered to better blend with sprites. Apart from FPS, I still prefer the Sega Saturn look, which is more coherent, but I think some smart compromises were made here, with respect for the source material.
I think this really needs an option for the original vertical pixel resolution while keeping the wide-screen. The chonky pixels were part of the look, and the textures are still chonky. That, and the original lighting, and then we're good to go here.
I could definitely get behind these types of remasters and I would love to see a rerelease of Panzer Dragoon Saga. I got my first Saturn a few months ago and I bought a copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga and being able to play the game without having to have deep pockets would be great.
Not owning either a PS1 or a Sega Saturn, Nightdive's port of PowerSlave was my first time experiencing PowerSlave in general. Me being a fan of 1990's shooters growing up with Doom, Quake, Dark Forces, Duke Nukem, GoldenEye, Half-Life, etcetera I was curious in playing the remastered versions of the classics including Blood: Fresh Supply, Shadow Warrior Classic Redux, and this upgraded gem in PowerSlave Exhumed. I've 100%ed the achievements in all three PowerSlave Exhumed, Shadow Warrior Classic Redux, and Blood: Fresh Supply. I love how PowerSlave with it's original 5th Gen console ports was Metroid Prime before Metroid Prime even existed. The lava snakes in level stages in Metroid Prime were clearly inspired by PowerSlave's enemies in the lava mantises. Nice video btw!
Love your videos man. Thanks for the countless hours of entertainment.
Appreciate the comment. Thank you.
This remaster really caught me off guard with how good it was. It isn't a straight port of *any* version of the game, but more of a greatest-hits style collection of the PS1, PC and Saturn versions. I also want to point out that digging into the video options, you can enable a lighting mode that's more accurate to the Saturn version; heck playing with the graphics options will even let you make the game look almost exactly like the Saturn version from top to bottom, including capping the FPS to 30, making the game run in 4:3, making the pixels look nice and chunky, and even enabling texture warping just for that nostalgic feeling.
It really impressed me! There's so many more games I want Night Dive to remaster, especially after seeing how well this came out.
Does the graphic option include the blue projectile glow of the Saturn, instead of the almost-white glow shown throughout the video here?
I've not seen any options for 30fps or 4:3 in this game.
Exhumed is one of my favourite games ever.
As a video nerd I just want to say thanks for making videos in 4K60 now, looks great
As a Saturn veteran of the game, it will be a blast to replay this masterpiece on the PC. Especially since I saw some diferent stuff on the levels in this remaster. Thank you NightDive to bring this FPS to the modern era...and untouched.
So this game is basically Duke Nukem 3D with Metroid-style exploration? I used to own the Saturn version a LONG time ago, but I never got far into it and at the time, I assumed it was another run of the mill FPS. Boy, was I wrong! Your video has instantly sold me on this game! (rushes off to the Xbox store to get it)
Give it a bit of time to get going, you’ll love it.
The lighting system was the thing that sold the sat version. Really knocked the PlayStation version on its butt. Loved this game in my childhood.
Death Tank was the reward for exploring this game to its extent! Also, the best reason to own a 6 Player Adapter.
It’s awesome. Enjoy, my friend!
Sounds like Heretic tbh. I'm down.
Awesome you made a video about this.
First time I played it was on PS1 with a demo.
I played Exhumed a week ago on my Sega Saturn.
Loved the smooth gameplay indeed 👌
Neverplayed the PC edititon the old one... giong to check out that new one .. Thanks ! 🤗
The PC version was a more linear experience; there’s no Metroidvania aspects,once done with a level it’s done. Oh and “Package from CHINA!!” 😂👍
The PC version was, in all aspects, a Doom clone.
@@AtariBorn Did get a doom vibe with it on the PS1 Demo back in the days 😂
@@WickedGamerCollector I had to play it with the volume low, back when it was new. Just because of the language lol.
You just have to like that the developers took inspiration for this game with IRON MAIDEN and therer album Powerslave (1984) with the game's theme and setting ;-D
Still, this is a game I had really missed-out on. Looks interesting indeed!
An outstanding remaster. One of the best I have ever played
I love how they kept both the Saturn Crabs and PlayStation Scorpions
I still have a sega saturn and this game along with others, i would say this was my first ever FPS.
Looks beautiful, wish they would do Hexen like this.
This game was a masterpiece on the Saturn. Lobotomy showed that Saturn was capable of great 3D titles. If only it's programming was easier for third party developers.
There's a homebrew fps for Saturn called Hellslave that ain't bad. It's still being updated.
I think it was tricky because of the multiple processors. They all ran on the same bus except the sound processor. This would cause pipeline stalls if it wasn’t balanced just right. I don’t see why though. Those chips have cache on them for a reason.
@@markmeadows7093also apparently American developers got poorly translated manuals early on to develop for the system. plus game development was shifting over to using C, and although Saturn could have games made in C (and that’s what American developers mostly used) assembly was what achieved the best results.
Good to see old classics get the updates they deserve
I loved this game on my Saturn, I think it was probably the best FPS on the system, narrowly beating Quake.
Which Lobotomy also had a hand in porting. Really Lobotomy were behind the good FPSes on the Saturn.
I agree but Duke Nukem 3D was also excellent.
@@costumeninja1914 Agreed, I think the main reason I hold Powerslave/Exhumed in higher regard is because it was more of an original IP rather than a port of a popular PC game.
TBH it's very hard to rate all 3 of their FPS games for the Saturn in order of best to worst because they are all of a similar high quality.
@@Gatorade69 Alien Trilogy was also a very good effort, and probably the best FPS for the Saturn not made by Lobotomy.
@@absinthe4breakfast299💯
Never heard of Powerslave until I found this channel. I'm gonna get it on Xbox now! Thanks for the heads up!
I played and owned this gem back in the day for the Saturn, the game was ahead of its time and has held up very well. Hope you enjoy the game.
If you put yourself in the mind of Doom (and Doom64, a contemporary game), and even Goldeneye's single player campaign, Powerslave will blow you away. Yeah, Goldeneye had cool music and everything was in polygons, but I felt like the Sprite enemies of Powerslave were more detailed and interesting, certainly more variety. Another sweet FPS from around this time was the Macintosh-exclusive Marathon series... which you can play on modern PC's and Macs thanks to the developer (Bungie!!) making the game a free license plus the Aleph One open source engine. Play Powerslave for the First-Person Metroid feel and sound design, Dark Forces to see what Star Wars is like for non-jedi, and Marathon for the story.
Bro because of your awesome videos like this I have gone back and played alot of the games you mention especially streets of rage remake and learning so much about Sega. Growing up in New Zealand we were in the asian market so sega was our Jam. Your vids are great bro keep it going
Awesome review man! I enjoyed this on the Saturn, I'd love to check this one out.
The king of thumbnails.
Nightdive Studios usually does a pretty decent job at remastering old FPS classics. Their work on Quake and Doom 64 is amazing, no surprise they did Powerslave justice.
their Turok and Turok 2 remasters were also great
They really do great work.
Have they ever done a *bad* remaster?
Night dive has ports of turok one and two that are pretty excellent as well
One has to think that if you have the technology to travel the stars to distant planets that you wouldn't need a mummified corpse to conquer earth.
I played this for an hour or so and put it down - then I came back months later and thats when I got hooked and finished it. It was way longer than I imagined, but I’m not complaining. Some levels you die many times but want to come back and try again. This game became one of my favorite shooters. Although I don’t have much interest in playing the remaster, because they didn’t change anything beyond surface level. I actually liked the pixelated textures of the original.
You made me interested. I'll add this to my wishlist
Thanks for all the great uploads bud. You're awesome
You’re very welcome.
Glad to see your review! Got the game a couple days after release as I forgot the release date and been enjoying it actually on Switch
I was thinking about skipping it but had heard good things.
I hated those damn jumping spiders! This was a daily play for me for so long, it was amazing in it's time. Dodging enemy fire and watching the missiles go by you was a crazy experience.
And don't forget this was the birth of Death Tank!
This was such an awesome game to play in the 90’s. This was my favorite Lobotomy game on the Saturn, even though they made a couple additional great games.
Duke 3D on Saturn was a thing of beauty and a game I actually felt compelled to complete (and did) in short order between college classes and skipping classes. In high school we blamed the PC Duke in Deathmatch as the teacher never bothered to check! To my delight, when alternately popping in the Saturn version, it played exactly the same (to me), and my eyeballs hadn’t ingrained any differences graphically that I ever nit-picked. This looks like a winner!
You can change the lighting mode in the graphics engine, to make it look like the Saturn.
I saw the graphics options. But it never looks like the Saturn lighting on the more exaggerated effects(especially the Anubis enemies).
Was waiting for your take on this game after recently viewing the Digital Foundry technical review. Can you believe Nightdive studios came out with another banger? What's next...Stars Wars' Kyle Katarn saga?
I played this solid for like five days straight when it was on the Saturn
I only just found this game on the Nintendo Switch eshop and I wanted to say thank you for the review as well! I had no idea it was there at all!!😆😆 SLX is the best reviewer on RUclips, period!👍
This remaster flew under my radar, despite coming out last month (and I always check the new releases on PS Store daily), which surprised me, since I'm a fan of old school shooters.
It's on my wishlist on a possible sale.
Also been looking forward to this from you!
I was always interested in playing this after seeing your earlier videos but wasn’t going to buy a Saturn to do so. But, because of this video I just downloaded Exhumed on my Switch.
I love the gyro aiming in this. It makes picking birds and wasps out the sky much more fun.
On the Switch?
I remember reading reviews of this and staring at the pictures in magazines.as a kid years ago. Always wanted to play it. Looks like now is my chance.
Played this game to death back in the day. Easily one of my favourite Saturn games. Glad it's got some love.
The Quake remaster was superb, Gynoug and Gleylancer are pretty good too.
Played through this at launch. Absolutely blew me away. Pure old school awesomeness, especially when settings are configured to reproduce Saturn-esque visuals as close as it can get.
I played this game on the psx back in the days. One of the best exploration fps I ever played and on the same level as the first Tomb Raider.
It is worth it, playing it again on xbox, was my favourite Saturn game and still is one of my favourite fps of all time
I played this game as a kid over and over again! This was soooo good!!🥰
Just got this update. I remember losing hours playing this in the mid-late 90’s on the SATURN & loving it, so I just got this remake on my series X,after randomly coming across it on the X Box Marketplace & this is easily still one of the best FPS’s of all time imo.
Regarding the lighting and effects, the developers have set up very intricate options in the options menu for the user to play around with and mimic the system in place from any of the original versions
Yup, and it still doesn’t look like the Saturn version.
Aw thanks Sega Lord X. I still have the original PAL version but my console is showing its age. This is a great addition to my Xbox one collection.
Well I've never heard of this game before, but it has my attention now.
Powerslave was a IRON MAIDEN album. Ok but not as popular as PIECE OF MIND
but the concerts in the OMNI ATLANTA GA were WONDERFUL
Powerslave and number of the beast will always be my favorite album by them
Thanks! Glad to see your review. Considering it on the switch. Will likely grab when it’s on sale.
I'm absolutely all for more of these style of remasters of old games bring them on!
Powerslave EX was based entirely on the PlayStation version, but are the levels in Powerslave Exhumed a mix of both PlayStation and Saturn, or just the Saturn ones?
I do like how instead of choosing spiders over scorpions or vice versa, they included both - such a nice touch.
"Tell me why I had to be a Powerslave? I don't want to die. I am a god, why can't I live on? When the life-giver dies, all around is laid to waste. And in my last hour, I am a slave to the power of death."
Iron Maiden - "Powerslave title song." Dating back to 1984 on the Powerslave album.
As soon as I heard this was remade I bought it instantly. Saw it from one of my favourite reviewers and my jaw dropped. Can't even remember if I watched the review or jumped right in and bought it. Either way absolute gem of a game.
I had it on PS1 as a child and never got past Amune Mines. So when I played it last year I absolutely smashed it from start to finish. Collecting all the treasures and getting all the Steam Achievements. Game runs and looks beautiful and was far more exotic than I ever saw. I onlh acquired the mask and sandels. Didn't appreciate how wild the ride got. So to be able to play this as an adult was an absolute treasure.
Powerslave like the Iron Maiden album.
My favoutite FPS on Saturn
Completely agree with your conclusion - that's the way to do a reborn! ♥
Got at day one, great remaster and still pretty fun today, a bit short nowdays with a mouse and some knowledge of the stage. Overall a great experience
I wonder if this could get a physical release from Limited Run. I would order that in a heartbeat.
I am also hoping for a physical, as I would definitely double dip for this game. Would love it if they did a release with a Sega Saturn long box as an extra like they did with Panzer Dragoon remake.
Maybe a Saturn reprint.........................
@@Eldriftorm I would love that as the current Saturn version is asking rather crazy prices on ebay at the moment and it puts it way out of my budget. Man I wish that I had never sold my Saturn games when I was a kid. Dumbass me.
@@Eldriftorm Not sure if it's still possible to author new Saturn discs today that would be bootable without a mod chip.
Physical release. Yes please. Limited Run? Not in a million years. FOMO peddlers. Physical release for EVERYONE to enjoy
Cool just got this cpl days ago on the switch heard allot about it beforehand can't wait till I start it got 2 games im already working on
That music O_O
I got so sucked into this game that I remember the first time hearing the choir section (6:52) I nearly sh!t my pants. XD
One thing this remaster has shown me is that I will definitely take a locked 60+ FPS over graphical detail. This simply so easy on the eyes
I remember seeing this and playing it a bit on a friend's Saturn back in the day. I did recently start playing it myself via emulation but I didn't get too far and never realised there was so much more to the game but I'm going to pick this version up for sure.
The one thing I wish they would have fixed is the belt on the LMG (light machine gun). While the gun jumps up and down while firing it the belt doesn't move. It should be feeding into the gun and spitting out casings. Other than that this looks great! I will be downloading this on my Series X post haste!
added to Wishlist.
love this channel btw.
Awesome, thank you!
The game has a couple of different shading options ("subtractive" and "modulate"), but none of those manage to fully implement Saturn-style lighting, yeah.
However, the CRT filter is amazing. And I'm sure the community will eventually come up with either 3D models or high quality upscales for enemies and pickups.
Great review! 👏🏻👏🏻💪🏻💪🏻
What does the CRT filter do, just add black interlaced lines? I don’t know if you ever played the SW: Rebel Assault games, but they included an “interlaced” option to improve performance, basically only processing half the vertical resolution and then stretching the image back to normal proportions by inserting black lines. So far, all the “CRT filters” I’ve seen just look like that, not how I actually remember seeing things on CRT monitors.
They did 3D models for the Marathon series… but I preferred the sprites for some reason. The polygon models changed the look too much, like early PC Polygon characters instead of the hand-drawn feeling of the sprite pixels.
I got this for PS4 recently having never played it before. I'm really digging the FPS/Metroidvania gameplay
I'm assuming the hidden dolls are still there to find? Iirc they had the developers faces in the Saturn version, but I hope they're in the remaster as that was a huge part of the fun.
Awesome!!! I played original on ps1 when it was sold!!! I didn’t know about this version!!!
I remember playing this game in Saturn at my friend's place and I nearly wet my pants because of the way enemies just jumpscared us into attacking us.
This game looks great, didn't know it was on Xbox until the achievement popped. I might have to pick it up.
Bought this last night. Excited!
Love how I can set up the controls to my preference.
According to the Digital Foundry review, there is a toggle to make the lighting more Saturn alike.
Though I have a vast Saturn library I was never able to find this for Saturn. Now I can enjoy it on my Switch OLED in its enhanced form. Woot!
This game showed how powerful the Saturn really was.
As Sega Lord X stated in the video this is one of those games that was often never heard of by gamers
I've said before and I'll say it again, if anyone from Lobotomy Software reads this, know that you people are legends, especially amongst Saturn fans. Still have vivid and wonderful memories playing Powerslave all those years ago.
Definitely gonna pick this up.
Great video man, cheers!
They came the closest to harnessing the Saturn's full potential. Sadly, they hated the machine with a passion. Regardless, their three masterpieces are among my favorites in my Saturn collection :)
@@AtariBorn if they hated it, they had a funny way of showing it, because their games are some of the very best in 3D FPS for the system. Only time and passion would deliver such excellent gaming experiences.
@@MaidenHell1977 They were good at what they did. That's not disputed. But they have made it clear the machine was a nightmare. I'm not trashing the Saturn. It's my all time favorite classic console but the devs at Lobotomy were very outspoken of their distaste for it's convoluted architecture. They were geniuses when it came to tricks and circumventing the Saturn's flaws but it did cost them in the long run.
This one got by me back in the day, but I'm definitely going to check it out. The only thing missing is some Iron Maiden!
Great video man love your content
Shining the Holy Ark is still the best dungeon crawler ever created, the attention to detail in that game is amazing.
Now a days in Dungeon crawlers, wen you select Attack, you just see a slash on screen and a number( damage) that's it, on this game, you actually see trough the eyes of the main character, meaning wen you Attack your character goes there in First person and Attacks.
Wen anyone from your party attacks, you actually see them going forward and conjuring the spell, also critical hits on this game are CRITICAL hits, instead of just a higher damage number, your character and your party do different Attacks.
For example: Basso a Dragon warrior who looks like a dragon, wen he critical hits, he does a Shoulder charge, or a Fire breath attack, or an Ice breath attack or a Fire and Ice Breath attack.
Rodi For example, a Ninja, wen he Crits, he throws a HUGE shuriken, or you see him dash forward, grab an enemy, jumping outside the screen in the air and slamming him down.
It was beautiful, and remember this are just normal Attack commands, but if it was a crit you would see something amazing, and every character had a lot of deferent Crits.
Shining the holy Ark, Dragon force, Guardian heroes, Final Fantasy 7 and The Witcher 3 are my 5 favorite games of all time, 3 of them are on the Sega Saturn.
@Wiegraf Did he work on some me Sega Saturn games?
@Wiegraf That is awesome :)
Nice taste man
been waiting for you're review since it was announced 🙌🙌had a feeling it would come😂
I’ve finished Exhumed on PSX..it was one of the best FPS games on PSX…I may try remake :)
Ion Fury (originally Ion Maiden) was inspired in part by Iron Maiden. This game is the one that should have Maiden playing in the background- "Tell me why I had to be a Powerslave..."
I tried this not long ago (I don't remember which version) but didn't get far. Might have to pick it up again.
I assume this game was named after the fantastic Iron Maiden song 😁
Nightdive keeps spoiling us rotten, and I'm here for it.
Cant wait to play this game !
Play this back on the Saturn loved it
I loved the game and played the hell out of it when it was initially released on the Saturn. It raised the bar of what was possible on the Saturn at the time. I never completed it though, I found it too frustrating having to go back to the same areas so many times. (And dying too many times in the process, lol)
Awesome review, as usual. Found out about its existence not long ago and ended up being one of my fav games.
What can you say about the level design of this remaster, SLX? Does it resemble more the Saturn version than the PlayStation one? Thanks in advance!
Having a real shit day, at least I can forget about it for the next 13 min lol. Thanks Sega Lord X!
Enjoy, bro. Hope the day gets better.
@@SegaLordX already has, thanks brother
wishlisted it the moment it came out, sadly steam cards are hard to find and expensive to get, so i am crossing my fingers for a %50 discount in a few months or a year. Huge fan of the original but only on the PC, this game seems amazing, and i hope to get it soon and enjoy it.
Amazing review as always SLX, keep these videos coming for remakes of old games, and have a great rest of ur day.
I remember you did a review of this on the Sega Saturn version and I became instantly interested in it. Then saw this on Steam a few weeks ago and put it on my wishlist. When I saw it, I was surprised you didn't review it yet on your channel!
Dont think i ever saw this. Cool game. Thanks.
I was one of the lucky "few" that had a pc back in the day of all the shareware. The amount of random FPS games was ridiculous around the time Doom 1 came out. This takes me back
I had a a demo disk that came with the Packard Bell PC that I had. It had a demo of Chasm on it. As a teen I didn't realise how janky it was and played that demo to death. That, Doom and Descent were unlike anything I had ever experienced and I was blown away. And then when Quake came out, man that blew my mind.
Yeaaaaah shareware and demos, so awesome. I played HOURS of Escape Velocity shareware (and eventually bought the third game… wish I had bought all three, RIP Ambrosia SW), loved my precious Dreamcast demo discs, and there indeed were just so many super random games in shareware in the 90’s.
It’s interesting to see some of the shareware game concepts show up again in shallow/lame Freemium mobile games, like the stupid fishdom game that is yet another match-3 game at its core but the ad shows only a mini game where you swim/dodge bigger fish and eat smaller fish to grow inside… I played a whole game that was just that Mini-game, and I’ll always associate that game with “Lovefool” by the cardigans because the fish would bob up-and-down in time to the beat 😂
In my opinion, keeping the 2D sprites was a good decision. Otherwise, they would have to completely rework the textures and geometry of the space to make the graphics consistent. It looks more like a Saturn emulator on steroids. Even wall textures are unfiltered to better blend with sprites. Apart from FPS, I still prefer the Sega Saturn look, which is more coherent, but I think some smart compromises were made here, with respect for the source material.
night dive studios does no wrong love em
I think this really needs an option for the original vertical pixel resolution while keeping the wide-screen. The chonky pixels were part of the look, and the textures are still chonky.
That, and the original lighting, and then we're good to go here.
It's on sale right now on the US PlayStation Store thru 6/22/2022 for $11.99! I did not see it on sale for the Switch or Xbox unfortunately.
Last 3 years have been amazing for console shooters. Powerslace, Trepang2, Turok3, Dark Forces, Ion Fury, Prodeus, WRATH, Serious Sam4, Far Cry 6, Avatar, Cyberpunk, Stalker Remastered, Wonderlands, Halo Infinite, Atomic Heart, Forgive me Father, Resident Evil 8, Boltgun. Shadow Warrior 3, DUSK, Postal Brain Damaged, Nightmare Reaper, Immortal, Fashion Police Squad, Quake 1 & 2, SlayersX, Robocop, ROTD, XIII Fixed, Severed Steel...am I missing anything??
Awesome! Would love to see you do a review of Nightdive Studio's remaster of Shadow Man for PC vs the Dreamcast version.
I could definitely get behind these types of remasters and I would love to see a rerelease of Panzer Dragoon Saga. I got my first Saturn a few months ago and I bought a copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga and being able to play the game without having to have deep pockets would be great.