Has one of hypest and best soundtracks in gaming history. They pulled out all the stops with it. The plot is also deceptively good. It doesn't try to do too much like most games today and fail.
This was my first game for PS2. My dad bought me it with the console because I'd talked about it, and he was trying to win back my affection after leaving my mom. The condition was I could only play it at his apartment, to get me to want to visit 😅 I still fondly remember the game though. I still own the same copy, and I'm glad since it didn't get a re-release.
I do have a fond memory of the game. It helped that my brother and I rented it, so no distaste price wise. I played through a campaign, then my brother played through a different one, and then we took turns in survival. Was a fun weekend and I remember being super invested in the story wanting more.
"Dauragon C Mikado" a name I will never forget since a decent portion of the games roster was dedicated to him alone. Still it was an interesting experiment imo and a final boss that keeps getting stronger and has different fairly unique forms per playthrough in a beat em up is certainly an interesting idea. Personally I liked the game for what is was.
Ahh… the hype I had for this game was unreal back in the day when I finally got to play it for the first time it was everything I needed. In retrospect it’s definitely hella flawed but man I still want a remake of this with modern hardware and improvements
if I ever meet Matt in person i am going to thank him for his diligent research and consistently fun presentation and then badger him to pronounce Ehrgeiz
we were so starved to new media, we loved that game. me being new to the PlayStation library, I didnt want to go back and play old stuff. I wanted next gen visuals! the bouncer delivered that. although renting time splitters was much more fun. and Unreal Tourney was awesome because I had a mouse and keyboard.
Co-op would've meant just about everything for this game. So few truly fun 3D beat 'em ups exist, and this could've been a blast with a friend. At least the PS2 got Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks...
Can do a clock tower what happened on clock tower ghost head or it was made by the same devs it’s called night cry and another spiritual successor haunting ground heard that game went through development hell
Lords of the Fallen (2014) and (2023)? I wonder if the game has a history though. Being published by Bandai Namco by the first, and in the second, it was published by CI Games themselves with Hexworks taking development.
We can totally use a game like those pre rendered cutscenes right about now. multi-level arcade brawler with destructible and interactable environments next level animations and camera angles sounds fun.
Only time I ever saw this game was collecting dust at rental stores. I did pick up the box a few times to read the back but never got interested enough to rent it.
@ 2:32 ~ SO THAT'S WHY TOBAL AND TOBAL NO. 2 FEEL LIKE A MIX OF VIRTUA FIGHTER AND TEKKEN!!!!! I NEVER KNEW THAT THE GUY BEHIND DREAMFACTORY WORKED ON BOTH!!!!! 😦😦😦😦And actually I love The Bouncer. It's like a guilty pleasure game for me as a beat em up fan and I enjoyed it back in the day. The story was meh, but some of the characters were pretty interesting.
What Happened suggestion! I'd absolutely LOVE to know anything about the development of Dynasty Warriors 3. It's one of my favourite games (flaws and all) and am particularly interested in the voice cast for the English Dub of the game. It was a fairly early PS2 era game and is mostly known for its absolutely off-kilter voice acting, as well as it's addicting gameplay. From my limited research into the game, there's really not a lot I could find about it but hopefully if you see this, you will be able to give it a look and bring us an interesting story surrounding the game!
I always thought it was weird the game uses control style inspired by the Tobal combat system but didn't have high/low blocking. Still a great game though.
The Bouncer was one of the first PS2 games I got to play when the system came out and unironically one of my favorite PS2 games. Was it a mediocre game? Of course, can't even front that, I played it, but it had potential that I think if the development for the PS2 wasn't a such uphill battle for developers when it came out and Dream Factory had more time, it would have been an even better experience. Maybe one day some other developer will approach Squenix to work on a potential remaster or remake of this. I would definitely play it.
Tried to play this game as a kid. I thought the main characters looked like total badasses lol. Problem was, I was terribly awful at most games back then. I got stuck in the Bouncer in a boss fight pretty early in the game and just gave up...That's how it was with a lot of games I played back then....
I can only imagine the hell this development cycle must have been for Ishii to give up working for a publisher ever again. And the Xbox stuff right after it. Too sad…
This game is so odd. Like it did have some cool elements and there was something of a story in there, but it just didn't quite hit the mark. I would of liked for them to make a sequel and try a second hand at it. The game had potential.
It's a shame that The Bouncer is so forgotten nowadays, though you can say the same for most of Square's non-RPG titles, but I digress. Yeah, the game isn't very good by any means, but I think everyone owes it to itself to at least experience its utterly batshit plot.
Squaresoft or Square-Enix, as their known now, had amazing IPs like your Chrono Trigger, Legend of Dragoon, the Mana series, and once they merge with Enix games Star Ocean. Square-Enix feels like they are just holding their hopes on Final Fantasy, but even that franchise is being plagued with people who want to ruin japanese media.
The Bouncer is... bizarre, to say the least. It's a game where Proto-Sora Final Fights his way to rescue his robot not!girlfriend from the Shinra Corporation.
"Decaying fighting game paradigm" .....Bold words to say about a 3D fighter at a time when Tekken 3 and Tekken Tag Tournament were dominating the market.
Tekken 3(and Tag, don't know what that guy means by 2001, it was out 2 years before that), Soul Calibur, Street Fighter 3rd Strike, and Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (and Bloody Roar 2, because dangit I love that game) were all pretty solid. I guess Tekken 3 was a bit early for that period but eh, close enough. Maybe on the decline financially but I don't think they were declining in quality.
3:46 as soon as this hit I just said out loud “just say it. I know. I could tell immediately.” “Tetsuya Nomura designed all the main characters” “There it is.”
oh how i love Sion, a man haunted by a tragic past. Within him lies strength and kindness, but also a great sorrow. All this will change when he meets a girl named Dominique. These are the residents of DOG STREET: The Bouncer
I would rather prefer it to play like Tobal instead of Yakuza. Kakuto Chojin's 4 player multi-player is basically The Bouncer but the mechanics are more akin to a fighting game.
@@mechadekathat one's actually a different story. That kid basically was supposed to be noctis. Nomura was developing a game called Final Fantasy versus and was pulled from the project to make KH3. FFV was then turned into FF15 and that kid (Yazora) was his original design for Noctis. It should also be of note that Noctus means night in Latin and Yazora means night sky in Japanese
I'm honestly kind of shocked to hear that the game didn't sell well. I worked at a Blockbuster Video at the time and the game was always out of stock, with people constantly asking when we were expecting to get them returned.
It’s not shocking. Game rental is a big factor why it didn’t sell well-if everyone is renting it instead of buying the game, developers and publishers lose out. Japanese game industry even tried to ban game rentals in the US but US courts shot it down.
The Bouncer, the game I first learned from... you, about 12 years ago from a video from you lol A game that hasn't had anything new for it in decades, yet the usual suspects always bring it up. Also, I don't think I've seen a company just, stop, not die, but just... stop, and with only one employee left. I consider that even sadder.
For anyone wondering, seiichi ishii is currently making a little game called Brain Fighters for a company called Minnapad. Keiji Inafune is also making his Beastroid game with them as well. The downside so far is that this company seems focused on NFTs, and their youtube channel has been pretty silent lately, so I'm not sure what's currently happening.
Seems like a waste of talent to be making a NFT game. Maybe it might be good, but from seeing the gameplay it doesn't really have anything so far. I would love for Ishii to make a Tobal style game, with Kakuto Chojins movement, and speed boost mechanic instead of this.
Honestly, this has always been one of my favourite PS2 games. The fighting was fun (if sorely missing co-op) and the story was cool. The big twist with Dominique was one of the first times a video game made me emotional.
Game's biggest flaw might be that it doesn't embrace its bouncer profession and goes instantly to full-on anime scifi. Perhaps bit slower start with basic bouncer action in fantasy setting and world-building which then builds up to a fight on space-ship.
The Bouncer is my all-time favorite video game. This video taught me some interesting things about its development cycle. I was already aware of the planned interactive environments and Dominique’s potential playable role in the story, but I _wasn’t_ aware of the reason why the game’s release was pushed to March when it was originally due for January. In my perspective, The Bouncer was unfortunately subjected to immensely high expectations, which Square relied on exceeding for the game to financially succeed, but The Bouncer is an excellent game when you see it as it is, rather than what the press wanted it to be. I don’t think The Bouncer is as underwhelming as people say. The combat is surprisingly intricate and fun to learn once you’ve gotten the hang of the battle system and design. Movement is smooth and the attacks themselves are much fun to perform, even better when you learn how to string moves together wherever possible. The EXP system is unorthodox but enjoyable, and I think the story is by far the highlight in typical Square Enix fashion. The Bouncer is one of their best works in my opinion, as it tells one primary story that is broken up between three characters who all provide their own unique pasts and relation to the current plot. Every character outside of the main trio plays their own distinct role-there’s something to discover and learn about each of them. The mystery, the emotion, and everything in-between makes The Bouncer’s story stand out, which makes it such a shame that almost nobody understands it or even bothers to study it. The Bouncer is not a game you can understand just by playing it once. It requires replays, discussion and thinking, just like most other Square Enix games (Kingdom Hearts, for example). Those are just my two cents. The Bouncer is a very important game to me. Also, the Dog Street tribute in KH II definitely counts as acknowledgment towards The Bouncer. We’ve yet to see a remaster or re-release of some kind, but let Bouncer fans have this one. 😂
I’ve noticed a pattern with Sony…they tend to botch their console launches due to being very thin on killer apps the first year of the console life. Lucky for them it hasn’t hurt them yet, but if this was the 80’s and early 90’s, a lack of games in that first year would have absolutely hurt them if they were competing with Nintendo and Sega
I remember seeing pictures of this game in PlayStation Power magazine and thinking “oh my God, the future has arrived!” Little did I know how short lived the future would be…
This was my 2nd PS2 game (1st being Street Fighter EX3). I enjoyed this game a lot. Kou was the best character to use for me while 2nd place goes to Adult Sora.
I will never forget when i finally got to experience this game back in Summer 2005, me and my cousin use to be dying laughing at the rag doll physics/body colliding for extra damage in VS mode. He hated when i used Volt for the Giant Swing. Good memories indeed 🙏 😂
I still have this game and sion design is what inspired sora for kh1, volts jacket has cactur on it and all they're fighting styles originated from tobal No.1 and 2 on ps1 another gane aswell, but i can't remember the name lol Plus i remember at one point i said volt, kou and sion could've been in tekken, but noctis got it i respect it. *last fun fact peance or whatever his name was from kh2 shirt says dog street* *Fav square games.* Final fantasy tied between 6 and 7 Drakengard/nier (a psychopath obsessed with yoko taro work, LALALALALALA GODDESS WATCHERS GODDESS WATCHERS) Xenogears Parasite eve Twewy/neo (fuck with the music) Kingdom hearts Vagrant story Tobal no.1/2 (had a bigger than smash i swear to god😂) Musashi samurai legend ps1/ps2.
@@trapsnake6yes i just couldn't spell that name lmaoo, plus i downloaded it on my old psp and i didn't know you can play as Vincent, zack, plus it had an adventure mode harder then dark souls😂
Playing with 4 people on multi-tap was infinite fun for me when I was a kid. There's something extra fun about exploiting the janky combos and ragdoll physics the game has against your friends lol.
This game was...something. if I remember correctly I rented The Bouncer from the local video store, returned it the very next day, and never thought about it again until Max and co. posted a vid.
I never played The Bouncer, but there's something unique about late 90s Nomura's artstyle, I think I kind of prefer the look of Final Fantasy VIII compared to VII. It also seemed like Squaresoft wanted to diversify their game output outside the realm of RPGs with games like Einhander, Bushido Blade and The Bouncer as well, but it seems like the failure of Spirits Within and their merge with Enix put an end to many of their plans
it was solely the failure of The Spirits Within. The merger with Enix was a consequence of that failure. It's actually sad, when you think about it. The Spirits Within was supposed to be a groundbreaking project. I can't believe that Square didn't put much effort into its storyline and characters. Literally all their games have interesting stories and characters (and music). They failed to include what they excell at. Very weird.
I was at a local street fighter tourney yesterday and my friend said "hey, come on" in a tone that reminded me of Sion more so than Terry and I told him it was from The Bouncer and i imitated it and talked about the trinity attack... and this vid comss out today. How topical.
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Check out The SoberDwarf's Video on DreamFactory HERE ➤ th-cam.com/video/1fJLmvONiE8/w-d-xo.html
Matt there are so many bad games now. How can you keep up with this?
You should cover Battlefield Earth for What Happened?
*breaths in*
THE BOUNCER
*puts on sunglasses*
THE 🅱️OUNCER…
*Turn on speakers up to 20 and speaks into mic.*
THE BOUNCER
The 𝕭ouncer
*Blink*
[tiny bouncer blocks your windpipe]
PS2’s “we have final fantasy at home”.
“IT’S NOT EVEN THE SAME GENRE MOM!”
"But it's from the makers of Final Fantasy."
@@wilsonchan9768”and it has spiky haired emo boy”
I got this game for Christmas thinking it was FF-adjacent. I was so disappointed.
But it definitely has the aesthetic and writing of Final Fantasy from that era.
This game is way better than 90% of the Final Fantasy games out there
The 🅱️ouncer
Has one of hypest and best soundtracks in gaming history. They pulled out all the stops with it. The plot is also deceptively good. It doesn't try to do too much like most games today and fail.
This was my first game for PS2. My dad bought me it with the console because I'd talked about it, and he was trying to win back my affection after leaving my mom. The condition was I could only play it at his apartment, to get me to want to visit 😅 I still fondly remember the game though. I still own the same copy, and I'm glad since it didn't get a re-release.
How does this channel not have like 3 million subs at this point? The content is always amazing
10:16 "What haPPPened to The Bouncer?" Lol
I do have a fond memory of the game. It helped that my brother and I rented it, so no distaste price wise. I played through a campaign, then my brother played through a different one, and then we took turns in survival. Was a fun weekend and I remember being super invested in the story wanting more.
"Dauragon C Mikado" a name I will never forget since a decent portion of the games roster was dedicated to him alone. Still it was an interesting experiment imo and a final boss that keeps getting stronger and has different fairly unique forms per playthrough in a beat em up is certainly an interesting idea. Personally I liked the game for what is was.
funny seeing games are just interactive cutscenes now
Ahh… the hype I had for this game was unreal back in the day when I finally got to play it for the first time it was everything I needed. In retrospect it’s definitely hella flawed but man I still want a remake of this with modern hardware and improvements
if I ever meet Matt in person i am going to thank him for his diligent research and consistently fun presentation and then badger him to pronounce Ehrgeiz
we were so starved to new media, we loved that game. me being new to the PlayStation library, I didnt want to go back and play old stuff. I wanted next gen visuals! the bouncer delivered that. although renting time splitters was much more fun. and Unreal Tourney was awesome because I had a mouse and keyboard.
Co-op would've meant just about everything for this game. So few truly fun 3D beat 'em ups exist, and this could've been a blast with a friend. At least the PS2 got Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks...
Can do a clock tower what happened on clock tower ghost head or it was made by the same devs it’s called night cry and another spiritual successor haunting ground heard that game went through development hell
Lords of the Fallen (2014) and (2023)? I wonder if the game has a history though. Being published by Bandai Namco by the first, and in the second, it was published by CI Games themselves with Hexworks taking development.
We can totally use a game like those pre rendered cutscenes right about now. multi-level arcade brawler with destructible and interactable environments next level animations and camera angles sounds fun.
I still own and play this game today. One of the first games that introduced me to New Game + and repeat play throughs in order to get the full story.
Only time I ever saw this game was collecting dust at rental stores. I did pick up the box a few times to read the back but never got interested enough to rent it.
I would love to see these characters come back in KH IV. They just chill in Quadratum.
@ 2:32 ~ SO THAT'S WHY TOBAL AND TOBAL NO. 2 FEEL LIKE A MIX OF VIRTUA FIGHTER AND TEKKEN!!!!! I NEVER KNEW THAT THE GUY BEHIND DREAMFACTORY WORKED ON BOTH!!!!! 😦😦😦😦And actually I love The Bouncer. It's like a guilty pleasure game for me as a beat em up fan and I enjoyed it back in the day. The story was meh, but some of the characters were pretty interesting.
This was the first PS2 game i bought with my brand new console.
I found this game really fun when it came out. It's disappointing Square hasn't remastered it or revisited this one.
Just realised Dream Factory company logo shares the typeface with those simulator games! 😂
What Happened suggestion!
I'd absolutely LOVE to know anything about the development of Dynasty Warriors 3. It's one of my favourite games (flaws and all) and am particularly interested in the voice cast for the English Dub of the game. It was a fairly early PS2 era game and is mostly known for its absolutely off-kilter voice acting, as well as it's addicting gameplay. From my limited research into the game, there's really not a lot I could find about it but hopefully if you see this, you will be able to give it a look and bring us an interesting story surrounding the game!
Holy crap this is bizzare, I was literally JUST deep diving on this game this morning
I love this game! Who wouldn't wanna fight as sora, sid and luis sera from resident evil 4!
I bet we'll see something a little more than a t-shirt in KH4 because that quadratrum thing going on
13:43
Ha, what a prescient comment.
The Bouncer is nostalgic to me on so many levels for PS2.
Young me: "what kind of name is Duragon??"
Duragon: *removes overall straps*
Me: "OHHHHHHH I GET IT😅"
Sion is voiced by Kou Uraki from Gundam!!!
Dude I loved this game when I was younger, I played it so much
I always thought it was weird the game uses control style inspired by the Tobal combat system but didn't have high/low blocking. Still a great game though.
When is the Ehrgeiz: What Happened?
The Bouncer was one of the first PS2 games I got to play when the system came out and unironically one of my favorite PS2 games. Was it a mediocre game? Of course, can't even front that, I played it, but it had potential that I think if the development for the PS2 wasn't a such uphill battle for developers when it came out and Dream Factory had more time, it would have been an even better experience. Maybe one day some other developer will approach Squenix to work on a potential remaster or remake of this. I would definitely play it.
I was so addicted to Crimson Tears.
Tried to play this game as a kid. I thought the main characters looked like total badasses lol. Problem was, I was terribly awful at most games back then. I got stuck in the Bouncer in a boss fight pretty early in the game and just gave up...That's how it was with a lot of games I played back then....
I have been waiting for this one forever!!!!!!!
Sora's older, dorky brother: Sion.
You're saying SION is the dorkier one? lol
I still waiting urban reign - what happened? next video idea.
I actually love this game even did in the day but dear god it's it short even if meant to play multiple times
still one of my favorite games of all time
I can only imagine the hell this development cycle must have been for Ishii to give up working for a publisher ever again.
And the Xbox stuff right after it.
Too sad…
Ehrgeiz and the bouncer where pretty good games
I would rather have the bouncer series than kingdom farts
This is the game that made me want a Playstation 2, and why I started taekwondo xD
I always get this and God Hand confused...
A Wha Happun on Kakuto Chojin would be great, y'know, for me and the other 3 people who actually like that game. Lol
There's not much info outside a few interviews from DF, and Ishii at the time.
Yooo the the love I have for this game ahh man thank you 😊
This game is so odd. Like it did have some cool elements and there was something of a story in there, but it just didn't quite hit the mark. I would of liked for them to make a sequel and try a second hand at it. The game had potential.
It's a shame that The Bouncer is so forgotten nowadays, though you can say the same for most of Square's non-RPG titles, but I digress. Yeah, the game isn't very good by any means, but I think everyone owes it to itself to at least experience its utterly batshit plot.
Such a great game
I fucking love this game. It's not perfect but I LOVE IT!
Squaresoft or Square-Enix, as their known now, had amazing IPs like your Chrono Trigger, Legend of Dragoon, the Mana series, and once they merge with Enix games Star Ocean.
Square-Enix feels like they are just holding their hopes on Final Fantasy, but even that franchise is being plagued with people who want to ruin japanese media.
I know it wasn’t good, but The Bouncer was the first PS2 I owned and played, so it gets the nostalgia pass from me.
This was back in an era where every single Square protag looked exactly the same with the same spiky hair.
I always wondered why Sion was just an older Sora from Kingdom Hearts lol
It's Gackt all the way down
Tetsuya Nomura's spike hair is the Rob Liefeld's shoulder pads of the early 2000
Don't forget the zippers and belts.
@@Maxwel_RodriguesDon’t forget the belts… And the chains…
Ah yes, the game where I thought Sora from Kingdom Hearts grew up. 🤣
Bouncer came out before Kingdom Hearts though
IM GLAD THATS NOT JUST ME LOL
Nah that's his older brother (not really but I like to pretend so)
@@Kolbatsu That's my headcanon; Sion is Sora's older brother he doesn't talk about 🤣.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The Bouncer is... bizarre, to say the least. It's a game where Proto-Sora Final Fights his way to rescue his robot not!girlfriend from the Shinra Corporation.
Led by blonde Sephiroth & his assassin…. Cyborg hybrid Speed of Sound Sonic-Ghirahim?
Fun fact this is the last thing Mimi woods who originally voiced major Motoko Kusanagi ever did before she retired
Based.
6 year old me thought the main trio were the coolest looking characters ever
Because they are!!!!!!1
@@Bman32xnah, they're mad cringe lol
@@TheRealMycanthropewhy
"Decaying fighting game paradigm" .....Bold words to say about a 3D fighter at a time when Tekken 3 and Tekken Tag Tournament were dominating the market.
It's IGN, what did you expect
Tekken 3(and Tag, don't know what that guy means by 2001, it was out 2 years before that), Soul Calibur, Street Fighter 3rd Strike, and Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (and Bloody Roar 2, because dangit I love that game) were all pretty solid. I guess Tekken 3 was a bit early for that period but eh, close enough. Maybe on the decline financially but I don't think they were declining in quality.
3:46 as soon as this hit I just said out loud “just say it. I know. I could tell immediately.”
“Tetsuya Nomura designed all the main characters”
“There it is.”
I mean they look like past final fantasy characters
oh how i love Sion, a man haunted by a tragic past. Within him lies strength and kindness, but also a great sorrow. All this will change when he meets a girl named Dominique. These are the residents of DOG STREET: The Bouncer
impossible to read on a CRT at that time ! XD
🥲 childhood memory unlocked. Thank you
If the Bouncer ever came back, all they gotta do is just copy Yakuza/Like a Dragon 100%
was just thinking in an alternate timeline this game essentially became the yakuza series
I would rather prefer it to play like Tobal instead of Yakuza. Kakuto Chojin's 4 player multi-player is basically The Bouncer but the mechanics are more akin to a fighting game.
They gotta keep the shit ragdoll physics, though.
Somewhere there’s a parallel timeline where The Bouncer became a franchise and Yakuza/Like A Dragon never even got a sequel.
@@foxyfoxington2651and here I thought WE lived in the darkest timeline!
"THE BOUNCER".
Always love this sting.
Tetsuya Nomura is like the eternal edgy teenager with his character designs.
That man single handedly keep the angsty Eno aesthetic alive for twenty years
@@mastermaniac1911I don’t like him much either I think he’s a hack.
He's the Japanese Rob Liefeld.
@@Sturmfall1 I've called him the Japanese David Cage, he's a hack as a producer and director.
@@DontKnowDontCare6.9 so no one criticize the rich if you never made a company got it bro
I love this game. It was one of my first ps2 games. The final battle against Duragon C. Mikado was something ill hate forever.
only people who played this game say his whole name :)
@@crashspike22 God I thought it was just me
@@crashspike22well his full name is fun to say
Same here I played it a lot back in the day. And yes Duragon C. Mikado was a pain in the rear but man it felt good kicking his ass.
That BS combo his final form had was brutal. I’ll never forget it.
The Bouncer = Road House meets Final Fantasy
Fastest click ever right when I open up youtube.
Same and almost no one else posts on sundays
Lol me too
If any game deserves a What Hapun, this is it
Haha hell yeah!!
Soooo fast. It was the first video on my feed
I played the absolute hell out of this game. DAURAGON C. MIKADO
Why’d the say his middle initial 😂😂😂 cracked me up every time
We have a street in our town called Caldwell and every time I drive by I hear in my mind LEANN CALDWELL.
DAURAGON C. MIKADO
DAURAGON C. MIKADO
DAURAGON C. MIKADO
DAURAGON C. MIKADO
Why does Sion look like an adult Sora ☠
Same Artist
The character designer lacks creativity?
Nomura knows what he likes
The same reason that kid from the KH3 DLC looks like Noctis.
@@mechadekathat one's actually a different story. That kid basically was supposed to be noctis. Nomura was developing a game called Final Fantasy versus and was pulled from the project to make KH3. FFV was then turned into FF15 and that kid (Yazora) was his original design for Noctis. It should also be of note that Noctus means night in Latin and Yazora means night sky in Japanese
I'm honestly kind of shocked to hear that the game didn't sell well. I worked at a Blockbuster Video at the time and the game was always out of stock, with people constantly asking when we were expecting to get them returned.
It’s not shocking. Game rental is a big factor why it didn’t sell well-if everyone is renting it instead of buying the game, developers and publishers lose out. Japanese game industry even tried to ban game rentals in the US but US courts shot it down.
Now I'd fancy seeing a Flophouse Plays video on Ehrgeiz to see why it apparently gives Matt a case of the heebie jeebies!
He's actually praised the game feature wise in the past.
Mostly the side RPG mode if I recall.
The Bouncer, the game I first learned from... you, about 12 years ago from a video from you lol A game that hasn't had anything new for it in decades, yet the usual suspects always bring it up.
Also, I don't think I've seen a company just, stop, not die, but just... stop, and with only one employee left. I consider that even sadder.
It at least explains why they haven't done anything significant since the 00s. At least Ishii is still making games with that Brain Fighter project.
For anyone wondering, seiichi ishii is currently making a little game called Brain Fighters for a company called Minnapad. Keiji Inafune is also making his Beastroid game with them as well. The downside so far is that this company seems focused on NFTs, and their youtube channel has been pretty silent lately, so I'm not sure what's currently happening.
Seems like a waste of talent to be making a NFT game. Maybe it might be good, but from seeing the gameplay it doesn't really have anything so far. I would love for Ishii to make a Tobal style game, with Kakuto Chojins movement, and speed boost mechanic instead of this.
After the might no 9 fiasco I'm not surprised inafune went into a hole
I wouldn’t be surprised if they put all their eggs into NFTs, and now that NFTs are dead, they don’t really know what to do.
I don't know why my comment disappeared, I said Keiji Inafune's career went downwards after his kickstarter game
Thank you for sharing this curious information!
Loved all 2 hours of this game. The gameplay looked like a ps1 cgi, and the cgi looked like peak 3d anime
The Bouncer walked so Urban Reign could run.
Honestly, this has always been one of my favourite PS2 games. The fighting was fun (if sorely missing co-op) and the story was cool. The big twist with Dominique was one of the first times a video game made me emotional.
You needed the multitap for 4player
Yeah that shit was wild, finding out she was an android and I was like WHAAAAAT
@@venomouskiss320would still smash 😤
@@venomouskiss320 Watching her throw-down was quite something.
VS Screen Announcer when you select a character fast:
🎤 "DURAGON C. MIKAD, DURAGON C. MIKAD, DURAGON C. MIKAD, DURAGON C. MIKADO!!" 😂
"I know I'm The Bouncer but when do I actually start being A Bouncer?"
A question with an answer that has eluded me for years.
Game's biggest flaw might be that it doesn't embrace its bouncer profession and goes instantly to full-on anime scifi. Perhaps bit slower start with basic bouncer action in fantasy setting and world-building which then builds up to a fight on space-ship.
@@Yurikon3 tfw you realize that GTA Gay Tony is a better bouncer game than The Bouncer
The Bouncer is my all-time favorite video game. This video taught me some interesting things about its development cycle. I was already aware of the planned interactive environments and Dominique’s potential playable role in the story, but I _wasn’t_ aware of the reason why the game’s release was pushed to March when it was originally due for January. In my perspective, The Bouncer was unfortunately subjected to immensely high expectations, which Square relied on exceeding for the game to financially succeed, but The Bouncer is an excellent game when you see it as it is, rather than what the press wanted it to be. I don’t think The Bouncer is as underwhelming as people say.
The combat is surprisingly intricate and fun to learn once you’ve gotten the hang of the battle system and design. Movement is smooth and the attacks themselves are much fun to perform, even better when you learn how to string moves together wherever possible. The EXP system is unorthodox but enjoyable, and I think the story is by far the highlight in typical Square Enix fashion. The Bouncer is one of their best works in my opinion, as it tells one primary story that is broken up between three characters who all provide their own unique pasts and relation to the current plot. Every character outside of the main trio plays their own distinct role-there’s something to discover and learn about each of them.
The mystery, the emotion, and everything in-between makes The Bouncer’s story stand out, which makes it such a shame that almost nobody understands it or even bothers to study it. The Bouncer is not a game you can understand just by playing it once. It requires replays, discussion and thinking, just like most other Square Enix games (Kingdom Hearts, for example).
Those are just my two cents. The Bouncer is a very important game to me. Also, the Dog Street tribute in KH II definitely counts as acknowledgment towards The Bouncer. We’ve yet to see a remaster or re-release of some kind, but let Bouncer fans have this one. 😂
Bruhhhhh, I still have this game. First Square game I ever played. Funny enough this game got me into Final Fantasy
I’ve noticed a pattern with Sony…they tend to botch their console launches due to being very thin on killer apps the first year of the console life. Lucky for them it hasn’t hurt them yet, but if this was the 80’s and early 90’s, a lack of games in that first year would have absolutely hurt them if they were competing with Nintendo and Sega
I remember seeing pictures of this game in PlayStation Power magazine and thinking “oh my God, the future has arrived!”
Little did I know how short lived the future would be…
Hell Yes! I really liked this game. Felt like a cool RPG Beat Em Up with the Square vibes we all crave
This was my 2nd PS2 game (1st being Street Fighter EX3).
I enjoyed this game a lot. Kou was the best character to use for me while 2nd place goes to Adult Sora.
I would just use adult Sora and spam the donkey kick
Oh mannn i've been waiting for this😭. I still play this on my ps2 lmao
I really liked this game back in the day, but it definitely didn't live up to what they promised
I will never forget when i finally got to experience this game back in Summer 2005, me and my cousin use to be dying laughing at the rag doll physics/body colliding for extra damage in VS mode. He hated when i used Volt for the Giant Swing. Good memories indeed 🙏 😂
I still have this game and sion design is what inspired sora for kh1, volts jacket has cactur on it and all they're fighting styles originated from tobal No.1 and 2 on ps1 another gane aswell, but i can't remember the name lol
Plus i remember at one point i said volt, kou and sion could've been in tekken, but noctis got it i respect it.
*last fun fact peance or whatever his name was from kh2 shirt says dog street*
*Fav square games.*
Final fantasy tied between 6 and 7
Drakengard/nier (a psychopath obsessed with yoko taro work, LALALALALALA GODDESS WATCHERS GODDESS WATCHERS)
Xenogears
Parasite eve
Twewy/neo (fuck with the music)
Kingdom hearts
Vagrant story
Tobal no.1/2 (had a bigger than smash i swear to god😂)
Musashi samurai legend ps1/ps2.
was the other game Ehrgeiz?
@@trapsnake6yes i just couldn't spell that name lmaoo, plus i downloaded it on my old psp and i didn't know you can play as Vincent, zack, plus it had an adventure mode harder then dark souls😂
Playing with 4 people on multi-tap was infinite fun for me when I was a kid. There's something extra fun about exploiting the janky combos and ragdoll physics the game has against your friends lol.
*THE BOUNCER!*
5:52
*THE BOUN...*
"Yes, thank you!" 😅
The Booty!
I know I'm one of like 6 people who loves Ehrgeiz. Playing the demo disc was one of my first gaming experiences.
I mean, it generally reviews as "okay"
Nobody hates it really
Just... Most people barely care outside of the guest characters
Ehrgeiz felt like such an acid trip of a game.
@1stCallipostle Never said it was hated. Typically, from what I've seen, most people don't have strong enough feelings to love it or hate it.
This game was...something. if I remember correctly I rented The Bouncer from the local video store, returned it the very next day, and never thought about it again until Max and co. posted a vid.
I never played The Bouncer, but there's something unique about late 90s Nomura's artstyle, I think I kind of prefer the look of Final Fantasy VIII compared to VII. It also seemed like Squaresoft wanted to diversify their game output outside the realm of RPGs with games like Einhander, Bushido Blade and The Bouncer as well, but it seems like the failure of Spirits Within and their merge with Enix put an end to many of their plans
it was solely the failure of The Spirits Within. The merger with Enix was a consequence of that failure. It's actually sad, when you think about it. The Spirits Within was supposed to be a groundbreaking project. I can't believe that Square didn't put much effort into its storyline and characters. Literally all their games have interesting stories and characters (and music). They failed to include what they excell at. Very weird.
I. Fucking. Loved. The Bouncer.
Wow people remember "The Bouncer". I had some good times playing this with my good buddy from middle school.
I was at a local street fighter tourney yesterday and my friend said "hey, come on" in a tone that reminded me of Sion more so than Terry and I told him it was from The Bouncer and i imitated it and talked about the trinity attack... and this vid comss out today. How topical.