As bad as this is all presented, D-troit ending up on the path of evil because of a legitimate moral debate with no right answer is kind of neat. Or it would be, if any of these characters were, you know, good.
You're not wrong. Someone trying to stop their friend from recreating life within an artificial form without the person's consent, only for their attempt to stop this leading to their body becoming harmed and sent through to be processed in a similar manner, all the while that 'friend' just watches you be taken away before continuing with their experiment against the concept of death itself is a pretty good buildup to a villain who's not shown attempts to control the world, but just to stop their old friend's experiments. But, allow me to retort this; Ahem. Not such a dummy now, am I? I rest my case.
The little story we know makes D-troit out as a tragic and sympathetic character He ends up mutilated from trying to stop his colleague's unethical experiment likely losing his sanity in the process He likely hates cid only because he sees him as an aberration He could be disgusted that the professor created sentience and still views him as less than human made to do his dirty work Cid could have an internal crisis if his creator should have the power to create him
@@vidmastereon I almost want to see another CID game now, just to give writing duty to competent people who would address this. Then I remember: no matter how good the writers would hypothetically be, you’d still have Twelve developing the actual game. And Twelve have proven twice over (at least) that they suck @$$.
@@isenokami7810 then let's do it better than them! Better writers, better programers! Let's create a game similar to it or inspired by just how bad it is, that it is BETTER than it!
I wonder if Shane and Adam are actual crash test dummies since they put themselves in harms way, playing bad games, so they can warn and protect us. They are certified life savers.
Once there were these nerds who went into a game store and bought an awful game And when they finally played it they saw that it was simply just bad They said they didn't listen When the money ghost had warned them MMM MMM MMM MMM MMM MMM MMM MMM
I was flabbergasted the entire time, like a scientist who watched their colleague fry themselves then slowly hoisted away by a magical assembly line arm. I could have stopped it, but was very curious what would happen next.
Not to mention the bad guy didn't really do anything wrong until after the machinery horribly disfigured him into some half-man half-robot test dummy freak. The backstory implies they had agreed not to infuse "human life" whatever that means into their robots. Advisor did so anyway, other guy got pissed and tried to shut the machine down. The clearly not-OSHA-compliant panel breaks and practically kills him, and as you said Advisor had plenty of time to try to stop it but just stood there doing anything. I don't even blame the bad guy at that point.
Ever since Dog Football, I have been hoping for a plush of the ghost to be on the market. The game that make the ghost are not worth it. But Money Ghost itself. Totally worth it.
I also never understand how a Game made for IOS which is basically a rip-off version of Megaman with cutscenes mixed Steven seagal like Voice acting managed to be sold on 3 platforms in the present day?
As someone who bought the game out of morbid curiosity, there is one more positive I can add: The first boss is a lot less annoying to fight. In the original game you could only damage him by shooting the weak spot inside his mouth, which only becomes vulnerable when he opens his mouth to roar at you - something he does at complete random, meaning you could be stuck on that boss for a very long time if RNGesus decides not to play nice. But in the remake, the boss instead becomes vulnerable whenever he's about to attack, making it a lot easier to get hits in more quickly so you can finish the battle in a short amount of time.
More positives : Cid is less of a butthole in this game (original Cid complain about Mia’s annoying voice, demake Cid was more friendly to Mia.) Negatives: see comment above. Yeah, just play the Megaman games.
Most video game reviewers would stop playing a bad game after pointing out all of its flaws, and not finish it because they would rather be playing something else, rightfully so. But Rerez isn't like most gaming reviewers, and by god they will finish these games that are just bad, even if its not worth it. And because of that, i admire these guys.
As you said, most reviewers rightfully quit like half way through a bad game, because it’s just not worth playing the rest of it. I’d do the same, just to save my sanity and play something so much better.
The catastrophic spelling and grammar gives it that authentically NES feel. Conglaturation! You have completed a great game! And prooved the justice of our culture!
@@mr_indie_fan That and said Bubsy games are circa 1992 (Bubsy 1), 1993 (Bubsy 2), 1994 (Bubsy's Fractured Furry Tales), 1996 (Bubsy 3D for PS1), 2013 (Bubsy 3D: James Turrell Retrospective) and 2017 (Bubsy 6: Woolies Strike Back). The newest Bubsy game (Paws On Fire is circa 2019) would make 7 awful games, not 6.
If CID the Dummy can get a sequal than we can hope that somehow Megaman Legends 3 can still happen. Edit: Remake, Demake, whatever. The fact it happened at all has to be some kind message from God.
I’m actually impressed that they screwed it up so badly. First off, as noted, getting motion controls bad is fairly standard affair. And to be fair to developers of games with bad motion controls, they are a lot more complicated to write code for (and thus much harder to do well) than button, joystick, keyboard, or mouse controls. Even touchscreens are (somewhat) easier. To have screwed up so badly with basic button controls like this is kinda crazy. Second, while I’m no expert, my understanding is that the biggest difficulty with porting something from the PS4 or PC to the Switch is the fact that the Switch has less power to work with and the physical games generally have less space, but since this was originally a mobile game and is only available digitally, that should not be an issue at all since mobile phones aren’t capable of better graphics or performance than the Switch anyways and digital-only games aren’t bound by the restrictions of physical media. I cannot think of a single good reason why the Switch port should be less functional than the PS4 port. Third, collision in a 2D sidescroller shouldn’t be this broken, especially since all the assets are also 2D. Collision in 3D is difficult, but in 2D, it’s not terribly hard. Most difficulties with 2D collision (at least nowadays) that would affect gameplay come from hitboxes not fitting the sprite all that well or when a sprite somehow manages to end up somewhere it shouldn’t. Standard gameplay shouldn’t lead to clipping through floors or standing in midair like that. Same basic thing goes for the ledge-grab + jump thing. That’s just bizarre. Fourth, what’s with the lack of a pause screen? It’s not like mobile games don’t normally have pause screens; most (including every platformer or action game I’ve played on mobile) have one. At the very least, they could’ve gone with the old approach of pausing gameplay without bringing up a menu (at least with one of the two buttons typically used for pausing, menus, or maps). And how did they even make it so that the home button on PS4 doesn’t suspend gameplay? Like, seriously, I didn’t even know that was possible. Again, it’s not like this was from it being a mobile game originally; Android and iOS devices also have a home button or equivalent that works similarly. Fifth, the PC port has no option to quit? Like, what? Now, granted, for a console or mobile game, such a thing wouldn’t be necessary, but it wouldn’t be that hard to do, and it is absolutely necessary. It’s also something that the programmers absolutely should’ve caught (and fixed) before releasing it on Steam. Sixth, while some PC games don’t allow keyboard, mouse, or keyboard-and-mouse controls for pretty good reasons (mostly ones that use VR controls or something), it doesn’t make sense for something so simple. It’s not like it would’ve been hard; just have certain key presses be mapped to certain button presses. Not doing that is just plain lazy. And last, I’ve never heard of a game without motion controls that controls worse than a previous or concurrent version of the game that has motion controls, nor of a sequel to a game with bad animations and bad voice acting having even worse animations and voice acting than the original, nor of a 2D version of a 3D game having worse collision and more glitches than the 3D version. Honestly, having a remake/demake that retells the same story as the original but adding some details for the backstory is not a bad idea, and taking a bad 3D platformer with motion controls and some glitches (which weren’t exactly gamebreaking most of the time) that was essentially just a 2D sidescroller with some movement in the Z-axis and turning it into a 2D sidescrolling platformer without motion controls is not a bad idea either. However, the bugs and the spelling and grammar errors with written dialogue, the inexplicable name-change for a major character, the worse collision, the presence of even more glitches (only worse ones, including ones that are actually gamebreaking), the forced tutorial that doesn’t actually explain anything, the inconsistent controls, the worse voice acting (as well as lack thereof later), the worse animations… Like, this is absurdly bad even by the standards of Just Bad Games. It may not be the worst of them, but the things that make it bad are just so bizarre.
What I find even more insane is that in neither of their CID reviews, do they mention the PS2 or PSP versions possibly without motion controls. Plus, I kind of find the original game a little endearing.
@@cubechan1938 The PS2 and PSP versions were probably actually... kind of good. I think the main thing that made the Wii version bad was the motion controls. Voice acting and animation aren't entirely important in games, as long as the story can be somewhat followed. Gameplay is what's most important. Even if a character only has 2 frames per animation, as long as the game is at least kind of fun, I'll still play it. That even goes for if the character is just t-posing. Would I rather have good animation, voice acting, story, and overall gameplay? Absolutely. Is it required? No!
Wow! To not only make a “remake” of a game that’s somehow worse than the original to put on phones. But to bring those broken ports to other consoles with ZERO improvements, and then give yourself a 10 rating on Metacritic in an attempt to boost sales?! That’s so low, Team12’s burning up in the Earth’s core!
ZERO improvements? Adding Zero would be one of many improvements. You know, the guy from the real Mega Man. Oh no, not just playable, but as an unbeatable enemy to end everyone’s suffering.
The fact the game got delisted on the AppStore makes it more more worse since it’s a port of a mobile game to console its like making a game for a console but it got shifted to a crap console
I kinda think a game THIS bad can only happen on purpose. Like getting every answer wrong on test in a subject you know; achieving that is either a negative miracle or you're intentionally trying to fail.
In high school during computer class we were taught this basic game making tool. Naturally decided to make a platform. May didn't look as good, but can attest it was more functional.
If you look at the IOS metacritic now you can see they have posted ANOTHER 10 review for the IOS version due to 2 people giving the score of 0 on the game (under the "AMAZING AND NOT AT ALL A COPY/DUPLICATE ACCOUNT") Thirteengames so not subtle at all XD
@@technothehedgehog203 It seems TH-cam hid my comment for some reason, so I'll say again that the devs posted another fake review since more people gave them a score of 0. This time they posted the review under the name of "Sixtyninegames".
How D-Troit, Advisor, and to some extend CID's "animated models" stand out as early 2000s anime (e.g. Medabots, Beyblade, Ultimate Muscle) over the rest of the characters astounds and is beyond me.
@@WilliamKnee Bruh 4Kids had better quality control, this is more like those Chinese knockoff cartoons from the early-mid 2000s that were clearly made to cash in on the anime craze, resulting in such "classics" like Swirl Fighter.
So if I can give this trash fire ONE GOOD POINT, I actually really like the idea of the scientists falling out in this version. Where it's the good scientist that performed the immoral action and its the evil scientist that tries to shut it down because it's going too far. That's a neat turn on the idea that I personally advent seen before.
@@negator14 no I have. But it's like, wily and lights falling out was over their respective pursuits, with Light emphasizing on AI and Wily on Mechanical efficiency. It wasn't because They both agreed to not make AI actually sentient and free to make their own choices then Wily catches Light making X.
In MegaMan 11 It's kinda implied that something like that happened in the past and it was part of the falling out in .Though it's kinda unclear about whether part of the failing out was actually partly because of the double gear system or Dr light was just feeling guilty about it
@@kronemerj it's straight up stated in Megaman 11 that the reason for their fallingout was because their college decided to fund and look further into Lights AI research over development of the Double Gear system.
Capcom, if you're here in the comments listening, please for the love of God file a cease and desist so that mankind will never again be threatened by another Cid the Dummy game.
That beginning... it has some potential. I think I can rewrite it. (WARNING: Paragraphs are ahead!) It all started with two of the greatest technical geniuses the world had ever seen. Advisor and D-Troit weren't just the greatest minds of the age and weren't just colleagues, they were also friends, brothers from separate mothers. To Advisor's daughter, D-Troit was almost like a second father. With their passions and powers combined, they reinvented the landscape of science, creating technological advances and marvels alike. Both were revered and beloved by the public. And then, one day, everything changed. One day, she was alive, wishing him good luck on his next experiment... but the next, she was lying lifelessly in a hospital bed, unsaveable and broken beyond repair. Advisor was devastated by the loss of his only daughter. D-Troit tried to comfort him, but at the end of the day, he likely only cared about his experiments and that the mourning was wasting valuable time that could be used elsewhere. The impact of the loss was obvious, but it didn't stop the train that was these men's inventions. Mere months after the event, the two created their most ambitious project yet: the dummies. These dummies weren't like anything they'd yet created: unlike those, these dummies were alive and sentient. Whilst they did have some shortcomings, like being rather callous in personality, or by dying if they were dropped from too high, they were still the men's magnum opus, for lack of a better term. Despite inventing these revolutionary devices, it did little to fill the void within Advisor's heart that his daughter's death had caused. He could fight these feelings off for a little bit, but eventually, they manifested into a deep depression spiral where he, admittedly, heavily considered joining her in death, But just as he made up his mind, he came up with a new idea. It was crazy. It was impractical. But if it worked, she'd be right back with him. One night, whilst his colleagues were occupied and busy, Advisor set off on his mission. First, he went to the cemetery where she was buried and located her grave. Next, he had several dummies dig the coffin out, extract human essence, and return the altered body and coffin into the ground, leaving behind no trace of it ever being tampered with. Advisor returned to the research base, with hope surging in his heart. He was so excited and hopeful that he didn't hear what D-Troit said to him on the way. He returned to a secret room, where the replica dummy of her sat lifelessly on a chair. She wasn't moving, but if this worked, that would change. He flipped a few switches, pressed a few buttons, and watched on anxiously. The green essence of human life flowed into her. Her eyes opened- "Advisor!" Advisor froze, and turned slowly around to find D-Troit in the room. His friend's face was red and flush with anger. "What are you doing?! When we started, we swore NEVER to inject human life within an artificial body! Stop the experiment NOW!" D-Troit slammed his hand onto one of a the control panels lining the room, but to Advisor's horror, he jerked sporadically about before falling face-first onto the panel. The sickening smell of burnt human flesh filled the factory as smoke wafted up from the man's body. Every witness was stunned in horror, so no one could do anything to stop a robotic claw from picking up his body and dragging it deeper into the machinery. Advisor ran to the 'EMERGENCY STOP' button and prepared to press it but before he could... "...Dad?" The sound of a soft, melodic voice interrupted his thoughts. He spun around to find the dummy, his very own daughter, standing upright and looking at him. The emotions Advisor felt when he saw that his underground project had succeeded overwhelmed his mind, and the thought of saving D-Troit was pushed to the back of his brilliant mind. "It's you...? It's really you...?" "Who else would it be, Dad?" Advisor wept tears of joy. The fruits of his labor had paid off, and now, he would reap the rewards. The two of them hugged, and there wasn't a dry eye that could be found amongst the witnesses. Advisor could practically feel himself floating. It was like he was in a dream... but that dream would quickly become a nightmare. The sound of screeching metal and screams of agony and rage interrupted the happy reunion. Something had torn straight through the manufacturing machinery, and that something was looking in. It was D-Troit, although he was now practically unrecognizable. His body had been disturbingly merged with a regular dummy body, a horrific fusion of both man and artifical intelligence. His new body was covered in blood, making him look even more disturbing. He pointed one of his crooked hands at Advisor, the other hand gripped around a bent metal pole. *"YOU. I TRUSTED YOU!"* He crawled inside, his bloodstained cape leaving a trail behind him. *"You and I made a deal that we were supposed to agree to. And when I tried to stop your insane plan, you left me for dead."* D-Troit got even closer to him, so close that Advisor could smell and see the blood inside of his mouth. *"You've taken everything from me. Now, I'm going to take everything from you."* he grabbed his daughter, raised the rod and then brought it down hard, knocking Advisor unconscious in a single stroke. When he woke up again, he was alone. D-Troit was gone. His daughter was gone. The bodies of the dummies that had helped him had been torn apart and lay on the ground in pieces. The screams of dummies and humans alike echoed around him, interspersed with crying and maniacal laughter. *Dear God,* Advisor thought, lying on his back and crying with guilt. *What have I done?!*
this is the greatest thing I've read regarding this damn game, also not sure if you do fanfics or any kind of book writing but this was actually very well written that i think you could be a decent author :D
Upon watching the full cutscenes from both versions, I realized that MIA lost her original human life in a lab accident, implied to be the same incident that turned D-Troit into a cyborg (This was retconned in the 2D demake where she was already dead and in the process of having her soul transferred into a dummy). Her original human name was Michelle. Also, since dummies are made to endure harm and damage, this would actually add a layer on why the professor specifically turned his daughter into one: So that she had a more durable body and would be less likely to suffer a fatal accident ever again (But the developers messed up this aspect by giving CID fall damage) It’s actually similar to the backstory of Astro Boy and Mega Man.exe but with enough rewrites and thoughts to the story, it could have been more solid or even decent. But like Shane and Adam pointed out, the developers gave up and left the story and game on draft 1 without ever trying to polish it.
It’s really something to see a bad game just get worse the deeper you go. Then to discover it’s a ported cellphone demake of the Wii game you already hated? It’s like peeling back an onion, then finding a dead ant, then a live ant, then a roach, then a rift into Hell.
Damn, I actually can't help but respect how brazen the devs are of this game, with the COPCAM bullshit and blatantly reviewing their own game, openly as themselves, and giving it glowing praise and 10/10. That's an awe-inspiring level of douchebaggery lol. Also, I hate to admit it, but at 4:22, that's actually kind of a cool title screen.
I think B.M. Werken is supposed to spoof the car company BMW. I only assume this since the bad guy is D-Troit, which is (or at least used to be) the car production capitol of the U.S. just my thought though, I think a poop joke is funnier though considering the rest of the game…
4:34 not only is the music ripped off, but the instrumental too. if you listen closely, you can hear a voice in the background. which is the exact one that appeares at the beginning of the fatboy slim track!
There's advice about reading bad books to improve writing that is going around. I think seeing bad games is useful as a way to tell you what not to do in game dev.
I think, and I'm absolutely stressing "I think" here, there's an explanation for Advisor having two different designs in this game: the first design is meant to be him when he was younger, the main game here being years later. Doesn't make this piece of garbage any better.
That’s what I figured, which explains why everything’s a wasteland and how D Troit has a castle, but then there’s the quest of WHY didn’t Advisor/Werken do something sooner!?
another question: why Nintendo lets shovelware like this be ported on their system? the Nintendo Seal of Quality is just a distant relic of the past I guess.
"developers stopped caring at a certain point." user readable typos in the code, glitched environments and controls, bad dialogue, hindered movement. they never cared.
So let me get this straight: this is a port version of a demake touchscreen variant, which only got one review made by the creators themselves, of a PC game. And you had to play this atrocity in every ported version to complete it due to bad games mechanics. Well, this should be a champion among bad games.
I love that D-Troit looks like what would happen if Dr. Wily and Dr. Eggman got fused in a horrible transporter accident a-la Seth Brundle in The Fly. Also, i think B.M. Werken from the first game is a car joke in addition to a poop joke since his initials are BMW.
It's amazing how they ripped off Mega Man and didn't copy any of the mechanics that made it good. Also surprised that they were so blatant to give their own game a 10. That's how you know you've got a real special case.
I think "Advisor" is not his name, but a title or nickname. Like he was D-troit's PhD advisor back then or something similar. I think the devs are just embarrassed of the original poop-joke name and don't want to say it. Simply calling him "prof Werken" would have made more sense tho. As for the different body shape and hair color, I'm pretty sure they wanted the intro to be a flashback to give time for D-troit's rise to power, so they made both characters seem younger. That's why he is his old self in the later "cutscenes". Also at first D-troit's hair is all black too, but then they forgot to adjust the dummified model in the intro so he has prematurely greying hair even before the intro skips forward in time. Tragic.
The "good" doc still looks completely off-model even if they were going for that though he looks better in that cutscene than the rest of the game. They were also evidently embarrassed of the original game's ending too where Cid basically calls the girl robot a loud ugly bitch
@@zenksren8206 1. I actually thought Prof. Werken’s redesign looked better than that ugly model one. 2. I guess they realized how hypocritical it is for CID to call MIA talkative, yet he’s the one calling the kettle black.
I actually think that D-Troit prematurely greying would be an interesting concept for his character. It would be like a result of his post transformation trauma.
how have I never heard of this? idk but something about cid the dummy has a charm 0:34 here we go again 2:19 so happy to hear werken's (or advisor) high voice again 3:36 well see 4:09 poop joke confirmed 14:09 controller madness 25:58 cemetry
Well... I once read a phrase that perfectly summarizes this game: "if you're gonna fff it up, fff it up so badly that you leave people wondering how the heck did you do it"
After the tease yesterday I looked up crash dummy games to try to figure out what it could possibly be and this game didn't come up at all. I even looked up cid the dummy2 and cid the dummy sequel, hoping we were blessed with such an atrocity, and nothing came up. I'm very glad google was wrong Edit: well now I know why looking for a sequel came up with nothing. I didn't look up cid the dummy mobile demake re-release
“Did they make a second game with the exact same story?” Are we talking about 12 Games or Capcom? EDIT: Oh frickin WOOOOOW this is bottom of the barrel.
8:15 Okay, I saw this once in one of Spacehamster’s bootleg videos, but seeing it in a real game, no matter how terrible, just makes this that much worse. Developers, don’t give enemies I-frames on hit, AND give your player a combo move. The former just invalidates the latter. Didn’t think I’d need to spell that one out, but apparently I do, at least to Twelve.
12:50 Wow, they missed what is called the *Coyote time!* Essential Jump feature since unjumpable must be delayed a bit to compensate off ground jump attempt.
There's one thing the game does better than the first one: it fixes the story. In the original D-troit was motivated by the fact his work was stolen by Werken/Advisor and so kidnapped MIA for revenge. HERE, instead they change it so the schism was caused by Werken using their robotics to save his dying daughter, and D-troit's attempts at stopping it leading to him becoming a cyborg (which was otherwise compeltely unexplained in the original, he just WAS a cyborg/dummy randomly), leading to him wanting revenge here because he blamed Werken. That's right, the shitty, worse sequel acually ddid something BETTER than the original.
3:05 I didn't have much expectation to begin with, but I lost all hope when they turned Dime Store Dr. Wiley into Rummage Sale Robotnik. Could they really not create an original Villain design? Just...
Now I’m glad I want to buy the Klonoa collection when it comes out, because it will remind me that 2D games like this will never compare to the good stuff
There's a Klonoa collection coming out ? I'm guessing they are remasters ? I have always wanted to play them, maybe this will be a good oppurtunity to finally try them, I've heard great things and I really do love 2d/2.5d platformers.
7:52 gosh his first or second hit in the combo has such a tiny hitbox, there's no way its going to connect. And then the last one is actually going to hit but its an uppercut, with no motion to go with it? Can you design a *worse* 3 hit combo?
Ok so wait... The plot is two scientists build advanced AI for crash test dummies. They agree to never ever infuse it with the soul of a human because that would be ethically unsound. Then the one guy goes against his partner's wishes in order to essentially reserect his dead daughter and when his partner tries to stop him he gets mechanized by mistake. ... It sounds kinda like discount dr.whiley is the good guy here.
My literal first thought upon seeing this in my feed was “they made another one!?” Then I heard how recent this was. What is it with bad game/shovelware developers dragging their crap out of the grave these days?
Hey guys. Nice video. I have two theories. -the doctor looks much older than in the Intro because there was a decades long time skip before the game starts. It would sense since the villain needs to build up his robot army and stuff. -the name B.M.Werken from the first game refers to Bayrische Motorenwerke, which is the original name of the german car company BMW. Crash test dummies are mostly used for testing cars, so it makes sense in a weird way to name the creator of cid after a car company.
14:09 Going through 4 different controls and a banana to get this to work is truly something. The song is also neat. What is the name of that song exactly?
11:47 Twelve Games: 10 Out of 10!. A fantastic classic Action Platformer, full of brainy puzzles, big level, funny monster and dangerous Retro Arcade style big bosses Easy to control, the virtual joystick makes a good job with only two buttons to jump and attack. A console style game on your mobile! Capcom: you rated wrong, you liar. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Konami, SEGA, Taito, & Namco: Hahaha, game rating go brrr...
I wonder if you giving the orginal game an episode was a reason why they made this game? You know in a "All publicity is good publicity" kinda way. Also funny how this game reveals that the villain is actually a victim of the good professor in a way. Like he got knocked out and turned into a cyborg, that's pretty dark for a game about a Crashtest Dummy!
Ironically without this video most people probably wouldn't know this game is even related to CID the Dummy. Crash Dummy is a different name and the 2D visuals would probably confuse anyone who did make the connection.
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Nice job with the video very nice job!This series is amazing one of my series to watch on TH-cam I think you should try cars 2 on wii
Motion controls!
Wait until you guys try Vegas Party on PS4 or The Fifth Element on PS1
Animorphs: Shattered Reality: the last game ever made by Singletrac, the makers and creators of Twisted Metal.
Dragon Ball Z: Sagas. It's so bad lmao
As bad as this is all presented, D-troit ending up on the path of evil because of a legitimate moral debate with no right answer is kind of neat. Or it would be, if any of these characters were, you know, good.
You're not wrong. Someone trying to stop their friend from recreating life within an artificial form without the person's consent, only for their attempt to stop this leading to their body becoming harmed and sent through to be processed in a similar manner, all the while that 'friend' just watches you be taken away before continuing with their experiment against the concept of death itself is a pretty good buildup to a villain who's not shown attempts to control the world, but just to stop their old friend's experiments.
But, allow me to retort this; Ahem. Not such a dummy now, am I?
I rest my case.
The little story we know makes D-troit out as a tragic and sympathetic character
He ends up mutilated from trying to stop his colleague's unethical experiment likely losing his sanity in the process
He likely hates cid only because he sees him as an aberration
He could be disgusted that the professor created sentience and still views him as less than human made to do his dirty work
Cid could have an internal crisis if his creator should have the power to create him
@@vidmastereon I almost want to see another CID game now, just to give writing duty to competent people who would address this.
Then I remember: no matter how good the writers would hypothetically be, you’d still have Twelve developing the actual game. And Twelve have proven twice over (at least) that they suck @$$.
@@isenokami7810 then let's do it better than them! Better writers, better programers! Let's create a game similar to it or inspired by just how bad it is, that it is BETTER than it!
@@vidmastereon depending on context, d-troit might even be the good character
I wonder if Shane and Adam are actual crash test dummies since they put themselves in harms way, playing bad games, so they can warn and protect us. They are certified life savers.
Once there were these nerds who
went into a game store and bought an awful game
And when they finally played it
they saw that it was simply just bad
They said they didn't listen
When the money ghost had warned them
MMM MMM MMM MMM MMM MMM MMM MMM
They are really at Martincitopants level of sadomasochism
Interesting Theory
At least CID doesn’t say, “Not such a dummy now, am I?” all the time, does he?
Not such a dummy now, am I?
Not such a dummy now, am I?
Not such a dummy now, am I?
No CID. You ARE still the dummy. You really are.
Not such a dummy now, am I?
How fitting that the death animations are arguably the smoothest animations in the game.
Bubsy 3D was like this also. 💀
yeah.
I was flabbergasted the entire time, like a scientist who watched their colleague fry themselves then slowly hoisted away by a magical assembly line arm. I could have stopped it, but was very curious what would happen next.
Let's see how this plays out.
Not to mention the bad guy didn't really do anything wrong until after the machinery horribly disfigured him into some half-man half-robot test dummy freak. The backstory implies they had agreed not to infuse "human life" whatever that means into their robots. Advisor did so anyway, other guy got pissed and tried to shut the machine down. The clearly not-OSHA-compliant panel breaks and practically kills him, and as you said Advisor had plenty of time to try to stop it but just stood there doing anything. I don't even blame the bad guy at that point.
@@Cyber_Akumamaybe it’s referring to the human soul🤔
I will never get over how hard the ghosts of the money wasted make me laugh. Top tier character.
Ever since Dog Football, I have been hoping for a plush of the ghost to be on the market.
The game that make the ghost are not worth it.
But Money Ghost itself. Totally worth it.
@@patrickcoronado-taylor1802 wait, you get two ghosts for the price of one
Your wasitng your money for something that is wasting momey
@@patrickcoronado-taylor1802 They did a really small limited run of the money ghost plush around the time they made that video
@@zenksren8206
So I missed it...
Dang...
I also never understand how a Game made for IOS which is basically a rip-off version of Megaman with cutscenes mixed Steven seagal like Voice acting managed to be sold on 3 platforms in the present day?
What impressive acting in that opening cutscene! Oscar! Grammy! Surgeon General’s Warning!
Drugs.
Pretty sure if it was shared with the CDC they’d send a response team in full hazmat suits
@@IntegerOfDoom ...to cause reproductive harm.
"D-Troit?" (sits there and watches)
We'll see...
Positives:
At least we got a backstory for D.Troit.
No Motion Controls
CID shuts up.
Negatives:
I think it's safe to say everything else got worse.
As someone who bought the game out of morbid curiosity, there is one more positive I can add:
The first boss is a lot less annoying to fight. In the original game you could only damage him by shooting the weak spot inside his mouth, which only becomes vulnerable when he opens his mouth to roar at you - something he does at complete random, meaning you could be stuck on that boss for a very long time if RNGesus decides not to play nice. But in the remake, the boss instead becomes vulnerable whenever he's about to attack, making it a lot easier to get hits in more quickly so you can finish the battle in a short amount of time.
More positives : Cid is less of a butthole in this game (original Cid complain about Mia’s annoying voice, demake Cid was more friendly to Mia.)
Negatives: see comment above.
Yeah, just play the Megaman games.
Even more postivives-it can finally have proper aming,no more cheap or embarising deaths
I honestly love how the kidnapped damsel character is called "M.I.A." short for "missing in action"
It actually stands for "My Invincible Avocados", but it's fine. An easy thing to miss...
Like the money gained from this game.
Ngl I wouldn’t be surprised if the developers picked the name without that acronym in mind 😂
Many Incinerated Ants?
Actually it's
My
Insurance
(Fin)ances.
Most video game reviewers would stop playing a bad game after pointing out all of its flaws, and not finish it because they would rather be playing something else, rightfully so.
But Rerez isn't like most gaming reviewers, and by god they will finish these games that are just bad, even if its not worth it. And because of that, i admire these guys.
they play them so you don't have to
As you said, most reviewers rightfully quit like half way through a bad game, because it’s just not worth playing the rest of it. I’d do the same, just to save my sanity and play something so much better.
In other words: They do game reviews how game reviews should be done. They go through the entirety and point out every little flaw.
The catastrophic spelling and grammar gives it that authentically NES feel.
Conglaturation! You have completed a great game! And prooved the justice of our culture!
A sequel, that is really impressive for how bad this game is.
Ahem, Demake?
You mean self-parody.
Bubsy: *6 awful games intensifies*
@@mr_indie_fan That and said Bubsy games are circa 1992 (Bubsy 1), 1993 (Bubsy 2), 1994 (Bubsy's Fractured Furry Tales), 1996 (Bubsy 3D for PS1), 2013 (Bubsy 3D: James Turrell Retrospective) and 2017 (Bubsy 6: Woolies Strike Back). The newest Bubsy game (Paws On Fire is circa 2019) would make 7 awful games, not 6.
If CID the Dummy can get a sequal than we can hope that somehow Megaman Legends 3 can still happen.
Edit: Remake, Demake, whatever. The fact it happened at all has to be some kind message from God.
Well unfortunately it didn't get a sequel, it got a Demake.
Legends 3 won’t happen sadly.
At this point, I’d be happy just to get a remake or Legacy Collection of the original Legends games.
A message from God is optimistic, seems to me like a message from Satan that the purge is about to come
To me, the message was "A sequel to mml2? The best I can do is a demake of Cid the dummy"
It really looks like an early 2010s flash game I would played in the computer labs at school for free not something that should cost money
It looks like an early 2010s flash game I would have *MADE* at the computer lab at school.
And I can't even make Flash games.
This Game makes flash games look like masterpieces.
I’m actually impressed that they screwed it up so badly.
First off, as noted, getting motion controls bad is fairly standard affair. And to be fair to developers of games with bad motion controls, they are a lot more complicated to write code for (and thus much harder to do well) than button, joystick, keyboard, or mouse controls. Even touchscreens are (somewhat) easier. To have screwed up so badly with basic button controls like this is kinda crazy.
Second, while I’m no expert, my understanding is that the biggest difficulty with porting something from the PS4 or PC to the Switch is the fact that the Switch has less power to work with and the physical games generally have less space, but since this was originally a mobile game and is only available digitally, that should not be an issue at all since mobile phones aren’t capable of better graphics or performance than the Switch anyways and digital-only games aren’t bound by the restrictions of physical media. I cannot think of a single good reason why the Switch port should be less functional than the PS4 port.
Third, collision in a 2D sidescroller shouldn’t be this broken, especially since all the assets are also 2D. Collision in 3D is difficult, but in 2D, it’s not terribly hard. Most difficulties with 2D collision (at least nowadays) that would affect gameplay come from hitboxes not fitting the sprite all that well or when a sprite somehow manages to end up somewhere it shouldn’t. Standard gameplay shouldn’t lead to clipping through floors or standing in midair like that. Same basic thing goes for the ledge-grab + jump thing. That’s just bizarre.
Fourth, what’s with the lack of a pause screen? It’s not like mobile games don’t normally have pause screens; most (including every platformer or action game I’ve played on mobile) have one. At the very least, they could’ve gone with the old approach of pausing gameplay without bringing up a menu (at least with one of the two buttons typically used for pausing, menus, or maps). And how did they even make it so that the home button on PS4 doesn’t suspend gameplay? Like, seriously, I didn’t even know that was possible. Again, it’s not like this was from it being a mobile game originally; Android and iOS devices also have a home button or equivalent that works similarly.
Fifth, the PC port has no option to quit? Like, what? Now, granted, for a console or mobile game, such a thing wouldn’t be necessary, but it wouldn’t be that hard to do, and it is absolutely necessary. It’s also something that the programmers absolutely should’ve caught (and fixed) before releasing it on Steam.
Sixth, while some PC games don’t allow keyboard, mouse, or keyboard-and-mouse controls for pretty good reasons (mostly ones that use VR controls or something), it doesn’t make sense for something so simple. It’s not like it would’ve been hard; just have certain key presses be mapped to certain button presses. Not doing that is just plain lazy.
And last, I’ve never heard of a game without motion controls that controls worse than a previous or concurrent version of the game that has motion controls, nor of a sequel to a game with bad animations and bad voice acting having even worse animations and voice acting than the original, nor of a 2D version of a 3D game having worse collision and more glitches than the 3D version. Honestly, having a remake/demake that retells the same story as the original but adding some details for the backstory is not a bad idea, and taking a bad 3D platformer with motion controls and some glitches (which weren’t exactly gamebreaking most of the time) that was essentially just a 2D sidescroller with some movement in the Z-axis and turning it into a 2D sidescrolling platformer without motion controls is not a bad idea either. However, the bugs and the spelling and grammar errors with written dialogue, the inexplicable name-change for a major character, the worse collision, the presence of even more glitches (only worse ones, including ones that are actually gamebreaking), the forced tutorial that doesn’t actually explain anything, the inconsistent controls, the worse voice acting (as well as lack thereof later), the worse animations… Like, this is absurdly bad even by the standards of Just Bad Games. It may not be the worst of them, but the things that make it bad are just so bizarre.
What I find even more insane is that in neither of their CID reviews, do they mention the PS2 or PSP versions possibly without motion controls. Plus, I kind of find the original game a little endearing.
@@cubechan1938 The PS2 and PSP versions were probably actually... kind of good. I think the main thing that made the Wii version bad was the motion controls. Voice acting and animation aren't entirely important in games, as long as the story can be somewhat followed. Gameplay is what's most important. Even if a character only has 2 frames per animation, as long as the game is at least kind of fun, I'll still play it. That even goes for if the character is just t-posing. Would I rather have good animation, voice acting, story, and overall gameplay? Absolutely. Is it required? No!
Wow! To not only make a “remake” of a game that’s somehow worse than the original to put on phones. But to bring those broken ports to other consoles with ZERO improvements, and then give yourself a 10 rating on Metacritic in an attempt to boost sales?! That’s so low, Team12’s burning up in the Earth’s core!
It's so low they've tunnelled through the other side of the earth and are currently on a crash course with Jupiter
Besides the self review, it really sounds like GTA "Definitive" edition here
ZERO improvements? Adding Zero would be one of many improvements. You know, the guy from the real Mega Man.
Oh no, not just playable, but as an unbeatable enemy to end everyone’s suffering.
@@ender212 yeah but In gta definitive editions defense, it’s still playable and easy to complete, unlike this piece of crap
Hey that’s an insuit to the earths core
When the world didn't need him most, he returned
stop it with this god damn comment. I’ve seen it everywhere
@@polipix_ But when the world needed it to stop, it didn't
@@johnnysaurus04
But the future refused to change.
Atleast *Bubsyitis* has been removed.
@@johnnysaurus04 lol
The end of the Lava section reminded me of this quote from Jontron's old Space Ace episode.
"Y-Y-You beat the level... With a leap.... OF FAITH!?"
"I GIVE UP, THAT'S IT!!!"
Making a bad game is one thing.
Making a worse demake is another.
Giving your own terrible game a perfect review yourselves is just disgusting.
Even worse is literally copying and pasting the same game on different platforms just to have more chances at someone accidentally buying it.
The fact the game got delisted on the AppStore makes it more more worse since it’s a port of a mobile game to console its like making a game for a console but it got shifted to a crap console
We literally might have found the WORST game developer company of ALL TIME!!!
@@GalaxyWisp Next to EA?
@@RudoMike21 Amazingly yes...that's not a compliment for either of them BTW...
As a fledgling game designer, these videos give me *life. Purpose. A goal to avoid!* I don't think I can make a game this bad on purpose! 😂
I kinda think a game THIS bad can only happen on purpose. Like getting every answer wrong on test in a subject you know; achieving that is either a negative miracle or you're intentionally trying to fail.
@@CassidyShadewing Maybe this was made on a *dare.* And, not a Ludum Dare, but a dare revolving around alcohol.
What kind of games do you make
funfact: ghosts in pacman arent actually ghosts, rather monsters in sheets
In high school during computer class we were taught this basic game making tool. Naturally decided to make a platform. May didn't look as good, but can attest it was more functional.
Dude, I was cracking up at them reviewing their own game a 10/10 in Engrish.
If you look at the IOS metacritic now you can see they have posted ANOTHER 10 review for the IOS version due to 2 people giving the score of 0 on the game (under the "AMAZING AND NOT AT ALL A COPY/DUPLICATE ACCOUNT") Thirteengames so not subtle at all XD
@@technothehedgehog203 just WOW😂 how narcissistic
@@technothehedgehog203 It seems TH-cam hid my comment for some reason, so I'll say again that the devs posted another fake review since more people gave them a score of 0. This time they posted the review under the name of "Sixtyninegames".
@@JoeyCannoli with a name like that you know they ain't playing around now.
@@fruitjuice225 Just wait until they post their next fake review with the name "Fourtwentygames"!
How D-Troit, Advisor, and to some extend CID's "animated models" stand out as early 2000s anime (e.g. Medabots, Beyblade, Ultimate Muscle) over the rest of the characters astounds and is beyond me.
The opening cutscene feels like a 4Kidz dub.
@@WilliamKnee Bruh 4Kids had better quality control, this is more like those Chinese knockoff cartoons from the early-mid 2000s that were clearly made to cash in on the anime craze, resulting in such "classics" like Swirl Fighter.
So if I can give this trash fire ONE GOOD POINT, I actually really like the idea of the scientists falling out in this version. Where it's the good scientist that performed the immoral action and its the evil scientist that tries to shut it down because it's going too far. That's a neat turn on the idea that I personally advent seen before.
You haven't heard of Megaman?
@@negator14 no I have.
But it's like, wily and lights falling out was over their respective pursuits, with Light emphasizing on AI and Wily on Mechanical efficiency. It wasn't because They both agreed to not make AI actually sentient and free to make their own choices then Wily catches Light making X.
In MegaMan 11 It's kinda implied that something like that happened in the past and it was part of the falling out in .Though it's kinda unclear about whether part of the failing out was actually partly because of the double gear system or Dr light was just feeling guilty about it
@@kronemerj it's straight up stated in Megaman 11 that the reason for their fallingout was because their college decided to fund and look further into Lights AI research over development of the Double Gear system.
Part of me was really hoping this would be a straight up renamed port, motion controls included because that would have been absolutely hilarious
Capcom, if you're here in the comments listening, please for the love of God file a cease and desist so that mankind will never again be threatened by another Cid the Dummy game.
One of the few times I would be okay with a company issuing a C&D
I think Nintendo and Namco might have a good case with those pictures in the castle.
unleash the incredible crash test dummy company on them!
@@ZeoHidra yeah, if Nintendo finds out that their iconic red mushroom made a cameo in a game for the PS4, then they'd shut that down IMMEDIATELY.
Nintendo would probably have a case against having that mushroom render on the PS4
Crash Impact Dummy
Crash Dummy
Get ready for the final episode in the trilogy..
Dummy
Not such a dummy now, am I?
@@rayelgatubelo What could possibly go wrong?
Or
you are a DUMMY for buying this: definitive edition
@@channel45853 "DUHHH-finitive Edition"
Redd Foxx’s favorite game (‘cuz he always used to say “You big dummy!”)
That beginning... it has some potential. I think I can rewrite it. (WARNING: Paragraphs are ahead!)
It all started with two of the greatest technical geniuses the world had ever seen. Advisor and D-Troit weren't just the greatest minds of the age and weren't just colleagues, they were also friends, brothers from separate mothers. To Advisor's daughter, D-Troit was almost like a second father. With their passions and powers combined, they reinvented the landscape of science, creating technological advances and marvels alike. Both were revered and beloved by the public.
And then, one day, everything changed. One day, she was alive, wishing him good luck on his next experiment... but the next, she was lying lifelessly in a hospital bed, unsaveable and broken beyond repair.
Advisor was devastated by the loss of his only daughter. D-Troit tried to comfort him, but at the end of the day, he likely only cared about his experiments and that the mourning was wasting valuable time that could be used elsewhere.
The impact of the loss was obvious, but it didn't stop the train that was these men's inventions. Mere months after the event, the two created their most ambitious project yet: the dummies.
These dummies weren't like anything they'd yet created: unlike those, these dummies were alive and sentient. Whilst they did have some shortcomings, like being rather callous in personality, or by dying if they were dropped from too high, they were still the men's magnum opus, for lack of a better term.
Despite inventing these revolutionary devices, it did little to fill the void within Advisor's heart that his daughter's death had caused. He could fight these feelings off for a little bit, but eventually, they manifested into a deep depression spiral where he, admittedly, heavily considered joining her in death, But just as he made up his mind, he came up with a new idea. It was crazy. It was impractical. But if it worked, she'd be right back with him.
One night, whilst his colleagues were occupied and busy, Advisor set off on his mission.
First, he went to the cemetery where she was buried and located her grave. Next, he had several dummies dig the coffin out, extract human essence, and return the altered body and coffin into the ground, leaving behind no trace of it ever being tampered with.
Advisor returned to the research base, with hope surging in his heart. He was so excited and hopeful that he didn't hear what D-Troit said to him on the way. He returned to a secret room, where the replica dummy of her sat lifelessly on a chair. She wasn't moving, but if this worked, that would change. He flipped a few switches, pressed a few buttons, and watched on anxiously. The green essence of human life flowed into her. Her eyes opened-
"Advisor!" Advisor froze, and turned slowly around to find D-Troit in the room. His friend's face was red and flush with anger. "What are you doing?! When we started, we swore NEVER to inject human life within an artificial body! Stop the experiment NOW!"
D-Troit slammed his hand onto one of a the control panels lining the room, but to Advisor's horror, he jerked sporadically about before falling face-first onto the panel. The sickening smell of burnt human flesh filled the factory as smoke wafted up from the man's body. Every witness was stunned in horror, so no one could do anything to stop a robotic claw from picking up his body and dragging it deeper into the machinery.
Advisor ran to the 'EMERGENCY STOP' button and prepared to press it but before he could...
"...Dad?" The sound of a soft, melodic voice interrupted his thoughts. He spun around to find the dummy, his very own daughter, standing upright and looking at him.
The emotions Advisor felt when he saw that his underground project had succeeded overwhelmed his mind, and the thought of saving D-Troit was pushed to the back of his brilliant mind.
"It's you...? It's really you...?"
"Who else would it be, Dad?"
Advisor wept tears of joy. The fruits of his labor had paid off, and now, he would reap the rewards. The two of them hugged, and there wasn't a dry eye that could be found amongst the witnesses.
Advisor could practically feel himself floating. It was like he was in a dream... but that dream would quickly become a nightmare.
The sound of screeching metal and screams of agony and rage interrupted the happy reunion. Something had torn straight through the manufacturing machinery, and that something was looking in.
It was D-Troit, although he was now practically unrecognizable. His body had been disturbingly merged with a regular dummy body, a horrific fusion of both man and artifical intelligence. His new body was covered in blood, making him look even more disturbing.
He pointed one of his crooked hands at Advisor, the other hand gripped around a bent metal pole. *"YOU. I TRUSTED YOU!"* He crawled inside, his bloodstained cape leaving a trail behind him. *"You and I made a deal that we were supposed to agree to. And when I tried to stop your insane plan, you left me for dead."*
D-Troit got even closer to him, so close that Advisor could smell and see the blood inside of his mouth. *"You've taken everything from me. Now, I'm going to take everything from you."* he grabbed his daughter, raised the rod and then brought it down hard, knocking Advisor unconscious in a single stroke.
When he woke up again, he was alone. D-Troit was gone. His daughter was gone. The bodies of the dummies that had helped him had been torn apart and lay on the ground in pieces. The screams of dummies and humans alike echoed around him, interspersed with crying and maniacal laughter.
*Dear God,* Advisor thought, lying on his back and crying with guilt. *What have I done?!*
this is the greatest thing I've read regarding this damn game, also not sure if you do fanfics or any kind of book writing but this was actually very well written that i think you could be a decent author :D
@@OGplushvideos Aw, thanks! I don't write fanfics, but maybe I should...
Upon watching the full cutscenes from both versions, I realized that MIA lost her original human life in a lab accident, implied to be the same incident that turned D-Troit into a cyborg (This was retconned in the 2D demake where she was already dead and in the process of having her soul transferred into a dummy). Her original human name was Michelle.
Also, since dummies are made to endure harm and damage, this would actually add a layer on why the professor specifically turned his daughter into one: So that she had a more durable body and would be less likely to suffer a fatal accident ever again (But the developers messed up this aspect by giving CID fall damage)
It’s actually similar to the backstory of Astro Boy and Mega Man.exe but with enough rewrites and thoughts to the story, it could have been more solid or even decent. But like Shane and Adam pointed out, the developers gave up and left the story and game on draft 1 without ever trying to polish it.
Wow. Just... wow.
Well, no wonder D-Troit was pissed.
This would be awesome!
It would make more sense why he didn't stop D-troit from getting turned into a robot!
"Any more on the nose and you're poking grey matter" made me die laughing.
You guys are comedy geniuses !
5:50 best reveal of capcom we all know it was that but the dramatic music revealing it was perfect
I wanna know what game the music was from
@Skye T. Bolden its just an 8-bit rendition of Mars, Bringer of War by classical composer Gustav Holst
It’s really something to see a bad game just get worse the deeper you go. Then to discover it’s a ported cellphone demake of the Wii game you already hated?
It’s like peeling back an onion, then finding a dead ant, then a live ant, then a roach, then a rift into Hell.
Damn, I actually can't help but respect how brazen the devs are of this game, with the COPCAM bullshit and blatantly reviewing their own game, openly as themselves, and giving it glowing praise and 10/10. That's an awe-inspiring level of douchebaggery lol. Also, I hate to admit it, but at 4:22, that's actually kind of a cool title screen.
They also made an alt called "sixtyninegames" and gave basically the same review
@@BaDonutThis is the one exception where 69 _isn't_ nice.
I think B.M. Werken is supposed to spoof the car company BMW. I only assume this since the bad guy is D-Troit, which is (or at least used to be) the car production capitol of the U.S. just my thought though, I think a poop joke is funnier though considering the rest of the game…
What BMW (as in Bountiful Mechanical Wonder) did to deserve this crazy joke is anyone's guess.
OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH
dummies and all it makes way too much sense now!
English isn't my native language, I have trouble to understand where is the poop joke. Someone care to explain it to me, please?
@@gabrieldomino It's not all that commonly used except in medicine, but sometimes people will say BM (for bowel movement) instead of poop.
A new episode! Now I don't have to rewatch the Batman: Dark Tommorow episode for the 50th time.
Watch the 'Worst Games Ever' series by Vidiots/Triplejump. There's about a hundred episodes
"Batman can't go left Batman can't go right looks like Batman is going be staying here tonight"
4:34 not only is the music ripped off, but the instrumental too. if you listen closely, you can hear a voice in the background. which is the exact one that appeares at the beginning of the fatboy slim track!
Wow, this is a masterclass in game development. I feel so much better about making my own game.
There's advice about reading bad books to improve writing that is going around. I think seeing bad games is useful as a way to tell you what not to do in game dev.
@@NobleAbsinthe I agree.
@@NobleAbsinthe This game is the video game equivalent of "The Verge Builds a PC" video.
@@jmal I just saw the supercut! That video is awesome! The dude spends all this money to make a bitchen PC and is a complete hack in setting it up. :D
@@NobleAbsinthe He eventually redeemed himself years later, under Linus' supervision, no less.
Can we also point out he went through ALL that just to see the outside? Even the good professor sounds like an absolute monster.
D-troit is a better villain at stopping the protagonist than 99.9% of video game villains.
The only good thing about the game
The people that made this game love you! You bought three different versions of their game. And you know what? I enjoyed every second of it.
I think, and I'm absolutely stressing "I think" here, there's an explanation for Advisor having two different designs in this game: the first design is meant to be him when he was younger, the main game here being years later.
Doesn't make this piece of garbage any better.
In the opening at 2:19 Advisor had the same voice as B. M. Werken, so I think you're right.
@@ZeoHidra I actually didn't notice that! Thanks for pointing it out!
Mmmm they don’t exactly present it in a way that indicates a flashback 😅
That’s what I figured, which explains why everything’s a wasteland and how D Troit has a castle, but then there’s the quest of WHY didn’t Advisor/Werken do something sooner!?
And it doesn't explain where Advisor's mouth went.
Was about to go to bed and saw this, I can't believe they made another one 🤣 Great video as always! The Rerez team does such an awesome job.
Just one question…
How did these maniacs make a game WORSE than a waggle-fested abomination?!
Answer: they ported a shitty mobile game no one played.
by making a game that somehow works WORSE than their original shitty version
another question:
why Nintendo lets shovelware like this be ported on their system? the Nintendo Seal of Quality is just a distant relic of the past I guess.
@@waltercomunello121 The Wii U eShop happened, where quality control goes to die
@@waltercomunello121
The seal of quality meant nothing back then anyways. As long as you paid your licensing fee to the Big N you were good.
"developers stopped caring at a certain point."
user readable typos in the code, glitched environments and controls, bad dialogue, hindered movement. they never cared.
🤣 I can't get over that D-Troit looks like Tetsuo from Akira, metal arm included, after being turned into a villain.
I haven't seen a sequel get significantly worse than it's predecessor since 50 Shades of Gray.
And said predecessor is already bad
Bruh, never in my life did I ever think I'd see CID on a modern console.
Mega Man's cameo on the title card this episode of Just Bad Games is PERFECT!!!
Other names proposed by the developers for Dr. Advisor's helper robot:
-Sage
-Kanomi
-Nentindo
-Atira
Nomca
AE
Titao
WoyFawrod
KNS
So let me get this straight: this is a port version of a demake touchscreen variant, which only got one review made by the creators themselves, of a PC game. And you had to play this atrocity in every ported version to complete it due to bad games mechanics. Well, this should be a champion among bad games.
I noticed whenever CID would die from falling into a harmful substance before he was completely submerged he would give a peace sign.
I love that D-Troit looks like what would happen if Dr. Wily and Dr. Eggman got fused in a horrible transporter accident a-la Seth Brundle in The Fly. Also, i think B.M. Werken from the first game is a car joke in addition to a poop joke since his initials are BMW.
And the W in BMW stands for Werke.
What is the poop joke? it's been a year and I still don't know
@@MrShifty1the common medical term for pooping is 'Bowel movement'. BM, if ya will
It's amazing how they ripped off Mega Man and didn't copy any of the mechanics that made it good. Also surprised that they were so blatant to give their own game a 10. That's how you know you've got a real special case.
I think "Advisor" is not his name, but a title or nickname. Like he was D-troit's PhD advisor back then or something similar. I think the devs are just embarrassed of the original poop-joke name and don't want to say it. Simply calling him "prof Werken" would have made more sense tho. As for the different body shape and hair color, I'm pretty sure they wanted the intro to be a flashback to give time for D-troit's rise to power, so they made both characters seem younger. That's why he is his old self in the later "cutscenes". Also at first D-troit's hair is all black too, but then they forgot to adjust the dummified model in the intro so he has prematurely greying hair even before the intro skips forward in time. Tragic.
The "good" doc still looks completely off-model even if they were going for that though he looks better in that cutscene than the rest of the game. They were also evidently embarrassed of the original game's ending too where Cid basically calls the girl robot a loud ugly bitch
@@zenksren8206
1. I actually thought Prof. Werken’s redesign looked better than that ugly model one.
2. I guess they realized how hypocritical it is for CID to call MIA talkative, yet he’s the one calling the kettle black.
The company is based in Europe. Chances are their use of Professor Advisor was just another linguistic screw up
@@EarlFaulk maybe
I actually think that D-Troit prematurely greying would be an interesting concept for his character. It would be like a result of his post transformation trauma.
22:00
You...you beat the level...With A Leap...OF FAITH!!!!
I give up, that's it...
**Falls into their death...**
I'm TOTALLY into buying a plushie of The Ghost that was Spent on the Game.
how have I never heard of this? idk but something about cid the dummy has a charm
0:34 here we go again
2:19 so happy to hear werken's (or advisor) high voice again
3:36 well see
4:09 poop joke confirmed
14:09 controller madness
25:58 cemetry
Absolutely love this series! Thanks guys for continuing to put in the time and effort for this series!!
Awesome! CID Is Back!
That Was My Favourite JUST BAD Episode!♥️
Well... I once read a phrase that perfectly summarizes this game: "if you're gonna fff it up, fff it up so badly that you leave people wondering how the heck did you do it"
After the tease yesterday I looked up crash dummy games to try to figure out what it could possibly be and this game didn't come up at all. I even looked up cid the dummy2 and cid the dummy sequel, hoping we were blessed with such an atrocity, and nothing came up. I'm very glad google was wrong
Edit: well now I know why looking for a sequel came up with nothing. I didn't look up cid the dummy mobile demake re-release
Lesson learned! 😆
The long pause after “we’ll see…” is surprisingly shocking.
“Did they make a second game with the exact same story?”
Are we talking about 12 Games or Capcom?
EDIT: Oh frickin WOOOOOW this is bottom of the barrel.
NOT WORTH IT.
Cid's Crash Dummy game(s): Made by 12 (and LJN), played by 3, enjoyed by none!
They really went through the Mega Man inspiration
the metacritic twist got me rolling
19:10 “Leave Sid alone for too long and this can happen” Me: *gets ad
this game is even more of a rockman reference then before
(mighty no. 9 moment right here)
CID the Dummy is the kind of game that'll make you cry like an anime fan on prom night.
Well... this was about the last thing I was expecting.
For real
Same!
My anger is immeasurable that this game exists
You’d think that 1 CID the Dummy game was enough..
8:15 Okay, I saw this once in one of Spacehamster’s bootleg videos, but seeing it in a real game, no matter how terrible, just makes this that much worse. Developers, don’t give enemies I-frames on hit, AND give your player a combo move. The former just invalidates the latter.
Didn’t think I’d need to spell that one out, but apparently I do, at least to Twelve.
Jesus Christ never would I have thought a sequel to cid the dummy could happen
I love the running gag with the money ghosts, it never gets old. lol
12:50 Wow, they missed what is called the *Coyote time!* Essential Jump feature since unjumpable must be delayed a bit to compensate off ground jump attempt.
Essentially, they forgot to buffer the jumps to make the platforming manageable.
@KryztovTank yea
There's one thing the game does better than the first one: it fixes the story. In the original D-troit was motivated by the fact his work was stolen by Werken/Advisor and so kidnapped MIA for revenge. HERE, instead they change it so the schism was caused by Werken using their robotics to save his dying daughter, and D-troit's attempts at stopping it leading to him becoming a cyborg (which was otherwise compeltely unexplained in the original, he just WAS a cyborg/dummy randomly), leading to him wanting revenge here because he blamed Werken.
That's right, the shitty, worse sequel acually ddid something BETTER than the original.
Yeah that’s because it seems to be a ‘rehash’ of the first game in 2D😅 but I see your point yes😊
They also changed the ending so Cid's no longer an asshole
Oof... You KNOW it's bad when the developer is giving a high score and colorful review of their own game... Apart from being quite unethical.
And when they write that same review in Engrish
REREZ this is your most popular series, they get over 10x views then your others! Keep this coming , I love them. Thanks!
3:05
I didn't have much expectation to begin with, but I lost all hope when they turned Dime Store Dr. Wiley into Rummage Sale Robotnik. Could they really not create an original Villain design? Just...
I have a feeling if you can find a list of modern games without credits, you'll be booked on this series for years.
This is the only TH-cam channel that makes me laugh out loud every time
I love the ghosts of wasted money. They're always really funny
So what you’re telling me is that theme song needed more Christopher Walken.
Hahaha! I have a fever...and the only prescription.....is more Christopher Walken!
Christopher Reeves
Now I’m glad I want to buy the Klonoa collection when it comes out, because it will remind me that 2D games like this will never compare to the good stuff
There's a Klonoa collection coming out ? I'm guessing they are remasters ? I have always wanted to play them, maybe this will be a good oppurtunity to finally try them, I've heard great things and I really do love 2d/2.5d platformers.
@@Gatorade69 Yeah it was announced in February under the name “Klonoa: Fantasy Revere Series” and it includes remakes of both Klonoa 1 and 2
@@zeldagameryt4018 ooo maybe I should try it
Legit saw this game in a cex a while back and my immediate thought was “oh they are definitely making a new video”
5:13 That guy in the background looks a lot like the starman from Earthbound
I love the just bad games series so much! Thank you for your pain. 😅
Aww snap, always happy to see a new one.
Very rare to see such finely crafted videos detailing such terrible, terrible games 😊
Hilarious. : ) Funniest part is on 5:53 - 6:12 Being Capcom/Copcam "OHHH!" XD
I would like to see Megaman blast Cid the dummy into bits.
That "OHHH" goes on just SLIGHTLY too long and it makes it funnier, it makes me laugh every time.
@@Sparksterchan agreed
7:52 gosh his first or second hit in the combo has such a tiny hitbox, there's no way its going to connect. And then the last one is actually going to hit but its an uppercut, with no motion to go with it? Can you design a *worse* 3 hit combo?
Reerz: Maybe the ghost of the money we wasted on crash dummy will show up
Ghost: Not worth it
Best one yet
Oh man guys great episode. Very funny per usual. This series is easily one of my favorites on TH-cam gaming wise. Keep up the great work!
Ok so wait... The plot is two scientists build advanced AI for crash test dummies. They agree to never ever infuse it with the soul of a human because that would be ethically unsound.
Then the one guy goes against his partner's wishes in order to essentially reserect his dead daughter and when his partner tries to stop him he gets mechanized by mistake.
...
It sounds kinda like discount dr.whiley is the good guy here.
incredible crash dummies from the 80s and 90s where they fell apart and was a part of the fun and mechanics
My literal first thought upon seeing this in my feed was “they made another one!?” Then I heard how recent this was.
What is it with bad game/shovelware developers dragging their crap out of the grave these days?
Hey guys. Nice video.
I have two theories.
-the doctor looks much older than in the Intro because there was a decades long time skip before the game starts. It would sense since the villain needs to build up his robot army and stuff.
-the name B.M.Werken from the first game refers to Bayrische Motorenwerke, which is the original name of the german car company BMW. Crash test dummies are mostly used for testing cars, so it makes sense in a weird way to name the creator of cid after a car company.
Poop Joke confirm
You guys bought this glorified Flash game three times just for the purpose of a video… Now that's some commitment to your craft.
Love the insertion of Mars, Bringer of War on the Copcam reveal LOL
just finished binging the just bad game series cuz i needed a laugh and this was very welcomed surprise
Best way to start the day: watching a new Just bad Games episode while eating breakfast.
24:15 Did... did the exploding robot use the Allosaurus sound effect from the Carnivores games?
14:09 Going through 4 different controls and a banana to get this to work is truly something. The song is also neat. What is the name of that song exactly?
11:47
Twelve Games: 10 Out of 10!.
A fantastic classic Action Platformer, full of brainy puzzles, big level, funny monster and dangerous Retro Arcade style big bosses
Easy to control, the virtual joystick makes a good job with only two buttons to jump and attack.
A console style game on your mobile!
Capcom: you rated wrong, you liar. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Konami, SEGA, Taito, & Namco: Hahaha, game rating go brrr...
I wonder if you giving the orginal game an episode was a reason why they made this game?
You know in a "All publicity is good publicity" kinda way.
Also funny how this game reveals that the villain is actually a victim of the good professor in a way. Like he got knocked out and turned into a cyborg, that's pretty dark for a game about a Crashtest Dummy!
Ironically without this video most people probably wouldn't know this game is even related to CID the Dummy. Crash Dummy is a different name and the 2D visuals would probably confuse anyone who did make the connection.
the mobile demake was from 2014, the switch port was 2019, rerez's video on the original wii game was 2020, so that's a hard no.
@@universalperson they mean when the crash one was originally released
@@gracekim1998 I said that was 2019, porting a 2014 game.