My 30 Favorite PC Engine/TurboGrafx 16 Game Recommendations
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
- series where i talk about 30 favorite games on each console and this time on the PC Engine/TurboGrafx 16. i would not worry to much on the ranking and think of this as a big recommendation list.
You know the video is going to be epic when it starts off with Final Zone II music. 👍
that games music is so good. i almost thought about adding in the "you are the best" track for lolz but its a little crazy to have commentary over it
lots of great games mentioned. happy to see Sylphia and Faussete Amour get love
i agree those games are so damn good
Amazing PC Engine list
Didn't quite grow up with the PC Engine myself, but good lord is the game selection top notch, especially Y's and Lords of Thunder.
most of us missed out in its prime but thankfully we can all experience it easily these days
I’ll never stop being impressed by you having played enough games to make top 30s for so many consoles. I loved the graphics in so many of the entries, but it’s the puzzle game and the slinky game that really caught my interest.
over the years i have played quite a lot and figured it be a good way to showcase what games i love on the consoles. yes the slinky game is one of the most strange games that it really stands out
Pretty great list. After this video I now have a whole lot of "new" games I should really play. Can't say I'm a fan of the original Ys 3 but hey, to each their own. Good video.
all good my friend but im glad to know that you have new games to try.
the snes version of ys iii was one of the first games i've ever beaten so ive got a lot of nostalgia for it but haven't played since i was a kid, I definitely have to give the pc engine version a try sometime
thats cool to hear you grew up with the SNES version of Ys 3. that was the first version i played and at the time i thought it was decent. just the attacking felt weird but man that PC Engine version is a whole other level
I was around when this thing came over here to North America, and I didn't know a single person who had one; I just knew a guy who knew a guy, so my first chance to see what this was about was about 9 years ago when I checked out the whole library (minus most of the CD titles, because our Internet sucked), and it was a pretty interesting journey. Final Soldier and Soldier Blade are my favorites (the latter of which has my favorite soundtrack on the system), but the Tower of Druaga remake was probably the most satisfying to me, because I've always wanted to like Tower of Druaga, and that fixed the slow, clunky controls that plagued all the other versions. I played Dynastic Hero fairly recently as part of a Wonder Boy marathon, and it has one of my favorite translation flubs: you rescue the princess in the sewers, and she says, "The monsters captured me, do you know what I mean?" Why is she asking if you know what she means? Were they trying for some kind of valley girl accent? I don't know why it strikes me so funny, and it's definitely not on the level of Download, but it's been living rent-free in my head ever since. Probably doesn't help that I'm a life-long language nerd.
If you're looking for some of the more unusual games, I'd recommend Aoi Blink (almost like Puss & Boots on the NES, but with a party of 3 characters), Dragon Egg, Makai Prince Dorabocchan (same series as Spike McFang), and Son Son 2 (very different from the first Son Son) for the Hu-Card, and God Panic: Shijou Saikyou Gundan for the CD. God Panic is yet another Vertically-Scrolling Shooter, but it is WILD; it puts even the likes of Parodius to shame, and the second loop descends even further into madness.
lol i never noticed that line in Dynastic hero but thats funny. i have played Makai Prince Dorabocchan and it was ok did not like it as much as the SNES Spike Mcfang, Aoi Blink i remember seeing but i never tried it and same with son son 2. God Panic i have played and yes its super weird almost on cho aniki level but sadly i dont like the flow of the gameplay as much as others. but thank you for sharing
yeah, none of us here at the time owned a turbo.. just knew a guy who knew a guy.. or had a neighbor (down the street on the right for me).. do you think download is better than download 2? i mean what could be better than Syd invading hitlers brain? have you seen the anime? i went out of my way to collect everything i could from this console since i missed it in my youth.. also, because of that now Red is one of my favorite devs..Spike McFang was developed by Red, the same team who made the Bonk series, Tengai Maikyou series, gate/ lords of thunder, Galaxy Fraulein Yuna series, the 32X version of Tempo, and eventually the Sakura Wars (sakura taisen) series, some great anime games like Gungrave and Gungrave Overdose, Trigun: the Planet Gunsmoke, and the Record of Agarest War games.. they were incredible
Dragon Egg is very good and i also liked Son Son 2
@@arcadianlhadattshirotsughW33Z i really like red entertainment as well. very underrated dev
I really like your list! I would’ve put mad stalker, Chou Aniki, and Bloody wolf on mine😎
Mad Stalker is really good but i played it more on PS1 so i mostly think of it as a PS1 game first but i do remember the PC Engine version being good. Cho Aniki is...well Cho Aniki lol but no joke it is a solid shoot'em up.
Hell yes brother
Oh man loved this video, your video is a reminder that I still need to play games for the Turbo Graphix Mini which is currently sitting in my closet collecting dust.
As entertaining as the games are, I found the titles to be just as entertaining and hilarious, I can’t imagine reading that game over screen as kid 😂.
Great list and wonderful video, now where did I put that mini console?🤣
oh i did not know you had the turbo mini they have some good stuff on there. oh for the game download yeah that game over is hilarious and i would have been shocked seeing it as a kid
>Lots of shootemups but no mention of Magical Chase
>Also no mention of the cult classic Silent Debuggers
BETRAYAL. I'm not sure I can come back from this level of psychological trauma.
That being out of my system, there are a few other good arcade arrange/remix ports (like Valkyrie) on the system, which are easy to overlook.
I would personally include Tower of Druaga and Bravoman (which is the weirdest classic Namco game imo) as such good ports. Especially, ToD was made as a definitive edition and you can see it, but somehow it's ignored by later digital re-releases. Total hidden gem.
i mentioned in another comment about Magical Chase and honestly i think that game is overrated and kind of average. i think Cotton is a better Witch themed shoot'em up with a killer OST and graphic style plus Magical chase does 1 thing i dislike and that is playing on easier difficulties only lets you play the first couple levels. Silent Debuggers is neat but its not a favorite of mine its alright. Bravoman is decent but idk it was never a huge favorite for me. is it really that tragic? lol
I hear a lot of mixed opinions on Final Zone 2, it's cool that you like it though. Isn't Motoi Sakuraba the composer? It would be interesting to hear the music from a PC Engine CD game he worked on.
I can't say that Soldier Blade is all that easy for me, that second level is extremely tough. It does have unlimited continues though but man that second level is a pain, I think Spriggan is the best SHMUP gameplay wise while Sapphire is the best for the music but both are top 2 SHMUPS of all time material.
as much as i enjoy Final Zone 2, its not the best of its kind but still really fun. and when i say a shoot'em up is easy i mean when it comes to a standard one since most are hard as hell but i found Soldier Blade to be much easier compared to many others i played. but yeah Spriggan is GOAT
try those pc engine games -------------> genji tsuchin agedama , dragon egg , steam hearts , burning angel, ane-san. have fun xd
genji tsuushin agedama i like and i should have honorable mention it. oh well, Dragon egg is pretty decent i kinda like it Steam Hearts is really good but ever since i played the saturn version i have not went back to the PC Engine version. Burning Angel i know iv played but i dont remember much about it atm and Ane san i remember being alright
Steam Hearts is a favorite of mine
i could argue about everything in this list for years, should that one go here or here, i prefer dungeon explorer 2 to 1, etc but ill just say thanks and great video.. although i would say there's some you mightve missed and should try; on CD: 2 different Galaxy Fraulein Yuna games (eng patches for the pc engine versions and psx versions now), Legend of Xanadu series (still no eng patches as far as i know, but its Nihon Falcom), Rayxanber 2 and 3, Fray in Magical Adventure -Xak Gaiden (no eng patch), the Macross 2036 shmup (anything from the "Do You Remember Love?" Macross era is perfection to me -"PROTOCULTURE!?"- but not the rts one, i havent found an eng patch for that, but the soundtrack is really good), Dead of the Brain.. on hu card: Bubblegum Crash! Knight Sabers 2034 (has an eng patch), Magical Chase, Maerchen Maze, etc.. i could name dozens more with and without english patches, its just good to hear others talk about it and im glad you mentioned Fausette Amour, Tengai Makyou Ziria, (the eng patch is good, but its really basic for a jrpg, but it has cd vocals and a tiny amount of animation).. but your number 1 is great because anything from nihon falcom is golden
i have zero idea why there are lines thru what i typed... maybe i pressed a key or something?
the guy made a list of 30 not 50. can't we be glad that someone is giving this console some love
Galaxy Fraulein Yuna i have not gotten around to but they look cool. they are the kind of games that i have to be in the right mood for. Legend of Xanadu i did try to play recently and it seems pretty good but idk if i like it better then Xak or the Ys games but once it gets a translation i may try it again.
Fray in Magical Adventure i have done a whole review on that game and i kinda liked it but i try to mention 1 game per franchise so i chose to talk about Xak 3 instead. Dead of the Brain i want to play on PC98 as i like the look of that version, as a huge bubblegum Crisis fan i really did not like Bubblegum Crash at all and it pains me to say that. Magical chase is ok i never got the hype for it as i always felt that Cotton was much better when it comes to witch theme shoot'em ups.Maerchen Maze i thought was ok i like the graphics though.
but yeah i know there is so much i wish i could add but there is a little more then 30 and this was hard enough lol but i thank you for the suggestions
@@silvermusicbox3476 if i had more time id be down for a top 50 lol
@@BioPhoenixReviews no.. your video was great.. i just went off.. sorry..i would disagree though that og cotton wasnt better than magical chase.. but saturn version of cotton 2 and cotton boomerang destroy magical chase.. i was just comparing the pc engine versions.. either way YOU DO AMAZING WORK
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Splatterhouse should be top 5 for sure, 30° place seems too far
if you listen to what i said at the start of the video dont take the ranking too seriously. but even then i personally dont think Splatterhouse is a top 5 game for me. you should make your own list then
people overrate Splatterhouse just because of the blood and gore. its an ok game but it has problems such as limited continues, hit detection on some of the hazards are off and the game is frustrating.