Main villain(s) are blonde researchers disguised as cops, original concept for Resident Evil involved the characters being cyborgs, ‘battle system’ involves sweeping a cursor over zombies with a time limit in place (which is how you fight in RE Gaiden,) and Cathy seems to be a mix of Rebecca Chambers and Claire Redfield. I wonder if the RE team played through or heard of this when they were figuring out how to design their game?
I have an idea why the world logic makes no sense: They originally had the zombie apocalypse underway for a month when the game starts, then came up with the plot about Doc and the zombie serum, they wanted to put that stuff in but didn't want to start from scratch. So they crammed it in, tried to make work and it failed.
"the officer gets killed by the zombie cat" LOL. Reminds me of an old DnD thing I heard meant to show off the silly side effects of the stat based combat. Should a basic human peasant and a regular house cat get into fight then statwise, its very likely the cat would win.
Amazing video here, but the translation that is available now is machine translated, and is weirdly inaccurate at points, taking dumb liberties with the script. I wouldn’t recommend playing it. However, there are more translations in the works. I am currently over 50% done with hacking the PC-98 version with a new script translated by a friend of mine. Another friend is also doing porting our script to the X68000 version, and I’m planning on also porting the script to the FM Towns version. The PC-98 translation is the only one with a planned release date, which will definitely be October 31. Someone else is also doing a PC Engine CD translation of only the first game. English and French. The translation is completely independent from mine though, and I’m not sure which one of the translations will be preferred.
[EDIT] OK. I did not know that the currently available English patch for the PC-98 Dead of the Brain was unpopular, and I personally have not played through all of it, so let me be diplomatic and start again here: I am anxiously looking forward to any upcoming announcements on any new language patches for Dead of the Brain on any platforms. The more fan translations there are, the better, and I am sure that the upcoming translations will be an improvement. I kind of wish now that I had waited to make a video about this game so that I could plug the new translations in the video. Thanks to you and David for your work.
@jackdbs Although I'm sure your translations will be better, I really feel the need to say a couple things: The person who made the old DoTB1 translation may have been an unpopular character and I don't know the history behind him at all, but I want to be fair and make sure not to unnecessarily malign him either. I did notice some liberties he took in his translation, but that doesn't necessarily make it bad IMO. That is exactly what pros do, in fact, when localizing games. The original Japanese story in this game is kind of weird and I can see places where it could be made more coherent with some changes. I know fans generally don't like it when things are changed but, sometimes, it is for the best, in my (probably unpopular) opinion. Also, the statement that it is "machine translated" is a bit unfair and misleading because even if it was originally machine translated, it has clearly been cleaned up into a funny and easily readable script. (Naming the cat "Schrodinger" instead of "Kitty"? Awesome!) It is not raw machine translated text, and clearly more work was put into it than what one would expect from a cheap "machine translated" patch. From taking a look around at what people have said about the translator, I get the feeling that perhaps one, or maybe two people said that this guy's translations are inaccurate, machine-translated, and bad and it then became the gospel truth on the Internet. Seems maybe a bit unfair from my outsider's perspective, but I apologize if I am way off base here. Even if all of that is 100% accurate about his translations, he still deserves credit for hacking the code and bothering to release the patch at all. I have seen far FAR worse fan translations on these old Japan PC's that are hardly even readable. The currently available DoTB1 translation may be even among the better patches I have seen on the PC-98, IMO. All that being said, once again I have only played all the way through the Japanese version of the game and have not read the entirety of the English patch. Again, though, I am very glad you guys are making new patches cause I'm sure they will be even better, and more choice is always a good thing. It will also, of course, be amazing to have the game available in English finally on the PCE, and even the X68000 and FM Towns!
@@BasementBrothers @jackdbs I find it's interesting to compare two different translations of the same source material - a couple of Haruki Murakami's works have had separate (and very seemingly different) translations published by two different professional translators. I had also heard that the original PC-98 translation was "machine translated", and agree with you - that even if it was, it was edited sufficiently to become internally-consistent and have a proper flow, even if I wasn't a fan of some of the stylistic choices made. As you say, there are "translations" which take even more liberties (I'm looking at you, Working Designs !). I'm not saying that my stylistic choices will be well-liked... I tried to stick to the original script (which had its own issues and inconsistencies). My co-translator (who is native Japanese) had a few choice words to say about the quality of it... I hope people will enjoy my translation though. I think I will put up a quick Twitter rant about machine translation though, because I think peoples' opinions are way too polarized on it, and need to understand it a bit better. Brief summary: Humans can be bad translators too. And editors are needed just as much as - and are every bit as important as - the translators.
I didn't think you would bring up Saori. I doubt you could say much about that title and the controversy it found itself in without being demonetized by TH-cam.
Named after Day of the Dead but has a plot that's more like Herbert West: Re-Animator (especially the movie starring Jeffrey Combs). Every time you mention other games in a series I'm like "I hope he covers them soon." I would love to know what exactly a "Marine Philt" is.
Imagine my surprise seeing this video mention not only the Saori incident, but also 16bit Sensation! Not too long ago, I took a look at the manga and it had a couple notes talking about the incident and how it resulted in the creation of a sort of content regulations board for adult PC games. For those interested in reading it, bare in mind it's a very different story from the anime, which might be more appropriate to call a spin-off instead of an adaptation.
Fantastic video. I played the English patch earlier in the year with a friend and found it to be fun. Like you pointed out, the plot doesn't really stand up to criticism, but I like the art and style the game has -- "most PC-98-like" game indeed! I would be very interested in a video from you about Dead of the Brain 2 and Marine Philt.
Oh yeeeeesss! Not even watched this yet but I am hyped! I love this game! It's crammed with horror references! Especially those featuring Jeffrey Combs! It's mainly a heavy ripoff of Reanimator and the Return of The Living dead series from what I remember (rather than the night of the living dead series.)
Man, I love those PC98 Backgrounds. Every VN is just top-tier sprite art and '90s Anime style. Thanks for walking us through this one for _Spooooooky Season_ Also, that game you showed briefly at the end? Briganty: Roots of Darkness? That looks cool as heck! Gonna have to look up more on that until you review it _*fingers crossed_
We need more horror/ gory genre Japanese games from this era! Finding out about the crazy decapitation scenes in madou monogatari on the pc98 is what lead me to this channel originally. I was hoping to find more. This game seems like a must try!
weird thing about Nose is i once found some "official translation" that says his english name is actually supposed to be North....idk why that translates to "Nose" in the english patch. 😐 also idk what "Norze" is supposed to mean tho, i know Norz means "six" in enochian language (only know that cuz the black metal band Impaled Nazarene has a album called _Tol Cormpt Norz Norz Norz_ idk if there's a connection there to the number 6 to his japanese name tho)
North would be wrong though, since it's ノーズ in Japanese, not ノース. I can see why someone would just look at the Japanese name though and say, "Fuck it, North is a good enough English version of that weird name."
Dead of the Brain was the first PC-98 game I played ! It was one of the game that I was hooked by the graphics and it's gore when I was a teenager and wished I could play it someday (since it was a visual novel in japanese only) and that wish became a reality a couple of years ago when it got a fan translation. This is how my PC-98 addiction started ! :)
It one of my favorite in PC98 era,because of the gritty violence horror and some nuditty back then(young me just clicked everything because i couldn't understand it langauge back then) Really wishes they kept this kind of anime style to these day in this kind of game
ah yes.. american cemeteries.. very famous for putting people to rest with respect and the massive amounts of "fuck you" graffiti...edit: is kane wearing Lupin's jacket?
Um his serum actually works. You should feel sorry for him. What he didn't know was that infection had to occur BEFORE the person died. Then they will heal and be normal. However if given post death, the brain's higher functions are too badly damaged and they go bezerk. If he hadn't shot doc, doc would have discovered this.
Really would like to watch this one but i already get Waxworks gore vibes from this (1:05). I can take Mortal Kombat Gore anyday but this drawn art really messes me up for some reason. Might be the only one that feels this way.
Another great video. That said, did this game ever sell itself as something that wouldn't have huge plot holes or be super campy. It's based off a film that is full of plot holes and convenient writing. The premise is insane, then things get more insane, then point and click artificial difficulty spikes ensue, sex, violence, things continue to get more insane, then you end up with the hot babe and a teaser.
Yeah, very true. I had to wonder if the writers were just "taking the piss" when they got to that sushi line. Hard for me to tell what was the true intention though.That part played weirdly serious to me.
I opened up the video on my phone while still playing it on my TV just to say the Doc injecting the cat is very parallel to RE-ANIMATOR. Heck, the drug itself is & even the characters & set up. This game seems like a love child of George A. Romero & Brian Yuzna work. 🖤
Always see this titled mentioned in almost any overview of the PC 98 so really cool to get the overall run down. Appreciate the hard work as always, this channel always gets me invested in a topic even if I had no clue about it beforehand.
I always felt this game was a rush job and unfinished to keep the company afloat. Choosing to "cheat" or "not cheat" has zero effect on the game. Marine Philt though is one of the Towns games I will never sell from my collection.
From the title to the whole aesthetics, this game actually knows what makes up 80s Horror B- (or less) movies well. At least QTE-ish part isn't as horrendous as Birdemic's battle scene. >Story doesn't make sense I believe that that's how lots of the generic horror movies (especially for the ones that crew members actually just want to take gore shots instead of genuine horror scenes) go, even back in the days. It might also be an indication that, even back then, Zombie Apocalypse movies were rife with live-human characters even dumber than the said zombies.
NintendoComplete did a full playthrough of the PC-98 version of this game with the English patch back on Halloween 2020, and I enjoyed watching the game in action for the most part. I think _Dead of the Brain_ should have gotten a console conversion and/or update on either the Sega CD or Saturn. Granted, on the hypothetical chance that the game got released on either of the aforementioned consoles and pulled off a Western release, the localization process would probably have been one of the most extensive ones ever done to a video game. Obviously, the explicit nudity and attempted r--e scene would not fly in the West, not to mention that all of the references to horror movies and horror icons (i.e., the blatant "grave" of Stephen King that Dr. Cooger just so accidentally spills his apocalyse-creating concoction on) would have been removed. As for the storytelling and plot holes, I think the issue was that writer was trying to tell an American B-grade movie plot from the perspective of being a foreigner, and might not have been familiar with such American details and nuances. Anyway, great video.
I'm convinced this game would make for a wonderfully bad B movie in the right (wrong) hands. Just the scene where the doc pulls out a katana and claims he knows how to use it because he's seen movies had me laughing. Still, I am fairly upset that they didn't resolve the Stephen King sideplot 😅
oooo ty for the anime suggestion of 16bit sensation, i wasn't sure i'd get over the heroine's shrill-ness, but around ep 4+ i started to really get into it :P octo-cores n all X-D
Basement Brothers I have a really humble request for you to review Kagerou Meikyuu for any platforms you might be able to acquire, one of the most visually unique games I've ever seen (the versions are radically different depending on the platform too) and I'd really like to have an idea about what the hell its about.
Does the story of the second game makes a bit more sense? Why was Ghoul a robot who somehow could control zombies and why didn't he turn almost the whole town into zombies instead of using them for his experiments? The original drug already seems to work on living humans well so why not make billions of dollar with that?
Man I've always been idly curious about this game but I have just burst out laughing hearing the prologue. Lmfao. Amazing. I really enjoyed this whole episode.
Loved this episode, it indeed felt just right for Halloween season. Never heard of this game before, but I found that the atmosphere and artwork really sold me on the whole concept and made the evident flaws not that annoying to deal with it. In fact, it's probably the first time I actually skipped some portions of the video to avoid spoilers. My one suggestion for future videos of these type of adventure/rpg games would be to dedicate a section to detail which artists were involved in these projects. I thought about this because I'd like to know who made the art for Dead of the Brain. Now that I mention it, I also remember the Slayers video 'cause the art was superb and just like the one in the novels. Finally, I was about to recommend you that 16BIT anime but it seems you're aware of it already.
PC-98 nostalgia seems to have reached a peak now in Japan. A few months ago NEC also did a marketing campaign for one of their new laptops which featured a short manga about the PC-98.
This might be my favorite episode of the series as someone who is a big horror fan especially of the 80s and 90s I have the biggest soft spot for dead of the brain even with all of its illogical moments and baffling story moments I love it
There are some things that are goofy, but not goofy as in "stupid"; goofy as in "this is how America is". The aspect of Sheila going out is suppose to make sense because daylight, and remember that Ghoul was trying to get them killed. I suppose the line about her kind nature is suppose to lead you to believe that she is some what naive, and to get you to suspect Ghoul. Also the reporter does make sense. If it is a small town, then the other towns wouldn't know unless word of mouth. Only cities have local news, with the towns and villages have to make due with public access (if they have that). And local news 99.9% doesn't cover other cities. So, if something goes down in a small town, you wouldn't know unless someone from that town (or drove through it) tell you, or you see it covered by your nearest local city news. Kane makes sense. What doesn't make sense is Ghoul's ambition and the super convenient info dump of Keil.
If Guol was involved in Sheila going out to get food, like you suggest, then it would make more sense. But Guol is never mentioned regarding that incident, I believe. She just decided to go out on her own.
Didn't they also make a game on PC-9801 called Dracula Hakushaku? The art and game style looks like it. I've only seen screen shots of these games but the sprite work in these games is phenomenal.
@@BasementBrothers I see. Thanks for replying. I don't own a PC-98 but that Dracula game I actually do own. I saw it somewhere for cheap and thought it looked cool to have as I have a bit of a Dracula/Vampire collection as a hobby. So when I saw the artwork in this game the artwork on the back of the Dracula box came immediately to mind for me, so I had to ask. That's cool it's the same company.
I first became aware of this game when the PC Engine version was featured in one of the U.S. gaming magazines. I had a Turbo Duo and was into importing games, but I didn't have the Japanese skills to really enjoy a text-based adventure. I haven't played the English translation but maybe I'll give it a go.
Spooky season hit even the PC-98 Paradise! It was really accidentally and instantenous zombie apocalypse, that for sure xD Well, from humble viewer perspective i can say that plot of this game seems comically bad, but graphics are rather nice.
I'd heard a lot about this one! Still trying to figure out certain PC-98 games on RetroArch though (like the Farland Story games after watching that series here) but in so far, no luck! will have to look into it soon, I'd be curious to try this one out after finishing Snatcher on SEGA CD! ... although I did not know about the MSX translation that might be the one I go with cus running those games aren't as hard for me on emulators.
I really wish the sequel got a translation like the first one did, its cheesy as all heck but its still a fun mini romp, Ive just saw like a lets play on a Japanese channel and got some plot points but didn't understand how the cyborg came back and more.
Not that a Simpsons clip is always the answer but clearing the rubble with a gun could have lead nicely to the scene of Homer using a gun to open beer, change TV channels and "turn off" lights.
"Dead of the Brain" sounds like how I felt back in the day when I couldn't remember anything on exam day.
It is too scary to play this game in a basement.
Or at night, for that matter.
I love how Doc and Cole just ... fumble up a zombie apocalypse. Jeez.
GREAT SCOTT!
(That's heavy, Doc!)
Main villain(s) are blonde researchers disguised as cops, original concept for Resident Evil involved the characters being cyborgs, ‘battle system’ involves sweeping a cursor over zombies with a time limit in place (which is how you fight in RE Gaiden,) and Cathy seems to be a mix of Rebecca Chambers and Claire Redfield. I wonder if the RE team played through or heard of this when they were figuring out how to design their game?
They didn’t it already happed a month before did you not pay attention
@jeffcotten1081 But nobody went to the next city over during that time?
More like "Aw geeze Rick"
I have an idea why the world logic makes no sense: They originally had the zombie apocalypse underway for a month when the game starts, then came up with the plot about Doc and the zombie serum, they wanted to put that stuff in but didn't want to start from scratch. So they crammed it in, tried to make work and it failed.
"the officer gets killed by the zombie cat"
LOL. Reminds me of an old DnD thing I heard meant to show off the silly side effects of the stat based combat. Should a basic human peasant and a regular house cat get into fight then statwise, its very likely the cat would win.
"Seek a cure for Cancer or create a drug that makes zombies... Which one should I choose?'
Worst Doctor ever. lol
I need to play this. It feels like it works off of Italian Horror movie logic, which often is my favourite horror logic.
Now I'm interested in Italian horror!! Thanks for sharing :)
I've found that Italian horror movies slap ever since I saw Zombi 2
So they watched Reanimator and Return of the living dead mashed them together and made a game,lucky back in the dat the IP holders did not play pc98
Amazing video here, but the translation that is available now is machine translated, and is weirdly inaccurate at points, taking dumb liberties with the script. I wouldn’t recommend playing it.
However, there are more translations in the works. I am currently over 50% done with hacking the PC-98 version with a new script translated by a friend of mine. Another friend is also doing porting our script to the X68000 version, and I’m planning on also porting the script to the FM Towns version. The PC-98 translation is the only one with a planned release date, which will definitely be October 31.
Someone else is also doing a PC Engine CD translation of only the first game. English and French. The translation is completely independent from mine though, and I’m not sure which one of the translations will be preferred.
[EDIT] OK. I did not know that the currently available English patch for the PC-98 Dead of the Brain was unpopular, and I personally have not played through all of it, so let me be diplomatic and start again here:
I am anxiously looking forward to any upcoming announcements on any new language patches for Dead of the Brain on any platforms. The more fan translations there are, the better, and I am sure that the upcoming translations will be an improvement. I kind of wish now that I had waited to make a video about this game so that I could plug the new translations in the video. Thanks to you and David for your work.
@@BasementBrothers Objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear.
@jackdbs Although I'm sure your translations will be better, I really feel the need to say a couple things: The person who made the old DoTB1 translation may have been an unpopular character and I don't know the history behind him at all, but I want to be fair and make sure not to unnecessarily malign him either.
I did notice some liberties he took in his translation, but that doesn't necessarily make it bad IMO. That is exactly what pros do, in fact, when localizing games. The original Japanese story in this game is kind of weird and I can see places where it could be made more coherent with some changes. I know fans generally don't like it when things are changed but, sometimes, it is for the best, in my (probably unpopular) opinion.
Also, the statement that it is "machine translated" is a bit unfair and misleading because even if it was originally machine translated, it has clearly been cleaned up into a funny and easily readable script. (Naming the cat "Schrodinger" instead of "Kitty"? Awesome!) It is not raw machine translated text, and clearly more work was put into it than what one would expect from a cheap "machine translated" patch. From taking a look around at what people have said about the translator, I get the feeling that perhaps one, or maybe two people said that this guy's translations are inaccurate, machine-translated, and bad and it then became the gospel truth on the Internet. Seems maybe a bit unfair from my outsider's perspective, but I apologize if I am way off base here. Even if all of that is 100% accurate about his translations, he still deserves credit for hacking the code and bothering to release the patch at all.
I have seen far FAR worse fan translations on these old Japan PC's that are hardly even readable. The currently available DoTB1 translation may be even among the better patches I have seen on the PC-98, IMO. All that being said, once again I have only played all the way through the Japanese version of the game and have not read the entirety of the English patch.
Again, though, I am very glad you guys are making new patches cause I'm sure they will be even better, and more choice is always a good thing. It will also, of course, be amazing to have the game available in English finally on the PCE, and even the X68000 and FM Towns!
@@BasementBrothers @jackdbs I find it's interesting to compare two different translations of the same source material - a couple of Haruki Murakami's works have had separate (and very seemingly different) translations published by two different professional translators.
I had also heard that the original PC-98 translation was "machine translated", and agree with you - that even if it was, it was edited sufficiently to become internally-consistent and have a proper flow, even if I wasn't a fan of some of the stylistic choices made. As you say, there are "translations" which take even more liberties (I'm looking at you, Working Designs !).
I'm not saying that my stylistic choices will be well-liked... I tried to stick to the original script (which had its own issues and inconsistencies). My co-translator (who is native Japanese) had a few choice words to say about the quality of it...
I hope people will enjoy my translation though.
I think I will put up a quick Twitter rant about machine translation though, because I think peoples' opinions are way too polarized on it, and need to understand it a bit better. Brief summary: Humans can be bad translators too. And editors are needed just as much as - and are every bit as important as - the translators.
Sundays get better when Basement Brothers uploads a new video
I didn't think you would bring up Saori. I doubt you could say much about that title and the controversy it found itself in without being demonetized by TH-cam.
Yeah. I probably won't ever mention it again. Folks can look it up!
Named after Day of the Dead but has a plot that's more like Herbert West: Re-Animator (especially the movie starring Jeffrey Combs).
Every time you mention other games in a series I'm like "I hope he covers them soon." I would love to know what exactly a "Marine Philt" is.
Surprised you didn't do a "it's alive!" joke when booting the PC98.
I thought I did!
It was super subtle, but he kinda did! The whole storm and electricity sounds haha
Subtle best 👌
Imagine my surprise seeing this video mention not only the Saori incident, but also 16bit Sensation! Not too long ago, I took a look at the manga and it had a couple notes talking about the incident and how it resulted in the creation of a sort of content regulations board for adult PC games. For those interested in reading it, bare in mind it's a very different story from the anime, which might be more appropriate to call a spin-off instead of an adaptation.
Games like this make you realise that Resident Evil storytelling could have been a lot worse.
Also, I have been loving that anime!
I just love the Aesthetics of these kinds of games. Really imaginative
Fantastic video. I played the English patch earlier in the year with a friend and found it to be fun. Like you pointed out, the plot doesn't really stand up to criticism, but I like the art and style the game has -- "most PC-98-like" game indeed! I would be very interested in a video from you about Dead of the Brain 2 and Marine Philt.
Oh yeeeeesss! Not even watched this yet but I am hyped! I love this game! It's crammed with horror references! Especially those featuring Jeffrey Combs!
It's mainly a heavy ripoff of Reanimator and the Return of The Living dead series from what I remember (rather than the night of the living dead series.)
Whoa basement docs, this video was heavy.
Now that you've crossed the Rubicon and done an ero game, you have no excuse not to do Briganty sometime >=)
We HAVE to do Marine Philt so we can all find out together what the hell a Philt is
Interesting game! Very "Return of the Living Dead" by way of "Re-Animator" in the prologue.
I need to see a anime version of jeffrey combs from that movie
Man, I love those PC98 Backgrounds. Every VN is just top-tier sprite art and '90s Anime style. Thanks for walking us through this one for _Spooooooky Season_
Also, that game you showed briefly at the end? Briganty: Roots of Darkness? That looks cool as heck! Gonna have to look up more on that until you review it _*fingers crossed_
Norze laying face down in a pool of his own blood with the text box “コール: ノーズ！大丈夫か？！” is unreasonably funny.
Yeah he probably wasn't okay.
Daijobu desu-ka?
No mate
I guess in some zombie stories they might be able to answer lol
When i watch games like this I really wonder what the graphics looked like on a CRT monitor
We need more horror/ gory genre Japanese games from this era! Finding out about the crazy decapitation scenes in madou monogatari on the pc98 is what lead me to this channel originally. I was hoping to find more. This game seems like a must try!
weird thing about Nose is i once found some "official translation" that says his english name is actually supposed to be North....idk why that translates to "Nose" in the english patch. 😐
also idk what "Norze" is supposed to mean tho, i know Norz means "six" in enochian language (only know that cuz the black metal band Impaled Nazarene has a album called _Tol Cormpt Norz Norz Norz_ idk if there's a connection there to the number 6 to his japanese name tho)
North would be wrong though, since it's ノーズ in Japanese, not ノース. I can see why someone would just look at the Japanese name though and say, "Fuck it, North is a good enough English version of that weird name."
A new PC-98 Paradise and its Halloween themed lets gooo
Definitely a nod to Re-animator
Well, that's the first time I've seen "xx *seconds* ago" on a video. 😂
Dead of the Brain was the first PC-98 game I played !
It was one of the game that I was hooked by the graphics and it's gore when I was a teenager and wished I could play it someday (since it was a visual novel in japanese only) and that wish became a reality a couple of years ago when it got a fan translation. This is how my PC-98 addiction started ! :)
It one of my favorite in PC98 era,because of the gritty violence horror and some nuditty back then(young me just clicked everything because i couldn't understand it langauge back then)
Really wishes they kept this kind of anime style to these day in this kind of game
This is the flawless script Hollywood has been waiting for
Great game. As a huge fan of Snatcher I couldn't wait to try DOTB. I really enjoyed it. I only wish there was an english patch for part 2.
ah yes.. american cemeteries.. very famous for putting people to rest with respect and the massive amounts of "fuck you" graffiti...edit: is kane wearing Lupin's jacket?
Great video! Hope for a similar one for Dead of the Brain 2, or Marine Philt!
Um his serum actually works. You should feel sorry for him. What he didn't know was that infection had to occur BEFORE the person died. Then they will heal and be normal. However if given post death, the brain's higher functions are too badly damaged and they go bezerk. If he hadn't shot doc, doc would have discovered this.
I had a feeling there would have been a twist like that when there was an option to shoot doc. Is it revealed in the game like a gut-punch?
Really would like to watch this one but i already get Waxworks gore vibes from this (1:05). I can take Mortal Kombat Gore anyday but this drawn art really messes me up for some reason. Might be the only one that feels this way.
Yeah. That's cool and very understandable. Glad you knew when to tap out. I promise no gore in my next video.
Based on the title I assumed it took place in Washington D.C.
Zombies and Terminators. It’s pretty much Mortal Kombat or Doom. Not quite Brain Dead from the LotR guy! Great Stuff! And Happy Halloween!
Thats gotta be the stupidest start to a zombie outbreak ever lol.
The map on that game resembles metro city from final fight
This game looks so cool - I can see where World of Horror got it’s aesthetic. These 90’s style PC-98 graphics are so satisfying.
Another great video. That said, did this game ever sell itself as something that wouldn't have huge plot holes or be super campy. It's based off a film that is full of plot holes and convenient writing. The premise is insane, then things get more insane, then point and click artificial difficulty spikes ensue, sex, violence, things continue to get more insane, then you end up with the hot babe and a teaser.
Yeah, very true. I had to wonder if the writers were just "taking the piss" when they got to that sushi line. Hard for me to tell what was the true intention though.That part played weirdly serious to me.
I opened up the video on my phone while still playing it on my TV just to say the Doc injecting the cat is very parallel to RE-ANIMATOR. Heck, the drug itself is & even the characters & set up. This game seems like a love child of George A. Romero & Brian Yuzna work. 🖤
That escalated quickly.
YAY, ENGLISH PATCH!
... maybe I should finish watching before cheering this news.
Always see this titled mentioned in almost any overview of the PC 98 so really cool to get the overall run down. Appreciate the hard work as always, this channel always gets me invested in a topic even if I had no clue about it beforehand.
I always felt this game was a rush job and unfinished to keep the company afloat. Choosing to "cheat" or "not cheat" has zero effect on the game. Marine Philt though is one of the Towns games I will never sell from my collection.
Ordinarily, a zombie bite would turn me into a zombie too, but I'm using 3.5 inch backup disks.s
From the title to the whole aesthetics, this game actually knows what makes up 80s Horror B- (or less) movies well. At least QTE-ish part isn't as horrendous as Birdemic's battle scene.
>Story doesn't make sense
I believe that that's how lots of the generic horror movies (especially for the ones that crew members actually just want to take gore shots instead of genuine horror scenes) go, even back in the days. It might also be an indication that, even back then, Zombie Apocalypse movies were rife with live-human characters even dumber than the said zombies.
NintendoComplete did a full playthrough of the PC-98 version of this game with the English patch back on Halloween 2020, and I enjoyed watching the game in action for the most part.
I think _Dead of the Brain_ should have gotten a console conversion and/or update on either the Sega CD or Saturn. Granted, on the hypothetical chance that the game got released on either of the aforementioned consoles and pulled off a Western release, the localization process would probably have been one of the most extensive ones ever done to a video game. Obviously, the explicit nudity and attempted r--e scene would not fly in the West, not to mention that all of the references to horror movies and horror icons (i.e., the blatant "grave" of Stephen King that Dr. Cooger just so accidentally spills his apocalyse-creating concoction on) would have been removed.
As for the storytelling and plot holes, I think the issue was that writer was trying to tell an American B-grade movie plot from the perspective of being a foreigner, and might not have been familiar with such American details and nuances. Anyway, great video.
How fortuitous of this to come out the day after I watched the first 3 episodes of 16-Bit Sensation back to back
Serum based living dead? Starts with a psychotic cat? Makes me think of Reanimator, honestly.
I swear this is my number channel atm nothing this guy makes is boring I can watch all these videos non stop
I'm convinced this game would make for a wonderfully bad B movie in the right (wrong) hands. Just the scene where the doc pulls out a katana and claims he knows how to use it because he's seen movies had me laughing. Still, I am fairly upset that they didn't resolve the Stephen King sideplot 😅
oooo ty for the anime suggestion of 16bit sensation, i wasn't sure i'd get over the heroine's shrill-ness, but around ep 4+ i started to really get into it :P octo-cores n all X-D
Basement Brothers I have a really humble request for you to review Kagerou Meikyuu for any platforms you might be able to acquire, one of the most visually unique games I've ever seen (the versions are radically different depending on the platform too) and I'd really like to have an idea about what the hell its about.
Does the story of the second game makes a bit more sense? Why was Ghoul a robot who somehow could control zombies and why didn't he turn almost the whole town into zombies instead of using them for his experiments? The original drug already seems to work on living humans well so why not make billions of dollar with that?
And people bashed The house of the dead for being a Resident Evil clone.If only they knew...
I have become a new subscriber for you and im going to be looking into this game. Something about the classic PC games that is very entertaining
This sounds like an 80s horror film only released on VHS.
Slaps case* "you can fit so many horror movie references in this thing"
Fairytale did awesome pixel art and I wish someone would translate Dead of the Brain 2
The red font version of the title reminds of the House of the dead title. Not quite the same though.
the first part of this game's plot reminds me of the plot of the movie Re-Animator
Man I've always been idly curious about this game but I have just burst out laughing hearing the prologue. Lmfao. Amazing. I really enjoyed this whole episode.
Loved this episode, it indeed felt just right for Halloween season. Never heard of this game before, but I found that the atmosphere and artwork really sold me on the whole concept and made the evident flaws not that annoying to deal with it. In fact, it's probably the first time I actually skipped some portions of the video to avoid spoilers. My one suggestion for future videos of these type of adventure/rpg games would be to dedicate a section to detail which artists were involved in these projects. I thought about this because I'd like to know who made the art for Dead of the Brain. Now that I mention it, I also remember the Slayers video 'cause the art was superb and just like the one in the novels.
Finally, I was about to recommend you that 16BIT anime but it seems you're aware of it already.
This is a wonderful game. I encourage everyone to play the English patch; it's entertaining and full of character.
That cat thing reminds me of the great cult movie Re-Animator!
I have to say that I love the artwork in this game. It has such a great atmosphere. It triggers nostalgia for the 90s.
Weird coincidence that 16-bit sensation started airing just as I found and started binging your content.
PC-98 nostalgia seems to have reached a peak now in Japan. A few months ago NEC also did a marketing campaign for one of their new laptops which featured a short manga about the PC-98.
This was great! Thanks for the video! I would love to see one about the sequel too, or Marine Philt!
Lol Cole has to be in the running for dumbest protagonist of all time. Top 20 at least. Can't wait for the part 2 hahahaha.
Man getting the creepy Snatcher vibes from this game
This might be my favorite episode of the series as someone who is a big horror fan especially of the 80s and 90s I have the biggest soft spot for dead of the brain even with all of its illogical moments and baffling story moments I love it
Glad you made a video of this game! It was always a curiosity checking some image on internet during the 90's. Gotta check that anime too xD
Dammit Doc
It just got a new fan translation today! What timing
Doc killed the cat! He is worse than Ghoul
There are some things that are goofy, but not goofy as in "stupid"; goofy as in "this is how America is". The aspect of Sheila going out is suppose to make sense because daylight, and remember that Ghoul was trying to get them killed. I suppose the line about her kind nature is suppose to lead you to believe that she is some what naive, and to get you to suspect Ghoul. Also the reporter does make sense. If it is a small town, then the other towns wouldn't know unless word of mouth. Only cities have local news, with the towns and villages have to make due with public access (if they have that). And local news 99.9% doesn't cover other cities. So, if something goes down in a small town, you wouldn't know unless someone from that town (or drove through it) tell you, or you see it covered by your nearest local city news.
Kane makes sense. What doesn't make sense is Ghoul's ambition and the super convenient info dump of Keil.
If Guol was involved in Sheila going out to get food, like you suggest, then it would make more sense. But Guol is never mentioned regarding that incident, I believe. She just decided to go out on her own.
16bit sensation certainly went in direction no one expected.
Didn't they also make a game on PC-9801 called Dracula Hakushaku? The art and game style looks like it. I've only seen screen shots of these games but the sprite work in these games is phenomenal.
Yep. That one isn't considered part of the "Nightmare Collection" though.
@@BasementBrothers I see. Thanks for replying. I don't own a PC-98 but that Dracula game I actually do own. I saw it somewhere for cheap and thought it looked cool to have as I have a bit of a Dracula/Vampire collection as a hobby. So when I saw the artwork in this game the artwork on the back of the Dracula box came immediately to mind for me, so I had to ask. That's cool it's the same company.
Heck yeah! Nostalgic Halloween gaming!
I first became aware of this game when the PC Engine version was featured in one of the U.S. gaming magazines. I had a Turbo Duo and was into importing games, but I didn't have the Japanese skills to really enjoy a text-based adventure. I haven't played the English translation but maybe I'll give it a go.
Are these available in english ?
The opening seems based on the first Reanimator, which is pretty neat
"Doc, please let your poor cat die."
What was he supposed to do, leave a note? Cat dead, details later?
Dead cat inside, do not eat. You _always_ leave a note!
You know it's set in the US when they use a gun to clean a mess of rubble.
DS should have got a port
Spooky season hit even the PC-98 Paradise! It was really accidentally and instantenous zombie apocalypse, that for sure xD Well, from humble viewer perspective i can say that plot of this game seems comically bad, but graphics are rather nice.
which version is preffered to play?
Probably PC-98. There are a few voices in the PCE version, but the graphics are a lot worse.
I'd heard a lot about this one! Still trying to figure out certain PC-98 games on RetroArch though (like the Farland Story games after watching that series here) but in so far, no luck! will have to look into it soon, I'd be curious to try this one out after finishing Snatcher on SEGA CD! ... although I did not know about the MSX translation that might be the one I go with cus running those games aren't as hard for me on emulators.
You absolute madmen
This just screams early Hideo Kojima days but how was he not involved?? or was he?
I think it's pretty obvious the people who made this game got a lot of inspiration from Snatcher.
@@BasementBrothers Exactly what I was thinking lol...
I really wish the sequel got a translation like the first one did, its cheesy as all heck but its still a fun mini romp, Ive just saw like a lets play on a Japanese channel and got some plot points but didn't understand how the cyborg came back and more.
16Bit Ace is awesome, thanks for the recommendation. Mamoru talking about Windows reminded me of shit I said in the 90s.
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Not that a Simpsons clip is always the answer but clearing the rubble with a gun could have lead nicely to the scene of Homer using a gun to open beer, change TV channels and "turn off" lights.
Phenomenal 🧟♂️
Great episode and highly recommend 16 bit sensation. It might be one of my anime highlights this year!!!
Another great video and thanks for the anime recommendation, that sounds really unique.