Eternal Champions (Genesis) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2016
- A playthrough of Sega's 1993 fighting game for the Sega Genesis, Eternal Champions.
Played through the single player game as Larcen.
Some of the different Sega logo screens are shown at 25:32.
The different stage fatalities are all shown at 26:42.
Eternal Champions is an awesome game. Not quite as mind-blowing as the Sega CD sequel, but awesome nonetheless. It has the same basic foundation as Street Fighter II, but this is far from being a clone. The general flow of combat feels totally different and you aren't allowed to spam special moves. And my favorite part - it features some hilariously sadistic fatality moves. The fighting engine is solid, and it's a shame that Sega attempted to sell it as off as a hyper violent game in the wake of Night Trap and MK hysteria. I do think that it got nowhere near the attention it deserved because people dismissed it as another Time Killers or a generic SF2 clone with blood. Their loss!
The game overall looks great. The characters are big for a 16-bit game and they're well animated, and everything is well colored. It does look a bit rough on modern screens though - there are quite a few faked transparencies that look like checkboard patterns, but on a CRT (or a good CRT shader) it looks really nice. Just be warned, the computer is brutal. If you don't anticipate its moves and get caught in one of its combo or corner traps, you probably won't survive it. Excellent otherwise, though. I love the title screen music!
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This game had a very creative story idea. Individuals from different time periods who were killed meet in the afterlife and battle it out for a 2nd chance. Would make really good movie or perhaps a remake.
I still think that game has the best story ever (for a fighting game).
@@chaudcola It is kind of creepy too lol!!
@@Miguelon88888 hahaha maybe!
Sounds like an anime plot 🤔
@@RossetaStoned91 does a bit
I used to sit and watch my big brother play this game, it was always too hard for me to figure out at the time. I used to think it was the coolest thing ever, so mysterious and sort of eerie. Crazy how someone posting a play-through on youtube can bring back so many memories of him. Thank you so much for this.
Same
Np :) I'm glad it could do that for you
Same feeling I had growing up watching my bro play Resident evil
@@stolensentience I had this same experience. TH-cam is amazing.
Same ahead of its time
My best friend and I use to play this game all the time. He passed away a few years back. this game reminds me of the great times i wish were still here. Thanks for this.
I can feel it. I played this game and Street Fighter II with my youngest brother (he has the Mega Drive and i the Snes), je was a lot better then me in this kind of Games so i lost most times but it was great fun. In 2012 he was killed by illegal Migrants her in Germany, he was only 23, i miss him so much.
Sorry for your loss brother.
I can't believe why nobody aint try buy the trademark for this game and put out a remake..........Sega need to revive this game
Not going to happen. They prefer Virtua Fighter over this.
cough Patreon cough cough
Muhan C.A. wtf are saying & is something stuck in yo throat then u need to see a doctor asap lol
Jeremy Riley I know this game wasnt all that good when it came out but I liked it & I think imo if sega went the route like killer inctinct did then I think the game could totally be a sucess
Cough!
This game was so far ahead of it's time! Stage fatalities, taunts, decent combos... wow.
And also real world fighting styles
Lol.None of those things really added much to this mediocre game. Street Fighter 2 did just about everything better 2 1/2 years prior.
@@inputfunny What makes Street Fighter 2 better?
To me this looks better in many ways. Sort of like the best of both world between Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat.
It even had a self-hoovering vacuum cleaner on Rax's stage, they didn't come out irl until 20-something years later.
And that soundtrack 🤌
Memories!!! Everyday coming home from school, Thundercats, homework and Eternal Champions with little brother..got my ass whopped and finally beat the breaks off him with Trident.
This game looks badass I’m surprised I never played it in the 90’s..
Hell yeah I definitely know the feeling. I bet we're around the same age im 31yrs. This is straight nostalgic vibes. I miss being a kid.
Marry me 💕
I used to mess people up with Trident, Xavier, R.A.X. and Slash.
I remember playing this game as a kid. The eerie and gore atmosphere was so scary I had nightmares... yet I couldn't stop myself from getting back to it. I used to beg my sister to stay with me while playing. 90's gaming at its finest
Happy birthday 🎂
Same, specially Xavier's stage. It was intense to play late at night. 😂
Happy birthday 🎂
Good game but the difficulty is through the roof. The Eternal Champion marathon fight at the end is probably in my Top 10 most unfair gaming moments lol.
used to make me rip my hair out. I could only beat the game with three characters.
Don't let the sharp learning curve scare you away too quickly - once you learn the game and get some practice, it really is an excellent fighter. And extremely violent, if you like that kind of thing. I do.
Another problem is the CPU can get away with cheating. The ying-yang symbol basically shows how many times you can use special attacks, but the CPU opponent can use them despite depleting it.
The CPU in this game is so damn cheap even with practice. I remember running circles with people at the local funcoland with Larcen,Xavier,Rax and Trident, but the CPU still pummels me to this day due to their over excessive blocking! take away the blocking and the CPU would die instantly!
not as violent as it's Sega CD squeal
Sequel* I own that and tend to agree!
But can try a Sega-CD version of 'Eternal Champions'.
When I heard "punk" and the xavier staff power up. I am 8 years old again.
🙌
Love the whole atmosphere of this game...it's all about the atmosphere when it comes to any creative project, imo!
Agreed. The entire mythos around this game had unlimited potential. Such a shame this was the only entry.
Eu concordo. A criatividade era essencial nessa época por isso os jogos eram tão bons.
It have everything except good gameplay. God I wanted to like this game but it moved way too stiff
Agree...this was more my jam than Mortal Kombat back then
@@krazycloud8971 there was a sequel on Sega CD.
I bought some old X-men comics and found an ad for this game in there, now I have to play this game!!
It's freaking awesome
which comics? ^^
This game has some of the best spritework I have seen in a Mega Drive/Genesis game. They're so large (with some going up to 128 pixels high) and are animated so well with tons of character shown in them.
Upon observation of the sound channels when running this game, I found that the helicopter sound effect at around 7:15 is FM. American devs managed to get a literal helicopter sound out of the Genesis without it sounding like farts.
The game’s art direction was fucking next level.
and Alien Soldier 🤘badass system
Programmers Michael Terlecki, Christopher Warner and Mark Nausha later went on to form their own company, Point of View, Inc., which later became Subdued Software, while sound designers Jeffrey Glenn Tveraas and Tristan Des Pres later went on to Park Place Productions, which is now known as SCE San Diego Studio.
Wow! As soon as I heard the music play I smiled! I always loved game as a kid.
I really loved this game. I got it 2 weeks after the 1994 Northridge
January Earthquake that hit L.A.
My stepdad bought this at a garage sale back in the 90s, it was actually a lot of fun. Used to love Jetta and Shadow
When you said that you "Used to love Jetta and Shadow" did you mean that you loved to play as them or that you had a crush on them???
@@J4MMUS Am definately not gonna lie !! I had a huge crush on Jetta and Shadow. Damn there i said !!
That theme song takes me back. I used to play this so much with my brother as kids.
This game was low key terrifying
Preach bro
It does with those brutalities & fatalities u don’t see in mortal kombat.. that shit creeps up on u.. and horrifying way... which makes them game special..
If you find this terrifying go play (or watch someone play) the sequel on the Sega/Mega CD.
This had one of the greatest concepts of any fighting game ive ever seen
The storyline is amazing
I never understood the game play tho all i did was button mash tbh
i think this is one of the hardest fighters ever. love the character Larcen--probably one of the coolest characters in any fighting game. Always played as him. I don't know how you master these games!. I gave up on this one years ago.
Holy shit I’ve been trying to figure out what game I played all the time when I was a kid and just hearing the first fight music made me realize it was this game . Amazing game way ahead of its time
Serious props for beating this game. I remember how stupid hard the AI was in single player. Larcen was my man back in the day. Respect. ✊
I have a mint condition poster for this I love this game and need to find another sega copy of this. I use to play this all night. :D
The eyeball coming off at 15:02 was fantastic. Amazing playthrough, thanks a ton for bringing back memories.
REALLY needs a remake. Loved how it was Mortal Kombat violent but looked like Street Fighter.
Larcen was always a go-to character for me too, never managed to beat the full game. Makes me wanna throw an emu on for old times sake.
the memories this game brings back....loved the fatalaties where you had to find the sweet spot, the music and the taunting was a whole new level for me.
This is a slightly underrated game.
Nah.
@@inputfunny why isn’t it?
@@evansusmc It's pretty mediocre; that's why no one talks about it these days. All it really has going for it are the great graphics. Street Fighter 2 is way better, and it came out over 2 years earlier.
@@inputfunny that’s all true. I give it a lot of credit for the amount of fatalities this game had. Darn near endless.
@@inputfunny Street fighter was overhyped imo, much preferred this and Mortal Kombat 2.
This had better sound design, graphics, creative direction etc. Street fighter was too bright and childlike to me. Plus this had hotter chicks.
Thanks for putting this up. I haven't thought about this game in years. Good gameplay.
They all have a move or two that is very useful, high priority, high mobility or both which takes no spirit. Larcens wheel kick, Shadows double jump and dive kick. Rax's "throw" with hard kick, which is nutso brutal and can stun allowing you to do it again. Tridents ground blade roll back to bait and retreat while charging a move. Blade's trademark 'lightning' dive with hard kick in the air, letting you jump back away, pressing it as a surprise sudden front dive. Xavier's standing hard punch? That tosses his cane out a very long range as a huge wheel, Slashes quick hard flip kick and absurdly dominant down strike with his club. Once you realize you can charge moves after jumping in (think charge characters in SF series E Honda / Blanca) you jump in with many champions and immediately pull away to charge, work a little poke to soften them and open up. Most moves in this are multi button, a button and a direction or a charge.
I personally have a hard time picking a favorite. I love Larcen and Rax but I love Shadow and Midnight's whole design and feel so much.
What I think makes this game great is, the characters are not stylized by the martial art they know (which can be amazing don't get me wrong) but they are styilized by being themselves.... A unique concept. They are not just Samurai or karate.
The only character that even sort falls into this cliche is Jetta and even she is a hyper fast acrobat that knows the very obscure pencak silat and thows a boomerang.... and you have the obscure like Slash's fight style .... "PAIN" lol
Then you assume it will be a cheese fest and unbalanced, but the spirit meter helps a ton there.
The crazy thing also is, not every champion has a weapon. While developers can make a hard punch the same damage as a staff strike what they can't fuge on is the range so all sorts of reach.
Somehow a Jeet kun do vampire from Vietnam era can fight a caveman with a club or a cyborg with energy weapon with his fists and his 'free' move that brutal gap closing tornado kick. Somehow it remains fairly balanced.
And finally why would a 1920 gangster fight an Atlantian or a caveman? The story makes that work as well. It's a wonderful game I'm proud to own a copy and me Sega Genesis type 2 still works.
With some development and new installments this game could be a very serious competitor against Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat.
I was expecting to see the Mafia-lity but I guess you must fight against Larcen to see it.
Wait a minute it was included, Yei!
+Muhan C.A. Yes. You have to fight him in order to discover that "fatality".
It will suck for Germany if Eternal Champions gets a character similar to Street Fighter's M.Bison and the game gets banned in Germany.
Muhan C.A. Agreed
I used to love this game when I was a kid. The story and characters were so badass
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Wow, this game looks awesome! I need it in my collection for sure.
Great video showcasing the game. Thank you for uploading it.
I don't think I've even thought about this game since the 90s. This is a blast from the past. I was in a big fan of fighting games but I really like this one of this is one of the few that I played religiously for at least a year. Watching this walkthrough and seen these characters is bringing out some real nostalgia
That intro soundtrack is UNBEATABLE!
I love this game
I LOVED this game when I was a kid! I would spend hours beating the game with every character to see there story. Awesome to find this on TH-cam! 👍
Thank you for this. I played this game for years but was never able to beat the Eternal Champion. This allowed me to see how the game ends. Thanks!
Excellent playthrough. You actually fought instead of spamming a cheap move and nailed all the fatalities. Lord this was a hard game when I was a kid.
Thanks! And I hear you there, it's just still as hard :)
I'm soooo glad i found this. I was so perplexed to what the title of this game was. I was 6 or 7 and this game took a huge chunk of my childhood!
Man I so loved this game I remember this shit back when I was a kid my childhood memory I loved Xavier game was basically a street fighter
The devs who made Streets of Rage 4 did one hell of a job on bringing back the franchise. I pray that they remake this
Notably one of the few fighting games out there with a well thought out premise. It's a shame the story never saw its conclusion
Such an underrated game. Better than MK in my opinion.
Andrew Busshart The game will get banned in Germany if they bring out a character similar to M.Bison.
Um, nope MK > SF > Eternal Champions
@@heywannaplay6094 Their is a lot of potential in Eternal Champions.
@Alex Arias Well if you comparing now of course Mortal Kombat is better.
@Alex Arias Dude you don't need to tell me about this game because i use play it when it first came out on Genesis. The obscurity can easily be overlooked it was brought back.
I love how the hit sounds are from street fighter 2
I just noticed that too! Haha.
i liked seeing all the stage executions.
Curseius If they would have made a M.Bison equivalent character for that game it would be awesome fighing in a stage that takes place in World War II, but in the suck part the game gets banned in Germany.
One of my favorites ❤ The back stories and the concept was well written and the music and graphics were engaging. It was challenging but still enjoyable and at the time, it seemed ahead of it's time! So many comments on the great memories ppl had playing, I remember being hyped just seeing the cover art! Would make a great movie..
Yes it was.
I loved this game so much. Hours of game play with my cousins back in 90s
Great playthrough! Refreshing to see all the overkills. The one for Slash's stage used to scare me to death as a kid. You good at using MidKnight?
I remember playing this as a kid. Great times, did not realize what the storyline was until I read it just now
I freaking love this channel! I can’t remember if the fatalities happened if you finished them in a certain spot or had to do something special
The Sega consoles had several 1st party classics during the 8-bit & 16-bit generation, and for that reason, Sega has always been one of my favorite game developers!
just played this game again after i like 15 years. i completely forgot about it until my friend bought a sega genesis mini and this game was there. so much memories came back to me when i played it. This is the why im here :)
Stage music for Jetta, Shadow and Midknight hypeness
God, I remember losing my shit when I finally beat this with Trident. It's challenging as hell, but really played well for a console fighting game.
The music is awesome. I can't get some of it out of my head after playing and now after watching this.
I remember me and my siblings grew up on this game! Brings back sooooo many awesome memories! I miss this playing game❤️🥹😁💪
Nostalgic thanx also playing as Larcen. Personally my favorite character. Reminds me of Gambit both have style
Never realized how demonic this game was back then
I wish they remake this
Yes it will be so raw
I hope so too, along with killer instinct and Darkstalkers...
I can’t believe I figured out what this game was called! I have thought about it for years!
Wow, I looked this up as it's in early Sonic The Comic, which I'm rereading, and wow it's a hella lot more violent than I was expecting, some really creative stuff in this!
Omg memories unlocked!!!! I forgot about this game omfg lol
That intro track tho
I used to have a friend who insisted on playing the Atlantean with unlimited chi. One fireball would stun you, and then he'd be able to hit you with a series of 3 buzz saw attacks. So cheesy.
Then somehow he stopped having fun playing the game when I got good enough to beat him regularly despite it.
Played as Blade, Midnight and Larcen and defeated the Eternal Champion with all those characters. Their backstories painted them as good guys in the wrong place at the wrong time when they died so that and their combos and taunt drew me to play them.
The Blade character sounds like he was voiced by Keith David, best known as the voice of Goliath on the Buena Vista-produced Gargoyles animated series, which premiered one year after Eternal Champions.
He is to Spawns voice what Nark Hamill is to Joker.
He also voiced Spawn!
Good lord he does. He'd have been perfect for Blade if they'd ever adapted the thing.
I used fall asleep playing this freakin' game hahaha. Loved the music too! Good ol' memories. Thanks for uploading NintendoComplete!
One of my favorite fighter games growing up. Played it all the time and used every character. Hard to pick a favorite because they all had interesting backgrounds unique move sets
I’m just now knowing this game has fatalities 🤯😭 I’m 32 I played this when I was about 4 years old..
The good old nostalgia 😎👍🏾
Forgot about this gem! Very cool game that wasn't a 100% copy of MK, very cool game. Thanks for unlocking this memory
The final boss was no joke! I was 8 years old when i used to play this. Good times
I've never heard of this, but it has most interesting concept for any fighting game that I've ever seen. The idea that there's all these people from different points of history fighting each other in the places where they died, moments before their deaths, trying to avoid the fates they suffered in reality.
I only wish they had more time periods, though. With the exception of the detective, the caveman, and the wizard, most of the characters look like they came out of comic books. It would have been more interesting if there were people from every era: a knight, a samurai, a cowboy etc. But w/e. Hope there's a remake
@Artuurs Z. I suppose they all look like comic book characters.
What I'm saying is that this concept, in theory, had the best idea for a multiplayer action game, where you can literally choose any character. And I only wish they'd used it to its full potential.
Loved this game growing up!
I was too young to figure out the special moves but i still got busy.
I remember this game loved it, bring back lots of good memories.
yea this game was one of the hardest fighters i ever learned. fave was trident, then xavier. but this was one of the first games that genuinely had a adaptive NPC element and i call bullshit on anyone who says it didnt. its like either the difficulty ramped up every stage, or the pc was legitimately learning your moves and countering them, because by time you got to the eternal champion i swear that dude was reading my mind. in fact i swear thats how i remember beating the game. id save one move (tridents plasma shot) and never use it through the other levels, then spam the hell out of it in the last fight.
Thanks for the tip!
Pretty sure the CPUs in this game straight-up read your button inputs. At least that's what it always felt like to me. It always seemed like they knew what you were gonna do before you even did it. So they read your button inputs and counter whatever you're doing in the first frame of your move if they can.
I love larcen pj. the xavier stage its amazing, the music and the atmosphere, behind where the others man with his captures and the fire in the center like the hunt of witchs is perfect.
I loved this game on the Genesis!! Then there was this one track in the Sound Options that me and my homies would freestyle to. Then later on Bone Thugs N Harmony would use that beat for the Eternal song on the E.1999 album! Ahh, the memories!!
That guitar solo went really well with the death at 5:32
I remember renting this game as a child and accidentally doing the stage finishers. 😆 As kids we didn't even know what triggered them we just thought it was random
This is awesome! I love this game! Never forgotten.
God, I used to play this game so much as a kid..the title screen music is engraved in my mind.
Looking at all the dithering in the game, ihe graphics must've looked pretty sweet on a CRT tv
They're beautiful. The backgrounds always feel so alive. I especially think Xavier's stage is quite the work of art.
Loved this, still have my Sega and all my games this one included
Casi lloro al recordar cuando jugaba después de salir de la primaria, mi infancia volvió a mi al escuchar la música y los sonidos de este juego. Simplemente maravilloso
The music! So nostalgic
I'm surprised how good the music was. It's not over-composed; it leaves a lot of room for the imagination, but still has a lot of character. I think these songs would sound great remade with modern tools.
just played this yesterday still crazy game
usually the end fight in most fighters is usually having to beat the last guy maybe an extra time but damn you have to beat the eternal champion 5 times in a row in ONE fight dont know what the devs were thinking but man it was hard lol.
Your right on the money about that
This was one of my all time faves!
Last boss is like geese Howard with ghost fire soul 👺
This looks super cool. Looking forward to trying it on the Genesis mini!
Shocked by the amazing visuals and gameplay. I didn't remember this game
I used to play this when I was a kid I miss it so much
Very underrated game but brings back good old memories the first time I got my Sega Genesis it came with the game in a bundle pack!! I would come so close to almost beating it with larcen but the eternal champion at the end was always too tough!! The best thing about this game was the fatalities and some of them were better than mortal Kombat 2 fatalities at the time. I heard that there was a part two of eternal champions but I never played it or seen it I just read about it in game magazines back in the day something these young kids have no idea about!!
SF n MK visuals.
Double Dragon n X-Men2 sound effects.
Keith Courage music.
= classic
Yo so many memories playing this game so nostalgic I'll give a arm and a leg to play this today.
Aah. Seeing this brings back fond memories from the mid 90s.
This brings so many memories