Golden Axe III - Sega Mega Drive Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ธ.ค. 2020
- In 1993, Sega released Golden Axe III for the Japanese Mega Drive. It should have been a celebration of 3 generations of arcade style beat'em ups, yet Sega hid away in shame, and never released it anywhere else for years.
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Episode Notes:
1. Captured via the Mega SG.
2. This also has a VS. mode that allows you to fight the computer AI or a second player in 1 on 1 battles. It's a simple addition that shoots you back to the title screen after a single match.
3. While The Revenge of Death Adder is seen by many as the true sequel to the first Golden Axe, I actually enjoyed part 2 quite a bit. It's not a bad title.
4. Golden Axe III is on various compilation such as the Sega Genesis Classics that can be gotten on the Switch, PS4 and Xbox One. It's on PC as well.
5. The two endings here basically boil down to you securing the Golden Axe. The default bad ending has you defeating Damud Hellstrike, but war continues. The good ending sees him defeated for good.
6. A couple of characters here have a double jump that helps immeasurably. It allows you to get away from enemies so much faster and more efficiently. Both the girl and panther guy have it.
7. Most secondary attacks are based on additional button or directional presses. Down+Attack. Attack + Jump. Etc. - เกม
I very much recommend consulting a FAQ for this games complete move list. It’s so much deeper than most people realize.
gamefaqs.gamespot.com/genesis/586215-golden-axe-iii/faqs/55783
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@@Kashmir23 Shining Force was better !
Yeah, I missed the lack of commentary about the team attacks, like the special magic you can do in coop with another player
I never understood why this game has been shat on so much. When we were kids, my brother and I played the shit out of this game. Especially since we figured out the co-op moves, and it was NUTS
what was your source about the release dates? because based on sega retro website, this @7:54 is not true since Golden Axe III came out 9 months after Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder and not "years after" (Golden Axe III = june 1993 while revenge of death adder = september 1992)
as for my opinion on the game, see my comment :)
Gameplay > graphics
. This is one of the most replayable games for Mega Drive. OST are gorgeous
For me, it was a surprise when I found out how this game is hated on the internet. Back in the day, this was the first Golden Axe I played on Genesis, and my favorite of the Sega Genesis trilogy.
I love graphics and characters good game
Me too!! Me too exactly; my sister and I first played it when we were in middle school on one of those crappy atgames genesis consoles, and we both liked it the best of the three
My favorite entry too!But 2 is close behind!!
I had no clue it's hated. It's my favorite also. We need the team that made the new streets of rage to make a shiny new Golden axe
In Golden Axe 3 If you use your magic while an enemy is eating chicken he will drop it and you can pick it up to replenish your health! Absolutely amazing touch and I was in shock the first time this happened. This feature pretty much sums up GA3 most people have no idea all the little touches this game has to offer.
GA 3 definitely doesn't make the best first impression, but aside from the mostly medicore visuals this game is criminally underrated and one of the best beat em ups of the 16-bit era. If you enjoy depth in the genre the more time you sink into it the more you will appreciate it. Of course there are some people who like their beat em ups to be the mash one button and watch one combo play out the entire game types you all won't appreciate GA3 at all.
GA3 is the best Genesis installment because of the extremely expanded moveset that includes 4 different combos two close and two longe range, projectile attacks, sweep attacks, 3 different jump attacks, team attacks, team magic and blocking. All of this adds up to one of the deepest and most rewarding combat systems of any beat em up ever. , branching paths, and multiple endings.
While the enemy diversity definitely could have been better it easily beats out GA 1 and GA2 in this regard. They also did the next best thing by having the enemies get progressively harder throughout the game and using different harder to defend attacks in the later levels.
Example the fat guys can breathe fire later in the game and enemies use different combos which inflict more damage. Additionally, enemy A.I. is vastly improved and they don't jump to their death or walk off ledges.
Also the game is filled with nice little touches like enemies crawling away, the guy gets caught on fire animation, breakable objects, saving 5 prisoners for a 1-up.
Underrated gem. It takes a few play throughs to understand the mechanics and enjoy it.
No coverage of the co-op attacks and magic? Some of the co-op magic looks pretty good.
And I get that the background isn't that detailed, but the stages themselves overall are pretty great. The first stage, The Vast Field, actually gives you that very same feeling and the background shows it too. And let's not forget Crystal Cavern's background, and the soundtrack there. Really fitting in my opinion. Not all of them are winners sure but credit where its due, the stage designs are varied and interesting even if the background and enemies are a bit repetitive.
The movesets are actually more detailed than covered. Some characters actually have projectile attacks (well all but one actually, and that guy has an unblockable and uninterruptible attack that you can spam to win the game easily). The more complex movesets means that you'll take more time to master them, but the rewards for doing so are very rewarding. As far as a beat em up goes, Golden Axe 3 has one of the more comprehensive movesets I've seen for this sort of game at the time. 2 of the characters can even wall jump and double jump, that's not something you see often.
I've mentioned before that I don't think there's a single bad track in the game, and some of them are downright excellent. Ride The Whirlwind has always been one of my farvourite Genesis tracks.
Oh yes, and who could forget the hilarious mistranslation that is on the same level as "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" from Zero-Wing. If you get a game over, the game will show the route your character took through the game, and when the route reaches the stage where you died, a line of text that says "And you dead!" appears. I always found this funny, shame this never got the same attention and coverage as "All Your Base Are Belong To Us".
GA3 is my favourite Mega Drive GA game overall; 2 just didn't feel like it added much from 1 apart from replacing the thieves with wizards (being able to charge magic never came into play for me because I always saved it for bosses so having to hold the button to use the strongest spell was just an annoyance).
+1 to this. This game was legendary back in the 90's.
@@tempestfennac9687 curious what's your second favorite and third
@@xylsky1300 2nd favourite is GA1 then GA2. I liked Revenge of Death Adder a lot but I can understand why they didn't port it to the Mega Drive.
Yeah, this was my favorite Golden Axe game. Now I can the that the backgrounds are weaker, but the gameplay is still the best and the music is very good too.
GA3 actually aged pretty well. I think it's more appreciated now than it was back when it was released. If it weren't for the graphics, this would be the GA we all remember. Gameplay and options are the best of the series on genesis.
1:43 - To be fair, all of the characters are half-nekkid...if not more so.
The Giant guy looks like a juiced up Ultimate Warrior
Except he doesn't have the ropes to "draw" energy from.
The ultimate warrior was juiced up
So it's a made with 50% real juice ultimate warrior
@@sneakyking ROFL!
With the POWAH of the GOLDEN AXE! (*snarls*)
@@sneakyking LOL! Good point. I'm not sure it's even possible to be more juiced than Ultimate Warrior was back in the day.
I'm really surprised about such a negative review. This actually is one of my favorite genesis games and I always liked it way more than prequels.
Same here, I don't think the gameplay is any worse than the first two but I think 3 has the best soundtrack by far, no contest.
@@eskanda3434 Such statements are really an exaggeration! Along with statements "looking like a Master System game!" :S While the first one is my favorite GA3 is surely a great game to play in terms of visual, soundtrack and in gameplay. Sometimes I don't understand the negativity towards some games from Sega Lord X. While of course I am taking the factor of personal liking still some comments on the game are unexplainable.
Nice that you liked it, good for you. I feel sad and angry with Sega when I try to play this game. I think it It is worse than what LordX said.
Let's start with the fact that it looks this bad graphically, five years into the life of Genesis?
looks like crap, the same enemies over and over, worthless animals to ride, yeah , its a mediocre game, especially for 93.
10:05 They even got Boris Vallejo to paint that cover art!
Actually, this was the only Golden Axe I played on my Mega Drive as kid, and I loved it since. Recently, I found out that it was never officialy released in Europe, so obviously I played it on some chinese bootleg cartridge or something like that, which was a common case in 90's Serbia. :D
One thing I always loved about it is the combining magic between characters!
The music is excellent. I really enjoy this game, probably my favourite Golden Axe, especially with two players.
This game is great actually! Specially with 2 players! This game should have been 16 Megs, the large sprites and music took most of the 8 megs that they had to cut down and compressed the hell out of the levels!
I tend to forget the Ax Battler and Tyris lookalikes are completely new characters.
They were supposed to be different characters even in the second game too. Only old Gilius remains the same throughout all 3 games.
Funny thing about this is on the Sega Channel they did refer to them as Ax Battler and Tyris Flare. So if it did get a physical release I wouldn't be surprised if they planned on referring to them as Ax and Tyris in the U.S. manual aswell.
@@DeludedOne No, in Golden Axe II they definitely are Ax Battler and Tyris Flare. It's in Golden Axe III where they aren't. They don't show up in the arcade sequels either.
This is and always was my favorite Golden Axe... Never understood why people disliked it!! Me and my cousin used to play this all day long!!!
I got this as a gift and i loved It! Theres even some Coop and Street Fighter like moves in this, It was such a joy to play with my friends!
Green dog has a special place in my heart. I kept my first copy of razzle hidden in the sega power green dog issue
That's some good Genesis music 🎶
Sounds like they put a few of those extra megs into sound effects. Picking up magic and life sounds way better than the earlier games.
Sure whatever
I remember playing this on Sega Channel back in the day. Through the lens of a 6 year old kid, I actually liked it over Golden Axe 1 and 2. A lot of it was the amount of control you had over your character. The grappling system was improved, you could dash across the screen and attack, even jumping felt a bit more refined. The music was great too. Funny thing is that I didn't remember the backgrounds looking like that so maybe it was something I wasn't paying attention to.
This is my favorite Golden Axe game. The gameplay is the tightest, with precise hitboxes and a huge variety of attacks. Forward B+C is very useful, and there is also a special attack done with a complete circle and B+C (quite overpowered though). Having many paths helps replayability a lot and I like this. As the game is fun and the soundtrack is fantastic, I often want to replay this game. It is not the most pretty game on the console, but everything else is good enough to have some great fun.
I wonder if this game influenced the design of Guardian Heroes, Treasure's beat em up on the Saturn. That game had many SF2 type command inputs, and had path choices at the end of the levels.
@@lazarushernandez5827 I think that Guardian Heroes is an evolution of a MegaDrive game they made called Yu Yu Hakusho, which featured battles on two lines, zooming for the characters, and up to four at once. It was an outstanding achievement for the MegaDrive, and Guardian Heroes basically takes this formula, adds a third line, scrolling and many enemies at once. They also used this type of gameplay later on the first two Bleach games on DS (great games).
I really like this channel by the way, but I feel that Japanese exclusive games are overlooked. There are plenty of fantastic games that got stuck there, and things happen even today. For example, Lord Monarch was translated to English a few weeks ago, and it is one of the best RPGs on MegaDrive.
@@cireza_ Mad Stalker Full Metal Forth is also very influential on the development of Guardian Heroes. That one has recently finally been released on the Mega Drive after being cancelled in 1994.
I was a Sega Channel owner growing up, and I had a great time with this game, so when I see people treating it like a leper, I just kind of give a confused look.
"Golden Axe III is way below our standards" - the people who okayed Xperts and Garfield: Caught In The Act
I mean, this game has a cat dude and a giant. Nothing can come close to its greatness.
I couldn't agree more.
I actually played all three Genesis Golden Axe titles for the first time on the PS2's Sega Genesis Collection over a decade ago, and I remember liking the third one quite a bit, but it just feels really different from the first two, I'm actually surprised that it was developed by the same team that made GA2, it feels like it was from a totally different developer
Race: Human
Class: Half-naked
All four playable characters are half-naked class
As they all should be.
Three Fourths Naked Barbarian Vs. Half Naked Female
That was such a stupid comment the man is just ass half naked ass the woman
@@volvo145 Dayatt Ayes is just as half ass naked woman as da mang and naked ass da half 2 add insult to dat ayes
It should have been a 16 Mb game, just some improved graphics and sound and more enemy variety would have it a legendary title.
Anyways, in playing terms, it is one of the best console beat'em ups of it's time.
The sound of the music reminds me music from Shining Force 1 & 2.
That's a good thing 🖒
I've been really enjoying Golden Axe III lately in the SEGA Genesis Classics collection on Switch, so I was happy to see a review from you come up! I appreciate the perspective of it being below expected standards for 1993. But in terms of gameplay, it's actually my favorite of the Genesis trilogy.
Loved Golden Axe 3 as a kid, combat system was nice, fluid an polished, different "classes" added that much loved by me RPG'ish depth to the game. Couple years ago having a nostalgia blast, I just re-visited the game using an emulator on my smartphone, 20 years later, had such a blast playing it.
I really liked this game. For some reason I Never cared neither of the amount of different characters on screen nor of the graphics in particular. To me, the graphics is just a nice addition. To me, a game is the gameplay and emotions I get. I remember the argue I had with my elder brother regarding the Golden Axe III and the Judge Dredd on the Mega Drive (he insisted to exchange the GAIII for the Dredd). My bro said that the Dredd was better because it had better animations. Well, yes it did have better animations, but it Never gave me that chill and vibes from the GAIII intense action and simply outstanding medieval style epic soundtrack.
Love this game. A really great challenge. I don't understand why they put so little effort into the graphics though. It really is below par. The music and gameplay are more important though, so I still really like the game.
Had so much fun playing this in co-op back when it came out
this is a game that i played once but it stuck with me forever
It really needed to be a 16 meg cart. Also I'm pretty sure those backgrounds were placeholder
I have to agree with you on the visuals. But I actually enjoyed the gameplay on GA3, especially the improved combat and character movement. I wasn't aware of it having multiple endings, so I might have to replay it and check it out! Thanks
Excellent video as always SLX. Would love if you made a Sega Channel episode sometime. That would be a nostalgia blast for me 👍
And a pretty interesting episode as well!
This video has convinced me to at least try Golden Axe 3.Reading the bad impression EGM had back in the day did affect my perception of the game, so it's good to hear a different take on it. The music does sound really good.
The music is excellent and I found the fighting to be more fun than the previous two, especially with two players.
I remember playing this on Sega Channel. Wishing I could own it.
I owned this, not anymore though.
Get the sega collection for ps3. Its on there.
Wow you were kinda harsh on the graphics. The screen clearing Snake magic looks amazing! The game definitely has its moments and I think it's the best Golden Axe game on the platform
The best magic graphic wise would be the co-op magic with Chronos (the panther man), it summons a grim reaper with a scythe in the middle of the screen with fog and lightning flashing all over (its eyes light up each time the lightning strikes). It's accompanied with strange alien beeping for some reason I cannot fathom and lasts for quite a while actually.
I don't know, I think this have looks incredibly fun.
Apart from the drab backgrounds ,this game plays very well and is my favourite golden axe game😅
What always irked me is: Why, oh why, did Sega never use the Streets of Rage 2 engine to make a Golden Axe game? It would have looked awesome, Return of Death Adder quality possibly.
In an ideal world they should have let Yuzo Koshiro's Sister's development company make a sequel. But oh well... :(
If there’s any truth to the competitive environment Sega ran with its dev teams, using pre-existing engines from other games was a real no no back then. Everyone wanted to protect what they created and/or make their mark with new engines.
Interesting fact, I noticed yesterday that enemies death's synthetised screen in Golden Axe comes from Conan movie when Sven-Ole Thorsendies at the end :D
Yeah there were two big mean fellows I remember in Conan The Barbarian, one that looked like Lemmy Kilmister from ''Motorhead'' and another that looked like Bruce Dickinson from ''Iron Maiden''. The one with the huge mallet got impaled in the movie and he let out that Death-Adder scream.
I think it's a very solid game. Not every game needs to be a visual tour de force to be good.
I actually love this game. There's a certain charm to it I can't explain.
When I was a kid, I liked this one much more than 1 and 2.
No shame in that my friend. There's variety in the game and no one can deny that much
Just recently played all three back-to-back. 3 is so much better than the first two it's not even funny.
@@TwitchWasHere the first ones where so clumky
That music was pretty awesome. Sad alot of people will never hear it.
They're ALL half naked!
Nobody cares if a dude is half naked.
excellent point! 80% to 90% even!
@@SegaLordX It's why women watch Marvel movies.
@@SegaLordX... except for women and gay men. Quite the double standard there mate.
No double standard. Just a preference and a joke.
I was actually lucky enough to play this on Sega Channel during the mid-90s.
I consider myself pretty blessed for that and a whole bunch of other great games that never made it here otherwise - Alien Soldier and Pulseman, anyone?
Why no mention of the co-op magic's they were amazing!!
I loved playing with the panther guy, he was so cool.
He also had the cheapest attack in the game that could be cheesed to clear the entire game easily.
Golden Axe 3 is by far the best of the three
Wait, this was a pariah? I loved this thing.
The two players combine magical
I know that it's difficult to guage certain aspects when TH-cam heavily compresses video,
but it seems to me even if the backgrounds are poor, the sprites are an improvement and
also the animation is better from the previous two games.
I've never played the game, so I can't back that up with true facts however.
I do prefer the second game to the first, so I will find a way to play this third installment.
Thanks again for another great video.
Never found anything disappointing about the graphics
Ride The Whirlwind sounds like it belongs in Streets Of Rage. This game fell into the time of Sega's "confused age".
Easily the best installment on the platform. While it does drop the ball when it comes to backgrounds (the sprite work is actually really great and well-detailed), it more than makes up for it by its gameplay, with tighter controls, multiple routes and a well fleshed out moveset. The enemies also don't feel as dumb as 1 or cheap and unfair as 2. Couple it with coop attacks and special moves (and coop magic, which is where all the spectacle went) and you got yourself an insanely replayable game that easily trumps the previous two entries.
Also come on, Chakan wasn't trash.
I figured it was graphically weak because it was specifically meant for the Sega Channel and they were trying to keep the size down.
That has nothing to do with it. The game started developent in late 92' and released in June 93'. Sega Channel launched in Dec 94' and wasn't widespread until mid 95'. Also the Sega Channel supported lots of 24Mb games so rom size wasn't an issue.
I actually really liked chakan the forever man 😂
I have nothing to complain about GA3. I loved play this games.
When I picked this title up years ago on the Wii shop, I never knew it existed. Played Golden Axe I & II for hours on end as a kid, and loved both, so had to give this a look. It seems “off” in comparison to the prequels, different feel to it for sure, but once I played it a few times it grew on me. Not my favorite of the three, but enjoyable.
This game every char has 2-3 special moves and one super move... you can make some great combos.
I discovered all those myself when I was kid.
So that magic attack is weakened compared to 1 or 2 because you can use different way to beat enemies
The big guy super move is projectile of 3 🌀.
The panther has fast hunting move with paw.... also when you hitting enemy and hold back it will do back flashback.
Jump hold down and attack is another attack.
@@leomonz If all 3 hit, it causes huge damage. Trouble is, you have to be real close for that to happen and the tornadoes don't travel far either.
@@leomonz That fast hunting move is unblockable and uninterruptible. It's also spammable, making it the cheesiest move in the game if one wants to play that way.
@@DeludedOne That was how I beat the game first time.. it is almost invicible.
I think the move was like
-> B+C. It was almost 26 years ago...
The big guy tornadoes is full circle + either B+C ... dont remember...
I love this game.. a lot combo especially two players
I have this game on the Ultimate MegaDrive/Genesis Collection on the PS3 and XBox360.
SEGA were kind enough to include all 3 Golden Axe games in that 40+ Game Collection during the 7th Gen Consoles.
I'm definitely among those who were very disappointed with GA3, even though the move list was a nice addition. On the other hand, I certainly was not expecting a review of it on Christmas eve, and it's a very cool video as usual. Happy holidays to you and yours, SLX! Greetings from Brazil!
Finally, the review that Golden Axe III really deserves! Thanks SLX!
Seems like this needs an HD Remix with new visual elements and enemies added. There's the bones of a good game here.
The best of the saga for consoles.
I just don't fucking get it. If you asked me what was my favorite SEGA game ever, this comes to my head immediately. I played it as a kid, in the console, for years on end, with multiple friends, and had none of these complaints. The backgrounds are a little shallow, but the sprites are huge and detailed. You had 4 (5) characters, a huge moveset, branching stages... Plus the music and the gameplay are fantastic. It blows away all other Golden Axe games. Everyone around me was hooked to this game. We'd play it hardcore in Christmases and Summers, trying to do perfect runs, until the PS1 came.
And then, I grow up, and the Internet comes, and everybody hates it. What? Just... WHAT?
Golden Axe III is the Rocket Knight Adventures of Beat 'em ups. As in: extremely good, and very underrated. This competes head to head with Streets of Rage II. And if you were alive in the 80's, grew in the 90's, and had the pleasure to have a black market copy of this at home, you agree.
Umm competes head to head with SOR2?! Are you ok?
@@atom_zero5413 Both have cool stage concepts, a bunch of special attacks (though GA3 has more), 4 characters, and great gameplay. Yeah SOR has better graphics, but this has an awesome-er setting and even better music. What's there not to love?
This game is certainly not terrible but is no where near as good as streets of rage 2. Lol
@@DudeWatIsThis you clearly have some love for the game. I do the same for some titles, but I am sorry I cannot in my best intentions agree.
I agree with most of the post other then competes with Streets of Rage 2. The graphics, sound effects are not in the same league. GA3 is extremely underrated though and if it were on a 16-Mb cart like SOR 2 I think they could have fully realized the true potential of GA3 being one of the best beat em ups ever.
I love this game! my favorite golden axe (the soundtrack is one of my sega genesis favorites too).Greetings from Argentina.
I've never gotten on with the Golden Axe series. It has always seemed that the enemies have very small hit boxes that make them difficult to hit, whereas they can hit you if they're even glancing in your general direction.
I never could never understand Golden Axe. Every other beatem up I could figure out and get good at but these games punished me no matter what. Also the controls feel really stiff too.
@@magicjohnson3121 Once Sega crafted the Streets of Rage series, all of their 16 bit beat em ups should've have moved to that game's engine.
Review the Rolling Thunder series please. And great job as always. Feels good to have a Sega Lord X video everyday.
Nice video, like always! I would be interested in your opinion on Golden Axe: Beast Rider. Or did you already cover it and I missed it?
What a great coincidence...after many years, today i played this game ...i like it so much... i prefer Golden axe 3 than the second.
Greetings from Brazil!
Great video! Loved it! I didn't know Golden Axe III wasn't released in the U.S.
Merry xmas and sega happy new year!
Excellent video dude! Happy Christmas!🎅🎄☃️👍
Maaaaaaaaan, you forgot to mention the COMBINED MAGICS. Beside that, great review
This game was included in the genesis collection for the ps2 and my friends and I played it so much. Such an awesome game with multiple paths to take; we took all of them.
I play it on the PS3 via the Sonic's Sega Genesis Ultimate Collection, however the shadows beneath the characters flicker, I guess the original one on the Genesis doesn't?
It is one of the games I play the most. It is a very deep game in terms of gameplay compared to the previous games.
I am so glad I found this game at the local video game store in like 1996 it has just excellent music and rabies shots are totally OK
Funny story growing up this was the first and only Golden Axe Game in my Sega library and let me tell you when going back to Golden Axe 1&2 after playing GA3 I found both to be lacking as I was too spoiled with multi paths, characters and special moves.
I still prefer this over the prequels
This is an excelent game in its own right. The soundtrack is phenomenal, gameplay is good and the panther character is just so good. You can easily cheese the game with the panther's special move (the one you do a 360 on the dpad + B+C). It's so overpowered!
It's actually a half-circle on the d-pad for him and Sarah, not full.
❗I loved this Game ever since first playing it back in early-2000 on a PC via Emulation (which I thought was sorcery back then).
I had already played GA1 via an actual MD and thought GA2 was OK via the same Emulator.
What I also loved about GA3 is the multiple paths you could take.
I've since bought this on the 3DS E-Shop.
You skipped out the best part of "THE VAST FIELD" song when showing the tunes of this game with those almost sweeping octives like Yngwie Malmsteen.
My father got me this when it first came out as MD overseas. It didn't work on my u.s. genesis, but recently i found out it works with my genesis clone.
Got golden axe 2 for Christmas loved it!
I absolutely hated the death grunts of golden axe 2 and 3 and I absolutely agree with your assessment of the game another great one Sega Lord X
Let's be honest, The Golden Axe series won't win any awards for the death grunt category. (especially Golden Axe 2)
Golden Axe 1s aaaahhh will forever be burned into my head an as an early genesis/megadrive title i felt that it was definitely an early showpiece for the hardware
My favorite mega drive / genesis game ever.
I played this game a while back and have revisited this, I agree with your thoughts, it is a let down that the graphics were not up to the standard, I still think it should have got a western release because it was far from what you said in regards to chakan etc. I loved the multple paths you could take, I mean the gameplay is there, for me the let down is the visuals for the most part. Good review.
I just played this on my switch yesterday and we are on the same wavelength!! keep up the great work! Hail SLX!!!
Is it available on Switch?
@@nayyarrashid4661 yes Sega genisis collection
I guess I look at this game differently. When I discovered this game through emulation, it became my favorite Golden Axe game for the 16 bit era. Nice review nonetheless.
I was playing this game back then, borrowed from a friend of mine. I was not realize the game lack of detail and variety. By that time I feel the game a classic and match with the mediaval age era. But now, yes now I notice the lack of detail. Overall is good game.
Hey, what was wrong with Chakan the Foreverman? Other than it was hard AF?
I played this 24/7 at my grandma's house on my PSP during grammar school
PSP, now that was a stout little emulation box.
I once discovered this sequel video game on the Sega Genesis Collection for the PS2 once!
Hope Lizard Cube makes IV!
These were great games 😎
I agree on visual etc, however the stage you show at 6:47 I always loved!