My brother and I remember renting this game when we were kids, and I even came up with my own idea for a sequel or remake. So nostalgia-inducing! Fun Fact: The clay animators, Angie Glocka and Owen Klatte, have worked on several other noteworthy stop motion projects, like Gumby, Bump In The Night, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, as well as some CGI and VFX works.
I just loved the shapeshifting aspect. Mario just gave you abilities, but you get brand new forms along with their special abilities. The ranged-option ball was cool too
I got when I was a kid I would rent this game so many times in video mm back in the day I was never able to finish it thank you for uploading this now frustration can be at ease
I also had this game as a kid and couldn't find it anywhere anymore. I'm glad I got to see the first few levels again, those are the only ones I remember.
Its crazy that i remember the music after so long. Humming the first level randomly this morning and had to find it! Good to know i spent my childhood well!
i never knew about this game until i saw it on the snes Nintendo Switch online,i just recently defeated the first boss in got into the canon. i was kinda surpised as i did not expect any boss fights in this game. 24:38 also,i really like this bonus stage
What if the meteor that had crashed into the Playland circus was made of the serum and the characters in Clayfighter are the contaminated employees, similar to the child who was transformed by the serum?
I played this on Nintendo Switch Online (SNES) I never could beat this game when I was little, (When it was in cartridge form) now I put a long years frustration to rest by beating it.
I remembered playing this game when I was a kid. It was on Malaysia Airlines Boeing 747's in-flight entertainment system in the early 2000's. I didn't know its name until now. This brings me back memories.
I only went to this link to share how I loved the music. I still do, but it feels like it's in the past, because with a worn out controller and for a while finding only used ones, and with cable with a DVR, I stopped playing Nintendo. At first it was temporary, but I got used to it by the time I got it back. Now, I just enjoy the memories without actually playing anyone. I loved the music, because I imagined the music as Clayton's view of the environment. He was playful, he was a kid, so he had fun in the yards prior to the abduction of his father. And that although he was in a crisis, he still enjoyed the environment throughout his quest. The style of the music seems indistinguishable to Clayton's joyful childhood mood and personality. But after playing through Japan, Africa and planet Clayvius, I realized that the music in Clayton's yard for example was just a style of American music. Even when it would say- "Clayton's Yard", I thought that the style of the music was an idea of the fun, exciting yard of Clayton. But later, it seemed to me that the music was more like a political welcome style music for kids. Mainly because if in the beginning, just after Clayton leaves the lab, if it said "Welcome to the United States", it would have played the same music as when it says "Clayton's Yard". And even though I also like the idea of childhood fun, joy and excitement, I really liked the idea- "Welcome to the United States". Because then the music would represent the fun, joy, peace and friendship of America. Also representing the joy of freedom compared to let's say... Russia or China. So since I thought of that idea, I have wanted to see such an animation in the game. So far, all I have done was copy and paste letters against the same background as when it says "Clayton's Yard". I like the background title- "Welcome to the United States" better than "Welcome to the USA." Until I finished elementary, I always thought that alphabets also represented or hid through symbolism emotional expressions. With S always appearing to represent the happiest expression.
It's a real shame the backgrounds don't look clay-like, because I do like the digitized clay sprites. I grew up playing Clayfighter: Sculptor's Cut a bunch (so stupid you could only rent that game from Blockbuster!) and loved the style. They should've taken the concept all-out the way The Neverhood and others did, but I do think this is still something I'd like to play sometime and given the fact that they fit this all on a 16-bit system is still pretty cool, what with the high quality, clean sound and fun-looking giant clay boss fights.
Man, I rented this game once and had so much fun with it. Now, 20-something years later, I suddenly remembered it. I couldn’t remember much, just that you played as a little ball and the name “Jeremy” (from Jeremy’s Yard). It took me a long time to find the name of the game and now, watching your video, it really feels like going back in time.
An evil magic user turns the hero into a bouncing blue ball. Was there some guy just breaking in to game studios and writing that on the blackboards back then?
You've nailed one of the biggest problems in the game. Not that Sonic and Mario are any better, but this storyline is one of the worst made! This games biggest problem is simple: THE CHARACTERS SUCK! Our hero (Clayton) has a face I'd just like to punch like Meg Bennett's dipshit "boyfriend" Bim from the Bionic Six (let alone being nothing special), that witch doctor is an unmemorable shit and don't even get me started on the final boss! Bowser, Eggman and Wily would mop the floor with these losers easily! And just wait till what Mario, Sonic and Mega Man do to that Clayton loser. It won't be pretty! You may not like Bubsy The Bobcat, but there is a good reason why he had sequels (despite his games not being special either, let alone that 3D one killing him for good) and Claymates didn't. Clay Fighter had memorable characters, which makes it all the more sad at how bad the controls were since that was a fighter I was pulling for back in the day. If anybody wants to make a fan made sequel to Claymates, then CREATE BETTER MAIN CHARACTERS NEXT TIME!
From the bonus levels, and the secret ways to warp to the next round, looking at the carnival and a would-be path to it, blocked by a bush instead of another part of the fence, I kept thinking that there was a secret way for a robot to reach and blast the bush and to go to the carnival. I'm surprised not, considering the bonus levels and the design of the picture/animation of the carnival. By the way, I never noticed until now, a chimney just like from Clayton's house, is at the bottom left corner of the field the carnival is in.
It's a shame they seem to only have clay-rendered just a few elements in this one (the ball, the title letters, the floating cloud) most everything is just normal pixel art. The main characters, the level art, etc... Guess they decided it was too much work since Clay Fighter...
This just in, a random amount of living clay creatures have taken over the world, as a green duck,speedy mouse,cat,(walking fish?),and chipmunk(made out of clay?)(and a living ball of clay as well?) Attempt to save the world.
This game was fucking impossible, which was intentional, since people rented games from Blockbuster in those days. The harder the game the more times you would rent it
Man my dad took me to the video game store as a kid and let me pick out any game I wanted (I think as reward for doing great in the school play) I remember pointing out Zelda Link to The Past and was so excited to get home. When I arrived home he passed me the bag and.....Claymates D: I didn’t say anything, I just put the cartridge in and gave it a go. It’s not Zelda that’s for sure but I enjoyed it and it’s now probably the most nostalgic SNES game for me!
Man I rented it too, from this small/local video store called "Superstar Video" that was just a few blocks away from my parents house. I rented this there, me and my brothers democratically selected it and then the next weekend my brothers didn't go with the the video store so I got to pick the game, and I picked the game Spanky's Quest - my brothers were furious about it at first but Spanky's Quest is dope as well. Both Claymates and Spanky's Quest are interconnected in my mind now because of all that, getting them back to back like that I really associate the two games together. God it's so nostalgic to see this video because I had basically forgotten about both games until now, I stumbled upon this video by accident because I was watching an earthworm Jim longplay and it came up in the recommended and wow, my mind is just filled with so many things right now that I had not thought about in ages.
Yeah. This game was the shit. I rented it a bunch and then had my parents buy it for me. I'm pretty sure I beat it once. The cover had a cool shape shift decal on the front. Edit: nope. Never did beat it!
I don't know, you're over-selling this one, I love claymation too and all, but it's a testament to the limitations of the SNES hardware that the game's main gimmick, the fact that these characters are digitized clay models, falls completely flat for me. Because most of the sprites are so small, and the 16 bit graphics are so limited in colors that you can just barely tell they're clay at all. Looking at these graphics, I think it just looks like regular 16 bit sprites rather than claymation. Clayfighter is actually somewhat better with this, because the sprites are much larger, where you can tell they're clay models made in 3 dimensions. Here, not so much. The only characters that remotely look convincingly like clay sculptures are the bosses. They look excellent! This is because of how huge they are and therefore we see much more detail and the models' clay features are clearer. Other aspects look great too, the planet in the cutscenes and the little formless blue ball you play as initially. The music's nice too. Claymates is all right, I guess, but I've seen better attempts at digitized models in this era, and with more interesting gameplay to boot.
I gotcha. It was pretty ambitious, and the idea wasn't necessarily ideal for the tech, but I loved it nonetheless. The dog boss and that mode-7 globe totally sold me! :) I thought that it had a ton of charm. I actually liked it a lot more than I did Plok, despite how weirdly similar they both are, and it felt like it had heart. Does that make any sense? Like it was more than a mere money grab, and like the people that were making it gave a shit. That just made me like it all the more. But what can I say? I do my best to present my ideas in my reviews as subjective opinion and not the word of God or whatever. I presented my evidence and you didn't agree, but I love how that can turn into legit talking about classic games. Gaming is kind of a personal thing in terms of experience, right? If we all found the same exact things ideal, Google would've AI-ed the perfect game and sold it to us a hundred different ways by now, or so I'd imagine. Unless.... *cue X-Files music!* Btw, thanks for being classy in your disagreement. So many people are quick to leap to personal attacks, and it always leaves me like wtf?
The Real Sean W. Stewart I think it’s because the levels and backgrounds aren’t made of clay like the characters. It doesn’t have a unified look like the way donkey Kong country does.
@@NintendoComplete - You are not alone, but comments like this, "You can get a cart for $10-15 without much problem, and there's even a sealed copy on eBay at the moment for a mere Benjamin. Go on... you know you want it ;)" makes you come off like an ignorant fanboy. Which makes me proud of The Real Sean W. Stewart for putting you in your place in an appropriate manner. As for Claymates, look no further then the shit main characters as one of the biggest reasons why BUBSY (let alone Mario, Sonic and Mega Man) destroyed this game!
@@SuperUkcats Why ignorant? I am a fan, and I wanted to encourage others to try it for themselves. I didn't think he put me in my place so much as he disagreed with my opinion, but I don't expect everybody takes the things I say as gospel. I'm Just expressing my opinions is all.
@@NintendoComplete - Read this part again. "Go on... you know you want it ;)" If that doesn't scream fanboy, I don't know what is. And he put you in your place because he basically DESTROYED this game with some great counter points. Not that it matters to you. But people who see Sean's opinion may think twice about this game. And I'm going to repeat this game's biggest downfall, THE MAIN CHARACTERS SUCK! If anything Complete, you should be pissed at the idiot character designers for coming up with such an unremarkable cast, because once again, there is a good reason why BUBSY got sequels and Claymates didn't.
Why does something so oddly specific-- a blue ball of clay with a big, horizontal punching attack-- appear in three different SNES games? I get that the two "Putty" titles from System 3 are directly related, but I'm still unsure if Clayton's basic attack in this game is a coincidence.
So you practice every game before you record them? How long does one game take? How much free time are you giving yourself? I ask this because you are so much better than I ever was, especially at this game. I love the first stage music, though. I used it in my TH-cam videos.
It depends on the game, really. I played this one a fair amount when I was younger, but practicing this, i played through it 2 or 3 times to make sure I could reasonably play it for recording. I'd guess somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 or 6 hours total? Some games I can do super quick, others take forever. This was somewhere in between :)
Claymates and some other games by Interplay such as Lost Viking 1 & 2 hold a special place in my heart as I played them when I was at the right age for them to make a lasting impression on me. Even today I still think about these games from time to time and I have been tempted to collect them. Problem is I would probably not play them again or on an emulator and they are rather pricey on Ebay these days. (decent boxed version of Lost Vikings 1 will set you back a $120 and Lost Vikings 2 even more) (I did actually buy a sealed copy of Claymates as I like the game so much but I don't think I can easily spend so much money on other Interplay SNES games I would like to own; Lost Viking 1, & 2, Rock N Roll Racing, Blackthorne/Blackhawk, Robocop Vs the Terminator, Star Trek Starfleet Academy, and sadly there was no English release of Castles on the SNES) Other than the colorful graphics what drew me really into Claymates was that you get to play to play a cat and I happen to love cats. I still adore Muckster a lot today and have had some fan art made with him and I am considering having a custom made stuffed animal in his likeness made. But the game could really be hard sometimes. I can understand when people say that this game is not as good like for example Super Mario World, for that the game is perhaps a little unbalanced here and there. Still I do think it is one of the better mascot platformers on the SNES compared to many others that were released at the time on the same platform and I do wish there had been a Claymates 2 on the SNES or perhaps the Playstation 1, now everything looking like Claymation. Heh as for the music, I had forgotten how upbeat it can be.
@@mredbadger well, the switch online games haven't had a monthly release schedule in quite a while. They have been a lot less frequent and not on any set schedule. But funny comment nonetheless.
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Claymates is a thoroughly slick, thoroughly fun platformer that gets nowhere near enough attention. Show it some love, you won't regret it!
IT IS a better game than Clayfigther
@@Invidente7 Oh yeah, definitely
It's okay, I guess. I've seen better clay games. Albeit on more advanced hardware.
Like Skullmonkeys! And Platypus! :)
@@therealseanw.stewart2071 Don't forget The Neverhood :) Oh, and The Dark Eye - super creepy. Still, for a pre-DKC cart game, it's pretty good.
Of course ha ha. Ah, Neverhood, one of my all-time fave adventure games. Never heard of Dark Eye though.
My brother and I remember renting this game when we were kids, and I even came up with my own idea for a sequel or remake. So nostalgia-inducing!
Fun Fact: The clay animators, Angie Glocka and Owen Klatte, have worked on several other noteworthy stop motion projects, like Gumby, Bump In The Night, and The Nightmare Before Christmas, as well as some CGI and VFX works.
This game brings back so many memories for me as well. Very cool about the background info
Me too with my own brother, though I was disappointed that there wasn't a level that involved the carnival at 1:31
Could you share me your fanmade idea for a sequel/remake?
Wow…. I haven’t thought of Bump in the Night for many, many years. Was my favourite stay at home sick shows.
My most nostalgic SNES game EVER!!! THANK GOD someone played it and got it on YT!! I've been DESPERATE to see this game again!!
Oh, my God, I love the music!
Me too! :)
Very Tim Burton-esque
I especially like the Cape Claynaveral music :)
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I just loved the shapeshifting aspect. Mario just gave you abilities, but you get brand new forms along with their special abilities. The ranged-option ball was cool too
Knuclear200X trying to not say nothing anything negative about nintendo: IMPOSSIBLE
@@JaxCoolKartunes what negative?
I got when I was a kid I would rent this game so many times in video mm back in the day I was never able to finish it thank you for uploading this now frustration can be at ease
I also had this game as a kid and couldn't find it anywhere anymore. I'm glad I got to see the first few levels again, those are the only ones I remember.
Same here. Always rented it and couldn’t understand why mom just didn’t buy it for me. Only played the first few levels but it’s always a favorite
I have a special place in my artist heart for the claymation.
This game is as cheap as one piece of special clay for start making your own clay works.
Its crazy that i remember the music after so long. Humming the first level randomly this morning and had to find it! Good to know i spent my childhood well!
1:54 WHOA! THAT RAT IS GOING TOO FAST! Sonic The Hedgehog has got competition.
That's blaze processing for ya!
Gotta go fast
@@TheNawaf258 A symptom of IBS, eh? Hahaha
it's fast but....nowhere sonic 2 fast tough. gues a 3.58 mhz was still enough.
@@aryinc Not really lmao, this is fast AS FUCK. Watch on 0.25x speed.
i never knew about this game until i saw it on the snes Nintendo Switch online,i just recently defeated the first boss in got into the canon. i was kinda surpised as i did not expect any boss fights in this game.
24:38 also,i really like this bonus stage
I love it that they use the same instruments for the opening screen of Clay Fighter on the yard levels
What if the meteor that had crashed into the Playland circus was made of the serum and the characters in Clayfighter are the contaminated employees, similar to the child who was transformed by the serum?
°0°
I remember renting this game in the 90's. Nostalgic bomb dropped.
I absolutely loved this game as a kid!!! Almost forgot it existed!
Been looking for this forever. Takes me back to the video rental store. Omg. Distinctly remember the music 🎶
I played this on Nintendo Switch Online (SNES) I never could beat this game when I was little, (When it was in cartridge form) now I put a long years frustration to rest by beating it.
I remembered playing this game when I was a kid. It was on Malaysia Airlines Boeing 747's in-flight entertainment system in the early 2000's. I didn't know its name until now. This brings me back memories.
This was one of my favorite SNES games as a kid and I still have this one too.
I guess no one realized these are the same clay animals in this as the round numbers in the clay fighters game.
Nostalgia. Used to rent this game all the time when I was like 7 years old.
One of my favorite games growing up, thanks for the nostalgia! Used to play this, bubsy, and battle toads. Those were the days....
I just heard of this game on the Nintendo Switch Online, this game is cute and I like the music!!
Never heard of this before just Clayfighter
I only went to this link to share how I loved the music. I still do, but it feels like it's in the past, because with a worn out controller and for a while finding only used ones, and with cable with a DVR, I stopped playing Nintendo. At first it was temporary, but I got used to it by the time I got it back. Now, I just enjoy the memories without actually playing anyone.
I loved the music, because I imagined the music as Clayton's view of the environment. He was playful, he was a kid, so he had fun in the yards prior to the abduction of his father. And that although he was in a crisis, he still enjoyed the environment throughout his quest. The style of the music seems indistinguishable to Clayton's joyful childhood mood and personality. But after playing through Japan, Africa and planet Clayvius, I realized that the music in Clayton's yard for example was just a style of American music. Even when it would say- "Clayton's Yard", I thought that the style of the music was an idea of the fun, exciting yard of Clayton. But later, it seemed to me that the music was more like a political welcome style music for kids. Mainly because if in the beginning, just after Clayton leaves the lab, if it said "Welcome to the United States", it would have played the same music as when it says "Clayton's Yard". And even though I also like the idea of childhood fun, joy and excitement, I really liked the idea- "Welcome to the United States". Because then the music would represent the fun, joy, peace and friendship of America. Also representing the joy of freedom compared to let's say... Russia or China. So since I thought of that idea, I have wanted to see such an animation in the game. So far, all I have done was copy and paste letters against the same background as when it says "Clayton's Yard". I like the background title- "Welcome to the United States" better than "Welcome to the USA." Until I finished elementary, I always thought that alphabets also represented or hid through symbolism emotional expressions. With S always appearing to represent the happiest expression.
It's a real shame the backgrounds don't look clay-like, because I do like the digitized clay sprites. I grew up playing Clayfighter: Sculptor's Cut a bunch (so stupid you could only rent that game from Blockbuster!) and loved the style. They should've taken the concept all-out the way The Neverhood and others did, but I do think this is still something I'd like to play sometime and given the fact that they fit this all on a 16-bit system is still pretty cool, what with the high quality, clean sound and fun-looking giant clay boss fights.
This game had a ton of secrets. We loved playing it as kids, but I never beat it
Finally blast processing confirmed on the snes
This is SNES.
This is a sandwich. (You probably can't see it, but I am holding a sandwich.)
:O
Tartuffe the Spry Wonder Dog relax it was a typo
The original box actually said “blaze processing” lol
Weird game, but pretty fun. Definitely and overlooked platformer on the SNES.
Man, I rented this game once and had so much fun with it. Now, 20-something years later, I suddenly remembered it. I couldn’t remember much, just that you played as a little ball and the name “Jeremy” (from Jeremy’s Yard). It took me a long time to find the name of the game and now, watching your video, it really feels like going back in time.
I’ve been searching for this game for about ten years lol
1st Stage. as Sonic The Mouse.
no wonder sonic in Ohio called blue speed mouse
Thank you for playing Claymates!
I just tried this game because it came to Nintendo Switch Online, and I CANNOT BELIEVE how fast you go in this game holy shit
Same here! I played the game, and came to love it
An evil magic user turns the hero into a bouncing blue ball. Was there some guy just breaking in to game studios and writing that on the blackboards back then?
You've nailed one of the biggest problems in the game. Not that Sonic and Mario are any better, but this storyline is one of the worst made!
This games biggest problem is simple:
THE CHARACTERS SUCK!
Our hero (Clayton) has a face I'd just like to punch like Meg Bennett's dipshit "boyfriend" Bim from the Bionic Six (let alone being nothing special), that witch doctor is an unmemorable shit and don't even get me started on the final boss! Bowser, Eggman and Wily would mop the floor with these losers easily! And just wait till what Mario, Sonic and Mega Man do to that Clayton loser. It won't be pretty!
You may not like Bubsy The Bobcat, but there is a good reason why he had sequels (despite his games not being special either, let alone that 3D one killing him for good) and Claymates didn't.
Clay Fighter had memorable characters, which makes it all the more sad at how bad the controls were since that was a fighter I was pulling for back in the day.
If anybody wants to make a fan made sequel to Claymates, then CREATE BETTER MAIN CHARACTERS NEXT TIME!
Similar to the plot to Smart Ball (known as Jerry Boy in Japan)
A real sleeper. I always liked cutesy characters, but this was also a super fun game.
my childhood :´) thank you so much
this game is a SNES masterpiece! I love it!
From the bonus levels, and the secret ways to warp to the next round, looking at the carnival and a would-be path to it, blocked by a bush instead of another part of the fence, I kept thinking that there was a secret way for a robot to reach and blast the bush and to go to the carnival. I'm surprised not, considering the bonus levels and the design of the picture/animation of the carnival. By the way, I never noticed until now, a chimney just like from Clayton's house, is at the bottom left corner of the field the carnival is in.
I remember playing this game when I was 10. Was completely addicted to it.
28:38 That Purple Fish Rock!
It's a shame they seem to only have clay-rendered just a few elements in this one (the ball, the title letters, the floating cloud) most everything is just normal pixel art. The main characters, the level art, etc... Guess they decided it was too much work since Clay Fighter...
Blast processing on a snes?
So this is the game that made Fuwawa rage...
Whats that?
I wasn't expecting this to get re-released!
I never realised how convoluted the robot puzzles got.
Another absolute classick!
Love the music.
This just in, a random amount of living clay creatures have taken over the world, as a green duck,speedy mouse,cat,(walking fish?),and chipmunk(made out of clay?)(and a living ball of clay as well?) Attempt to save the world.
Claymates an alternate universe from Clayfighter
How do we convince Interplay to make a sequel or remake for this game?
This game was fucking impossible, which was intentional, since people rented games from Blockbuster in those days. The harder the game the more times you would rent it
And a great way for a game to flop LONG TERM!
This game used to be my favo. Thanks for this
Man my dad took me to the video game store as a kid and let me pick out any game I wanted (I think as reward for doing great in the school play)
I remember pointing out Zelda Link to The Past and was so excited to get home. When I arrived home he passed me the bag and.....Claymates D:
I didn’t say anything, I just put the cartridge in and gave it a go. It’s not Zelda that’s for sure but I enjoyed it and it’s now probably the most nostalgic SNES game for me!
Man I rented it too, from this small/local video store called "Superstar Video" that was just a few blocks away from my parents house. I rented this there, me and my brothers democratically selected it and then the next weekend my brothers didn't go with the the video store so I got to pick the game, and I picked the game Spanky's Quest - my brothers were furious about it at first but Spanky's Quest is dope as well. Both Claymates and Spanky's Quest are interconnected in my mind now because of all that, getting them back to back like that I really associate the two games together. God it's so nostalgic to see this video because I had basically forgotten about both games until now, I stumbled upon this video by accident because I was watching an earthworm Jim longplay and it came up in the recommended and wow, my mind is just filled with so many things right now that I had not thought about in ages.
Thank you for posting
alright, you convinced me to get this
Good call, you'll have fun with it.
I almost can’t tell the sprites are digitized images of clay figures. Kind of just look like regular snes sprites
Some of the sprites are, but some of them look like they were just drawn to match the CG flat and shiny look.
Yeah. This game was the shit. I rented it a bunch and then had my parents buy it for me. I'm pretty sure I beat it once. The cover had a cool shape shift decal on the front.
Edit: nope. Never did beat it!
Now coming to Nintendo Switch. Yup.
@@EnchantedSmellyWolf I just saw that! How ironic.
Oh my god I thought I would never find this game again and i found it on a random video about clay fighter.
I'm guessing it was Rebeltaxi's video?
Im so proud of beating this when i was 8 looking back
Bosses list
Ben: 20:02
Corky The Clam: 46:48
Webigail: 1:13:12
Jobo: 1:42:31
Final Boss The Martian Leader: 1:57:33
The Lab Level looks like a sonic level :)
I could never complete this game.. Felt so long.
I like the robot puzzles in between stages
This is a good game.
I don't know, you're over-selling this one, I love claymation too and all, but it's a testament to the limitations of the SNES hardware that the game's main gimmick, the fact that these characters are digitized clay models, falls completely flat for me. Because most of the sprites are so small, and the 16 bit graphics are so limited in colors that you can just barely tell they're clay at all. Looking at these graphics, I think it just looks like regular 16 bit sprites rather than claymation. Clayfighter is actually somewhat better with this, because the sprites are much larger, where you can tell they're clay models made in 3 dimensions. Here, not so much.
The only characters that remotely look convincingly like clay sculptures are the bosses. They look excellent! This is because of how huge they are and therefore we see much more detail and the models' clay features are clearer. Other aspects look great too, the planet in the cutscenes and the little formless blue ball you play as initially. The music's nice too.
Claymates is all right, I guess, but I've seen better attempts at digitized models in this era, and with more interesting gameplay to boot.
I gotcha. It was pretty ambitious, and the idea wasn't necessarily ideal for the tech, but I loved it nonetheless. The dog boss and that mode-7 globe totally sold me! :) I thought that it had a ton of charm. I actually liked it a lot more than I did Plok, despite how weirdly similar they both are, and it felt like it had heart. Does that make any sense? Like it was more than a mere money grab, and like the people that were making it gave a shit. That just made me like it all the more.
But what can I say? I do my best to present my ideas in my reviews as subjective opinion and not the word of God or whatever. I presented my evidence and you didn't agree, but I love how that can turn into legit talking about classic games. Gaming is kind of a personal thing in terms of experience, right? If we all found the same exact things ideal, Google would've AI-ed the perfect game and sold it to us a hundred different ways by now, or so I'd imagine. Unless.... *cue X-Files music!* Btw, thanks for being classy in your disagreement. So many people are quick to leap to personal attacks, and it always leaves me like wtf?
The Real Sean W. Stewart I think it’s because the levels and backgrounds aren’t made of clay like the characters. It doesn’t have a unified look like the way donkey Kong country does.
@@NintendoComplete - You are not alone, but comments like this,
"You can get a cart for $10-15 without much problem, and there's even a sealed copy on eBay at the moment for a mere Benjamin. Go on... you know you want it ;)"
makes you come off like an ignorant fanboy. Which makes me proud of The Real Sean W. Stewart for putting you in your place in an appropriate manner.
As for Claymates, look no further then the shit main characters as one of the biggest reasons why BUBSY (let alone Mario, Sonic and Mega Man) destroyed this game!
@@SuperUkcats Why ignorant? I am a fan, and I wanted to encourage others to try it for themselves. I didn't think he put me in my place so much as he disagreed with my opinion, but I don't expect everybody takes the things I say as gospel. I'm Just expressing my opinions is all.
@@NintendoComplete - Read this part again.
"Go on... you know you want it ;)"
If that doesn't scream fanboy, I don't know what is. And he put you in your place because he basically DESTROYED this game with some great counter points. Not that it matters to you. But people who see Sean's opinion may think twice about this game.
And I'm going to repeat this game's biggest downfall,
THE MAIN CHARACTERS SUCK!
If anything Complete, you should be pissed at the idiot character designers for coming up with such an unremarkable cast, because once again, there is a good reason why BUBSY got sequels and Claymates didn't.
My sister still has this one. Fun little game though I never managed to finish it.
Why does something so oddly specific-- a blue ball of clay with a big, horizontal punching attack-- appear in three different SNES games? I get that the two "Putty" titles from System 3 are directly related, but I'm still unsure if Clayton's basic attack in this game is a coincidence.
First time playing this game. Fun platform.
So you practice every game before you record them? How long does one game take? How much free time are you giving yourself? I ask this because you are so much better than I ever was, especially at this game. I love the first stage music, though. I used it in my TH-cam videos.
It depends on the game, really. I played this one a fair amount when I was younger, but practicing this, i played through it 2 or 3 times to make sure I could reasonably play it for recording. I'd guess somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 or 6 hours total? Some games I can do super quick, others take forever. This was somewhere in between :)
@@NintendoComplete As long as you enjoy it. I will be watching until the end of time.
@@MFields2178 Most of the time I do :) thankfully games like Adamantium Rage are the exception rather than the rule
What a classic, the kind of game you only rent though, can't take this one home to meet mom
Huh? I have no clue what that means.
Shame Goopy isn't anywhere in the first area
does anyone know how to save the game? I have played several times but I cannot find a check point and I always have to restart
You can't. Unless you use save states, the whole thing has to be finished at once.
I use a save state on the Switch
Claymates and some other games by Interplay such as Lost Viking 1 & 2 hold a special place in my heart as I played them when I was at the right age for them to make a lasting impression on me.
Even today I still think about these games from time to time and I have been tempted to collect them. Problem is I would probably not play them again or on an emulator and they are rather pricey on Ebay these days. (decent boxed version of Lost Vikings 1 will set you back a $120 and Lost Vikings 2 even more)
(I did actually buy a sealed copy of Claymates as I like the game so much but I don't think I can easily spend so much money on other Interplay SNES games I would like to own; Lost Viking 1, & 2, Rock N Roll Racing, Blackthorne/Blackhawk, Robocop Vs the Terminator, Star Trek Starfleet Academy, and sadly there was no English release of Castles on the SNES)
Other than the colorful graphics what drew me really into Claymates was that you get to play to play a cat and I happen to love cats. I still adore Muckster a lot today and have had some fan art made with him and I am considering having a custom made stuffed animal in his likeness made.
But the game could really be hard sometimes.
I can understand when people say that this game is not as good like for example Super Mario World, for that the game is perhaps a little unbalanced here and there. Still I do think it is one of the better mascot platformers on the SNES compared to many others that were released at the time on the same platform and I do wish there had been a Claymates 2 on the SNES or perhaps the Playstation 1, now everything looking like Claymation.
Heh as for the music, I had forgotten how upbeat it can be.
When you make a fanmade sequel, please come up with better characters.
Is it weird that I learn about this game a couple days ago and suddenly it appears on NSO? It's like Nintendo's stalking me...
😒 I'm onto you guys...
Hey there’s this really cool game called Earthbound that you should check out around this time next month
@@mredbadger well, the switch online games haven't had a monthly release schedule in quite a while. They have been a lot less frequent and not on any set schedule. But funny comment nonetheless.
It's weird to think this game was made by the same people who make those NBA games.
This is a nice little💎💎💎.
PS : i hope it was a better experience than your last gameplay😖😖😖.
Much, thank you :D
What was your last gameplay? I hope it wasn't as bad as everybody says.
@@bjjackson7895 Wolverine Adamantium Rage on the SNES. That game broke me a little on the inside.
This actually was a pretty good game.
Nice gameplay bro. :D
My animation teacher did a bunch of stop motion for this!
Really? That's cool af. I loved the dog.
@@NintendoComplete yeah its kinda sad all that stop motion work was put into it and it isn't really translated well on the snes
I never did being this game as a kid
Music is great. The game itself, not so much.
Capcom and Konami rejects.
@@juicyfartsofjimcornette1154 when did you become sentient?
@@balbarith45 - I'm referring to the game being made by the equivalent of Konami and Capcom rejects, dummy!
@@juicyfartsofjimcornette1154 I can't help it when you give me a username like that.
@@balbarith45 - Like yours is any better!
Great memories of my childhoodreams
I have no idea why this game existed
I remember the box art it had a homograic style to it
52:38 nice :)
Nice, really nice
I wish Cornshaq was back and play this game
It's a Shame they never used the SPC Sound Chip
Now in Switch
Como faço p baixar no celular esse jogo ?
"The mouse can run faster than Sonic" said my SNES fanboy pal at the time.
Claymates was not great
I used to hate that you couldn't play a level in that theme park. Like why add it in if it's just a tease lol.
The last two stages ruined a great game for me
I found the game in Nintendo Switch
How do u Pick up the ax 2 chop down the tree
Truly underrated gem ❤
That would be Mega Man X3.
Yo they predicted squid game because they have the following shapes 🔺⭕️◼️
This is my favourite video game of all time
Right up there with E.T.!
Amo esse jogo ♥️
😭😭😭😭quero esse jogo
Cool