7 Worst Power Ups That Screwed You Over
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.ค. 2024
- Poison mushrooms! Anti money! Hallucinogens! Lurking in some games are power-ups that actually make you worse off, whether by harming you, stealing your money, or just making the game much much more difficult to play. Take our advice, and steer clear of these seven, because if you pick them up, you’ll wish you hadn’t. Subscribe for more videos like this from Outside Xbox!
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I love how they are so scared of poison mushrooms that we don't get to see its effects on screen
The one redeeming feature of the Zelda moon is that in destroying everything it destroys all the rupoors.
but there arent any in majora's mask so....
Indeed, Majora's Mask doesn't take place in Hyrule
Goddess Bless
the poor moon was crying it was clearly skull kids fault
Seriously what idiot thought that the rupoor was a good idea.
The PC version of Fairly Oddparents: Breakin’ Da Rules had “Bad Wish Ideas” throughout each level that, if collected, would make Timmy wish for something detrimental - such as bouncy skis in the skiing level.
Holy shit, that game was my childhood.
Can’t believe other people know about it.
@matt no one cares, sweatlord
@matt weird flex.
@matt Good to know you had a childhood. We all had one. It's sad that yours was such a sour one.
@matt 'dominant'
Listen, a hug is well worth the -1 Vigor.
Especially in Fromsoft games. I was honestly thinking it would just kill me.
Honestly, I kind of agree
I'm glad I read about Fia's deal, so I could use the blessing immediately and get my health back, but yeah, 5% health is nothing.
I agree, I freaking love hugs. To the point where it’s a sensory thing for me (I seem to enjoy the pressure from either giving hugs, receiving hugs, or maybe the two put together).
Honestly, if I ever get around to playing Elden Ring, I’d take that vigor debuff as a challenge and replenish that blessing repeatedly for more hugs
So that explains why Steven Universe and Luz Noceda are popular animation characters... never underestimate hugs, even if you're someone who really, *really* prefers privacy and no touchy-feely stuff.
Hmm, haven't bought the game yet (not having the right amount of money, plus I'm waiting for ALL DLCs to come out), but I must say, OutsideXbox/OutsideXtra sure helped me a lot when it comes to the Soulsborne games.
Pretty sure many From players felt surprise hollowing in DS3 was worse.
Skyward Sword Link's face at getting a rupoor is...priceless :P
It's less than priceless, my boy!
Unfortunately enough, he has to come back when he is a little mmmmmh, richer
His face is the epitome of “I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed.”
It's supposed to be a beneficial powerup, but the Spring Mushroom in the Mario Galaxy games is so unwieldy to use that I found it easier to just try and finish levels without it
The flamethrower in Contra would also qualify then. Or rather, anything that wasn't spread shot.
In fact, they could probably do a whole other video on "power-ups" that were supposed to be good, but were more dreaded than debuffs.
my mom got seasick from Mario galaxy, but with power ups she actually had to pause and leave
You have problems controlling the spring?
Ironically, the spring power up was one of my favorite ones from that game.
question: did you succeed? If you did, please post a video showing how to do it because I would like to try that myself
0:55
"In several Zelda games, there exist the dark yang to the rupees yin."
Yang: the light side
Yin: the dark side
Given the amount of home invasions Link commits in search of Rupees, this seems accurate to me.
In a lot of older games where power-ups overwrite each other, like Castlevania, Ghouls no Chosts, or Contra, you'd basically be screwed if you accidentally replaced a good power-up with something else.
Ah yes, the "NOOOO I WANTED THE HOMING ARROWS" moment we all lamented
I remember some Contra 3 strategy guide saying the Flamethrower was the best weapon for any given boss fight, and the Crush (rockets) was a bad weapon because it only fired 3 rockets at a time, and had limited range.
Then I got good and powered through any boss by switching Crush for Crush (or Laser and Crush) rapidly, doubling the DPM.
Or worse: Fester's Quest. Weapons would get repeatedly more powerful as you picked up the same weapon you were already carrying, with the final of most weapons being ridiculously powerful. But if you picked up a different weapon, it would completely reset and you got a lvl 1 pea-shooter.
Yeah in contra, when you are in the middle of a jump and the power up for fireball falls on you and replaces your spread gun. The fireball was nearly impossible to aim with its corkscrewing fire mode
Look, Margit just beat me up, and the pretty lady asked me if I needed a hug; what was I supposed to do?
Back around 10 or so years ago, I played this awful social media game called Zombie Lane, where you spent most of your time beating up on random zombies shuffling around your yard endlessly. You could also pick up pieces of trash for special items, the "best" of which was supposed to be an "invisibility ring." I wanted that ring so badly, that I didn't realize that in the process of picking up like a thousand pieces of trash, I got rather good at avoiding zombies anyway. The OTHER, more important thing I overlooked is that the zombies in the game actually stop for a second once they "see" you, before beginning their pursuit, actually giving you ample time to avoid them. So by the time I FINALLY got my "precious" invisibility ring (I forgot to mention that it also blatantly ripped off Lord of the Rings in its design), I actually ended up getting "attacked" by zombies more often, since they couldn't see me and stop for that second, and in their random shuffling and throwing empty punches into the air, they ended up getting more "lucky shots" on me than I ever suffered before getting this useless power up.
Sounds less like a useless powerup and more like bad game design. The entire thing sounds so low budget...
Fia literally tells you she's going to take some of your vigor in exchange for the blessing. Anyone who didn't understand that played themselves. Fia did nothing wrong.
Also hug.
I dont mind a therapy hug after 15 tries of trying to kill Godfrey...
Didn't play Elden Ring, what is the power up supposed to do?
@@TheGuardDuck temporarily booat poise on consumption and refunds the percentage of your max HP
@@nathanielthomson6600 Are those things supposed to be useful?
The "Total Bummer" power up was very bad in Toe Jam and Earl, but I always felt the "Randomizer" was worse. At least if you hit "Total Bummer" you knew which present it was and knew not to use that present again... But randomizing which present was which made it feel like you were starting back at square one when it came to identifying presents. Hitting the "Randomizer" after "Total Bummer" was especially awful because now you didn't know which present was "Total Bummer" and thus could hit it again.
Agreed. Eventually you just got to a point where there was no point opening up any of the ????s because there was no way it was going to be more useful than avoiding the randomizer.
Or the Sword in Ghouls and Ghosts which has no range and youre stuck with it until you get something else. Its literally better to die than risk getting it
True! The „Randomizer„ was way worse.
Agreed, we would basically only open known presents (unless things were dire) until we got the carrot man to identidy Randomizer. Ideally Total Bummer too, but at least with randomizer out of the way, you could risk learning a bad present and not having to start over
I'm just glad someone else remembers toe jam and earl. It's been so long since I've seen it mentioned I was starting to wonder if it was a trick of my imagination
The photo you picked of Miyamoto is really perfect, he looks like he _just_ had the idea for the Rupoor and will be intently repeating the name in his head until he can find some paper to write it down, because he cannot _wait_ to code it.
Going old-school, the invincibility shield from Zanac. It works as advertised... and causes the game's famously vindictive dynamic difficulty to throw a temper tantrum and send ridiculous hordes of enemy ships at you.
The super speed shoes powerup in the Sonic games on Genesis was way more of a detriment than a help, in almost all cases. It was a one way ticket to a face full of robot monster or a booty full of spikes.
Even worse on the Master System games where Sonic's physics were way weirder. But also thankfully much rarer too. I can't even imagine what it was like for Americans who got it on the Game Gear instead, with that dreadful screen crunch.
Or a fall down a bottomless pit.
But you went so fast
It's good in mania
I thought this video would be about stuff like that, IE items intended to be power ups that usually ended up harming you. But no, it was about things that are intended to have detrimental effects that you would only call "power ups" if you had a 5 year old's understanding of game mechanics.
Oh, right. I still have that blessing in my inventory. I went back for another hug from Fia but I haven't used the blessing yet (used the first one on an attempt at Margit). I'm doing the hugs because it progresses her quest and because a hug that doesn't also involve a knife in my back is a nice reprieve.
That shrooms power-up would definitely make me feel sick. I tend to have nausea problems with most games in first person, especially fast-paced games like Doom (2016). Not being able to control the camera would make it all so much worse.
the hug makes it worth it.
@@ddjsoyenby For sure. It's a lovely reprieve from all the death and sadness. I just need to remember to use that blessing after I've hugged her since I tend to forget about it.
The shrooms power up is *so* much worse than it looks in the video, especially the RoTT reboot. I don’t get motion sick but even *that* tested me. 🤢
One word: vomitorium...
Shrooms mode and superball powerups everywhere...
@@dyingstar24 Lovely. Makes me glad I've not played that game and don't have an interest in playing it.
Just to add to Andy's confusion, there's also a Colonel O'Neill.
Fortunately, he's easier to tell apart: he doesn't dress like the other two, he has a much better sense of humor, and he spells his name with two L's.
Neil Neill and O'Neil? Like Ed Edd and Eddy?
insert Stargate joke here
He got promoted to general
Indeed
Lost the ability to make anything out of a shoe lace, penny, chewing gum, and pocket lint for that extra L though.
The giant-head power-up from Dynamite Headdy on the Mega Drive slowed your movement to a literal crawl and couldn’t be voluntarily cancelled like any other power-up. You had to wait for its effect to fade while also hoping an enemy wouldn’t pounce on you.
Oooh, good one! And while we're on the subject, what about Earthworm Jim's "bubble gun"? Makes your gun fire ten small bubbles that do nothing. Has a horrible fire rate, and you have to fire it ten times before you get your regular gun back.
Ugh, I remember that one - and they LOVED to give you that power-up any time where you kind of REALLY didn't want to be moving at that snail's pace, including the possibility of getting it during EVERY SINGLE MAJOR BOSS FIGHT (6-4 doesn't count), or just 9-1 in general. Either way, get it in THOSE situations and you're lucky if you ONLY end up on death's door afterward.
@@YukaTakeuchiFan Getting it during the "Bad gatekeeper" (bad geisha in Japan apparently!) fight was... a bit brutal.
And actually I have another Megadrive one. That Axe from "Ghouls and Ghosts". Level 4. If you've played the game, you know the one I mean.
You're about to fight the boss where you really, really want the daggers. (You pretty much always want the daggers. A weapon that's both rapid-fire and powerful is a massive win in a game where enemies will absolutely crowd you at the drop of a hat.) To get to the boss, you have to jump down a very narrow hole. Blocking that hole is a chest. In the chest, if you destroy it, is an axe. One of the most useless weapons in the game, it's massively situational (and the situations you want to have it don't include the boss fight you're about to have, since it arcs upwards, and the enemies you really want to kill are on the ground...) Yeah that was just a massive troll.
I was about to post about the Heavy Head, too. Glad I read some of the comments first!
2:25 That's probably the best description anyone ever gave concerning the Poison Mushroom.
In Devi May Cry 3 there's actually a great instance of this! In one of the chapters towards the middle of the game you have to hold a key item that keeps you in double trigger in the game and until you're able to put it in the door. This sounds like a good thing since that means you do way more damage and move way faster and all that, but it also drains the life out of you while you're doing it. So It ends up being a frantic race against the clock to backtrack across an entire level before you end up dying, even though you're literally in your most powerful state and basically untouchable. It's a great turning of the tables moment, especially after you spend the whole game wishing you could stay in Devil trigger all the time. Be careful what you wish for, I guess!
Uh, like the Kitetsu in Ninja Gaiden.
If you like having Perma-Devil Trigger, then it's a good thing the super characters exist.
My very first bad power up was in that good old Prince Persia... Where you had potions that would restore your health, and big potion that increases max health or that weird green one that does slow fall... But then there was the blue one that dealt damage to you instead, and imagin me as a kid in the first room that has one... Oh nice two potions i am at 1 hit point... Oh wait why am i dead?
Not sure if it counts as a power up but first thing I thought of was Kirby’s sleep ability pre-Forgotten Land. The levels where those were scattered everywhere within a one-way narrow corridor were annoying to say the least.
It's still pretty annoying in Forgotten Land, except in the few places where you unlock something by sleeping. Which, on second thought, almost makes it worse, because now instead of avoiding 'sleep', you might seek it out to see what it unlocks.
@@nickdejager8873 the upgraded sleep form can give you a random stat increase.
Except technically pre-Super Kirby Clash, because Super Kirby Clash gave Sleep an actual moveset. :P
@@kevinstephenson3531 Not just that, it lets you choose when to activate the ability. Granted you can just turn off the auto swallow, but turning that off doesn't save you from the (granted only 1) obstacle course where they put a pile of sleep ability orbs along a crumbling ground area.
Ironically, there was a power-up in "Dynamite Headdy" that put the titular hero to sleep when he grabs it, but it actually replenished his health at the same time.
@@kevinstephenson3531 Interesting. I never bothered to upgrade it.
Man, that Mario invincibility star better be on this list, because I always panic about if it'll run out while I'm charging through an enemy, and get so distracted by that worrying that I run off a cliff
It might help to listen to the music, especially in enemy/danger-laden areas where running out early is dangerous. This helps for a couple of reasons: the power-up effect and song are the same lengths throughout the entire game (not sure if it's the same in each game though, so be careful with that), not only that but in some, if not all of the games (assuming your version is properly working) the power-up music ends slightly before the invincibility.
Hope this helps!
...this may have legitimately just changed my life
For me, my favorite intentionally useless powerup is the sleep ability from the Kirby series
And then they up and made it useful in only two games, that Kirby 3DS game where it’s a top down brawler, they gave Sleep an entire move set, (heck someone took that idea and made a Rivals of Aether mod about it) and Kirby and the forgotten lands where it heals you and the upgraded version that can give you every buff in the game if you spam it
@@dinoshotgun in Kirby Squeak Squad if you get the copy scroll for Sleep then you will heal while sleeping. I found it useful sometimes if I am in an area where I won't get attacked.
quick correction for you, 'Yang' is actually the white 'good' half and 'Yin' is the black 'evil' half, the naming convention just has us assume the opposite because of the lighter sound of yin vs the heavier sound of yang.
I did a bit of research into the symbolism of the sides and it's more order v chaos than a straight good v bad spectrum, both having their positive sides that can become perverted with excess
The flame powerup in the original Ghosts and Goblins for NES. You couldn't throw another one until the fire burned out. Left you open to attack.
Yep. That one sucked. I didn't like the axe weapon that much either.
Get the knife
plus didn't it have a weird arc so you couldn't even throw it directly at an enemy?
I didn't even know my health had gone down but was wondering what the red square with the down arrow was in Elden Ring. I had to look it up to understand that it was a de-buff. Luckily, I only had it on through the first area.
honestly it's probably not a large amount of HP reduction even since it's a flat amount.
I'm 40 hours into the game and still have it. I had no idea it was hurting me. Sigh.
@@lordshavron hurting is a relative term though. Also you can get it from her right before a boss fight and pop it during the fight. She gives you another one any time you ask.
@@marhawkman303 ya exactually
if people care so much about 1 vigor they can just grab it before a boss fight pop it for fight then grab it agin any time they want to fight a boss also
if they go through the entire game not realizing it was negging there hp (then it was not significant enough to worry about in first place)
then well not really a issue then in my opinion otherwise it would have been noticed sooner
One other thing to note about Rise of the Triads other Power-down is Elasto Mode: A power up that would bounce and slide you around. I was expecting that, but shrooms mode is good too as that one caused me to get oofed a lot by my own missiles in the remake.
A hug in exchange for -1 vigor? Worth!
I second this lol.
Considering I've had to accept hugs in real life that have done far more than just 5% damage to my health in psychic damage, I think the Bauldachins Blessing is a pretty good deal.
I wish I could get more hugs...
It’s a bit strange, in a good way, there’s a list on a Monday. Though they are potentially getting spooked with Eurogamer tomorrow. Which could be a fun scaredy cat off between Andy and Zoe 😈
Eurogamer's probably gonna have trouble not cussing. They did it first thing in the stream with Dicebreaker.
Andy know but Who's Zoe?
@@omnitiontpictures She's part of the Eurogamer video team
@@omnitiontpictures She’s basically Andy and Ellen combined but swears a lot more when scared. Especially at Ian when he’s hilariously worse than even Andy with Ellen for flaming Zoe’s fear like when she played Poppy Playtime 😂🤣😂🤣
@@oxfanblink4115 Now you've made me curious how many times we will hear Andy say 'Oh no...' in that stream. 😀
The only time a poison mushroom will be useful is if you have a mole problem.
I need to remember that when I go to Santa Cruz again. The little bastards keep eating the roots of our rosebushes.
No mentioning of "Excalipoor" from Final Fantasy V? Seriously, the worst weapon and power-up ever in Final Fantasy History. it was so bad, that its original wielder was banished "to places unknown" by Exdeath! The main Antagonist! That should tell you how bad this thing is, if he's even not willing to destroy it for good!
Fun fact: it actually has fairly high attack power, but also a special effect that makes it do 1 damage on attacks. This means it can be a reasonably good weapon if you use it with abilities like Throw, or Goblin Punch
That's more of a weapon than a power up. Same category as stuff like fallouts bb gun or ds2 spoon or such.
Did you know it's a good way to kill Skull Eaters since it never misses and always deals 1 damage? Meaning you can use it to farm those awful gray squirrels for Job Points.
On the one hand Baldachin’s Blessing debuff.. on the other hand a hug when playing Elden Ring.. decisions decisions..
I would like to express my love and appreciation for letting those of us with motion sickness know that we may want to look away. Y'all rock!
What about Sleep in the Kirby games? Sure, they're making it have utility nowadays, but I remember when they used that bad boy as an *obstacle* with how much of a sitting duck it made you!
Yes, though there's a caveat: It's still useful for triggering Mix where you swallow more than 1 copy ability at a time.
The moon technically is not in Hyrule so Miyamoto is still right
True, Termina is separate
Dan I love these guys “Rupiess to buy items and more importantly go fishing” made my day. I remember spending more rupees on finishing than anything else in Ocarina of time
Rise of the Triad also had the most random item I've ever seen. Scott's Mystical Head, a picture of Apogee Software's founder's face, which when collected would award you with points equal to Apogee's customer support telephone number.
Loved seeing Carmageddon on here. Been stuck isolating at home and I’ve been playing it a lot.
Awesome video, but it made me feel old.....I was old enough to play Toejam and Earl when it came out. And remember doing so....like 30 years ago
The Yakuza series has two items that effect how often bad guys appear on the streets. Charismatic Autograph make everybody want you (dead), and the other (can’t remember the name) removes enemies entirely. Depends on the situation, but neither can be good to equip.
I remember playing the Army Men Air attack 2 game. There was a power up that turn your controls inverted , it was terrible and just annoying if you pick it up
various commanders and neils
"i command thee kneel"
Beautifully done
From "Wizards & Warriors" on the NES, there was the Cloak of Invisibility. It turned Kuros's sprite black, which made him impossible to see against the black background of levels where you could find it. It was supposed to also make enemies lose track of him but I couldn't tell if it did, so the Cloak is really just a waste of time.
A runner-up for Rise of the Triad is Elasto-mode which makes you bounce off everything you touch and combine it with first person platforming without a dedicated jump button in narrow corridors with traps... have fun
The commanders and the Godrick "command thee kneel" bit sent me! Brilliant writing.
Lunar Gravity in Beach Buggy Racing can do you in pretty good. If used during a straight part of the track with an open sky, it just gives the other racers a boost.
Oh that hurt. I never activated Baldachin's Blessing as I try and save anything that can help me in a fight until new game plus (when I know the fight a bit more.) I have already killed the last boss and Melinia. I didn't know I could have had an extra point in Vigor the whole time. 😭
Breakout had that awful powerup that removed all powerups. So I could have extended my platform, have three balls bouncing around, then suddenly *blip* gone!
I get the Baldachins Blessing if i fight something where i need some hyper poise, so its not a bad powerup ^^
it's not a large HP loss really.
One benefit of the Carmageddon Pinball power up was that you could give it to other cars/items/etc. I think it worked by just bumping into to them. Pretty fun to see your opponents bounce around like that.
Made me happy to see ROTT’s Shroom mode not just on the list, but number one. Heartily agreed.
To add insult to injury on Toe Jam and Earl, even if you figure out what the bad presents are, there is a randomizer present that turns all the presents different, thus flushing all your hard deciphering down the proverbial toilet
The Triad 'shroom power up seemed eerily reminiscent of my recent playing of Borderlands 3 DLC trying to aim sometimes. My FPS skills aren't what they once were.
Carmageddon and ROTT, there's some good nostalgia right there :)
1:42 However in mario party the posion mushroom can be used for a good purpose you can use it on yourself to travel short distances or use it on other players to slow them down.
The ricochet shot in the original gauntlet. The problem is that there can only be 1 project on the screen at a time so until it goes away, you can't defend yourself. Really detrimental when u find several enemies coming at you
In Carmageddon I have a vague memory of there also being a power up that would fire springs from your car at nearby pedestrians - basically giving your car a decent pedestrian killing radius.
Combine this with pinball mode outside so you’re flying all over the map and my not well adjusted 13 year old self was having the time of his life.
Kirby’s sleep ability, in a lot of games, this has actually been used against you, working as an obstacle due to it halting Kirby for a few seconds. The best version of this was also its most recent, allowing minor movement before being knocked out and healing you during your beauty sleep.
It is apparently a joke ability because it literally just makes him fall asleep 😂😂😂.
Technically the best version was in Super Kirby Clash, where it was given an actual offensive moveset, though Forgotten Land Deep Sleep upgrade is a close second (it not only doesn't auto-activate, it also gives a buff at the end of the sleep)
Also IIRC in previous games it isn't COMPLETELY useless, due to the Mix mechanic where if you swallow more than 1 ability it can create a mix (that's potentially better than sleep and the other ability you used as fodder)
@@sinteleon it should've at least be included for how bad it was in multiple games and when it was used as a actual joke copy ability in most games it is in.
Game: Hey, want an awesome power up? It's called the "Giant's Knife".
Me: Oh cool, a two-handed sword! Let's try it out.
_sword immediately shatters_
Me: Well that was a f@&$ing lie.
me: you......you bamboozled me......THAT'S MEAN GAME!
Hey kid, wanna be invincible? It's called the "Magic Armour"
All it costs is a tedious sidequest that also involves spending 3000 rupees to make it available, 598 rupees to buy it, and after that, using it costs 2 rupees per second and an additional 12 rupees per hit mitigated!
In ToeJam and Earl, the total bummer gives you a split second right before you die to open the inventory and open a health present. Took me a few games to figure that one out.
that -1 Vigor is well worth a hug
we all need one once in a while
That commander Neil/kneel joke was *chef’s kiss*
The robotnik monitors in sonic. The screen of the monitor can cut to static sometimes so you don't even see that you just hit the thing that can take away all your rings.
In Ducktales 2, there's an item that gives you a boost to your pogo jump. It only shows up in one level, and always next to a spike pit, thus requiring you to use your pogo stick and the power up. However, it took me _years_ to realize that this was actually a problem because the spike pits also had spike ceilings, and every time I would pogo across I'd hit the ceiling.
Two more here from the old school: 1. In the arcade videogame Arkanoid, there were some powerups that left you worse off. One would shrink your paddle to a very small size, making it hard to hit the ball. Another would speed up the ball to a rate that was very difficult to keep up with. There are a few more as well, especially in Arkanoid II.
2. In the arcade game Xenophobia, there was a powerful gun that released a puff of smoke that would hurt your enemies. However, the range in it was so short that you had to be right next to the enemy to use it, which by then was too late.
Ah, Pinball Mode from Carmageddon! Deadly in enclosed spaces, hugely entertaining (and then deadly) outside. Especially in the second one, you could end up hurling your motor literal miles into the air and waiting ages for it to come back down again.
I knew the woman in Elden Ring was up to someone. No stranger just wants a hug and nothing bad happen.
In the NES game Faxanadu there is a pendant that reduces your attack power by 20%.
It was supposed to boost your attack by 25%, but due to a programming error the game starts with the 25% bonus, and getting the pendant takes it away.
At least the Pinball Mode from Carmageddon is REALLY entertaining to watch.
I'm surprised they missed the Robotnik TVs in Sonic 3 & Knuckles (and Knuckles), if you hit it, it takes ALL your rings and if you don't have any it kills you.
What about the staminan spork drink dropped by Jo Amon in Yakuza 0? They look similar to the powerful recovery item, staminan spark, but when consumed, cause a huge amount of damage and lower your heat bar considerably.
the poison mushroom can be quite useful in mario party though reducing dice block can help you land of the right spot a bit easier than using a regular dice block.
Oh they know.
@@sterlingphoenix Well, you use the poison mushroom on opponents... not yourself though :p
Like Monty Mole.... sooo much Monty Mole.
Crazy Ivan was an early game for Sony Playstation that featured a "power up" called "Pscytso Mode" that would reverse all of the controls so up was down and left was right.
Oh man Andy’s bit about commanders and Niels is hilarious ahahaha
Remember those old games (I'm thinking Gradius and Bomberman for example) where you could get more and more of a certain weapon to get upgraded versions of that weapon? In those, almost any weapon you didn't currently have was a downgrade.
The biggest of betrayals. Offering free hugs, but giving a slow and painful death.
Earthworm Jim 2 had a Bubble Gun that shot out harmless soap bubbles. I only saw it in the final level where there were lots of barricades to destroy while racing to the finish. On the SNES, there was a weapon select button, so it was a minor inconvenience. But on the Genesis version, there was no way to change weapons without picking another up or depleting the ammo. That blasted weapon was the cause of several lost lives.
The music and Link's expression on getting a a Rupoor in Phantom Hourglass made it worth the hit in my bank balance 😂
Reminds me of when Link first meets a certain character in Twilight Princess.
Twisted Metal 2 had electrical beams in some levels that you could activate by acquiring the pickup item to control them, which would then deal damage to any enemies that were close to the source of the electricity. However, if you were also in the proximity of the source, you'd be blasted as well. So you had to basically make the decision to get some distance and activate the source, which would likely only zap a few enemies as some might have pulled away to chase you down, or just weather the attacks and try to heal up afterwards.
OutsideXbox: What about the classic Bomberman and getting the SKULL 💀 item.
Unless it lights you on fire, then you can charge through enemies willy-nilly.
“You get it from Fia, the creepy deathbed companion that’s lounging around Roundtable hall offering free hugs.”
Well, when you phrase it like that….
Partial Invisibility from the classic Doom games. It works great against enemy hitscanners, but...
Dodging projectiles is already an artform in Doom, that is only made much harder when enemy projectiles are being launched in random directions.
It's often the difference between being able to safely circle strafe around a Cyberdemon, or getting a potential 280 damage missile to the face.
Carmageddon's pinball mode was just a ludicrously fun and hilarious pickup. I actually sought it out for the laughs it gave!
Might want to make a correction there, the "Yin" in Yin-Yang is actually the negative side
I've played many zelda games, including the ones one the list; I've never gotten a rupoor. You learn something new everyday.
I assumed the Robotnik “powerup” from the Sega Sonic series (I think it was introduced in “Sonic the Hedgehog 2”) was a shoo-in for this list; if you pick it up you lose all your rings, and if you pick it up when you’re at 0 rings, you lose a life.
I think I remember that silly thing!
I think I remember that silly thing!
On Toejam & Earl, I've always hated the Randomizer more than the Total Bummer... Nothing invoked more rage than unwillingly using it after having most of your presents identified
Robotnik monitors in some 2d Sonic games. It's the only type of monitor that tries to kill you if you break it.
Also, Mystery Crates in Worms 4 Mayhem and Worms Ultimate Mayhem can sometimes deal damage to you if you collect them.
I'm glad that you showed a visual on screen about the gift in toe jam and Earl that resets all the gifts, but I think for those unfamiliar you probably should have actually at least briefly mentioned that because that gift is so frustrating. You have to open the gifts all over again because they're different than what they were before and hope that you don't get a bad one again.
i was running around in Elden Ring for a while before i learnt what was causing the hp debuff, but also it took me a while to learn it was a debuff because i didn't know what the icon was till i had a hp boost. then i took it as a personal challenge to complete the game without using the item lol
9:03 oh it’s actually pretty easy when the smash ball is floating but if it is sitting on the ground then it can get into positions that fool you
Thinking back to Mario, I always screamed when I accidentally got such a mushroom, but now I have to salute the creators, because they knew how to f*** with us, They knew we would fall for it... over and over and over again XD
And hel,l the Carmageddon Pinball Powerup was amazing - alot of times it looked like you broke the game if it happend at the wrong place ^^
I keep falling for it...... because I like purple things.
@@LadyOnikara Understandable - It is not so boring as red ^^
I haven’t played a smash bros game in forever. Glad you described how simplistic it is to spot the difference between the real and fake smash balls. I’ll be ready
Wild Guns for the SNES had a powerup that was essentially a Ping Pong gun, shooting Ping Pong balls that did zero damage. And you couldn't get rid of it until you used up all the ammo.
"Don't hug Fia guys, it debuffs your HP"
"But what about the BUFF to my MORALE???"
Atomic Bomberman (and maybe others) had the diarrhea mode "power up". It was terrifying and contagious.
Not sure if it counts or not but what about touching a Fuzzy in one of the Yoshi's Island games? As a kid, I figured out that it made some things easier to reach when the ground turned into hills, but it's designed to make things more difficult and can lead to you running into an enemy or into a hole.
the binding of isaac repentance has a lot of items that most of the time you're better off by just not
cursed penny makes you teleport to a random room every time you pick up a coin, which you do quite often
plan C kills everything in the room you're in, including you after a 3 second delay
Wavy cap which increases your tears at the cost of slightly lower speed and screen distortion, and speed down and the distortion can stack with multiple uses
and don't even get me started on the worm trinkets