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Seems to me that most things described as "entities" turn out to be malevolent. You never hear Mister Rogers called an entity, for ex. I did once live with a cat called Destructive Feline Entity (even had tags for it), although as a kitten it was named Puffles - which might have explained its adult personality, now that I think of it. I know I'd resent being called Puffles.
HEY HEY what are you playing at here Spiff. Stop messing with machine spirits and daemonic binary digital sorcery. You are clearly trying to divide by zero right now! WHAT EVILS ARE YOU TOYING WITH RIGHT NOW? WE ALL KNOW YOU ARE TRYING TO CONSUME MR BEAST'S AND OR PEWDIEPIES SOUL. "In real life hacks and exploits" cheating at life to gain infinite fame knowledge and "persuasion". Claiming it is the british way, you don't want to be the king of youtube, you want to be the king of the world. Creating some digital hivemind where all is one and one is all with you leading.
I kinda like the idea of painfully awkward King Arthur just being really hyped up about his castle furnishings and the population just letting him rant about it
Hilariously that last one reminds me of real history because he had The Empire doing it, I am reminded of the Siege of Vienna when the Holy Roman Empire the basis of the Empire of Man in Warhammer actually did Owned the Ottomans, the Premier Power in Europe and the Middle East at the time.
Morgan Le Fay's death scene is a comedic masterpiece, the over the top voice acting, the janky spin, the fade to black followed by punching sounds. It's perfect.
The Master's ... well, let's call it a voice, is what seals it for me. Dude is calling in from Hell over the worst landline ever and seems to have a bad case of sinusitis.
The fade to black with the cheesy punching sounds was actually kind of unsettling for me. Does anyone else feel that way? Or have I just gone crazy from watching this game?
I died laughing too but part of the reason it’s so memorable and hilarious is because of how bad it was in Firewarrior. I haven’t played either but based on the video review, Firewarrior is infinitely worse. Note that this comes within a country mile of being okay.
I love how the crescendo of the game is the final boss spinning out like a respawning DK64 enemy while the camera ties to figure out if you've fallen off the map.
This game is aggressively, painfully early 2000s. Like, you see that opening cutscene and those character designs and you KNOW that this is something that could only have been produced during about 3 or 4 years of human history.
As someone who _endlessly_ waited for the water to freeze, never understanding _why_ I couldn't progress, I truly appreciate your sacrifice. _Your grail quest is complete, you have finally settled my 20-year long forgotten itch._
16:44 "Who are we kidding, the game's f*cking terrible." I love that little mid-review mental breakdown, hysterical laughter included. And then he goes on and continues the serious review like a true professional.
@@johncouzens5321You just got deceived. They look like that in their videos, but after Sseth livestreams and Mandys appereances in Stop Talking, turns out Sseth is the sane one and Mandy is the deranged alter ego.
There is something so charming about this era of games where they grabbed some random level dev or concept artist and forced them into a recording booth to show off the one year of High School Drama they did.
Is it me, or does that feel alot more charming? Instead of hiring a VA that requires a shitton of money and time management, you get Greg the janitor doing death noises lol
19:30 To this game's credit, the "Greed king's" gold mechanic is a pretty awesome idea for a more competent rougelite/roguelike game. It can be an early game boss who drops money/loot but if you pick it up, it makes the fight harder, however you make the late game potentially easier for yourself. I'm sure some games done it already since, but this is the first time I'm seeing it and I like it (on paper at least).
Hell, it could be an excuse for a revolutionized practice dummy. You incentivize experimentation with different gear and get rewarded for it in terms of currency for defeating the 'dummy boss'. The boss itself is no slouch either and it's behaviour will change accordingly towards the player's style.
SMT If... did it already. On the realm of Greed, there's a boss whose form and power is determined by the number of chests you loot in his dungeon, and if you take none he becomes a fox whose killed by a single regular attack. One of the better dungeon gimmicks of the game
@@jackmesrel4933seems like a version of the Sorrow fight in MGS3, where the harder you've made the rest of the game for yourself (by not killing enemies), the easier the actual boss is.
That story about getting an M rated game, your parents taking it away and it then becoming something bigger than it was in your memory is so relatable. For me that game was Archimedean Dynasty, which I still remember as being an incredible underwater dystopian adventure.
That was Spellforce 1 for me. I only played like the first three maps as a child before my parents decided the monsters were too scary and my god did I blow that game out of proportion in my head. Still good today tho.
I feel like the bad level design was a leftover of the game's original strategy version. Objectives like defending a town while you kill a specific target, or having some of your units hold the line while one hero unit goes through some challenges would make a lot more sense in a game where you control an entire army and have disposable units under your command, instead of just a four man party which basically needs to stay together at all times.
I feel that was the intention as well. The closest I've seen this work is Warhammer Mark of Chaos. You have small side missions where you can have your lead character enter duels and it makes for awesome roleplay. There's also a mission to loot a powerful sword for your MC in the Empire campaign. The catch is that only your heroes could enter the mausoleum, but in truth I had fun with that one. Now I wonder why they didn't keep the stratergy element and lean into a Warcraft aesthetic. These were supposedly former Westwoods people no less.
Definitely one of the horror stories of my younger years. My brother and I made it to that freezing water but it was so frustrating to path over that we quit.
That scene with the drunks getting instantly disintegrated by fireballs is fucking incredible. It feels like the older, more over-the-top brother of the Orc Genocide from War of the Ring. I know it's supposed to take place in a actual military camp and that's why it's being bombarded, but it feels so random, the quality of the dialog along with the instant cut to someone casting Meteor Swarm kills me. It's like seeing a A-10 completely glassing some random gopniks arguing over the Everclear in a field.
"Brain itch" is painfully accurate. Trying to find this game has haunted me for at least one day a year since the PS2 days. The only difference is I very clearly remember it being terrible 😅 that box art thumbnail nearly made me jump out of my skin!
Honestly, kinda similar case here. A game distributed in one of those "100/1000 games in one" CDs in the 2000s, similar to Realspace 3 (ESPECIALLY in the UI and roughly the ship design). Kinda wish i could find it, but i suspect i wont find it anytime soon...
This review was... important. It's important, because anytime I see a good (little) game review on your channel, Mandalore, I'm like "I could do that!" I'm a game creator myself (sorry, "solo indy game developper", as they say), who had and can still have brilliant ideas sometimes. So I get all worked up and excited after "good games" reviews. But then there's those "bad games" reviews. And I'm like : "Ah... I could do that too..." And that's when I realize I don't have the "vision" to really differentiate the two, good and bad, when making my own stuff from scratch. All the review long, I see it's bad, and I try to figure out how "I" would improve it, to push it to the "good/fun" area. But I don't often know how. So, yeah, in theory, I could do all that. Pray the lords I don't try too much, I guess, or at least not until Merlin blesses me with the capacity to really see the difference, when creating my own monsters, and the path to salvation. Thank you so much for your awesome videos and gems you bring forward. ;)
Take it from a perfectionist writer who had to rewrite an entire series twice to get it right: keep it simple stupid (KISS) is the best lesson I've ever learned and I had to learn it the hard way. Take a basic idea and slowly build on top of it and things will go better for you. Trying to make it and failing is better than not trying and regretting not trying at all. Everyone regrets what they didn't do the most.
I actually do remember playing this game back in the day! I remember thinking it looked cool and fun, but never being able to get very far into it back in the day. And then whenever I tried talking about it or looking it up, I felt like I was going crazy because no one else seemed to remember this game, lol Watching this, I'm suddenly glad I never got that far back then...
You are one of the best gaming reviewers in the industry - whether it's obscure, forgotten jank like this or a megahit like TWW3, it's always enjoyable to listen to your opinions and insights
Agreed, I'm glad there are people like Mandalore (And others like Sseth, Josh Strife Hayes etc) who cover these interesting older titles in depth. They might not be good but they're at least interesting, more interesting than yet another retrospective of Ocarina of Time lol.
@@Zay-y6m It had an all-time peak of 166,754 players, so I wouldn't call it an obscure, forgotten and janky game. I'd hardly call it any of those things isolated either, though I'll admit that it's not the best thing since sliced bread. (that all-time peak is just on Steam, but that's probably also where the bulk of players were, I'd imagine)
@@SillyPillowit had that peak because it was riding on the coattails of games 1 and 2. They've done f all to fix the games issues and jacked up the DLC prices to an absurd amount. It's not deserving of the franchise name IMO and CA can kick rocks with their greedy bullshit.
My experience was so much the same. I picked this game up at my local Blockbuster and it imprinted on my brain. Particularly the game over cinematic. The idea of having your legs cut off and then having to crawl through a battlefield really stuck with me as a kid. I remember thinking the ability to burn down a wooden bridge using Arthur’s fire attack was revolutionary at the time to.
I love that little Hint at the Fate Franchise at 4:25. Because who would have thought at this thing will blow up this hard in Japan and then the rest of the world
@@douglasdudding5736 in the original draft, known as Fate Prototype, Arthur was male. But because they were writting an Eroge, they turned him into a girl. And the Rest is history
@@mauke90 and then they turned her into another girl, and another girl, and another girl, and another girl, and another girl and oh look they brought the prototype boy version back, and another girl and another....
Just wanted to remind people that the sword in the stone is Caliburn. When Claiburn gets broken they bring the pieces to the lady of the lake and it gets turned into Excalibur.
Caliburn is an older name for Excalibur, which originally had no connection to the sword in the stone. Which was also embedded in an anvil on top of the stone.
the way mandy describes the movement problems for the companions reminds me alot of how half life 1 NPCs worked when you had to bring them along. constant stopping for no reason, getting stuck on everything, barely being able to follow where you're going (unless you're within arms reach of them and are moving them along like they're on a leash), and the whole ordeal being accurately compared to "herding cats".
"This is as far as I go." "I'm going to stay here, and wait for my colleagues." "You're going to have to leave me here, Gordon." "I REFUSE TO MOVE ANOTHER STEP!" As janksauce as that could be, it's still not quite as painful as Daikatana could be. Believe me, I actually managed to get some enjoyment out of that game, especially after escaping the future sewer jungle, but I can't leave without my buddy Superfly. Even though they should have just had him and Mikiko teleport to you when you reach the level transition.
4:25 "Yeah a girl King Arthur that would never catch on, after some arguing and *saber* rattling from Kay." Dammit Mandy 9:32 Oh i'm so glad that came back, I love that joke 12:30 that game has permanently tainted those words universally 21:08 I like how Mandy's writing is so subtle that if you don't know the joke its referencing it still works
I thought this game was a fever dream. I remember seeing a box for this in a thrift store as a kid, sadly (actually good) I never bought it. I’ve asked friends about the “Evanescence King Arthur game” but no one remembered or heard of it. I’m both happy and disappointed it’s real lol
10:05 was a very funny break from tradition. I can't think of many reviewers which make me snicker like the girl this game makes Arthur out to be. 23:57 really made me want to own an ottoman.
I played this on the ps2, this game was a fever dream, it took me tens of attemps of trying to get into it until I finally was able to make a lot of progress and get to what I thought was pretty late-game, I still feel pretty nostalgic about it
Super Sentai style armor glowing, a most enjoyable amount of ham, and magic swords... kinda reminds me of Mystic Knights of Tir-Na-Nog & King Arthur and the Knights of Justice. Loved those shows as a kid. Both of them died way too soon.
>King Arthur and the Knights of Justice. The opening for that show is brain-meltingly metal, and you owe it to yourself to go experience it right this instant if you haven't already.
@@TheSeanSpillane You're welcome! No idea how well it's aged, but loved Mystic Knights as a kid. Thought it was a very creative spin on the Sentai formula.
Mandalore you brought back PTSD I have buried over the years. I remember the beach. I remember the green knight. I remember the black knight. God, I still have a physical copy.
I am so happy to see someone else cover this. This was a game I wanted to love so much but pissed me off so much when I was young. I remember using the fire ult on the bridge on the second mission to get an early level up.
My hat off to you sir - this was one of the PS2 games that stuck out in my memory from my teenage years and to find someone properly discussing it is a treasure. 👏👏👏
Mandalore. This video brought a memory to my frontal lobe. Heroes of Annihilated Empires. A RTS that I won in a facebook raffle in 2015, I have played around 23 minutes of it but I remember that I thought the amount of units on screen at one time was impressive for a very old game. I think it would be up your alley
I remember seeing a trailer for it way back when, including a shot of a jet fighter flying past what looked like Dalaran. There was also some lore about the fall of Atlantis, which I presume was one of the aforementioned Annihilated Empires, but beyond that I don't know much about the game. Other than it being made by the folks who made Cossacks, apparently.
I’ve just been watching fate ubw abridged so that jab about female Arthur hit me square in the chest. ALSO “SABER RATTLING” I don’t know if that was intentional but it was a very good follow up.
@@amosdeguzman9980 Not just make them, but DELIVER them. The nonchalant way he drops them on us can send people into the waves. I still remember the bomb he dropped in the PST episode "Certified Barren". He was talking about how the world was flat for elves in Lord of the Rings, and when the discussion shifted to sandbags, guns-that-shoot-fast and World War 1, he nukes his fellow hosts by dropping the line "because the world is flat for Germans". Billy and the boys were falling about the place after that one, with Billy himself capping it off with "holy shit Germans are elves?!".
I remember playing this game on PS2. It looked cool based on the trailers. One of the early levels had an objective to destroy a bridge so the enemy couldnt cross the river. I destroyed the bridge, then the enemies ran across the river and killed me anyway. 😂
a lot of these issues do make sense for a warcraft esc strategy game, like a level where you have to do a no build mission with your hero while also holding the line with your army sounds like a cool level, less so when all you have is your heros, similarly splitting your forces to both defend the town and track down the enemy would be a fun level, in a game where they gave you forces too split
Man the concept of having my parents taking away a game from me because it was R rated feels so foreign to me. I don't think my parents even knew ratings was a thing for either games or movies lol.
My parents don't care about that sort of thing, as long as it doesn't have a nudity or s*x scene. So yeah my parents don't care when I'm playing GTA games. In fact, they like to watch me playing games even when I'm killing people on screen lol
@@RifqietheheroMurder being fine but any hint of sex being forbidden is such a common thing in American households for some reason. Explains a lot of whats happening in the world right, actually
@@DylanJo123 its not just an american thing. My parents here in brazil also never cared for ratings in games. They got me ac4 black flag when i was 14
I cant believe you're reviewing this game. One of the first games I ever rented on my PS2. The box art of King Arthur standing there all badass was pretty enticing. I remember getting bored after the graveyard level. For some reason this review makes me think of games like Golden Axe and Knights of the Round. Such excellent games
Holy shit! I can't even count the number of times I restarted this game as a kid and played the intro over and over and over again my god thank you for taking about this game and bringing me back to my childhood
In the era he lived in, Arthur announcing that they have a round table would've been a SERIOUS mic-drop moment, actually... _It means a KING is treating his knights as EQUALS. That shit did NOT happen... Ever._ The ruler would sit at the head of the table, the seat of honor. But a round table HAS no head.
I remember playing this one as a kid with my older brothers. We were one of those families that couldn't keep track of memory cards, so whenever we rented a game we would keep the playstation on indefinitely until we beat it. I don't think we could ever get past a single mission after the tutorial. I was certain until today that I had simply imagined this game's existence. Thanks for that, I think?
It's a big fist that gives you poison damage, though somehow I'd find the place already burning sometimes. At one point I managed to snag it and get back across the bridge to the grind corner before they got over it properly.
I love the trailers of games of that era. This one, Myth, Atrox, Armies of Exigo, wh dark omen and so on. There was something in them that just guaranteed a nice escapism session.
Yes, the Defender reboot on Ps2 was actually fun. I bought a copy off of ebay not too long ago and it's still pretty fun tbh. Sure it shows it's age in plenty of ways, but I would still much rather play it than Forespoken.
Somewhat related but I feel like there have been a weirdly large number of Indie & AA Grimdark Arthurian legend video games coming out of the last few years. Of the top of my head: • King Arthur Knights Tale • Tainted Grail • Hand of Merlin Might have something to do with most versions the original myth not having the happiest of endings (Arthurs kingdom collapses and England would eventually end up falling to the Saxons), not sure why this trend has just started now as opposed to the heroic fantasy genre Arthur had usually been in prior,
Holy shit! I had this game as a kid and I had began to think it was a fever dream because I couldn't remember what it was called. I just remember it being violent and something to do with King Arthur. Thank you for confirming the existence of this game so I know I wasn't crazy.
Everyone has their first M rated game, and this was mine. I was so bad, didn't search for more items, had no idea the specials were so strong, and got stuck real bad on the cauldron mission. I had been wanting to play it again for years, i mean YEARS, but i had lost the CD until i bought it at a convention last year for like, 3 bucks. Played it again this year and boy, it was one of the games of all time.
A friend gave me a copy of this along with his other PS2 stuff. It's just sat in my closet collecting dust in near mint condition and I've never played it. Thanks to you Mandalore, you have confirmed what I thought exactly the game would be based on my cursory glance at the back of the game's case.
I appreciate this Mandalore, improved my opinion of ya' after TH-cam kept throwing only all your videos in my feed for nine weeks. Played this game alot at my dad's, I only ever got to visit every couple weeks to spend a weekend with him, and he just had a small TV and a PS2. He'd pick up a random pawn shop game and take it home to play over it with me, and this was one of the more memorable times spent with him since he and we are massive history and mythology fans. It's one of those games that feels mushy in memory, like positive that you remember it, but not having played it. Thanks for the revival of that memory.
I convinced my dad to rent this for me three times from Blockbuster back in the day just to play through the whole thing, the Green/Black Knights and holy grail were always my favorite parts
love your reviews! so many great games i have played and gems, i missed! I remember a title named "Silver" from around 99 that might be interesting for this series.
Nice, one of my childhood favourites though its definitely a... rough experience. Also, love the armour designs in this game. Yes they look turbo fantasy but damn Arthur's armour looks sick.
I specifically remember the mission against the barbarian chief; I only beat it by controlling Arthur, literally baiting the boss into only attacking me, while a random npc soldier chipped away at his health. It took ages and that npc did more than Arthur ever could. P.s. I was like ten years old, I never got passed the trials against the kings of Camelot
I've never heard of this game, I've never seen a single image of it. I had no idea it ever existed... But at least Arthur be lookin' badass in that black and gold. Also, love the Caesar 3 music in the background!
Speaking of old games you loved as a kid, it always brings a smile to my face when someone uses Mystical Ninja music in their videos. I still listen to their OSTs, they're very good.
I can relate with fantasizing about a game with a badass warrior on the cover but being unable to play it until adulthood. I found a copy of Witchaven in an old attic but no matter how hard I tried I didn't manage to get it to work on my pc. Little me was convinced the most badass game ever laid prissioner inside that CD,
This was a childhood game of mine as well, I remembered the armor and the title screen and cinematics as well as some light memories of the gameplay reminding me of Champions of Norrath / Dark Alliance. Just last year I googled "Game with cover of a dark knight standing on pile of bodies." and found it and was so happy I did and it wasn't just a lost phantom. I actually got it last Christmas after I had mentioned finding it again to someone and they bought a pristine copy online for me, manual and all! Like you though, I did find the gameplay wasn't great, I did enjoy going through it again, and games like this give me joy, I love them, even if they aren't the best. I enjoy your channel cause it gives me a big nostalgia boost, even for games I never played, but now I got one of your videos for a game I do know!!!... Also early teen me did buy Dragon Age Origins largely because of an awesome gaming magazine spread of all of the Origins being showcased and also the Marilyn Manson trailer... So this video feels tailor-made for me. Would love to see other games like this in the future! The aforementioned Champions of Norrath would be awesome! Likewise Dark Alliance. I also LOVE The Bard's Tale 2004 which I lump in my mind with these games. Another PS2 game I revisited recently that kid me adored was Colosseum: Road to Freedom, unlike Legion I actually found it's gameplay fantastic.
I'm so happy that you have covered this game! I remember when I was a kid my dad and I would go down too the video rental store and I would rent this game out. I would always get stuck at that graveyard level! good memory's
"A Girl King Arthur? Yeah, that'll never catch on." "After some saber-rattling from Sir Kay..." I refuse to believe these lines were coincidence, well done Mandalore.
The game case is what got me to ask my parents to get this game as a kid. It was my first introduction to King Arthur. I thought his armor looked so cool and since then all depictions of him in the media have been a lot down. I also remember this game being so frustratingly difficult as a kid, and I never beaten it cause of that frozen lake part... I just sat there thinking maybe the game was bugged and I had to redo the level, and I did! Several times to no avail. Thank you for this video. Definitely felt a lot of nostalgia watching it and to see the ending.
This is one of the first disc-based console games I remember playing - rented it from blockbuster while I was at my dad's apartment. It has certainly aged.
I have strong memories of playing this on the PS2 as a child. It was oddly satisfying watching along realizing how much id forgotten... aaaand just how much I remembered. Even at the time, I think I knew this was a bad game, but it definitely had a certain sense of style that I miss. It doesn't deserve it, but I think id be interested in a remake. But then, iv always kind of thought its bad games with cool ideas that needed remakes, The good ones can sort of just be left alone.
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Wowsers I'm early
Hi Mandy
Was just going to ask about them :PP
Thanks for clarifying this quickly
I noticed what you did at 9:32 and I'm in stitches for it.
Seems to me that most things described as "entities" turn out to be malevolent. You never hear Mister Rogers called an entity, for ex. I did once live with a cat called Destructive Feline Entity (even had tags for it), although as a kitten it was named Puffles - which might have explained its adult personality, now that I think of it. I know I'd resent being called Puffles.
Yo, since we started doing obscure RPGs, can we get the Lionheart: Legacy of the Crusader one please, Sir Mandalore?
"Heres a tip - Pressing the X button will execute a basic light attack" is probably my favourite line read of any game
If only the instructor's little profile picture changed to him looking straight at the camera with his eyes crossed.
"Use the elevator to change floors" is my fav. From MGS.
Pro tip: a basic light attack can be used to kill enemies (if executed in front of them), try it!
I dunno man, 'press jump to jump' from Blood Omen 2 was pretty funny.
Sounds like he's about to sell me some sweet Raycon ear buds.
I appreciate you sacrificing all ad revenue by playing that legendary trailer
It does say a lot about youtube that we are already waiting for a reupload
It's over for revenuecels
HEY HEY what are you playing at here Spiff. Stop messing with machine spirits and daemonic binary digital sorcery. You are clearly trying to divide by zero right now! WHAT EVILS ARE YOU TOYING WITH RIGHT NOW? WE ALL KNOW YOU ARE TRYING TO CONSUME MR BEAST'S AND OR PEWDIEPIES SOUL. "In real life hacks and exploits" cheating at life to gain infinite fame knowledge and "persuasion". Claiming it is the british way, you don't want to be the king of youtube, you want to be the king of the world. Creating some digital hivemind where all is one and one is all with you leading.
Its a good game
Spiffdalore?
Mandabrit?
Best crossover ever.
My god
King Arthur exclaiming to a cheering crowd that they now have a round table is the funniest thing I've heard all week
23:39 for future reference
Supposedly Morgan's tyranny was making rectangular tables mandatory.
He'll have to steal my bones before I sit at a flat edged table
King Arthur is secretly a Rimworld player and understands the pain of eating without table.
WE HAVE ACQUIRED A CREDENZA!
A CHAISE LOUNGE HAS BEEN SIEZED!
Arthur trying to make campy ass jokes like a comic book hero and nobody laughing at them was the best part
"Damn man, not even the laugh track thought that was funny."
I kinda like the idea of painfully awkward King Arthur just being really hyped up about his castle furnishings and the population just letting him rant about it
WE HAVE PURCHASED A CREDENZA!!!
Just go off king
@@thehoodedteddy1335 LET ALL KNOW OF OUR GLORIOUS GAMING CHAIRS!!
"We now have a round table!"
"We own an ottoman!"
Oh god my sides. I love how cheerful yet anticlimactic the delivery of that line was.
Hilariously that last one reminds me of real history because he had The Empire doing it, I am reminded of the Siege of Vienna when the Holy Roman Empire the basis of the Empire of Man in Warhammer actually did Owned the Ottomans, the Premier Power in Europe and the Middle East at the time.
@@forickgrimaldus8301uhhhhhhh ok? plus it was the poles who saved the austrians asses.
@@GlizzyGoblin757 them too
When I heard that line I immediately thought of when Mandy used to own slaves as a kid
@@hernehaugen6878 Ironically its the Ottomans who typically had those
I never get tired of hearing that "its quiet" line snuck in. It feels like an old friend at this point.
It's like the younger brother of the Home Alone scream
The only old joke I miss is the Command and conquer 4 cyborg
But this and the Marv scream are the goat
Morgan Le Fay's death scene is a comedic masterpiece, the over the top voice acting, the janky spin, the fade to black followed by punching sounds. It's perfect.
The Master's ... well, let's call it a voice, is what seals it for me. Dude is calling in from Hell over the worst landline ever and seems to have a bad case of sinusitis.
Yeah that was something else lol. The fade to black really sells it lol.
@@koenvandamme6901 Bro sounds like Zuul's fridge servant got into Mortal Kombat
The fade to black with the cheesy punching sounds was actually kind of unsettling for me. Does anyone else feel that way? Or have I just gone crazy from watching this game?
9:32 the "it's quiet" annihilated me, fire warrior's sound was a travesty but this is very close to surpassing it
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Aww no fair. I caught that first, with the exact same time stamp too, and i never gotten any likes. (Pout face)
I died laughing too but part of the reason it’s so memorable and hilarious is because of how bad it was in Firewarrior.
I haven’t played either but based on the video review, Firewarrior is infinitely worse.
Note that this comes within a country mile of being okay.
I love how the crescendo of the game is the final boss spinning out like a respawning DK64 enemy while the camera ties to figure out if you've fallen off the map.
Perfect description
This game is aggressively, painfully early 2000s. Like, you see that opening cutscene and those character designs and you KNOW that this is something that could only have been produced during about 3 or 4 years of human history.
Her cleavage alone lives in 1999 fantasy comic books
Yeah that era really had a unique look
God it's good
The goth mommy heavy metal era
you mean absolutely based
The sounds really make it seem like Arthur is just swinging at air, but the enemies are so overwhelmed by his awesomeness that they explode.
"Oh my god, he fights like a girl" - dies laughing
More like die from cringe.
@@jebnordost7487the enemies cringe so hard, they explode
@@Noperareso... die of cringe is a real battle tactic.
I'll never get tired of playing "find the Guardsman line" in Mandalor videos
it's quiet
Or the Gachi SFX
*clap* AUGH MY SHOULDER
Home Alone Skeleton
no electricity tho?
As someone who _endlessly_ waited for the water to freeze, never understanding _why_ I couldn't progress, I truly appreciate your sacrifice.
_Your grail quest is complete, you have finally settled my 20-year long forgotten itch._
This feels like the Mandalore equivalent of Best of the Worst spotlight episode and I absolutely love it
16:44 "Who are we kidding, the game's f*cking terrible." I love that little mid-review mental breakdown, hysterical laughter included. And then he goes on and continues the serious review like a true professional.
This is the reason why Sseth Dr. Jekyll, Mandalore is Mr. Hyde who's just that good at hiding that he is Mr. Hyde.
@@StrikeWarlockI think you got that backwards.
Mandalore is the respectable Dr jekyll and sseth is his evil alter ego
@@johncouzens5321You just got deceived.
They look like that in their videos, but after Sseth livestreams and Mandys appereances in Stop Talking, turns out Sseth is the sane one and Mandy is the deranged alter ego.
@@johncouzens5321Sseth is merely a scientist, he has a code to which he remains true
The times when Mandy breaks character are some of my favorites in all his videos. The first Marathon one and the Blade Runner one come to mind
There is something so charming about this era of games where they grabbed some random level dev or concept artist and forced them into a recording booth to show off the one year of High School Drama they did.
Is it me, or does that feel alot more charming? Instead of hiring a VA that requires a shitton of money and time management, you get Greg the janitor doing death noises lol
@@throwdown1776 Unfortunately, Greg the Janitor was actually killed on mic to give a more realistic tone. A real method actor that one.
Amd then you have shit like Legacy of Kain where you get a bunch of TV actors, and have them ham the shit out of it.
How can we talkong about actors without mentioning the glory that is Red Alert 3
That Lancelot and Guinevere joke was so brilliantly subtle and so quick, I wonder how many people missed it.
I was about to comment on it. Thats some funny shit.
Was just checking if someone else noticed.
which part is that?
@@renham6505 20:19
I did the first time but damn that was perfect
19:30 To this game's credit, the "Greed king's" gold mechanic is a pretty awesome idea for a more competent rougelite/roguelike game.
It can be an early game boss who drops money/loot but if you pick it up, it makes the fight harder, however you make the late game potentially easier for yourself.
I'm sure some games done it already since, but this is the first time I'm seeing it and I like it (on paper at least).
Hell, it could be an excuse for a revolutionized practice dummy.
You incentivize experimentation with different gear and get rewarded for it in terms of currency for defeating the 'dummy boss'. The boss itself is no slouch either and it's behaviour will change accordingly towards the player's style.
SMT If... did it already. On the realm of Greed, there's a boss whose form and power is determined by the number of chests you loot in his dungeon, and if you take none he becomes a fox whose killed by a single regular attack. One of the better dungeon gimmicks of the game
@@jackmesrel4933seems like a version of the Sorrow fight in MGS3, where the harder you've made the rest of the game for yourself (by not killing enemies), the easier the actual boss is.
OOOR you have an awesome character idea for a monk that gets instakilled when you pick up gold.
That “female King Arthur” joke had me cackling, well done.
Quick, hide your pfp! Cover all traces! We need to keep them guessing.
You’re too late, I’ve already spent $1000 on a virtual slot machine to get a PNG of my wife, Attila the Hun.
@@lamarepository248 Bro I got my wife Morgan for free.
👱♀️🔪
Guys the worms in my blood are telling me to do my wizard taxes...
That story about getting an M rated game, your parents taking it away and it then becoming something bigger than it was in your memory is so relatable. For me that game was Archimedean Dynasty, which I still remember as being an incredible underwater dystopian adventure.
That was Fallout 3 for me
Mine was Turok 2, my mom saw the cerebral bore and threw the game in the trash.
That was Spellforce 1 for me. I only played like the first three maps as a child before my parents decided the monsters were too scary and my god did I blow that game out of proportion in my head.
Still good today tho.
Oh dear god, you just summoned this game from the depths of my memories. Never knew the game until now and gave up trying to find it ages ago!
Mine was Drakengard.
Actually, my parents may have had a point there.
"At first I tried a new party, figuring out Lancelot would take care of Guinevere in the castle"
Oh Mando, you sneaky lad
“No, never will I leave you…”
I feel like the bad level design was a leftover of the game's original strategy version. Objectives like defending a town while you kill a specific target, or having some of your units hold the line while one hero unit goes through some challenges would make a lot more sense in a game where you control an entire army and have disposable units under your command, instead of just a four man party which basically needs to stay together at all times.
I feel that was the intention as well. The closest I've seen this work is Warhammer Mark of Chaos. You have small side missions where you can have your lead character enter duels and it makes for awesome roleplay.
There's also a mission to loot a powerful sword for your MC in the Empire campaign. The catch is that only your heroes could enter the mausoleum, but in truth I had fun with that one.
Now I wonder why they didn't keep the stratergy element and lean into a Warcraft aesthetic. These were supposedly former Westwoods people no less.
@@TheNapster153 SO GLAD to see someone repping Mark of Chaos! Amazing Warhammer game, still holds up and is fun to play.
Karl Franz saying "we own an ottoman" had me rolling in laughter
Definitely one of the horror stories of my younger years. My brother and I made it to that freezing water but it was so frustrating to path over that we quit.
That scene with the drunks getting instantly disintegrated by fireballs is fucking incredible. It feels like the older, more over-the-top brother of the Orc Genocide from War of the Ring.
I know it's supposed to take place in a actual military camp and that's why it's being bombarded, but it feels so random, the quality of the dialog along with the instant cut to someone casting Meteor Swarm kills me.
It's like seeing a A-10 completely glassing some random gopniks arguing over the Everclear in a field.
Holy crap, somebody else remembers War of the Ring! Did Mandy ever do a video on the game? I feel like he did and I've forgotten it.
@@1perspective286 He did, it's actually his video that introduced me to the game, and I'm referencing a very particular scene from the vid.
@@1perspective286 th-cam.com/video/R9NL6toGGSM/w-d-xo.html
he did.
@@tylerp.5004 I thought, might have to go back and watch that video.
it is even better because that is what makes arthur worthy. What a low bar to become king.
9:31 "it's quiet". Mandalore with his sneaky references. Just wonderful.
Not as classic as the Marv Scream, but the Firewarrior Guardsmen that won't shut up about how quite it is is still a good one...
@@RipOffProductionsLLC I don't hear Marv in this video.
@@StyryderX I didn't say there was.
I was saying Marv is a bigger Mandy Meme in these reviews in general...
"Brain itch" is painfully accurate. Trying to find this game has haunted me for at least one day a year since the PS2 days. The only difference is I very clearly remember it being terrible 😅 that box art thumbnail nearly made me jump out of my skin!
I’ve never played nor seen this game in my life, but honestly, yeah, I somehow know exactly what you’re talking about.
Honestly, kinda similar case here.
A game distributed in one of those "100/1000 games in one" CDs in the 2000s, similar to Realspace 3 (ESPECIALLY in the UI and roughly the ship design).
Kinda wish i could find it, but i suspect i wont find it anytime soon...
This review was... important.
It's important, because anytime I see a good (little) game review on your channel, Mandalore, I'm like "I could do that!"
I'm a game creator myself (sorry, "solo indy game developper", as they say), who had and can still have brilliant ideas sometimes.
So I get all worked up and excited after "good games" reviews.
But then there's those "bad games" reviews.
And I'm like : "Ah... I could do that too..."
And that's when I realize I don't have the "vision" to really differentiate the two, good and bad, when making my own stuff from scratch.
All the review long, I see it's bad, and I try to figure out how "I" would improve it, to push it to the "good/fun" area.
But I don't often know how.
So, yeah, in theory, I could do all that.
Pray the lords I don't try too much, I guess, or at least not until Merlin blesses me with the capacity to really see the difference, when creating my own monsters, and the path to salvation.
Thank you so much for your awesome videos and gems you bring forward. ;)
Take it from a perfectionist writer who had to rewrite an entire series twice to get it right: keep it simple stupid (KISS) is the best lesson I've ever learned and I had to learn it the hard way. Take a basic idea and slowly build on top of it and things will go better for you. Trying to make it and failing is better than not trying and regretting not trying at all. Everyone regrets what they didn't do the most.
I actually do remember playing this game back in the day! I remember thinking it looked cool and fun, but never being able to get very far into it back in the day.
And then whenever I tried talking about it or looking it up, I felt like I was going crazy because no one else seemed to remember this game, lol
Watching this, I'm suddenly glad I never got that far back then...
You are one of the best gaming reviewers in the industry - whether it's obscure, forgotten jank like this or a megahit like TWW3, it's always enjoyable to listen to your opinions and insights
Agreed, I'm glad there are people like Mandalore (And others like Sseth, Josh Strife Hayes etc) who cover these interesting older titles in depth. They might not be good but they're at least interesting, more interesting than yet another retrospective of Ocarina of Time lol.
@@Your_Landlord I meant Total War: Warhammer, but I forgot the other W
Tww3 is not a mega hit lol.
@@Zay-y6m It had an all-time peak of 166,754 players, so I wouldn't call it an obscure, forgotten and janky game. I'd hardly call it any of those things isolated either, though I'll admit that it's not the best thing since sliced bread.
(that all-time peak is just on Steam, but that's probably also where the bulk of players were, I'd imagine)
@@SillyPillowit had that peak because it was riding on the coattails of games 1 and 2. They've done f all to fix the games issues and jacked up the DLC prices to an absurd amount. It's not deserving of the franchise name IMO and CA can kick rocks with their greedy bullshit.
My experience was so much the same. I picked this game up at my local Blockbuster and it imprinted on my brain. Particularly the game over cinematic. The idea of having your legs cut off and then having to crawl through a battlefield really stuck with me as a kid. I remember thinking the ability to burn down a wooden bridge using Arthur’s fire attack was revolutionary at the time to.
I love that little Hint at the Fate Franchise at 4:25. Because who would have thought at this thing will blow up this hard in Japan and then the rest of the world
I was just wondering if the Fate series writer was a fan 😂
@@douglasdudding5736 in the original draft, known as Fate Prototype, Arthur was male. But because they were writting an Eroge, they turned him into a girl. And the Rest is history
The franchise based on a pornographic visual novel that blew up so hard everyone is at least aware of it's existence
@@mauke90 and then they turned her into another girl, and another girl, and another girl, and another girl, and another girl and oh look they brought the prototype boy version back, and another girl and another....
I had no idea that was a thing
Just wanted to remind people that the sword in the stone is Caliburn. When Claiburn gets broken they bring the pieces to the lady of the lake and it gets turned into Excalibur.
Caliburn is an older name for Excalibur, which originally had no connection to the sword in the stone. Which was also embedded in an anvil on top of the stone.
Huh, I didn't know that.
So that's what the ex means
the way mandy describes the movement problems for the companions reminds me alot of how half life 1 NPCs worked when you had to bring them along. constant stopping for no reason, getting stuck on everything, barely being able to follow where you're going (unless you're within arms reach of them and are moving them along like they're on a leash), and the whole ordeal being accurately compared to "herding cats".
"This is as far as I go."
"I'm going to stay here, and wait for my colleagues."
"You're going to have to leave me here, Gordon."
"I REFUSE TO MOVE ANOTHER STEP!"
As janksauce as that could be, it's still not quite as painful as Daikatana could be. Believe me, I actually managed to get some enjoyment out of that game, especially after escaping the future sewer jungle, but I can't leave without my buddy Superfly. Even though they should have just had him and Mikiko teleport to you when you reach the level transition.
4:25 "Yeah a girl King Arthur that would never catch on, after some arguing and *saber* rattling from Kay."
Dammit Mandy
9:32 Oh i'm so glad that came back, I love that joke
12:30 that game has permanently tainted those words universally
21:08 I like how Mandy's writing is so subtle that if you don't know the joke its referencing it still works
I love the "It's quiet" joke, it's always catches me off guard.
P.S: Also, some p0rnspambot just stole your comment lmao
Beach that makes you old?
It appears Mandy is aware of Waifu Wars: Unlimited Spin-off works.
I’m just watching it a second time now and just noticed 9:32
It will never get old
This has the vibe of a commercially released Warcraft 3 custom campaign and I mean that as a compliment
I thought this game was a fever dream. I remember seeing a box for this in a thrift store as a kid, sadly (actually good) I never bought it. I’ve asked friends about the “Evanescence King Arthur game” but no one remembered or heard of it. I’m both happy and disappointed it’s real lol
10:05 was a very funny break from tradition. I can't think of many reviewers which make me snicker like the girl this game makes Arthur out to be.
23:57 really made me want to own an ottoman.
I played this on the ps2, this game was a fever dream, it took me tens of attemps of trying to get into it until I finally was able to make a lot of progress and get to what I thought was pretty late-game, I still feel pretty nostalgic about it
Super Sentai style armor glowing, a most enjoyable amount of ham, and magic swords... kinda reminds me of Mystic Knights of Tir-Na-Nog & King Arthur and the Knights of Justice.
Loved those shows as a kid. Both of them died way too soon.
The only thing I know about Mystic Knights of Tir-Na-Nog is that the German intro is pretty good.
@@PowogaI wish I'd been around for fucking Irish Power Rangers
Thanks for letting this Irishman know we had our own Power Rangers once. Looks fucking raw.
>King Arthur and the Knights of Justice.
The opening for that show is brain-meltingly metal, and you owe it to yourself to go experience it right this instant if you haven't already.
@@TheSeanSpillane You're welcome!
No idea how well it's aged, but loved Mystic Knights as a kid. Thought it was a very creative spin on the Sentai formula.
Mandalore you brought back PTSD I have buried over the years. I remember the beach. I remember the green knight. I remember the black knight. God, I still have a physical copy.
This is a place of healing for us all
I am so happy to see someone else cover this. This was a game I wanted to love so much but pissed me off so much when I was young. I remember using the fire ult on the bridge on the second mission to get an early level up.
I did that too! It never occurred to me to turtle beside the bridge like Mandalore did, though.
Last game that pissed me as much as that one was called Mage Knight Apocalypse where i made a mistake of playing ranged character.
For me it was FF8.
My hat off to you sir - this was one of the PS2 games that stuck out in my memory from my teenage years and to find someone properly discussing it is a treasure. 👏👏👏
Mandalore. This video brought a memory to my frontal lobe. Heroes of Annihilated Empires. A RTS that I won in a facebook raffle in 2015, I have played around 23 minutes of it but I remember that I thought the amount of units on screen at one time was impressive for a very old game. I think it would be up your alley
I remember seeing a trailer for it way back when, including a shot of a jet fighter flying past what looked like Dalaran. There was also some lore about the fall of Atlantis, which I presume was one of the aforementioned Annihilated Empires, but beyond that I don't know much about the game. Other than it being made by the folks who made Cossacks, apparently.
I’ve just been watching fate ubw abridged so that jab about female Arthur hit me square in the chest.
ALSO “SABER RATTLING” I don’t know if that was intentional but it was a very good follow up.
Definitely intentional, Mandalore is a great writer for his stuff. He knows how to make subtle jokes.
@@amosdeguzman9980 Not just make them, but DELIVER them. The nonchalant way he drops them on us can send people into the waves.
I still remember the bomb he dropped in the PST episode "Certified Barren". He was talking about how the world was flat for elves in Lord of the Rings, and when the discussion shifted to sandbags, guns-that-shoot-fast and World War 1, he nukes his fellow hosts by dropping the line "because the world is flat for Germans". Billy and the boys were falling about the place after that one, with Billy himself capping it off with "holy shit Germans are elves?!".
I remember playing this game on PS2. It looked cool based on the trailers. One of the early levels had an objective to destroy a bridge so the enemy couldnt cross the river. I destroyed the bridge, then the enemies ran across the river and killed me anyway. 😂
10/10 right there, working as intended
a lot of these issues do make sense for a warcraft esc strategy game, like a level where you have to do a no build mission with your hero while also holding the line with your army sounds like a cool level, less so when all you have is your heros, similarly splitting your forces to both defend the town and track down the enemy would be a fun level, in a game where they gave you forces too split
“Good people, we have a castle, WE OWN AN OTTOMAN” 💀💀💀
Ahhh, that magical moment of remembering something in a game you hadn't touched in years just instinctively is so surreal.
Man the concept of having my parents taking away a game from me because it was R rated feels so foreign to me. I don't think my parents even knew ratings was a thing for either games or movies lol.
My parents don't care about that sort of thing, as long as it doesn't have a nudity or s*x scene. So yeah my parents don't care when I'm playing GTA games. In fact, they like to watch me playing games even when I'm killing people on screen lol
Maybe it's a Southern thing.
@@RifqietheheroMurder being fine but any hint of sex being forbidden is such a common thing in American households for some reason. Explains a lot of whats happening in the world right, actually
@@Rifqiethehero "Mass murder is perfectly fine but I better not see a nipple!" That's so quintessentially American.
@@DylanJo123 its not just an american thing. My parents here in brazil also never cared for ratings in games. They got me ac4 black flag when i was 14
"A girl king Arthur? That would never catch on!" Lololol
The joke continues in the next line:
"After some arguing and sabre rattling from Kay"
*searches description*
Okay, no Bungie. Normal episode, sweet!
All jokes aside, stay awesome Mandalore. Love your work.
I cant believe you're reviewing this game. One of the first games I ever rented on my PS2. The box art of King Arthur standing there all badass was pretty enticing. I remember getting bored after the graveyard level. For some reason this review makes me think of games like Golden Axe and Knights of the Round. Such excellent games
For anyone curious, the song that starts at 1:13 is I Am Above, by In Flames
I'm genuinely impressed by the speed of your production. So many neat videos in such a short period of time
Incredible video, I've watched the whole thing already.
Same
wha da
Yeah, me too.
How? The video is 27 minutes your comment is 13 minutes ago lmao
Just once? How could you've not watched a 27min vid 100 times in 16min?
Holy shit! I can't even count the number of times I restarted this game as a kid and played the intro over and over and over again my god thank you for taking about this game and bringing me back to my childhood
In the era he lived in, Arthur announcing that they have a round table would've been a SERIOUS mic-drop moment, actually... _It means a KING is treating his knights as EQUALS. That shit did NOT happen... Ever._
The ruler would sit at the head of the table, the seat of honor. But a round table HAS no head.
10:08 "For Honor!" "Can you STFU during the music section" really got me.
loved the "it's quiet" snuck in there at 9:32
I remember playing this one as a kid with my older brothers. We were one of those families that couldn't keep track of memory cards, so whenever we rented a game we would keep the playstation on indefinitely until we beat it. I don't think we could ever get past a single mission after the tutorial. I was certain until today that I had simply imagined this game's existence. Thanks for that, I think?
"A girl King Arthur? That would never catch on."
Witnessed and appreciated.
Immediately followed by a line containing 'Saber-rattling'. 🤔🤔
Mordred best thou nut i guess hard to joke about
9:31 "It's quiet." God damnit Mandy.
Thank you so much for introducing that weirdass dark alliance gopro trailer to me, that is gorgeous. Made my damn day if not week.
Lol the pitch shifted "it's quiet" got me. Well played.
"Yeah, a girl King Arthur? That will never catch on."
Mandalore is aware of the Fate franchise. God help us all.
After some Saber rattling
I'd kill for a Mandalore video on the original VN
all i remember about this game is that in the second level you're encouraged to burn down the peasant village to get a secret item
It's a big fist that gives you poison damage, though somehow I'd find the place already burning sometimes. At one point I managed to snag it and get back across the bridge to the grind corner before they got over it properly.
I love the trailers of games of that era. This one, Myth, Atrox, Armies of Exigo, wh dark omen and so on. There was something in them that just guaranteed a nice escapism session.
"Sometimes it'll snap to a large object, sometimes it wants to look for tardigrades in the soil outside the fight."
This is comedic genius
Holy shit the amount of pure nostalgia that hit me is unreal. I thought I was like one of only people who knew of this game.
Yes, the Defender reboot on Ps2 was actually fun. I bought a copy off of ebay not too long ago and it's still pretty fun tbh. Sure it shows it's age in plenty of ways, but I would still much rather play it than Forespoken.
Somewhat related but I feel like there have been a weirdly large number of Indie & AA Grimdark Arthurian legend video games coming out of the last few years. Of the top of my head:
• King Arthur Knights Tale
• Tainted Grail
• Hand of Merlin
Might have something to do with most versions the original myth not having the happiest of endings (Arthurs kingdom collapses and England would eventually end up falling to the Saxons), not sure why this trend has just started now as opposed to the heroic fantasy genre Arthur had usually been in prior,
think it's also just heroic despite it all arthur is well it's what we all know so they wanna mix it up
Want to be grimdark? Through the story is originally tragic too.
The "it's quiet" easter egg got me chuckling, that's one of the reasons why I love this channel!
Out of all my years subscribed to Mandaloregaming I have never seen him have so few nice things to say about a game. Damn.
Holy shit! I had this game as a kid and I had began to think it was a fever dream because I couldn't remember what it was called. I just remember it being violent and something to do with King Arthur. Thank you for confirming the existence of this game so I know I wasn't crazy.
Everyone has their first M rated game, and this was mine.
I was so bad, didn't search for more items, had no idea the specials were so strong, and got stuck real bad on the cauldron mission.
I had been wanting to play it again for years, i mean YEARS, but i had lost the CD until i bought it at a convention last year for like, 3 bucks.
Played it again this year and boy, it was one of the games of all time.
New Mandalore video is always a treat
A friend gave me a copy of this along with his other PS2 stuff. It's just sat in my closet collecting dust in near mint condition and I've never played it. Thanks to you Mandalore, you have confirmed what I thought exactly the game would be based on my cursory glance at the back of the game's case.
If you never need a cursed bet, there it is
I appreciate this Mandalore, improved my opinion of ya' after TH-cam kept throwing only all your videos in my feed for nine weeks.
Played this game alot at my dad's, I only ever got to visit every couple weeks to spend a weekend with him, and he just had a small TV and a PS2. He'd pick up a random pawn shop game and take it home to play over it with me, and this was one of the more memorable times spent with him since he and we are massive history and mythology fans. It's one of those games that feels mushy in memory, like positive that you remember it, but not having played it.
Thanks for the revival of that memory.
"A girl King Arthur? That would never catch on!" Guess the fate decided otherwise.
Yeah that's the joke
"After some arguing and SABER rattling"
Yes friend, that is the joke
HeH
I don’t get it
@@legitplayin6977 you are blessed, man
Ah good, a game that even watching the camera spazzing out can give me a headache. The true PS2 experience.
Making a lot of the gameplay remotely watchable took a lot more time than I wanted.
If the game camera didn't spaz out on you, was it really a PS2 game?
I convinced my dad to rent this for me three times from Blockbuster back in the day just to play through the whole thing, the Green/Black Knights and holy grail were always my favorite parts
love your reviews!
so many great games i have played and gems, i missed!
I remember a title named "Silver" from around 99 that might be interesting for this series.
Nice, one of my childhood favourites though its definitely a... rough experience. Also, love the armour designs in this game. Yes they look turbo fantasy but damn Arthur's armour looks sick.
I specifically remember the mission against the barbarian chief; I only beat it by controlling Arthur, literally baiting the boss into only attacking me, while a random npc soldier chipped away at his health. It took ages and that npc did more than Arthur ever could. P.s. I was like ten years old, I never got passed the trials against the kings of Camelot
I've never heard of this game, I've never seen a single image of it. I had no idea it ever existed... But at least Arthur be lookin' badass in that black and gold. Also, love the Caesar 3 music in the background!
Speaking of old games you loved as a kid, it always brings a smile to my face when someone uses Mystical Ninja music in their videos. I still listen to their OSTs, they're very good.
The "It's quiet" at 9:32 got me
I can relate with fantasizing about a game with a badass warrior on the cover but being unable to play it until adulthood. I found a copy of Witchaven in an old attic but no matter how hard I tried I didn't manage to get it to work on my pc. Little me was convinced the most badass game ever laid prissioner inside that CD,
This should make the rest of my train journey that much better ❤
Yay Sam Neill. Loved that mini series 😊
This was a childhood game of mine as well, I remembered the armor and the title screen and cinematics as well as some light memories of the gameplay reminding me of Champions of Norrath / Dark Alliance. Just last year I googled "Game with cover of a dark knight standing on pile of bodies." and found it and was so happy I did and it wasn't just a lost phantom. I actually got it last Christmas after I had mentioned finding it again to someone and they bought a pristine copy online for me, manual and all! Like you though, I did find the gameplay wasn't great, I did enjoy going through it again, and games like this give me joy, I love them, even if they aren't the best. I enjoy your channel cause it gives me a big nostalgia boost, even for games I never played, but now I got one of your videos for a game I do know!!!... Also early teen me did buy Dragon Age Origins largely because of an awesome gaming magazine spread of all of the Origins being showcased and also the Marilyn Manson trailer... So this video feels tailor-made for me.
Would love to see other games like this in the future! The aforementioned Champions of Norrath would be awesome! Likewise Dark Alliance. I also LOVE The Bard's Tale 2004 which I lump in my mind with these games. Another PS2 game I revisited recently that kid me adored was Colosseum: Road to Freedom, unlike Legion I actually found it's gameplay fantastic.
I'm so happy that you have covered this game! I remember when I was a kid my dad and I would go down too the video rental store and I would rent this game out. I would always get stuck at that graveyard level! good memory's
camera attached to a drunk seagull, soundtrack akin to what a child sings to himself while brandishing a stick,GOLD pure gold man
"A Girl King Arthur? Yeah, that'll never catch on."
"After some saber-rattling from Sir Kay..."
I refuse to believe these lines were coincidence, well done Mandalore.
This video changed my life, healed my dog, and chased away my neighbours.
The game case is what got me to ask my parents to get this game as a kid. It was my first introduction to King Arthur. I thought his armor looked so cool and since then all depictions of him in the media have been a lot down. I also remember this game being so frustratingly difficult as a kid, and I never beaten it cause of that frozen lake part... I just sat there thinking maybe the game was bugged and I had to redo the level, and I did! Several times to no avail. Thank you for this video. Definitely felt a lot of nostalgia watching it and to see the ending.
This is one of the first disc-based console games I remember playing - rented it from blockbuster while I was at my dad's apartment. It has certainly aged.
I have strong memories of playing this on the PS2 as a child. It was oddly satisfying watching along realizing how much id forgotten... aaaand just how much I remembered.
Even at the time, I think I knew this was a bad game, but it definitely had a certain sense of style that I miss.
It doesn't deserve it, but I think id be interested in a remake. But then, iv always kind of thought its bad games with cool ideas that needed remakes, The good ones can sort of just be left alone.