Guardian Legend [NES] review - SNESdrunk
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I remember seeing a friend playing this when I was maybe 7 or 8 years old, he was in "lady-mode" with a fully upgraded weapon and just destroying everything. I had never seen anything like it at the time. I begged my dad to take me to M&M video to rent the game and when I got home and popped it in it was a top-down space shooter! I thought I had fucked up and rented the wrong game. Then when she transformed for the first time my mind was blown again! So many good memories with this game, it was so far ahead of its time!
Absolutely correct! Nothing on NES compares! An impossibly long, many weapons, 2 endings, 20+ flying levels, long quest game, mazes & secrets, fast paced, HUGE bosses, mini bosses, etc.!!!
Everyone's dream girl, one that can turn into a spaceship!!
IDK...Bender once dated the Planet Express ship and she turned out to be super needy and clingy. She even showed up at Fry's apartment in the middle of the night once asking if he knew where Bender was. Man, she was a mess.
guys only want one thing
@@pharmtek a woman with heavy thrust and big cannons
I never thought the woman on the Japanese cover looked terrifying, rather, she looked lonely.
actually predicted Kantai Co. and many more
Glad you covered this title, kinda was getting sick of always telling ppl about it and really no one knowing what I was talking about, definitely amongst the best on the NES
Thank you. This game is really great.
Ya it’s top ten easily. A lot of people’s top ten lists have some meh titles that just settled at the top from marketing.
Number 1 in my book! Only SMB 3, & Batman, Return of the Joker come close.
I actually found this game back in like 1990 wrapped in a tshirt laying on a sidewalk in st.louis. One of my all time favorites
The Guardian Legend has been one of my favorite games since I was like 10 years old. No one else I knew had ever even HEARD of it, and except for the copy I had, I never heard about it either. (To be fair, I didn't have any gaming magazine subscriptions.) I'm not even sure where my copy came from, which is a little weird.
Even back in my 20s I was able to show the game to people who were blown away by how much there was in to do in this NES game they'd never heard of before. The extremely fast first level, the huge amount of weapons, the variety in monsters, the puzzles, and the absolutely amazing music still blows me away. I'm super happy to see this on your channel. :)
1k views in under 50mins. Nice man, nice. Been a long time fan of the channel. Good to see you get more and more recognition everyday.
Holy shit...I just realized he's at 99k subs. I think I found him around the 25k sub era. I've always been a fan of his shorter, more succinct reviews compared to other TH-camr's long-winded and tedious reviews that hit the 10-15 minute mark. They tend to just ramble just to superficially stretch the video length.
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Look at him now
I love this game. I keep hoping someone out there will stumble across it and decide it needs the Blaster Master Zero treatment. That would be amazing.
I couldnt beleive how good blaster master zero is. Never tried the original, but that new one is a masterpiece.
I'll settle for the original but I agree that an update would be an instant buy. These games rock on portables!
I still need to play Blaster Master, original or else-wise.
There is fan made sequel on pc you know - The Guardian Legend Shadow of Naju.
Also there is hack on nes - The Guardian Legend Secret Edition.
@@Tom_Van_Zandt The original is definitely a classic, but the Zero remake is simply excellent.
I wanna thank you for the review. I was going through so old boxes at my Mom's house and I came across an old one from like 1989, It was full of passcodes for all my NES games, Guardian Legend was in the middle of the pack and I really could not remember the game. That's why I'm here. Seached it on TH-cam and here you are. As soon as your vid started my memories all came back to me!!!!!! Thank you so much for helping relive myself when I was like 15 years old!!!!!! Have the best day!!!!!!
Definitely one of my favorite NES games of all time. I love how the person leaving instructions for you is never seen - it gives the whole game an extra creepy feeling, knowing they're already dead. "If someone is reading this, I must have failed ..."
That Japanese cover is amazing. Giger style
Yeah, it's absolutely cool. She looks pretty dang sinister, though, which doesn't really nail the tone of the game or her role in it.
it was why i bought it, i actually got the famicom version and for some weird reason , it was all in english....and that was strange because most games were in japanes, even tmnt and ninja gaiden and even double dragon 3 , but this one ? it was in english and i flipped out, but yeah, i admit, the girl on the cover sold the game to me.
Doesn’t fit the game as well as the EU art though, which says ‘bug lady explores alien planet’ a lot better than the H.R Giger stuff
Yep agree
Yo can we get a congratulations on this guy for about to cross the 100k mark on TH-cam? I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels this way but the amount of joy your videos has brought me is priceless and your “pallet” for breaking down video games is the best I’ve seen. Makes me selfishly wish you would branch to other retro consoles more often as well.
Keep it up man👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks Kris
I love your reviews. They are so optimistic, concise, and entertaining.
Absolutely loved this game and Crystalis. Games where you could change forms fascinated me.
Those were two of my absolute favorites as a kid, and I'm happy to say they're still awesome to play every now and again, even amongst all the games that are available nowadays!!
Those 2 games are killer minor-classics for the NES and some of my dearest gaming memories growing up. Throw in Faxanadu and you got the ultimate trifecta of NES cult hits for young Baton.
2 of the 3 nes games I own hard copy still.
TGL, Crystalis, Faxanadu, The Battle of Olympus, Batman-ROTJ, & SMB 3 are some of the best EVER made!
This was and still is one of my favorite games of all time. Thanks for covering it!
This game is actually a sequel to Guardic, an MSX shooter created by Pac Fujishima and also produced by Compile, in fact this game is known as Guardic Gaiden in Japan - even though this game has nothing to do with Guardic at all. Naoyuki Kato designed the Japanese cover for Guardic Gaiden. The GBA game Sigma Star Saga seems to be inspired by this game.
Yes one of my favorite nes games, i own the original nes cart
I think its a overlooked nes gem
Nice vid as always Snesdrunk
Cart rhymes with fart.
Guardian Legend is awesome. I think it's better than the Zelda series (Yeah, fight me, Zelda fanboys).
@@kenterminateddq5311
Better than Zelda, ur CRAZY, thats crazy with all capital letters,
The game is awsone , i agree but not on zelda level
I think this game may have reached "cult classic" status, since everyone who knows about it realizes it is pretty great, yet it *still* seems to be overlooked by the mainstream of NES retro gamers.
@@lldjslim I just find Guardian Legend to have variety, unlike the first two Zelda games on the NES.
So glad you reviewed this. Beloved childhood classic. Nice job!
I'll never forget when I discovered this game over a decade ago. I couldn't believe that it took two of my favorite genres and melded them together so well, all with a super awesome soundtrack and exciting story. Glad to see this game get more attention! Great review!
Compile also made MUSHA, the best overhead shmup on the Genesis. (Also featuring one of the all-time best Genesis soundtracks.)
MUSHA was CLASSIC!! Unreal good. Compile was ahead 9f the curve! So good at making games! Better than Capcom & Konami!
He did mention the Aleste series with Space Megaforce, which Musha was also part of in Japan.
This, along with Crystalis are the best two NES games of all time. Certainly some of the most advanced games to be found on the system.
Definitely two of my faves
two peas in a pod, dope titles
*FINALLY* you did TGL I have been waiting for you to do this game. It's easily a top three of all time on NES for me .... as close to a perfect game as one could get back then imo
I still remember the music from this game. So good.
The Guardian Legend is one of my all time favorite games. I remember renting this from my local non-chain video rental place in the middle of nowhere and immediately being hooked. The music still does it for me, too.
Thanks for posting this. My brother and I loved this game. Later this month he will be gone 2 years. This made me think of him. Awesome game, great review.
So glad to hear that you liked this game. It's my favorite NES game, hell, one of my favorite games period of all time. There is a PW you can put in that allows you to play the game in SHMUP mode with only the shooter stages. I used it and did a 1cc last year. I also interviewed Moo Niitani the founder of Compile and will be releasing that too at some point this year.
Thank you for covering this game!
I got this game as a gift back when it first came out. It became one of my favorites ever! Ugh that music is amazing
Facts! Great game. The best ever
1:02 At least, it's still better than US cover with bland eyes in the sky which has no explanation of the in-game plot.
The cover absolutely sells this game short.
I would have never bought it myself if I hadn't had seen the game prior
That cover and the one for Star Tropics made me avoid those games for years. I regret it.
Most covers done by Broderbund on the NES just suck major ass lol Worst is Raid On Bungling Bay or whatever it was. It has a robot face on the cover but has nothing to do with robots at all.
What's wrong with StarTropics? I had the game back in the day but I don't remember the cover so I had to google it. I found reasonably high quality tropical island artwork. Is there a typical shitty North American version I'm missing?
@@herbderbler1585 for me, that picture just looked boring. It didn't have any cool characters and a unique setting. It was just palm trees on a beach island, so I assumed the game was just about golfing, or surfing or something that I didn't care for.
The Japanese cover to this is my favorite game cover art.
I wish I could turn into a spaceship...
Why would you want that? I feel like there is a story here... ;-P
I’m guessing u must be a fan of H.R. Giger’s work? It is dope, but just not my kinda thing. Although who wouldn’t wanna have the ability to turn into a spaceship at will!? That’d be badass!
This was one of my favorites when I was a kid. I never saw any ads or heard anything about it. I picked it up and played it and couldn't put it down. Definitely a must play for the NES.
Also , I give your "have a great rest of your day" an 8 out of 10. Sounds less forced but not as natural as it used to.
Lol I'm just messing with you man
Thanks for the videos
This is in my top-5 for favorite NES soundtracks.
You must be rewarding me for my kind comment on your last video because this is my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE NES GAME OF ALL TIME!!! I sunk dozens on hours into playing and replaying this as a child. Thank you for review this fantastic title!
This has to be one of my most favorite SNESDrunk videos about one of the most unique games I played back in the late 80's.
Another super cool looking game that I have never heard of, thank you Dr.Drunk!
BEST GAME EVER!
Man, these guys also made Golvellius: Valley of Doom for the SMS, which is a fabulous if grindy game.
Funny that Compile made this game, they also made Golvellius on the Master System and that IS an all-out Zelda clone.
Also Compile worked closely with Sega developers, they made Columns and bunch of early Mega Drive games.
LARRY!!!!!
Also if you enter TGL in as a password you play only the flying levels which is pretty cool.
TGL stands for Towel Gland Lampoon, in case you were wondering.
Did not know this.
@@Tom_Van_Zandt no, it stands for "'Timorous Gonads' Lévesque", which was one of the dev's pet names for québécois politician rené lévesque. lévesque died during the making of the game, so they decided to include the code as a memorial tribute
@@soupalex I DISAGREE!
Lar's Gaming Channel its stands for the guardian legend lmao
Haha that's quite the contrast between cover art. Would you rather turn into a sweet spaceship or hang out with the illegitimate daughter of H.R. Geiger and the Borg Queen? 🤔
The US art almost seems like they misplaced another games art on this. I love the Japanese art. Didn't expect it to be so Geiger, but this is a game about aliens.
Second one
Would it really be that illegitimate, considering Geiger?
@@ggbetz Haha good point. Get a real Kerrigan from StarCraft vibe from her too.
@@samfrito The U.S. art is shamelessly ripped from the poster for a sci-fi monster movie called Creature (aka The Titan Find). Very lazy.
I always look forward to your videos. Great job once again.
Right on! I played and finished this one for the first time about a year ago, and I wish I’d found it sooner! It holds up really well, and I’m glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for all the great, fun videos, sir!
That this game doesn't stutter is truly impressive!! It's as deep as a SNES game and performs as such.
That Japanese art is cool
I found your channel recently and really enjoy your content. The Guardian Legend is up there for me as favorite NES games go. Have you reviewed Faxanadu? Either way, thanks for the content. Cheers!
One of my favorite NES games. The graphics and music were awesome (despite heavy flickering when things get hectic) and it was cool how the game combined two genres in one. Genre-bending before genre-bending was a thing. I do remember the dual commercial that featured this game and Battle of Olympus.
I love this game, always been one of my favorites on the NES. Some of the music from the game has been a staple in videos of mine since I started YT. Compile did awesome stuff back then. Great review!
For my money this might be the most underrated game I've ever played. The best parts are the shoot em up stages, they recycle assets through a lot of stages but they really capture speed and challenge and are just awesome fun, and the music is amazing. Just play the first stage and you should know whether you like this game or not. The ship parts are my favourite but the overworld is also fantastic and once you get into how it works it becomes super hard to put down. There's a lot of content to this game, and I tracked down another cart a few years ago it was only 5 dollars and it might have been the best value purchase I ever made.
Excessively long and gushing comment but I love seeing this game get it's due. It's easily in my top 5 NES games.
Basically what I'm saying is that this review is absolutely spot on.
Best nes game ever made imo & The Guardian Legend: Secret Edition hack is awesome to👌🏻
ohmygod how did i never know about this game??? Thank you SNES drunk!!! I hope you have a great rest of your day
Almost 100,000 subs...then the world..
One of the best channels on YT..
#snesdrunk
I actually remember that commercial when I was a little kid! I can't believe you're doing a video clip on it!
My dude! Great choice for this review. One of my favorite games. Now, onto something hardcore and difficult. "Solomon's Key" on the NES.
Good luck, you'll need it.
Fun fact: I absolutely suck at Solomon's Key
I beat solomons club on gameboy with a game genie. I liked it ok, but I've never wanted to try solomans key.
@@ggbetz Solomon's Club is pretty tough as well. Good on you for beating it. I bet you could beat Solomon's Key though.
I had this game as a little kid - right around 8 years old. I remember finding it incredibly difficult. Not so much when you were walking around, but as a spaceship it was very tough.
Dad have the Japanese version (Guardic Gaiden) and recently I found a way to rip and and played on my computer.
It's still as fun as I remember from the time I was a kid. And now that I know super well the NES limitations, I'm impressed how well this game runs with all that stuff happening on the screen.
Fun Fact, The nes cover of Guardian legend was inspired by a sci fi 80s movie cover called "Creature 1988" or "Alien Predators 1988". Check out the cover comparisons it's worth a look to see the strong similarities.
Dude this was my all time favorite nes game ever. This game is amazing. I wonder why no one ever made a sequel or tried to duplicate its gameplay. I wish an indie dev would remake this for switch.
1:03 This cover looks like "Ghost in the shell"cover.
Always loved this game. It holds interesting history for me. My brother's friend found it on the side of the road in pretty crappy condition. But he was able to somehow get it to work (there was even use of electrical tape). I remember being blown away at how different it was from the other NES games I played. Kinda funny how a game in pretty rough shape ended up being a favorite of mine which I ended up buying a copy of for my own collection.
No idea what ended up happening to the busted up copy.
Love your work man, keep it up. I look forward to every Tuesday and Thursday because of you!
My absolute favorite NES game of all time. Thank you for doing this one 🙌🙌
Also, some of the best tunes you'll hear on the NES as well! Use the password TGL for only shooter stages!!
Great video as always SNES drunk. Almost at 100K subscribers! HYPE!!!
I just ordered this game and I’m so excited! I can’t wait to play it!
This game blew me away as a kid. It combined elements of two of my other favorite games (Galaga and Zelda) AND had an awesome soundtrack to boot!
I’m glad you covered this game! It’s by far one of the best games the NES has to offer! It did many small things to take it up to a 10, such as an in-game map and the mixing of genres. Top it off with a fantastic soundtrack and intriguing story-there hasn’t been a game to rival this one in decades.
I’m awaiting the remake.
I need to dig into this game a little deeper. I've had it a while and only played it a few times.
I forgot about this game, but it all came flooding back as soon as the music started playing.
TGL definitely is a must-play for anyone who wants to experience NES-games. It is a tough game to beat, but so satisfying! I still love this game to this day.
This game is amazing. I vividly remember playing it all the time as a kid. My young brain couldn’t handle the labyrinth areas well, so I always used the “TGL” code to play only the shoot’em up levels
best nes game hands down. best music on nes too. my dad randomly came home from work with this game for me in 1988 when i was in 3rd grade and ive loved it ever since. once a year i do a playthrough.
I owned the Guardian legend game. The sound test was also awesome!!. It had a great music sound track so I would put the game in sometimes and listen just to the music.
My favorite game EVER! I MUST PLAY! UNREAL!!
i had a shop in my town that sells famicom carts , the only reason i bought it was because of that mindblowing artwork on the cover....the game was great, maybe some of the best music on the nes, sadly i never finished it, i remember i was stuck and got the message ''ask the round creature'' but never figured it out...
The music in this game reminds me a lot of the Kemco point and click games, which was always amazing.
Played this last year for the first time!! Fucking love this game! Zelda mixed with a space shooter with a story and extremely great atmosphere. You feel so alone being the only humanoid in the game
Proud owner of this game since launch. Still love it and have great memories playing w friends. A must play for retro heads.
this is the video i was waiting for. top 5 nes game, right here.
Own it. One of my all time fave NES games. :)
PS The Music is fricken awesome!
I think this game is underrated, it's such a good mix of shooter and adventure the music is great and is one of the games on NES I have the fondest memories of.
Huge childhood fav of mine, glad you put some light on this golden classic!
Great video, SNESdrunk. Highly recommended. I bought this back in the day, and I just found the manual a couple weeks ago. Didn't like Guardian Legend as much as Zanac, but that's because I got into shooters way more than Zelda-style games anyway.
Maybe they thought of that strange connection in the commercial due to the original title starting with “Legend of” and the top-down action-adventure segments?
It’s as good of a guess as any.
Top down sections are basically Zelda with guns. You unlock new areas with purchased weapons and you search for containers that can hold more currency (also energy for weapons).
It is a pretty much Zelda for those who can’t stand Zelda (me, in particular)
I remember that TV advert. If memory serves, they did the same thing for Battle of Olympus. If nothing else it got you curious about the game.
I remember that commercial featuring those Zelda games and think exactly that... "OH, must be a new Zelda game, with a weird serpent-eye,...thingy as the bad guy"
It's also one of my personal favorite NES games, it's Zanac meets Zelda. Great music, good challenge, and I had to make damn sure I wrote down those passwords correctly!
I wish there was a sequel, but what a game this was. It’s on my top video game of all time, it just fit so well and fun. Too bad very few people know about this exceptional gem. Nothing like it to this day.
I have got to play this. I've put it if for too long. Great review as always!
I've replayed this just recently and has aged really really well for a 35 years old game. Absolutely recommended, the game is a blast.
Ps: the front and side lightsabre are the best weapons against bosses
This game looks crazy! I'm surprised at how few games blend multiple genres together, its a really neat idea
Damn, it'd be cool to see this remade.
One of my favorite game when I was a kid. XD
Soundtrack of this game are so awesome even with today standard.
I really need to get this game. I had no idea it was developed by Compile. I already own Zanac, Gun-Nac, GunHed (Blazing Lazers) and Super Aleste (Space Megaforce). I'm more of a shmup fan than a top down run-n-gun fan but I still want this.
That soundtrack is the best on the nes. Hands down. The sense of speed was amazing in that game. One of my favorites of all time.
This game, more than even Mario, takes me back to my younger years. Thank you for reviewing it!
I never played this, but want to now it looks great. Love the mashup of schmup and Blaster Master-style gameplay
I got a Spanish Shazam trailer before this... You're reach is extending my man!
Oh man, this brings back memories. I used to play this game for hours at a time. This game needs to come to the Switch.
I actually have a game in the works that's inspired (largely) by this one: It's called Steel Seraph and I'm going to get it ready to go this year. TGL is my all time favorite and there not being another game like it is exactly the kind of thing I decided to correct.
It's between this and Little Nemo: The Dream Master for best non-franchise game on the NES. Even better than the amazing Blaster Master. Top 10 game for sure.
Wow - this looks fucking AWESOME, what the hell!!! Man, was this one ahead of its time or what! Can't believe this was for the NES, and I never even heard of it until now.
I played this a month or so ago without knowing what to expect, and ended up beating it in a day, because it was so addicting (and I usually have no patience for shooters). Easily recommendable
Honestly, it's my life goal to make a nonprofit organization buying up neglected works and putting them in the public domain, and this game would be on the top of my list to start with...
Along with No One Lives Forever, the Nintendo-related CDi games, and Ninja Baseball Bat Man. FUND ME SOROS!
The music and game looks really awesome.