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Episode 8
Legacy of the Wizard may be the most under rated NES game OF ALL TIME!
It's one of the earliest Metroidvania titles, and has an absolutely MASSIVE world to explore. For a game released in the late 1980's it has a ton of depth!
There are 5 playable characters, 16 different items you can equip, and thrilling 8-bit boss battles!
HOWEVER, this game does absolutely NOTHING to guide the player. Without the instruction manual or a guide like this one, you'd have no idea what you were even looking for!
In this video we will:
*Explore the history of this game's development, and how it relates to other games like Faxanadu, Ys, and even Streets of Rage!
*Demonstrate a way to get a ton of gold FAST!
*Find ALL of the game's items hidden within the labyrinth!
*Witness strategies for defeating ALL of the game's challenging bosses!
*Learn a non-traditional path through the game that will make everything MUCH easier!
*Discover SECRET TRICKS used by the pros like the "Pause Jump", although none of the strategies require it!
*Show a SECRET CODE that gives you nearly infinite life, and maxes out all of the items - No Game Genie necessary!
SPECIAL THANKS to viewer A A for recommending this game in the comments on one of my previous videos! If anyone has games they'd like to see me cover that can be completed in 30-90 minutes, please leave a message in the comments.
Thanks for watching!
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My grandmother was the one who got me into JRPGs (she was an awesome human being) and this was one of the first games she and I collaborated on beating when I was a kid (she did most of the puzzle solving and I helped get her past the parts that required twitch reflexes). When I wasn’t visiting her we swapped hints over the phone and helped each other find items (she more than me). Even though I was the one who beat the bosses, she did most of the heavy lifting, and pretty much figured this whole game out on her own. To this day I can’t see this game without thinking of how lucky I was to have such an amazing grandmother.
This is such an amazing story thanks for sharing I was wondering did y’all both have a copy of the game?
@geovaughan8261
Thats really cool. My dad was the one who gave me my love of video games. He didnt have much use for the NES though, he was a PC gamer.
I like the idea of gaming grandmas. My grandma wouldnt know what to do with a video game even if it was something crazy simple like pong. Youre prolly around my age, if you were playing this as a kid. Did your grandma play anything else?
@@youtubechannel4792 We did! We played the game at the same time, and shared passwords with each other as we made progress together.
Awesome story!
Everyone remembers this game's difficulty, but lets acknowledge the top tier soundtrack. Some of the best music to ever grace the NES system.
Especially this remix!
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I agree, I already remade some of them and can't wait to finish the whole soundtrack, this music is absolutely beautiful
By far my favorite NES soundtrack, maybe only surpassed by mega man 2
Very possibly the best Credits Roll BGM of the NES Era...
This and Guardian Legend had great music.
Played this game for countless hours as a child,traveled all over the underworld and never accomplished a damn thing.
Yep... same here 😆
Same, and I fuckin loved it
Sounds like the Legacy of the Wizard experience to me! I eventually beat the game about four years ago, but not without guides like this one.
Same
i didnt even know there was an actual goal, i thought i was just supposed to run around murdering monsters till i got bored.
To anyone who beat the game legitimately, you have my sincere respect. I remember renting it a few times, but like he says in the video, i just had no idea what i was supposed to do.
Don’t feel bad, I bought it, and STILL didn’t know what you’re supposed to do. The instructions weren’t a tutorial after all, just the standard NES instructions of this character has this attack and this power. Everything else wasn’t mentioned much, if at all.
Bear in mind, the pause glitch utilized here extensively wasn’t known to most of us back then.
I beat it, but it took years, I owned this game, mario/duck hunt and xmen for the longest time so often it was all I had when I got tired of mario, (xmen just sucked)
I'm embarrassed to say that I missed the ladder leading down on the opening screens my first few times playing the game. I was very confused about what I was even supposed to do. This was with the manual, mind.
I was born in 1986 and this game was one that my father would use to his advantage. As a young kid, he'd show me what to do next when I was stuck, but only if I did some sort of house chore or tell me the next day to get me to go to bed. With so many games this tactic was used leading to the retro/forever gamer I am today. "Getting what you can't have, well, that's some good motivation to listen to your parents". -Hads('90)
the reason why it rated so low . Its not user friendly or self explanatory at all. you are just plopped in a dungeon wandering around for hours looking for who knows what. Zelda was difficult but you had an objective . It was designed to be complex but do able and interesting in contrast to this game which is odd and vague . Nothing is straight forward or obvious to aid the player. i personally didnt like this game. Lost interest in it fast
I grew up during this era and I still don't understand how anyone was ever supposed to figure any of this out lol. Good stuff
Also: Looking forward to when you release a video for Milon's Secret Castle
Milon's Secret castle was just mean, which probably means it will make a good video.
I was able to beat this one by having the instruction manual, drawing maps, and discovering how powerful the Power Knuckle/Fist thing was. I never found the Shield, and probably never would have, so I had to use Elixers to make up for it.
I also had to start the game over once I was about 75% of the way through because there was no way I could beat the 4th Boss as Lill.
This game is crazy hard!
Legacy of the Wizard always reminded me of all the false block bullshit of Milon's Secret Castle, but stretched out to a hundred screens and one thousand times the grinding and item management.
You figure it out by reading the guide that came it’s the game and playing it.....
@@judethaddeus9856 What guide? The only thing it came with was the instruction manual. And the only thing in the instruction manual is a description of the items, and how to move the blocks with the glove.
"The hardest part of the game is the area you have to move blocks to solve puzzles."
Even the manual writer realized the control design for block moving was atrocious.
@@dorpth thats where i got stuck with a walkthrough in like 2000
A very well done walkthrough. I've been looking for a channel like this for years ever since I used to have video game VHS tapes as a kid. Your walkthrough is VERY detailed so thank you for that. I've had this game for 20+ almost 30 years now and didn't know some of these things, especially the 100+ damage mimic.
But here is something I'll mention, I'm not sure you are aware of. Holding UP on the controller when you fall will prevent damage. You'll still bounce but you won't take any damage. I believe holding up also works when you walk over spikes.
You earned yourself a subscriber. I'm going to definitely check out your other videos if they are half as detailed as this. Thank you.
Thanks! I didn't know that about fall damage!
@@UCanBeatVideoGames You're more than welcome. I'm going to check out another of your walkthroughs now.
Awesome!!
i love when he paws or nudges the cartridge when you pick it up... he's so adorkable that mr. baratheon
😁 He's a really good boy
One of my top 5 favorite NES games! An underrated gem for sure! A pioneer in “open world” platforming. Lots of replay value and great puzzle solving mechanics. Faxanadu is also one of my favorite NES games. Would love to see a remake of this game. (PS I did beat it when I was a kid! It was a combination of calling the Nintendo Power line and as well ordering a complete map of the game, which I can’t remember where that came from.)
Thank you for playing.
The soundtrack for this game is great!
Using Xemn with the armor to get Pochi's crown is a good idea. However, the armor is bugged. Even with the armor, sometimes the mobs you kill on touch will damage you anyway. This has happened to me a couple of times against the instadeath mimic. An alternative is to go down one screen from the crown, and farm the spawning fireballs that appear near the shop and inn with the power boots until an invincibility potion spawns. Then you can collect it and climb back up to jump past the instadeath mimic.
...Pochi would have been the obvious 4th boss choice, if only his invincibility carried over to the boss fight. Sadly, it doesn't.
...Also, the most common drop that spawns from mobs is based on your lowest stat of life, magic, or gold. You can make fewer trips to the Inn by maxing your gold, which then you'll get mostly bread & potion drops from mobs.
Wow, I love this channel. My uncle gave me this game when I was around 8 yrs old. I didn't beat it until I was in my thirties and with a cheat code. Such a gem.
My uncle gave me this game as a kid for the nes, and I loved it. Didn’t know wtf I was doing but the music was awesome. It took me 25 years to finally find it again.
Never met anyone else that’s played this game.
This game actually looks legit- can’t believe I’ve never heard of it before
Well you've heard of my face ! Why not!?
It is. I had it when I was younger and understood nothing, but i replayed it in 2011 with a LPr Deceased Crab as a guide and have played it at least 1x a year since.
*Really feels like a Metroidvania in addition to being an early one
@@timmyp6297 Face Police! You're under arrest
I loved it when I was a kid I got it for my bday one year and gotta admit my mom really killed it with her choice! I played it again two or three years ago and besides the family’s pet part (haven’t watched video yet but best to do first iirc for the special item you get.” I remember being sad that there was nowhere else to use the character as it was my favourite character. That said you can use him to grind or you can scout ahead since he doesn’t take damage
I played this game for at least 100 hours as a kid and dozens of hours as an adult and still could only get but so far. Now, finally I can see how this game is properly played
There's something rather uplifting about a game that centers around a mom, dad and their kids working together to save the world as well as the fact that the first born son starts off "weaker" than everyone else but ends up being the one to take on the game's big bad. A coming of age story but this time the hero's family is along for the ride. That doesn't happen often with these kinds of games.
💯❤
I remember playing this game as a kid.
Pichai was my favorite character.
Didn't have the book, so I never really understood the game.
But it was fun.
Yeah, this one is fun just to wander around and explore!
@@UCanBeatVideoGames I did a Ton of that, bought most of the gear, killed a ton of enemies, and had no clue what I was supposed to be doing... but it was fun trying to figure things out. LOL Not sure if I ever got any crowns, been a long time now
I would love to see a video about Faxanadu
Seconded! Faxanadu walkthrough vote #2 here! :)
time travel bros be liek lol
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This game made my 6 year old brain at the time feel like it was made out of strawberry preserves
Well, a 6 year old CHILD is not supposed to understand higher order thinking...
@@judethaddeus9856 wow thanks Jude, thanks for coming out tonight, you've been fun
@@judethaddeus9856 There are six year olds that can code. Wtf you talking about?
"Pause the game to avoid fall damage" "Attack the Inn and it will turn into a shop" OH SURE, why didn't I expect that.
Yeah I had one buddy who beat this game, but I was just baffled by it. I kept thinking you were supposed to play the game with the character you LIKE, as if it was Final Fantasy or Mario2.
Same. I HAD NO IDEA what to do. Never even made it to one boss.
There I was at Half Price Books in Tacoma, WA. They had a copy of this sitting on the video game shelf. I immediately knew I was buying this game. Countless hours of fun shall be had
Just found your videos..
I remember playing this game with my mom, when it first came out. We never got too far in it but sure enjoyed trying! I wish she was still with us to have seen your video. Thank you for this, my friend!
Thanks, Aaron! What a cool experience to have shared with your mom.
Can't wait to watch your other videos! Crystalis anyone?
This game is so difficult that even after watching your video tutorial I’m still lost
Just kidding I really appreciate you taking the time to do this Epic Playthrough 😎👍
This game is MASSIVE! Thanks, Jason!
I agree, I bet playing this game on a play through for the first time must be overwhelming
This is one of my all time favorite games but I've never once gotten close to beating it!!! Awesome video bro!!! 💯
Thanks man!
Now it’s time for you to beat it 👍
I remember renting this game in the video store as a kid. I was blown away by the scope of it. Since I didn't have a walkthrough, I had to YOLO my way thorugh it, and I nearly beat it a few times.
Then I lost the game when we moved away from the video store and only just now rediscovered it as a 39-year-old man. :D
I played this game almost as much as Crystalis back in the day. I never found any of the crowns, but the characters with different abilities was cool, the music was good, and I always thought the castle in the background all the way to the left of the house was neat.
Fun personal fact: back in 2010 to 2011-ish I got a new laptop and, after redownloading my emulators and ROMs, decided to try some of the old favorites again. I played Legacy of the Wizard for a bit, was totally lost, and decided to look up a guide. I thought "hey, maybe somebody recorded themselves playing it on TH-cam," and found Deceased Crab's LP. And that's the story of how Legacy of the Wizard led me to discover the concept of Let's Plays.
The ONLY way I was able to make progress in this game was to use the game genie, so much I didn't understand not having the booklet. This was fascinating!
Glad you enjoyed it! I definitely want to spread the word about this game, its way better than most people think.
I think this is my favorite video of yours. I played this game for hours and had no idea what to do. I always went with Roas not realizing how weak he was haha.
I definitely didn't have the manual because I was playing it in the 2000s, so I was absolutely was perplexed with this game as a kid but still loved it.
I loved this game. Yes, you are absolutely coorect. This is game is awesome. Thank you for doing tbis video and bringing it back to my life. I find it to play it again. And with your help, it should be a breeze. Great work, keep doing what you are doing.
Thanks, Julio! More people need to know about this one!
I was already primed to hit subscribe after I watched your Shadow Gate videos, but when I saw that you had a full guide for THIS GAME, one of my all-time favorites, I realized that you were my brother from another mother. I smashed the hell outta that Subscribe button. You rock, dude. Love your content. Keep it up.
I'm coming in on this a little late, I know, but I just wanted to express how glad I am to see that I wasn't the only one who had trouble playing this back in the day. Yes, it really is a good game, just big, complex and confusing, especially if you're just starting out with it. Seriously, how was a kid in the 1980s with no internet supposed figure this out, unless they were able to get their hands on a really good strategy guide, although I don't think one ever existed for this game. That's where folks like you come in handy. After watching this video I now have an idea what I'm supposed to do, so maybe now I can finally finish it. I guess I'll find out...
Sometimes I wonder what your history with games is. A speed runner? A collector? A developer from back in the day?
Whatever you are. I'm glad you're here. You are a one person Nintendo Power magazine in video form. Thank you so much for the library you have created.
I remember my family and i would play this for hours. We finally figured it out and beat it. Great memories.
I would never have figured out how to beat this when I was a kid
I'm sure I wouldnt have, either!
@@UCanBeatVideoGames I had no idea what I was doing, I don't even think I realized there were false bricks
Youve heard the term '' Nintendo Hard ''?? Agreed - Even as an adult without this guide, this game would still be completely confusing.
Played this game with my brothers when we got it for Christmas one year. It took us a while, but we beat the game. I have seen a few videos online and this one at least mentions the hit the start button to not take damage from a fall. But all of them miss the how to not take damage from spikes. This only works when you have space above the spike, you push up and either left or right at the same time and you can walk across the spikes without taking damage.
I bought this game when it appeared at #3 in Nintendo Power's top 25 games. Although I loved it, I found it too hard to figure out. I got 2 crowns and remember them well but it was an amazing slog of trial an error that just never made much sense (as a kid).
I think this game only lacked the in game guide. Suppose you entered a shop and the keeper wondered why you were there or supposed you were on the correct path and he congratulated you for being brave. This game feels like it has a lot of potential but it wasn't realized.
I think even just some info if you hang around on the title screen would have helped. Remember in TMNT when they'd show each of the Turtles with some info about what weapon they use and such? How useful would that have been here?!?
Ultima exodus might be a good one to do, if you're still shopping ideas
That's a good one, thanks, Joshua!
Bit late to be commenting on this old video, but just a couple tips and tricks that it missed which might come in handy for others playing the game:
You can cross over spikes without taking damage quite easily by just holding up on the D-pad while walking over them. That's it! Doesn't work for those narrow passages where there's only one block between the spike and the ceiling -- you need Meyna's wings to get over those, period -- but for every other set of spikes in the game, as long as you're holding up on the D-pad, you won't take any damage at all.
Also, in Lyll's area, you can skip right to the crown from very near the beginning by using multiple pause jumps in a row. It takes a bit of practice, but it's a strategy used by speedrunners because it is absolutely the quickest and easiest way to get to her crown, cutting out virtually her entire chunk of the dungeon.
And finally, it's worth noting that the family's name is not actually Drasle! That title is literally just to say that they're the "Dragon Slayer Family." The family's name is officially Worzen. And in the Japanese version (as seen on the MSX2 version's title screen), for some reason, Meyna is Maia, and Roas is Royas.
I loved this game as a kid. My older brother bought it so thanks to him reading the manual, I was aware of the goal. I got all the crowns as a kid, but teleporting using the princess images was something I was not aware of until much later when I beat the game was an adult.
It's one of the few complete-in-box NES games I own because it's JUST THAT GOOD
Man this one was cool, it was hard when I played it. I was born in 84 so was young when I played these. But yup hidden gem indeed
Played this one concurrently with my bus driver, and my best friend in 4th grade, about six hundred years ago.
First, thanks for the nostalgia. Once or twice a year I wonder whatever happened to him. The bus driver, I mean.
Secondly, it took us around three months, with all three of us playing a few hours a night, and sharing progress just about every day.
Watching you do it in like an hour is amazing, but I mean... We WERE the internet back then, three guys strong.
Some of the exploits which have been discovered are crazy.
Incidentally, we spent the rest of the year working on wizardry. Not as successful.
Do you have access to portable games? I'd love to see some GBA/C Zelda/Metroid stuff in the future.
If not, I'd like to humbly request The Battle of Olympus. Amazing, and underrated game.
Just discovered you maybe a week ago, and I've already watched all of your videos like three times each.
Perfect combination of education and gameplay. At first, I thought you were super trash at these games.
It turns out, we just got old. I went back to kid Icarus and noticed almost immediately that my reflexes, and thumbs aren't what they used to be.
I'll be knocking out Mike Tyson every night, for the foreseeable future.
Again, I LOVE your format, your content, and your style. Truly underrated channel, and I can't wait to see it grow.
Other games:
Friday the 13th
Megaman 3
Final Fantasy
The Legend of Bayou Billy
Shatterhand
Ultima: Exodus
Dragon Warrior
The complete wizards and warriors collection
Duck Tales
And of course, River City Ransom....
I mean, on the NES, since you seem to be exclusively working on that system.
My goodness, I love your channel. I relish the day when you get hundreds of thousands of views, patreon, and sponsors and can go full time.
Oh, also Faxanadu.
Such quality. Please, keep up the good work, and don't disappear. I keep sharing your stuff, whenever people will listen. Got my brother into your channel too.
Thanks! I remember my first playthrough of Legacy of the Wizard. I had the instructions, and maybe one hint from Nintendo Power in their Frequently Asked Questions (Counselor's Corner) section. It was tough to figure out, and I ended up having to start over when I couldn't beat the 4th boss as Lyll. I never found the shield until years later when I looked up a guide - did you guys find it? I used the Elixir to compensate for not having it.
So I plan on doing videos for ALL of the games you mentioned (Not sure about Ultima yet, that one might take me too long to make at this point), with the exception of DuckTales - I covered that one already! th-cam.com/video/pOYBtaOfRVg/w-d-xo.html
I plan on doing Friday the 13th fairly soon, so definitely be on the lookout for that! Wizards and Warriors 1, Bayou Billy, Faxanadu, Battle of Olympus, and River City Ransom are also pretty high on the list.
I'm definitely going to do all the Mega Man games, but I'm trying to space them out a bit. I've looked at Final Fantasy and Dragon Warrior, and I think I can do them in like 2-3 hours, so that seems somewhat reasonable, although I prefer to try to keep these less than 90 minutes. I will probably need to feel like I'm getting ahead before I take on one of those.
Shatterhand is great, I'll definitely get to that one, too, but I haven't done any planning for it yet.
@@UCanBeatVideoGames I don't remember if we found it. We definitely didn't replay the game. Up until today, that's the only run I've done. I plan on doing one in just a little while though. = )
I can't wait for those videos. Gonna be some good stuff.
Ultima can take you fifteen years, like it took me, or just over an hour. = )
It's all about finding the mark of the king in a reasonable time. I'm pretty sure that's the game that's currently, physically in my NES right now. As for FF, there's a really good grinding spot in the fire cave that can shave quite a bit of time off the run. Lower left corner of the second floor, if memory serves. It's been QUITE a while since I've played through that one though.
I'm psyched for these. Friday the 13th was always one of my favorites. Still kinda blows my mind how complex it is, for an NES game.
@@iami3rian394 Friday the 13th is pretty confusing at first, but underneath it all is something pretty interesting.
My greater concerns for games like FF is that I'll want to show everything cool, which is a lot!
I haven't put enough time on Ultima, I'm going to have to revisit that one.
@@UCanBeatVideoGames yeah, it took forever to figure it out. It doesn't help that half the counselors are awful, either.
My biggest problem with FF, if I were to make a video about it, would be choosing a party. Four red mages? Black, white, monk, fighter? Monk, thief, fighter, red mage? Four fighters? There are just too many fantastic combinations. I feel like just talking about the party selection would take up like ten minutes. = D
Got to add myself to the list that had this title as a wee sprog and was utterly baffled by it. Consistently flaked out early in the labyrinth after getting the entire family killed. Had No Grasp of the systems at play.... it's a relief to know this actually existed and wasn't a fever dream.
Looking at this now, I can’t believe I beat it as a kid. Loved this game ans use to do speed runs.
Man! I loved playing this game as a kid! Legacy of the Wizard, The Guardian Legend, Battle of Olympus, all great NES games! Great video!!! Maybe do The Guardian Legend next?
One of my favorite NES Games! Thanks for including it!
I rented this one as a kid. I’d been wondering what it’s name was for decades lol
My god, that is where the shield is.
Love this game, but never found that damn thing.
Wow! That game was so cryptic when I tried to play it. To think on my attempts that the map took me in the wrong directions every time so that explains why I got nowhere fast. Nintendo Power didn't offer any help much either.
I remember Nintendo Power answering one question in their Counselor's Corner section, but what we really needed was a breakdown of what all the items were for, and what parts of the dungeon we should be exploring with which character, where is the Shield hidden, - that sort of thing!
I really think the game developers could have spent less than 15 minutes programming a text screen at the beginning of the game that said "Find the 4 Crowns so that Roas can find the Dragonslayer Sword, and defeat Keela! Each family member has different strengths that will be useful in different parts of the dungeon. Pay attention to which items each character can carry!" It would have been that simple, and made this game make so much more sense to a lot of people.
You're the best game guide ever, hilarious, nostalgic and informative
Believe it or not I found your channel specifically looking for ways to beat Faxanadu, as it was one of my favorite games growing up and it seemed like no one else had heard of it.
Next I tried to find this game which I could not remember the name of since it has been over a decade since I had the chance to play it.
And now I learned they are related! Damn.
That surprised me too!
Thanks for the wonderful video! I had the manual to this game as a kid, but I couldn't make heads or tails out of it...and I beat many 'very hard' NES games. I just couldn't understand what to do or how to make progress. Now I can see how the game was meant to be played. And yes, some more instructions and tutorial stuff would have really helped.
I have tried to play this game many times over, but never could get into it. Thank you!
I sunk so many hours into this game and never even bothered trying to beat it legitimately. I just enjoyed wandering around in the dungeons getting lost and not knowing where I was or if I was even using the right character. I had the Nintendo Power password guide tho which had a code for the end of the game, so when I felt like watching the credits I had that at least. One thing I'm not sure if you know but if you hold up while you're on spikes it lets you kinda float on top of them and not take damage. same for enemies. I didn't know that thing about the boss orders though (although I only ever beat the spider in Pocchi's dungeon so that probably makes sense haha)
37:28 "Welcome to my inn, little gi..."
Lyll: "As a member of the board of directors and the highest stock owner in this company, you will reconvert your inn into a shop right the **** now."
"... Aye so, I have this shield.."
That Pochi tho
It's games like this that made me think I was a stupid child. I could beat Ninja Gaiden or Contra without codes, but could never beat games like this or Zelda 2 , Metroid, Simon's Quest, etc etc. It never even occurred to me to randomly shoot the environment in those games to look for items. Just killed all the enemies and wandered around until I got pissed.
Saw battle chess on that list of tip nes games. Loved battle chess, I remember talking a bishop with my king, he pulls out a .45 and smokes him. Lol loved playing chess on the nes
Watching this again, haha. One of your best vids.
i beat this game at 8yo no internet no guide. one of the best games ever and an adventure i have yet to replicate.
Also, that is one handsome pup! The little intro and tune is awesome!
You just woke up a hidden part of my brain I had forgotten about.
I like that!
As a kid, we rented this a few times for the weekend. Never saw past the first few screens because i knew nothing about how to advance. Mind you, at that age, i DID beat Legend of Zelda, and was caapable of getting to Wily in Mega Man 2. This was just too complex for younger players.
Wow... this game looks like a frighteningly huge Guide Dang It... :O
Thank you for finishing the game, I wish 12 year old me could in 1992.
legacy of the wizard is an incredible game, and having it as a kid caused an itch that has only been scratched by a small handful of games since. both la mulana games mostly. it's such a specific type of "puzzle" game that it doesn't really have a genre name and is mostly just "games with clear influence from Maze of Galleous"
This was one of my fav nes games.
Thanks for beating it for me lol
I remember playing this off and on as a kid, but I definitely didn't understand what I was supposed to be doing. This compounded with not having a guide or manual to work with.
I thought I remembered this game, but didn't really rember until I saw the character select screen
I had this game as a kid and thought I nearly beat it when I had 2 crowns... Ya no. Wasn't until I became an adult with online strategy guides that I finally beat it. Great guide. In fact, all your guides aren't just great, they're all ultimate guides.
Thanks!!
this game was amazing growing up!
This was another one that I think I was hampered by only having played as a manual-less rental.
Edit: Wild to think that this is a sequel to the game for which Faxanadu was a spinoff (Dragon Slayer II, Xanadu.)
My dad had a players guide for this and it was in book form not a magazine like most at the time
I remember beating this game as a kid. Wow the frustration. Good vid dude.
Thanks!! I don't know very many people that beat this one as a kid!
@@UCanBeatVideoGames I don't know ANYONE who beat this as a kid. My friend JP and his dad spent hours trying to figure it out, not sure if they ever beat it or not.
Blows my mind that Legacy of the Wizard isn't in the top 5 best NES games ever made. I'll give my top 5's list for NES even though nobody asked lol. (Also Great channel you have here).
(1) Solstice (2) Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link (3) Solar Jetman (4) Solomon's Key (5) Legacy of the Wizard
I never could figure out this game as a kid. I had no idea that you have to use all the members of the family to progress, I thought all you do is select a character and away you go!
Amazing in-depth video! Great work and thank you!
Fantastic game! I beat it in the 80’s!! Absolutely one of my favorites for sure. Definitely underrated! It was one big graph paper map!
Took me about 3 years to beat as a kid and idk how I did it after watching this.
Love your videos. Music to game needs a touch more volume. I remember my mom bought me this game when I was 6 or 7 years old as a surprise. I knew it was special from the music and sound effects. Hours of mindless wondering. I felt like Moses in the desert.
🤣 Totally like moses
This was by Broderbund, the same company that made another NES game that was notorious. Is it possible to beat Deadly Towers? Maybe U Can Beat Video Games would make a video of that game sometime?
What if I told you.....What if I told you....What if I told you. YES! TELL ME! TELL ME! TELL M! (oh wait you did, I just had to keep watching the video) - LOL
Loved renting this game as a kid, even though none of my friends or I ever managed to beat it back then. I subsequently went back about fifteen years later armed with a FAQ and finished it. Felt so damn good! About the only tip/hint I didn't see you cover is that if you hold Up on the control pad, you can actually walk across any spiked floor (and I THINK even on top of enemies) without taking damage. I don't remember which one of my little group figured that one out, but it was super helpful for canceling out the damage if you missed a jump. Never knew you could pause the game to cheese out of fall damage though! That's mega-awesome! :)
Thanks! I really hope more people get to discover this awesome game!
Only two tips you didn't go over. 1st, by pressing up when you are on spikes, you will not take damage and can jump regularly. Second, fighting the dragon, stand about under the FE of the word life and aim up at an angle. The dragon will get hit as it flies back, and will not trigger the dragons flame attack.
I think I remember seeing this game in the rental store but never rented it
I had this game on my nintendo and thinking it was like zelda. After many attempts I just threw my hands up lol so hard.
9:01 The Scroll lets you move faster but also lets you shoot farther!
I don't know if anyone mentioned it on here but if you hold up while on spikes you actually won't take damage from them.
This game was so hard when I was a kid. I spent months trying to figure out how to beat it. I was so proud of myself when I finally finished it without any help or cheats.
Dude you actually beat this game as a kid? Holy shit.
it took forever, but there's a code system in the game that lets you kinda have a save system. I remember the codes being super long and when you're a kid you have sloppy hand writing so I'd have these barely legible codes that I'd have to decipher@@KingofCrusher
This is the first game on your channel that I've never even heard of. It looks amazing! I'm finishing up the paperwork to disown my parents later today since they obviously didn't love me as a child. If they had, I definitely would have played this game growing up.
🤣🤣🤣 Thanks, Addison!
LOL!
32:20 First Boss WARP! 37:05 95 Gold Secret Store! 56:36 2nd Crown 58:40 Secret Shop 1:03:46 3rd Crown Chakra 1:08:44 Poochi's Crowning 1:11:25 DRAGON SLAYER! 1:15:53 DEBUG MODE!
I just beat this, mostly blind, and now I want to see how I could have made my life a whole lot easier.
One of my favorites . Love this game. Spent a whole summer figuring this game out when i was around 8 or so so 92 or so. Criminally underrated gem.
I had so much fun getting lost in this one. For my first playthrough, I only used the instruction manual. I struggled a bit on the later bosses because I'd have never found the shield, but I had a blast uncovering the game's secrets!
keep up the great work love these videos
I made the mistake of renting this game when I was a kid... 🤣 No instruction manual or anything... Totally lost but still loved it. I could swear I beat it at some point I don't remember if I eventually bought it or called the hotline but I seem to remember beating it
My favorite nes game! Its amazing
Fun fact, if you select the old person immediately above Pochi several times fast, you will start playing as Lyll. Weird.
Very weird!
Huh. I remember clicking the other one to the right over and over and becoming Roas. Mandala Effect?
Got an inbox WITH manual copy 😂.
I never beat it , but think i should give it another go now that i got my game collection back after 16 years.
0:08 Took me a while to figure out what game was on the bottom right, just barely on-screen. That's a repo cart of Adventure Island 4, isn't it? That's the first cart you've (partially) shown that I really had trouble identifying just based on partial cartridge art.
I love that you picked this one instead of just the commonly known games. Is there a particular method you use to select games? I never got far in this one and I had similar difficulties with Castlequest, another similarly "obscure" game I had as a kid. I'm sure you'll be recieve a lot of requests but it would be awesome to see you cover that one as well.
I usually try to pick games that I think I can cover in less than 2 hours, and that I have things that I want to be able to show. For more popular games its new tricks and strategies, but for obscure games like this I just want to show people what they're missing!
I'll definitely have to check out Castlequest, I'm not super familiar with it, so that's exciting! thanks MG!
Just a note, the family name is actually Worzen not Drasle. Drasle is more of a nickname that was used because they are “Dragon Slayers”.
This was the hardest game for me ever on the NES (other than Milons secret castle) gave up so many times, only to return
DIdn't see if you mentioned it, but you can literally just hold up on the directional pad while on spikes and they won't hurt you