Was it Good? - Silent Bomber
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That's my Jutah!
Silent Bomber was a forgotten playstation 1 game made by Bandai, it's only 2 hours long but the final level often takes over an hour due to the spike in difficulty.
It's a cross between bomberman and bullet hell shooters with elements of platforming, and shares a voice cast with 'The Bouncer'.
but, was it actually any good?
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I didn't realize this game was even close to be somewhat remembered enough to make a video like this about it. I remember playing it when I was 7, I distinctly remember that the bomber in question was absolutely not silent.
I thought exactly that
I think he just got a whole bunch of ps2 games from a Goodwill or something
@@enderfawx3063more like eBay or CEX, not many charity shops in the UK have PS1/2 games in the UK!
I was losing my mind about this and thanks to this video I now remembered the name. I really tot Im crazy coz im the only one in my friend group who played this.
@@enderfawx3063 emulators exist you know
That was probably the coolest delivery of "I regret nothing" ive heard to be honest
One must imagine Sisyphus happy
He's also given some decent characterization in just his introduction. The line "We just need to fight as we always have," suggests both a record of success and a conservatism of approach. He's set in his ways, but they've proven to be effective ways. He has grey hair, a cane, and walks with a little limp. This suggests not only is he old enough to have racked up a long record, he's also showing old wounds of battle (to his foot, leg, or hip) and that he won't let such wounds keep him off the field.
Finally, the "You're the greatest warrior I've ever seen. I regret nothing!" suggests that he knows his unwillingness to diverge from his methods is what got him and his unit killed, but he doesn't care. He truly believed in himself and is at peace with what he's done and the death he's about to meet.
😢
Can't possibly match the guy waiting in line for the Itchy and Scratchy movie from The Simpsons.
I absolute *adore* that the tutorial has the same kind of voice I heard in basically every instruction video I watched when I was in the Marines. It's perfect.
its paul st peter, the voice of xemnas in kingdom hearts
it sounds like that tobacco cessation annual training or leading marines on marinenet
Holy shit you're right. It sounds eerily like the voice in the navy's training videos.
I have no experience with any kind of military training, Marines or otherwise, but it is possible that Paul St. Peter was actually paid to record the voice over for those training videos.
@@Podzhagiteloh god. I'll never forget the hearing his voice talking about how smoking makes it harder to pick up chicks. While standing next to a fucking muscle car with 40% apr
I remember buying this game from a flea market as a kid because of the box cover and the cool sounding name. I didn't even have a playstation.
Unfathomably based
Thats me with the digimon game lol
Lol cool
46:35 So Jutah didnt know his commanding officer seven years ago and apparently followed the order of some random voice coming through his speakers? 10/10 storytelling
"The voices told me to blow them all up."
@@ChimeraMK Is this voice with us in this room right now?
They don't even sound the same, and it's not explained why.
@@thrrax It would have surprised me if they had actually explained that in this swiss cheese of a plot.
Hey, Metal Gear Solid 2 and Bioshock made some pretty effective story experiences based on the "I only know my commander as a voice on the radio" premise.
Silent Bomber was a bit ahead of it's time in that regard. It's not necessarily executed well in this game's case, but the concept isn't an unworkable one.
There are a lot of classic and retro games that I would like to revisit that I either don’t have the time, or the patience, to play in 2023. This series is probably more enjoyable to me than playing some of these games again. First YT channel I’ve ever actually waited for a new episode of.
Yeah I like this series because he keeps featuring games I remember fondly and want to play again but know they are not going to be nearly as good to replay as my memory would suggest
@@anonony9081 Some are though. Seems like the games that are harder to go back to are the fully 3D games. 2D games like Symphony of the Night and 2.5D games like Klonoa and Tomba hold up quite well and are still fun. There's some 3D games that are still fun though like Tekken 3 and the game he covered not too long ago Future Cop LAPD.
@@Gatorade69I they’re speaking more in terms of nostalgia. A game might be decent still on a technical level but replaying it now as an adult wouldn’t be nearly as enjoyable as it was as a child when we might’ve been playing it with our siblings or uncles etc. at least that’s the case with me
For the chess part, if you use 8 bombs to kill the enemies it shortens the stage considerably, the enemies will make a different sound when they explode and for Benoit himself I just place the bombs in the ground and wait for him to walk through, made it so much easier and I was so happy the first time I beat this.
Awesome game I still replay every once in a while when the emulation bug bites me.
Along with megaman x4, ff8, tekken 3, re2 and silent hill, silent bomber was one of the badass games that my much older brother had in our collection. I was lucky to have played this as a kid
Thats a solid collection!
Is there a spiritual successer to this game?
I remember getting the Megaman X Collection for PS2 and X4 definitely stood out as a favorite for many reasons. Even the meme-worthy cutscenes were so cheesy they were fantastic and I wish the series would've kept the anime cutscenes for later games as they were visually stylish while being funny.... "What are we fighting foooooooor?!"
This game was so friggin fun back in the day.
I loved this game growing up my older cousin borrowed it to me and he never got it back, he passed away two years ago but he was the greatest. R.I.P ❤
Yeah, I remembered having so much fun with this game. Even recognized the Silent Bomber reference in the .hack games. Beating this game was probably one of my biggest gaming achievements as a kid, because I figured out that in the final boss fight against Benoit, the arena actually has no borders, so I just infinitely ran down the whole fight and jumped over whatever Benoit did, only stopping to plant a bomb on him, kind of like what Josh did.
Kudos to Josh for actually having played the game, too!
Thing I love most about your channel is finding these kind of games which I absolutely never would've known existed. Also your commentary on these games is top notch 👌
I had it on PS1, it was incredible
I used to play the first level of this game on a demo disc over and over and over as a kid... I had completely forgotten about it until I saw this video. Thanks for taking me back!
This demo and the metal gear solid demo was my childhood
Yes!! Same!
27 videos later of "was it good" and im amazed Josh didnt go insane from witnessing the pure art of those games
I think he went insane from covering otherland.
Old game bad amirite? XDDDDDDDDDD
I don't get it. If you mean the graphics design then ok but graphics quality? That really does not matter much. Looking pretty does not make a game good. Not to mention that that's the entire point, these games are *was* it any good. It would be stupid to do 'was it any good' on a modern game because Josh has no history or nostalgia to test in the first place. He tests games that he remembers fondly and he's old enough that he mostly has nostalgia for games that young people today would consider archaic. Seems like Josh doesn't matter the graphics much either considering how many games in this series he concludes to be good.
Graphics isn't everything, buddy. Josh himself said a good art style transcends time.
You're gonna end up choking on one of those one of these days
Fun fact, Tail Concerto's intro theme, For Little Tail, was also Kokia's first song! Unfortunately I've never been able to find a good quality version of the original, but she did pretty good versions since. She provided vocals for a few little games later on, such as Demon's Souls, Ar tonelico Qoga, FF 13-2 and Dark Souls 3.
I remember playing this in one of those old ps1 demo discs. For years I tried to find the game but never came close because I was a little kid and never got to know the name of it. Al I remembered was the white-haired protagonist.Thank you Josh, form the bottom of my heart. I can now sigh of relief
I requested this a long time ago in the hopes that you knew what is was, but I would never've thought you actually did! It's so nice to see one of the first video games I remember playing being featured here ❤ Thank you Josh.
Same! So excited for this one.
loved this game so much as a kid...I really wish we'd get a revamp for it
Between this and the Future Cop: LAPD Video - I’m convinced that you’re on a Mandela effect timeline with me and my brother where you’re one of the few people who actually played and enjoyed these classic games. Nobody ever seems to talk about them.
Would love to see you cover Galerians at one point! Another amazing PS1 hidden gem with a really dark story and some really unique weird gameplay mechanics!
Mandela effect is a hoax made by supid woman
Dude, I genuinely asked for this on the Future Cop vid thinking it will never happen and no one has heard of this game. 🥲
A lot of people played them back in the day. It was just a very long time ago...
Did anybody here ever played PSO aka Phantasy Star Online ? i loved to play this as a kid so much , one of my all time favorites !
@@CasepbX Whenever I hear people talk about PS1 classics, it’s a load of different games though! I very rarely if ever hear people praise these ones. It’s so rare to find someone who has even played them before somehow.
8:17 - I did read the manual back in the day, and I have a minor correction for you. As you noted, Jutah was created as a weapon as part of Hornet's military government to suppress a popular uprising. The uprising succeeded though and Hornet underwent a revolution, in which Jutah was arrested as a war criminal. However, *Jutah did not break out.* Rather, he and the other members of his little squad are almost all criminals on Hornet, each with their own reasons for imprisonment, save for the squad leader who's the only representative of Hornet's military (now under civilian control) and John who is a partisan who volunteered. They're sent as a kind of "Dirty Dozen"-type of force to try and exploit some IFF codes the Hornet government had gotten to board the Dante and conduct sabotage. They might not be able to destroy such a titanic ship itself, but they might be able to disrupt it and disable some of its systems, so that Hornet's fleet (backed up by a lot of mercenary ships) would have a better chance at stopping it.
Oh, and when that guy does a creepy laugh about "Which player will be fortunate enough to checkmate fate," it's not *just* a cryptic comment out of left field. "Fate" is Jutah's surname; he's taunting Jutah (and using some pretty heavy-handed foreshadowing.)
[EDIT]: This also explains Macino at 26:03. She too is a criminal and she thinks she found a way to escape, and she intends to coerce Jutah into helping her.
At 40:21, while it's not a *complete* explanation, according to the manual Benoit is this kind of legendary rebel, but he's not picky about *whom* he's rebelling against. He'll find some cause people are fighting for, join the side looking to overturn whatever the current status quo is, then help them. Not only that, he will seemingly sincerely believe in whatever cause he joins, even if the ideology of that cause is completely opposite of an ideology of another cause he seemed to sincerely believe in. What he seems to want to do is to simply keep overturning the world, constantly, forever. He can't leave situations static, it's the chaos of revolution and change he seems to love. This is speculation on my part, but The Dante is this super-weapon of an interplanetary empire (they use it like the Death Star of Star Wars to threaten planetary destruction as a way of imposing their will,) and by taking it over and destroying it (even if that means crashing it into the planet it was sent to destroy) seems like one of the biggest things he can do to upset the power of that empire, and he's loving the thrill of it. It has to be one of the biggest scale revolutions he's been able to participate in.
This game was literally my childhood. It brings to mind so many good memories.
omg yes, i was searching for it so many years!
I see you're a gamer of culture
This game was very fun to play,the original playstation had some real gems of games
I played every mission on S rank
Still have the original PS1 disk
Haven’t played this game but the yellow suited nemesis reminds me so much of Teisel Bonne in megaman legends. You become nemesis’ with him simply due to you both looking for the motherload and you inherently stopping his plans. And every time you fight and beat him and his family, he has a “HOW?! HOOOOW?!?” Mentality. Also each fight has a bigger machine. To the point where one fight takes place in an “industrial district” of the first city where you fight a massive machine that crushes the buildings around you (aside from the first fight with them where it’s in a residential district and people’s home can actually be destroyed). What a great game
i love this game, still replaying it from time to time
This was one of the toughest games back in the day it was so tough to figure out how to beat the guy with the green spinny disk things. Fantastic soundtrack and ultimate epic boss fight at the end. Love it josh thanks for the nostalgia.
I found a good strategy was to always run down, that way you'd have him in your sight and also could easily dodge the hologram
You got to love '90s anime villains in their melodramatic delivery of everything lol.
The designs of enemies are so impressive that i'm thinking on use as examples for my architetonic projects.(in real life)
Funny that you bring up the demo disc. I've played and beaten Silent Bomber a couple times but I'm positive the most time I've spent with it was playing a Japanese demo on a Playstation Underground disc over and over for days when I was a kid. Other than *maybe* a PS1 Ghost in the Shell demo -- or a demo for Tail Concerto, funnily enough -- from a different OPM disc, it's probably the one demo I've played more than any in my life.
Such a classic gem! Thanks for shining some light on this great game
THIS GAME WAS UNDERRATED BACK THEN ! *LEGEND*
I've always wanted to play this since the demo disc I saw it on gone be a good video 😊
Yooo, you just unlocked some hiddens memories from the back of my brain with this video. I remember a friend had this game and i borrowed it several times but never got to beat it.
Great video as usual!
thank you for giving me so much grade-A nostalgia content to sift through while I play Guild Wars 2, I love your videos!
The design of the game sort of makes me think that perhaps they wanted some sort of arcade-centric game, realized that game centers just aren't a thing overseas, then dolled it up a little bit for a home release. The 1-2 hour window is what many modern arcade games shoot for.
It could score a "I regret nothing!" out of 10. :D
Thx for the video. It was a blast. :)
Never even heard of this game, but I'll be checking it out for sure now! Love your work, great stuff !! I appreciate how thoroughly you review these titles.
Amazing video as always. Love how you analize the games and can see the best in bad games and the worst in good games. A true gamer.... Keep up the good videos! Love from Portugal!
Couldn’t be more excited to see this here. So many memories!
This is actually a game I never played or knew about. Thank you Josh!
On the one hand, yeah the story is melodramatic and the ideas you had about gameplay choices would have helped a lot. On the other hand, they literally said in the first cutscene that they AREN'T a crack unit and that they're surprised that they're all Hornet could scramble together for this mission. There's a reason they needed a war criminal who got locked up after a training mission gone horribly wrong (for real how did our character get so badass? Did they keep training Jutah as a weapon in prison? Is he a super soldier?) Your impression is supposed to be that they're a bunch of dumb rookies but at least they've got heart or whatever and that's why Jutah the Great sticks his neck out for them. But maybe i just read too many manhua where you feel bad for how hard all the side characters have to work just to be worthy of shining MC's boots and have some sympathy bias lol
I remember playing a demo of this when i was a child and loving it. Been thinking of it lately but forgot what was its name.
Thanks for making a video about it Josh. i wish i've played the full version back in the day.
I remember the sense of solemnity and melancholy this game had, even though i played it as a kid
Genuinely squealed a little when I saw the title of this video. This game was frickin' amazing and I don't even care if Josh hates it. I love it. I still have my PS1 copy, even tho I can't play it on anything.
Amazing game.
You can play it on your phone with emulator
Would be easy to rip to your computer and run it on a PS1 emulator.
I never even played this one but still had to watch it all.
Keep covering these golden age classics!
Awesome video. Now I wanna see you playing Jade Cacoon: Story of the Tamamayu. That was one of my favorite playstation games growing up and not many people know about it
I really don't have the energy or space to subscribe to any more channels, JoshStrifeHayes is enough for me
Would love you to take a look at Galerians. Amazing but hard game.
Could never beat it.
Your narrative style is amazing. Keep on keep it on🎉
Great vid! I remember this on a demo disc, and regretfully didn't think much of it and now I definitely regret that. Also I double dog dare you to do Tail Concerto next!
I love to see How many people is supporting your work! This Series is amazing keep it up 👏🏻
The craziest thing for me is that this is the second time I hear Richard Cansino pop up, voicing Benoit. The first is The Bouncer where he voices Dauragon. The significance of this is that Richard Cansino is in Rurouni Kenshin, and he does a great job in that role.
Finally this game gets the recognition it deserves. Hope you cover Tail Concerto too, love that game.
I remember playing the shit out of this on a demo disk and enjoying it. I just never could remember what the hell its name was. Thanks for bringing back this childhood nugget.
This channel has been amazing for finding the names of childhood games
Dude every time you do a new video it unlocks a memory I didn't know I had!
The narrative issues with some games, lots of Japanese ones (their media in general) is they make hard contrasts in character personalities. It's supposed to help define each character, but what ends up happening is you have archetypes acting out tropes instead of being plausible people. It's especially glaring when dealing with professionals or soldiers of a kind, because they don't act like they've been through any training whatsoever. I think it was less painful back then and all the more glaring now when you've grown up seeing it done so much over the decades.
It works better when the characters are soldiers by circumstance, ie draftees or in a war for survival, but you’re spot on about normal, volunteer, professional soldiers.
I remember playing this against my cousin and he beat me every time, but it was still fun hehe.
You have def my sub my friend. Great work! Can’t wait for the next!
I never played this game, but I thoroughly enjoy your content. I just popped in here to recommended a few games I would love to see you go through. Final Fantasy 6 (3 on the SNES), Star Ocean: The Second Story (PS1), 7th Saga (SNES, and my favorite RPG of all time), Golden Eye (N64), and Perfect Dark (N64). These games, plus a few youv already made videos on, were my childhood. And you present things in a way I respect And adore. Thank you for your content 😊
Dude first Chrono Trigger, now this one. One by one you're reminding me of my childhood games and making me replay them after 25 years. I'm so glad you do.
ps. I can't believe I managed to beat this game when I was 10!
Before watching the video, i want to say something. I never finished this game, i got stuck at the chess battle level. Still, i played a lot of this game, the versus mode was an unbalanced mess, but i had so much fun with my brother that it was worth turning it on regardless of my inability to beat it. Good times
I appreciate the macabre coincidence of this particular review being released on the day of the unabomber's death.
This is probably my favourite series on this site now. The deep dives into games I know and don't know have been great. Excited for the inevitable Gex dive.
Looks like an awesome game. Always sad that CC2's original works are mostly ignored, even with the recent Fuga 1 and 2.
oh my good lord, I only ever played the demo of this, I thought it was afever dream for a while.
Was hoping you would cover this game, loved it when i played it.
Knowing that the game just crashes and how to fix it has solved a mystery that's bothered me since my pre internet childhood. Thank you.
Always loved this game, the final boss is way too hard.
Could we ever have a "was it good" for chaos legion? A game i loved but havent heard anyone talk about it and think itd be a great game to cover
That was that Capcom game ripping off themselves with Devil May Cry, right ?
I think the answer is it was bad
I loved this game growing up but forgot the name of it!! Thank you for helping me rediscover a childhood gem!!!
Absolute legend, I commented on your last video asking you to review this game, thanks
I miss games like this, not to imply new ones are bad, I just miss the unique mechanical emphasis a lot of old PS1 games had, I wish we could get more stuff like this nowadays from studios but at least we have the indie scene.
let me do it for you. new ones ARE bad. video games suck now.
😎 First!
I fondly remember getting my original PlayStation back in the Philippines in 1999. The country also had a pirated games market where you can get dirt cheap copies of any game of any localization. Needless to say, my parents got me a thirty-plus game collection, and Silent Bomber was part of it, specifically the original Japanese version.
The graphical and gameplay design absolutely dazzled me at the time when I saw my dad messing around with the game for a bit. I tried it out for myself eventually, and oh what fun it was working through the Hiragana and Katakana.
As you can tell, I love this game and have played it to death.
With that said, I’d like to correct some info in this video and add a few of my own.
In the Japanese version, you cannot skip the tutorial at all, whereas you can in the North American version.
Also in the Japanese version, you are taken directly to the pause menu when you…well, pause the game. No need to press Start and THEN Select.
There’s a pretty well-hidden mechanic in the game that is somewhat hinted at, which is the score multiplier. Basically, amassing a kill streak will result in the score being multiplied ranging from x2 all the way to x10. Each enemy yielded different score amounts, with the mission objectives yielding the most, so it was ideal to amass the multiplier from smaller foes before going after the big fish. The kill streak ends if Jutah takes a hit or after a three-second period.
Speaking of scoring, the ranking system factors in speed, remaining health and kill streaks. If you’re fast, have taken no damage and have blown up plenty of hostiles, you’re guaranteed the highest rank. And the highest rank is actually S, not A. And each rank is separated by increments of 50000 points. For each increment you hit on your total, you go up a rank. So the challenge becomes reaching an S Rank in every mission, which is far from easy.
Of course, poor performance, including using a Continue after dying in a mission, will reduce your total score and thus your rank.
The incentive for reaching high ranks in every mission is unlocking Benoit and the Cat Tank in the 1v1 mode. You get Benoit for Straight A’s and the Tank for Straight S’s.
Anyway, I’m so happy that Silent Bomber is being remembered in 2023, and with a hefty 200k views to boot. This was a nice watch. 😊
This chessboard boss still haunts me. I spent hours here...
I love how you always give attention to voice acting, such an important factor that is often ignored. Awesome video, thanks!
Have you thought about making some videos specifically about voice acting in videogames?
THANK YOU for playing this. I played a demo version of this game when I was young, but could never remember the name of this game
May I suggest Legend of the Dragoon for the ps1? I feel it would go along nicely with what you're doing with these videos. Keep up the awesome work, glad I found your channel recently
Loving these videos. How about one for The Phantom Menace game
I would I could put into words how grateful and happy seeing you upload man.
Currently going thru Opioid withdrawals and it’s lowkey kicking my a$$ 😭🤣🤣
Hey man. Hang in there. Were they prescribed or ...? I'm going on 5 years clean myself.
Look into kratom. I used it multiple times to get off opiates. I was in the hospital once for a month and they were giving me IV dilaudid every few hours, that kratom saved me from the worst WDs ever once I was released. It was also easy to taper down and off of.
I played the crap out of this game and had completely forgot about it! So much fun! Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Thank you so much for the review. this is one of my favourite ps1 games.
Loved the video! Always nice to find out about a cool game I never heard of. The VS mode made me weirdly angry in a good way because I love playing as the enemies in games, but it never happens as often as I'd like. A mode where I can be any of them, fighting anything? Yes please!
I don't know how you find some of these games, but I appreciate it. There are many games I played and liked but never hear much about. Some of them I don't even remember the name.
This is one of my favorites for the ps1. I stumbled upon this by accident, and was hooked. I still have my copy, and still play it from time to time.
That ending scene, especially without the context of the instruction manual, is so gloriously over-the-top. Awesome
Oh wow you plucked this memory from childhood I couldn't even remember the name of the game. But the soundtrack and strange combat stuck with me.
Yay idk what this game is but I know I’ll enjoy this video, love this series.
i still own this game and replay it every so often. i love it
Oh my good gracious, I loved this game but only had the demo so I played the living bomber out of it! I’d never had remembered this, so thanks for bringing it to my attention!
Lovely video as alvvays!
Have nice memories of this game. Thought it to be much longer but I guess that vvas just my lack of capability. :D
By any change are you familiar vvith ps1 game Legend of dragoon? That and Silent bomber are my "Hidden gems" from that platform.
I love how you cover the voice actors. Only channel I know who does that.
I played the demo of this a ton and could never find the full game in stores. Thanks for the memories!
this game brings back so so much nostalgia x3
I like how the commander was just like "you already atarted a warcrime you may as well finish it."
Now this one takes me back. I still have that Playstation Magazine demo disc, but I forgot how much of a banger it was! It was one of my faves back in the day. I got a ton of mileage out of that disc, especially the Ace Combat 3 demo.
Great video as always, you should definitly look up Maximo Ghosts to Glory, it's suuuuuper underrated
I have been trying to find this game and the demo disc it was on for years. My brother and I played PS1 demo discs as kids, and I'm glad you reviewed this game because now I know what the name is.
I love your videos. I just went beck to all the ones i watched to support you via comment. So basicly an offering to the gods of algorythm
This was such a blast back in the day, you Must do trap runner next!!
An underrated classic.
Awesome content as always. Could you do Legend of Dragoon?
Gota love that British NarUUto lol great vids josh keep ‘em coming one of my fav series