How Lufia Was Overlooked in a Year of RPGs for SNES
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There used to be an Electronics Boutique in The Stratosphere in Las Vegas. Around 1995, my grandparents went to Vegas with us and Lufia was on sale there for a whopping 10 bucks. Grandpop got it for me and I was beyond thrilled. When I lived in Colorado, I bought Lufia 2 from Hastings in town when they were not going to rent out SNES games anymore, for 20 bucks. I scored big time. I still have the carts for both and the boxes and manual and other goodies. Same with Chrono Trigger, still have the original posters from the 95 cart on my wall in my office.
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Every store and game you just mentioned is memorable. To add, I found Shadowrun at a closing mom and pop shop for $20 as well. Still have it. I miss the 90's pricing, lol.
When a laptop was 2k!
I'm so jealous. I'd love to have a complete in-box copy of Lufia 2
@@jettesides420 Got my copy of Shadowrun (Genesis) from a Warehouse that was closing back in the 90s for $0.50. I'd rented that exact copy for $4 countless times.
LOVE the show, love the format, love Editor Dylan's commentary, love Jared's style
SO glad you guys are covering Doom. I know you guys don't really do PC games but man, Doom is seriously way too important to just overlook.
DOOM helped sell a few PC's I'm sure, luckily my upgraded 386 ran it fine.
A thing Dylan missed about Inspector Gadget is that it was the first time we got to see the face of series villain Dr. Claw. The only other time was in the 1999 live action movie.
There's also a toy of him that shows his face.
@@almightycinder Is it consistent with what's in the game? Because if so, holy synergy. Wowsers, even.
@@KairuHakubi I just looked it up and it looks like it.
He didn't miss it, that was so you'd comment and "correct" him.
They forget to say something or say something wrong on purpose to get comments, you say something wrong and people fall all over themselves to correct you
@@MahkyVmedia1why would anyone do that deliberately.
Puyo Puyo got reskinned three times for the US: Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine for the Genesis, Kirby’s Avalanche for the SNES, and Quirks for the PC. The last one even has Alexey Pajitnov, the creator of Tetris, on the box to sell more copies.
Nuh uh uh Pissing Shitting was released as "Squishy Splats" in the west which was released in August 1991 on the Amiga and many of the games came to the states except pissing pissing looks like h*ntai rather than a cartoon.
Jared trolling Dylan there is the funniest interaction they have ever had in the series…sorry, but it was comedy gold
"Spin-amon pie" was a running joke between myself and a childhood friend from Lufia. We both loved JRPGs for years by the time Lufia came out, but we really bonded over this game. We both also loved the prologue idea, playing as Maxim and his team. Such a great, unforgettable game on the SNES.
Also, as much as I love magic and prefer magic-users, Guy was an absolute beast.
So, when I was a kid I played the beginning of Lufia at my uncle's house. Years later I would just remember that there was some SNES RPG I played with a party member named Guy, but couldn't remember what it was called. The only one I could find was Final Fantasy 2, which never came to the west back then. Finally one day I just went through a list of every SNES RPG that was released until I finally found it again. So the prologue threw me off, because Guy was only in that part.
Lufia and Lufia 2 are fantastic, both today and especially during the time in which they were released.
I'm usually not one to care about spoilers for media that is multiple decades old, but I will just suggest that anyone unaware of the series start with Lufia 2 and then play Lufia.
Lufia was a constant rental for me and my friends on Blockbuster Fridays until we finally beat it. At the time, I remember loading up a saved game from some other renter and seeing they were at the "end of the game." So we quit and started a new game and were very confused initially how we had made it to the same end game so quickly then blown away when the actual game started. That little gimmick of playing the previous heroes has stuck with me all this time.
Hahaha SAME!! I restarted 3 times because I was sure I had somehow loaded a game from a previous renter lol it was a very weird concept at the time to be abke to see all the items and spells of the game from the beginning!
Man, thirty years gone in a blink of an eye. I adored SNES RPGs and out of the several dozen I played, Lufia was top 3 for me. The seemingly endless dungeon/tower had me banging my head against a wall because of one puzzle, and was finally able to finish it years later thanks to emulation. What a game, from the greatest console generation.
Never expected my favorite game of all time to be noticed by...well, anyone actually. Lufia & The Fortress of Doom has been my most loved game since I found it at a garage sale when I was about 12.
Even have a quote from it inscribed in my wedding ring:
"We'll make new memories."
Those who didn't play it at that age won't understand, but it can go hand in hand with having your first relationships, and then will ultimately hold a place in ones heart. I can see from your comment that you one of those who understands the experience.
Those other bad guys you fight in DRMBM outside of Scratch, Grounder, and Coconuts WERE in the cartoon. However they only appeared in episode one and their appearances were extremely brief (with the exception one or two episodes where they were even more brief). The developers probably realized while reskinning Puyo Puyo that the cartoon didn't give them much to work with when it came to opponents.
The quick cuts as Dylan realizes he reviewed the wrong version of Last Crusade are golden. I love witnessing the madness manifest.
Lufia had BP in addition to MP which gave non-spell casters some additional abilities. It was heavily puzzle-based, plus enemies were visible on the map. I don’t recall any other RPG doing any of these things prior to Lufia. Lufia 2 introduced a neat elemental pet feature as a 5th party member too, which was also unique.
It went downhill after the third game, though.
Lufia 2 Had all that. Lufia 1 was random, and very very annoying
I'd say Mega Man IV is probably one of the more technically impressive GB games of the time. Just check out the sprite stretching on the title, sprite scaling in the stage select, and the cutscenes that look cool as heck. Really fun to play and great story too, only beaten out by next year's Mega Man V as the best Mega Man on GameBoy IMO. I'll be looking forward to seeing that one being talked about!
I actually liked IV more than V even though most of the content in V was original. I think the boss patterns were a bit uninspired and level design lacking originality. And the Mega Hand sucked. Maybe I was just growing tired of the formula at that point.
I bought Lufia 1 at an Electronics Boutique at our local mall. I remember the salesman grabbing it from the top corner and saying “Do you really want this one?” To this day I regret nothing.
Well to be fair, the story of Lufia 1 really pulls at one's heart strings, and in Lufia 2 you actually get married, which is completely almost unheard of in video games.
I never played the first Lufia, but the sequel Lufia II is one of my favorites; unequivocally one of the best SNES RPGs out there. Something neat about the Lufia franchise is that the director and writer Masahide Miyata would not only go on to make Chaos Seed and the Rune Factory series of games, but would later go on to work for Marvelous after Neverland, the company that he worked for, went out of business in 2013. Yes. The same Marvelous that produced the anime Senran Kagura.
I missed Lufia as a kid, didn't play it, must not have been at my rentals. But I played 1 and 2 recently as an adult and they really hold up. They're great!
I did play them as a 13 year old kid, and there is a certain nostalgia about the main characters romantic relationship with Lufia and it's influence in the real world. In the second game you actually get married halfway through, which is completely unheard of in these kind of games. The Lufia games hit hard and do what they do really well, even more so if you can appreciate the depth of the romance, which in every other game is a lighthearted mess that never really goes anywhere.
I loved the Lufia games on SNES. Especially the second game. My brother and I would rent them from a local video store multiple times. I unfortunately never got to buy them but, I was able to eventually finish Lufia 2. I would love to see them come to Switch Online or re-released as a collection.
For the record, Cliffhanger is a fun movie. Probably one of Stallone's better films from that period. Nothing earthshaking, just a solid adventure flick. Plus it has a very nice soundtrack which goes well with all the mountain scenery porn.
It also has that iconic scene where he drops that person to their doom.
Yeah, it was pretty good! Haven't watched it since back when it had just hit rental shelves. Kind of want to see it again now, lol
If you REALLY want to enjoy the movie even more, go watch Space Ice's video on it.
@@edge3220 lol, I'm happy to see him mentioned. Space Ice is awesome. He can even walk up a staircase without a body double.
It's a bummer that Lufia's opening didn't really change the game at all. Dragon Spirit back in 1987 had a playable prologue that dependent on if you won or lost changed the opening cutscene and I believe also your character's color, though it's been a few years since I last played it.
Yep, Dragon Spirit for the NES is a port of the arcade game that sets itself up as a sequel.
If you died in the intro stage where you fight the arcade's final boss, you'd be locked into Gold Dragon "Easy Mode" that cuts half the stages and doesn't give you the real ending.
As a kid growing up in the 90's who only found Lufia because of the awesome box art at my local video store, I really appreciate how much video game art could bring old games to life. So much is abstracted away from classic RPGs due to hardware restrictions, you had to draw the full vision up in your head. That's what made video game artwork so exciting for me, I got see the characters and events more clearly. Something you can't really capture with today's AAA RPGs.
I absolutely loved Lufia back in the day, but no one I talked to ever knew of it until waaaaay later.
Lufia 2 is my favorite game of all time, but Lufia & TFoD is top tier as well.
I could never get into Lufia 1, but I feel the same about Lufia 2
Played 2 first and it became one of my favorite RPGs of all time... so when I found Lufia 1 at a Funcoland way back in 2000ish I was so hyped... then I played it and just got a good, not bad...just good, RPG and was a little disappointed it wasn't Lufia 2 quality haha.
Man, as a kid I was kinda obsessed with playing Mean Bean Machine. Went through every level, and I still remember Dr Robotnik being tough as nails. But it felt good to finally kick his butt.
I read ALLL the text corrections, pop-ups, and SPLIT-SECOND/single frame jokes that I see.. I rewind... and rewind some more just to make sure I get every golden nugget of laughter out of the show!!! I'm reliving my childhood here folk... AND I LOVE THE JOKES!! (I didn't mean to thyme there... I gave up freestylin' just after the 90's ended LOL) - KEEP EM COMING!!!!! :D
I played Lufia and The Fortress of Doom when I was a kid. Since then it has always been one of my favorite RPG's. I still enjoy playing it from time to time.
Maybe it's my nostalgia but I hate that people just shit all over this game.
I am proud to be one of the few who played Lufia 1 way before Lufia 2. Back then, I was a huge RPG fan and I was constantly on the hunt for new RPGs to play, they were uncommon at the time.
Well, I got Lufia 1, and loved it. At the time, sure, it didn't do anything new combat wise; but the storyline was actually really good; the localization and writing was really good compared to other RPGs at the time. I completely believed the love story between the Main and Lufia.
So when I heard Lufia 2 was coming out, I was ready, and had a copy preordered.
Yeah, playing that game as a kid along with having my first girlfriend was a real trip. I know of no other RPG where the romance aspect was so well developed, and in the second one you even get married, which is unheard of in these games. I challenge you to find even one other RPG that does the same thing.
The Inspector Gadget game actually uses a theme from the cartoon as its title screen music, but it’s the theme song used in the “Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas” special!
Lufia is my all time favorite RPG That opening got me so into the game and the twist blew my mind.
It's a funny twist. And interesting, once you think about it, in a very.. poetic sort of way.
Lufia 1 and 2 were amazing. Some top games.
Fun fact the some of the people behind the Beethoven 2nd game would later start their own company called Run with Scissors. So that game is related to the Postal series
Lufia 2 is one of my favorite games of all time. It was THE game that got me into Turn based JRPGs. It was also the game that made me fall in love with Music in Video Games.
Never played the first one though.
I always hear about Mean Bean Machine, but my introduction to that kind of game was Kirby's Avalanche on SNES. I never hear anyone talking about Kirby's Avalanche, so I'm hoping it'll get covered once we get to it.
Same for me, I only played Kirby's Avalanche as a kid and never knew about the Sonic version until later on. Came to learn as an adult about the Puyo franchise and how those games are just reskins of it. But they did their job of getting me and others into Puyo Puyo
@@LordPichuPal Same here. It's just odd that I never hear people talking about the Kirby version. Oh well. Lol
Lufia was my first ever RPG. The sound effects are still burned in my head.
I remeber stopping in a forest, because I didn't understand compass directions.
I played Lufia for the first time in 1996! My mother's best friend had his NES and SNES always ready in his living room for when we'd come over, so he could show me games he liked, since he knew my dad got me into gaming. On my 5th birthday, he introduced me to RPGs with Lufia! I don't remember much of the game, as I'm 33 now, but I'll never forget those battle screens, and that HUGE ocean to sail!
Bought Lufia at Radio Shack when it released. The games ending hit me right in the feels.
That Cliffhanger game actually looks fire. The snowboarding... whatttttt?!?!?!
I suffered a lot with Lufia because the cartridge I was playing had poor battery so my save was lost just by taking the cart off the SNES. I fought with my brother who wanted to play something else to avoid losing my save
One notable thing about Inspector Gadget for SNES is that, after facing his... radio controlled chair... as the boss of every other stage, the final stage has you face to face with Dr. Claw, and yes, you actually get to _see his face!_ Sure it's only a few pixels, but it's his canon face! (An action figure also revealed it, cleverly covered with a sticker.)
As for Ubisoft's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the reason it looks and feels like a ZX Spectrum game is because it _was_ a ZX Spectrum game. More specifically, it was a quick and dirty port of the Game Boy version, which is why Indy has an ugly outline here; they weren't arsed to remove it! Funnily enough, the NES versions of Aladdin and The Lion King were also direct Game Boy ports with little optimization done and even cut content!
I hope that PC game is an Ultima game.
The licensing issue Inspector Gadget is a little weird but sometimes when you would not have a part of a licensed property, usually meant to the studio was holding it hostage for extra money or that licensing it out meant that they had to pay extra loyalties to someone else
aww man, I got R&S Buckeroos for christmas one year and I was legit stoked :D When you're a kid, you don't realize games can be crappy, you just sorta power through them. I never beat it, but I feel like I got further in a THQ platformer than most 10 year olds did at the time lol It still holds a special place in my heart, and I still have it, box and manual and everything. Sometimes bad games can still be fun and important :3
Even though I grew up in the 90s and watched the Tom & Jerry movie, I never knew there was a video game of it. But then again, I never saw it at my local BlockBuster or Hollywood Video... I was also too hyper focused on Mega Man, Sonic the Hedgehog and Super Mario back then. Wonder if I'll see The Misadventures of Tron Bonne covered? Especially since the version that has the Mega Man Legends 2 Demo. Loved that game growing up, I still have my copy all these years later.
I'm new to the channel, it's a great format!
I just checked your oldest video uploaded and it covers from Apr 22nd, 1992 and I thought, how cool would it be if these guys started Now in the 80's (specially from the late 80's) and turned into Now in the 90's, but it's all cool, I'll watch the backlog, even if it won't cover the 90's in its entirety!
This week: Dennis the Menace
Editor Dylan: What're you doing in my basement? Get outta here!
Also this week: a second Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade NES for some reason
Also Editor Dylan: GET OUTTA HERE!!!
I could have sworn the kid in the Cliffhanger commercial yelled, "Fire in the hole!" That was the first time I ever heard that phrase.
Maybe it got censored at some point.
I loved Lufia. It had one of those great SNES manuals with pages of lore & artwork that I would tear through as a kid. The sprite work was great and the story was emotionally impactful. Probably the first game that made me cry as a kid.
I had the GameBoy Mega Man games. Honestly, they were a lot of fun. I mean, if you like Mega Man, it was more Mega Man. And mixing the enemies up shook things up nicely.
Lufia 2 and Final Fantasy VI was my childhood!
I played Lufia 1 like 10 years later.
I was afraid you guys weren't going to cover that PC game, being focused on consoles. Looking forward to it!
I was just looking for the upload and here it is. This is one of my favorite moments of each Friday. Thank you Jared & Dylan for bringing this awesome content.
I never noticed that the videos were available in 4K. Such a quality of life improvement to hear about those 500p games. 🤩
I love Lufia so much. Got it back in 1993! Been playing it ever since. Took me a solid 20 years before I ever beat it. Just played through it again last summer and I still love it!
Lufia II is literally what got me into gaming. Along with Vandal Hearts. It holds such a special place for me. I haven't clicked a video this fast in awhile
Lufia will always hold a special place in my heart. I was probably 13 or 14 when I first played it, and I loved it!! Being a poor teenager, I couldn't afford to buy it outright. But for several months, I rented it every weekend from my local video store. Fortunately, it wasn't a popular rental, so my save file remained intact. I got stuck at one point on a very difficult boss, so I never progressed past that point. Years later when I could actually afford it, I bought it and found out I was probably 90% through the game on that rental cartridge. But I was glad to own it and finally be able to complete lit.
While playing Sonic Mania I came across the the Mean Bean level. Due to being colorblind it was impossibly difficult and I had to have my non-gamer wife come beat it. That version is easy...if you can distinguish blue from purple and red from green.
It's subtle, but all the beans DO have unique shapes. The blue is more of a teardrop, the yellow is like a cone, purple has a diagonal slant. I wouldn't expect to be able to play the game well only going by shapes. Just felt like pointing it out.
Reminds me of the Color Dungeon from Link's Awakening. In the original version it was black and white. It was remade with color as Link's Awakening DX with a new dungeon based on colors. Then it got a Switch remake which kept the color theming, but gave all the colors a unique shape to account for those who have trouble seeing colors.
I’m still waiting for you to play Lufia 2 as a let’s play. Such a great game.
Lufia needs to be brought back. I put II up there with, and even ahead of, some of the staples of the SNES.
God there are so many missing franchises that deserve better.
Okay, I have some insight on a possibility of why Inspector Gadget didn't have the iconic theme song. So Inspector Gadget was made by DIC. And the composer for DIC at the time was Shuki Levy and Haim Saban of Saban Entertainmnet fame (Think power rangers in the 90's in the US). Now, I know for a fact that most of, if not ALL, the music Haim Saban's made was kept in his personal name and licensed (or something similiar) to the studios (including Saban Entertainment. Yeah, he licensed his own music to his own studio.). This was how Haim Saban made A LOT of his money. This was actually the main reason that, when Saban Entertainment was looking to sell in 2001, that Disney purchased the company (they wanted the music library). To their dismay, they only purchased the company and not the music library. Needless to say, they were pretty pissed.
So, DIC could have given licensed the rights to the cartoon to Hudson Soft to make the game, but NOT the music.
As a side note. Haim Saban's a pretty cool dude. Despite being at the top of his company, he often makes an effort to be involved in the day-to-day decisions. Really pushed for Disney to keep the production of the anime "Slayers" to be brought to television (under the name "Wizard, Witches and Weirdos" because... "Slayers" being too gruesome and also trademark/IP reasons.). But soon after the purchase by Disney, Disney wasn't having any of that. The accounting practices seemed a little shady from time to time, but everyone got paid, paid correctly and paid on time.
I loved Lufia as a kid, especially the music! Although I always pronounced it Lou-f-eye-a. Just thought it sounded better.
Great video Nit90s!
I've been watching this show since the first episode and I'm happy to see these coming each week.
It's worth noting Puyo Puyo is actually a spin off of a Japan only first person dungeon crawler rpg series released for the MSX2 called Madou Monogatari. Several iconic characters of Puyo Puyo like Draco Centauros, The Dark Prince, Arle, Carbuncle, and even the Puyos themselves originate from this rpg series.
Seeing the MSX logos on the Puyo Puyo cover, made me hope he'd at least mention the system, but alas. :(
It wasn't the only time that Puyo Puyo was rebranded with some other game series character either. Kirby did the same with Kirby's Ghost Trap (released as Kirby's Avalanche in North America I think?), which was quite a fun one too.
@@FiXato yes it was. Was it called Ghost Trap in Europe?
@@bensell982 yeah.
Apparently there was also a Japanese release, though without Kirby: Super Puyo Puyo.
Wikipedia has the following to say about the version differences:
> «While the core gameplay remains the same, the Japanese and Western versions are drastically different cosmetically. As the story in Super Puyo Puyo is more focused on Arle Nadja and Carbuncle's adventures like the Madou Monogatari and Mega Drive Puyo Puyo versions, the Western version replaced them with Kirby characters to appeal to Western audiences.
> […]
> Both versions have cinematics between each round, with differences being Kirby and his opponents shown having full conversations and trash-talking each other in full sentences in the Western version, and that Kirby's personality comes off as a lot more sarcastic and confrontational, just as Arle and Carbuncle were in the Japanese version. This differs greatly from other Kirby games, where Kirby hardly speaks at all and is also friendlier in general.»
I guess that explains the tonal difference with other Kirby games. :)
Personally I only knew Carbuncle from a Dutch MSX scene music disk, Carbuncle Big Band. 😂
@@FiXato I guess the localization team thought the game couldn't sell well outside of Japan. To be fair it likely wasn't because of the gameplay because those style of puzzle games just sell. The cute anime style might've turned people off. Though just a few years later shows like Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball Z would explode in popularity. Maybe they were overly cautious we'll never know. I'm just happy Puyo Puyo games get released outside of Japan now. Well Puyo Puyo Tetris and it's sequel did.
It sounds like he’s incorrectly saying Poyo Poyo
Oh, the Game Boy _Mega Man_ games were called _Mega Man World / Rockman World_ in Japan? Wish they had kept that title when moving them here. It would have avoided a lot of confusion. No one would be unsure if you were talking about _Mega Man 4_ or _Mega Man IV._
Love Lufia 1 and 2. Such great games.
Lufia and the Fortress of Doom and Mega Man IV were good games
Lufia games are on my to-play list (emulated of course). I heard good things and they're often high on "best snes games" lists.
I love playing Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine! I played it so many times just to get to the end, and then I realized that all the robots you fight appeared in one specific episode of Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog: "Super Special Sonic Search & Smash Squad." Like, just watch the episode and you can point them all out! Either way, great music for the first Puyo Puyo game released in the west! Lufia I still need to play, I never played it before. Mega Man game boy games are a ton of fun.
Actually, it wasn't the first release of Puyo Puyo in the west. As it turns out, the original arcade game was released overseas prior to the release of Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine. The game received a terrible English dub as was the style of the time, the game's dialog was localized with a very 90's "attitude", and various characters were also renamed: Arle was changed to Silvana, Harpy became Dark Elf and her sprite was edited to change the colour of her dress to black and her wings were removed, presumably because her original appearance resembled an angel and the use of religious imagery at the time was a major no-no in games. Interestingly, Satan was renamed to Dark Prince, which is the name that the character is known by in the modern games while everyone else reverted to their original names.
I'm guessing that Puyo Puyo didn't do so well since subsequent game releases throughout the rest of the decade were heavily retooled into games like Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine & Kirby's Avalanche. In fact, the game was so obscure that for a long time people thought that the game was a bootleg rather than an official release, with the game's authenticity only being confirmed in 2019 when Sega ported it to the Nintendo Switch as part of the Sega Ages collection.
Every so often I go upstairs and gaze at the sealed copy of Megaman IV we've got for sale at work...
I love getting home Friday and relax watching this videos :)
Mega Man V is the best Mega Man game for the Game Boy, even Nintendo Power thought so in their all-time best Game Boy games list. It's the only handheld Mega Man that's a complete original, with 8 original Robot Masters called Stardroids, named after the planets in our solar system (including Pluto). Also, the store and P-Chip system is evolved from Mega Man IV, with many more items you can buy, plus the Mega Buster is replaced with the Mega Arm. The soundtrack is full of bangers too. Give it a try, it's an excellent game.
My brother rented Lufia from the long-defunct Hit List Video, and then eventually got his own copy. It's a pretty decent RPG, and the soundtrack ain't too bad either.
Also, a friend of ours had Stimpy's Invention, and he would bring it over once in awhile. Not only was the game decent, we also had fun smacking each other's character around.
Oooh, next week is Toejam & Earl: Panic on Funkotron and I am ALL for that!
4:42 I read all of your text corrections Dylan. Even if I have to stop the video to do so
I was starting to think: Aw, man... This show doesn't really cover PC games, so I suppose they won't be covering Doom in the next episode.
But of course you are doing it, though. Doom is just so ubiquitous and groundbreaking that it absolutely deserves to be covered in the show, especially on its 30th anniversary. One of the games that has changed PC gaming forever.
I think they are only covering console games I guess or at least it looks that way or have they done computers already?
@@BeyondDaX next week will be the first PC game covered.
Awesome shirt brother!!! You always do great when it comes to this!!!
I barely had GBC games, I would rent a lot. I ended up renting all GB Megaman games because I enjoyed them a lot. For what they were, they were amazing. Underrated hidden gems for sure
I don't remember anything about Lufia in spite of beating it, and because it left so little impression, I didn't give Lufia 2 a chance. I'll have to revisit that one of these days.
Fun fact: I gifted Inspector Gadget to Jared over 2 years ago. It still doesn’t show up on his games spreadsheet because he still hasn’t finished cleaning it. 😂
that Cliffhanger commercial made me smile :)
"Sega does what ninten-f###-this game". Editor dillon is a treasure.
Great show! I watch it every Friday.
I remember getting hammered with ads on Robotnic's Mean Bean Machine as a kid and being less than enthused
I read your corrections Dylan
Hearing about Lufia reminded me of Tales of Phantasia since the prologue in that is a cutscene-type battle. I hope/wish that'll be covered when it comes out.
Only the PSX version. The SNES one didn't leave Japan.
@@GabePuratekutaThe PSX one didn't leave Japan either. The earliest port of ToP that left Japan was the GBA port but that's not until 2006 and they took the theme song out of the game.
I started the Tales series with Tales of Destiny, and is probably still my favorite from the series. I've heard that Phantasia was a copy or reboot of Star Ocean, which I've been meaning to play, but I don't like it's combat system very much.
@@EsotericBibleSecrets "I've heard that Phantasia was a copy or reboot of Star Ocean, which I've been meaning to play, but I don't like it's combat system very much."
I tried playing Star Ocean (snes) and I couldn't get past the first 20 minutes. IMO, the story isn't as engaging and the gameplay isn't as good. I spent most of the battles just spamming one button because it didn't do any better than me trying to strategizing. I can assure you that, having played the two, Tales of Phantasia is not a reboot of Star Ocean (If anything, Star Ocean is a reboot of Tales of Phantasia. The team left Namco to make their own company which made Star Ocean.) IMO, Tales of Phantasia is waaaay better.
I HIGHLY recommend playing the PSX version of Tales of Phantasia (fan translated if you need to), you get skills for (and play as) Suzu and Chester, getting rid of long range skills and short skill is a blessing, EXP is/can be more balanced and optional 2 players. Not to mention that animated opening. If only the anime was as good. Definitely don't bother with the US GBA port. It doesn't have the iconic song that the game was known for.
IMO Tales of Phantasia PSX is better than Tales of Destiny. Better story, better characters, better art (because the PSX port of ToP was made *after* Tales of Destiny) and the battles are more fun because it's not 4 sword users.
If you pick it up and want some cheat codes, hit me up. I have done a good amount of hacking on the game.
@@sleepingkirby I found the story to be rather generic and desperate, as is most things that involve time travel. Destiny was much better in dozens of ways.
Thanks for the info about Star Ocean though. I feel the same way, just couldn't get into it and it looked too much like a copy of Phantasia or vice versa.
Perhaps the other Star Oceans are worth playing though. I'm going to skip the first one.
This was my Game Boy Mega Man, and it was really a lot of fun on the go!
...But owning neither Mega Man 4 nor Mega Man 5 on the NES really left me very confused when I got around to playing those later in life.
I also appreciated, as a bad at games kid, that if you Game Over several times in one power on of the game, you get a bigger charged Mega Buster blast! A tiny handicap but important in the right spots.
Alright, Lufia gets a mention! One of my personal favorite classic RPGs of all time.
I hadn't seen that Cliffhanger commercial in ages 😂
As a Dutch person, the biggest reason Lufia sticks in my mind was the fact that it was the first console RPG I know of that got a Dutch localization, which was a rarity for *any* game at the time, let alone a JRPG.
Lu-fi-AAAA~! (Naturally chanted the same way as RU-FI-O, fellow 90's kids.) It can be frustrating and slow, but I STILL hum the music from that one, and it's one of my favorite childhood RPG's. Lufia II is definitely a step up all around, and I ended up basing 95% of all my future "name your character" off Dekar's name ("name your character" was always a stumbling point for young-me until then, early version of "character creation paralysis" I suppose), and the "Dek" usually finds its way in there somewhere even almost 30 years later. Anyway, enjoying the steadily increasing Jared-and-Dylan voiceover banter! Really ties the whole episode's vibe together for me.
That Ubisoft Indy game is actually a colorized port of the Game Boy release. A lot of late NES games were just colorized Game Boy ports that did the bare minimum. Instances of this include Cliffhanger, Aladdin and The Lion King.
Wait, the movie Cliffhanger got a video game? Of course it did, it was the 90s. Every movie in the 90s got a licensed video game.
Ok, but like... Why was that Beethoven rendition so damn good??
Holy crap. My brother had Mega Man IV way back when. We’re usually pretty “good” about not getting rid of anything, but some stuff definitely fell through the cracks over the years. I’ll have to reach out and see if it still exists.
Fun fact: That Ubisoft Indy game is just the Game Boy version with added color.
The creator of Earthworm Jim actually worked as an animator on Stimpy's Invention for the Genesis.
The first time I played Dr. Robtnik's Mean Bean Machine was on the Nintendo GameCube compilation Sonic Mega Collection. I'll admit, it is fun for a puzzle game.
Can't wait for the Lufia 2 review!
In 3 years.
Hokey smokes. A ton of games came out this week in 1993. And they range in quality like a rollercoaster because a chunk of them are licensed games. Just in time for the holidays, eh?
Never change, video games. Never change.
You forgot the best part about the Inspector Gadget game. Its the only bit of media that shows Dr Claw's face! They even released an action figure with the same face.