Mutant Rampage: Bodyslam (CD-i) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
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- A playthrough of Philips and Animation Magic's 1994 2.5D beat 'em up for the Philips CD-i, Mutant Rampage: Bodyslam.
So, Philips went for the arcade/console style beat 'em up on the CD-i. Given the hardware, it was a gutsy move, and it's nowhere near as terrible as you'd expect. The graphics look great (at least, while they are relatively still - the animation is pretty rough) - the video is fairly similar to that found in the Mario and Zelda games (well, they do share the same developer) but are of much higher quality this time. Disney this may not be, but the cutscenes are far more competently drawn than the Nintendo licensed titles, and the quality is much higher due to this game's reliance on a MPEG decoder card being install. The character sprites have much more character than in most of these types of game, and they are much less concerned with being 'inoffensive' than their SNES and Genesis brethren were. In fact, many of them are hilariously vulgar. I actually really appreciated the look - not because there are cat-women with massive and visible nipples everywhere, or because I beat up a sumo-wrestler named Yahama or a street-gang flunky named Spooge, but because these elements all put together give it a lot of flair that most 16-bit era fighters lacked. Well, expect for the really good ones, like Final Fight and Streets of Rage.
The controls aren't particularly bad, or at least not using the official four-button Philips/Gravis pad. The enemy AI is cheap, but the game gimps you along by constantly healing you up. It's pretty fun for the most part - expect for the flying enemies. Rarely have enemies made me see red the way the flying ones in this game do. Think Jet in SoR2 was annoying? You haven't lived...
The video was recorded from a DVS VE200 model CD-I console (dated 1998, built-in digital video cart) through the composite connector plugged into an X-Capture 1 capture card. The game was played using the official Philips 4-button gamepad.
Played through on the easy difficulty level. This wasn't because the game is particularly difficult since it dishes out extra-lives pretty regularly, but the enemy patterns are infuriatingly cheap on all levels: they just become much more so on medium and hard. I played on easy mainly to minimize the amount enemies trapped and juggled me on the edges of the screen - on hard, it's fairly easy to have the computer destroy three lives before you're given the opportunity to fight back.
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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I just wonder what Ganon's up to.
Your majesty, ganon and his minions have seized the island of corridi!
hmmm how can we help
@@TheGreenThunder1607 I wonder what's for dinner
It is written: Only Link can defeat Ganon.
@@gastonthehunter140 Great! I'll grab my stuff!
Wow, compared to the Mario and Zelda games, the animation is actually pretty good.
Though still wonky and stilted at points, as you'd expect from Animation Magic.
Honestly, the animation in those games was pretty unique and dare I say inspired. The Characters had over-animated expressions with a Smoke or Ooze like quality of motion to them. Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore didn't hit all these notes in it's Animation unfortunately.
Funny how the same people who did the cutscenes for the Zelda CDI games did a somewhat better job here than with those, quality and detail-wise.
My childhood!!!! This was the first video games I was exposed to!!! My grandpa bought the CD-i and I had games and some music video things, coneheads (the movie) lol before DVD and everything!
They really did a great job compared to Zelda CDI. Wish more people knew about this game tbh
Thanks for capturing this rare, odd gem.
I remember hearing that the CD-I wasn't really equipped to handle large backgrounds (I want to say there's some sort of tiling process that goes into creating most backgrounds in beat-em-ups that works like it does for the characters that the CD-I doesn't really support, but I'm half-speculating on that), and that's why you have so many sub-stages in every level here. Run out of background space on one surprisingly detailed and well-done examples of a world gone completely to shit? Stick a mid-boss at the right side of the background and move on to another one afterward so your levels both aren't one minute long each and can keep up a quick pace! Pretty clever move, and I think it's actually a good move in a beat-em-up; keeps you feeling like you're constantly making SOME kind of forward progress instead of wondering just why two particular city blocks are where all the crime in a level takes place.
I know the Zelda games on the CD-I had a similar problem; I know a series called "Wha Happun"/"What Happened" actually goes into more detail on the specifics of the problem if you look up the video on the Zelda CD-I games.
Dont worry they can survive the plague because the princess brought lots of spaghetti
Glad to know the animation studio behind these FMVs also did the ones for the CD-I Zelda games
Thanks for uploading! I love the music of this game!
"Alright!"
Said with a facepalm
Coronavirus 2020, a few years off..
They knew what they are doing, as planed!
Yeah, i remember the great plague of 2017. It was a pretty wild time. My whole body shapeshifted into a Lion Hybrid. I don't wanna be a furry. D:
At least your head didn't melt off and regrow out of your torso. Also, my legs bend backwards. It SUCKS to sit down!
The music is surprisingly catchy.
1:02 It's 2017 right now!
Ehh... they were only 3 years off ;D
Well this game became completely inaccurate
@@Mister_Oddity ha, it really should've been 2020!
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I never tought that there was a game where Action Hank kicks the shit out of Jessica Rabbit.
This console was ahead of it's time.kinda like the neo Geo.
1:04:30 pregnant woman kicked away flying trough infinity!
Ow! Wee!. The NintendoComplete left mutant rampage bodyslam in shambles.
Hectro Genocite: THE PHILLIPS CDI IS DRUNK! ORDINARY HUMANS SHOULDN'T BE ABLE TO BEAT SUPERIOR BREEDS!!!
If SNK's "Mutation Nation" was released on CDI...
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"Or you will *DIE* ! "
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I guess elon did eventually create catgirls
1:40:20 is pretty brutal
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I had this game back in the day. It's tough to play, stiff and choppy but it still has something interesting. it's not a bad game, music and setting is also interesting. could have been way better though.
Remake-worthy? I think so.
The intro in a nutshell: Corona, Furries, and the Internet
Very "Heavy Metal" feel to the animation
bakshi vibes too, think its rotoscoped?
Good graphics and good variety of enemies!
This is the highest quality footage I've seen of this game, there's cutscenes here I haven't seen here before! Would you allow me to do an edit of just all the cutscenes together? Other uploads exist but they're very compressed, so having them together less pixelated would be nice. Also I'll link back to this video so others can watch the full playthrough.
Oh my bad, I never saw this message. But if it matters 2 years later, by all means, go ahead. As long as you credit the source, im cool with it.
2021 and still playing it
Not gonna lie... I want to see a remake of this.
So, an attempt to compete with the likes of Final Fight and Streets of Rage... on the CD-i? And by the people that did CDi Zelda and Mario?
Yup. So how does it fare? Well, it's a damn sight better than Bebe's Kids, I'll tell you that!
+NintendoComplete It's a little better. If you can look past the cheap A.I. Something tells me you just exposed new material for YTP here.
+Spike Riley That'd be hysterical if it turned out to be the case
Better than the Tick by the looks of it. Can't wait to give this one a whirl.
I kinda wanna see somebody remake this. Also, either Beijing or Bangkok needs to be removed. They're too similar, to me (I like Bangkok and Basher Komodo more than Beijing and Chi Gung).
This game has a great premise and setting shame it wasted on this game
It was wasted on this *console* and their badly designed controllers
Ahh yes. Everyone remembers the Grey Tremor Plague of 2017.
The whole animation team consisted of the post-Soviet employees. These people would literally work for food in the early nineties... This partially explains the quality
The quality of the animation has grown with each new "animation magic" project.
We need more sarcasm with our violent games.
The great plague of 2017: Facebook
Gray Tremor Plague
I think it meant covid
You mean Twitter?
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THE REASON WHY YOU'RE HERE...
you're welcome.
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This is a great game for the CDi! Unfortunately my save battery is dead so I couldn't stop and have to actually do a full playthrough which is over 2 hours without turning off the console :(
lol so awesome intro and then the game start i see the punch and laught god damn 90s intros was awesome game play o my gamepad
Oof.. such a long game! I didn't expect that.
If they had the same production in the gameplay as the cutscenes this could of sold a few more CDI's... maybe...
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u welcome
Tina Felina is creepy-sexy (that's not a bad thing).
Same people who made IM Meen and the infamous Zelda CD-I games.
this game is almost playable now on the cd-i emulator....the music stops whenever you hit another character or another sound effect comes in between...but the music continues directly after!
The voice acting is literally on the level of poorly-dubbed 80s anime
I'm on Medium, one last stage (Nairobi) on Medium then the last stage. And I am running very low on lives. Are there any cheats? I am really struggling.
Nice! I had a CD-i, and honestly, the worst thing about them is the size. They're bigger then an old VCR! So finding some place to put the thing, while having room for any other consoles, was a real problem. In Europe, they got two models that are each about the size of a Netbook. But those models are impossible to find, of course.
So true, my one is massive. It's like a VCR from the early 90s, and maybe just a bit smaller than a PC desktop case from the time! I guess that was the point though, right? To fit in with your other TV connected decks, like vcrs and receivers?
@@NintendoComplete actually there's a Philips Stereo that was made in 1995 that was hiding a CD-i inside. it somehow made its way into an episode of Angel 4 years later.
@@WestleyWolf No kidding! That's super random lol
@@NintendoComplete yep it was the Philips FW380i CD Mini System.
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Interesting game for 1994.
Huh, this one looks to have been done hand-drawn & done in cels whereas the Zelda CDi games looked to have been digitally animated & colored.
I've tried multiple ROMS of this & just CANNOT get it to run on Retroarch CD-i core unlike most other games. Once the Philips logo intro ends, that's it: just a black screen
1:14 all I hear is Ego Raptor's voice..
this is basically the CDI version of Streets of Rage.
Before the Streets of Rage and Final Fight, there was Mutant Rampage: Bodyslam.
You're sure about that? Final Fight (1989) Streets of rage (1991) and finally Mutant Rampage: Bodyslam came out in 1994.
Great gameplay!
I've never heard of that game.
Can you please upload on all losses on mutant rampage bodyslam
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(1:40:10) What in the name of competent animation is that animated monstrocity?
I think that's Nancy Pelosi.
@@NintendoComplete good one 👍
2:12 What's wrong with those lips omg 😂😂😂😂
Thanks for uploading this, have been looking for ages to see a HD walkhtrough. How did you manage to get it to run? I could not find any emulator that worked.
+Swift Nimblefoot I recorded it from a real cdi
Agh, pity. I tried the MESSUI emulators but it always asks for a "Video Cartridge". Pity as I really would like to play this.
The enemy A.I. is smart enough to use health pickups when they get hurt. First time I've ever seen that in a beat-em-up. Makes me wonder if they're smart enough to pick up the 1 ups you do to become a surprise miniboss. I guess we'll never know. Sort of wish you slammed into the bonus round. Oh well.
they do...
Not from what I saw. They only picked up the health pickups. I watched the entire thing, so I would know. Some of them did have an extra health bar, but they came onto the screen with them.
what happen when you choose slam onward at around 2:30:00 ?
Iirc the game starts over again
I like the visuals, but the Back Ground Music is no Street of Rage.
i wonder what's the great plague of 2017? :3c
monterrang Furries
Politics
Fidget Spinners
Gray Tremor Plague
crack addiction
Y'know, someone could make an OpenBOR remake of this game. There could be some issues, like the lack of tag system and the presumably unfeasible addition of the cutscenes, but I think it's generally possible for someone to remake this game for OpenBOR.
Its ironic that the game is considered the best on the CD-i, by virtue of not being complete crap.
If you get past the retarded plot, and unbelievable characters, yeah I guess your right.
Cd-i had potential
Play Link: The Faces of Evil, and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon for CD-I.
"Or else you will die!"
Slasher Durham: "... from PAIN! Huh huh huh huh!"
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Hetro Genocide? O.o
Hectro Genocite
@@jaysonklein6018 Is that a materia?
@@NintendoComplete is that a what, now?
@@jaysonklein6018 It was a Final Fantasy joke. I believe they're saying "hetero-genocide." Not trying to nitpick you :p just after seeing a few attempts at it I thought I'd clarify.