Out of morbid curiosity, I checked the 3DS eShop recently in late October. Nintendo itself doesn’t seem to have even touched the 3DS eShop and its UI since they stopped making games for it, yet shovelware is apparently still being pumped out for the 3DS on an almost hourly basis in the “New Games” section. I’d love to see AntDude somehow find a way to spend $100+ on the 3DS eShop in 2022.
i had no idea the 3ds was still getting releases makes me wonder if i could get a version of unity that still has 3ds export and make a game before the service dies you know, just to say i made a nintendo game
@@AlyCatVR thats half right. they’re stopping the ability for you to add *credit card funds* to the 3DS in january. not deactivating funds as a whole. you can still add funds via other methods like eshop cards and through the nintendo website plus its only in japan lmao
@@yggdrasilsaltar Especially given that your eShop funds are account-based either way. If you add your currency of choice on the Switch, you can still use it on the 3DS and Wii U.
I can explain the Brutus thing. For a few decades, King's Features thought Bluto was an original character made for the Paramount films, and thus thought Paramount owns him. So, they created their own knockoff of Bluto called Brutus. Literally the same character but slightly different. By the 90s it was sorted out to where King's Features found out he debuted in the comics. But yeah, the original Nintendo game was made during this legal detour. So I guess Sabec didn't do basic research.
Cow Catcher might honestly be my favorite game in this video, not even because of the actual game itself, but purely because of 13:47, this scene is a masterpiece because of how unexpected it is
In an industry where creativity is being phased out in favor of risk free investments it’s so brave of a studio like Sabec to release not one but over 30 creatively risky titles a year.
I think the Membrane price was a drastic error in the system, cause I just checked the price to see if it was still $250, and it dropped, from $250... to $2.50 XD
I bought Membrane for a single dime once. It was unironically worth every cent. (That isn’t even entirely a joke, Membrane’s a great puzzle game, I 100%’d it with no regrets. But it’s unbelievable they’re selling it for 2500 times what I paid for it.)
@@slaterlul Hard Time is such a nostalgia trip for me. I remember watching JackSepticEye play it and I still enjoy hanging out and randomly getting told I'm fat or something then getting beat up. Fun times.
"Hey why are you friends with him? I thought I was the only friend you needed?" I love the MDickie games to death, especially the recent ones but good god were the npc's little shits
I kinda of appreciate that the Cow Catcher devs knew that their game is terrible, and just kinda had fun with it. That whole game is a shitpost, especially if those skeletons are to go by.
@@TheGamers-uq4mb If feel those are hit or miss. You have to hit this zone where it's just okay enough to be funny, but if your mess up... the joke falls flat
I watched a stream of that weird wrestling empire and I have to say- I hate that it's kind of good. It doesn't get the actual wrestling down that well, but the fact that you can beat up an opponent up enough in a match to the point that they literally die and you have to fight a memorial match should tell you all you need to know.
For real? MDickie games sure feels rough around the edges, especially in the art style department, but it still surprising to see how deep some of their games can be. They sure have some fun ideas from time to time.
It's kind of surreal seeing Wrestling Empire just get thrown in alongside all of the other games. I thought MDickie was more well known than that. Pretty much all of his games are games with relatively simple objectives but with an insane amount of variables in play. They're really fun in a chaotic sort of way.
Yeah Wrestling Empire definitely doesn't belong here. I haven't played it myself, but from what I've seen it looks like a blast for people who enjoy wrestling games.
membrane's $250 price must have been a listing mistake, it was on sale for like less than a dollar when i bought it. i don't think it's a bad game and the art style is pretty compelling but i had a hard time getting the hang of it
Okay, so in terms of Popeye lore, the witch is most likely the Sea Hag, who Popeye faces off semi-regularly in the comics. The vulture is most likely supposed to be Benard, the Sea Hag's pet. As for the "Brutus or Bluno" thing, Bluno was the name of a very strong sailor who made a one-off appearance in one story arc. The cartoon needed someone for Popeye to face off against, so they created a similar character that they named Brutus. They are also brothers.
The story I've heard about Bluto/Brutus was that there was a dispute over whether it was King Features or Paramount who owned the rights to Bluto, so King Features created Brutus as an expy for Bluto when it seemed like Paramount owned the rights. (it would later turn out that King Features were the true owners of Bluto all along, since he technically originated from the comics)
@@MrToyguy32 That vulture was gigantic, though, so it's more likely that the vulture in this game is the normal-sized Bernard. Would be awesome to see the giant vulture from Popeye Meets Sinbad the Sailor as a boss fight in a much better Popeye game, though.
The Popeye remake led to an amazing Giant Bombcast segment in which a young person expressed their bewilderment at the game while an older person who knows and loves the original discovered live just how bad it is. Remaking a great game like Popeye is understandable. Remaking it as a fully 3D game, though, makes no sense without overhauling the gameplay loop.
Well Anthony, as a Popeye nerd I can confirm that the vulture, the witch and the name Brutus are all canon to the Popeye lore and tie in with the comics.... Can't say the same about Bluto's saiyan teleport powers.
That Popeye game is infamous for being a really terrible 3D remake of a classic nintendo arcade game and because the developers went after John Riggs for rightfully mocking it.
7:27 Brutus is one of the few alternate aliases Bluto was referred to as after Paramount's Famous shorts, over the misconception of them being the originator of the character, this holding the copyright to his name. To my recollection, his only other alternate alias was Bruto, but that's about it.
I'm convinced Antdude didn't give Battle Calculator a shot cause the fact he mentioned battle mode but didn't even describe it and just implied it was adding numbers and not a full on battle where you can break the other player's box and legit camp is telling...IDK why i'm getting worked up about this I'm just mad you said DK JR Math was better LOL
I’m sad he said the deer god wasn’t very good too. He said he didn’t even do the puzzles which is what you’re supposed to do to progress the game. That’d be like playing Zelda and complaining it was boring because you didn’t do the first temple. The game definitely isn’t perfect (the soft lock thing, while not super common, is pretty bad) but it doesn’t deserve to be in this video
I'm not sure about the vulture, but yes, there is a witch in the Popeye comic strip lore. And Bluto was renamed "Brutus" in the 1960s when Paramount Pictures (who owned the film rights and distributed/produced the theatrical shorts) barred King Features Syndicate from using the name in their animated TV series, believing they had created the character in their shorts. (They hadn't.)
The Deer God is actually a pretty good game, the main themes are supposed to be karma and reincarnation. There's actually a morality mechanic but it's somewhat hidden in the menus, and there are elder deer you're supposed to talk to to learn stuff. It is still pretty basic, but it's not a bad game. It's also not an eshop exclusive, I remember playing it on Xbox a few years ago.
You know, Cow Catcher really is that "good kind of bad". It reminds me of Goat Simulator, in that the devs _know_ how bad the game is, and they're damn proud of it. Self-deprecation will always be my favorite style of humor.
I think the (spoilers) skeleton rave part along with the "you actually bought this" screen really proves that, they're just embracing the jank and weirdness
Hope there's at least one hidden gem in this vid too, Woodle Tree 2 was surprisingly great and I would not have found it if not for your video last year.
@@_-Lx-_ That wasn't what i edited in, but yeah. I get you don't go into these kinds of videos hoping for hidden gems, but I ended up putting 80 hours into Woodle 2, so i was at least a little bit hopeful.
Ah yes, good old MDickie. To be honest, I love Wrestling Empire and MDickie games. You should see his other games, particularly Hard Time and ESPECIALLY The You Testament.
Oh how I wish you delved more into Wrestling Empire, Ant. Cause MAN it's actually pretty neat and, for the most part, interesting. Hell, it was originally pretty bare at release but is semi-regularly updated with new features and such.
@@spiffyavatar3611 He is. It's by one guy, who's apparently been making games like this for a while now, only 3 of them being wrestling games. Still hoping he'll add the Package Piledriver or the Double Underhook Piledriver, tbh. Edit: I have since found out it is more than just 3 wrestling games. My bad.
Membrane was my first Switch game. It was super cheap and looked kinda neat, so bought it just to have something to play while Smash was downloading - and I thought it was pretty good, actually.
According to Nintendo's recap for 2021, Wrestling Empire was my second most played game of the year. Sandwiched between Hades and Animal Crossing New Horizons.
Man, something about seeing the Popeye characters moving like regular video game characters as opposed to noodle-limbed goofballs is really unsettling, especially seeing Bluto jogging like a linebacker instead of his signature lumbering swagger
7:30 This was because Bluto was his name for the cartoons and it got changed to Brutus in the 1960s by the comic book company that owned the franchise thinking that Paramount Pictures owned the Bluto name when in reality Kings owned it all along. Animated media continue using Bluto yet this game has him as Brutus for whatever reason
Heres a fact : The Wresle Empire game you showd is actually made by a guy called MDickie who made games such as school days, hard time and ect i know the company because it played lots of their games since 2016 and stoped 2018
Ok, the Deer God game caught my interest, I'm gonna check it out! I'm pretty sure it was made by the same people who did Echo do the Wilds and I love that game!
Oh wow, I actually played a thing from this! Deer God was something that caught my eye on Wii U, back when games on it were slim pickings. It was an interesting endless runner with reincarnation and karma mechanics...then I got a progression blocking bug and never looked back.
6:56 Said vulture is actually the pet of an old witch called the Sea Hag. Yeah yeah just that one. Curiously though her face is green, based on the 60s TV cartoon series for some reason. Bud Sagendorf comics gave her pale human-like skin.
3:00 I watched this part on my Switch once I got home from work and I legit thought the application crashed for a second. Thanks for the mini heart attack, Ant. You tricked me good.
Ok, ngl, that crazy mode is exactly what I want to do in a video game. Just... You know, more playable and stable. I am a huge fan of game corruptions (go check Vinny's corruption stockpiles if you're not familiar with it) and really love the idea of recreating it in-game, without third party software.
The thing at 18:59 is a turtle from a Unity Asset Pack that came with a few bipedal animals, one of the others being that owl carries the arrow around. "Elva, the Eco Dragon" could have easily been some Unity game that someone slapped together for a quick buck.
I remember buying Membrane for 240% less than what it’s worth nowadays back in 2018. Before you ask, it’s more or less a puzzle game were you, an impulse (of a random dude’s nervous system trying to swat a fly) can shoot projectiles that can stick together, creating bridges to stairs to barricades. DEFINITELY NOT WORTH $250.
I literally questioned "Didn't he make this already?" And then I opened the video and it said "Again" at the end. Good to know I was right, and got more than what I bargained for too!
Almost offended that you put Wrestling Empires on here. Honestly an amazing game. Made by 1 person, new modes and moves added frequently. And makes for some really funny moments!
I'd honestly love to try to tinker with Unity to program something for the Switch. But I'd never be as stupid as to release it let alone for money unless I am statisfied with the results and had lots of play testers helping me fixing stuff.
The big guy Bluto was originally only meant to be in one storyline, however when Popeye got his series of animated shorts made for him I guess the creators liked him enough to make them the villain in the majority of their films. The Sea Hag and her pet Vulture despite being Popeye's most famous and reoccuring foes in the comic strip never made an animated appearence until those cheap made-for-tv cartoons during the 1960's. Off topic notes; That's also the show where they forgot that Bluto first appeared in the comics, they assumed he was created for the cartoons and that they wouldn't be allowed to use him, so their solution was just to create a new character with the same design, voice, and personality named Brutus. In the 90's they realized that they actaully owned the character and since then they've used Bluto, with a few exceptions, such as this game which makes little sense since the original came out when they were still pushing Brutus. They later explained that they were twin brothers.
I'm gonna have to be the defender of Wrestling Empire here. The game's jank and silly but MDickie games are a special breed of jank and silly in that they're some of the most genuinely entertaining games you can watch and play (if you don't take them seriously of course). Wrestling Empire's career mode goes endlessly, you can make all sorts of friends and enemies, go to different wrestling companies and do a whole lot of customization and have fun that the only other real wrestling game on the switch, WWE 2K18, can't possibly bring. (seriously, WWE 2K18 on the switch was for a good while THE WORST switch game.) Add to that the fact that MDickie is also teasing a major update that adds an open world aspect to the game, and that there was already a major update that added in a company management mode, as well as the fact that the game is also on PC and Mobile - AND is pretty cheap all things considered, it is absolutely one of the few games from this video that is worth checking out.
@antdude the witch is the seahag, in later cartoons she was an antagonist who wanted to marry Popeye and rule the seven seas. As for the Bluto/Brutus debacle another animation studio took over and thought Parmount owned the rights to Bluto’s name but they didn’t and when they found out they still kept him as Brutus
I found Deer God enjoyable, but I totally get how it difficult to get into at first. only reason I played it was because it was a Game for Gold on Xbox
Cow Catcher looks to be one of those "purposely bad" games, like Goat Simulator or Surgeon Simulator. Perhaps if they had named it "Cow Catcher Simulator" the joke would have been more obvious. Then again, it gets pretty obvious the moment you take a look at the gameplay. A wingsuit? To catch cows? That's the sort of thing only satire comes up with. Not gonna lie, I added it to the wishlist the moment I saw this video and as soon as I add some funds to my account I'm buying it.
Seems like random crazy mode has a random timer that loads an entirely new stage. Sometimes the timer lasts 10 seconds sometimes it lasts 1 frame. I am pretty sure that reloading the same assets and changing stages 20 times per second is prone to crashing the game.
It's these videos that I hope shows Nintendo that the quality control needs be a focus on the next console's eShop... And ADD MUSIC WHY IS THERE NO MUSIC PLEASE NINTENDO
I'm sure someone has posted this already. But Popeye is now in the public domain. Some charachters, though, were created more recently in history. But Popeye as a character is public. So my guess is Bluto is probably not public domain yet.
That bit about a game using X as a pause button is funny to me (and me alone) because it's somehow not alone in that regard. Of all games, DELTARUNE does that exact same thing. I don't think the start button even does anything.
Certain games on DS does so too, and if it's just placement, there are numerous Playstation titles that uses the top face button to open pause menu too
10:38 It looks more that they were influenced by Alex Kidd’s style rather than tracing it. The angles on the pictures you put up are very different from Guts N’ Goals’ cover
Wresting empire is kind of fun on mobile. It’s fun to be GM mod and since there is no WWE 2k completion on mobile it’s really fun. The worst part is definitely camera angle’s and graphics
Out of morbid curiosity, I checked the 3DS eShop recently in late October. Nintendo itself doesn’t seem to have even touched the 3DS eShop and its UI since they stopped making games for it, yet shovelware is apparently still being pumped out for the 3DS on an almost hourly basis in the “New Games” section. I’d love to see AntDude somehow find a way to spend $100+ on the 3DS eShop in 2022.
i had no idea the 3ds was still getting releases
makes me wonder if i could get a version of unity that still has 3ds export and make a game before the service dies
you know, just to say i made a nintendo game
He'd have to do it soon, word is Nintendo is pulling the ability to add funds to the 3DS and Wii U eShops in January
@@AlyCatVR thats half right. they’re stopping the ability for you to add *credit card funds* to the 3DS in january. not deactivating funds as a whole. you can still add funds via other methods like eshop cards and through the nintendo website
plus its only in japan lmao
The 3DS eShop has basically become the wild west. I bought a game on there for 2 cents a couple months ago. And no, it wasn't on sale.
@@yggdrasilsaltar Especially given that your eShop funds are account-based either way.
If you add your currency of choice on the Switch, you can still use it on the 3DS and Wii U.
I can explain the Brutus thing.
For a few decades, King's Features thought Bluto was an original character made for the Paramount films, and thus thought Paramount owns him. So, they created their own knockoff of Bluto called Brutus. Literally the same character but slightly different.
By the 90s it was sorted out to where King's Features found out he debuted in the comics.
But yeah, the original Nintendo game was made during this legal detour. So I guess Sabec didn't do basic research.
Should've caught up on that Popeye lore... smh
And now Bluto and Brutus are cousins. Identical cousins
or they did do their research and decided to be faithful to the game they are remaking
@@GoldenPickaxe This sounds more like it.
@@GoldenPickaxe which is more likely a shovelware company did their research or they just copied shit down from the NES game and put it up online?
Cow Catcher might honestly be my favorite game in this video, not even because of the actual game itself, but purely because of 13:47, this scene is a masterpiece because of how unexpected it is
SANS!?!?!
@@spiffyavatar3611 SHUT UP!!!
I couldn't stop laughing after he showed that clip, funniest shit I've seen all week xD
*_SPOOKY SCARY SKELETONS SEND SHIVERS DOWN YOUR SPINE_*
That looked like such fun to make
You gotta admit, a 3d remake of an NES Popeye game is incredibly brave at the very least
Not really, I'm surprised Antdude didn't mention Popeye is now Public Domain. You don't need a license to make a Popeye game anymore.
Gotta hand it to em
In an industry where creativity is being phased out in favor of risk free investments it’s so brave of a studio like Sabec to release not one but over 30 creatively risky titles a year.
Brave???
@@TheFloodFourm i assume this is irony?
I have seen people being sent into orbit in the Popeye game over and over so many times and it NEVER gets old, it cracks me up every time.
Saaame lmao
That gave me a hearty laugh for sure. But Cow Catcher, and especially Elva had me loosing it, Crazy Mode included.
True Ultima it's like the devs had one word in mind when they made that feature. YEEEEEETTT!!! XD
I mean that is pretty accurate to the cartoon.
The sound effects and how sudden it is just get me every time
To be fair, Deer God's artstyle is really impressive, props to those devs.
I thought I was the only one thinking that. 15:45 especially is beautiful.
I remember seeing it on the eShop and genuinely being interested in it.
Indeed. At least it looks really nice.
Kingdom: two crowns is a great game with the same art style
@@aidankocherhans9861 it does look alot like that game
I think the Membrane price was a drastic error in the system, cause I just checked the price to see if it was still $250, and it dropped, from $250... to $2.50 XD
I personally don't think it's an error, but more of a smart way to get people to want to buy it when it's on sale.
I managed to get it for $2.50 heheh
I bought Membrane for a single dime once. It was unironically worth every cent.
(That isn’t even entirely a joke, Membrane’s a great puzzle game, I 100%’d it with no regrets. But it’s unbelievable they’re selling it for 2500 times what I paid for it.)
So is it worth only a dime?
I just checked, it's 1,59€ for me - roughly the same if converted to usd. I guess the $250 is a pricing error.
Well now it's back to 2 bucks
Pooplers was fun thanks for introducing us to it 👍
Hi bandy
is that guy, natanal banfy
Hey look its i own 300 amiibo guy (joke)
Hey Nathaniel, wassup? Keep up the good work with your videos btw
Oh hey there Bandy
MDickie's games are actually pretty legit. Not exactly _good,_ necessarily, but they have a certain charm to them.
i love mdickie games. i still play school days and hard time whenever im bored
@@slaterlul Hard Time is such a nostalgia trip for me. I remember watching JackSepticEye play it and I still enjoy hanging out and randomly getting told I'm fat or something then getting beat up. Fun times.
"Hey why are you friends with him? I thought I was the only friend you needed?" I love the MDickie games to death, especially the recent ones but good god were the npc's little shits
Mdickies games are beautiful chaos. Utter nonsene but utterly amazing
the one he played doesn’t look very official
I kinda of appreciate that the Cow Catcher devs knew that their game is terrible, and just kinda had fun with it. That whole game is a shitpost, especially if those skeletons are to go by.
definitely, the best gaem of twontie twontie won
I never expected skeletons dancing at a rave, with hardbass music XD
The skeleton rave makes it worth it.
I love those bad to be bad games. Ya know games that are bad on purpose.
@@TheGamers-uq4mb If feel those are hit or miss. You have to hit this zone where it's just okay enough to be funny, but if your mess up... the joke falls flat
I watched a stream of that weird wrestling empire and I have to say- I hate that it's kind of good. It doesn't get the actual wrestling down that well, but the fact that you can beat up an opponent up enough in a match to the point that they literally die and you have to fight a memorial match should tell you all you need to know.
For real? MDickie games sure feels rough around the edges, especially in the art style department, but it still surprising to see how deep some of their games can be. They sure have some fun ideas from time to time.
The dragon game's hud reminds me of all those memes where they just jam every HUD element from any game onto the HUD, but this game made it real
It's kind of surreal seeing Wrestling Empire just get thrown in alongside all of the other games.
I thought MDickie was more well known than that. Pretty much all of his games are games with relatively simple objectives but with an insane amount of variables in play. They're really fun in a chaotic sort of way.
Oh boy, it's porn scam, my favourite robot entity.
Oh my GOD I knew that game looked familiar. Bulk Bogan represent.
Yeah Wrestling Empire definitely doesn't belong here. I haven't played it myself, but from what I've seen it looks like a blast for people who enjoy wrestling games.
@@CrazyRiverOtter BULK BOGAN SURVIVED PRISON AND WRESTLING
@@mystman1210 ...Why are you here mr baldi man
membrane's $250 price must have been a listing mistake, it was on sale for like less than a dollar when i bought it. i don't think it's a bad game and the art style is pretty compelling but i had a hard time getting the hang of it
I just checked and it's now listed at $2.50 so it must've been a mistake
i bought membrane on sale a year ago and it's pretty good tbh
Yeah i stopped playing at the level where you have to get the ball to smash an underwater wall
Okay, so in terms of Popeye lore, the witch is most likely the Sea Hag, who Popeye faces off semi-regularly in the comics. The vulture is most likely supposed to be Benard, the Sea Hag's pet. As for the "Brutus or Bluno" thing, Bluno was the name of a very strong sailor who made a one-off appearance in one story arc. The cartoon needed someone for Popeye to face off against, so they created a similar character that they named Brutus. They are also brothers.
Here in the US, the cartoon version was actually named Bluto. I think the name change is pretty much a localization thing.
@@creativeusername7951 You are correct, that was a typo on my part.
I thought the vulture was a reference to Popeye Meets Sinbad the Sailor.
The story I've heard about Bluto/Brutus was that there was a dispute over whether it was King Features or Paramount who owned the rights to Bluto, so King Features created Brutus as an expy for Bluto when it seemed like Paramount owned the rights. (it would later turn out that King Features were the true owners of Bluto all along, since he technically originated from the comics)
@@MrToyguy32 That vulture was gigantic, though, so it's more likely that the vulture in this game is the normal-sized Bernard.
Would be awesome to see the giant vulture from Popeye Meets Sinbad the Sailor as a boss fight in a much better Popeye game, though.
The Popeye remake led to an amazing Giant Bombcast segment in which a young person expressed their bewilderment at the game while an older person who knows and loves the original discovered live just how bad it is. Remaking a great game like Popeye is understandable. Remaking it as a fully 3D game, though, makes no sense without overhauling the gameplay loop.
Well Anthony, as a Popeye nerd I can confirm that the vulture, the witch and the name Brutus are all canon to the Popeye lore and tie in with the comics.... Can't say the same about Bluto's saiyan teleport powers.
Bluto Be All Like:*Teleport Behind You* Heh Noting Personal Kid.
@@rubyrovers506 Ahh, a Xenoblade Chronicles 2 fan, I see. A person of culture as well.
As another Popeye comic nerd, you beat me to it.
And she is not even called the witch her Canonical name is the Sea hag and the Vulture i think was was called Bernard
Those skeletons go WAY HARDER than they should
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I would love to know the music they used during that
At least they aren't fighting.
Oh wow another one of my favorite TH-camrs in the comment section of one of my other favorite TH-camrs
Another verified user 🤣
That Popeye game is infamous for being a really terrible 3D remake of a classic nintendo arcade game and because the developers went after John Riggs for rightfully mocking it.
These bots got me rolling
@@TheMenaceHimself2006 me too, 😂. They're spamming like crazy in this video
@@janeljett9527 I dennounced them again and again but they still pop up.
He changed his video title cause he's spineless
The guy who made Wrestling Empire has been making games with identical artstyles and gameplay on PC for like two decades. His name is Matt Dickie.
7:27 Brutus is one of the few alternate aliases Bluto was referred to as after Paramount's Famous shorts, over the misconception of them being the originator of the character, this holding the copyright to his name. To my recollection, his only other alternate alias was Bruto, but that's about it.
And then in the 1980's, it was retconned that Bluto and Brutus are actually identical twins.
I'm convinced Antdude didn't give Battle Calculator a shot cause the fact he mentioned battle mode but didn't even describe it and just implied it was adding numbers and not a full on battle where you can break the other player's box and legit camp is telling...IDK why i'm getting worked up about this I'm just mad you said DK JR Math was better LOL
I’m sad he said the deer god wasn’t very good too. He said he didn’t even do the puzzles which is what you’re supposed to do to progress the game. That’d be like playing Zelda and complaining it was boring because you didn’t do the first temple. The game definitely isn’t perfect (the soft lock thing, while not super common, is pretty bad) but it doesn’t deserve to be in this video
I'm not sure about the vulture, but yes, there is a witch in the Popeye comic strip lore. And Bluto was renamed "Brutus" in the 1960s when Paramount Pictures (who owned the film rights and distributed/produced the theatrical shorts) barred King Features Syndicate from using the name in their animated TV series, believing they had created the character in their shorts. (They hadn't.)
Thank you so much I was just going to say something about this. 👍❤️
I was confused about that bc here in Brazil he's called "Brutus"
Antdude: "I just wasted $10 on a calculator app from the Switch eShop!"
Caddicarus: "You gotta boost that up, those are rookie numbers."
Ant x Caddi crossover when?
You know, there is a calculator app that comes pre-installed on EVERY iPhone.
@@KaminariHouse there have been quite a few actuallt
@@KaminariHouse
1. MORE Bad Crash Games (Ant)
2. Bad Spyro Games (Ant)
3. Top 10 Crash bosses (Caddy)
caddicarus has spent spent so much more on crap then antdude so true
The Deer God is actually a pretty good game, the main themes are supposed to be karma and reincarnation. There's actually a morality mechanic but it's somewhat hidden in the menus, and there are elder deer you're supposed to talk to to learn stuff. It is still pretty basic, but it's not a bad game.
It's also not an eshop exclusive, I remember playing it on Xbox a few years ago.
Wasn't this game featured in a Nintendo indie Direct?
Well it's clearly trash.
Yeah i saw it on PS Now not to long ago
@@DirectorOfChaos9292 you cannot tell me that the artstyle is trash its bloody beautiful
You know, Cow Catcher really is that "good kind of bad". It reminds me of Goat Simulator, in that the devs _know_ how bad the game is, and they're damn proud of it. Self-deprecation will always be my favorite style of humor.
I think the (spoilers) skeleton rave part along with the "you actually bought this" screen really proves that, they're just embracing the jank and weirdness
Hope there's at least one hidden gem in this vid too, Woodle Tree 2 was surprisingly great and I would not have found it if not for your video last year.
Nice
Yeah no, the Mdickie game and that one match 3 were the closest we got, and I see you had to edit that "hope" in.
@@_-Lx-_ That wasn't what i edited in, but yeah. I get you don't go into these kinds of videos hoping for hidden gems, but I ended up putting 80 hours into Woodle 2, so i was at least a little bit hopeful.
Wrestling empire (at ~14:30) is great, dunno why it's even in the vid
@@ThierryPeek "Bulk? Is that you?"
*"Yiss"*
I won't stand for that Wrestling Empire slander, Ant.
The game is incredibly insane and fun and it's my favorite wrestling game and I love it
100%
Gotta appreciate the Ant Dude wearing that SSFF (Stop Skeletons From Fighting) merch.
I love both this channel and that one. Man knows good content.
James Rolfe has LJN
Caddicarus has Phoenix Games
Scott the Woz has Data Design
And now,
AntDude has Sabec Games.
Austin Eruption has GameMill Entertainment
I found the deer god to actually be a very fun and intriguing game, but it was definitely odd and very unclear at times
Oh god, this man was my entire childhood. Glad to see he's still posting!
@@sadiex4291 I know this will do nothing to remove you but…. *deep breath* BEGONE BOT!
@@ryanreed2363 Wow, it's actually gone now while a lot of the other bots are still here so maybe it did actually do something.
Ah yes, good old MDickie.
To be honest, I love Wrestling Empire and MDickie games.
You should see his other games, particularly Hard Time and ESPECIALLY The You Testament.
Oh how I wish you delved more into Wrestling Empire, Ant. Cause MAN it's actually pretty neat and, for the most part, interesting. Hell, it was originally pretty bare at release but is semi-regularly updated with new features and such.
man they're updating that thing huh
@@spiffyavatar3611 He is. It's by one guy, who's apparently been making games like this for a while now, only 3 of them being wrestling games.
Still hoping he'll add the Package Piledriver or the Double Underhook Piledriver, tbh.
Edit: I have since found out it is more than just 3 wrestling games. My bad.
Same! It's honestly extremely fun! Plus got that free roam mode now
Peter Knetter, Antdude, And Nathaniel Bandy Have One Thing In Common:
Buying Pooplers And Playing It With Friends...
Membrane was my first Switch game. It was super cheap and looked kinda neat, so bought it just to have something to play while Smash was downloading - and I thought it was pretty good, actually.
250 dollars good?
@@aidankocherhans9861 remember? the price was 1-2 dollars sometimes
Cow Catcher is just kinda a perfect mess, designed that way.
Well, at least The Deer God has a genuinely interesting set-up and Art Style.
That's WAY more than the others had to offer.
According to Nintendo's recap for 2021, Wrestling Empire was my second most played game of the year. Sandwiched between Hades and Animal Crossing New Horizons.
Man, something about seeing the Popeye characters moving like regular video game characters as opposed to noodle-limbed goofballs is really unsettling, especially seeing Bluto jogging like a linebacker instead of his signature lumbering swagger
7:30 This was because Bluto was his name for the cartoons and it got changed to Brutus in the 1960s by the comic book company that owned the franchise thinking that Paramount Pictures owned the Bluto name when in reality Kings owned it all along. Animated media continue using Bluto yet this game has him as Brutus for whatever reason
Heres a fact : The Wresle Empire game you showd is actually made by a guy called MDickie who made games such as school days, hard time and ect i know the company because it played lots of their games since 2016 and stoped 2018
Actually made by one guy, that’s MDickie himself.
@@Ashkihyena well I didnt know that yet so thanks
You did Wrestling Empire dirty here, but I forgive you after seeing the rest of the games
I've been seeing alot of stuff about popeye recently, I'm guessing it's cause of the new death battle but I'm happy cuz he's honesty a great character
Ok, the Deer God game caught my interest, I'm gonna check it out! I'm pretty sure it was made by the same people who did Echo do the Wilds and I love that game!
I never finished it, but Deer God is super beautiful and the gameplay wasn't too bad either. For it's price I recommend it!
Oh wow, I actually played a thing from this! Deer God was something that caught my eye on Wii U, back when games on it were slim pickings. It was an interesting endless runner with reincarnation and karma mechanics...then I got a progression blocking bug and never looked back.
6:56 Said vulture is actually the pet of an old witch called the Sea Hag. Yeah yeah just that one. Curiously though her face is green, based on the 60s TV cartoon series for some reason. Bud Sagendorf comics gave her pale human-like skin.
I can't help but wonder how many gold points you got from doing this to yourself.
2:20 It said he spent $110.98 and got 154 Gold Points for it.
13:45 is truly art I can appreciate, I'm sold on that alone
I actually bought Membrane for like 2 bucks and thought it was decent. Had no idea they raised it to 250.
3:00 I watched this part on my Switch once I got home from work and I legit thought the application crashed for a second. Thanks for the mini heart attack, Ant. You tricked me good.
Ok, ngl, that crazy mode is exactly what I want to do in a video game. Just... You know, more playable and stable.
I am a huge fan of game corruptions (go check Vinny's corruption stockpiles if you're not familiar with it) and really love the idea of recreating it in-game, without third party software.
The thing at 18:59 is a turtle from a Unity Asset Pack that came with a few bipedal animals, one of the others being that owl carries the arrow around.
"Elva, the Eco Dragon" could have easily been some Unity game that someone slapped together for a quick buck.
I’ve been watching the first one of this series multiple times and never got old. I’m glad there is a sequel.
@@princekely7308 how about no.
@@RhythicManRhythm I really hate bots like them
I remember buying Membrane for 240% less than what it’s worth nowadays back in 2018.
Before you ask, it’s more or less a puzzle game were you, an impulse (of a random dude’s nervous system trying to swat a fly) can shoot projectiles that can stick together, creating bridges to stairs to barricades. DEFINITELY NOT WORTH $250.
Calculator for Nintendo switch is the greatest game of all time and it's my favourite speedrun out there.
Cow Catcher seems like a genuine masterpiece
Ah yes Nintendo switch calculator, the game that broke PointCrow's hand
And the hand of another Ant as well!
that skull bonus was the best part of this video for me
I literally questioned "Didn't he make this already?" And then I opened the video and it said "Again" at the end. Good to know I was right, and got more than what I bargained for too!
My mom looked over when cow catchers was on screen and we spend several minutes trying to figure out what the player character was supposed to be
I love it when AntDude suffers for our entertainment. ❤️
Just checked the listing for Membrane and it’s now $2.50… I still find it funny it was slashed from $250
If this and the previous installment has told me anything, is that the quality control on the Eshop is a hot mess
Almost offended that you put Wrestling Empires on here. Honestly an amazing game. Made by 1 person, new modes and moves added frequently. And makes for some really funny moments!
I'd honestly love to try to tinker with Unity to program something for the Switch.
But I'd never be as stupid as to release it let alone for money unless I am statisfied with the results and had lots of play testers helping me fixing stuff.
I think this is one of my favorite videos you've done Ant! The writing is really really on point
I was JUST watching you a few minutes ago!
And Jesus Christ the Popeye game has lore deeper than FNaF
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🌞👍 okay, I don’t care
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The big guy Bluto was originally only meant to be in one storyline, however when Popeye got his series of animated shorts made for him I guess the creators liked him enough to make them the villain in the majority of their films. The Sea Hag and her pet Vulture despite being Popeye's most famous and reoccuring foes in the comic strip never made an animated appearence until those cheap made-for-tv cartoons during the 1960's.
Off topic notes; That's also the show where they forgot that Bluto first appeared in the comics, they assumed he was created for the cartoons and that they wouldn't be allowed to use him, so their solution was just to create a new character with the same design, voice, and personality named Brutus. In the 90's they realized that they actaully owned the character and since then they've used Bluto, with a few exceptions, such as this game which makes little sense since the original came out when they were still pushing Brutus. They later explained that they were twin brothers.
I'm gonna have to be the defender of Wrestling Empire here. The game's jank and silly but MDickie games are a special breed of jank and silly in that they're some of the most genuinely entertaining games you can watch and play (if you don't take them seriously of course). Wrestling Empire's career mode goes endlessly, you can make all sorts of friends and enemies, go to different wrestling companies and do a whole lot of customization and have fun that the only other real wrestling game on the switch, WWE 2K18, can't possibly bring. (seriously, WWE 2K18 on the switch was for a good while THE WORST switch game.) Add to that the fact that MDickie is also teasing a major update that adds an open world aspect to the game, and that there was already a major update that added in a company management mode, as well as the fact that the game is also on PC and Mobile - AND is pretty cheap all things considered, it is absolutely one of the few games from this video that is worth checking out.
100%
@antdude the witch is the seahag, in later cartoons she was an antagonist who wanted to marry Popeye and rule the seven seas. As for the Bluto/Brutus debacle another animation studio took over and thought Parmount owned the rights to Bluto’s name but they didn’t and when they found out they still kept him as Brutus
As for that Popeye game, I think I've seen the world in VRChat a long time ago. If its made in Unity that will pretty much confirm it.
I love the creativity with swears bleeped by the Switch's crash screen
Good editing! 10/10
I found Deer God enjoyable, but I totally get how it difficult to get into at first. only reason I played it was because it was a Game for Gold on Xbox
Three seconds into the video and nostalgia hit. You cant go throwing those iconic eshop themes around such an emotional me.
Why would you spend $9.99 on Calculator for the Nintendo Switch when Animal Crossing Calculator only costs $1.99 on the 3DS eShop?
Antdude: "The name "Hampuzz" sounds like it could get me demonetised"
Me, a swedish guy named Hampus: "... Is this why I never get collabs?"
I like to think that Membrane was meant to be priced at 2.50, but no one bothered to fix it.
Given that it's priced at $2.50 now, that seems highly likely.
Cow Catchers looks absolutely insane, in all the best possible ways.
Popeye for the nintendo switch fells more like a bootleg mobile game than an actual license nintendo game
Cow Catcher looks to be one of those "purposely bad" games, like Goat Simulator or Surgeon Simulator. Perhaps if they had named it "Cow Catcher Simulator" the joke would have been more obvious. Then again, it gets pretty obvious the moment you take a look at the gameplay. A wingsuit? To catch cows? That's the sort of thing only satire comes up with. Not gonna lie, I added it to the wishlist the moment I saw this video and as soon as I add some funds to my account I'm buying it.
Oh my god, i can't believe that Popeye game isn't a bootleg, i cannot, nay, REFUSE to believe this is officially licensed.
You know I needed this sequel
I didn't know there was a Popeye game on the switch.
It's a half-assed 3D remake of the ol' nintendo arcade game, and they charge 15$ for it!
Me too, I just came here before Pokemon brilliant diamond and shining pearl got released. When I saw it, I got shocked
Seems like random crazy mode has a random timer that loads an entirely new stage. Sometimes the timer lasts 10 seconds sometimes it lasts 1 frame. I am pretty sure that reloading the same assets and changing stages 20 times per second is prone to crashing the game.
You helped me avoid some buyers remorse from that calculator app.
14:25 The hardcore matches between Jumping Jim Brunzell and the Junkyard Dog we're crazy back in the day, lol
It's these videos that I hope shows Nintendo that the quality control needs be a focus on the next console's eShop...
And ADD MUSIC WHY IS THERE NO MUSIC PLEASE NINTENDO
the unity engine doesn't give you a bunch of premade assets, you buy someone else's game then sell it to asset flip.
I'm sure someone has posted this already. But Popeye is now in the public domain. Some charachters, though, were created more recently in history. But Popeye as a character is public. So my guess is Bluto is probably not public domain yet.
That bit about a game using X as a pause button is funny to me (and me alone) because it's somehow not alone in that regard. Of all games, DELTARUNE does that exact same thing. I don't think the start button even does anything.
Certain games on DS does so too, and if it's just placement, there are numerous Playstation titles that uses the top face button to open pause menu too
Nice
10:38
It looks more that they were influenced by Alex Kidd’s style rather than tracing it. The angles on the pictures you put up are very different from Guts N’ Goals’ cover
Wresting empire is kind of fun on mobile. It’s fun to be GM mod and since there is no WWE 2k completion on mobile it’s really fun. The worst part is definitely camera angle’s and graphics
Beginning of the video, i wasn't focused on what he said as i was too focused on that shirt like:
"Man, I wonder if we're getting another cameo"
The Baby Poop thing from the last time you did this is back with a sequel!
I wanna see one of those independent game devs redo the Popeye idea in a much cleaner way
The textures in Elva are probably a tribute to Cyberpunk 2077 running on last gen' consoles.
The membrane thing is so they could drop it to 99% off on the e-shop bro that is so shady