Aww, he didn't go to the end cutscene. See if you explore the base back near the beginning there's a bartender who refuses to serve Sanjuro cause he's on duty. At the end of the game you're back in the bar, bartender refuses again, Sanjuro shoots him with a rocket launcher. Then the sisters chase each other around with shotguns. It's literally the only thing I remember about this game, the pure WTF at the end.
@@wintermute8315 Yeah, personally i'd much rather have "The two perfect scores belong to one of the best games of all time, and one of the most mixed bag games of all time!", rather than "Smash Bros is the Dark Souls of PS Allstats clones" or whatever gaming mags say nowadays.
fun fact : If you enter a loading area from mech to human; If you switch weapons right before the loading screen, you can take 1 mech weapon into the human mission :)
Thanks for the new and inspiring video! I never knew that you actually leech health with those critical hits - was there ANY fps game since Shogo that had this option as a part of the gameplay mechanics? I was 14 when the game was released. The big box was a bit odd because it was 1-2 cm smaller than the standard cardboard boxes at the time. I still remember that the difficulty setting had not much effect: the pin-point accuracy enemies with 0 ms reaction time were all the same and a real pain in the ass :D However, those parts with the mech were easier to complete without constant quicksaving. For some reason Blood 2 and Shogo tend to recycle same map/level layouts :/ Interestingly, if I remember correctly, it was not possible to get the red riot gun in the final chapters of the game if you select the other options in the dialogue parts. Otherwise the dialogue had not much effect on the plot whatsover. But hey, as John Carmack (one of the capos that created Doom if someone didn't know) stated years ago that the plot is not so relevant in a fps game; like in a porn movie it is enough that there's a plot, but it is not that important :D
About the MAGIC CLAW (cat toy): it does not hurt people at all but is modeled after a weapon and therefore will stun-lock everybody in your cross of fire. This is a glitch, but a awesome one. Since the toy does not need to reload or ammo (and you stun-lock regardless of the actual animation) you can stun-lock one enemy indefinitely. If done right you can get rocket enemies to shot each other. Also I always thought it said Mother Claw.
@@Eggnog18 Except the player doesn't know Gabriel at all, unlike Caleb, and were thrown into it without any preparation or anything because GT Interactive nailed Monolith Productions' testicles to the ceiling
"I'm not angry about Kathryn." "Well, I am angry, but I'm not going to kill you." Now that is some truly touching dialogue. Really shows how deeply Kura cares about your character.
@@WTFisTingispingis Yeah, until the next stage where she spends the entirety of the map shooting you in the back with a shotgun. She is angry and she IS going to kill you.
@GordoFreemann Man, im SO glad i found this channel by pure chance, binge watched everything from him already and man, his videos are so different from everyone else, its not just how he does them, its the combination of those "companions" which are there just to make his life harder and miserable and, this point maybe will be hard to understand, but its also his voice that is the icing on the cake, its, man its just too hard to explain and lets not forget the Gordon Ramsay clips. This channel is a hidden goldmine, literally and im so glad i found his channel.
"This is exactly the kind of game you get when talented people polish up an unfinished product." This is definitely the most succinct and accurate way I've ever heard this game described.
It's a bastard to get working on modern PCs (damn windows 10 and no compatability mode doesn't seem to work for some reason.) and that final boss is a MOTHERFUCKER. I still haven't beaten him after all these years.
@@chimeraelite You can go to The Claw Recluse (fan website) and download it with the crazy hook update that lets you play on modern os. Also I agree, that final boss was a BITCH. Took me a friggin month straight to finally beat him when I replayed it a year ago.
@@RetroDeathReviews666 Yeah, I know I'm necroposting here, but whatever... Congrats on beating Claw's final boss legit, I had to use not one, but TWO cheat codes at the same time to finally beat that bastard (his name was Omar, I think?)
@@stemmarb7r751 Thanks! I'm gonna make a review on Claw sometime this year lol. And yeah his name's Omar. Still probably the most difficult boss fight I've ever played. I wanted to give up so many times but after how brutal those last few levels were, I was so determined to finish the game.
I kinda like the dialogue. Sure these guys are unprofessional as fuck, but the banter makes them seem human and relatable. It's cheesy but also endearing.
Reminds me of the Thief trilogy of games, the System Shock duology, and Deus Ex. Made by amateurs, albeit passionate and dedicated "amateurs", for lack of a better word.
@@michaelandreipalon359 Why do you say amateurs? Back in the days those were all the best first person games the market had to offer. Can't call people who made them amateurs. Maybe they were not as organised as studios are today, but they were amid the best in their time.
@@michaelandreipalon359 Why do you say amateurs? Back in the days those were all the best shooter the market had to offer. Can't call people who made them amateurs. Maybe they were not as organised as studios are today, but they were amid the best in their time.
Shogo is the epitome of "mixed feelings" - from an artistic point of view it is amazing. Looks pretty nice (for its time), has cool music, quite a decent story (with jealous-sister-girlfriends and multiple endings based on the player's choice) and lots of mass destruction. From the technological point of view, however, it is a horrible mess - even worse than Blood 2. Splash damage is so broken that it defies any attempt to describe it. Getting one-shot before you even see who is attacking you is the norm, even on the lowest skill setting. And if that's not enough, there are countless bugs and crashes just waiting to make your day that much more miserable.
Fun fact: Shogo and Blood 2 share so many technicalities that you can pick B2 weapon model files, change their filename to the equivalent Shogo names, drop them into the Shogo folder tree where you'd expect them to go and have Blood 2 weapons in Shogo. Easy as that. You can even load the models into a fanmade tweaking utility and change the timings. I remember I replaced the uzi (or was it the assault gun?) with B2's chaingun, made it fire a lot faster, and just wiped the floor with everything. Aaah, fun times.
i hate dahl smgs just because i prefer the burst doing a lot of damage, and it might be because im in the early game but the burst from them is only good if i land every bullet as a crit, no seriously theyre bad enough that i had to use a flee the wave dude, but because of the projectiles i have to slide into the enemies shins and blast their kneecaps off edit: i got a legendary cryo rifle made by dahl and the burst on it is good for taking out non beefy dudes
Shogo is such an amazing oddity. A first person shooter made by western developers with an anime-esque artstyle and premise that tries its hardest to feel like an actual anime but comes off as something you'd see on a 12-year old's Dragon Ball/Gundam doodle and fan fiction on their notebooks thanks to its deviantart-tier drawn portraits and hilarious 3D models. Oni seems to have pulled this off better. I remember having a significant amount of hours on the prologue on-foot mission at the base, just shooting the guards and staff trying my best to actually get through it somehow. I'm glad you had the same train of thought the first time you got on that level too lol. I wish more games did that where you could kill friendly NPCs that won't result in an instant game over (or just setting them as invulnerable). And your thoughts on the shotgun are perfectly on point. Despite its heavy flaws and being an overall raw mess, the game still has a special place in my heart and had a lot of fond memories of it as a kid. It's one of those rare games where a western developer is trying to work with something usually Japanese rather than the other way around, and it's oddly endearing to see them try something traditionally eastern with a western mindset. It's never going to happen but I'd love to see some sort of remaster or spiritual successor of the game, FPS-gameplay mechs and all but actually polished up, designed and balanced properly. Also nice to see Claw get a mention here, I played both on pretty much the same time-frame as a kid. Definitely would love to see you cover that in the future.
@@chimeraelite Nice! Growing up with these two games on a CRT monitor and a lengthy summer vacation were great. I never finished Claw myself as a kid, but being able to go back to the game years later and playing through discovering new levels I couldn't reach as a kid was a great experience.
The only closest successor recently was Titanfall 2, which had a great campaign though it was very short. A remake of Shogo that uses cel shade art could be awesome. Too bad Monolith Productions no longer makes games like this. Doubt it as long as Warner Bros controls them. It toke a small team to even try making a game like FEAR. Trepang2...
@@Gruntvc I loved Titanfall 2, I feel silly for not actually thinking of that to compare with Shogo. Definitely one of my favorite single-player campaigns in the recent years next to DOOM 16. It'll probably never happen but if Respawn could ever get their hands on the Shogo IP I definitely think they can do something great with it. Also thanks for mentioning Trepang2, just checked it out and the gameplay looks pretty solid so far!
Oh, how the time has changed. Back when I first launched SHOGO demo, I was amazed how freakin' good it looked, having some nifty little details I hadn't seen in a shooter before. Like (fake) reflections on weapons, visible explosion shock waves and surprisingly good sense of scale. Hey, it was the late 90s, every new game brought new graphical improvements to the table. It hasn't aged well, has it? Seeing how good anime games like Dragon Ball Xenoverse look, I'd love to see what a modern SHOGO would look like. An FPS with similar art style could be something really special.
Id personally say year '98 was a turning point in PC gaming, when 3d graphics games "exploded" (also many classics came out that year, Quake 2, Unreal, Half Life etc), but with them ofc the unlucky need for graphic cards and constant upgrade war started. Also, Psx reached its apex in graphics around that time (and especially in next 2 years, when most of the best games were released). If you got psx when it first came, graphics was shitty, but by '99 it was quite decent, but also some gamers turned to better quality TVs to get the max out, I personally went for commodore 1084 monitor.
Got this during the Steam sale, I like it. I'm a fan of Gundam, Robotech, SDF Macross, and Ghost in the shell. I get what they were going for. Shogo Mobile Armor Division could be great if remade today, especially if they went with a cel shade art style. Definitely could nail the anime look. Too bad Monolith Productions no longer makes games like this...
I think some of the guys from monolith made a new studio that made a game called Betrayer or something. Or, if all else fails, maybe someone can remake it, like Nightdive (sure, they're messing up with system shock, but I actually played through 3/4 of their Turok 2 remake).
yeah I could easily see it happen! also if they revamped the gameplay entirely, improved the AI, improved reaction times, improved enemy balance, improved the weapons, improved the story, improved the writing and revised the progression. essentially what would effectively be an entirely new game altogether.
@TheDrLeviathan, I could see Nightdive doing it. But they mainly port/remaster older games, not remake them. I think they are remastering Blood 1 currently. Would love it if they remastered AVP2, also by Monolith Productions. Not getting a great single player focused Alien/Aliens games any time soon. AVP2 had my favorite Colonial Marines campaign.
@okuplok Sounds like a day 1 buy to me if this was to happen. Gotta find the right devs and publisher though. Don't want the game ruined by the baloney practices most gaming companies employ today.
Holy shit its Kins! I saw the DeathCam and instantly imagined Hitler and his dual chainguns melting into a gooey paste. Civvie's transitions are always on point.
I played Shogo when it was new and was a big fan... I don't remember all this instant death stuff. I think it might be a problem with new computers, like maybe the faster clock cycles or something makes the enemies more deadly than they used to be.
i got a possible explanation for blood 2 gabriella thing, in shogo there's gabriel and when making blood 2 they forgot about the gabriel from blood 1, they didnt want two gabriels in their games so they switched one (probably shogo's lines of dialogue were already recorded - they just did ol' genderbendaroo on a chosen)
Those ventilation shafts you mention it, actually maked me remember the level design of Armored Core(which came out in 1997), because there is a lot of missions which takes place in facilities and so on, that are meant for your mech...but you just wonder "Where could be something for humans anyway???"
I find your channel strangely addicting as an older gamer. I actually watched a couple of your reviews twice. Keep up the great work. You are certainly a rising star here especially with your PRO reviews of Blood and Postal 2.
Alright, so we've got Shogo and Blood II in the can. Does this mean we can expect No One Lives Forever in the future, or are you going straight to KISS: Psycho Circus and Contract J.A.C.K., in an effort to put yourself into a disappointment coma? As always, keep up the great work!
Is it bad that I have a big soft spot for KISS: Psycho Circus? I mean, don't get me wrong, I know it's not a great game but...it just had a design and atmosphere that's stuck with me. Even parts of the soundtrack still stick out to me. Also those fucking arachno-clowns man...
I was just telling all my friends how i used to play this game back in a day, and nobody even heard about it. Thanks civvie now i know it exists and im not crazy. It was an awesome experience in my opinion.
I love how they went with the most Japanese-sounding names they could think of for all the initial characters, and then Gabriel, presumably in a nod to how a lot of sci-fi anime often borrows names and themes from various religions. And then Hank Johnson shows up.
Dude makes great content and vids. I remember seeing his name like on a different channel (like maybe about 5-10 years ago on YT) than his that was talking about BioWare and Mandalore's TOR forum username came up which he was going into serious detail trashing TOR. Edit: To those wondering what the vid is, it's from a channel (now pretty much dead) called Instig8ive Journalism which talked upon gaming topics like Bioware going down the toilet, gaming reviews and bribes, etc. Great channel in my opinion.
17:40 No joke I've been trying to find the name of Captain Claw since 1999, I got a demo from one of those shareware CDs. I can finally scratch that itch in the back of my head. THANK YOU!
Maybe I was just getting used to the jank by this point, but I died so infrequently in the second half of this game I thought I had broken a barrier and become psychic. Then I tried to replay it and lost my budding mental powers. This game needs a complete overhaul.
20:56 judging by the scream and the tone of the main character's voice, I'd say either he was the one who voiced the cultists in the first Blood game, for years nobody could figure out the voice actor of them, some say Stephen did them but he was asked in an interview and he couldn't recall it. Then again some of the same screams were used for Caleb and innocents in that game too and could have just been a stock sound effect used for all of them.
Shogo still kicks ass if you ask me, I like games that teach you that self sabotage and needlessly hard stuff. Also DM was pretty good. Granted that anything related to art and story came out like a VG version of Perfect Hair Forever or Kappa Mikey (at it isn't all that bad if you enjoy stuff like that).
I dropped the $2.50 on Shogo a while back and put it on the backlog because of this video. Finished both endings last night and think it's one of my favorite shooters now. Clearly a passion project, and the shooting/ mech stuff was super fun. Loved every moment of that campaign, particularly the story and weapons/ weapon sounds.
C C Thank god dubs started becoming less shit around 2011 with the good version of Thundercats. Other than that, the only other good dubs I've seen are Hellsing, Hellsing Ultimate and Castlevania.
18:41 - and then Wildlands just started the cinematic in the background where El Sueno starts with "I have killed thousands". Suddenly the doll was so much more epic. On the other hand I'm one of those that liked Shogo. Came as the free game in a magazine - and I don't think I've ever finished it. Probably I just liked the anime vibe. Again at that time I didn't know even the slightest bit of english so maybe not even that :)
Civvie didn't even show off the intro, which is a two minute-long J-pop song straight out of the early 1980s set over footage of people being gibbed or crushed to death.
I recently found you scouring on youtube, and you deserve a lot more praise and attention. I'm sending thoughts, prayers, and less sewer levels toward you. And also essential oils, because that's what everyone evidently needs right now.
You should do ‘Requiem: Avenging Angel’ next, it was one of my faves back in the day. All these games you’ve done lately reminded me of it. Also I think one of the best parts of Shogo was the music.
That game had a lot of promise for something based on KISS of all things (and from former Daikatana designers, no less), but it was ruined by basing its combat around infinite-spawning enemy generators in a Quake-clone. Also it's even buggier to get running on modern systems than Shogo is. On the copy I found online, the only thing you take damage from is direct melee attacks from the weakest enemy.
I picked shogo up out of a 5 dollar bargain bin in some obsure and forgotten mom and pops (yes, they did exist) computer store and was forever enamoured with this train wreck of an awesome game. Thank you for playing it.
If it has an (optional) dorky suppressor and a stock folded on top, its a Mac 10 or 11. Bonus points if there's a cloth foregrip on it. If it's 2x larger than a Mac and has a stock UNDER the gun, or not at all, it's a (full size) Uzi. I think the confusion for most people comes from the Micro Uzi models, though you'd think people would figure it out after most games pick one or the other as their go-to machine pistol.
@Fuzzy Dunlop I'd be inclined to agree, but I'd also counter with the argument that one should memorize how weapons work, as one would memorize how a logging axe works, to avoid injury. Life is complicated and you never know when you might *have* to depend on your trivial firearms knowledge.
@@xmm-cf5eg In that case, one would be more likely to come across an AR pattern civilian rifle or any slew of bolt-action rifles or shotguns or handguns. I think rudimentary handgun knowledge is... well, handy - for someone uninitiated. Just so they don't shoot their face off if they happen to come across one which isn't totally unlikely in our day and age. I hear you on that.
@Fuzzy Dunlop You'd be amazed what kind of guns some people own, not everyone carries around or stores glocks and AR-15 derivatives. I know multiple people in my area that have all sorts of wacky shit, Korean war bringback weapons, Thompsons, a shitload of Warsaw-pact weaponry in various calibers. Doesn't hurt to remind oneself how a czech Vz.58 operates if there are people supplying and owning them where you live.
Love finding your channel, as a 35 year old guy who grew up on this shit there are SO many games i have forgotten i absolutely loved... Thank you for doing this and please keep it up!
21:17 Hey, Bud. We here on the security team are doing just fine. Now, to be fair, we don't leave. You know, because of the mandatory room and board. but... The foods not bad. The tin cans say it's all propaganda and to get back to work, so i wouldn't worry about it.
I only ever played the MP part of this game, in an internet cafe with my friends. It was good fun back then moving between mech and soldier during deathmatches.
"Okay, I am angry but I am not going to kill you" is now my favorite piece of dialog in any game ever. Talk about an abusive relationship, if it has to be stated that you will not be murdered that is a sign you need to get out of that relationship and look into a restraining order.
"Keep it in your pants pal"
"Fukken excuse me?"
lol
20:38
@@ehyehasherehyeh3304 dude, thanks for the time stamp.
It's how he steps back too.. 😂😂
@@godzg He was that offended.
Aww, he didn't go to the end cutscene. See if you explore the base back near the beginning there's a bartender who refuses to serve Sanjuro cause he's on duty. At the end of the game you're back in the bar, bartender refuses again, Sanjuro shoots him with a rocket launcher. Then the sisters chase each other around with shotguns. It's literally the only thing I remember about this game, the pure WTF at the end.
"Keep It In Your Pants, Pal" "Fucking, Excuse Me?" will go down as one of the single greatest interactions Civvie has made with an NPC
The... the implications tho... Do you realize?
@@lkotro21 Fuckin excuse me?
@Mac of the North Fucking, excuse me?
I mean it makes sense, its made for anime fans they are all pedos
I come here once in a while just to watch this, this is glorious
Fun fact: There was a gaming magazine (whose name escapes me) that had 2 games they rated a 100/100: Blood and Shogo.
Ah, the nineties.
Welp, they got the Blood one right.
Ugh, yep, the good old bad old days of games journalism. Not that the version we have now is great, either.
@@wintermute8315 Yeah, personally i'd much rather have "The two perfect scores belong to one of the best games of all time, and one of the most mixed bag games of all time!", rather than "Smash Bros is the Dark Souls of PS Allstats clones" or whatever gaming mags say nowadays.
Hyper Magazine?
fun fact : If you enter a loading area from mech to human; If you switch weapons right before the loading screen, you can take 1 mech weapon into the human mission :)
Kathryn - "Can you get inside?"
Civvie 11 - *literally being vaporized at that moment*
29:15
No, No i don't think he can. LOL :D
R E P E A T E D L Y
I had to laugh out loud at the edit to DoomSlayer throwing the screen away.
10/10 transition and joke
Thanks for the new and inspiring video! I never knew that you actually leech health with those critical hits - was there ANY fps game since Shogo that had this option as a part of the gameplay mechanics?
I was 14 when the game was released. The big box was a bit odd because it was 1-2 cm smaller than the standard cardboard boxes at the time. I still remember that the difficulty setting had not much effect: the pin-point accuracy enemies with 0 ms reaction time were all the same and a real pain in the ass :D However, those parts with the mech were easier to complete without constant quicksaving. For some reason Blood 2 and Shogo tend to recycle same map/level layouts :/
Interestingly, if I remember correctly, it was not possible to get the red riot gun in the final chapters of the game if you select the other options in the dialogue parts. Otherwise the dialogue had not much effect on the plot whatsover. But hey, as John Carmack (one of the capos that created Doom if someone didn't know) stated years ago that the plot is not so relevant in a fps game; like in a porn movie it is enough that there's a plot, but it is not that important :D
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31:41
Came here to give props to that same joke.
Lol that was the best thing ever.
This was the 6th and hardest laugh I had all video
About the MAGIC CLAW (cat toy): it does not hurt people at all but is modeled after a weapon and therefore will stun-lock everybody in your cross of fire. This is a glitch, but a awesome one. Since the toy does not need to reload or ammo (and you stun-lock regardless of the actual animation) you can stun-lock one enemy indefinitely. If done right you can get rocket enemies to shot each other.
Also I always thought it said Mother Claw.
*"MAGIC CLAW!"*
*"MAGIC CLAW!"*
*"MAGIC CLAW!"*
*"MAGIC CLAW!"*
*"MAGIC CLAW!"*
*"MAGIC CLAW!"*
Quick Saving....
*"MAGIC CLAW!"*
Actually my favorite part of the video.
DON'T HURT ME! DON'T HURT ME!
MAKE IT STOP!
I think it says "MEGA CLAW", actually.
pokesonav no it’s magic it’s an Easter egg to another game
The plush toy actually works with the Samantha fight when he's on foot and she's on a mech. She gets stunlocked like fuck and it's pretty funny
*murders an innocent girl begging for her life
“Alright, what now?”
His voice. The timing. Cracked me up.
time stamp?
@@portablerefrigerator4902 14:38
Her body didnt even hit the floor yet and he is asking about his next objective
@@nicholasgallinaro1306 like a REAL Japanese hero 🤣
@@blackcowboymusic She probably made him late for work or something, so he will "never forgive her" to death. Man,Japan has some fucked up morality.
5:36 I can’t wait for the sequel where Gabriel becomes Gabriella
It’s a long story
@@LegionHimself "Save it for someone who cares."
@@CegeRoles Is that any way to talk to an old friend?
@@Eggnog18 Except the player doesn't know Gabriel at all, unlike Caleb, and were thrown into it without any preparation or anything because GT Interactive nailed Monolith Productions' testicles to the ceiling
Shogo 1/2.
"I'm not angry about Kathryn."
"Well, I am angry, but I'm not going to kill you."
Now that is some truly touching dialogue. Really shows how deeply Kura cares about your character.
Eh, girls in anime are either annoying as fuck, extremely violent, or both times 10.
That's a surprisingly mature and non-insane thing for her to do.
@@omarabe26 Or super adorable.
@@WTFisTingispingis Yeah, until the next stage where she spends the entirety of the map shooting you in the back with a shotgun. She is angry and she IS going to kill you.
You're one of the few gaming channels that delivers consistent and actually funny reviews. Great work
and hey! You're another one of the few
C Trouble thanks!
@GordoFreemann Man, im SO glad i found this channel by pure chance, binge watched everything from him already and man, his videos are so different from everyone else, its not just how he does them, its the combination of those "companions" which are there just to make his life harder and miserable and, this point maybe will be hard to understand, but its also his voice that is the icing on the cake, its, man its just too hard to explain and lets not forget the Gordon Ramsay clips.
This channel is a hidden goldmine, literally and im so glad i found his channel.
SsethTzeentach also does pretty good and funny game reviews.
Mandaloregaming too.
@@Gruntvc
gggmanlives, too! He even gave Civvie a shout-out in one of his more recent videos!
"Keep it in your pants pal."
Fu*kin' excuse me?!
That got me laughing
Glory 20:38
The genuine glee in his voice at 3:24 when he talked about the cute little car and blood splatter really got to me. So wholesome!
"This is exactly the kind of game you get when talented people polish up an unfinished product."
This is definitely the most succinct and accurate way I've ever heard this game described.
If the publishers had any guts, they'd use that as a review quote on the storefront.
@@Fyrmer I don't think this review existed back when the boxes were print- holy fuck, they sell Shogo on Steam today?
@@CptJistuce Steam and GOG.
Pro Captain Claw when ?
It's a bastard to get working on modern PCs (damn windows 10 and no compatability mode doesn't seem to work for some reason.) and that final boss is a MOTHERFUCKER. I still haven't beaten him after all these years.
@@chimeraelite You can go to The Claw Recluse (fan website) and download it with the crazy hook update that lets you play on modern os. Also I agree, that final boss was a BITCH. Took me a friggin month straight to finally beat him when I replayed it a year ago.
I second this
@@RetroDeathReviews666 Yeah, I know I'm necroposting here, but whatever... Congrats on beating Claw's final boss legit, I had to use not one, but TWO cheat codes at the same time to finally beat that bastard (his name was Omar, I think?)
@@stemmarb7r751 Thanks! I'm gonna make a review on Claw sometime this year lol.
And yeah his name's Omar. Still probably the most difficult boss fight I've ever played. I wanted to give up so many times but after how brutal those last few levels were, I was so determined to finish the game.
I kinda like the dialogue. Sure these guys are unprofessional as fuck, but the banter makes them seem human and relatable. It's cheesy but also endearing.
Reminds me of the Thief trilogy of games, the System Shock duology, and Deus Ex. Made by amateurs, albeit passionate and dedicated "amateurs", for lack of a better word.
@@michaelandreipalon359 Why do you say amateurs? Back in the days those were all the best first person games the market had to offer. Can't call people who made them amateurs. Maybe they were not as organised as studios are today, but they were amid the best in their time.
@@michaelandreipalon359 Why do you say amateurs? Back in the days those were all the best shooter the market had to offer. Can't call people who made them amateurs. Maybe they were not as organised as studios are today, but they were amid the best in their time.
@@siketjoseph9211 Fixed via edit. Can't believe I forgot to type those.
Also, your comment duplicated.
When the enemy troops say, "For Gabriel!" it always sounded like "Gabrion" to me lol
Two of the most common causes of death in Shogo are random crits and doors. Lithtech doors are lethal.
20:38 is a classic Civvie moment no doubt.
"Keep it in your pants, pal"
"Fucking excuse me?"
the way he noticed the girl and then closed in on her to inspect her was actually low-key adorable. and then she had to make it creepy.
@@rpcheesman The delivery on that was A+
@@rpcheesman I had the same reaction as him lmao
Well, they know the average weeb.
'Fucking excuse me?' I actually laughed out loud at the gym. Everyone looked at me. One of the best reviews yet.
I actually thought about this moment the next day at work couldn't stop laughing for like 30sec while coworkers watched worriedly
The moment 20:38
Stranger danger.
5:55 is the single greatest clip ever put into a youtube video
That sweet transition.
Right? That editing is amazing.
Someone make a 10 sec video of that. :}
I appreciate this.
Agree.
The true boss of the game: Some guy with a shotgun and his accomplice the corner.
Shogo is the epitome of "mixed feelings" - from an artistic point of view it is amazing. Looks pretty nice (for its time), has cool music, quite a decent story (with jealous-sister-girlfriends and multiple endings based on the player's choice) and lots of mass destruction.
From the technological point of view, however, it is a horrible mess - even worse than Blood 2. Splash damage is so broken that it defies any attempt to describe it. Getting one-shot before you even see who is attacking you is the norm, even on the lowest skill setting. And if that's not enough, there are countless bugs and crashes just waiting to make your day that much more miserable.
Fun fact: Shogo and Blood 2 share so many technicalities that you can pick B2 weapon model files, change their filename to the equivalent Shogo names, drop them into the Shogo folder tree where you'd expect them to go and have Blood 2 weapons in Shogo. Easy as that. You can even load the models into a fanmade tweaking utility and change the timings. I remember I replaced the uzi (or was it the assault gun?) with B2's chaingun, made it fire a lot faster, and just wiped the floor with everything. Aaah, fun times.
That is interesting
"Every time it zooms it does a 3 round burst." Must be made by Dahl then.
"Dahl... live to fight another day." (Mad Moxxi in The Underdome Riot)
Hm?
Also, that is a REALLY nice avatar
@@ninjacat230 Borderlands reference. Thanks :)
i hate dahl smgs just because i prefer the burst doing a lot of damage, and it might be because im in the early game but the burst from them is only good if i land every bullet as a crit, no seriously theyre bad enough that i had to use a flee the wave dude, but because of the projectiles i have to slide into the enemies shins and blast their kneecaps off
edit: i got a legendary cryo rifle made by dahl and the burst on it is good for taking out non beefy dudes
@@fuze7885 very cool.
I just LOVE the oversized weapons the characters fling around in cutscenes. It looks so goofy.
Shogo is such an amazing oddity. A first person shooter made by western developers with an anime-esque artstyle and premise that tries its hardest to feel like an actual anime but comes off as something you'd see on a 12-year old's Dragon Ball/Gundam doodle and fan fiction on their notebooks thanks to its deviantart-tier drawn portraits and hilarious 3D models. Oni seems to have pulled this off better.
I remember having a significant amount of hours on the prologue on-foot mission at the base, just shooting the guards and staff trying my best to actually get through it somehow. I'm glad you had the same train of thought the first time you got on that level too lol. I wish more games did that where you could kill friendly NPCs that won't result in an instant game over (or just setting them as invulnerable). And your thoughts on the shotgun are perfectly on point.
Despite its heavy flaws and being an overall raw mess, the game still has a special place in my heart and had a lot of fond memories of it as a kid. It's one of those rare games where a western developer is trying to work with something usually Japanese rather than the other way around, and it's oddly endearing to see them try something traditionally eastern with a western mindset. It's never going to happen but I'd love to see some sort of remaster or spiritual successor of the game, FPS-gameplay mechs and all but actually polished up, designed and balanced properly.
Also nice to see Claw get a mention here, I played both on pretty much the same time-frame as a kid. Definitely would love to see you cover that in the future.
Shogo and Claw are literally the first two games I ever played as a kid. Still play them when I can do this day.
@@chimeraelite Nice! Growing up with these two games on a CRT monitor and a lengthy summer vacation were great. I never finished Claw myself as a kid, but being able to go back to the game years later and playing through discovering new levels I couldn't reach as a kid was a great experience.
The only closest successor recently was Titanfall 2, which had a great campaign though it was very short.
A remake of Shogo that uses cel shade art could be awesome.
Too bad Monolith Productions no longer makes games like this. Doubt it as long as Warner Bros controls them.
It toke a small team to even try making a game like FEAR. Trepang2...
@@Gruntvc I loved Titanfall 2, I feel silly for not actually thinking of that to compare with Shogo. Definitely one of my favorite single-player campaigns in the recent years next to DOOM 16. It'll probably never happen but if Respawn could ever get their hands on the Shogo IP I definitely think they can do something great with it.
Also thanks for mentioning Trepang2, just checked it out and the gameplay looks pretty solid so far!
tl:dr you liked the review
jesus
Oh, how the time has changed. Back when I first launched SHOGO demo, I was amazed how freakin' good it looked, having some nifty little details I hadn't seen in a shooter before. Like (fake) reflections on weapons, visible explosion shock waves and surprisingly good sense of scale. Hey, it was the late 90s, every new game brought new graphical improvements to the table.
It hasn't aged well, has it? Seeing how good anime games like Dragon Ball Xenoverse look, I'd love to see what a modern SHOGO would look like. An FPS with similar art style could be something really special.
Id personally say year '98 was a turning point in PC gaming, when 3d graphics games "exploded" (also many classics came out that year, Quake 2, Unreal, Half Life etc), but with them ofc the unlucky need for graphic cards and constant upgrade war started. Also, Psx reached its apex in graphics around that time (and especially in next 2 years, when most of the best games were released). If you got psx when it first came, graphics was shitty, but by '99 it was quite decent, but also some gamers turned to better quality TVs to get the max out, I personally went for commodore 1084 monitor.
Got this during the Steam sale, I like it. I'm a fan of Gundam, Robotech, SDF Macross, and Ghost in the shell. I get what they were going for.
Shogo Mobile Armor Division could be great if remade today, especially if they went with a cel shade art style. Definitely could nail the anime look.
Too bad Monolith Productions no longer makes games like this...
I think some of the guys from monolith made a new studio that made a game called Betrayer or something. Or, if all else fails, maybe someone can remake it, like Nightdive (sure, they're messing up with system shock, but I actually played through 3/4 of their Turok 2 remake).
yeah I could easily see it happen! also if they revamped the gameplay entirely, improved the AI, improved reaction times, improved enemy balance, improved the weapons, improved the story, improved the writing and revised the progression.
essentially what would effectively be an entirely new game altogether.
@TheDrLeviathan, I could see Nightdive doing it. But they mainly port/remaster older games, not remake them.
I think they are remastering Blood 1 currently. Would love it if they remastered AVP2, also by Monolith Productions.
Not getting a great single player focused Alien/Aliens games any time soon. AVP2 had my favorite Colonial Marines campaign.
@okuplok Sounds like a day 1 buy to me if this was to happen. Gotta find the right devs and publisher though. Don't want the game ruined by the baloney practices most gaming companies employ today.
Someone watched Mandalore
Darn it Civvie, you said "Blood 2" and the game I was playing instantly crashed
It's nice to see the DeathCam™ find work again after that incident in the Burger King parking lot.
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Holy shit its Kins!
I saw the DeathCam and instantly imagined Hitler and his dual chainguns melting into a gooey paste. Civvie's transitions are always on point.
Foot lettuce
Ohhhh hey kinsie wasn’t expecting you here.
I played Shogo when it was new and was a big fan... I don't remember all this instant death stuff. I think it might be a problem with new computers, like maybe the faster clock cycles or something makes the enemies more deadly than they used to be.
No, it's the fact that the enemies can ALSO crit you, which often means instant death
i got a possible explanation for blood 2 gabriella thing, in shogo there's gabriel and when making blood 2 they forgot about the gabriel from blood 1, they didnt want two gabriels in their games so they switched one (probably shogo's lines of dialogue were already recorded - they just did ol' genderbendaroo on a chosen)
@Krazy Kommando not to mention they raceswapped her too
Those ventilation shafts you mention it, actually maked me remember the level design of Armored Core(which came out in 1997), because there is a lot of missions which takes place in facilities and so on, that are meant for your mech...but you just wonder "Where could be something for humans anyway???"
I find your channel strangely addicting as an older gamer. I actually watched a couple of your reviews twice. Keep up the great work. You are certainly a rising star here especially with your PRO reviews of Blood and Postal 2.
Yeah if TH-cam viewers have any taste this dude will be the next big thing.
Yomom12388 | Said the TH-cam viewer.
Twice? Only twice?
I religiously rewatch civvie's videos on daily basis.
*addictive
'Addicting' doesn't make sense grammatically.
20:16 "I love my sister as much as you do." Wait, the MC is the BF of the sister...
Nice to know the three of them can work it out. :)
Hol up
Anime can truly be for degenerates.
*wait-*
Alright, so we've got Shogo and Blood II in the can. Does this mean we can expect No One Lives Forever in the future, or are you going straight to KISS: Psycho Circus and Contract J.A.C.K., in an effort to put yourself into a disappointment coma?
As always, keep up the great work!
Oh gawd that shitty kiss game. Played that on the Dreamcast.
Is it bad that I have a big soft spot for KISS: Psycho Circus? I mean, don't get me wrong, I know it's not a great game but...it just had a design and atmosphere that's stuck with me. Even parts of the soundtrack still stick out to me.
Also those fucking arachno-clowns man...
@@TheGM-20XX I think you mean awesome
They even took the effort to implement bunnyhopping in the Kiss game
what about sanity, aiken's artifact?
RIP Hank Johnson. The GOAT we never knew we needed.
I was just telling all my friends how i used to play this game back in a day, and nobody even heard about it. Thanks civvie now i know it exists and im not crazy. It was an awesome experience in my opinion.
"How did I gain 15,000 subs when everyone up there is dying..." had to check the date on that one.
3:48 I see you, Evangelion reference. Don't think I dont.
God is in heaven. All is right with the world
What would CURV stand for anyway?
Did you see the Robotech reference?
I love how they went with the most Japanese-sounding names they could think of for all the initial characters, and then Gabriel, presumably in a nod to how a lot of sci-fi anime often borrows names and themes from various religions. And then Hank Johnson shows up.
Uziels big gun is just a scaled up Juggernaut... When you pick it up, it's just more ammo for the Juggernaut if you have it... Hooray.
"Friend of a friend. Hank Johnson's the name." is burned into my memory from when I played the demo when it came out.
I remember Mandalore Gaming doing a video on this too...it's special, it really is.
X1Jebus I remember it as well. Lord Mandalore is a cool guy
Dude makes great content and vids. I remember seeing his name like on a different channel (like maybe about 5-10 years ago on YT) than his that was talking about BioWare and Mandalore's TOR forum username came up which he was going into serious detail trashing TOR.
Edit: To those wondering what the vid is, it's from a channel (now pretty much dead) called Instig8ive Journalism which talked upon gaming topics like Bioware going down the toilet, gaming reviews and bribes, etc. Great channel in my opinion.
Wasn't Mandalore the guy that did a stellar review of Darkwood? Now THAT is a low-key production worth the attention.
@@DinnerForkTongue He did indeed, the guy's brilliant, I love his content.
17:40 No joke I've been trying to find the name of Captain Claw since 1999, I got a demo from one of those shareware CDs. I can finally scratch that itch in the back of my head. THANK YOU!
I was literally just thinking I could do with a new Civvie video :) great channel
Dude finding your channel I felt like I struck gold. Seriously and I genuinely appreciate your work and opinions.
Keep up the good work man.
Maybe I was just getting used to the jank by this point, but I died so infrequently in the second half of this game I thought I had broken a barrier and become psychic. Then I tried to replay it and lost my budding mental powers. This game needs a complete overhaul.
i was 16 years old when this game was released and i fell in love in this game :D my best regards
This game looks so much better in my childhood memories of it
Well it looked great for it's time
blood 2 looked better than this and it was shit.
Looks the same to me lol
20:56 judging by the scream and the tone of the main character's voice, I'd say either he was the one who voiced the cultists in the first Blood game, for years nobody could figure out the voice actor of them, some say Stephen did them but he was asked in an interview and he couldn't recall it. Then again some of the same screams were used for Caleb and innocents in that game too and could have just been a stock sound effect used for all of them.
Goddamn, I love that doom 2016 Cutaway.
Shogo is my gem, and I can't help but find it a hilarious trip.
Shogo still kicks ass if you ask me, I like games that teach you that self sabotage and needlessly hard stuff. Also DM was pretty good.
Granted that anything related to art and story came out like a VG version of Perfect Hair Forever or Kappa Mikey (at it isn't all that bad if you enjoy stuff like that).
"Ever hear of Uziel-""No."
12:02 don't worry about it Civvie, you got it right the first time! That's infact a MAC-10.
Oh yes. I have been waiting for those Gordon Ramsay clips.
Civvie got me hooked on Ramsay. Half my day is spent watching Hell's Kitchen uncensored highlights.
send help
Thank you so much. I’ve been looking for this game since 2001 when I played it last as a 5yo kid.
I dropped the $2.50 on Shogo a while back and put it on the backlog because of this video. Finished both endings last night and think it's one of my favorite shooters now. Clearly a passion project, and the shooting/ mech stuff was super fun. Loved every moment of that campaign, particularly the story and weapons/ weapon sounds.
This is the first time I've ever seen anyone talk about Claw. Amazing work Civvie, hope they boost your rations.
>overly complex plot
>MECHS
>horrible dubbing
Yep, this is Anime alright.
C C Thank god dubs started becoming less shit around 2011 with the good version of Thundercats. Other than that, the only other good dubs I've seen are Hellsing, Hellsing Ultimate and Castlevania.
How is this horrible acting in any way?
@@lionocyborg6030 Castlevania actually isn't a dub, it's a western animation
"complex" yeah that's anime alright
so netflix version of neon genesis?
What a mysterious Shogo.
Glad to see that there's overlap between the civvie11 and SBFP fandoms.
According to IMDb, LT. Cor. Kathryn Akkaraju is voiced by Kathy Levin, who (also according to IMDb) voiced the HEV suit in Half Life 2.
12:04
Yea, it's a MAC-10 or MAC-11. The Uzi is longer at the rear, and generally just bigger.
I can't help it, I'm a nerd.
There's also this fun glitch where if you pause during a cutscene and un pause, you can use the mouse to spin your character in place like a madman
14:15 Having watched this before, listening to the following silence speaks volumes and I love the joke.
I'm pretty sure Hank's voice actor is also Doc Mitchell from FNV.
The comedic timing on that quicksave during the magic claw bit was astounding
Ah, the late 90's.. so fresh, so good.
I lost it at a random enemy quoting Blood's cultist, that annoying MARANAX INFIRMUX never gets old
"i know we can make it
tooooooogeeeeetherrrrrr!"
13:18 guard activated ultra instinct.
18:41 - and then Wildlands just started the cinematic in the background where El Sueno starts with "I have killed thousands". Suddenly the doll was so much more epic.
On the other hand I'm one of those that liked Shogo. Came as the free game in a magazine - and I don't think I've ever finished it. Probably I just liked the anime vibe. Again at that time I didn't know even the slightest bit of english so maybe not even that :)
Holy shit that Doom transition just got me
I'm glad to found this channel man keep it up
Shogo was made by the first primitive proto-weeaboo.
The guys from Monolith ARE weeaboos, if you look close enough, you're gonna see that even F.E.A.R. is secretly a big pile of anime.
It was the mid-90s, weabooism looked different then than it does now but it totally existed at the time.
Civvie didn't even show off the intro, which is a two minute-long J-pop song straight out of the early 1980s set over footage of people being gibbed or crushed to death.
Marcello Silva Don’t you do F.E.A.R dirty like that.
@@t850terminator Search your heart, you know it to be true!
16:57 I love how irritated Civvie is murdering that woman.
Damn, for me, that "Magic Claw"-sound brought back all the memories :')
I recently found you scouring on youtube, and you deserve a lot more praise and attention. I'm sending thoughts, prayers, and less sewer levels toward you. And also essential oils, because that's what everyone evidently needs right now.
You should do ‘Requiem: Avenging Angel’ next, it was one of my faves back in the day. All these games you’ve done lately reminded me of it. Also I think one of the best parts of Shogo was the music.
Rule number 1 of anime: the human body contains 500 gallons of blood.
Hey. I just discovered your channel a few days ago. Now this happens. Awesome!
3:49 That 'CURVE' logo is a parody of Evangelion's "NERV' logo lmao
So now those shadow people in the beginning have been confirmed to have killed Civvie 11 in the original timeline.
Your sense of humour is just pure GOLD/
Civvie you are the best, hidden gem of youtebe, you are deserved 1mln subscribers
The voice acting is surprisingly decent. Every spoken line makes me want more of this game's story, and that's weird.
Play KISS Psycho Circus
That game had a lot of promise for something based on KISS of all things (and from former Daikatana designers, no less), but it was ruined by basing its combat around infinite-spawning enemy generators in a Quake-clone. Also it's even buggier to get running on modern systems than Shogo is. On the copy I found online, the only thing you take damage from is direct melee attacks from the weakest enemy.
YER IN THE PSYCHOOOOO CIRRRRCCCUUUUSSS!!!
>looks at child
>"keep it in your pants, pal"
> *fucking excuse me*
That DOOM cut got me to subscribe.
I picked shogo up out of a 5 dollar bargain bin in some obsure and forgotten mom and pops (yes, they did exist) computer store and was forever enamoured with this train wreck of an awesome game. Thank you for playing it.
12:03 But Civvie, it's not that difficult to tell the difference. If it's boxy, it's a Mac. It's it's rounded, it's an Uzi.
If it has an (optional) dorky suppressor and a stock folded on top, its a Mac 10 or 11. Bonus points if there's a cloth foregrip on it.
If it's 2x larger than a Mac and has a stock UNDER the gun, or not at all, it's a (full size) Uzi.
I think the confusion for most people comes from the Micro Uzi models, though you'd think people would figure it out after most games pick one or the other as their go-to machine pistol.
@Fuzzy Dunlop
I'd be inclined to agree, but I'd also counter with the argument that one should memorize how weapons work, as one would memorize how a logging axe works, to avoid injury.
Life is complicated and you never know when you might *have* to depend on your trivial firearms knowledge.
@@xmm-cf5eg In that case, one would be more likely to come across an AR pattern civilian rifle or any slew of bolt-action rifles or shotguns or handguns. I think rudimentary handgun knowledge is... well, handy - for someone uninitiated. Just so they don't shoot their face off if they happen to come across one which isn't totally unlikely in our day and age. I hear you on that.
@Fuzzy Dunlop
You'd be amazed what kind of guns some people own, not everyone carries around or stores glocks and AR-15 derivatives.
I know multiple people in my area that have all sorts of wacky shit, Korean war bringback weapons, Thompsons, a shitload of Warsaw-pact weaponry in various calibers.
Doesn't hurt to remind oneself how a czech Vz.58 operates if there are people supplying and owning them where you live.
@@xmm-cf5eg Yeah I know a few people that are crazy about Mosin-Nagants and such.
Love finding your channel, as a 35 year old guy who grew up on this shit there are SO many games i have forgotten i absolutely loved... Thank you for doing this and please keep it up!
Shogo was awesome....well....it was Anime-ish lol. I loved that they used the same little spherical blood effects!
21:17 Hey, Bud. We here on the security team are doing just fine. Now, to be fair, we don't leave. You know, because of the mandatory room and board. but... The foods not bad. The tin cans say it's all propaganda and to get back to work, so i wouldn't worry about it.
I only ever played the MP part of this game, in an internet cafe with my friends. It was good fun back then moving between mech and soldier during deathmatches.
This channel needs way more videos on it. I binged everything in two days, now I gotta rewatch it all.
"Okay, I am angry but I am not going to kill you" is now my favorite piece of dialog in any game ever.
Talk about an abusive relationship, if it has to be stated that you will not be murdered that is a sign you need to get out of that relationship and look into a restraining order.
17:24 That took me so off guard that I about spilled water all over my keyboard.