Magician Lord (Neo Geo CD) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
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- A playthrough of ADK and SNK's 1996 arcade-platformer for the Neo Geo CD, Magician Lord.
Played through on the normal difficulty level.
Magician Lord is an awesome fantasy action-platformer that originally came out back in 1990 for the Neo Geo MVS arcade hardware and in 1991 for the AES home system. It was the first Neo Geo title to be created by Alpha Denshi, who would later become much better known for the World Heroes series.
The game, shipping on a 46 megabit cartridge, was very impressive, especially when you consider that the SNES hadn't been released yet and Sega Genesis carts were still maxing out at 8 megabits. The characters were huge and colorful, the music boomed with the glorious racket of noisy bass and drum samples - it fully delivered on SNK's promise of bringing the true arcade experience home. Of course, for a $200 cartridge to play on a $650 system, it needed to.
The AES was never meant to compete with the likes of Nintendo and Sega in the home space, though. It was a high-end, luxury piece of kit for people that didn't mind paying for the best and didn't want to haul an arcade cabinet into their house.
Still, many people wanted that experience at home, just in a more affordable package, and that was exactly what SNK delivered with the Neo Geo CD system. It was still expensive, as the system's price was more in-line with then brand-new 32-bit systems (but the games were only $50 each brand new - a very big deal!), but it was awfully late to the party (being launched at the end of 1995, putting it in direct competition with systems that could do proper 3D graphics), and many games were infamously plagued with looooong load times, but nevertheless, it put SNK's iconic line of games within reach of the masses like never before. And despite the notoriety it gained for its woefully inadequate CD access speeds, most of the older games didn't suffer much from the issue: as long the game's data could fit within the system's 56 megabits of RAM (!!), it only had to load once when booting the system.
Magician Lord was one of those games, and this is the reason why you never see the load screen again after the initial 15 second start-up period. Otherwise, it's nearly identical to the original AES release. I say "nearly" because the music is different. If you compare the two versions side-by-side, you'll notice that the CD version's sound quality is a substantial improvement over the original cart's. This version's music is all in Redbook format and streams directly off the disc during play, and while the music didn't get remixed for this port, the samples are all of much higher quality, and as a result, they sound much less tinny and out-of-tune than the cart's samples did.
Besides that, though, it's the same beautiful, fluid, and insanely difficult platformer that it always had been, and I loved it. This was the version that I had, and I played it nonstop for quite some time. But I'm not kidding about the difficulty - the game is probably so well known because of how hard it is. Enemies constantly flood the screen at angles that are difficult to hit, there's a nasty Castlevania-style knock-back when you get hit, and power-ups aren't dropped very often at all - and God help you if you pick the wrong ones. A couple of those transformations are little more than a death-sentence in the final few stages! And those frogs are the spawn of Satan himself. I'm certain of it.
I do also have a playthrough up of the AES version of the game ( • Magician Lord (Neo Geo... ), but I was quite a bit more adventurous in my playing this time around. I branched out and used more than just the Dragonwarrior this time, which makes it harder, but does changes things up quite a bit.
If you like, you can also find my compilation of all of the game's cutscenes, complete with all sorts of crazy Engrish, here: • Magician Lord (Neo Geo...
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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Magician Lord is a really good platformer as long as you can handle the challenge - "I'm destined just to die" is much more meaningful here than being just a terrible line translation.
We're all destined just to die. It's what we do that makes life meaningful.
@@jasonmorgan661 I did the AES version before. This is the CD one now.
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The only thing this game has going for it are some cool monster designs.
That line always struck me as odd...why would he say something like that? It always left me feeling weird.
Great game. My older brother and i would gang up on this game. We had difficulty with the Gal Aguiese stage in the beginning because those damn orbs would gang up on us right away. We wasted quarters until I broke through by jumping ahead and landing in a safe spot. We had a crowd gathered up because they had never seen anyone go that far in the game.
I totally loved this game when I played it. The soundtrack was awesome.
By the way.... Neo Geo to this day, compared to other game console is basically like an "Old Veteran car" it still a expensive to this day to get your hands on an original functioning Neo Geo.
The game that introduced me to the Neo-Geo, and to be a buff soon after. I was 7 years old in 1990 when they rolled those "Big Red" beauties off the distributors truck to experience history and greatness bro. 8^)
Awesome times, huh? I was 8, so I know exactly what you mean. I've actually got a bright red 4-game cab in my living room :D
"What Imprudence you human being! Face your trail by God"
This game's "Welcome to your DOOM!" (Altered Beast) LOL
don't look up-
Be dead down there !
@@bellaambiens 😆 lol
For all it's unintentionally hilarious translations, that first line was pretty epic.
The art and animation is great, thanks for sharing this gem.
The fact that you managed to beat it is pretty goddamn impressive. My friends and I always avoided this on the Geo at our local arcade just because of how stupid hard it is.
Thanks :) Yeah, it's definitely one of the hardest platformers I've ever finished. It makes Marvel Land look like a kiddie game. The home versions are a lot more manageable with unlimited credits though.
Neo Geo CD is sadly overlooked during the 90's maybe due to price, but seriously the CD made the gameplay look really smooth than the vanilla Neo Geo
Did it improve the voice acting any?
@@ReverendSyn ....sadly no
Boy does Commander Riker love talking shit before boss encounters.
One of my favorite titles on the Neo Geo. Too bad the sequel was never released for the Neo Geo Pocket Color though...
Gotta love the Engrish cutscenes. 😂😂
Iconic game of the 90s
I like the lurching walk animation the blue skeletoids make.
A badass young wizard with the ability to transform into dragons and other beings?? We need moar games like this!! XD
This is, without a doubt, one of the coolest ideas for a video game!!
GOSH!! That Soundtrack is Amazing!! X3
You gotta admit, Metal-like sounding music really goes well in a dark fantasy setting, right?? X3
It absolutely does :) the music is totally badass
@@NintendoComplete The music is a classic and fit right. Its get ya crunk up #4RealDoe
I completed this on MAME. Great graphics and sound, a cut above 16 bit systems at the time, but a tough game.
@@mattfahringer148 erm.... Ok
@@mattfahringer148 I'm not a scientist but I think it might be biologically impossible.
@@alexl2475 Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger might have something to say about that...
@@alexl2475
Yer suppose to reply: "Thanks Mister Yandere, sir!!"(^_^)
"I Love Me Too!!" XD X'D
I like this game!
A young boy transforming in powerful creatures using elemental powers ? Could this be an inspiration of Shadow Hearts serie ?
Also, this game didn't look hard, so I was surprised by the comments, but then I remembered : it's played by NintendoComplete, the channel that made NES TMNT looks like a breeze. Of course it seems a lot less hard than it truly is.
5:24 boom chuchuchuchuchuchuchucccun lol that song sounds soo weird
THOSE mutating frogs in the Anderground Passage of Terror are FROM HELL! I HATE those Goddamned frogs.
Frog city
09:19 wow
People don't realize SNK had the right idea with the Neo-Geo CD system since, contrary to popular belief, CDs were actually cheaper to make than cartridges and could hold as much memory as a NG cart.
amazing game!
Hahahah, I remember this game... the intro is translated relatively well compared to what comes next. It's pretty fun to play though, if hard as nails, you, persistent guy. :D
Magician Lord is also on PSP, PlayStation 2, Wii. In the compilation : "SNK Arcade Classics 1". (2008)
It's also available on THAT piece of crap Neo Geo X.
16:13 "You, persistent guy. But your life ends right now." Persistent guy? Seems like he's trying to avoid hurting your feelings. 😂
he is.
I never got past the first level. Ran outta tokens every damn time!
Hahaha. Welp, can't blame ya for have one your room bro. Awesome times for sure. 8^)
I actually want to get a Neo-Geo 2-slot "goldie" unit. I use to see them in Pizza Hut's growing up and thought they were perfect for fellas like me living in apartment complexes.
hey get back ta werk before i give ya a 716-MEGA SHOCK!!!
Ninja arms reaches his knees!!!
Got it and clocked it 😎
That guy was funny as hell the Mustang who died as a monster
You're good at this game!
4:34 didn’t he reach puberty yet ?
This is better looking than Link : The Face of Evil and Link : The Wand of Gamelon.
Omg it's so much better than any of the crappy CDI platformers
Fuck yeah I need to beat this game.
Snk was ahead of it time back in 90s sega nintendo didn't have there graphics
Japanese thunder God Raijin is my favorite ❤️⛈️⚡️💥🔥
Bravo, beau travail
;Feel Fortunate to have Survived until Now;(
me at the Dentist...
I've this game on Nintendo switch neo Geo collection but there is no cut scenes on it...why is that
The AES (the home version) and CD versions play them but the MVS (arcade version) doesn't.
Despite the visual spectacle the game was for the time, the animation of the main sprites is awkward...
I assume this game, being an early title and smaller than later ones, didn't suffer the transition to the NGCD. I recall the Metal Slug port being heavily criticized because they cut out several details, likely to reduce loading times.
The first level boss laughs like Mickey mouse.
Neo Geo CD had great games.
But the loading times are long
They were great on this game. It only loads once the whole time
5:54 the door sound like the M.Bison Yes Yes!!!!
Got it
My less expensive way to play NEO GEO Games: Neo Geo CD.
Neo Geo Mini and Neo Geo X as well...the latter is GARBAGE.
@@KTJohnsonkidThunder The Neo Geo X is garbage and the Neo Geo is better but not so much compared with the classic hardware.
My "arcade" never had this. Never played it, looks cool. So...I sense a disturbance...can it be? Shall you do what SqoNix won't...Bahamut Lagoon!?
That's probably a ways off. It was really good, but strategy games are really not my thing.
Always wasted a quarter at the arcade on this game. Never was that fun to me.
I'm assuming an actual neo geo cartridge of this games worth thousands
It's actually not bad for NG stuff. You could probably find the cart for $100-150 depending on where you look.
It’s now worth thousands
so, like, the guy on the thumbnail is a vampire? cause it just looks like he got punched in the mouth in the actual pic.
I think it was probably his command of the English language that broke his teeth.
Magic levels one shinobi power human
They made a sequel to Sengoku, 3 if you include the bullet he'll game, they should have done a sequel to this on the neo Geo.
Really? There was a Sengoku 4? I was surprised when #3 seemed to show up out of nowhere. I was glad it did though.
@@NintendoComplete you're right there's 4. Sengoku ace is the schmup.
@@alexl2475 Cool, I've heard of Sengoku Ace, but I had no idea that they were related. Thanks! I'll have to try it out.
@@NintendoComplete They're not related outside the name. Sengoku Ace is made by Psikyo, and Sengoku is of course by SNK. Just wanted to share that tidbit.
@@DarthEquus Ah, okay. It sounded strange to me, but I hadn't yet gone to look it up. I mean, sengoku is a period of Japanese history, not a made up video game word.
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