One of the lesser talked about N64 games by Rare, how does Jet Force Gemini hold up? SOCIAL MEDIA: / nitrorad / nitroradofficial / nitrorad #N64 #Rareware
NOTE: Just since a lot of people are bringing it up, I had no idea about the thing where player two could shoot at enemies as Floyd. Wish I figured that out so I could've put it in the video!
And it was the only way I could play JFG without my younger brother annoying me.. Hand him the 2nd controller and he gets to shoot things as Floyd, while I play the actual game :P All this is really making me want to boot up my old N64 and check out where I left off my save.. I think I only had 2 levels where I hadn't found every Tribal, so I never got the real ending :(
Ah yes, I remember this. My brother and I discover it by accident when he got stuck on the mantis brothers boss fight as he eventually run out of ammo. We where curious about Floyd, stuck a second controller for me and starting mashing buttons to find out it has a pitiful gun but has infinine ammo, so we ended up having him move Juno side to side to dodge the bosses while I shooted at them with Floyd. Those were the days...
Floyd's blasters were the same stuff you used for the Pistol, but they were unlimited and you could even control your rate of fire by how fast you mash your buttons. Unlike the Pistol, Floyd doesn't have to wait for recharge after the 5-6 initial shots.
The Jet Force Kids cheat gives them the appearance they were supposed to have in-game at a certain point during development. In the beta, Juno and Vela were indeed supposed to be much younger. Ants as Pants transforms the drones into Mr. Pants, another Rareware character referenced in many different games. The character eventually got its own puzzle game on Game Boy Advance: "It's Mr. Pants". Oh and, yeah, it WAS pretty awesome to see the reflection in the water puddle back in 1999 ^^.
@@TommyDeonauthsArchives Yeah it was originally Donkey Kong Coconut Crackers, an... isometric Tetris thingy? The game design stayed the same (minus the isometric view) but they must have lost the DK license or something because Mr. Pants wasn't exactly a mascot that was going to move copies and IIRC the game sold basically nothing. Edit: The change happened when Rare was sold to Microsoft, so yeah. Last-ditch effort to salvage the game they'd been working on.
He was originally created in MS Paint for the Rare website letters page when they couldn't find a render of a Rare character to use in time. Mr. Pants then started showing up in a bunch of cameos and eventually got his own game on Game Boy Advance. He is hilarious!
The title screen for Mario Party changes depending on which character won the previous game. For example, if Donkey Kong won the previous game, the title screen shows all the characters in the jungle area swinging on vines.
I loved Jet Force Gemini.. It was a criminally underrated game imo.. The first time playing, reaching Mizars Palace with all 3 characters, thinking you finished the game only to find out you aren't even halfway there.. And that soundtrack! Godlike 😍😍😍
I'm one of your quiet viewers. I never comment, but I watch every video. I just HAD to say, I have never personally played this game, but I was SHOCKED at how ahead of its time JFG really was. Very interesting episode. Keep up the great work.
This is 2 years late, but I agree. I would love this getting a revival with tighter controls. And think of the environments potential! As Rad said, the abandoned space station has this amazing atmosphere. Imagine that but with today's engines. Jetforce Gemini has a special place in my heart.
That's one of those series that I wanted to like, but just ended up being okay. It has some neat visual elements, but the concept and story feel way too middle-school for me to enjoy now (seriously, the second game devolved into some kind of edgy revenge fantasy......like, really?). Ultimately, it felt rather shallow and just made me wish the more interesting elements were in better hands.
^ I was thinking the same thing. XD A third one, huh...? Oh yeah, didn't the first seem like a proper ending but the second was a cliffhanger? I hope it's good. :p
I remember playing multiplayer with my buddy as a kid, on December 31, 1999, while the Y2K timer was counting down. Just two kids without a care in the world. Such a classic!
Did u guys shoot each other in the arena mode? xD When our friends brought over extra controllers (up to 4) we shot the h3ck outta each other 😂 And race each other , too~
The last two (new) Resident Evil games had written summations of where you were at in the game during loading screens. It's unsettling to think about the amount of work and writing that went into those, that will never be seen. The only possible way to read them all, would be if someone were to move from every single minor set-piece, saving and reloading the game, just to read them.
Xenoblade chronicles 2 also did that. Too bad most people miss them since you can put the console in sleep mode to avoid having to launch the game each time.
That reflection from the bucket of water is even more impressive when you realize it was probably made via instancing the scene. So there's two versions of that scene being rendered: There's the one that you're seeing and the other is mirrored under the character. That means if you were to take the camera and clip through the ground, you'd see the character models and room as it appears in the reflection.
There's a control setting that lets you move fully with the C buttons while aiming. It's not perfect, and takes some getting used to, due to jumping with C Up, but it does help. Then again, what you're talking about is an option on the Rare Re-play collection, so there's always that.
You say that, but most people actually weren't fans of dual stick aiming when it was first done on the PSone, but I would chock that up partly to analogue sticks being optional on the PSone.
To this day, Jet Force Gemini's orchestral sounding score remains a personal highlight in my game soundtrack collection with its profound sense of scale and evocative themes that still make me listen to it intently this day. Not certain if it's still possible, but many years back I was able to download each and every track of JFG's original score directly from Rareware's website and I'm glad they made it available for free public download when they did as no official commercial OST was ever released back then, or now, I think. Going back to Jet Force Gemini itself, this was a fantastic N64 game for me to pass my free time while being an electronic tech student back during the twilight years of the N64 and the games overall atmosphere conveyed an epic, grandiose sense of scale and exploration of each level. However, as pointed out in this video, Jet Force Gemini also began the wretched, repetitive formula of mandating each character to return to already explored levels in order for them to unlock specific paths and that became an infamous game design flaw even more heavily emphasized (I think for me and many others) in Donkey Kong 64, where each Kong character was required to unlock specific puzzles, doors and alternate pathways. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy! Anyway, I still love Jet Force Gemini for all of Rare's dedication to the N64 platform and how well they utilized the hardware in what is still today a visual, musical and cinematic marvel. Though, it's been a while since its release, I wonder if the control scheme for Jet Force Gemini on Retro Replay on Xbox One has ever been updated to suit a more contemporary button and joystick layout as the last time I played it, I found the controls overly cumbersome, but then again, they weren't exactly intuitive on N64 either from what I remember.
HalfLife2 actually has something similar to Gemini's title screen, where depending where you are in the game, the background will change. They're both quite cool!
Hey NitroRad, the Dragon Quest XI game changes its title screen throughout the story. Since the game is a 100 hours + RPG you end up seeing a lot of them. Fairly sure that the Witcher 3 does it too, unless you have the DLCs installed.
You save some little drone that follows you around to shoot at enemies. This guy can be controlled by another player allowing some co-op play during the main story. My friend and I always enjoyed that even though we never finished the game.
Floyd, right? That was me when my godbrother played 🙋🏻♀️ Shot red laser only and had a couple of side missions where it had to fly & collect pieces of something.
It's the little things that leave an impression sometimes. I can't think of any off the top of my head, but I think it'd be cool to have a random set of title screens for each point of progression, maybe like 2-3 for each major point. It'd be really nice for a game that you'd expect to start and stop often, like an RPG or a mobile game etc.
I mean I know it was a 5 second thing but yeah Bionicle was the best. The 20th anniversary is coming up soon, and on Instagram Christian Faber (someone who made a lot of stuff for Bionicle) is making concept art to propose a possible Bionicle Gen 3 to Lego.
A friend of mine loves this game, and I got to watch him play the whole thing once. One thing I found pretty cool is that the second player can take control of that little robot (the thing hovering over the character's left shoulder at 13:14) and help out by shooting things and whatnot. He had me do that once or twice... which he probably regretted, since I accidentally killed a few Tribals, thus forcing him to replay the whole stage all over again. ...Oops. Ah well, we both still had fun anyway. lol
I have so much nostalgia for this game haha... I remember renting it when I was a kid and playing the multiplayer with my dad (and drawing the characters over and over), and then in high school I discovered eBay existed and bought a copy for $4 to revisit it. Needless to say, I didn't finish it (that second half gets everybody) but I did have a really good time just exploring and playing through it until I'd had my fill. I think it's worth at least checking out, but definitely not completing. Thanks for covering an old favourite of mine!
Thank you so much for choosing this game man... Nostalgia and the feeling of someone else describing their memories and current opinions of it is weirdly nice for this particular game for me.
I would love to see an HD remake for this on the 3DS or Switch. Aside from it's technical problems it looks really fun! Lots of creativity went into it.
JFG was my favorite N64 title. The controls took some getting used to, but were not too bad considering the console's limitations. I appreciated how Rare pushed things on the N64. No one else really wanted to take the risks they took.
I still play this game to this day. No game has captured such excellent everything in a game. If this game we're made nowadays it'd be such an iconic and unique experience in a good way. I'd love to see this game with current gen consoles.
I thought game was pretty cool, Lupus the dog is Adorable. The one thing I didn't like was the controls, and that the Praying Mantis Boss was hard to Defeat. It would be cool if they eventually made a sequel to this underrated game.
This was my all-time favorite Rare game, second only to Banjo-Kazooie. The brilliant mixture of action/adventure and third person shooter genres mixed with a colorful and cartoonish sci-fi setting was very captivating for me. And the breathtaking space opera style music was some of the best I've ever heard on the N64. Even today, I still listen to "SS Anubis" or "Sekhmet" sometimes.
This is a game I always loved as a kid and one that I would adore seeing a proper remake or sequel to it someday. The core gameplay and concepts are awesome and I would love to see it in the modern day!
Don't know if anyone mentioned this but both Tomb Raider Legend and Anniversary change their title screens through every location you progress through in the game also.
This is one of my favorite game and I really liked your review. Completly acknowledged the problems of the game and yes, that Rare Replay version is the best way to play JFG now :).
Probably by having passion in his works, and enjoying the fact that he's entertaining, informative, and down-to-earth with his videos. He's a good guy in every aspect.
Yeah, he went full time a while ago! I'd imagine that weekly is pretty reasonable for 20-30 min videos as long as you're getting footage ahead of when you're doing the video. Other than that, the most time consuming portion would be scripts and editing. I'm just glad that his focus is on actually putting out material and not going for production values that are *too* high for not much difference in the actual content *cough* JonTron *cough*
According to his Twitter, he actually had the review finished a couple days ago, but he wanted to grab footage for the Rare Replay footage, so he had to wait for it to come in, then try it out on his friends xBox one.
This game, *this game*. For years I had this memory at the back of my head of some game commercial where a swarm of insects gnaws off the entire Earth. Couldn't find it, couldn't remember the name. Now you post this, I search for the title and boom. There it is. Thanks for finally bringing an end to my search, James! No wonder it was one of the lesser remembered titles of the era.
Nitro Rad, thank you so much for review all this game of my childhood, it means so much for me that someone is paying atention of these rare games of the N64 like space station silicon Valley and Jet force gemini, i have good memorys of those games, keep the good work man and thank you again
Music absolutely has a language, and it's meant to speak to and evoke emotions or mirror events. As such, your read of Lost Colony's theme is probably accurate.
24:45 I really like it. One thing I also really like is how it showed the Star Fox team down on their luck. That they are warriors and without a war they just degrade and fall into disrepair. For me at least showing that the characters can have theirs ups and downs really helps make them more believable. It also makes it so good to see them back in their prime during Assault. Knowing they had to work for it and that this is a state in their lives rather than some status quo. I also really like how it focused exclusively on 1 planet and therefore got people to connect to it. It gave the Sauria mission in assault which is by far my favorite as it felt so much more personal. I kind of hope they will do something like that again at some point. Not necessarily the exact same thing but make a smaller scale Starfox game. That focuses on just 1 planet and really goes into it's people, it's beliefs, it's geography and everything. That's why regardless of the quality of the game itself I do think it's inclusion in the Star fox franchise is overwhelmingly positive. Assault showed that Star Fox could evolve which is why I don't like Zero from the moment it appeared. It felt more like a regression than anything else. I never really had any attachment to 64. I did try it but it just felt like an inferior version of Assault in pretty much every way.
I just remembered my childhood watching this. Man really nice and complete review! I'd like to add a feature you didn't mention: co-op on main story. Once you have the little drone following you, if you put controller 2, the second player could control the drone and shoot with it (like controlling tails on Sonic2). That was the only reason for my sister play a shooter with me. lol
What happened to Kyle's tie? It's transcending. AND DID YOU SAY TOA GALI? Waiting for some shitty Bionicle games review now. And looking for that SFA review even more, I love this game. I just don't like the respawning imps/little_dinosaur_thingies_that_fly_and_scream_at_you
I played this back when it was released. Jet Force Gemini was a blast to play and I even written a fanfiction out of it based on the close sibling relationship between Juno and Vela when they were in the middle of a life and death battle. Really good game but it does have its share of control issues in regards to trying to convert it to the XBox One platform. It was clearly made around the N64 controller. The last boss Mizar was impossible for me to beat so I can say I played though all of the game back in the day but could never get to see the final scenes after the final boss due to how difficult it was. Boss battles were really the weakness of this game. But I still love it, but needs a strategy guide to get all of the Tribals in order to get to the final level.
I'll always remember getting this game for Christmas in 2001 along with the N64, my first console. I was 10 at the time and Jet Force Gemini was my favorite game that I owned for the N64. So much nostalgia. I love the classic N64 games, but I've probably played this more then all of them, aside from the 007 games, because I played those long before I owned an N64 at friends' and family's houses. I got the N64 after most people I knew had a GameCube, PS2, or XBOX. I was so stoked.
“It doesn’t play like every other Star Fox game and it is a spin-off, therefore it’s terrible. I’m just going to play Starfox 64 for the rest of my life :(“ For an actual opinion, Adventures is alright for me. Better than the DS Zelda Games, Oracle of Seasons and Ages, Zelda 1 and 2, and TBH Majora’s Mask, so that’s something.
Neintendew I forgot about command- That game is terrible. But yeah, these SF64 remakes are getting ridiculous. The exact same thing happened in Starfox, Starfox 64, and Starfox Zero. They need to try something new without going too far from the source material, but not so close that it might as well be a remake.
Oh man, I fucking loved Starfox Adventures as a kid! I didn’t know the other games were nothing like it until I was way older, it was pretty disappointing to realize how much everyone hated it.
At 10:11 I can feel Nitro's soul leaving his body. I loved this game when i was a wee lad. I absolutely loved it, it was so special to me and NO ONE freaking knows about it. It has such a unique ambiance, the character switching the ant explosions and so many little things. Man, what a cool game for it's time. Didn't age well though, you summed it up pretty well.
I love this game. You have championed platformers from all eras, but this game is so often forgotten. Even with the Rare Replay, it was barely mentioned. Thank you for bringing it to a wider audience.
I absolutely loved this game back in the day! I think it's one of the few games I completed. Yeah, I finished this, but not OoT. We pronounced the tribals "tribbles" though. And the title was mispronounced too. What can I say, I sucked in english back then. :p
20:30 there a classic rare character usually used in cameos, his name is Mr Pants, it being the highest makes sense for a gift to "in the know" rare fans
3:46 "I don't think I know any other games that do that!" Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel will add characters to the title screen as you add them to your party, and they'll change outfits depending on what part of the game you're at. I believe the sequel does this too, but I don't remember it as much as the original's title screen.
About the title screen chaning depending on where you are in the game, I remember Miitopia's title screen changing depending on which world you currently are changing not only the background but also the title screen music(basically having a variation for each world)
NOTE: Just since a lot of people are bringing it up, I had no idea about the thing where player two could shoot at enemies as Floyd. Wish I figured that out so I could've put it in the video!
And it was the only way I could play JFG without my younger brother annoying me.. Hand him the 2nd controller and he gets to shoot things as Floyd, while I play the actual game :P
All this is really making me want to boot up my old N64 and check out where I left off my save.. I think I only had 2 levels where I hadn't found every Tribal, so I never got the real ending :(
Nitro Rad, can you please review Rocket: Robot on Wheels for Nintendo 64?
I was also curious how well you took to the Floyd missions!
Ah yes, I remember this. My brother and I discover it by accident when he got stuck on the mantis brothers boss fight as he eventually run out of ammo. We where curious about Floyd, stuck a second controller for me and starting mashing buttons to find out it has a pitiful gun but has infinine ammo, so we ended up having him move Juno side to side to dodge the bosses while I shooted at them with Floyd.
Those were the days...
Floyd's blasters were the same stuff you used for the Pistol, but they were unlimited and you could even control your rate of fire by how fast you mash your buttons.
Unlike the Pistol, Floyd doesn't have to wait for recharge after the 5-6 initial shots.
"something about ants... dude I just love ripping off there heads" some one check and see if antdude is alive I'm worried now
@@PCFROMVCS
Dude... Chill
Aimen 2 dude, it was a joke
Antdude and Nitro Rad are the Ryu and Ken of NormalBoots wannabes.
Captain Snurch they truly are
@@captainsnurch6677
How are they Normal Boots wannabes? Because they...review games?
*”Platformers, shooters, and racing games. What happens if we combine all those into one? We get-“*
Ratchet & Clank. You get Ratchet & Clank.
Retendo the PS4 one has racing
@Retendo I believe there's a prototype for hoverboot racing in CiT's insomniac museum. Shame it didn't get put in.
@Retendo It's a little bit disorienting, that one.
Ratchet and Clank 64
Is R&C: Going Commando better than Up Your Arsenal?
The Jet Force Kids cheat gives them the appearance they were supposed to have in-game at a certain point during development. In the beta, Juno and Vela were indeed supposed to be much younger. Ants as Pants transforms the drones into Mr. Pants, another Rareware character referenced in many different games. The character eventually got its own puzzle game on Game Boy Advance: "It's Mr. Pants".
Oh and, yeah, it WAS pretty awesome to see the reflection in the water puddle back in 1999 ^^.
I was looking for this comment! That’s some fun trivia right there. Only true fans know this!
I saw Mr. Pants on Boggy's tv in Banjo Tooie.
BTW, Mr. Pants were a inside-joke mascot from Rare. He had a fun puzzle game on the GBA
I really like that game.
Kind of a hidden gem imo.
That was originally a Donkey Kong Spin Off game, right?
@@TommyDeonauthsArchives Yeah it was originally Donkey Kong Coconut Crackers, an... isometric Tetris thingy? The game design stayed the same (minus the isometric view) but they must have lost the DK license or something because Mr. Pants wasn't exactly a mascot that was going to move copies and IIRC the game sold basically nothing.
Edit: The change happened when Rare was sold to Microsoft, so yeah. Last-ditch effort to salvage the game they'd been working on.
You can see him on the TV in the Polar Bears' igloo in Banjo-Tooie as well
He was originally created in MS Paint for the Rare website letters page when they couldn't find a render of a Rare character to use in time. Mr. Pants then started showing up in a bunch of cameos and eventually got his own game on Game Boy Advance. He is hilarious!
The title screen for Mario Party changes depending on which character won the previous game. For example, if Donkey Kong won the previous game, the title screen shows all the characters in the jungle area swinging on vines.
Hylianguy38 Portal 2 changes the menu based on the point in the game you’re up to as well
That game came out 21 years ago and I'm just now finding out how the title screen is picked. I honestly always thought it was just randomly selected
Most Source games show a different area of the game based on where you're at - Half Life 2, HL Source, Portal 1/2, probably more.
And SOMA
Don’t forget spec ops the line
20:30 that's MR. PANTS! He's Rareware's unofficial mascot! :D
I was wondering who was gonna say it.
He even hit his own game on GBA!
@@bigsmoke3043 "hit"?
I loved Jet Force Gemini..
It was a criminally underrated game imo..
The first time playing, reaching Mizars Palace with all 3 characters, thinking you finished the game only to find out you aren't even halfway there..
And that soundtrack! Godlike 😍😍😍
🤩 My Childhood game
I'm one of your quiet viewers. I never comment, but I watch every video. I just HAD to say, I have never personally played this game, but I was SHOCKED at how ahead of its time JFG really was. Very interesting episode. Keep up the great work.
Better then a lot of other third person shooters.
This game feels like it could've used some sort of revival. It has such a cool world and visual design, and some interesting ideas.
This is 2 years late, but I agree. I would love this getting a revival with tighter controls. And think of the environments potential! As Rad said, the abandoned space station has this amazing atmosphere. Imagine that but with today's engines. Jetforce Gemini has a special place in my heart.
This might just be me, but I'd love a video on American McGee's Alice. I don't see _anyone_ talk about that game so some exposure would be cool.
And it would help give exposure for the upcoming 3 game
Which is strange, considering how popular it was. Maybe just too much a product of its time to be much remembered?
That's one of those series that I wanted to like, but just ended up being okay. It has some neat visual elements, but the concept and story feel way too middle-school for me to enjoy now (seriously, the second game devolved into some kind of edgy revenge fantasy......like, really?). Ultimately, it felt rather shallow and just made me wish the more interesting elements were in better hands.
@@diegorojas2049 wait there's a third one coming out?
^ I was thinking the same thing. XD
A third one, huh...? Oh yeah, didn't the first seem like a proper ending but the second was a cliffhanger?
I hope it's good. :p
"...there's something about ANTs, DUDE. I just love to RIP OFF their heads"
I see what you did there, teehee...
Yet he gladly lets Anthony Dudington the 92nd collaborate with him and comment on his videos.
I remember playing multiplayer with my buddy as a kid, on December 31, 1999, while the Y2K timer was counting down. Just two kids without a care in the world. Such a classic!
Did u guys shoot each other in the arena mode? xD
When our friends brought over extra controllers (up to 4) we shot the h3ck outta each other 😂 And race each other , too~
half-life 2 and its subsequent EPs also all changed the main menu screen depending on where you are in the story, I was always really fond of that.
The last two (new) Resident Evil games had written summations of where you were at in the game during loading screens. It's unsettling to think about the amount of work and writing that went into those, that will never be seen. The only possible way to read them all, would be if someone were to move from every single minor set-piece, saving and reloading the game, just to read them.
Xenoblade chronicles 2 also did that. Too bad most people miss them since you can put the console in sleep mode to avoid having to launch the game each time.
Portal 2 as well. Can't remember if Portal 1 did so too...
I think spec ops the line did it as well with the environment around your characters camp become more withered and worn
Oh yeah! Portal 1 and 2 did the same, if I remember correctly!
Oh man... I used to love this game when I got Jet Force Gemini and an N64.
>mentions OG bionicle
POGGERS
I always played this as a kid! I'm acc really happy you did this review 🤙
That reflection from the bucket of water is even more impressive when you realize it was probably made via instancing the scene. So there's two versions of that scene being rendered: There's the one that you're seeing and the other is mirrored under the character. That means if you were to take the camera and clip through the ground, you'd see the character models and room as it appears in the reflection.
Could be.
Imagine if the N64 controller had two control sticks, then surely aiming would be less of a hassle.
There's a control setting that lets you move fully with the C buttons while aiming. It's not perfect, and takes some getting used to, due to jumping with C Up, but it does help. Then again, what you're talking about is an option on the Rare Re-play collection, so there's always that.
I’m pretty sure it’s fixed in Rare Replay. I haven’t played it, but Conker’s Bad Fur Day uses the right control stick for the camera and aiming.
You say that, but most people actually weren't fans of dual stick aiming when it was first done on the PSone, but I would chock that up partly to analogue sticks being optional on the PSone.
To this day, Jet Force Gemini's orchestral sounding score remains a personal highlight in my game soundtrack collection with its profound sense of scale and evocative themes that still make me listen to it intently this day. Not certain if it's still possible, but many years back I was able to download each and every track of JFG's original score directly from Rareware's website and I'm glad they made it available for free public download when they did as no official commercial OST was ever released back then, or now, I think.
Going back to Jet Force Gemini itself, this was a fantastic N64 game for me to pass my free time while being an electronic tech student back during the twilight years of the N64 and the games overall atmosphere conveyed an epic, grandiose sense of scale and exploration of each level. However, as pointed out in this video, Jet Force Gemini also began the wretched, repetitive formula of mandating each character to return to already explored levels in order for them to unlock specific paths and that became an infamous game design flaw even more heavily emphasized (I think for me and many others) in Donkey Kong 64, where each Kong character was required to unlock specific puzzles, doors and alternate pathways. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy! Anyway, I still love Jet Force Gemini for all of Rare's dedication to the N64 platform and how well they utilized the hardware in what is still today a visual, musical and cinematic marvel. Though, it's been a while since its release, I wonder if the control scheme for Jet Force Gemini on Retro Replay on Xbox One has ever been updated to suit a more contemporary button and joystick layout as the last time I played it, I found the controls overly cumbersome, but then again, they weren't exactly intuitive on N64 either from what I remember.
This was one of my favorites the multi-player was something I played with my uncle all the time.
The multiplayer was really underrated imo. I loved playing as Lupis the Dog.
HalfLife2 actually has something similar to Gemini's title screen, where depending where you are in the game, the background will change. They're both quite cool!
Portal 2 does this as well.
@@sugunii So does Portal 1
Battlefield Bad Company does that as well and it changes the music as well.
Hey NitroRad, the Dragon Quest XI game changes its title screen throughout the story. Since the game is a 100 hours + RPG you end up seeing a lot of them.
Fairly sure that the Witcher 3 does it too, unless you have the DLCs installed.
Well i know half life 2's title screen would change depending on where you are in the game
Also spec ops the line
And Jade Empire
Xenoblade Chronicles 2
And the most mature game of all, Miitopia. Even the music changes where you left off in the game
And Undertale, if I recall correctly.
You save some little drone that follows you around to shoot at enemies. This guy can be controlled by another player allowing some co-op play during the main story. My friend and I always enjoyed that even though we never finished the game.
Floyd, right? That was me when my godbrother played 🙋🏻♀️ Shot red laser only and had a couple of side missions where it had to fly & collect pieces of something.
@@waterywingz You're right! Thanks for reminding me. This was such a good time to play with a friend.
Blast Corps is also another N64 game by Rare that people rarely talk about these days. Killer Instinct Gold too i suppose.
i thought people love KI
Knack II gold are rarely talked about.
@@malik87breaker I see. I don't follow the KI community that much
absolutely love your vids
Wow, the feels, the nostalgia, the rage that 9y/o me experienced because I couldn't finish this game...
NitroRad doin' Jet Force? Neat :3
Also, it's pronounced "My-zar". You even get the pronunciation in the tutorial
Portal 2 has a couple diffrent title screens depending on where you are in the story
All games in the Half-Life 2 family (that is Source Engine games) have that changing title screen that shows where you left off last time.
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 changes it's Title Screen after each Chapter.
doesn't HL2 do the same thing?
It's the little things that leave an impression sometimes.
I can't think of any off the top of my head, but I think it'd be cool to have a random set of title screens for each point of progression, maybe like 2-3 for each major point. It'd be really nice for a game that you'd expect to start and stop often, like an RPG or a mobile game etc.
@@amazydaisybackup3966 It does. I think Portal does it to if i remember correctly.
Didnt mogeko castle and misao also do that
Newer Super Mario Bros Wii also does it.
It will be remade one day. I don’t know when, but i have this feeling that it will. It deserves it. One of my all time favorites.
It deserves a proper remake, one with better controls and such. That would make me VERY happy.
@@ReesesBees it already did on xbox one
You didn't mention the co OP gameplay
The second player can control the tiny robot
The sound the robot made was so fucking annoying that I'm not sure how many people actually did it
I mean I know it was a 5 second thing but yeah Bionicle was the best. The 20th anniversary is coming up soon, and on Instagram Christian Faber (someone who made a lot of stuff for Bionicle) is making concept art to propose a possible Bionicle Gen 3 to Lego.
The Fuzzy Ocelot Bionicle! I remember that! People used to talk about it when I was kid, back in primary school. I always thought it was weird.
The snowman looking guys are MR PANTS, another Rare gem
A friend of mine loves this game, and I got to watch him play the whole thing once. One thing I found pretty cool is that the second player can take control of that little robot (the thing hovering over the character's left shoulder at 13:14) and help out by shooting things and whatnot. He had me do that once or twice... which he probably regretted, since I accidentally killed a few Tribals, thus forcing him to replay the whole stage all over again.
...Oops. Ah well, we both still had fun anyway. lol
I have so much nostalgia for this game haha... I remember renting it when I was a kid and playing the multiplayer with my dad (and drawing the characters over and over), and then in high school I discovered eBay existed and bought a copy for $4 to revisit it. Needless to say, I didn't finish it (that second half gets everybody) but I did have a really good time just exploring and playing through it until I'd had my fill. I think it's worth at least checking out, but definitely not completing. Thanks for covering an old favourite of mine!
I'm with ya on the lost colony track. Loved the music in SA2!
This game looks more interesting and original then most modern games today lol.
*Cough* Call of Duty *cough*
@@Vulpas its still a fun game, at least the first half with the xbox controls.
@@RarityArchive the game was fun. I played it on an N64, it needs a remake or sequel and that won't happen.
nah COD is cool@@mrdreamy1747
I'm so happy you did a review of this game! More people need to remember this classic!
3:30 - "Jet Se - Jet Force Gemini!"
LOL, why? XD That was funny though. :p
Aw, Jet Set Radio games... are you ever going to cover those too? :p
Almost at 200k subs bro i know in no time your going to hit 1 mil but when you do don’t forget about us loyal fans 😄
I remember seeing a TH-camr put this on their games that haven't aged well list, and I never thought you'd cover it. Great review as always, Nitro!
Thank you so much for choosing this game man... Nostalgia and the feeling of someone else describing their memories and current opinions of it is weirdly nice for this particular game for me.
Because no one knows it. I thought people knew about it until I started looking for other people's opinions on it.
I would love to see an HD remake for this on the 3DS or Switch. Aside from it's technical problems it looks really fun! Lots of creativity went into it.
I doubt it will ever happen
It's criminally underrated!! Had a hard time getting through the part where you fight the zombie ants and bugs.
JFG was my favorite N64 title. The controls took some getting used to, but were not too bad considering the console's limitations. I appreciated how Rare pushed things on the N64. No one else really wanted to take the risks they took.
I still play this game to this day.
No game has captured such excellent everything in a game.
If this game we're made nowadays it'd be such an iconic and unique experience in a good way. I'd love to see this game with current gen consoles.
Actually something i found out recently is Dragonball Z budokai changes the title screen with each arc you do in the story.
I thought game was pretty cool, Lupus the dog is Adorable. The one thing I didn't like was the controls, and that the Praying Mantis Boss was hard to Defeat. It would be cool if they eventually made a sequel to this underrated game.
Thanks for makin this video. I had this game on my mind recently. I had a vague memory about this game so it was good to see it again.
This was my all-time favorite Rare game, second only to Banjo-Kazooie. The brilliant mixture of action/adventure and third person shooter genres mixed with a colorful and cartoonish sci-fi setting was very captivating for me. And the breathtaking space opera style music was some of the best I've ever heard on the N64. Even today, I still listen to "SS Anubis" or "Sekhmet" sometimes.
This is a game I always loved as a kid and one that I would adore seeing a proper remake or sequel to it someday. The core gameplay and concepts are awesome and I would love to see it in the modern day!
It was way ahead of it's time. I'd LOVE a sequel. But I have as much hope for a Jet Force Gemini sequel as I do a Burning Rangers sequel.
Rare really had a masterful understanding of the N64 console....
3:37 DKC for the GBC does that too. I like it too, it's a nice touch
Don't know if anyone mentioned this but both Tomb Raider Legend and Anniversary change their title screens through every location you progress through in the game also.
Bionicle was SO dope!
Also, a pretty well known example of a game using title screen changes based on progress is A Link Between Worlds :)
Great video, i appreciate how in depth you go into every game.
3:50 Man, I am drawing blank on examples, but I grew up with a load of these, and it always blew kid-me away.
This is one of my favorite game and I really liked your review. Completly acknowledged the problems of the game and yes, that Rare Replay version is the best way to play JFG now :).
Seriously, how do you manage to make 20+ minute long videos this frequently? O_o
Probably by having passion in his works, and enjoying the fact that he's entertaining, informative, and down-to-earth with his videos. He's a good guy in every aspect.
Well this is his job, after all :D
Yeah, he went full time a while ago! I'd imagine that weekly is pretty reasonable for 20-30 min videos as long as you're getting footage ahead of when you're doing the video. Other than that, the most time consuming portion would be scripts and editing.
I'm just glad that his focus is on actually putting out material and not going for production values that are *too* high for not much difference in the actual content *cough* JonTron *cough*
I swear when i saw this comment i was like "wait, have 20 minutes passed already?!"
According to his Twitter, he actually had the review finished a couple days ago, but he wanted to grab footage for the Rare Replay footage, so he had to wait for it to come in, then try it out on his friends xBox one.
Subbed from this video. I loved this game as a kid and your analysis was spot off.
Yes! Someone is talking about this game! This is one of my favorites and I'm glad it's getting shown in the light, it deserves it.
I love this game in my top 5 of all time
What is your top 5 games?
I would love it if you could review the jak and daxter trilogy
Thank you for covering this game! I thought it was some sort of fever dream I had as a kid
This game, *this game*. For years I had this memory at the back of my head of some game commercial where a swarm of insects gnaws off the entire Earth. Couldn't find it, couldn't remember the name. Now you post this, I search for the title and boom. There it is.
Thanks for finally bringing an end to my search, James!
No wonder it was one of the lesser remembered titles of the era.
Can you play Metal Arms: Glitch in the System? It's a very under-rated game with cute robots, platforming and action. I think it deserves some love
You forgot the coop with the litle robot you just plug in a second controller and ypu get this wee litle gun
And he gets his own missions! Talk about the aiming in those!
There's just something about this more laid back calm video approach I like so much more than forced humor. Good job my dude
Nitro Rad, thank you so much for review all this game of my childhood, it means so much for me that someone is paying atention of these rare games of the N64 like space station silicon Valley and Jet force gemini, i have good memorys of those games, keep the good work man and thank you again
10:05 Better watch out AntDude...
Maybe you are *next* on his list.
Half Life 2 changes the menu screen depending what chapter you are
I absolutely love and adore this game. It was the first one I got on N64, and being a Gemini with a “twin” sister, this was and is home to me
Valve games like half life and portal change the title screens depending on the progress too, very cool stuff
Huh, never knew that about Portal. Might be because I always finished it in one sitting.
Do a review on Donkey Kong 64!=^) Present what it did bad and what could have been better!
Donkey Kong 64 has great music and worlds, the music and atmosphere is magic.
Music absolutely has a language, and it's meant to speak to and evoke emotions or mirror events. As such, your read of Lost Colony's theme is probably accurate.
hell yeah I love that theme and actually a lot more people like the mech stages then you'd think, I loved them personally.
24:45
I really like it.
One thing I also really like is how it showed the Star Fox team down on their luck. That they are warriors and without a war they just degrade and fall into disrepair. For me at least showing that the characters can have theirs ups and downs really helps make them more believable. It also makes it so good to see them back in their prime during Assault. Knowing they had to work for it and that this is a state in their lives rather than some status quo. I also really like how it focused exclusively on 1 planet and therefore got people to connect to it. It gave the Sauria mission in assault which is by far my favorite as it felt so much more personal.
I kind of hope they will do something like that again at some point. Not necessarily the exact same thing but make a smaller scale Starfox game. That focuses on just 1 planet and really goes into it's people, it's beliefs, it's geography and everything. That's why regardless of the quality of the game itself I do think it's inclusion in the Star fox franchise is overwhelmingly positive. Assault showed that Star Fox could evolve which is why I don't like Zero from the moment it appeared. It felt more like a regression than anything else.
I never really had any attachment to 64. I did try it but it just felt like an inferior version of Assault in pretty much every way.
I just remembered my childhood watching this. Man really nice and complete review! I'd like to add a feature you didn't mention: co-op on main story. Once you have the little drone following you, if you put controller 2, the second player could control the drone and shoot with it (like controlling tails on Sonic2). That was the only reason for my sister play a shooter with me. lol
they are gonna be in the new guardians of the galaxy movie
You'd better be joking...
What happened to Kyle's tie? It's transcending.
AND DID YOU SAY TOA GALI?
Waiting for some shitty Bionicle games review now.
And looking for that SFA review even more, I love this game. I just don't like the respawning imps/little_dinosaur_thingies_that_fly_and_scream_at_you
Oh my God, there were so many terrible Bionicle games...
A few good ones though, but so, so many bad ones.
@@Dargonhuman I'd say there are like 2 good ones lol
@@setteplays MNOG and Bionicle Heroes?
@@Dargonhuman Precisely
@@setteplays You have exceptional taste, my friend.
I played this back when it was released.
Jet Force Gemini was a blast to play and I even written a fanfiction out of it based on the close sibling relationship between Juno and Vela when they were in the middle of a life and death battle.
Really good game but it does have its share of control issues in regards to trying to convert it to the XBox One platform.
It was clearly made around the N64 controller.
The last boss Mizar was impossible for me to beat so I can say I played though all of the game back in the day but could never get to see the final scenes after the final boss due to how difficult it was.
Boss battles were really the weakness of this game.
But I still love it, but needs a strategy guide to get all of the Tribals in order to get to the final level.
I'll always remember getting this game for Christmas in 2001 along with the N64, my first console. I was 10 at the time and Jet Force Gemini was my favorite game that I owned for the N64. So much nostalgia. I love the classic N64 games, but I've probably played this more then all of them, aside from the 007 games, because I played those long before I owned an N64 at friends' and family's houses. I got the N64 after most people I knew had a GameCube, PS2, or XBOX. I was so stoked.
StarFox Adventures was really good.
I had more fun with Adventures than with nearly every Zelda game.
“It doesn’t play like every other Star Fox game and it is a spin-off, therefore it’s terrible. I’m just going to play Starfox 64 for the rest of my life :(“
For an actual opinion, Adventures is alright for me. Better than the DS Zelda Games, Oracle of Seasons and Ages, Zelda 1 and 2, and TBH Majora’s Mask, so that’s something.
@@peppinoandweskerfriendsfor3450 I'm tired of the 64 remakes and reboots. Star fox Assault and Commands are things too. So do something with those
Neintendew
I forgot about command-
That game is terrible. But yeah, these SF64 remakes are getting ridiculous. The exact same thing happened in Starfox, Starfox 64, and Starfox Zero. They need to try something new without going too far from the source material, but not so close that it might as well be a remake.
Oh man, I fucking loved Starfox Adventures as a kid! I didn’t know the other games were nothing like it until I was way older, it was pretty disappointing to realize how much everyone hated it.
Can you review Banjo Kazooie or Donkey Kong 64 after you do Starfox Adventure?
(Assuming thats what you were foreshadowing at the end)
At 10:11 I can feel Nitro's soul leaving his body.
I loved this game when i was a wee lad.
I absolutely loved it, it was so special to me and NO ONE freaking knows about it.
It has such a unique ambiance, the character switching the ant explosions and so many little things. Man, what a cool game for it's time.
Didn't age well though, you summed it up pretty well.
I love this game.
You have championed platformers from all eras, but this game is so often forgotten. Even with the Rare Replay, it was barely mentioned.
Thank you for bringing it to a wider audience.
Nitro Rare episode!
Yeah, Rare had some sub-par titles even when they were under Nintendo. Their logo is golden, but all their games are not.
“This is the first game I’ve seen with a lot of title screens”
Mario Kart 8: Am I a joke to you?
I absolutely loved this game back in the day! I think it's one of the few games I completed. Yeah, I finished this, but not OoT.
We pronounced the tribals "tribbles" though. And the title was mispronounced too. What can I say, I sucked in english back then. :p
20:30 there a classic rare character usually used in cameos, his name is Mr Pants, it being the highest makes sense for a gift to "in the know" rare fans
Wheren't there a dubbed introduction where it clearly says "MAIZA"?
darkIkarus I always heard “MIZAR” whenever I heard fhat
Um, should I be worried about the whole head ripping off thing..? All Ants or just ones of the "Dude" variety?
3:46 "I don't think I know any other games that do that!"
Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel will add characters to the title screen as you add them to your party, and they'll change outfits depending on what part of the game you're at. I believe the sequel does this too, but I don't remember it as much as the original's title screen.
I absolutely loved this game as a kid. I played it a lot and was able to unlock everything.
Great vídeo!!!! As allways🤜🤛
Make a Ratchet and Clank video Please!😣
I never clicked so fast in my life.
My man. Stole the words right out of my mouth. This game was godlike.
About the title screen chaning depending on where you are in the game, I remember Miitopia's title screen changing depending on which world you currently are changing not only the background but also the title screen music(basically having a variation for each world)
Oh hey, this is in the Rare Replay collection! Nice, glad to know they didn't forget about it.