It's more noticeable when you're reviewing footage. But, if you watch at 11:54, you can see a point where the collision detection is way off. I get killed by the frog, despite there being a sizable gap between it and myself. That doesn't happen *often* in the game, but enough for you to go... hmmmm, there's something a little off here.
The compromise between infinite lives and dying continuously was the continue ‘cheat’ that let you continue on the game over screen at the cost of $400 and hold up on the d-pad pressing button 2 continuously (apparently 8 time).
I think the issue could be that the underlying game is based on the version with the old graphics regardless of which mode you're in, including the hit boxes, but the new graphics are a bit more dynamic in size and shape. Even his idle frame is a bit shorter in the new version, so I'm wondering if you can get killed by something which appears to fly over your head.
There's a significant issue that John from Digital Foundry was discussing on their weekly Podcast. For every 6 frames there's only 5 frames of animation, so every 5 frames it skips a frame and it makes it feel completely off. Not that the original game isn't hard already, but this issue is creating an even bigger problem with precision and movement. He speculated that they may have started the project code based on the PAL version of the game, then the project spiraled passed the point of being able to correct. That would make sense mathematically (50hz > 60hz). You can visibly see the micro stutter watching footage.
This is the best review I've seen. Everyone else is gushing about it without any criticism. Thanks for providing the uninitiated among us with a level-headed perspective!
I've seen a lot of reviews bashing it, honestly. Push Square definitely didn't like it...going as far as to ponder who even asked for this remake in the first place. It has more right to exist than the two Bubsy games we got a few years prior, but I'll agree that it's a bit flawed.
This guy is full of crap.. it's a great remake. I put about 5000 hours into the original as a kid. This guy obviously played it just a few times. It is a difficult game, don't expect to beat it easily. Controls are slippery, and you have to basically remember the whole game. That being said, I don't like some of the boss changes, but the new music is really fun.
The food additions are very cute references to the teams behind DX: Jankenteam is a spanish team thus the Spanish Omelette, and Merge Games is British hence good ol' Fish and Chips. Love it.
That scary hidden sprite was the dummy that the devs used for testing levels, they even did a full cover with him, they share that info on some talks and even shared a poster on twitter
Mate, the dragon ball info blew my mind! The master system II was my first console and I poured hours into this game with my dad and uncle. It will always hold a special place in my heart. We could never get passed the castle where you save his brother. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, I learned a lot too :)
On the release day, the devs participated in some Twitch streams with spanish gaming influencers, as they're spanish. Turns out that the issue with the precission is actually a design decission to remain more faithful to the original, and not a bug or a flawed implementation, even they had toyed with other controls and those were just disabled (I believe that's the reason why there are those assets for adjusting the hitboxes). Seeing the reports from these streammers live and the community in general, they announced that they would enable these better controls as an option in an upcomming patch but the reviews were already on the way and it lost its momentum. Patch rolled 3 months later and nowadays there are options to enable reworked controls and adjusted collisions, which would make the game much more enjoyable.
Hello! I'm Daniel Parrado, the programmer of this game. Sorry for taking so much time to comment but I shit you not: I have been looking for this video for years. I watched a ton of reviews back in the days of the release so I wasn't able to find this one. That weird sprite was a joke between Josyan and me. He told me he used to have an unconventional interpretation of the frog enemy's sprite when he was a little kid. He thought the nostrils were the eyes and the actual eyes were some kind of ears. Then Josyan modified Alex' main sprite by adding the frog "face" and we called him "The actual hero of the game", "the actual main character", etc, as a joke. Some time after that, I began using said sprite as a placeholder when I was coding the logic of the enemies while Narehop was making the final art. I was pretty sure I removed all references to frog-kidd but looks like I left some behind and Unity Engine added it to the final build. So, mistery solved! Thank you so much for the video, really appreciate it!
I always knew it was wrong but I imagined lyrics to the titles being "Alex the Kidd, Alex the Kidd, Alex the Kidd in Miracle World as it matches the beat.
I only played this recently on an emulator on a Pentium Pro machine - my wife asked if I could find the game, as she played it on her GAM BOY she had as a kid. Needless to say it took me forever to find the game as I was sure it was a Nintendo title. Turns out, South Koreans had a Samsung Master System called GAM BOY lol. Neat game though, I was also getting frustrated at the precision required.
Maybe hiring talented teams developing fan games as a labour of love rather than hitting them with cease-and-desist orders is something other companies could do * cough * _AM2R_ * cough *
Contrary to popular belief, Nintendo generally only goes after fan games that are A) lewd, B) Pokemon or C) they are actively working on a game like it. And they let it release. The absolutely could have sent the C&D before release and yet they waited for it to release for whatever reason
I remember when I got my Master System II back in the day. One of my buddies from school told me to get an Amiga instead but I went with the Sega machine and fell in love with Alex Kidd. Absolutely love the channel and the content. Nothing I love better than to watch one of your videos when the insomnia has fully kicked in...like tonight. 👍🏻💚
I have been replaying the original Alex Kidd In Miracle World recently I totally forgot how difficult the game was never got far when i was a kid I remember losing that many times that I took the Cartridge outside and repeatedly jumped on it, booted it at the wall then for some reason I buried in in the garden I turned on console on and of course bloody Alex Kidd booted up scared the crap out of me as I thought it was haunted.
I have literally about 30 minutes ago got the platinum trophy on the PS5. I loved every minute of it. The minute I seen it I pre ordered it instantly. I used to play this on the Master System II with my dad when I was a 7 year old. The nostalgia level was on overload but what a great remake.
It looks worse plus they cheaped-out by removing the power LED, and worst of all removing the RGB/Composite-out port, leaving just the RF port. The MK1 is much nicer, even nicer still if you can score a Japanese one that has FM sound, autofire and 3D glasses socket built-in
Very fair review, I have a lot of nostalgia for this game and have just completed this today without infinite lives. It's like the Dark Souls of its day, incredibly frustrating and difficult on the one hand, but very satisfying and rewarding once you beat it. I think the guys who made this did a stellar job, too. I am just over the moon this is a thing that exists.
I doubt brexit had anything to with the missing coin...it's more like it never existed in the first place. Game devs are as full of it as lying politicians. Personally I preferred The Lost Stars it was a much better (and less difficult) game. Keep up the good work! 🖒😎✌
The game coin definitely exists. We got it here in the states. If you want to see what one looks like check out Game Sack's coverage of this game. They gave us a money pouch with the medallion inside.
Having a graphical option to switch between modern and retro pixel art is something that was also done for the recent remakes/remasters of Command & Conquer - Remastered .. Available on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1213210/Command__Conquer_Remastered_Collection/ If anyone fondly remembers playing this in the 90s and would like the exact same game, but with tons of fixes, made utterly beautiful and lots of optional customizations.. I REALLY can't recommend this game enough.. You can press SPACE BAR any time in-game to swap, seamlessly, between beautiful modern graphics and the glorious old voxel art C&C-Remastered is exactly what Command and Conquer should have always been, none of that Generals / RA3 crap when EA came in and pissed all over the strategy and army/base-building aspects of the game, opting instead to focus almost entirely on graphics rather than strategy and gameplay. C&C-R is perfect.
Just got myself a switch so this is really cool to know is a thing! I never had a Master System back in the day but my best friend did. This was a rental his dad found and we found is quite different and enjoyed it. Fast forward to my collecting days and I fiund a stack of games still with boxes in a thrift store. One title of course was Alexx Kid! Now nostalgia is tricky thing, but I have grown fond of how some titles on the old Sega still have a good level of challenge. Maybe it was because I never played them endlessly as I did with a few NES games I had. Still not my favorite platform game on the system, that goes to "Wonder Boy in Monster Land"! If I could get my hands on an old arcade cabinet of that I'd drown in nostalgia!
"Thanks to Brexit ... ahhhh, the sweet taste of xenophobia." Cool, now we can't even get away from politics even for 1 minute in video game reviews. *_EPIC!_*
that was my face too when i ordered those crappy clip on sunglasses, i eventually found much better ones with a smaller clip that doesn't make you look like rick moranis
Thanks for the upload, you mention needing a patch, looks like it came just out of time for the review at 18:27. Never mind, it’s there if you pick it up again when those glasses go back on 😎
I had a Master System MK1 so when ever i hear the name I'm filled with resentment that all i got was a snail 🐌 (F*** You Alex, I didn't want you anyway) This rant was sponsored by Square Face..... like my MK1 it has an angular design.
To land a jump without over-running when you land on a narrow block, I let go of the DPad/Analog entirely once I see he's landed, and stick the landings now. It only took me since 1987 to 2021 to figure that trick out. ;)
Via Steam, I've been able to play the Alex Kidd and Wonder Boy III remakes and rediscover two childhood favourites. WBIII was a delight to play again, whereas I requested a refund on Kidd after less than an hour of play.
The idea of a game being too hard "for kids" Is nonsense. Kids are good at games. Better than adults. And on top fo thatv they have tons of time to replay and refine and beat it, unlike busy adults. Hig difficulty is perfect FOR KIDS. Grown ups are not better by default.
Loved that game despite it being flippin stupid hard as a kid, glad someone has addressed this , great work , ps that switch mode is a masterstoke , old view all day for me
when I was about 10 or so, I had one of those bootleg retro emulators, and I played alex kidd in the enchanted castle. That and sonic and knuckles, ecco the dolphin, and kid chameleon
Pete can I ask how much you had to pay in full for the signature edition version including the import fees to the UK? It's sold out at the moment but I might pick it up but with a 20% customs tax I believe this would make it £60.53, was there any additional courier charge?
Played this game to the point I know it backwards when I was a kid and I'm kinda confused... Where is the section at 15:39 in the video? I don't recall that anywhere. My recollection was that you had 2 encounters with Scissors-Head, one at the end of the volcano level and then at the end of pissy short level before the gyrocopter stage. Where the hell is the scene at 15:39 from though? Was this a region difference or something? I'm in Australia.
I don't think that the Brexit thing with the coin is xenophobia, but what do I know. Either way it's pretty silly, but I imagine that they would have given it if they could.
Do you think they kept the glitch where on the master system, when the game went into demo mode showing gameplay - if you put any cartridge in at the time it would sometimes let you suddenly play from that level!
In regards to the jumping issues you mentioned, was it the same on the Switch version? It looks like the sort of thing you see when using a controller with analog buttons.
1:09... Oh, GD it, I thought the backwards text flying across the screen was an Easter Egg so paused the vid to read it, and then it comes up the right way round immediately after :D
I was definitely torn on this one. Alex Kidd was the first game I owned so it holds a lot of nostalgia. But damn, it has it's issues. The sheer amount of randomness is an absolute nightmare. Personally, my go to is the M2 Sega Ages version for it's handy rewind which I found a better alternative to infinite lives. But as a treat and a fun diversion this is a good follow up if you are looking for more.
I never completed it back in the day, but played it so much that when I rebought a master system I was able to get to the exact same point as I always use to die at first try, level 10, the muscle memory is strong with this one!
I enjoyed the vehicle sections of Miracle World, but I always enjoyed Alex in Shinobi World and the Lost Stars much more overall. I always wanted to explore hi-tech world more but I never got out of the house lol.
Only reason I haven't bought this is that a little while ago I grabbed the original port that's already on the switch. The difficulty was insane and I heavily used the rewind button to finish it, otherwise I would have barely got one or two levels in before frustration kicks in. I wish every retro port just had a rewind button now to let me see a game through. Been meaning to go through Enchanted Castle since that's the one I actually grew up with.
I didn't care for the style of the updated sprites, so I passed on this game, and bought Monster World IV, instead. I would've preferred Lizard Cube's hand drawn style.
When I was a kid and got to play Mario, I had endless patience for it. I no longer have that for it and that seems as frustrating as I find trying to play. You know it's bad when you resort to save stating in the middle of a level just to not have to all start over when that damn whatever kills you.
The best "in Miracle/Monster World" game is, by far, "Wonderboy in Monster World" That game is a true masterpiece in almost every aspect. Fluid, beautiful, good (albeit weird) story, gameplay is top notch too. All hail Shion.. and screw pygmy armor
You should review Yeti's ''Alex Kidd 3 - Curse In Miracle World'' when you get a chance, that game is probably the best the series has to offer so far, bigger levels, new bosses, more detailed graphics and new music all on the original Sega Master System.
The "switch between new and old graphics with the push of a button" thing reminds me of the remaster of Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap... Which is similarly still-frustrating (I haven't played the original but the remaster felt a bit janky). I guess it's a Master System thing.
I just don't get why in the 80s and 90s localisation teams didn't think we could understand rice cakes. Like especially in video games where a power up can just be an abstract shape anyway.
I could get to get to the end boss but never beat him as the moving shuriken always got me. I did find a continue code that used points as cost so when you didn't have enough game over.
The Alex games mess with my nostalgia brain when i see them cause i feel like i played them when i was a kid and have memories of them, but i cant remember if i actually did or not. It's a weird feeling to have nostalgia for something that you can't quite remember playing.
Alex kid (or Alex the kid as I always called it) was my first gaming love, at least until mario and sonic came along. Loved the master system my first console I owned. Maybe that's the reason I prefer it over the NES.
I can't say I have that much trouble with Sonic 3 and Knuckles. Or any of the old Sonic games. I was really confused when someone I knew was playing through Sonic 2 and said they were spamming save states every five seconds nearly. Especially since the only real difficult part of the games is the final boss usually due to no rings.
@@TheGuyWhoIsSitting I feel that what i felt frustrating with S3 wasn't the same as Alex Kid, but what i feel frustrating was the length of the game plus the "trolls" on level design.
@@CG09_TMP It's not the dificulty, but the game drags, way too long.. also when we get a nice speed the level design put a unavoidable obstacle that make us slow down
Games like this are hard for us now. At that time we were more „hardcore“, because most games were harder. No save features, less levels, a lot arcade ports. Now you have games for casuals. A lot of checkpoints per level, autosave, easy game modes, sometimes immortality or a chance to skip when you die to often. When i play an old game now i die fast. Mostly i don‘t even get the first level.
@@apri1979 Sorry, I thought you were trying to say that gaming today was for casuals and "back in your day they had real video games" kind of thing. My bad
@@flightlesschicken7769 Okay, then the mistake was on my side. But the core is the same. Back in the day there were a lot of arcade ports which were very hard. But still then i played games like „Super Ghouls and Ghosts“ to the end. Today i‘m not able anymore. ;-) But as i later heard the japanese people were even more „hardcore“, so the games they made were very hard for western people, too. Today, and this is still my opinion, they games were too easy in comparison. You can save any time, you have more lives or what ever.
1:57 That strange name sounded strange 👀 so I looked it up. I can only find one website that mentions the "mythical giant monkey beast house prince" thing and I can't figure out where they got "osaru-ka no ouji" from or where were they got the idea that it means "mythical giant monkey beast house prince"... Osaru just means a normal "monkey" 😂😂 and "Alex Kidd Osaru" doesn't sound anything like a "pun" in Japanese. Does anybody know where that came from?
The cartridge version of Alex Kidd in Miracle World that we got in Canada circa 1987, which I think was imported from Europe or at least it was an NTSC version but with the European 5-language manual, had Alex Kidd eating an onigiri between screens. I guess that preceded the hamburger version a lot of western countries got.
Same here. I had an early Mastersystem release in the UK (the control pad still had the screw-in joystick), but it definitely had the Rice Ball / Onigiri on the cartridge version I played. And eventually completely finished after swearing at the penultimate level many, MANY times. Took me ages to realise that the little white hut with the black door which which Alex ate at the end of each level was actually just a very oversized foodstuff.
The original US release had the onigiri. I think I got mine in 1987, so it must have been mostly early western copies that weren't "burgerized". I didn't know anyone else with a Master System. A few friends bought a Power Base converter for their Genesis because Master System games because super cheap here for a time, though I didn't know the hamburger version existed before youtube.
on a related note, i decided to ''try'' (if u know what i mean) the latest monster world remake , i was expecting it to be total trash, but i hate to admit, i was smiling when playing it due to the music......i might actually buy it when on sale , the game isn't great, certainly not as good as the original, but that is nostalgia for u i guess......
Hint (not a spoiler). Underwater spikes won't kill you if you let Alex just swim through. Don't press up, and you're good to go. PS: this is OG tech, not something new for this remake.
It's more noticeable when you're reviewing footage. But, if you watch at 11:54, you can see a point where the collision detection is way off. I get killed by the frog, despite there being a sizable gap between it and myself. That doesn't happen *often* in the game, but enough for you to go... hmmmm, there's something a little off here.
1:02 That backwards text was intentional wasn't it? Cheeky.
The compromise between infinite lives and dying continuously was the continue ‘cheat’ that let you continue on the game over screen at the cost of $400 and hold up on the d-pad pressing button 2 continuously (apparently 8 time).
This game wasn't hard. Play Rick Dangerous then get back to me
Oh, no! You don't get your coin because of xenophobia?? What a douche.
I think the issue could be that the underlying game is based on the version with the old graphics regardless of which mode you're in, including the hit boxes, but the new graphics are a bit more dynamic in size and shape. Even his idle frame is a bit shorter in the new version, so I'm wondering if you can get killed by something which appears to fly over your head.
There's a significant issue that John from Digital Foundry was discussing on their weekly Podcast. For every 6 frames there's only 5 frames of animation, so every 5 frames it skips a frame and it makes it feel completely off. Not that the original game isn't hard already, but this issue is creating an even bigger problem with precision and movement. He speculated that they may have started the project code based on the PAL version of the game, then the project spiraled passed the point of being able to correct. That would make sense mathematically (50hz > 60hz). You can visibly see the micro stutter watching footage.
This is the best review I've seen. Everyone else is gushing about it without any criticism. Thanks for providing the uninitiated among us with a level-headed perspective!
I've seen a lot of reviews bashing it, honestly. Push Square definitely didn't like it...going as far as to ponder who even asked for this remake in the first place. It has more right to exist than the two Bubsy games we got a few years prior, but I'll agree that it's a bit flawed.
This guy is full of crap.. it's a great remake. I put about 5000 hours into the original as a kid. This guy obviously played it just a few times. It is a difficult game, don't expect to beat it easily. Controls are slippery, and you have to basically remember the whole game. That being said, I don't like some of the boss changes, but the new music is really fun.
The food additions are very cute references to the teams behind DX: Jankenteam is a spanish team thus the Spanish Omelette, and Merge Games is British hence good ol' Fish and Chips. Love it.
That scary hidden sprite was the dummy that the devs used for testing levels, they even did a full cover with him, they share that info on some talks and even shared a poster on twitter
Mate, the dragon ball info blew my mind! The master system II was my first console and I poured hours into this game with my dad and uncle. It will always hold a special place in my heart. We could never get passed the castle where you save his brother. Thanks for the trip down memory lane, I learned a lot too :)
On the release day, the devs participated in some Twitch streams with spanish gaming influencers, as they're spanish. Turns out that the issue with the precission is actually a design decission to remain more faithful to the original, and not a bug or a flawed implementation, even they had toyed with other controls and those were just disabled (I believe that's the reason why there are those assets for adjusting the hitboxes). Seeing the reports from these streammers live and the community in general, they announced that they would enable these better controls as an option in an upcomming patch but the reviews were already on the way and it lost its momentum. Patch rolled 3 months later and nowadays there are options to enable reworked controls and adjusted collisions, which would make the game much more enjoyable.
Hello!
I'm Daniel Parrado, the programmer of this game.
Sorry for taking so much time to comment but I shit you not: I have been looking for this video for years.
I watched a ton of reviews back in the days of the release so I wasn't able to find this one.
That weird sprite was a joke between Josyan and me.
He told me he used to have an unconventional interpretation of the frog enemy's sprite when he was a little kid.
He thought the nostrils were the eyes and the actual eyes were some kind of ears.
Then Josyan modified Alex' main sprite by adding the frog "face" and we called him "The actual hero of the game", "the actual main character", etc, as a joke.
Some time after that, I began using said sprite as a placeholder when I was coding the logic of the enemies while Narehop was making the final art.
I was pretty sure I removed all references to frog-kidd but looks like I left some behind and Unity Engine added it to the final build.
So, mistery solved!
Thank you so much for the video, really appreciate it!
I always knew it was wrong but I imagined lyrics to the titles being "Alex the Kidd, Alex the Kidd, Alex the Kidd in Miracle World as it matches the beat.
I honestly don't know how I was able to beat this game as a kid because it's definitely frustrating as hell. I love it despite that.
That intro song is literally my first memory in gaming.
My Dad actually completed it. I didn't realise how legendary that was until now.
I only played this recently on an emulator on a Pentium Pro machine - my wife asked if I could find the game, as she played it on her GAM BOY she had as a kid. Needless to say it took me forever to find the game as I was sure it was a Nintendo title. Turns out, South Koreans had a Samsung Master System called GAM BOY lol. Neat game though, I was also getting frustrated at the precision required.
Maybe hiring talented teams developing fan games as a labour of love rather than hitting them with cease-and-desist orders is something other companies could do * cough * _AM2R_ * cough *
As the saying goes: Sega does what Nintendon't
Nintendo themselves had a remake of Metroid 2 in the making at that time though
Contrary to popular belief, Nintendo generally only goes after fan games that are A) lewd, B) Pokemon or C) they are actively working on a game like it.
And they let it release. The absolutely could have sent the C&D before release and yet they waited for it to release for whatever reason
@@flightlesschicken7769 so what about Mario's c64 version? It got cease and desist.
@@jbinary82 I did say generally. But it also was substantially similar to something they do sell
I remember when I got my Master System II back in the day. One of my buddies from school told me to get an Amiga instead but I went with the Sega machine and fell in love with Alex Kidd. Absolutely love the channel and the content. Nothing I love better than to watch one of your videos when the insomnia has fully kicked in...like tonight.
👍🏻💚
Alex kidd in Shinobi World was my favorite from the Master System
Alex Kidd with music and gameplay from Shinobi? What's not to love??
I would love a remake of Alex Kidd in Shinobi World next.
Oh my god that f'ing swim through the spikes room, I'm having repressed memories surface.
omg, the doll that gives you an additional life is SO cute in the new version
I have been replaying the original Alex Kidd In Miracle World recently I totally forgot how difficult the game was never got far when i was a kid I remember losing that many times that I took the Cartridge outside and repeatedly jumped on it, booted it at the wall then for some reason I buried in in the garden
I turned on console on and of course bloody Alex Kidd booted up scared the crap out of me as I thought it was haunted.
I have literally about 30 minutes ago got the platinum trophy on the PS5. I loved every minute of it.
The minute I seen it I pre ordered it instantly. I used to play this on the Master System II with my dad when I was a 7 year old. The nostalgia level was on overload but what a great remake.
Never liked how the MkII Master System looks. Always have and will until the day I die. MkI is great.
It looks worse plus they cheaped-out by removing the power LED, and worst of all removing the RGB/Composite-out port, leaving just the RF port. The MK1 is much nicer, even nicer still if you can score a Japanese one that has FM sound, autofire and 3D glasses socket built-in
Very fair review, I have a lot of nostalgia for this game and have just completed this today without infinite lives. It's like the Dark Souls of its day, incredibly frustrating and difficult on the one hand, but very satisfying and rewarding once you beat it. I think the guys who made this did a stellar job, too. I am just over the moon this is a thing that exists.
THIS IS THE DARK SOULS OF COMMENTS REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Man my MasterSystem2 was great, but that sliding door on it was tough and loud. Thought I was going to break it every time! 🤣 ....Love Alex Kidd!
An interesting remake of a classic of my youth, which incidentally was also built into a limited batch of the first generation Master Systems.
I doubt brexit had anything to with the missing coin...it's more like it never existed in the first place. Game devs are as full of it as lying politicians. Personally I preferred The Lost Stars it was a much better (and less difficult) game. Keep up the good work! 🖒😎✌
The game coin definitely exists. We got it here in the states. If you want to see what one looks like check out Game Sack's coverage of this game. They gave us a money pouch with the medallion inside.
Thanks, loved the video outro... glad I stayed until the very end, worth it!
No way! as a kid I always thought that the annoying flying guy that follows you was a walrus head for some reason. Turns out wizard dude who knew.
10:23 This background reminds me of both Altered Beast's opening area and Sonic the Hedgehog's Marble Zone.
Im sure squarespace loved your partnership too! You're the only channel I keep listening through the sponsorship cause you keep it interesting!
i remember watching my dad beat this on the MS in about 1993 and it blew my mind. great video
I just want to infuse happy bopping Nostalgia Nerd from 2:40 into my veins whenever I need a pick-me-up
Having a graphical option to switch between modern and retro pixel art is something that was also done for the recent remakes/remasters of
Command & Conquer - Remastered .. Available on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1213210/Command__Conquer_Remastered_Collection/
If anyone fondly remembers playing this in the 90s and would like the exact same game, but with tons of fixes, made utterly beautiful and lots of optional customizations.. I REALLY can't recommend this game enough.. You can press SPACE BAR any time in-game to swap, seamlessly, between beautiful modern graphics and the glorious old voxel art
C&C-Remastered is exactly what Command and Conquer should have always been, none of that Generals / RA3 crap when EA came in and pissed all over the strategy and army/base-building aspects of the game, opting instead to focus almost entirely on graphics rather than strategy and gameplay. C&C-R is perfect.
Just got myself a switch so this is really cool to know is a thing! I never had a Master System back in the day but my best friend did. This was a rental his dad found and we found is quite different and enjoyed it. Fast forward to my collecting days and I fiund a stack of games still with boxes in a thrift store. One title of course was Alexx Kid! Now nostalgia is tricky thing, but I have grown fond of how some titles on the old Sega still have a good level of challenge. Maybe it was because I never played them endlessly as I did with a few NES games I had. Still not my favorite platform game on the system, that goes to "Wonder Boy in Monster Land"! If I could get my hands on an old arcade cabinet of that I'd drown in nostalgia!
"Thanks to Brexit ... ahhhh, the sweet taste of xenophobia." Cool, now we can't even get away from politics even for 1 minute in video game reviews. *_EPIC!_*
that was my face too when i ordered those crappy clip on sunglasses, i eventually found much better ones with a smaller clip that doesn't make you look like rick moranis
Is it weird that i still can humm the melody 30 years later ?
Yo! That box set for the game looks amazing and I love the huge size of it despite how tiny the Switch cartridge is.
Thanks for the upload, you mention needing a patch, looks like it came just out of time for the review at 18:27. Never mind, it’s there if you pick it up again when those glasses go back on 😎
Because of you I bought it. I beat it without infinite lives for the Steam Achievements. And let me tell you. It was not easy, doable, but not easy.
I had a Master System MK1 so when ever i hear the name I'm filled with resentment that all i got was a snail 🐌 (F*** You Alex, I didn't want you anyway)
This rant was sponsored by Square Face..... like my MK1 it has an angular design.
But then you realize you had proper video output and the rant goes away.
To land a jump without over-running when you land on a narrow block, I let go of the DPad/Analog entirely once I see he's landed, and stick the landings now. It only took me since 1987 to 2021 to figure that trick out. ;)
Has Nostalgia Nerd played/reviewed the Wonder Boy III remake?
Can't find it and would love to listen to him to chat about it
Via Steam, I've been able to play the Alex Kidd and Wonder Boy III remakes and rediscover two childhood favourites.
WBIII was a delight to play again, whereas I requested a refund on Kidd after less than an hour of play.
The idea of a game being too hard "for kids" Is nonsense. Kids are good at games. Better than adults. And on top fo thatv they have tons of time to replay and refine and beat it, unlike busy adults. Hig difficulty is perfect FOR KIDS. Grown ups are not better by default.
Will this run on a Pi 4? I'm not playing pixel graphics games on energy-intensive systems anymore. It's a massive waste of resources.
....what?
Loved that game despite it being flippin stupid hard as a kid, glad someone has addressed this , great work , ps that switch mode is a masterstoke , old view all day for me
when I was about 10 or so, I had one of those bootleg retro emulators, and I played alex kidd in the enchanted castle. That and sonic and knuckles, ecco the dolphin, and kid chameleon
Pete can I ask how much you had to pay in full for the signature edition version including the import fees to the UK? It's sold out at the moment but I might pick it up but with a 20% customs tax I believe this would make it £60.53, was there any additional courier charge?
Played this game to the point I know it backwards when I was a kid and I'm kinda confused... Where is the section at 15:39 in the video? I don't recall that anywhere. My recollection was that you had 2 encounters with Scissors-Head, one at the end of the volcano level and then at the end of pissy short level before the gyrocopter stage. Where the hell is the scene at 15:39 from though? Was this a region difference or something? I'm in Australia.
The first 11 seconds of this video give me strong "I love refrigerators" flashbacks...
Ah man my first favourite game ❤️
I don't think that the Brexit thing with the coin is xenophobia, but what do I know. Either way it's pretty silly, but I imagine that they would have given it if they could.
Do you think they kept the glitch where on the master system, when the game went into demo mode showing gameplay - if you put any cartridge in at the time it would sometimes let you suddenly play from that level!
In regards to the jumping issues you mentioned, was it the same on the Switch version? It looks like the sort of thing you see when using a controller with analog buttons.
IIRC, at the end of the original, there's concern because Alex's father, King Thunder, is still missing... Mysterious!
1:09... Oh, GD it, I thought the backwards text flying across the screen was an Easter Egg so paused the vid to read it, and then it comes up the right way round immediately after :D
I was definitely torn on this one.
Alex Kidd was the first game I owned so it holds a lot of nostalgia. But damn, it has it's issues. The sheer amount of randomness is an absolute nightmare.
Personally, my go to is the M2 Sega Ages version for it's handy rewind which I found a better alternative to infinite lives.
But as a treat and a fun diversion this is a good follow up if you are looking for more.
I never completed it back in the day, but played it so much that when I rebought a master system I was able to get to the exact same point as I always use to die at first try, level 10, the muscle memory is strong with this one!
The Alex Kidd 2 rom hack is pretty cool too. Best played on an emulator with save states for most of us!
there should be an option to disable that layer of fog/bloom on the bottom half of the screen in the new graphics. the old graphics look more clear.
I enjoyed the vehicle sections of Miracle World, but I always enjoyed Alex in Shinobi World and the Lost Stars much more overall. I always wanted to explore hi-tech world more but I never got out of the house lol.
That poor box has definitely seen better days! I remember that box from the Master System II I had back in the day.
the first red flag were his round ears in the promotional artwork.
Only reason I haven't bought this is that a little while ago I grabbed the original port that's already on the switch. The difficulty was insane and I heavily used the rewind button to finish it, otherwise I would have barely got one or two levels in before frustration kicks in. I wish every retro port just had a rewind button now to let me see a game through. Been meaning to go through Enchanted Castle since that's the one I actually grew up with.
Great review Pete! 👍
I didn't care for the style of the updated sprites, so I passed on this game, and bought Monster World IV, instead.
I would've preferred Lizard Cube's hand drawn style.
My sister owned a Mk.II with this onboard. I remember having fun with the game back in the day. Wasn't a bad system overall from what I remember.
When I was a kid and got to play Mario, I had endless patience for it. I no longer have that for it and that seems as frustrating as I find trying to play. You know it's bad when you resort to save stating in the middle of a level just to not have to all start over when that damn whatever kills you.
@1:47 That's not a tail; that's his dingus.
I think I saw a master system with a labyrinth game with a snail instead of Aled Kidd when I was a kid.
Probably that was a model 1 SMS with the Snail Maze on it.
The best "in Miracle/Monster World" game is, by far, "Wonderboy in Monster World"
That game is a true masterpiece in almost every aspect. Fluid, beautiful, good (albeit weird) story, gameplay is top notch too.
All hail Shion.. and screw pygmy armor
You should review Yeti's ''Alex Kidd 3 - Curse In Miracle World'' when you get a chance, that game is probably the best the series has to offer so far, bigger levels, new bosses, more detailed graphics and new music all on the original Sega Master System.
The "switch between new and old graphics with the push of a button" thing reminds me of the remaster of Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap... Which is similarly still-frustrating (I haven't played the original but the remaster felt a bit janky). I guess it's a Master System thing.
I had the MK1 SMS and Alex Kidd was built in. It was advertised on TV for £59.99.
My first game, and I was one of those kids who played it on the built in console version.
9:37 Nice touch
The ever-jiggling money bags are way more offputting than they have any right to be.
Captions seem to be based on a different version of the script? (at the start at least)
I just don't get why in the 80s and 90s localisation teams didn't think we could understand rice cakes. Like especially in video games where a power up can just be an abstract shape anyway.
Dont worry. I think everyone is "too crap" to pick just the standard 3 lives!
I could get to get to the end boss but never beat him as the moving shuriken always got me. I did find a continue code that used points as cost so when you didn't have enough game over.
It looks awesome! 👍
Okay, now the sonic and dragon ball inspirations is starting to make more sense.
Miracle World is in my top 10 games, absolutely trounces SMB1 and Sonic 1
Man, Goku was so different back in the 1980s. Imagine an Alex Kidd Kai.
Also why's the TV videos stretched?
The Alex games mess with my nostalgia brain when i see them cause i feel like i played them when i was a kid and have memories of them, but i cant remember if i actually did or not. It's a weird feeling to have nostalgia for something that you can't quite remember playing.
Alex kid (or Alex the kid as I always called it) was my first gaming love, at least until mario and sonic came along.
Loved the master system my first console I owned. Maybe that's the reason I prefer it over the NES.
I realize that with Sonic 3.
I used to love back then but not i hate it on how frustrating it is
I can't say I have that much trouble with Sonic 3 and Knuckles. Or any of the old Sonic games. I was really confused when someone I knew was playing through Sonic 2 and said they were spamming save states every five seconds nearly. Especially since the only real difficult part of the games is the final boss usually due to no rings.
@@TheGuyWhoIsSitting I feel that what i felt frustrating with S3 wasn't the same as Alex Kid, but what i feel frustrating was the length of the game plus the "trolls" on level design.
sonic 3 is easy
@@CG09_TMP It's not the dificulty, but the game drags, way too long.. also when we get a nice speed the level design put a unavoidable obstacle that make us slow down
@@1300l its 2 hours long
Very nice review, but Brexit was never about xenophobia, it was about political emancipation from an undemocratic bloc of nations.
Exactly. The benefits of Brexit probably won't be listed on a game however.
12:07 Looks so much better on PAL.
This game is very hard. It took me absolutely ages to finish it back in the day.
Damn it! Now I have to buy the game! I don't know how to take off my rose-tinted specs.
My whole life I thought this was called 'Alex THE Kid'. I'm 35.
Doh.
Games like this are hard for us now. At that time we were more „hardcore“, because most games were harder. No save features, less levels, a lot arcade ports.
Now you have games for casuals. A lot of checkpoints per level, autosave, easy game modes, sometimes immortality or a chance to skip when you die to often.
When i play an old game now i die fast. Mostly i don‘t even get the first level.
That hard design was a hold over for from the arcades because they were designed to suck quarters out of you. Nothing to do with "casuals"
@@flightlesschicken7769 That‘s what i said. But back in the 90s i could play that games until the end.
@@apri1979 Sorry, I thought you were trying to say that gaming today was for casuals and "back in your day they had real video games" kind of thing. My bad
@@flightlesschicken7769 Okay, then the mistake was on my side. But the core is the same.
Back in the day there were a lot of arcade ports which were very hard. But still then i played games like „Super Ghouls and Ghosts“ to the end. Today i‘m not able anymore. ;-)
But as i later heard the japanese people were even more „hardcore“, so the games they made were very hard for western people, too.
Today, and this is still my opinion, they games were too easy in comparison. You can save any time, you have more lives or what ever.
"Hey I made a fan game based on your IP"
SEGA: Wanna sell it?
NINTENDO: Kamehameha!!
Hello, janken is pronounced "John-Ken." Love your videos!
1:57 That strange name sounded strange 👀 so I looked it up. I can only find one website that mentions the "mythical giant monkey beast house prince" thing and I can't figure out where they got "osaru-ka no ouji" from or where were they got the idea that it means "mythical giant monkey beast house prince"... Osaru just means a normal "monkey" 😂😂 and "Alex Kidd Osaru" doesn't sound anything like a "pun" in Japanese. Does anybody know where that came from?
The cartridge version of Alex Kidd in Miracle World that we got in Canada circa 1987, which I think was imported from Europe or at least it was an NTSC version but with the European 5-language manual, had Alex Kidd eating an onigiri between screens. I guess that preceded the hamburger version a lot of western countries got.
Same here. I had an early Mastersystem release in the UK (the control pad still had the screw-in joystick), but it definitely had the Rice Ball / Onigiri on the cartridge version I played. And eventually completely finished after swearing at the penultimate level many, MANY times.
Took me ages to realise that the little white hut with the black door which which Alex ate at the end of each level was actually just a very oversized foodstuff.
@@DenisNorden I think I thought the onigiri was some kind of tent or maybe even an igloo.
The original US release had the onigiri. I think I got mine in 1987, so it must have been mostly early western copies that weren't "burgerized". I didn't know anyone else with a Master System. A few friends bought a Power Base converter for their Genesis because Master System games because super cheap here for a time, though I didn't know the hamburger version existed before youtube.
@@JoystickVersusMachine I didn't know about the hamburger version until TH-cam either.
This video speaks to my soul.
on a related note, i decided to ''try'' (if u know what i mean) the latest monster world remake , i was expecting it to be total trash, but i hate to admit, i was smiling when playing it due to the music......i might actually buy it when on sale , the game isn't great, certainly not as good as the original, but that is nostalgia for u i guess......
Hint (not a spoiler). Underwater spikes won't kill you if you let Alex just swim through. Don't press up, and you're good to go. PS: this is OG tech, not something new for this remake.
I used to love the motorbike bits
CD's are retro? i don't think you know what that term means