I actually finished Nose recently, before finding this video, and the current version is finished (I think) and has a complete english translation. Very enjoyable.
Severance was way ahead of it's time. I remember playing it with my big brother way back in the mid 2000's and we were so fucking amazed that the arrows stayed in the enemies body and that you could pick up shit and chop body parts off.
I wish some day Developers of this games reunite and release severance 2,I completed this game over 10 times and I can still play another full gameplay...
yeah the old games was amazing, I remember arx fatalis where you could cast spells by drawing runes with your mouse, and it has dismembering too, you could tear a goblin to pieces with fireball
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance also had zombies who could lose their heads and wandered around thereafter. You could even cut off both arms and they'd be harmless. Though that was more of a scripted/random occurrence (like some zombies would always lose their arms at certain health levels, or whatnot); you couldn't do it intentionally. It's from late 2001.
What? You always play Severance as the dwarf. The amazon was just Lara Croft with spears, the barbarian had no personality, the knight had the most combos (but the slowest recovery times) and the dwarf, while owning the shortest combat reach, had the most health and could essentially walk dodge most enemy attacks without having to even press the dodge button plus he was practically immune to most of the traps where rotating saw blades would just sail over his head due to having been designed by dwarven trap makers to slay taller victims.
It is a great game. I still have the original DVD version sealed with cardboard stand up moves and special moves information.. Regarding the playthrough, not sure if you've seen this one from 9 years ago. th-cam.com/video/DRuudjlr7RA/w-d-xo.html
Its grossly erroneous to call it the GRANDFATHER OF DARK SOULS shit King's Field got it by like 7 or 8 years, Eternal Ring has it by a year. From Software started the Souls series before Souls was a thing.
@@FromBeyondTheGrave1 I'm not sure why you're replying to my comment, but I do agree with you, I don't think Blade of Darkness is by any means a direct predecessor to the souls games. Rather, I think it's a case of convergent problem solving based on the restrictions presented by both hardware and psychological factors. The fact that people make direct comparisons between BoD and the souls games is understandable though, given their 3rd person perspective and gritty gothic fantasy settings, compared to King's Field's first person gameplay, which doesn't gather the immediate visual correlation.
Fun fact: that Doctor Who Guy you met, Ambrose Bierce, is real. He was a turn-if-the-century writer who mysteriously vanished. Some say he was a civilian casualty in the Mexican civil war; others that he commuted suicide in a place he’d never be found. Apparently this game thought he was transported to a souls borne game
Quite a few years ago, Harpers ran a piece that pretty much established where and how Bierce died. He was traveling with Mexican soldiers during the Civil War, I don't know if he was with the regular army or the rebels (Pancho Villa maybe?). In any case, there's documentation of Bierce coming down with a really bad fever. He was completely incapacitated, delirious, in the back of a cart with the marching soldiers. He was near death and it's likely that he died there and was buried somewhere along the trail. I heartily recommend his 'Devil's Dictionary'.
level three is also something ready because I've seen that in a very similiar shit game I played for fun. Can't remember the name but basically it was the same, just even worse than this
Severance Blade of Darkness was remastered and released on both GOG and Steam in 2021 (a year after this video) under then name Blade of Darkness, for those who are curious and finding this video again
Just for the record. Severance: Blade of Darkness was originally called Blade: The Edge of Darkness but it had to change its name due copyright in some places. The developer was a Spanish company, Rebel Act Studios. A long and ambitious creation led the company to financial ruin but they splited into two new companies, one of which is MercurySteam, developers of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow or Metroid: Samus Returns. What a great time playing this game when I was 10...
I was around 25-26 when the game was released :| The gane had multiple characters to begin with and each of them started at a different level which made the game even cooler. Never had the chance to play it over a resolution of 800x600x16 at the time. Wish it had a remake.
“Have you ever look at a game and thought to yourself ‘hey, this is kinda like Dark-souls’?” Every game journalist that has played a hard game: *P E R H A P S*
I'm so sick of that, like every game that is kind of difficult is suddenly the dark souls of that genre, there are some legitimately good games that people throw everything out the window and just say "haha game hard"
@@smilesfinn7806 If someone doesn't want to play a game because it's too hard for them how's that any of our business lol, they can play whatever shit they want. If they're missing out on something I think is a good game because it's too hard for them why should I give half of a fuck their loss
Just imagine if Dark Souls was created by the Severance creators. Beating Gwyn using Gwyndolin's snake-legs as a whip or beating Artorias with Sif's tail...
@@andreibondar5664 ripoffs happen when the original developer doest create a game within that platform, it creates this black hole of people wanting a product that wont happen, so other less able developers see an opportunity to capitalise on a market. Honestly though it looks like a beta version of bloodborne and considering its free an for mobile they did a pretty good job of it.
People really missing out on Blade of Darkness, object interactions and dismemberment are great, but the combat system with different combinations and special attacks for each weapon(which sadly you couldn't highlight cause of the short time playing it) is one of the most interesting features in this game, each character plays differently as well, and has unique set of weapons to them, u can use them from other chars as well, but full potential of the weapons unfolds if used appropriate for the char. I really wish they would've remastered this brilliant game so more people today would play it.
@@mohammademaadkhan7381 to be fair, remastered is quite a long shot, it's more like the base game but with a compatibility patch so that it can run on modern hardware Textures are still the same, geodata are still exactly the same, everything is equal, except you can now run it on a modern machine without it going 20 fps, randomly crashing or having a certain level be unplayable because of the fog render. I mean I can live with a short depth of field, but when you can barely see your own character it becomes a bit too much. None of that now, so it can be played decently
"Alright, so Pascal's Wager. It's ripping off Bloodborne and Dark Souls a little more blatantly than most games..." He says while climbing the unreasonably long ladder.
I upvoted this comment, looked at the time it was posted, scrolled up and read the time this video was released. Damn, they really hit that 2018 release date for the translation... I was thinking youtube digged up some old video from somewhere.
I know you’re going for slapstick comedy and cheap jokes, but Blade of Darkness really is a masterpiece. It was abandonware for so long, nobody, not even Codemasters, knew who owned the rights, and then, one magical day it, it was actually released on Steam with native widescreen support and overall updated to run on current hardware. It’s insane, the game is so good and “reviewing” it after playing just Tabriz is a joke. The game is all about the organic increase in difficulty and knowing how to use your weapons. It really is a lost gem. I fuckin love being able to play it in 2022 with no crash related anguish or bugs. It’s great!
I translated that blue ring info box from Nose via Google Translate: Blue Adversity Ring The adversity stands open to various potentials with its strong will The blue jewel in this ring can open the survival instinct of the hunted down and save a little more life Defense power increases when the potential HP can be reduced to 30% or less So yeah, BTSR.
the moment you showed the gamepl ay from that "nose" game, i instantly was reminded of Dark Cloud. nice to see someone else is familiar with that gem of a game
Dark cloud and dark cloud 2 are probably my two favorite games of all time, it’s crazy seeing people talk about it because you never hear about them nowadays
Damn. If Severance Blades of Darkness : Grandfather of Darksouls, then Drakan : Order of the Flame : Grandmother of Darksouls. With some panzerdragoon in it. Trust me, truly a hidden gem.
If you loved that one half life 2 level where you ride a buggy along the shore and can stop at any house you find interesting and find something there, you owe it to yourself to play Drakan.
Monster Hunter is also a grandfather since the creater of the Souls games said he was inspired by the MH combat with the I-frame role dodges, the lengthy potion animations, the commitment to attacks, and of course the giant monsters. Of course, the two game series ended up feeling very different.
Or, you know, King's Field the literal predecessor to Demon/Dark souls. That came out before both of them. Developed by From Software. The origin of the moonlight greatsword.
Heyoo!, I downloaded Nose not long after watching the video about a week ago and I just finished it today. Great game and a true hidden gem among souls-likes.
What he really needs to play is Dark Messiah of Might & Magic. Throwing random objects is one of the most powerful weapons in the game, right after the almighty kick.
It was called Severance? I thought it was just called Blade of Darkness. I still think I have the CD somewhere. And it wasn't too difficult a game is you'd played with the amazon. The dwarf and the knight were just insanely difficult to play with.
severance was one of my childhoods favorite games. I was so impressed with this back then. dynamic shadows, the fact you can pick up everything, you can dismember enemies and they can dismember you. just awesome
As soon as the game cover popped up, I paused the video and felt so nostalgic. I remember playing very little of this game when I was younger, but loving it very much. Can't believe I found it. I so want to download this game and play the full thing
@Conor Koritor I'm not saying it's the worst game I've ever seen, not at all. I've worked on mods for a long time, I've worked in games for a while now. (mostly as an artist, even if I do have a programming education) I simply meant that even with how lacking some of my game making skills are, I could probably put together something like that.
@Conor Koritor i know its not i am just saying that devs of that game made almost nothing just took done assets. how do u know kids made this? and when we are flexing i just made a game 4 days ago so i know
Rune had the most hard-core pvp community back in the day. I remember people setting up duel servers where everyone would take turns watching each other 1v1. That game is my ❤
"That old Souls-like game no one heard of... Blade of Darkness" "Another one old souls-like no one heard of... Rune" The young one, you shoul probably go check a game called Die By The Sword
Severance ist great. I loved it back then. You have different charcters: knight, berserk, archer and a dwarf. You start with every character in a different area with different gaming experiences. It still looks quite ok.
I got pranked hard by that Severance page. As soon as you showed a steam page, I opened Steam and tried to find it thinking it had finally been added to Steam.
@@somedude4122 You're right lol, don't know why I forgot about Onimusha. I have yet to play the first one, but I played Dawn of Dreams and it's amazing.
I guess, it looked kinda innovative with the dodging but arx fatalis came out a year later and it had much better controls and some other innovative things
@@Y-all-mofos-need-Talos Yeah, but the world is just there, nobody was paid to build it or to explore It. In a videogame people were both paid to produce that waste of bytes and you paid to explore that void. Said so, there is void and void. Older games are, well, older, so you don't expect Ocarina of Time to be full of things. Other games like Botw just are based on your exploration, and having some free space is natural to separate areas that do have things. Other games are just... Not an open world. They are there to satisfy people desire of being out of "closed levels", nothing more.
I don't know, I feel like the problem isn't that a lot of open world games are empty, it's actually that they are too full of boring meaningless crap (think chores, endless collectables, ticking boxes etc.) Honestly I think that it would be refreshing for more games to be emptier. I find it interesting that you would write this and that it would be a top comment when its pretty clearly untrue. Say what you like about the quality of open world releases but empty worlds aren't very common. Most games coming out are oversaturated with "content", the issue is the content just isn't very interesting or creative most of the time. But perhaps that is really what you mean when you say the worlds are empty. Empty of interest rather than empty of objects.
Blade of Darkness (aka Severance) finally got on Steam (20 years later)! It even has full controller support now. If you thought from the 1st level that Souls devs must have played it (10 years before Souls), wait till you play the other levels and see even more matching settings, bosses, enemies, weapons, tricks and traps. If the game wasn't published in 2001 (made for 5 years since 1996), but much later, I'm sure everybody would assume it must have copied a lot of things from Souls.
Severance is a fondly remembered part of my childhood, this legendary game is very flawed but still very very good, honestly you should consider making a full playthrough on your channel
@@mr.bubbles8351 oh, yeah, should've figured it out myself, lol, but yeah, game is awesome, though you still might not like it in the end due to some of it's shortcomings and the difficulty being perhaps unreasonable at points
Pascal's Wager combines Bloodborne's setting, Geralt from the Witcher, JonTron's parrot Jacques but as an owl, and tribal E.T. That last one combines Kenshi with the Legend of Zelda and fails in both.
I'm just back here real quick to thank you, my man. I downloaded and completed the hell out of NOSE. I am IN LOVE with it. I legit feel bad I didn't pay money for it
Starting off with Severance: Blade of Darkness gets a like from me. That game was fun back in the day. And oddly enough still has mechanic that you still don't see nowadays.
Old games have a lot of mechanics that you don't see nowadays. Now, we have microtransactions to add more gameplay mechanics. We even have mechanic simulator games, but that's about it.
@@5minutemovies977 Literally one of my favorite old action games from 2001. I was actually looking for building Windows 98 machine just to play it until I found a patch that fixes issues with graphics and makes that game will actually run on Windows 10 without problems
@@OmegaEnvych YOu might want to take a look at some patches made by fans : www.replaying.de/files/severance-blade-of-darkness-d3d-patch-windows-7-8-1-10/ I knew a site dedicated to old games that had a lot of compatibility patches, but I don't remember what it was called.
So the guy who makes Nose has a blog, and some of it is translated into English: rightkamo.blog21.fc2.com/ He made a post yesterday saying he is still working on it and version 4 should be in summer 2020. English localization is still a goal rightkamo.blog21.fc2.com/blog-entry-342.html
Using a stool as a weapon sounds great. In Exanima, I have been known to swing a pestle around and pretend that it's a weapon only to get my ass beat moments later.
I've paused at the millisecond I saw the steam page and spent next 15 minutes trying to figure out how Blade of Darkness was on steam in 2020. Thank you! (not really)
Honestly the devs behind Pascal's Wager should just port it to PC,I can tell it's not a cash grab because of all the effort they seem to have put into it(Cut scenes,lore,unique character designs,and I'm assuming an original soundtrack...),add to that the fact that we don't see any micro-transactions... Hell,I don't even think they were ripping off Bloodborne,I just think they picked the same era of history as BB as an inspiration,you can see it's doing it's own thing! These guys are clearly competent developers who picked the wrong platform for their game!
@@leo6659 How it is easier to make? Did you see how complicated and sophisticated the game is? Easier to make would be like Jetpack Joyride or something like that
@@Densiozo graphically no need for extra effort, easier to accomodate to device... yes this is made very well but on pc it wouldnt look sooo epic and wouldnt get enough attention so on mobile u could say its on top
Blade of darkness was amazing for its time! On higher levels you could also do special attacks with button combinations like a fighting game, and oh boy was it weird to dodge and do all the souls-like fighting with those attacks in between, so most ppl just ignored those. Betcha from software knew about it and thought "lets do a new blade of darkness, but with less of the weird gameplay"
Blade of Darkness is actually one of the greatest games ever made. So atmospheric , so challenging and rewarding. Not to mention the landscapes and scenery is very good in each level. I highly recommend it
Severance: Blade of darkness is the game of my childhood. Unfortunatelly, you have missed the most fun part of the game, which is special attacks trigered by specific atack sequences. It give you whole level of strategy how to proceed during fights . And every veapon has its own - so gameplay changes drastickly depending on weapon you use. I did not seen this unique mechanic working so well anywhere else. I recommend to get at least to level 3 where you can experiment with different atacks.
I still thinks it is better than modern games in terms of how battle skill progressed, all those timed blocking and attacking. and the developer has guts in showing what happened when you swing a sword or a club to someone's or something's head.
As soon as the game cover popped up, I paused the video and felt so nostalgic. I remember playing very little of this game when I was younger, but loving it very much. Can't believe I found it. I so want to download this game and play the full thing
While I also enjoy Enclave the only thing it has in common with soulslikes is the perspective and fantasy setting. It clearly is nothing like dark souls in actual gameplay.
btw when I was playing Blade of Darkness back in the days I felt like the graphics were out of these world, it looked like it cannot get better it was one of the first 3d games and it felt photorealistic to me back then :D now I see how deluded we were, but blade of darkness braught a thrill very similar to demon souls. It was the same dark mysterious world you dive in.
Mr Spaghetti I was away from my phone and the very second I heard the drum beat kick in, I thought I clicked on the wrong video. I love Jak and Daxter, I played the shit out of them when I was little and still to this day
I wasn't sure how to fit it in the opening of this video, but I just wanted to say I hope everyone is staying safe
Spit on me
We're doing what we can. Thanks for making videos to keep our minds on better, funnier things.
Is it really a souls-like without stinky waifu feet?
Try infinity blade on the app store if you want more mobile games, I remember playing that game when I was about 10. Love the vids good shit man
As an attack helicopter I feel validated that you included me by saying 'everything' instead of 'everyone'
"I've beaten every Dark Souls game, I can beat Gangsta Woman."
No if you’d fight them they’d probably kick your ass
That game felt exactly like a Gilson B. Pontes game.
@@expendableindigo9639 Gilson B. Pontes wishes he could make pieces of art like Gangsta Woman
Geralt.propebley yennefer is the beaten gangsta women
Famous last words
"The game's Japanese, so it's probably pronounced no-se"
*Shrine covered in noses appears*
"I retract my statement"
That game had commitment to a theme.
And yes, it really felt home with those early PS2 hack'n'slash games
The priest class is actually called Nose Believer, so I'd say the theme was pretty on the nose
You are in the nose, right?
@@HappyBeezerStudios isnt botw a hack n slash
@Celeborn I'm not sure what you mean
I actually finished Nose recently, before finding this video, and the current version is finished (I think) and has a complete english translation. Very enjoyable.
Was he right about the ring being the blue tearstone ring?
@@Jonaegh you will never nose...
@@voidedsouls6638 hahaha nose way you just made that joke
Fuck yes, thank you.
@@voidedsouls6638 There is Nose way Jose you just tried that!
Iron Pinneaple: *Grabs a leg*
Iron Pínneaple: ''Looks like you guys need a hand''
@Serial Killa Yup
There was danger afoot
Yes, I too watched the video
@Serial Killa He should be the star
Please @Iron Pinneaple make him the star
Severance was way ahead of it's time. I remember playing it with my big brother way back in the mid 2000's and we were so fucking amazed that the arrows stayed in the enemies body and that you could pick up shit and chop body parts off.
Indeed, the mechanics were amazing. Sad Iron didn't play the Barbarian, it's my favorite class.
I wish some day Developers of this games reunite and release severance 2,I completed this game over 10 times and I can still play another full gameplay...
Not only you could chop body parts they would fly through the air leaving a blood trail. And the lighting was amazing.
@@tojiroh knight has best intro tho
yeah the old games was amazing, I remember arx fatalis where you could cast spells by drawing runes with your mouse, and it has dismembering too, you could tear a goblin to pieces with fireball
0:10 Ah yes. My favorite souls-like. Crash Nsane Trilogy.
*BRIDGE PTSD INTENSIFIES*
The Dark Souls of platformers.
To be fair, Crash's winpose against the bosses looks like he is praising the sun
That skeleton lost it's head and started running and swinging blindly...
Are we sure that game was made in 2001 cause that's dope as hell
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance also had zombies who could lose their heads and wandered around thereafter. You could even cut off both arms and they'd be harmless. Though that was more of a scripted/random occurrence (like some zombies would always lose their arms at certain health levels, or whatnot); you couldn't do it intentionally. It's from late 2001.
>land of asocrac
>weed golem
>puritys
I'm ded.
It also just rips music from God Hand.
@@GhostHacker55
I believe that's Iron Pineapple's music he's throwing on top of the gameplay, he uses the God Hand OST a lot.
Leaked elden ring gameplay
"Noooo Iron what are you doing
you either play Severance as a Barbarian or an Amazon
Knight weapons have no reach nooooo"
Haha stool goes *bonk*
What? You always play Severance as the dwarf. The amazon was just Lara Croft with spears, the barbarian had no personality, the knight had the most combos (but the slowest recovery times) and the dwarf, while owning the shortest combat reach, had the most health and could essentially walk dodge most enemy attacks without having to even press the dodge button plus he was practically immune to most of the traps where rotating saw blades would just sail over his head due to having been designed by dwarven trap makers to slay taller victims.
@@raphaelperry8159 So he was like, Oddjob's medieval ancestor?
What? Knight or Dorf is where the fun is at.
@@raphaelperry8159 lara croft and spears in one package? I'm sold
She was also really squishy 'though. Virtually no health.
So dope to see someone play Blade of Darkness. Would love to see a longer let's play if you do play more.
It is a great game. I still have the original DVD version sealed with cardboard stand up moves and special moves information.. Regarding the playthrough, not sure if you've seen this one from 9 years ago. th-cam.com/video/DRuudjlr7RA/w-d-xo.html
Its grossly erroneous to call it the GRANDFATHER OF DARK SOULS shit King's Field got it by like 7 or 8 years, Eternal Ring has it by a year. From Software started the Souls series before Souls was a thing.
@@FromBeyondTheGrave1 I'm not sure why you're replying to my comment, but I do agree with you, I don't think Blade of Darkness is by any means a direct predecessor to the souls games. Rather, I think it's a case of convergent problem solving based on the restrictions presented by both hardware and psychological factors. The fact that people make direct comparisons between BoD and the souls games is understandable though, given their 3rd person perspective and gritty gothic fantasy settings, compared to King's Field's first person gameplay, which doesn't gather the immediate visual correlation.
@@FromBeyondTheGrave1 it bears the highest visual similarity
@@Kuzushi42 it's rather unlikely from soft didnt play this game if you are familiar with it
Fun fact: that Doctor Who Guy you met, Ambrose Bierce, is real. He was a turn-if-the-century writer who mysteriously vanished. Some say he was a civilian casualty in the Mexican civil war; others that he commuted suicide in a place he’d never be found. Apparently this game thought he was transported to a souls borne game
my impression , or does this character have codsworth voice from fallout ?
Quite a few years ago, Harpers ran a piece that pretty much established where and how Bierce died. He was traveling with Mexican soldiers during the Civil War, I don't know if he was with the regular army or the rebels (Pancho Villa maybe?). In any case, there's documentation of Bierce coming down with a really bad fever. He was completely incapacitated, delirious, in the back of a cart with the marching soldiers. He was near death and it's likely that he died there and was buried somewhere along the trail. I heartily recommend his 'Devil's Dictionary'.
"Rune" was actually insanely popular in the ex-USSR countries back in the days.
I remember playing Rune as a kid (American), really enjoyed it. Shame about that sequel
@@TsunamiWombat Rune PVP was fun as shit. I remember killing some of my friends while we had a LAN party with their own head.
Blade of Darkness too
Yeah, can confirm.
My heart sank when he called them both "really old games".
We old, man.
pvp was full of russians lol
The protagonist from "pascal wager" looks like a crappy brand off geralt form the witcher
sounds like it too
And then you meet Ciri at 5:00
Same hair I guess
Hervalt.
Level Two of Gangsta Woman is literally the free Medieval Dungeon Demo Map from the UE4 Marketplace...
level three is also something ready because I've seen that in a very similiar shit game I played for fun. Can't remember the name but basically it was the same, just even worse than this
@@TheMegaPingasMobile dark sasi
@@TheMegaPingasMobile pm
I cant believe that the creator of Medieval Dungeon Demo Map from the UE4 Marketplace created Gangsta Woman
Not surprised...
Severance Blade of Darkness was remastered and released on both GOG and Steam in 2021 (a year after this video) under then name Blade of Darkness, for those who are curious and finding this video again
Checked to see if someone posted this before I did. I'm so glad they made it available for future generations to check out. Such a sick game
Just for the record. Severance: Blade of Darkness was originally called Blade: The Edge of Darkness but it had to change its name due copyright in some places. The developer was a Spanish company, Rebel Act Studios. A long and ambitious creation led the company to financial ruin but they splited into two new companies, one of which is MercurySteam, developers of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow or Metroid: Samus Returns.
What a great time playing this game when I was 10...
Nerd
@@averagegigel1448 Simple and uncensored games. I spent the most of the time cutting dead foes in pieces. Hard to see in big budget games today.
Sergio Montoro Yes, but, who cares my mate
Severance is the true definition of a hidden gem. It's one game I wouldn't mind a remaster/sequel/spiritual sequel of.
I was around 25-26 when the game was released :| The gane had multiple characters to begin with and each of them started at a different level which made the game even cooler. Never had the chance to play it over a resolution of 800x600x16 at the time. Wish it had a remake.
“Have you ever look at a game and thought to yourself ‘hey, this is kinda like Dark-souls’?”
Every game journalist that has played a hard game: *P E R H A P S*
I'm so sick of that, like every game that is kind of difficult is suddenly the dark souls of that genre, there are some legitimately good games that people throw everything out the window and just say "haha game hard"
C u p h e a d
@@smilesfinn7806 If someone doesn't want to play a game because it's too hard for them how's that any of our business lol, they can play whatever shit they want. If they're missing out on something I think is a good game because it's too hard for them why should I give half of a fuck
their loss
Charles Washington but we aren’t just talking about ANY gamer. We are talking about game critics. It’s literally their job.
@@charleswashington3973 "If a film critic doesn't like a movie he can just turn it off after ten minutes and judge it on what he's seen."
imagine if the game "Nose" took off as well as Dark Souls did. We would be playing nose-like games 😂
There is probably an alternate reality exactly like that
@@herozilla5458 "Hey guys, today I decided to try that Nose-like game called Dark souls!"
@@Hangman-yq5uh exactly
Let's make it happen!
Nose-borne games
Just imagine if Dark Souls was created by the Severance creators. Beating Gwyn using Gwyndolin's snake-legs as a whip or beating Artorias with Sif's tail...
Oof Artorias beaten by Sif’s tail is just brutal
Pascal's Wager: Geralt and Ciri's bad vacation in Yharnam
So fucking ridiculous, how far rip-off could go. It's almost painful to watch.
@@andreibondar5664 ripoffs happen when the original developer doest create a game within that platform, it creates this black hole of people wanting a product that wont happen, so other less able developers see an opportunity to capitalise on a market. Honestly though it looks like a beta version of bloodborne and considering its free an for mobile they did a pretty good job of it.
@@acronyx991 my thoughts exactly
Then Slave Knight Gael shows up after playing too much Castlevania.
@@acronyx991 but it's not free
"well done warrior, the trial is over"
*casually has a long sword speared through his crotch*
extreme cbt
LMAO
He's a goddamn Viking after all
Every woman gansta till the dragon flies through solid stone.
*enderdragon
I hope that was like some alpha prebuild.
Everything in it screams placeholder.
@@HappyBeezerStudios Nope it's a Tero Lunkka game, that's the finished product.
Iron Pineapple: picks up an arm
Iron Pineapple: Looks like you need a leg up!
Iron Pineapple: picks up a torso
Iron Pineapple: whoa buddy, no need to get a-head of yourself
Iron Pineapple: Picks up stool
Iron Pineapple: Time to piss you off!
People really missing out on Blade of Darkness, object interactions and dismemberment are great, but the combat system with different combinations and special attacks for each weapon(which sadly you couldn't highlight cause of the short time playing it) is one of the most interesting features in this game, each character plays differently as well, and has unique set of weapons to them, u can use them from other chars as well, but full potential of the weapons unfolds if used appropriate for the char. I really wish they would've remastered this brilliant game so more people today would play it.
couldnt agree more, looking at XIII remaster though my confidence is not very high, it would have to be a complete remaster from Bluepoint
And the dodge mechanic is basically a crab walk, so why the hell wouldn’t you play the game
@@danieljohnson8539 with the massive amounts of time wasted screaming aim for the head with my friends, makes that XIII remaster hurt so bad
Got those Bubsy 3D controls lmfao.
so apparently it's been re released on steam today
So--yes it's a blue tearstone ring.It says increase your defence when your HP is lower than 30％.
"Hello sir! Nothing matters."
I mean... that's pretty Souls-like in terms of dialogue.
*he sounded like the lego city commercial voice actor*
I stumbled on this series by accident and the constant dr who killing made my whole day worth it
"I've beaten every dark souls game, I can beat gangsta woman"
Amazing
addendum: "the videogame". I know several IRL Gangsta Womans. This is very very important addendum. Do not anger IRL Gangsta Womans. DO. NOT.
@Death Lmao
@@micahfoley9572 Can they change their face at will like in the game?
*''HELLO SI-''*
iron pineapple: Dr. who, Nooooooo
That game looks like abosolver
Dr Who, but it's clearly a model of Gary Oldman lmao
*Unlocks a gun in a souls like*
"Parry this you filthy casual!"
never bring a gun to a swordfight...?
Well you can in Sekiro :>
Sekiro and Bloodborne: Am i a joke to you?
Just as an FYI, Blade of Darkness is now actually available on Steam
Noice. Gonna pick that shit right up when I get the chance.
They saw the video :o
I think it's a completely remastered version of it and with a few quality of life changes as well
Sweet. Can't be having with the old control set anymore
@@mohammademaadkhan7381 to be fair, remastered is quite a long shot, it's more like the base game but with a compatibility patch so that it can run on modern hardware
Textures are still the same, geodata are still exactly the same, everything is equal, except you can now run it on a modern machine without it going 20 fps, randomly crashing or having a certain level be unplayable because of the fog render. I mean I can live with a short depth of field, but when you can barely see your own character it becomes a bit too much.
None of that now, so it can be played decently
"Alright, so Pascal's Wager. It's ripping off Bloodborne and Dark Souls a little more blatantly than most games..."
He says while climbing the unreasonably long ladder.
Lol
Also noticed a few souls assets that had been repurposed in that one too if you pay close attention.
What a thrill...
2:17 The father of the pursuer !!!
@@RpgBlasterRpg That was honestly my exact thought
I really want NOSE to be translated, it looks like a truly hidden gem.
I upvoted this comment, looked at the time it was posted, scrolled up and read the time this video was released. Damn, they really hit that 2018 release date for the translation... I was thinking youtube digged up some old video from somewhere.
i'm playing the game in japanese rn and let me tell you it's truly a hidden gem with dated graphics it's literally better than ds2 not kidding
You're only saying that because you're a weeb and the game is japanese...
Morgan ok boomer
What is NOSE I can't find anything about it
6:44 "Give me that thing, that dark soul"
I’m glad I’m not the only one who immediately thought of that lmao
This honestly made me appreciate how good Little Witch Nobeta is for an early access souls like game.
There is a game that is literally called "The world is your weapon" that lets you pick up objects from the environment to fight
Ivory Torea yakuza?
How is the Majima Everywhere system in that?
Fighting force for n64?
6:45
"Hand it over. That thing, your dark soul."
Pineapple - "Just find lizards and eat them. More games need this feature"
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater - "Am I a joke to you?"
Shadow of the Colossus would like to concur
14:47
There are no lizards in MGS3 actually
@@Adam_U there are gharials in the game tho
Kingseeker Frampt knew the score, eating rocks that came from lizards.
I know you’re going for slapstick comedy and cheap jokes, but Blade of Darkness really is a masterpiece. It was abandonware for so long, nobody, not even Codemasters, knew who owned the rights, and then, one magical day it, it was actually released on Steam with native widescreen support and overall updated to run on current hardware. It’s insane, the game is so good and “reviewing” it after playing just Tabriz is a joke. The game is all about the organic increase in difficulty and knowing how to use your weapons. It really is a lost gem. I fuckin love being able to play it in 2022 with no crash related anguish or bugs. It’s great!
I translated that blue ring info box from Nose via Google Translate:
Blue Adversity Ring
The adversity stands open to various potentials with its strong will The blue jewel in this ring can open the survival instinct of the hunted down and save a little more life
Defense power increases when the potential HP can be reduced to 30% or less
So yeah, BTSR.
"souls like"
*shows crash bandicoot cover*
He has seen some true horrors
was looking for this comment
4:47 Wow thanks dude, didn't think I was that ugly
You still ugly?
@@ZeroTwo-- yeah :/
@@HedgiYT a week later, you still ugly
@@Horseysforlife yeah still :/
@@saifu4350 at this point i dont think its getting any better
the moment you showed the gamepl
ay from that "nose" game, i instantly was reminded of Dark Cloud. nice to see someone else is familiar with that gem of a game
Dark cloud and dark cloud 2 are probably my two favorite games of all time, it’s crazy seeing people talk about it because you never hear about them nowadays
@@reapershade1436 dark cloud was definitely my favorite game growing up
Damn. If Severance Blades of Darkness : Grandfather of Darksouls, then Drakan : Order of the Flame : Grandmother of Darksouls. With some panzerdragoon in it. Trust me, truly a hidden gem.
If you loved that one half life 2 level where you ride a buggy along the shore and can stop at any house you find interesting and find something there, you owe it to yourself to play Drakan.
@@BlastCasted A pretty good description of the Wartock valley indeed.
Monster Hunter is also a grandfather since the creater of the Souls games said he was inspired by the MH combat with the I-frame role dodges, the lengthy potion animations, the commitment to attacks, and of course the giant monsters. Of course, the two game series ended up feeling very different.
@@elk3407
dark souls nowadays: spamm dodge, drink pots in 1sec all unpunishable :D attacks have 0 commitment, just spamm R1...How low it has fallen.
Or, you know, King's Field the literal predecessor to Demon/Dark souls. That came out before both of them. Developed by From Software. The origin of the moonlight greatsword.
Nose is seriously incredible. Just finished it today, highly recommend.
@Moyai Drip yes there is!
@Moyai Drip www.freem.ne.jp/win/game/23067 or just Google nose game Dark Souls.
Heyoo!, I downloaded Nose not long after watching the video about a week ago and I just finished it today. Great game and a true hidden gem among souls-likes.
“Why do more games like not have this feature of like picking up random objects”
I think you should play tvo thief
Dead rising 1 is also a good choice.
And the entire Yakuza series
What he really needs to play is Dark Messiah of Might & Magic. Throwing random objects is one of the most powerful weapons in the game, right after the almighty kick.
or Yakuza or Sleeping dogs (not so much but still)
Saints row 2 is another good contender
Rune and Blade of Darkness are two of my all time favorite games. Absolutely awesome
2:11 "It looks like you guys could really use a hand!"
*proceeds to hit enemies with leg*
smh he should have said they needed a... leg up
He didn't say he would give what they need :P
they really did broke a leg
"Severance: Blade of Darkness" when this game came out i was about 11 and loved it cause it was both hard and terrifying for me XD
no shit, the first enemy would *fuck you up*
I was like 6 or 7 when I played it, so much nostalgia
It was called Severance? I thought it was just called Blade of Darkness. I still think I have the CD somewhere.
And it wasn't too difficult a game is you'd played with the amazon. The dwarf and the knight were just insanely difficult to play with.
Honestly, I would watch an entire walk through of you playing Nose
severance was one of my childhoods favorite games. I was so impressed with this back then.
dynamic shadows, the fact you can pick up everything, you can dismember enemies and they can dismember you.
just awesome
As soon as the game cover popped up, I paused the video and felt so nostalgic. I remember playing very little of this game when I was younger, but loving it very much. Can't believe I found it. I so want to download this game and play the full thing
The shadows really impressed me. I'm still only aware of a few games from that time with such an atmospheric lighting engine.
The fact that you’re playing runescape music when you start playing nose is golden
had to scroll through comments to check im not mad
You know, Gangsta Woman makes me feel good. That looks like a game even I could make.
i dont get hows that on steam, they literally took assets for characters and that is
@Conor Koritor I'm not saying it's the worst game I've ever seen, not at all.
I've worked on mods for a long time, I've worked in games for a while now. (mostly as an artist, even if I do have a programming education)
I simply meant that even with how lacking some of my game making skills are, I could probably put together something like that.
@Conor Koritor again theres no way someone made that game and that dragon
@Conor Koritor i know its not i am just saying that devs of that game made almost nothing just took done assets. how do u know kids made this? and when we are flexing i just made a game 4 days ago so i know
@Conor Koritor i wasnt dissing tho
"I am Ambrose Bierce, writer!" This game deserves a recommend just for that haha, how dare you not recommend it
seriously!!
Rune had the most hard-core pvp community back in the day. I remember people setting up duel servers where everyone would take turns watching each other 1v1.
That game is my ❤
"Hello Sir- !"
- Doctor Hu 2020
Lord Solaire Felt like he was the Kenny of the game. 🤣
Lord Solaire Hey Doctor Hu, where’s your Tardis?
**immediately gets slain**
love how he hides crash bandicoot behind every other popular souls-like game
"That old Souls-like game no one heard of... Blade of Darkness"
"Another one old souls-like no one heard of... Rune"
The young one, you shoul probably go check a game called Die By The Sword
fuck yes!! die by the sword fits this series perfectly
Beat me to it, still remember getting the demo and just getting raped by skeletons
@@sclarke6969 So you got *BONED* ?
@@enumaelish9193 Skull f*cked? x.x
@@enumaelish9193 more like he got a boner
Severance ist great. I loved it back then. You have different charcters: knight, berserk, archer and a dwarf. You start with every character in a different area with different gaming experiences. It still looks quite ok.
You're wrong about characters. There were a knight (swords, maces), a barbarian (two handed swords), an amazon (spears) and a dwarf (hammers, axes).
I got pranked hard by that Severance page. As soon as you showed a steam page, I opened Steam and tried to find it thinking it had finally been added to Steam.
Actually, Severance was really an action game ahead of its time, if you think that it came out before even the first Devil May Cry.
Onimusha would like a word with you
@@somedude4122 You're right lol, don't know why I forgot about Onimusha. I have yet to play the first one, but I played Dawn of Dreams and it's amazing.
@@omegazx7236 Hell yeah it is. Wish Capcom would make another one. Good god DMC5 was great, Onimusha in RE engine would be a dream come true.
I guess, it looked kinda innovative with the dodging but arx fatalis came out a year later and it had much better controls and some other innovative things
@@somedude4122 Yeah DMC 5 is the best in the series and one of my favorite games ever, a new Onimusha (maybe directed by Itsuno) would be amazing.
"What was the point in making this game open world? It's like 95% empty"
Sums up 3/4 of open world releases
When you start thinking, if you cross a whole territory of most of the countries, you will see empty places in most of the time
@@Y-all-mofos-need-Talos You can still find change and life.
@@Y-all-mofos-need-Talos Yeah, but the world is just there, nobody was paid to build it or to explore It.
In a videogame people were both paid to produce that waste of bytes and you paid to explore that void.
Said so, there is void and void.
Older games are, well, older, so you don't expect Ocarina of Time to be full of things. Other games like Botw just are based on your exploration, and having some free space is natural to separate areas that do have things. Other games are just... Not an open world. They are there to satisfy people desire of being out of "closed levels", nothing more.
3/4 is a low estimate on that hahaha
I don't know, I feel like the problem isn't that a lot of open world games are empty, it's actually that they are too full of boring meaningless crap (think chores, endless collectables, ticking boxes etc.) Honestly I think that it would be refreshing for more games to be emptier.
I find it interesting that you would write this and that it would be a top comment when its pretty clearly untrue. Say what you like about the quality of open world releases but empty worlds aren't very common. Most games coming out are oversaturated with "content", the issue is the content just isn't very interesting or creative most of the time.
But perhaps that is really what you mean when you say the worlds are empty. Empty of interest rather than empty of objects.
Blade of Darkness is actually on steam now! absolutely love it.
6:45 “Give me that thing” “Your dark soul”
gaels really gone downhill
17:11
I love how that guy just runs in front of the enemy and gets killed.
“What did I just do?”
Me, a Rune player since childhood:
“You consumed a lizard, bro.”
Bro lizards are never around when you need them
Blade of Darkness (aka Severance) finally got on Steam (20 years later)! It even has full controller support now. If you thought from the 1st level that Souls devs must have played it (10 years before Souls), wait till you play the other levels and see even more matching settings, bosses, enemies, weapons, tricks and traps. If the game wasn't published in 2001 (made for 5 years since 1996), but much later, I'm sure everybody would assume it must have copied a lot of things from Souls.
Severance is a fondly remembered part of my childhood, this legendary game is very flawed but still very very good, honestly you should consider making a full playthrough on your channel
@@dokidokiduckie it sure did
As soon as i saw the first frame on severance i instantly knew i'm tryin it lol looked awesome
@@mr.bubbles8351 vengeance?
@@DonGeritch lol sorry i meant severance my bad
@@mr.bubbles8351 oh, yeah, should've figured it out myself, lol, but yeah, game is awesome, though you still might not like it in the end due to some of it's shortcomings and the difficulty being perhaps unreasonable at points
Pascal's Wager combines Bloodborne's setting, Geralt from the Witcher, JonTron's parrot Jacques but as an owl, and tribal E.T.
That last one combines Kenshi with the Legend of Zelda and fails in both.
"Hello Sir!"
-Dr. Who, 2020-2020
*immediately dies*
F
I'm just back here real quick to thank you, my man. I downloaded and completed the hell out of NOSE. I am IN LOVE with it. I legit feel bad I didn't pay money for it
5:12 "Lady Maria, I'm a robin. Will I ever curl up and become on egg?"
Starting off with Severance: Blade of Darkness gets a like from me. That game was fun back in the day. And oddly enough still has mechanic that you still don't see nowadays.
Back in the day, and now, too.
Old games have a lot of mechanics that you don't see nowadays. Now, we have microtransactions to add more gameplay mechanics. We even have mechanic simulator games, but that's about it.
@@5minutemovies977 Literally one of my favorite old action games from 2001. I was actually looking for building Windows 98 machine just to play it until I found a patch that fixes issues with graphics and makes that game will actually run on Windows 10 without problems
@@OmegaEnvych YOu might want to take a look at some patches made by fans :
www.replaying.de/files/severance-blade-of-darkness-d3d-patch-windows-7-8-1-10/
I knew a site dedicated to old games that had a lot of compatibility patches, but I don't remember what it was called.
i still have a copy of Blade of Darkness.
Not legal, of course.
So the guy who makes Nose has a blog, and some of it is translated into English:
rightkamo.blog21.fc2.com/
He made a post yesterday saying he is still working on it and version 4 should be in summer 2020. English localization is still a goal
rightkamo.blog21.fc2.com/blog-entry-342.html
Huh, that's really cool
Sweet
Idk if the music was added but I think it was ripped straight from runescape lol
That is dope
There's an English speedrun (well actually the player is German but the game is in English):
th-cam.com/video/BaEZ-M9-KFU/w-d-xo.html
Using a stool as a weapon sounds great. In Exanima, I have been known to swing a pestle around and pretend that it's a weapon only to get my ass beat moments later.
First game should of just been called “Dark Stools”
In the same way "Dark Holes" can mean anus, a stool is either a chair, or feces. Double meanings is both a blessing and a curse.
*have
If you have dark stools you should see a doctor
Severance looks like a early prototype for Dark Messiah of Might & Magic.
The sequel "Dark stools II: scholar of the first seat"
14:53 “Just find lizards and eat them! More games need this feature!”
*Shadow of the Colossus has left the chat.*
"Would you guys like A HAND?"
Also would've accepted
"HAHA! Now I have A LEG up on you"
Oh please, stop pulling my LEG
Or there's danger aFOOT for you.
what about: i will kick your ass.
Say hello to MY THIRD LEG!
@@ChronicNOTAG Man, your third leg is LEGit.
I've paused at the millisecond I saw the steam page and spent next 15 minutes trying to figure out how Blade of Darkness was on steam in 2020. Thank you! (not really)
"It's kinda like eating a piece of bread" felt so weird because it's 3:40am and I'm eating a piece of bread in the dark while everyone else is asleep
We've all been there, eating a slice in the warm glow of a monitor while the world is sleeping. Good times!
Ever just wanna eat bread in the middle of the night but all you have are tortillas? So there I am munching on a tortilla
Uhm, hey, wait a minute.
10:06 Damn its actually Runescape music, I thought my game client was open
same lol
Most are runescape songs lol
My thoughts exactly, had to search the comments to make sure I wasn't the only one lol
Buy gf 10k
Lol recognise that music anywhere
Honestly the devs behind Pascal's Wager should just port it to PC,I can tell it's not a cash grab because of all the effort they seem to have put into it(Cut scenes,lore,unique character designs,and I'm assuming an original soundtrack...),add to that the fact that we don't see any micro-transactions...
Hell,I don't even think they were ripping off Bloodborne,I just think they picked the same era of history as BB as an inspiration,you can see it's doing it's own thing!
These guys are clearly competent developers who picked the wrong platform for their game!
That's what I was wondering. Why do a game like this on mobile. Are they crazy
@@Densiozo no its easier to make and easier to make profit
@@leo6659 How it is easier to make? Did you see how complicated and sophisticated the game is? Easier to make would be like Jetpack Joyride or something like that
@@Densiozo graphically no need for extra effort, easier to accomodate to device... yes this is made very well but on pc it wouldnt look sooo epic and wouldnt get enough attention so on mobile u could say its on top
@@Chrome2105 everything matters in a such a big market
I love the inclusion of the Crash Trilogy in the pile of Soulslikes you might know about. I cry laughing every time.
11:54 yeah you nailed it
HPが30％以下になると防御カが上昇する
Defense power rises if HP is under 30%
"DO NOT BUY"
"Just GARBAGE"
"smh refunding"
*_3650 hours_*
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He probably died from a boss for the 30th time and got pissed or something
fark bett Actually 6 Billion!
Yeah I don’t get that. If I don’t like a game I put AT MOST like 6-8 hours in and then if I still don’t like it I’m done
Was thinking the same.
God "Nose" seems like Dark Souls meets Dark Cloud minus a thirst meter
15:56 smoothest moonwalk ever seen
Blade of darkness was amazing for its time! On higher levels you could also do special attacks with button combinations like a fighting game, and oh boy was it weird to dodge and do all the souls-like fighting with those attacks in between, so most ppl just ignored those. Betcha from software knew about it and thought "lets do a new blade of darkness, but with less of the weird gameplay"
> playing souls likes
"Why is there friendly fire"
eehhhhhh?
14:19 “I used to be an adventurer like you. Until I took a dagger to the D”
Blade of Darkness is actually one of the greatest games ever made. So atmospheric , so challenging and rewarding. Not to mention the landscapes and scenery is very good in each level. I highly recommend it
Severance: Blade of darkness is the game of my childhood.
Unfortunatelly, you have missed the most fun part of the game, which is special attacks trigered by specific atack sequences. It give you whole level of strategy how to proceed during fights . And every veapon has its own - so gameplay changes drastickly depending on weapon you use.
I did not seen this unique mechanic working so well anywhere else.
I recommend to get at least to level 3 where you can experiment with different atacks.
That actual sounds insanely fun
I still thinks it is better than modern games in terms of how battle skill progressed, all those timed blocking and attacking. and the developer has guts in showing what happened when you swing a sword or a club to someone's or something's head.
So it's like Reaction Commands from KH2?
As soon as the game cover popped up, I paused the video and felt so nostalgic. I remember playing very little of this game when I was younger, but loving it very much. Can't believe I found it. I so want to download this game and play the full thing
What's the special attack sequences you use with a dude's leg.
6:45 give me that thing, your Pascal's Wager™
I see what you did there
If you're looking for old games that nowaday may fall into "Soulslike" then there's also Enclave.
Enclave was dope af
@@FizzyWM Still is. It's on steam and i played it a while back. Had a blast.
i hate anime what are you even on about.
While I also enjoy Enclave the only thing it has in common with soulslikes is the perspective and fantasy setting. It clearly is nothing like dark souls in actual gameplay.
@@Darling-su3ci he tried to sound edgy and witty, but didn't have the language skills to pull it off, I guess?
btw when I was playing Blade of Darkness back in the days I felt like the graphics were out of these world, it looked like it cannot get better it was one of the first 3d games and it felt photorealistic to me back then :D now I see how deluded we were, but blade of darkness braught a thrill very similar to demon souls. It was the same dark mysterious world you dive in.
The music from that first game seriously reminded me of Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy's sound track.
TheBeanhacker cuz it’s actually from it and Zelda haha
It is
"The trial is over..."
I don't think that's the only thing that is over for him...
Heh.
damn, the Jak and Daxter soundtrack? can’t beat that nostalgia.
*_[Runescape music kicks down the door]_*
Mr Spaghetti I was away from my phone and the very second I heard the drum beat kick in, I thought I clicked on the wrong video. I love Jak and Daxter, I played the shit out of them when I was little and still to this day
was scrolling for a comment of someone else who noticed the runescape music
Here is your semi-annual reminder that Nose has a full English translation now and is COMPLETELY FREE. Shockingly good game! Go play Nose!! NOSE!!!