"And on the seventh day, the Lord's mic broke. And then the Lord rested until the store sent him a new one, since he had a 10 day warranty." -Old Testiment, Technical 4-04
@PaulieDeMafia
10 жыл бұрын
I don't know how come nobody said it yet, so The Lord malfunctions in mysterious ways.
@manicchild7827
9 жыл бұрын
I love you.
@Kuuenbu
9 жыл бұрын
This game answers the eternal question: Can God make a CD-ROM so scratched even He cannot Disc Doctor it?
@BagOfMagicFood
8 жыл бұрын
+rustybender Heh, the ISO I found of this seems to have audio skips or pops in the worst sea-based ending.
@CaptHayfever
10 жыл бұрын
You know how in most QTE games, the prompts are somewhat relevant to the action that the character is supposed to take? Like pressing left to dodge to the left or something? Apparently the team behind Strahl didn't know that.
@JanoyCresvaZero
10 жыл бұрын
To be fair, apparently there are no good 3DO emulators out there, and somehow the button prompts became wildly out of sync with the video. It's not really the developers' fault.
@dennismoore56
10 жыл бұрын
Mark Marchesini Is that also the reason the audio compression is so bad?
@JanoyCresvaZero
10 жыл бұрын
dennismoore56 I suppose so.
@JoLiKMC
10 жыл бұрын
To be fair, the crap that's going on in the video isn't actually the 3DO's fault. It's just that there is literally no good 3DO emulator out there. Seriously. Neither of the two I tried can even run _Super Street Fighter II Turbo_ decently, so what hope could there be for a game that uses sprite resizing between FMV clips? The incredibly desynced input notifications may also be because of that, but I don't know for sure. It might have been smarter to longplay the Saturn version, or even better, the Pioneer LaserActive version (via capture card?) called _Triad Stone_.
@BagOfMagicFood
10 жыл бұрын
Yes, I'm pretty sure the input desynchs are due to the emulator too, all coming more slowly than they should and falling way behind the FMV, just as the intro story animations finish faster than they should and cut off the narrator. You can find a few longplays done on console where the inputs make sense and don't go all to the way to when Alex has passed all the danger. (The emulator I tried also makes the input notifications flicker, but this might not be possible to see on KZitem due to its lower maximum framerate.) Triad Stone does have the more logical story from what I've seen. The downside is you don't get all those crazy endings Strahl has, but that aspect can't be conveyed in a single longplay anyway, unless you want to dedicate two-thirds of the video to an ending collection. And just how many people ever invested in a Mega-LD setup? It's just a shame the Saturn version doesn't seem to be available in English and leaves out some between-level animations.
@shellgame4612
9 жыл бұрын
An... Army of Me? OF COURSE! It's a video game inspired by Bjork, it all makes sense now!
@TheBrianJ
9 жыл бұрын
"Damn you, religious microphone!" might be the most wonderful sentence in human history.
@Klarden
10 жыл бұрын
Raiden, I think we accidentally loaded ze wrong VR mission.
@Armando51roosters
9 жыл бұрын
What if this game is about Alex metaphorically finding god and battling his depression and low self esteem? I just have the feeling that this is what it's about.
@EthVortexShield
9 жыл бұрын
My mind was reciting a mantra of "He's getting the crystals, he's getting the crystals" as I tried to fill in a reason for everything happening. Just trying to rationalize all the constant and different events. I think my mind was hiding my confusion, even now, as I rewatch this one again.
@DemonicAkumi
9 жыл бұрын
If anyone ever wondered how Legend of Zelda and Sonic The Hedgehog would be if written by the Pope after drinking too much wine.
@joegomes2725
9 жыл бұрын
LOL
@eastull
10 жыл бұрын
The yellow guys speak entirely in Wario noises
@Firedawn73
9 жыл бұрын
13:55 yknow that fight could have been really pretty actually had it been better animated. and if it wasn't in this.
@zacharyjohansen2303
9 жыл бұрын
***** And if anything in it made sense.
@MalamiteLtd
9 жыл бұрын
Anime Elvis Link ain't afraid of NO man.
@manicchild7827
9 жыл бұрын
Did anything make sense in the 80s?
@RagnarokiaNG
9 жыл бұрын
Considering the gameplay of these types of games is so easy to make, you would think they could at least make the input commands fit the action the protagonist is doing.....you know, it isn't that hard.
@BlargGargle
11 жыл бұрын
"The invention of the motor vehicle has made the poeple's lives pleasant"
@sevenbegore
9 жыл бұрын
Super Pompadour Ascot Warrior II.
@NonCompliantF
10 жыл бұрын
I think a video of the guy recording the "Link" sounds would be more interesting.
@An7ithe0s
6 жыл бұрын
I like the monster designs in these old fmv qte games.
@bloodrunsclear
9 жыл бұрын
I'm glad we could help the poeple :)
@ragdoll433
9 жыл бұрын
Wow the more i watch The funnier these guys get
@LPetal86
11 жыл бұрын
I really like this anime story of Santa Claus and his quest to collect the mystical Easter eggs for his good friend, the Easter Bunny. I'd name this game "Weihnachtsmann: Intergalactic Warrior of the Pompadour." (it's especially awesome that apparently that German name for Santa translates to "Holy-Night-Man".)
@VidavisPrime
10 жыл бұрын
0:59 Most Epic Care Bear Stare EVAR!
@prinnyblackblade
11 жыл бұрын
"Are you alright....Lord?" made me laugh so hard I actually hurt myself.
@Pizza_Skeleton
11 жыл бұрын
I'm picturing this game's creation being a series of brainstorming sessions and they used every single idea in the finished product.
@SecondHandSka
11 жыл бұрын
The stage you picked first chose your "path", air, land, or water. Which would affect the fun facts, then the order you played the other stages in made VERY minor changes to the ending cutscene.
@BagOfMagicFood
11 жыл бұрын
Thanks for that. I like how three stones in one game turned into seven stones in another. You can just keep reinserting the stone-collecting scene to have as many macguffins as you want! I also like that Triad Stone began to give more of the enemies names and constant mad laughter. The squeaky laughter goes well with the bathroom dance.
@ChiefMedicPururu
10 жыл бұрын
13:28 "Poeple"? I'm surprised no one noticed that typo...
@BlackburnBigdragon
8 жыл бұрын
So.. they just decided to animate a bunch of sequences. Then decided to say, "That's enough." when it came time to actually craft the story that connected them together. Not only that, the programmers obviously probably finished the programming of the game before the animation part was finished or did it without actually seeing the animation because the movements and timing of the movements they set don't match the animation at all in three quarters of the instances where the player has to act. It's nice when a company's penny pinching is so blatantly obvious.
@DarkButz
8 жыл бұрын
I think they wanted to make an anime first, but ran out of budget or got it cut and they stitched it into this mess. I mean, hell. They got the animator that directed shows like Dunbine or Xabungle, VAs like Horikawa and Shiozawa and THAT'S what they wanted to make?
@Jokoko2828
7 жыл бұрын
Waste of talent, yeah.
@ectothermic
9 жыл бұрын
Hmm... drugs. That's all I'm getting out of this. Possibly mushrooms?
@Valdetiosi
9 жыл бұрын
Terumi Yūki Anime ruins everything.
@ectothermic
9 жыл бұрын
Valdetiosi Even drugs? :(
@Valdetiosi
9 жыл бұрын
Terumi Yūki Even drugs.
@ectothermic
9 жыл бұрын
Valdetiosi Aww.. sadness.
@SecondHandSka
11 жыл бұрын
Oh, I thought people might be interested to know that there are actually 3 endings to this game. Yes, seriously. This playthrough is the "Land path". There is also, the "water path" and "sky path". They each give different little fun facts. The path you get depends on which stage you pick first
@Lime30373
9 жыл бұрын
Why is it the crystals were different colors in the beginning, but then every time Strahl got one, they were the same cyan-ish color? Also, what happens if you miss the command to pick up the crystal? Does Strahl trip and die?
@MrOmegatronic
8 жыл бұрын
+HW W He realises the plot is stupid, and goes home.
@BagOfMagicFood
8 жыл бұрын
+HW W This game replaces the original level endings with stock footage from the first level to pretend there are more stones, and that command was actually from an earlier event due to an emulation error.
@Danegermouse1992
10 жыл бұрын
pompadour warrior? so Space Dandy?
@8BITBASKIN
10 жыл бұрын
Kazuma Kuwabara could apply, as well.
@Number9Robotic
10 жыл бұрын
17:09 Anybody else notice the Photoshop transparency texture right next to Evil Strahl's right foot for a split second? Quality animation, everyone.
@JanoyCresvaZero
10 жыл бұрын
Did they even have photoshop when this was released?
@Pihutihutihutijay
10 жыл бұрын
***** thanks for reminding me of that, now watching at 2.0 speed.
@Kuuenbu
9 жыл бұрын
***** The original game, _Triad Stone_ (which the LaserDisc footage was taken from), was released in 1985, though.
@BagOfMagicFood
9 жыл бұрын
Kuuenbu I just learned the unfinished game Triad Stone was made from was called Chantze's Stone.
@ItsFelbourne
11 жыл бұрын
If you re-watch the entire thing from the beginning and imagine it actually IS the Santa Claus origin story, this game actually seems pretty awesome
@cometkite
9 жыл бұрын
Do the button prompts have _anything_ to do with what's happening on-screen?
@Trisask09
9 жыл бұрын
Having watched this a few times, I think the problem is the QTE inputs and the actual on-screen actions are *way* out of sync, so you end up reacting to QTE's that should have appeared earlier.
@thomasjenkins7506
9 жыл бұрын
Trisask09 i think it's the other way around. a few of the prompts come on screen long before the event ever happens, so it looks odd.
@XaneMyers
9 жыл бұрын
Thomas Jenkins In the Whiteasnake one, they're delayed, actually, and they slowly fall behind the action.
@thomasjenkins7506
9 жыл бұрын
***** if you are saying they come after the event, then how does the game know what cut scene to show? that doesn't make any sense.
@XaneMyers
9 жыл бұрын
Thomas Jenkins That's...a good point; Still, it's weird how the first thing the guy does, dodging, has its command slightly afterwards, and nothing happens before that, then the second event shows a long meter and he takes a while to do it.
@fastbreak333
11 жыл бұрын
I like to see people like you actually try to ignore things you don't like for once.
@Mr.Mosquito89
9 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad we managed give all those Poeple motor vehicles. Lantern ghosts have transportation needs, too.
@dzzykzzy8683
8 жыл бұрын
I really can't believe that Don and Cindy's Wacky Adventure had a more followable plot than this.
@redmercer
11 жыл бұрын
JOINT EFFORTS: these were the guys who were rolling them for the artists and programmers
@TeamDeltaMAXXX
11 жыл бұрын
This creppy pasta writter really put a lot of effort, doing this animation and all that
@ByondRAGE
9 жыл бұрын
I gotta say the best animated part was the mummy snake fight. If it didnt look like i was staring at a shitty tv with the colors it would've been pretty neat to watch.
@Bolshoi333
10 жыл бұрын
I especially like how half the time the prompts don't match up to what happens on screen
@RobotBlueprint
11 жыл бұрын
4:08 "This is a really bad day." Now I wonder what a Tomb Raider game would be like if it were done in this style.
@lich109
11 жыл бұрын
One more thing, I actually like seeing Mike Dawson wander around and fail at things, misinterpret situations, not trying anything strenuous because he's a total pansy, and talking to people that hate him, it's fun in a very sad way, but mostly because he totally deserves everything that happens to him. This is opposed to the characters in heavy rain where I'm mostly indifferent to them whenever they're not being completely stupid.
@BagOfMagicFood
11 жыл бұрын
I don't think it would depend entirely on the order, though: You get a choice of 3 at the start, then you do the other 5 in any order and leave only the crystal-cave mirror-clone level for last, so I believe that would be three times five factorial or 360 permutations. The manual mentions you get 2 continues and 3 lives per continue, making 9 possibilities for lives lost; maybe two of them are equal, and it's 8 values for remaining lives times just the order chosen for the initial 3 levels.
@BagOfMagicFood
11 жыл бұрын
Okay, I found what was cut compared to Triad Stone: Mainly it's a few shots at the end of a few levels where Ash surveys the area before the regular victory animation, but at the end of the snake level, he gets swarmed by some little snakes, then attacked by the headless snake's body until he makes it explode. Then after the stone at the end of the level with the big green guy, Ash catches a ride on a giant dish out of a crumbling cave with an entrance shaped like a skull, which then... erodes?
@Delvarian
11 жыл бұрын
Yeah it was. Actraiser was released on 1990 (JAP) and 1991 (US), and Strahl was on 1993-1994 (JAP) and 1995 (US)..
@notyoursavior78
11 жыл бұрын
This game makes Badlands seem like a well thought out comprehensible story.
@MariaIsabellaZNN
8 жыл бұрын
A death reel of this game should prove highly amusing..
@BagOfMagicFood
8 жыл бұрын
+Maria Isabella I've seen one! They reuse a lot of the same sequences, though.
@MegamanElric16
8 жыл бұрын
+BagOfMagicFood Could you share the link to it if you reply? That would be cool.
@BagOfMagicFood
8 жыл бұрын
MegamanElric16 Oh, huh, let me try to figure out what I was referring to back then... If it was the prototype disc, then the KZitem video ID is rgPGA30YkPQ, and the deaths come after the levels, at 4:11, 6:45, 9:09, 11:12, 14:38, 17:22, and 20:34.
@King_Clark
11 жыл бұрын
It surprises me that, given how powerful the 3DO was touted to be, that there are so many slowdown issues - in an FMV game, no less.
@Gyrogia
11 жыл бұрын
That would explain why the "paradise" at the end was just some field, instead of the highly futuristic city that was apparently being built.
@LeafhopperV
11 жыл бұрын
"This is somehow worse than Time Gal" I let out the most audible "What?!" I have ever done.
@AstralAbstraction
11 жыл бұрын
There's no way the voice section was that long. It was just the narrator, God and a couple of grunts!
@Wizwork
11 жыл бұрын
Heres how I saw Heavy Rain: First few minutes: Its the sims. Hour or so in: Its a multicharacter angst story. Way later in: Its saw....its just saw with more angst.
@BagOfMagicFood
11 жыл бұрын
You're not kidding! I just found a playthrough of the sky path on the "monstrusoft" account. I like how they kinda ran out of ideas for a while and went, "Uh... Bigger balloons? More windmills?"
@chaffXgrenade
11 жыл бұрын
22:33 Huh. I was expecting Motoi Sakuraba's name to show up there. The music here kinda reminds me of Valkyrie Profile or Star Ocean at times...
@LaughingThesaurus
11 жыл бұрын
What a game. Talk about positive feedback. You succeed, and your character falls down anyway.
@BagOfMagicFood
11 жыл бұрын
Hey yeah, that's it! Maybe the reason everything falls apart so quickly is that Alex is living in an extremely slowed-down time stream compared to the rest of civilization, which makes him witness to the natural effects of erosion!
@slowbeef
11 жыл бұрын
After we did this video, I learned the Mega CD version is longer, so maybe it makes more sense? Some graphics (Strahl/Eric looking over the desert) look new to the game too... maybe it was adapted from an anime?
@MalamiteLtd
11 жыл бұрын
I'm beginning to notice that FMV game protagonists seem to go through more hell in 30 seconds than most other game protagonists do in 10 minutes.
@grenadier42
11 жыл бұрын
14:07 "Oh, she's--she's blood now." Slowbeef, your Dangan Ronpa is showing.
@BagOfMagicFood
11 жыл бұрын
Hey, if no one's seen all 48 endings, who's to say there isn't one where Alex is Santa Claus? Maybe it's like The Santa Clause, where the dying old man was the previous Santa, and putting on the suit slowly transforms Alex into the new Santa: His hair's halfway to being the stocking cap, and the heart protector thingy becomes the toy bag he can pull anything he wants out of. But first he has to help his friend the Easter Bunny collect eggs and also to defeat his nemesis Jack Frost in battle.
@LPetal86
11 жыл бұрын
Unfortunately, no dice for the German Easter Bunny's translation, but it seems that due to a misunderstanding the Swedish word/s for Easter Bunny, that now the Swedish have a tradition about the "Påskkarlen", which can mean "The Easter Wizard". So in Sweden, kids dress up as witches on Easter in honor of the Easter Wizard delivering eggs to kids.
@BagOfMagicFood
11 жыл бұрын
I checked out a longplay of Triad Stone, and while the in-game audio may be funnier, it didn't seem much longer; I think each game has just a few bits of animation the other lacks. Triad Stone names the hero Ash and has more of a "Steal back the Triforce from Gannon" kind of story, though it's not much easier to follow. Its opening scene is live footage of a camera pulling in on the resting place of the magic stone, and the setting is an island with the good sense to make blondie the final boss.
@MSF_Soldier_Alligator
10 жыл бұрын
Why hello, anime Strider.
@SledgeHammerGai
10 жыл бұрын
*even more anime
@manicchild7827
9 жыл бұрын
Difference being Strider is good.
@tuckman315
9 жыл бұрын
Or is it good
@manicchild7827
9 жыл бұрын
Tucker DeBord Fight me about it
@cammypants15
11 жыл бұрын
the people in the join efforts were just the people who supplied the pot to come up with ideas for this game.
@BagOfMagicFood
11 жыл бұрын
Mrs. Claus was known for going off the deep end. Santa's Little Helpers wouldn't come quietly until he let them be Santa's Big Helpers for a while.
@PekoponTAS
11 жыл бұрын
I get the feeling that Japanese animators at the time hated how their tv shows couldn't afford much animation, so they just decided to make some short FMV games and throw all their crazy visuals they've had in mind in more detailed chunks of animation that don't actually need plot or dialogue.
@lich109
11 жыл бұрын
How about my favourite? "The murderer just killed someone else (I might be remembering that wrong) attacked me, is wearing a massive trenchcoat and I can track him through the pollen in the air, better just call it quits and go back to the station for no reason, I'm not even going to report this."
@BagOfMagicFood
11 жыл бұрын
48 Gainax Endings, based on what level you played first and how many times you failed, which somehow completely alter the course of Alex and his country!
@BagOfMagicFood
11 жыл бұрын
Yeah, and the Saturn version's stage select was just a row of pictures, not the crystals whirling around God, so we wouldn't have gotten to laugh at the emulator choking on that audio if Retsupurae had gotten a longplay of that one instead. I'm guessing the arcade version was never really finished and the console ports had to make up whatever they felt would fit things together the best, hence the scenes that seem to begin or end mid-action.
@Norrbottning
11 жыл бұрын
"He was going to evolve into me" I lost it
@beehivecity
11 жыл бұрын
its like terranigma except you just press buttons while watching a bunch of unconnected anime scenes
@razor8191
11 жыл бұрын
Development Team: "Alright, so the objective is to collect magic crystals that somehow advance civilization while God talks to you through a CB radio... do you think you can handle it?"
@BagOfMagicFood
11 жыл бұрын
Yeah, it would be nice if someone could compile them all. Here's an ending where Alex becomes a huge "celestial" of the sky: /watch?v=DR0WTtvwnz4&t=4m14s Here's another one where he becomes an immortal priest with wings: /watch?v=ku2eCk4RzgI&t=4m22s And one where he marries into royalty: /watch?v=hvcV6jUHeYk&t=28m15s
@glmathgrant
11 жыл бұрын
I can't believe Wild Wild Waste makes more sense than this.
@Zycyzyx
4 жыл бұрын
I'd love to see the animation for this in it's original, less compressed/ugly form. This is clearly done by some of the same art and animation team who made the awesome short 'Deprive' from Robot Carnival.... and it retains some of that same retro anime cool factor as well. Shame it was all wasted on a nonsensical FMV/Laserdisc(?) game with even less of a story than Deprive; but oh well.
@TheGuyinShades
4 жыл бұрын
Zycyzyx Apparently the game was originally called "Triad Stone" before they reworked it into this. It's a Laserdisc game so the video is a lot better, and the story is completely different and makes marginally more sense.
@iczer7788
11 жыл бұрын
We are all made of the little flower guys. That is the dark secret of Strahl.
@GhostoftheRedComet
11 жыл бұрын
I'd like to think this is where 80's anime that was canceled during production goes to die.
@thapoint09
11 жыл бұрын
17:32 Suddenly Revolutionary Girl Utena, which makes only slightly more sense than this.
@Maser209
11 жыл бұрын
Please oh please Diabetus and Slowbeef, if you're Wrongpraeing 3DO games, PLEASE do Plumbers Don't Wear Ties! I will love you both for life if you do that! And piss myself thoroughly during the whole time watching it and laughing!
@totoyamado
11 жыл бұрын
i feel games like these are the reason people make games like that xbla haunted house rhythm game
@Robocopnik
8 жыл бұрын
There's a lot here that's also in Scott Pilgrim, like the sword-from-the-chest and the nega-protagonist.
@TollingBells
11 жыл бұрын
"Instead of dressing the part to get into the Night Club owner's back room, I'll tear up my clothes."
@Freek314
11 жыл бұрын
Almost spit out my bourbon at "Strahl"man arguments!
@FEfan56
11 жыл бұрын
Dammit Beetus i'm sick of your puns, this is the last strahl!
@SammyThomas
11 жыл бұрын
On perpendicular thoughts, the Sega Saturn has Goldeneye.
@MatteoTomatto
11 жыл бұрын
Actually, yes. After the 3DO system failed in the marketplace, the company behind it transitioned into a third-party developer (a la Sega post Dreamcast).
@TabbieDearest
11 жыл бұрын
14:18 On that day, flowerkind received a grim reminder
@ilovewallacebuthategromit
11 жыл бұрын
The point of this adventure was less about the crystals and more about the hero just wanting to try out freerunning.
@FlameAdder
11 жыл бұрын
Jesus Christ, Kaneto Shiozawa? From Fist of the North Star to bad laserdisc games, what a step.
@VicViper
11 жыл бұрын
According to some comments accross the internet, there are multiple endings, I guess you get different ones depending of the pattern of your choices of stages or depending of how many lives you've lost. Because from what I've gathered, there are like 45 possible endings ! Here's one of them in which Alex becomes King of the Water : /watch?v=KPXXxtOYUH4 (at around 4:08)
@cartmann94
11 жыл бұрын
48 of them to be exact. It depends on the order in which you enter the levels.
@lich109
11 жыл бұрын
"Let's see, the murderer hid a message in this white room with a lot of lights, and a table, I wonder where it could be? It's probably not in the only slot in the table, I better drink this poison." *Drinks it* "Holy shit, the message was in the slot in the table!"
@ArmoredChocoboLPs
11 жыл бұрын
Strahl: The game where shit just starts falling apart.
@SlamminWolfgang
11 жыл бұрын
OK, so from what I (←) gathered of the weird factoids (←) between levels and the (↑) ending, this game is basically (X) like Terranigma, but instead of (→) rebuilding the entire (←) world, you're (.........O) fighting through random QTEs to create the state of Vermont. (↑)
@youtubeviewing9083
11 жыл бұрын
13:30 the game says poeple's. Good job editor.
@XaneMyers
9 жыл бұрын
Alsom, isv this where Sonic got his "TERIAAAAAAAAAA~!" inspiration from?
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