One of my favourite mega drive games, I still play it today when I get bored but I never get far, I hope there's a sequel getting made like streets of rage 4

I loved this game. Used to play coop in the PC with friends. 2nd player had to use the mouse. It was such challenge just to walk and make the jumps😂

This has to be one of best in depth reviews I've watched for this game. I feel like these games are too under appreciated

I was at an arcade with Revenge of Death=Adder precisely once, and though I was disappointed I could not play my main man Gilius I do remember thinking it was pretty cool. And until like 20 years later I had no idea THAT was not Golden Axe II, nor that there was a III or any other spinoffs. Definitely loved the original like few other arcade games; the music and poorly-digitized Conan voice samples and the fact that I could finally win a game on one quarter all really made something magical for me, haha

Very comprehensive and well researched video, hopefully your channel grows with this quality content.

Enjoying this series very much so far. More, please👍

I'm an old Golden axe gamer. Very impressed with the layout of this video. Well presented and very educational. Now I know versions that I never knew before, very interesting. You got yourself a new subscriber. Keep up the god job.

Awesome video!! Thank you very much!!!

I loved Revenge of Death Adder, it looked incredible back in the day

Sega was/is notorious for making weird decisions. The Saturn would’ve no doubt been able to handle Revenge of Death Adder.

Marvelous documentary! Thank you so much Sir!

Your mouse is driving me crazy!! Besides that, very good video. You've got a new subscriber!

Super video! I like very much that you underlined the greatness of the C64 title music. Its such a great song that i have it in my standard music playlist.

I strangely always liked streets of rage 1 better than 2. There was something clunky and gritty about it that just felt more emersive to me.

not me trying to move the cursor at 3:41

Great video!! I am a huge Golden Axe fan! This is a very informative video on the series. I personally would love to see a remake of the original arcade or sega version with updated graphics but same game play mechanics.

The Amiga version of Golden Axe was based entirely on the Arcade version, not the Mega Drive version, which you can tell from the background graphics such as the edge of the turtle's shell (being rounded off and identical to the arcade, as opposed to the jagged, tiled mess the Mega Drive's limited hardware had to make do with). It also has the arcade ending and none of the extras featured in the Mega Drive port.

SOR and Golden Axe is definitely 2 of my all time favorites!

I remember seeing this in the arcade. Popular game... however, Tyris Flare's jump attack could basically get you through the entire game without getting hit and you could cheese the game easily by doing it. A bit like the elbow attack in Double Dragon.

Great video thansk you ^^

Very well done. I really enjoyed that and remember the arcade from my childhood, but never tried the Amstrad CPC464 version.

Ah that Commodore version of the music.

Awesome video. I played the HECK out of Golden Axe on my Genesis. I didn't get another one until the 360 game and was MASSIVELY disappointed.

Nice video great job! Couple of things I would note: Goldenaxe 2 is definitely harder than the first one. Not sure where you got that idea the 1st one is a breeze to beat while the 2nd is quite a bit harder. Goldenaxe 3 the magic system is a bit more convoluted than you made out. You only use up all pots if you fill the meter completely. If I remember correctly it works like this: Level 1 is when you fill the first bar and you only use 1 pot (you start with 1 anyway) Level 2 is when the first and 2nd bar are filled and you use 3 pots to get level 2 magic. Level 3 is when you fill all three bars and you use all pots. There's also a whole bunch of team magic. Goldenaxe3 can actually be not bad if you master all the extra moves. A lot of them are extremely OP. I'm not saying it's as good as the previous two games but do give it a chance it has it's moments.

@chebghobbi

Жыл бұрын

As a kid I found the first game in the series miles harder than the second, although the second was my introduction to the series so I had more experience with it. Good comment all the same. Golden Axe III may look and sound like crap, but once you grasp the mechanics it has quite a lot of depth. It just takes a lot of time and effort to get there and getting there isn't a whole lot of fun.

Revenge of Death Adder was a blast to play back in the day

After playing on arcade I cant go back to megadrive it is so much better I did t realize until I listen to soundtrack that made me look at backgrounds

I guess this would seem weird nowadays, but at the time the arcade machine was considered the definitive canon of the games, so revenge of the death adder was canonically the one and only golden axe 2, with the original creator at the helm. The mega drive games are great but, as a kid at the time, they're not the ones I think of when I think of my cherished Golden Axe experiences.

Well done Sir! Nice video. Being a big fan of Golden Axe I was always annoyed by Tyris flare being missing from Revenge. She is my fave! (and I enjoyed Beast rider!)

You didn't mention that Revenge of Death Adder was released on the Arcade1Up as a dedicated home arcade cabinet with Golden Axe and Revenge of Death Adder.

The C64 version is indeed stunning for the hardware - it looks like the whole bloody game squeezed into a C64. It's an illusion, though- with only one enemy on screen it isn't really Golden Axe, it just looks like it.

2:38 mmm chicken leg 😀

Here waiting that SoR4 or Fight N Rage's devs developed a new game.

Acording to wikipedia about reception of Golden Axe beast rider..."Golden Axe: Beast Rider received "generally unfavorable reviews" on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.[11][12] IGN concluded, "This is a game worth avoiding like the plague, even if the classic remains deep and warm within your heart."[22] GamePro called it "poorly designed and utterly mediocre," "a terrible game that feels like a slap in the face to fans of the original franchise."[17] In an editorial titled "Dave talks Golden Axe", Play editor Dave Halverson wrote "The majority of these people (can't call them critics) either didn't complete a fraction of the game, don't understand game design, or just plain suck at games", and that "to score Beast Rider below a 7 is just irresponsible" the main problem is, the devs just turn the blind eye on the fact that they made a coop game intoa single player amazon character, no dwarf(my fav), no barbarian... it was a coop franchise

RE: Golden axe 3, yes, the graphics might be lacking, but it has by far the smoothest, fast-paced and rewarding gameplay I took a huge liking to. The first two parts felt so sluggish after it, like the protagonist was wading through the mud. And the music was great for the hardware the Megadrive offered. Maybe it has departed from the high fantasy themes offered by the first two parts, but that's a question of the taste, not the quality.

Where did you get the info about an intended sequel set in the real world? I've never heard of that before, always just assumed the cast escaping from the game was nothing more than a bit of light-hearted silliness.

this looks like a job for DOTEMU!! please guys! do a remake! you saved streets of rage and turtles!!

The team behind Beast Rider didn't know this, but the correct pronunciation of the amazon character's name is 'Tirris' and not 'Tie-ris' - in Japanese it's ティリス=フレア (Tirisu Furea), but you can also tell from the way it was translated on the original cabinet in the West - the game itself named her Tyris Flare (well, technically Tyris=Flare), but the cabinet named her Tillis-Flayer.

Difficulty was worth it on Hard as I was forced to anyway! Based on the Genesis Version!!

Gilius = thunderhead => my main character.

Great breakdown of the history. I would just like them to release Revenge of the Death Adder at least on any console and then work on a new golden axe game. that reboot was really busted. i never knew it existed but once i read about it somewhere i thought i want to play it but after watching that it basically killed the franchise, i dropped any thoughts about playing it. There are so many games that have been ruined by making this transition to true 3D graphics.

Sega should make a new golden axe maybe in the form of dark souls type game, imagine how good that would be

@barryklinedinst6233

6 ай бұрын

Sega is making new one

Golden Axe is one of my favorite arcade titles, with the arcade version being my favorite. The graphics are slightly better and I enjoy the ending. I respect the Genesis/Md port, but it's extra level doesn't do much for me and it has a very weak ending.

Arcade 1up has it

I’m here after sega power surge

At no point does anyone think to give Ax-Battler an actual axe to use.

The death sounds ("Bleh!") in Golden Axe 2 are the best

@fredtange9618

Жыл бұрын

No single possible doubt about this. I mean, a barbarian world where everyone, even giant minotaurs, shout "Bleh!" when dying, is certainly the most immersive barbarian world ever... I have always wondered if Golden Axe II was some sort of inner contest between Sega developers back then, to check what exactly the worst possible Genesis sound samples might be...as every single sound effect for this game is just a piece of garbage (while oddly enough, by contrast, the music are pretty decent - pretty generic and poorly inspired as well, even more when compared with the original game ones, yet still with a decent quality).

There must have been two versions for the Amiga, i remember playing it with better graphics than shown in this video and with the arcade ending. Might have been an AGA (the improved chipset for Amiga) version i had.

@willrobinson7599

Жыл бұрын

Deff only one version. Probe did no aga enhanced games and only a handful even utilised the 2 button control option ,alien 3 and mortal kombat to name a couple

You can't call the Spectrum a console!!! It's a computer! You also called the Atari ST a console when it's a computer too.

Amiga version baby.

Great vid! Was the Gameboy Advance version really limited by the hardware? I thought the GBA was 32-bit and much more powerful than the Sega MegaDrive/Genesis or SNES, given how much later it was released.

@aegisreflector1239

Жыл бұрын

The GBA is around the same power wise as a Genesis and SNES

@MrLtia1234

Жыл бұрын

@@aegisreflector1239 It's actually quite a bit more powerful than those machines. It was just that the graphics look SNES-like so that was an assumption made. Tech had moved on hugely (even for a handheld) by then. In the video, I assume he's referring to the 'zoomed in' graphics - because of the resolution. Because it's powerful this wasn't a problem, unlike the Wonderswan, CPC and Spectrum versions, which have smaller sprites.

I always assumed RODA was set after 3.

@chebghobbi

Жыл бұрын

Yeah there's nothing in any of the original four games that contradicts the others, so no reason why RODA should take place in an alternate timeline.

Look at the muscularity!

The PC Engine CD version could have been better than arcade perfect.

Golden Axe 3 has some great music. In no way is it uninspired. The rest of the game is pretty bad, though.

Please don't call ZX Spectrum etc "consoles". They are generally thought of as "micro computers".

Spectum is a console? Good Joke. :D

Why you call 'a console' a computer? zx spectrum and atari st are not consoles