Man, is it me or does this game look INCREDIBLE for the NES? If it had a better color palette, I'd definitely confuse it for an early SNES game.

@homembarata

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, that's a very good use of colors for a NES games.

@Splozy

3 жыл бұрын

Looks like a master system game

@IllGill

3 жыл бұрын

There is a lot of depth to the sprites because they are so big!

@ostiariusalpha

3 жыл бұрын

The boss fights aren't quite as epic as would match the rest of the game sadly. Bavmorda was a real disappointment.

@ChibiKami

3 жыл бұрын

7 year-old me played it at a friend's house and the wind effects blew my mind. It was such a dramatic effect, and I don't think I saw any game properly try anything like it again until MGS3

The effort that capcom put into licenced shit was really above and beyond.

@ChargeQM

3 жыл бұрын

I want that Capcom back. They're killing it with Monster Hunter and DmC these days, but damnit, give us Mega Man (Legends 3 pls), MvC, and all the other good stuff they've slept on for years. It's bad enough that Konami makes gross fanservice-y Castlevania pachinko machines and nothing else.

@stellaroj

3 жыл бұрын

Capcom is doing great stuff these days. Resident Evil 2 and 7 are top-notch, as was Mega Man 11.

@JohnDoe-wq5eu

3 жыл бұрын

@@ChargeQM The best news I've heard is that Konami is going to let other people make their games. They've treated their franchises like crap for way too long.

@tealeaf3210

3 жыл бұрын

@@ChargeQM Is still refuse the existence of that castlevania pachinko machine. There's also a megaman pachinko game (rockman ability) with original designs for the characters and cinematics. There's way too much effort into that one, it's kind of impressive.

@Randomark3087

3 жыл бұрын

Capcom and Konami made the best licensed games back in the day

Remember kids...Willow did ocarinas and flying bird friends to carry you around the map before Zelda did.

@ChibiKami

3 жыл бұрын

Zelda had the flute that summoned tornadoes in 1986 Much as I love Willow, he can't summon tornadoes

@justinbremer2281

3 жыл бұрын

@@ChibiKami I think he can call lightning, though

@crazyjohnt8012

3 жыл бұрын

@@ChibiKami yeah but a bird is far less harmful to summon than a tornado. My house keeps getting messed up everytime I summon one. With a bird I might just get a little poop on my shoulder

@MotherKojiro

3 жыл бұрын

And had a sword that slashed, instead of just awkwardly stabbing.

@ThePrufessa

3 жыл бұрын

@@ChibiKami great point

One of my favorite NES games. Lots of nostalgia for this one.

@IanDeMartino

3 жыл бұрын

Holy crap. John RiggsXSNESDrunk is the crossover I never knew I wanted but now absolutely need.

@LeoRex13

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah man... really dug this one too! As well as the movie ;) That would make the arcade title the other other Willow for me Lol

@Facusblues

3 жыл бұрын

@@IanDeMartino That happened already! Look it up on John Riggs channel. It's the video called "SNES games that should've been on NES" I tried to send you the link but for some reason my comment was deleted.

@ThePrufessa

3 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite movies that I never knew had a video game.

@manwithnoname3024

3 жыл бұрын

I sort of remember this game and I remember enjoying it. I loved the movie. Aren’t they making a sequel soon?? Ugh I know but I’ll watch it.

Willow is one of the greatest entertainment licenses nobody under 30 remembers.

@ramrodbldm9876

7 күн бұрын

Cause it's old af derrrrp

NES Willow's no joke. A difficult game, menacing music, excellent visuals. It takes a lot out of you.

@RxMxG

Жыл бұрын

This game's musics scared me when I was a kid

I think we take the quality of your videos for granted. So I'll just remind everyone they're just great :)

@MM6D

3 жыл бұрын

About that...

Good review, but ... that there is no object or spell with which to recover life until almost the end of the game? The Healing Mace can be obtained from a house in the first town you encounter in the game, allowing you to regain life at the cost of a few magic points.

@FormalTreehouse

3 жыл бұрын

Very true, but that healmace is super easy to miss; if you just fight Bogarda without first getting the wood shield and THEN talking to the elder of Dew, the elder never gives it to you.

@Ravenford

3 жыл бұрын

It is true that there is such a possibility, although I have never seen it so "super easy", although not unlikely. It may be because the moment I received the shield and they explained to you that you should speak to the chiefman, I quickly went back to visit the houses that I knew were inhabited, specifically the only two with unique portraits. The clues and instructions that the game leaves for you are so clear and exact compared to, for example, Simon's Quest or Zelda1, that it gives me the feeling that to skip something you should not have been paying attention or wandering aimlessly avoiding talking to the NPC.

@FormalTreehouse

3 жыл бұрын

I remember doing it on my second playthrough...spoke to the chief first and then the shield guy, did well enough fighting that I never needed the mace, and didn't check for it until after beating Bogarda. Some players might not realize the chief's text changes after recieving the shield...especially those who just gloss over the text because they'd like to get to the next action part.

@j0nnyism

2 жыл бұрын

Yea don’t miss the mace. It makes the game almost bearable. Almost

I hope Warwick Davis is getting his royalties for this.

@j0nnyism

2 жыл бұрын

Nope. He was paid about 10p for willow. Unfortunately the prejudice in those days affected pay packets as well as everything else

@princesssprinklesthecat4192

2 жыл бұрын

Oh hes not even human hes a midget

God the sound that monsters made when they appeared, mixed with the backgrounds suddenly coming to life used to scare the crap out of me as a kid.

@therealmccoy15

3 жыл бұрын

I thought I was the only one. I remember being around 4 or 5 and walking around the village with it's happy go lucky music playing then encountering some of the enemies with the music suddenly changing definitely gave me goosebumps. It's funny when I think about it now.

@MrTableDesk

3 жыл бұрын

@@therealmccoy15 yeah, it's definitely hilarious looking back on it now. You're not alone in that though, for a little kid, that's spooky as hell. Like out of nowhere spooky music starts, the world starts wobbling around, and skulls start popping up from the ground, lol.

@greenskiis

3 жыл бұрын

What scared me the most were some of the faces for the portraits. Bavmorda's facial expression in her portrait shown in this video is frightening for 8-bit hardware.

I was going to mention the Healmace that the chief of the second village gives you as an early healing spell, but since someone beat me to it, I just want to say that this Willow has one of the best adventuring tunes ever.

Ahhh, Willow on the NES! One of my favorite games on the platform. As a kid it blew me away on how good it was! I remember that I used to be scared of playing because the monsters would appear so suddenly on the map, the wind would blow and the music would change to a very menacing tune! The caverns also made me so nervous! To this day, it's a game that I love and still own my NES cartridge. Too bad a lot of people don't know about it or haven't played it because it's an "adaptation" of a movie. It's a real treasure every NES fan must play.

@ramrodbldm9876

7 күн бұрын

So basically you're saying you were/and still are a betawimp

I never get tired of you saying, thanks for watching and have a great rest of my day. I love your content, keep up the great work my friend.

Sometimes I get amazed how advanced some NES games were for their time of release. This looks awesome. I should pay more attention to NES as a source of good gaming experiences. Thank you for raising awareness of those titles SNES drunk!

It definitely is! Willow is also still worth watching today!

@johnm3907

3 жыл бұрын

I watched it a while back yeah its still good. Trolls and the part where all army turns to pigs is still scary ha

@ChibiKami

3 жыл бұрын

written by George Lucas back when he took feedback, directed by Ron Howard who is always on point, and exceptionally well acted by an excellent cast. Totally worth watching today though after you watch it, see if you can track down the novelization; it adds some scenes and fills in a few blanks based on extraneous material for example, what happened to Willow's third acorn: on the boat to Fin Raziel's island Willow had to fight a sea monster. He used an acorn there and the entire sequence is skipped in the movie

@ArcaneAzmadi

3 жыл бұрын

@@ChibiKami That sea monster sequence was shot, but was cut from the finished film, which is why Willow's hair is inexplicably wet in the next scene. The scene is apparently included on the blu-ray release.

@JohnDoe-wq5eu

3 жыл бұрын

@@ArcaneAzmadi Very cool.

@ChibiKami

3 жыл бұрын

@@ArcaneAzmadi neat. Was wondering if it was deleted footage or merely storyboarded

I remember getting the healing spell pretty early. really hard to keep track of where you are and where you're going though. I'd call it overall mediocre, but has some very impressive stuff for NES, and for it's time it was probably quite competent.

For decades I’ve had that town theme randomly pop into my head. Glad to know I’m not the only one!

Rented this game when I was a kid, and It became one of my prefered ones in the NES.

This was an exceptionally good NES game, and one of my favorites to this day.

One of my favorite games, based on one of my favorite movies. Shame the arcade game never got a console port. Capcom needs to give this the "DuckTales Remastered" treatment (along with Little Nemo and Darkwing Duck).

Man I loved this movie as a kid. General Kael was so badass looking with that helmet and armor. Great costumes and armor designs in that movie. At 2:33 under Magic there’s an Ocarina which instantly makes me think of Zelda.

@RetroKiwiDad

3 жыл бұрын

Looks like Zelda also took some inspiration from Willow.

@zachsouza7777

3 жыл бұрын

Airiks gauntlet sword thing was super badass too. the easily a top childhood movie for me.

@johnm3907

3 жыл бұрын

The scene where everyone turns to pigs is still scary

@sufianramli8017

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnm3907 I still remember it. Had freaking nightmares

One of my favorite childhood movies with two great games attached to it. The soundtrack is also what always brings me back to this gem.

Fun fact: Tokuro Fujiwara, the director of this game, gave us many Capcom classics. He was behind Ghosts 'n Goblins, Commando, Bionic Commando, and Sweet Home. He also conceived of Resident Evil as a remake of Sweet Home. If you look at Sweet Home (which was released the same year as Willow) it uses the same core engine and is a fantastic game. Unfortunately we only have access to the fan translation as it has never been released in the West.

The music at Bavmorda's castle is a masterpiece!!!

This might be one of the highest quality pixel art I’ve ever seen on the NES.

@zachw2538

3 жыл бұрын

This and Batman Return of the Joker are probably 2 of the best

@reasonforliving3174

3 жыл бұрын

Check out The Guardian Legend & Faxanadu as well

@tchitchouan

3 жыл бұрын

Have you even seen guardian legend

This is the first time the video game character matches the height of the actual actor

Great review! This is one of those good games that I didn't beat back in the day, one more for my backlog. Keep up the good work!

I'm surprised that you didn't bring up any of the enemy design... especially that one that spams the spell that turns you into a pig and won't let you leave the screen until you turn back to normal. SOOO annoying; although it doesn't ruin the game in the end.

@iammisterjake

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that enemy was a nightmare Indeed. However if you get the Devileye sword, magic enemies are more easy to kill.

@tomwaters5090

3 жыл бұрын

He can't turn me into something I already am.lol

Thank you so much!!! Awhile back something had sparked a memory of this game. So when I checked your vids and didn't see anything on it, I searched KZread... There were a lot of bad channels to sift through. I finally just gave up lol. This just made my day! Thanks man!!!

I just played through Willow not long ago. Soundtrack is a BANGER. One of the better NES action RPGs. And in the era before the internet, without the strategy guide, I remember it being tough as a youngster. Love it. Great review.

Just restarted this game recently, and it definitely still holds up. Thanks for the videos!

I literally bought a cart of this at a pawn shop today! Then 3 hours later this video is recommended to me...spooky!

Ooh thanks for making my morning. I've always been curious about this game, but never gave it a chance for more than a few minutes.

Imagine: Willow Vs the Leprechaun! Starring Warrick Davis in a dual role like Austin Powers!

@ffxiarcadius

3 жыл бұрын

You're high . . Madmartigan vs Iceman though . . bare knuckles, I'd vote for that

Awesome as always! Thanks Snes!!

5:09 I can almost hear Daria sheathing away the extra murderiest of daggers.

This is one I have yet to play but I do love everything about it for all the reasons you've mentioned here. Nice work!

Underrated movie and underrated game.

Love the nes and grew up with it and remember playing willow(I loved capcom and all their games, this is when they were a straight powerhouse, now they can be hit and miss)I could play nes and snes all day today and not even miss the current gen haha. Just love the way they did things, also ps1 😊❤🔥👏 thanks for this, just seeing the screens and like you mentioned, the music(in nes games as a whole)just awesome. I still hum alot of them now and they have inspired parts in my own music as well 😊👍

Looks fantastic! Those grass animations are superb!

I played this week ago It's one of a masterpiece

I want to thank you for making this video and hope you have a great rest of your day

Willow is so much nostalgia for me even tho i never got very far as a kid and that music is still awesome!

This looks more enjoyable than most 2020 AAA games. Emulators save me so much money. Amiga, SNES, PS1 and PS2, XBOX1, MSDOS, so much abandonware. I really can't wait for PS3 "Dantes Inferno", that game was nuts. But an online remake of "Dust 514" would be insanely sweet, that game was so good !!!

@soterioncoil2163

3 жыл бұрын

Willow would make an excellent title to port to consoles. I'd pick it up and play it again.

I just picked up this game on eBay. I'm looking forward to playing it after watching your review. Thank you very much for the video.

I loved this game as a kid. It seemed like several capcom games like this would go under the radar and end up in bargain bins at walmart. I remember this one, Little Nemo, and Street Fighter 2010 all being random bargain buys that ended up being tons of fun.

Put many, many hours into this game. It was deeper than I expected and I was already a huge fan of the movie.

Great videogame reviews dude! Really entertaining, you bring back memories of videogames I played long time ago. Would be really nice if create a list of best and worst licensed snes and/or nes videogames. Great work dude!

My brother and I were just sending each other Willow GIFs and then you posted this. I unfortunately never got to play any of the Willow games as I kid but I watched the movies tons.

it is easily my all time favorite NES game, and one of the top 5 or so games i miss the most from all the various now obsolete systems i have had through the years. i only have 1 complaint about the game, i remember there were two different points in the game where you couldn't really move forward without raising several levels. which basically meant just walking off and back on screen a thousand times to fight the same monster over and over so you could progress.

Well now thank you for getting it stuck in my head!!! I really appreciate that SNES Drunk!!!

Another quality video. Love the music in this game!

Oh my god when that music started at the beginning I got chills. This game was so good for it's time. I'm not sure why it wasn't more popular. About 4 years ago I went back and beat the game and man it felt good.

I had this when I was a kid and enjoyed every moment of it.

I own this game and played it once several years ago and completely discounted it (I think because of the slow swording and Nintendo Hard combination), but this video has convinced me to give it another go some day. All right, I want to thank you for making videos and I hope you have a great rest of your day!

It went away? I dwell in darkness without you, and it went away?!

I always loved this game. The music was amazing. Listen to the music in the background of this video and how it starts to show its chops around 2:18. The music from this game still runs through my head to this day and I find myself humming it. Fun game and well made, even if not totally true to the movie.

Love you Channel bro I try to watch every single episode

I grew up with this game and loved it. Still love it today.

This is great to see this game getting some exposure! I speed run this game and it is actually quite a lot of fun!

Haven't heard the music in over 25 years, but instantly stuck in my head again lol.

That town theme stuck in my head for years. Great soundtrack

I'm glad you pointed it out because the first thing I think of when I remember this game is the soundtrack.

This was one of my go to games outside of Zelda as a kid. Didnt get far playing it but it's a fun game. Great video as always.

As Zelda was my first love when I was 3, Willow was next. The top down was much easier for a toddler. Its one of my most memorable games in the 80s. Its still an under appreciated game.

Thank you for that cover thumbnail. It is beautiful.

Favorite movie growing up!! Drunk your voices are on fire.. and for the second year in a row the Oscar goes to Drunk

I do love those animated tiles of grass and trees blowing in the wind.

Good stuff Snes Drunk, you should do more NES games reviews. Now that you have covered every SNES game ever made, lol. Love the channel, keep up the good work.

@SNESdrunk

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for taking the time to watch Josh, I do have a few more NES game Patreon requests like Ultimate Stuntman and Mission Impossible, those should be coming up soon

I've seen this game over and over, I need to go ahead and pick it up. Looks like a fun time to playthrough.

The soundtrack for this game was awesome. The Advantage does a really good cover of it, too

All of my favorite childhood NES games were mentioned in this video. Willow, Crystalis and Faxanadu.

I love this game and feel lucky to have nostalgic memories attached to it. My only small gripe is how it's a bit cryptic regarding where to go/what to do in a few spots, but easily overlooked.. And you're dead on about the soundtrack. Absolutely killer tracks from top to bottom.

Loving SnesDrunks voices lately.

I loved the arcade version of Willow and was so put off at how different this was that, sadly I didn't give this version a real chance. Seeing you review it makes me want to give it another try. Maybe this weekend. Really great videos, btw.

😅 Hell yes it is! Never played through the entire Willow Arcade but I was lucky enough to get set up to give it a go. Really looking forward to it as it's absolutely gorgeous and the effort put in shines through. Happy Spring everyone! ✌😊

I first played this game at Nintendo Powerfest 1990 and it was one of the few impressions that really stuck with me for years afterward. I was a fan of the movie, so the idea of playing an adventure/RPG of it on NES was really appealing. I only ever managed to rent it once after that, never finished it and never managed to go back to it (the SNES came out shortly thereafter) but, to this day, it's one of the NES games I remember having the most anticipation for. I'll have to give it proper service and finish it one of these days.

That soundtrack was awesome. One of the best in the 8bit era in my opinion.

Fun game. Cousin had it. Spent many hours/nights playing this one.

I LOOOVED this game and I never understood why all of my friends hated it. I'm happy to see a good review on it! And like you said, that music... It get's stuck in my head every time I hear it. My only major gripe was the passwords save system.

This is one of the few NES games that I havent tried but always wanted to give a try some time. I will put this on my list.

Best KZread channel. Congrats!

I remember having a great time playing this game as a kid. I'm glad to see it still holds up well.

One of the first games I ever played. The music still plays in my head occasionally. Definitely worth playing!

My favorite memory of beating this game was during the credits when the wyllow theme music played for a quick moment.

Recently purchased this one off of Ebay and it still holds up. It's still as fun as I remembered it was 30 years ago.

This is one of my very favorite NES games and one I always recommend to any young gamers enthusiastic about the platform. The graphics are amazing for the time without a doubt and the game under it is spectacular too. Nockmaar castle theme remains among my favorite NES tracks, although I do wish the run time of the game's music was longer. I still replay this on occasion, and happily. It's one of my comfort games.

I vaguely remember this game, but something that really stands out was getting to a part of the game where I couldn't do any damage to one of the bosses, couldn't figure it out, then gave up.

I recently got a haul of NES games from my cousin and Willow was one of the games in the haul. I'm excited to get it cleaned and try it out.

You failed to mention it had no map. My brother and I had to stay in my grandparent's basement in 1992 for 3 months while my parents split. During that time we mapped out the entire game one screen at a time on my accountant grandfather's graph paper cause we had nothing else to do. We taped the edges together and when it was all together it covered the floor of the family room. It took us almost the whole 3 months, but without a map, the game has so much backtracking it's ridiculous. The grass and trees reminds me of the Mana series and Sieken Densetsu., but there's never quite been a game like this one. Hold's a very special place in my heart.

Legitimately one of my favorite NES games and one of the best on so many levels. I do hope these games resurface again for the masses to play again.

Another great work Sir thank you

Id love to see more videos about multiple games on SNES, NES or Genesis, etc. games. Those are my favourites. Weird categories and stuff like that.

I haven't played this game since I was a kid, when it was "new". But I still get that song stuck in my head all these years later, I just didn't know where it came from until now

I played this as a kid and loved it. Couldn't beat it, but watched a friend do it instead. The game itself was impossible to find when I was a kid, my friend borrowed it of one of his friends, who had the only copy we had ever run into.

I got this game for Christmas in 1990. I loved this game dearly, next to Super Mario 2 and 3 it was my favorite game.

Willow looks like some good fun-can't wait to give this game a try! RPG/Adventure games, could be hard to come by, especially today-great breakdown of the main talking points!

The biggest problem with WILLOW for the NES is that about 3/4 of the way through you MUST be a certain level of experience points or you will go no further. It is not that it is difficult to play, it is the game BLOCKS you from continuing any further until you reach that level. So then you must do some serious level grinding before it will let you pass by that particular barrier.

I have this game with the booklet, maybe il give it a shot. Your work truly is a national treaure ;)

Willow was a great Blockbuster/Video Store classic because of that archaic password system. It was nigh impossible to beat such a game on wits alone in 2.5 days back in the late 80s. You needed a guide, and even still, most people didn't have the killer gamer instinct they do now. The password system allowed you to hop right back into your adventure, even if someone else snagged the game for a weekend while you were at your grandma's house (and might have erased your save game if battery backup was the method).