Since everyone is asking about my shirt, I get all of my shirts from www.theyetee.com Though this one was limited run, but keep an eye out because they rotate in new shirts daily

@Topaz542

4 жыл бұрын

Mother 3 is my favorite game so it makes me sad to know I cant get that one :(

@RoweReviews

4 жыл бұрын

Tyler L RedBubble sells shirts made buy independent artists as well, except they keep everything in full stock. There are plenty of Mother shirts there, in fact I’m weren’t one right now.

@kakazi2170

4 жыл бұрын

For one of your October reviews could you take a look at "The Suffering"? it was a nice game that no one really remembers with some fantastic enemy design and voice acting. Its also fairly inexpensive to get a physical copy on Ebay for around 20$

@rndmguy001

4 жыл бұрын

Just a quick note. As a game designer you were right about the 2D sprites being easier on the hardware.

@sullivanpioli6896

4 жыл бұрын

please review Mother 3 one day

Silly Nitrorad, Mario isn't human. He's Italian

@williehawaii9967

4 жыл бұрын

Evolution btfo

@JSKogarasumaru

4 жыл бұрын

Italian Xehanort

@CDeity

4 жыл бұрын

@@JSKogarasumaru "Mama Mia, Heartless heartless, adarkness heartless.

@hugoflores1093

4 жыл бұрын

@@JSKogarasumaru Italian Darkness

@zapunknown

4 жыл бұрын

Darkness within darkness and heartless within heartless

I love how the skits that James and Brady do are to the point and don't overstay their welcome. Several other reviewers should take notes.

@wienerschnitzel1739

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, they’re great honestly

@GermanPeter

4 жыл бұрын

>Nostalgia Critic

@kaio0777

4 жыл бұрын

yeah and really love this one

@clintmcbride7830

3 жыл бұрын

I really liked the openings to the Clock Tower and Siren videos. They were a little longer but you can definitely tell James studied cinematography by how well they were made and they set the tone as halloween videos

@nathanthompson7549

2 жыл бұрын

The IRS bit cracked me up

The reason people don't remake "Bad games" is because it's really hard to do marketing for them

@gabrielneri2820

4 жыл бұрын

@Camilo Montolio Not all "Bad games" are meme material though Besides, i don't think Bubsys last games sold all that well, since i didn't saw anyone even mention them after the "OMG!!! WHY THE F*CK IS THIS ANNOYING CAT BACK!!!" phase passed

@LordAlucard55

4 жыл бұрын

I mean they remade the shitty three stooges nes game on psx

@LordAlucard55

4 жыл бұрын

And also, bubsy is getting another new game made by bit.trip studios. And shaq fu the legend reborn got made.

@UltimaKeyMaster

4 жыл бұрын

@@gabrielneri2820 It CLEARLY sold enough to make a new game.

@untested3344

4 жыл бұрын

I honestly think it wouldn't be to hard to advertise. I mean showing how polished and fixed the game is for a "definitive version" is definitely something me and others would be interested.

I have never even heard of a game like this, the Nintendo 64 really is home to several obscure 3D platformers it seems. But that cameraman though, he is not a clown, he is the entire circus.

@mjul7003

4 жыл бұрын

Shiro-Luna I recommended this game to Nitrorad because I grew up with it. I could never get past Killer Expo as a kid but I loved the game regardless. Took me forever to beat that final level as an adult. It’s definitely a game you appreciate for the dialogue and the atmosphere, not so much the gameplay.

"Are you a Jehova's Witness?" That just straight up killed me lmao

@TreespeakerOfTheLand

3 жыл бұрын

Nah, he's PIMO ^^

@mjul7003

3 жыл бұрын

The human also agrees to go with Starshot on the condition that he gets to finish the book he was writing (he was so distracted by it that he DIDN'T NOTICE THE WORLD ENDING), and Willfall replies with "Yeah, sure, you can even make it a videogame or something."

Virtua Circus sounds like an alternate reality Sega game.

@G_Gr00v3

3 жыл бұрын

You almost wonder if that was intentional seeing how this was for N64

Infrogrames bought and changed their name to Atari in 2003. Their most recent game was the Blood remastering called Blood: Fresh Supply which was developed by Night Dive Studio and published by Atari.

@Quorthon.

4 жыл бұрын

Huh so thats who made blood

@TheWonkster

4 жыл бұрын

And it’s a VERY good update to a very good game

@largegoop

4 жыл бұрын

@@Quorthon. Blood was originally made by Monolith, same developer that made FEAR, Shogo: Mobile Armor Division and a couple of other great games, as well as Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War recently

3:40 IRSS guy: You have 10 days! *put explosive at Brady's chest, also is beeping!* Brady: *confused sounds* Just a simple sketch and i love it already!

@pious83

4 жыл бұрын

Also, an option to end tax avoidance too.

@wienerschnitzel1739

4 жыл бұрын

Ta ta tax fraud

Dude, please do psychonauts. Love your channel James, keep up the great work!

@AtlasTheMayor

4 жыл бұрын

When i saw the footage from Psychonauts near the beggining i almost had a heart attack xD I think James once said he was saving that game for reviewing when Psychonauts 2 was close to coming out

@indigowendigo8165

4 жыл бұрын

"Hello fellow crew member. Welcome to the Road Crew." "I am the milk man. My milk is delicious." LOL. XD

@timheidecker9161

4 жыл бұрын

Psychonauts and the Tak games are the one's I've always wanted to see him do. I wouldn't mind Puppeteer or Tear Away either.

@Guitar-Dog

4 жыл бұрын

James!? Just found out that was his name after a year of watching. Kinda thought it would be Brad becuase of Nitro (b)Rad

@callme_jake1871

3 жыл бұрын

Or do an Okami video ! I really love the PS2 and DS games

ESRB: "Rated T for Teen." Infogrames: "Pardon my French." ESRB: "Rated E for Everyone." This is the kind of game you don't play but watch a playthrough of.

This seems like it would be better point and click game then a platformer

@polymorphicblacksteve5038

Жыл бұрын

@@JoakimOtamaa Fun Fact: Opuntia, are commonly called the prickly pear cactus Take one and shove it up your ass

Infogrames have a... Weird reputation in France. People like them, people hate them... They've made a bunch of really good games in my opinion, but they were sooooo freaking hard. Like the Smurfs game.

@luidi9026

4 жыл бұрын

@@PikaLink91 Yes !

@arriasinsanite4886

4 жыл бұрын

their bad reputation is caused by the french youtuber "le joueur du grenier" who make a running gag out of them

@adultmoshifan87

4 жыл бұрын

arrias insanité You should see VGRetro’s reviews of the Tintin and Smurfs games on Mega Drive. He considers the Tintin game to be one of the worst on the console, but considers the Smurfs game to be great!

@clemi2601

4 жыл бұрын

arrias insanité well Joueurs du Grenier said their games weren’t all bad but hard tonthe point of punishment in his opinion, at least for the adaptation of BDs. And well the adaptation of Be Prepared was pretty funny, so yeah no wonder the jokes stuck.

It's not "Infogames, but with a 'r' in there for some reason", it's pronounced info-gr-ah-m (French doesn't have the English "ay" sound for the letter "a", like in "games"). It's a portmanteau of "informatique" (computing) and programme (program), but they removed an "m" for some reason.

@NitroRad

4 жыл бұрын

frickin whooPS

@indigowendigo8165

4 жыл бұрын

I thought it waa a mix of infogram and infogame. :p Grams... Programs... idk. :p

@PsychOsmosis

4 жыл бұрын

@@indigowendigo8165 A mix of "infogram" and "infogame"... What's "infogram"? I looked it up and the only thing that shows up is an online graphing tool created in 2012, so that must not be what you're referring to. Personally, I thought the "grame" part came from the suffix relating to charts, like in "histogram" (bar chart) ["histogramme" in French], but Wikipedia corrected me with the *way* more obvious "program" ["programme" in French], duh.

@clemi2601

4 жыл бұрын

PsychOsmosis wow that’s a lot more research than even french people cared to do that must have been bothering you!

@PsychOsmosis

4 жыл бұрын

@@clemi2601 I'm from Québec, so my first language is French. And you give me way too much credit, I just did a 2 minutes Google search that brought me to Wikipedia.

This game scared me as a kid. Getting lost in Killer Expo with the dark visuals and music combined with the creepy clown antagonist got to me.

I love how much mileage you've gotten out of that bomb prop between Garanikor and this channel. It's gotta be like, a valuable artifact by now.

@NitroRad

4 жыл бұрын

we actually lost the old one, so i had to make a new one for this vid

@rustyvent

4 жыл бұрын

@@NitroRad it's legacy lives on

5:54 The N64 actually has a slightly easier time with untextured models than with 2D sprites. However, they likely chose to do this because they thought it was more impressive to have the pickups be 3D models, rather than for technical reasons. My main evidence for this hunch is that those pickups seem a bit higher-poly than being untextured would compensate for.

4:08 This my favorite part, he says: "Everyone in this game is an ASSHOLE for like no reason! They're all so mean to each other and they have no moral compass at all!" which I mean is so true in and of itself, lol, but the best part about this is that all of the examples he gave were ALL from Willfall, lmao 🤣

I always have a weak spot for retro platformers, they give me so much nostalgia

@mix3k818

4 жыл бұрын

I mostly have memories from Newgrounds and polish Flash game sites

"wow this camera" Yeah it's being commandeered by a drunk Frenchman

I dunno why but starshot reminds me of a character from code lyoko,it might just be me still waking up tho

@Mysticgamer

4 жыл бұрын

Odd, he kind of looks like Odd.

@Ninjaheiro

4 жыл бұрын

Lol I Immediately thought of that when I saw the main character

@disgracedsphinx3494

4 жыл бұрын

Oh my god I thought nobody knew of that show except people who grew up with 2000s era cartoon Network

@Ninjaheiro

4 жыл бұрын

disgraced sphinx one of the strangest shows I ever watched growing up

@Sagaan42

4 жыл бұрын

Lyoko is french as well. Probably not related but funny coincidence

Obscure French platformers, huh? ...Any chance of you taking a look at Evil Twin in the future?

@DarkturtleX

4 жыл бұрын

Uuuuuuh, that game is really cool

"Are you a Jehovah's witness?" Man this game's writing is something else.

@shizotypical

4 жыл бұрын

Why do I always read it as "Jenova's witness"?

15:11 "Are you a Jehova's Witness?" LOL How Nintendo missed that?

And here I thought I was pretty well versed in 90's 3D platformers, this is genuinely the first time I've ever seen this one. Pretty damn obscure, even by obscure N64 platformer standards!

Ok Nitro rad I should go to my local bakery now and support it because you said so

@1for3Gaming

4 жыл бұрын

Then, go to your local game store and support it by buying all of their garbage bulk that will never sell.

I kinda love that idea of taking old bad games and refining them into good ones- Seeing where series that failed can go on and continue their potential legacy. Especially when we’re sometimes resistant to new ideas and ips it can be a breath of fresh air to see old, failed games fully realized by people with the proper resources, knowledge and creative vision to make it happen.

Dang those classic Super Mario Sunshine and Sonic Adventure Battle 2 posters on the wall 😂😂 Nintendo Power made some of the best posters back in the day for the game lovers’ room. I had the same ones.

Here in France, Infogrames was known for making game adaptations of french/belgian comics on the super nintendo especially, like tintin, lucky Luke, the smurfs, asterix etc. There were all very beautiful games, very close to the base material, but there were also known for having sadistic game design, cheap deaths, and a very high difficulty because of that, but some of them were good ^^ . I didn't know about this N64 game, i was surprised it seemed to be so poorlymaded with the camera and all, i guess they were experimenting with the 3D :/

Wow, you actually finished it! I gave up on one of these completely uncontrollable flight segments, where you slightly tilt the stick and the rocket veers off into whatever zany direction it deems fit. Or at least that is what I remember. Man, controls in this game were like trying to wrangle a mechanical bull...

“Support local bakeries” Don’t have to tell me twice

A superior quirky, yet offbeat platformer exists in Mystical Ninja 64.

@dr.velious5411

4 жыл бұрын

PLASMA!

@andrewollmann304

4 жыл бұрын

Hmmmm...abababababs......hmmmmm....abababababsba.....hmmmm....ababababa....hmmmmm....ababababababa.....PLAAASMAAAA!

"Everyone in this game is an asshole for no reason" "They have no moral compass" ...so French then

@ilikecurry2345

Жыл бұрын

It could be worse - the Elijah Wood movie North had the French depicted as these wine-loving kissy-pantses who watched nothing but Jerry Lewis 24/7.

It's felt like a fever dream that this game existed since I played it a rental store years ago. I'm just glad to finally figure out not only it's real but the name.

When it comes to frame rate, for me the most important thing is CONSISTENCY. I much prefer very stable 30fps over a game that keeps jumping between 30 and 60fps all the time.

Can you review the Klonoa series? I think you'll have a great time with them. Plus, Namco doesn't seem to care about the series at all, so it'd be great if you could bring more awareness to the series

It's so strange to see a circus performer has a smaller platforming moveset than most platforming games. You'd think Starshot would have an enormous amount of options on how to get around.

This game is insane, for the longest time I thought it was a figment of my imagination, I thought we had a game like it that was just weird. But I couldn't find anything about it. But recently I tried to bring it up to my brother and finally I was given a name. Starshot. It was great to finally get closure and it's crazy you uploaded this now.

3:10 Personally the shark in both Jak and Daxter and Ty was more scary for me.

@_Conzo_

4 жыл бұрын

Ty's shark scared the hell out of me. Took me so long to pluck up the courage to fight it.

That glass and water example was on point!

"There is no denying that the king of platformers is a human, not an animal" *Bubsy is confused*

"Support Local Bakeries" What a random end slate...That was hilarious! 👏😂👍

This is one of the first platforming games I've ever played as a kid on PC, back at the time we couldn't afford a console but the home family computer was good enough to run some games. I remember enjoying it a lot but the memories of the game felt like a fever dream, and I never got to finish and got stuck in that one music puzzle at the bar. Very happy you've covered this!

I feel like I've seen this before but I'm not really sure... I loved seeing that Psychonauts clip in the beginning and your Mother 3 shirt.

Infogrames is infamous in France for being the company who did most video game adaptations of French/Belgian properties (like comics and cartoons), such as the Smurfs, Tintin, Astérix or Spirou. They were pretty much our equivalent to Capcom for the Disney games, except they were even harder.

At first I was like "Oh, it plays like Psychonauts, but IN SPACE", but on second thought after watching, it doesn't really hold a candle to it. xD

Infogrames was mostly known for their game done during the Super NES era, thay where almost all shity game made with famous french comics (Asterix, Tintin, the smurfs, etc) and where kinda... the EA of the french market, I mean "The Evil Company". Other than that, They are also known for making Alone in the Dark, the game who strongly inspired Resident Evil.

@adultmoshifan87

4 жыл бұрын

Astérix on SNES is meh, the Tintin games are awful, the Smurfs games and Astérix & Obelix are rather good

1:44 for a moment i thought he was gonna finish that sentence with "and I love France".

Dude im so happy your reviewing my favorite n64 games. Thanks man!

I loved playing this game when I was a kid but it was frustrating as hell to discover where should I go and also play when the camera decided to do its own thing, but still the story was quite fun

Holy shit, dude. I remember playing this game as a kid but I never could recall the title. So thanks. What a trippy, roundabout way for some nostalgia to return.

@xBrakit

4 жыл бұрын

Oh, and badass shirt, by the way.

Mario Sunshine did the “throwing you to your death” cheap trap too.

@CowboyJoseph64

4 жыл бұрын

I'm a chuckster!

@wienerschnitzel1739

4 жыл бұрын

Nah it really didn’t

Seeing Crash Bandicoot on this channel makes me so happy!

You weren't kidding when you said you'd be uploading faster than last time!

As soon as he said "Infogrames" I could hear the screams of anguish of a grown man in a hawaiian shirt.

Finally a fair review of this game. It's flawed, yeah, but the writing is genuinely the best you had on N64. It has a dark Douglas Adams vibe to it

Please do Sheep Dog"n"Wolf/Sheep Raider someday ,it is a gem worth playing today.

@Magitek1112

4 жыл бұрын

It is a good game! It's weird, though, I always thought it was made by Behaviour/A2M (who also made Scaler and Jersey Devil, but also..Naughty Bear??), since they made the Bugs Lost in Time and Bugs and Taz Time Busters games, but apparently not?

Good god, that IRS gag had me rolling! Ha ha! You guys are the best!

I clicked already thinking "don't make me want another expensive game again!"

@KOTEBANAROT

4 жыл бұрын

Your wish was granted. Im so happy i DIDNT have it as a kid

Wondering what N64 games are left at this point. Since you did Bomberman Hero I'm really curious to see you cover Bomberman 64 The Second Attack. That one is very underrated to me.

I remember asking for this game as a kid...just because I saw it and wanted a game and my grandparents were offering. I never got through it. Because I refused to look at the instructional booklet and because I guess I didn't understand the tutorial, I had no idea how to play the game until yeeaaarrrs later. I had no idea using the z button was so pivotal lmao. Sheeeeeeeeeeit. Love that Ten Suns theme tho :)

Don't give the IRS any ideas... great skit! Love the incorporation of more skits in your videos lately.

Another one of my list of old platformers I never heard of. "Everybody in this game is an asshole" ah yes, it's French. Tbh that's disappointing that the moveset is so limited, even if the gameplay is more focused on the quests. Why even make it circus themed then? There is so much potential behind having a circus athlete as a main character.

Not watched this yet as I have a routine of watching your videos while I'm cooking :) Thanks for keeping me company in the kitchen, man

Love this N64 "spin" that you have been on for a while

Infogrames did those super difficult Tintin and Spirou games for the SNES. They also did a bunch of Asterix games, I think they must've had like an idea of only adapting comic books for a hot minute there.

@POLE7645

4 жыл бұрын

Well, these were franco-belgian comic books and it's not like an American developper was going to jump.on those licenses.

"You have ten days☺" *slap* "Hu?!" This it funnier than it has any right to be

"Infogrames is entertainment! Infogrames is education!" *claps and shakes tambourine*

11:58 "I'm a chuckster!"

I swear, I have 0 interest on the games you cover, but I can't seem to stop watching your content, your videos are so well produced, nice work!

I love that nitrorad hints at things that will be in the next upload he puts out through his tweets. It's pretty cool.

Your description of sound issues does a great job at encapsulating what bother's me most in Prey (2017). No game should dare compare itself to a Looking Glass title while having a jank sound system. >.>

Oh my Goodness!!!! THANK YOU NITRORAD!! I played this game such a long time ago as a child. But I could never remember the name of this game and was never able to finish because I played a demo disk. Now I can finally try to find a copy and play it through. Thank you so much dude it means a lot! I would recommend a little game called "Silver" from 1999. I think you will enjoy that too. Most people haven't heard of it due to the popularity in Final Fantasy and other games around that period.

I'm french and I looooved this game ! Thanks for the review I think I'll make one on my channel one day !

@PuNkY-fr

4 жыл бұрын

Speaking of french games, I suggest you to play Evil Twins on Dreamcast/PS2 :)

These games, that guy over there...specially the guy there, yeah the Rad one! Thats what i love about this channel.

I do enjoy following the twitter where you talk about random things and those clips usually end up in videos. Like metabots and beyblade.

"You have 10 days." "Uhuhuhuhgghgh!"

I bought this for PC at the mall when I was a kid at EB games after buying school clothes with my parents. I played it for hours before I went to bed that night then caught my flu and had starshot-themed fever dreams all evening. I feel like even without the flu this game was surreal enough to feel unsettling and I never could fully get in to it. I remember getting in to space (?) and not knowing what to do and uninstalling it. The next time I went I bought Deus Ex and never really looked back but all the same I’m glad I picked this gem up. I’ve never met anyone else that has played it so thank you for confirming that this game wasn’t just a 103 degree fever-induced nightmare lol. Edit: watching this now and I can confirm that the camera moving when scaling the diagonal walkways causing you to fall to your death in the outer space level caused me to rage quiet and never come back 😂

@gregmay8049

Жыл бұрын

I bought it too when I was like 9 years old. Played it for some hours and never again because of the extreme eerie-ness.

I'd literally had never heard of this game until today. I love it when I find out about new games.

my dad rented this for me when i was little and i was convinced that it was just a fever dream since i could never find it again. tysm for ending this 15+ year crisis

Love your videos man. Your humor is great. Peace out.

This game sounds like it would have been more interesting as a point and click adventure as opposed to a platformer because it's got neat scenarios, characters, and writing, but lackluster platformer gameplay. Like imagine if Monkey Island still had the same lovable cast of characters and locations but for some reason the devs made it a platformer where Guybrush wasn't fun to control, that's the sort of vibe I get from Starshot.

If you think that was good, you should see the whole story and previous versions of Kameo: Elements of power. That game had *serious* potential, especially the XBOX version, until they made Rare redo a game that was almost complete, solely to become an Xbox 360 launch game. The game was in development for about 5 years, I think P:

golly I never sort how seen you so sad anyway and or a bit..down for something but You always then bring charisma and joy onto it with the optimism at the end anyway God I love always seeing you so deeply!

9:40 You got to hate those camera angles, but adding the Beyblade theme here was genius lol! 😂😂😂👍

Infogrames developed the alone in the dark series. They were a big and influential company among computer games backin in the 90's, I know they acquired Atari but don't know if it merged

I remember renting a used copy of this game back in the day and just being stuck on the level the last person who played it made it to because I literally had no idea what I was doing. But back then, I just had fun with anything we ever rented, so it didn't really bother me. Really makes me wish I'd gone back and given it another shot, though, kinda like how I couldn't understand Glover the first time I played it but then rented it again a year later and beat it.

I’ve always wanted to see you cover this game. I wanted to like it so bad as a kid despite everything.

When the guy who beat Bubsy 3D says your camera is the worst he's ever used, you know you're doing something wrong.

I've been trying to find this game for years!!! I remember playing it as a kid but I could never remember the name! Nice work Nitro Rad, thank you for this review.

"Like, normally a Sonic game would have a *Bounce Pad* " *Rise of Lyric flashbacks commence.*

Ohhhhh you picked a game I wanted you to try! Going to watch it asap! :D

This was the strangest game i played when i was a kid. The alien type creatures, gloomy atmosphere, eerie music, complete confusion. I still remember the feeling when i played this game and i think it will stay with me forever.

I have really good memories with Infogrames. They made Bugs Bunny & Taz: Time Busters, the first game I ever played and a great platformer.

This game sounds like it would make for an interesting cartoon

You know, I feel the strangest impulse to get a freshly baked boule from that mom&pop store in town. It's the darndest thing.

Yesss, I loved this vid and wholey appreciate that you work so hard, and put so much heart into your projects. And yo, N64 games rock hard dude. Local bakeries should be supported! As well as local pizza places! Which I guess is like a bakery, huh?

Those new Sonic Adventrue 2 and Mario Sunshine Posters Look awsome

I rented this game once as a kid, the second time I booted it up I couldn't leave the hub world, I tried erasing the data and the same thing happened. Even back then I wasn't too bothered because I knew it was jank as hell.

Hey NitroRad! I want to thank you for doing this video! A couple months i was playing ratchet and clank and i had a very clouded memory of another character out of no where because i was looking the way ratchet was running and i couldnt remember what game it was. And this was the game! I remember everything now. I had played starshot on my PC in the 90s. But was a demo of the beach level. Thanks for bring the memories back! P.S you think you can do a video of JazzJackRabbit 2? Now thats a retro game.