Asura's Wrath was one game I've wanted to play for years.

@wallcity318

11 ай бұрын

Its super simplistic but fun, not really a gow clone but more of a playable anime. Ive wanted more since ive played it

@ExtremeGameplays1

11 ай бұрын

Play it on KZread.

@deityofcrystals

11 ай бұрын

Emulate it

@angelganon8213

11 ай бұрын

If you have xbox it's on sale right now for 4 dollars

@commando0110

11 ай бұрын

its so so fun. im way more interested in it than god of war

Fun fact: The reason Heavenly Sword hasn't had a sequel isn't because of bad sales or market viability. It's because nobody at the development team knew where they wanted to take the sequel. As such, it spent years languishing in and out of development. So it not having a sequel seems to be more an inability to decide on a sequel. So as for whether or not I call that a failed franchise... Eh. It has a definitive ending.

@mateusfelipecardoso40kview3

11 ай бұрын

Just make a prequel!

@ShatteredGlass916

11 ай бұрын

​@@mateusfelipecardoso40kview3a prequel about the previous owner of the blades sounds cool. Maybe it used to belong to that crazy king's friend, whom he grew jealousy upon, which lead to King Bohan's (is that his name? Sorry) conquest for the blades Or maybe a sequel involving that weird bowgun kid

@NebLleb

11 ай бұрын

@@ShatteredGlass916 Actually, a sequel using the concept of the Heavenly Sword being passed on to a different owner would be pretty clever.

@ShatteredGlass916

11 ай бұрын

@@NebLleb I mean it's the only way right? Maybe have Nariko's soul trapped inside and the only way to escaped is if the current user's dead and replaced the trapped souls, allowing the previous soul to pass on. Maybe having Nariko's soul so powerful that she can communicate to the next user and maybe they could bond from there. Maybe the king have a secret heir that were exiled during King Bohan's conquest and now just returned to the news that his father is killed and seeks revenge

@willdiesel8431

11 ай бұрын

Where did you get that "fun fact"? There's many avenues they could take for sequel, sounds like a copout.

Another missed opportunity to call this the "Knock Off War" series.

@donovanfaust3227

11 ай бұрын

To me that title sounds like it would be about knock offs in general and not GoW likes.

@misterboxhead3045

10 ай бұрын

Knock knock

@nilesstark

10 ай бұрын

Right. Sounds more like a Mope Video in terms of Heavenly Sword.

Asura's Wrath also had a DLC involving Street Fighter IV Where Asura fought Not just Ryu/Evil Ryu but also Fought Akuma/Oni Sadly this dlc didnt continue after the Akuma/Oni DLC

@willdiesel8431

11 ай бұрын

I'm surprised that wasn't mentioned even in passing.

@misterboxhead3045

10 ай бұрын

It didn't because that was the end, after several years of neither won the battle but even so they still keep fighting

@nilesstark

10 ай бұрын

And even after 500 years, we still need a winner.

@rinyahto3852

3 ай бұрын

Who would you really have him fight after Akuma though?

Asuras wrath is so goated and I love it to this day

@neggaballs3840

11 ай бұрын

More like asuras mid

I'm glad Asura's wrath is getting more recognition these days.

@bread5384

11 ай бұрын

Same, it's so underrated

@neggaballs3840

4 ай бұрын

Nah @@bread5384

17:03 Deus literally means ''God'' Edit: yeah, I think Asura's Wrath is not for you, lol (Also the fact that people told you it's a GoW clone is wild. Are all games that have Gods as the main characters now considered GoW clones?)

@bwestacado9643

10 ай бұрын

Yeah I'm in agreement with you. The game plays more like DMC and Bayonetta with Bayonetta's crazy set pieces. Nothing about this game at all reminds me of GoW

@TheReZisTLust

9 ай бұрын

Does that mean Pokemon Legends Arceus is a God of War game 🤔

@TheReZisTLust

9 ай бұрын

Does that mean Pokemon Legends Arceus is a God of War game 🤔

@incaseofimportantnegotiations

8 ай бұрын

@@TheReZisTLust age of mythology is a god of war clone

@Badboy25251

8 ай бұрын

​@@incaseofimportantnegotiations megami tensei is a gow clone.

Personally, I've felt that Asura's Wrath really was more like an interactive anime, intended or not, and I loved it anyway.

@matthewmccoyd2578

6 ай бұрын

And that explains everything CyberConnect2 has done since. And I LOVE IT

Asura's Wrath being an interactive anime divided people from the start, but the ending being DLC was the final nail in the coffin. I genuinely like the game a lot, as well as the DLC which was epic AF, but I can see why it didn't appeal to people back then. I do think people would be more open to a concept like this today, but due to Asura's Wrath's failure CC2 was basically relegated to doing licensed anime games for the past decade instead of making their original IPs. They kind of structure those games similarly to Asura's Wrath from what I've seen, but it would be nice to see them try and do this concept again with an original IP at some point in the future. They do self publish their original IPs nowadays so maybe this will happen again.

@fishnutz5196

11 ай бұрын

People would most deffinately love it if it was remade. The combat and boss fights of FF16 is very Ashura's Wrath

@SacrificAbominat

11 ай бұрын

@@fishnutz5196 Yeah FF16 was very similar to Asura's Wrath. Though the pacing was more like an RPG with breaks in-between the big fights instead of Asura's Wrath keeping you in the action for most of the experience.

@fishnutz5196

11 ай бұрын

@@SacrificAbominat yeah for sure! The set pieces though deffinately gave me Ashura vibes.

@heitorpedrodegodoi5646

11 ай бұрын

I still dont understanf what an interactive anime means.

@SacrificAbominat

11 ай бұрын

​@@heitorpedrodegodoi5646 Asura's Wrath is setup just like an anime with episodes and midpoint slides for commercials. About 75% of the experience is cutscenes with QTEs that go with action that's happening in them. To say the least this was a very divisive experience for a lot of people at the time. The last 4 episodes, 2 more 2D animated episodes, and 2 Street Fighter crossover episodes being DLC was even more controversial at the time, especially the true ending being DLC. IMO though they were all worth it especially the last 4 episodes which are on the same level as Bayonetta's epic ending. It is worth playing due to the QTEs enhancing the experience. Though if you can't stream it through PS+ or play it through an emulator you can watch a commentary free let's play of it an enjoy it that way.

Videos like this remind me that the real tragedy of Asura's wrath isn't the fact that it's an underrated gem, it's the fact that people who do talk about it barely know anything about it.

@ARStudios2000

7 ай бұрын

You had me in the first half, not gonna lie.

@danieladamczyk4024

6 ай бұрын

Thats a film with qta. What did you expected?

Wait... a game where the main character is killed but is then revived by a Mesoamerican mask that's also very snarky and now must go and rescue his girlfriend? Did Marlow Briggs just ripoff fuckin' Splatterhouse?

@jurtheorc8117

11 ай бұрын

Tep's not quite as mean or snarky as the Terror Mask-- in fact at one point Marlow gets a mean slight in on Tep that makes the *latter* cry :P sweet to see someone know that version of Splatterhouse, though!

Why do people call Asura's Wrath a GoW-like? The mechanics resemble DMC 3 more. A single primary attack button with pause combos, a ranged attack, a style button, devil trigger equivalent, lock on, and evasion being the defensive option.

@DarkOverlord96

11 ай бұрын

I think it's MOSTLY because of the story and characters, really.

@gmradio2436

11 ай бұрын

@@DarkOverlord96 Angry dad kills god. I can see it.

@shoken4421

11 ай бұрын

@DarkOverlord96 if you played the game you know asuras wrath plays NOTHING like gow there's no weapons,no health or armor upgrades ,heck there aren't even loot boxes in the game ,where how had multiple levels and mini stages asuras wrath was basically a beatem up in every sense of the word . The story lines aren't even similar,kratos gets tricked into killing his family and asura is branded a traitor for killing a fellow deity which he didn't do ,he also had his daughter kidnapped by his comrades and his wife was murdered by these same comrades. How that makes asura a gow clone is not even close . Asuras wrath was loosely based on Hindu and Japanese folklore .

@rastapopoulos5808

11 ай бұрын

Yeah it doesn't make any sense when GOW is itself a DMC knock-off, from the combo system to weapon upgrade it owe everything to it. That the video doesnt seem to address this is kind of dishonest.

@shoken4421

11 ай бұрын

@@rastapopoulos5808 guess the uploader forgot to mention that lol

As a Kingdom Hearts fan, finding out X Blade exists is going to forever bring images of this game whenever I hear the word keyblade

@XxSpirothKurotamaMOONLIGHTxX

3 ай бұрын

so what.

@REvoLverj98

3 ай бұрын

@@XxSpirothKurotamaMOONLIGHTxX Nah man, there's no way in hell you actually named yourself like it's 2006 💀

it's a shame that fans treated some of these games as a "god of war clone" and because of that those games never riched the spot that they deserved.

@tigerfestivals5137

11 ай бұрын

​@@ghost656metal8clone implies they have nothing of value to offer on their own, so fans were wrong in cases like Asura's Wrath

@tigerfestivals5137

11 ай бұрын

@@ghost656metal8 just because something is a commercial failure doesn't mean it has no value as a game. It just means it didn't reach a wide enough audience to sell enough copies

@shoken4421

11 ай бұрын

@ghost656metal8 The reason asuras wrath failed was because the ending was locked behind paid dlc ,maybe actually read up on asuras wrath before typing none sense.

@tigerfestivals5137

11 ай бұрын

@@shoken4421 yeah and that was most likely a decision on the publisher, Capcom's', part who was known for doing scummy dlc practices at the time too

@fusioncell7669

11 ай бұрын

@@tigerfestivals5137 From what I've heard the DLC was originally meant to be the story for Asura's Wrath 2, but since the game didn't sell well enough to warrant a sequel, they instead decided to take what they had and make it a DLC so that there was a proper conclusion to the story.

18:00 Also known as Despair. You forgot to mention that there was a time when people thought Asura was Kratos done right. And I think they're confusing being sympathetic with being complex/deep/appealing. Asura, as a character, is sympathetic. He was merely a family man before he was brutally wronged. And never lashes out at the undeserving. And behind his raging, screaming exterior is just a guy who wants to stop evil. However, that only makes him likable, not getting the audience to like him as a character in the same vein as Walter White. Trust me, Greek-era Kratos wasn't perfect, but he was a complex figure. TBP definitely made a video discussing that in great detail. And no over-the-top button mashing moment in AW can match the time Kratos had to push away his daughter the same way he kills those hideous beasts.

@ariwilliams513

8 ай бұрын

Fr

Asura's Wrath is the greatest experience ever and you can't convince me otherwise

I think in Asura's Wrath was using Deus because it is Latin for god.

@tigerfestivals5137

11 ай бұрын

Yeah how could he not know that

Marlow Briggs is highly intriguing to me. Not just because of its God of War gameplay, but because its so rare we get games with Aztec or Mayan themes and its something I always keep an eye out for in gaming. The closet thing we've had outside of this have been lack luster at best.

@wilm2109

11 ай бұрын

I know what you mean, it's slim pickings out there, but there are a few. There is Aztez, a beat-em up/strategy hybrid, and Expeditions Conquistador, a historical crpg. I think Guacamelee also counts, but I never played it. I have a hard time thinking about anything close to games based on Mayan/Aztec in the last decade, I wasn't even aware about Marlow Briggs.

@jurtheorc8117

11 ай бұрын

Can't help with games, but Maya and the Three is an animated Netflix series that takes inspiration from Mesoamerican cultures for its entire world and three of the main characters (Aztec/Maya mix for the main character, Aztec for an archer, Peruan inspiration for a barbarian. There's also a mage, but him and his culture inspirations lie with Caribbean influences, if i'm not mistaken). It's not a 1-to-1 representation of historical Mesoamerican stuff, think of it more as a fantasy world with that specific setting.

@PhantomBones101

11 ай бұрын

@@jurtheorc8117 I saw that that was actually a pretty good show

@PhantomBones101

11 ай бұрын

@@wilm2109 The closest things I've been able to find in current gen consol is Aztech the Forgotten Gods and Mulaka. Both are good but highly unpolished

@Mankey619

11 ай бұрын

Marlow Briggs looks like a rejected Dwayne Johnson movie project, that turned into a video game.

Asura’s wrath mentioned again? Damn been a while. Poor game it deserved better

Asura's Wrath was always one of the coolest games ever for me. Ik it gets flake for being full of cutscenes but the gameplay is great.

@matthewmccoyd2578

6 ай бұрын

Press LS to Bro-Fist

If Asura’s Wrath did the Telltale approach (have the first episode free and have the rest be paid for the digital version while having the physical version contain everything) it probably wouldn’t have gotten the kind of reputation that it did.

In X-Blades, the use of spaces as the thousands separator in large numbers isn't weird at all; it's actually the international standard as defined by ISO 31-0. It specifically discourages the use of periods or commas as the separator, since those characters are reserved for use by the decimal sign.

@GiordanDiodato

5 ай бұрын

it is Hungarian so make of that what you will

Finally, a new god of war knockoff video, now, I shall eat pasta while vibing to it

@jurtheorc8117

11 ай бұрын

May the pata and the video both make a good experience that elevate each other.

@Rust324

11 ай бұрын

@@jurtheorc8117 real

If a character has a projectile weapon in the game, wouldn't it be more of a Devil May Cry clone, rather than God of War?

@MonsieurBig

22 күн бұрын

If a character had 10 items, would he put it on his bumm?

@Larry

22 күн бұрын

@@MonsieurBig Only if they're all box sets of The Simpsons on DVD. :P

I absolutely love Heavenly Sword. I really wish it had gotten a sequel.

@dominiquejones3805

11 ай бұрын

Facts

@tituikabussaa

9 ай бұрын

Or pc port

@Badboy25251

8 ай бұрын

Sadly, from what I last remember, the developers didn't know where to take the sequel, so it kinda got pushed aside. Sony seems to have a thing with releasing good games and never making sequels or prequels. One of my favorite forgotten Sony games was the legend of dragoon. The game was supposed to get a prequel, but because of poor sales at the time, it was scrapped. They even scrapped the main character for Sony all stars.

0:00 Beginning 1:53 Heavenly Sword 15:59 Asura’s Wrath 27:54 X-Blades 38:40 Knight’s Contract 51:24 Marlow Briggs

@tituikabussaa

9 ай бұрын

Thank you savior

5:40 Wow, that was a quick turnaround. I bet this is the first proper piece of media to make a "Giant Enemy Crab/Massive Damage" joke. Overall, Knights Contract and Marlow Briggs are both games I'm going to look out for now.

I personally don't have an issue with Ayumi's design but I will agree with the take that Nariko from Heavenly Sword has the far more visually interesting design if we're comparing the two.

Maybe not fully related, but I do wanna say we’ve come full circle with the Kratos and Diablo comparison. People now see the Barbarian in Diablo 4 and go: “Kratos rip off” but forget that Kratos’ tattoos were made red because people were calling HIM a barbarian rip off from Diablo 2. Honestly wild

Asuras Wrath isn’t failed it’s A MASTERPIECE

All due respect because I love your takes. However, Asura's Wrath was meant to be looked at as an interactive anime more than just a video game. That's why it's quick time events and cutscenes to immerse you into the things that happen. Yes, the gameplay is flawed and could use work, but otherwise, the game is meant to be played and looked at in an anime pov not just a game.

How dare you called Asura's Wrath a knockoff.

17:00 "Deus" is latin for God, and it's still used in many languages. It's a god named "God" it is weird, but they might not have thought of "Zeus" when naming him.

Asura's Wrath is definitely not a knock off of GOW, those two games arent similar in any way imo

I remember when Marlow Briggs came out, my favorite KZreadr made a video on it that was just them going "Oh my god! Fuck yeah! This game is so awesome!" For roughly 30 minutes. I ended up getting the game free on Steam a few years after that. Never played it, but it always looked super awesome and fun.

So... sexy women give gaming a bad reputation and are an embarrassment... but not the increasingly realistic gore and violence... ...huh?

@tigerfestivals5137

11 ай бұрын

Modern double standards

Heavenly Sword, I believe, had great potential for at least sequel if not a trilogy

Pretty sure Asura's wrath isn't a failure, that game was great.

@Badboy25251

8 ай бұрын

The games story and world are great the sales were not.

I personally couldn't get into Heavenly blade due to how badly the motion Controls were implemented when it came to those sections that forced mandatory aiming the Arrow's Flight Trajectory towards enemies heads.

@deroriginalealucard

11 ай бұрын

Oh man, that was a nightmare. 😅

@elmono6299

11 ай бұрын

Oh my God. Thank you for bringing that up. I absolutely hated the "after touch" controls, and it made some levels frustratingly difficult to beat (looking at you, semi-final boss fight). I swear if this game ever got an HD remake, they really need to get rid of those horrible "motion capture controls" and replace them with more traditional controls.

@ealexjrdn1

11 ай бұрын

​@@elmono6299it's more that the motion controls needed to be tightened up than replaced. The basic concept was sound, the rpg folklore on ps3 was a perfect example of the sixaxis controls being implemented and working perfectly. It's the same feeling I have for older Ubisoft assassin's creed games; strong ideas that would have been excellent with refinement, but got continuously taken out instead of improved.

@dominiqueodom3099

11 ай бұрын

@@ealexjrdn1 the controls being tightened up and used on the right areas fits here. Rather than forcing the Archer Girl to be utterly useless without a Bow and forcing us to game with the Axis,just make her a Long Distance Archer/Glass Cannon type character and have her focus on Counterattacks and peppering her enemies with Shots. A good example for how the Axis could be used in smaller ways is in Ghost of Tsushima where they just have you guide the Axis controller through a Path on screen as you play the Flute during Slower moments of the game rather than in the Middle of Combat. The music is beautiful,the Scenery is Gorgeous and there isn't anything fanatic to get in your way of the combat.

@mookiedt

9 ай бұрын

I actually found it fun to use

Gameloft had a God of War clone called Hero of Sparta for mobile and PSP. There are literally green orbs and blue orbs from killing enemies. Though I could see Hero of Sparta on the Medieval Edition alongside Garshap: Monster Slayer, Conan (2007), and Tehra: Dark Warrior. I could see a Horror Edition with Splatterhouse (2010), Bloodforge, Ninja Blade, and Alice: Madness Returns.

@tigerfestivals5137

11 ай бұрын

Getting colored orbs from killing enemies isn't really an original thing though. Even Jak and Daxter does that

Come on, X Blades wasn't even that bad, and you're going to complain about how a character is dressed? Need I introduce you to Tifa from Final Fantasy 7, Mai Shiranui from Fatal Fury, or Miranda Lawson and Jack from Mass Effect 2?

@DarkOverlord96

11 ай бұрын

Or 2B from NieR: Automata, Ivy Valentine from SoulCalibur, the entire female cast of Dead Or Alive and Bayonetta?

Heavenly Sword is cool but damn it's really short.

Asura's wrath is amazing and with a good story

Hell yeah, new video to help get me through my work shift, already know its gonna be good, keep up the great work ❤

I never knew what kind of game Marlow Briggs was, but I got it free through XBL Gold a while back. As soon as you started talking about it and I saw the combat, I turned my Series X on and started downloading it. Thank you for shedding a light on games I would've missed out on otherwise! Awesome job, as always.

for those that don't know (including TBP over there) God of War 2 was intentionally delay and was put on the PS2 instead of the PS3 because Santa Monica wanted to close the PS2's life cycle with a bang by squeezing years of experience instead of dropping everything and try to dabble (and fail) trying to make a game for a newer console with an architecture no one known too much about yet

Good GOW knockoffs in my opinion are DarkSiders (the first one) castlevania lords of shadows and dante's inferno

@jurtheorc8117

11 ай бұрын

Bacon's made a few other videos on this subject that showcase those very games. Not yet the sequels, though.

Heavenly sword wouldve been fine if we didnt hav to control kai as much because the aiming was almost too difficult for me to even try

Marlow Briggs reminds me a lot of the Splatterhouse reboot, in ways both good and bad including the "unfinished story with no sequel" part.

@DarkOverlord96

11 ай бұрын

So I wasn't the only one who noticed lol

Female main characters are loved in gaming since metroid in zero suit samus

@DarkOverlord96

11 ай бұрын

Yeah, but she's a gorgeous curvy blonde outside her suit so she apparently doesn't count anymore.

@tigerfestivals5137

11 ай бұрын

Lots of cool female characters in JRPGs as well

@treasureedison548

11 ай бұрын

@@tigerfestivals5137 yes your right jrpg have good female main characters how that the future one are just as good

Sadly Asuras wrath was dealt a bad hand with the ending being sold separately and bad frame rates. I remember the lowering the resolution to 720p on the PS3 hoping it helped.

5:20 "one of the most obnoxious fictional characters I've ever encountered" Damn, that's harsh criticism. Tiny Tina from Borderlands gets my vote in that dept. Would have been fine if they just left her as a quest giver in the one game and that's it but no. They had feature her as much as possible going forward forcing me to either endure or just give up on the entire series because they will never move past her.

Considering that CC2 both did a crapload of anime fighting games (often capturing setpiece moments/fights really well) and uses it to basically fund their own passion projects (that being stuff like asura and .hack were, and that FUGA/the other little tail bronx games are), the influences and why they went so hard on lore depth and quantity. Solatorobo sorta did the same, adding a crapload of lore ranging from ancient culture to household appliances and fashion, but it had the benefit of being a ficctional setting built from the ground up and one that was already established, despite tail concerto not really telling much about the world itself. And they are still going with it with FUGA 1 and 2 expanding things even further.

We need an Asura's Wrath remake real bad

funfact: Capcom’s Onimusha franchise inspired David Jaffe in creating GOW 💁🏻‍♀️💯🥰

@killyridols72826

13 күн бұрын

Yup, this is the real game that inspired GOW, but ignorants keep saying it was DMC

Great stuff. ZP's review of X-Blades is also the only time I have heard of it. Having light/heavy attacks is pretty common. Like saying Mortal Kombat Shoalin Monks is a GoW ripoff.

Heavenly Sword and Asuras Wrath were games I was always salty never got sequels or remakes. Imagine the time and polish really making them pop. Maybe one day. That and Dante’s Inferno

I've not played any of these games, but Heavenly Sword gives me a bit of Fable vibes.

@jurtheorc8117

11 ай бұрын

how so, if i may ask? I'm having trouble seeing the correlation, but am curious to know why.

@AVGB.Karma_Bitches

11 ай бұрын

@@jurtheorc8117 ... Mainly, there's a slight resemblance of the same kind of moral ethical system. Not saying that there's matching gameplay in Heavenly Sword, but I could see the MC having her clothing darken and so on, for each unethical or immoral deed she did.

@mateusfelipecardoso40kview3

11 ай бұрын

By The graphics or plot format?

@jurtheorc8117

11 ай бұрын

@@AVGB.Karma_Bitches thank you for clarifying. I really don't see the affiliation on the moral front between Fable and Heavenly Sword, though. From what i know of Fable, the moral/ethical system comes from player choice on how to progress a story, but i don't know the depths of it. The unethical or immoral parts to Nariko's story come from the designations of others. Such being born a woman instead of a man, like an ancient prophecy foretold, and for actually taking up the Heavenly Sword to wield it as a weapon despite it being reserved for said warrior of prophecy. Due to the obsession around the Sword and its related prophecies, Nariko's life was over before it ever began. Faced life-long discrimination within her clan for it, and while she may take up the blade she loathes it with all her being for it. That becomes a theme in the game-- that an object, so revered, held sacred, and fetishized (in the religious form of the word, not the Freudian one) is the cause of the very conflict that it is foretold to end. Regardless of anyone actually wielding it or not. Inside an active conflict or not, the Sword's very existence claims victims. It's quite incredible that Nariko's managed to stay her ground on good morals all the way through. And that she is willing to fight for those that through fear, frustration and prejudice from an old story (the prophecy) brought a lot of grief into her life.

At the very least, X-Blades had the potential to be a decent game which Blades of Time realized. Since it wasn't quite the jump that Street Fighter 2 was over Street Fighter, there was little chance of Blades of Time kickstarting a franchise.

@derrickhaggard

6 ай бұрын

To add to that said reboot aka Blades of Time which like you said was loved by fans the issue was Konami who had bought the rights to X-Blades when making the reboot Blades of Time they didn't market it all a example of this was the fact Konami finally decided to drop Blades of Time's announcement trailer on it's release day. And yes I had both X-Blades, and Blades of Time for my 360.

"Capcom never shy away from killing unsuccessfull franchise" **me looking at Sengoku Basara's corpses**

funniest part about xblades was the cosplayer they've hired to promote it at conventions she had a giant colourfull tattoo on her belly so it was poorly painted over as if they couldn't hire a girl without a tattoo

If there is one good thing Cyberconnect can do, it's spectacle if we go by their Naruto fighting games. Capcom did a good choice when using them for such a bombastic game as Asura's Wrath. It's hard to really say how a sequel for that series can really work. It was a pretty compact story (even when some of it was DLC). I guess a remake might work with reworked combat if Capcom can give them resources from the DMC team. Think a meshing between base Asura and Devil May Cry level exploring/puzzle solving/combo fighting might do it some good.

Taking into account that Gow is in itself a Knockoff from prince of persia, rayman, tomb raider, rygar, and a dumbed/slowed down combo system from ninja gaiden and devil may cry.

7:33 - wow, so this is where the angel/demon modes in DmC came from

Out of all the ones you mentioned... Asura's Wrath was the best one.. 😏😂😂

Thanks for this video brother TBP

All I know about Heavenly Sword before this video was that one gif showing the amount of time between an input on the controller and Nariko responding to it. Though after this I wouldn't mind seeing it be revived, starting with porting the first game forward to current systems. Boost the frame rate to 60fps, make it more stable, lower the input response times, revise the controls somewhat, and you can have a similar type of game to God of War that can alternate releases with that series. Would like to see Asura's Wrath ported forward, with all the DLC just included in the base game, as well.

@elmono6299

11 ай бұрын

Please remove the after touch controls and replace them with traditional controls to make some levels playable.

Nice video. Keep the good work!

I just finished Final Fantasy 16 last night and many things from that game remind me of Asura’s Wrath. It’s a real underrated gem that gets overlooked a lot but it’s nice seeing some of its DNA in newer games. The best way I can describe FF16 is if Asura’s Wrath was actually given a good budget and more time without all of capcom’s bullshit from back in the day.

You missed out on one of the best God of War clones. Dantes inferno

I'm glad to see Marlow Briggs getting some attention. That game looked so interesting when it came out and it has a great sense of humor. I watched a friend playing it, and was disappointed I couldn't get it myself at the time. Disappointing that we'll never get a new game.

"twing twang" Zero Punctuation, anyone?

Asura is still one of my favorite Liam o' Brien roles. He massively injured his throat after all the screaming. That's how dedicated he was to the role

Dante's Inferno was good and I wish we got the sequel😔.

Really great video bro🎩👏

Thank you for more game recommendations. 😇

Asura’s Wraith, was one the greatest games ive played growing up as a kid. It may felt like God of war, but It was different in its on way. The story alone was immaculate and different. I haven’t played the others named in the video but if you have a chance play Asura’s Wraith. You won’t be sorry.

I remember Conan the Barbarian being one of those God of War clones. I saw it and thought "hey, this looks pretty good for the PS2" only to realize it was actually on the HD consoles. I remember it being ok, with the gimmick being you can pick up weapons that are dropped by enemies. Oh yeah, there was also a licensed game that wanted to mimic God of War. Ghost Rider. Yeah, the Nicholas Cage movie got a video game adaptation. As for why most people didn't hear about it, well it was released in February 13th 2007. Literally a month before God of War 2 would drop on March 13th 2007. But, if you couldn't wait any longer for God of War, didn't have a PS3 and needed something to play in the meantime until GOW2 did release, it did the job.

Asuras Wrath NEEDS a remaster.

A few GoW knockoffs you should check out are Splatterhouse (2010), Conan (2007), and Disney's Bolt.

X blades is a game a played on a old 360 demo disc and swiftly forgot it, 4 years later I buy x blades (In the Aus the case is the back half of her) and I played the first level and gave up and it sits on my shelf now.

NOW we're getting more and more female heroines/main characters in gaming? Isn't that something some guy said on Twitter and his only examples were Aloy, Ellie and Abby while ignoring all the female videogame heroines from the last 30+ years?

You started talking about Asura just as I finished nerding off about Chakravartin to my friend with whom we are brainstorming a mod together xD

A new one to binge now that I finished moving 🙃

Sir. Sir. _Sir_ . I will not hear any slander against Marlow 'That's Nasty!' Briggs! He's a hero to us all! Seriously, though. That cutsceen on a budget tech they had, with the stopped-time panning was hype as hell. I super hope to see someone else pick that trick up, I loved it.

@jurtheorc8117

11 ай бұрын

I see *someone* watched Best Friends Play's series on Marlow Briggs from back then.

I remember hearing that Pandora's Tower for the Wii was a God of War like.

15:22 Personally that didn't age very well considering the trope of the "strong woman" has gotten oversaturated that it's basically a marketing gimmick now, not to mention being used too often as a smokescreen to deflect anything the paper-skinned PR department behind said properties label as "problematic". As an aside, using footage of Aloy for that section felt like a poor choice considering that, gameplay aside, Horizon had one of the weaker stories I've heard from a piece of fiction in recent memory. 25:55 From what I've read the real reason the final chapters of Asura's Wrath were made into DLC was because the game file for Asura's Wrath was so massive it _couldn't fit in a PS3 Blu-Ray_ but rather than split the game into 2 discs (like games in the past did), they turned it into DLC.

Asura's Wrath deserves a remake. It's a one of a kind experience.

@rahteljackson433

8 ай бұрын

Seriously bro its too sick

Deus literally means god. It’s probably just Japan using words that sound cool again. Like how final fantasy somehow has Odin and shiva and bahaumut all blended together despite being from 3 different religions.

@DarkOverlord96

11 ай бұрын

Sound cool? But all those names for the characters, though?

Blud has a nerve to call Asura Wrath Gow knockoff.

as someone that played asura several times over, i can say that you were pretty much on point asside from a few issues. 1:while i also believe that deus is a stand in for zeus, (a leader of dietys that uses lightning as a means of attack) the name is not indicator for it. the word "Deus" is simply the word for "God" for god in ancient greek. 2: as for the 5 minute cutscenes for each combat areana. you are not wrong saying this, but it is important that this game really trying to be an interactive anime and most of the cutscenes are interactive, and for that games its actually works.

The Wololo ability is something so simple that could have turn Marlow Briggs's franchise into its own beast had they given it some proper care in the sequel

Isn't the term "Deus" much older than Zeus? It basically means God. It's a reference to Zeus because Zeus is a reference to Deus

@Bad_Gazpacho

11 ай бұрын

Greek is older than Latin, so technically Zeus is the older word.

@theevalatedone3941

11 ай бұрын

@@Bad_Gazpacho yea I did a small check and I see that dyeus came before Zeus and the Deus.

I remember when Heavenly Sword was pushed to the moon in terms of the Sony lineup. A launch title, her character being in Playstation All-Stars, all that jazz. Now here we are, and I didn't even remember the name of the game until it was brought up here.

Honestly all these games look real fun to play except one with the girl fighting the disappearing spiders, that was definitely the worst one, the rest look dope. But every game one way or another based their formula off of each other at one point, as long as the game is enjoyable and fun to play that's all that matters, great video by the way.

The ending to Asura’s Wrath having to be paid for, is just so Capcom I’m not even surprised

I actually liked Heavenly Sword, and I enjoyed the game for its story, hack & slash mechanics, art direction, and Andy Serkis as King Bohan. I also fond Nariko to be pretty hot and easily one of my video game crushes. However, my biggest criticism about that game has got to be the terrible "After Touch" controls, which feels like a poor attempt to copy the Wii's motion controls with the PS3 controller but it was very tedious to control and it made some levels almost unplayable for how frustrating they are. It doesn't help the fact they're done in airplane style controls.

I don't get why people accuse Asura's Wrath of being a God of War clone. I mean, I understand why people think the character of Asura is an obvious Kratos rip off. I think that, too, and it sort of turned me off to the games. But upon playing them, I kind of figure it's its own game. Althougfh, Asura is still a clear Kratos clone.

@shoken4421

11 ай бұрын

@deadmanthehekatonkheire994 tell me how you think asura is a clone of kratos? Lemme give you some glaring differences 1)asura is based of Hindu and Japanese folklore where kratos is based off Greek mythology 2) asura uses martial arts where kratos uses weapons 3) asura wrath comes from him being a father who is kept from his daughter who is a mini goddess, kratos accidentally murdered his family and is wearing their ashes Kratos fought gods of Olympus and became the god of war , asura literally fought the very good of his universe,not the planet not a realm of gods but the literal creator of thier known universe. These things set kratos and asura so far apart it's not even close . Asuras wrath was loosely based on journey to the west about son Goku . It had nothing literally nothing to do with being even a remote god of war clone ,heck the stages and playstyle of the two characters is different.

It’s so cursed seeing regular gameplay of Asura’s Wrath cuz I’m used to the interactive anime type cutscenes

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