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As a boy born in 1981, my small town in Michigan was behind the times by a few years. Getting games was a trip to the city and cost a lot. $60 dollars in 1987 was more like what might be $110 now. As a result, we rented a lot of games. Our little country store had a wall of NES games and I rented Simons Quest a lot. I didnt have the benefit of the manual, since rentals often were just the cartridge. Power magazines weren't a thing I got either; convincing my parents to get a me a subscription was nigh impossible. So playing this game was very frustrating as a young boy. That didnt stop me from loving this game. The music, the atmosphere, the feeling of unease when night came... it was great. It had all the porblems that everyone knows, but back then, and even still, I will love this game. I wil also forever remember the time i button mashed random characters at the pawword screen and it was accepted! The random passcode catapaulted me forward, im guessing somewhere around day 5-6, deep into a castle far beyond that cliff that stopped me before. I never knew what that password was, but it was a pretty awesome moment for an 8 year old kid. 😅

I just played this in my quest to play each game in chronological order. Thankfully it got ported to the pc. I have played crimson butterfly as a kid and loved it, i decided to play the wii version of crimson butterfly(with undub mod cuz they made everyone bri'ish), but now it is time to play #1... with HD mod! oh, my one gripe. the "true" ending is just like 4 pictures slapped onto the end cutscene and really made me really sad for Madoka who was dragged to the island, abandoned, and simply left to die! and the true end makes it look like she doesn't hold a grudge while misaki survives???

Does anybody know the game at 3:15?

I bought and played it when it released. I liked it. I somehow discovered the whirlwind cliff thing and the crouch by the lake thing, pre internet. I'm proud of that.

Shadow Man is proof that gaming was already diverse. It doesn't need to be forced. It's obvious the devs put so much effort into making it a great game. Current devs could learn a lot from this game.

Never have I felt sorry for a pretty girl like this before. It really gives an interesting perspective into objectification and used as a theme in a horror setting.

You have to understand the era this game came out in to understand why the game was hated so.

I'm now 40 years old , Simon's quest was one of my favorite games , I actually never beat Castlevania 1 I didn't enjoy it.

Susan is a low key baddie

Its always the nicest people that have the darkest thoughts and that shows in Ito.

Please do one for Castlevania Los2. That game got ripped to shreds

While I can applaud your presentation of C64, I still don't like the game. Don't get me wrong, it isn't the game itself. It's the time and platform. I hated 3d action games from this console generation. The single joystick sucked. Play any 3d game with only 1 stick vs 2 sticks. I think if they remade these games with todays control scheme, it would be received much better.

Simon's Quest is my favorite of the 8 bit era Castlevania games. I liked the adventure instead of the arcade style.

Loved the subtle NIN for atmosphere

I feel like the comparison to Alien and Aliens is I'll suited here, especially while talking about isolation. The original Alien very much kept Ripley as the weak one throughout the entire movie, but the catharsis from finally beating the unstoppable Alien was definitely there. In fact, we can see at the start that she did not overcome her fear of the Alien at all, instead doing so only in the second movie. However, we also don't see this much. She goes from being scared and helpless at the end of the first movie, to fully competent by her first Xenomorph encounter in the second.

I remember playing this as a kid and being scared when night came around. There weren’t other games like this at the time and I even realized that at 9 years old.

David Lynch is the greatest artist of our time. Change my mind. Just kidding, you can't! (Or can you...)

What is this song? Its awesome! 27:33 Like the video and subject matter too. 🤟

We needed more anglerfish flesh birds for enemies, give me more freakish animals of flesh and slumping bony zombies

Dude, withholding that bass drop in the intro will haunt me forever

I got this game in 2nd grade circa 1990. It was the first Castlevania I ever played and thus I had no comparison to the first one. I enjoyed it, but like many got stuck not knowing to kneel at the cliff. A friend at school told me about it, and gave me a password I remember to this day: CTMV W26K R5KN SIBK.

Commenting for the Algorythm.

I remember the first time I played through this game. Killing the golem, thinking I'd kill a vampire lord....only the get knocked out and wake up to an entire new age, now with miniguns and rocket launchers. Like, I literally couldn't ask for more. It was my first time even seeing VTM, then bloodlines hit and me and my friends were absolutely obsessed.

watching this game play is hitting the nostalgia so hard

Your argument is flawed from the get-go. The game doesn't suck because AVGN said so. Due to bad translations and being back in the 80s/90s with no internet, no one could beat it.

I loved Simon’s quest. I rented it or borrowed it from friends many times. The only problem I know is that I found out years later there was no way I would have figured it out on my own because of the bad translations

Everyone around me I was a kid and Simon's Quest came out all loved it, this "Castlevania 2 Sucks" rhetoric really only gained traction after The Nerd put up that video.

I think the good ole metrovania (not a typo) is just kind of the platonic ideal of conventional game elements and design. Platforming? Check. Exploration? Check. Combat? Check. Puzzles? Check. Though games have evolved over time to be able to have literally none of these elements they still, and I think to some degree will always, kind of form an ur bedrock of the medium. Even if future generations wind up viewing them as primitive and childish things to build a medium upon. Though, honestly, I kind of doubt humanity will ever outgrow the enjoyment of recreational violence 😅 So long as our monkey brains enjoy exploring new lands, finding unexpected things and hitting back at the things that would do us harm, then the metrovania will always have a welcome place. I do wish more folks would try to make fully 3d ones though. The core design principles carry over.

there are more rare titles than this one. aside Rule of Rose, there also is the similar rare and now similar expenisve to get Kuon, also a great old classic horror survival game with two shrine priestesses investigating an old historic japanese mansion etc

This series has such a truly amazing story I always felt they should at least make books or something. A long time ago I watched the "Legacy of Kain: The movie" or similarly named videos that basically just combine all the cutscenes. Since very little of story value happens outside the cutscenes, this actually covers them pretty well. Better than I got from the games themselves in fact (I've played each one of them, but honestly never beat any...) Of course these games are plagued by what so many other incredibly well storied games: the combat. It gets so tedious so quickly... Especially Blood Omen 2 (which is a true shame because that's the one that put everything together into an incredible -- albeit still kind of open -- end.) The writing and the voice acting in this game series though... I have no words. On the original game, I don't know how well the GOG package works out, but the game used to have SERIOUS troubles on computers not of the era. I would generally say if you wanted to play the game today it would likely be better to seek out the PS1 version unless they've found ways to fix a lot of those issues. (I can't remember what all the issues were. Missing videos, audio cutting out, that kind of thing I think? It has been a LONG time since I last played it...)

I ran across this game entirely by chance way back in the day. I just can't even put into words how I felt about it. I'll say more than anything else it succeeded in making me uncomfortable which, really, feels like kind of the point. It definitely wanders a bit into the territory of "art" more than actual game. The bullying in particular... yeah... If only it hadn't been for the combat. And yeah, OMG the music... That one theme with the violins and piano... I missed some of the symbolism. Was great to see it here and find out what I missed.

Glad to see more people appreciating this game. For me it was positively mind-blowing when it came out. I never quite beat it, sad to say, but I enjoyed a lot about its designs and choices. To me the concept that Wonderland represented her inner psyche in particular was truly neat to see fleshed out. I tried going back with a recent remaster that came out that makes it run better on modern systems and I do have to admit it didn't age well. The biggest problem for me though was an issue even then. The fighting is just so much GRIND. Every enemy takes so much to actually kill... Otherwise I loved every moment of it, but ultimately that tedium was what kept me from beating it. Every other aspect of this game was something truly special though. Not much ever came close to comparing in its presentation both then and really even today.

39:00 - 39:20 And just like that, you lost virtually all of your credibility. I guess next you’ll be making a video about why you think it’s really cool for Hamas to be trying to exterminate all of the Jews?

Clive Barker definitely deserves more praise. Such an underrated horror icon.

A injustice game

This game would have been awesome if it wasnt for N64's awful clunky controller

I never hated this game, played it from beginning to end, had the nintendo power magazine too. Which i truly regret losing, that issue is crazy expensive now.

re: physical media with games: For action / kinetic games with straightforward mechanics the game should teach you to play itself. Doom Eternal is a great example of this. It plays VERY different to other doom games and if you try to play it like an older title you lose. Over and over. And when you "get" what it wants you to do? Hell yeah! More complex games with deep world building systems, economies and miles of interactions? A manuel would be fantastic. It's like playing basketball vs D&D. You can pretty much pick up the rules of basketball playing with your firends. Yes you make mistakes but it's a kinetic, social sport. D&D is also a social game- but not one you can 'bumble' through and pick up the rules via trial and error. And in fact part of the fun is the text, world, etc.

This is my favourite Castlevania game. The soundtrack is unmatched. I love the atmosphere, and gameplay believe it or not.

I do want to say, I actually saw a lot of hate for Castlevania 2 and Zelda 2 in retro communities even before it all became popularized by AVGN and the like. I think a huge part of it might have just been the whole "sequel dared to be radically different from the original" aspect in particular. From there people go in already kind of looking for faults and then they latch into things like the translation issues and etc because they're looking for those faults. And to be fair, some of these things were very real faults. Of course, we didn't have all the answers conveniently on the Internet and most of us couldn't really afford to call in those hotlines or buy all the magazines, so we had to figure out stuff like the Deborah cliff issue the hard way. (And oh boy was it the hard way in that case.) A lot of people just didn't have the patience I suppose. But your conclusion at the end really sums up how I felt about it. Given the limitations of the hardware, design principles, and budgets, the game delivered something really amazing for its time. It broke a lot of molds and gave us exactly what you describe: the feeling of an epic adventure across the landscape, exploring and solving puzzles in addition to the action. (Speaking of, I wonder if some of the hate just simply arose from the fact that it wasn't all action.) It always felt so weird seeing Symphony of the Night lifted to such a high pedestal while this game and Zelda 2, meanwhile, get dunked on as among the most horrible NES games ever (meanwhile Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with its issues like broken hitboxes and horribly punishing penalties and Silver Surfer with its... well, everything exist.) Symphony of the Night literally is just the Simon's Quest formula redone and better made. It maybe deserves a lower pedestal, but it definitely deserves a pedestal and one that predates SotN. Still, I'm fairly certain a lot of the hate I saw for these games wasn't influenced by Internet memes and such. A lot of what I first saw predated all that. I admit I can't speak for when the game came out though. We didn't really talk gaming in school around here. Much of what I saw was on the Internet in retro-gaming circles which were a lot more vague back then, but it definitely predates AVGN. I think more likely even he must have been influenced by that. As you say, it may be somewhat memetic, but I think that it likely does predate Internet memes more to just a lot of people simply not liking it and complaining to others, many of which maybe never actually tried it and the complainers simply being more outspoken (especially in an era where in many circles offline you just simply did not talk about games for your own sake. If someone said it sucked, I sure wasn't about to get into a big debate about it with them as a kid...) But nothing I ever read or watched ever changed my mind. For me this game was truly an epic experience in its time. Games have changed since then and modern games can deliver the same formula better, but when this came out there was nothing quite like it other than Metroid (and even it felt less like a true journey.)

I absolutely loved Simon’s Quest as a kid.

After watching this video, I got a bit curious and found out that they ported Alice to Xbox 360 as free DLC for Madness Returns. Never played these games but this video got me interested, so I’ve now got both downloaded for play on my Series X through backwards compatibility. Pretty excited to try these games out.

Metroidvania is way better a name than search action, even if not as apparent.

just picked up this game sealed never got to play so now im debating to open it lol

As a kid my friends and I loved playing this game, and as an adult looking back it's far far superior to the first game in content and replay value. You're just underlining that games 'journalism' has always been disconnected

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Simon's Quest was my FAVORITE game. And I am an actual gamer from that era. I love AVGN but always disagreed with him on that one.

Why does this guy sound like Shannon from Home Movies?🤔

It was such a good game. Just completed it!

45:59 understandable reaction