Kind of weirdly appreciate how Nikki and Faergus seem to be pretty happy in each others' endings despite everything. I guess they really are good friends.
In hindsight, I think this series was a eureka moment for a lot of devs at the time, because it pointed out clearly what made a 3D camera exciting, showed that limiting a range of movement didn't limit fun, and that not wasting memory rendering everything meant the game could run blisteringly fast. there were so many fully 3d games at the time that ran like molasses & had fugly visuals, but everything about Pandemonium popped.
Pandemonium 2 is one of those games I consider to be polarizing (and have done so ever since I played it 20-odd years ago). Had the PC and PS1 versions, if I recall... For all the good praise it got at the time (by merit of its technical evolution, however small, over the first game), at the same time it got its deserved criticism mostly for its departure from the original aesthetic, which to me is quite the thing I can't forgive a bit. It's worth pointing out that the original Pandemonium was developed by Toys For Bob (yes, the same guys that made Star Control, Skylanders, the Spyro Reignited Trilogy, Crash 4, and are now relegated to helping churn out more Call Of Duty stuff) while the sequel was wholly developed within Crystal Dynamics, and that the release of this sequel was among the first of several strikes against Toys For Bob in my opinion (even though their deal was fundamental in getting the dev team on the map) and (if you side with Silicon Knights), the second series Crystal Dynamics kinda shifted dramatically, after the legal troubles that they were experiencing with the Legacy Of Kain series. The one thing I will comment very positively about Pandemonium 2 is the soundtrack, here is the proof to me that Burke Trieschmann is such a versatile composer. Probably among the few Americans that can make such great Celtic sounds (in the first game) and here he provided a delightful mixture of Drum 'n' Bass and Acid with some hints of Goa Trance. Truly a thing of its time. Now that this game is approaching its 25th Anniversary, I think it is ripe for a remake/remaster, along with its prequel. But I dunno, the visuals are a relic of days gone by (just like the music, though that remains enjoyable), it ages the game. Anyways, great video, got me hooked and reminded me of the wild era of experimentation that the PS1 harboured.
To this day, I still wish for a remake of Pandemonium 1... I enjoyed it as a 6 year old (in 2006) and I still play it every now and then on my ps2 (we still have a really old, working tv I can use to play on my old consoles, yay.)
Watched this video about 10 times, thank you so much for this video and the breakdown. Game meant a load to me growing up and a video that can explain the weirdness the level design and what there was to like about this game is simply amazing! Will be sticking around for more content, and thank you again.
He looks downright DEMONIC. Regardless, I absolutely LOVE both games and recently acquired P1 and P2 sealed for the PC (in those gorgeous 90s big boxes).
Thank you so much for this nostalgia overload. These were the first games I played on a ps1 which my best friend donated to me back in '98 in eighth grade. He left the country after that, I will always associate these games with the incredible times we spent together. All these decades later the ps1 disappeared, new consoles came in and I'm almost 40 - but somehow I've always held on to the pandemonium 2 CD. - so thank you once again for taking the time to make this video.
Here is a story I always love to share about Pandemonium. I remember me and my brother watching a review of it on TV back in the day and we thought it looked so cool and we wanted to try it. We didn't catch the name of the game however. What we DID remember was some of the footage of the protagonist jumping and bouncing on those big watermelons. So, that weekend, our mom took us to the video rental store where my brother would sprint up to the counter and demand that we get the game with "That girl that jumps around with the big bouncy melons" ..... So anyway, later that day, we ended up with the first Tomb Raider game instead, much to our disappointment. I actually didn't learn the actual name of the game until it came out on the Nokia N-Gage of all things.
@@SeanSeanson I am ALWAYS happy sharing that particular story xD I'm glad you liked it :) And thank you for that fantastic and thorough review of the sequel. Was hooked the entire time.
Man the music is pretty dope through all of it! PS1 music always seems so rememberable! But it does get a bit freaky with the last few levels! Fantastic video man!
It really is, a lot of PlayStation games emulate the musical trends at the time so you get some really interesting music across the systems library. Thanks as always for watching, glad you enjoyed it 😁
Love, love, love both games. I have tremendous nostalgia for the series, since me and my younger sister played these games nonstop in the late 90s. Crystal Dynamics should do a reboot or at least a remaster of these games since platformers are popular again.
Pandemonium is brilliant. If they made it the other way around it would have been a perfect sequel. But they've made a perfect game and the sequel just couldn't be better than the first one. The biggest let down is that Pandemonium 2 was a lot more forgiving. For me, Pandemonium is still one of the best games ever. Its such a masterpiece. It has the magic of the early super Mario games with so much beautiful and inspiring scenery. It's challenging but fun. It awakens the creativity in a child's mind and demands some skill and determination. It's a game you would play with your family in turns on one screen with everyone watching eachother play. It's a real game and still so simple. I really miss some good games like this these days. Today it's more like you're playing in a (scripted) movie.
The biggest letdown is that Pandemonium is not forgiving enough! Me n friend wanted to casually play it for nostalgia sake, and due to janky jump controls (unreliable double jump), lack of lives and constant game over screen, we just gave up like 4-5 levels in. Bad experience. In the topic of modern games feeling like scripted movies, i guess you're omitting the ton of amazing indie games out there. On 2,5D platformers alone, I'd recommend Trine
This looks so damn familiar.... Like I can't remember seeing or playing it, but the graphics & a jester character are somewhere, hidden in a childhood memory... Had to watch
Man I'm glad I wasn't the only person who played Pandemonium! during the lockdown. I recorded both games and wanted to make videos. Glad someone actually did this. Well done.
I can always never forget the memories of hearing about this game from a games catalogue my mom and I were browsing through when we were to get our PlayStation my mom wanted so bad in the spring of 1998. And just the name alone was so intriguing to me, that it did end up becoming one of the first ever games I got for it next to games like Disney's Hercules, Overboard, Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, Crash Bandicoot 2, Skullmonkeys and yes...... Rascal. It was always an unforgettable memory of mine popping the game into my brand-new PlayStation and turning it on for the first time, also to be blown away by Nikki's appearance from just watching the intro alone as an up and coming 7-year-old. It still holds an important legacy for me as some of the elements in this game still draws some major inspirations for some of my upcoming works that I'm working on.
love this game even if the gameplay is a bit unforgiving. But the music and visual style got me obsessed. I drew a lot of inspiration from this game for my own music and drawing. So thanks to the creators. 🎉❤
My golly I finally found the title to this game!! it's been forever, great summary summed up to a tea. I remember playing it round a friends house, I never owned the game but played it loads, lol, I could never remember the name but remembered the forest level, knowing just seeing it would spark nostalgia. sadly the cutscenes freaked me out xD
I remember replaying some of the missions in this game a lot. It's quite the treat visually, I loved the music and setting of many places even though some of it was so alien that it struck me as a mostly incoherent experience. I watched this video already once a few months ago and it's an interesting experience to have all these childhood memories unearthed.
I grew up with both Pandemoniums and I still love to play them!! It's rarely mentioned these days, but I think it was an amazing platformer back then. It's actually my imagination how a Sonic the Hedgehog should have looked in the 3D transition... super fast paced jumping and the 2.5D style would have been great for Sonic.
Glad i was not the only one who thought about acid. Game was like an early 90s rave music video and the old FMV just added to the vibe. Great video good stuff.
For me, this was one of the best games of the PSX. I dont care if it was a big departure from the first game tone, it was amazing. It's the closest a kid could get to doing acid 😂
I actually prefer this one to the 1st one, I used to love the bizarre aspect of the gam and how odd it is, SPECIALLY the Lick the Toad level, I used to play it several times in a row. Not to mention, the gameplay is SUPER varied here when compared to the first game.....and the music, holy fuck, the music on this one is amazing.
Now when I play this game as an adult, I can’t help but wonder whether or not the game developers took a lot of inspiration from the the 90’s MDMA/ecstasy club/rave scene for this video game. All the bright colours and the trance-style soundtracks, for example.
Bro. I'm sure you won't see this. I have 6k subs, and I don't see all the comments. But, just in case, I wanna tell you that you are my favorite video game channel. You just nail it, and scratch that itch for me. Excellent editing, bro. Well !!#@! done. 😊
Alright, time to comment! Since I finished the game (with Nikki, even though I am planning to beat It with Fargus someday) I could have finally seen all the video, mainly because I didn't want to spoil me the level I didn't see yet. About the game: Pandemonium! was a cornerstone of my childhood and I finished It last year last year. By surprise I discovered the sequel and...It's an odd beast, and I like It! While in surface doesn't keep the consistency of the first game It has enough things to stand out; from the variety in gameplay to the music (OH MY, THE MUSIC) I got entranced in It. The main key though is the weirdness: maybe It's easier than the first game overall (although from level 14 and on It becomes a real challenge) but man what an acid-trip, especially between level 16 and level 17 (and I am downplaying It beacuse every level has some mental featues that really make you questioning why are you on this game without being mushroomed in one way and in an asylum in another) The video is great, meant to be entertaining and also informative at the same time, I will look the Small Soldiers video because It's another piece of my gaming history. P.S. in the last level I realized that the character is the crosser!
Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed the video :) I've such a soft spot for both pandemonium games but I always end up coming back to 2 for some reason, just can't get enough of those visuals (and music... The music is so so good.)
pandemonium 2 endings: nikki: become all powerful space comet dj fargus: become a handsome teletubbies sun/star sid: fly with fargus & nikki in nikki's ending. explodes due to sanity overload in fargus' ending.
3:30 Damn I hate when my friends go away and return as a jerk. Happens far too much. When I was a kid I hated clowns/jesters so I avoided both the first and the second game. Looking back IMO 2.5D games aged better than the fully 3d ones and I would have probably enjoyed both the first and second games. Edit : Some of this games' music is definitely scratching some of that early to mid 90s Industrial itch.
Something about the colour palette and general weirdness feels like something from one of those "Haunted PS1 Demo Disk" indie game compilations. It's also such a weird twist for the ending to be about becoming one with the universe with all the allusions to Buddhism included considering how the characters are portrayed. I know that Buddhism doesn't centre morality and selflessness as the path to the ultimate reward of escaping the endless cycle of death and rebirth but they don't seem exactly the most devoted to escaping their attachment to the material, unless you count showing no regards for the catastrophic stakes for the rest of the world if they fail beyond not getting their own way, which is certainly an interesting interpretation of that philosophy. I'm probably thinking about it without the appropriate substances to fully understand what they were going for, if there was a real desire to do more than just be a perfect representation of playing the first game on acid. "Pandemonium 2: It's Pandemonium on acid" - an advert they probably wanted to run 😂
I played pandemonium as a kid at my uncle's and thought it was great and so i got 2 as a present and i honestly thought it was a fever dream. It was so wierd i never went back to it after i beat it along one intense afternoon.
@@SeanSeanson i understand you in the beginning i also choose Nikki but as time pass i liked to challenge myself into use Fargus and i love him then i play with both of them and i always choose wisely the levels that suits them most. For example in pandemonium 2 they use different their powers so you have to put them in right place ice prison is suitable for Fargus because he can use the pink power and explode enemies or in Stans the Man he can defeat him with the orange fireball in one beat... I played them many many times they are fabulous
you like that the wand hated it, but i like that nikki liked it. the first time something like this happened, she was all "ohh nooooo!" but this time, she laughs XD
I'll he honest, I can't recall a lot of this video off the top of my head. But if its an old man clip, its probably from an old Irish Martial Arts movie called Fatal Deviation.
They may be a cheat when you pres the all the left and right buttons simultaneously you can skip parts of the level not sure it it works but it worked in the demo
back in the day, I loved Pandamonium; I had my PSX hooked up to an amp with 4 BOSS speakers.... and let me tell ya; Them coins... not good. lol Keep it to a regular tv speaker setup.
Probaly because the letdown of the sequel that missing the First game was the special transformation levels. Wile in this game feel completly like said an extension of previous chapter.
Kind of weirdly appreciate how Nikki and Faergus seem to be pretty happy in each others' endings despite everything. I guess they really are good friends.
I was thinking the same
In hindsight, I think this series was a eureka moment for a lot of devs at the time, because it pointed out clearly what made a 3D camera exciting, showed that limiting a range of movement didn't limit fun, and that not wasting memory rendering everything meant the game could run blisteringly fast. there were so many fully 3d games at the time that ran like molasses & had fugly visuals, but everything about Pandemonium popped.
Pandemonium 2 is one of those games I consider to be polarizing (and have done so ever since I played it 20-odd years ago). Had the PC and PS1 versions, if I recall... For all the good praise it got at the time (by merit of its technical evolution, however small, over the first game), at the same time it got its deserved criticism mostly for its departure from the original aesthetic, which to me is quite the thing I can't forgive a bit.
It's worth pointing out that the original Pandemonium was developed by Toys For Bob (yes, the same guys that made Star Control, Skylanders, the Spyro Reignited Trilogy, Crash 4, and are now relegated to helping churn out more Call Of Duty stuff) while the sequel was wholly developed within Crystal Dynamics, and that the release of this sequel was among the first of several strikes against Toys For Bob in my opinion (even though their deal was fundamental in getting the dev team on the map) and (if you side with Silicon Knights), the second series Crystal Dynamics kinda shifted dramatically, after the legal troubles that they were experiencing with the Legacy Of Kain series.
The one thing I will comment very positively about Pandemonium 2 is the soundtrack, here is the proof to me that Burke Trieschmann is such a versatile composer. Probably among the few Americans that can make such great Celtic sounds (in the first game) and here he provided a delightful mixture of Drum 'n' Bass and Acid with some hints of Goa Trance. Truly a thing of its time.
Now that this game is approaching its 25th Anniversary, I think it is ripe for a remake/remaster, along with its prequel. But I dunno, the visuals are a relic of days gone by (just like the music, though that remains enjoyable), it ages the game.
Anyways, great video, got me hooked and reminded me of the wild era of experimentation that the PS1 harboured.
Pandemonium and Tekken 2. My childhood! We need this remade!
I remember watching a friend of mine trying level 18 the bitter end over and over again. It really deserves that name.
To this day, I still wish for a remake of Pandemonium 1...
I enjoyed it as a 6 year old (in 2006) and I still play it every now and then on my ps2 (we still have a really old, working tv I can use to play on my old consoles, yay.)
Watched this video about 10 times, thank you so much for this video and the breakdown. Game meant a load to me growing up and a video that can explain the weirdness the level design and what there was to like about this game is simply amazing! Will be sticking around for more content, and thank you again.
Thank you so much for the kind words! Really glad you enjoyed the video.
Hey Sean did You know in pandemonium 2 is work the Sega saturn was planned but cancelled
Sequel Fargus is going to haunt my dreams forever now so thank you for that
Or... on the bright side. You've now got a free Jester in your dreams for life! Entertainment forever!!!
He looks downright DEMONIC. Regardless, I absolutely LOVE both games and recently acquired P1 and P2 sealed for the PC (in those gorgeous 90s big boxes).
Thank you so much for this nostalgia overload. These were the first games I played on a ps1 which my best friend donated to me back in '98 in eighth grade. He left the country after that, I will always associate these games with the incredible times we spent together. All these decades later the ps1 disappeared, new consoles came in and I'm almost 40 - but somehow I've always held on to the pandemonium 2 CD. - so thank you once again for taking the time to make this video.
Appreciate you watching! ❤️
One of my first PS1 games. Great memories. Thanks for the video.
Here is a story I always love to share about Pandemonium.
I remember me and my brother watching a review of it on TV back in the day and we thought it looked so cool and we wanted to try it.
We didn't catch the name of the game however. What we DID remember was some of the footage of the protagonist jumping and bouncing on those big watermelons.
So, that weekend, our mom took us to the video rental store where my brother would sprint up to the counter and demand that we get the game with
"That girl that jumps around with the big bouncy melons"
.....
So anyway, later that day, we ended up with the first Tomb Raider game instead, much to our disappointment.
I actually didn't learn the actual name of the game until it came out on the Nokia N-Gage of all things.
This is a wonderful story that has made my day infinitely better! Thanks for sharing :D
@@SeanSeanson I am ALWAYS happy sharing that particular story xD
I'm glad you liked it :)
And thank you for that fantastic and thorough review of the sequel. Was hooked the entire time.
Ah yes, that game with the girl that has big bouncy melons ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Man the music is pretty dope through all of it! PS1 music always seems so rememberable! But it does get a bit freaky with the last few levels! Fantastic video man!
It really is, a lot of PlayStation games emulate the musical trends at the time so you get some really interesting music across the systems library.
Thanks as always for watching, glad you enjoyed it 😁
Love, love, love both games. I have tremendous nostalgia for the series, since me and my younger sister played these games nonstop in the late 90s.
Crystal Dynamics should do a reboot or at least a remaster of these games since platformers are popular again.
post pics of your sister
Oh it was crystal dynamics who are also still around? Yeah a continuation/reboot/remake/remaster/whatever would be interesting 🤔
Pandemonium is brilliant. If they made it the other way around it would have been a perfect sequel. But they've made a perfect game and the sequel just couldn't be better than the first one. The biggest let down is that Pandemonium 2 was a lot more forgiving.
For me, Pandemonium is still one of the best games ever. Its such a masterpiece. It has the magic of the early super Mario games with so much beautiful and inspiring scenery. It's challenging but fun. It awakens the creativity in a child's mind and demands some skill and determination. It's a game you would play with your family in turns on one screen with everyone watching eachother play.
It's a real game and still so simple. I really miss some good games like this these days. Today it's more like you're playing in a (scripted) movie.
Super Mario Odyssey was great. It reminded me of this game in a sense…
The biggest letdown is that Pandemonium is not forgiving enough! Me n friend wanted to casually play it for nostalgia sake, and due to janky jump controls (unreliable double jump), lack of lives and constant game over screen, we just gave up like 4-5 levels in.
Bad experience.
In the topic of modern games feeling like scripted movies, i guess you're omitting the ton of amazing indie games out there. On 2,5D platformers alone, I'd recommend Trine
This looks so damn familiar....
Like I can't remember seeing or playing it, but the graphics & a jester character are somewhere, hidden in a childhood memory...
Had to watch
Man I'm glad I wasn't the only person who played Pandemonium! during the lockdown. I recorded both games and wanted to make videos. Glad someone actually did this. Well done.
I can always never forget the memories of hearing about this game from a games catalogue my mom and I were browsing through when we were to get our PlayStation my mom wanted so bad in the spring of 1998.
And just the name alone was so intriguing to me, that it did end up becoming one of the first ever games I got for it next to games like Disney's Hercules, Overboard, Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, Crash Bandicoot 2, Skullmonkeys and yes...... Rascal.
It was always an unforgettable memory of mine popping the game into my brand-new PlayStation and turning it on for the first time, also to be blown away by Nikki's appearance from just watching the intro alone as an up and coming 7-year-old.
It still holds an important legacy for me as some of the elements in this game still draws some major inspirations for some of my upcoming works that I'm working on.
love this game even if the gameplay is a bit unforgiving. But the music and visual style got me obsessed. I drew a lot of inspiration from this game for my own music and drawing. So thanks to the creators. 🎉❤
I am all for you using the Fatal Deviation clip, especially for this game. It's absolutely insane.
My golly I finally found the title to this game!! it's been forever, great summary summed up to a tea.
I remember playing it round a friends house, I never owned the game but played it loads, lol,
I could never remember the name but remembered the forest level, knowing just seeing it would spark nostalgia.
sadly the cutscenes freaked me out xD
I remember replaying some of the missions in this game a lot. It's quite the treat visually, I loved the music and setting of many places even though some of it was so alien that it struck me as a mostly incoherent experience. I watched this video already once a few months ago and it's an interesting experience to have all these childhood memories unearthed.
Bro you are the best you literally uncovered memories I forgot I had. Thank you :)
Wish they did a number 3
It almost feels as though Midway Games was looking for
their version of *"Nights Into Dreams"* with this one.
I grew up with both Pandemoniums and I still love to play them!! It's rarely mentioned these days, but I think it was an amazing platformer back then.
It's actually my imagination how a Sonic the Hedgehog should have looked in the 3D transition... super fast paced jumping and the 2.5D style would have been great for Sonic.
I keep hopin' against hope they'll do a remaster of these games at some point. Real cult classics.
You deserve far more views. Thank you for this awesome video about my childhood game.
Wow....holy shit. You brought it back with this one
If Pandemonium was an animated series with Weird Al Yankovic as the jester I’d be so happy
I'd love nothing more
That video was both deadly and fairly class. I love the pandemonium games and you really did justice to the journey of this game! Subscribed
Deadly and fairly class, the two best compliments an Irish person can receive 😁
Glad you enjoyed it and appreciate the subscribe!
4:50 made me LOL. :D Another great video!
Glad you think so :)
Thank you so much for watching!
Glad i was not the only one who thought about acid. Game was like an early 90s rave music video and the old FMV just added to the vibe. Great video good stuff.
Wow, great video dude. A lot of care put into it for sure. Really, really enjoyable to watch.
Appreciate the kind words!
Thanks for watching :)
Only had a demo of 2 but loved the first one. Second looks trippy.
It was the other way around for me with the Jumping Flash series.
The ice prison was in the demo version I loved playing it
You deserve more subs - amazing video
Pandemonium is right up there with Super Bonk in my nostalgic platform game ranking.
Pandemonium is the consequence of coding a game while high on mushrooms
For me, this was one of the best games of the PSX. I dont care if it was a big departure from the first game tone, it was amazing. It's the closest a kid could get to doing acid 😂
They really need to bring back acid trip video games
I just now realized that Fargus from the first game is voiced by Greg Proops from "Whoose line is it anyway?"
Wow is he? That's great casting actually! 😂
Oh look, a crown! Beautiful timing.
I actually prefer this one to the 1st one, I used to love the bizarre aspect of the gam and how odd it is, SPECIALLY the Lick the Toad level, I used to play it several times in a row. Not to mention, the gameplay is SUPER varied here when compared to the first game.....and the music, holy fuck, the music on this one is amazing.
Played the crap out of this back in the day. Liked part 1 too, but part 2 soundtrack was so good i played it more.
Remember the first one came with this new thing called a 3D accelerated that I apparently just had to have for my computer. Changed the game.
Now when I play this game as an adult, I can’t help but wonder whether or not the game developers took a lot of inspiration from the the 90’s MDMA/ecstasy club/rave scene for this video game. All the bright colours and the trance-style soundtracks, for example.
Bro. I'm sure you won't see this. I have 6k subs, and I don't see all the comments. But, just in case, I wanna tell you that you are my favorite video game channel. You just nail it, and scratch that itch for me. Excellent editing, bro. Well !!#@! done. 😊
Much love, appreciate the kind comment and thanks for watching! 🙏
Alright, time to comment!
Since I finished the game (with Nikki, even though I am planning to beat It with Fargus someday) I could have finally seen all the video, mainly because I didn't want to spoil me the level I didn't see yet.
About the game: Pandemonium! was a cornerstone of my childhood and I finished It last year last year. By surprise I discovered the sequel and...It's an odd beast, and I like It! While in surface doesn't keep the consistency of the first game It has enough things to stand out; from the variety in gameplay to the music (OH MY, THE MUSIC) I got entranced in It. The main key though is the weirdness: maybe It's easier than the first game overall (although from level 14 and on It becomes a real challenge) but man what an acid-trip, especially between level 16 and level 17 (and I am downplaying It beacuse every level has some mental featues that really make you questioning why are you on this game without being mushroomed in one way and in an asylum in another)
The video is great, meant to be entertaining and also informative at the same time, I will look the Small Soldiers video because It's another piece of my gaming history.
P.S. in the last level I realized that the character is the crosser!
Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed the video :)
I've such a soft spot for both pandemonium games but I always end up coming back to 2 for some reason, just can't get enough of those visuals (and music... The music is so so good.)
Just discovered your channel! You deserve way more views and subs, my dude.
Thank you friend! Appreciate the comment ☺️
Nice video, loved watching it. And i love the pandemonium games👌🏻👌🏻
The 2nd one was not a bad game, but the visual just a bit tooo much for my eyes while the 1st one was just perfect
I still remember an EGM (I think) spread about the game with bold text saying 'NIKKI'S ALL GROWN UP NOW!' oof O_o
That level 14 still pisses me off so much.
This was 1 of the 3 ps1 games I owned. It very well could be the first game I ever finished
Most saw an opportunity for a topical Fall Guys joke; real ones saw an excuse to work Jukio Kallio's music into a video.
I like Pandemonium & Pandemonium 2 game it's my good game childhood 💗😊
pandemonium 2 endings:
nikki: become all powerful space comet dj
fargus: become a handsome teletubbies sun/star
sid: fly with fargus & nikki in nikki's ending. explodes due to sanity overload in fargus' ending.
1 year for a follow-up? Ah the good ol times
Nikki was my first videogame crush.
Man thanks to do this welsome video :)
My lady loved this game and was looking for it for so long. Nabbed it recently and wow is it charming.
The 1st game gave me nightmares as a kid for some reason
3:30 Damn I hate when my friends go away and return as a jerk. Happens far too much.
When I was a kid I hated clowns/jesters so I avoided both the first and the second game. Looking back IMO 2.5D games aged better than the fully 3d ones and I would have probably enjoyed both the first and second games.
Edit : Some of this games' music is definitely scratching some of that early to mid 90s Industrial itch.
Something about the colour palette and general weirdness feels like something from one of those "Haunted PS1 Demo Disk" indie game compilations.
It's also such a weird twist for the ending to be about becoming one with the universe with all the allusions to Buddhism included considering how the characters are portrayed. I know that Buddhism doesn't centre morality and selflessness as the path to the ultimate reward of escaping the endless cycle of death and rebirth but they don't seem exactly the most devoted to escaping their attachment to the material, unless you count showing no regards for the catastrophic stakes for the rest of the world if they fail beyond not getting their own way, which is certainly an interesting interpretation of that philosophy.
I'm probably thinking about it without the appropriate substances to fully understand what they were going for, if there was a real desire to do more than just be a perfect representation of playing the first game on acid.
"Pandemonium 2: It's Pandemonium on acid" - an advert they probably wanted to run 😂
I played pandemonium as a kid at my uncle's and thought it was great and so i got 2 as a present and i honestly thought it was a fever dream. It was so wierd i never went back to it after i beat it along one intense afternoon.
Okay seeing you describe this game as "20 levels" is wild. It felt like 52 when i played it. I'm certain it had 52.
Thats the Pandemonium 2 effect, it warps your mind!
dont forget mario possessing a tank
You sound like Jaunty the snake from Shadowman!
finally somebody acknowleges Jaunty, a real Irish legend!
I like both and and choose always both characters and i didn't understand why they didn't like Fargus 😛 they just didnt know how to use him
Fargus is the pro character. I just play as Nikii cause she covers for how bad I am :P
@@SeanSeanson i understand you in the beginning i also choose Nikki but as time pass i liked to challenge myself into use Fargus and i love him then i play with both of them and i always choose wisely the levels that suits them most. For example in pandemonium 2 they use different their powers so you have to put them in right place ice prison is suitable for Fargus because he can use the pink power and explode enemies or in Stans the Man he can defeat him with the orange fireball in one beat... I played them many many times they are fabulous
You have to play it on LSD or mushrooms. The difficulty goes to unbelievable levels. Otherwise, the game is very quick and easy.
you like that the wand hated it, but i like that nikki liked it. the first time something like this happened, she was all "ohh nooooo!" but this time, she laughs XD
Where is the "incredulous old man" clip from?
I'll he honest, I can't recall a lot of this video off the top of my head. But if its an old man clip, its probably from an old Irish Martial Arts movie called Fatal Deviation.
Is it just me or why do I found pandemonium 2 totally weird - the setting with the music made me often feel uncomfortable while playing as a child 😂
They may be a cheat when you pres the all the left and right buttons simultaneously you can skip parts of the level not sure it it works but it worked in the demo
back in the day, I loved Pandamonium; I had my PSX hooked up to an amp with 4 BOSS speakers.... and let me tell ya; Them coins... not good. lol Keep it to a regular tv speaker setup.
12:04 Nikki can reach the higher platform if she uses the enemy as a stepping stone and the perform a double jump...
Many games are often seen as made on acid. This one might actually be.
How much acid did these devs take lol
amazing video
Probaly because the letdown of the sequel that missing the First game was the special transformation levels. Wile in this game feel completly like said an extension of previous chapter.
It's Kirby 64
How dare you miss all these coins! Just kidding, I also never cared for such stuff to some obsessive degree.
a sequel to a game that was an americanized japanese game so par for the course
I think I played a demo of this as a kid and understood nothing.
Lol goon queen
Bunny girl is best version
Lol wtf. I love weird games
マジカルホッパーズの原作だ
Yes, Magical Hoppers 2!
Oyster the oyster? I had always read level 6's title as "Oyster destroyer"
I actually think it is Oyster Destroyer, I just lost the ability to read somewhere through making this video.
@@SeanSeanson Wikia says 'Level # 6
Oyster Desoyster'
I'm confused as ****