Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II (NES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
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- A playthrough of Acclaim's 1989 action-adventure game for the NES, Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II.
Ironsword is Rare's direct sequel to their hit 1987 game Wizards & Warriors, and like its predecessor, it is an exploration-based platformer starring Kuros, the chivalrous knight who has stepped straight out of medieval England to take on the evil wizard Malkil and save the day.
But for whatever reason, this one has a picture of Fabio on the box. Maybe someone at Acclaim thought that romance novel-devouring housewives might find it appealing and buy it? I have no idea. It's weird, though.
This sequel's gameplay follows a blueprint similar to the original's, but there have been a number of tweaks made to change things up. In Ironsword, rather than collecting keys, you'll need to find magical items for the giant animals that can grant you access to the second area of a stage. In the second area, since your sword is useless again the bosses, you'll have to find a spell and charge up your magic reserves before confronting them in battle.
You still collect gems, but now instead of giving them to a creature to get through a door, you spend them at shops that offer food, spells, keys, and upgraded weapons and armor. And just like in Wizards & Warriors, there are invisible doors everywhere that lead to caches of bonus items.
The graphics and sound have also seen a huge upgrade. The first game was one of the more impressive games on the NES when it came out, and Ironsword follows suit. Everything is much more stylized, cartoony, and detailed, and the animation is great - just check out that eagle in the first stage and the creepy lava face boss! David Wise's soundtrack is also on point, managing to be even more memorable than the first game's.
I'm not sure what the popular opinion is on Ironsword, but for all of the ways it improves on Wizards & Warriors, I didn't enjoy it as much due to how punishingly difficult it is. The hit boxes are really screwy (you can expect to be hit regularly by projectiles that clearly don't make contact with your character's sprites), and you'll get constantly hammered by enemies that like to either fire at you from off-screen or to spawn directly on the spot upon which you're currently standing. Pile on some frustratingly unfair jumps and a bug that prevents you from continuing once you've begun the final stage and you've got a game that sits nice and snug among Rare's most spitefully hard NES games. I've always regarded it as being about on par with Battletoads for how hard it is to finish, but in my experience, Battletoads is a much fairer game.
If it showed less interest in trying to make me throw my controller, I think I'd absolutely adore Ironsword, just like I did Wizards & Warriors. It does a lot of things well. That one glaring flaw, though. It runs deep enough to spoil the game for me. I played it a ton, but still, I far prefer the original game. Ditto for the Game Boy one. How about you guys? Did you struggle with it as much as I did?
Quite a few people have requested this one, so after what seems like endless amounts of practice, here it finally is! :)
One random question: does the music that plays after beating a boss remind anyone else a whole lot of the chorus from the old 90s song "The Way" by Fastball? It's close enough to make me wonder who in that band loved this game when they were younger.
You can find my videos of some other Wizards & Warriors games here if you're interested:
Wizards & Warriors (NES): • Wizards & Warriors (NE...
Wizards & Warriors X: Fortress of Fear (Game Boy): • Wizards & Warriors X: ...
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One of my earliest memories is my step-dad excitedly waking me up in the middle of the night as like a 5 or 6 year old kid to show me he'd gotten to the last boss in this game that I had watched him struggle on for weeks, maybe months hoping he'd let me play. Sometimes he did but it was too tough for me. He was so happy and proud and as the only one who watched and cared about his struggle in the house, he knew that this moment had to be shared. This brought back alot of fond childhood memories that I have of the man who raised me. Thx for the upload!
Struggled for years to beat this game as a kid.
When i finally beat it, no one in my family gave two shits. Can't hold that against them though.
Those memories you describe, however; must admit i'm a tad jealous...
That is what I love about games. There is always a great story behind them.
As i recall i had to use the game genie to get through this one. I'd love to beat this 30 years later on skill alone
I remember playing pac man with my dad for money, I was destroying him 😆 This one I got when I was 7, a brother brought me nintendo. Beating the last bos was so tough.
awesome Memories
Such a great and nostalgic game. I could never beat the final boss back then. Loved the soundtrack, best part of the game!
Love that it's influence lived on in the Adventure Time Series.
42:37 The final boss theme is surprisingly upbeat...and VERY catchy!
Ironsword does so many things right, but its difficulty level veers so sharply toward cheap and frustrating that I'd rather just play Wizards & Warriors instead.
It really says a lot about the original Wizards and Warriors that it's balanced difficulty is the exception, rather than the norm among Rare's NES games.
I do like how colorful and cartoony the Wizards and Warriors games are, I found that very appealing in the series and some of the other games Zippo games worked on such as Solar Jetman. I think the graphics still hold up for 8-bit games today, much more than some contemporaries at the time.
But the difficulty or how slippery the controls were could be so frustratingly high, these really were games that required a large amount of patience.
Perhaps people had that as a kid but as you grow older you just want to play the game and not constantly try to memorize all the patterns as you are killed over and over again. (well exception is perhaps Dark Souls type of games for some gamers)
I would have enjoy this game a bit more if the controls had undergone some fix, the sword being more useful, and the difficulty/hit rate being a bit toned down.
I can totally hear "The Way" by Fastball when you beat a boss too. If ever there were a game worth tweaking the collision detection through a mod, this would be one.
And the platform jumping can be as frustrating as Bart Vs The World ice cave.
@@ziggydamaestro Oh god that game. I used to get so angry at the bouncy bubbles in the cave.
That final boss music was stuck in my head from when I was a kid. Fun game!
Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II was first unveiled in North America as part of the 1989 Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada and was displayed with other games to be released later that year by Acclaim. It was mentioned as a future game in the May 1989 premiere issue of video gaming magazine Electronic Gaming Monthly. It was also covered in GamePro's premiere issue in May 1989. Finally, it was previewed by Nintendo Power in its July-August 1989 issue. I remember seeing a feature on video games on new show 20/20 on ABC that included footage of Ironsword more than a year before the game came out, and the title was proclaimed Game of the Month by at least 1 magazine months before its release.
For the game's cover, Acclaim hired Italian male model Fabio Lanzoni to pose as Kuros; Fabio was presented on the cover bare-chested and without armor. When Zippo Games saw the image of the cover a week prior to its release, they were perplexed. According to Ste Pickford, "Our jaws hit the floor when we first saw this image (which was, being merely the developers, probably about a week before the game's release). Why on earth did they choose a photograph of a bare-chested barbarian to promote a game starring a knight in shining armour?". Pickford added that "We used it as an example of the lack of imagination of Americans", while suggesting that having an actual suit or armor would be too costly to use for a photo shoot. Ironsword: Wizards & Warriors II was released by Acclaim for the NES in North America in December 1989 and in Europe and Australia in 1991. It managed to sell about 500,000 copies in North America and about 50,000 copies in Europe. Following the game's release, Zippo Games would proceed to develop its next game for Rare, Solar Jetman: Hunt for the Golden Warpship; they would eventually also release the third installment in the Wizards & Warriors series, Wizards & Warriors III: Kuros: Visions of Power.
The television advertisement consisted of a boy who is shown playing the first Wizards & Warriors game when a Conan the Barbarian-lookalike enters his room after having defeated a monster and hands him a copy of Ironsword. After describing the brief plot and shortly showing clips of the game, the Conan-lookalike leaves his room while exclaiming, "The fate of the world is in your hands! Back vile beast!". At the end of the commercial, after briefly playing Ironsword, the boy opens the door in his room, only to find his dog, who now has smoke coming from his behind.
I loved and hated it so much as a kid.
The peace and joy I had as a child by simply waking up early on a sunday, sneaking in the living room and playing a game.
It makes me sad that life flies by if Im honest. Still I appreciate that I had a rather good childhood and still exist
Nintendo and Sega had the best when they revitalized the Industry.
This music is so classic Rare.
I remember this game when I was little kid. We didn’t have the Super Nintendo since we couldn’t afford it so we had an NES and this was one of the games I always played. Couldn’t remember the name. So happy I found this.
the music on the cloud board: the best of any NES game hands down
As we can all see, Kuros is a graduate of the Adol Christin School of Bump Physics.
i remember playing this game back when it came out. hands down my favorite nes game ever
I have a copy of this game sitting around somewhere. Most people remember it for having Fabio on the cover - I remember it just for the epic title screen music (it royally trounces every other track in the game, honestly).
nice word... trounces
love this game grew up with this game, new all the secrets before internet, and god what an epic game.
Yes! My cousin had this when I was a kid and I've always loved playing it, even if it's 80% nostalgia speaking. It's difficulty is definitely cheap, but that music... timeless.
Yeah I've always been a bit annoyed by the cheapness of the game, but like you said, the music definitely makes up for it.
@@bojiden Absolutely. Sometimes I'll put the music on just... because. Definitely one of the better nes soundtracks.
This is was one of my favorites games.. man nostalgia..
I remember I always used to love messing around in the shop and having the shopkeeper kick me out lmao
If you stand with your back to the exit, jump and then use the Windbane power to get the first Iron Sword piece, you'll keep the power and magic and continue on to the next level. You can pretty much have unlimited magic and power the rest of the game making it easier to items like the gold fly and crown.
YES!! I remember playing this game at a friend’s house when I was a kid, but I couldn’t remember the name. Thank you!!
Always loved the music in this game.
I remember it taking me months to figure out where that damn golden tankard was to give to that bear in the caves in order to progress. I just discovered it by a fluke. I'm sitting there with my mouth open thinking, WTF!
The sky stage song sounds strongly like a precursor to Ragnarok's Canyon in Battletoads.
In the Power Team cartoon on the old 80's syndicated show Video Power, Malkil was one of the recurring villains and used 3 of the 4 elemental powers - Wind, Water, and Earth.
Probably not fire because that might awaken the inner pyromaniac in the little 'uns watching the cartoon.
I always hated that type of censorship just because someone's stupid offspring set fire to things after watching Beavis and Butt-Head.
Here's a clue; he should never have watched that cartoon in the first place as its not for kids.
But parents' idiot mindset is always "If its a cartoon then its for kids".
I recently rewatched the Power Team while looking for an episode I could swear existed though I had only seen the last part of it.
The Mandela Effect is such a weird phenomenon.
@@TheDutchGhost Was the episode about either counterfeiting money or Mr. Big being trapped inside the truck Burnt Rubber? I've been looking for those too. They seem to have been removed - and I think I may know why.
@@thecowboy2 No it wasn't either of those episodes but I am curious to know why they got removed.
The episode I recall having seen involved Mr Big stealing some kind of experimental power booster that would enhance the power of the game cardridges he had in his possession to zap the Power Team back into their game worlds.
I could swear it exists.
@@TheDutchGhost I've never heard of that episode myself. But the 2 episodes I did mention were probably removed because the 1st episode explained exactly how to counterfeit money, and the 2nd one where Mr. Big was trapped in Burnt Rubber, dealt with addiction - in this case, Mr. Big becoming addicted to gasoline.
@@thecowboy2 Honestly doesn't sound that bad but you know parent watchdog groups.
No one ever put these online?
Still, you got to admit. Fabio actually pulls off the Conan the Barbarian look surprisingly well.
Still, nothing to do with the game, though.
That is true, we may laugh at it now but he pulled of the part well.
Agree with everything you said. This has all the things needed for a better sequel but the unfair difficulty makes it not quite as enjoyable as the original imo. I love difficult and challenging games, in fact I typically prefer them, but I hate cheap and poorly optimized games (like varying sized hit boxes that are unpredictable and unreliable). It’s a great sequel but the original is more fun.
Oh man, seeing this brings back memories, music especially!
I always died on the cloud stage where the giant eagle helps you to a new area. My brothers got pretty far though.
We would always mess with the merchant when our sword breaks throwing punches at him; he would throw us out everytime, probably because we were broke. 😆
Soon as I cut this game on, what nostalgia. I beat it, but looking at it now, man what kind of concentration did we have as kids to beat these hard games.
All the hidden treasure rooms and secret passages, this was a Nintendo Power game if there ever was one. :)
Good play through... you did better than I ever did as a kid. :) I think I rented it twice, and gave up after that.
omg I don't remember at what stage of my life I played it, but I remember all those levels!! 😢
I remember we got this game because it was one of the "cheap" games at Woolworth. I think it was like $15 back in the early 90s. But man was it impossibly hard.
Gosh i remember this game when i was 4. This was dark souls before its time!
………..for years I’ve been searching for the game in the back of my childhood…………
It's amazing how this and its sequel fit in so well with the original and Game Boy entry considering it was developed not by Rare, but by Zippo Games (the ones also behind Solar Jetman).
This one in particular was their very first foray onto the NES in fact, which should also explain why there's stuff like that gorgeous flying eagle at the end of the first stage- they had been doing 16-bit stuff beforehand and wanted to flex on the "primitive" 8-bit NES!
I think Zippo was basically a team of Rare guys, wasn't it? And iirc, didn't he (Ste) do that eagle specifically to impress with his l33t artist skills? The connection between this and Solar Jetman are really clear - the art style, especially the shading on the background graphics, looks really similar.
@@NintendoComplete Zippo were hired to do many games for (and eventually bought over by) Rare, but afaik the people working at Zippo weren't based there. And yeah, the eagle in particular was Ste shredding with his art skills, though I believe his mindset when doing games for the NES in general was to get as close to 16-bit quality as they could on dinky 8-bit limitations.
@@dillontam9752 Ah okay, that would make a lot of sense. I wasn't sure about the timeline of there. They definitely succeeded in blurring that line with the graphics though. Most of Rare's late-gen NES releases were hella impressive to look at. There weren't many games that managed to do what theirs did. Barring rare exceptions like The Immortal, Sword Master, Little Samson, Batman RotJ and Super Spy Hunter, most of the really impressive seemed to come from Rare, especially pre-1990.
Most frustrating part about a longplay of this is how the level 1 music keeps getting interrupted and starting over every time he uses the shop or opens a chest. It never gets to that epic crescendo part!!
Really like the music
One of my favourite game
1:25 Jon Ham. hmm :)
This is one of those games that magically appeared in my collection one day and I got stuck on. Great to see it beaten.
The music and the game very fantastic!❤
As childhood rented game, played a lot back then, but never could pass the very first world, even now almost 30 years later can't beat the damn thing.
Loved this game. HOWEVER.
-The hit detection was powerfully irritating
-Bullshit you lose any continues once you reach the final boss fight
I like how one of the high score names is "ugh." This game must've frustrated him. 😆 I also like how the cover pictures Kuros as a barbarian, but in the game, he's always in knight's armor. Not sure what the reason for that is. I guess they thought it was better that way. 🤔
Steve Hughes
After you beat the wind elemental, instead of touching the first part of the iron sword, just shoot it with the windbane so that it hits it at the same time you land on the exit.
If you time it right, you still have the windbane in the next level.
The same thing happens in the other levels after you beat the other elementals with the appropriate elemental weapon.
Without his helmet, Kuros kinda reminds me of the Tin Woodsman from The Wizard of Oz.
Bro is the goofiest looking videogame character of all time
45:00 Yeah, too bad he’s apparently going to come back as a Battletoads enemy in like a minute and drop you in one hit. Changes the feel of the ending a bit.
If Wizards & Warriors ever dose make a comeback for any reason, they should pick up where Visions of Power left off where we get to see Kuros fight Malkil in the future. Plus they should have Malkil just casually shoot lasers from his hands as seen in one of the episodes of The Power Team (Malkil, is after all, Merlin's best student where he would dare say he would see Malkil as a teacher to him).
Its also worth pointing out that Fabio Lanzoni not only portrayed Kuros on the front cover of the game but even acted as the character in the Ironsword commercial, I'm thinking they paid him good money to pull that off.
And if Lasersword: Wizards & Warriors IV really dose come out after all these years, they should make it good if not better then good among with spinoffs for Wizards & Warriors.
Either way NintendoComplete, I'm glad you finally seize the chance to upload this video, for it was quite the wait and this wait finally paid off =)
Most importantly as part of this edit: #KurosTheValiantforSmash
If Lasersword: Wizards and Warriors IV is made after all these years I do hope that the developers will tone down the difficulty and implement some control fixes such as the sword being more effective and the controls being less slippery.
Sure they can put in a "Nintendo Hard" difficulty option for those who want that but an easier mode for more casual players would be appreciated.
I also would appreciate a map system.
Now I know where South Park got that frog from.
To be fair, that's one handsome frog.
Looks good. I've completed wizards and warriors on the Gameboy which is worth a blast.
Playing this game, I wasn't sure what the Sindarin items were for. But, I believe they actually give the ironsword the ability to kill the elementals in the final level. When I beat the 4 elementals without grabbing the Sindarin items, on icefire mountain, I couldn't shoot any spells from the sword even though I had magic. But when I got at least one of the Sindarin items, the sword started shooting spells when I got some magic. Icefire mountain doesn't have a elemental bane scroll you can find.
I never noticed before but when getting the jewels or the oxygen bubble the music is playing the song but it can only do so many beats since it’s an 8 bit so it sounds distorted or skippy 16:50 - 17:08
Kuros looks so much like bender when he's in the shop.
I remember playing this game with the Game Genie codes when I was little. Ad yet I never knew that Fabio was on the box cover art! Pretty weird!
I usually try to keep the diamond sword because how it hits everything. This game is good but insane. One of the best soundtracks which adds momentum while playing. And the physical cart is usually really really cheap.
I don't like how different Kuros is animated from the first game. I believe he was drawn in blocks on graph paper and scanned into the NES in the first game. Every frame was animated that way. This sequel the animation saved time but you can tell he's not as fluid as before
Aun tengo guardado mi cartucho con este juego, es mi tesoro, aunque no tengo ya consola para poder rejugarlo 😢
Took me forever to beat this game.
"Kuros Will Return In The Power Team"
The main hero looks funny. I like Kuros is supposed to be like this Fabio-like hero, but in this game he's a guy who wears a cartoony suit of armor with BIG GOOGLY EYES
Forgot how good the soundtrack on this game is.
I remember a tip from decades ago...
Rather than touch each piece of sword to collect it, shoot at it with your spell.
Can’t remember what it does. My memory is saying you take the spell into the next level, but I could be wrong.
This looks nice. Why did I expect tons of slowdown and lots of flashing and tearing. Also who else cut out Fabio's picture and claimed he was your Dad on father's day, your dead uncle on memorial day and a tree on arbor day?
I guess Fabio was available for that weekend.
He wasn't there for deadly towers tho...
Easily one of the most based games on NES.
NintendoComplete - which game in the series do you like the most? I only really have experience playing the 3rd installment
When i was a kid my brother purchased this game but took it back to the store as he didn't like it. At the time I was curious about it and liked it. Then again, i was 6 years old my brother was 12.
Over the years i have played a bit of the third one again - maybe 2 hours into it - but its pretty frustrating jumping around - getting really high then missing a jump. Being lost it does seem to be pain in the ass to play.
I've been curious about the series of wether any of them are good but have tapped out pretty quickly on the others as I quickly get frustrated by their gameplay. Maybe its me?
The first one is great, and I thought the third one was good too, but it's very different from the rest of the series. Ironsword is the only one that I would say is too rage-inducing for its own good.
Rare, делала гениальные игры
This is a mid-gen NES game? It looks incredible. Is the lack of flickering I notice due to some emulator setting, or is the coding of the game just that good?
Aside from the unbalanced difficulty, it generally looks like it could use some additional polish. I wonder how it could have evolved, if the series didn't die with the NES and jumped to the 16 bit systems.
It was just really well done. The game hardly has any flicker or slowdowm at all. I always thought the graphics and sound were pretty amazing, especially for the time. I felt the same way about Solar Jetman (though I'd argue that overall it is a much stronger game than this one).
20:05 what is the track called it is freaking madness
Funny thing is the Sinadrin items don't do anything besides give you points.
I'm likely in the minority, but I liked W&W III the most, it was the first one I played through fully, and I just really liked the Metroidvania aspect to it. W&W I is fun too, a good game for an evening I'd say! Had the same issues with W&W II as you did, never could get into it.
@Zach S. Yeah, I feel that it generally encompasses Metroid-like maps + RPG elements, such as grinding for exp, leveling up etc. I guess that in hindsight you could apply this term to many other games from the past, too, but mostly an interconnected map is one of the main requirements.
@@mariusamber3237 I'd agree. The name says it all. Cross the original Metroid with Castlevania II and you get the basic design blueprint for most of the 2D action platformers released in the past 30 years.
I don’t know why, but i expected a game like Wizardry or something like that.
I clicked on the links you put on your description : those games looks good. But apparently, the GB opus was very difficult.
It’s too bad you didn’t enjoy this NES sequel.
I saw the cover of the box : he really looks like Fabio !
Hahaha it really is Fabio! They actuay paid for him to be on the box! And yeah, the GB game was really hard, but it felt satisfying to beat. This one was more like thank God it's over, especially after that ridiculous last boss fight.
NintendoComplete it was actually him ?! Wow.
I don’t understand the exact purpose of having him on the cover. But they probably had their reasons.
According to a comment, there’s a 3rd Wizards & Warriors game. Is it better or worse ?
@@luciebureau6815 I liked the third one better. It still had its issues, and I didnt like it as much as the original one, but it was less frustrating than this was.
NintendoComplete that’s nice. You were not disappointed.
we all know this game because fabio is on the cover
LUL! The poster that came with the game I had stuck up on my wall and a friend saw it and asked why to you have a poster of Fabio up on your wall. I asked, "Who's Fabio?" I know he was a thing back then but I was also 11 and had no idea who he was.
I always wondered why they added a "hall of fame" to so many games. I'm the only one who ever played my personal copy and the game "forgets" your initials once you turn it off. I guess it's just to make it feel like the arcade because everybody wanted the arcade experience at home. Also found it funny that you're "the greatest warrior" but the innkeeper is fucking huge and if you go in with no money he'll pick you up with one arm and throw you out 🤣
For 30 years I've been wondering what the end of this game was like and quite frankly i was a little disappointed by Malkil. Maybe its the music that confuses. But after destroying the 4 elementals Malkil should have turned back into his wizard self. That would have been better. But he was still hard as hell damn!
The control of this game is so odd to me. Your jumps are very high and floaty, and your attack is basically jumping into things and ramming them with your stationary weapon. It almost like playing "Joust" in the arcade.
39:30 Nice catch.
Oh Almighty KUROS! 😱
For the life of me, this was one fane I never finished as a kid, I could not kill the last bosses. I didn’t know you could use spells!!!
Buen juego casi en los inicios de rare
Game I played quite a lot as a kid, but still haven't managed to beat without copious cheating. Mostly because of the weird hit detection and the fact that some enemies just wreck your health bar in a single hit.
Rare was my favorite developer on the NES. Lot of nostalgia..
David Wise's compositions, man.. Really nailed atmosphere in the Wizards & Warriors games. The combination of the fire level music and boss creeped me the fuck out when I was little lol.
While I'm here.. hey NintendoComplete, how do you feel about Legacy of the Wizard?.. It's my go to for NES nostalgia and underappreciated gem. Doesn't seem you have a playthrough on here, you should do it up.
Why is he able to hit the Earth Elemental boss without hitting it directly?
there was a sequel?
Con la consola de Nintendo casi le di fin, hace años
Only took me 13 years to beat the final boss!
This game wouldn't make me angry if it had unlimited continues like the previous game, once you get to a certain point you're just boned. Then the third game comes along and gives you NO continues.
Didn't keep me from trying to get further and further, though. Always got to the earth cave starting point and never got past that because of the insta-gib enemies like to do at random.
Also, pretty sure it kept track of your lives, too. You need to settle down just because someone didn't like your game.
Oh man, ikr? The amount of damage you could take from a single enemy attack was so inconsistent. Sometimes it would barely touch you, but sometimes the same thing would wipe out 3/4 of your life instantly.
Looks cool but let me get this straight - to defeat enemies, you just run at them with your sword between your legs?
Lmao seriously. Pivot, thrust, pivot... Oh, I say. Col. Mustard, now is not the time for the lead pipe!
NintendoComplete 😂
This isn’t a bad game. But the first was much better.
What about love where's love? This is clearly the game strategy guides were later invented for so people wouldn't have to suffer going around like a chicken with their head's cut off.
20:43
What a Great place to open up a shop I bet his business is booming 💰
You could say that it's a HOT spot.
I never made it past the area starting at 28 mins back when I was a kid and the game was newish, but I think I should wonder how in the HELL i made it that far.
I loved this game so much as a kid. But i also actually loved Deadly Towers which is well known as a VERY Bad Game! P.S did u ever do Light Crusader for Genesis on here? You have so many Videos its easy to miss some.
I haven't recorded that one yet. Have you checked out my playlists? I have all of my stuff organized there.
@@NintendoComplete ive watched a bunch. Yeah.
the real demon's souls starts here
I was able to finish this game only once, and to be honest, after all the hard work and the music and graphics overall during the game, found the ending pretty disappointing, just the animal kings thanking Kuros, credits roll...that is it. I expected something with at least images of what happened later with Kuros, or if he got the girl, IDK.
Yeah he could have at least got the girl in the end. This is an 80’s game!
I love and hated this game. The struggles 😩
Where is the commentary?
I absolutely loved the original Wizards & Warriors so much so, in fact, that I stayed up all night playing it at a sleepover and got in trouble with his parents for sleeping in so late the next day (they wanted us gone earlier). I was so excited to see this sequel in Nintendo Power and was able to get it the day my local rental store got it in. And I proceeded to rent it again and again through my time with the NES because I couldn't accept how terrible it was. Was I missing something? Surely I get it this time. This game absolutely sucks and somehow also blows. It is so much worse than the original and shines a blinding light on all of that games flaws, which the first game makes workable. It's so broken to be borderline unplayable.
36:46 huh?!
Is Ironsword really that hard? Always thought while tough it's one of the more managable Rare NES games. Certainly not as hard as games like Cobra Triangle, Battletoads, Snake Rattle 'n' Roll, Super Glove Ball, Solar Jetman, R.C. Pro-Am, High Speed etc. And i'm not sure so that not being able to continue at the last stage is a bug, always thought that was intentional.
I think if the challenge felt more fair, I'd call it easier than those games. But in how I compared it with Battletoads, I found BT much easier to play because it was a lot more consistent with things like damage and hit detection, and the controls were much more responsive. As much as BT could make me rage, I generally understood what I had done wrong when I died. Same with Solar Jetman. This one to me felt much more like a crapshoot.
(But oooh man, the ice stage in Snake Rattle and Roll.... argggghhhhh!!!!)
The manual says that you have two continues that can be used up until the point where you've finished the earth stage. In the game, though, option to continue actually disappears when you start that level instead of once you've completed it.
@@NintendoComplete Well, if it's only about the fairness then it technically is still easier then them. Only makes it more frustrating haha. I haven't played much of Ironsword, but want to beat it someday. I know the original Wizards & Warriors is really easy for casual play(aside from that skeleton boss if you don't have useful magic skills), but for a no continue run a complete nightmare. I'm assuming for this game, it's similar.
I do like how challenging Rare's games are, and most of the time they are quite fair about it. The Ice stage from SR&R is ridiculous indeed, but still fair......barely. But admittedly some others were definitely not fair, and felt like whoever made them didn't want people to beat it. Like the Obstacle Course from Double Dare for example, or others like the Judge Doom fight or the Pachinko mini-games from High Speed.
Regarding the manual, it might be possible it was originally like that earlier in development but changed later while they were already done making the manual. I know that the manual of Battletoads for Volkmire's Inferno has a screenshot of a level completely different from what it looked like in the final release. Perhaps something similar was going on here? Or maybe they just messed up, also possible lol.
Battletoads isn't tough, it's just long and requires you to memorize each level due to "GOTCHA" moments
Kuros for smash
Kuros for smash brothers
Is this the first Dark Souls ?