Is Young Merlin Worth Playing Today? - SNESdrunk
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You forgot to mention the Kyrandia series by Westwood. This game is extremely reminiscent of that series straight down to the dumping of bottles into a pond.
My gosh, this is a game I haven't thought about forever. My brother and I used to rent this one repeatedly as kids, but I don't think we ever beat it. In fact, I think the mine carts might have always been our stopping point. Lol
I should revisit this one! Great vid! Always enjoy your stuff!
That damn mine cart area....I gave the hell up...other than that really fun game sure wish I couldbe beat it to close this chapter or my life. I should try and download it somewhere as we are quarantined
Look how smooth that camera movement is! I don’t think I’ve see a snes game with such a smooth, damped, loosely attached camera.
I have an old VHS tape of my uncle goofing-off with the video camera when he was 15 in 1994, and part of it shows his friend playing this game. Took me a while to figure out what it was.
I recently got nostalgic for a Westwood game I own called Legend of Kyrandia, which is a trilogy of point-and-click adventure games. One thing I read is that Young Merlin started out as a SNES port of a Kyrandia game, which explains why it feels like a 90s PC game.
HUH. I never knew that. I like the idea of starting out a port and then being like l “this will never work” and making it a different game instead. That reminds me of my sketchbooks.
StarFox voices:
"Bedabedabeduh!"
"You got wing damage!" (I can't NOT hear "you got wing damage" when Falco speaks.)
I've heard that ever since I played Starwing (as it was known in Australia) that Christmas morning, 2 and a half decades ago :P
I think one thing that isn’t mentioned is that there are no invincibility frames. So you can walk into an enemy or they walk into you and can drain your health from full to 0 in a couple of seconds.
Kkkkkkkk true
wow... that is awful. Design flaws like that in these old games always make me wonder how it ever was released. Same with games w an absurd level of difficulty. did the developers not even try to play their own games?
Like a Spectrum era title 😂
The part with the password had me laughing like an idiot.
Akinohotarubi Yeah, I was kinda sad that the lady wasn't saying that
HAHAHAH ME TOO
Me too
My friend and I would joke about that! How wise and mystical and beautiful she appears, spreads her arms, and utters "XYBBABBBYXYXBBB".
Love this game so much. It really creates its own atmosphere, and draws you in right from the start. It makes you think you're playing an animated cartoon, with the set pieces like the bug guarding the river bridge, complete with animations and voices recorded just for that one part.
...Then it kicks you in the face with some unreasonable difficulty like trying to work out how to get through the mine cart ride successfully. This did test our limits of frustration, but as a kid I just mapped out where the turns were on some paper, drew the optimal path, and then took it. And boom - at the next area, with a completely new set of graphics, music, and its own atmosphere.
Sure nowadays you can go back and criticise elements of the design but almost no game survives that level of scrutiny. This game is a unique adventure - just be prepared for some super hard parts. It's mostly OK difficulty though.
What's happening here? Where's the sign-off? I wanna thank you for making this and I hope you have a great rest of your day!!
I think it's an awesome game, blew my mind back in the days, but I never got really far into it. The first hour is great
I was afraid of the eyes and munching sounds in the mines :D
haha the starfox part was very funny!
Wow remembered playing this game back in the 90s and beat it. One of the hard part was the mushroom puzzle and was stuck for a while. The rail cart took about 30 mins to figure it out. Don't think I would have the same patience to play this game again.
Thank you again for making these!
beating it is worth it. the second half i found extremly fun. after that second mine cart scene. you get some cool spells like freeze freeze time and lightening bolt. and then you have to sacrifice all your cool weapons and fight each boss until finally beating the villain and saving the girl.
Thanks for the review!! (me too, I asked for it once).
One of my favs, even with its flaws and strangeness. Feels like a point & click PC game, and it' s very hilarious... Good times for parody were the 90's.
Moreover, I love the soundtrack.
For me, YM is a bizarre little masterpiece. Different and intelligent, made for geek nerds like me ;).
Now gimme an Equinox review and I will be the happiest retro-geek in the World!!!!!!!
The voice acting sounds like banjo kazooie on 16bit lol
You mean Banjo Kazooie sounds like Young Merlin
I love the fake voice sounds. Blibbityblabbut!
Chris Beach you were not kidding.
No, it sounds like an old pc adventure game called Gobliiins.
Its a very original game, worth playing
I've never in my life wanted to navigate a maze in a videogame, despite the 90's best efforts.
Ah man, this video was a total treat to see today!
I used to play this game a bunch when I was a kid.
It wasn't good, just one of the few games I had, but boy do those sound effects take me back!
If someone is looking for a fix from a game in this genre and style, just play Dink Smallwood for PC. It's freeware, has entertaining writing, better combat (slightly) but still has the charm and sound of a 90s PC adventure game. Makes sense, because it was developed in the 90s.
I got all the way to the end of this game on my own in my childhood.
For some reason I didn't go all the way left in the final boss room, thus missing the necklace and being unable to kill him.
Oops.
The lady in the lake said what!!?? That truly had me laughing snes drunk!!
Good review snes drunk. Recently stumbled on your page. Now im subscribed. Also starting my snes collection.
I gotta say I think you are wrong here. You say the lady in the lake isn't saying that, and its the password system, but judging from the voice acting, I think that's exactly what she is saying.
This game, I remember as being ridiculously long. It just goes on and on and on, and I actually did get all the way to the last boss fight, back before we had the internet... and I could not figure out how to beat the stupid thing whatsoever, and just GETTING to the last boss was a pain because of a minecart ride, IIRC. So many items, so much walking... I remember finally completing that rainbow you start out near, thinking "YAY I must be near the end of the game!" then you get to the enchanted forest area, and you find that area with all of those stumps, each one giving you an item and you're like "... okay... I'm not even halfway through the game" lol.
I would have to say you will need maps and walkthroughs unless you've got a lot of patience -- the game does not explain itself well whatsoever, you'll be doing a lot of wandering around trying to figure out what item you need to open what, and some of the layouts can be confusing, especially those stupid minecart rides. If you manage to get your paws on a cartridge copy, I suggest getting the ROM and an emulator just to have save states (so you don't have to mess with passwords and to make the mine cart rides a bit less frustrating). The "push the block" puzzles can also be frustrating -- the first few aren't so bad, but the last few are just "ugh". Again -- might want some save states here, unless you want to get all the way near the end of the puzzle, only to figure out you made a move that requires you to reset the whole puzzle and gotta do it all over again.
5 to 10 hours, mostly due to the various mine cart levels and crashing.
Maybe the sequel Old Merlin is better?
I thought the sequel was "Middle aged Merlin "
Young Merlin always kind of felt similar to a King's Quest game to me.
I got it at launch and loved it. The mine cart section was always one I loved too. Great game!
I remember renting this from Blockbuster way back in the day!
You say the sounds effects are bad, but they are the main thing I actually remembered about this game.
Back in the day we were always stuck at the mine part.
You quit at the mine cart didnt you? lol I admit its tough. The charm shines through for me even with all the flaws. Even though I enjoy it, I wouldnt recommend it.
A weird but interesting game. By no means a classic but I still remember it which counts for something, I guess.
The Star Fox bit was funny.
An impression of Johnny Quest and a "stunning comb over" mix in some Jonny Bravo! Hooh 😁
The voice effects remind me of the 1991 Sierra adventure puzzle game Gobliiins.
SNESDrunk! Love your stuff man :)
Can you make a video on Super Double Dragon? I think it's a solid, more grounded beat'em up genre on the SNES. Would really like to your thoughts on it!
Wow, I don't think I had ever heard of this game until today!
You are right, this one has the graphics and sound of an early 90s DOS/Windows 3.1 game. I wonder why Westwood never bothered to make a PC version?
I have never seen this game.
Now, you have!
This game is a GREAT candidate for a remake. I mean that in all seriousness.
Not some game thats already a masterpiece, but one that has potential. Its a fun world that has the groundwork to inspire the imagination.
Just remake it from the ground up and use the SNES version for inspiration.
Might be too similar to games like Fable though
2:59 The meanies (little brown things) didn’t steal the fairy’s “buddy”, they trapped her above the mirror pond by stealing her reflection with a magic crystal.
I’ve never played this before but it looks like something I would enjoy up until the mine cart level. If the music used in the video is the in game music, I love it and it reminds me of old school Runescape. Also the talking sound effect is actually kinda charming, I’m probably going to pick this one up.
As always, I love waking up to new SNESdrunk!
Now I'm waiting for someone to make a meme using those voices for a conversation lmfao 🤣
Awesome! SNES Drunk breakfast!
The visual style reminds me of Secret of evermore.
Fox: Dd-damn d-damn d-d-damn d-damn."
Slippy: Bleb'm blu blab'm.
I'm playing this game right now and absolutely love it. It's an Action RPG game where you don't run into enemies and battle them on a different screen, you just kick ass in real time, or have to talk to every person you see and have to read loads of mind-numbing unimportant text, you see an image and you know that's what you need to find. It's just you solving puzzles, mostly finding things across the map to solve the puzzles yeah, but the game makes it fun. Isn't Mario about a guy trying to get a girl? Does anyone complain about that story? I think the carts are fun and a diverse aspect to the gameplay, really tests your memorization skills. I usually play SNES or NES games on mute and put on 8 bit versions of Slayer, Cannibal Corpse, Metallica, Iron Maiden, or also put on the LOTR soundtrack for games like this, so I can't speak to the sound really, but anyways, this games rocks and I look forward to playing it at night.
The music takes me back to a better time😊😊😊😊
The first game audio game dialong was simoleon
Good morning snes drunk
0:10 Ariel?
Used to play this game a lot back in the day. It was quite fun! Never did beat it though....
I started playing again today. For some reason, I remember 90% of all the things to do in game, but it's very enjoyable when you remember hahaha
How did the wizard get locked out of his house? I mean couldn't he use a spell to get back in.
Thanks for the early upload!
"hervel, hervel flah lerval ferval... " basically all I remember from this game...
I remember calling the Nintendo hot line to get through the minecart maze! (Nintendo actually had a free number you could call for tips and tricks!!)
In the end, did you have fun playing the game ?
Young Merlin > Lagoon?!? Woah now....dunno about that one.
best part of the game is when the tree with the really long arm throws you across the map at 1fps
Love this game, this was your funniest review to date!
Used to rent this as a kid, but at the time, with no internet, no magazines, having to figure out everything, too cryptic...
I loved this game as a kid but never got past the (first of three!) mine cart part. I'm about to beat it for the first time, many years later and wouldn't have been able to without a YT walk through. I'm willing to bet only the best neck beards of the 90's beat this game back then. Spike McFang is next, thanks for the reminder - loved that game too.
Think I got stuck in the mine forever and one day managed to get out of it. Not a favorite of mine but very unique and worth trying at least, funny game.
So the whole story is merlin trying to get his end away!
Brilliant!
I've had this game sitting on a shelf and never even tried it. It sounds like it at least deserves a look.
1:15 not on the same level as illusion of gaia, soul blazer or brain lord twisted tales of spike mcfang. . . 4 games i never played, but i am definitely looking for now
Reminded me of Dink Smallwood. Not that they have much in common besides the perspective.
Your sprite looks like Asterix minus helmet: blonde dude, black sleeveless shirt, red trousers
i don't know why but this game reminds me of another oddball called Big Sky Trooper
I didn’t give up at the “mine cart” level………….i gave up AFTER the mine cart level
4:19 is she making the damage sound effect from Jill of the Jungle?
The US Cover is dope!
I'm amazed you didn't mention the damn mine kart levels....
3:13
I really enjoyed playing this game as a kid. The mine cart section is really annoying though.
I think Charlie Brown's teacher did the voices in this game
All the different ways you say snes drunk at the beginning of every video crack me up
4:11 "But what's hilarious here are the voice effects [...] Did you learn how to speak English from the guys in Star Fox?"
Sounds more akin to Gobliins Amiga Version to me.
"Araka Clio!"
The graphics and sound on this seem like it was a game made for the Genesis.
Thanks
Young Merlin is one of those games where, I always start playing entuhastially and by the end I hate the game.
I also thought of WarioLand 4! 😂😂
4:30 Dude sounds like the adults in Charlie Brown
I could not beat this fucking game as a kid. But I did make it past the mine cart section and to the mermaid/diving section. I have no idea what I did with this game.
Damn where did you become all the games from my childhood?
The starfox reference lol
Young Merlin is a dope rap name .
Lil Merlin is a better rap name.
"This fairy's buddy gets kidnapped..."
When they steal it's mirror image...
Looks like a 2D Banjo Kazooie
For some reason this reminds me of runescape. I think it's the music
I rented this game for a weekend as a kid. I made no progress. It was fun as hell lol
I hate this game, yet I still played it as a young child. Always had problem with the minecarts and the spider boss was terrifying.
3:45 Imagine if that's what she did say
I definitely gave up at the minecarts before lol
Merlin or Rugal?
I love this game 😘😍
4:13 Suburban Sasquatch?
Is Young Merlin really the Narcis Prince?
Super Punch Out, another under-appreciated game.
@3:47 - Hahaha!😅
Good grief, you sure have picky demands. I loved this game when I played it as a kid. It’s not very long if you know what to do, but figuring that out was the fun of the game. The game had good controls and fighting bosses wasn’t a cheap affair.