Is Brain Lord Worth Playing Today? - SNESdrunk
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This was the first game I ever played. EVER and is the reason I’m a gamer today.
Mom was stuck on the boss of the second level for years. When I was 7, I’d sneek into my parents room to play the game - because I didn’t know if I was allowed to play video games or not. One day Mom caught me and said it was ok.
It was April on a weekend, when I got to the point Mom was stuck at: Mom was outside dealing with the flower bed weeds when I beat the boss. I remember yelling to her outside the window and she came running up to see for herself. After that the whole family got involved with playing the game. It’s one of my best memories.
Reminds me of the times my dad, his girlfriend at the time and I was competing over the high score in "jezzball". It came to a point where it was so ridiculous amounts of points, that I would just cheat by editing the high score through a hex editor. I don't think he has an idea of what was going on, even now some 20 years later. :D
A lot of worse things she could catch you doing
@@hecatommyriagon655 that's not cool.
Is mom adopting ?
I can't imagine having parents who play video games
I can't believe you got through talking about the puzzles without saying some variation of, "you'd have to be some sort of Brain Lord to get through stuff like this", lol. That's some impressive restraint ;)
Brian lord always sounded like a sly underhanded insult than a compliment lol
The puzzles and dungeons in this game are way harder than the ones in Zelda. I highly doubt 99% of people could beat this game without a guide, I know I couldn't.
@@8thaccount535 I only got stuck on the one puzzle when a character tells you the solution is to press a certain button on the controller. I thought the controller was something in-game and it never occurred to me the character was breaking the fourth wall by referring directly to the snes controller.
Finally, someone gave a positive review for Brain Lord. This game is just so much better than most people give it credit for.
What, someone gave a bad review to this game?! They suck!
@@mr.4096 No, they are just giving their own opinion based on their personal preference. I liked Brainlord but if someone did not, does not mean they "suck".
@@postindierock5063 yes, i know
THANK YOU
@@Arjay82 I am.
Isnt "they suck" just giving their personal opinion?@@postindierock5063
You go straight to the point and sounds like a normal, average person who happens to love 16-bit gaming. Your videos are so refreshing and your direct approach makes you sound trustworthy. I love your videos, man.
That's a nice thing to say, thanks
@@SNESdrunk this is not a nice thing to say, this is a FACT.
@@Miraak22 it’s a *nice* fact...
the best part about an rpg is when you're playing really late at night and you decide to spend the night at an inn right before you save in order to replenish your health. this is especially satisfying after you've had a really good run and leveled up your character to a high degree with greater experience and more powerful weapons and armor (you know... the illusion of success when you've done nothing but sit on your butt for hours). anyway... there's usually a minute "sleepy-time" melodic piece that accompanies the act, which helps to burn the cathartic image into your mind, and subsequently aids in lulling you to sleep when you yourself go to bed after turning off the game. sooooooooooo relaxing and peaceful. =)
Soooo true!!!😉👍
Quick vote, best RPG sleepytime music? My vote is Secret of Mana
Hmm.... Final Fantasy VI?
And I always loved the BOFIII one... no music, just the sounds of the night on the camping...
Soul Blazer, when you stop the game (it' s like if the avatar sleeped), well... that song is glorious and relaxing.
oxygeninterface right on the spot! you woke up memories from my childhood...indeed you went to sleep with a smile...final fantasy 7 had best sleepy music
I enjoyed the inn music in human zones in Vanilla WoW 👍🏼
This is my most favorite game of all time on any system. I've played it about 5 times since the 90's.
I rented this game by accident when I was a kid and fell in love with it. Seriously underappreciated RPG.
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Ｄｒｕｎｋ，
Ｙｏｕ＇ｒｅ ａ ｓｔｒｏｎｇ ｂｏｙ.
Years of alcoholism have made him strong
Drunken Master
Mr. Grongy: All hail Keen! :D
When text is done like this I cannot help but think "Oh fuck. It's Gygas!".
Dad?
This is my most favorite game I've ever played in my whole life. I grew up playing this with my dad.
I've been singing the praises of Brain Lord ever since I bought it in a garage sale in the late 90s or early 2000s. Not as polished or as good as Zelda, but it's charm and unique mechanics shine through and it's been a favorite of mine since then.
Some of the platforming required is crazy hard (at least for me). There were a few rooms that tool me 30 tries or more to get right.
I will say this for anyone trying this game out for the first time - the boomerang weapons are where its at for boss fights. Believe me, just spam boomerang in the boss fights that come after you get it and you will annihilate them.
Thank you for doing a video on this game. Played it a ton as a kid, and I'll forever hold its soundtrack in high regard.
Mug of Bro same, dude. One of my favorites.
I was starting to get worried I wouldn't find anyone commenting about the game's great soundtrack :D
Great review!
Though you missed the point that it's slightly connected to 7th Saga plotwisely and works more or less like a prequel. Here we play as Lemele (or as he called here 'Remeer') who we know as the King Lemele in 7th Saga and go through the journey which made him known all through the ingame world.
I just started Chrono, I will have to play this next. Man did I miss out on a lot of great games back in the day and I worked at a second hand video game store.
Rockey Brouse Enjoy Chrono Trigger man! It's a masterpiece among video games.
I just started Chrono yesterday, after completing Secret of Mana and Secret of Mana 2. Also catching up in gems I missed, but man, with that job you have no excuse! :D
Damn that actually looks pretty legit... your channel always surprises me with the amount of SNES titles I had no idea ever even existed hahaha. Def gonna have to review this one myself :P
I was very surprised by this review, the game sounds very compelling to me. Just bought it cib for only $55, can't wait to play it - very excited to try out the dungeons.
That's very cool.. hey just out of curiosity... do you use emulators as well?
No, I just got the Super NT about a month ago, I've always had bad luck with emulators. Though sometimes I use emuparadise to make sure I like a game first before I buy it.
@@riddleiddle
Super NT is just an emulator in a box.
It's a pretty awesome game. A hidden gem. The levelling up system, shields that can die, jades, easy to find money, are awesome. It does have a light hearted, laidback vibe but the puzzles are great. And frustrating, but the game keeps you coming back. So glad i found it!
I was looking for a song but this game looks really cool
This game is a perfect example of how lack of detail (visual, explanatory, environmental) creates an atmospheric mystery that is irreplaceable.. many games today try to do that with heavy pixelation, but most miss the point. This game cemented it's very own unique emotion through all its low-res dimensions. It's definitely in my childhood hall of fame.
Fantastic game, playing this on an emu in 2021. I seriously recommend this to EVERYONE who loves the 2D Zelda games. Masses of puzzles, and masses of charm. My only gripe is that there are only 2 towns in the entire game. Reckon they should have added a different town for each dungeon. Still an amazing game. 9.999/10
Despite its flaws, I'll always view this game pretty favorably because it was still a fun game, especially with the weird pet system and a non-MP-based magic system. I consider it a Zelda-light game with some better puzzling. :)
The graphics in this game are disappointing so a lot of people passed on it. Same with things like Tecmo Secret of the Stars and Lufia 2
Eh, graphics were never a priority for me. Don't get me wrong: if I played a game that had some amazing graphics (at the time), I was quite awed - Out of This World is one particular one that I can recall feeling that way with, with even my mother chiming in on how amazing they looked. But I was such a huge fan of RPGs and Adventure games that I knew graphics meant nothing as long as the story and gameplay were great. :)
Never got around to playing Secret of the Stars since I just didn't know about it for a long time, but the first Lufia is actually one of my favorite non-mainstream RPGs of the era. I still haven't completed Lufia 2, but it has always kinda bugged me how popular it is despite the fact that the first Lufia quite literally begins with Lufia 2's final stretch. I think if they were reversed, I'd probably have completed Lufia 2 a long time ago. ;)
@@THEGREATMAX the graphics were awesome for the time.
@@THEGREATMAX
Secret of the Stars is a drag, from what I remember. It sucked having to level up two separate parties independently. Inindo has the shittiest graphics on the SNES, but is a decent game.
THEGREATMAX what? The graphics are insane for a snes title. Show me a game with better graphics?
Games like this is why I love emulation so much. Being able to save and load anywhere anytime in a split second takes so much of the frustration out of difficult sections. Never heard of this game, just working my way through the SNES USA library and stumbled onto it. So far one of the better SNES games I've ever played. Most of them hold my interest for about 3 minutes, but I'm an hour into this one and will continue playing.
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Um...he's right outside. Like, this is the point where you're in the four exit room. Two doors down finds Rein waiting in the save room for the floor(It's part of a shortcut you open up nearby). Not saying there aren't other moments where you do something like it later(Ice Palace is just rife with loops, backtracking, and finding out where to go), but this one isn't one of those.
I am a fan of this one, and he failed to go too much in depth into the fairy system. There are 9 types, 4 attackers and 5 support. One of the supports is a light for dark rooms, so it can be called an item in most other games. The other 8 though are useful in their own ways, with the attacks firing in different ways, and at different strengths, whereas the other four supports have different effects. You have stat raising pair for strength and defense, which are pretty high buffs at around 20 at max level. Then you have a healing fairy, and one that functions as a revival item, sacrificing one level per revival. There are places to gain infinite EXP orbs too, so he can be pretty useful there.
That all said, I can still enjoy this one, though that bit he mentions with the blacksmith. My thought even as a kid was capitalistic. Namely, okay, then I'm gonna hold onto this scale until you run out again. Not too hard there. You can't, as you need his tunnel to reach the second dungeon, but still, always made me mad.
I still love this game. Beat it every few years.
I've heard of this game for years but never played it and had no strong urge to play it anytime soon. But this seems like a pretty strong recommendation and a pretty positive review so I'm gonna push this to the front of my games to check out for the snes pile.
Awesome channel. The Phantasy Star walkthrough was really helpful.
Hope to see a breath of fire or power blade guide one day.
Good review, I feel adequately informed and might have to check this one out. Thank you sir. Lord of the Brain!
It's so refreshing to see a review of a lesser known, therefore easy target, video games by a guy who's actually played it.
This is one I had never heard of until the internet became a thing. Great video!
Well, I never tried this one and have been a fan of 7th Saga for decades. Thanks a lot for this.
The cover art of this game is _majestic._
Brainlord honestly looks like a pretty fun adventure game somewhat reminding me of Beyond Oasis on the sega genesis.
Graphics also ain’t that bad looking to me, though some may disagree with how it should be. Brainlord is nice to see!
I've got this one. Haven't put much time in on it, but the fairies are a neat aspect. Great video!
I can't believe somebody actually remembers brainlord other than me
Man I loved this game...idk how many times I’ve had to start over cuz cartridges were constantly losing save information for me, seeing the beginning levels in the video gave me a feeling rush over me and brought me back to my childhood living room floor 😂 fk yeah
I love this game i remember watching my dad play it in the 90 and as a kid not being able to even clear the first scorpion boss, as an adult i found many ways to cheese this game ie save scumming the source of power and power leveling the attack and defense jades on reoccurring blue sphere drops....overall i love this game in it entirety
Love this game. Played it when it came out and replayed it last year.
I think it's pronounced "E-nix" with a long 'e'. I had to check Wikipedia to be sure, but apparently the name was a play on the words "phoenix" and "ENIAC" (the world's first digital computer). So I'm guessing that I was correct.
Great video, always glad to see SNESdrunk in my notifications!
Loved this game back in the 90s love it now definitley worth playing.
i was really into this, played it on emulator, but one of the puzzles really stumped me
i was really disappointed i had to refer to a FAQ
i loved the pets and leveling them up too,
from the day i saw it advertised in a video game magazine i was intrigued
played it years later or a decade at least
then my computer lost my save file and i gave up
having done tons of grinding to level up, i found the perfect spot to respawn enemies
any how thanks good video, i've enjoyed many of yours
The US box art for Brain Lord has a castle that doesn't appear anywhere in the game actually, also Sachiko Kamamura (character designer of the first Arslan Senki anime) did all art and character design in this game. Opus did the music and sound design on Brain Lord.
My first experience with Brain Lord was in the same SNES emulator CD that I had before.
Japanese cover looks so much better
I just love that one of the towns in this game is called Toronto.
This game is awesome! Thanks for directing me to this hidden gem
I remember being bored to tears by Brainlord, but finding the screaming soundbyte when you fall down holes funny.
I remember really liking this game. I was borrowing it from a friend and he moved before i could finish it so i never got to the end sadly but still i remember loving it.
This game looks pretty cool! It sounds a lot like Sword of Mana actually.
Not at all like sword of mana.
Another great video. I wish your videos were accessible in the 90's, it would've helped a lot renting games at blockbuster. a lot of times i would have to go on box art and title alone.
I've been trying to figure out what game this was for the longest time. Couldn't remember much about it except it had fairy companions that leveled up and a vague recollection that it looked and played a lot like Zelda. Not the greatest game, the story was pretty shallow and some of the puzzles were obtuse/unintuitive. But it was fun and I have fond memories of playing it with my brother, would definitely play it through again given the opportunity. Thanks for the video!
I loved Illusion of Gaia and Terranigma... This game gives off similar vibes and i feel like I would enjoy it aswell!
This game’s sword swinging and jumping is what Lagoon’s should have been like.
I just started to play Brain Lord today, playing right now actually. I feel suer stupid, I am totally stuck at the very first tower. I explored everywhere and a final dead end locked door needs a key. Thank god I found a walkthrough I am gonna check out next.
it felt like they took the 7th saga overhead sprites and made an action adventure game.. like Final Fantasy Adventure took FF1's
i think the main hero in this game is the old king that gathers the 7 heroes in 7th saga and also the main hero in mystic ark
Maybe it's like Great Professor Bias from Choujuu Sentai Liveman Who Collects Peoples Brains to Stay Young Forever!
Ah, i see you are a man of culture!
I've gotta play this game again SOON! My mom loved this game so much that she made a walkthrough website just for it - when the Internet was still young. I haven't been able to find it since... I'm pretty sure it's been taken down by now. =/
This game was near perfect for me. I always like Enix games the best (i.e. Soul Blazer).
great Flatley reference. havent hought of him or that tap show since the 90s.
Y'know, I've noticed this a couple times, people don't seem to realize you can swing the morning star around your head by pushing the corresponding buttons on the d-pad.
I used to call this game Brian Lord. I still do.
Great review as always 👍
Brendon Melling
Lord Brian the Brain Lord.
Does sound catchy.
Brendon Melling: Don't feel bad, some my childhood mispronounciations were even more retarded; for the first couple of years I was Mega Man fan, thise games' antagonist had his name mispronounced as "Dr. Willie", while I didn't stop referring to "Milon's Secret Castle" as "MILTON'S Secret Castle" until a couple of weeks ago when I AVGN's take on that game for the first time! :D
Thank you for making videos on games I had no idea existed.
Real talk I enjoyed this game a lot. Great Review.
Here is one for you Drunk: "What Super Nintendo games starring ninjas are worth playing today"
What a crime to not release this in europe. Looks like I would have really liked it.
i love this game. even though i needed to use a guide for most of the game. im a huge fan of action rpgs and this is quite a good one for the snes.
I don't see how you can beat this without a guide. I only use a guide when it's absolutely necessary, after 30-60 min of being like "how the hell do I do this?"
Hooray for this and Terranigma for having a jump button
Being dyslexic can make for some personal humor. I initially read the title as "Brian Lord" and was psyched that someone made a Monty Python game.
Hey, it would be cool to see your impression about Super Famicom Wars, a Super Famicom exclusive turn strategy game that got translated recently (end of 2017) in english. Keep up the good work, greetings from Italy!
“Drunk, you’re a strong boy.”
The ice door the answer is in the key. I remember being a little kid and my dad calling the hotline and getting pissed hahahaha
I'm waiting for this to drop on SNESO along with the Lufia series.
Finally, someone willing to discuss Brain Lord and admit to its debilitating weaknesses!
Damn, no mention of the game apparently being set in the northern US or Canada, since the characters talk about getting to the city of Toronto early on.
Something about the color makes many sections of this look like a Genesis game.
I was initially confused in this game. I didn't know you could jump up ledges.
I remember playing this as a kid and just thinking it was really hard. Looks like it's time to give it another shot!
It is hard, but it's a good challenge and not impossibly difficult. Great game!!!! It's a must have in my collection, no doubt about it.
another great review!
this game seems like something I'd enjoy.
Riverdance! Holy shit that's a blast from the 90's!
That puzzle where you literally just press X on the door makes me so mad lol
Man... I would had loved this game as a child... Heck I'd like to play it today
i liked the game back in the 90s. i think its the graphics that held it back. the main character design mainly.
I adore this game, period.
Worst puzzles in the game have to be the "Entropy" Rooms in the last dungeon. NNNGH. A room with a solid black floor with a TON of invisible walls. Everything else in the game I found a bit easy, 'cept those rooms. Oh, and... if you want to level up your faeries... there's a screen just south of the first town (gotta beat the first dungeon first) where a particular enemy will ALWAYS drop a faerie orb when killed. Kill the enemy let the faerie get the orb, then go up a screen then back down to respawn the enemy. Fully leveled up faeries are godmode powerful in this game, especially the Attack + Health Restore faerie combination (also keep the Defense one around too).
Man I still get Arcs and Platinum stuck in my head to this very day
Touts for this game:
Become valedictorian magna cum laude at your magic school with this one weird trick! (...which is, getting all of your classmates killed)
Although that will flatten the grade curve real quick, the accreditation process might also be difficult since your school's been wiped off the map.
But then you will finally deserve to be dubbed.. the Brain Lord
He’s still goin folks!
YES! YOU MADE MY DAY! I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS AND I LOVE BRAIN LORD!
I could have sworn you already covered this game...? Or was that just in one of your "best of" type vids?
Psychonara Productions Had the same impression... :)
Brain Lord's been mentioned in other videos, but I don't think it's received its own coverage until now.
Psychonara Productions need plastic?
It's rare that i see a review of a snes game that i haven't heard of that i would like to play. Glad you surprised me today snesdrunk!
Drunk, you're a strong boy.
TOTALLY remember the cover,but i didn't knew what was a RPG at that time,and the games were all in english and i wasn't spoking it ,so playing RPGs was impossible to me .....i need to check that one .
Wow.This game was and is still awsome.
This is Zelda if 7th saga had children with it. That sword swipe movement, exactly the same. The boomerang. Movements of PC/npc. The graphics and text are clearly 7th saga. I remember the rental, never picked it up.
Can you make a video where you show us how you make these episodes? I always wondered how you line up the footage to coincide with your commentary. It's so epic.
There's tons of useful tutorials out there, way more useful than I could ever make. Play game and record footage - Write review - Record voiceover - Edit voiceover - Edit footage on top of voiceover and game music. Software used: Adobe Audition and Sony Vegas
SNES drunk Thank you, mane! I got Sony Vegas Pro 14 from that Humble Software bundle for 20 bucks!
Cool, if you want a free alternative to Audition, there's Audacity. After that it's just game capture stuff, most of which I use OBS for
Oh yeah. I used to use Audacity in 2007 to record songs. I also have Acoustica MP3 Audio Mixer, which is even simpler than Audacity, when it comes to dragging, dropping, and recording the sound files.
5:09 for the life of me I could not figure out how to open that damn door. Loved LOVED this game. Sadly never could solve it or find a walkthrough for it.
Well, you waited your whole life, so one extra year until the answer is not that bad.
I'm not sure if the floor had 5 or 6 buttons. Their values are their positions, left to right.
Hint is 3 numbers, multiplied 30, summed 10.
so you press 2nd, 3rd and 5th (2+3+5=10, 2*3*5=30) and door opens.
And if you want t know what was inside that door, it's another puzzle.
"12, 52, X; greater in size, but equivalent in time" or something like that. 6 buttons on the floor.
I spent hours bruteforcing the buttons until the epiphany it was a year length (12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days), and door opened with 3rd, 6th and 5th buttons pressed.
The prize for that? a cheese and a boomerang.
I buy this one in a garage sale, someone found it in the house when they moved. i pay mostly nothing, good game, i never end it.
How are the controls ? The graphics looks like the 7th saga and if im not mistaked you said it was made by the same developers. 7th saga was pretty much on a grid and a full blown RPG, seeing the jumping and the fighting, it kind of look like games that would have bad controls, but its hard to say without the controller in hand.
Controls are above average IMO. Pretty fair hit detection.
This is a really underrated game.
Sick to death of zelda? That doesn't compute.
For some reason I always thought Brain Lord was intended to be the prequel to the Dragon Quest series. Of course that doesn't make much sense. Also, just realized "Cash-In" the Bounty Hunter. How on earth did I miss that one?
Whaaaaat!? I've never even heard of this game and it looks awesome!! What kind of gaming enthusiast am I?
Ever considered doing Gunstar Super Heroes?
Yeah I'd love to see him review that
If there was a psychic theme it might make some sense too
"Drunk, you're a strong boy" lol
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Brain lord 😆😆