Lords of Thunder (Sega CD) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
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- A playthrough of Sega's 1995 shoot 'em up for the Sega CD, Lords of Thunder.
Played through on the normal difficulty level.
Lords of Thunder was one of the incredible gaming feats of its time, and goes woefully unrecognized by most of today's gamers. This is probably in no small part to due to its initial 1993 release appearing solely on the TurboDuo. No matter how amazing the system was, there just wasn't much audience for the games - nobody owned one!
The TurboCD version is easily on par (and in my opinion, surpassing) the seminal Gradius and Darius games, but Lords of Thunder cuts the mustard its own way with a kickass soundtrack featuring wailing 80s style guitar solos with heavy synth backup tracks, an incredible number of colors and sprites on the screen given the modest specs of the host machine (seriously, how did they manage to virtually eliminate flicker with this much moving at once?! And on an 8-bit system, no less), and its sheer playability. R-Type never felt this smooth!
The Sega CD version is a nicely done port of Red's kickass original, though there are a few things that rubbed me the wrong way about it. The graphics took a fairly heavy hit in the transition from the TurboGrafx CD to the Sega CD: the on-screen color count is significantly lower, enemies no longer blink to let you know they are taking damage, and the boss entrance animations have been cut down. It's still a great looking game, but the polish it wore so well on the Turbo isn't quite as vibrant on the Sega. Especially when you consider the Sega CD port is two years newer.
The game play is pretty much the same, but the Sega CD version is a fair amount easier than the already not-terribly-difficult original game. There are usually fewer enemies on-screen and they tend to take less punishment before going down. The only other gameplay difference I noticed between them was the Sega version's irritating stun/freeze that happens when you get hit. That "feature" is a new one here, and I have no idea why it was included. It's very good at screwing up your rhythm when you aren't expecting it.
Finally, the soundtrack. Oh man, the soundtrack. It's amazing. Metal and video games just don't go together any better than they do here. The soundtracks are slightly different between the two different games - the Turbo version has a much more raw, edgy sound to it, whereas the Sega version is much more "produced" and "polished" sounding. They're both absolutely fantastic, but I have to say I prefer the character of the Turbo's soundtrack. It's got sand.
At the end of the credits in this video the "Game Over" screens have been cut in. The game returns you to the title screen at the end of the credits, but I love the Game Over "countdown" theme way too much to exclude it. Do yourself a favor, whether you've heard it before or not, and watch the final 30 seconds or so. Aural bliss, a la big hair.
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Lords of Thunder, sounds like a name for a heavy metal band.
That's pretty appropriate, then :)
Now we just need people wearing those elemental suits of armor so they can perform some awesome heavy metal stuff on live concert.
Ancient One Yes!.... Maybe then Lords of Thunder can do a retake of Kiss Saves Santa :D
Would be soo awesome to see, people would dig it like hotcakes.
The music is awesome!
This soundtrack is incredible!
Ah! My favorite shooter game, back when I played this on my Sega CD! I love the metal rock soundtracks! ^^
Dammmnnn that soundtrack tho
It's certainly not as good as the TurboGrafx version, but that in no way prevents Lords of Thunder on the Sega CD from being an unbelievably kick-ass shooter with an impossibly good soundtrack. For the soundtrack, check out czcams.com/video/9KL1la9UnOw/video.html
NintendoComplete In speaking of shooters, & Sega consoles, STAR CONTROOOOOOOLLLLLL!!!!!!
Extremewrecker2000 The willer. I dunno about that one. I've always found it to be more trouble than it's worth
NintendoComplete Well, Star Control is an amazing game(which is surprising since it's unlicensed), & I'm pretty sure once you get the hang of it, you'll enjoy it a WHOLE LOT more than now! In fact, I think it's a hidden gem!
What's different from the TurboGrafx 16 version? I only played that version, and this looks how I remember it.
@@bubbythebear6891 supposedly they nerfed the difficulty for the SEGA version
Top 5 games on Sega CD period. And that soundtrack O.M.G.
A fantasy themed game with a heavy metal soundtrack.
FUCK YEAH!!!!!!
its a great port of lords of thunder..tho the sound effects seem to be quieter and some things are missing, but added at the same time, like the voice for the shop keep lady
Lords of thunder is ABSOLUTELY AWESOME and STUNNINGLY AMAZING
I genuinely can't understand how it is so many say the PC Engine version sounds better than this. This is so much better in that regard.
I fucking agree man
it really depends on your taste really. PC Engine/turbo's soundtrack is like to a live concert (with those shredding guitars) while the Sega CD version is more of an recording studio album. (Or think of it as the difference between album vs lovers leap remix version of Together Forever)
I finally beat this today. Watching this vid, I realized that post-hit invincibility plus meleeing was very powerful.
This game needs a remake or a sequel so bad and Hudson I've always been known for some very awesome video game music
Okay, so I grew up with this version as a kid. I had the Sega Genesis/Sega CD and Snes. I missed NEC's machines and didn't get into them until adulthood. Now, I have a Core Grafx Mini that I got from Amazon Japan.
This version of Lords of Thunder looks considerably easier. There's far less enemies on screen at once. This version also has a story line or narrator...the PCE version does not feature the voice. I will say that the music sounds better on this version. The bosses are by far easier than on the PCE version...
Lords of Thunder looks fun!
4:30 Rainbow - Gates of Babylon
Wow this game looks great and the soundtrack sounds very Yngwie Malmsteen like its so cool!
And Rainbow
Goddamn I said God DAMN that soundtrack rocks!
Hell yes it does.
Ugh, that voice-over 😳 Glad I played the Duo version growing up.
I can feel in soundtracks malmsteen style.
Turboduo games si the coolest 👌👌👌🎸🎸😇😇🎮🎮🎮🎮🎮😽😽😽😻😻👏👏🍙🍙🐉🐉🐉🎊🎊👍👍🐺🐺☺☺✌✌🎉🎉
3:13 major budget cut...
shouldve been fmv tbh
Man this version gives a lot more gems. I heard it was easier, but I thought that had more to do with the enemy/bullet counts and invulnerability after getting hit lasting longer.
You can tell the SEGA CD is a more powerful system since the animation and backgrounds are better but the
Turbo Grafx version might have slightly better graphics
just picked up this game on the turbo duo. great game
Brilliant
I 💘 this 🎮 Very Nicely
Metal as fuck. I love this game. Love this soundtrack!
Very good game Nintendo complete i have watched this on Mike & James AVGN on Mondays👍
THUUUNDDEERRRRRRRRR YEEAAHHHHHH
Just found this at an estate sale in Alabama for $65
lucky guy
This version is a hell of a lot easier compared to the Turbo Grafx version.
Hell of lot better too, in my opinion. Music is so much more enjoyable.
@@ps1master-class150 I'm partial to the Turbo version myself.
Okay shmup. Magnificent soundtrack.
I hope this comes for the Mini Sega CD
Ultra Snazzy this one! I wonder if you did the original TurboDuo/PC Engine version of it, BTW?
I did, it's in the card links.
They, ah, "enhanced" the shopkeeper. Was that supposed to make up for the color loss?
un gran juego
awesome
The best
@ 10:37 alot of slow down when you shoot the bubbles, whereas the tg-16 there is no slow down, interesting.
Thunderforce III and IV was super smooth, much better port then that stinkin' thunder spirits, :).
Yet, Thunder Force IV tears into this game...so yeah. I have come to find out the Lord's of Thunder was not a great port at all. The enemy count is lower here than in the PCE version....
You properly surmised that the Sega CD has a 68K processor but it also has more RAM, specialized chipset that is superior in every way, and runs almost double the clock speed as the PCE with a better processor....so bad port.
Lastly, the Genesis was about Blast Processing not the Sega CD. Even thought the Blast Processing claim is absolutely true. The Genesis 68K can have direct access to the machines memory. Data can be jammed straight through there at a much higher rate. What I don't know is if the Genesis's co-processor the Zilog Z-80 can do the same thing.
It's like UN Squadron a bit.
3:00 i summon obelisk the tormentor!!!.
Um great dark one... have you been playing that card game for children again....?
36:55
Shamely enough the Sega CD version is a lazy port. They removed some basic features/visual effects and have lightened the challenge. Even the soundtrack took a hit but this is a rather subjective aspect.
It's kinda understandable though cuz it was released on a competing platform so they didn't want to make it as good, let alone better, but it could easily have been. The only area where it would be worse in some ways would be on screen colors but various improvements could have been made in terms of resolution (other Sega CD games such as Robo Aleste, Final Fight CD or Earthworm Jim run in higher resolution than that), sound effects (the Sega CD has much better sound capabilities than the TurboGrafx-CD) or cutscenes (from what I can tell the Sega CD has better video support too). But at least they did improve it in a few ways, taking advantage of Sega's console better scrolling capabilities to bring more parallax here and there and they also tweaked the scoring system. So it's still a decent game but it's one of the rare cases where the TurboGrafx original is the way to go. And yeah, it's a great game, probably the best TurboGrafx shoot 'em up.
I noticed in the turbocd version the sound effects are way too loud. They drown out the music.
@@RyuDaBurninator also the turbo's ost seems like a hodgepodge mix of realistic and synthetic imitation of realistic instruments. Sega CD ost version definitely defeats the Turbo.