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A whole video on the YO-KAI WATCH series, super underrated it has an pretty alright first game with a much better squeal, and a cool action packed spin off! And the third game is a bit bloated but still has it's ups! It's a pretty consistent series!
You ABSOLUTELY gotta try Super Tempo for Saturn, it improves on the first one in every single way, even visuals, and Katy turns into a design I can best describe as "Panty from PSG meets Strong Bad" for some of the boss battles. BEAUTIFUL animation all around!
Modnation Racers sorta tried that. It does give an interesting style to the art, but I guess most game developers don't care much for that artstyle since the vinyl toy craze died out.
That "bean thing" from Gun Loco is their organs, the lungs, stomach, liver, and the large and small intestines. They're just all plastic and toy like. Btw love your vids, and suggest Silhouette Mirage for PS1 in the next colorful weird games video.
Tempo is simply adorbs. I love the dance he does in the 32X games intro, and the opening song has been stuck in my head for a while now. x) Wish he would get a modern reboot on newer hardware.
It's kinda of a shame that the last game isn't all that great but the visuals, the 2D opening, the music as well is just so cool. So with that, I forgive it for it is due to the stylish art style despite what the gameplay is like. Likely will never happen but Musashi Samurai Legend is one of those games that should have some sorta remake perhaps.
@Ahmed Malaki agreed kinda wish that was the norm to remake games that have the chance to be good But I guess there's more to it of why popular games get remade and so on
Dude, I won the contest for Gun Loco to sing a song for the game. I got to play a beta of the game and it was surprisingly fun. Think Twisted Metal/Vigilante 8 but with parkouring inmates. The lyrics in the game were awful though. Also, the guitarist was Shooty H.G. from DMC2. I'll have to upload the song again because it was pretty cringe. 🤣
Yeah, and he's still around! He's really into vtubers now. His other famous creation was Bikko-chan, an OC based off of a friend he met who was in a car crash. Bikko is in a band, has white hair, is missing an eye and a leg and has a scar over her missing eye. She apparently dabbles in sex work and smokes weed, and she loves cats. There was a lot of art of her floating around a decade ago.
There’s a CZcams channel called the _Virtual Gaming Library_ that catalogues every game released for each system up to the Wii, (sorted alphabetically with time stamps in the complete list videos as well as videos by letter) across all regions. It a mesmerizing watch. PlayStation could pump out the 3D, but the Saturn had some of the most colorful and stunning games. It’s no wonder these old graphics are making a comeback, especially in the homebrew scene like with Sonic Utopia and such. If you’re looking for more of this kind of content, that channel should be pretty helpful. Great Stuff, as always!
Saturn really was an awesome 2D system. Too bad Sega of America only wanted 3D games leaving so many games left in Japan. I definitely have more respect for the system now. It has a lot of good games that are only on the system.
The second Tempo is a million times better in both gameplay and especially visuals, I'm honestly shocked Pan didn't just skip the first game and went straight to it.
Comix Zone is one of my favorite genesis games no doubt. I like the underlying theme of "always write self destruct codewords into your OCs, because you'll never know when you'll be forced to fight them by an evil Teddy Roosevelt" or at least that's what I took from it
"Izuna" as a series kind of fascinates me. Not so much for the games themselves but more for how much the developer of the series, Ninja Studio, seemed to try to make it into a larger IP. You've got the two main games, "Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja" and "Izuna 2: The Unemployed Ninja Returns", which are alright DS mystery dungeon games. The first is very simple but the second definitely improved on nearly every aspect. As mentioned in the video, they can be surprising tough and oddly unforgiving in how much they love to make you lose your equipment. Still fun games, just don't get attached to any piece of equipment you happen to get. Then we have this DS fighting game called "Windy X Windam". It's also by Ninja Studio and apparently their final game before silently closing down. I don't know what its premise is but both Izuna and Shino are playable fighters in it. Only issue is that it's kind of really bad. So I guess I can't say it's surprising that Ninja Studio shut down shortly after. And finally, there's this obscure DS SRPG called "Rondo of Swords". It's very "Fire Emblem" like, right down to having obtuse and lengthy secret requirements. I would actually recommend it for anyone interested, as it does have some fairly unique aspects. Anyways, speaking of secrets, as for why I'm bringing it up, both Izuna and Shino are secret optional units in the game. Before I even knew of "Izuna", the series, this was where I discovered them. Heck, it even has Cotton, from the "Cotton" series, as a secret unit as well. So yeah, "Izuna" is involved in a grand total of four games, two of their own and crossover-ed into two others.
I was so god dammed obsessed with Izuna at one point that I made a fricken doppleganger fan character. I still have her rattling around somewhere in my head for story ideas.
Amazing how after KH1 and during the late stage of KH2's development, Musashi Samurai Legend just...didn't take any notes from either. Hell, on the non-Square front Devil May Cry 3 came out a couple weeks earlier so like at the start of March you get a banger action game with a ballin' combat system....and then a couple weeks later you get Musashi.
For real. I'm not super into beat-em-ups but this game being the first Rare game produced under Microsoft really feels like the conversation around the actual game itself took a nose-dive and honestly feels underappreciated. Can't believe the buyout is the only thing I've ever heard surrounding this game. Good ol' Rareware humor and a very great flow of different area's. Every new area You visit feels like the logical next area to visit. Kitchen > Freezer > Dumpster outside area (I don't know what You call it) and enemy variety I also find interesting with Mummies that are invulnerable to all types of damage except fire. They create a lot of interesting scenarios around these gimmicks and then You got this Wacky Races "D!ck Dastardly" lookin' villain giving You these random feeling circumstances to work with while giving a goofy chuckle. Also really like how every new enemy gets their own introduction. and also the dumb plot that feels like it could be over really quick but keeps finding excuses to keep going and being "dragged out," real amusing lol. "Silent movies" + animated Comic aesthetic styled cutscenes, etc. all wrapped in this goofy Halloween styled game. good stuff. Haven't watched the whole game but I really enjoyed what I had seen of it :)
I remember buying it at Gamestop when the damn stickers were on the art cover. Didn't play it often but it was a very worthy entry for Rare considering Microsoft hasn't done much with the company since Kameo.
The moment I saw the animation of Musashi Samurai Legend the first thing that came to mind was "This feels like Studio Trigger's animation" and sure enough I was right. Gainax/Trigger animations are too cartoonish (or whatever word that would describe it) and have insane fights that you can tell it's them
I have a cousin who had Musashi as a demo disk that came with other demos. I got a nostalgia blast just looking at the main character down slash and seeing the enemy design.
I first learned about Izuna through G4's review. They did a few skits with an unemployed ninja that kept trying to find a new job but also kept killing his employer out of frustration
I really dug Izuna. I never finished the games, but I found the games charming. The game's character designer Yoshida On had an OC named Bikko. She's an amputee musician who doesn't let her lack of a leg and an eye bother her. Her design was cool.
Honestly i actually kind of wish Tempo would get a comeback, i really think he's one of those characters from the 90s who was in a shitty game once but absolutely deserves another chance in the modern day with how much video game standards have changed, he was made in an incredibly experimental time and thus practically didn't stand a chance, but if they where to try with him again today now that people know how to make video games, i wouldn't mind at all, i like this funky little cricket.
Tempo actually had a second game, on the Saturn and of course left in Japan. It is better in everyway than the first game. I really like the Art of both Tempo games but the first game is kind of basic.
I don't believe Rayman Legends had a dynamic score (in the way you referenced it). The music levels were rigidly structurered auto~scrollers so if you didn't adapt to the music you just died. The music never adapted to you. It was all just a glorified music~themed rollercoaster.
Yeah I guess I phrased that poorly. Really Sackboy's Big Adventure's music stages would fit as a better example since you can go at your own pace and it's not on rails.
The people behind Splosion Man and The Maw made Comic Jumper... it's not really a comix zone game, but it might be the closest there'll be, and I remember having some fun with it in the times of Summer of Arcade (Summer of Arcade could probably fill one of your video series about weird games)
I remember seeing Izuna 1 and 2 on the shelf at GameStop when I was a kid. I was going to get both but the employee convinced my mom to only let me get 2. Years later I decided I still wanted the first one only to realize it goes for a hefty price on the second hand market. I will forever curse that GameStop lady
I was also subscribed to Nintendo Power around that time but never followed through with the games. Glad I can rely on you to show me what they were really about, 15 years later lmao
With the "HD Remake/Remaster" kick Square Enix has been on over the years, I feel like a Brave Fencer Musashi revival is only a matter of time at this point. It's such a cool, cute, and endearing game (with a fun soundtrack and English dub to boot!) that it's such a shame that there's no modern way to play it outside of having a Japanese PSN account. That said, SE did post a CZcams video acknowledging its 20th anniversary back in 2018, so mayyyyyyybe there might be a surprise in store for its 25th in 2023? If nothing else, for anyone reading this comment, do check out the OST! That game might be my earliest memory of a leitmotif before even understanding what a leitmotif was.
Really? I don’t see it, not to say the game is bad, it’s awesome. It’s just not something I would see getting an Hd Remaster, mainly for the fact that it’s been years since I last heard anyone really talk about unless you search for discussion. And maybe because of “Samurai Legend” just not being as good as the original.
@@MultiBoxingKid I only assume it's gonna happen eventually, considering SE seems to be all about appealing to niche audiences and retro-style games as of late. If a game like Live-A-Live (seldom talked about, released only in Japan, apparently didnt perform too well originally) can get an HD remake and global release, I dont think BF Musashi is too far outside the real of possibility.
Never have I found out something existed that sounded amazing then immediately be disappointed. An intro directed by Imaishi, my favorite anime director of all time who made Gurren my fave anime ever, and made by Square Soft, my favorite game company, with designs by Nomura, one of my fave designers who made my 2 fave series KH and FF? How have I never heard of this game literally made for me??? Oh thats why
This was some great fun, I definitely found Tempo and Comix Zone a highlight for me, I never heard of Tempo before this video and Comix Zone is a legend of a game for it's visuals alone and it's a crime it never got a sequel or a spiritual successor to it's style both Gameplay and Presentation wise and also the Legend of the Unemployed Ninja is pretty cool, haven't played it myself, but hear a lot of good things about it.
Holy shit! I remember playing Brave Fencer Musashi on ps1 and for the past 10 years i've been unable to remember the name of the game. You helped me solve a 10 year old personal mystery. I remember it was awesome. And I only played the demo so it was difficult to remember the name.
That Izuna quote, 'Rest assured, their friendship is purely platonic', reminded me of that line from YGO Season Zero Abridged: "Let's have sex later. As FRIENDS Yugi! Geez!!"
Okay, thank you for including Izuna. My college roommate got that way back when and it's occasionally popped into my head but I could never remember the name.
Izuna also had a sequel and appeared as a playable character in a DS fighting game called Windy x Windam. Never heard of Windy x Windam? That's because the US release was only sold in online retailers and had almost no advertising. Frankly, I'm surprised it got a US release at all.
As a middle school student in the late 2000s I read Nintendo Power and had never seen anything so blatantly sexual in there as the preview of Izuna, so reading the suggestive jokes and seeing that pic of her and her “platonic” friend made me feel like I was getting hit on by a teacher lmao
Square Enix funny enough went to go with Japan's edgy and eccentric aesthetics at the time with the NItro+ guys (hyper edgy visual novels with cute girls like Saya no Uta and Fate/Zero, also their total tonal whiplash mascot Super Sonico) with Gunslinger Stratos. Which even actually was innovative by making it a clean hybrid arena fighter and arena shooter where you would lock on, but only your vision of the opponent, you had to aim at their center mass to not miss. And the gun controller in arcades was something from Power Rangers where you had dual hand cannons that could be locked horizontally and vertically. Becoming punt shotguns, KILLSAT laser pointers, nuclear bazookas, homing drones, etc. Alas, it never came here in overseas outside Round 1 entertainment centers, interest dropped competitively as no new content came, and the attempt to make it a high concept PC title was left in alpha test. So even its spiritual Wiimote fighter sequel Magician's Dead was left to abandonware and converted to spare fighting game monitors and arcade sticks, and the developer is now the My Hero Academia content farm.
Hey Pan, remember Blazing Samurai? Yeah it’s actually a real film now and now out of development hell. Though it’s now called “Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank”. You going to talk about it in……..7 years?
I've been a fan since I was a little dweeb in late middle school - early high school and I'm glad that you're still consistent and have improved so much. Have a good day or night or existential pondering dude
I loved Izuna on the DS, it was so massively hard but I did beat the first game and the sequel was more forgiving and playable (but still difficult, I didn't have the patience to finish this one despite that)
It's nice to know with enough budget an indie studio today can pull off the aesthetic they want and provide good gameplay at the same time. The 2000's felt like it's was either/or in most cases, which is why we get so many of these lost media gems. Most of which were forgotten as a consequence of having bland or disappointing gameplay loops. Obviously a few managed to incorporate both, but that was usually because the console's parent company sank a bunch of money into it, and the developers were often veterans from the previous console era (Insomniac from Spyro, ND from Crash, Sucker Punch from that one game in 1999, etc.)
Comix Zone unlocked a memory. I distinctly remember playing it on my home computer along with lego island! I didn't beat either and only vaguely remember fighting the snot monsters. 10/10 video thanks for helping me remember.
I remember as a kid I was so infatuated with the part in the intro scene of Motor Toon where the lady is in the shower. It used to make my mom laugh so hard sitting there watching me as I waited at the title screen for the intro to play over and over again. I was so young so I had no idea what I was watching, I just liked it lmao
I think that "backpack" is like a single square representation of the full set of internal organs; lungs, intestines and such. It is just in a neat little cube I guess
Oh wow, gameplay-wise a bunch of stuff shown and mentioned in Izuna happens in Pokemon Mystery Dungeon lol. I can't remember if Atlus worked on that too or not. ChunSoft or something I think, but the general design and dungeon layout and how enemies move and gang up on you and the dang npc moving everytime you wanna talk to them...
Izuna follows the Mystery Dungeon formula that Chunsoft established long before Pokemon Mystery Dungeon. It first started as a Dragon Quest spinoff in 1993 and has had alot of crossover with other series including Pokemon and Final Fantasy. Atlus only published Izuna 1 and 2 in the west but they did eventually work with Chunsoft to develop a Mystery Dungeon spinoff of one of Atlus' series, Etrian Mystery Dungeon
I vaguely remember titles as I read from various gaming magazines. That toon racing game looks great, with more refininging, Comix Zone, a classic I played at an Atgames port of, and I do enjoyed the look & asthethic of Samurai Legend, even if the game is incredibly slogging.
That was great! If you ever do more of these, look into the PS2 game "PK: Out of the Shadows" starring Donald Duck's famous (out of the US) alter ego, PK. Also, Love Hina ruined my life too brother...
I know you’ve been wanting to cover Comix Zone for the longest time so it was satisfying to see you cover it here. Might be some of your best editing yet
Postal brain damaged came out and I love it way more than should be considered healthy. It plays so well and the arr direction is very strong, and it has way too many memes to count but reshapes them into new, unique forms. The entire game is such a fever dream, which makes sense because that's literally the story. Also, there's some romhacks that I've been playing lately. I recently found one that turns super Mario bros 2 USA into the yellow submarine, allowing you to play as all four members of the Beatles, and the game's soundtrack is just Beatles songs done on nes hardware, it's such a treat.
You know what could Save the Musashi Reboot? Making it an Anime Fighting Game, similar to Guilty Gear obviously with the Ps2 Intro Style instead of the KH Illustrator, i think it fits better
Wow, the disparity between the Musashi intro and the game is staggering. It was definitely possible to make a game as cool as that animation in the early 2000s. What the hell, Square?!
How Comix Zone STILL hasn't gotten some kind of remaster/remake/revival-whatever all HD and hand-drawn 'n stuff will elude me for my entire life, *especially* after stellar games like Streets of Rage 4 and Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap!
Gun Loco looks like if you put Fortnite in a blender with Team Fortress 2, Devil’s Third, Gears of War, Saints Row and Anarchy Reigns, and was written by Tim and Eric
Damn, Musashi SL was very dissapointing for me, I loved the PS1 game, and when I booted up and saw that into and music I was very hyped... then the rest of the game happened, biggest offender I think is the music, outside of the HUB and a couple other tracks it's VERY forgettable, the PS1 game is one of my favourite OSTs. You should play it some day, the "model viewer" there are supposed to be toys of the characters and enemies but they completely different 3D models made to look like toys, very cool.
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Sin and Punishment: Star Successor.
A whole video on the YO-KAI WATCH series, super underrated it has an pretty alright first game with a much better squeal, and a cool action packed spin off! And the third game is a bit bloated but still has it's ups! It's a pretty consistent series!
Stardew Valley
That or LET IT DIE
3:35 im pretty sure those are intermal organs, there seems to be lungs, a heart, and intestines.
I amazed by the work and effort you put into these Pan, you don’t need to but you really are a savant of early 2000s culture and games.
Someone has too man
For an era that's over 10 years old now, it really doesn't get talked about more, everyone is STILL hung up about the 80's.
@@Max25670 I mean people in the 80s loved 50s stuff I think, that's just how it is
Cause he is awesome thats why
Or is he a connoisseur?
You ABSOLUTELY gotta try Super Tempo for Saturn, it improves on the first one in every single way, even visuals, and Katy turns into a design I can best describe as "Panty from PSG meets Strong Bad" for some of the boss battles. BEAUTIFUL animation all around!
Dude I would love to play it, but how? Wasn't the saturn super hard to emulate?
@@antonco2 it's gotten better
@NightMaren Nemo I ADORE Astal I just wish it didn't get difficulty spiked in the US version.
@@antonco2 now it aint so much, with the passing years saturn emulation got better.
Hey, you're the guy who does those FNF and Cuphead Musicals.
I wish more games tried incorporating vinyls like Gun Loco did. I thinks it's a neat idea that we could do more with.
Modnation Racers sorta tried that. It does give an interesting style to the art, but I guess most game developers don't care much for that artstyle since the vinyl toy craze died out.
Isn't gun loco gameplay basically fortnite no build mode lol
@@joseph2000117 you're right, Fortnite totally ripped them off DD:
@@joseph2000117 No, because Fortnite doesn't let you parkour over obstacles
Well, there's a Funko pop game coming out now :V
Lololololo
That "bean thing" from Gun Loco is their organs, the lungs, stomach, liver, and the large and small intestines. They're just all plastic and toy like. Btw love your vids, and suggest Silhouette Mirage for PS1 in the next colorful weird games video.
Damn, you beat me to it lol literally you can see the small and large intestine.
I'm here to second the request for Silhouette Mirage! Honestly kind of surprised that's never been covered by him yet.
That game was real?! It wasn't a fever dream 10 year old me had?
Oh man, he should. Silhouette Mirage is a perfect suggestion for this series. There's other Treasure games that are worth it as well.
So their viscera are all part of a single large pill? That's kind of hilarious.
I always liked Tempo even though the gameplay is nothing special. The sequel for the Saturn is even weirder somehow.
Wait, i didn't know you watch RebelTaxi, Cybershell.
Oh hi. I completely forgot about tempo!
Tempo is simply adorbs. I love the dance he does in the 32X games intro, and the opening song has been stuck in my head for a while now. x)
Wish he would get a modern reboot on newer hardware.
Tempo is such a great IP. I really hope he looks at the sequels
@@kiricappuchin Is there a law that says if you say Adorbs you have to kill yourself?
Reject the Mark of the Beast! (666)
I like how you can turn 15 minutes of content into 30 with your adult swim-esque cut aways
“Love Hina ruined my life”
- Pan Pizza (2022)
Considering it sucks, I can't blame him.
And Teen Titans.
The original, or Toddler Titans?
"Love Hyena"
@@mariic2 Thank god for Negima.
Pan is the best example of "Quality over Quantity" content, keep up the amazing work!
surprised Pan hasn't covered Square Enix's The Bouncer yet
DA Bouncer. Would be easy since it's like 2 hours long and I like brawlers
damn main character looks like a Sora wannabe, despite the game coming out before KH1 lol
@@StuffsFluff That game has the same character designer, Tetsuya Nomura, so that makes sense.
The BOUNCER
It's kinda of a shame that the last game isn't all that great but the visuals, the 2D opening, the music as well is just so cool. So with that, I forgive it for it is due to the stylish art style despite what the gameplay is like. Likely will never happen but Musashi Samurai Legend is one of those games that should have some sorta remake perhaps.
Seriously, the opening is textbook Gainax/Trigger, I would've bought it off of that alone.
@@SuspiciousScout I would of been perfect for a anime series or something.
@Ahmed Malaki Yeah I kinda wish at times games that weren't so great are given a second chance to be better.
@Ahmed Malaki agreed kinda wish that was the norm to remake games that have the chance to be good
But I guess there's more to it of why popular games get remade and so on
Nobody expected a Panty and Stocking Season 2 and yet...
Dude, I won the contest for Gun Loco to sing a song for the game. I got to play a beta of the game and it was surprisingly fun. Think Twisted Metal/Vigilante 8 but with parkouring inmates. The lyrics in the game were awful though. Also, the guitarist was Shooty H.G. from DMC2.
I'll have to upload the song again because it was pretty cringe. 🤣
Oh please reupload, that'll be cool to hear the other takes.
Izuna's character artwork was done by a doujinshi mangaka. Yeah, that makes sense.
Yeah, and he's still around! He's really into vtubers now. His other famous creation was Bikko-chan, an OC based off of a friend he met who was in a car crash. Bikko is in a band, has white hair, is missing an eye and a leg and has a scar over her missing eye. She apparently dabbles in sex work and smokes weed, and she loves cats. There was a lot of art of her floating around a decade ago.
guess thats the Hentai equivalent to the phrase "when your a hammer, all problems look like a nail"
That describes over 80% of the industry.
@@Levitz9 sounds suspiciously like tokyo ghoul, only with less killing and more screwing
To be fair, drawing people naked, is a great way to learn anatomy and proportions. Which is a must for any artist.
There’s a CZcams channel called the _Virtual Gaming Library_ that catalogues every game released for each system up to the Wii, (sorted alphabetically with time stamps in the complete list videos as well as videos by letter) across all regions. It a mesmerizing watch. PlayStation could pump out the 3D, but the Saturn had some of the most colorful and stunning games. It’s no wonder these old graphics are making a comeback, especially in the homebrew scene like with Sonic Utopia and such. If you’re looking for more of this kind of content, that channel should be pretty helpful.
Great Stuff, as always!
Saturn really was an awesome 2D system. Too bad Sega of America only wanted 3D games leaving so many games left in Japan.
I definitely have more respect for the system now. It has a lot of good games that are only on the system.
The second Tempo is a million times better in both gameplay and especially visuals, I'm honestly shocked Pan didn't just skip the first game and went straight to it.
I always like to start with games in order just to see the progress between sequels
@@RebelTaxi like a real man
@@RebelTaxi Check it out. It's better in every way. Look forward to hearing you talk about it in the future.
@@RebelTaxiBut you didn't play Brave Fencer Musashi first? :(
Comix Zone is one of my favorite genesis games no doubt. I like the underlying theme of "always write self destruct codewords into your OCs, because you'll never know when you'll be forced to fight them by an evil Teddy Roosevelt" or at least that's what I took from it
What if Comix Zone was the original pitch for Nickelodeon and Chalk Zone was just the kiddified reboot?
It's definitely the thinking man's brawler. Would love to see a modern version, the game had a lot of original ideas.
"Izuna" as a series kind of fascinates me. Not so much for the games themselves but more for how much the developer of the series, Ninja Studio, seemed to try to make it into a larger IP.
You've got the two main games, "Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja" and "Izuna 2: The Unemployed Ninja Returns", which are alright DS mystery dungeon games. The first is very simple but the second definitely improved on nearly every aspect. As mentioned in the video, they can be surprising tough and oddly unforgiving in how much they love to make you lose your equipment. Still fun games, just don't get attached to any piece of equipment you happen to get.
Then we have this DS fighting game called "Windy X Windam". It's also by Ninja Studio and apparently their final game before silently closing down. I don't know what its premise is but both Izuna and Shino are playable fighters in it. Only issue is that it's kind of really bad. So I guess I can't say it's surprising that Ninja Studio shut down shortly after.
And finally, there's this obscure DS SRPG called "Rondo of Swords". It's very "Fire Emblem" like, right down to having obtuse and lengthy secret requirements. I would actually recommend it for anyone interested, as it does have some fairly unique aspects. Anyways, speaking of secrets, as for why I'm bringing it up, both Izuna and Shino are secret optional units in the game. Before I even knew of "Izuna", the series, this was where I discovered them. Heck, it even has Cotton, from the "Cotton" series, as a secret unit as well.
So yeah, "Izuna" is involved in a grand total of four games, two of their own and crossover-ed into two others.
I've been weirdly fascinated by Izuna for years and I actually forgot about those crossover games lol
I was so god dammed obsessed with Izuna at one point that I made a fricken doppleganger fan character. I still have her rattling around somewhere in my head for story ideas.
I actually have a copy of Windy x Windam and I can tell you: seeing any mention of it always throws me through a loop because it's just...so mediocre
It's gotten to a point now where I would pay actual money to have access to a Spotify playlist with all the music pan uses in his videos.
Amazing how after KH1 and during the late stage of KH2's development, Musashi Samurai Legend just...didn't take any notes from either.
Hell, on the non-Square front Devil May Cry 3 came out a couple weeks earlier so like at the start of March you get a banger action game with a ballin' combat system....and then a couple weeks later you get Musashi.
You oughta try Grabbed By the Ghoulies - real underrated game with a lot of smart level design choices. Also very funny.
For real. I'm not super into beat-em-ups but this game being the first Rare game produced under Microsoft really feels like the conversation around the actual game itself took a nose-dive and honestly feels underappreciated. Can't believe the buyout is the only thing I've ever heard surrounding this game. Good ol' Rareware humor and a very great flow of different area's. Every new area You visit feels like the logical next area to visit. Kitchen > Freezer > Dumpster outside area (I don't know what You call it)
and enemy variety I also find interesting with Mummies that are invulnerable to all types of damage except fire. They create a lot of interesting scenarios around these gimmicks and then You got this Wacky Races "D!ck Dastardly" lookin' villain giving You these random feeling circumstances to work with while giving a goofy chuckle. Also really like how every new enemy gets their own introduction. and also the dumb plot that feels like it could be over really quick but keeps finding excuses to keep going and being "dragged out," real amusing lol. "Silent movies" + animated Comic aesthetic styled cutscenes, etc. all wrapped in this goofy Halloween styled game. good stuff.
Haven't watched the whole game but I really enjoyed what I had seen of it :)
Yoooo, another Ghoulies fan. Love that game, definitely think it would have been more fondly remembered if it was released on Gamecube.
I remember buying it at Gamestop when the damn stickers were on the art cover. Didn't play it often but it was a very worthy entry for Rare considering Microsoft hasn't done much with the company since Kameo.
The things the Gun Loco enemies drop looks like a stylized block of internal organs like lungs and intestines.
The moment I saw the animation of Musashi Samurai Legend the first thing that came to mind was "This feels like Studio Trigger's animation" and sure enough I was right. Gainax/Trigger animations are too cartoonish (or whatever word that would describe it) and have insane fights that you can tell it's them
I can't believe they turned sol badguy into a twink and he's still a badass
Twink Badguy
I have a cousin who had Musashi as a demo disk that came with other demos. I got a nostalgia blast just looking at the main character down slash and seeing the enemy design.
“Stop getting drunk and start tweaking on heroin instead”
- Pan
“This is for assigned men who ain’t afraid to be ninja girls. HRT is the way to be!”
Only Pan could possibly deliver a line like that.
i can't believe that this is a real line lol
I first learned about Izuna through G4's review. They did a few skits with an unemployed ninja that kept trying to find a new job but also kept killing his employer out of frustration
I really dug Izuna. I never finished the games, but I found the games charming.
The game's character designer Yoshida On had an OC named Bikko. She's an amputee musician who doesn't let her lack of a leg and an eye bother her. Her design was cool.
Wait, they're drawn by the same artist? No wonder I found her design so appealing! That man can create the coolest chicks you'll ever see.
Fun fact: Musashi is voiced by everyone's favorite Poochie-type reploid, Axl.
Honestly i actually kind of wish Tempo would get a comeback, i really think he's one of those characters from the 90s who was in a shitty game once but absolutely deserves another chance in the modern day with how much video game standards have changed, he was made in an incredibly experimental time and thus practically didn't stand a chance, but if they where to try with him again today now that people know how to make video games, i wouldn't mind at all, i like this funky little cricket.
Kinda like Buck bumble
Tempo actually had a second game, on the Saturn and of course left in Japan. It is better in everyway than the first game. I really like the Art of both Tempo games but the first game is kind of basic.
I don't believe Rayman Legends had a dynamic score (in the way you referenced it). The music levels were rigidly structurered auto~scrollers so if you didn't adapt to the music you just died. The music never adapted to you. It was all just a glorified music~themed rollercoaster.
Yeah I guess I phrased that poorly. Really Sackboy's Big Adventure's music stages would fit as a better example since you can go at your own pace and it's not on rails.
The people behind Splosion Man and The Maw made Comic Jumper... it's not really a comix zone game, but it might be the closest there'll be, and I remember having some fun with it in the times of Summer of Arcade (Summer of Arcade could probably fill one of your video series about weird games)
It's better than Comix Zone cause it's not a poorly designed mess
Izuna is a phenomenal game that more people need to talk about. Its _sequel,_ though- hoo boy, they doubled up on everything. It's even better.
There's a new Izuna game in the works.
I remember seeing Izuna 1 and 2 on the shelf at GameStop when I was a kid. I was going to get both but the employee convinced my mom to only let me get 2. Years later I decided I still wanted the first one only to realize it goes for a hefty price on the second hand market. I will forever curse that GameStop lady
Tempo is so damn FUNKY, love him!! Too bad his game could probably give someone a seizure.
Love the Strange Colorful Games series!
If you are into emulation at all check out Tempo on the Saturn. It's way better than the first game. It was never released in America.
I binged your game videos the other night. Getting roms ready for the steam deck. Can't wait to find some more hidden gems
I was also subscribed to Nintendo Power around that time but never followed through with the games.
Glad I can rely on you to show me what they were really about, 15 years later lmao
With the "HD Remake/Remaster" kick Square Enix has been on over the years, I feel like a Brave Fencer Musashi revival is only a matter of time at this point. It's such a cool, cute, and endearing game (with a fun soundtrack and English dub to boot!) that it's such a shame that there's no modern way to play it outside of having a Japanese PSN account. That said, SE did post a CZcams video acknowledging its 20th anniversary back in 2018, so mayyyyyyybe there might be a surprise in store for its 25th in 2023?
If nothing else, for anyone reading this comment, do check out the OST! That game might be my earliest memory of a leitmotif before even understanding what a leitmotif was.
I really loved Brave Fencer Musashi. I played the demo so much, finally played it at my friend's house later. Fun game.
Really? I don’t see it, not to say the game is bad, it’s awesome. It’s just not something I would see getting an Hd Remaster, mainly for the fact that it’s been years since I last heard anyone really talk about unless you search for discussion. And maybe because of “Samurai Legend” just not being as good as the original.
@@MultiBoxingKid I only assume it's gonna happen eventually, considering SE seems to be all about appealing to niche audiences and retro-style games as of late.
If a game like Live-A-Live (seldom talked about, released only in Japan, apparently didnt perform too well originally) can get an HD remake and global release, I dont think BF Musashi is too far outside the real of possibility.
Never have I found out something existed that sounded amazing then immediately be disappointed.
An intro directed by Imaishi, my favorite anime director of all time who made Gurren my fave anime ever, and made by Square Soft, my favorite game company, with designs by Nomura, one of my fave designers who made my 2 fave series KH and FF? How have I never heard of this game literally made for me??? Oh thats why
Pan I thought you were taking a break this month and instead we get the gift of an amazing video, Thank you so much truly!!
This was some great fun, I definitely found Tempo and Comix Zone a highlight for me, I never heard of Tempo before this video and Comix Zone is a legend of a game for it's visuals alone and it's a crime it never got a sequel or a spiritual successor to it's style both Gameplay and Presentation wise and also the Legend of the Unemployed Ninja is pretty cool, haven't played it myself, but hear a lot of good things about it.
Tempo is kind of boring, but it's easy to emulate. It's graphics make it stand out. However there's a second game on the Saturn that is way better.
Ah I still remember watching Pan’s play through of Comix Zone years ago on the RebelTaxi Megadrive channel. Oh the memories.
Rebel taxi videos always pair well with Lunch or dinner. Never brekfast tho....
true that! i also always feel the urge to get a six pack of pepsi before watching, it just feels right.
Why not breakfast?
@@wisconsinking323 we don't talk about breakfast...
@@ablur5129 Is this a reference to something?
@@wisconsinking323 No. I am just insane.
To this day, I could never complete Comix Zone. Hell, I don't even know what the game's ending looks like.
Holy shit! I remember playing Brave Fencer Musashi on ps1 and for the past 10 years i've been unable to remember the name of the game.
You helped me solve a 10 year old personal mystery. I remember it was awesome. And I only played the demo so it was difficult to remember the name.
That Izuna quote, 'Rest assured, their friendship is purely platonic', reminded me of that line from YGO Season Zero Abridged: "Let's have sex later. As FRIENDS Yugi! Geez!!"
Okay, thank you for including Izuna. My college roommate got that way back when and it's occasionally popped into my head but I could never remember the name.
Izuna also had a sequel and appeared as a playable character in a DS fighting game called Windy x Windam.
Never heard of Windy x Windam? That's because the US release was only sold in online retailers and had almost no advertising. Frankly, I'm surprised it got a US release at all.
She was also in a Strategy RPG on the DS, Rondo of Swords.
@@ShadowWolfRising Oh yeah, I had completely forgotten about that game's existence.
As a middle school student in the late 2000s I read Nintendo Power and had never seen anything so blatantly sexual in there as the preview of Izuna, so reading the suggestive jokes and seeing that pic of her and her “platonic” friend made me feel like I was getting hit on by a teacher lmao
Square Enix funny enough went to go with Japan's edgy and eccentric aesthetics at the time with the NItro+ guys (hyper edgy visual novels with cute girls like Saya no Uta and Fate/Zero, also their total tonal whiplash mascot Super Sonico) with Gunslinger Stratos. Which even actually was innovative by making it a clean hybrid arena fighter and arena shooter where you would lock on, but only your vision of the opponent, you had to aim at their center mass to not miss. And the gun controller in arcades was something from Power Rangers where you had dual hand cannons that could be locked horizontally and vertically. Becoming punt shotguns, KILLSAT laser pointers, nuclear bazookas, homing drones, etc.
Alas, it never came here in overseas outside Round 1 entertainment centers, interest dropped competitively as no new content came, and the attempt to make it a high concept PC title was left in alpha test.
So even its spiritual Wiimote fighter sequel Magician's Dead was left to abandonware and converted to spare fighting game monitors and arcade sticks, and the developer is now the My Hero Academia content farm.
Hey Pan, remember Blazing Samurai? Yeah it’s actually a real film now and now out of development hell. Though it’s now called “Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank”. You going to talk about it in……..7 years?
@@TheDinoKitteh where on his Twitter?
On Twitter i think, he said that he now has to talk about it because of his past video on it.
Man, that Musashi game looks great in every way until you see the combat, what a bummer that they botched the most important part.
Such an exhausting part of the game. Didn't even make the game fun or entertaining.
Vib-Ribbon for PS1, it's sequel for PS2, Vib-Ripple and it's spin-off Mojib-Ribbon for PS2 are all good choices
I've been a fan since I was a little dweeb in late middle school - early high school and I'm glad that you're still consistent and have improved so much. Have a good day or night or existential pondering dude
Did he ever talk about viva pinata? That was a great colorful game!
Your editing skills are amazing.
I loved Izuna on the DS, it was so massively hard but I did beat the first game and the sequel was more forgiving and playable (but still difficult, I didn't have the patience to finish this one despite that)
Oh man! I remembered Comix Zone! I never could get through that game. I need to replay that game someday. Anyway, awesome video!
Musashi Samurai Legend really needed to take lessons from Dynasty Warriors...
Also, good lord, his hands are HUGE.
It's nice to know with enough budget an indie studio today can pull off the aesthetic they want and provide good gameplay at the same time.
The 2000's felt like it's was either/or in most cases, which is why we get so many of these lost media gems. Most of which were forgotten as a consequence of having bland or disappointing gameplay loops. Obviously a few managed to incorporate both, but that was usually because the console's parent company sank a bunch of money into it, and the developers were often veterans from the previous console era (Insomniac from Spyro, ND from Crash, Sucker Punch from that one game in 1999, etc.)
I love how whenever game devs have to come up with wacky proportions for a black character they always make them look like old pickaninnys
Comix Zone unlocked a memory. I distinctly remember playing it on my home computer along with lego island! I didn't beat either and only vaguely remember fighting the snot monsters. 10/10 video thanks for helping me remember.
I remember as a kid I was so infatuated with the part in the intro scene of Motor Toon where the lady is in the shower. It used to make my mom laugh so hard sitting there watching me as I waited at the title screen for the intro to play over and over again. I was so young so I had no idea what I was watching, I just liked it lmao
I missed you, man. Hope everything is fine with the production of your pilot.
I love this channel; it make me feel like I'm back in the early 00's. The short commercials he adds to the videos is the best too.
Frickin A man that pause at 3:20 "wait a minute" had me cracking up
I think that "backpack" is like a single square representation of the full set of internal organs; lungs, intestines and such. It is just in a neat little cube I guess
Oh wow, gameplay-wise a bunch of stuff shown and mentioned in Izuna happens in Pokemon Mystery Dungeon lol. I can't remember if Atlus worked on that too or not. ChunSoft or something I think, but the general design and dungeon layout and how enemies move and gang up on you and the dang npc moving everytime you wanna talk to them...
Izuna follows the Mystery Dungeon formula that Chunsoft established long before Pokemon Mystery Dungeon. It first started as a Dragon Quest spinoff in 1993 and has had alot of crossover with other series including Pokemon and Final Fantasy.
Atlus only published Izuna 1 and 2 in the west but they did eventually work with Chunsoft to develop a Mystery Dungeon spinoff of one of Atlus' series, Etrian Mystery Dungeon
I vaguely remember titles as I read from various gaming magazines.
That toon racing game looks great, with more refininging, Comix Zone, a classic I played at an Atgames port of, and I do enjoyed the look & asthethic of Samurai Legend, even if the game is incredibly slogging.
Eww... Atgames.
That was great! If you ever do more of these, look into the PS2 game "PK: Out of the Shadows" starring Donald Duck's famous (out of the US) alter ego, PK.
Also, Love Hina ruined my life too brother...
yeah, pk gets none of the respect it's owned
Man, how many alter egos does Donald have ? There's also Maui Mallard and Cold Shadow.
I expect my copy of Izuna 2 to appreciate considerably noe that it has been talked about by semi famous CZcams man
I love how I’m getting old school toonami vibes from this. Because holy shit, I’m getting a whole lot of nostalgia
I love these videos for those brief moments when Pan becomes the Surly Electronic Entertainment Connoisseur
I loved Musashi, both of them. I still play it at least once a year. I don't care if most people didn't like the PS2 game, I like it
Holy shit those sprite animation for tempo are so fucking smooth
Soon as I saw Izuna I was like "Oh, the hot ninja from the Nintendo Power ad!"
Ok the animation in Tempo is INCREDIBLE, for 1995 they went all out!
My favorite part was when Pan totally accurately called Everything or Nothing the best Bond game. Hell yes.
i love the vibe of your videos so much it's like a mix of looking through a cool looking video game menu and watching tv
The Adventures of Cookie and Cream on ps2 may be a funny more obscure one to look at??
Cookie and cream kinda slapped though ngl
Finally someone with relevancy talks about Tempo
These videos are such a mood with those transitions.
"Rest assured, their friendship is purely platonic."
Sure, Nintendo.
Sure.
I know you’ve been wanting to cover Comix Zone for the longest time so it was satisfying to see you cover it here. Might be some of your best editing yet
Postal brain damaged came out and I love it way more than should be considered healthy. It plays so well and the arr direction is very strong, and it has way too many memes to count but reshapes them into new, unique forms. The entire game is such a fever dream, which makes sense because that's literally the story.
Also, there's some romhacks that I've been playing lately. I recently found one that turns super Mario bros 2 USA into the yellow submarine, allowing you to play as all four members of the Beatles, and the game's soundtrack is just Beatles songs done on nes hardware, it's such a treat.
You know what could Save the Musashi Reboot?
Making it an Anime Fighting Game, similar to Guilty Gear obviously with the Ps2 Intro Style instead of the KH Illustrator, i think it fits better
I read about the cancellation of Gun Loco once, and it's been stuck in my head ever since!
Wow, the disparity between the Musashi intro and the game is staggering. It was definitely possible to make a game as cool as that animation in the early 2000s. What the hell, Square?!
The gun loco “bean” is their organs. You can make out lungs, a liver, and some intestine
Just a wild guess, but the "bean" they drop looks like a tightly-packed, probably vacuum-sealed bunch of internal organs. To sell on the spot maybe?
How Comix Zone STILL hasn't gotten some kind of remaster/remake/revival-whatever all HD and hand-drawn 'n stuff will elude me for my entire life, *especially* after stellar games like Streets of Rage 4 and Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap!
Gun Loco looks like if you put Fortnite in a blender with Team Fortress 2, Devil’s Third, Gears of War, Saints Row and Anarchy Reigns, and was written by Tim and Eric
Damn, Musashi SL was very dissapointing for me, I loved the PS1 game, and when I booted up and saw that into and music I was very hyped... then the rest of the game happened, biggest offender I think is the music, outside of the HUB and a couple other tracks it's VERY forgettable, the PS1 game is one of my favourite OSTs. You should play it some day, the "model viewer" there are supposed to be toys of the characters and enemies but they completely different 3D models made to look like toys, very cool.
I got through a little of that game.... And sold it. The cover was the best thing about it. The plot didn't suck me in.
6:00 Bro, did you just say "Love Hyena?" I'm never not calling it that now. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"HRT is the way to be" -Pan Pizza circa 2022
3:36 its clearly their internal organs in a bean shape, you can se their lungs, liver, kidneys, intestines, and heart here
I wish Izuna and the sequel were localized. Her design is so cute. It's like Senran Kagura before it even was a thing.
Probably didn't sell so well to justify doing that.
they were already localized?
@@beat-man5167 Oh, yeah. It was for the PSP, right?
@@spiralgodking9877 Nintendo DS
@@SonyPWNsNintendont Oh, thanks.
Just wait until Gun Loco becomes canon in Kingdom Hearts 4.
"Freaking Shaman King-lookin' ass" Good to know I'm not the only one who saw a Yoh Asakura air to Musashi.
love this dude's writing and editing style