WURM: Journey to the Center of the Earth (NES) Playthrough
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- A playthrough of Asmik's 1991 action-adventure game for the NES, Wurm: Journey to the Center of the Earth.
It's the dawn of the twenty-first century, and a sudden and violent increase in seismic activity now threatens the existence of all life on the earth’s surface. People are left with no choice but to plumb the depths in a desperate bid to save the planet, and so a team of experts have developed a series of highly specialized subterranean vehicles known as Vazolders ("VZRs"), or Wurms.
Things got off to a promising start, but contact has since been lost with the first four VZR teams, and time is running out. It's now up to crew of the VRZ-5 to find out what happened.
You play as Moby (the captain of the VRZ-5 and daughter of the famous scientist/captain of the VZR-3) as she conducts her search over the course of five story-driven acts, and the gameplay regularly leaps between several styles. There are vertical auto-scrolling shoot 'em up stages, horizontal free-scrolling shooter sections that let you Go, Go, Gadget! your VZR into a tank or a jet whenever you want, first-person gallery shooter-style boss battles that incorporate RPG elements, and semi-linear platformer segments, and all of these segments are bookended by cinematic cutscenes that push the story forward.
The gameplay poses Wurm as a jack-of-all-trades, and while none of the modes are fleshed out well enough to carry the game on their own, they all support one another to form a game that feels consistently cohesive, unified, and thoughtfully designed.
The different story and characters aside, Wurm: Journey to the Center of the Earth feels like the polished up sequel to Golgo-13: Top Secret Episode ( • Golgo 13: Top Secret E... ) that The Mafat Conspiracy wanted to be (and should have been), and there's a very good reason for that: both Top Secret Mission and Wurm were created by Cyclone System under the direction of Shouichi Yoshikawa, who served as planner, director, and writer on both productions.
The games are structurally similar, but Wurm improves upon its predecessor's design in every conceivable way - the gameplay feels better on a mechanical level, and it, along with the story and the cinematic presentation, all go to great lengths to leverage the advantages of the medium to create an "experience." It doesn't feel like an action game with flashy cutscenes tossed in as an afterthought, nor does it feel like a movie shoehorned into a cartridge. It's the work of a man who had something important to say and who poured himself into his vision. In my many conversations with him, his passion for the game and what it meant to him bled through his every word, and his commitment to making something special certainly shows through in the end product.
If you happen to read this, I hope all is well with you, アンジェラさん!
It doesn't have AAA-level production values and it sports a few minor blemishes (as you'd expect from a game made by such a small team working at a company that nobody had ever heard of), but for anyone who doesn't mind sacrificing a bit of polish for substance and for a creative vision that isn't compromised by cynical corporate politicking - or for anyone who just wants a damned fun game that you'll remember long after you've finished it - I'd 100% recommend checking it out.
And if you ever picked up on Top Secret Mission's underlying tone of disdain for war and violence (especially in the message at the end that read, "Dedicated to all the children and the lost generation"), you'll instantly notice its thematic ties to Wurm. Framed like that, I personally think Golgo 13 and Wurm deserve to be held up and celebrated alongside stuff like Akira, Grave of the Fireflies, and Barefoot Gen. Not just as pieces of post-war Japanese media culture, but as authentic artistic expressions that pushed their medium in every way they knew how in order to make themselves heard.
It's kinda crazy to think that this was actually an NES game. I guess it goes to show how, with the right motivation, you can do a whole lot with very little.
(The Helen Keller joke at 21:39 is one of my favorite wtf NES moments. It gets me laughing every single time.)
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This game was actually in development with plans to release in 1989, but due to a bug with a 3D section, it took until 1991 to release.
That’s a hell of a bug
If you ever thought that The Mafat Conspiracy lacked the spark of the first Golgo 13 game, let me introduce you to the "proper" sequel, made by the same team who did Top Secret Episode.
theres no mistaking the target/scrolling, explosions, anime character dialogue
@@_MajorasShe also has a robot named G13.
This was a great game... Also couldn't stop starring when you make the main charater do a high kick.... sometimes you just can't help but stare
I LOVE this game. I remember renting it as a kid and the first time I booted it up and heard that theme song in the main menu it just blew me away. I have that song as my ring tone.
As a kid this one was over my head. But loved watching my big brother play it even though had no idea what was happening. Just knew they were drilling through the earth lol
A hidden gem if ever there was one.
The people on the cover of the NES game look like 80's punks, while the woman on the Japanese cover is depicted accurately.
Many such cases.
What an amazing game, i think the "box" turned me off years ago.
I like this version of Terra a lot better.
Also, music is awesome.
A friend of mine used to play that game.
Honestly, i've never give the properly attention.
It looks very good.
You can't damage the bosses until you have a long, long conversation about it. Well at least it's faithful to anime.
It's about as close to an epic fight scene from a shounen or seinen anime as you could possibly get on the NES.😂
A drill tank that turns into a ln aircraft. They planned this expedition well.
Just because you're going underground doesn't mean you shouldn't be ready to dogfight.
It reminds me of the airship in FF4.
Just one of those things where the game knows it's supposed to be anime, so underground dogfights are a given.
Sad they didn't have pirates, unless the lizards with the colorful hair were pirates.
I wasn't even aware this game existed when it came out, it was only 10 or so years later that I bought a used NES at a yard sale and started collecting for it and WURM was included in the shoebox of games they sold to me with it. By 1991 I had already sold my original NES off and moved on to the Genesis so most of the late lifecycle titles for it flew under my radar.
Huh. This game is...interesting. On one hand, it is a story-driven adventure that attempts to dip its toes into a handful of different genres...on the other, none of which are as fleshed out as a game with a better focus on a singular genre, but it's all the more unique because of this. Normally I'm a fan of games that take this kind of ambitious approach, but this game tries to do a little too much, wears itself a bit thin, and is way too short, even for an NES game. This is certainly no Blaster Master or The Guardian Legend but it does wear its heart on its sleeve, telling a surprisingly coherent narrative for its time.
Got this when I was but wee and later beat it in my teens, and it was definitely unlike any of the other games out there in all the best ways. Even with the terrible hitboxes in the FPS sequences. Thanks for playing this one!
Never would've noticed it as a kid, but Moby mentions detecting "trinitrite" in the ruins, which sounds like a nod to or mistranslation of trinitite. Nice touch to the anti-nuclear bit of the storyline if that's the case.
Played this game at a friends house and it blew my little mind! One game I wished I owned but never did.
Um dos melhores jogos que eu já joguei
Whoa still looks good i might actually play this if i had it . Glad that you do 🆒👍🏼
Very interesting.
Super video.
i always want to play this game and keep forgetting it excists
You should upload “Treasure of The Rudras (SNES/SFC Longplay)”
This is a NES version of a Master System game.
I loved it!
Do they both go by the same name?
RIP Armake21, just wanna say.
Feels like the guardian legend but with cutscenes.
Lovely. Pole. Yeah.
😃😃😃😃😃
I really like this, can I download it as a MP4 for offline watching, please?
Sure, go for it.
@@NintendoComplete Thank you :)
It seems that there are a lot of typos and misspellings in this game. Even Helen Keller's name and "descendants" are misspelled. Other than that, an okay game.
Sliped through the g point 😉
i love the game but the music at times is ear splitting at times
Its like master blaster, but with ear piercing sound fx, and crappier game play
33:28 - Was the romance *REALLY* necessary in this game?
Played this game as a kid. Did beat it with Game Genie but it was still challenging at best but even thought the ending was nice & all but wasn’t a fan of the heroine’s Boyfriend DYING! That was sad to see.
Especially when she's the one that kills him
@@NintendoComplete She had no choice due to the fact what the enemies had done to him. Brainwashed him to be Evil & took out his Brain. That was SICK!! The Final boss was a challenge thought.
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What is “WURM?”
I miss attractive women on games.