Konami's Devil May Cry ✗ Wizard of Oz Fanfic Fever Dream
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#konami #devilmaycry #wizardofoz - Ігри
didn't expect the Kozmo jumpscare, you gotta put a warning on that
Gentlemen, we've spotted the next archetype archive.
I look forward to watching it in 20XX
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Why is there a train player here
Didn't know that cvit still corresponding with Yugitubers all these years later
Funfact: The juggling system did get a slight reprise in Castlevania: Curse of Darkness, where you can press an attack button after launching an enemy to have your summoned demon follow it up with an extra attack (unless they're a non-combat type). It's nowhere near as indepth and I don't know if there's a way to keep the combo going afterwards, but it's very clear it's using the same idea and lifeblood, since both are PS2 Konami games that came out the same year and even have the same composer. Luckily though the combat in CV:CoD is very smooth and responsive, so juggling doesn't feel necessary. That's also a game that has a ton of bonus secrets and really neat design decisions, so I recommend playing it if you haven't.
Ill have to give it a chance!
Really bugs me Konami never did a PS2 classics release of Curse of Darkness like they did for Lament of Innocence. I played LoI for the first time a few years back and was really blown away with how good the combat was for a 2003 game since this was before DMC3 and such. I mean it's jank as hell in a lot of ways, but, still really fun and there are some fun boss fights (especially the final boss.) Always hear good things about Curse as well and I really wanna check it out.
Still holding out hope they'll do ports of the 3D games when they're done with the 2D ones.
holy shit, its Hakita
Unexpected that you're here
juggling systems in combat are always so fun
I was drawn to this game and Nanobreaker after playing the PS2 Castlevanias, as they both use the same engine and this game's music is also from the endlessly based Michiru Yamane. Now I'm just wondering why in the hell Nanobreaker was the one that came out in the West, and not this. And now Konami is a punchline.
Tbh Nanobreaker aint that bad of a game . Its rather something like a Tech-demo or a game the didnt get enough time to be fleshed out and polished enough .
Oh man, Nanobreaker. I remember playing a demo of that one, it looked so good for its time and the gameplay didn't seem that bad. Same thing with Sword Of Etheria. Both games are big "what-ifs", in my opinion.
This could ha been Amazing in the west
Nanobreaker was one of the first games I got for PS2 and I remember being so impressed by the graphics and how "realistic" it looked. I haven't seen the game since then and I think I won't just to preserve that memory 😅.
I read this in you voice. Neat.
Wonderland gets so oversaturated in media that people completely ignore how ripe the Oz books are for taking inspiration to use in your works and that to be quite frank much of the themes that using Oz would bring to your setting could be far more tailored to the story you're trying to tell than Wonderland.
Fr, the oz books have such varied and crazy topics settings and characters that its almost a disservice to just focus on the Dorothy needs to get home story
Even American McGee was going to make an adaptation at one point.
I'm shocked Austin Eruption didn't talk about Sword of Etheria in his Devil May Cry Clones video. It's one of Konami's most underrated one-shot games next to Shadows of Destiny and Nanobreaker. Fiel is definitely the bastard sibling of Nero and Ichigo(all voiced by Johnny Yong Bosch in English), but the guy who made this game obviously had an affection over The Wizard of Oz and Devil May Cry; Sword of Etheria released not that long after Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater, Silent Hill 4 The Room(Oh hai, Mark), and around the same time as the Castlevania GBA trilogy wrapped up and transitioned to the DS titles. Same goes with a plethora of games from Capcom releasing in the year 2005 such as Devil May Cry 3 Dante's Awakening, Resident Evil 4, Haunting Ground, Onimusha II, and Mega Man Battle Network(the last two, possibly). Either way, it's best to check out Sword of Etheria on the official PS2 emulator PSXSP(I think?); after all, Konami didn't remaster and preserve this forgotten masterpiece of the mid 2000s.
Oh hai doggie~
Pcsx2 is the emulator
@@ice1638 Yeah, gotcha.
uploads the save files 😭literally the goat
The PS2 has some a lot of obscure library of games,and looking at these amazing titles here just makes me want to play my PS2 now.
I legit found out about this game only because Konami decided to include its OP in a DDR home console release. The same way I found out about Gurren Lagann, Time Hollow, Castlevania Curse of Darkness, and that fever dream of an anime Sky Girls.
Big shame that we no longer get games like this anymore
The juggling mechanic looks fun
Back when games took risks and introduce to many selection of games. Now, its mostly the same.
Hifi rush has a mechanic that's *kind of* like the juggling
@Knox no wonder morden gaming feels fucking boring.
Doesn't just look fun, is my favorite Volleyball game of all time
DMC5's cameo system and ghost data substitute felt like beta test to iterate into future games. Here's hoping 6 will fill the niche.
You know I never thought about it but yeah Konami really likes Wizard of Oz. They also had a reference to the story in silent hill as well, 3 keys you have to collect named "Key of Lion", "Key of woodman" and "key of scarecrow".
I loved it when game companies just released games like this, they took risks and made complete games with bonuses and secrets, all of the bonuses you mentioned would've been sold as DLC nowadays and most likely a game like this wouldn't be made because it's not a remake or an established franchise or series.
fun fact you can kill the final boss by pouring water on your PS2
What?
OZ's soundtrack is an absolute banger. One of those soundtracks I had recorded on a CD to have on my Sony Walkman. You can definitely feel that Castlevania DNA shining through.
The way I discover this game was interesting. I was playing a DDR game with my friend, when we were teenagers, this is around 2007. And we kept playing this certain song because it really hit and we noticed that during the song the cinematics were WAY too good for just a DDR song, we started doing some research, and discovered this was a legit game, and the name captured us. OZ, and were we barely able to find gameplay but it fascinated us that this "song" was an actual game. We manage to get a modded PS2 from mexico and just played "OZ" as we called and just try to figure our way around the this game. Such a cool discovery, being teens and just diving into a little mystery, not a care in the world and trying to play this cool game.
Same! Polovtsian Dances & Chorus from DDR SuperNOVA!
This game was in a music video for a song on DDR!
“Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high, there is a land that I’ve heard of, once in a lullaby”
- Dorothy
Imagining this as a sort of Sonic Heroes/Devil May Cry mash-up that easily fixes team up attacks with three party members by passing enemies. They're even color coordinated like Heroes. Now imagining this as Shadow the Hedgehog if it kept the Heroes' mechanics instead of just ripping character models from game.
This has so much potential😤😤
This game looks dope. I miss the whole PS2 era, so many seemingly random IPs just brought to life out of thin air.
I suddenly remember this game about 5 months ago because I was playing Ape Escape 3 and one of the levels played ''Polovtsian Dances'', which made me instantly travel to the past remembering when I first played this hidden gem. Great Video as always Cvit and thanks for sharing the saves files
always reminds me of rahxephon that song i love it
You are literally my favorite channel for trying to find and give a chance to obscure action games (this game, Gungrave, Shinobi,/Kunoichi, Bujingai). Literally bought a physical copy of this and got this emulated after watching, and although it has some faults, I'm having a blast. Keep up the great work man and thanks for the save!
@@o_uwu_o cool channel, I’ll check it out
you had me sold at the nier praise, but saying jyb voices the protag instantly made me need this game
Thank you Cvit for recommending these awesome obscure games. I've never heard of Sword of Etheria, but it looks amazing. Shame it never got a NA release; thank God for emulation.
21:50 I think NEO The World Ends With You is pretty similar to this. You combo enemies , until a beat gauge appear then you change characters to continue the combo.
damn homie, if this video came out a month ago, I could have asked Johnny Yong Bosch in person why he and the others were uncredited in this game lol
I remember buying this game on the basis of awesome looking characters on the back of the cover, I had no Internet could not get a review or even see the game in motion, but when I finally played it never looked back had no regrets, unlocked all endings and content within the game. ❤😊
I feel like sound tests used to be very common in games. They definitely stopped after a while, though.
Babe wake up, new Cvit obscure ps2 action game review dropped
Now that you mentioned El Shaddai i expect a video on that too one day
The Hifi Rush comparison blew my mind way more than it should've. The combo system had me thinking more of valkyrie profile.
Rumors of playin' as other characters really do bring back memories.
The Roxas ones were def built off of how his playable dual wield moveset is exclusive to one boss lol
Also did not expect the Super Sentai gag level holy shit....ga.
I remember finding "The Three of Us! Let's Fight!" off of this game's OST years ago, loving to listen to it for the months following that, and never looking into the game itself since I honestly assumed it was some standard turn based RPG for some reason. Guess I've learned my lesson: if I hear a banger, learn about its source.
BRO, SOMEONE IS FINALLY TALKING ABOUT THIS GEM?????????
YEEEEEEESSSSS
I didn't know this game was underrated though,usually was just strolling through the game back then because i want something to play after Castlevania CoD and Onimusha series back in mid 2000's
i was just rewatching your ps2 action game vids last night, so happy to see a new one :D
I loved this game when it first released, the characters' armors blew my mind at the time and i spent hours trying to emulate the style in my own drawings.
20:34 Gungrave Overdose has that. It's one of the unlockables I got after beating Kick Ass difficulty.
no soul should suffer through that game on kick ass difficulty with that as a reward
Thanks for this video and makes me want to play it. It makes sense both this game and Devil May Cry 3 came out in same year especially chapter intro. DMC 3 did mission intro within cutscenes.
That save file thing was really generous of you. 😊
Devil of Oz
1:48 thats some REAL sound design right there
This game is one of my favorite games of all time, thanks for covering it! I look it up every couple of months hoping of some news about a remake. Hopefully one day!
So many of these games you review look so freaking sick, and I always get my hear broken at "never released in the U.S."
Ah, the Sword of Etheria, this, Chaos Legion, and Castlevania: Lament of Innocence, were always those games I really wanted to try out once I've heard about them but sadly couldn't because of lack of PS2 by the time learn of their existance.
Chaos legion is absolutely terrible. Don't play it
I played all three of those within the last 2 years. Nice.
@@morkgin2459 why is it (Chaos Legion) terrible exactly? I played it and beat it. It was okay.
@@bustergundo516 because of level design and enemy.
Yet again, the must play/try nostalgia games are hitting my heart and loving it ❤ You are a fave Cvit 🕺
As soon as I saw the title I knew exactly what game you were referring to. OZ was one of my favorite PS2 imports back in the 2000's. My then girlfriend and I saw the trailer for this game online and we loved the music and concepts, so we got it as soon as it came out. Somehow we managed to get all of the extra content even though we were playing in Japanese (there were GameFaqs fortunuately). But in any case, imagine our disappointment when it was released in Europe as "Sword of Etheria" and we realized we could have played in English. It makes me sad that my ex and I never did our cosplays of Dorothy and Feel.
Awesome work. People need to be more aware of this game. It is truly unique. Thanks for covering it!
old guilty gear games let's you listen to the ost and character voices seperately, even the seperate takes for each as well
Wow this game. It looks good for a PS2 game NGL and those character portraits are beautiful. plus that power ranger bit is super funny.
I learned about this game from a song on DDR. Then I learned it wasn't released in the US.😢
The premise alone makes this so game so interesting, but it also has beautiful art, music and gameplay! I need to try this out someday and when I do, I will keep your save file in mind!
So Dorothy mode is just like playing as Dracula X's Maria Renard, the little bonus kid who nukes all the bad guys.
20:35
The earlier Guilty Gear and BlazBlue games have a feature really similar to this one. You can listen to every character's voice lines (in both Japanese and English in the case of BlazBlue).
There’s a game called Genokids which is similar to this game in many ways. You might want to check the demo today
The mode with Dorothy is a nod or continuation of what they did in Dracula X with Maria in making her overpowered.
This game being PAL only hurts, though I'm glad it has 60hz selectable at least, and softmodding exists, so hey
That is a god damn lot of bonus content. Can't think of any other game with so much extra stuff
I've been meaning to play this for around a year or two, I'll definitely get to it eventually
Great video mate!
The Wizard of Oz bros are winning rn
I must play! Tnk you for the video dude, you're the best!
Woo, Hi Fi Rush mention!!
Heyyyyyyyy love the vids whenever they come out, only thing I wish for is more berserk cause bro I love when you talk about it, love the vids keep it up
Michiru Yamane is probably the bst soundtrack composer in existence.
Aah, The Sword of Etheria. Now that was something special. I had a blast playing it, this time last year. it One of my most enjoyed games from when i got back to the hack & slash of old. Also, It perfectly represents the PS2 gen Gotta love the edge!
It had a lot of love in it, sadly it didn't have enough time in the oven. It could have been double the fun (and half tthe frustration) with a few tweaks.
I was trying to remember the name of this game where your enemies played as volleyballs, thank you Cvlt!
Dude, is your thumb ok?
Jokes aside, awesome video, didn't know about this game, I definitely gotta try it out!
its my favourite time of the month, Cvit video time
OH MY GOD i literally spent months trying to remember or find this game, i played the shit out of this game and for the life of i just couldn't remember it's name wow ...
Thanks man you brought me back so many memories
this game was different but the music always hit the way it needed to.
Good shit dawg keep up the good work
Another great video!
Considering I really like nier and kingdom hearts I’d probably like this game to
love this game, what a gem. I wasnt aware of the sentai content, thats pretty neat for a funny extra
Never actually played this game but was always interested in it because of DDR Extreme 2 using it in one of their song's music videos.
literally only knew this game because it had the song "Polovtsian Dances and Chorus" in DDR Extreme, lol
It's cutscenes from the game.
Huh
The way Dorothy plays somehow reminds me of Maria from Castlevania Rondo of Blood
Discovered this game by playing Dance Dance Revolution Extreme 2, there's a song there were the gameplay plays on the screen, almost went mad trying to find the game.
wow after all these years, I finally learn the name of the game when I was playing a song from it on Dance dance revolution.
I definitely have seen this game somewhere before and add it to my ps2 backlog that is much more urgent than my regular one
another weird 2000's era PS2 game was Forever Kingdom
And then later for Xbox 350/PS3 came Enchanted Arms, which, like DMC4 and this Konami game here, also featured a white haired protagonist with a demonic arm
Japan sure loves that trope
omg - first track and I left a sub. finally someone who appreciates the real nier - and have taste.
I remember hawking the heck out of this game when it was first mentioned, during my 3 year in college. Their website actually had downloadable music to promote the game, as well as wallpapers that were pretty large by that time. I never did get this game and I regretted not getting into it at the time.
I want to play this so bad... I'm not really big into emulation, but this has got me tempted.
Either that or importing a PAL PS2
I recommend it.
I just now realized your pfp is guts faceapp smiling
Nice I'm not the only one who knows this game
So this is where my Kozmo support went...
Well it beats pendulum disney era shit
As an American I only knew this existed through Dance Dance Revolution when Konami use to try and hype up PS2 games through the series
I waited for the release so I could try it out
Been waiting a long time
I’m planning on streaming this game thanks to you! I’ve asked my friends to guess what it is but I bet they can’t. I’ve wanted to know what it was for years. Just wish DDR would have told me what the name of it was so I could have looked into it sooner.
the neir music is strangly fitting
Ah I remember this game. I saw a Japanese promo video on it prior to its release, found the concept interesting and then heard nothing about it.
It’s nice to finally hear someone talk about it.
Awesome Video
Thank you for solving the origins of a DDR song from my childhood
I noticed in the clips of the credits that there's a section for "Zako Program" after "Boss Program", that is very telling about the localization priorities ("zako" is a very japanese term for regular enemies). If they didn't bother translating the credits properly I'm not surprised they didn't bother updating the name info in them either.
I loved games that were like devil may cry. Chaos Legion was a huge part of my child hood. I just love action rpgs. I wanted to play this game and ended up emulating it to try it . And I wanted it but couldn't find it.
I am glad someone is giving this game some attention. I beat it last year and enjoyed it.
"...the closest thing to capturing and scratching the same itch that the vibes the original Nier had"
I'm instantly sold. I have to play this. Thanks.
The 2000-2010 was the decade of dark emo existencialist japanese games with rock and anime characters with that cold ambient being replaced with the power of friendship and weird control settings of weird cool mechanics
My first ever game on console, finally seeing someone talk about it.
Did you enjoy it?
now this is mayking the devils cry boys
The Kozmo mention shook me to my core
Wake up babe, new Cvit video just dropped
You could probably play replicant's soundtrack over anything and I'll think at least a bit higher of it.
Edit: So this game has some stuff similar to Nier, I'm sold.