My favorite thing about Super Heroes is how the story changes majorly depending on not only which character you pick, but also the difficulty you pick. Like how everyone is basically a Saturday morning cartoon character in easy mode but on harder difficulties the plot starts becoming more complex and the villains start becoming morally grey and even the plot twists are different. Super Heroes and Astro Boy: Omega Factor show that when they actually care to Treasure can do some really interesting things with game stories.
You probably dont care at all but does anybody know a way to get back into an Instagram account? I was dumb forgot the account password. I appreciate any help you can offer me.
Daniel Ibbertson , they just announced it on their Facebook page. Here; m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1667651563547066&substory_index=0&id=1439562533022638. 😆
I bought this game when it came out and it was amazing... pretty much a perfect 16-bit action game. One of the things that really impressed me about it is the amount of random calls the devs included with the boss battles. Their patterns and the order of attacks would randomly change with every fight, so you had a slightly different experience each time you fought the same boss! You think you've gotten the boss' pattern down to a t? Nope, it's different the next time! This was an incredible feature and is one thing that not enough people bring up when talking about this masterpiece.
Love me some Gunstar Heroes. Probably the best purchase I've made for the system. Always wanted it as a kid and only got to play it once. Got my own copy about 15 years ago and it's never leaving my possession. Treasure are videogame magicians. Working on a vid about one of their games now if I ever get done editing it.
Had a family vacation when I was in high school, and I remember being in love with Gunstar Super Heroes (I played the original on Sega when I was much younger and loved that one too). I actually decided to go through the game and beat it with every single weapon and weapon combination; including only melee. That was some good fun. Gunstar Heroes is still one of my favorite games. Over the last Christmas season, I actually played it with my dad on the Switch, and he was like "Wow, I remember this game, we played the crap out of it when you were a kid." :D
Another great video. Loved Gunstar Heroes on the Genesis and recently picked it up in 3D on the Nintendo 3DS. I never knew there was a GBA sequel Thanks for dropping some serious knowledge!
Only really discovered your channel yesterday & I'm hooked. Lost count of how many of your videos I've seen already, starting with the history of Shinobi, one of my favourite IP's of all time. The nostalgia I'm getting from these videos is too much, but I love it. And loving your amazing, well put together & insightful videos. Keep up the good work.
Ahh Gunstar Heroes :) I never did own this game personally, but my friends across the street did when we were kids. We finished it one sitting and moved onto Dashin' Desperadoes. Then we went back to my place and played Streets of Rage 1 and 2. We had a lot of great times growing up playing games in one sitting from that point on, Gunstar Heroes was the literal the start of it.
Gunstar Future Heroes has got some absolutely jaw-droppingly good graphics for a GBA game. Like yourself Dan, despite being a Megadrive owner back in the day, the original somehow passed me by and the GBA version was my first experience of this great series. If you're a Treasure fan, I'd highly, highly recommend checking out Astro Boy: Omega Factor on the GBA, it's equally just as stunning looking and also plays great too.
My brother and I found the game at a convention center event after the game released. It was one of the best games on the Genesis/MegaDrive. Our friends were mostly Nintendo kids, and this game got them wanting to come to OUR house to play.
Downloaded this from the Nintendo Virtual Store on my New 3DS XL, absolutely awesome. It's also in 3D, and personally think it plays well in 3D on the New 3DS.
ColonelSandwich They're quasi-prequels. Guardian Heroes takes place in the distant past while Advance Guardian Heroes takes place centuries later, closer to the time of Gunstar Heroes. Both GH and GSH feature characters named Gray (Kanon the Gray and Emperor Gray) who share somewhat similar fates. Kanon builds Golden Silver who, of course, is the ultimate boss in Gunstar Heroes. Randy's master in Guardian Heroes is called Mannon F. Brown. Professor Brown from Gunstar Heroes is likely his descendant. Furthermore, a younger Professor Brown also appears in Advance Guardian Heroes.
Saturn Memories I find it cool that they linked both of those games up in a coherent manner. What's next, Ikaruga is actually followup to Radiant Silvergun?! Wait a minute...
ColonelSandwich It's not, the characters he mentioned are like how Cid ends up being in every Final Fantasy game. They're just in jokes for fans of the game. Guardian heroes is in no way set in the Gunstar universe.
I didn't discover it until I bought Super Gunstar Heores on a whim for GBA as a teenager. Inspired me to dig up many of Treasures previous master pieces (especially Alien Soldier/Sin and Punishment), and the original. Good times. Lol SEGA began to "royally fuck it up," couldn't have said it better. Really happy there was at least one person at SEGA with good taste and an eye for talent though. Another great video.
+Gene Starwind cheers gene. I didn't go into to much detail as that sega fucking it up story has been covered to death. Awesome that you discovered the series after the sequel :)
My fave Genesis game, period! My friends and I would stay up all night having tournaments beating it over and over and over until we were forced to go to bed. And that soundtrack.....omg!
Picked this up from Blockbuster when I was a kid. Did not know what I was getting but when me and my friends started this game man we couldn't believe what we were seeing. This game did things we did not think possible on the Genesis. One of the best games ever made.
I wish more people would know that the design for the boss Pink and her two henchman are inspired by the anime's villain Grandis and her two henchman (Sanson & Hanson) from Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water.
another brilliant review!! I picked up gunstar in high school (around 1999-2000) at a Gamestop and my friends and I have beaten it countless times!! fixed shot + fire + homing = happiness
Me and my brothers rented it so many times from our local games store that our mother bought it for us in the Christmas 1993. I remember countless hours playing it, it was and still is an amazing game. I still have this game complete with box and manual from 1993 in my collection.
Very well done. Like you, I completely missed Gunstar Heroes the first time around. On top of that, the game didn't click with me the first few times I played it. I knew it was good, but I couldn't see why it was great. I went back to it, and it suddenly became amazing to me, which was great since I love amazing Genesis/Mega Drive games. I'm glad I saw what so many others do. It's so true about the different play styles it allows too. I seem to be in the minority, but I much prefer fixed shot. Free shot has its upside, but I found boss fights to be maddening without fixed, so I insist on that. I had no prior experience with the series when the GBA game came out, but I had the good sense to listen to reviews and recommendations and picked it up when it was new, also in support of Sega publishing games of that sort. It stayed in my backlog for a while, but I ended up really loving it when I got around to it. Incidentally, I finally got to it right after playing one of the Metal Slug games.
Gunstar heroes is an all time classic for me. But honestly, Gunstar Super Heroes.. it stands at the very same level for me. Why? Mainly because Gunstar Heroes original itself gave me some forever memorable experiences and holy hell did I work myself up to beat the max difficulty. Now why don't I argue about Gunstar Super Heroes? Because honestly, while the original is more well rounded in levels, this one makes uip for it in game play fluency. The bosses are the biggest joy to fight of almost any game I ever played, specially in the hardest difficulty. In that difficulty, I had the most *epic* battles of all time *EVER*, on which not only was the epicness coming from the soundtrack, the boss itself, the situation, no, it was the skills required, the gameplay itself made it feel like I was doing the impossible. The fight with Seven Force keeps you on your toes on the hardest difficulty, and it requires deep knowledge of the super guns to beat, as in when to use them to maximum effect and how to charge them effectively. Trying to mow down Seven Force in any iteration with simple gun blasts in the hardest difficulty is like trying to cut steel with a knife. Yet it is the last round of bosses before the fight with Golden Silver reborn which is the most epic and fun of all, as it requires for you to have absolute control of the fluency of movement. You have to be precise and abuse the movemt dashes of ALL your attacks, be it dahes, jump kicks, wall kicks, you need all of them and you need to execute them perfectly to beat the bosses. It was the biggest yet most fun challenge I had had in any game ever and thats why I can overlook the bland enemy segments and the helicopter segment.. ugh.. main reason I don't really let it win over Gunstar Heroes.. In any case, that game gave me the most memorable epic battles I ever had, and it will remain in a pedestal with his predecesor for all time for it in my book.
I stumbled across your channel the other day because i was feeling nostalgic. I am so glad you have so much more, especially this one. This is one of the last games I remember me and all my brothers playing together before we all grew up. Your channel is a whole vibe ✌
man, Gunstar Heroes was easily my favorite Genesis game of all time! that's definitely one game I regret ever getting rid of... I have it on Wii Virtual Console but I definitely miss my original copy. (oh and also on Steam after SEGA gave it away earlier this year as part of a promotion.) I also had the GBA sequel but can't for the life of me figure out where my old system and games disappeared to :( It did feel more like a remake of the original than a straight-up sequel but that doesn't make it any less of a good game!! this was a great video and it's making me want to fire it up again later!
I just realized Treasure are the crazy guys that made that japan exclusive N64 game Sin and Punishment! I downloaded that from the wii's virtual console. crazy!
I don’t remember how I required it, but this is one game for the Sega Genesis, that I as a kid owned and loved playing it. A lot of action, a lot of tension, and the screen never really slowed down too much when it was filled up with all the characters and explosions and things moving around, but I liked all four of the starter levels. I definitely liked how you could switch up the different weapon modes to create different ways of firing your weapon. And to me, probably one of the best video games soundtracks for the Sega Genesis, hands down. It obviously might have been techno type music because the game was spacey and action packed and all that stuff, but not only was each song so creatively and impressively put together, it’s like every single individual song told its own story. So I have a ‘favorites’ West on here, on UA-cam, which is my general song list, and I’m like a lot of my other friends who would probably have thousands of songs from several albums of some of the same bands, depending on my taste in music, like how the music itself actually sounds or the beat of the song or the band that I like, my music list is filled up with random songs and it’s about 150 songs or less that I just repetitively listen to every day and I never get tired of it. But a handful of those songs are songs from other video game soundtracks overtime, to name a handful….Sonic the Hedgehog 1, 2, 3 and Sonic and Knuckles, Castlevania’s 1 and 2, Fester’s Quest, F-Zero, the 1st and 3rd Mortal Kombat games, Silent Hill’s 1-4, Intelligent Qube, 3 Xtreme, and several other songs from other earlier video games in my childhood but the ones that really stood out to me, and the ones I mentioned above or just a handful. This game though, had one of those soundtracks that I enjoy listening to whenever I come to a track from this game on my favorites list because I always shuffle it.
Gunstar Heros is also available on Xbox 360 thru Xbox Live & Xbox One thru backwards-compatibility of the former. Don't miss out on this brilliant classic!
ben owen to each his own. I get what you're saying but my comment wasn't just for you. not everybody cares about the old hardware. That said the steam Genesis games are pretty close to the real deal. it's just a little more convenient.
My dad and I would spend whole days playing gunstar heros and sunset riders when I was little. This us my favorite game of all time and I think it always will be
I just recently found out about gunstar heroes while flipping through old Game Informers I had from the early 2000s. They had had a whole flashback article on it. I actually found a lot of cool retro games in those flashback sections they used to have in the back of the magazine...
I love Gunstar Heroes! One of my all time favorite Genesis games! I liked the GBA sequel as well. Never played the Game gear port... The bad guy in red sure does look a lot like M.Bison of SF II...
5:41 brings back so many memories of going to Toys R Us and bringing those games slips to the cash register to pick up my game. Anyways, I bought Gunstar Heroes for my 3DS and it's so much fun! Also, in 3D, which I personally think looks really nice.
I got a copy of this from a lady that my mother worked with. She basically gave me this with a few others and a couple 6 pads. I cant remember the other games she gave me, but I remembered this one, and loved it.This with sonic was def my fall back on game on the genesis.
Unfortunately, I was 2 or 3 years old when I played this game with my brother. My memory is very fuzzy, but I generally remember being scared of this game for some reason. When I became 6 years old, me and my brother revisited this gem and it was a blast. Best Sega Shoot em' up game hands down.
I was so lucky as a kid. I had both SNES, and Mega Drive. I had this game on launch. It was one of the best games. So many hours pumped into it. I regret whatever happened to my collection :/ Leaving home is a killer looking back...
Gunstar Heroes is like the River City Ransom of the Genesis. I used to rent this all the time. Best weapon combo was the green heatseeker upgrade with the laser beam. It would just melt enemies.
Had SEGA heavily advertised this game, I think it would have been really huge. I heard it was tucked away in their booth on a 19 inch monitor at one of the shows before it came out. Sad. I hope there's another sequel from Treasure in the works.
Screw it, Gunstar Heroes is a better game than Metal Slug. Like you Dan I only found out about it when I bought a second Mega Drive in 2008. It came with the console I think. Great game. It's prequel/spin-off game Guardian Heroes is pretty terrific as well.
Even though I've never played the original on the Sega Genesis, I did buy a copy of the reboot for the Game Boy Advance, and I played it nonstop until I was able to beat the final boss.
Isn't Alien Soldier a spiritual sequel to Gunstar Heroes? It has a lot of similar stuff (weapons are pretty much the same for example) and it also focuses on the most exciting part of GH - the boss battles. Gunstar Super Heroes is more like a reimagining of the original game.
Very nice video Daniel, excellent work. There also one more game that was not directly related but heavily influenced by this series, Gunners Heaven / Rapid Reload on the PS1. It reviewed poorly in the early 'everything must be 3D' PlayStation days but it's another gem for sure.
I don't think it would be as popular a video, but a Complete History of the Shining series (the one that started with Shining in the Darkness, on the Megadrive) would be really cool. ;) Great episode, by the way!
congrat-u-fucking-lations on an amazing channel. Seriously. Just when I thought everything was on youtube I went on a binge on this channel. You found a missing hole and your passion for the the old games is outstanding. I got into gaming when my mum programmed educational games for me on the ZX spectrum and to listen to a guy who talks about the old days makes my nerd hairs tingle.Just when I thought everything was on youtube I found your channel. Hats off sir,..
I was lucky to try this as a kid shortly after release, granted also had not herd of it but neighbour friend got it & was instantly a favourite multiplayer title for both of us!
I wonder what it was that Producer #13 saw that the other's didn't? I'll admit that this game didn't grab me the first time I picked it up, but I really grew to love it not long after.
thank you so much for being a UA-camr making these great videos keep up the good work and keep up the good work because you are 1 of the few UA-camrs that come out with frequent gold
5 YEARS OLD I WAS SNES DUDE ALL DAY BUT MY BOY DOWN THE STREET HAD THIS FOR THE GENESIS AND WE USED TO PLAY ALL THE TIME.THEN IN OUR 20'S WE DOWNLOADED IT FOR THE WII FOR OLD TIMES AND HAD OUR KIDS PLAY IT
I think the SNES game that comes closest to replicating the chaos of Gunstar Heroes is Rendering Ranger R2. It's rare and expensive unless you use repros, but it's worth trying out.
7 Force = 7 original members of Treasure? Just occurred to me. Great review! (They later did Gradius V, favored by Shmup fans as the best of the series!)
Very underrated channel. This game looks AMAZING, never heard of it before watching your vid. Also, as a fellow DJ, I would love to see some videos on vinyl from you. Been collecting the black crack for 23 years myself. Cheers from San Diego.
Superb video Daniel. You've got to love the run n' gun genre and Gunstar Heroes is definitely one of the standouts. Have you ever played Rapid Reload on the ps1? it's very much a Gunstar clone but a really enjoyable one at that. I'm glad you covered the gba title as I've always felt it was criminally overlooked. Any chance of a retrospective covering the Contra series? it's always been my favourite run n' gunner series and the Megadrive title was always a bit of a standout for me and yes I did like it more than Gunstar Heroes.
One thing you didn't mention, is the fact that the last boss of Gunstar Heroes ... is also in Guardian Heroes. That Weird Silver/Gold Robot existed in two versions there ... one with the 4 Crystals floating around and one without. And even better, you cold select both in the Multiplayer mode ;p
My favorite thing about Super Heroes is how the story changes majorly depending on not only which character you pick, but also the difficulty you pick. Like how everyone is basically a Saturday morning cartoon character in easy mode but on harder difficulties the plot starts becoming more complex and the villains start becoming morally grey and even the plot twists are different.
Super Heroes and Astro Boy: Omega Factor show that when they actually care to Treasure can do some really interesting things with game stories.
You probably dont care at all but does anybody know a way to get back into an Instagram account?
I was dumb forgot the account password. I appreciate any help you can offer me.
@Alex Keenan instablaster :)
What a bizarre place to post this question. Even more strange you actually got it answered lol
I do not remember a difficulty setting for gunstar heroes
Data Discs is releasing the soundtrack to Gunstar Heroes on vinyl as their next release. Can't wait.
+Bones Jackson are they? How did u know that?
Daniel Ibbertson , they just announced it on their Facebook page. Here; m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1667651563547066&substory_index=0&id=1439562533022638. 😆
How did I miss this? Holy smokes!
I bought this game when it came out and it was amazing... pretty much a perfect 16-bit action game. One of the things that really impressed me about it is the amount of random calls the devs included with the boss battles. Their patterns and the order of attacks would randomly change with every fight, so you had a slightly different experience each time you fought the same boss! You think you've gotten the boss' pattern down to a t? Nope, it's different the next time! This was an incredible feature and is one thing that not enough people bring up when talking about this masterpiece.
Love me some Gunstar Heroes. Probably the best purchase I've made for the system. Always wanted it as a kid and only got to play it once. Got my own copy about 15 years ago and it's never leaving my possession. Treasure are videogame magicians. Working on a vid about one of their games now if I ever get done editing it.
I'll never get over how impressive the Game Gear version was for the system. To crunch that thing down to the handheld was mindboggling
+Blast Processing defo, the game gear version is damn good all things considered
Had a family vacation when I was in high school, and I remember being in love with Gunstar Super Heroes (I played the original on Sega when I was much younger and loved that one too). I actually decided to go through the game and beat it with every single weapon and weapon combination; including only melee. That was some good fun. Gunstar Heroes is still one of my favorite games. Over the last Christmas season, I actually played it with my dad on the Switch, and he was like "Wow, I remember this game, we played the crap out of it when you were a kid." :D
this game was one of my favorites of the genesis era - loved it
Another great video. Loved Gunstar Heroes on the Genesis and recently picked it up in 3D on the Nintendo 3DS. I never knew there was a GBA sequel Thanks for dropping some serious knowledge!
Only really discovered your channel yesterday & I'm hooked. Lost count of how many of your videos I've seen already, starting with the history of Shinobi, one of my favourite IP's of all time. The nostalgia I'm getting from these videos is too much, but I love it. And loving your amazing, well put together & insightful videos. Keep up the good work.
Ahh Gunstar Heroes :)
I never did own this game personally, but my friends across the street did when we were kids. We finished it one sitting and moved onto Dashin' Desperadoes. Then we went back to my place and played Streets of Rage 1 and 2. We had a lot of great times growing up playing games in one sitting from that point on, Gunstar Heroes was the literal the start of it.
Gunstar Future Heroes has got some absolutely jaw-droppingly good graphics for a GBA game. Like yourself Dan, despite being a Megadrive owner back in the day, the original somehow passed me by and the GBA version was my first experience of this great series. If you're a Treasure fan, I'd highly, highly recommend checking out Astro Boy: Omega Factor on the GBA, it's equally just as stunning looking and also plays great too.
My brother and I found the game at a convention center event after the game released. It was one of the best games on the Genesis/MegaDrive. Our friends were mostly Nintendo kids, and this game got them wanting to come to OUR house to play.
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Gunstar Heroes is a special one for me: I don't even like run and gun games, and yet I think this is one of the best games I've ever played.
+ReloadPsi exactly the same for the time. It was so good it made me wanna find more games like it
You can find 3D Gunstar Heroes on 3DS for a little price and... still AWESOME. :)
I own it, the 3D effects in the game are fantastic.
Kurt Irving I FULLY AGREE
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Downloaded this from the Nintendo Virtual Store on my New 3DS XL, absolutely awesome. It's also in 3D, and personally think it plays well in 3D on the New 3DS.
The music in this game always got to me in a good way. The end-credit and pre-end credit music always gave the feels
The music was so good
It's worth mentioning that Guardian Heroes and Advance Guardian Heroes are set within the Gunstar Heroes universe.
Huh, that's pretty interesting. How?
ColonelSandwich They're quasi-prequels. Guardian Heroes takes place in the distant past while Advance Guardian Heroes takes place centuries later, closer to the time of Gunstar Heroes. Both GH and GSH feature characters named Gray (Kanon the Gray and Emperor Gray) who share somewhat similar fates. Kanon builds Golden Silver who, of course, is the ultimate boss in Gunstar Heroes. Randy's master in Guardian Heroes is called Mannon F. Brown. Professor Brown from Gunstar Heroes is likely his descendant. Furthermore, a younger Professor Brown also appears in Advance Guardian Heroes.
Saturn Memories I find it cool that they linked both of those games up in a coherent manner. What's next, Ikaruga is actually followup to Radiant Silvergun?!
Wait a minute...
ColonelSandwich It's not, the characters he mentioned are like how Cid ends up being in every Final Fantasy game. They're just in jokes for fans of the game. Guardian heroes is in no way set in the Gunstar universe.
There's way too much overlap to dismiss it. This isn't just something like Lance from Langrisser showing up in Leynos.
LOVE YOUR VIDS BRO! The "Treasure" 16-bit tune was GENIUS!
My brother and I fell in love with this game when we played it on Sega Channel. Dammit, I miss him! 😭
+KageMaxwell sounds like u both have good tatste
Daniel Ibbertson Thanks.
I didn't discover it until I bought Super Gunstar Heores on a whim for GBA as a teenager. Inspired me to dig up many of Treasures previous master pieces (especially Alien Soldier/Sin and Punishment), and the original. Good times. Lol SEGA began to "royally fuck it up," couldn't have said it better. Really happy there was at least one person at SEGA with good taste and an eye for talent though. Another great video.
+Gene Starwind cheers gene. I didn't go into to much detail as that sega fucking it up story has been covered to death.
Awesome that you discovered the series after the sequel :)
My fave Genesis game, period! My friends and I would stay up all night having tournaments beating it over and over and over until we were forced to go to bed. And that soundtrack.....omg!
Picked this up from Blockbuster when I was a kid. Did not know what I was getting but when me and my friends started this game man we couldn't believe what we were seeing. This game did things we did not think possible on the Genesis. One of the best games ever made.
I wish more people would know that the design for the boss Pink and her two henchman are inspired by the anime's villain Grandis and her two henchman (Sanson & Hanson) from Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water.
another brilliant review!! I picked up gunstar in high school (around 1999-2000) at a Gamestop and my friends and I have beaten it countless times!! fixed shot + fire + homing = happiness
Me and my brothers rented it so many times from our local games store that our mother bought it for us in the Christmas 1993.
I remember countless hours playing it, it was and still is an amazing game. I still have this game complete with box and manual from 1993 in my collection.
Love Love Dancing, the most powerful attack never known!
One of my favorite video games, been playing non stop on my 3DS. Recently got the sequel too.
Very well done. Like you, I completely missed Gunstar Heroes the first time around. On top of that, the game didn't click with me the first few times I played it. I knew it was good, but I couldn't see why it was great. I went back to it, and it suddenly became amazing to me, which was great since I love amazing Genesis/Mega Drive games. I'm glad I saw what so many others do. It's so true about the different play styles it allows too. I seem to be in the minority, but I much prefer fixed shot. Free shot has its upside, but I found boss fights to be maddening without fixed, so I insist on that. I had no prior experience with the series when the GBA game came out, but I had the good sense to listen to reviews and recommendations and picked it up when it was new, also in support of Sega publishing games of that sort. It stayed in my backlog for a while, but I ended up really loving it when I got around to it. Incidentally, I finally got to it right after playing one of the Metal Slug games.
Great ep as always. It's really cool to see this being reviewed! About time we tracked down our old copy for another play through!
+Retro Bros Uk cheers guys glad u enjoyed it
Man...why don't you have more subs?
Your videos are excellent!
Lower-middle class Londoner with a poor mic and worse marketing.
Shame though; his content seems pretty good.
Asdayasman OK...
He dont upload COD! Thats why is isnt big
+tuffasgong He asked...
Ahhhhh Thanks matey :D
My friend brought this game to my house during the Genesis days.
Gunstar heroes is an all time classic for me. But honestly, Gunstar Super Heroes.. it stands at the very same level for me. Why? Mainly because Gunstar Heroes original itself gave me some forever memorable experiences and holy hell did I work myself up to beat the max difficulty. Now why don't I argue about Gunstar Super Heroes? Because honestly, while the original is more well rounded in levels, this one makes uip for it in game play fluency. The bosses are the biggest joy to fight of almost any game I ever played, specially in the hardest difficulty. In that difficulty, I had the most *epic* battles of all time *EVER*, on which not only was the epicness coming from the soundtrack, the boss itself, the situation, no, it was the skills required, the gameplay itself made it feel like I was doing the impossible. The fight with Seven Force keeps you on your toes on the hardest difficulty, and it requires deep knowledge of the super guns to beat, as in when to use them to maximum effect and how to charge them effectively. Trying to mow down Seven Force in any iteration with simple gun blasts in the hardest difficulty is like trying to cut steel with a knife. Yet it is the last round of bosses before the fight with Golden Silver reborn which is the most epic and fun of all, as it requires for you to have absolute control of the fluency of movement. You have to be precise and abuse the movemt dashes of ALL your attacks, be it dahes, jump kicks, wall kicks, you need all of them and you need to execute them perfectly to beat the bosses. It was the biggest yet most fun challenge I had had in any game ever and thats why I can overlook the bland enemy segments and the helicopter segment.. ugh.. main reason I don't really let it win over Gunstar Heroes.. In any case, that game gave me the most memorable epic battles I ever had, and it will remain in a pedestal with his predecesor for all time for it in my book.
I stumbled across your channel the other day because i was feeling nostalgic. I am so glad you have so much more, especially this one. This is one of the last games I remember me and all my brothers playing together before we all grew up. Your channel is a whole vibe ✌
man, Gunstar Heroes was easily my favorite Genesis game of all time! that's definitely one game I regret ever getting rid of... I have it on Wii Virtual Console but I definitely miss my original copy. (oh and also on Steam after SEGA gave it away earlier this year as part of a promotion.)
I also had the GBA sequel but can't for the life of me figure out where my old system and games disappeared to :( It did feel more like a remake of the original than a straight-up sequel but that doesn't make it any less of a good game!!
this was a great video and it's making me want to fire it up again later!
I just realized Treasure are the crazy guys that made that japan exclusive N64 game Sin and Punishment! I downloaded that from the wii's virtual console. crazy!
+Mickael Mc I have gotta do a sun and punishment complete history. That wii sequel was bloody awesome
Definitely a Genesis/Mega Drive must-play title.
I also highly recommend its spiritual successor Guardian Heroes on Sega Saturn.
I don’t remember how I required it, but this is one game for the Sega Genesis, that I as a kid owned and loved playing it.
A lot of action, a lot of tension, and the screen never really slowed down too much when it was filled up with all the characters and explosions and things moving around, but I liked all four of the starter levels.
I definitely liked how you could switch up the different weapon modes to create different ways of firing your weapon.
And to me, probably one of the best video games soundtracks for the Sega Genesis, hands down.
It obviously might have been techno type music because the game was spacey and action packed and all that stuff, but not only was each song so creatively and impressively put together, it’s like every single individual song told its own story.
So I have a ‘favorites’ West on here, on UA-cam, which is my general song list, and I’m like a lot of my other friends who would probably have thousands of songs from several albums of some of the same bands, depending on my taste in music, like how the music itself actually sounds or the beat of the song or the band that I like, my music list is filled up with random songs and it’s about 150 songs or less that I just repetitively listen to every day and I never get tired of it.
But a handful of those songs are songs from other video game soundtracks overtime, to name a handful….Sonic the Hedgehog 1, 2, 3 and Sonic and Knuckles, Castlevania’s 1 and 2, Fester’s Quest, F-Zero, the 1st and 3rd Mortal Kombat games, Silent Hill’s 1-4, Intelligent Qube, 3 Xtreme, and several other songs from other earlier video games in my childhood but the ones that really stood out to me, and the ones I mentioned above or just a handful.
This game though, had one of those soundtracks that I enjoy listening to whenever I come to a track from this game on my favorites list because I always shuffle it.
Gunstar Heros is also available on Xbox 360 thru Xbox Live & Xbox One thru backwards-compatibility of the former. Don't miss out on this brilliant classic!
***** - True. But the game looks & runs beautifully. It's the next best thing.
It is also available on Steam through their Genesis/Megadrive emulator. Just played that version recently with a friend and it plays beautifully.
ben owen to each his own. I get what you're saying but my comment wasn't just for you. not everybody cares about the old hardware.
That said the steam Genesis games are pretty close to the real deal. it's just a little more convenient.
You should tell us the relation between this and Guardian Heroes! I'd be curious to see if it goes deeper than name and same robot boss with gems.
My dad and I would spend whole days playing gunstar heros and sunset riders when I was little. This us my favorite game of all time and I think it always will be
I missed the original on the Mega Drive but played the hell out of the GBA Version. Damm that game impressed me back then!
+denNES danMAKU its still a great game 4 sure
Daniel Ibbertson Oh I played it allready and it is freaking awesome!!
denNES danMAKU yeah thats how i was introduced to it. So fun
The original Megadrive game is waaayyy overated.
Man did this guy spin out this video!
@@robertmcmillan3638 Nah man
Treasure also did a really good Astro Boy game for GBA that felt a lot like Gunstar Heroes
I just recently found out about gunstar heroes while flipping through old Game Informers I had from the early 2000s. They had had a whole flashback article on it. I actually found a lot of cool retro games in those flashback sections they used to have in the back of the magazine...
I love Gunstar Heroes! One of my all time favorite Genesis games! I liked the GBA sequel as well. Never played the Game gear port...
The bad guy in red sure does look a lot like M.Bison of SF II...
5:41 brings back so many memories of going to Toys R Us and bringing those games slips to the cash register to pick up my game. Anyways, I bought Gunstar Heroes for my 3DS and it's so much fun! Also, in 3D, which I personally think looks really nice.
Gunstar Heroes was the last game I purchased for my Megadrive back in the day. It was oustanding then and it's still a helluva lot of fun to play now.
Gunstar Heroes was the first GENESIS/Master system game I bought on Steam. and it's the only reason why I have over 20 hours marked as played.
I got a copy of this from a lady that my mother worked with. She basically gave me this with a few others and a couple 6 pads. I cant remember the other games she gave me, but I remembered this one, and loved it.This with sonic was def my fall back on game on the genesis.
Unfortunately, I was 2 or 3 years old when I played this game with my brother. My memory is very fuzzy, but I generally remember being scared of this game for some reason. When I became 6 years old, me and my brother revisited this gem and it was a blast. Best Sega Shoot em' up game hands down.
Oh my god the nostalgia ! I had this in my mega drive days it was one of my favourites....great 2 player aswell !!
+SB88 fanks for the advice
I loved Gunstar Heroes growing up. Playing 2p with my Mum was loads of fun. I remember our characters accidentally flinging each other all the time...
Dynamite Headdy hype!!! You should also see Light Crusader. Another amazing Treasure game on the Mega Drive.
I was so lucky as a kid. I had both SNES, and Mega Drive. I had this game on launch. It was one of the best games. So many hours pumped into it. I regret whatever happened to my collection :/ Leaving home is a killer looking back...
Great video man!
Treasure is such a fun company... But my favorite Treasure game is Mischief Makers on the N64!
Gunstar Heroes is like the River City Ransom of the Genesis. I used to rent this all the time. Best weapon combo was the green heatseeker upgrade with the laser beam. It would just melt enemies.
Had SEGA heavily advertised this game, I think it would have been really huge. I heard it was tucked away in their booth on a 19 inch monitor at one of the shows before it came out. Sad. I hope there's another sequel from Treasure in the works.
Definitely a great game for the Sega Genesis system
Screw it, Gunstar Heroes is a better game than Metal Slug. Like you Dan I only found out about it when I bought a second Mega Drive in 2008. It came with the console I think. Great game. It's prequel/spin-off game Guardian Heroes is pretty terrific as well.
I lost it at the Bruno Mars joke. That was hilarious. Great video btw.
Even though I've never played the original on the Sega Genesis, I did buy a copy of the reboot for the Game Boy Advance, and I played it nonstop until I was able to beat the final boss.
Great video! I was wondering, do you have any more info on how Gunstar Heroes was in development for 10 years? Was this stated in an interview?
Thanks for this slopes, was only playing it the other day. Always felt it was vastly under appreciated!
Oh man i loved this game! This and Light Crusader was the biggest hits from Treasure on Mega Drive imo.
I'm glad I rented this at Blockbuster. My brother, who hates video games, and I used to play point challenges. Good times. Go play it.
Boss is Approaching!
Love Love Dancing
Lazer and tracker were the op combo. Playing with the fire and the Lazer was the most challenging combo
That 8bit version of treasure is outstanding
Isn't Alien Soldier a spiritual sequel to Gunstar Heroes? It has a lot of similar stuff (weapons are pretty much the same for example) and it also focuses on the most exciting part of GH - the boss battles.
Gunstar Super Heroes is more like a reimagining of the original game.
Actually Guardian Heroes is more the sequel or prequel.
This game is fun, sure, but Metal Slug is always going to be my favorite Run and Gun game.
Very nice video Daniel, excellent work. There also one more game that was not directly related but heavily influenced by this series, Gunners Heaven / Rapid Reload on the PS1. It reviewed poorly in the early 'everything must be 3D' PlayStation days but it's another gem for sure.
AdiSneakerFreak That's right Rapid Reload is a spiritual successor.
Love the 16 bit Bruno at 3:47. And yes I do read your descriptions sometimes!
I don't think it would be as popular a video, but a Complete History of the Shining series (the one that started with Shining in the Darkness, on the Megadrive) would be really cool. ;) Great episode, by the way!
congrat-u-fucking-lations on an amazing channel. Seriously. Just when I thought everything was on youtube I went on a binge on this channel. You found a missing hole and your passion for the the old games is outstanding. I got into gaming when my mum programmed educational games for me on the ZX spectrum and to listen to a guy who talks about the old days makes my nerd hairs tingle.Just when I thought everything was on youtube I found your channel. Hats off sir,..
I was lucky to try this as a kid shortly after release, granted also had not herd of it but neighbour friend got it & was instantly a favourite multiplayer title for both of us!
Thank you for profiling this gem...I'm reliving my childhood.
Amazing videos, man. You've been giving me lots of content to listen to while on my bike rides. Glad I found your channel. Keep up the great work.
I wonder what it was that Producer #13 saw that the other's didn't? I'll admit that this game didn't grab me the first time I picked it up, but I really grew to love it not long after.
can't get enough of these videos. Keep up the great work!
Awesome! Love your videos Daniel!
You rock SGR! Keep cranking out the quality vids! May i recommend doing complete history episodes of Mechwarrior or Shadowrun?
You're my new favorite youtuber! Such detailed reviews of all the Sega stuff I grew up with. :)
thank you so much for being a UA-camr making these great videos keep up the good work and keep up the good work because you are 1 of the few UA-camrs that come out with frequent gold
Subbed. I like these history vids. This game is an all-time classic.
+Wilton NineSixNine Singh thanks buddy
Waaayyy overated Megadrive game.
Man did this guy spin this video out! (Phew!)
Great episode! Did you find out anything about that elusive SMS port of Gunstar Heroes?
5 YEARS OLD I WAS SNES DUDE ALL DAY BUT MY BOY DOWN THE STREET HAD THIS FOR THE GENESIS AND WE USED TO PLAY ALL THE TIME.THEN IN OUR 20'S WE DOWNLOADED IT FOR THE WII FOR OLD TIMES AND HAD OUR KIDS PLAY IT
+Jamaal GOLAND it really is still so much fun to pick up n play
YOU ARE THE COOL DAD 😎
it's on tonight gun star Heroes great review
Awww yes, a new complete history video!!! Time to sit back with a snack, something to wash it down with, and enjoy =)
Bloody love this game, must have bought it on 3 or 4 different platforms.
I think the SNES game that comes closest to replicating the chaos of Gunstar Heroes is Rendering Ranger R2. It's rare and expensive unless you use repros, but it's worth trying out.
It is indeed a kick ass game
I haven't found out about this game until mid 2000's thanks to emulators. Amazing game, and definetly, Seven Force is one of the most epic bosses ever
Great video! you should check out Gunners Heaven for the PS 1 otherwise known as rapid reload. It feels like a spiritual successor to GH.
Good work Dan. I'm glad I have my copy already. DJ Slopes:independently raising the value of retro gaming ;)
7 Force = 7 original members of Treasure? Just occurred to me. Great review! (They later did Gradius V, favored by Shmup fans as the best of the series!)
Very underrated channel. This game looks AMAZING, never heard of it before watching your vid. Also, as a fellow DJ, I would love to see some videos on vinyl from you. Been collecting the black crack for 23 years myself. Cheers from San Diego.
How is this video only showing up 2020? Smh. Gunstar Heroes needs a remake now
Why are you soo good at this!?!?! Man, you are excellent!!
I love Metal Slug.
But it is not even close to Gunstar Heroes.
Treasure games are in a league of their own, gameplay wise.
Best it as an 8 year old in the early 90s thanks blockbuster's rest in heaven
Superb video Daniel. You've got to love the run n' gun genre and Gunstar Heroes is definitely one of the standouts. Have you ever played Rapid Reload on the ps1? it's very much a Gunstar clone but a really enjoyable one at that.
I'm glad you covered the gba title as I've always felt it was criminally overlooked.
Any chance of a retrospective covering the Contra series? it's always been my favourite run n' gunner series and the Megadrive title was always a bit of a standout for me and yes I did like it more than Gunstar Heroes.
One thing you didn't mention, is the fact that the last boss of Gunstar Heroes ... is also in Guardian Heroes. That Weird Silver/Gold Robot existed in two versions there ... one with the 4 Crystals floating around and one without. And even better, you cold select both in the Multiplayer mode ;p