Totally Rad on NES - NESfriend
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2024
- Like, dude, this game is bodaciously rad and stuff!
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0:57 I like how that's the best picture they had of that guy, as he's staring into the sun. He looks like Dave Letterman's stunt double
Lollll
I love when instruction booklets used to do stuff like that. The one for Kwirk on the Game Boy is also a delightfully fun read.
Totally rad Wednesday everyone!
I usually like my games to be only 90% rad, but I guess I can give this one a shot.
Mega man vibes with the charge shot, energy, transformations and gorgeous, large sprite bosses. Game looks ... Totally RAD
Wow what AWESOME bosses. Had no idea the NES could do such huge colourful bosses. Brilliant stuff.
This is one of those NES games I've always wanted to play, it just looks like a ton of fun. Also, the main character looks like a teenage Spike from Cowboy Bebop.
This video has also made me acutely aware of how often I say "dude", "rad" and "sweet". C'mon, dude xD
Totally my dude!
This one went completely under my radar back in the day. (Maybe if they had also called it "Magic John" over here too...) Also the sprites in this game are WAY higher-tier than I would have thought! Didn't think there were many surprises left on the NES, but here we are. Truly an educational video. 10/10.
Been waiting for you to review this one. The instruction manual alone deserves it's own video
I could have gone on and on about it!
It's a high top sneaker. Converse specifically.
Thanks for starting this day off great! Awesome video!
Bill Chicago
So, how to localize this Japanese game, "Magic John"? Wing hat teen and his Super Sentai flying sprite isn't going to fly in the US. Let's make him into a cool teen and a green lizard man or something. We'll keep the Magic John sprites, but we won't stick it onto the box. We will lean into the mohawk guy from level 1, but 1990 him up by 1000%.
The cinematics need more "Dude". Americanize the girl by 100%. Make her older and less cutesy.
We'll make the box art like Fruit By the Foot.
Now for a name. It doesn't have to have anything to do with the game. We need something Awesome. Something Excellent. Something ... Totally Rad.
Excellent. Now to work on repackaging Phalanx...
3:39 That icon looks like a sneaker to me.
Interesting....
the graphics are amazing
I love this game with all my heart! I've mastered it man. I can beat this with my eyes closed. A true masterpiece of platforming glory with giant sprites, a hilarious script, and a kickass soundtrack.
I still need more practice!
@@NESFriend Remember, the truly skilled can beat the game mostly as Jake's human form. But if you wanna really stomp this game then you gotta master The Lion form. You can wreck all late game bosses by just doing a little hop and spamming the claw. The early bosses in Jakes form can be defeated rather easily with the trick of stopping time. I don't abuse it but speed runners sure do. Great review as always!
I got this game when I was like 7, 8 years old on the NES. I thought that the manual and the writing in the game's cutscenes was absolutely hilarious, but the game was too hard for me to ever beat it until I also got a Game Genie. And by then, well, I thought the writing was even funnier! It just gets better and better the older I get!
It is truly righteous
Fun game! Only played it once when my dad rented it but we had a really good time with it! I kinda want it for the random pictures in the manual. That is just too funny!
Whoa, Dude! What a far out and tubular game! Totally rad is totally cool. Keep these mondo game reviews coming!
The sprite work on the bosses is tubular.
It's a sneaker my dude.
Radically review my righteous bro!
A tubular how-do to you too my sweet maestro
Always a radical day when my dude NES Friend uploads a video. The boss designs remind me of Astyanax which is also a Jaleco game.
Hey good call on that
This game has the coolest bosses. Basically a Megaman clone, but a good one. You should do The Krion Conquest if you haven't already.
I love this game too. I always thought the return to Jake magic icon was his tennis shoe…
Glad to see Totally Rad isn't Totally Bad.
Graaaaant
Gonna attempt to give my rough and dirty summary of the story from the Japanese Wikipedia entry here
"John" is like a typical American kid (think preteen boy) who ends up as a regular at like a nearby amusement park after becoming a fan of a super talented magician dude named "Mister Pon" and his "Super Magic Show" ("John" is pronounced in a gnarly way like "Jone" and also rhymes with "Pon"). Anyway, he tells his girlfriend "Yuu" (totally an early 90s American name, right?) that he wants to ask Mr. Pon if he can be his apprentice to learn cool magical arcane stuff. Mr. Pon agrees to teach him (rad!), but he tells John that for training to be a "super magician" he will only teach him stuff for training his physical body and like stamina at first (bummer). Anyway, one day some mysterious dudes decide to crash the party and like totally kidnap Yuu (not cool), so John righteously decides to use what he learned so far to try to rescue her.
Okay, in all sincerity, the Japanese game doesn't really use nearly as much localized slang as the American version, but it does have its own flavor in Japanese expressions.
Also, there is a removed scene from the original Japanese game (which really is kind of heavy) right before the first level where Mr. Pon uses telepathy to tell John that Yuu was captured by the enemy. He tells John to use the magic he taught him well and that John's magic power had already grown much stronger than it was before. He also tells John that he will be thinking often as there is also magic that will not work so effectively within, and to use his magic carefully in order to save Yuu.
Amazing bosses design.
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May have been said, but the Icon for transforming back to Jake is a Sneaker... Since that is... Totally Rad... 😅
Magic John used a Cap, since the Character had a Cap that was pretty noticeable...
Yeah. I see it now 😄
The title of this game is totally accurate.
Wait, not it's not
2:45 hey it's Master Chief!
That's 80s surfer lingo. There was some bleed over into the 90s, but it's essentially 80s.
Lol righteous babe....
I've not seen a righteous babe in decades
Totally tubular dudes
Gnarly review dude ! I don't know if the Totally Rad aesthetic is better than the Japanese title of "Magic John."
For October maybe you should cover Monster Party ? I had it on NES and it was funny but also a bit off putting, like when the first stage changes mid way through. Really challenging but I liked the game.
Already covered it!
Algorithm comment. Nice work on your vids. Underrated channel for sure.
"Jake, I kinda want my dad back, you know?" - peak writing, it only goes downhill from here
Interestingly, the gameplay reminds me of Shantae, The Half Genie line of games i.e. transformation powers and platforming. I could totally give this a try.
Dude.
Oh god. I was in like 5th-6th grade in the late 80s-early 90s. I remember the giant "surfer lingo" push in kid's media.
It was annoying. Besides the "so pitted" meme guy, who the hell actually talks like that? We sure dont out here in cascadia. And we got a really similar accent to California's.
Those boss designs are absolutely tubular tho. Like rad. Or something. Seriously though, thats some of the best spritework Ive seen on the NES. At first when you showed game footage, I was pretty meh at the main char. But, wow. Those bosses.
Totally Rad is for sure NOT “too easy”, imo!
Big hair was cool back then, so yes, a babe indeed
This game is one of those that never got the recognition it deserves. It reminds me of Monster Party. By sheet force of its uniqueness it gets by and like Monster Party it has a small but rabid fan base!
Seriously. Don't insult this game.
Dude lpl.
Duuuuuude.
Pretty good game, but it annoyed me that you can't jump and also use your charge gun.
game is full of 90s cheese