This game is quite revolutionary. I've never seen a move that causes roll-back on command like this. Perhaps future developers can experiment with more interesting properties for their moves; like a throw that sends your opponent to another region's server.
"How does McGill have more range with a sword than Jurane with a pole arm?" Probably because Mcguil's arm alone is the size of Jurane and Mcguil is wielding a greatsword.
@@lazarusnecrosis5869 WEAPON LORD! That game needs recognition. So does Eternal Champions, I spent so many hours on that game as a kid...Cardinal Syn too, look into that.
@@DoomsayerStudios I've heard of Cardinal Syn but never played it. My Sega Genesis was the one bundled with Eternal Champions so I played a LOT of that. Figuring out the stage fatalities before Google was so fun. Anyway, I definitely agree that Weapon Lord would be a great choice. Very few games use Negative Edge for their special moves.
This seems like the stupid kind of game I would see in a bowling alley arcade, when I was 5, and then proceed to spend 3 hours playing it while my family screamed at me to stop playing on "screens."
I remember this game. It's the game we played when waiting for our turn at SF2: CE. It's not a great game but it does deserve a bit of a pass as fighting games were just becoming a thing when it was released. Gameplay is closer to the original Street Fighter (which was awful by today's standards). Same difficult inputs, same weird hit boxes, etc. There are some improvements over SF game play but were basically a generation behind SF2 despite coming out a year later (1991 vs 1992). 2 generations behind if you consider that SF2: CE came out in the same year as Blandia (1992).
I was actually a huge fan of this games predecessor "Gladiator". My local pizza shop had an arcade cabinet of it and I would always beg my mom to give me a couple quarters to play it. I pretty much loved anything with swords and armor back in the day!
I can't believe that even in this game where the whole gimmick is breaking of parts of the characters' suits of armor, they still made the women super exposed. Why are designers like this...
this game is kinda of a pseudo sequel to an arcade called Gladiator, where on it you armor was your life, getting hit twice in the same place and you died
Heavy Nova, on Sega Genesis -- makes Blandia look state of the art. In that game, you literally can not hit your opponent if they jump or duck. The worst feature, your robot has a response bar, and as it gets lower you have less ability to control the thing, it recharges slow as shit.
@@chemicals8582 It's certainly mediocre, and the controls, feel and fighting system are overall floaty and janky, but still playable. I personally think it's terribleness is a bit overblown. Rise of the Robots, specifically on the SNES.....man.... that game scarred me for life. Words cannot do justice to its awfulness. It's not only my measuring stick for how bad a fighting game can be, but how bad a video game can be, period.
I dunno, complaining about the lifebars at the bottom of the screen strikes me as saying, "The car lost all four of its tires, the engine exploded, the doors fell off, it has leftover paint from seventeen different paint jobs so no one knows what color it's supposed to be, it hasn't had a windshield in 70 years, a monster truck ran over it 3500 times ... BUT OH MY GOD, LOOK AT THAT UGLY HOOD ORNAMENT!" Like, seriously?
Yeah, the armor system is actually kinda cool. Maybe a system where you focus on defending your armor but when everyone loses armor, they all die in 1-2 hits.
I was trying to figure out why his criticism of the life being at the bottom didn't make sense to me, and then I realized it's because I don't play fighting games, only Smash Bros so I prefer it being at the bottom.
Of course they take no damage when jumping, they have magic boots! For real though my guess is the armor system takes place on the feet too so jump ins are immune from below.
ARGH! I was so pissed watching this. I have NEVER seen a human controlled character in a fighting game as broken as Jurane. Not even Mahvel's keep-away Morrigan, one-touch Zero, or I-am-death-incarnate Dark Phoenix are that cheap. This was great fun though. Cant wait to see another one!
Have you guys ever had a 'Barbarian' (classic one-on-one swordplay on Commodore/ZXSpectrum/Amstrad/etc) tournament? No idea how it might stand up today, but it has epic music. :)
I like the concept of not taken damage until the armor is broken. Graphically the game looks good. I think the idea is great, just not executed well. Blandia is just a poor choice for a name.
The armor falling off reminds me of Weapon Lord which was on SNES and Sega Genesis I think. It's sorta a hidden gem. I think you might enjoy using it as a secret tournament game.
I couldn't agree more. Weapon Lord was awesome. I wish I would've figured out what "Negative Edge" was back when I played it as a kid. Game would've been much more fun.
This game was so fucking wack. - Jurane was just impossible to fight honestly. She had insane jumpins and that pillar causing rollback on demand made it impossible to even try to bait it out. - For some reason you just randomly walk forward and backward. No clue why. Very not fun when trying to block. - Throws are jank as fuck. - Anti-airs are non-existent because you just clash with the opponent half the time. If you watch the stream, I attempt to fight Jurane using the classic Street Fighter zoning but it flat out didn't work because I can't anti-air. - I don't know what's up with why throws make you teleport.
the grabs in this game do so much damage, and it seems like they're untechable. I think if the meta is developed in this game there would be a lot of tick-throws and grappler style gameplans.
Did anyone else initially misread the orange guy’s name as “Dickles”? I hate that this game somehow managed to inadvertently get me to say “Dickles?!” out loud, but that’s the world we’re living in.
God, I remember discovering this game in MAME back in the day. "Oh hey, a fantasy fighting game that is basically a sequel to Gladiator, which I loved playing in arcades as a kid? Sign me up!" And that was a damn mistake... LOL Seriously though, I love seeing these videos of more obscure fighting games, I have a particular affinity for a lot of the lesser known titles out there.
Can you hold tournaments in other bad fighting games like dragon balls ultimate battle 22 too? That's the first fighting game I've played and I always wondered how it would look like if experienced fg players play it :D
This game is quite revolutionary. I've never seen a move that causes roll-back on command like this.
Perhaps future developers can experiment with more interesting properties for their moves; like a throw that sends your opponent to another region's server.
Yeah I like the idea of a projectile that lag switches
@@alejandrobernal9200 I remember one of Valentine's projectiles in Skullgirls inflicts input lag.
@@Quicksilvir ye the 💉
I remember a joke item in some game that caused blue screen effect for few seconds. xD
EVO should have joke leagues with games like this. Imagine the metagame if a bunch of people start playing it
There used to be side tournaments for shit like this, those were cool
@@Rebazar yeah they were really fun honestly
I just want third strike back at Evo 😥
There were and are. Look up the tourney for Dong Dong Never Die. They also played FIght Da Kyanta.
they have side tourneys all the time for games like this. come to EVO next time
Why would you ever unironically name your game "Blandia"?
Lmao
Maybe it was supposed to be "Brandia" but it got a jank translation?
Bland the sword I guess
I think they tried to do "blade land"
not realizing bland has a different meaning in english.
It's like Grandia but bland lol
"How does McGill have more range with a sword than Jurane with a pole arm?" Probably because Mcguil's arm alone is the size of Jurane and Mcguil is wielding a greatsword.
I do not fear Bardock, Vegeto or UI Goku autocombos.
But Jurane's pillars and throws...
It scares me.
This can't be THE worst, it's visually comprehensible and there were some hype moments at the end
Not even close to the worst. Maybe Body Blows could be the worst.
Tattoo Assassin fuck dat game is @$$
The worst is Shadow: War of Succession.
@@ghmongo nah, that game is way too entertaining for the first half hour of play
It's visibly comprehensible, which already puts it above BALLZ. So probably not the worst, definitely not good tho
Be cool to see an eternal champion tourney
Yes
Eternal Champions was good tho.
@@erick103 They don't only do bad games. They do good ones too. I would love to see Weapon Lord.
@@lazarusnecrosis5869 WEAPON LORD! That game needs recognition. So does Eternal Champions, I spent so many hours on that game as a kid...Cardinal Syn too, look into that.
@@DoomsayerStudios I've heard of Cardinal Syn but never played it. My Sega Genesis was the one bundled with Eternal Champions so I played a LOT of that. Figuring out the stage fatalities before Google was so fun. Anyway, I definitely agree that Weapon Lord would be a great choice. Very few games use Negative Edge for their special moves.
I legit thought there was a character called Dickles at first glance.
Me too!
me too, I did a double take lol. That's such a terrible looking O.
Same. Screw it, it's Dickles now.
This seems like the stupid kind of game I would see in a bowling alley arcade, when I was 5, and then proceed to spend 3 hours playing it while my family screamed at me to stop playing on "screens."
Me: "I want more fantasy themed FGS!"
Also Me: "Not like that!"
Might i point you to Dark Awake/Chaos Breaker
Why is jurane so broken 💀💀 she deals so much damage with the pillar
it's unblockable too
@@jmcrofts if only she had a broken throw... wait
Because she has charge motions that don't work well
That corner McGill stun combo was sick
What I love the most? The score - like 4 points at a time for...reasons. It, like the rest of the game, defies logic.
"Welcome to Blandia, where the damage is made up and the points don't matter."
I remember this game. It's the game we played when waiting for our turn at SF2: CE. It's not a great game but it does deserve a bit of a pass as fighting games were just becoming a thing when it was released.
Gameplay is closer to the original Street Fighter (which was awful by today's standards). Same difficult inputs, same weird hit boxes, etc. There are some improvements over SF game play but were basically a generation behind SF2 despite coming out a year later (1991 vs 1992). 2 generations behind if you consider that SF2: CE came out in the same year as Blandia (1992).
You had me at “he’s starting to believe.”
I was actually a huge fan of this games predecessor "Gladiator". My local pizza shop had an arcade cabinet of it and I would always beg my mom to give me a couple quarters to play it. I pretty much loved anything with swords and armor back in the day!
I lost it when JM calls for an *emergency announcement*
Lmao
Didn't expect there's a fighting game that's fun and painful to watch at the same time.
Everyone: Diokles
SaltyBet veterans: *thousand yard stare* Dickles
I knew I wasn't the only one.
"This game does no damage."
Jurane: Am I a joke to you?
I think the devs were just very proud of the backgrounds so they didn't want to obscure the skylines.
real talk, whoever did the character design for this game was definitely an ass man :P
Show me a single fighting game without thicc ladies in it
@@pippincovington1348 All of them are without thick ladies. In fighting games the ladies are in shape and athletic, not thick.
I can't believe that even in this game where the whole gimmick is breaking of parts of the characters' suits of armor, they still made the women super exposed. Why are designers like this...
@@ChillavaKirbybecause it's cool and we love it?
The sprites do actually look really nice!
I don't really mind the hp bars at the bottom, they actually make sense, it just isn't the norm
Also, that last match was hype XD
Why do the characters get naked as they fight LMAO
soul calibur: (◔_◔)
I...
O_o
I wanna assume it’s to help with the gauge of health given the awkward health bar placement
this game is kinda of a pseudo sequel to an arcade called Gladiator, where on it you armor was your life, getting hit twice in the same place and you died
In Fighting Vipers it's totally fun to do so.
The finals were hype af
So, fun fact, this game is the sequel to the 1986 game Gladiator, with the playable fighter Gurianos being the protagonist of the first game.
"Is he a ninja or a samurai?"
Yes.
He is a Retsu.Zen
He's also a kabuki too all in one.
Heavy Nova, on Sega Genesis -- makes Blandia look state of the art.
In that game, you literally can not hit your opponent if they jump or duck.
The worst feature, your robot has a response bar, and as it gets lower you have less ability to control the thing, it recharges slow as shit.
50 years from now, that song will continue to haunt us
I was actually riveted, JM! These are amazing and a great idea!
11:18 He's starting to believe 😂😂
"Worst Fighting Game Ever."
Yeah, no. Still looks much more interesting and playable than Rise of the Robots.
I'd love to see a tournament for that game.
Shaq Fu might be the worst fighting game ever. And yes, that's a fighting game featuring Shaquille O'Neal.
@@GIacius Lol, I can't even begin to wrap my head around what a tournament based around that dumpster fire would even be like!
@@chemicals8582 It's certainly mediocre, and the controls, feel and fighting system are overall floaty and janky, but still playable. I personally think it's terribleness is a bit overblown.
Rise of the Robots, specifically on the SNES.....man.... that game scarred me for life. Words cannot do justice to its awfulness. It's not only my measuring stick for how bad a fighting game can be, but how bad a video game can be, period.
@@THENAMEISQUICKMAN Thanks for this information. Fascinating indeed!
So basically clash between stunlocking pillar vs 30% hp throw. What a great game :D
That initial list of shitty things... They’re all bad, but the charge move thing easily takes the cake for me lmao like wtf
I dunno, complaining about the lifebars at the bottom of the screen strikes me as saying, "The car lost all four of its tires, the engine exploded, the doors fell off, it has leftover paint from seventeen different paint jobs so no one knows what color it's supposed to be, it hasn't had a windshield in 70 years, a monster truck ran over it 3500 times ... BUT OH MY GOD, LOOK AT THAT UGLY HOOD ORNAMENT!" Like, seriously?
this game looks janky as hell, but to be honest it looks worthy of a revisit in mechanics, the weapon clashing and armor system is cool!
Yeah, the armor system is actually kinda cool. Maybe a system where you focus on defending your armor but when everyone loses armor, they all die in 1-2 hits.
Except the armor system existed in soul calibur 4 onward
I was trying to figure out why his criticism of the life being at the bottom didn't make sense to me, and then I realized it's because I don't play fighting games, only Smash Bros so I prefer it being at the bottom.
This looks good compared to other shitty fighting games from this era lol
True, it’s not an MK rip off
After the character select screen where it’s shows DIOKLES vs GURIANOS, I saw a C in diocles instead of the O and read it as DICKLES.
holy crap, mcgill threw the gloves off at the end there
Next time you'll have to try that most IMPRESSIVE of fighting games... TIME KILLERS.
Because it was just special.
Of course they take no damage when jumping, they have magic boots! For real though my guess is the armor system takes place on the feet too so jump ins are immune from below.
Looks like a sequel for Gladiator, that arcade game from the 80s. At least the main character tottaly looks like the guy from that game.
same developer
you were not kidding about the music. jesus, I would've preferred silence
I like how the clash sounds like a cash register opening.
ARGH! I was so pissed watching this. I have NEVER seen a human controlled character in a fighting game as broken as Jurane. Not even Mahvel's keep-away Morrigan, one-touch Zero, or I-am-death-incarnate Dark Phoenix are that cheap. This was great fun though. Cant wait to see another one!
I see youre using fightcade, have you guys done a JOJO's HFTF tournament? or would you consider doing one?
Have you guys ever had a 'Barbarian' (classic one-on-one swordplay on Commodore/ZXSpectrum/Amstrad/etc) tournament? No idea how it might stand up today, but it has epic music. :)
The phrase “I’m a Dickles main in Blandia” definitely has raised some eyebrows.
Did you know??
Gill’s favorite Blandia character growing up was Chad McGill. That’s how he learned to shoulder tackle!
The More You Know ⭐️⭐️⭐️
I like the concept of not taken damage until the armor is broken. Graphically the game looks good. I think the idea is great, just not executed well. Blandia is just a poor choice for a name.
What a great idea. turn one of the regular characters into Goenitz
what's wrong with their legs? The guys are nervous as shit there haha
I’m not sure why I’m watching this... but I can’t look away from this dumpster fire 🔥
legit me a month later
@@profoundpro same
I love how bad this game was. When you decapitate the victory shows: Winner (character name), Loser (headless!)... Or was it another similar bad game.
The armor falling off reminds me of Weapon Lord which was on SNES and Sega Genesis I think.
It's sorta a hidden gem. I think you might enjoy using it as a secret tournament game.
I couldn't agree more. Weapon Lord was awesome. I wish I would've figured out what "Negative Edge" was back when I played it as a kid. Game would've been much more fun.
This really makes me want to see a M.U.G.E.N. tournament.
I read Diokles as Dickles and thought I had found my new main.
This was horrible and I loved watching every second of it.
Just at a glance I thought the thumbnail was of Weaponlord and I was about to throw hands.
Nearly spat my drink out when I saw 'Diokles' written in that font 🤣
whens the Heavy Nova tournament?
I'm so happy I wasn't the only person who read that one guy's name as "dickles" lmao
This game is play Jurane or lose. The match is decided during the coin flip. If you get the bad rng, you lose the match
Show me that Gundam Battle Assualt 2!
Buster Rifle! Buster Rifle! Buster Rifle! Buster Rifle! Buster Rifle!
This game was so fucking wack.
- Jurane was just impossible to fight honestly. She had insane jumpins and that pillar causing rollback on demand made it impossible to even try to bait it out.
- For some reason you just randomly walk forward and backward. No clue why. Very not fun when trying to block.
- Throws are jank as fuck.
- Anti-airs are non-existent because you just clash with the opponent half the time. If you watch the stream, I attempt to fight Jurane using the classic Street Fighter zoning but it flat out didn't work because I can't anti-air.
- I don't know what's up with why throws make you teleport.
This is one of those games where a ft1 is enough. Some may say it might be too much.
Japanese computer exclusive and I did not know about it ... lol. Will have to try this for 2 minutes or so.
This was great, in a weird kind of way!
No idea if it's possible, but I'd love to see you guys play Weaponlord - old SNES and Genesis fighting game.
This character design screams early 90's so much is unreal, i could see all those characters in Fire Emblem 4 lmao
Painful game to watch but then seeing the most OP char lame it out just made it ever so more painful to watch, shame on mayo lol.
So sick. Whatever happened to the Godzilla one?
I'd love to see a Power Instinct 1 tournament sometime.
One of the few fighting games with dentures as a projectile.
Have you done a tourney with Time Killers?
*plays a game from 1992, when fighters were still getting started.*
"IT'S TRASH!"
*IT'S FROM 1992!*
do you think the ssj4 gogeta lc 3 was inspired by jurane fire pillar?
the grabs in this game do so much damage, and it seems like they're untechable. I think if the meta is developed in this game there would be a lot of tick-throws and grappler style gameplans.
Jmcrofts with the old MTG rulling was really suprising
This game needs an HD remake
3:53 "Our eyes were not trained to look at the BOTTOM".
Have you tried Ultra Fight Da! Kyanta 2? It might be worse
I'd love a criticom tournament
I paused and it seems like McGill's hitboxes are double as long as his sword
Looking at that health bar at the bottom of the screen makes my eyes and brain hurt o god such a small change but big big difference
the fact that the life bars are at the bottom makes me question our existence.
Evil Zone looks like it was easily a worse competitive game in my opinion, but it has great aesthetic value and decent writing.
this may be bad but it's so bad it's good! i wanna see this again reeeealy soon plz!!
game is so broken its fun to watch people fighting each other
Why didn't Leester do that punch that goes through projectiles more often?
Best fighting game of the decade
Third strike and Garou who🤧
Diokles name in that font is so easy to misread.
Wait his name isn't dickles
You do Time Killers yet?
Did anyone else initially misread the orange guy’s name as “Dickles”? I hate that this game somehow managed to inadvertently get me to say “Dickles?!” out loud, but that’s the world we’re living in.
that last match was hype mainly bc nobody wanted jurane to win lol
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0:39 At first glance I thought the left dudes name was way different than Diokles.
God, I remember discovering this game in MAME back in the day. "Oh hey, a fantasy fighting game that is basically a sequel to Gladiator, which I loved playing in arcades as a kid? Sign me up!" And that was a damn mistake... LOL Seriously though, I love seeing these videos of more obscure fighting games, I have a particular affinity for a lot of the lesser known titles out there.
Can you hold tournaments in other bad fighting games like dragon balls ultimate battle 22 too? That's the first fighting game I've played and I always wondered how it would look like if experienced fg players play it :D
Every time I see y’all played these old horrible games, I imagine what a remake would be like, and if they were to do it with today’s knowledge.
Even though you say it is the worst fighting game you seem pretty excited during the whole tournament...