Whomp 'Em & Saiyuuki World on NES and Famicom - NESfriend
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Saiyuuki World and its a little too westernized sequel, Whomp 'Em.
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"Whomp Them"
Idk why this is my favorite comment today
@@NESFriend haha that made my day. Love the channel and love DrunkFriend as well.
Journey to the West is a great (though very long) novel. It also went on to influence Dragon Ball.
Later, it got adapted into an incredible show called 'Monkey' in the 70's that was hugely popular in Australia through the 90's.
There's also The New Adventures of Monkey on Netflix, as well as the anime Gensoumaden Saiyuki (also known as just Saiyuki, or its later seasons Saiyuki Reload.) There was even a PS1 RPG called Saiyuki. This public domain fantasy is the gift that keeps on giving with games based on it still releasing to this day.
I have always been interested in the "Monkey King" lore, but I have never read Journey to the West, I will do my best to get the book and read it. The 70's show will also be in my list.
It seems to loom large in the imagination of Japanese creators, while being mostly unknown outside of Asia. Bowser is based on a character from it, for example.
Aww yeah. Monkey Magic.
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The Saiyuki game is awesome. I'm replaying it right now
To say the first game is only „inspired“ by Wonderboy 2 seems a bit understated. ;-)
This was a Blockbuster rental for me (but a good one!). I don't think I ever actually beat this game back in the day but I liked the gameplay and the graphics were nice. The music tracks were short but I liked most of them. I also liked the Native American vibe some of the songs had.
Those gosh darn floating eyeballs! Always causing trouble.
As NES Friend said, "Saiyuuki World" is actually a port of the SEGA title "Wonder Boy in Monster Land" with all of the original characters swapped with characters from "Journey to the West" and a modified story. NMK developed the Famicom port, but Jaleco handled the sequel and western localization with their own dev team directly (and from what I've heard here, that seems to be a good thing). I highly recommend playing "Wonder Boy in Monster Land" over the first "Saiyuuki World" if you can, but bear in mind that game was originally designed to be a coin munching arcade game.
Good work on the video, NES Friend!
I should probably pick up an EverDrive at some point...
Ice Viking Hell Shrimp 😂, that just made my day
Oh God, not another node in the tangled Wonder Boy web!
But, gosh dang, Whomp 'em looks pretty darn good. Much better than the cover art had lead me to believe. Good reviews!
That cover did this game no favors
@@NESFriend I say we petition for them to change the cover. Great review!
2:01 ok that dragon shop keeper looks straight out of Dragonball. I bet they wanted to capitalise on its popularity.
Thanks for the great video! Have yourself a wonderful day!
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Wow! Whomp'em looks like a really fun game, I never played it back in the day, I was misled by its cover art. I will definitely give it a try, and will look for the Journey to the West book too. Thank you Trav, for bringing another great video, have an amazing week!
This actually looks like a lot of fun
Yeah! Give it a try
5:22 LOL. I think we know what that means. Seems like another hidden g...I mean good, less popular video game title.
Tread lightly Brandon!
Happy Wednesday everyone! Don't forget the charity stream on August 20th
If anyone wants some shorthand for Journey to the West, Goku's adventure in Dragon Ball. (Not Z) covers the cliffnotes of it.
I would say it's more like watching the film Clueless instead of reading Jane Austen's Emma, though...
On the everdrive on the options menu you can disable save states by pressing start I had this problem with playing punch out using the super punch every time I used it it would load the save State you can just turn it off
I made it to the last boss and he's tough. The totem that deals the most damage also deals damage to me, killing me fast with his hits on top.
Fun game, I like it a lot!
Nice looking and very fun game to play
Why read Journey to the West when you can play it? Saiyuki is a PS1 Strategy RPG, while Enslaved: Odyssey to the West is an action game for PS3/360. Both are highly underrated, although the PS1 game is the closest to the actual novel.
Culturally insensitive name aside, yeah, it's a surprisingly great game and a platformer with meaningful and respectful native american symbolism and story would be awesome.
How is it *the name* that's the culturally insensitive part? It's literally the only thing in the game that isn't native-american-themed.
Lol whomp em
For such an odd name the game actually looks decent
Have you played Cowboy Kid? It’s another expensive one to obtain
I have it but I've not yet played it. We'll see if it comes up on the NESfriend randomizer
@@NESFriend I’ve been listening to all the episodes of DrunkFriend. I’m on episode 57 right now. I plan to send in an email once I’m all caught up. I hope you have a great rest of your day dude
@@HBW87 Hunter send any email you have asap! We're running low. We get emails from people on Ep 8 all the time. Sling it!
@@HBW87 Oh, and thanks for listening!
Womp em is really a great game very Mega man esk!
whomp
/(h)wämp,(h)wômp/
INFORMAL•NORTH AMERICAN
verb
to have one’s ass kicked by a Native American
"whomp the Viking hell shrimp"
An indigenous version of Mega Man? Sign me up!
How can you play this? Do you have to download the rom? If it was only ever released on the Famicom how do you play it on the NES?
Saiyuuki World I played a rom on my NES using an Everdrive.
It's a shame that Saiyuki World II ended up with such an unfortunate localization, it actually looks like a lot of fun.
The weirdest thing is, I'm pretty sure that Dragon Power had already released in the US at this point, which infamously turns Goku back into his Monkey King inspiration, they really could have released it as "Monkey King Adventure" and changed nothing
I'll bet people would be so offended by 'Whomp 'Em' today, lol. Never let a good game get in the way of whining.
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The first one's music is terrible, I'll pass on that one. But the second one looks decent!
Don't let music stop you, that's what volume knobs and podcasts are for!