In The Ring, the fight with the Chief is the easiest boss in the game. All you have to do is run around the desk.. he'll get stuck on the other side between the desk and the shelf, and you can just unload into him until her dies. As for Sadiko, there are a couple hidden weapons, like a shot gun around her area...
@@AnthonyBlotti Friend bought the game as joke for me to stream over 5yrs ago (When it was $30 BRAND NEW) I've played through it a few times, yes I'm a glutton for punishment, but I learned to abuse the AI early on. Hell, the only games on this list I don't own a physical version of are the Dracula Games....
MIchigan: Report from Hell is actually a really cool concept for a horror game, almost like if the movie Rec was made into the game. I love that all the reporters have different personalities, and the voice acting is hilarious. If done by a studio with time and a budget, I could see the concept felshed out into a found footage horror that's either super immersive or a campy fun B-movie type game.
I feel like outlast and RE7 shows that it can work. Having it specifically be a team of reporters would be a cool concept tho I think B horror is the best bet. No normal person would continue reporting in that situation 😂 doesn't mean it can't still be scary AF.
@@Gen_Warlock Outlast and expecially RE7 aren't similar at all, plus the latter is a cringe worthy joke, MRFH has some real horror moments, RE7 doesn't.
@@Daniel-Rain-YT why you so grumpy bruv? Didn't say they were similar to each other, just that they show that a rec style game could work. Also not going to pretend that RE7 was scary, but MRFH def isn't scarier or has more horror in any way?
The main thing that you need to consider when assessing Ring: Terror's Realm is that it's quite a bit more faithful to the books than it is to the films. In the books there's a much greater focus on the idea that Sadako manifests as something more akin to a virus and the series eventually reveals that the world that the books take place in is a simulation, built around Sadako. Sadako never manifests as a ghostly form in the novel, which means that several of the most iconic scenes from the film are not present at all. Both have their merits, as they're trying to achieve different goals with the same rough idea. I feel like the tone doesn't translate, as the novels really place a lot of focus on the disparity between the idle wealthy and the sleep deprived, overworked and barely functioning working class, who are packed into overcrowded tenements, breathing in toxic air from the traffic and the constant dumping of industrial pollutants into the atmosphere by the nearby chemical factories. The films are a very loose adaptation that takes the general idea of the novel and reinterprets it as a more conventional ghost story. The original idea has a bit more in common with Parasite Eve, except without the mutants and less focus on scientific realism.
they also decided to do away with her being a haemaphrodite. Honestly I sometimes wonder if there's a happy medium, because when Japan makes a story they'll overcomplicate it and make it bloated. When the west makes a story it seems dumbed down for everyone, in fear that someone won't get it.
Yeah I remember hearing that about the ring video game I never played it but that bit of info made me always want to play it seeing how I read the book before I watched the movie
From what I've learnt about Michigan, the original Japanese voice acting played the story straight. It looks like when the game came state-side that the voice actors decided to turn it into a goofy B-movie style plot.
I'm not so sure that's true. Japan's best efforts are quite honestly, still a B movie 99% of the time. Think of the best Japanese movies that are NOT Kurosawa or Miyazaki, what are you thinking of? Tetsuo the Iron Man? Ichi the Killer? most of what Japan puts out is goofy B movie stuff
The people who made Michigan were clearly wrestling fans...lots of wrestler names in there. Anderson, Rhodes, Orton, Bockwinkle, Brisco, all are famous names in 70's and 80's wrestling.
The extreme closeups in the Dracula games are giving me Limbo of the Lost vibes, of all things (please do not suffer through LotL, the only scares are the shocking amount of plagiarism). I wonder if that's coincidence or a style choice in Western Europe-based games in that time period? The spooky game I enjoyed many a year ago was "Ghosts," a PC point-and-click/FMV experience. Christopher Lee narrates and sends you to investigate a haunted house to uncover ghost stories and their possible truths. The FMV sections are expert interviews with both believers and skeptics as part of the game's point was to come to your own conclusions whether ghosts were fact or fiction. I haven't gone back to see what the scares were like but I can recall the tension of wondering if a scare was around the next corner to this day! Looking forward to your future videos!
As someone who owns Michigan I will always love it. The simple fact that due to bad programming and story development, the end boss appears to be 1) An unarmed, nonviolent autistic / mentally handicapped man 2) Who begs for his life 3) Who is shot in cold blood by a TV crew 4) That TV crew broadcast it live to the nation 5) Who then try to cover their actions in court by saying "So he was the one behind all this..." It is The Room of survival horror.
I got Dracula resurrection cheap in asda (Britain's Walmart) for £5 ($7) and me and my sister would play abit each morning before school, we liked the cheesy characters, the film like atmosphere, we didn't mind the loading it added anticipation to new area's you never knew what you'd see next. It wasn't great and we knew it but honestly it wasn't that bad. I even bought the boxed PC version just to have on my bookshelf the other year, it'll always be one of my favourite memories of spending time with my sister! Great video 👍
I think the idea of Ring: Terror's Realm could work with the right developers. Imagine an Alan Wake II style game where you play as a detective who is sent to investigate strange deaths. You eventually discover that the deaths are linked to an old cursed video game. In the game, you could swap between modern (as the detective) and the retro (survival horror PS1 style game).
2 things about Dracula's Resurrection: 1 - You can cheese the game by going straight to the graveyard and get the dragon medallion before entering the Inn. It pretty much saves you some minutes. 2 - The game was localized In Brazil and had SUPERB voice acting for the time, especially Jonathan and Dracula, being played by top dog VAs. Unfortunately the dub didn't come to Steam.
i played them in 2000s, i was 12 years old, had only ps1. Dude those games blowed my mind. Graphics looked amazing for the time. For young youtubers its easy to sh#t on older games, when they probably wasnt even born in that time games was released. Its like me complaining how Ping Pong had a bad graphics and no storyline.
Same. I played resurrection when I was 12/13. I really enjoyed it and I even nearly completed it but I got stuck in the library. Considering how complicated so of the riddles where I surprised I got that far in the first place lol
The first two are great. The Steam version is not complete, it's based on a cut version they released for the Ipad/Iphone, lots of missing content and puzzle, it sucks.
To be completely fair to Meg. I still feel guilty as hell when i'm even slightly mean to a virtual character in a video game let alone killing them so i get that part
Watching you play The Ring: Terror's Realm and finally seeing what this game/story was all about makes it for an interesting Dreamcast title. I only had a Dreamcast when it was clearanced to $50 USD in November 2001 and remember seeing this game on store shelves, but never got it.
I'm saying this as someone who's a bit of a fan of Countdown Vampires but I not only have the comic, but I can vouch that the game has multiple endings, and a "New Game Plus" which adds a different boss battle and characters from the cutscenes as key characters for a deeper plot that's unlocked. (If you want the memory card data to this, let me know.)
@@ag-cm7kr I was offering this to UA-camrs who'd be more willing to show the extra stuff. I even offered this to the Angry Nerd and never got an answer...
Dracula 2 was my first point & click adventure game and one of the very first games I played on PS1. And I do agree that it is not particularly good version to play with it's load times and especially on HDTV. On CRT TVs it was manageable, but compression still get in the way of late puzzles. Staircase symbols specifically was the worst case. I did experienced Myst much later and think it's good, but Dracula duology is easier to complete and I replay both from time to time. Countdown Vampires was also one of the first PS1 games I experienced and played it back to back with Silent Hill. And I really enjoy it. I does have some strange quirks, but it always felt like a solid horror game for me. It's also one of rare games that kept me surprised with things like there can be a different final boss on disk 1 and I think I managed to 100% it without any guides just two years ago. I don't replay it very often, but after 21 years I'm pretty sure I've seen and unlocked everything it can offer. There is a thing to keep in mind that curing vampires is required to unlock expanded second playthrough. And it's not hard notice that with blue clips you need to stun vampires twice, while with red clip only once. Their zombie like state is heavily dependent on Moon's current colour. And you can fight Gells even on first playthrough, you just need to time out on second fight with real vampires. And if you collect every coin during expanded playthrough, you will unlock additional scenario where you play as vampire Keith and if you beat that, you will restart first playthrough with infinite grande launcher. I just like this game quiet a lot. There is bad Alone in the Dark/Resident Evil clones, but Countdown Vampires isn't even close to be even considered bad. Can't say anything about other two games. The Ring looks like an okay game. Michigan: Report from Hell is first person horror game and I don't like horrors in first person. They just don't work for me. I do have rare exceptions with games like Echo Night, Doom and Dementium, but in general I have not interest in any kind of first person horror game.
3:29 "something you normally wouldn't see with a game back then" what? on the PS1? really? Multi-disc games were incredibly common on the ps1. The game you are talking about came out in 2001, at the end of the PS1's life, by that time several multi-disc games had already been released, games such as: -Chronicles of the Sword -Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger -D -BrainDead 13. -Command & Conquer -Command & Conquer: Red Alert -Colony Wars -G-Police -Final Fantasy VII -Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom -Riven: The Sequel to Myst -Parasite Eve-Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus -Resident Evil 2 -Rival Schools: United by Fate -Xenogears -Metal Gear Solid -Command & Conquer: Red Alert - Retaliation -Heart of Darkness. -Thousand Arms -Final Fantasy VIII -Gran Turismo 2 -Grandia, Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete -Star Ocean: The Second Story -Chrono Cross -Armored Core: Master of Arena -Wild Arms 2 -Valkyrie Profile -The Legend of Dragoon -Parasite Eve II -Syphon Filter 2 -Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete -Koudelka -Fear Effect -Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix -Galerians -Final Fantasy IX -Driver 2 -Covert Ops: Nuclear Dawn -Dragon Valor -Countdown Vampires Those are the few that I remember, I'm sure there are many more that I haven't played or have forgotten.
The reason why I said this to begin with was that there was over 1,200 ps1 games released in the USA alone. With less then 100 of them being multi disc games. Just some of these games happen to be some of the most popular games on the system. Yes I was wrong in my statement there and I appreciate you making this comprehensive list.
@@AnthonyBlotti Fair enough, you're right about that, the PS1 had 7,918 games worldwide, in comparison, games with more than one disc should be a tiny percentage of that number. Sorry about that
I can’t even be mad at Michigan: Report From Hell because there’s so much personality to it. Like, the presentation and all the variations that occur. Plus the ending was raw. I mean, I never played it so I can’t really say. But it feels like House of the Dead charming with some actually really horrifying premises.
That Dracula footage brought back memories. I haven't played it in years, but it was good enough I remembered it more for the puzzles and the cutscenes.
30:10 maybe that crossbow is why there are so many vampire skeletons laying around, but alas plot hole, the vampires turn into sand when they die in this game
I wish to add- Necronomicon Dawning of Darkness from Wanadoo- my god that game! What a giant pain in the 🍑. I played it on the PS1 and there's so much trial and error in one alchemy puzzle it is almost impossible without googling it. The bad ending cut scene doesn't even trigger you just get kicked to the loading screen- zero explosion or end of days😂
bro you remind me of prime AVGN with how ‘retro’ this video feels. this could have come out of 2007-2010 era YT and that’s a fantastic vibe to have. definitely subbing.
I got this video as a recommendation and this is some quality content on the level of Austin Eruption, PBG, Nitro Rad, and many other game reviewers. I'm 100% sure you're about to blow up in the next year or 2 (as long you keep going with this channel, obviously lol 😋.) Now, when you blow up to 100,000+ subs in a year, I can brag about being here since 1.8k, and I can also say "told ya so!" lol! 😄 The only thing that sucks about finding a good channel early on is that I've already watched your back catalog, and now I don't have anything left to binge. 🙃 Looks like I'll just have to sub and ring the bell then lol. 🤷♀️😅
How do you have less than 2k subs? Great vid! And your video having 12k likes is impressive ive seen people with million+ subs with less likes on videos lol. I subbed!
Countdown Vampires: A whiny wannabe tough guy? sounds like they just went for realism rather than the power fantasy protagonist :P Having a cop just be demoted for *murdering his partner* and the incident being swept under the rug also points to this. The cheery voice going "I'm so scared" has to be worse voice acting, surely.
I really really hoped your intro was going to be "From running around zombie infested mansions in Resident evil, to running around zombie infested towns in Resident Evil 2, to running around zombie infested towns in Resident Evil 3, to-" and so on without comment.
Michigan: Report from Hell, to me, seems to be intentionally trashy. It's kinda like watching Hell Firmer and taking it too seriously. If you look at this pretty unfortunate game with the trash glasses, it's a joy to behold. And it gets you over sunken cost fallacy.
20:55 - this is not correct. Getting a "game over" in the Adventure game genre is not abnormal. However, it is not usual to get a game over in POINT-AND-CLICK Adventure games. I know this comment can be considered to be a nit-pick, but misunderstanding of what constituted the "adventure" genre is my personal grudge. I am not coming from the place of negativity, I come from the place of love and passion! Also, besides Sierra games, you can get a game over in "Clock Tower" series, "MacVenture" series, and "Harvester" to name a few point-and-click games! I would recommend checking out every of these, they are real gems!
I just found your channel. Great work overall with this video. Dracula games: Well...this was different but a fun trash fire. Countdown Vampires: I never heard of this game. I think Vampire hunter D is better and it is pretty much an RE clone but an actual good one. Parasite Eve is anther good RE inspired game. The Ring: I know this far too well. I was going to skip this part but your breakdown of the plot and reactions made it worth revisting a game I know far too well due to the streamers and UA-camrs I follow that have played the game. Michigan Report from Hell: I watched an lp of this but never this took place in Chicago. That's makes this meme game even better.
Didn't see anyone point this out. Vampires in context to jp/ch influenced lore are zombies. Unless strictly stated in w/e game/show that they're western vampires.
1:19:30 Airquotes on "funny" and "joke", because I generally find it a disrespectful thing to do to any game, good or bad, so thanks for not biting into the trope.
i like how you wanted to avoid angry comments, but you never expected ME! the world's biggest michigan: report from hell fan! haha, just kidding. :) i know it sucks but i mean it affectionately, i love really bad, schlocky, and janky horror games
As a Dracula book fan, it is pretty disheartening to watch Seward just nuke himself like that after everything that happened in that book. And I don't even really like Seward.
I played Dracula on PC for the first time about 7 years ago and unironically enjoyed my time with it. It strode the line of pretty good game play with some chresy nostalgia. The disconcerting character models and camera angles really added a lot of flavor I think - emphasizing that you're in a place you really should not be. The game's sequel, Dracula 2: The Last Sanctuary, was just painful. The first part was passable, but the end made me give up. Imagine I'll try Dracula 3 again in the future just because.
i like meg honestly i think it makes sense to be skeptical initially about wierd stuff i think its a bit dumb when someone believes in the supernatural stuff right away,it can be annoying when a character never acknowledges it when stuff does happen though but when its done just right it makes sense
1:13:00 does kinda make sense specifically in the context of the prequel you mentioned it was designed to promote. part of the plot is the idea that there are sort of two sadako's inside the girl- her human side that wants to stop the dark spirit as much as everyone else, and the dark spirit that acts as the movie series protagonist. iirc its just something like when she died that good part of her didn't stay like the bad one- maybe this was meant to reference that good coming back one last time in her virtual form or as she dies or something?
Great video! A small correction: at 37:36 you include The X-Files for the PS1 as an example of a 'Resident Evil imitation game'. The problem is that the X-Files game isn't. It's an FMV mystery game. The one you must have been thinking about is X-Files Resist or Serve for the PS2.
I really can’t hate The Ring: Terror’s Realm, back in 2001, I found the game at a mall in a retro video game store that sold all kinds of games for cheap prices. I had a Dreamcast and I had just beat Resident Evil Code Veronica for it, so I really didn’t have another cool and fun horror game to play, so I purchased Ring and gave it a chance. Besides RE Code Veronica, I had all three versions of Street Fighter III and Capcom vs. SNK on Dreamcast. Adding The Ring to my collection of Dreamcast games felt like a win in my opinion. Even though the game was very silly, I actually had a lot of fun playing through it, the game also created some very good memories for me while playing it, it took a good while to try and figure out how to beat, but I actually figured out how to beat the game, and it felt like the stakes were really high at the end, it made things really cool in my opinion. I still love the game, and feel bad that it gets a lot of hate. Another cool Dreamcast survival horror game that I managed to find and play was “Carrier”. I also had a lot of fun playing through “Carrier” too as well, it’s sadly another game that no one talks about and is sadly forgotten, yet I still remember the game and love it. I was only able to find Carrier at a video store to rent, and never found it to buy, so I ended up finding and buying another awesome survival horror game that was on Dreamcast, and that game was “Alone in the Dark The New Nightmare”.
Fun video. Countdown Vampires looks good to be honest, the others range from weird to wtf were they smoking. Specially that Ring game. Are the books so different from the movies or they exist in a different universes? I was sleepy while watching the video but had no idea what was going on lol.
It's underrated. Everyone dumps on it because the story is kind of schlocky and just kind of happens, but it has like 4 full story modes. It takes multiple playthroughs to unlock other playable characters. Like all the characters in the opening cutscene are in these alternate playthroughs and the curing people from the vampirism is required for one of these playthroughs.
18:20 So the Smurfs -- aka Les Schtroomphs (spelling may be off; I can't check other tabs at the moment so I'm going from memory) -- were HUGE in the French-speaking world long before they got anglicized. They were sold in those swank big graphic comics like Tintin or Asterisk & Obelisk. The original run is quite arty. I remember them from my bilingual Canadian French-English education. Our libraries had them all. It's probably not surprising a French mega-corp owned the rights at some point to Smurfs in games, given they're a massive Francophone property.
Fun trivia about Dracula 2: inside the house Carfax, You can find on one wall a painting of the house itself. Clicking on it will give a description and history of Carfax, quoting directly from the novel!
I remember being so disappointed in Countdown: Vampire. Back in the day it had some impressive looking previews in old game magazines. It was originally going to have 4 playable characters and branching storylines. But I guess they couldn't figure out the game so they cut it down to just one playable character. Those other characters in the ending were shown in previews as playable characters.
I played Michigan: Report from Hell on my PS2 when I rented it from Hollywood Video back when Hollywood Video was still around and I have mixed opinions on it as it's not a total trainwreck and disaster, but it still didn't fully live up to the potential that it could've reached as a survival-horror game.
I genuinely enjoyed the Dracula games on my dusty old PS1. They had a kind of charm to me. The rest of the "games" on this list are absolute trash though. Countdown vampires gave me post gaming trauma. Dalad Jelly?
I’m working on a documentary about the production of and what likely went wrong with the Ring Terror’s realm. Trust me, the game makes less sense when you consider it’s release window in the context of the wider ring franchise.
I like when Grim Beard reviewed it & initially misheard her name as Egg, then corrected it to Meg, then after she did something too dumb for Grim to bear, he downgraded her to being Egg again. Look forward to your doc.
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You should review the invincible it's base on a book that was the inspiration to the Horizon series
In The Ring, the fight with the Chief is the easiest boss in the game. All you have to do is run around the desk.. he'll get stuck on the other side between the desk and the shelf, and you can just unload into him until her dies.
As for Sadiko, there are a couple hidden weapons, like a shot gun around her area...
@@marbles8641 did not know that. Thank you!
@@AnthonyBlotti Friend bought the game as joke for me to stream over 5yrs ago (When it was $30 BRAND NEW)
I've played through it a few times, yes I'm a glutton for punishment, but I learned to abuse the AI early on.
Hell, the only games on this list I don't own a physical version of are the Dracula Games....
You should review D2 its super Underrated @AnthonyBlotti
MIchigan: Report from Hell is actually a really cool concept for a horror game, almost like if the movie Rec was made into the game. I love that all the reporters have different personalities, and the voice acting is hilarious. If done by a studio with time and a budget, I could see the concept felshed out into a found footage horror that's either super immersive or a campy fun B-movie type game.
I feel like outlast and RE7 shows that it can work. Having it specifically be a team of reporters would be a cool concept tho I think B horror is the best bet. No normal person would continue reporting in that situation 😂 doesn't mean it can't still be scary AF.
American literally copypasted OUR movie and DESTROYED...
Just like Tom Cruise what that horrible Vanilla Sky..
@@Gen_Warlock Outlast and expecially RE7 aren't similar at all, plus the latter is a cringe worthy joke, MRFH has some real horror moments, RE7 doesn't.
@@Daniel-Rain-YT why you so grumpy bruv? Didn't say they were similar to each other, just that they show that a rec style game could work. Also not going to pretend that RE7 was scary, but MRFH def isn't scarier or has more horror in any way?
"We'll be covering videos from over 20 years ago."
First game is from 2000.
**_Existential crisis ensues_**
The main thing that you need to consider when assessing Ring: Terror's Realm is that it's quite a bit more faithful to the books than it is to the films.
In the books there's a much greater focus on the idea that Sadako manifests as something more akin to a virus and the series eventually reveals that the world that the books take place in is a simulation, built around Sadako. Sadako never manifests as a ghostly form in the novel, which means that several of the most iconic scenes from the film are not present at all. Both have their merits, as they're trying to achieve different goals with the same rough idea.
I feel like the tone doesn't translate, as the novels really place a lot of focus on the disparity between the idle wealthy and the sleep deprived, overworked and barely functioning working class, who are packed into overcrowded tenements, breathing in toxic air from the traffic and the constant dumping of industrial pollutants into the atmosphere by the nearby chemical factories.
The films are a very loose adaptation that takes the general idea of the novel and reinterprets it as a more conventional ghost story. The original idea has a bit more in common with Parasite Eve, except without the mutants and less focus on scientific realism.
they also decided to do away with her being a haemaphrodite. Honestly I sometimes wonder if there's a happy medium, because when Japan makes a story they'll overcomplicate it and make it bloated. When the west makes a story it seems dumbed down for everyone, in fear that someone won't get it.
Yeah I remember hearing that about the ring video game I never played it but that bit of info made me always want to play it seeing how I read the book before I watched the movie
That’s pretty cool! Would you recommend the books?
From what I've learnt about Michigan, the original Japanese voice acting played the story straight. It looks like when the game came state-side that the voice actors decided to turn it into a goofy B-movie style plot.
Yes, Michigan was meant to be 'campy' for Western audiences so it could sell.
I'm not so sure that's true. Japan's best efforts are quite honestly, still a B movie 99% of the time.
Think of the best Japanese movies that are NOT Kurosawa or Miyazaki, what are you thinking of? Tetsuo the Iron Man? Ichi the Killer?
most of what Japan puts out is goofy B movie stuff
The people who made Michigan were clearly wrestling fans...lots of wrestler names in there. Anderson, Rhodes, Orton, Bockwinkle, Brisco, all are famous names in 70's and 80's wrestling.
well it is a suda51 game, and one of the first he worked on was a wrestling title so it checks out
The extreme closeups in the Dracula games are giving me Limbo of the Lost vibes, of all things (please do not suffer through LotL, the only scares are the shocking amount of plagiarism). I wonder if that's coincidence or a style choice in Western Europe-based games in that time period?
The spooky game I enjoyed many a year ago was "Ghosts," a PC point-and-click/FMV experience. Christopher Lee narrates and sends you to investigate a haunted house to uncover ghost stories and their possible truths. The FMV sections are expert interviews with both believers and skeptics as part of the game's point was to come to your own conclusions whether ghosts were fact or fiction. I haven't gone back to see what the scares were like but I can recall the tension of wondering if a scare was around the next corner to this day!
Looking forward to your future videos!
I Love the Dracula series. I have all 5 of them . All physical copies on pc. I started playing them all this weekend with my daughter.
As someone who owns Michigan I will always love it. The simple fact that due to bad programming and story development, the end boss appears to be
1) An unarmed, nonviolent autistic / mentally handicapped man
2) Who begs for his life
3) Who is shot in cold blood by a TV crew
4) That TV crew broadcast it live to the nation
5) Who then try to cover their actions in court by saying "So he was the one behind all this..."
It is The Room of survival horror.
I got Dracula resurrection cheap in asda (Britain's Walmart) for £5 ($7) and me and my sister would play abit each morning before school, we liked the cheesy characters, the film like atmosphere, we didn't mind the loading it added anticipation to new area's you never knew what you'd see next. It wasn't great and we knew it but honestly it wasn't that bad. I even bought the boxed PC version just to have on my bookshelf the other year, it'll always be one of my favourite memories of spending time with my sister! Great video 👍
I think the idea of Ring: Terror's Realm could work with the right developers. Imagine an Alan Wake II style game where you play as a detective who is sent to investigate strange deaths. You eventually discover that the deaths are linked to an old cursed video game. In the game, you could swap between modern (as the detective) and the retro (survival horror PS1 style game).
2 things about Dracula's Resurrection:
1 - You can cheese the game by going straight to the graveyard and get the dragon medallion before entering the Inn. It pretty much saves you some minutes.
2 - The game was localized In Brazil and had SUPERB voice acting for the time, especially Jonathan and Dracula, being played by top dog VAs. Unfortunately the dub didn't come to Steam.
The Dracula series of games were pretty good. Very atmospheric. Unfortunately, I can't get it to run on the steam deck
i played them in 2000s, i was 12 years old, had only ps1. Dude those games blowed my mind. Graphics looked amazing for the time. For young youtubers its easy to sh#t on older games, when they probably wasnt even born in that time games was released. Its like me complaining how Ping Pong had a bad graphics and no storyline.
Same. I played resurrection when I was 12/13. I really enjoyed it and I even nearly completed it but I got stuck in the library. Considering how complicated so of the riddles where I surprised I got that far in the first place lol
Absolutely right
You could try emulating the first two on the deck. I believe they were on PS1. I have the series on GOG but haven't tried those versions yet on it.
The first two are great. The Steam version is not complete, it's based on a cut version they released for the Ipad/Iphone, lots of missing content and puzzle, it sucks.
Classic Anthony dropping the Halloween episode in November
i expect his Christmas video in March
Dracula: The Resurrection is awesome, I still play it till this day
To be completely fair to Meg. I still feel guilty as hell when i'm even slightly mean to a virtual character in a video game let alone killing them so i get that part
Watching you play The Ring: Terror's Realm and finally seeing what this game/story was all about makes it for an interesting Dreamcast title. I only had a Dreamcast when it was clearanced to $50 USD in November 2001 and remember seeing this game on store shelves, but never got it.
I'm saying this as someone who's a bit of a fan of Countdown Vampires but I not only have the comic, but I can vouch that the game has multiple endings, and a "New Game Plus" which adds a different boss battle and characters from the cutscenes as key characters for a deeper plot that's unlocked. (If you want the memory card data to this, let me know.)
No way you still have that memory card dude
Hello, I'm REALLY interested
@@bozotheclown1142 I'm a collector and I never lose anything like that. I've had the memory card since 1999.
@@ag-cm7kr I was offering this to UA-camrs who'd be more willing to show the extra stuff. I even offered this to the Angry Nerd and never got an answer...
@@bozotheclown1142 I still have all of my video game stuff from when i was a kid because i very rarely get rid of anything.
Great video!
Crusty old horror games have a special place in my heart lol. ♥
Idk why I was expecting Maxmoefoe to come through that door
Dracula 2 was my first point & click adventure game and one of the very first games I played on PS1. And I do agree that it is not particularly good version to play with it's load times and especially on HDTV. On CRT TVs it was manageable, but compression still get in the way of late puzzles. Staircase symbols specifically was the worst case. I did experienced Myst much later and think it's good, but Dracula duology is easier to complete and I replay both from time to time.
Countdown Vampires was also one of the first PS1 games I experienced and played it back to back with Silent Hill. And I really enjoy it. I does have some strange quirks, but it always felt like a solid horror game for me. It's also one of rare games that kept me surprised with things like there can be a different final boss on disk 1 and I think I managed to 100% it without any guides just two years ago. I don't replay it very often, but after 21 years I'm pretty sure I've seen and unlocked everything it can offer. There is a thing to keep in mind that curing vampires is required to unlock expanded second playthrough. And it's not hard notice that with blue clips you need to stun vampires twice, while with red clip only once. Their zombie like state is heavily dependent on Moon's current colour. And you can fight Gells even on first playthrough, you just need to time out on second fight with real vampires. And if you collect every coin during expanded playthrough, you will unlock additional scenario where you play as vampire Keith and if you beat that, you will restart first playthrough with infinite grande launcher. I just like this game quiet a lot. There is bad Alone in the Dark/Resident Evil clones, but Countdown Vampires isn't even close to be even considered bad.
Can't say anything about other two games. The Ring looks like an okay game. Michigan: Report from Hell is first person horror game and I don't like horrors in first person. They just don't work for me. I do have rare exceptions with games like Echo Night, Doom and Dementium, but in general I have not interest in any kind of first person horror game.
The PS1 is such a hot and cold anomaly; for every Metal Gear Solid and Symphony of the Night, there were at least five of each of these...
3:29 "something you normally wouldn't see with a game back then" what? on the PS1? really?
Multi-disc games were incredibly common on the ps1. The game you are talking about came out in 2001, at the end of the PS1's life, by that time several multi-disc games had already been released, games such as:
-Chronicles of the Sword
-Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger
-D
-BrainDead 13.
-Command & Conquer
-Command & Conquer: Red Alert
-Colony Wars
-G-Police
-Final Fantasy VII
-Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom
-Riven: The Sequel to Myst
-Parasite Eve-Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus
-Resident Evil 2
-Rival Schools: United by Fate
-Xenogears
-Metal Gear Solid
-Command & Conquer: Red Alert - Retaliation
-Heart of Darkness.
-Thousand Arms
-Final Fantasy VIII
-Gran Turismo 2
-Grandia, Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete
-Star Ocean: The Second Story
-Chrono Cross
-Armored Core: Master of Arena
-Wild Arms 2
-Valkyrie Profile
-The Legend of Dragoon
-Parasite Eve II
-Syphon Filter 2
-Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete
-Koudelka
-Fear Effect
-Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix
-Galerians
-Final Fantasy IX
-Driver 2
-Covert Ops: Nuclear Dawn
-Dragon Valor
-Countdown Vampires
Those are the few that I remember, I'm sure there are many more that I haven't played or have forgotten.
The reason why I said this to begin with was that there was over 1,200 ps1 games released in the USA alone. With less then 100 of them being multi disc games. Just some of these games happen to be some of the most popular games on the system.
Yes I was wrong in my statement there and I appreciate you making this comprehensive list.
@@AnthonyBlotti Fair enough, you're right about that, the PS1 had 7,918 games worldwide, in comparison, games with more than one disc should be a tiny percentage of that number. Sorry about that
Enjoyed Dracula and Countdown Vampires was super fun even with all the campy stuff.
the ring looks like an Overblood re-skin
I can’t even be mad at Michigan: Report From Hell because there’s so much personality to it. Like, the presentation and all the variations that occur. Plus the ending was raw.
I mean, I never played it so I can’t really say. But it feels like House of the Dead charming with some actually really horrifying premises.
Dude how do you have such few subscribers?? Please keep it up. This is such perfect material.
Really enjoying this. Underrated channel.
I’m so sorry for all the nasty critiques you’ve received; this video seems to be very well-researched and your presentation style is really engaging!
With the release of GrimBeards review in the past week and this, Michigan: Report from Hell has received the most coverage it's ever had.
I saw the line up on the thumbnail and KNEW I needed to give this a listen. I'm glad I did! Here comes another sub!
That Dracula footage brought back memories. I haven't played it in years, but it was good enough I remembered it more for the puzzles and the cutscenes.
New viewer to the channel after this video but I had to stop and say THANK YOU! This was such a fun, entertaining creation. Great job!
I remember Dracula being sold here in Italy during 00, and i remember Dracula face resembling Arnold Swarzenegger to me XD
30:10 maybe that crossbow is why there are so many vampire skeletons laying around, but alas plot hole, the vampires turn into sand when they die in this game
Very wholesome, Halloween is my older sister’s favorite holiday.
Fun video. These goofy games deserve more recognition
I wish to add- Necronomicon Dawning of Darkness from Wanadoo- my god that game! What a giant pain in the 🍑.
I played it on the PS1 and there's so much trial and error in one alchemy puzzle it is almost impossible without googling it. The bad ending cut scene doesn't even trigger you just get kicked to the loading screen- zero explosion or end of days😂
Dracula Unleashed on the Sega CD (and DVD) puts Dracula: The Ressurection to shame. Not the good kind of shame, though. Not the good kind at all.
Wow brisco has a great screaming voice. Almost as good as Mike Matei. Those iconic OH MY GAHDs win my heart Brisco!
bro you remind me of prime AVGN with how ‘retro’ this video feels. this could have come out of 2007-2010 era YT and that’s a fantastic vibe to have. definitely subbing.
Dracula: The Ressurection feels like a VR game. You can spin but you can’t walk
the ring is so bad... BUUUUT i love laser effect.
I got this video as a recommendation and this is some quality content on the level of Austin Eruption, PBG, Nitro Rad, and many other game reviewers. I'm 100% sure you're about to blow up in the next year or 2 (as long you keep going with this channel, obviously lol 😋.)
Now, when you blow up to 100,000+ subs in a year, I can brag about being here since 1.8k, and I can also say
"told ya so!" lol! 😄
The only thing that sucks about finding a good channel early on is that I've already watched your back catalog, and now I don't have anything left to binge. 🙃 Looks like I'll just have to sub and ring the bell then lol. 🤷♀️😅
I love these kinds of games. To me their differences and flaws are what gives them character. Obscure, unique games are just great times for me.
How do you have less than 2k subs? Great vid! And your video having 12k likes is impressive ive seen people with million+ subs with less likes on videos lol. I subbed!
This was a great video. Keep up the good work. Love the humor and the "f-ing bubbles" reference
I don't know how I got here, but I like it. Cozy even.
0:52 HEY I SEE THAT! Trying to be all sneaky...
I just found out they made 5 games in the Dracula series on steam.
English versions of old japanese games are almost always quite collectable and thus valuable. Extra points if it's a terrible game (aka kusoge).
Countdown Vampires: A whiny wannabe tough guy? sounds like they just went for realism rather than the power fantasy protagonist :P Having a cop just be demoted for *murdering his partner* and the incident being swept under the rug also points to this. The cheery voice going "I'm so scared" has to be worse voice acting, surely.
That Drakula game kinda looks amazing if you ask me
I really really hoped your intro was going to be "From running around zombie infested mansions in Resident evil, to running around zombie infested towns in Resident Evil 2, to running around zombie infested towns in Resident Evil 3, to-" and so on without comment.
Michigan: Report from Hell, to me, seems to be intentionally trashy. It's kinda like watching Hell Firmer and taking it too seriously. If you look at this pretty unfortunate game with the trash glasses, it's a joy to behold. And it gets you over sunken cost fallacy.
1:08:30 that’s a pretty neat twist: the digital world is actually the real world and vice versa
I remember buying Dracula because i liked Dracula stuff. The surprise nudity at the end is above an M rating.
20:55 - this is not correct. Getting a "game over" in the Adventure game genre is not abnormal. However, it is not usual to get a game over in POINT-AND-CLICK Adventure games. I know this comment can be considered to be a nit-pick, but misunderstanding of what constituted the "adventure" genre is my personal grudge. I am not coming from the place of negativity, I come from the place of love and passion!
Also, besides Sierra games, you can get a game over in "Clock Tower" series, "MacVenture" series, and "Harvester" to name a few point-and-click games! I would recommend checking out every of these, they are real gems!
I just found your channel. Great work overall with this video.
Dracula games: Well...this was different but a fun trash fire.
Countdown Vampires: I never heard of this game. I think Vampire hunter D is better and it is pretty much an RE clone but an actual good one. Parasite Eve is anther good RE inspired game.
The Ring: I know this far too well. I was going to skip this part but your breakdown of the plot and reactions made it worth revisting a game I know far too well due to the streamers and UA-camrs I follow that have played the game.
Michigan Report from Hell: I watched an lp of this but never this took place in Chicago. That's makes this meme game even better.
Didn't see anyone point this out. Vampires in context to jp/ch influenced lore are zombies. Unless strictly stated in w/e game/show that they're western vampires.
You're late for Halloween but this video is right on time. Nice job.
1:19:30 Airquotes on "funny" and "joke", because I generally find it a disrespectful thing to do to any game, good or bad, so thanks for not biting into the trope.
i like how you wanted to avoid angry comments, but you never expected ME! the world's biggest michigan: report from hell fan! haha, just kidding. :)
i know it sucks but i mean it affectionately, i love really bad, schlocky, and janky horror games
As a Dracula book fan, it is pretty disheartening to watch Seward just nuke himself like that after everything that happened in that book. And I don't even really like Seward.
I love MXC. So shout out to Spike. Also the VGA year with Joel McHale was so funny
what can I say i am such a sucker for ps 1 graphics and ambience
I have a soft spot for report to hell because of how bizzare it is
😂 the voice acting! It’s wonderful!
Wow. I found the Ring game for $20. That pricing is ridiculous.
1:21:22 that sound effect......flashbacks from Tomb Raider 2
38:41 I've played Tenchu all the way back when it first came out 25 years ago and this is the first time I've ever heard someone pronounce it Tenku.
Well I never played the Dracula games, and for what I've seen I agree the second one sucks, but... it does have that one dude being blown by a cannon.
I played Dracula on PC for the first time about 7 years ago and unironically enjoyed my time with it. It strode the line of pretty good game play with some chresy nostalgia. The disconcerting character models and camera angles really added a lot of flavor I think - emphasizing that you're in a place you really should not be.
The game's sequel, Dracula 2: The Last Sanctuary, was just painful. The first part was passable, but the end made me give up. Imagine I'll try Dracula 3 again in the future just because.
How do they not realize you don’t get sucked inside normal video games
its crazy that theres more than 2 of those dracula games
I thought the voice-acting at the beginning of the Ring game section was a joke, and you got your friends to do the voices. Jesus.
i like meg honestly i think it makes sense to be skeptical initially about wierd stuff i think its a bit dumb when someone believes in the supernatural stuff right away,it can be annoying when a character never acknowledges it when stuff does happen though but when its done just right it makes sense
1:13:00 does kinda make sense specifically in the context of the prequel you mentioned it was designed to promote. part of the plot is the idea that there are sort of two sadako's inside the girl- her human side that wants to stop the dark spirit as much as everyone else, and the dark spirit that acts as the movie series protagonist. iirc its just something like when she died that good part of her didn't stay like the bad one- maybe this was meant to reference that good coming back one last time in her virtual form or as she dies or something?
Great video!
A small correction: at 37:36 you include The X-Files for the PS1 as an example of a 'Resident Evil imitation game'. The problem is that the X-Files game isn't. It's an FMV mystery game. The one you must have been thinking about is X-Files Resist or Serve for the PS2.
Sounds like nitpicking on the Dracula game, I really wanna play it now
I really can’t hate The Ring: Terror’s Realm, back in 2001, I found the game at a mall in a retro video game store that sold all kinds of games for cheap prices.
I had a Dreamcast and I had just beat Resident Evil Code Veronica for it, so I really didn’t have another cool and fun horror game to play, so I purchased Ring and gave it a chance.
Besides RE Code Veronica, I had all three versions of Street Fighter III and Capcom vs. SNK on Dreamcast.
Adding The Ring to my collection of Dreamcast games felt like a win in my opinion.
Even though the game was very silly, I actually had a lot of fun playing through it, the game also created some very good memories for me while playing it, it took a good while to try and figure out how to beat, but I actually figured out how to beat the game, and it felt like the stakes were really high at the end, it made things really cool in my opinion.
I still love the game, and feel bad that it gets a lot of hate.
Another cool Dreamcast survival horror game that I managed to find and play was “Carrier”.
I also had a lot of fun playing through “Carrier” too as well, it’s sadly another game that no one talks about and is sadly forgotten, yet I still remember the game and love it.
I was only able to find Carrier at a video store to rent, and never found it to buy, so I ended up finding and buying another awesome survival horror game that was on Dreamcast, and that game was “Alone in the Dark The New Nightmare”.
If there’s a RE clone I want you to check out it would be Galerians the game looks interesting and it has a OVA that has death metal soundtrack!
Fun video. Countdown Vampires looks good to be honest, the others range from weird to wtf were they smoking. Specially that Ring game. Are the books so different from the movies or they exist in a different universes? I was sleepy while watching the video but had no idea what was going on lol.
CV is like a UwU Boll movie.. BAD but GOOD at the same time xD
It's underrated. Everyone dumps on it because the story is kind of schlocky and just kind of happens, but it has like 4 full story modes. It takes multiple playthroughs to unlock other playable characters. Like all the characters in the opening cutscene are in these alternate playthroughs and the curing people from the vampirism is required for one of these playthroughs.
18:20 So the Smurfs -- aka Les Schtroomphs (spelling may be off; I can't check other tabs at the moment so I'm going from memory) -- were HUGE in the French-speaking world long before they got anglicized. They were sold in those swank big graphic comics like Tintin or Asterisk & Obelisk. The original run is quite arty. I remember them from my bilingual Canadian French-English education. Our libraries had them all. It's probably not surprising a French mega-corp owned the rights at some point to Smurfs in games, given they're a massive Francophone property.
I mostly remember the ring game from the splat noise it makes when you select something on the main menu
Fun trivia about Dracula 2: inside the house Carfax, You can find on one wall a painting of the house itself. Clicking on it will give a description and history of Carfax, quoting directly from the novel!
I remember being so disappointed in Countdown: Vampire. Back in the day it had some impressive looking previews in old game magazines. It was originally going to have 4 playable characters and branching storylines. But I guess they couldn't figure out the game so they cut it down to just one playable character. Those other characters in the ending were shown in previews as playable characters.
Man this was a great video, a lot of work went into it, hou deserve more subscribers, you got a new one today
I played Michigan: Report from Hell on my PS2 when I rented it from Hollywood Video back when Hollywood Video was still around and I have mixed opinions on it as it's not a total trainwreck and disaster, but it still didn't fully live up to the potential that it could've reached as a survival-horror game.
Oh god, when i saw the ring: terror's realm i knew that the video was going to be serious, LMAO
I genuinely enjoyed the Dracula games on my dusty old PS1. They had a kind of charm to me. The rest of the "games" on this list are absolute trash though. Countdown vampires gave me post gaming trauma.
Dalad Jelly?
Like I said the first Dracula game is decent I think, I really didn’t like the 2nd one as you can tell. Lol
Also was that a Spoony reference?!?!
@@AnthonyBlotti sure was.
17:43 sounds like “wanna do addition” out loud
1:18:10 we making it out of the shadow realm with this one!
The only good thing about Countdown Vampires is that Keith is probably the sexiest male character in a horror videogame.
I’m working on a documentary about the production of and what likely went wrong with the Ring Terror’s realm. Trust me, the game makes less sense when you consider it’s release window in the context of the wider ring franchise.
For those unaware the us release happened before an official widely distributed stateside release of the ring books or movies.
I like when Grim Beard reviewed it & initially misheard her name as Egg, then corrected it to Meg, then after she did something too dumb for Grim to bear, he downgraded her to being Egg again.
Look forward to your doc.
love the video, cool games i have never seen before. thank you!
I actually really liked Dracula. Then again I'm a fan of retro point and click horror which is a very specific genre.
I actually played The Ring game and completely forgot about it
Wow, youve instantly become a fav creator of mine. Love your style. Keep it up!
Michigan is absolutely slept on the slander here is prosecutable