Darkman (NES) Playthrough
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- Опубліковано 30 кві 2024
- A playthrough of Ocean's 1991 license-based action game for the NES, Darkman.
Darkman is an NES game that lets you play as Liam Neesen as a mummy. If that thought excites you, you can stop reading right now: you've found your game!
In Darkman, you play as Dr. Peyton Westlake, a scientist-turned-vigilante. A gang led by the criminal kingpin Durant left you hideously disfigured after a botched hit, and you're on a quest for vengeance.
The quest to take down Durant is comprised of five levels spanning sixteen rapid-fire stages that cycle through multiple gameplay modes.
After clearing the initial warehouse stages, Darkman will snap some photos of his first target, Pauly, and create a mask that will allow him to assume Pauly's identity. Wearing this mask, he'll fight through Pauly's set of Central Park-themed stages, and once Pauly has been dealt with, Darkman will repeat this process as he hunts down Skip at the fun fair and Smiley in Chinatown. After killing all the henchman, Darkman can finally head to the skyscraper construction site for the showdown with Durant.
Like Robocop 2 ( • RoboCop 2 (NES) Playth... ), Darkman was developed by Painting by Numbers, and the two have a lot in common. They both feature bright and colorful graphics, C64-style soundtracks dominated by arpeggiated chords, first-person point-and-shoot minigames, and an endless parade of insta-kill stage gimmicks.
But Darkman isn't quite as terrible a game as Robocop 2 was. It suffers from many of the same issues - the platforming controls are obnoxiously slippery, the time limits are too short, most stages require tons of trial-and-error and memorization to get through, and the collision detection demands you to be pixel-perfect in your timing - but the stages are more varied and better designed, the difficulty level has been toned down, and because the game isn't a port of a C64 game like Robocop 2 was, the presentation better plays to the strengths of the NES hardware. It looks and sounds much better overall.
Mediocrity isn't usually something to celebrate, but Painting by Numbers at least deserves credit for trying to do better. Darkman isn't great, but it is far more competently put together than Robocop 2 was.
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Darkman isn't great, but it's a big step up from RoboCop 2, and the soundtrack is catchy.
The movie is fun, and Danny Elfman's soundtrack elevates it nicely.
lmao I was just thinking, "Oh god, is this just using the same engine as Robocop 2?"
Спасибо, парень! В 90-е годы я был профессиональным NES игроком, но тогда почему-то я не заметил этот шедевр.
this was the only video game darkman ever had. since darkman is one of the most underrated superheroes in the world.
There was also a video-game adaptation of _Darkman_ on the Game Boy.
@@Loader2K1 oh yeah, now i remember.
Kept in the dark.......man
@@jonathand9682 good one.
Graphically it looks really good. And it's nice that they took so much stuff from the movie's plot.
Неимоверно сложная игра. Попалась в детстве и доставляла массу проблем. Прохождение этого ужаса с одной потерянной жизнью - это практически идеальный забег. Отличное прохождение!
Thanks! Yeah, it is ridiculously hard, especially the bosses and the 1-way death elevators.
I remember playing this game way more than it deserved
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Well Paulie have a nice flight!
Hey, at least he actually got a fight, compared to what he got in the film, he probably deserved it
“I’m everyone…and no one. Everywhere…nowhere. Call me…Darkman.”
Yeah, but since he is on a nintendo console, he has been blessed with Super Mario's Traction! Lmao😂😂
@@hardyjoe4278 nah, that’s Luigi traction he got there
This developer had a thing for really slippery controls. Even Hook on the NES (which might be their last game ever, that or Cool World on the SNES) is still a bit slippery.
nice very good darkman
Couldn't hang with even the first level renting this when it was new. I had no tolerance for the roller skates Darkman is evidently wearing. But, hey, good on them for making something kind of unique rather than the Final Fight rip off it definitely would've been on SNES.
The Game Boy game was a beat em up. I thought it was much better than this one.
@@NintendoComplete Someone had a lot of faith in Dark man's potential at the box office.
Darkman apparently took off his roller skates when impersonating Smiley and Durant seeing as they actually have decent movement and jumps
I like it dark, man.
"Julie, don't you think I've always told myself that? Night after sleepless night? 'It's just burns, skin deep, it doesn't matter'. Heh. And I'd cover it up, hid behind a mask, you'd love me for the man I was inside. But as I began to perfect the mask, a funny thing happened; the man inside changed. He became wrong, a monster. I can live with that now, but I'm afraid you can't. Peyton is dead".
The problem with a lot of these NES games is putting multiple game segments with different rules in them for variety. This game is 25m long, you dont get variety. What it should have been is just a solid action platformer all the way. The music isn't terrible. There was something here you could exploit, but it feels like a massive miss to me.
I remember when the AVGN did an upload of this one 😅😅😅
You should check out the reviews of the NES and Game Boy versions of _Darkman_ by Filmnstuff. He REALLY goes in on them on how bad they are.
Did they make Hook too? Because the graphics and gameplay look similar to Hook for the NES.
Yes
Nice game, in never as saw before!
Is like Dick Tracy + The Punisher!
:)
😊 wild game
Not to be confused with Duckman....
Were the same guys responsible for the Hook NES game made this?
In both games, everyone is a vampire.
I love the Hook game ❤
@@conta7619I liked it, too.
Well, this is another video game from my youth that I'm glad I didn't play, that's for sure. Personally, I refuse to believe that this game wasn't just a slightly-updated, copy/pasta of the NES version of _RoboCop 2_ , which Ocean also butchered. I will say that I think the OST is decent, even though I've never been a fan of the arpeggio sounds on the NES. Good video.
This game is Robocop 2 in disguise.
Take the f*cking elephant.
Maybe Darkman needs a Robocop mask (even if he technically doesn’t have skin)🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
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Great movie, rotten game.
Wow! you made this look way too easy. I remember the controls for this game being pure garbage. I played it when I was a kid and managed to make it as far as the Skip funhouse. I tried it again a few weeks ago, and couldn't make it through the first scene. Nicely done.
"That would be...just fine."
Wow, they really just re-skinned Robo 2.
Moleman
Liam Neeson
“TAKE THE F*CKING ELEPHANT!!!!”
@@Jackattack359Watch your words there 😠
@@francisjosephmanuel4923 have you even seen the movie?
@@francisjosephmanuel4923haven’t you seen the movie?
@@Jackattack359Indeed i am, the first 1990 American superhero film directed and co-written by Sam Raimi. Based on a short story Raimi wrote that paid homage to Universal's horror films of the 1930s, the film stars Liam Neeson as scientist Peyton Westlake, who is brutally attacked, disfigured, and left for dead by ruthless mobster Robert Durant (Larry Drake), after his girlfriend, attorney Julie Hastings (Frances McDormand), runs afoul of corrupt developer Louis Strack Jr. (Colin Friels). After a treatment to cure him of his burn injuries fails, Westlake develops super-human abilities, which also have the unintended side-effect of rendering him mentally unstable and borderline psychotic. Consumed with vengeance, he decides to hunt down those who disfigured him.
Is this the same game engine as Back to the Future?
Nope. 2 different developers
Same game engine as Robocop 2 NES, actually
The músic 😢😢😢
What’re you talking about? The music is actually pretty decent
@@Jackattack359 I like the music
@@baran7117 then shouldn’t those be happy tear emojis?
@@Jackattack359 😢😢😴 nostalgic
@@baran7117 that’s more like it
Robocop 2 ? 😂
Ugh, the color palette in this game hurts my eyes.
Péssimo jogo um dos piores do Nes.
A Ocean, usou um layout de fases e engine parecida no Robocop 2.
This game wack asf😂