I used to play this at the food store while my mom shopped. I would save all week to play this game. I could never remember the name, thanks for posting this!
Me too!!! Played it at the local food Mart after school in the early 90s. Forgot the name of it, wanted it for mame. Wod always search "arcade side roller adventure game with a sword as an energy bar" this would pop up, but I'd say naw I don't remember it looking like this. Until I went ahead and watched a few minutes of this video. It was this game and Rolling Thunder that I forgot the name of.
I have to admit, 2 wasn't the best but I still loved the music, especially the boss music. The laugh before the bosses is something I'll remember for the rest of my days.
Il titolo del video dice che è l'arcade,o coin op,allora perche il conta tempo e' fermo e nonostante si sta giocando lampeggia la scritta insert coin?,per quanto riguarda il conta tempo bloccato non mi risulta che esistano i giochi arcade con il trainer,per non parlare della grafica,niente a che vedere con il primo rastan saga.
Because at taito people was able to create funny stuff like Bubble bobble not this kind of combat games. Look at this game, the palette is good for a Cartoon game like liquid Kids not this one.
Roberto S They made a ton of darker, more serious games that were excellent. Gun Frontier, Metal Black, Rastan Saga (the first fone), The Ninja Warriors, Demon's World/Horror Story, Rayforce, Elevator Action Returns, etc. Not to mention they were notorious for giving a lot of their games depressing bad ends. They really just dropped the ball on this one.
I just came here from watching the PC version and let me tell you, they fucked the music up something awful on that one. It's amazing how badly the wrong sound font can massacre a good midi track.
i used to complete this game with 4 quarters i mostly died at some of the unfair jumps but it was alright, also if you defeat the final boss with a friend both "Rastan" will have to fight to claim the title of ruler of Rastania
This was Taito's most lackluster game. It suffered from poor level design, cheap hazards & unfair bosses. Taito redeemed themselves when they came out with Warrior Blade: Rastan Saga 3.
Wow ... I dont think any animation in this game has more than 2 frames. Even the original had attack/movement animations with 4+ frames .. and that was much earlier.
This game looks absolutely wretched. Thank you for posting it as I can save myself a quarter. It's like Taito couldn't decide if they wanted to rip off Astynax, Trojan, Altered Beast or Conan.
Some of the enemy designs and backgrounds are really awesome, and the graphics aren't quite as bad as in the Genesis port, naturally, so I wish I could like this game...but wow, it looks like a huge step backwards overall from the first game.
I did like the Sega Genesis version. I don't remember the Genesis version being this bad or having such insane difficulty even though Genesis games tend to have high difficulty. This arcade version seems to have some serious flaws. I just don't get it. I play all games on arcade sticks which I find much easier than gamepads anyway especially since I grew up with arcades, Atari, and home computers years before I played an NES. Some of those tight area jumps are just obnoxious. I can't imagine how many quarters were wasted trying to get through those areas.
I loved this game! The music was great! I didn't know it was Rastan II so I have been looking for it for years! But man... you a really bad at it even with god mod on... just saying. Thanks for posting by the way! :)
I like the triology from ''Rastan''. The second game despite the people talking bad things, i liked equally the first and third. I just complain the Rastan sprite of this second game. But the enemies sprite and background are good for me! ''Rastan Saga'' 1, 2 and 3 are great equally for me! No matter what the people will think or say about my comment.
rastan should have been ported to more platforms...the sharp X68000 would have had an awesome version of this great game that I used to like in the arcade back in 87 great days....also what the hell did they do to rastan saga??big letdown.....
I think the first is better, the enemy's have more intelligence in how they come after you, in this they stick to their platforms and some don't even turn around. Also it seems to look like crude buster with a sword, the games must have the engine or whatever passed for one back then.
Don't get all this criticism. I enjoyed this game on cabinet back in the day. Music and FX are awesome. Maybe too difficult and Nastar's sprite looks horrible but enemies and bosses looks great. Rastan 3 is the best of the series anyway.
hideous level design. unfair enemies. crappy graphics even then. a beta more then game. there needs to be an actual rastan 2. this is how NOT to do a game.
@fl21id Really? I realize you have your right to an opinion and I respect that but I honestly can't see whats so difficult about any of the Rastan games let alone Rastan 2. Maybe its just me but after you've played Conan for the NES you'd come to welcome any half decent conan like game. I really appreciate all the Rastan games but I wouldn't say they are anything above average at best. :)
What’s the deal with the chick voiceover? I can’t understand anything she says and the. She randomly laughs. Whoever worked on this albatross has some ‘splainin’ to do.
OH BOY, this game is the biggest fuck you to the fans of the Rastan Saga. This game had so many problems: the jumping mechanics is horrible, most of the bosses felt impossible to defeat in one shot, poorly designed stages, the player walks around like he has a pole up his ass, and the rope mechanics in the game is broken. The only good thing I found in this game is the music, can't let Hisayoshi "OGR" Ogura down. I rather stick to the first Rastan.
Que jogabilidade travada, parece parece um plataforma, mas tem a lentidao de um beat em up, soh que sem qualquer sequencia de golpe, da vontade de dormir. Sou mais Ghosts N Goblins ou Castlevania, muito mais açao!!!
I thought the Genesis version must have screwed up the graphics or something, but no. RS2 was meant to look like this. I don't blame you for using cheats. The game did it first. This is like Silver Surfer.
Bad game design? These games were meant to make you want to shoot yourself and spend coins. It serves itself. Also, after level 4, the turtles no longer need the lightning upgrade to be killed, you only need the gloves. Months of grinding this game, going from 20 quarters a playthrough down to like 2 or 3 and you learn all sorts of weird stuff.
![Rastan Saga II Longplay (Arcade) [QHD]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ogpokVf7DNM/mqdefault.jpg)
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I used to play this at the food store while my mom shopped.
I would save all week to play this game. I could never remember the name,
thanks for posting this!
Me too!!! Played it at the local food Mart after school in the early 90s. Forgot the name of it, wanted it for mame. Wod always search "arcade side roller adventure game with a sword as an energy bar" this would pop up, but I'd say naw I don't remember it looking like this. Until I went ahead and watched a few minutes of this video. It was this game and Rolling Thunder that I forgot the name of.
Same I would plat this at my local 7-11. So many quarters.....lol
Rastan 2: One man's desperate quest to find a toilet before his ass fails.
I have to admit, 2 wasn't the best but I still loved the music, especially the boss music. The laugh before the bosses is something I'll remember for the rest of my days.
This was my first genesis game when my mother bought me that videogame...back in 1990. until now i remember the music
hahaha why was the first Rastan SO good and the second one so disastrous??
The first one is a classic, how and why did they let this game look so bad?! Rastan 3 looks fantastic though.
Il titolo del video dice che è l'arcade,o coin op,allora perche il conta tempo e' fermo e nonostante si sta giocando lampeggia la scritta insert coin?,per quanto riguarda il conta tempo bloccato non mi risulta che esistano i giochi arcade con il trainer,per non parlare della grafica,niente a che vedere con il primo rastan saga.
LOL the boss music looks like someting you'd hear in scout camp or something like that.
Love how pretty much every monster explodes into a cloud of bloody flesh when you kill them >:D
I remember finishing this game when I was like 11 years old I'm 40 now never knew there was even a part 2 and by the looks of it it sucks
man, Rastan #2 is not doing Rastan#1 any favors lol
HILARIOUS!
You are action figure independent articulation. With mud lords and
torso-and-a-head-Medusa. Amazing story!
Oh god, how could this be so much worse than the first game?
Because at taito people was able to create funny stuff like Bubble bobble not this kind of combat games. Look at this game, the palette is good for a Cartoon game like liquid Kids not this one.
Roberto S They made a ton of darker, more serious games that were excellent. Gun Frontier, Metal Black, Rastan Saga (the first fone), The Ninja Warriors, Demon's World/Horror Story, Rayforce, Elevator Action Returns, etc.
Not to mention they were notorious for giving a lot of their games depressing bad ends. They really just dropped the ball on this one.
+BuyMeThingsNow Syvalion and the darius series too
***** The Ninja Warriors was more an experimental project, the other games you names were by far "Dark" games and mostly shoot'em'ups.
Robert S Experimental or not, the ending is quite nasty IIRC.
Graphics suck but the music is off the chain!
I just came here from watching the PC version and let me tell you, they fucked the music up something awful on that one. It's amazing how badly the wrong sound font can massacre a good midi track.
Thanks for warning me about part 2, I just bought part 1.
904PinballZine There's a Warrior Blade: Rastan 3, and it's a DEFINITE improvement over this second installment
But still not as good as the first one.
i used to complete this game with 4 quarters i mostly died at some of the unfair jumps but it was alright, also if you defeat the final boss with a friend both "Rastan" will have to fight to claim the title of ruler of Rastania
@ 5 :15 Literally THE worst designed level in video game history. Imagine paying quarters to play and getting to that spot...
GOD THIS GAME MADE ME FELL FUCKING EPIC WHEN I WAS A KID
What are the voiceovers saying at the beginning of the game?
This was Taito's most lackluster game. It suffered from poor level design, cheap hazards & unfair bosses. Taito redeemed themselves when they came out with Warrior Blade: Rastan Saga 3.
+TimelordR It was meant to be tough.. the tougher the game, the more quarters kids will pump into the machine to try and beat it.
Wow ... I dont think any animation in this game has more than 2 frames. Even the original had attack/movement animations with 4+ frames .. and that was much earlier.
So Rastan was basically Skyrim 1989. Heard a different team worked on R2 and daymn do I believe it!
This game looks absolutely wretched. Thank you for posting it as I can save myself a quarter. It's like Taito couldn't decide if they wanted to rip off Astynax, Trojan, Altered Beast or Conan.
Some of the enemy designs and backgrounds are really awesome, and the graphics aren't quite as bad as in the Genesis port, naturally, so I wish I could like this game...but wow, it looks like a huge step backwards overall from the first game.
pura nostalgia arcade lo jugaba cundo tenia 6 años awesome...
another game that was on my great PS2 arcade disc
I remember playing this game 30 years ago, hard as f.
I did like the Sega Genesis version. I don't remember the Genesis version being this bad or having such insane difficulty even though Genesis games tend to have high difficulty.
This arcade version seems to have some serious flaws. I just don't get it. I play all games on arcade sticks which I find much easier than gamepads anyway especially since I grew up with arcades, Atari, and home computers years before I played an NES.
Some of those tight area jumps are just obnoxious. I can't imagine how many quarters were wasted trying to get through those areas.
the hell? did rastan fuse with wonderboy III?
I loved this game! The music was great! I didn't know it was Rastan II so I have been looking for it for years! But man... you a really bad at it even with god mod on... just saying.
Thanks for posting by the way! :)
i wish the designers for this did some designs for the castlevania games
+brisby777 the un dead monsters actually look gruesome.
I remember playing this at a bowling alley
Also known as ‘Nastar’
I like the triology from ''Rastan''. The second game despite the people talking bad things, i liked equally the first and third. I just complain the Rastan sprite of this second game. But the enemies sprite and background are good for me! ''Rastan Saga'' 1, 2 and 3 are great equally for me! No matter what the people will think or say about my comment.
The Music of the Sega Genesis version is much better, the more the graphics of the arcade are great.
10:59 - Rastan picked up some meth it seems
guys, stick with the one and three only , this second sequel is boo
+MegaMr JIN I still like to play this, because it's hilariously awful.
rastan should have been ported to more platforms...the sharp X68000 would have had an awesome version of this great game that I used to like in the arcade back in 87 great days....also what the hell did they do to rastan saga??big letdown.....
Is she saying Anti Crown?
I think the first is better, the enemy's have more intelligence in how they come after you, in this they stick to their platforms and some don't even turn around.
Also it seems to look like crude buster with a sword, the games must have the engine or whatever passed for one back then.
It's remains from Clash of the Titans and Wrath of the Titans
Great thanks for sharing
Where did his buckler shield go at the start? Yes the animation is way worse than the first which I was playing as a teen in 1988
It’s 2019. Someone should do a remake with the sprite work from the first game...
Ah, now I remember... I was like Rastan II?? I didn't know that! oh wait, I guess I did... oh no.... NO!
wtf is that asian chick saying in the beginning? "yes we do"?
I lost my house at playing this game in its arcade version...
Alex Kidd in Rastan Land
l can't find a working rom for this game
GREAT !!!!!!
Rastan 3 (Warrior Blade) was the best.
Don't get all this criticism. I enjoyed this game on cabinet back in the day. Music and FX are awesome. Maybe too difficult and Nastar's sprite looks horrible but enemies and bosses looks great. Rastan 3 is the best of the series anyway.
This game i never liked playing... it scared me
The thumbnail looks 3D.
conan..the destroyer..
hideous level design. unfair enemies. crappy graphics even then. a beta more then game. there needs to be an actual rastan 2. this is how NOT to do a game.
Why in god's name did they port this crap to the Genesis and not Rastan Saga?
@fl21id Really? I realize you have your right to an opinion and I respect that but I honestly can't see whats so difficult about any of the Rastan games let alone Rastan 2. Maybe its just me but after you've played Conan for the NES you'd come to welcome any half decent conan like game. I really appreciate all the Rastan games but I wouldn't say they are anything above average at best. :)
What’s the deal with the chick voiceover? I can’t understand anything she says and the. She randomly laughs. Whoever worked on this albatross has some ‘splainin’ to do.
nice
exept music, soething goes wrong in this arcade.
OH BOY, this game is the biggest fuck you to the fans of the Rastan Saga. This game had so many problems: the jumping mechanics is horrible, most of the bosses felt impossible to defeat in one shot, poorly designed stages, the player walks around like he has a pole up his ass, and the rope mechanics in the game is broken. The only good thing I found in this game is the music, can't let Hisayoshi "OGR" Ogura down. I rather stick to the first Rastan.
NO.....WE DONT.
Que jogabilidade travada, parece parece um plataforma, mas tem a lentidao de um beat em up, soh que sem qualquer sequencia de golpe, da vontade de dormir. Sou mais Ghosts N Goblins ou Castlevania, muito mais açao!!!
I thought the Genesis version must have screwed up the graphics or something, but no. RS2 was meant to look like this. I don't blame you for using cheats. The game did it first. This is like Silver Surfer.
What is this fan made?? LOL!!
Sega Genesis 1990 Japan 1991 USA/Europe
Everybody agrees... How can part 1 be so amazing & part 2 be such shit ? ? ?
This was rushed game. The hit box detection is terrible and the obstructions are over the top. This was garbage compared to the first one.
Ni comparación con el primer Rastan, este juego es inferior en todo aspecto sobre todo en el game play y musica.
This was painful to watch.
AWFUL game design, 13:00 - 14:15
Bad game design?
These games were meant to make you want to shoot yourself and spend coins. It serves itself.
Also, after level 4, the turtles no longer need the lightning upgrade to be killed, you only need the gloves. Months of grinding this game, going from 20 quarters a playthrough down to like 2 or 3 and you learn all sorts of weird stuff.
I prefer the first and third .......NOT THIS!!!!!!
You are cheating ¡¡¡¡
XD
The game is not that hard.
Worse sequel EVER. As a stand alone game, its passable...but as a sequel....
ohhhhhhhhh mannnnnn this looks bad very bad.
This is horrible lol
The best game
* ΟΝΕ ΟF THE WORST EVER
this sequel sucks.
worst game ever!!!!
My god why is this bad !!
Looks cheap. Rastan II, the downgrade saga!