The Pirates of Dark Water (SNES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
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- Опубліковано 12 сер 2021
- A playthrough of Sunsoft's 1994 license-based beat 'em up for the Super Nintendo, The Pirates of Dark Water.
Played through as Ren on the default difficulty level. The game begins at 6:10, once the intro and all of the character bios have played.
The Pirates of Dark Water was a reasonably popular cartoon back in the early 1990s, eventually becoming the basis for a Marvel comic series, a line of action figures, and of course, the obligatory tie-in video games.
The game is one of many arcade style brawlers that showed up on the SNES in the mid-90s, and it's unfortunate that it seemed to slip through the cracks without much notice. Sunsoft's reputation had been in decline for awhile at this point, but The Pirates of Dark Water showed that they could still put out a good original game.
You get your choice of Ren (Cody, the average), Tula (Guy, the speedy), and Ioz (Haggar, the hulking mountain), and though they all carry weapons, they play just like their Final Fight counterparts.
Everyone gets the standard three-hit combos, grapples, throws, and life gauge-draining heavy attacks as we saw in Final Fight 1-3. Truth be told, if someone swapped the graphics out and put Final Fight 3 on the title screen, nobody would've ever questioned it.
That's not a bad thing, though. Capcom had the formula down, and Sunsoft managed a near perfect imitation. The controls are sharp and intuitive, the action moves at a good pace (especially in the 2P-simultaneous mode), and the stages feature an interesting variety of settings and traps. The game lasts a bit too long at eight stages, but that's my only complaint about the gameplay.
And how awesome is that boss battle against Phoenix?
The graphics are great - there's a good level of detail in the backgrounds and the character sprites, and the cinematics stuck nicely to the feel of the show. The music, though. Yech. If you liked Final Fight 3 and Mega Man X3's soundtracks, you'll probably like this, but I found the gross, twangy attempts at electric guitar sounds to be thoroughly grating.
If beat 'em ups are your thing, The Pirates of Dark Water is a worthwhile one. It comes damned close to the quality of Capcom's best 16-bit brawlers.
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I really liked this cartoon as a kid. I wish they would've been able to finish it.
I believe this game is considered it's canon ending.
character designs are 10/10 awesome, never knew this existed, loved the cartoon as a kid. Thanks for upload man
Here's a top tier beat 'em up, and a licensed one, no less!
The genesis version is a different beast and it actually gave an ending to the main plot (destroying the dark waters) althought bloth was still at large.
A damn good tv show that deserves a great reboot
@@SocietyFilth Is Hanna Barbera around still?
@@NintendoComplete WB shallowed them whole. They had crossovers with the DC universe and they're bound to return with Yellowstone!
It's by Sunsoft, what did you expect?
Good job! A really awesome game indeed.
It really says volumes about the quality if it's NOT one of those games you've used to play during childhood, yet you still DO want to play it nowadays.
Thanks! Yeah, I agree. Even if you've never heard of it, if you liked beat 'em ups, this is still fun.
I actually remember this show being paired with James Bond Jr. back in the day on Cartoon Network. Never played the game but it looks like another great one from Sunsoft
Ah, I loved James Bond Jr. It had a great game too, on the NES. The SNES one was a bit crap.
Oh I remember playing this snes game in the 90s, cool 🎮👍🏻
-I can´t believe you do that man,I play this game so much.
Estaba buscando en las listas de juegos de snes esta joya, más que la modalidad beat 'em up lo que más rememoraba era sus personajes y diseños fantásticos.
The villain Bloth's face reminds me of the villain from Don Bluth's _Space Ace_ . My memory has fuzzy flashbacks of possibly watching a cartoon of this way back when. Also, I'm not going to pretend to like Sunsoft's _Aero the Acro-Bat_ , but the company has grown to have a special place in my heart with a track record that includes games like this, NES _Batman_ , and _Blaster Master_ .
I watched this cartoon a lot when I was kid xD Didn´t even know it had licensed game! I´m suprised how good this is.
There's another PoDW game for the Genesis. Instead of a beat-em up, it's more of a platformer.
@@ernestlemmingway1124 And the Genesis game actually gives a ending to the series, since we never got one in the cartoon itself.
@@thecowboy2 Ah yes, the eternal curse of cartoons without ends.
@@ernestlemmingway1124 Not only it´s very decent platformer, but the ending is what I would expect from the cartoon. They nailed it :)
Pues yo al revés yo jugaba este juego de niño y no sabía que tenía caricatura
Hell yeah, I loved this show and the game as a Youth lol
The sword maybe broken, but it can still fight.
The cheese strat is strong with this one.
The game is a designed Double Dragon/Final Fight clone based on the popular comic book and animated cartoon TV show.
I used to watch the cartoon all the time.
I remember this game, the bgm is nice.
This game should definitely be on the SNES Online.
Very good underrated game
I remember me and my brother playing this as kids, when we'd play Ren we used to double kick enemies in the air all the time and get a good laugh out of it because it sounded like he was saying POP-POP, lol
Fun Fact: from the creators who brought you this game
"Dragon Ball Z Hyper Dimension Botsuken also did the whole
Artwork for this game and Mechanic Gameplay Engine.
and these games are both from the same genre of snes.
Glorious video.
I remember renting this game as a kid. Loved the music and the ambiance for a game based on a television show. Hopefully, Netflix or Amazon will pick up this series and finish it...but preferably not by Kevin Smith.
They were left in the cold as kid.The cartoon was not finished for whatever reason.
I never knew this game was a beat em up I seen it on stores several times but I never knew it was a beat em up
I love how dumb the enemies are: "I'm just going to keep walking and jumping into these stage hazards over and over again!"
After watching this for a while I realize more than afew of the pirates look like Fist of the Northstar enemies
The music is awesome!
I played this one not too long ago. I wouldn't call it top-tier but it is definitely a good beat 'em up from the era.
Summer 1994 !
Also, yeah I do agree on the audio being bad. It reminds me of Final Fight arcade's OST, but with horrible staccato guitars. I always hated the twangy/staccato-y guitars on most SNES games that used that sort of thing. Give me David Wise or Tim Follin guitars over those any day.
Never watched the show as a kid, just played this game lol.
I loved this game! I watched the show when i was young. Really liked it, and decided to try out the game. Lucky for me, i found a used cartridge at my local flee market. I finished about 2/5 of the game. Later i realised, that emulation exists. With save states this game gets much easier. I heard, that the Genesis version is WAY different than this. Too bad, that the series got cancelled...
I didn't know they made a game until today.
Nothing innovative or truly outstanding but still a solid beat 'em up (all I need in a beat 'em up is being competent and having solid mechanics, anything more is a bonus).
Should've picked up this game long ago when there were fewer SNES collectors getting in and driving up the prices of everything, due to unprecedented demand in recent years. I Always thought there was time to get whatever I wanted for a fair price, but the joke's on me 'cause time has run out. The bus has left the station and I'm sitting on the curb without a ride.
Great game i played as a kid
Y'know, this is one thing I've always had curious questions about with the SNES. Why do the HUD graphics on most SNES games look like crap? Even compared to the Mega Drive, it looks like it used fewer colors and they always look washed out. UN Squadron's for example looked straight up NES tier compared to the arcade original. Is this because of shoddy programming or console limitations (heavily betting on the former)
I think it depends on which graphics mode the game is using. The SNES can do up to four background layers, but they all share resources. Many of the stages in this game rely on both a foreground and background layer, and the HUD would be a third. I'd guess it's running in Mode 1, which allows unique 16-color palettes to be assigned to layers 1 and 2, and the third layer uses only 4-color palettes. Since the color depth of the HUD wouldn't be much of a priority, many games used the 4-color layer to display it.
@@NintendoComplete Ouch. 4 colors. That explains everything. Thanks for the reply
Looks like Final Fight reskin 😮
Where there is Sunsoft, there is Good Ol' Aero The AcroBat.
2 hour beat em up with a very limited moveset and 3 enemies max on screen at a time. Different strokes for different folks I guess.
I would take an 8-bitish looking title like Mystical Fighter over this. If only for the key factors like pacing and challenge.
Pirates of Dark Water definitely has nice graphics and presentation though.
This was decent was a good soundtrack
If you ask me, after Golden Axe , all games wanted to be like it ... trying to reskin the formula with a new theme or license ... but this time, if you would not write it was from The Pirates of The Dark Water cartoon ... that ended with no ending , since everyone back then wanted to clone the TMNT formula ( 4 mutants , 1 hot chick , 1 wise old fart and 1 nemesis with 2 goons) since teens wanted a sexuialized hero trips... i would believed this is Golden Axe IV ... and knowing the bootleg market it "was"
Looks and sounds like a Genesis game though. A port? Or maybe it was an arcade game first?
Nope. There was a Genesis game but it was different. This one's a SNES exclusive.
Nice music
As someone who never saw the cartoon how good was it
It was okay. Interesting concept. Good voice cast. Arguably one of the better series produced by Hanna-Barbera.Unfortunately, the quality of the animation was inconsistent and the series was cancelled before the heroes could complete their quest.
Why did they cancel The Pirates of Dark Water?
Four words: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Once those 4 heroes in a half shell skyrocketed into popularity back in the late 80s'- early 90's, everyone else who wanted their own version of teenage mutant ninja turtles surrendered to the point of their own killers getting either cancelled or never seeing the light of day.
I thought it was because the show was to expensive to make.
@@robertwilson1295 I suspect The Pirates of Dark Water was cancelled for a few reasons. It was reportedly expensive to make compared to other Hanna-Barbera cartoons, the toy line based on the series was unsuccessful, and the show shifted around the TV schedule, which made it harder for it to build a loyal audience. The Pirates of Dark Water began as a five-part mini-series that aired on weekday afternoons on Fox, then it became a Saturday morning cartoon on ABC (where it competed in its time slot with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on CBS), and then it aired in weekly syndication as part of The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera.
Unlike the video, the Lug brothers grab me almost anytime even I'm above or under them.
1:56:18
How come you didn't get Game Over or anything?
I lost a life when the timer ran out.
Snes version is much better than sega, rock n roll soundtrack
omg i so loved this cartoon when i was growing up. wish i can find the series od dvds 📀 somewhere but man this music is terrible in this game. the fighting comes off as final fight 2 from the look of the gams. still kinda nice but sound should of stick close to the cartoon
Two hours for a beat em up? NO THANKS
If you think this is long, you ought to see The Tick SNES game.
A rare occasion Sunsoft made a boring game. Well, i found it boring when i played it.
WTF that blonde dude is a he man clone??
Это Street of rage3?😅
На Sega Mega drive II это игра смотрится лучше.
🤮
Игра на SEGA гораздо атмосфернее оригинальнее и интереснее.
А это что за кал?
На SEGA были секретные комнаты, была возможность использовать зелья, и поменять персонажа во время прохождения уровня.
А то что здесь это шаблонная игра (Street fighter, Golden axe, Turtles и тому подобное)