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It hit me when I was lookin it up myself, but i'd love to see you do a video on the fall of the Shadow Hearts series and its now defunct studio. For a PS2 JRPG it had a really interesting mechanic, a trilogy of games and then just. Gone. Some of the crew popped up to make Lost Odyssey after the studio closed, and I only knew it because the Mechanic from Shadow Hearts returned, but I just gotta know more, Matt. Please.
do pray 2 cancelled game dude !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When you said, “Professor Monkey for a Head” I somehow immediately though of Andross. Being that I never played the game, I was thinking, “Did they just rip a villain from Starfox and make him their main villain?”
Thanks for the PTSD attack - I worked on both HEDZ and Earthworm Jim 3D - so many stories. VIS was housed in a re-purposed maternity hospital - one of the guys had an office in the room where he had been born :)
@@MercenaryX21 It's so long ago that I'm afraid I can't remember much about it other than the company spending what turned out to be far too much money to get it in as many magazines as possible- and its ridiculously low sales highlighting what a waste of effort that was :)
I remember H.E.D.Z 1998 Christmas: My cousin and I were propositioned by our uncle to choose between two wrapped gifts. My cousin bullied for first pick. He got H.E.D.Z and I got Baldur's Gate Get Owned Cuzzo
That's due to, a the time, the new dimension. Not many developers could figure out how to make platformers in a 3D environment, especially those with little experience working with 3D. It was really difficult to figure it out. In hindsight, we now know what makes a good 3D platformer but at the time, it was a mystery.
@@jasonhulett look it up, they even had a tribute to the minor they groomed in their description once as well as just alot of undeniable evidence I suggest watching That Creepy Reading's video on him
Funnily enough I remember HEDZ because I owned it. A former friend of mine in middle school straight up gave it to me when I was over his house one day. I actually remember politely declining thinking that was overly generous, but he insisted and feeling too awkward to be persistent about it, I took it. I took it home and found it to be a fairly uninteresting and not very good game and mostly forgot it. Despite that experience, it is now nearly two decades later when I realized that it was not a gift at all and my friend probably just wanted to get that piece of shit out of his house, which I mean....fair enough, I suppose haha.
The neighbor's kid did the same thing with Spray back when I was in high school. I never even opened it; I think I sensed what a horrible game I'd received. And I forgot about it for years until I saw the Game Grumps playing it and recognized it as the game that kid gave me. I still haven't forgiven him for that. Not completely, anyways.
Have you ever heard the story of Wha Happun with 2009's Ghostbusters: The Video Game? While the game itself was pretty good, the fact that it exists at all is nothing short of a miracle due to all the behind the scenes craziness.
I remember begging my mom and dad to get me this game as a kid. I saw it at a Walmart and was just asking and asking them until they finally grabbed it. I never made it past Psycrow. I literally couldn't beat him. I tried for days before quitting. I'll never forget him saying, "I love the smell of bacon in the morning. CAW CAW!!"
Same here! My dad bought the game for himself and let us play it, and remember my brothers and I couldn’t beat him! He was WAY too challenging for us. Psycrow honestly scared me in that game as a kid. Something about how he looked and the tone of the stage terrified me.
Unfun fact: All 4 bosses in this game play exactly the same way as Psycrow, that shitty pig surfing sequence. And they get progressively harder. I don't know if anyone has ever finished the last boss without save states.
"This sequel that you might have rented, but were definitely disappointed by" That is literally what happened to me with this game. I still remember renting it from blockbuster years ago and I think I stopped playing it after a day or two
I feel like a great way for Earthworm Jim to make a great comeback is pulling the Banjo-Kazooie route with appearing in Smash Bros. He still has a huge cult following and he would make a rather unique character in Smash. I will forever hope for the Earthworm in Smash.
One of my favorite episodes you've done, Matt. Funny, entertaining, perfect. Thank you for making videos. 3 years in and I am still surprised and entertained by everything you make.
@@MattMcMuscles if you think EWJ3D is bad, you should’ve seen “Menace 2 the Galaxy”; that game is even worse, and makes EWJ3D look like a proper sequel.
Moral of the story: Never sell the ip of something that was the top of your career. Don't try to be nostalgic to where you have to put ports of other consoles when you're only good at making games of one of them
I was an Earthworm Jim fan as a kid even though I could barely get past the first couple of levels on SNES. I remember watching my older brother get to 'hell' and that fuckin' orchestrated music, man, that scared the shit out of me as a kid paired with the visuals. I only just now, in the process of making this comment, found out the level is called 'What the heck?', so I guess it was very much meant to be hell. I played the shit out of N64 Jim3d, but never beat it. As a youngster I thought I was playing it wrong. I've always wanted to right this wrong, but the PC versions of EJ3D just aren't up to snuff and have many technical issues in the modern day. As a kid I was too dumb to realise it was a shit game, so I played it a lot and progressed a fair bit, but the Video Ezy rental period was not long enough for gamer kid me to build up the gamer muscle to gamer game this gamey game game. What was I talkin' about? Oh yeah, we used to wear onions on our belt, as was the style at the time...
"Drag the earthworm into the third dimension" I honestly thought this was going to be follwed by a DBZ Ocean infamous vegeta dub 'Send you to the next dimension!'
As a teenager I was in a focus group for this game. It was a nice experience, but I don't think I was too qualified to make very useful judgements. A bit overawed. The game looked awful compared to the old 2D ones I loved, but I couldn't tell them that.. plus we were only there to test one level anyway. Also, Sacrifice by Shiny is a great game. Fantasy RTS where you control the general on the ground, with landscape-destroying spells. There was an Earthworm Jim homage character in that (James, God of Earth).
I would be very interested in that episode. Pandemic Games had always had a fistful of acceptable jank but Path Of Furon on PS3 fell really short for me in terms of polish, for example one escort mission was almost impossible to complete because enemies would literally spawn everywhere you weren't looking and thus be near impossible to prevent damage to your escort. Similarly there's a puzzle early in the final level that I'm 99% doesn't work and prevented me from finishing the game. As I understand it the primary cause is their publisher, THQ, went bust and with no more funding had to release what they had. It's a shame because Path of Furon was a pretty good evolution on DAH2's design and story that returned Crypto to his mission of harvesting brainstems amid 70's Hollywood cheesiness.
The main levels were...bearable. I hated how the "boss levels" were just hovercraft levels where you collect more than your opponent, and you can lose your objects if you get hit. I got to the second one and spent 30 plus minutes before giving up.
Loved the Earthworm Jim cartoon series as a kid, going to take a trip down memory lane with that again! The first two games were classics, full of charm and (toilet) humour. It's a shame that they felt the need to jump to 3D, and in the way that they did. Would love for the 3rd proper 2D entry to be in the vein of the modern Rayman games, with slick animation and a silky smooth frame rate. One can dream..
12:13 Hey, Sacrifice actually was pretty good! Their marketing was crap so no one ever heard of it, but as a game it was reasonably fun. Plus it was refreshing to have an RTS where you could actually control one of the characters just wreak havoc with spells and attacks yourself rather than rely on your army to do it for you. The storyline and unlocked abilities and units that changed and revealed things from different perspectives depending on which gods you allied with mission to mission was also a neat story telling bit.
It’s a shame. I remember renting this game years ago as a kid and thinking the whole premise of having Jim’s brain as the hub world, and how you could see through your own eyes into the outside world and things like that, was really cool and creative. But then the game happened.
Yes! Thanks for this! Enjoyed the cartoon series, rented this title in the N64 days. Remembered feeling something was "off" about Earthworm Jim 3D. Glad you finally covered this one - love this series!!
Matt McMuscles, you're a voice talent and I love your spotting of the music, I don't know if you're just being a proffesional or a true fan of EWJ series or both but you got a subscriber!!!
I feel so called out! Not only do I remember Hedz, but it was one of my favourite games for the longest time! No day felt complete without a few rounds of Hedz. Eventually, I discovered Startopia, and Hedz only got picked up one more time, for nostalgia. Now you've reminded me it existed, I wanna hear of plans for Hedz 2. Return Of The Hedz. Hedz Strikes Again. Hedz And... Erm... Something...
Earthworm jim was my mario bros, I loved the art style and jim was just a badass character imo, plus it was the first "shooter" I had ever played as a kid! Haha
This is the third time in a week I've heard Clayfighters mentioned across unrelated videos, that game is stalking me. Edit: it is now 4 times, what the hell.
@@swansong5960 I would even compromise for a 3D game that is made to LOOK like everything is clay, similar to The LEGO Movie. You don't have to sink all the money and manhours into claymation if you texture and animate everything to have the properties of clay. Of course, full claymation would be awesome. Also, might need to cut the most racist characters.
@@donnylurch4207 Id buy the shit out of a new CF game, even with those amendments. Its true that claymation takes a massive amount of time and skill but it unfortunately wouldnt have the same charm. I personally see no tangible reason to drop the so called 'racist' characters and would love to see their scrapped 'hobo cop' character implemented. But beggars cant be choosers I guess.
No sequels is such a painfully stupid policy, You make lots of games to see what sticks and if you’re lucky enough to get a franchise going it’s a blessing. You can still be creative within it
Even though we won't get a Earthworm Jim 4, reboot, or whatever kind of project of him anytime soon and so thankfully that his Spiritual Successor; Bigfoot Bill is striding to keep the ol' Worm Spirit alive even Jim's new Re-Imagining Comic thanks to In the Indiegogo Campaigns, so Jim Isn't completely gone for good. But who else also wants to see him In Fighter Pass 2?
So the Earthworm Jim cartoon was a real thing. I remember having VHS tapes of it as a kid but wasn't sure if that was a fabricated memory. Funny thing is I never actually played the game.
i remember one episode centered around a "nutlog" some kind of fruitcake like dessert, that turned out to be the "densest material in the universe" and Jim used it to create a quantum singularity AKA a black hole. and then another episode centered around how disgusting and horrible haggis is "a sheeps heart, lungs and liver boiled in its own stomach" and i recently tried haggis for the first time and...it was not bad, haggis certainly has gotten a bad reputation. i mean, they grind it all up, all it is is ground meat and spices, not unlike the filling of a sausage and people are turned off by the throught of it being boiled inside a stomach, but that part isn't even eaten. and keep in mind that sausages casing are made of intestines. the vilification of haggis is so undeserved.
Ooo State Of Emergency, I remember that game! I was terrible at it but I have fond memories of running around causing mayhem. 2020 Sim was ahead of its time, lemme tell ya.
I always wondered if there was enough of a story on how Guitar Hero got so overbloated and ironically, boring it it's later entries (How you make Gene Simmons narrating a GH storymode "boring" shouldn't be possible)
I loved the game as a kid. It might not be a classic, and the gameplay doesn't hold up today, but it's not a terrible transition to 3D compared to some other IPs. Hope we'll get a fully-fledged hand drawn 2D sequel someday!
Earthworm Jim, Vectorman, and Sonic The Hedgehog were what I broke my videogame teeth on. I like to this this has affected my videogame preferences for the rest of my life.
I had H.E.D.Z and I vaguely remember Vis interactive asking our school if anyone wanted to test EWJ3D. HEDZ plays like if Balan Wonderland was a 90s shooter.
Doug Tennapel, the artist who created EWJ is a raging maga-freak. He was on Stephen Crowder awhile ago. Like... If the Daily Wire ever decided to dabble in video games, it wouldnt surprise me if it was an Earthworm Jim reboot. Since no one else wants to work work with doug. He's got at least 2 YT channels where he posts hours of himself raging at cancel culture and "woke/culture war" stuff. Comment sections are cringe. Sad for all our childhoods i guess.
I actually got Earthworm Jim 3D for PC and I loved it. It was different than the SNES game, but I liked it a lot. It's interesting to know the game was meant to be better
I loved the Earthrworm Jim cartoon and had some of the action figures as a kid and can still quote my favorite lines from my favorite episodes to this very day. So you can bet when this game was announced I was at the edge of my seat waiting for it. Prior to this video I have pointedly avoided even thinking about this dumpster fire of a game for the past 20 years.
For the record, Sacrifice was actually a pretty solid game. Not perfect by a long shot, but very interesting. Definitely a unique take on both RTS games and Adventure titles, and it had Tim Curry as a voice actor. Can't really beat that.
It's crazy to think that Shiny developed an amazing 3D platforming engine then gave away their biggest IP that would have gelled perfectly with the genre.
Dude, Coleco Chameleon's story is begging for a Wha Happun. I would also like to see a video on Amico, but I dunno if that's a good idea knowing how toxic Amico boomers can be.
@@Specter227 I give my support to the Evercade, that actually seems like it could do what the Chameleon was proposed to do and its already in the hands of players. I expect the Amico to end up like the Ouya. Kind of a shame because I would love to play their remakes of classic Intellivision games if they were released as a compilation on the Switch or something. It will really suck if EWJ4 does get released and ends up as a an exclusive for it.
I've never heard of half these titles before. The games you named honestly. And... nice video on Earthworm Jim. Miss the series honestly. Was a bit of a fan of it, when it came out on pc.
Yknow it's funny, I remember loving the first two Earthworm Jim games and the series and the only time I ever saw anything of Earthworm Jim 3D was in a magazine with a huge list of games for the N64, i quickly forgot all about it and I've only just remembered that now watching this video
10:50 Jet Force Gemini, Rayman 2, Spyro 2 and Sonic Adventure as your competition? Oh, guys... That said, Earthworm Jim 3D was one of the first games I played on PC along Quake. It was mindblowing! Well, it left me with a life-long fear of organ related stuff but... still! So many fond memories ❤
0:52 you missed a great opportunity of making a final fantasy XIII joke there. By the way, the whole mess with square enix trying to make their own engine, losing millions of dollars, a decade of R&D and butchering ff 13, 14 (first version) and 15 because of it, is worth a Wha Happun video.
I really hope earthworm jim becomes one of those titles that experiences a huge renaissance for a while, he never saw his true potential. Or maybe a smash announcement or somthing.
Finding what happened to the Earthworm Jim IP rights was kind of a challenge when me and others of my group tried, so for a long time we thought Interplay still owned them, especially since apparently THQ Nordic tried to negotiate for them but without results. Last we knew, the original dev team from Shiny is making the new game for the Amico, but they said it might take a while (and the console isn't even out yet, so who knows when we'll see more). -Teo
I didn't play it for about 15 to 16 years but my nostalgia tells me, that "Sacrifice" was actually a pretty good and well recieved game at the time. I liked the concept a lot.
Wow! I just learned about Clayfighters the other day from Rebeltaxi, weird that you're referencing such a obscure old game that I just learned about 2 days ago lol
The Clay Fighter series wasnt that obscure back in the day. With two snes games, a sega port, n64 titles and plans to produce another for the ps and more. Its had a modest following.
I remember enjoying the hell out of Hedz way back when i was a kid, pretty sure if I went back to it now though I'd hate it. Sacrifice however is a legit masterpiece, 3rd person RTS way before Brutal Legend tried it.
Yeah Sacrifice was so ahead of its time that it kickstarted a genre and also killed it as hardware just could not keep up and gamers were not ready for it. Really needs a spiritual sequel or a remaster.
Capcom did it right with Mega Man 11: take a 2D sidescrolling tried-and-true format, add 3D-ish backgrounds, and more modern graphics/music. Create a new gimmick/mechanic not used in other installments to add a little more oomph and viola! The saying "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" comes to mind in cases like this.
I have been wanting Jim in Smash for a long-ass time. At first, the main appeal was him getting in to be like the Smash equivalent of Deadpool in Marvel vs Capcom 3, but probably someone like Gex would work better for that (whom is owned by Square, ya know if they ever wanna throw in another rep), beyond that though there is just a whole bunch of zany attacks they can give him that would work really well. And if Nintendo wants to shell out the cash, they could get Dan Castellaneta to voice him (or just recycle voice clips from the games and show if possible)
I'm torn about Jim coming back, cos I'm not a fan of Doug TenNapel, but I loved EWJ as a kid and he WOULD be great as a Smash fighter. I can deal with TenNapel getting paid royalties but would understand if they don't want him involved in the project; credit where credit is due and all.
@@zeroslashj You must be mistaken. The creator of Jimworm Earth, Doog Nineapples, loves gay people. Actually, he is gay. and loves to smash. The video game, I mean
Sacrifice was actually a really cool RTS/RPG mix, with some interesting universe building. If you know Hedz, but not Sacrifice, then certainly there is something awry with gaming history 😞
@@shikari8210 Yeah from what I understand, Sacrifice did not sell very well. Hell, I only learned of it cause back in the day I was buying this gaming mag which came with full versions of games and one month, it had Sacrifice on it. Fell in love with it in an instant and I still play it every now and then to this day. That game really needs a remaster or something though, getting harder and harder to play it on modern computers.
As a British platform games fan born in 1984 - can confirm this 'jumping bopper' thing is true, not made up by Matt, and we also call tournament fighters 'rowdy scrappers' and Tetris 'blocky drop-drop'.
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Ooh! Think a Dante’s Inferno episode could be possible?
It hit me when I was lookin it up myself, but i'd love to see you do a video on the fall of the Shadow Hearts series and its now defunct studio. For a PS2 JRPG it had a really interesting mechanic, a trilogy of games and then just. Gone. Some of the crew popped up to make Lost Odyssey after the studio closed, and I only knew it because the Mechanic from Shadow Hearts returned, but I just gotta know more, Matt. Please.
Please do a "what happened" with Homefront: The Revolution and Dead Island 2
do pray 2 cancelled game dude !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When you said, “Professor Monkey for a Head” I somehow immediately though of Andross. Being that I never played the game, I was thinking, “Did they just rip a villain from Starfox and make him their main villain?”
Thanks for the PTSD attack - I worked on both HEDZ and Earthworm Jim 3D - so many stories. VIS was housed in a re-purposed maternity hospital - one of the guys had an office in the room where he had been born :)
This is a fantastic tidbit of info. Thank you for posting it.
This feels like a genuine joke from the Earthworm Jim cartoon.
"Nice office, what is this the delivery room?"
"Yea, I believe it was mine."
@@MercenaryX21 It's so long ago that I'm afraid I can't remember much about it other than the company spending what turned out to be far too much money to get it in as many magazines as possible- and its ridiculously low sales highlighting what a waste of effort that was :)
Wtfffff
I guess I'm the only person that likes earthworm Jim 3D so for what it's worth thanks
I remember H.E.D.Z
1998 Christmas: My cousin and I were propositioned by our uncle to choose between two wrapped gifts. My cousin bullied for first pick. He got H.E.D.Z and I got Baldur's Gate
Get Owned Cuzzo
'My cousin and I were propositioned by our uncle..." Lol 😂😂😂😂
@@gst013 Phrasing.
You made the right choice.
Eric M , 😵😵😵😅
Awesome, hehe. 😂
It's actually pretty sad how many beloved 2D game franchises didn't survive the 3D transition...
That's due to, a the time, the new dimension. Not many developers could figure out how to make platformers in a 3D environment, especially those with little experience working with 3D. It was really difficult to figure it out. In hindsight, we now know what makes a good 3D platformer but at the time, it was a mystery.
All developers thought they had to go full 3d
You say that like it doesn't keep happening to this day.
Earthworm Jim is coming back, but it's on Amiico.
worms and rayman survived
Imagine an alternative universe where Earthworm Jim is at the hands at Wayforward and they make a great game out of it.
The virgin virgin entertainment vs the chad wayforward
That would sound a lot better than the disappointment that was EJ3D
They wouldn't be able to because they can't make games without half naked little girls
@@fredmeyer1044 What does that have to do with Earthworm Jim?
@@robotnikcentric64 he's making a joke about shantae being underage but in skimpy outfits but I think her age was canonically changed later on
Man I forgot this jumpin' bopper existed
Holy Crud CreepsMcPasta? you watch Matt McMuscles too?
What a nice surprise!
@@Hakriusthebird ok groomer.
@@flyingmintbunny1286 How are they a groomer?
@@jasonhulett look it up, they even had a tribute to the minor they groomed in their description once as well as just alot of undeniable evidence
I suggest watching That Creepy Reading's video on him
Dan Castellaneta, the voice of Homer Simpson, also voices Earthworm Jim in the cartoon. I miss EJ.
Funnily enough I remember HEDZ because I owned it. A former friend of mine in middle school straight up gave it to me when I was over his house one day. I actually remember politely declining thinking that was overly generous, but he insisted and feeling too awkward to be persistent about it, I took it. I took it home and found it to be a fairly uninteresting and not very good game and mostly forgot it. Despite that experience, it is now nearly two decades later when I realized that it was not a gift at all and my friend probably just wanted to get that piece of shit out of his house, which I mean....fair enough, I suppose haha.
The neighbor's kid did the same thing with Spray back when I was in high school. I never even opened it; I think I sensed what a horrible game I'd received. And I forgot about it for years until I saw the Game Grumps playing it and recognized it as the game that kid gave me. I still haven't forgiven him for that. Not completely, anyways.
The jump to 3D was ROUGH
Like being the first wave off the boats at Normandy.
Wait until you get to the jump to HD! HOO BOY
@@viscountrainbows6452 We lost so many good men out there.... they were so young...
Mario: *war flashbacks* I lost-a many a good friends out there..
@@MrBonessss Tfw Mario, if loyal to Italy, would have been a Fascist
3:00 Considering Gaikai got sold to Sony for $380 Million , I'd say it was a good move
Have you ever heard the story of Wha Happun with 2009's Ghostbusters: The Video Game?
While the game itself was pretty good, the fact that it exists at all is nothing short of a miracle due to all the behind the scenes craziness.
The official Ghostbusters 3.
Same thing with the remaster.
This definitely needs to be an episode I love that game souch and didn't know the behind the scenes was so wha happuny lol
@@Boogie_the_cat are you insane or
I love that game
I remember begging my mom and dad to get me this game as a kid. I saw it at a Walmart and was just asking and asking them until they finally grabbed it.
I never made it past Psycrow. I literally couldn't beat him. I tried for days before quitting. I'll never forget him saying, "I love the smell of bacon in the morning. CAW CAW!!"
i never could beat him as a kid either!! what was up with those hard ass boss fights?
Same here! My dad bought the game for himself and let us play it, and remember my brothers and I couldn’t beat him! He was WAY too challenging for us.
Psycrow honestly scared me in that game as a kid. Something about how he looked and the tone of the stage terrified me.
Unfun fact: All 4 bosses in this game play exactly the same way as Psycrow, that shitty pig surfing sequence. And they get progressively harder. I don't know if anyone has ever finished the last boss without save states.
Same here. Child me just could not do it. Part of me is tempted to dig up my copy and try it again, just once.
@@nekosqueako you can tell a game is a knockout in design when it's aimed at kids and kids can't even beat the 1st boss lmao.
How’d we get through this whole episode without hearing “GROOO-VY!”?
Because this games certainly wasn't GROOO-VY.
"This sequel that you might have rented, but were definitely disappointed by"
That is literally what happened to me with this game. I still remember renting it from blockbuster years ago and I think I stopped playing it after a day or two
I rented it as a kid and couldn't get past the first level. It was horrid.
I feel like a great way for Earthworm Jim to make a great comeback is pulling the Banjo-Kazooie route with appearing in Smash Bros. He still has a huge cult following and he would make a rather unique character in Smash.
I will forever hope for the Earthworm in Smash.
MDK was pretty awesome.
Yea I have that for the ps1 and it is pretty solid and fun.
used to bash that shit on the pc with my dad when i was 8 and it was mind blowing
So was Wild 9 honestly
@@vapor.6292 Wild 9 is so underrated
I always thought Hedz was something I'd dreamed one night
it was, but it escaped from your head and now we all have to live with it
@@NesosRomanus Sorry 😓
I loved that game... wish it was available on gog
I own Hedz.
Completely unrelated but I saw your pfp in the top comment and had to recognize a Gundam fan
I literally get so excited when I see a Wha Happun in our notifications. Great way to start the day!
Agreed, it makes the commute to work a little more stand-able lol
It's like a classic saturday morning cartoon, it really makes the start of a nice day.
One of my favorite episodes you've done, Matt. Funny, entertaining, perfect. Thank you for making videos. 3 years in and I am still surprised and entertained by everything you make.
TY!!!
@@MattMcMuscles if you think EWJ3D is bad, you should’ve seen “Menace 2 the Galaxy”; that game is even worse, and makes EWJ3D look like a proper sequel.
Jim was never the same after he started to hang out with sonic, tails and eggman...
Sonic for hire reference?
Now he's all about coke on tits
Blame Gillius.
Moral of the story:
Never sell the ip of something that was the top of your career.
Don't try to be nostalgic to where you have to put ports of other consoles when you're only good at making games of one of them
I was an Earthworm Jim fan as a kid even though I could barely get past the first couple of levels on SNES. I remember watching my older brother get to 'hell' and that fuckin' orchestrated music, man, that scared the shit out of me as a kid paired with the visuals. I only just now, in the process of making this comment, found out the level is called 'What the heck?', so I guess it was very much meant to be hell. I played the shit out of N64 Jim3d, but never beat it. As a youngster I thought I was playing it wrong. I've always wanted to right this wrong, but the PC versions of EJ3D just aren't up to snuff and have many technical issues in the modern day. As a kid I was too dumb to realise it was a shit game, so I played it a lot and progressed a fair bit, but the Video Ezy rental period was not long enough for gamer kid me to build up the gamer muscle to gamer game this gamey game game. What was I talkin' about? Oh yeah, we used to wear onions on our belt, as was the style at the time...
i've loved the reference to the simpson at the end AHAHAH
"Drag the earthworm into the third dimension"
I honestly thought this was going to be follwed by a DBZ Ocean infamous vegeta dub 'Send you to the next dimension!'
*"Now, you shall bear witness to the demon weapon that will drag the worm down into the 21st century!"*
As a teenager I was in a focus group for this game. It was a nice experience, but I don't think I was too qualified to make very useful judgements. A bit overawed. The game looked awful compared to the old 2D ones I loved, but I couldn't tell them that.. plus we were only there to test one level anyway.
Also, Sacrifice by Shiny is a great game. Fantasy RTS where you control the general on the ground, with landscape-destroying spells. There was an Earthworm Jim homage character in that (James, God of Earth).
I think Destroy All Humans: Path of the Furon would make a good What Happened episode, especially with the remake coming out next month.
I would be very interested in that episode. Pandemic Games had always had a fistful of acceptable jank but Path Of Furon on PS3 fell really short for me in terms of polish, for example one escort mission was almost impossible to complete because enemies would literally spawn everywhere you weren't looking and thus be near impossible to prevent damage to your escort. Similarly there's a puzzle early in the final level that I'm 99% doesn't work and prevented me from finishing the game. As I understand it the primary cause is their publisher, THQ, went bust and with no more funding had to release what they had.
It's a shame because Path of Furon was a pretty good evolution on DAH2's design and story that returned Crypto to his mission of harvesting brainstems amid 70's Hollywood cheesiness.
The main levels were...bearable. I hated how the "boss levels" were just hovercraft levels where you collect more than your opponent, and you can lose your objects if you get hit.
I got to the second one and spent 30 plus minutes before giving up.
Loved the Earthworm Jim cartoon series as a kid, going to take a trip down memory lane with that again! The first two games were classics, full of charm and (toilet) humour. It's a shame that they felt the need to jump to 3D, and in the way that they did.
Would love for the 3rd proper 2D entry to be in the vein of the modern Rayman games, with slick animation and a silky smooth frame rate. One can dream..
As someone whose been producing music for a long time I physically recoil when I hear the words "sold the rights" and this was no exception.
Matt is forever going to throw in an OSW reference in his videos, whether he wants to or not.
You’re killing it lately Matt!
12:13 Hey, Sacrifice actually was pretty good! Their marketing was crap so no one ever heard of it, but as a game it was reasonably fun. Plus it was refreshing to have an RTS where you could actually control one of the characters just wreak havoc with spells and attacks yourself rather than rely on your army to do it for you. The storyline and unlocked abilities and units that changed and revealed things from different perspectives depending on which gods you allied with mission to mission was also a neat story telling bit.
It’s a shame. I remember renting this game years ago as a kid and thinking the whole premise of having Jim’s brain as the hub world, and how you could see through your own eyes into the outside world and things like that, was really cool and creative. But then the game happened.
Yes! Thanks for this! Enjoyed the cartoon series, rented this title in the N64 days. Remembered feeling something was "off" about Earthworm Jim 3D. Glad you finally covered this one - love this series!!
Still got my physical copy of Earthworm Jim 3D for the PC and the Manual is indeed in Portuguesse hehehe
I got it for the 64. I don't know about the PC, but the 64 version is horrendous
How about one on Fan4stic
Ooh, that'd be good! It's the perfect "Wha Happun?" story.
Matt McMuscles, you're a voice talent and I love your spotting of the music, I don't know if you're just being a proffesional or a true fan of EWJ series or both but you got a subscriber!!!
Earthworm jim needs a comeback. Great gameplay, great soundtrack, it’s such a shame it fell to the wayside.
I feel so called out! Not only do I remember Hedz, but it was one of my favourite games for the longest time! No day felt complete without a few rounds of Hedz. Eventually, I discovered Startopia, and Hedz only got picked up one more time, for nostalgia. Now you've reminded me it existed, I wanna hear of plans for Hedz 2. Return Of The Hedz. Hedz Strikes Again. Hedz And... Erm... Something...
The title alone gives you a pretty good indicator of what happened to make this a mess. 3D.
Earthworm jim was my mario bros, I loved the art style and jim was just a badass character imo, plus it was the first "shooter" I had ever played as a kid! Haha
you should have played Mario 64 instead, it was so much better by comparison.
@@Femaiden I'm satisfied with my life choices lol were they the right choices? Hell no. hahah turok on 64 was my shit though.
This is the third time in a week I've heard Clayfighters mentioned across unrelated videos, that game is stalking me.
Edit: it is now 4 times, what the hell.
I, for one, am ready for Clayfighter to make a comeback.
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I see. A man of culture.
@@swansong5960 I would even compromise for a 3D game that is made to LOOK like everything is clay, similar to The LEGO Movie. You don't have to sink all the money and manhours into claymation if you texture and animate everything to have the properties of clay. Of course, full claymation would be awesome. Also, might need to cut the most racist characters.
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Id buy the shit out of a new CF game, even with those amendments. Its true that claymation takes a massive amount of time and skill but it unfortunately wouldnt have the same charm. I personally see no tangible reason to drop the so called 'racist' characters and would love to see their scrapped 'hobo cop' character implemented. But beggars cant be choosers I guess.
The dude's last name is "Cool?" In the 90s? How could they NOT hire him
I remember HEDZ. Particularly, the lukewarm review in UK PC Gamer in 98, if my memory serves me correctly.
Same! I feel like I read a review of it somewhere, but I can tell you nothing else about it.
No sequels is such a painfully stupid policy, You make lots of games to see what sticks and if you’re lucky enough to get a franchise going it’s a blessing. You can still be creative within it
Here to announce that Jim will be back in his new animated series.
Best Paper Mario ngl next to Super and Origami,good to know.
@@HolyGoddessMotherAnne what
@@janedough6091 their username.
When?
Even though we won't get a Earthworm Jim 4, reboot, or whatever kind of project of him anytime soon and so thankfully that his Spiritual Successor; Bigfoot Bill is striding to keep the ol' Worm Spirit alive even Jim's new Re-Imagining Comic thanks to In the Indiegogo Campaigns, so Jim Isn't completely gone for good. But who else also wants to see him In Fighter Pass 2?
So the Earthworm Jim cartoon was a real thing. I remember having VHS tapes of it as a kid but wasn't sure if that was a fabricated memory. Funny thing is I never actually played the game.
I actually own the whole series on DVD. :)
They sell the whole series on dvd for like 15 bucks on the walmart site and I think amazon
Remember it actually as being pretty funny. Certainly better than you'd probably expect it to be.
i remember one episode centered around a "nutlog" some kind of fruitcake like dessert, that turned out to be the "densest material in the universe" and Jim used it to create a quantum singularity AKA a black hole.
and then another episode centered around how disgusting and horrible haggis is "a sheeps heart, lungs and liver boiled in its own stomach" and i recently tried haggis for the first time and...it was not bad, haggis certainly has gotten a bad reputation. i mean, they grind it all up, all it is is ground meat and spices, not unlike the filling of a sausage and people are turned off by the throught of it being boiled inside a stomach, but that part isn't even eaten. and keep in mind that sausages casing are made of intestines. the vilification of haggis is so undeserved.
The first game is great
What Happened? - Michigan: Report from Hell. The world has to know
Now that was an interesting game!
Thank you for putting the full intro :')
Ooo State Of Emergency, I remember that game! I was terrible at it but I have fond memories of running around causing mayhem. 2020 Sim was ahead of its time, lemme tell ya.
I legitimately liked Earthworm Jim 3D. The bosses were shite though.
Fatty Roswell especially
Loved the Summerslam kid making an appearance! I hope they know of their meme status 😂
Its a girl.
@@brianmcdonald7017 cool story bro
I always wondered if there was enough of a story on how Guitar Hero got so overbloated and ironically, boring it it's later entries (How you make Gene Simmons narrating a GH storymode "boring" shouldn't be possible)
I loved the game as a kid. It might not be a classic, and the gameplay doesn't hold up today, but it's not a terrible transition to 3D compared to some other IPs.
Hope we'll get a fully-fledged hand drawn 2D sequel someday!
Well written. Solid production here! Garoooovy!!!
Alone in the Dark, please. I’m dying to see an episode on something related to that franchise
I've been wanting to try out the 2008 reboot since it's on ps now. Something about it always seemed appealing and funny.
Earthworm Jim, Vectorman, and Sonic The Hedgehog were what I broke my videogame teeth on. I like to this this has affected my videogame preferences for the rest of my life.
I think Wayforward would be a good developer for a future Earthworm Jim
I didn't know I wanted this so badly.
Or a dev that works with Devolver Digital
yah maybe end up with as many sequels as shantai. that would be GROOV-Y
I had H.E.D.Z and I vaguely remember Vis interactive asking our school if anyone wanted to test EWJ3D.
HEDZ plays like if Balan Wonderland was a 90s shooter.
Doug Tennapel, the artist who created EWJ is a raging maga-freak. He was on Stephen Crowder awhile ago. Like... If the Daily Wire ever decided to dabble in video games, it wouldnt surprise me if it was an Earthworm Jim reboot. Since no one else wants to work work with doug. He's got at least 2 YT channels where he posts hours of himself raging at cancel culture and "woke/culture war" stuff. Comment sections are cringe. Sad for all our childhoods i guess.
Earthworm Jim 3D's in game story line is terribly fitting of the unfortunate fate he has been met with.
Working on a project to revive the beta version of this game years ago and now this comes up
Really!!!??? o-0 That is Awesome!!!! Good Luck.
I hope you don't have any problems with your project. =D
I actually got Earthworm Jim 3D for PC and I loved it. It was different than the SNES game, but I liked it a lot. It's interesting to know the game was meant to be better
I loved the Earthrworm Jim cartoon and had some of the action figures as a kid and can still quote my favorite lines from my favorite episodes to this very day. So you can bet when this game was announced I was at the edge of my seat waiting for it.
Prior to this video I have pointedly avoided even thinking about this dumpster fire of a game for the past 20 years.
For the record, Sacrifice was actually a pretty solid game. Not perfect by a long shot, but very interesting. Definitely a unique take on both RTS games and Adventure titles, and it had Tim Curry as a voice actor. Can't really beat that.
oh god I can't wait to hear Matt summing up the Amico. Hopefully he can get Pat and Ian from the CU Podcast to help narrate
It's crazy to think that Shiny developed an amazing 3D platforming engine then gave away their biggest IP that would have gelled perfectly with the genre.
Can you do Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy?
I loved that game, and it ended on a cliffhanger; but the sequel never happened
Oh, he mentionned that intellivision thing...
Remember the whole Coleco Chameleon debacle? Those were the days
Dude, Coleco Chameleon's story is begging for a Wha Happun. I would also like to see a video on Amico, but I dunno if that's a good idea knowing how toxic Amico boomers can be.
Can someone expalin?
Or the Phantom... or Ouya...
@@Specter227 I give my support to the Evercade, that actually seems like it could do what the Chameleon was proposed to do and its already in the hands of players. I expect the Amico to end up like the Ouya. Kind of a shame because I would love to play their remakes of classic Intellivision games if they were released as a compilation on the Switch or something. It will really suck if EWJ4 does get released and ends up as a an exclusive for it.
Spiderman Turn off the Dark would be a perfect non gaming topic
The song used at 6:02 , if someone could tell me what it is and what it comes from that would be swell.
Earthworm Jim, Heck
@@MattMcMuscles Thanks mate. Keep up the vids btw, good stuff.
We could be here for years just doing "[90s Mascot Platformer] 3D - What Happened?"
I've never heard of half these titles before.
The games you named honestly.
And...
nice video on Earthworm Jim.
Miss the series honestly.
Was a bit of a fan of it, when it came out on pc.
Yknow it's funny, I remember loving the first two Earthworm Jim games and the series and the only time I ever saw anything of Earthworm Jim 3D was in a magazine with a huge list of games for the N64, i quickly forgot all about it and I've only just remembered that now watching this video
10:50 Jet Force Gemini, Rayman 2, Spyro 2 and Sonic Adventure as your competition? Oh, guys...
That said, Earthworm Jim 3D was one of the first games I played on PC along Quake. It was mindblowing! Well, it left me with a life-long fear of organ related stuff but... still! So many fond memories ❤
0:52 you missed a great opportunity of making a final fantasy XIII joke there. By the way, the whole mess with square enix trying to make their own engine, losing millions of dollars, a decade of R&D and butchering ff 13, 14 (first version) and 15 because of it, is worth a Wha Happun video.
4:06 That is the most "Wha Happun" paragraph ever read on "What Happened?"
I really hope earthworm jim becomes one of those titles that experiences a huge renaissance for a while, he never saw his true potential.
Or maybe a smash announcement or somthing.
I would love if they could remake what this game was originally meant to be
3:41 probably the most underrated reference in this entire episode. At least I popped.
Finding what happened to the Earthworm Jim IP rights was kind of a challenge when me and others of my group tried, so for a long time we thought Interplay still owned them, especially since apparently THQ Nordic tried to negotiate for them but without results. Last we knew, the original dev team from Shiny is making the new game for the Amico, but they said it might take a while (and the console isn't even out yet, so who knows when we'll see more).
-Teo
Doug TenNapel is writing EWJ comics, allegedly hes involved with the Amico game but we'll see if that ever happens.
This was one of the games I thoroughly enjoyed as a kid. Would definitely play again
So, old game characters are coming back. This worm needs in on it.
Fun Fact: I tell you what that Messiah game is where the Roblox oof came from and is why it’s not here no more
14:16 Showing that footage while saying that. Matt, do you want me to ask for a Sonic X-treme Wha Happun? Because I'd want that.
I didn't play it for about 15 to 16 years but my nostalgia tells me, that "Sacrifice" was actually a pretty good and well recieved game at the time. I liked the concept a lot.
Wow! I just learned about Clayfighters the other day from Rebeltaxi, weird that you're referencing such a obscure old game that I just learned about 2 days ago lol
The Clay Fighter series wasnt that obscure back in the day. With two snes games, a sega port, n64 titles and plans to produce another for the ps and more. Its had a modest following.
Ahhh... Clayfighter 63 1/3....I remember those days.
The thumb blisters to perform those "Bunny Bashes". Worth it.
I remember enjoying the hell out of Hedz way back when i was a kid, pretty sure if I went back to it now though I'd hate it.
Sacrifice however is a legit masterpiece, 3rd person RTS way before Brutal Legend tried it.
Yeah Sacrifice was so ahead of its time that it kickstarted a genre and also killed it as hardware just could not keep up and gamers were not ready for it. Really needs a spiritual sequel or a remaster.
Supporting my favorite series. I also am a big fan of flophouse files.
Wasn’t Jim in the cartoon voiced by the same dude who does Homer Simpson?
Capcom did it right with Mega Man 11: take a 2D sidescrolling tried-and-true format, add 3D-ish backgrounds, and more modern graphics/music. Create a new gimmick/mechanic not used in other installments to add a little more oomph and viola!
The saying "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" comes to mind in cases like this.
This is one of those, as Arin "Egoraptor" Hanson puts it "dreaded transition from the 2nd dimension to the 3rd", isn't it?
Earthworm Jim has always had a rocky transition into 3d
for a second there, i thought Bart was holding a Sega Dreamcast at 0:24 xD
Jimworm Earth 4 smash!
Hell no. Don't give his homophobic creator any royalties.
@@zeroslashj I don't care what the dude does in his down time, Earthworm Jim would be cool in smash.
I have been wanting Jim in Smash for a long-ass time. At first, the main appeal was him getting in to be like the Smash equivalent of Deadpool in Marvel vs Capcom 3, but probably someone like Gex would work better for that (whom is owned by Square, ya know if they ever wanna throw in another rep), beyond that though there is just a whole bunch of zany attacks they can give him that would work really well. And if Nintendo wants to shell out the cash, they could get Dan Castellaneta to voice him (or just recycle voice clips from the games and show if possible)
I'm torn about Jim coming back, cos I'm not a fan of Doug TenNapel, but I loved EWJ as a kid and he WOULD be great as a Smash fighter. I can deal with TenNapel getting paid royalties but would understand if they don't want him involved in the project; credit where credit is due and all.
@@zeroslashj You must be mistaken. The creator of Jimworm Earth, Doog Nineapples, loves gay people. Actually, he is gay. and loves to smash. The video game, I mean
7:49 i had to stop the video and get a FULL NOSTALGIA SHOT because of the magazine cover.
Sacrifice was fantastic, imagine not knowing it existed :'(
Its got motherfucking Tim Curry in it.
Wow Shiny... I haven’t heard of that studio in years. I think the last game I got they made was Messiah on PC.
Sacrifice was actually a really cool RTS/RPG mix, with some interesting universe building. If you know Hedz, but not Sacrifice, then certainly there is something awry with gaming history 😞
Dude, I love Sacrifice, it's one of my favorite games of all time. I wish we got a sequel or at least "spiritual successor" of some sort.
@@shikari8210 Yeah from what I understand, Sacrifice did not sell very well. Hell, I only learned of it cause back in the day I was buying this gaming mag which came with full versions of games and one month, it had Sacrifice on it. Fell in love with it in an instant and I still play it every now and then to this day. That game really needs a remaster or something though, getting harder and harder to play it on modern computers.
As a British platform games fan born in 1984 - can confirm this 'jumping bopper' thing is true, not made up by Matt, and we also call tournament fighters 'rowdy scrappers' and Tetris 'blocky drop-drop'.