The Guardian Legend on NES - NESfriend
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You loved Legend of Zelda and Zelda II? Then here's a spaceship!
We had this as a kid. If I wasn't playing it, my dad would be the one with hands on the controller. Easily one of our favorite games in our collection.
Yep. So my brain just shattered.
I was watching this thinking, man... this really seems like if ZaNac and Blaster Master were one game... but if it looked like Holy Diver...
Then I go look and yeah, this is a Compile game, that predates Holy Diver by just a bit, takes the space shooting of Zanac and the side scrolling action of Trojan X. The weird part, is the overhead action which resembles several games around it, namely Rygar, Blaster Master, and TLoZ.
So, this is maybe the greatest mutant in the NES library, and a super late october 1990 release for NA, making it ancient the day it came out. This game by some stroke of fate, was too old to be new, but way too far ahead of its time at its release to be appreciated.
It's incredible, and an unsung hero.
Great work NESfriend.
Your work justifies my 8 bit apologism.
As a side note, if this game isn't in the ancestry of Nier:Automata, ill eat my hat.
This was and is still my number one favorite NES game. Thanks for giving it an episode!
Are you with fans on the TGL Discord?
I actually picked up the famicom cart of this when I was in Japan purely because of the boxart. Didn't realize until after the purchase what game it was and that just made me even more stoked. I bought this at the same time I found Jesus... the famicom point and click adventure game, that is.
I never knew that's where the lord was hiding this whole time. Thank you
Best way to experience Jesus
This is my favorite NES game. I rented it as a kid. And then bought it as a kid. Played it a lot and beat it. I have five copy’s of it. And my PAL version is signed by James Rolfe. It’s also part of my Xbox gamertag.
This game is one of the first and likely the best game I played on the NES. The blending of genres is flawless, and the soundtrack is phenomenal. I’m thrilled to see a video devoted to it.
I would love to see an updated release that includes Guardic! ;)
I've beat the Hell out of this game a thousand times. I know it inside and out. Truly an NES masterpiece and only lately has it started to gain prominence in the retro communities eyes. Great review!
This game is actually called "Guardic Gaiden" in Japanese, which makes more sense for connecting to the original Guardic as well as explaining the hybrid gameplay style that is typical of the alternative gameplay mechanics of "spin-off/side story" games.
As for the password characters, like many Famicom versions of NES games the original Japanese version used hiragana and katakana characters.
The cool thing about using Japanese kana characters is that due to most of them being phonetic syllables, the passwords often sounded like actual words (albeit words that tend to be foreign or magickal-sounding in nature).
This also made it possible to remember the passwords like a chant sometimes (kind of like how "Justin Bailey" is easy to remember).
So while the passwords used in the English-translated version may look demonic in nature, in Japanese it was possible that they could also *sound* demonic in nature!
On a side note, I too, fell in love with this game as an adult after I learned about it from hearing a cover of the catchy Aqua Corridor BGM by The Advantage some years ago.
Very interesting re: the passwords, would've never guessed that. Thanks!
@@NESFriend There's actually a funny personal story I have with discovering this concept for the first time. I was playing "Saint Seiya: Ōgon Densetsu" (聖闘士星矢 黄金伝説 or Saint Seiya: Gold Legend) and trying to translate it as I went. I came to a part where the Goddess Athena said
「セイヤ したのことばを おぼえておけば
たたかいを つづけられます」
I translate this roughly as: "Seiya, if you remember the words below in advance you will be able to continue the fight"
I foolishly did not realize this was her way of giving me the password for my progress and tried in vain to translate the nonsense below! I kind of got a tiny bit depressed when I couldn't figure out what the words meant and hoped it was just ancient Japanese or something I hadn't studied yet.
Thankfully I took a screenshot and figured it out when it came time to quit (I first used a save state, but when I went to start the game up again I realized there was also a password option).
This game impressed me more than any other NES game, I think. I couldn't beat it without a Game Genie, but I still love it. And the first sequence's speed and music still blow most of the other stuff from the NES out of the water.
It's that damn blue eyeball...
Fell in love with this game back when i was a kid and to this day is still my favorite game of all time.
To me the European boxart is perfect for this game. Keeping with the Japanes motive of a techno woman but grounding it a bit while you can still see the alien landscape. It is almost the perfect middle ground between the US and JP art imo.
This was favorite NES game growing up.
The Guardian Legend is the Greatest NES game of all time. Not enough people have played it. It is the best aspect of Zelda and an RPG in one game but bigger with endless replay value :3
I loved this game! The soundtrack was especially good and I really appreciated the challenge of the shooter bits since that's not my area of expertise in gaming by a pretty large stretch. Nice video!
What? Man I would love to watch you stream this game. It is one of my favourites too
@@shuntaro2408 I might replay it someday on stream. I enjoyed it with a friend where we passed a password back and forth, so I didn't get to experience the whole game for myself.
I love it and I want to play it. Thanks for another top-notch review!
Ayyyy, I actually picked this up at a thrift store a few years ago! I haven't played a whole lot (the backlog is mighty... pls forgive me 😭) but I did enjoy the hour or two I spent trying it out, and when I'm in the NES mood, it's one I'll definitely be coming back to.
Also, man the Famicom box art rules. I want that as a poster xD
There will surely be posters of the movie it is stolen from 🎉
Always the best advice. :)
Great video.
Totally need to beat this one at some point!
Chop chop!
One week later and I now own this lol thanks for the vid to get me to pull the trigger.
Enjoy!
Had this game back in the day. Loved it.
The script for that TV ad might be goofy, but I’ll give Wally Burr (the voice director for tons of cartoons, including G.I. Joe, The Transformers, and Superfriends) credit for selling it like a champ.
I was thinking the same. "This dude going all in having no clue what he's saying"
@@NESFriend Wally Burr always went all in. The union changed the maximum voice recording session from 8 hours to four because Burr would, without fail, use the entire 8 hours to record a single episode of a half hour cartoon show, and he narrowly avoided invoking the wrath of Orson Welles during the voice sessions for Transformers: The Movie.
This was a game I remember my friends talking about at lunch in like 8th grade, but one I never rented. Fricken NES password fonts.. amirite?
I’ve had the same thoughts with thinking this was a movie as well. Looking to add this one to my collection soon.
I was a big fan of this game growing up. As you might be able to tell from my username.
To this day, I couldn't tell you why the commercial opens with Zelda 1 and 2.
I've put making a true effort to make a proper drawing of Myria, so I'm just gonna take this video randomly showing up in my feed as a sign and do it.
Do it
Your end of episode taglines always crack me up. Those passwords look like this game predicted the invention of zalgo text. 😂
Lol
Awesome. Only played this last year for the first time, I instantly felt my kid self would have had his mind blown, instead I had Total Recall. And yeah the PAL cover is a hundred times better.
As far as thinking its based on a movie, youre not alone. The title just feels like its a movie to me.
It certainly sounds like a movie title.
Love this one. My aunt gave me for Christmas and I had a bit of a hard time finding out what I had to do at first, but then I started to enjoy it. Always loved the soundtrack, atmosphere and yes, the cover art
Aunts, the unsung heroes of Christmas
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They went for broke with that commercial, didn't they? Also, I've seen some bad password systems but this one takes the cake 😂
If you picked up Guardian Legend in a Blockbuster video and just saw the cover there's no way you would ever consider renting it. You would have clearly been wrong if that was the case. This game is fantastic!
Top 10 NES game for me. Would love to see it revisited with a remake or a sequel.
I think NES Friend is a pretty cool guy. Eh plays NES games and doesn't afraid of anything.
I loved this game, I got lucky when Kroger used to rent games this was in the used bin for 5$ and it was worth every penny, I don't understand why this has not been rebooted for modern consoles cause there is alot that could be done sooo much potential if done right,and that title song is awesome
Sigma Star Saga for the GBA is the spiritual successor to The Guardian Legend and while it does have problems, it's an excellent game that deserves a remake and sequels. Note however if you're playing it specifically on the GameBoy Player accessory for the GameCube, the stock boot disc introduces lag that can be a problem for this game, so you should use the homebrew GameBoy Interface (GBi) boot disc instead.
The PAL version also has unique box art and it's the best one by far in my opinion.
My best game on the NES.
Never had this back in the day, but picked it up a few months ago. Really solid stuff, looking forward to playing through more of it. 👍
I remember a kid insisting that this was Zelda III back in the day
Guardian Legend is one of those games that has concepts in it that are too much for the hardware. Consider the primary weapon: spritewise, it looks like you are gaining more projectiles as you upgrade. In reality, each line of shots is a single, wide hit box, and thus counts as only one bullet. Would have loved to have seen this given a light 16-bit remaster.
The password system was bad... but wasn't THAT bad... they used the umlauts for all lowercase letters to delineate them when writing them against a capitalized letter. It's hard to tell a capital Z versus a lowercase z when handwriting. But throw some dots on top... and now that's clearly an undercase z!
The European cover art makes more sense than those you showed. Anyway, this is a top20 game for me. So much content and so high quality. I beat the regular game some years ago but still can't beat the shump-only mode (which you access with the TGL password and is much harder)
Why isn't this on switch?
Not my first choice when choosing a NES game to play and for me it's maybe a little overrated but this is an interesting game and I can see why it has it's fans. The Famicom box art is simply amazing.
That retro commercial was so sexy, it made me lay the beefiest fart
Please let's stop making jokes about mispronouncing people's name in 2023?
Google exists and it's never funny.
Thanks for the feedback. All of my videos from 2021 and 2022 should be good then?
It's gee-ger, not gay-ger.