Nickelodeon's Disappointing Avatar Video Games - The Golden Bolt
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
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I played every version of every main Nickelodeon Avatar game, from The Last Airbender's GBA port to The Legend of Korra on 3DS, and even the movie games. 16 unique versions in total across 17 years, and all I wanted was one truly good game deserving of the series' quality. I knew the odds, and I'm still disappointed. We're not allowed to have nice things.
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 Intro & Early Show History
6:06 Avatar: The Last Airbender (2006, PS2)
18:00 ATLA (GBA)
21:36 ATLA (DS)
24:16 ATLA (PSP)
29:23 Avatar: The Burning Earth (2007, Xbox 360)
39:37 Burning Earth (DS)
40:28 Burning Earth (GBA)
42:52 Avatar: Into the Inferno (2008, DS)
46:02 Into the Inferno (Wii)
50:18 Rapid-Fire Round: Every Avatar Flash Game
53:55 The Last Airbender Movie Game (2010, DS)
56:45 The Last Airbender Movie Game (Wii)
59:23 The Legend of Korra (2014, console/PC), & Show History
1:07:37 The Legend of Korra: A New Era Begins (3DS)
1:13:25 Four Seasons Dreams Fangame (2019, PS4)
1:17:02 Avatar: Generations (2023-2023, smartphone)
1:21:17 Avatar: The Last Airbender - Quest for Balance (2023, console/PC)
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I just want one good one without an asterisk. Just one.
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It’s hard to believe he made that game at 6, but damn, he’s so talented
Let me tell you a story about the first GBA game from Halfbrick.
The project was of course under a tight schedule and budget, and the team was working hard to get it done. The game was tested throughout development. The boss level with the drill machine in its original incarnation made a 10 year old tester cry with its difficulty. The designer was directed to write the child an apology and make the level easier.
Source: I worked at Halfbrick and am good friends with that designer
If true, very interesting info to hear.
Nice to hear some behind the scenes details, and from one of the only Avatar games actually praised through this whole video.
I guess that just proves that Halfbrick espically during their 2000s years is just pretty quality company for output.
Jetpack Joyride was a lovable piece of me and many other's childhoods. I deeply miss when companies of those types were the focus of mobile games and not the predatory unbalanced gachas and bootleg scams that are typical today.
1:02:50 Korra episodes were being worked on up to the day they aired? Wow, it really is anime
Holy-! Mother’s Basement what are you doing here?
honestly, the way Nickelodeon treated Korra should be a crime
One of the episodes in season 3 was very obvious about it (at least when it first aired, idk if the blu-ray cleaned it up). First of all, it was a clip show, one that the producers explicitly said was due to budget cuts. But also, at some point in the episode, the person narrating the clip show inserted themself into the climax of Season 2's finale and... well his face was poorly composited on top of the original footage, if I'm being honest.
eh!:D
I was going to say South Park.
Avatar as a franchise deserves so much better than the games it has gotten up to this point. I'm still holding out hope given Viacom still being willing to hand out the license even today, but it just feels so unlikely there will ever be a truly great Avatar game.
Even going back in time a few thousand years to some random Avatar and making a game about their life learning the four elements and solving the problems of their time would probably be better than making the thousandth game set during ATLA.
@@taylorfrench6722That's my problem with the new upcoming projects. They're so afraid of Korra's mixed reception that they went straight back to the original rather than utilize the setting's potential.
Legend of Korra receives a warmer reception in retrospect, so many ideas that were "ahead of its time", but yeah the teen drama aspect was very generic.
Kinda confused as to why they didn’t team up with Platinum Games again. It went super well last time why not do it again?
@@NoahDaArk Back in 2014, Platinum wasn't doing too well. Their games were generally critical successes that didn't sell well like MadWorld, Wonderful 101 and even Bayonetta. Platinum did a trilogy of licensed games with Activision (Korra, Transformers: Devastation and TMNT: Mutants in Manhattan) as a way to bring in additional revenue while Nintendo funded games like Bayonetta 2 and Star Fox Zero and Guard. Now, they're in a much better place with Nier: Automata and Bayonetta 3 both doing extremely well, so they're way less likely to develop licensed games.
That John Cartwright is so humble even though he made a zelda clone at the age of 6 while never setting foot in the studio's home country, inspirational beyond comprehension 😂
Anyone else want to see a Lego Avatar game? I don't know how possible that is, but there have been Lego sets made of the Avatar show (to be fair, Avatar is one of if not THE smallest Lego licensed theme ever), and given how many Avatar games seem to be trying to be Lego games, it feels like a good fit.
That would be neat, and frankly, a game based on LEGO James Cameron’s Avatar would be neat too.
I’ve craved a Lego Avatar TLA game for years. With how far Lego games have come, it would be glorious.
LEGO has genuinely mastered the video game adaption never disappoints
@@caleb2670 Cause they have a successful formula and apply it to whatever IP they get. Sometimes it works very well (The LEGO Marvel games, Star Wars) and there are times when it's weird (LEGO Incredibles where scenes which originally had just one character now shoehorn a second character for co-op to exist)
@@DatPRGuy2017 but somehow its still fun lol
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To be fair to the Kyoshi story you talk about near the end, that is exactly how the novels start. Kyoshi is an orphan taken in by the people responsible for the Avatar, who is presumed to be Yun because of the cultural Avatar tests (which failed, woo). Yun and Kyoshi are good friends despite the circumstances, so the first act actually has some personal stakes for when Yun is discovered to not be the Avatar, since he will be summarily discarded and Kyoshi will likely never see him again.
It's really funny seeing Nick intentionally trying to sabotage Korra, and getting progressively more pissed it was succeding regardless despite them trying to set it up to fail lmao.
@1:19:06 Okay. I have to jump in here as someone who has read both the Kyoshi novels. Those books kick serious ass. But it sounds like the Gatcha game doesn’t even get beyond the set up chapters because once Kyoshi discovers she’s the Avatar and goes over her revenge mission, I was hooked. I don’t want to spoil for people how cool parts of it are. It really needs a good adaptation.
Finally some appreciation for the Platinum Korra game. That always got such an unfair treatment, as if a budget priced cartoon tie-in game was ever meant to be a follow-up to Bayonetta in the first place. But for what it is, it's a solid fun game that delivers on making elemental combat feel great.
Had no idea about that first GBA game. I might actually try that one out some time.
There is something unintentionally perfect about the game incentivizing you to endlessly beat up the cabbage merchant's cart.
De-listed games like the Legend of Korra 2014 game are cases where I think flying the Black Flag is completely justified since for those cases, it's impossible to buy the game anymore
I think the best route for an Avatar game is to either feature a new Avatar (or other character) or use one that we don't know much about. That way, they don't run into the issue of trying to awkwardly adapt seasons of television episodes and they can pace you learning the elements to whatever works best for the game.
That style of game like Xenoverse or the Activision Bakugan games or the Attack on Titan game might work for it
You know, the cabbage sales man VA being the villian would work if the game was set in Korra's era and thus the fine details were specifically wonky because, twist among twists, it's actually a play or Mover or something. That's something you could work with, I feel.
Man, I can’t wait for Netflix to make the first ever live action adaptation of this series!
About the Kyoshi novels, what you describes from Avatar Generations, is basically, how she starts out, basically the traditional way to find an earth Avatar fails, and as such, the friends of the late Avatar Kuruk, who had died young, try some despaired techniques and misidentify the avatar as a boy named Yun, meanwhile one of them adopts Kyoshi, a homeless girl, which leads to this situation. To note here is, this is only the status quo for the first few chapters, once it becomes apparent, that Kyoshi is the real avatar, she basically goes rogue and starts becoming the badass, we know.
Btw, “the Rise of Kyoshi“ is probably the best to come from the avatar universe since at the very least TLOK Book 3, if not ATLA.
Really a recommended read for any fan of the shows.
I was ignoring the Korra game because it seemed bad and empty but turns out it was just people not being good enough. I’ll definitely give it a shot now. Love me some Bayonetta.
It came out a week before or after Bayonetta 2 released, so I think to most people it looked bad by comparison given the same dev behind them both. But for the price it came out, I thought it was pretty fun. I do wonder "what if" they had the time and budget of Transformers: Devestation, that would be something really special.
@@agt_pendergast8899 Yeah for real. The graphics and gameplay look nice, but the empty set dressing makes the game look like a snoozefest.
Might be hard - like the video says, it no longer exists.
@@dr4c0bladeI mean of course it exists. You just can’t pay for it
Its literaly the best ATLA game. Which isnt saying much but still. Its only issue is its a low budget game that can be beat in a few hours. But it also only cost $15. Which is fair.
Shame about the Korra 3DS game. I feel like a Fire Emblem clone is actually a pretty fitting idea for the Avatar universe.
I bought the Platinum Legend of Korra game on steam when it was 15 bucks, and I was super impressed at the time how good it was. I think I had just finished playing Wonderful 101 on Wii U at the time, and I was happy to see Platinum's general gameplay design made it way into such a budget game. I remember buying it for a few friends after that, and they all hated it, and refused to see it as more than just a budget cash grab. I remember after I finished the game I went back and beat every difficulty of the pro bending minigame, I honestly wish we just got a full fledged competitive pro bending game with online multiplayer.
Damn... Shame the games couldn't get the same respect as the show
Also ATLA was so DAMN GOOD from start to finish
It kinda lost respect from me because it kinda f*cked up cartoons for a good while.
Aw man, Burning Earth for PS2 gave me one of the unintentionally funniest moments I've ever had playing a game.
There's one level where you need to go in some barrels to sneak past some guards. Basic stuff at the time: you move while a guard is watching you, you fail the level. You stand still, and the guards' amnesia kicks in and they forget where the barrel was five seconds ago. Thing is that if you're playing alone, the other character needs to follow you while in a barrel too, and in a game like this, it wouldn't be fair to have the player fail if the other character was caught, right?
Well, my bro was playing this level. The pathfinding for the other character breaks right as the guard starts turning around. We watch in horror as, while this guy's turning around, the AI character revs up and starts spinning in place like a beyblade. Guard walks over to it, stands in place watching the beyblade barrel for five seconds, then just turns around and walks away.
We couldn't breathe for two minutes.
Man, this series always felt like it could have made for such great video games. Unfortunately, Avatar never really got the chance to be the broader franchise it could have been, really just being two TV series with some tie-in media.
Also the Wii version of the first game (which I played as a kid) does fix the issue of not indicating which direction switches to each character. It's very subtle and easily missed, but they do fix that issue.
Thate an understatement. Its easily one of the highest potential for a video game universes there is. Sasly viacom cant allow one of their games to be something other than a cashgrab. Fortunatly heavy iron studios knew their shit and made a genuinly good licensed game with BFBB
I didn’t realize how great Avatar’s viewership was during its original run even though Nickelodeon aired episodes all over the place and even burned through the final episodes in the span of a week. I hope things change for Avatar games because the fact that Quest for Balance was deemed fitting for their new branding as “Avatar Studios” is alarming.
Building on to how you mentioned Viacom should just let WB make a LEGO Avatar game, that's not even that far outside the realm of possibility, although it would've made more sense back in the 2000s. Back during Avatar's original run, they actually released at least two LEGO Avatar sets. There was an Air Temple set and a FIre Nation Ship set. I had both of them growing up (RIP my Air Temple set that my brother destroyed and RIP the Fire Nation ship that I could never complete because I was missing a piece). Anyway, clearly they saw some value in a LEGO collab at one point. Maybe when the newmovies/shows come out we could see new sets or a game be released. Avatar as a property has a lot of characters to work with now so it could work really well, especially if they pull in the Korra characters and characters from the new projects.
I legit think of Guru Pathik at least once a month. He's very memorable for being a one-off character (two-off if you count him showing up in Aang's anxiety dream near the end of the show)
Technically, he appeared three times. In Appa’s Lost Days, when he taught Aang about the Avatar state and finally in the hallucination.
On the topic of how people started watching Avatar again when it was put on Netflix, it was weird for me because as a kid when I got my Wii for Christmas not only did I get a copy of Avatar into the inferno with it, but all three season box sets of the show on DVD. And then about 2 years before it was put on Netflix, I found the Blu-ray complete series set on Amazon for about $20 and jumped on it as soon as I saw it, I jumped on it so quickly that when I ordered it I was outside of the grocery store I work at pushing shopping carts as I was putting in the order. Main reason I wanted to upgrade from my DVD copies to the Blu-ray was because many many years ago I lost book 3 disc one. So i wanted to have a complete set again. And when i got it i binged the whole thing over the course of a few weeks. Basically the point I'm trying to get at is that I had no clue why everyone started talking about Avatar again when it dropped on Netflix until I found out that it had dropped on Netflix.
I remember a game called Avatar Arena, where a member of every element battled it out in a little tournament.
I was so depressed and angry and decided to watch a brand new golden bolt video on my favorite franchise of all time. 18:33 made me laugh so hard and made this shitty day better. Thank you Mr. Bolt
Thank you so much for making a video about these games! I have wanted this for a while!
Fun fact about the Korra 3ds game I complained on twitter to the developers trying to explain how once you beat the game there is no way to reset you save file to replay it or any level other than the last one and they gave me the most useless bullshit response and I still am angry about having paid full price for it.
Ah, a beloved franchise that hasn’t gotten the backing it needed. I was a college student so excited for Korra!! We did get together to watch it in the dorms, even Saturday morning and Friday nights. Nickelodeon couldn’t stop us! I have the Platinum game and enjoyed it. I’m never letting that hard drive go. And I checked out Generations, but I put too much time into the Star Wars version of that same game that I didn’t want to do it again with this one. Didn’t know it was shutting down, but I hadn’t heard anything about it since the Kyoshi stuff, so that makes sense.
Speaking of Kyoshi, from what I heard it pretty much is the book. I think only 1 or 2 things were off. But the book is great! Yes, Kyoshi was never discovered as the avatar and grew up orphaned on the streets as an awkward girl. She was not liked by the town and had issues earthbending anything small. Meanwhile, Kuruk’s former Team Avatar knew how important the avatar was and eventually found Yun. He knew a pai sho move that Kuruk did, and the world had been without an avatar for 16 years, so fuck it we ride. The book goes on to tell the story of Kyoshi being revealed as the avatar, seeing the giant mess that it causes with the wider political spectrum, questioning what kind of legacy Kyoshi will have as the avatar after St. Yangchen and party-hard Kuruk, and teasing why Kyoshi was never found as an avatar earlier. Generations got some buzz since it gave official appearances to these characters. It’s nice to have an actual face for Kelsang and others. But the books are a good read. I’d recommend.
Nick treated this property so badly, they took freaking forever to even make available the soundtrack for AtLA, as well as a high definition Blu-ray of the series. We had to listen to bootleg soundtracks taken straight from the episodes (still with remnants of the removed sound effects) and upscaled versions of the DVD quality seasons. So stupid. Never mind how they knee caped the then very anticipated first season of Korra, which snowballed into storytelling problems all the way to the end of the series.
Im glad he mentioned the dreams game since its better than most of the official games.
This is exactly the kind of video I wanted on the Avatar games and now you've gotten a sub. Thank you so much XD
So Cabbage Salesman being the voice of Ozai is hilarious knowing he plays FF7R Hojo.
One complaint is saying Guru Pathik is a forgettable character. He's one of my favorite one-off characters in ATLA, and the chi episode has always made me THINK
The Avatar Arena game for some reason stands out in my mind as one of the more fun nick games and its a real shame they are basically gone.
When he said there is basically no footage of these flash games it felt like I had been shot through the heart. I loved arena too and have such a clear memory of it. These are now lost media, which is heart breaking.
Same. And autumn twilight. I remember playing it and what its like. But theres only 2 or 3 screenshots of it online and basicaly nothing else. Which is sad cause it was prob the nest ATLA game after the LOK game.
What a treat. Thank you for all your hard work.
The PC Legend of Korra game was actually my first experience with Korra and, in a certain way, Avatar in general. Sure, I knew Avatar The Last Airbender (watched it a little as a kid, I liked it, but I was never able to constantly catch it, so I just got random episodes once in a while that didn't really make sense) and I heard a lot of Korra since one of my friend watched it and was talking about it a lot when it originally aired, but I never took time to really immerse myself in it. I got the game on sale for like $3 (or maybe it was in a Humble Bundle, I don't remember) and that made me interested in the universe, so I watched Avatar in a few days, followed by Legend of Korra (which I still think is better than TLA on some aspects). It's so sad to see such a good series getting destroyed again and again by Nickelodeon for some weird reasons and never getting a trully good game.
(Actually, that's a lie, I played the GBA version of the first game when I discovered emulation, but I didn't care about the story, I don't think I even read anything they were saying, I was like 10)
I swear yesterday was opposite day; Flandrew releasing a deep dive video and Golden Boot releasing essentially a "Comparing every x game" video
Wow man I just watched your great thq video, you're really pumping out bangers
I just want Platinum Games to be given a blank check and story writer support from the Avatar studio for a complete ATLA game.
I actually love you added Four Seasons to the roster, I'm sure the creator is happy to see that.
Was not expecting the turnaround after the THQ vid to be so damn fast but also I'm not complaining. Kevin's exhausted tone at the start is already telling me I'm in for a fun time
What hahaha dude this must have taken forever. Respect
Guess I'm not doing anything for the next hour and a half
everything hurts
Nice to hear The Legend of Korra console game getting some love.
I would strongly recommend reading the novel Rise of Kyoshi [and it's sequel, Shadow of Kyoshi] if you haven't.
It is, no cap, THE greatest piece of extended universe material in the entire Avatar franchise, and it's not even close.
Better than literally any of the games, or even the comics.
45:50 Chibi-Hakoda's completely unmoving facial expression reflects the situation with Mutant Appa quite well. Maybe it goes away if you don't acknowledge it.
You know what would be cool?
An Action RPG Avatar game that's basically a Kingdom Hearts reskin.
You want a good Avatar game. Play the TTRPG , it's legit good (for my reading of the book) didn't run it yet.
My man really shouted out Champions of Norrath. One of my favorite PS2 games
so, fun fact about those lost flash games, you can still play most of the flash games you mentioned on flashpoint, a massive archive of as many flash games people could get their hands on before flash died! That being said, no great loss that you didn't torture yourself with them, most of them were just. Nothing. Also, thanks for the segment on the korra game, I had never really been interested thanks to the negative press despite being a massive platinum fan, but I might give it a shot through definitely legal means now
Ironicly autumn twilight is prob the 2nd best ATLA game after the LoK game and its just ccompletly gone from the internet. Basicly just 2 or 3 screenshots of it remained. Also whenever playing it it required you to download some extra program to run it. Though it still ran in your browser.
1:01:35 And the fact that Saturday Morning Cartoons have fizzled out.
I had the PS2 version of into the inferno, still do. And yes, that is exactly how the control works. Takes some time to get used to
Same. I liked that game a lot when I was a kid, but it didn't take long for me to hate it when I grew up lol
It'd be interesting to hear you talk about Peter Jacksons King Kong The Official Game Of The Movie. Specifically the psp version because that one is very much a scaled back version of the console game. It has actual whole levels from the console version but no voice acting, less enemies populating the levels, no NPCs like Ann, Carle, Jimmy or Hayes and the levels are generally more empty. Its pretty sureal to see something so close to the console version. You could also talk about the ds version and any others that might exist.
Loved the gba Avatar games I had as a kid
Quest for Balance is the Unalaq of Avatar games: unwanted, unliked, unneeded, and ultimately forgettable.
Amazing video, but my only real gripe is that it feels kind of… off promoting a literal casino on a video talking about games based on a children’s show. Obviously they’re paying good enough, secure that bag I get it, but I feel like the video it’s attached to feels almost immorally out of place.
Fr, it is very distasteful in my pov. Especially given the subject matter.
No no that's a fair shout, I'm disappointed too. The timing of the gacha game's shutdown announcement screwed up the original read & plan here. The plan for the vid was for the newer games to come first, because they'd somehow approved a read where half of it was me tearing into Viacom on their dime for the child-targeted Avatar gacha (despite Viacom also being a longtime partner of theirs). Their approval of that read was _the_ reason I agreed and took this vid from "I'll chip at one game every few months" to "I'll make this now."
When the gacha shutdown was announced _after_ my submission deadline, I had to either default to the boilerplate backup read I'd done, keep it as is and use ad time to eviscerate Viacom for a product they were actively discontinuing, or cancel the spot entirely and get a black mark that'd affect the next several months of unrelated sponsor comms (word gets around). I even tried delaying the prior vid and bumping this one up to change the order around, but no dice. (Also why the last two vids dropped so close to one another.)
TL;DR idea was to use like 60sec of the paid ad time to further critique the gacha game, because somehow I was given the approval. But instead of the mother of all ad reads, timing screwed it up and made a few of us here sad
I'm actually only this deep in the comments specifically to see if anyone else thought the sponsor in this particular video was rather out of place. Glad to see a reasonable explanation.
@@TheGoldenBolt That makes complete sense to me actually. I would’ve been much more cool with it if it was promoted that way. Understandable man, I’d prefer a bit of moral gray over you losing a whole sponsorship and all that. Gotta get paid somehow.
Imo he should copy-paste his reasoning in a comment underneath the pinned comment so more people can read the reasoning!
If you haven't yet I would say to check out the minecraft add-on for ATLA. It's not revolutionary or anything and it can get repetitive quick, but it was honestly really fun for the time I played it.
I dont know if it was a Fever Dream but i remember a 3D avatar flash game where you'd fight firebenders, vultures and other things and you'd be able to choose your element on the start screen
That platinum Korra Game was fun as hell!!! It was one of the first games I had ever gotten a platinum trophy in.
Not gonna lie Korra was absurdly cool in the game and it made me like her more as a character seeing as the show would never let her be great lol
Just as I've restarted a rewatch of the show.
I love how the font for the Avatar movie game on DS looks exactly like the Zelda DS games.
Avatar the last Air Bender: Rise of Kyoshi IS A BANGER of a book as is the other 3 in the series
As someone who has played most of these games out of some desperate hope that someone, anyone would put in some damn effort... It has become quite clear that the only people who EVER put any effort into this IP are the original creators. Not the people making the games, certainly not those involved in the movie, not even Nickelodeon themselves who were sitting an a dammed gold mine and just couldn't see it.
It's time to just let the franchise die. The shows will live on and that's enough.
Considering how small the bidget was id say platinum games actually put in effort. The storys even cannon. Also autumn twiliight was honestly pretty good. But the only info on that game left on the internet is 2 or 3 low res screenshots. Which is honestly a shame
Out of all these, I actually did have the GBA version of Burning Earth. I think I got stuck on a puzzle early on. I wasn't very good at games.
Surprised there wasn't a mention of the Avatar Secret Scene Creator. It's pretty much one of those "create your own animations" flash games that were in abundance back in the day, but with Avatar characters and backgrounds. Technically not a game, but I vividly remember playing it and seeing ads for it, including the promise that if you make a scene that the creators enjoyed, they would recreate it. I don't quite remember if any of the fan-made scenes got that treatment, but it was a thing. I definitely remember the Quest Creator though - pretty barebones, but I remember playing it quite a bit as a kid, along with a number of the other flash games.
I imagine an ATLA game done in the style of Dragon Age Inquisition would be pretty good.
It baffles me to no end how the Avatar games are so cursed to have alot of bad games for such a great, well-known series. It's like modern Sega with the Sonic series. We even have a fan game that's better than most of them. If only we lived in a timeline where they were as good as the 2000s DBZ games and the Korra game's story was much better than the source material
the online arena game was awesome, the flash tournament games were sick. i wish that stuff was playable now, but its gone
If there's anything to take away from this video, it really makes me want a dragon prince game
The first GBA game is one I have fond memories of.
That section where you have to outrun the machine drove me nuts though.
This video brings me back fond childhood memories. It is a shame that several of the games made in Flash are no longer available.
It's so damn tragic we've basically gotten nothing that realizes the absurd amount of phenomanal potential this World and it's Concepts would have in a playable form.
All the forms of Bending as well as all the crazy fantasy creatures and contraptions and etc have perfect potential for gameplay, and a lot of story potential, and there's so many possibilities in terms of story.
Yet this video starts with you stating that you consider only 2 of the 60+ different games good.
That is one of the most tragically painful disgraces of a track record, this series deserves so much better, the fandom deserves better, the employees deserve better.
And with the fact that there have only been 4 Nickelodeon IP Games in the past many years I can consider of any worthwhile quality (The BFBB Remake, Cosmic Shake, and NASB 1+2) and the fact that nearly every single game they liscence being sent underneath Gamemill, the company that made freakin BigRigs ages ago and whipped their employees to absurd extents to crap out Kong 2023 only makes the future still deeply concerning.
Arguably no other IP that has this level of misfortune in Liscene Games.
(Also than Cameo fron Jon was absolutely hysterical)
Wow, that first Avatar game on my Gamecube, I don't remember ANY of that. I distinctly remember though Aang fighting the weird Metal Mecha at the end but you have to do it solo in the Avatar State.
As someone in the weeds on Fire Emblem, its funny that a lot of the issues you listed with the game, also tend to be things that are in older Fire Emblem games
not the special moves part but the hero charter being one of your worst units, and characters that SHOULD be defensive tanks getting shredded instantly for game balance reasons
The first avatar game, between all the versions, had all the ideas needed for a better studio to craft a truly compelling game.
I am very happy that you gave each game a chance and didnt just call them cheap garbage and moved onto the next game like EVERY other review did of any of the games.
You somehow managed to pickup a 1.00 version of the first game which has alot of unfinished and broken stuff, which kind of suprised me! What ROM on what website were you using? Only French and Dutch copies are known to have 1.00 releases inbetween the finished global version 2.01.
The graphics on the PS2 version are by far the worst and was definitely the wrong choice on your end. Shadows are broken and FPS are halfed compared to the Wii and Xbox version.
The Wii version of the game actually shows which character is on what d-pad direction with a blue arrow next to the characters image. No idea why this isnt in every version.
The games story was actually written by the actual avatar team! And oh boy am I glad. As simple as the plot may have been, I love it!
I've been playing this game for over 11 years and last year is when I figured out where 2 last quests were, which is honestly a plus point for me, since theres just always something new every time I play, rather that be a good or bad thing for anyone that just would play it once.
Its just so super complex for no reason at all and I am in love with it!
The developers were sadly forced to release the game early which got alot of stuff cut like backtracking on the globe in your inventory and multiplayer. This was all confirmed by a developer!
This hurt the game quite alot, especially the balancing like you mentioned. They have a built in level selector that sets your stats and they balanced the game around those pre-set stats. Problem being, you can have around 3x those stats in the last chapter, which is why the final boss is sooo easy, especially with the tornado move.
Sadly all the games that came after (Burning Earth and Into the Inferno) were just following the shows second and third season, crammed into a 2 hour experience.
The first game even teased a continuation at the end!
For The Burning Earth's GBA version, the publisher asked the devs to cut half of the game since the console team ran out of time and had to end it at the drill fight. They were told that last minute and thats why the files arent deleted and still in the game.
I am serious, theres a video about it online from one of the devs talking about it.
I remember a game boy game that you played with two characters being me of my fav games
I remember playing the fortress fight when i was younger. It was a pretty fun game
Why does it seem like the most amazing series only ever have just a couple of good games?
holy shit i was starting to wonder if i was insane, thank you for bringing up the fact The Great Divide was aired CONSTANTLY. I remember even as a child getting so annoyed about seeing a rerun, thinking I'll see an episode I liked that had a cool fight or sequence and NOPE fucking canyon episode again.
We all know "Avatar Fortress Fight 2" is best Avatar game.
Hi bolt, im an insomniac admirer like you. And recently also finished the spiderman 2 game .
I would love if you made a video about the game design, style, and development process of specificly insomniac's "r&c" 's, but it would be good idea to have also an overview of them- of the overall style. Game elements, themes, etc.
I think with your devotion, position and abilities it will be great
I don't remember which one it was, but i remember very vividly softlocking nyself in Ba Sing Se at a boss fight with a fire nation tank.
Everyone in my party was almost dead and the closest vendor had been blocked by some rubble so I could no longer buy food to heal.
Yo I recognize that food combination screen! It was definitely the DS game.
great video man. love the content. Have you ever played the Witcher 3?
its fantastic and i would love to see a video from you on it.
I never finished it but as a kid i remember having a really good time with the gamecube avatar game. I picked it up used in like 2008 when i was like 12 and it was basically my first action rpg so that probably speaks to it
29:52 well, guess I found a new YTP to watch
It’s interesting how many avatar games came out during the shows initial release.
This makes me really want to play Quest for Balance. I'm thinking I'll get it on sale. I love trying "bad" games. More often than not they're really just average or okay overall, although QfB does look like it could be legitimately bad, which would be great due to how few truly bad games I've actually played, but I'm always open to looking for positives in games like that.
based on the footage, does the ps2 version of the first title have actual widescreen? or did the game just get lucky to not have its hud stretched in the emulator?
The first game… It wasn't perfect, but I didn't mind the mechanical enemies, as well as the main villain. Heck, I even had speculations that she might be the villain in the legend of Korra. Of course I was wrong but still the story wasn't bad and the mechanics of the game was pretty good for most of it. But I will admit that it could've looked better. The second and third game was definitely an improvement but the mechanics changed. The second one seem to have better mechanics than the third though and I didn't mind the first games ability to level up the characters, skills abilities not to mention having certain weapons, but only work for certain characters. It was actually pretty fun, like creating their own special armor. As the game of all most of that went away and they tried to make it simple unfortunately, for the third game, it was a little too simple. I did like the fact that you get to glide, even if it was a mini game just to earn some extra cash, to get all the other items that you need, but one thing all three had in common. They had plenty of content, but not enough of the story, and even though they had some special side missions, or rather the first one did, it at least kept the games. Interesting not to mention the puzzles, and the ability to talk to people of course, that was for the other two games and asked for the legend of korra game it was actually pretty nice and well spot on even though it was based after two, that would lead into book 3 I like the gaming mechanics I like Korra was able to move on her fighting style, and I, especially like the fact that at the beginning, she loses all of her bending abilities and you have to fight without them. And you can still kick some serious serious butt. And I definitely like that they kept the whole certain items give you an extra boost to help you through the game. To be honest what personally got me for all four of these games is that it felt so limited it didn't feel like I was part of the original story at all. The first one was all right. I don't mind them adding a new chapter in the avatar the last Airbender saga, but it just feels like we want to relive everything including the extra stuff they put into it the entire season of avatar, the last Airbender and maybe even Korra's game as well.
Pardon for the mouthful, but bottom line, I guess we all just wanted to relive Aang's adventure with everyone throughout the entire story, as well as Korra's and feel like we might be able to control it maybe make up a few differences if they allowed it or you know be in their shoes basically. That's my take on it.
😅 again sorry for the mouthful that's just on my mind
I played most of those flash games as a Child. It breaks my heart that you said most of them don’t have any footage of them. I loved the avatar arena one where you make your own avatar. I also loved fortress fight and 4 nation tournament because you could play it with a family member by sharing a keyboard. I wish I could just play them again. And just for the record TREETOP TROUBLE WAS FREAKING IMPOSSIBLE. I NEVER GOT PAST THE FIRST BIT. You were supposed to swing on something but I could never figure it out. I think I tried playing it again right before flash stopped and I couldn’t figure it out.
I replayed the game, and beat it I'm pretty sure for the first time just to help you! You should notice there are green vines entangled in the trees which you can boomerang to make gaps traversable.
1:24:15 Should've just had Cabbage Man be the actual villain
The chibi art style on the one ds game is also giving enormous phantom hourglass vibes with the large heads
the first PS2 game and the GBA game were so good
Great video like always. I know its kind an over requested game but could you do a video of all the god of war games or do a video of the psp Ratchet and Clank games I would love that! Either way I love your videos and your doing one hell of a job and i mean it, keep doing what your doing!
God of War is on my maybe list, I never cared for the older games but I know I should give them another chance. Good news on PSP Ratchet, it's already well underway! I've been trying to get a couple dev comments so these last couple projects were things I started to keep it on the backburner and buy a little more time for emails.
The best set of Avatar games I ever played was actually the plug and play. Even my wife, who isn't much of a gamer, loved to play the Appa game that was on it. Challenging but fun, from what I remember.😂
Honestly, the first season, while serialized, was just episodic enough they could get away with the reruns