Batman Dark Tomorrow - What Happened?
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Music List:
Song07 (Frozen World) - Custom Robo OST
Main_Theme - The Room Tribute OST
Buildmon - Amazing Island OST
Opening Theme - Twilight Zone OST
The Pirate Shop - Wario Land: Shake It! OST
124 Yukino's Theme - Persona 2: Innocent Sin OST
EVTBGM01 Strain - Sonic Adventure OST
17 Kecleon Shop - Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX OST
PBGM04 (Military March) - Dragon Ball Budokai OST
004_Colosseum Leader_Joe's Theme - Pokémon Battle Revolution OST
1-16 Inside the Inverted Pyramid - Mario Odyssey OST
M21 - Kidou Senshi Z Gundam: Zenpen Zeta no Kodou OST
BGMM28 (GLTM-KM506) - Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward OST
526_Select your Pokémon - Pokémon Battle Revolution OST
SE_SYS_TITLE - Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward OST
001E SEQ_EV01 (Event 1) - Yu-Gi-Oh! GX: Spirit Caller OST
BGM11_2 (Portentousness) - Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward OST
Shop 'N Squirtle - Pokémon Channel OST
bgm_M32_yoshimoto - Yo-Kai Watch 3 OST
bgm_M59_nonbiri - Yo-Kai Watch 3 OST
Chris_R_Battle_Theme - The Room Tribute OST
#mattmcmuscles #batman #whahappun - Ігри
"Kemco" sounds like the owners of the vat of chemicals that Joker fell into.
Sounds about right. XD
How fitting, this game feels like a Batman game that had promise that fell into the vat of chemicals the Joker fell into...
Now it's a vat of generic mobile JRPGs
@@hahayou6405 no.
@@kennethzeranski2833 What do you turn into if you fall into that vat? 🤔
10:00 "All the AI was running in a GBA emulator"
......I'm sorry, what?
H.h.HOW!!?
How would that work?
GBA EMULATOR!? WHAT!?
Now Matt just have to cover the other 2 games in the DC comics crap trilogy you've reviewed.
I love when a game is on both wha happun and just bad games so we can see how bad the gameplay is and then see why the game is so bad in the first place
It's just... *BAD*
Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse
Matt: "here's a console game that was worked on with a Gameboy emulator."
Rerez: "Oh Boy! Here I go killing again!"
" No one knows what it's like...
... to be the BATMAN".
I wish Rerez did that in one of his Just Bad Game video's.
BEHIND DARK TOMORROW EYES!
I want you to know that this Batfan just imagined the Joker standing outside of the Batcave playing that on a boombox while Bruce just quietly stares on in disbelief through a security camera. It made my night.
That song clip has been used here before, but it never fitted so well.
I want to edit the original The Who version of the song to make it a duet between Roger Dartley and Fred Durst
A GBA emulator? That's the best part of this
"UHHHHNGH!"
- Batman's most famous quote from Batman: Dark Tomorrow.
Also, the person playing Batman: Dark Tomorrow.
Alfred...I'm stuck... *Falls* UHHHHGH!
@@zombehnashun You are a man of culture
"Alfred...Oracle...Can't swing...what does this button do-UHHHHNGH"
Rerez made this a lot funnier! 🤣
Darkness!
No parents!
Kinda rich!
Kinda makes it better!
Thomas Elliott thought so!
The Salsa music thing literally sounds like something that wouldn't be out place from an Sliver Age comic, to be quite honest.
Well, Batman does canonically hate rock and roll, so salsa makes more sense.
@@paulgibbon5991 Don't forget Punk music, too. After all, it's "nothing but death... and crime... and the rage of a beast."
The reason why the Japanese team’s ideas were so...out there might have been because the 1967 TV series with Adam West is the most popular piece of Batman media in that territory, so when most people in Japan think “Batman”, they think of campy misadventures with lots of wacky stunts.
With this in mind, I could definitely see why they wanted Batman to use a jukebox to sneak through Arkham.
To be fair, I don't think I'd be entirely against a more wacky Batman game based on the West series, except for the fact that we wouldn't actually have Adam there to provide the voice - that would be the biggest knock, at least here in the west.
I mean, I love my Arkham Asylums, Cities, Origins, and Knights, obviously.
But even as someone who only experienced Adam West's Batman via silly clips and the numerous parodies like Cat Man in Fairly Odd Parents, I would otherwise ADORE something like that.
...then again, I like a lot of things others don't, so maybe let's not make business and game-making decisions based on my BS tastes.
That would've been an hilarious side mission in any of the Arkham games.
@KitsuneYashaX48 catman was a real batman character. Not sure how they portrayed it in fairly odd parents though.
@@KitsuneYashaX48 I'd LOVE to see a campy, cheesy, hilarious Batman game. Maybe even with cell-shaded graphs. That would be awesome.
@@artbargra cel-shading would be PERFECT for that kind of Batman game
So Dark Tomorrow is a GBA code shoved into a GameCube disk? Wow.
What a great idea....
I don't, how in the, WHAT?!
I don’t get it but that doesn’t sound right at all
It’s a pretty convoluted example of that hammer proverb.
YIKES
At least it wasn't Aquaman: Battle for Atlantis
What’s this blue pants?
Or Superman: The Man Of Steel
Oof.
Dolpho! Where'd ya go? Dolpho? DOLPHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Based Rerez
Robin: Batman, how are we going to beat all these villains?
Batman: Bat Kick, Bat Kick, Bat Kick!
I see you are a man of Rerez Culture as well ;D
@@Acacius1992 Guilty as charged :)
Never skip leg day!
Rerez !!!
It's just..... *BAD*
Holy shit. I had to play back the part where he said all the AI were running in a GBA emulator to make sure I wasn't dreaming.
I genuinely don't understand how it's even possible
@@Christopher-eq1rn SAME
Even years later I'm trying to figure out how that works
*"We have Arkham Asylum at home"*
Arkham Asylum at home:
thats more the bat man begins game.
@@megamike15 batman begins is wayyyy better then this
@@megamike15 disrespectful, Arkham Asylum took a lot from that game
@@thegamingprozone1941 Batman Begins (and Vengeance) slander shall not be tolerated, Batman fans like myself who had to suffer through many mediocre and awful games before the Arkham series will understand how fun Begins was when it came out, it set a template that Arkham Asylum built on
@@stealthiscool i was using begins as it has more in common with the arkham games then dark tomorrow did.
The era of batman games prior to the arkhum titels was quite the interesting one .
They really just didnt know what to do it seems.
Lego Batman tho
batman vengence is pretty decent. it's no blockbuster but it's still fun to play if you can deal with the lousy camera.
@@MetalGearRAY675 Rise of Sun Tzu is pretty good too.
Better track record than most superheroes, tbh. Everything Sunsoft touched turned into gold back in the day, of course, but even outside of that, it seems like pretty much every console had at least a decent Batman game.
The sad part is this is one of the only games to feature Cassandra Cain.
And the only movie to feature her was birds of prey....yikes.
@@richardpatterson1694 I didn't think it was a bad movie, I just feel like they should've just made Cas a new character rather than one that had nothing to do with her comic counterpart.
And Young Justice season 3 is her only cartoon appearance so far, which wouldn’t be that bad if she wasn’t Orphan. *gags*
Such a horrible shame, game and movie wise. She really deserves better.
@@AkumetsuLord even kite-man got better treatment kite-man!!!
Dark Tomorrow was so freakin' bad, that at a time, there was no real high quality gameplay to look at, or info on the unfortunate VA's who voiced these famous characters, because that would require people to buy the game. This and Superman: The Man of Steel were released a year apart, and you have to force people to remember to look it up to prove to them that, "Yes, these games existed, and that's all DC had for a point."
Honestly for 10 years I thought both of those games were fever dreams and the cinematics were some old cartoon from the early 2000s like Superman: Legion of Superheroes.
@@chocov1233 That was me with Krypto The Superdog for a bit, but at Legion of Superheroes was actually pretty good.
This was really the dark time of Batman games after the Genesis era and before the Arkham series.
Don’t forget the Aquaman game that is from the same ilk of this batman and superman trash.
@@raphaelcalado4335 I remember the X-play episode about that dumpster fire
“Hey, Batman.”
“...”
“It’s gonna be dark tomorrow.”
“...SOUNDS PERFECT.”
NNNGGGGH
If anyone knows that some days you just can't get rid of a bomb, it's Batman
@@jaredsamples6969 'At's a spicy meat-a-ball!
*car explodes*
Batman: MY PARENTS ARE DEAD!
Raphael: Cawabummmer
Not gonna lie, the boom box moment would've been hilarious. It sounds like some real early Metal Gear-tier goofiness.
You know, I could actually see the boombox thing working. But for that to happen, the game would have to go all in on camp. Like, to the point that it'd basically have to be an adaptation of the Adam West TV show.
I cant wait to watch today’s Wha Happun on my shift as a security guard for Arkham Asylum!
Huh? Is that salsa music? Hold on guys, I gotta jam out real quick.
Pretty sure this is more of a Joker move. The Joker then proceeds to slam a spork into the eye of said guard he distracted, break the neck of the second one, and escape Arkham laughing for, oh, the umptillionth time...
@@ThePhantomSafetyPin Is someone there?
Must be tha wind.
security guards weren't the bad guys in Arkham Asylum tho. It were the BlackGate convicts that Joker brought into Arkham.
That bit could work in a Batman game, assuming it was LEGO
With that Batman and Robin joke, you simply _have_ to do a Wha Happun on it now
@@jaredsamples6969 That's what the documentaries are for
"I'm gonna go towards the car."
*the car explodes*
"...Alfred."
I absolutely want the game where Batman sneaks past guards, by distracting them with Salsa music.
It felt like something out of the Adam West TV show and I'm so here for it.
sounds like something that would happen in a lego game
The mask
Much?
reminds me of a subtle gag in "metal gear solid 5", where you could put enemies to sleep by playing a specific tune...
i think it was called "afghan lullaby".
this game had so much hype, and the dissappointment was even greater
Rise of Sin Tzu is the bigger disappointment for me
@@Puncherjoe1 aka the skim milk version of "Knightfall"
But seriously, I understand your disappointment
@@Puncherjoe1 I actually enjoyed Rise of Sin Tzu, it was a competent beatemup. Underwhelming and the villain didnt take off as planned. But i have a feeling this is a game that needs to be revisited
@@EliteGamersUnited I replayed it a few years back and it's not bad, not like Dark Tomorrow, it's just massively underwhelming like you said.
@@Puncherjoe1 Haven't played the big boy version, but the GBA one was pretty damn dope. There was a real nice flow to the combo system, and it had Barry freaking Leitch doing the soundtrack.
the GBA emulator reveal is hair-raising
Boombox salsa Batman sounds like it should be in a: parody, comedic version, or Lego Batman
So they were trying to do Arkham Knight way before it was entirely possible?
Yeah and a huge lack of experience on top of it really Doomed it from the start....
I remember seeing my cousin playing this when I was a kid and thinking it looked cool. A few years later I had the option of getting this or the Begins game and I chose Begins, it wasn’t amazing but I see 8 year old me chose wisely.
Batman begins was a pretty solid game if I remember correctly.
@@ComicWriter-ml3qt The thing I was most impressed with is that it almost completely rewrote the plot to work better as a video game, yet still hit all the major beats from the film, added its own subplots, and remained coherent, which was rare for a movie adaptation.
Compare that to, say, the Incredibles game, which cuts things down so much it makes absolutely no sense if you haven't seen the movie. My favorite part is that it even forgets to show that Syndrome is the villain. He's still in the game via movie clips, but you never fight him and none of his motivations, or really, any clearly evil acts, are shown. My brothers and I joke that in the game's continuity, he's just Mr. Incredible's jerk rival who screws with him to compete for the spotlight, and the actual villain is Mirage.
@@ComicWriter-ml3qt yeah it wasn’t bad, I give it a lot of credit for implementing the fear aspect in combat and kinda laying the ground work for what the Arkham games would do with their predator combat. It’s also just really cool that the actors actually reprise their roles. Apparently Bale and Murphy were really into working on a game from what I heard
@@thegodofalldragons >standing up for Batman Begins
Based. 👊
I remember just being thoroughly impressed by the production values all the way through. It's a really pretty game, from the cape physics to the hazy Gotham skyline. The only real big issue with Begins is just how linear and scripted it us. The fear system is actually really cool idea, it just has no at all chance to really spread its wings when the environment essentially consists of one big hallway.
I would actually like to see Batman bust out a boombox to distrsct guards Adam West Batman style
I'm a gamedev myself, and it's not uncommon to run the AI from a script or a bytecode.
But from a GBA emulator...
This is basically all I look forward to on UA-cam these days. Thanks for the content!
Looks like you need some better subscriptions.
The “Batman dry spell” of the early 2000s was when I was in middle school and at my peak of Batman fandom (mostly through getting really really into the comics). So as a giant Batman fan who owned a GameCube at the time, I’m not ashamed to admit I’ve beaten this game at least 4 or 5 times :)
I always knew it wasn’t a great game but it was still so cool to see an adaptation of the comics themselves rather than the animated series. And the cutscenes and atmosphere were cool as heck even if the gameplay was broken and terrible.
I would sell my soul for a AAA open world Batman Beyond game
That can be arranged.
Got to hand it to them: The "AI in a GBA Emulator" is a very unique way of "WTF?!"
why does batman run like i run towards the toilet when i have dysentery
The GBA emulator thing is nuts, but not altogether surprising. The horror stories I've heard seem to suggest that Japanese executives tend to view time spent not making games as time and money wasted. So things like, say, coming to terms with the architecture of a platform you've never worked on before, or building a versatile proprietary engine that can be used on multiple projects are seen as wasteful and heavily discouraged. This meant that developers would have to use what they knew to come up with whatever solutions they could in order to get shit done. Hence, building a GBA emulator so you can program AI in an environment you're actually familiar with.
This culture would ultimately leave Japan particularly poorly equipped to handle the jump to HD, which is why Japanese games struggled so much on the 7th generation of consoles, as the old way of doing things just wasn't feasible anymore.
Legitimately interesting
Thank God Japanese games are great again!
See also STILL tying processes to the frame rate.
Japanese game developers make games the way I cram for tests.
"Pretty Savage?" As a BLINK I was JiSH00K!!
Stop that hahahaha. Jisoo is indeed best girl though
Rerez's video on this game was hilarious
"MY PARENTS ARE DEAD!"
@@alexandermutsaers2693 The rocket launcher bit is my favorite it's so unexpected
That was one of the first Rerez videos I watched and after watching it I was curious about what went wrong BTS. Matt McMuscles answered my prayers lol
1:11 no one knows what it’s like to be the Batman 😂
To make this whole fiasco even worse is that Batman Vengeance came out before this game which was pretty good and a year later we got the Spiderman 2 game,which heavily revolutionised Spiderman game. But in the end it influenced Arkham Asylum combat system.
Ah. I love your usage of the best tracks of the NES version of Batman. You sneaky you.
Looking forward to episodes on Aquaman Battle for Atlantis, Justice League Heroes, and Marvel Nemesis.
>Justice League Heroes
Wasn't that just a DC clone of X-Men Legends? Should be pretty hard to fuck that up.
Really Justice league heroes wasn't that bad?
@@thegamingprozone1941 but I dont think it was a financial success however
@@overlord6993 yeah that's true but it came out a week after Ultimate alliance so maybe that's why.
I loved Marvel Nemesis
"Salsa boombox" is like someone tasked them to exemplify a cultural disconnect in as a few words as possible
I’d love to see a What Happened video on “Toonstruck”. Not only was the game screwed over by its publisher, but efforts to release the sequel, and complete the story, have been unsuccessful, which is really frustrating.
Never forget Batman Forever, the snes game you rented without a manual and wasted a weekend figuring out that the grappleUP command was binded to fking SELECT and L/R. xD
The salsa music distraction technique sounds like the scene from the The Mask movie
2:12 Somewhere in the distance, the Angry Video Game Nerd is shouting "AAAAASSSSS!!!"
I still remember me and my brother DESPERATELY trying to figure out how to play this game.
The background music at 10:49 makes me think "THIS GAME IS FUCKED BEYOND BELIEF!"
Here’s the first game from my childhood I was consciously aware was bad
I remember renting this game from blockbuster as a kid and being really disappointed when I played it lol
Oh man he mentioned "Dark Wizard" on the Sega CD. This it. This is our moment warriors of Cheshire, now we ride!
GOD I'm happy we finally got an answer to what the hell happened to Batman: Dark Tomorrow.
What Happened?: Ouya
Oh boy that was a disaster and had one of the worst commercials ever made.
@@agrubohub4009 the ceo had no idea what market she was in lmaooo.
What a video. I remember being SUPER hyped for this game. I got “Batman: Vengeance” with my GameCube and I liked it a lot (and still maintain that it is one of the best Batman games pre-Arkham), and seeing promo shots for this one was getting me excited for a game set in the comic universe. All the character models looked great, and the scenery and levels all appeared to be so cool. Then, I bought the game and couldn’t beat the first level because the controls were SO bad, and totally unable to be changed at all. Such a disappointment. Great work with this video and making me relive that letdown in my life.
Last time i was this early Bruce still got parents
Matt managed to fit in a "rogue's gallery" and a P S triple ballin reference. The compulsory components for a Batman video and a Matt McMuscles video
Thank God Rocksteady was able to save the dark knight from bad games. now we just need them or other devs that have the love, skill and passion to make a good Superman game
I'm still trying to wrap my head around the "GBA emulator" bit, but I think it might be a bit of a misnomer: I'm wondering if it was more of a "wrapper" than an "emulator." When most people think of an emulator, they're picturing playing a game made for consoles on their PC (E.g. playing a game using Dolphin). In programming, a "wrapper" is a piece of code designed to "wrap around" other pieces of code, typically used for making code more portable (able to run on other platforms) or to "translate" code from one programming language to another. The initial idea of using GBA code sounds whack, but given that the team was experienced with GBA development they probably used it more like a scripting language, having the team write the AI using GBA coding standards to speed up development instead of spending time having them learn the API for the Gamecube. In the end, it would all be running as a Gamecube game, with the AI just being driven by code that was designed to run on a GBA. That's just my guess, though.
"Hey, what does this do? UUUUUGH!"
The best thing about this game is how Bruce trundles up stairs at frightening speeds.
all this sunsoft batman tunes in the background just makes me wish for a subtle remix version of either streets of desolation or the lab ruins to show up in a future batman game.
For everyone's benefit: When writing credits use "&," it signifies the listed writers worked as a team. Using "and" means someone did a rewrite.
"Scott Peterson" oof... that was an unfortunate time to have that name.
I remembered when the Laci Peterson missing persons case occured and her husband Scott Peterson almost immediately became a suspect, I thought _Scott Peterson? The comic book writer?_
Honestly surprised you haven’t done Capcom Fighting All-Stars yet.
If you ever return to the streets of Gotham for another Wha Happun I would love to know the story of the Batman Forever brawler on SNES and Genesis. Between the digitized graphics, mortal kombat controls, a soundtrack that sounds like elevator music having a stroke and the debut of Batman's deadliest foe; BIG RIDDLE, I would like to know just who exactly thought it was a good idea.
5:40 Batman scuttling up those stairs was low key terrifying.
Kemco popping up in these always surprises me cause I only really know them for a handful of mediocre JRPGs I bought back when I got my first smartphone
As strange as it is to make a Gamecube game in a GBA emulator, mad props to Kemco for not laying off their old dev team and finding a way to keep them employed on a new project. I wish they were able to find a more appropriate way to do it, but they did make sure all their people had paychecks, which is more than we can say out here in the west.
Given that Kemco do nothing but 16-bit style JRPGs for mobile phones, it's like they still haven't gotten rid of that dev team :D
Shadowrun FPS: It has a desperate need of critical review on your part!
Fun Fact: This is on the Wikipedia article for the worst video games of all time
The Batman Begins game is actually fun, I played through it about a dozen times as a kid. Would be cool to see Matt play it.
I wonder how the hell they managed to make a 3D AI run inside a GBA emulator, that’s just madness! That’s genuinely hilarious that the game ran a GBA emulator in the background for a lot of code.
The idea to have Batman play salsa music to distract guards made me think Kemco thought Bats was some kind of disco Solid Snake. Also, was that a Blackpink reference, Matt???
Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects, would made a good video. I mean it's literally in the name and was published by EA!
This is one of my favorite episodes to the whole series, so many one liners that just got me on this one. Great job, Matt. Keep up the great work
I agree, time traveler. XD
@@ThisChannelisRIP his patreon makes all of us time travelers, highly reccomend supporting the legend
I am waiting patiently for “Atari Jaguar - Wha Happun?”
They made the most cost efficient x-ray machine ever but mistakenly marketed it as a game console.
@@phantomspaceman “And it manages to look like a toilet!”
Tribes Ascend would make for a great episode
5:46 My 'Only For Nintendo GameCube' copies of RE4 and Killer7 are some of my most treasured video game things.
One of the best series on the internet. Love it!!!
Thanks for all these awesome videos over the years.
**Crashes In** DID YOU SAY BUGS BUNNY?!!
I played those games a lot growing up
DAYUM, my Mcman's McMuscles on that McHUSTLE!. I never seen so many WHA HAPPUNs in a row. This frequency is really good for the depression
Idk why but this show has a Saturday morning cartoon vibe
Not like their real Saturday morning cartoons anymore
_Dark Wizard?_ There's a game I've not thought of in decades. Neatest bit I can remember is that you have four possible heroes; in addition to the jaw-achingly good knight (comes in both male and female flavours!) you have the options to have off-brand Lina Inverse lead your kingdom, or a vampire lord disguised as the old king. No, nobody seems to question why his armies now include necromancers and dracoliches. Why do you ask?
i just rewatched the rerez video on this and you bet i’m here to watch this now 😌
That Pretty Savage song is a banger. I giggled.
Angry Joe just gave you a shoutout. Good to see you’re thriving still. 🙂
Oh boy, been waiting for this video ever since Rerez covered Dark Tomorrow in their "Just Bad Games" series.
Damn i remember playing this game when i was a kid, i still remember it like it was a fever dream
1:25 omg! I LOVE the soundtrack for this section of the video!! I have owned Batman on the NES for over 30 years and the music NEVER gets old.
That boombox moment was a great idea.
Behind Blue Eyes really is the saddest song ever 😔
It's funny because Bruce Wayne usually is depicted with blue eyes.
Seto Kaiba nods in agreement
Cries in sound of silence and the C R I S I S synthwave
Love starting my weekend with some Wha Happun
This video just awoke a very hidden and recessed memory of owning this game on Xbox original. My mum bought me it when I was maybe 5 or 6 years old and even at that age, I could tell this was a bad game. Gave up on it after like 10 mins and never touched it again. Thanks for the wonderful behind the scenes video yet again, Matt :)
Thanks for the mention of my podcast, Comics on Consoles @12:35. Hard for me to ever know if people like the show since it's not exactly a viral show, so glad it could contribute!
Aw sweet! You actually took one of my suggestions! Yay.