Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II (NES) Playthrough
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- A playthrough of Nintendo's 1994 action-adventure game for the NES, Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II.
Zoda’s Revenge: StarTropics II, the North America-exclusive follow-up to the 1991 classic StarTropics ( • StarTropics (NES) Play... ), was Nintendo's penultimate release for its soon-to-be euthanized 8-bit console.
Zoda’s Revenge picks up a short time after the ending of the first game. After saving his uncle, numerous island communities in the South Pacific, and an entire alien race, Mike has returned to his old life as a high schooler in Seattle.
But fate isn't yet ready to let Mike off the hook, and a few months later, the alien princess Mica telepathically contacts him with a cryptic riddle. Mike solves the riddle with his uncle, but when he recites the lyrics to Surfin Bird, he inadvertently opens a portal that sucks him in and hurls him back in time to the Stone Age. In the past, Mike does a bit of do-gooding and stumbles across an ancient and powerful Argonian artifact (a giant Tetris piece), and at Mica's request, he agrees to quest for the remaining "mystic tetrads." Thus, with a mighty "PAA PAA PAA OOM PAPA MOW MOW," Mike is whisked away to a new time and place.
The game is structured just like the first. As he galavants between eras searching for plot-driving doohickeys, Mike finds himself running errands for historical figures who, in return, offer their assistance and a generous serving of dated pop culture references. You begin most chapters by exploring the area and chatting with NPCs until someone provides you a task and points you in the direction of the local dungeon. There, you'll battle hordes of monsters, jump on tiles that inexplicably make walls explode, and tackle a boss. Once you've jumped through the requisite hoops, you'll be rewarded with a tetrad, a heart container, and another one-way trip into the unknown.
The gameplay is similar, too, though a few big changes have been made. While StarTropics leaned into its puzzle-heavy design and comfy tropical vibes to sell the experience, Zoda's Revenge places the emphasis squarely on action. The dungeons are larger but much easier to navigate, movement is no longer bound to a grid, Mike can walk and aim diagonally, and the weapons are all projectile-based.
Zoda’s Revenge is a good game, but despite being made by the same team, it feels a game that was made by people who didn't grasp what made StarTropics resonate with its fans. StarTropics' action was fit for task - it was more a means to an end than it was the point. In the sequel, the combat is fine, but it's not varied or tight enough to warrant giving it the spotlight, and the weaker storytelling fails to pick up the slack. The game lacks the personable characters and interesting scenarios that made the first one so memorable, and the time-travel gimmick turns the chapters into a disjointed series of isolated events with no overlap. It sacrifices StarTropics' heart, and for what? To have levels set in an old-time cave, an old-time sewer, and an old-time castle? To have a snarky cariacture of King Arthur punk players into a forced reset? To have an adventure that requires thumbs, not brains?
I don't mean to be overly harsh with the critique, because Zoda's Revenge is a good NES game - a very good one if you can take it on its own - but StarTropics set the bar so high that any "good" sequel was bound to disappoint. (Just like Mega Man 5 and 6!) That being said, it would've been a real boon for anyone who was still eagerly awaiting new NES releases in 1994.
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Zoda’s Revenge: StarTropics II, Mega Man 6 and Wario’s Woods were the only 3 games released for the NES in 1994 in the US, and they were also the last three released for the NES in the US before it was discontinued! RIP Nintendo Entertainment System (1985-1994), and NOW you’re no longer playing with power!
You'd soon be playing with Super Power!
Nintendo has been like this for years. NES games shifting over to the SNES, while they slowly phase out the NES.
And soon, SNES games shifting over to the N64, N64 shifting over to the GameCube, GameCube shifting over to the Wii, Wii shifting over to the Wii U and Wii U shifting over to the Switch! Talk about a chain reaction!
And the SNES is still my favorite console. And I've been around since the early 70s
@@rickn4301 born in 79. In my humble opinion, the best video game console ever made.
PAA PAA PAA OOM PAPA MOW MOW... woah, radical.
Bird, Bird, Bird, What is a Bird?
Man, kid me HATED it when video games tried being funny.
The StarTropics games remind me heavily of the Konami Goonies games, enough that I always imagined they were made by the same developer studio or the same people. It also has a ring of Blaster Master, although that was more from localization than anything else.
................YOU SLIP TO ANOTHER TIME AND SPACE.....
StarTrophics reminds me of zelda games
How fitting that this video was done for the game's 30th anniversary this year.
One of my favorite games
Big fan of Startropics, was always disappointed we never got a third one.
This hits the nostalgia... Startropics 1 was my first game. Never beat Startropics 2. Still, both are excellent games.
Such a fantastic quality upload!
I honestly prefer this to the original, but both games are great.
It's alright. Not as interesting as the first game perhaps, but it's solid enough for a playthrough. Especially fun to see those very late games around 30 years after the console's retirement!
30 years starting now you mean? Because this game came out about 8 years after the release of the NES.
@@jg2722I mean, most people haven't played those late games really, they tended to have bad sales... so it's fun to see them in perspective. I bet most people only played the first StarTropics.
@@mariusamber3237 true although this is the first time I even heard of Startropics 😂
This mining town has some strong earthbound vibes
The franchise StarTropics sadly was discontinued and never trying made remakes or remastered this games and don't make references from StarTropics as trophies in the franchise Super Smash Bros.
By all rights it should have been a really successful series! The first game did well enough to get the sequel. What absolutely hurt it is when they released it. I get why the 3 ‘94 releases happened-they were trying to re-kickstart the NES with the then brand new top loader (Weirdly enough I’ve never seen one of those in person!). It was just everyone had long since moved on to 16 bit. They should honestly ideally have moved the project to the Super NES. There I think it would have at least been a modest success. If Nintendo was heart set on a couple last NES hurrahs releasing it a year to year and a half earlier would have been a better choice.
Wow, I never made it past Italy. Silly rolling balls in the sewers, lmao! 😂😂😂
Also, forgot Cleopatra expecting a pizza from Caesar's Hut, and it was held up by a giant ass Scorpion of all things.
The original is a bit better with it's "Aliens in the South Seas" plot but I like this one quite a bit. Probably just nostalgia for myself being a late era NES holdout
Hey man this is Josh I just hope you're having a good day I'm watching your playthrough of Star Trek it's too for the NES
surprised this isn't on NSO yet
I have NO idea why it’s not! That one is stumping me! Thought sure both games wouks have gone up on there together. If not immediately very shortly apart. It’s a Nintendo developed and published game so I’m really not getting why. I could see if there were some objectionable content but as far as I’m seeing here there isn’t any.
It wouldn't be all that hard as like with the 1st one's re-release on the Wii-U, all they have to do is change Tetrominos™ to Blocks to avoid paying the Tetris Company to use their likeness/copyright. Unless of course Nintendo just decides to pony up the few $ that it'll most likely take considering they already have a working relationship with them what with them having Tetris 99 on the Switch and hwatnot.
I'm not really sure if my mom (who's favorite NES game is the first StarTropics) knows about this game existing or not, but perhaps one day I'll ask her.
It'd be real nice if these got remakes. (or a third entry)
We had this game as kids but never made it particularly far I don't think. Thanks for the upload, I'll be interested to see the playthrough!
Woah. I had memories of the opening of this game but couldn’t remember the title. Thanks.
This game is good, I didn't know it.
One of the last NES games for NA. A great book end to the system's life cycle.
And the second-to-last one, with Wario’s Woods being the final one.
Did japan's famicom die out in 1993? Because i noticed that europe (for some bizarre reason) kept getting games until the lion king came out in 1995
The Last First Party NES Games were on a decline due to the popularity of the SNES. Better sure this game is challenging but great story cutscenes and time travel.
Here’s a list of all the bosses in the order they’re fought:
Yum Yum
Big Scorpion
Ghost Sphinx
Brain
Zoda-X
Ghost Samurai
Ghost Miner
Zoda-Y
Zoda-Y(true form)
Ghost Knight Rider
Dragon
Dead C-Serpent
Yum Yum(rematch)
Big Scorpion(rematch)
Ghost Sphinx(rematch)
Zoda-X(rematch)
Ghost Miner(rematch)
Zoda-Y(rematch)
Zoda-Y(true form[rematch])
Dragon(rematch)
Zoda-Z
Zoda-Z(true form[final boss])
Good video alex
Thanks!
Played this game back into the day. Loved IT. Always love that Mind weapon. Did wish they would have done a 3rd one but what are you going to do.
That thumbnail.
After F-zero falcon densetsu Mike Jones in my eyes looks like Ryu Suzaku (Aka Rick Wheller)
OINK! OINK! SNORT!
Crazy this game came out, and shortly after we had PS1, Saturn, and N64.
waiting for the star wars themed hack version, yodas revenge: starwars II
Have you considered playing Sonic Advance Series yet?
Yes! Oh Yes!
This game blows it for totally failing to understand what made the first game good: the tile based movement, focus on puzzles, and precision required to succeed in combat. By focusing on combat and allowing diagonal movement the game totally loses it's identity. It's like those Legend of Zelda randomizers where the entire appeal of the experience is stripped out.
I love the LTTP randomizer. Some of the options really make you use your brain.
Alex, can you beat these games?
Nes:
Ninja kun - ashura no shou
Snes:
Dirt racer
Hashire hebereke
Sugoi hebereke
Gb/gbc:
Kirby's block ball
Kirby's star stacker
Blaster master boy
Hamtaro: ham-hams unite!
N64:
super smash bros
Genesis:
Blaster master 2
Socket
Gba:
Mr driller 2
Yoshi topsy turvy
Kirby: nightmare in dream land
Sonic advance
Sonic advance 2
Sonic advance 3
Sonic battle
Dora the explorer: super spies
E.t: the extra terrestrial
Hamtaro: ham-ham heartbreak
Hamtaro: rainbow rescue
Rayman advance
spy kids 3-D: game over
F-zero: maximum velocity
Can you handle all this?
Startropics is it's own game but this may upset some fans so sorry in Advance: it's a Zelda Competitor Game.
Lol it's a what?
@@bigduke5902 you heard me, it's a Zelda alternative game😭. Before someone says something YES I heard of hydlide and we don't talk about that EVER. But anyways I said that it's an alternative Zelda game.
@@rulerofall015(psst... competitor ≠ alternative)
@@rulerofall015 - 🤨 ...are you drunk?