This is actually the most historically/mythologically accurate Hercules game I have seen. It mentions the often omitted 13th trial of Hercules: *CONNECTING THE RUMBLE PACK*
Here's something they didn't mention. The final level is a *point-of-no-return.* Meaning, that if you save there, you have *no way of getting back to the main world.*
I hate when games have a point of no return in the final level or so. Even though I love Ori and the Blind Forest with all of my heart, the original version sucked because Mount Horu was a point of no return.
Final Fantasy 7 had a glitch where if you saved in the party meet up area of the last "dungeon" of the Northern Crater the game would glitch and you would never be able to leave the Northern Crater. Great programming there folks after you give us a save seed meaning we can put a save point anywhere we want. I got screwed by that on my first playthrough
Same here. But, he sure does know how to do a nice ballerina spin! And, we can't forget the sweet dance moves Herc pulls off either, dude! Although, I don't remember either of those parts in the original Hercules mythology either...
It was one of my favorite stories to come from it; when Vinny granted him that power not knowing what Herc would do with it, I felt a huge shock of thrill
@@BinglesP Who's vinny, sorry to ask, dude, but I don't know him. Is he a guy I shouldn't be asking questions about? Is he like a greed god; like Hercules?
@@shawnfields2369 Vinny is a Twitch streamer who has an inside joke of saying "Spin!" in a funny voice. A lot of times he makes joke predictions on-stream about trending video game things, that make people think he's a god at doing it in the stream's 'canon' because they're almost always right on accident.
As a Hercules fan, that wasn't Dracula, it was a maynad, aka a follower of Dionysus, and in most tales, they eat human flesh and drink blood as part of a ritual that makes them out to pretty much be vampires. Also circie turns people to pigs in the mythology aswell, not Heracles, but many people.
And hey, Circe was apparently actually a contemporary of Heracles, as they both were purported to have been active around the time of the Trojan War. This may seem like a little thing, but considering that Hercules: TLJ also had him and Iolaus be around during the birth of Christ which was supposed to take place millennia after the age of Heracles (and this was a normal episode, so no time travel and Iolaus wasn't ever an important so that wasn't the work around), it's probably worthy of at least a golf clap to the writers.
The great thing about that Hercules vs Dracula clip is that the line "That's my friend you're suckin' on!" could be used as either a pre-ass kicking one-liner or a pre-threesome one-liner depending on the context.
Ares being a letdown in a fight is mythologically accurate: he was the god of war but not combat. So mainly represents unsportsmanly slaugther of foes and sending people to die in waves. There likely may have been some political satire in the greek works on him.
On the one hand, I can’t help but feel sorry for the devs who knew the game was crap but were forced to release it anyway. On the other hand, it’s Titus.
Gerald Weir I don’t understand what you’re saying. I was making a reference to a joke in the video. And when did I say anything about ALL 3D games? The x3 was meant as an emoticon.
Ironically these "Just Bad" videos are great condense walkthroughs for those who actually want to play games like "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys"....... I"MA GONNA PLAY IT RIGHT NOW, BOOOOOY YEAHHHH!!!!
Just make sure you have a third party controller or else its impossible apparently.... that doesn't make sense to me why that affects his jump distance but I guess it does?
In the TV series, there were a ton of press releases about Sam Jenkins playing the Serena, Golden Hind -- she'd met Kevin Sorbo in an earlier appearance and they got married, so they were making a big deal about his new real-life wife portraying the new love interest on the show, and heavily implying she'd be a series regular. She only had a handful of appearances before getting killed off, and fans got annoyed at the bait-and-switch. I suspect they wanted to shoehorn her into the game to give her more airtime as a sort of apology.
I was considering watching the show, as I've never heard of before watching this video, for the centaur characters so damn, guess I won't then, if she's not gonna be in it for long Thanks for the warning though
This really shows how important "Z-Targeting" really is to 3D action games. Something like that would make this so much better. "We have God of War at home."
All I want is a developer interview on the making of this game. It's simply incredible in how rushed and broken it is. You just know they had a more fleshed out game in mind.
The running jump issue is due to the joysticks, official controllers have poor joysticks which degrade over time while used, and the third party controller worked since the joystick had been used less.
I played a game blast crops that had issues like that with 2 of the mission. 1 i had crappy jumping 2 had problems with driving until i got a new one and it worked great. But i thought at 1st the game was broken so i was going to return it to the video store
In other words the analogue stick on the third party controller wasn't better than the official version, it's just that it hadn't degraded due to normal wear and tear because no one ever uses a third party controller willingly when they don't have to?
Between not owning a controller pak, the long tutorial in the beginning and the awful cyclops fight, I never did make it far in this game as a kid. Not sure why I owned it.
I remember in an old radio interview, after the show Hercules was done, even Kevin Sorbo would get nervous during interviews about being asked on what he thought of the Hercules video games because they were so bad.
12:01 Pretty sure this was mentioned elsewhere in the comments but that ridiculous spin might actually be an attack for when you're surrounded. Either that or Herc wants to live out his dream of saving the world through dance! Another delightful trainwreck you guys found, awesome job!
@@cosmiccatalyst6448The damage dealt to the player was probably intended to make it a desperate last ditch attack to escape crowds of foes. A simple cooldown timer would have sufficed but hindsight and all.
That dancing stealth movement has got to be the most amazing animation I've seen in any game in a while. Just as laughable as the climbing animation in the Charlie's Angels game. Now there's a good candidate for Just Bad Games!
If I remember correctly, I think that was done for perseus in god of war 2, where he had his voice actor from the original clash of the titans, though I'm not sure about it.
I now understand the physical and mental struggles in making these videos and express sympathy for what you have to go through. I also commend your efforts to push through for our entertainment. Just try not to hurt yourselves in the process...
One of my favorite Hercules games would probably be Herc's Adventure. That game has some pretty looking graphics, the gameplay is reminiscent to a greek myth version of Zombies Ate My Neigbors, you can choose between Hercules the Warrior, Atlanta the Huntress and Jason the Argonaut (IF YER STOOPID!) and Herc himself sounds a bit like Homer Simpson.
I can't believe I haven't seen this video until now, that was fantastic! I have the speedrun World Record for this game. Here's some fun facts I think you would like: - We try to avoid literally as much combat as possible in the game. We just sprint past all the useless waves of enemies as they shout "Hey!" at us. In order to get all the money required to beat the game, we beat the tutorial over and over again right at the start. - Before we did a big routing change last year, take a wild guess where the biggest reset spot is? You'd be right, it's that damn jump on the hill to get the switch. There's no secret to it. Thankfully now, we do a glitch to go out of bounds and get to the switch from the other side, avoiding that nasty jump. -Every single labyrinth boss, the minotaurs, can be beaten in a matter of seconds. The funniest one is in the second labyrinth, where the developers for some reason made it so that if you run away from the minotaur while it is stuck behind a lava pool, it will jump and run through it. So you just hit the gong, run away, and the minotaur kills itself. Thank you guys for bringing attention to this quirky little mess of a game. I'm so glad you found that dialogue of the girl talking about how the game was rushed. I'd also be happy to answer any questions you have about the game, any oddities, I can also talk about more fun glitches.
@@nostalgiaworks5999 the show never declined, kevin sorbo just didnt want to renew his contract for three more years so they abruptly ended the show before season 6 completed filming.
This is by far my favorite series this channel has produced (and I love all the other work on here). The games are always the magical kind of bad. Both of you have excellent comedic timing and the editing. The editing is an absolute gift from the heavens. You guys put so much work into this series and it shows and it plays beautifully. Thank you for making some great content that I always look forward to.
As someone who loved this show as a kid, I can't help but notice that "game Zeus" in no way resembles "show Zeus." My bet is they couldn't get likeness rights for legendary actor Anthony Quinn. XD
Guys, do more RPGs - every time I watch one of your new video I'm like "naah they can't beat this one, the quality is 10/10" and yet ... You scored a solid 15/10 on this one - you make an amazing duo
This is the kind of game you hate to play but LOVE to watch a let's play of lmao. Great you basically shown the entire playthrough condensed into shorter time instead of making a review of separate parts. It's fun watching fail compilations.
@@Corvus__ I'd think it's because the offiical N64 controller's range of movement is smaller than 3rd party ones. You know how Mario in 64 runs slower on consoles than it does on emulators/Virtual Console? It's because the official N64 controller has a more limited range of movement which doesn't let you go to 100% speed quite as easily, if at all.
@@Corvus__ Seems like it'd be in line with the apparent rushing of this game to have used a third party controller in what little testing was done and not take into account possible differences with original controller use.
@@brandycoral1103 It wasn't made specifically for this game, it was just a general add on that allowed controller vibration for extra immersion and many N64 games utilized it for puzzles. Zelda Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask used it to search for hidden objects in the world for example. I assume this game had it used for something similar.
This video is one of my go-tos for when I'm feeling down. Your guys' humor is spot on and I love it. XD I mostly love the holding punch clips with the music, haha
Titus as a gaming dev company seems to always been dealt a bad hand. Superman 64, for example, WB basically hampered them every step of the way, and it's implied that they did it because it could be used as justification for them to cut ties with Titus and just selling the rights to another company for more money than Titus gave. Every single time they would second guess things like, they argued that Superman couldn't dive underwater and the lead dev had to show them the issue where Superman could fight underwater. We could have had a PC port that would fix all the issues, but WB wouldn't let them release it.
Hercules and Xena were SO POPULAR here in Greece. EVERYONE was watching them. Seriously. Of course there were people that were saying that Hollywood is butchering our Myths but come on now. Nobody really cared.
Yes please... We need the openly plagirized game based on an unfinished point and click (the original looked neat compaired to the finished one though)
13:00 Okay...THAT is something I've never seen happen before. How can a controller, the official controller, not be good enough for gameplay? Has something like that even happened before? How do you even program that into the game!? I'm confused and yet kinda...impressed?
My only guess is that their first party controller's mechanism that detects how far it's been moved is starting to wear down to the point where it's no longer precise enough to make the jump. The jump in question also likely was only tested on controllers that are fresh out of the box and working as intended. The third party controller they ended up using likely still had all of its precision intact, and wasn't used long enough for it to start wearing down. This is only a guess, honestly, but this is the most logical conclusion I can think of.
@@SoulWarrior265 I'd think that too, Mario in Mario 64 runs way slower than he does on Virtual Console. It's kinda impossible to make him run at full speed with an official controller.
It's actually one of the better looking and less blurry games on the N64(has nice view distance, unlike many N64 games). N64 and PSX games aren't made to be viewed on HD TVs or monitors tho. I'm surprised no one has mentioned the shitty framerate, because it gets pretty bad at points.
You've got to like the developers to put such a blatant "F*** You" to the publisher using an entire town to get their message across. If it's true and the game was rushed out the door so quickly, you can't really blame them for the state the game is in. If they'd had proper development time, they'd probably have fixed a lot of the issues. The publisher probably just asked "Can you get from the start to the end of the game?" "Well, technically yes. But..." "Okay, good enough. Let's ship it!" "But nothing's actually finished!" "Did I stutter? I said ship it!" Anyways, here's what I would probably try doing to fix this game, other than obvious things like making the key in the pool visible. 1: Port everything into Ocarina of Time's engine. The level design seems compatible, without needing to make any changes, and it would fix the controls, combat, and targeting. To be honest, when you see how the action prompt works, I think that probably was what the developers were going for. Actually, this would fix a ton more problems as well. Saving would be more convenient and fix the Labyrinth problem. Archery would be more precise. The only tweak you would need would be to place a platform in the middle of that controller-bugged jump, but that would even fix that area's issue as well. 2: Acknowledge the drowning cyclops, even if just for a laugh. Cyclops gets washed down-stream. We need to follow the river to try and rescue him from drowning. Path is blocked and we're led to next town. Either save the cyclops at some point, just to get the player near the next destination, or parody the whole damned thing and by the time you've done all the fetch quests required to open the path, the cyclops has drowned already. The entire quest is rendered moot, but you are near your next destination. 3: Slightly tweak the titan battle. Assuming that we're now using Ocarina of Time's engine and controls, change the fight to where the flaming boulder thrown at you stays on the ground when it hits. You now are able to use it for cover against the flamethrower attacks long enough to line up a shot to hit a target. After two or three flamethrower attacks or after successfully hitting a target, the boulder breaks and you repeat the process. Adds a bit of structure to the fight, and adds in slight moments for the player to catch their breath. Considering the state for Ocarina of Time hacking, I think this could actually be done fairly easily.
I’ve had a bit of a fascination with (at least imagining) trying to hack/mod some kind of decent game using a terrible one as a foundation (my go to for challenging people with that is Bubsy 3D). Hadn’t considered the opposite concept you just suggested: using a good game as a foundation to remake a bad one.
Can I just say that despite the game being a horribly rushed, terribly playing piece of software, the N64 visuals are very satisfying to look at. Thanks for playing through this mess so we can focus on the nostalgic visuals!
15:51 Say, that looks like the food court at the Post Exchange mall at Fort Eustise in Virginia. I can tell because I went up there to visit my brother when he was graduating from training and they had the exact same food places as in that picture. Good times. Strange to see it randomly in your video.
"Hercules went to hollywood to act on the show Hercules: The Legendary Journeys disguised as actor Kevin Sorbo playing Hercules" ...THIS IS THE GREATEST SHOW *EVER MADE*
Hercules, Xena, Beastmaster...oh boy. This used to be all we had to watch on Sundays, people. It was how schools assured we actually did our homework that weekend.
This is actually the most historically/mythologically accurate Hercules game I have seen. It mentions the often omitted 13th trial of Hercules: *CONNECTING THE RUMBLE PACK*
why doesn't this comment have more likes?
I like this
It also mentions the part where he needed to go to a GameStop to buy an unofficial controller to play a shitty game
There was technically a 13th trial. It involved him and 49/50 women.
Nah, it's actually omitted because of embarrassment, as this is the only trial Hercules failed
“This slowly kills you”.
Yes, it also drains Herc’s HP.
Hi yoooo
Poor shane
Hmmm, yes, this floor is made out of floor.
Typical brawler mechanics. Super moves would normally cost HP to act as a trade for how busted they would be.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Here's something they didn't mention.
The final level is a *point-of-no-return.* Meaning, that if you save there, you have *no way of getting back to the main world.*
Yep, tough luck if you haven't stocked up on magic potions and beer before you go, Hercy boy!
I hate when games have a point of no return in the final level or so. Even though I love Ori and the Blind Forest with all of my heart, the original version sucked because Mount Horu was a point of no return.
@@brawler5760 it's my one and only gripe with okami
Final Fantasy 7 had a glitch where if you saved in the party meet up area of the last "dungeon" of the Northern Crater the game would glitch and you would never be able to leave the Northern Crater. Great programming there folks after you give us a save seed meaning we can put a save point anywhere we want. I got screwed by that on my first playthrough
I don't mind games that have a point of no return if it makes sense in context, as long as they warn you about it.
I forgot the part in the original mythology where Hercules tried to commit suicide by spinning around.
With little fairy dust
Same here. But, he sure does know how to do a nice ballerina spin! And, we can't forget the sweet dance moves Herc pulls off either, dude! Although, I don't remember either of those parts in the original Hercules mythology either...
It was one of my favorite stories to come from it; when Vinny granted him that power not knowing what Herc would do with it, I felt a huge shock of thrill
@@BinglesP Who's vinny, sorry to ask, dude, but I don't know him. Is he a guy I shouldn't be asking questions about? Is he like a greed god; like Hercules?
@@shawnfields2369 Vinny is a Twitch streamer who has an inside joke of saying "Spin!" in a funny voice. A lot of times he makes joke predictions on-stream about trending video game things, that make people think he's a god at doing it in the stream's 'canon' because they're almost always right on accident.
I love how Hercules can smash rocks with his bare hands, yet he cant open a chest without a key. Lol
or break a wooden door...
Well, he’s not Kratos.
And Iove.. What YOU love now let's love one another
@@teddy-beargamer6385 true, but Heracles smashes rocks so he should be able to break chests
@@bluejay3748 ENCHANTED CHESTS!
As a Hercules fan, that wasn't Dracula, it was a maynad, aka a follower of Dionysus, and in most tales, they eat human flesh and drink blood as part of a ritual that makes them out to pretty much be vampires.
Also circie turns people to pigs in the mythology aswell, not Heracles, but many people.
Good thing I always carry a reverse uno card!
But did Hercules ever disguise himself as Hollywood superstar Kevin Sorbo?
Jeff Reviews Now we’re asking the real questions
And hey, Circe was apparently actually a contemporary of Heracles, as they both were purported to have been active around the time of the Trojan War. This may seem like a little thing, but considering that Hercules: TLJ also had him and Iolaus be around during the birth of Christ which was supposed to take place millennia after the age of Heracles (and this was a normal episode, so no time travel and Iolaus wasn't ever an important so that wasn't the work around), it's probably worthy of at least a golf clap to the writers.
The little pig Hercules clothes still kill me to this day.
I came here to Laugh at Hercules but ended being infatuated by his smooth dancing.
17:41 it's always sad when the producers feel the need to hide an apology in their game.
But it is due, and it is funny though..
The great thing about that Hercules vs Dracula clip is that the line "That's my friend you're suckin' on!" could be used as either a pre-ass kicking one-liner or a pre-threesome one-liner depending on the context.
Ares being a letdown in a fight is mythologically accurate: he was the god of war but not combat. So mainly represents unsportsmanly slaugther of foes and sending people to die in waves. There likely may have been some political satire in the greek works on him.
So, Zapp Branigan
In one of the myths, he spends an entire battle in a bronze pot that two giants put him in.
Yeah, Ares wasn't so much about fighting himself, but sowing anger and strife to start wars, and generate more fighting and killing.
Ares was all the nasty things in war. Athena was all the noble things in war. And if you are a Spartan, Aphrodite is your war goddess.
@@NaviciaAbbot that was the Athenians, Sparta did have ares as their main god.
Ares: haha, you'll never defeat three of me, Hercules!
Herc: ROLLING AROUND AT THE SPEED OF SOUND
Got places to go, got to follow my rainbow!
Super man theme playing in the background
XD
Funny; the colored crystals you collect in the Olympus level resemble the Chaos Emeralds!
@@silverbrooks9272 CAN'T STICK AROUND I'LL JUST KEEP MOVING ON
A MOMENT OF SILENCE FOR OUR DEARLY BELOVED FRIEND WHO WE DID NOT SAVE WHILE DROWNING......
..CYCLOPS!
On the one hand, I can’t help but feel sorry for the devs who knew the game was crap but were forced to release it anyway.
On the other hand, it’s Titus.
that's kinda the company in a shellnut. sorta sad they went defunct in '05, they could have become the asylum films of gaming.
The whole process was incredibly rushed. x3
@@KnakuanaRka If every single 3D game was 'rushed' maybe there's a serious problem of some kind.
Gerald Weir I don’t understand what you’re saying. I was making a reference to a joke in the video. And when did I say anything about ALL 3D games? The x3 was meant as an emoticon.
Not the first time they rushed a game. *coughSuperman64*
Ironically these "Just Bad" videos are great condense walkthroughs for those who actually want to play games like "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys"....... I"MA GONNA PLAY IT RIGHT NOW, BOOOOOY YEAHHHH!!!!
Just make sure you have a third party controller or else its impossible apparently.... that doesn't make sense to me why that affects his jump distance but I guess it does?
@@mckstellar1005 YOU CAN'T STOP ME!!! I'M GONNA DO IT WITH A FIRST PARTY CONTROLLER AND BE THE VERY BEST, LIKE NO ONE EVER WAS!!! (Jumps off cliff).
@@RamsTheNameCom My condolences to all the controllers you broke mid rage.
@@RamsTheNameCom Pride goeth before the fall.....
um okay...
In the TV series, there were a ton of press releases about Sam Jenkins playing the Serena, Golden Hind -- she'd met Kevin Sorbo in an earlier appearance and they got married, so they were making a big deal about his new real-life wife portraying the new love interest on the show, and heavily implying she'd be a series regular. She only had a handful of appearances before getting killed off, and fans got annoyed at the bait-and-switch.
I suspect they wanted to shoehorn her into the game to give her more airtime as a sort of apology.
Well that sucks. I never knew the married and original recurring character thing.
I was considering watching the show, as I've never heard of before watching this video, for the centaur characters
so damn, guess I won't then, if she's not gonna be in it for long
Thanks for the warning though
This really shows how important "Z-Targeting" really is to 3D action games. Something like that would make this so much better.
"We have God of War at home."
All I want is a developer interview on the making of this game. It's simply incredible in how rushed and broken it is. You just know they had a more fleshed out game in mind.
There is a developer interview for another of Player 1's games from EGM, Blues Brothers 2000
Seems like it could've been pretty good if they nailed the OoT aesthetic and attention to detail. But, Titus is not Nintendo. (or Rare).
The cheeky “incredibly rushed” dialogue definetly supports this
@@zenksren8206 You mean that anonymous interview with the developer of a "crappy game"? I always wondered what that was.
This game went from hero to zero in no time flat.
From Zero to less than Zero
Terrible joke
I get it😆
Just like that! _snap_
Bad and unbeatable
An a̶w̶e̶s̶o̶m̶e̶ awful 1/10
The running jump issue is due to the joysticks, official controllers have poor joysticks which degrade over time while used, and the third party controller worked since the joystick had been used less.
Yeah I hated the stupid plastic against metal thing they did with the official ones.
I played a game blast crops that had issues like that with 2 of the mission. 1 i had crappy jumping 2 had problems with driving until i got a new one and it worked great. But i thought at 1st the game was broken so i was going to return it to the video store
I found some Gamecube-style joystick replacements on ebay that I swapped in to my OG controllers. Night and day difference.
In other words the analogue stick on the third party controller wasn't better than the official version, it's just that it hadn't degraded due to normal wear and tear because no one ever uses a third party controller willingly when they don't have to?
@@PhazonEnder Yep
Between not owning a controller pak, the long tutorial in the beginning and the awful cyclops fight, I never did make it far in this game as a kid. Not sure why I owned it.
Ayy, it's claw!
Yeah I know right. The Snakething and Sangie bosses were also downright impossible without a guide.
It's just a controller. Pak was the name that was used for the cartridges.
@PANZERFAUST90 The controller pak was an accessory used for saving the game. It was essentially the memory card for the n64
Can't imagine finishing this, I'd probably either get bored or chuck the game out the window at some point.
"DISAPPOINTED!" - kids getting this game
The especially amusing fact being that this series was - generally - aimed at young adults :P so most kids wouldn't even know what this IS lol
It was only available through blockbuster as a rental.
Classic
I understood that reference.
what? The kids are reading the stage directions too?
The fact that the game was developed by Titus is enough to keep players away. Far, far away.
Except it wasn't. It was Published by them. Publishers do not make the game.
I mean, kinda, just like LJN
@@TheInhumanBeatdown I'd imagine it's at least partly thier fault the game was so rushed.
"I didn't wanna be immortal anyway, it's too much hard work. You gotta watch people come and go, no thanks, Samuel"
POOP
@@cashomnitrix kids please don't kill yourselves and sue me
I remember in an old radio interview, after the show Hercules was done, even Kevin Sorbo would get nervous during interviews about being asked on what he thought of the Hercules video games because they were so bad.
I'm pretty sure that these games would have made him DISAPPOINTED!!!!!
Given how shameless Kevin is in being an asshole, of course he would see a bad video game as the worst thing.
The show was barely better.
I only knew about the FMV adventure games.
Fun fact: Kevin Sorbo is an asshole in real life. Just look at his Twitter feed.
12:01 Pretty sure this was mentioned elsewhere in the comments but that ridiculous spin might actually be an attack for when you're surrounded. Either that or Herc wants to live out his dream of saving the world through dance!
Another delightful trainwreck you guys found, awesome job!
Why does it hurt you though
@@cosmiccatalyst6448The damage dealt to the player was probably intended to make it a desperate last ditch attack to escape crowds of foes.
A simple cooldown timer would have sufficed but hindsight and all.
17:33 I love when developers do stuff like this. Sucks they had to go through the ordeal but at least they have an outlet for complaining.
Did you read the rant in the code of The New Tetris (N64)?
It's on The Cutting Room Floor
“HOLY SHEET, TELEPORTIN’ CENTAUR!”
"Should'a called this 'The Legend of Hercules: Ocarina of Time' if you catch my cold!"
"Achoo!"
Centuar Man: Am I a joke to you?
@@Tailikku1 Sega does what Nintenderucles
@@orientallegendcomics1316 Not to me
@@BinglesP "And I, (how could you do this to me!?), will always love youuu!"
Merchant from Disney Hercules “I warn you, I want this freak out!”
"HE'S GOT HORSE PANTS" killed me with that line
That dancing stealth movement has got to be the most amazing animation I've seen in any game in a while.
Just as laughable as the climbing animation in the Charlie's Angels game. Now there's a good candidate for Just Bad Games!
am already hard at work to perfect such an unbelievable dancing move, it'll make me the king of the dance floor
I need to know the name of that song
I doubt this game has a modding scene.. but if someone can just make that music play whenever you do that in-game, I would absolutely play it.
@@lightninstriker10 Now that you said that, there will be a modding scene.
Hell, I'd speedrun the game if they did that.
@@ThatManOverThere They Allows Nobody - Wha Happnin
Literally just thinking to myself: "I hope Rerez releases a Just Bad Games video soon".
And YT actually shows me a video as soon as it was listed!
Exactly , me too
as opposed to figuratively thinking?
PANZERFAUST90 I think literally is meant to be a modifier to “just”, as in he saw the video immediately after he thought that, with no gap in between.
3:20 "We shall call this... the Boogie Button."
*-Caddicarus* in his _Fade to Black_ Review
Now that Hercules is out of the way, do Xena Warrior Princess.
Never heard of that one
Not really much to make fun of there, unfortunately, if you're talking about the N64 version. It's just a mediocre fighting game.
What's interesting is that the tv series actor voiced GOW3 Hercules
Kevin Sorbo?
Yep
GOW3?
@@gracekim25 God of War 3
If I remember correctly, I think that was done for perseus in god of war 2, where he had his voice actor from the original clash of the titans, though I'm not sure about it.
I now understand the physical and mental struggles in making these videos and express sympathy for what you have to go through.
I also commend your efforts to push through for our entertainment.
Just try not to hurt yourselves in the process...
WE WILL NEVER FORGET YOU, CYCLOPS FRIEND!
Cyclops who??
Hercules, Legend of the Lawsuit from Nintendo...
at least the GOlden Hind is hot for beign so polygonal?
@@ceilyurie856 The sole redeeming virtue of the game.
@@basedeltazero714 truth
@Super Mario 64 Dude 0877 how so?
@Super Mario 64 Dude 0877 ah, true
One of my favorite Hercules games would probably be Herc's Adventure. That game has some pretty looking graphics, the gameplay is reminiscent to a greek myth version of Zombies Ate My Neigbors, you can choose between Hercules the Warrior, Atlanta the Huntress and Jason the Argonaut (IF YER STOOPID!) and Herc himself sounds a bit like Homer Simpson.
And the music is near lawsuit levels of similar to Star Wars
One is a city in Georgia, THE OTHER ONE'S A REGULAR NAME!
Rewatching this for the...I don't know how many times now, but Hercules's squishy pants dance never fails to make me laugh
"The place where we did nothing while our cyclops friend drowns"
I can't believe I haven't seen this video until now, that was fantastic! I have the speedrun World Record for this game. Here's some fun facts I think you would like:
- We try to avoid literally as much combat as possible in the game. We just sprint past all the useless waves of enemies as they shout "Hey!" at us. In order to get all the money required to beat the game, we beat the tutorial over and over again right at the start.
- Before we did a big routing change last year, take a wild guess where the biggest reset spot is? You'd be right, it's that damn jump on the hill to get the switch. There's no secret to it. Thankfully now, we do a glitch to go out of bounds and get to the switch from the other side, avoiding that nasty jump.
-Every single labyrinth boss, the minotaurs, can be beaten in a matter of seconds. The funniest one is in the second labyrinth, where the developers for some reason made it so that if you run away from the minotaur while it is stuck behind a lava pool, it will jump and run through it. So you just hit the gong, run away, and the minotaur kills itself.
Thank you guys for bringing attention to this quirky little mess of a game. I'm so glad you found that dialogue of the girl talking about how the game was rushed. I'd also be happy to answer any questions you have about the game, any oddities, I can also talk about more fun glitches.
Props for soldiering through this mess. I would have probably given up sometime after the first "puzzle".
Man I burst out laughing when he met the storyteller to show him how much Hercules has progressed 🤣🤣🤣🤣
"Hey, that's my friend you're sucking on!"
I don't remember that episode.
Its in the last season
Shan Ming so I’m assuming they already jumped the shark by then or was that the shark jumping moment there for the show
@@Cy-Kill_01 i dont understand your questions.
@@TheRealSephiroth Did the show start declining in quality before that episode or was that the point where the show started declining in quality?
@@nostalgiaworks5999 the show never declined, kevin sorbo just didnt want to renew his contract for three more years so they abruptly ended the show before season 6 completed filming.
You guys have dedication. That boss fight with the arrows, to be done a 3rd time. That is effort. You deserve it.
Love you guys work me and my daughter sit down together everytime you upload a new one. It's become a daddy daughter show now. Thanks so much.
I'm glad these took off, I love the "Just Bad Games" series; although I miss the "Positives and Negatives" series.
21:17
So there was a Z-target mechanic, it just wasn't implementated in the rest of the game..?
Well _this_ came out of nowhere.
Thanks, Rerez.
This entire video was a surprise pair of horse pants
@@BinglesP 😂 well I thought it was funny
This is by far my favorite series this channel has produced (and I love all the other work on here). The games are always the magical kind of bad. Both of you have excellent comedic timing and the editing. The editing is an absolute gift from the heavens. You guys put so much work into this series and it shows and it plays beautifully. Thank you for making some great content that I always look forward to.
17:50 Sounds like those pieces of media where the devs would slip in messages like these to express how overworked they were.
As someone who loved this show as a kid, I can't help but notice that "game Zeus" in no way resembles "show Zeus."
My bet is they couldn't get likeness rights for legendary actor Anthony Quinn. XD
Guys, do more RPGs - every time I watch one of your new video I'm like "naah they can't beat this one, the quality is 10/10" and yet ... You scored a solid 15/10 on this one - you make an amazing duo
5:54, took me by surprise ngl
ANUS ‼️‼️
I can always count on these "Just Bad Games" videos for a good laugh
"Don't drink the water"
"Yes! Drink the water..."
The Legend of Hercules: Ocarina of Time, if ya catch my cold-ACHOO!
Therreee we go
I don't but I get the alternate title
This is the kind of game you hate to play but LOVE to watch a let's play of lmao. Great you basically shown the entire playthrough condensed into shorter time instead of making a review of separate parts. It's fun watching fail compilations.
3:18 still cracks me up in tears! 🤣 😂 😹 And I've watched it over severally times already! LOL!
I never thought I'd be able to describe a video game as "Constipated Ocarina of Time."
Also... 14:02 Shredder, is that you??
What. I literally JUST finished rewatching the jontron's old video on Hercules games. And now i see this? Rerez are ya stalking me lmao.
Man I loved watching that show as a kid, surprised no ones tried doing a crappy reboot of it yet.
That shimmy while holding down the punch button is real smooth
A soon as I saw the "insert rumble pak" dialogue...I had a sizable laughing fit.
But let's be honest, bring down the mic, best thing about this game is the overpowered-ass PAUSE SOUND!
@Sandman Slim *immediately lies*
*PAUSE FX*
@Sandman Slim you're wrong
12:50 i cant believe you need a different controller to progress
Why Titus
I wonder if they made that 3rd party controller?
@@Corvus__ Now that's a smart (albeit scummy) business approach
@@Corvus__ I'd think it's because the offiical N64 controller's range of movement is smaller than 3rd party ones.
You know how Mario in 64 runs slower on consoles than it does on emulators/Virtual Console? It's because the official N64 controller has a more limited range of movement which doesn't let you go to 100% speed quite as easily, if at all.
@@Corvus__ Seems like it'd be in line with the apparent rushing of this game to have used a third party controller in what little testing was done and not take into account possible differences with original controller use.
Someone must be insidious to seek revenge on those that hog the first party controllers and gave them the SHITTY THIRD PARTIES.
"Mom, can I have God of War?"
"We already have have God of Wars at home"
God of War at home:
A proper Hercules game in the style of God Of War would work. Someone needs to make it.
Haha very funny joke man. Most original comment i've ever seen on youtube hahaha
@@Limbbiscuit Funny
@@W0lfenstrike i like your word, funny man.
The world needs a series like Hercules more than ever. I miss the days when we had light-hearted comedy - especially with Bruce Campbell!
That cyclops drowning really hit you hard
3 things about this game
1 what is a rumble pak?
2 Hercules weakness is himself
3 IT’S JUST BAD
The rumble pak was an accessory for the N64 controller that could be used for some games
The N64 controller didn't have built in vibration, so you had to plug this thing with a motor in it into the controller. This was the Rumble Pak.
Bismuth83 why was the rumble pak made for Hercules The legendary journey?
@@brandycoral1103 It wasn't made specifically for this game, it was just a general add on that allowed controller vibration for extra immersion and many N64 games utilized it for puzzles. Zelda Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask used it to search for hidden objects in the world for example. I assume this game had it used for something similar.
R.I.P. Cyclops Friend 😢
This video is one of my go-tos for when I'm feeling down. Your guys' humor is spot on and I love it. XD I mostly love the holding punch clips with the music, haha
Me: mom can I have Ocarina of time
Mom: no, we have Ocarina of time at home
Ocarina of time at home:
Titus as a gaming dev company seems to always been dealt a bad hand. Superman 64, for example, WB basically hampered them every step of the way, and it's implied that they did it because it could be used as justification for them to cut ties with Titus and just selling the rights to another company for more money than Titus gave. Every single time they would second guess things like, they argued that Superman couldn't dive underwater and the lead dev had to show them the issue where Superman could fight underwater. We could have had a PC port that would fix all the issues, but WB wouldn't let them release it.
This game clearly had some potential. I also think the graphics look pretty neat in the ancient ruins at night with the particles
14:34 - "The God of sniffing!" is what I heard.
Hercules and Xena were SO POPULAR here in Greece. EVERYONE was watching them. Seriously. Of course there were people that were saying that Hollywood is butchering our Myths but come on now. Nobody really cared.
I pray for the day these guys review Limbo of the Lost.
Yes please... We need the openly plagirized game based on an unfinished point and click (the original looked neat compaired to the finished one though)
I'd love to see a Wha Happun? about that game too just because of all the juicy publisher backstory.
Request: Just Bad Games - Limbo of the Lost
@@ther0n1nnamed47 ♪The KING of LIMBO!♫
13:00
Okay...THAT is something I've never seen happen before. How can a controller, the official controller, not be good enough for gameplay? Has something like that even happened before? How do you even program that into the game!? I'm confused and yet kinda...impressed?
My only guess is that their first party controller's mechanism that detects how far it's been moved is starting to wear down to the point where it's no longer precise enough to make the jump. The jump in question also likely was only tested on controllers that are fresh out of the box and working as intended.
The third party controller they ended up using likely still had all of its precision intact, and wasn't used long enough for it to start wearing down.
This is only a guess, honestly, but this is the most logical conclusion I can think of.
@@SoulWarrior265 I'd think that too, Mario in Mario 64 runs way slower than he does on Virtual Console. It's kinda impossible to make him run at full speed with an official controller.
N64 thumbsticks are notorious for having awful build quality
The Graphics look so blurry that I thought one of my contacts fell out.
@Sandman Slim hey don't bully our 240p asses :(
I thought I might need glasses even after watching this! And my video quality was set to max!
It's actually one of the better looking and less blurry games on the N64(has nice view distance, unlike many N64 games). N64 and PSX games aren't made to be viewed on HD TVs or monitors tho. I'm surprised no one has mentioned the shitty framerate, because it gets pretty bad at points.
@@ruekurei88 They mentioned it in the video.
It’s N64 lol. The old blue-o-vision.
When you let Hercules "dance" the first time, I miss the dancing Batman from your Batman and Robin-video.
I’m sorry reading “this slowly kills you” after pulling an all nighter just makes me fucking wheeze laughing WHY IS THIS SO FUNNY
"that looks like someone who has an epic tale to tell"
14:08 Damn, Ashes of Ariandel is looking good!
You've got to like the developers to put such a blatant "F*** You" to the publisher using an entire town to get their message across. If it's true and the game was rushed out the door so quickly, you can't really blame them for the state the game is in. If they'd had proper development time, they'd probably have fixed a lot of the issues. The publisher probably just asked "Can you get from the start to the end of the game?" "Well, technically yes. But..." "Okay, good enough. Let's ship it!" "But nothing's actually finished!" "Did I stutter? I said ship it!"
Anyways, here's what I would probably try doing to fix this game, other than obvious things like making the key in the pool visible.
1: Port everything into Ocarina of Time's engine. The level design seems compatible, without needing to make any changes, and it would fix the controls, combat, and targeting. To be honest, when you see how the action prompt works, I think that probably was what the developers were going for. Actually, this would fix a ton more problems as well. Saving would be more convenient and fix the Labyrinth problem. Archery would be more precise. The only tweak you would need would be to place a platform in the middle of that controller-bugged jump, but that would even fix that area's issue as well.
2: Acknowledge the drowning cyclops, even if just for a laugh. Cyclops gets washed down-stream. We need to follow the river to try and rescue him from drowning. Path is blocked and we're led to next town. Either save the cyclops at some point, just to get the player near the next destination, or parody the whole damned thing and by the time you've done all the fetch quests required to open the path, the cyclops has drowned already. The entire quest is rendered moot, but you are near your next destination.
3: Slightly tweak the titan battle. Assuming that we're now using Ocarina of Time's engine and controls, change the fight to where the flaming boulder thrown at you stays on the ground when it hits. You now are able to use it for cover against the flamethrower attacks long enough to line up a shot to hit a target. After two or three flamethrower attacks or after successfully hitting a target, the boulder breaks and you repeat the process. Adds a bit of structure to the fight, and adds in slight moments for the player to catch their breath.
Considering the state for Ocarina of Time hacking, I think this could actually be done fairly easily.
I’ve had a bit of a fascination with (at least imagining) trying to hack/mod some kind of decent game using a terrible one as a foundation (my go to for challenging people with that is Bubsy 3D). Hadn’t considered the opposite concept you just suggested: using a good game as a foundation to remake a bad one.
I 100% approve of this
2:26
"Surprise! He's got horse pants."
The line alone is incredible but the delivery is even better.
It's crazy how bad ass I thought the rumble pack was when it first came out with star fox.
Can I just say that despite the game being a horribly rushed, terribly playing piece of software, the N64 visuals are very satisfying to look at. Thanks for playing through this mess so we can focus on the nostalgic visuals!
15:51
Say, that looks like the food court at the Post Exchange mall at Fort Eustise in Virginia. I can tell because I went up there to visit my brother when he was graduating from training and they had the exact same food places as in that picture. Good times. Strange to see it randomly in your video.
"Hercules went to hollywood to act on the show Hercules: The Legendary Journeys disguised as actor Kevin Sorbo playing Hercules"
...THIS IS THE GREATEST SHOW *EVER MADE*
Hercules n64: Basically just Zelda
Nathaniel Foga just really bad Zelda lol
@@yoranger8349 Calling this game "really bad Zelda" is an insult to the CDi games.
rayelgatubelo at least we got memes from the cdi games
Ryan Frerich and the sound clips would be used for UA-cam poops, so they sort of won
It wishes
Legendary episode guys. Really needed this.
I gotta say the level of patience you guys have is freaking godlike lol.
I remember watching this back in the 90's.
You guys crack me up.
2:27, 3:23, 3:56, 4:35, 5:14, 5:56, 7:00-7:10, 8:04 & 11:37- LOL
The graphics in this game are so blurry, I thought I needed to clean my glasses at first.
Even the "little memory left" bit of dialogue sounds ominous.
this seems like prime speed running material
Hercules, Xena, Beastmaster...oh boy. This used to be all we had to watch on Sundays, people. It was how schools assured we actually did our homework that weekend.
If you think old Hercules is bad...I hope you do a video on Titus/shocking EA's version of Xena Warrior Princess soon. LOL love the disco music!
I'm gonna be doing the hercules disco dance all day!