Daikatana - The Great Green Dragon

[Music] imagine it's 1997 and a few years back you were responsible for making the best levels and one of the most important video games ever created imagine that those levels included for free as shareware were installed on more computers than Windows imagine that Bill Gates at the time the richest man in the world stood in front of a green screen for claiming that the next version of the product that made him so incomprehensibly wealthy would run your product and he's doing this in order to hype people for his already ubiquitous operating system he's standing in front of a green screen that's projecting a virtual room that you designed in order to do this these games are getting really realistic next year I might even play in the big doom tournament this little thought experiment is to put you in the head space of one John Romero and to help contextualize what's to come what you got trying to do when you get a job like mine here is you got to get inside the mind of the people who've made this you have to be able to assume their perspective and I can do that it's an uncomfortable gift but I can do it on top of all that some people might develop a bit of an ego I mean if you'd made doom when you were 26 you would have let it get to you if Gandhi it made doom that [ __ ] would have been cruising around in Ferraris and thinking he was a king in the world tow I'm trying to explain this kids not excuse it because this success wrought one of the most infamous failures to ever grace the videogame industry the legendary daikatana during the development of quake which took far longer than anyone at it'd had imagined Romero had some ideas about what the game would be high fantasy with medieval trappings but the development was hell time to crack open this dusty old tome again the forever important masters of doom the Wolfenstein engine had taken only a couple of months doom had taken six already quakes engine was passing a half year of development with no end in sight forget about the promised release date of Christmas 1995 from now on if people wanted to know the completion date of an idiom the reply was when it's done I know what you're saying why are you talking about quake again civvy because every story needs a beginning anti katanas beginning is here Romero had been somewhat absent for the development of doom to contributing only a few levels here and there when he was asked for a design document something practically unthinkable to it up until that point he gave him a two-page sketch for this giant ambitious project called quake last time somebody wrote a design document it was the doom Bible and that was from Tom Hall and Tom Hall was long gone it was 1995 and he was busy threatened in San Francisco with missiles and hiding secret exits with obtusely placed touch plates inside it people were getting frustrated especially with John Romero his ideas about the sprawling time-jumping complex new game were eventually tossed because quake was taking forever the view around the office was that John Romero wasn't really doing much work but instead death matching death frightening Scion capable of seeing through the illusionary world before our eyes John Carmack was starting to crack and all the complaints about Romero's lack of work led to Carmack and I swear to god I'm not making this up writing a program that would log how much time Romero was working on his computer at the office the results were not good and we're still almost a year out from Romero officially get in the boot so John Romero during this time is reconnecting with Tom Hall and he says that thing that happened to you happened to me and it was then that the idea started to form they were gonna make their own company with blackjack and hookers while people in need were discussing [ __ ] canning Romero he was making plays with other people for a publishing deal for a company that didn't exist yet that company would become ion storm it's so Romero and Tom Hall would go around shopping for a publisher I DOS ended up giving ion storm the cash Tom Hall went on to start his game anachronox and Romero started his daikatana seeing this happen its software was like seeing the Beatles break up Romero may have been shirking his duties but something was clearly lost after quake a power dynamic shifted it was about the technology now in the time the Thai Gaetano was being developed between 1997 and 2000 things went a little off the rails in an interview with wired news Romero said after I left the mood at it turns dark and gloomy no more plans to expand the company no one to confront Carmack on important issues I want to create more types of games with no limits on creativity and I want as many resources ie well as I need to get the job done that is why I left Carmack would eventually disagree with this assessment and while I on Stormin romero took shots in eid portraying them as the square or out of touch old man who just didn't understand videogames anymore leading to wars of words a public perception that john romero was solely responsible for its success rather than an ingredient of it soon its software and ion storm employees were getting in on it some saw the rock star attitude that I understand Romero had taken up to be well a little excessive I don't know man John Romero was famous for trash-talking in death matches like he invented it or something eventually this led to one of the most infamous pieces of gaming advertising in history Romero didn't actually make this ad but on the suggestion of Mike Wilson a biz guy in an ion storm co-founder the ad was gonna play Romero expressed some hesitation when finally seeing it and I'm quoting Mike's advice here don't be a [ __ ] and so the death match trash talk turned advertising strategy was released out to an unsuspecting public John Romero is about to make you his [ __ ] suck it down but then Romero saw at the quay two injured two two and decided they should switch over to that so the estimated 1997 and release attack Gaetano went up in smoke i toast was assured that it would only take a few more months to get daikatana over to the new engine come hell or high water daikatana will be done February 15 1999 when daikatana finally hit over a year later it was savaged critically and rightfully so for the most part it was a disaster the game that actually kept ion storm afloat was deus ex and the Deus Ex team was the only one to survive AI doses wrath for a while a sad story to be sure and now now you all have context for what you're about to see and John Romero seems like a pretty cool guy nowadays from what I can gather this is daikatana more precisely this is daikatana the way anyone should be playing it in 2020 two decades after it's released with a fan patch and if you think I'm whip it out in that this game is totally fine and fixed and it won't be a frustrating journey into the abyss I could play daikatana the easy way there's an option in the patch to turn off AI companions but I'm not doing that daikatana shipped with a save system that was limited to how many gems you picked up that's how I'm playing it even on my super powered rig this game is ok can we do something about this you're the one who put the hair in civvy where did you get John Romero's hair oh I stalked him for a few years during college our hero named hero I can feel the [ __ ] bile rising in my throat just saying that a sword fighting instructor pardon the interruption Miyamoto son there is a visitor waiting roadside refuses to identify himself will only speak to the proprietor of the school also Tanaka ssam left a message earlier complaining about the injuries to this son a good way to introduce our hero hero child abuser the visit child would not give his name did Mishima son send you tell him I'll have his money bye oh yeah I assure you that I am NOT here on me she must be half oh no no come on please my name is Bashir Oh Bibiana if you're asking for some donation perhaps if you would allow me to spring Miyamoto son you need only spend a few moments go on it's john galt voice of lawang and he's doing the same voice he's doing the same voice he's doing love Hwang I'm not here they might be watching let's take a stroll I promise you it'll be worth your time he's here to dump the entire back story of this game over six [ __ ] minutes Mishima bad guy got big sword went back in time to pull up if Tannen to make himself rich and powerful and it's up to you the descendent of the people who opposed him to make things right some ninja show up and kill him I hope you were paying attention uh there is nothing you can do for me here up but find my daughter and the doctor Donna I can't just say nothing why I'm sitting here Denise Tim what you hide in his coffin which is taken to meet you miss fortress ah bump ahead odds or even up but it's the same voice and now you finally get to start playing daikatana oh my god oh my god would you believe me if I told you that episode one at daikatana is the absolute worst part by a mile listen to it listen I can't put into words how bad this sounds everything is you like those giant robot mosquitoes because they're everywhere and the robotic crocodiles and the frogs the game is kind enough to tell you that you've been poisoned because everything is green and all the monster so you have to fight right now we're tying the ankle biting bastards and all you've got is the ion blaster you know like ion storm and you can't use it in water or else you damage yourself yeah that's absolutely a Romero idea you can see why most people might be turned off from this game at first right so your poison your eyes and your ears hurt nothing makes sense and you've gotten an earful of Wang for six minutes you're breaking into Mishima fortress to save a bee Haris daughter Mikiko but first you're going along through the green inferno shooting mosquitoes and frogs occasionally guns hurts before you get to your first big boss battle with a giant robotic mosquito not only that there's a very very long secret area later where you get to fight it again along with roughly 10,000 little ones and for what another safe gem you get the C for D it's a theta and maybe you're thinking cool a grenade launcher that works weird on intuitively and has a splash damage of a low-yield nuclear device but you absolutely need it for the next section its sewer time oh and this one burns kids I don't have the firepower to blast through that gate I wonder if I can lose it's okay a ghost opens the door for you a ghost opens the door for you whoa what was that all about the game introduces these [ __ ] rocket launching mechs no wait a minute go back what was that okay fine and maybe by now you've leveled up that's right we have to talk about the RPG system you can level up to increase your attack power attack speed running speed jump height and player health all of this works at least in this patch version but you've by the end of this you will all be witness to a great becoming danke tada lets you move fast already so let's upgrade our speed first one thing I can't fault daikatana on and why I suspect it still has a deathmatch community is the player movement which is really really good controls very nicely very smooth actually really really good player movement the wait I katana controls is the very best thing about the game can't recommend it enough too bad we're in the sewer and I'm not entirely sure this area was designed around you being super fast and agile I keep trying to jump past this waterfall and I fall into it and then falling into the water doesn't negate fall damage like it does in other games uh why I don't know what they were thinking with this section of the game everything is a nightmare you've got NPCs milling around doing nothing but screaming you've got a million of these mechs and of course you have to find incredibly valuable secret areas like this one where you get a shotgun finally I [ __ ] hate it you look at it and you think hey cool a double-barrel shotgun belt-fed that's great what you have to learn about the weapons and daikatana is this there's almost always some weird quirk to them you might mistake this for purposeful design and maybe at one point it was so every time you fire the shot cycler it eats six of your shells and very few of the enemies can take that much ammo so you're always wasting it but you want to know what it is good for jumping what the [ __ ] well I just wanted a shotgun you thought what if there was a rocket jump without the splash dam but you were Deathmatch it all day long and then you made this didn't you didn't you you son of a [ __ ] the gas fist I don't even want to dignify with a response and it doesn't even matter I don't care how much damage it does it's [ __ ] ridiculous [Applause] and those enemies and hazards will [ __ ] you up you aren't ready so you got maybe to save jams on you I was always trying to be conservative with them so I got to replay whole sections again and again because the game likes to be an [ __ ] and do things like I don't know put you in an elevator and then trap you in there while enemies [ __ ] you over in my favorite part about the save system about 1/3 of my saves up to this point crash the game this is patched there are talented hard-working people struggling 20 years after the fact to patch this although from what I can gather this might be because I'm using the 64-bit version of the patch instead of the 32-bit one it still crashes a lot less than the official version these security guards are the worst hit scanners deadly accurate they're worse than the giant mechs that shoot rockets at you luckily the game gives you a weapon that doesn't suck the Sidewinder a rocket launcher that shoots two missiles at a time and is actually good anyway you make your way into the prison section and find your first AI companion I mean really that name come on Superfly Johnson Superfly Johnson I'm not sure if that's charmingly tone-deaf or an awesome porn star name you find him in our man you toasted those dudes but good thanks don't mention it what the hell is that anyway just another one I miss you must toys some sort of heavy-duty torture device pretty nasty yeah yeah I mean you sound like you're in agony over it so you want to come along kill some guys get stuck on stairs while I'm trying to exit a level I can't be about my buddy Superfly now how about lending me a hand and opening myself sure I could do that but you aren't in your cell so I'm not sure how that would help I'm looking for someone she's only been locked up in here for a couple of weeks an Asian girl yes that's right okay so you've seen an asian girl in kyoto do you have any idea where they took her sure do high security defense wing I'll show you if you want get some business of my own to take care of there what kind of business the killing can got a score to settle with the boss man any ideas on how to get you out of that cell access card behind the Mishima logo you passed it on the way in what why once you have a companion you need to get some weapons and ammo where else they just go around punching things and in unpatch versions you also need to get them health and with how stupid they are no no no [ __ ] that [ __ ] that you know what's cool enemy corpses are solid so if you think you're just gonna shoot over one of them watch your back oh no hero got blown down listen to this loading screen this is how it was originally except now in 1.3 it's faster [Music] Superfly tells you about how it used to be cheap security but he spoke out against all this torture and imprisonment stuff so they tortured and imprisoned him I don't know what he expected I assume he was bad at his job because he's terrible at being a companion you could just asked me to move along the way I upgrade my vitality and every time you do that it gives you another 50 points of health there are health pickups but you can also refill your health and portable hospital things and they take forever because how these levels are designed get ready to open doors and round corners into gunfire my god it's just like blood except it sucks and my shotgun is terrible and the atmosphere is like hovering quick - and Nickelodeon gak and the c4 launcher is less intuitive than Chuck and bundles a dynamite you know what this is nothing like blood this is like blood - yes here's another weapon the shockwave the first time you use it you're gonna kill yourself with it best you just shoot it into a room back away because it's just you can't even just look at it why and before anyone points it out yes it is still like that when you're not powered up what kind of sick freak what kind of sick freak he's talking about something else like mishima stealing corpses for stuff I guess I'm so done trying to understand what's happening eventually you find a teleporter cuz Mikiko isn't actually here she's in the ice lab the instant death pit lab there's these guys with ineffectual weapons that can't hit you at medium range but they still try which is fun watch your back Hey that is your girl but we still have a ways to go before we can get her I'm here Oh Miyamoto I came at your father's request I'm here to rescue you my father where is he i I'm afraid he's dead what about daikatana look I risked my neck saving you let's just concentrate on getting you out of here the sword can wait no II got the sword in question is worth more than four million credits well then looks like we're going after the sword after all as long as I get my cut of course don't worry you'll get what's coming to you now we're gonna go to the vault we've got our companions everything is gonna work out just fine I mean there is this weird bug where my weapons disappear sometimes after opening the menu I still have them they're just invisible super fly and Mikiko take commands from you and the system for doing that isn't too bad I guess you have to cycle between them and that's irritating but otherwise you can tell them to grab stuff to follow to stay back off or attack I figure one of them might want that rocket launcher that's you know the best weapon in the game so far how about it super fly don't want it really because that shotgun is garbage Mikiko I don't want it really okay if you are playing the unpatched version where these guys can die I suggest telling them to sit at the start of the level and doing everything yourself otherwise you just [ __ ] these NPCs standing in front of switches that I need to press I don't feel good about killing innocent people just to get them out of the way fortunately these two people who I just met have no problem with it that's right kill him do it [Music] do it do it time for a beating on my way hey cover doing [Music] let me get this one [Music] you gotta be kidding Gilly [Music] [Music] finally time to get this sort that the game is named after only two and a half hours in subtracting all the time I wasted from dying it feels longer because it's just been pain the whole way so far now that we're in the vaults where the sword is we can avoid the electric floor Mikiko will not avoid the electric floor by herself Superfly didn't come in with us because he's a goddamn [ __ ] I gotta kill these three brains in jars once I do that I got to deal with these twin giant frogs or whatever that do this to you you get blindsided by him the first time and you die let me just lock you can choose them pretty easily and then finally you wield what Oh No Mishima it's Mishima and he's got another die katana that's not possible oh but it is my dear just one of those conundrums that crop up when dealing with time travel and alternate timelines you see I was visiting the year 2030 when I sensed a disturbance in the time continuum I realize now that what I felt was the taint of your touch on the daikatana sending ripples through the time stream why would my taint send ripples back in time all our words butcher your reign of terror is coming to an end can I just interject that you only have the word of lo Wang that the world you currently live in is an alternate future that wasn't supposed to happen you know that guy you knew for six minutes I'm company closer if I were you these two sorts are actually one and the same if they were ever to cross or touch in any way the world as we know it would cease to exist and we would all be destroyed do you dare risk that okay man what was the deal with the giant brains those were like the biggest brains where did you get those he banished you to a different time period I want to speed this up the stop and riff [ __ ] is exhausting and I silly it's only the first episode my god God he did it he really did it he actually sent us back in time super fly Mikiko here's the thing kids after the first episode and with the 1.3 patch that makes your companions invincible daikatana isn't nearly as bad I mean it's bad it's terrible but it's bad like the room I would suggest playing it now because everything after the first episode is way less frustrating and funnier and here's the crazy thing it plays better you see how open this area is and how I'm bunny hopping easily gliding around at full speed that's what the game was about but until now you were stuck in shitty dark hallways and you couldn't actually do that like everything is better now and not just because you lost the sidekicks the docket on Oh sucks at first but the more you use it it slowly levels up however it only levels itself up you don't get the XP for kills with it so throughout the game I was like okay I'll use the die katana but then when I leveled it up I went to use the other weapons because I wanted to level my character up that's about how it went for a while because daikatana is a big epic game each time period your visit has new weapons and enemies you get the discus of Daedalus a boomerang like spinning blade that you can collect several of throw and use for melee it works good I I like it I like it I feel like the game might have had some better review scores if you left out the first three hours of it you know the parts of the game that the reviewers probably played an hour off in Greece you'll find skeletons more skeletons spiders giant spiders Griffins werewolves Dracula's fish they all do so much less damage than any of the enemies in Episode one like a fraction of the damage of a rocket Mac or a hit scanner they might have something to do with all the armor pick up since armor soaks up damage like a sponge and there frequent pickups that give you 400 armor points on top of my 200 HP the game's difficulty when you're not having to deal with sidekicks goes right down the crapper it was not meant to be in beginners FPS but rather an expert FPS that required more than just the player hopping around in thinking only of themselves like most other FPS --is this new play mechanic through many people off the game because it was too difficult yet difficult because the AI doesn't know how stairs work [Music] um hello there I'm I'm looking for some friends of mine perhaps you've seen them you probably can't even understand me can you drag ma drunk my hey I'm here oh who the [ __ ] is drachma do they know how to use stairs jerem direct ma Oh direct oh I get it truck was your local currency you want money to take me across drag drop right I'll be back glad to see you're still here Karen oh damn did he just call him a Karen that is cold as ice here Oh drachma you'll have to bear with me I'm a little lost so I'm not exactly sure where I should get off catacombs oh man that's cool you speak English now I'm tossing discs at people I'm leveling up my sword it glows now swings faster time to stop using it so I can level my character let's get another impractical and weird weapon the snake staff were you tired of only being able to get poisoned by exposing yourself to robot frogs there must be a better way there is this [ __ ] right here it melees close enemies but it spits venom at faraway enemies but the venom bounces would that not happen this game is actually gotten so easy that I realize I can only carry three save gems at a time I always kept a single backup in episode 1 but without Mikiko or Superfly I'm not having a bad time [Music] ma'am that was stupid you know is that you any side superfly I haven't seen him he could be anywhere I say we forget about him and move on no way I can't leave without my buddy Superfly I can't believe you're being so cavalier about a guy who risked his own skin to rescue you from Qaeda's clutches don't get self-righteous on me I'm just being practical chances are this Johnson fella will end up stabbing us in the back somewhere down the pike I think you're under estimating him for all we know Superfly may very well turn out to be the one to tip the scales in our favor next time we face Mishima I wonder where we are only one way to find out oh yeah thanks Kiko what the [ __ ] I didn't tell you to pick that snake staff up I don't want you to have that where did you get that look II don't know there's some living statue in this level it can only be killed with this new weapon the hammer of Hades which get this is a barely useful weapon with a weird quirk I upgraded my jump got to do that oh it's that sound from that old TV show you know the one anyway that place every time I jump now okay I found out where I need to go which means I get to play my favorite game where's Mikiko [Music] [Music] goddammit Mikiko we're at a point where in a game that up until now has been completely linear you need to go around hub and find five keys to open a door that I didn't even find the first time a playthrough until I had all of them and this time I missed one and I had to go back and search for a while this is basically a hex and to hub got another weapon to add to the it's almost cool but it hurts you for no reason collection this trident it has Splash Damage because of course it does and it's ammo comes in statues the whole thing you take the whole statue I also upgrade the taiko Town at a level three and it's even glowy er [Music] [Applause] that's the first part of the aegis key which you might think opens this door here but now the store is opened by this touch plate in another room which is actually unrelated and I only knew because I played this before and wandered around looking for a long long time what I'm saying is that maybe this part isn't intuitively designed [ __ ] row but look at how fast I am this is speed level three out of five I can't leave without Mikiko [Music] I can't leave without my Chico I can't leave without my Chico once you find the ageist Keys you have to fight Cerberus which is you know there are two kinds of bad games one kind is the capstone kind where the designers had no idea what they were doing and so it's a mess and the other is the kind where you had good designers who knew what they were doing but didn't have the time or resources to finish what they'd started because it was too ambitious or whatever which is equally disastrous daikatana falls squarely into the ladder and Cerberus I want to make jokes about this but I would have to be able to comprehend the thought behind it I had to find five keys to open this room so that a gate would lower as soon as I went in to trap me in the arena where I have to fight Cerberus but where is Cerberus I know he's a boss right let's put him down at the end of a long cave and have him not easily kill you [Music] [Applause] I think it's supposed to be Athena amazing her life like she looks almost as if she'd been frozen in place Oh God I think I know it that shield was warning us about this must be one of the layers of Medusa and there's only one way supposedly allegedly but unproven and I know for a fact that the nan patch version you don't have to do this but the only way to kill Medusa is with the eye of Zeus hey can you just pitch that up for me a little bit behold the weapon is actually pretty good though [Applause] I say we go down the Horde yeah well you're stupid and I hate you but I think we have to go down the hole I want to use the ayahs Zeus more but I want to level up the daikatana so it's so bright it's hurting my eyes it takes up half the [ __ ] screen my god alright enough screwing around we I just sat Medusa a few times because she gets stuck under here and that frees super fly [ __ ] amazing this one must be absorbing whatever residual mystical energies remained in Medusa's body after her death super fly it's good to see you we feared the worst yes feared all the other statues come back - and you have to fight them I'm sure this is less boring when your companions keep getting killed I'm hoping the daikatana was charged enough by the energy it absorbed from a do so to open up a time portal didn't I pick up a weapon that was like of Zeus who talked to me oh [ __ ] it let's just Mishima misguided fools did you really think it would be that easy to escape my notice [Music] nice try hero but your control of the dichotomous mystical properties is limited at best and no mere novice is going to take down a master hey four [ __ ] will probably burn out my retinas at level five did you guys know that the definitive version of daikatana is the one on the gameboy color yeah so I thought it would be cool to give a quick look to the console ports to daikatana because they exist and this one here on the GBC is actually the best version of the game it's kind of Zelda like a request made by Romero himself still keeping the RPG action flavor of it and probably given the best rendition of the game story well it's not really my kind of game it seems fine pretty good even I can't say the same for the port that ended up on the Nintendo 64 imagine the PC version to tie katana with worse graphics worse controls and shave down to about a quarter of the size STI katana on the n64 as soon as you start the game you might have some trouble progressing because you get to this door that you have to crouch under how do you crouch you press a button combination you have to press a and hold the right trigger because the n64 controller just didn't have enough [ __ ] buttons on it to get the job done I mean I'm playing with a dual shock for because as has been discussed before on this channel the n64 controller is a piece of [ __ ] one of those pitiful things that are born in hospitals from time to time they feed it and keep it warm but they don't put it on the machines and it dies yes the Nintendo 64 controller really is a Thomas Harris reference no companions in this version but I only play it up until reach and super fly anyway which took about 20 minutes instead of the hour it takes on the PC version the weapons are kind of the same everything is just slower and blurrier like trying to play the PC version underwater the way you level up is also faster and you don't get to choose how and when you do it it just happens it says your skill is increased now go kick butt this is pretty terrible if you want to full breakdown you should wait for the eventual AVGN episode about it because it's a pile of putrid anus puke that's puke that comes out of the anus and is putrid Mishima sends you off to medieval Norway the most metal location of all it's a plague ravaged village with zombies I guess yes aam be sore whatever they are daikatana fodder mostly and I think to get to level 5 you have to kill twice as many monsters with the die katana and all that time I'm gonna be neglecting my other stats look at this can you honestly say that I'm fast enough new weapons and new enemies again you get a decent bolt or crossbow and you need to kill rats and zombies to teleport and zombies you need to Jim those things give me the creeps that's not all they'll give you if you're not careful ever here the bubonic plague stuffs highly contagious whole damn village seems to be infested so watch yourselves point taken I'm 90% sure that those weren't playing zombies who's that please don't hurt me my name is Massoud II like you I was seeking refuge from the pure Boyd's are you strangers to this region yes we come from a faraway land never have I seen such a weapon as this I can still sense the swords latent power I use some sort of mystic warriors Oh us no we're not mystic I don't think Superfly you surround people up for torture and execution makiko's gonna stab me in the back in a few hours and I hit children with sticks but that's not really oh my god [Music] so you're ready for this you have to find and assemble a sword a really big and powerful sword not like the big and powerful sword you already have you stupid [ __ ] a different one this guy mudslide my name is Massoud II so this guy mudslide says he'll help you overthrow an evil tyrant and save the world if you help him overthrow an evil tyrant and save the world and I'm wondering if no one was here in the Middle Ages to stop this plague which seems pretty serious wouldn't have spread out of Norway which of course the Black Plague obviously did but this has like magic and stuff so it's more serious if Mishima hadn't thrown three of us back in time then no one would have done anything and it would have ended the world rights or is this one of those problems that stays in a single village what the [ __ ] is this plot I'm skipping over a bunch of this it's like five straight minutes of exposition which is obviously what this story needed there's a dope fish secret over here apparently there's one in each episode but this is the one that I found so you're going around picking up little shapes that open a door and really this episode isn't bad it might be the best one in the game in terms of design and playability you know if you don't have to worry about escorting your companions through it if you're doing that forget about it they'll die all the time now before I leave the village and get over here to put those keys in we got to play my next favorite game we're super fly I'll be there in a sec there he is there Superfly I can't be without the [ __ ] you're gonna find this weapon the silver claw in town and well it might look like a useless melee weapon you will need it to perma kill certain monsters who will keep getting up because doc Tama it's just isn't powerful enough for that you know maybe once it's at level five there's another weapon that will chip a lot of these monsters which might be the best weapon in the entire game besides the daikatana but it doesn't hurt your eyes to use it so it wins out the ballista now you've got a deal whatever these things are called smaller than the mechanical frogs harder to hit showing up in packs attacking faster more often but the poison seems to last a shorter time than it did before I don't know they suck you will end up just getting poisoned over and over and over again likely from something you can't see yet or you won't notice but don't worry it doesn't really matter Mikiko Oh No Mikiko is sick I'm not helpless nobody said you were yeah I think I said useless not helpless so you remember how companions are useless and you have to lead them around by their nose most of the time well now super flies carry and Mikiko and he doesn't seem to attack anything because he's carrying her in this dungeon full lava and pitfalls and such so even with the patch just tell him to sit here and do nothing and come back for him later I should mention that the game seems to be balanced around having your companion suck up the health and armor pickups and past episode 1 the game gets really really easy when they're not doing that even when you're alone the damage that enemies do was trivial for the most part remember how I said that like a third of my save games were getting corrupted I assume that's still true but I haven't actually died much since episode 1 Medusa got me a couple of times until she got stuck but if you leave the Companions behind at the beginning of the level and power through it like that you're still getting those pickups what I'm saying is don't play with the Companions they're even locked out of certain sections not like it matters they can't do anything here so this episode has several bosses and they're all just three Wizards each gives you a special weapon the first wizard named I don't know fire man is here he is the hardest to deal with maybe it's tough to judge the consistency of anything in this game so let's just he's a circle strafing target for the most part he gives you a staff that shoots giant lava rocks I'm sure there's a more tactical term for them cool cool it's useful enough even if it behaves weirdly because this is doc Etana time to escape this dungeon finally you better go on ahead I can't do that when I'm carrying Mikiko looks like we're going into more castles cool Castle level though oh [ __ ] is that a dragon that's enough we need to get serious we got a kill lightning wizard see super fly is still dumb and he'll run into a roomful of lightning while defenseless carrying Mikiko on its back you got to destroy this little lightning tower first I got a spell book which might have had something to do with it but I can't be 100% sure with this game chase him out of this room until he gets stuck on the stairs if you're lucky he will at some point stop being stuck on the stairs and he'll run back into the room he started in and open a secret bookcase to run outside at which point he'll get stuck on a door [Music] here let me get that for you now we get a lightning staff sure why not we'll have to cut across this cemetery it's probably the shortest route to Garrett's castle yo ho slice you sure you want to do that I may not be wise to mess with the undead I mean he'll the way our Luck's been going it wouldn't surprise me in the least if this place was freaking haunted what's the matter you're not superstitious aren't you I need to stop and marvel at the sentence that was just honored in this game the game where you fought skeletons horrible creatures zombies powerful beings from Greek myths one of which turns super fly to stone 2 hours ago and by the way the literal undead you know superstitious ha yeah you've seen it ghost twice I think this next Wizard it's gonna be a lot worse than those other two [Applause] [Applause] now we get nars nightmare let's see what this does just keep going lower now how are we ever going to get up [Applause] okay there's something about these items we picked up from NAR it's hard to describe this um a stench of evil about them makes me uncomfortable almost feel leery about using them cool thanks for the heads up didn't this game used to be about a sword and not this sword so I'm going along killing all the king's men slaying another dragon who can't seem to do anything to stop me it almost hit me once the king has gone mad and he has all the powers of the previous Wizards which thankfully also includes getting stuck on stairs the Kings down but by no means out for the count and he's still a basket case I knew sill day I was wondering when you'd show up hey mudslides back thanks for doing nothing this whole time while I killed everyone in the kingdom are the sword you've been collecting pieces I've cures the king of his madness mudslide helps make cure Mikiko is save time to say the words and get out of here did you say the words right this time [ __ ] here we go with this again my patience with you is wearing thin surrender and I promise to make your death swift and painless for that you're nothing but a petty tyrant and a coward like your ancestors before you and we're gonna take you down this isn't edited this is what this looks like give it up car gate you're no match against those who served that path of Honor and justice it's over I hate to break it to you hero but your confidence in your companions loyalty to your cause is misplaced what are you talking about haven't you figured it out yet I'd have thought that you saw geese goose would have warned you about placing your faith in allies who are not worthy of your trust he hasn't actually said anything to me he just opens doors and stuff as he talked to you and we're in San Francisco in the year 2030 on Alcatraz this is where mishima came first to start his evil world domination plan so we can just make our way to his corporate headquarters and deal with them they don't know that yet so Superfly interrogate a prisoner I'd be more than happy to help you focus a legit I got a counteroffer tell us what we want to know and maybe you'll come out of this with your limbs still attached to the rest of your body out there with a big sword I'd cooperate with my friend here if I were you it's not wise to cross him especially when he's got a serious Matt on going I'm sorry what a serious man on a rage boner I can see that no time to escape from Alcatraz where you're given weirdly practical weapons like this pistol and this shotgun all these prisoners are basically unarmed so I'm going to use their blood to fuel my steel we're getting close to fully leveling the daikatana so close maybe 40 or 50 more prisoners and rats can't forget rats they're not plague rats this time around but stealth Oh shiny a benign armor I wonder what okay who started the dryer Mikiko super fly I know what's one of you everybody else is dead okay the coast of the island we're almost out we're back to dealing with hit scanners and rocket launchers so the enemies are now more dangerous than they've been since episode one I have a gun you might actually mistake for an energy weapon but it is in fact a freeze thrower let's go for a swim in sharks really did we really need sharks in this game sharks that take a surprising amount of damage and come in swarms [ __ ] you doc it's Hana and of course the freeze thrower projectiles bounced around and hurt you because it wouldn't be the free throw from duke3d if it didn't here we go a hundred percent daikatana we're at max blindness oK we've leveled up we're doing it we're maxing out player speed we're the asses ninja swordsmen in the world now we're Pete Romero where [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Laughter] the cracker [Music] let's just get out of Alcatraz let's go it's boat chase time hero being a brilliant tactician crashes the boat after Superfly tries to lead them away leaving you with only Mikiko we're still trying to get to meet you miss fortress picking up some new weapons a chain gun and it does everything a chain gun should finally it's getting a cool-looking and functional weapon that doesn't hurt you whereas most of the other weapons spawn after you make a wish with a monkey's paw I'm numb I'm [ __ ] done I just want to finish this episode for after alcatraz feels a hell of a lot more like Episode one stuck in tight corridors with hit scanners at least the weapons are better but this final section isn't just to test your abilities in combat no it's a test of your abilities as a leader it's the final boss and trying to convince your companions to do what the [ __ ] they're supposed to [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] on my way on my way on my way get off the platform Akiko [Music] okay right there get off the platform Akiko on my way [Music] okay good let's go now No Mikiko you [ __ ] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] okay okay here we go send the elevator away with her on it and she'll jump off pool okay finally we're done with No No please God no not again you know what [ __ ] it I'm done I'm leaving you behind it because I walk into a cutscene at the end of this map the level lets me leave without Mikiko yes but my weapon also disappears in a pretty sure a sequence broke to get up here to the end so that's cool this is so bizarre never thought I'd be coming face to face with one of my ancestors I can't wait to see how absolutely [ __ ] shut up he is you know he is the man you know his cog a Mishima is from our future he travelled back in time in order to alter history and set himself up as some sort of supreme ruler it sounds ludicrous I know but you've got to believe us the man has been nothing but [ __ ] about to me heavens sake he stole your vaccine and robbed you of the glory of making the greatest scientific discovery of the century what are you talking about you're the original creator of the vaccine for the mutagenic Marburg pucks filovirus not to mishima what my god are you telling me that Mishima is a plagiarist my god somehow I know you were speaking the truth it's like a part of me has always known that's gonna be in you so we can go now assault his home activate ladders in different parts of the level by finding tiny little hidden buttons yes Mishima escapes in a chopper to the Navy training base super fly shows up out of nowhere so he's back awesome this is exactly what I needed my buddy super fly Mikiko cons are way past these guards Jesus Christ okay this game is getting the Lifetime Achievement Award for nice [ __ ] model okay after going through all these traps this gauntlet which seems to have a save gem between every part thanks we're almost to the end of the final confrontation with Mishima I just have to get Mikiko and super fly through this shortcut both of them down and up ladders [Music] I'll be right there I'll be there in a sec [Music] chill dude I'm coming chill dude upcoming I'll be right there [Music] okay there we go we're ready honor demands retribution for the atrocities committed by you and your ancestors so be it curse you hero why won't you healed I can't not well the blood of his sake and all the other Miyamoto sense and before him runs through my veins loose Aggies ghost shows up and gives you power and I guess you uh oh god I'm so tired I'm so I'm just gonna zap him with the super laser a few times then finish them off with the daikatana now I have to be really careful because if the two swords touch absolutely nothing happens kartha tail end of your duel did nice work you okay yeah I'm all right so what now I'm not sure depends on heal your sword it's gone whoa what just happened here I'm not really up to speed on the intricacies of time travel paradoxes but it's possible that Mishima's death nullified the alternate timelines that were created when he altered history we'll have to hurry if we want to get back to our own time before we're caught in the backlash and wiped out of existence the only daikatana we got left seems to be running on empty looks to me like we're stranded again maybe not I've got an idea oh this is rich this is beautiful the reactors core is our only viable power source that's crazy we don't even know if the daikatana can harness a jolt of such magnitude got any other suggestions yeah I have one don't do that cuz it's obviously stupid Mikiko your ancestors a scientist you could probably ask him he might know oh we're just going with this okay have fun with fatal radiation sickness hey what happened to the lights something's wrong something's definitely wrong what them where did it go where do what go that daikatana it's gone what how is that sorry hero two against one isn't quite fair Mishima was right about me you should have listened to him while you still had a chance Mikiko is evil now she wants power her ancestors weren't actually heroes but evil bloodthirsty bandits and she's gonna kill you I'm not playing that whole cutscene it's like three minutes long let's just get on with it stand down Mikiko it doesn't have to end this way the only thing ending here today hero is your life [Music] it should never have come to this I agree stop subscribing to this channel maybe it won't have to Hiro sets things right sort of becomes too hermit to guard the sword Mikiko and Superfly are alive again I don't even want to think about how many of the [ __ ] works Superfly is chief of security for makiko's father Master Wang and I guess they're not evil anymore and he's not evil but I okay you know what no more video games for a while let's just toss them out the window oh yeah okay I forgot this was a thing [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] oh what the [Music] is that it you know I put this [ __ ] at the end of the videos because everybody's already been through the ad brakes [Music] I told you Romero was cool too I knew his hair held power well episode 2 & 3 were pretty easy but what were you even think about the shots like look man was that like a idea [Music] immobilized please sent a containment team to floor 105 cell 11 oh god damn it I'm gonna need a new PC and skin grafts what's gonna happen to that classified relocation Oh down on 110 cool that's too bad he seemed like a nice guy [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music]

Channel: Civvie 11

Views: 858,981

Rating: 4.954248 out of 5

Keywords: cv11, civvie11, civvie's dungeon, civvie, daikatana, review, special, 200k, john romero, ion storm

Id: CW65wZOtPyA

Length: 65min 3sec (3903 seconds)

Published: Wed May 20 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/Daedolis]

I bought the game on a whim at Gamestop many years ago, think it was $5-10 dollars. I had heard about it, but hadn't followed it that closely. I thought what the hell, let's see how bad this sucker is. Luckily, this was after the patch that fixed most if not all the major issues.

Frankly, it was pretty decent overall. The first episode was a mixed bag. The weapons were ok, but I really don't know how the devs could think robotic mosquitoes and frogs would make for interesting enemies.

Thankfully, the later episodes were all better from then on. Travelling to different times and locales around the world was done pretty well, and you would find weaponry that was relevant to the area you were in. Plus the music was really good too.

Overall, I enjoyed playing it. It wasn't amazing, but it wasn't terrible either. I think most of the game's bad reputation resulted from a combination of the game's questionable media before release, and just how underwhelming it was at release (it was QUITE buggy).

[u/rafikiknowsdeway1]

civvie is easily my favorite "new" youtuber. though i wonder how long he can keep up content if he mostly focuses on retro shooters or games that are like retro shooters

[u/enderandrew42]

I've only heard the game is a massive train wreck but watching the video it seems like there are some salvageable and ambitious ideas there.

• Companions
• Every episode is a truly different setting
• New enemies every setting
• New weapons every setting
• RPG mechanics
• Powerful weapons that have trade-offs leading to risky usage

If you ditch the horrible visuals, get rid of exposition dumps, improve companion AI and level design, I could see a fan-made remake of one of the most infamous games in video game history that isn't terrible.

One-upping Romero would be quite the entry on your resume if you were trying to break into the industry.

Honestly, I'm a little surprised no one has tried it.

[u/NightmareP69]

When is Romero gonna talk about that classic FPS project he said he was working on like 4 years ago or something ? Or did that turn out to be just that mobster Empire of Sin game that his wife is directing right now?