Earthworm Jim Trilogy - Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN)

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and it was also the 16-bit era games of the period were flexing their new technology showing off more complex character design and animation interplay gave us Boogerman which fully embraced the gross out trend the peak of the turd Mountain overlooking the barf Marsh and somewhere where the butt winds blow South to the vomit valleys and doo-doo Dunes between the boiling ass canyons and solid wastelands their lies Earthworm Jim somebody put pen to paper and said how about a worm in a spacesuit and from that point on the world was never the same the character appeared in many sequels including clay Fighters 63 and a third which also featured Boogerman Earthworm Jim had his own animated series voiced by Dan castellanetta best known as Homer Simpson I remember when the first earthworm gym game came out it was like nothing I had ever seen and even though it was on both Genesis and Super Nintendo and was nearly identical I've always thought of it as a Genesis game that's the one that came out first the one I played as a kid and that's the one I'll be playing now I have fond memories this game let's see if it's inventive game mechanics fun visuals and sense of humor still holds up some may say it's all about boogers but it's not level one starts and right away the first thing you do in the whole game is you drop a fridge to launch a cow it says cow launched as if you just completed some major objective cow launched what purpose does that have where is the cow now it has no effect on the rest of the game you just launch a cow for no reason brilliant on top of the zany humor the character animation is so Lively it's like playing a cartoon since Jim is a worm he uses his head like a rope or a whip he can use it to attack enemies he can twirl it like a helicopter or he can hang on to stuff or swing across there's no shortage of things the character can do and the control is fluid and smooth the way he interacts with the scenery feels natural when he jumps on the pile of tires there's a certain rebound that feels just right the music is awesome in this case I prefer the Genesis because it has that gritty Bassy sound to it and the sound effects are hilarious All the Little Voices when Jim gets hurt or the way the birds scream when you gun them down and then you get to the boss and the guy's making armpit farts while berking up fish amazing I love when you complete the level he says groovy groovy you gotta love characters that say groovy groovy groovy baby groovy level two what the heck is clearly what the hell as in literally hell and this has got to be one of the best all-time hell levels I mean just look at it I'm getting major Disney Fantasia Vibes or Don bluth's All Dogs Go to Heaven it's so awesome consolidating everything I want to say for the music they use the classic Ride of the Valkyries but then there's a record Skip and it goes to something super peaceful [Music] but every now and then you hear somebody screaming what's going on the enemies are Priceless there's these chopping monster things and then there's lawyers I guess they're making a joke about lawyers in hell and then there's things you would never think of like a Snowman in hell and what are these things farting [ __ ] they're farting [ __ ] I like the evil cat who's in the background the whole time that actually turns out to be the stage boss evil the cat yeah just a cute little white cat like Yeti who keeps blasting Fireballs out of Cannon it's little details like The Recoil animation and how the cat stops the lick itself it's great not to mention Jim is out of the spacesuit which is funny just to remind you that he really is a worm level three is some underwater base there's these little orange guys that are real unassuming but if you go near them they'll slam you around man that's so cool you gotta hop on a giant hamster to eat them up and next thing you're in a Little Submarine so this game is always giving you something new it has a ton of variety and I can't say enough good things about it [Music] laughs oh [ __ ] okay this part might be a problem controlling the submarine is not self-explanatory or intuitive you have to turn the jet propulsions around so that they're pushing you in the right direction it also gains momentum you don't want to build up too much speed if you hit something it ricochets you back and you lose control if the glass cracks too much you're done for so you want to take it slow but you can't take it slow there's a time limit you got to get to the next checkpoint before you run out of air take it easy nice and easy no need to rush whoa that was close [ __ ] [Music] [ __ ] it you know what I take back everything I said this game [ __ ] sucks I'm not even playing around it's horse [ __ ] [Music] [Music] [Music] you know what there's more levels I shouldn't have done that if you make it past the submarine next up is level four it's not a problem as in snot mucus boogers it's [ __ ] nasty the idea is to defeat the green guy major mucus by weakening his booger bungee cord till he falls but don't get bitten in half by the snot monster below wow it always impresses me how they keep making new death animations come on oh come on ah um what happened there next is the aptly named level five most notable things here well first Jim gets separated from his suit and you have to fight Professor monkey for a head that's his name and that's what he is the next stage is called for Pete's sake it's an escort mission where you have to keep this little puppy safe oh look at that cute little puppy just skipping around so Carefree oh I love that little guy oh [ __ ] so with a game that has so many fart sounds and mucus and gross out humor all I can say is you haven't seen anything yet here comes the grossest level in video game history intestinal distress what the [ __ ] oh what is that supposed to be I don't want to know oh what oh [Music] I am [Music] this is where they took it a little too far somebody decided hey let's just go all the way and make it as disgusting as possible on top of that there's something real disturbing about the music [Music] the whole thing just creeps me out oh but the next and final stage is called buttville oh no on uh okay it's not so bad just a bunch of spikes and lightning this part you better be ready to die die and die in the end you defeat Queen's slug for a butt and then rescue princess what's her name and then the cow the cow from level one lands on her and if you wait through the credits they fall through the ground into lava overall it's a great game with great variety and great sense of humor but has some frustrating parts so there you go [Music] I'd like to introduce the balance of [ __ ] Justice a game with no problems will sit in the green zone to Mark its outstanding Excellence but with every flaw every turd that drops on the other side it moves the game into a worse Zone this one by my assessment is a rather good game with a few turds Weighing on it want some more well I figured if I'm gonna play through one game I might as well play through the sequel Earthworm Jim 2. consider this a bonus first up level one anything but tangerines is it just me or are things getting even weirder you're lifting pigs out of pig pens sending them down slides into fish bowls putting them on Boards of wood to raise weights if you leave them alone they meditate and float away whenever Jim stands still he takes a little guy out of his pocket and eats him you're stealing motorized stair chairs from angry old ladies and next in level 2 Lorenzen soil you're moving dirt around which is probably the most worm-like thing Earthworm Jim has ever done and what was that what did he just do scattered in between are these recurring stages where you're bouncing puppies off a cushion or a giant marshmallow trying to get them into a funnel or else they go Splat damn that's [ __ ] brutal baby puppies splatting on the concrete that's [ __ ] up but you want to see some crazy [ __ ] level three Jim's now a blind cave salamander you're back in the intestines again as if anyone wanted to see that but now you look like an axolotl a [ __ ] Axolotl what's the theme of this level there's weird membrane [ __ ] pencils pinball Parts Windows next thing you're plunged into a game show all of a sudden how does Jim spell his first name wow I it begs the question who pitched this idea and how in the holy mother of [ __ ] were they not dismissed as just being a total lunatic it's as if the whole point was to make everything as random as humanly possible that'd be like if I came to you and said hey I got an idea for a game how about your um an Eastern spadefoot toad in the Helix nebula and you gotta stab foiled chairs with Rubber Chickens and outcome marble giraffes and you have to balance the drafts on feather wreaths and you take them the hot tubs full of salsa which transforms the giraffes into cat trophies which you have to collect and place all the trophies along a line of Twizzlers before a blue Panda comes and eats them all and then morphs into a giant ball of metal slime laughs let's play the game level 4 the flying King uh oh somebody switched on the diarrhea dial the suck power that ass draws turned to full blast it's bad enough that everything's trying to kill you and it's like trying to dodge rain droplets in a thunderstorm like in Silver Surfer but on top of that you have to keep track of this balloon that's carrying an explosive you can't let it blow up and you have to keep pushing it all the way to the end of the stage but you can't focus on the balloon because there's too many enemies to deal with also whenever you beat a stage the cows talk well done I gotta ask what's the deal with all the cows some running joke I guess I don't get it what is this Preposterous preoccupation with cows just some random animal that you can't stop referencing all right let's play some more of this buffalo [ __ ] level five utterly abducted yeah we're going full cow now here you have to pick up cows and take them into these Stables where the machine milks them the milk fills the pail and lifts up the barrier next time you need two cows and then three or else the barrier won't lift all the way did Jim ever think about ducking under the barrier I guess that would make too much sense here's where it gets nuts the cows can get abducted by aliens and let me tell you these aliens want these cows bad they are persistent as [ __ ] and never go away that's my cow get your own you don't know the meaning of suffering until you've been hauling a cow over Cliffs and almost making it to the stable only to have a UFO take the cow away man I have some real beef with this level get your tractor beam off my [ __ ] cow you alien piece of [ __ ] if you lose the cow you gotta go all the way back if you die you go all the way back and if the cow explodes for no reason you go all the way back yes some of the cows are explosive and you have a time limit to take them to a bathtub to diffuse them who would think to do that but that's not all you have to find the cows in the correct order you think maybe they put a little too much thought into this the cows spawn from flowers yes I didn't even mention that yet the cows spawn from flowers if you come to a flower and it doesn't spawn the cow that's how you know you've approached it in the wrong order it would have really helped if they at least had an arrow or something to guide you but no you gotta just take a shitty guess meanwhile there's these magician coffins that I can't stop falling into and if it's not already complicated enough you have to launch the cow over with a cannon but then you gotta get yourself over by swinging on snot oh my God can you believe that [ __ ] oh man there has to be another way over there you can't go through and there's a one up just to tease you alright well I gotta go back [ __ ] [ __ ] next in level 6 inflated head your worm head turns into a balloon and you have to dodge everything in sight if you get hit buy anything it pops your head and you fall back down down down it's as cheap as it gets you know variety is one thing but when every stage is something wildly different it starts to feel like you're constantly trying to learn a new game it never lets you get used to one thing just keeps throwing you these crappy curveballs in level 7 ISO 9000 you're jumping across piles of legal paperwork you have to carry mice in rolling cage balls and take them to certain destinations but the real pain in the ass here is all the killer filing cabinets these things will not chill they just keep on coming and they never ever stop man that's a shitty day don't you hate it when you get stuck between a filing cabinet and a magician's coffin I can't can't get over that filing cabinet I know you're supposed to jump on the drawer but I still can't get over it he's gonna kill me against the wall level 8 is called level eight as in food yeah you gotta love food levels this would have to make my top 10 food stages look at this running from salt shakers and straws literally whipping eggs hopping across all types of meat got some burgers sizzling in the background I wonder if they're from the same cows level 9 is a secret level which you can otherwise skip past it's called totally forked which is a great name but the Genesis version here just says forked so there's some Regional differences and I guess my region couldn't handle the joke I wonder if there's any region that just straight out called it totally [ __ ] that'd be great level 10 is the final level thank God it's called see Jim run run gym run this is basically nothing more than a race against the recurring Nemesis psychro keeping up with this guy is almost impossible with all these obnoxious barriers in your way and poorly placed pitfalls it's unforgiving as hell and if you accidentally get the gun that shoots bubbles it's useless and you have to give up if you actually manage to stay ahead of psychro and beat him to the Finish Line Jim Hale's a cab which crushes psychro he rescues princess what's her name and in a twist ending all them turn out to be cows in disguise wow well earthworm gym 2 was an ordeal the first one was mostly fun but this one felt more like torture so let's send it to the balance of [ __ ] Justice [Music] well as you can see there's lots of turds Weighing on it I don't know this one ain't the worst I ever played for sure but too many turds I think I've suffered enough but there's another one earthworm gym 3D on N64 let's see how the franchise held up making the switch to 3D so I'm putting in some overtime here opening up a whole can of worms and who'd want to do that worms are gross and why would they be in a [ __ ] can anyway okay so the game starts up with the most bizarre plot Jim is in a hospital unconscious which is a very cheerful way to kick things off his friends gather around which includes Elvis for some reason so the whole game takes place inside Jim's mind where everything he does is part of a big mission to gain his Consciousness back right at the start you're collecting marbles get it like he lost his marbles but then he has to find some chicken's underwear yeah I don't know what the underwear has to do with anything I'm only briefing you on the situation the humor gets a little more crude the phrase clucking hell is used and Jim flips you off with what seems like the middle finger I mean he's flipping the bird right but the humor's gone so far off the rails it doesn't come off as funny anymore why is he shooting out leprechauns I'm supposed to knock out enemies with a leprechaun yeah take that you want a leprechaun in your hood it caters more to the Animated Series which had already come and gone by now so you hear a lot of the Dan castle and that of voice which keeps making me think of Homer Simpson there's this one thing he keeps shouting sometimes it sounds like pain other times like brain really know what it's supposed to be but you hear it all the time no is that going to be the new where did you learn to fly brain another thing you gotta get used to is the music the first stage has this sort of country sounding song and it just bloops over and over and over then there's those disorienting camera angles this is kind of like the curse of the time it's what happened to many games of this era when they switch to 3D so if Earthworm Jim already sucked sideways now it sucks in three dimensions brain the levels are designed with these huge Open Spaces as if they made the level first and then didn't have time to put that many enemies in there so most the time there's nothing to comment on you're just running around it's flat out boring reviewing this game would be like telling you about my entire day I woke up I got out of bed it was a little bit cold I put my socks on I went to the bathroom when I flushed I noticed the handle was a little loose so I had to get that fixed you don't want to hear all that [ __ ] brain there's even a stage where you hear a ticking clock let me ask you is a ticking clock ever a good thing that's what you hear in school when you're taking a test or waiting for the Bell to ring tell me any situation where a ticking clock is something that puts you in a good mood or gets you excited that sound sums up this whole game brain in order to keep sane I have to do Insane things like this there's the occasional funny thing to point out like this Resident Evil spoof where chickens are jumping through windows and this stage is called poultry Geist like the trauma movie Lloyd would be very excited there's also a ghost vacuum not like the kind in the first Ghostbusters game but a literal ghost vacuum implying that vacuums can be alive in the first place and have a soul then there's a boss with a cannon coming out of its body now come on why did they have to position the cannon right there brain even though this game is boring and uneventful it's no Cakewalk it gets just as frustrating probably even more so than the other games first of all those marbles that's exactly what I want to do in a game go around collecting marbles it's just as much fun as Superman 64 flying through all those Rings the worst Parts when you die you lose all the marbles and have to start over and there's quicksand everywhere when you land in it you can't jump you're stuck and have to backtrack to get on the solid land then there's the knockback when you get hit it can knock you off the ledge there's nothing fun about any of this foreign [Music] and if you want to know what the final boss is it's a character known as earthworm Kim who is essentially a female version of Earthworm Jim the boss fight is long and tedious and after it's over you'd hope there'd be at least a good ending but no there isn't [Applause] rain well there you go I beat the whole earthworm gym Trilogy let's see how this one holds up on the balance of [ __ ] Justice [Music] well the [ __ ] really weighs down on this one I'd say this puts it in a very unfavorable category yeah and if you want to put earthworm gym 3D on a scale with jaws 3D fry the 13th 3D and Amityville 3D it doesn't even compare it's not enjoyably bad it's just bad for those who have fond memories of Earthworm Jim I'm here to remind you it wasn't all fun it's a mixed bag but mostly stay away from earthworm gym 3D yeah well anyway that was three reviews so let's end this thing see you next time with more shitty games [Music]

Channel: Cinemassacre

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Keywords: james rolfe, cinemassacre, angry video game nerd, avgn, avgn earthworm jim, avgn ewj, angry video game nerd earthworm jim, angry video game nerd ewj, avgn earthworm jim 2, avgn earthworm jim 3d, avgn sega, avgn genesis, avgn n64, avgn nintendo 64

Id: GoMckPTBUeo

Length: 26min 57sec (1617 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 28 2023

Reddit Comments

[u/joseph4th]

I’d like to point out that it is like something you’ve seen before. David Perry joined virgin games and brought Global Gladiators and it’s game engine with him. This is the same engine, with ongoing development, that was used for Cool Spot, Aladdin and Jungle Book. Development split when Dave left Virgin and continued to develop it for Earthworm Jim while Westwood (a newly acquired part of Virgin) used it for the Lion King.

Edit: Oh, Virgin used it for their Terminator platformer too.

[u/popeyepaul]

I liked this video. I have very fond memories of Jim 1 and 2 on the SNES but a lot of people seem to think that those games have always been garbage? So I'm glad to see that AVGN gives these games a pretty fair shake and apparently he doesn't do the exaggerated yell-cursing any more from his early days which is good. I know the creator of Earthworm Jim is a controversial figure to say the least but I don't really care, it's not like I can get a time machine to go back to the early 90s to stop my parents from buying this game for me for Christmas.

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[u/Trash-Can-Dumpster]

A lot of these old youtubers are either coasting along or just outright doing bad on youtube. Haven't watched AVGN In years, can't seem to watch the newer stuff.

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[u/BaneReturns]

The revelation that James very often relied on Mike for recording gameplay and writing the scripts during the "classic" era (not the current Screenwave one in which almost all of the work is done for him) really soured me on James. He wants to appear like he's a one man working machine and usually refuses to give credit to those who helped him along the way. He's weird guy in general.

[u/fanboy_killer]

I'm just happy to see an AVGN video featured on r/games. He's been around for so long and still puts out excellent work regularly.

[u/dontbajerk]

Fun fact, he mentions how he thinks of Earthworm Jim as a Genesis game. The SNES version had the Intestinal Distress level cut out, so I've always considered it the inferior version. One of a relative handful of games on both platforms where the Sega version is better.