But I played Japan version, so it tookk coople of years to figure out what I must do with the 2nn equipment, but the experimental method helped a lot )
i am sooo glad you gave the music big props. a few years ago on myspace i met a musician that had some of the most amazing metal guitar remixes of the entire soundtrack to this game. i wish i could find it again :(
I've seen this game show up on a few worst NES games lists. Why is a mystery, because it is not a bad game at all. Of course it's not better than the arcade version, but still.
Very nice, Rygar does have awesome music. It took forever to figure out where to go as a kid and I won't get started on when to use the grappling hook. Great review, I gotta go sub now.
I still have my Rygar that I got for my b-day as a kid :oD My Mom was like "the dude at the store said it is the #1 game in Japan." I thought the game was dumb yet I played it for hours and hours and still play it lol!!! I agree, the music is awesome!
1:55....I actually remember those books at my elementary school!! Used to check them out all the time, and well...one day I checked the the two books, and kept them. lol
@MrNorbert1994 Yes it totally is. I spent 4 hours on stream trying to beat that last boss. Using savestates before entering his room after like... the first 50 deaths. He is stupid hard.
Wow never really thought about it, but you're totally right; this game was hella cryptic and mostly trial and error... Also fuck yeah it's definitely in my top ten, my favorite song is the first one (lol even though I heard that one more than any other).
Dirge of Cerberus, i sat playing it like "dude, this sucks" but i finished it out and freaking clapped like a goob when my buddy and i beat it at 2 in the morning. i'm not a final fantasy fanboy either, i just had the game
I bought this game on a whim because my mom said my dad used to play it. I had no idea what to expect, but wow this was a fun game. One of my favorites as well.
I was a little too young to figure out much in this game at the time, but I still have fond memories. Such a glitchy game, one time an enemy knocked me into a wall and I popped out in the floating castle, which was awesome because I never would have seen it otherwise.
I LOVED this game when I was a kid and quite honestly at the time I didn't think it was crap. I mean I was blown away by the arcade game and then the NES game came out and it was an open world action RPG along the lines of Zelda and Metroid combined???!!!! What's not to like? Oh and I figured this entire game out as a kid and felt a huge sense of accomplishment. Amazing game.
I still have my "How to win at Nintendo Games" book. Just reading the descriptions in the book makes me think we sure had a lot of imagination back then; and the whole book just drips with an 80's vibe and happy memories, inducing flashbacks of a wide-eyed boy who collected the change in the couch and on the sidewalk to get enough money to rent NES games from the local grocery store.
A bad game i have a soft spot for is Barts Nightmare for the snes, the game is relentlessly difficult and almost inconceivable to beat, it only lets you advance to a new level when it FEELS like it, has slippery controls, precision heavy gameplay, but in my years of gaming, and despite its flaws I've mastered it and love it to death.
I don't remember Rygar having unlimited continues. I think you can continue a few times, unless there's a continue code I don't know about. I still own the game, so I may go back to it.
The game looks pretty interesting actually, and your review is very good, as always. I might look if I can get Rygar for pc/emulator somewhere.
My guilty pleasure is a little known cyberpunk shoot&slay named Restricted Area. It has so much wasted potential that I could cry but what remains in the game is great. Four interesting characters, a nice but short story and simple but very entertaining combat gameplay.
When I was a kid, I found an awesome glitch for the first boss ->
Keep jumping on his head and, with you landing slightly to the right of his midpoint. He'll slowly creep left while you bounce on him. Eventually he'll run into the wall on the right....keep bouncing and he'll start shaking back and forth. Eventually he'll just give up and freeze.
Damn I just fucking hate this game. Yet I still have it in my collection for a day when I really want to tornment my self.
Seriously, the awful lullaby alike music is just drilled deep inside to my skull and I actually beat this pile of undecomposing turd withouth any sort of gaming guide or manual or anything that would have lead me to right direction.
Just like Castlevania 2, Blaster Master, Faxanadu and... Yeah, every NES game I've had.
My guilty pleasure is and please don't call me a sissy or a little girl is Ecco The Dolphin and Ecco Tides Of Time. I just love both of those games so much. Music is awesome, story is pretty complicated for a game about Dolphins, and it can be pretty scary at times, not to mention freaking hard. Hey Derik i was wondering since the youtube video limit is increased can you upload your Earthbound review please? takes 4 hours to load the video and keeps freezing. Youtube doesn't to that for some re
Dude! I never play or have interest in videos however your channel makes me have a good perspective of what I am missing. Thanks for all these great videos. You are the best video host I known.
@gaki899 You do realize that power leveling is when you pay someone to play the game for you, and level you up, right? What he did was grind, as in staying in one area and beating enemies until you level up to your desire. That's not cheating, its a very common thing to do.
You're obviously a very new online gamer, or you just kind of watch people online play.
@bullethead2202 Power Leveling isn't only paying someone else to play for you, it is providing compensation to another player to aid you in leveling. Whether it be from playing the game for you, following your character and healing, providing other means of support, etc in a way that takes advantage of the game mechanics- ie, they are a higher level than the enemies you are facing. Grinding can be a form of power leveling.
@SethoMarkus Just because you write it in a way that looks educated doesn't mean its right. Power leveling requires two people, in no way can you power level alone. Yes, you don't always need to pay money for that, but either way the other person is getting something out of it.
So you're saying that leveling up before a gym in pokemon is power leveling? With you're logic, that makes sense.
@bullethead2202 You can Power Level alone if you have some form of NPC or glitch that is not intended to be used in the game. Either pulling/kiting a mob/enemy to a guard, standing near an NPC that heals you, standing on a cliff that disallows the enemy to reach you while attacking that enemy from a range. In many games these scenarios are accounted for in the programming, either by removing/reducing the experience earned through monsters slayed in this manner, or by causing the monster to flee.
@SethoMarkus Oh my god that is abusing game mechanics not power leveling, I don't see how you don't see the difference at this point.
Standing out of range is a very common tactic, used by archers or mages. Standing ontop of cliffs where you can't be hit is a dick move, not power leveling.
Having someone healing you is not power leveling, it is just having cheap backup. Clerics can still die, its not assured it will work, that's like a shield.
There are websites to power level, none for grinding
@bullethead2202 Whatever. Back in the day in Final Fantasy XI: Online it was referred to as Power Leveling to have a high level (usually 60+) White Mage or other healing capable character follow around a low level character, outside of Party, and heal while the lower level character fought monsters for experience. This game was almost impossible to Power Level in any other form, as the monsters were designed to require a Party to defeat after the level 10-15 range (Or RDM/NIN)
Errr not quite. Power leveling is typically when you have the assistance of someone higher than you to level you quicker either via buffs or just by killing things with you grouped and racking up the points (only works in pretty crappy games that don't prevent this kind of thing). It's not exclusive whatsoever to those delightful paid services that let you cheat your way to the cap.
Power Leveling refers to that when you know exactly where to go, what to kill, and how to kill it, to maximize experiance gain. Grinding is when you are simply killing enemies over and over and over for experiance gain. Yes, I know that power leveling is in "general" refered to someone playing for you whom you paid but this definition is misleading.
Are you sure you are an gamer or are you just an MMOer?
I don't really care about this anymore and don't want to get into an argument. I would normally explain as to how I am a gamer, but doing that in a comment looks just plain retarded. Since power leveling doesn't have a definitive term, you could say that grinding is power leveling, and you could also argue that it isn't. I personally see it as its own category, but you obviously don't.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe "Nerds" are the type who enjoy learning, read a lot of big books and generally strive to be smart. Whereas a "Geek" is someone who watches a lot of movies, reads comic books, plays videogames and is generally a technology lover.
So I think the title for these videos should be "Gettin' Super Geeky"
I have the cart and it's one of the games that's always eluded my conquering. Until a few months back. I was working backstage for my college's musical and I was bored off my rocker, so I was playing a lot of NES games on my phone. Rygar was one of them. I managed to get everything AND beat Lygar! It was amazing...until I saw the shittastic ending. D:
I love this game, though. The music IS epic and it feels good to play!
As of this posting your age is listed as 27. I think you have some time before you start pulling your pants up to your armpits and going to the Golden Coral buffet at 3:20 pm for dinner.
This is also a guilty pleasure of mine, and I played through it many times as a kid. I was the only one of my friends who ever beat the game, but like you, I found an area where I could kill tons of enemies and level up before I set out. Loved the music, loved the big adventure, hated dying because I couldn't line up grapple points in the overworld. Good times.
This sounds REALLY stupid, but last night I had a dream where you reviewed a liscensed game from The Sound Of Music for the Super Nintendo, And it was actually really good. HVGN, please respond if you can. If there actually is a Sound Of Music game, someone please tell me. Thanks.
I'd love to see a vid' on 'Kick Master' for the Nes. The first stage in that game has one of the most bad ass tracks in Nes history.
Anyways, the most fun I had with Rygar growing up was staring at the awesome 80's box art. I remember tossing Rygar aside after 30 minutes and firing up Kid Icarus and Punch-Out!! Those 2 classics definitly got that bad Rygar-ish taste out of my mouth. p
This is my favorite game. Love the music and yea it is a guilty pleasure. Awesome someone else loves this game and does the same leveling up trick. Cavern of Sigilia is my ringtone. Any chance for golgo13?
I agree, it really does represent pure nostalgia for me as well. Didn't even ever beat it as a kid, too goddamn confusing. But still fun to play with friends
I had one of those books. I miss when you got your tips and walkthroughs from Nintendo Power and other books written by people with a modicum of writing skill. You wonder if most of the people who write walkthroughs at GameFAQs could pass a freshman writing course. They're also too chatty and make too many lame jokes.
I remember the how to win at nintendo games. i owned 3, vol 1, vol 3, and how to win at super nintendo games. There where more, but they where the classic, gamefaqs.com style of text to tell you what to do. Ahh, those where the days.
I was led to believe Amagon was a good game judging from what I read. Oh, and I can make the claim that I willingly read a short story on how to progress through Gyruss at some point in my life.
What are you talking about? This game is FREAKING AWESOME! Also, what the hell is wrong with you teaching cheap pansy trick to make the game easier for whiny babies? I mean, you didn't even state it as suggestion, you outright TOLD people to play the game in this cheap manner!
The game was pretty good for its time, but its a victim of its old age, the game design seems pretty sloppy on this not just to games made nowadays, but newer NES games including some that Tecmo made like Ninja Gaiden.
Your opinions of Rygar are the same I feel about Metroid: Other M. (Even though I think that the criticisms towards that game are far exaggerated)
Actually I have plenty of guilty pleasures now that I think of it. (I'm one of those people who actually kept buying the Megaman Battle Network games for one)
I'll admit, Rygar is one of those games I only own because of name recognition. I never had the patience to see it very far. So, I absolutely love when others are willing to show just what games like that have to offer beyond the breaking point. It gives a fresh perspective. This doesn't make me like Rygar (which was obviously never the intent), but it does make me respect its merits that I never got to see before.
Thanks bro, I remember this game and how awesome it seemed at at my friends house, and never owned it as a kid. Picked it up about ten years ago in my twenties, and was very disappointed. It wasn't at all how I remembered it. Maybe try it again.
honestly, i could never get into it... i remember even playing the arcade version (which had better graphics) at chuck e cheese as a kid and getting nowhere.
I'd say this game is pretty innocent as a guilty pleasure but who knows, maybe I'm not the only one who likes Spanky's Quest on SNES but I'd be surprised if that was the case.
This game is so hard to get started. I would play it on Play Choice 10 and keep losing before I got anywhere. I remember the Jeff Rovin books.
scottandrewhutchins 1 week ago
NES Rygar is hardcore, after 20 plus years I finally beat!
JBOTTSIOWA 1 week ago
But I played Japan version, so it tookk coople of years to figure out what I must do with the 2nn equipment, but the experimental method helped a lot )
NoHealerJustPain 1 week ago
I like it. I have gone through it in my juvenial times ) Very cool game for real players )))
NoHealerJustPain 1 week ago
It's not one of those "guilty pleasure games", in fact it's just a very good game, one of the best NES's games.
Refrigeeta2000 1 week ago
i am sooo glad you gave the music big props. a few years ago on myspace i met a musician that had some of the most amazing metal guitar remixes of the entire soundtrack to this game. i wish i could find it again :(
irishmerit 1 week ago
morel ike -- super HAPPY NERDY LOL
Apemopo 2 weeks ago
I do not remember this... O_O
Skyrilla 2 weeks ago
sucks god of war took this and people think god of war is better
jamvaldez226 3 weeks ago
I had a few of those books, they were a big help in the pre-internet days
gr8cornholio79 3 weeks ago
Friday the 13th for me, i think it's genuinely good.
xxcrysad3000xx 3 weeks ago
I love this game. It has AWESOME music, it's fun, and it's fairly challenging.
Draginvry2 4 weeks ago
I remember those books!
MrKaffiend 1 month ago
I've seen this game show up on a few worst NES games lists. Why is a mystery, because it is not a bad game at all. Of course it's not better than the arcade version, but still.
infinitygenealpa 1 month ago 4
Very nice, Rygar does have awesome music. It took forever to figure out where to go as a kid and I won't get started on when to use the grappling hook. Great review, I gotta go sub now.
OldWorldG 1 month ago
I still have my Rygar that I got for my b-day as a kid :oD My Mom was like "the dude at the store said it is the #1 game in Japan." I thought the game was dumb yet I played it for hours and hours and still play it lol!!! I agree, the music is awesome!
SuperMommy227 1 month ago
the infamous dr. jekyll and mr. hyde game ripped off one of the tracks from this game for the opening menu
MJstallonage007 1 month ago
1:55....I actually remember those books at my elementary school!! Used to check them out all the time, and well...one day I checked the the two books, and kept them. lol
ghettoprince187 1 month ago in playlist More videos from lophatjello
Love this game too. Not many ppl have heard about it. Glad you gave the music props :)
BraveSirBevier 1 month ago 6
The PAL version is impossible to beat.
MrNorbert1994 1 month ago
@MrNorbert1994 Yes it totally is. I spent 4 hours on stream trying to beat that last boss. Using savestates before entering his room after like... the first 50 deaths. He is stupid hard.
leqesai 1 month ago
Wow never really thought about it, but you're totally right; this game was hella cryptic and mostly trial and error... Also fuck yeah it's definitely in my top ten, my favorite song is the first one (lol even though I heard that one more than any other).
jbetenbender 1 month ago
kick master had the best music imo
antonb000 2 months ago
this guys such a fraud
shawnio 2 months ago
@shawnio How so?
InaudibleSlinky 2 months ago
I feel exactly the same about Karnov!!!
anton1990 2 months ago
@anton1990 I love Karnov!
glitchedgamer 2 months ago
@glitchedgamer
Finally I meet another fan of Karnov! At last ^^
anton1990 2 months ago
"...which is stupid, I know, but... j-just don't do it" Your comedic timing is awesome XD
AzureDarkGod 2 months ago
Dirge of Cerberus, i sat playing it like "dude, this sucks" but i finished it out and freaking clapped like a goob when my buddy and i beat it at 2 in the morning. i'm not a final fantasy fanboy either, i just had the game
chipiam182 2 months ago
Love me some Rygar! There was something so mysterious/unsettling about the environments and the enemies.
timberbothy2 2 months ago
Really interesting game indeed. Just a few tweaks here and there and it's fit for Virtual Console.
Neocasko 2 months ago
Mine is Pac Man world rally for the ps2. It is sooo easy even on its "super hard nightmare mode". And it is SO MUCH FUN.
TheNintendo101 3 months ago
I dont really see why Rygar is a bad game as he says. Only bad thing about it I can think of are the glitches.
JupiterTheatre 3 months ago in playlist Más videos de lophatjello
So here is the horrible game I love.....Power Rangers on the Genesis and yes I prefer it over the SNES version. There I said it
spideyman2099Gaming 3 months ago
Just got this game in the mail. So awesome!
goreombola 3 months ago
I totally agree with his assessment of Rygar's OST. Even as a kid I thought this OST was SO kickass. EASILY one of the top 10 best NES OSTs...
Suolperos 3 months ago
"God damn ah LOVES me some Rygar!" XD
Suolperos 3 months ago
This game isn't that bad...
SCBianchi 3 months ago
I bought this game on a whim because my mom said my dad used to play it. I had no idea what to expect, but wow this was a fun game. One of my favorites as well.
glitchedgamer 3 months ago
*cause I was so inspired by this video I just had to buy rygar for the nes
goreombola 3 months ago
Mine was Puss 'N Bots for the NES. The ending pissed me off.
MalamiteLtd 3 months ago
Why is it that during the 8- and 16-bit days even bad games could be expected to have good soundtracks?
AusMarkus 3 months ago
i just bought this game for 2 bucks
alanredstar 3 months ago
I was a little too young to figure out much in this game at the time, but I still have fond memories. Such a glitchy game, one time an enemy knocked me into a wall and I popped out in the floating castle, which was awesome because I never would have seen it otherwise.
ionmyke 3 months ago
lmfao no wonder I always hated this game. I never grappled up
exploittruth 4 months ago
WOOT! THESE FOUR FUCKING NOTES! (Dies)
hypergunkid 4 months ago
Rygar is to you what Simon's Quest is to me, it would seem.
Dilbez 4 months ago
I LOVED this game when I was a kid and quite honestly at the time I didn't think it was crap. I mean I was blown away by the arcade game and then the NES game came out and it was an open world action RPG along the lines of Zelda and Metroid combined???!!!! What's not to like? Oh and I figured this entire game out as a kid and felt a huge sense of accomplishment. Amazing game.
nervecentral 4 months ago
256 likes and 1 dislikes new record?
AsjakProductions 4 months ago
My guilty pleasure is Bayou Billy & Milon's Secret Castle! Ü
panther2598 5 months ago
Gotta love the music from the caverns of Sagila. Best track in a game with incredible music.
Hopper983 5 months ago
I played Rygar as a kid and I loved it. Have it in my NES collection.
420JonesZ 5 months ago
this video was so helpful when i tried to beat Rygar thanks hvgn
MrPizzaslice 5 months ago
I still have my "How to win at Nintendo Games" book. Just reading the descriptions in the book makes me think we sure had a lot of imagination back then; and the whole book just drips with an 80's vibe and happy memories, inducing flashbacks of a wide-eyed boy who collected the change in the couch and on the sidewalk to get enough money to rent NES games from the local grocery store.
SuperUltra64 5 months ago
7:00 reminds me of "hide yo kids, hide yo wife" :P
YoungJeezyCOD 5 months ago in playlist The Official HVGN Playlist
Did you know the composer of the music also composed the music for Clash at Demonhead? Great tunes and games.
kibjohn 6 months ago
...I donated my How to Win at Nintendo books to the public library back in high school. Kinda wish I could go back for nostalgia's sake.
...
Good grief, just checked, they still have the damn things. I guess they NEVER weed the stacks down there.
haladacara 6 months ago
A bad game i have a soft spot for is Barts Nightmare for the snes, the game is relentlessly difficult and almost inconceivable to beat, it only lets you advance to a new level when it FEELS like it, has slippery controls, precision heavy gameplay, but in my years of gaming, and despite its flaws I've mastered it and love it to death.
perun1nj 6 months ago
I feel this way about the Beast Wars game for the PS1. It's absolute crap in so many ways and makes no sense... but it's awesome. :D
LoranCehack 6 months ago
excellent music montage
infinidominion 6 months ago
I used to love this game, but that was back when games were mostly crappy.
CastleG8 7 months ago
I don't remember Rygar having unlimited continues. I think you can continue a few times, unless there's a continue code I don't know about. I still own the game, so I may go back to it.
GrilledMonkeyFat 7 months ago
Me and my friends loved Rygar as kids too!
mmike 7 months ago
Hell yeah, how to win at nintendo books.. still got a few of them mofo's. Damn I'm old too.T
Standard420247 7 months ago
The music alone made this game epic. I love it, still play it. Also this game has the best death music ever.. period.
Standard420247 7 months ago
The game looks pretty interesting actually, and your review is very good, as always. I might look if I can get Rygar for pc/emulator somewhere.
My guilty pleasure is a little known cyberpunk shoot&slay named Restricted Area. It has so much wasted potential that I could cry but what remains in the game is great. Four interesting characters, a nice but short story and simple but very entertaining combat gameplay.
Rakaziel 7 months ago
The only thing i know about Rygar is that Dr Jeekyl and mr Hyde uses 1 Song. Thanks to the AVGN
XFalloutboy2310X 7 months ago
When I was a kid, I found an awesome glitch for the first boss ->
Keep jumping on his head and, with you landing slightly to the right of his midpoint. He'll slowly creep left while you bounce on him. Eventually he'll run into the wall on the right....keep bouncing and he'll start shaking back and forth. Eventually he'll just give up and freeze.
KingDavid73 7 months ago
Gotta love Rygar. When I was a kid, I only had 2 NES games, Rygar and Metroid. I played the crap out of this game.
KingDavid73 7 months ago
My guilty pleasure is Primal Rage for the Genesis lol
JamesGreerwuzhyre 7 months ago
Damn I just fucking hate this game. Yet I still have it in my collection for a day when I really want to tornment my self.
Seriously, the awful lullaby alike music is just drilled deep inside to my skull and I actually beat this pile of undecomposing turd withouth any sort of gaming guide or manual or anything that would have lead me to right direction.
Just like Castlevania 2, Blaster Master, Faxanadu and... Yeah, every NES game I've had.
Bastiest 7 months ago
I love this game, thought Iw as the only one who'd heard of it
MontressorsRevenge 7 months ago
"fuck I'm old." I know how you feel, dude :(
whalerofthestars 7 months ago
I still have the "How to Win at Nintendo Games" with the yellow cover packed away somewhere.
I'm wondering if this game's side view areas inspired Clash at Demonhead.
SchlossRitter 7 months ago
My guilty pleasure was easily Super Pitfall, WAYYYYY worse than Rygar!!
Oh wait, I mean RYGAR! haha
And I had that SAME exact book on "how to beat Nintendo games" I still have it to this day. Shit, were old!
NightOfTheLiving8bit 7 months ago
This is only 1 Minute Longer then the New Game Quickie. Just Consider Dragon Warrior a review.
bioo80 7 months ago
Those four fucking notes are the Space Invaders theme. XD
burningflurber 7 months ago
Just so you know, the link for the Dragon Warrior vid didn't work, but I searched for it on the site and found it.
Awesome work, as always btw!
minimaster91 7 months ago
@quickzzcope Same here. But Raiden is a pussy IN THAT GAME. NOT in MGS4
OlympusAlmyghty 7 months ago
My guilty pleasure is and please don't call me a sissy or a little girl is Ecco The Dolphin and Ecco Tides Of Time. I just love both of those games so much. Music is awesome, story is pretty complicated for a game about Dolphins, and it can be pretty scary at times, not to mention freaking hard. Hey Derik i was wondering since the youtube video limit is increased can you upload your Earthbound review please? takes 4 hours to load the video and keeps freezing. Youtube doesn't to that for some re
Eatmyassproductions 7 months ago
@Eatmyassproductions reason.
Eatmyassproductions 7 months ago
Thanks for making this video! I loved this game when I was a kid and the music is awesome!
lmcdowall 7 months ago
:( its true i like mgs 2
quickzzcope 7 months ago
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SmashBro415 7 months ago
Dude! I never play or have interest in videos however your channel makes me have a good perspective of what I am missing. Thanks for all these great videos. You are the best video host I known.
unleashedvision 7 months ago
you can watch the dragon quest video on retro ware so upload it to youtube PLZ
1pokemonWalkthroughs 7 months ago
I remember this game when i was five. Me and my dad had a friggin hard time beating it. I remember those how to books and i'm only 16 dude. :D
CaptianN1094 7 months ago
powerlevling is cheating...
gaki899 7 months ago
@gaki899 You do realize that power leveling is when you pay someone to play the game for you, and level you up, right? What he did was grind, as in staying in one area and beating enemies until you level up to your desire. That's not cheating, its a very common thing to do.
You're obviously a very new online gamer, or you just kind of watch people online play.
bullethead2202 7 months ago 7
@bullethead2202 Power Leveling isn't only paying someone else to play for you, it is providing compensation to another player to aid you in leveling. Whether it be from playing the game for you, following your character and healing, providing other means of support, etc in a way that takes advantage of the game mechanics- ie, they are a higher level than the enemies you are facing. Grinding can be a form of power leveling.
SethoMarkus 7 months ago
@SethoMarkus Just because you write it in a way that looks educated doesn't mean its right. Power leveling requires two people, in no way can you power level alone. Yes, you don't always need to pay money for that, but either way the other person is getting something out of it.
So you're saying that leveling up before a gym in pokemon is power leveling? With you're logic, that makes sense.
bullethead2202 7 months ago
@bullethead2202 You can Power Level alone if you have some form of NPC or glitch that is not intended to be used in the game. Either pulling/kiting a mob/enemy to a guard, standing near an NPC that heals you, standing on a cliff that disallows the enemy to reach you while attacking that enemy from a range. In many games these scenarios are accounted for in the programming, either by removing/reducing the experience earned through monsters slayed in this manner, or by causing the monster to flee.
SethoMarkus 7 months ago
@SethoMarkus Oh my god that is abusing game mechanics not power leveling, I don't see how you don't see the difference at this point.
Standing out of range is a very common tactic, used by archers or mages. Standing ontop of cliffs where you can't be hit is a dick move, not power leveling.
Having someone healing you is not power leveling, it is just having cheap backup. Clerics can still die, its not assured it will work, that's like a shield.
There are websites to power level, none for grinding
bullethead2202 7 months ago
@bullethead2202 Whatever. Back in the day in Final Fantasy XI: Online it was referred to as Power Leveling to have a high level (usually 60+) White Mage or other healing capable character follow around a low level character, outside of Party, and heal while the lower level character fought monsters for experience. This game was almost impossible to Power Level in any other form, as the monsters were designed to require a Party to defeat after the level 10-15 range (Or RDM/NIN)
SethoMarkus 7 months ago
@bullethead2202
Errr not quite. Power leveling is typically when you have the assistance of someone higher than you to level you quicker either via buffs or just by killing things with you grouped and racking up the points (only works in pretty crappy games that don't prevent this kind of thing). It's not exclusive whatsoever to those delightful paid services that let you cheat your way to the cap.
Kordesh 7 months ago
@bullethead2202
Actually im a hardcore RPG and retrogamer :)
I know the difference I just got them confused, no harm done right? :)
gaki899 6 months ago
@gaki899 Its been a month, the fucks I gave are long gone. Its all good.
bullethead2202 6 months ago
@bullethead2202
it isnt even bad idea to stay in one place and level up
its legit hell some games makers make this not by accident they make some place when monsters keep respawn jst so you kill them and level up
elitemarcus100 4 months ago
@bullethead2202 i'm sorry but the term power leveling doesn't have one defined term. every mmo is different, since you're new to online gaming
tencredits 3 months ago
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@tencredits "4 months ago"
It doesn't matter in the slightest, and I will not get into another argument.
bullethead2202 3 months ago
@bullethead2202 - Actually no.
Power Leveling refers to that when you know exactly where to go, what to kill, and how to kill it, to maximize experiance gain. Grinding is when you are simply killing enemies over and over and over for experiance gain. Yes, I know that power leveling is in "general" refered to someone playing for you whom you paid but this definition is misleading.
Are you sure you are an gamer or are you just an MMOer?
Zeithri 3 months ago
@Zeithri Again, "4 months ago"
I don't really care about this anymore and don't want to get into an argument. I would normally explain as to how I am a gamer, but doing that in a comment looks just plain retarded. Since power leveling doesn't have a definitive term, you could say that grinding is power leveling, and you could also argue that it isn't. I personally see it as its own category, but you obviously don't.
bullethead2202 3 months ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe "Nerds" are the type who enjoy learning, read a lot of big books and generally strive to be smart. Whereas a "Geek" is someone who watches a lot of movies, reads comic books, plays videogames and is generally a technology lover.
So I think the title for these videos should be "Gettin' Super Geeky"
Greensky02 7 months ago
My guilty pleasure is Blasto.
iGodNano 7 months ago
I had all those books,too.
billymetts 7 months ago
I love your videos, your the bomb!! Also I just got Broken Robots and its so bad ass you guys rock!
grantandcorky 7 months ago
Can you review mother 1 or 3?
VRPcheatmaster13 7 months ago
I have the cart and it's one of the games that's always eluded my conquering. Until a few months back. I was working backstage for my college's musical and I was bored off my rocker, so I was playing a lot of NES games on my phone. Rygar was one of them. I managed to get everything AND beat Lygar! It was amazing...until I saw the shittastic ending. D:
I love this game, though. The music IS epic and it feels good to play!
Doombah 7 months ago
I just found a copy of this bad boy, lol and it was free :D
GamerEX 7 months ago
If I remember correctly, the European version of this game is literally impossible to beat without glitches.
19Szabolcs91 7 months ago
As of this posting your age is listed as 27. I think you have some time before you start pulling your pants up to your armpits and going to the Golden Coral buffet at 3:20 pm for dinner.
TenDropChris 7 months ago
This is also a guilty pleasure of mine, and I played through it many times as a kid. I was the only one of my friends who ever beat the game, but like you, I found an area where I could kill tons of enemies and level up before I set out. Loved the music, loved the big adventure, hated dying because I couldn't line up grapple points in the overworld. Good times.
8BitHorse 7 months ago
Have you played the song at 6:30 before? I remember hearing it!
eeveetm 7 months ago
I played the shit out of this game when I was a kid and never could beat it.
DronetekPolitics 7 months ago
I have/had all those How To Win books. You're not the only one feeling his age.
Thanos6 7 months ago 18
I used to love this game. Never understood why it's had such a bad rep. Me and my best friend spent a lot of time on this game.
rcgamer 7 months ago
This sounds REALLY stupid, but last night I had a dream where you reviewed a liscensed game from The Sound Of Music for the Super Nintendo, And it was actually really good. HVGN, please respond if you can. If there actually is a Sound Of Music game, someone please tell me. Thanks.
jedisquidward 8 months ago
you dont make videos fast enough. MOAR!
side note, i fucking love starship amazing.
asshatt1 8 months ago
it looks like a good game .. its complex i dont understand why people say its bad?
of course i never played it though
TheRogueMonk 8 months ago
every time i read Rygar makes me wanna shout Rygaaaaaaaaaaar!!!! and then i end up listening to Trogdoooooooooor!!!!
Diegobrandan15 8 months ago
just love your vids man, keep them coming <3
hamuto243 8 months ago
That is a pretty dang good soundtrack.
strivinglife 8 months ago
I recently picked up this game and it cost me 2 bucks.
thcsabinad 8 months ago
I'd love to see a vid' on 'Kick Master' for the Nes. The first stage in that game has one of the most bad ass tracks in Nes history.
Anyways, the most fun I had with Rygar growing up was staring at the awesome 80's box art. I remember tossing Rygar aside after 30 minutes and firing up Kid Icarus and Punch-Out!! Those 2 classics definitly got that bad Rygar-ish taste out of my mouth. p
Donatello97 8 months ago
"This is the music that plays in Hell's waiting room"
LOL
Theraminey 8 months ago
Just found my copy.
TheNintendoJuggalo 8 months ago
I just bought this game a month ago, love it
SjoerdvdKroon 8 months ago
This is my favorite game. Love the music and yea it is a guilty pleasure. Awesome someone else loves this game and does the same leveling up trick. Cavern of Sigilia is my ringtone. Any chance for golgo13?
genocyde83 8 months ago
what an incredibly tedious game
marcsman229 8 months ago
I agree, it really does represent pure nostalgia for me as well. Didn't even ever beat it as a kid, too goddamn confusing. But still fun to play with friends
JohnnyFiction 8 months ago
My guilty gaming pleasure is Sonic 06 :D
blackblur589 8 months ago
@blackblur589 I like to mess around in Soleanna with the gems.
NKSPKI 8 months ago
Derek Alexander=Gaming Hipster :P lol
thessbmaster 8 months ago
I had one of those books. I miss when you got your tips and walkthroughs from Nintendo Power and other books written by people with a modicum of writing skill. You wonder if most of the people who write walkthroughs at GameFAQs could pass a freshman writing course. They're also too chatty and make too many lame jokes.
getitgetitgetit2 8 months ago
I remember the how to win at nintendo games. i owned 3, vol 1, vol 3, and how to win at super nintendo games. There where more, but they where the classic, gamefaqs.com style of text to tell you what to do. Ahh, those where the days.
truepridejb 8 months ago
@truepridejb I had them too!
I didn't even own the games, but I knew how to win at them! :D
MoltenPlastic 8 months ago
I had Rygar when I was but a wee lad...
I hated it, even back then, but it was challenging which kept me playing.
It didn't leave a lasting, nostalgic impression on me, but there are MUCH worse games on the NES.
It was a solid title for its day, though the arcade version was over 9000 times better.
IsThisSumBattleToads 8 months ago
I had the Green "How to win at Nintendo games".
There's some "optimistic" writing in those.
I was led to believe Amagon was a good game judging from what I read. Oh, and I can make the claim that I willingly read a short story on how to progress through Gyruss at some point in my life.
BigBangBlitz 8 months ago
wow , i guess i love a shitty game! lol
mirrorseye 8 months ago
ah Derek you fuckin nerd, I love you man! I'm playing Rygar right now, and yeah, confusing as fuck! Andora's music gives me nightmares
jiminboo 8 months ago
I have that How to win at Nintendo games book. No other place will you read a narrative on how to beat Super Mario Bros.
AaronsGoodSound 8 months ago
most of the time if u grew up liking a game u love it even if everyoneelse thinks its horrible, same with movies
ChaosWhite182 8 months ago
lol sarcasm.
MitsuhideTheVagrant 8 months ago
My last name is also Alexander. I hope that I have the honor of being some distant relative of yours.
MoonIMover 8 months ago
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Great music indeed!
BlackLaval 8 months ago
1:55 hey that was an insult, im older than you and i remember that stuff back in da days >_>
ValisHD 8 months ago
Rygar is so bad, but in a good way. It was one of the first games I had for my nes and its still in my top 10 favorite games list.
secondghost 8 months ago
What are you talking about? This game is FREAKING AWESOME! Also, what the hell is wrong with you teaching cheap pansy trick to make the game easier for whiny babies? I mean, you didn't even state it as suggestion, you outright TOLD people to play the game in this cheap manner!
marscaleb 8 months ago
I remember those!
Marvic2kx 8 months ago
The game was pretty good for its time, but its a victim of its old age, the game design seems pretty sloppy on this not just to games made nowadays, but newer NES games including some that Tecmo made like Ninja Gaiden.
downphoenix 8 months ago
FUCK YEAR JEFF ROVIN
I still have my copy on my bookshelf. :D
Sprocketman 8 months ago
my gilty plesure is mighty bomb jack but that gem at least had preety graphix
RedMegaXIII 8 months ago
Whatcha got against the PS2 game? It was God of War before God of War came out! That's gotta count for something.
YourAverageJoey 8 months ago
i remember the how to win books. all of them! i got your back derek. i would just read them on the john, while the nes was paused of course.
vayix 8 months ago
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vayix 8 months ago
I love that intro riff , its nostalgic from the first video of yours i watched , 2-3 years goes by fast
medalxx12 8 months ago
That you for being so awesome and original! :)
theshak06 8 months ago
Rygar is pretty good, it just aged TERRIBLY.
pwninator345 8 months ago
Your opinions of Rygar are the same I feel about Metroid: Other M. (Even though I think that the criticisms towards that game are far exaggerated)
Actually I have plenty of guilty pleasures now that I think of it. (I'm one of those people who actually kept buying the Megaman Battle Network games for one)
Falcovsleon21 8 months ago
I'll admit, Rygar is one of those games I only own because of name recognition. I never had the patience to see it very far. So, I absolutely love when others are willing to show just what games like that have to offer beyond the breaking point. It gives a fresh perspective. This doesn't make me like Rygar (which was obviously never the intent), but it does make me respect its merits that I never got to see before.
abgaxel 8 months ago
Thanks bro, I remember this game and how awesome it seemed at at my friends house, and never owned it as a kid. Picked it up about ten years ago in my twenties, and was very disappointed. It wasn't at all how I remembered it. Maybe try it again.
onitgraff 8 months ago
review Vic Tokai/Human SOS for the SNES!!please!!
aquelescaraaaaaaaaaa 8 months ago
My guilty pleasure NES game is back to the future :C i have some kind of problem
gamenerd4444 8 months ago
My guilty pleasure is Friday XIII;
I mean, I got it for Christmas ok?
MoltenPlastic 8 months ago
From Rygar to Ninja Gaiden to Tecmo Bowl/Super Bowl, Tecmo made some incredible soundtracks!
drummerboygamer 8 months ago
honestly, i could never get into it... i remember even playing the arcade version (which had better graphics) at chuck e cheese as a kid and getting nowhere.
delli2011 8 months ago
I'd say this game is pretty innocent as a guilty pleasure but who knows, maybe I'm not the only one who likes Spanky's Quest on SNES but I'd be surprised if that was the case.
catboyjeremie 8 months ago
Nice work Derek :)
af10512 8 months ago
Rascal for the ps1. I know it sucks major donkey balls but it's for the nostalgia I play it.
protoman111 8 months ago
1:55 Almost as old as a Sage
sphinx200 8 months ago
.....Helluva soundtrack... I never knew it rocked that hard.
DaSurreal1da 8 months ago