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  • I picked up this game from a used game store for $5. It's not bad, I agree with most of the points made in the video, but I have one serious complaint. there is a gaping flaw in the controls. Whenever you turn around or go between standing and crouching, Jay does this little 2 frame animation. During this animation, YOU CAN'T JUMP. You can shoot no problem, but when I play a platform game, or any game where jumping is important, and I press the jump button when i'm on the ground, I should jump.

  • there is a band called year 200x, they have covered the entire game soundtrack in a "metal mix"

  • HVGN- Homage

    Irate Gamer- Rip Off

  • 5:46 wait... are those.... aliens from the movie aliens?

  • this is by far my favorite overall nes soundtrack

  • ripping off rolfe's song................lame

  • @lamasu He's not ripping off, he's paying tribute to the AVGN. He says he was inspired by him. If you want to see an actual rip-off. Watch the IrateGamer.

  • @lamasu It's actually kyle justin's song.

  • Only Batman as the good Sunsoft licensed game? Some Gremlins might dislike that.

  • you know what... avgn and hvgn should have a battle... over a game one thinks is bad, and the other things is good

    :3

  • @TheReasonWhyGuy I don't think such a game could possibly exist...

  • if this the terminator as originally planed this and the terminator on sega cd would be the best pair of terminator games based on the first movie

  • I love this game. I have had it since childhood and you would have to kill me to get my copy of the game. I would even feed myself to hungry zombies before letting the game go.

  • That last look he gave... will HAUNT me.... forever.

  • I recently downloaded a rom to play this game and I gotta be honest, I didn't like it that much. Two problems I have with this game, one is that you can't scroll back in the levels to maybe check back on respawn enemies to get items from them, which brings me to my second problem, healing items rarely appear, usually you get nothing, or just ammo for your guns and that's it, and that just makes a difficult game even more difficult. I enjoy a challenging game, but I want a fair challenge.

  • Also, the game really doesn't feel anything special to me, it feels just like any other shooter to me. I don't know, I feel like Megaman, Contra, and Darwing Duck are much better games, so everytime I was playing Journey to Silius, I felt like turning it off and play those other games instead.

  • I just got this for Christmas, only 20 years late.

  • 0:31 static cling attacks!

  • Another NES title I gotta track down and play!

    A good review!

  • level 5 fucking eated my nerves back then and it still doing it. awesome game anyways

  • I felt that same feeling of success when I beat Mega Man 8 when I was 14 :D

  • u couldn't beat that game when u was at highschool? serious? i beat it when i was 6 yearsOMG...

  • Hey Derek, I bet you didn't know that JtS was once going to be a game based on the Terminator.

  • @Tailikku1 I bet you he did since he explained this game's connection to Terminator in the video.

    This review, however, did convince me to buy the game from a used game store not too long ago. For the low low price of $3. I must say I was not disappointed (though I've yet to beat it! Level 4 trips me up with those falling blocks, not to mention the midboss!).

  • @emperorIng360 I don't think I ever got that far in this game, I think you ran so fast and enemies came at you so fast, not to mention I think you had limited lives and then had to start back at the beginning. There are a few walkthroughs for this game on Youtube and also written on GameFAQs (not promoting any other site) If you like this game and are looking for obscure NES games try Metal Storm kinda rare and expensive but worth it! The same reviewer as this game HVGN reviewed it! IT'S A GEM!

  • Damn I loved this game as a kid - with a game Genie present :P

    Yeah, I know it's cheap, but hey this game is one hard sonofabitch!

  • Easily one of the top 10 BEST OSTs on the NES

    The game itself is horrendously difficult (it only has 5 levels!)

    My favorite level is level 4 - seen Alien much? ;D

  • Hmm....in the version of JTS i had the guy had a helmet and not that orange haircut....

  • There was a Terminator 1 game for the NES, developed by Radical Entertainment. It sucked. It's liked Nintendo WANTED Terminator to suck so they told Sunsoft "Sorry your game is good. We need a shitty Terminator game."

  • @Doommaster1994 lmao. true that.

  • @Dreamewalker Radical Entertainment also developed other craptastic gems on the NES including Wayne's World (Which I did a review on), Rocky and Bullwinkle, and the Mario edutainment games.

  • avgn and hvgn are like billy, and jimmy lee, both brothers on a quest, working together to review games

    irate gamer is just bimmy, with no jimmy

  • @frozenkiller7 genius.

  • @frozenkiller7 I think IrateGamer's problem is that he steals too much from AVGN's formula. He seemed like he could have the potential to make something interesting... If he would have just gone with his own formula. Not just the name, but he really stole a lot of Jame's Rolfe's commonalities.

  • @lazermunky25

    exactly! he tries to be a clone of the person, when he is but the misshapen forms of him, collapsing onto himself due to his emptiness at heart. have fun kiddies

  • The soundtrack does sound amazing!

  • LOL THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I KNOW ABOUT THE HVGN

  • I noticed that both AVGN and Irate Gamer ether remakes or revisit games that they reviewed so this makes me wonder if you plan to do same thing with your oldest game reviews like Journey to Silius or Metal Strom?

  • This game was originally a TERMINATOR Game. Yeah!!!!!! But then LJN got the licence and made a piece of shit!!!!

  • DAMN, this game's soundtrack scores right alongside the excellent Batman for NES...

  • French and portuguese?

  • Oooooh i used to play this game so much as a kid!!! thank you for reviewing it!! <3

  • I just wanted to say that I have never played Jouney to Silius, I never even heard of it until I watched this video, yet the intro theme was STILL stuck in my head weeks later. As a hardcore fan of video game music, I have to own this game.

  • What are the lyrics of the hvgn he after he says "underrated classics of old"?

  • @techn0FTW

    "They bitch and cuss

    'Bout shitty games,

    Like it's been done a million times before."

  • Whenever I want to watch reviews of great classics, I'm just gonna watch this guy

  • This game should be right up there with Super Mario and Sonic in the terms of epic and legendaryness.

  • awesome!

  • nice.. so basicly they sold the terminator to LJN to fuck it up... rather then having a good game. Idiots.

  • @DGMRuadeil Why the hell did people always give LJN the licence to make a game based on their movies? Seriously, Back to the Future, Jaws, Beetle juice, Friday the 13th, Nightmare on Elm St, Terminator, Roger Rabbit, Karate Kid, X-Men, Spiderman games, etc.

  • omg this game is awesome, nice graphics, gameplay, and the music is AMAZING! thx for sharing! :D

    2:44 omg, those words u said man... i understand u very good :)

  • Hey man, nice video! I too have been playing this game since I was a kid, and the soundtrack in indelibly printed into my brain. In fact, I have a video game cover band and we cover some songs from this game if you want to check it out. I don't think this thing will let me post a video I didn't personally make, so just look for "Descendants Of Erdrick Journey To Silius" and I'm sure it will be there somewhere.

  • can you make a video of the song with lyrics?

  • he doesent seem to care about story on games...

  • @me477777

    yah well you dont seem to care about TALENT

  • @MrSmylezz i was baseing it on other games he played too

  • @me477777 There was no real story to this game, as he mentions. Basically, your dad dies, he tells you to go get a disk and continue his work, but you instead preside to take revenge on the ones who killed him. Ultimately when you beat the game, none of it concludes.

  • Thanks for the review Derek. If it wasn't for you then I would never figure out about this game and it's amazing 8-bit soundtrack.

  • Wow, how'd I recall or remember that the ending music was from the Goonies 2 password input screen? I never once wrote down or put in a password for this game, so how could I remember it? Odd...

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  • Not to bash anyone, but I have this game and its horrible. In my opinion. I absolutely hate this game.

  • I don't get all these people not understanding that intentionally ripping something off and acknowledging it is still ripping something off.

  • @macr0machine Parody =/= Rip Off

  • When you said "beating a game you couldnt beat as a kid its a great fucking feeling" i immediatly thought of myself and Kirby 64, it felt so good when i beated Miracle Matter, i almost cried because of the happiness :D

    I like your reviews, they make me happy :D

  • awesome music in the game...it make me feel like i've boner:)

  • i get that you like AVGN and that this is inspired by James, but your theme seems to kind of bash him, which isn't cool. I just found out about you, and I think what you do is awesome... I just thought I should let you know that.

  • @johnmorisi8 he doesnt use it any more and it doesnt bash him anyway

  • It's impossible to be Angry or even Irate while listening to the bitchin' Silius soundtrack

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  • Beating a game that you couldn't beat as a kid is a great f*cking feeling!

    That feeling is the best!

  • I enjoy the reviews, Just wish you came up with your own theme music.

  • AVGN to show us the history of bad games, HVGN to show us the history of good games.

    What's not to like?

  • @thedragonb0y And hey! AVGN supports HVGN!

  • @thevisualboy37 I never saw the two as ripping off of each other in the first place.

    Honestly, reviewers of the past had already beat AVGN to it and anyone else before reviewing games so it's hardly his own material. Not to mention, James Rolf has his eyes on bigger things. AVGN was just some silly thing he did on the side.

    Lots of people such as Spoony needs to realize that when you review a game, it's not your material. So when someone else reviews something you reviewed, there's no violation.

  • @thedragonb0y ...Honestly, you made the point that I was going to make but I decided against it.

  • @thevisualboy37 In case anyone is ever afraid of their stuff being copied, think of it as almost of a compliment.

    It means what you made, is that good enough that it inspires others to want to expand on your very idea. This is why James wasn't angry, he was flattered. ^^d

    This very understanding has made me more confident with my games.

  • @thedragonb0y But who's going to show us the mediocre titles? WHO? You've just inspired me to create the Apathetic Video Game Nerd with his catchphases like, "whatever, man" and "it's pretty okay, i guess."

  • @thedragonb0y now we just need a Meh Video Game Nerd for the average games

  • @SycoMantis91 AVGN's kinda diving into that territory.

  • 1:55

    I was emo, before it was cool

  • This game was actully supposed to be Terminator for the NES

  • @LinksGamingHammerBro I like how he says that in the actual video....

  • @LinksGamingHammerBro I posted this before I saw the video

  • actually you can stop/change direction of your fall but you have to be in the air for a LONG time (like 6-7 seconds) which only really happens in the lab stage and that's if you do it right... or when you're falling to your death. (sometimes.)

  • Sooo u take the avgn theme song?? Really kid write ur own song !!!!!

  • @Zach9898 If you would check out AVGN's subscriptions he's subbed to him. So... Just shut the hell up.

  • FUCK you LJN. and that's amazing to find stuff like the terminator still in the game.lol sweet history lesson.

  • As the angry nerd said, all sunsoft games have good music.

  • what was with that fake gameplay and creepy smile at the end ... wtf .. video wouldve been 100% better without that crap.

  • we need a SVGN, sad video game nerd

  • you need to make an extended version of your original song and submit it to the next guitar hero game

    that's only a half joke.

    I mean if trogdor can make it why not an extended HVGN theme.

  • "Beating a game that you couldn't beat as a kid -- it's a great fuckin' feeling."

    OH. MY GOD. SO FUCKING TRUE.

    One day, as a middle schooler, I randomly decided to whip out my Nintendo 64 and played through Star Wars Episode I: racer and The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.

    One of the best months of my life.

  • @Alex999139: I'll second that! I got Majora's Mask as a Christmas present in 2005. I didn't beat for the first time until August of last year. Ah, good times....

  • Man you and AVGN or O.G.s i bet many others on here too Original Gamers

  • Have you heard the Year 200X remix of the Journey to Silius theme? It's freaking awesome.

  • "So, in Journey to Silius, you play as Jay..."

    You're playing as me?

  • MEGA MAN RIP OFF!

  • @TheDoopliss2 - That was my first thought too back in the day.. but the more you play Journey to Silicus you'll see that the differences are many. I love Mega Man (I'm playing Mega Man X2 on a emultor as we speak, almost) but Journey to Silicus is a great game in it's own right. One of my favorites on the NES.

  • @GeorgVanHalen i played it on an online site but scents i hate playing with the computer controlls i wanted to play with the original play pad controller and i couldnt play it without dieing and i think the avgn shoulda reviewd this in his reviews of termanotor games

  • @TheDoopliss2 Better than Mega Man. Yeah, I went there.

  • WOOT portuguese subtitles

    youre the best,i love hearing about under rated games

  • who the fucked says 'nes?' people said NES back in the day.

  • 6:14

    Me: Um....

  • Waaaait a minute...

    Why are you holding up a copy of Simon's Quest along with Zoda's Revenge and the original Ninja Turtles?

  • @marscaleb so stupid

  • Best music!!!

  • OMG Someone subtitled HVGN to portuguese, lol. Now I can share it with friends!

    Thanks Youtube!

  • @Gretgor666 someone even subtitled it to french O_O

  • Drink the dame wine. If you what to copy avgn he drinks rolling rock like water.

  • @yesilikehalo u dont get dummy

  • you guys do know that mindscape made a terminator game right?

  • Oh Derek man, I really owe you a big one! I used to play this game a lot as a kid! even that I sucked at it....

    but I really loved this game and never knew the name of this game, now that I know it I´m going to get this and revive some old memories.

    Thanks a lot man!

  • the last level of this game has NO enemies (until the bosses) but has to be played perfect. It looks easy but it's surely not it takes alot of practice or even more luck. I recommend it highly !

  • a year after this game was released a terminator 1 game was released AND IT SUCKED!!!!

  • I love the music on this game, sometimes i play it just for the soundtrack, but i can never beat that freakin' helecopter at the end of the first level.

  • Journey to Silius fucking lules! ^^

  • thumbs up for stylish goatee

  • love that theme song!

  • Journey to Silly-Us/Ralph World!

    1:52 "Or Something"/"I Think"

    -I'll be back!

  • its journey to silius in europe too. i think its RAF world in japan. btw one of my favorite nes games of all time. i mean its not megaman, but still...

  • lol, great job again.

  • Dude, you gotta bring back the original theme. It rocked!!!!

  • I like how they went.

    "Um we lost the license.. oh shit well...

    Let's have it take place in... Space that's it and um let's see... colonies yeah *rips design from Gundam colony (sides)*

    Revenge, emo hair, guns, and robots.. another game in the bank..."

  • This guy is actualy pretty cool

  • cool!

  • Hell yeah that games was the shit and i thounght was only 1 who like its music

  • GG!

  • 0:22

    That doesn't rhyme, and not everyone has done that! :<

    (Not like I could write lyrics or anything)

  • @42ndIcicle what are you on a bout thats when it switches from verse to chorus its not ment to rhyme there?

  • I bought this game a few days after i saw this review, its a really good game ^^

    It tooked a while to beat the game but after a while its gets easier and easier.

    Now when i play the game i often gets to the last level without dying one singel time :) Late level is a bitch tho ^^

  • This video is awesome, Journey to Silius is a massively under-rated game. I was fortunate enough that my parents bought it on a whim and to this day I say it's one of the most solid NES games. Excellent soundtrack as well.

  • I greatly prefer these reviews when compared to the shtick that you find elsewhere.

    Kudos bro.

  • It's NES, IT DOESN'T NEED A STORY!

  • Just picked up a fully restored NES and couldn't wait to break out my Journey to Silius cartridge. I fucking love this game!

    This game is an unsung classic that, without a doubt, has some of the best music I've ever heard in an NES game. We definitely need some Remix artists to actually show some love for this soundtrack.

  • It's okay to be happy, but this is as happy as you can get.

  • the biotch of it all is that t1 nes was still made 1 year after Journey to silius....FIGURE THAT! what a friggin load of crap, not to mention t1 nes is a piece of ass.

  • Awesome music in this game

  • not trying to hate but who the hell drinks wine?

  • @zombieslayor

    He does :)

  • @Petalklunk lol

  • just replayed this game couple of days ago, soundtrack kicks ass!

  • actually they would have been responsible for 3 good movie games. gremlins 2 was pretty good as well.

  • I love this game, but I have never finished it.

  • great vid... It's okay to be happy.

    5*s

  • never played this game but someone told me that solar jet man was good, it might be the hardest game ever made lol, this one looks hard too

  • @ogskeetdizzle

    In 16 years, I have never managed to play it to the end.

  • @ogskeetdizzle

    5 levels, 3 lives per level (continue from checkpoints), few health pickups.

    If you die three times in a level, you start it over.

    If you wait too long on the GAME OVER screen, you start the whole game over again.

  • Badassmusictime GO!

  • I don't get all these people not understanding the fact that this is an intentional parody, not a rip off. ¬¬

  • if you get to the point where people hate you for dumb reasons, youve made it somewhere.

  • @Snifflator45

    Man, you're right. Also, your quote is made of win xD

  • @Snifflator45 i hate you because you're ugly

  • @Gretgor666 The way I see it, HVGN and AVGN are the same kind of reviewers but they just use different games, it's like peanut butter and jelly, can't have one without the other sometimes.

  • @Gretgor666 exactly :)

  • @Gretgor666 Probably because parody usually implies sarcasm/irony pointed at the target of the parody. One joke doesnt make it a parody.

  • @MrZhabadasher While true, it's also not a rip off, as he clearly has his own style and has acknowledged James as inspiration. Yes, there are little touches like instead of beer, the Happy Nerd drinks wine, but he does his own thing and goes into an area the AVGN rarely ventures into. I mean, it's not like HVGN is the Irate Gamer or anything, Derek seems to have his own schtick, but still acknowledges the inspiration behind it.

  • @Doop3r Agreed. he is not a parody or a rip-off.

  • bad

  • it a good tribute to avgn... its good videogame reviewing. not great and original like little miss gamer or still gaming but its good i like it

  • The game wasn't named Raf World in Europe as mentioned in the video (it was the same name as in NA, but the main-character's sprite was the same as in the japanese version), that was however the title in Japan. The "raf" in the JP title is written in phonetics, so I guess it is supposed to mean "Rough World", hence the difficulty of the game :P

    Great video though!

    5*

  • Go back to IrateGamer, kid. This is too much for you.

  • @atreyu558855 wow, people never read credits and understand that this is a parody and he understands that the nerd is better than him

  • French sub-title ! Yeah !

    J'suis content.

  • fucking prick

  • I should look for this; I'm pretty sure I saw it in the local pawn shop's "bargain bin".

  • Great game, great "review".

    5 stars for this one.

    Keep it up dudes

  • To bad because this game would have been a kick ass terminator game.

  • This game was originally going to be a terminator game but Sunsoft lost the rights at the last minute.