Let's Play Ecco the Dolphin #35: The Queen of the Ugly

[rogue10000]

Ha congratulations on beating the machine, i remember me and my dad completed this game on the genesis but by the end of it my dad could do the machine with his eyes closed.. once you memorize every turn its easy.. but it took a long time to do.

the trick with the queen is to take your time and just do two jaw strikes and then wait untill after she inhales again.

[omegaleonidas7]

Forgot something,

Ive heard of a disgusting glitch that happens when you are suced by the queen in invincibility cheat, the screen appears red, ecco black and spining in the center, with the enemies oberslaping,

I am too chicken for trying

[omegaleonidas7]

I am the chicken, only like to mes with the teletransportators :(

[CEWJS]

Dude, that's what the passwords are for. If the game has passwords in it then it isn't cheating them to use them.

[Darkmage1293]

Although you were a bit slow on the uptake early in, and some of those...okay a lot of those deaths were carelessness of the air meter (i laughed and facepalmed at the same time), I'll honestly excuse a password to the Queen. I don't even KNOW how I had the patience to beat the Queen legitimately. You would expect a 6-year old to bitch like crazy...

Yes I played this game when I was 6. And won. The Machine. It haunts me. IT HAUNTS ME. *resists urge to break iTouch for having the game*

[piplupfan580]

it's ok if u used cheats.

trust me if that happened to me, I would've used cheats too(if I wasn't blinded by fury)

and I would have dropped sooooo many f bombs the term would have to be change to the f nuke :P

[danielcdawson]

It's too bad the Wii Virtual Console doesn't have savestates. At least, I'm assuming it doesn't.

BTW, I saw in another LP that in the Japanese version of this, when the Queen swallows you, you don't die but end up in another level you have to escape to get back to the boss fight.

[KurtKokaine1]

@danielcdawson That's Ecco 2.

[danielcdawson]

@KurtKokaine1 No, it's Ecco 1! The level is called The Stomach. Look up a video of it.

[unak78]

I can't blame you at all. I know I beat this game way back when on the Genesis but I can't imagine that I ever went back. I don't remember.

[KurtKokaine1]

@unak78 You probably used Game Genie. I know I sure as hell did.

[Sliider36]

i don't blame you at all for entering a code to the last boss. that's a major design flaw- making you run through that entire stage every time you die at the boss. when this game was released, there really was no internet to look up the strategy to beat the boss. We had to figure it out ourselves, and running through that machine stage over and over is just simply unjustified cruelty.

[padovano7]

......"i'll see you right back"...lol....

[TehMecheon]

i want to capture the essence of the moment people realise that dying on the queen sends you to The Machine

And yeah, I've beaten the Machine in one run with video evidence (Hell, the harder Mega CD version Machine at that), and can't blame you for passwording

[tbits42]

The reason you don't recharge health is because the difference in consoles.Sega cd lets you recharge,Sega Genisis doesn't.

[xSnowzFallx]

Probably laughed through most of the video, it's funny. At 6:15, were you dropping bombs?

[MegaFreak400]

@xSnowzFallx nah, I didn't swear at all really.

[jojoxd371]

i think ecco is one of the hardest games ever but very good lp^^

[DragonNexus]

Honestly, I never beat this entire game legitimately. I think everyone who played this game is allowed to cheat if they can beat Welcome To The Machine once.

Beat it once, then use cheats to do the boss. This isn't some lame minute long jump sequence or someting to quickly burn through, it's pretty much hell. It's a stupid challenge they threw in, it's pretty much Nintendo Hard.

And it has that "Oh crap what do I do!?" boss battle that you're so surprised with you die...just to do it again.

[CuccoOnFire]

I wouldn't call you a coward for using that cheat, I'd call you sane.

[RandomManAJS]

when she swallows you die

[RandomManAJS]

lmfao at your silent reaction. that is perfectly fine with your trouble you beat the level.

[KManrules1331]

Is it just me, or does the queen look suspiciously like Phantoon from Super Metroid?

[Solarisle888]

Dude, using passwords isn't cheating, so relax ^_^

[yoshibear1009]

When I played the game (On the PS2, with the atari pack, or whatever its called) I think I only had to go through the first few seconds of the machine whenever I died... Hmn.... or was it tToT?

[1202102]

you have earn my respect as a gamer. if i were playing it id probably break my wii into pieces and burn it with fire

[1202102]

u spended a lot of time trying to beat the level i understand that. unlike some other lper that cheats in every single game, good job mega :O

[DreamsDoReMi]

Half of the video you were talking about people calling you a coward. No one is calling you a coward I'm pretty sure. I just thought that was pretty funny ^^. I would have done the same thing though. I also would have been dropping lots of "pancake. pancakes!".

[AdNintendogs]

try attacking its head with that dash attack mabey?

idk, im just trying to help

[UpsidedownThinker]

Dude, if I were you, I would have raged so hard. Trust me, if it was me playing the game, I just would have cheated too. At least you made the conscious effort to make it to the end of The Machine before cheating.

[Supermariofan14]

That is ridiculous! This should be AVGN's next review. Also, you didn't have the invincibility in your first battle and I think Mother Brain is just as ugly.

[Drawciawitch]

It's okay Mega. The Vortex Queen causes frustration in all of our hearts... u_u

[PondTheGreat]

You got there before and would have gotten a password yourself, so using a code to get back to that point doesn't really seem as much like cheats to me. I mean had you turned off the Genesis game at that point, you'd have to use that code. So yeah, I don't really think it's cheating really. Other than that, it's cool that you edited the boss fight so it looked like the boss had PK's face in the video.

[knightofskylark]

Dude, I don't blame you at all for doing a cheat

[ShadowBowser64]

You didn't remind us of anything in this video D:

[DrunkGoomba1645]

I understand why you used cheats to get back to the final boss. If it was me, I would've done the same thing especially after having to do "Welcome to The Machine" for 3 hours trying to beat it.

I bet at 6:27 you were dropping so many freaking f bombs that you couldn't even count them. I wouldn't blame you if you did. I'd understand.

[MegaFreak400]

@DrunkGoomba1645 Ironically, I didn't swear really at all through this whole recording.

[metaknight119]

This is AVGN material.

[SkrapedLogic]

Really, making you do that level over again is evil incarnate. After spending hours on it, you've more than entitled yourself to cheats.

[sirlouie2008]

if this was me i would say fuck this game

[Freedomanganime2]

don't worry, games back then did that alot so I don't mind

[piplupfan580]

oh no don't worry about cheating dude...I would have cheated on a level if I was it for 3 hours

[BrokenAndFallen]

Making you play the Machine again? I myself never got past the Machine as a kid but still. That was just...mean.

[Borderlands123123123]

if it toke u that long i am not calling u a pussy