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  • As an amiga gamer (then gba), I never new about this game. It's clearly a good one. I WILL check this game out.

  • games much harder than you make it out to be.

  • Every copy of this game i find looks like shit, cover art all torn up, ect. It still kicks ass though :)

  • I heard about this before I watched this.

  • Got here from a thread shouting out to this game: [link removed by user]

    When posting a link to this on my Fasebohk, I figured that "[Metal Storm is] Sorta like the Half-Life 2 to VVVVVV's Portal." But I think this is mostly based on a similar mechanic sans the pew-pew-pewing.

    [If I've posted this before, I apologize; wouldn't post when I'd first typed it back in October (or earlier), so finally putting this up now.]

  • @tjf588 Link is [Steam Powered Forums URLage]?t=1432172 (seems this is what had been causing the trouble, even today)

  • this guy is kinda faggy, and talks really fast sometimes. there's also some awkward cringe-worthy moments just about every episode. otherwise, he does review cool looking games that i usually dont know much about.

  • Saw your first review a week ago and now ive watched them all man your a great talent and now I'm also constantly on Retroware TV thanks to you. Also picking up this game up looks amazing for the NES. Thanks man

  • Metal Force on Dendy way better.

  • This game looks f***ing amazing.

  • puex-tu parler francais?

  • The 1st 40 seconds of the intro song are so annoying, :) I mean I admit I am a nerd too and agree with the rest of the review, just saying, anyway, I beat this game on Expert, it was so tough as far as NES games go they don't get much tougher than that mode. Ghosts and Goblins type games I suck at too but those are kinda cheap. This game doesn't feel cheap but pretty fair. Basically one-hit and you're dead, great bosses and the switching gravity gimmick was never done better. TOTALLY UNDER-RATED

  • 2:56 Random Mr. T appearance FTW

  • Here's something you forgot to talk about, not that I'm complaining. The game utilizes (sic) paralax scrolling. The closer the layer of background, the faster it moves. The background moves faster than the foreground. Glad I got that out of the way.

  • Derek is genuinely awesome, a great alternative to AVGN.

    This is where Chris Bores went wrong, he should have acknowledged James Rolfe's sublime work, had he done that he probably would have gained much greater respect from the online community and fans on the whole , plus it would have prevented most of the trolling that is going on as a result of his failure to do so..

  • I will be buying this game based solely on this review.

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  • just bought it lol

  • What is the song played during the credits?

  • Those graphics are almost 9-bit!!!

  • well if you do consider this guy a copycat of james then he is the only guy that can do it.He is very detailed and his videos are interesting plus i like to here about great classic games

  • Your smile creeps me out.... But yea the game looks cool and definately is an underrated classic

  • @Rickstilwell1 I know this is 3 years old but you do know that with save states, some people would prefer the save states that come with emulation.

  • Hm. Admittedly, I expected a different kind of metal. A louder kind. Eh.

  • looks sweet

  • metal warriors fo snes is very similar

    watch?v=CZTJ1guQwMo

  • French subtitles? Hell Yeah!

  • it was great to see the two of them meet up at PAX this year

  • @kingofburnttoast  LOOPIN LOUIE!!!

  • says: Good stuff. I'd have to agree with the 'Parody' notion. It's a tribute of sorts. And, in my opinion, it was done well. Seems like anyone to come along 'Post' AVGN is considered some sort of poser or wannabe. I have to disagree. That's like saying that there can ever exist only one of anything and everything else is a cheap imitation. That's just not so. It's a different reviewer with an entirely different perspective. So, game on, HVGN. Keep cranking'em out to your heart's content.

  • Holy crap! I remember playing this when i was little at my older brothers house! I must track down this game and relive old memeries.

  • somone needs to make a sequel!

  • Metal storm need to be remix

  • @MarcyAMcOtt How did he copy him at all in any way other than the name and intro? if you cared to actually watch the review, youd realize it is nothing like AVGN.

  • @MarcyAMcOtt 7:01 he gives credit to his INSPIRATION.

  • @MarcyAMcOtt

    Oh wait? James totally didnt have him in his newest board james.

    james actually likes this guy so dont say its a copy. It is a PARODY.

  • I have to say I WANT to say I have seen this at the local rental store when I was a kid based on the box art to the game alone, but I could be wrong...needless to say I picked this game up on ebay (a little pricy, but you sold me on it), and even though I am stuck on level 3 I am greatly enjoying the game, from the gameplay to the sprits and animation of it all.....I'll be sure to put more time into it after Summer II classes are over this coming week..thanks for pointing us to a unknown classic

  • The virtual console would be a blessing if it NoA was more interested in it rather than filling store shelves with shovelware so they can make a quick buck off of new gamers who don't know any better.

  • @AVGNZero Get a life fanboy.

  • y'all are mad as fuck.

  • Pretty cool guy

  • This game sucks you suck hvgn

  • @AVGNZero Of course, here comes the fanboys.

  • @Croreloth Your the fanboy faggot

  • @AVGNZero then give me a reason WHY he sucks?

  • @Croreloth He's videos suck

  • @AVGNZero How?

  • @AVGNZero He reviewed a game that very little people have played, he gave really good reasons why it's good for both casual and expert gamers, he explained why he thinks that it was so underplayed, and it was a parody that was done right. Oh yeah and by the way, the Angry Video Game Nerd's first review wasn't nearly as good as this.

  • oh, yeah, sure. i'll buy the cartrage. *opens up new tab to download metal storm rom*

  • LOL I love the Angry Nintendo Nerd: Karate Kid reference

  • Is this Metal Warriors this games spiritual sequel?

  • Another game that's extremely overrated is "Astal" for the sega saturn. Great controls, great animation, and kick-ass music! And it was also wasn't too hard.

  • ugh what is this? avgn rip off... see i came to this conclusion because their names are similar.. (angry video game nerd happy video game nerd see?) but he reviews good games?!?!?!? whats the point of learning about good games? i only care about the shitty ones... and he doesn't curse ever 5 minutes fake and gay

  • @Jakob1224 Just letting you know that on most of his videos intros it clearly says "INSPIRED by James Rolfe" AKA the AVGN.

  • @mdesgagne88 i was being ironic i know that -.-'

  • @Jakob1224 I wish everyone was as stupid as you. Life would be so entertaining.

  • @spooncastro that was SARCASM i like hvgn i was saying all of that IRONICALLY!!!!!!!

  • @Jakob1224 It's all typed. How the hell is anyone supposed-to assume you're being sarcastic? You should have put "sarcasm" in brackets at the end of that.

  • @spooncastro i didnt think anyone would think im that dumb

  • Aww man. Looks good on your TV! I bought this back in the day. Never got past the 4th level. Wish I never sold that stuff.

  • What's that music from at the end of the video? It sounds totally rad! :D

  • Hey! Actually I like what this guy does, very nice and I also just discovered this game. It is fascinating.

  • go back in time and show them this

  • That's all fine and dandy.. but the only metal storm on ebay is 1200$. Are you out of your mind!?! lol

  • @DGMRuadeil Get an emulator and download the game. Free

  • @LordVili naw thats no fun. I have plenty of roms, but i want the originals

  • @DGMRuadeil

    Why? Are you a collector?

  • @LordVili i'd say more of a fan. I dont need to own every single game just to have them all just like the AVGN (you won't see me with action52 :P), but i do want to own all the games worth having yes. The NES and SNES (mostly NES) are my favorite consoles of all time. I still use them both a lot

  • @DGMRuadeil Oh. That's understandable

  • 5 stars just for the Dio reference! lol

    Holy Diver

    You've been out too long in the midnight sea

    Oh, what's becoming of me?

  • btw, you might wanna check out the gamingbritshow's top 10 nes games.

  • amazing game! nearly perfect controls and difficulty, amazing graphics, rocking soundtrack, perect gameplay and much more.

  • so you and angry video game nerd are friends in real life?

  • I don't know, I don't think the Game Over music is quite as sad as Batman. Give that a listen and compare the two.

  • *raises hand* Played it! Loved it. Really fucking hard, though. But like you say.. If you're good at Ninja Gaiden then you'd probably fair better than I - Gaiden type of games weren't my cup of tea, I always sucked at them.

    My biggest problem was the one hit death. Man, in Megaman at least you have a health meter. You're this giant, badass mech and one little ding and you explode. Sigh.

  • I've had this game for a long while, I wish that someone would buy the IP and release for Wiiware, PSNET, or LIVE

  • thumbs up if you are suprised at how good this is

  • Dude you rocks !!

  • its not a parody or copy or so, its kinda tribute, just watch the nightshade review.

    hvgn is very good so

    keep it up

  • the captions are grammer policeing you that is funny in that of its self

  • awsome intro!

  • MetalStorm on the cover and had a fold out poster from nintendo power really how much more did they have to do to say "This game rules." I played the hell out of it and it played the hell out of me second time through. I love Irem personally they got R-type right? is that not enough to get the notice that maybe they got a little more to offer just maybe. I think more than I feel sorry for MetalStorm I feel sorry for IREM. I mean they didn't get nearly the notice they should have.

  • @AxiomofDiscord

    And let us not forget about the splendor that was IREM's Ninja Spirit for the TurboGrafx 16. Man, that game is a gem. :)

  • @treismac I was sad to get to play TurboGrafx real late always new about it saw the CD addon demos at the store and all ... only to find out many years later it had more the kinda games I loved than most the other consoles. It was shmup heaven it and the Saturn sadly another system I didnt get around to until years. I find if most don't like it than I most likely will love it.

  • Great parody of AVGN's Karate Kid review intro

  • did i see beyond good and evil?! that was one of my favorates

  • That was a damn good review. Nice job!

  • @MaicoMoon oh yeah like when he ripped this game a new asshole for being terrible and unoriginal- oh wait, he didn't do that at all, he talked about how under looked and great it was.... it's almost like he's a mirror image.... weird, with happy being the opposite of angry and all, you'd think he'd be the same....whoa!

    Ps @7:01 he credits the nerd and the song writer

  • @MaicoMoon you dumbass. AVGN acknowledges his existence(AVGN is subscribed to him) and he does his own thing.

  • Anyone who thinks hes a rip offjust shut up, hes a tribute, The AVGN is subscribed to him! Do you think he'd subscribeto him if all he was doing was stealing his material?

    btw Great review :)

  • UMM why did you steal the AVGN music...... thats bullshit

  • Love the ending.

  • wow thats a nes game o.o graphics are awesome for that

  • Watching this video prompted me to hunt down a copy for myself, and I sure am glad I did -- it's amazing. Has to be in the top 10 NES games ever....maybe even the top 5. What a gem!

  • @jordanromaker if you don't mind where did you find it? I have been looking for a copy for some time now.

  • @nero8289 Well I don't mind telling you it took me well over a year - close to 2 - to find it. But I didn't really do anything special, I just kept going to stores that specialize in buying, selling and trading old games. One day I just happened to get lucky and spotted it hiding in a giant bin beneath a mountain of other crappy games. My advice would be to just keep looking and hope for a lucky break. Though I'm sure you could find plenty of people on the internet selling their old games, too.

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  • @CHAOSin8bits I'm going to assume that comment was meant to be directed at the guy who's name actually is nero as opposed to the guy who was merely talking to him...

  • 0:00 - 2:40 Did anybody notice the simularities between this and the opening to AVGN's Karate Kid review

  • I'D RATHER HAVE A RHiNO DUMP ON MY CHEST !!!

  • I remember this game but not played yet, I read on Nintendo Power magazine about this game.

  • That Game Over music sounds like What Is Love by Haddaway.

  • Sorry, irem, not item

  • Item is more well known than you think, they made almost all of the black box games only the generic ones though

  • weird.... I've been thinking of this game lately but couldn't remember the name of it at all, and then I came across your review of it by chance, thank you. It's nice to see it get some lip service here, I remember it being very well designed and a lot of fun.

  • Twas NEVER overlooked by me it was one of my ALL time fave NES games

  • dude I played this growing up and it KICKED ASS!! The gameplay was top notch. I beat this multiple times as a kid... the boss fights were just FUN!!!

  • I have owned this game since a young lad... one of my fav's as well since a child.

  • Someone needs to change that game over with GAME OVER YEAH!

  • @IAMCARBONDOG lol

  • lol its just like the reversed version of avgns karate kid review, same exact video, only instead of saying "i hate this game" hes saying "I love this game" lol

  • Haha that was a funny disclaimer in the end.

    I only recently found out about you through Chuggaconroy and while you aren't the best I've seen, I definitely appreciate the degree of effort went into this and being humble about it. (Unlike some real shamless rip offs that trolls here should be "Irately" picking at)

  • Thumbs up for pointing out Psychonauts <3

  • THIS IS A TRIBUTE TO THE ANGRY VIDEO GAME NERD.

    NOT.

    A.

    COPY.

    The whole irony of it is that he is the opposite of James- It provides a lot of humour.

    PARODY. NOT COPY.

    /rant

  • @liam1060 he should do crossover with avgn that would be funny

  • @liam1060  yes I think so

    The COPY is Irategamer not Derek

  • @chobitssofar Exactly! Also, Chris Bores is shit. Derek is awesome. He's actually funny

  • @liam1060 Yes! Thank you! You sir, are very intelligent. The real copy is Irate Gamer. Also, Derek's actually competent. He's funny, he's elaborate and he'd just awesome

  • @ProManUnitedFan Irate Gamer just bought a bunch of games and started doing ... whatever that he does, ripping off James. He's not very authentic either. He makes it sound so forced.

  • @TheLuminousCleric Exactly! IG sucks. HVGN is awesome

  • Very good parodying AVGN's Karate Kid video

  • i love this i dont care if its just like angry video game nerd but different i love both shows

  • Dude at first I was going to say something mean but I think you did a good job. But really the avgn theme and trying to be opposite of James is a little stupid. Just be yourself:) it helps when people dont try and copy other people and i think it would be really good if you just were yourself. No need to dress and try and sound like James.

  • This is better than the AVGN

  • lol at the end.

  • The best password: 4ftp7vvstw Enjoy!

  • Metal Storm was one of my top 10 NES games as a kid. Loved that game, it was so much fun. It's really a shame more people didn't play it, it's really great.

  • For those who don't know the HGVN i feel is better than the AVGN who isn't really that funny. Also he isn't a rip off he just makes videos and if you don't like it just get off. Plus HVGN is my shit and i'm totally going to beat Sweet Home

  • i played this game befor i just forgot what it was called, thanks, i love it

  • your gay

  • I would laugh so loud if you spilled that red wine on your leather couch. Anyways, great video, I might just have to buy Metal Storm now.

  • i cried one the game over screen...... its so sad

  • why did most of those high profile games that wiped metal storm off the map... kinda... suck?

  • Metal Storm kicks ass. It was an amazing feat on the NES back then and a really innovative game as well. The M-308 was every kid's fantasy growing up. Who wouldn't want to go stomping down the suburbs with this baby. Awesome!

  • Thanks. I think i'll check this game out.

  • I love your theme song

  • Pourquoi les sous-titres en francais?

  • hm....

    hvgn havent use speccail effect but still intresting to listen too

    everything sounsd so positive while at the same time avgn is just the funny of heck with the bad stuff he say and hes use many speacail effect

    wat do u guy think?

  • HVGN: i have heard about this game, i own it and i have played it i love it.

  • I got this on an emulator :D It's awesome. I haven't gotten past the second level, but mostly because I haven't tried. And you are starting to get better then AVGN because he's starting to wear out.

  • err-eem? Eye-rem? Ear-em?

  • Christ those graphics are amazing. When I first saw gameplay I assumed it was a SNES title with an odd color palate.

  • Sometimes I feel i'm the only person in Europe to own this game >_<

  • @PseudonymPlayer Hell no bro! Got ya back

  • @mazze84

    ^___^

  • little mech is just minding his own business then all of a sudden BAM!! epic anime explotion!

  • I drink wine through a straw because Wii Boxing is hard to play with one hand.

  • excellent review lol

  • I drink wine and play games too.

  • if you liked metal storm, then check out a game called VVVVVV

  • how about reviewing shitty games and acting like they are great

  • i went to the gamestore and thought i was buying tthis game instead it was like zanac

  • I've heard of metal storm and lots of otehrs and I'm 14.

  • i love metal storm!!! so origonal!

  • I've watched all of your HVGN vids, they are all interesting & informing. I've now played Metalstorm & Journey To Silius thanks to you, & I must say they are amazing games

  • just tried the game its really fun. and crazy

  • the game over music is so depressing! :(

  • Look cool. But EVERY, and I mean EVERY time you said Metal Storm, I thought you said Metal Slug. i like the game, but man, it's not nearly as overlooked as this.

  • Wow....

    I found this game on eBay, this game is expensive O_O

    Cost 37 USD

  • You're so ... happy. It cheers me up when I feel a little down (or watched to much AVGN lol) I guess Irem is an indie game company. There are a lot of indie game companies (back then and now) that come out with a lot of great games. Who knows, maybe there's another indie gem that's more enjoyable than Metal Storm. Oh, btw, Metal Storm IS a fun game. I remember passing the expert quest at a friends house. Too bad he moved, I can't play it anymore. :(

  • Oh, wait. I ain't done.

    1. Great remake of Kyle Justin's theme for James.

    2. Yeah, this game is still far too underrated.

    3. I love the alterations to James lines. "This game... woo, boy... I ____ this game". And "This game ____ ass!!"

    4. Great ending. Wait, its like another James line. Instead of "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU­UCCCCK!!!" This time it was it was "FUCK!!" Great job.

  • OOH!! METAL STORM!! If it weren't for CoolROM and emulators, I never would've heard of this game. I love it.

  • Keep it up man. I love hearing about crappy games but its nice to see some of the great games from my childhood. And its awesome that you give credit to AVGN as an inspiration and take the opposite road unlike others *cough*Irate gamer*cough*

  • that is what i think about brutal paws of fury and darkstalkers thay are under rateed to yo

  • that is what i think about brutal paws of fury and darkstalkers thay are under rateed to yo

  • that is what i think about brutal paws of fury

  • The AVGN said he was funny lol. and at least hes not another Alexander4488...the gamedude.

  • WOW

    That graphic looks like 16 bit!

  • cool review bro!!

  • I love that you made this video, it's great that you're digging up this classic and you made research about it's origins, but I have a correction about that. IREM did publish the game...but this isnt the same as developing it, it just means they made the game into a cart and put it in the shelves, the people who designed it are the developers; tamex. at mobygames check metal-storm specifically the game designer Kengo Miyata, he isnt credited in any more games.So he might've left the industry.

  • i probably wouldve called you a rip off but i love how everything the nerd does, is opposite of you! ha! hilarious! like the rolling rock and then you drank the wine instead.

  • The title and cover art work against the game looks pretty bland it's what's made me over look the game. Watching you play it this game looks sweet you should rate your favorite platformers in a episode.