Another World's Lester dies.

[cannyfocus]

The Mega Drive version in comparison to SNES* (*had lower res. in general than the M.D. console) is better (graphic quite equal to Amiga org.), but lacks because of not having the good SNES soundtrack in game of course. 3DO version is a bit too colorful for the atmosphere in Another World, so I don't like it very well. -And in finally this viewed PC remake the hills appering in some background graphics are to 'rounded' / smoothened (does not fit to atmosphere), but aside this it's ok I guess ;).

[liam758601]

killing off the original character in prequel then sub character lives in glory lol no defeats whole point of first game, was gona buy these two games and a mega drive to put away for future collectors, was fascinated by by original when i was a kid couldnt beleive it was a megadrive game i was playing, now i think FUCK THAT, wot a load of shit

[Trynt33]

now i wish i never knew about the sequel why lester take buddy but not lester why lester he should have survived and gone back to earth but why WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [crys]

[wondermega4ever]

Even Chuck Norris looks up to Lester

[swekangaroo]

The saga started with a particle accelerator experiment, that went wrong when lighting struck and Lester woke up in this otherworld.

Do we know what really happened in that very beginning in the 1st game?

-No

Lester could still be around somewhere else in space and time. If that experiment brought him to this world, one could think he could be in any other place too. (or maybe stored in that experiment computer somehow in a parallell spacetime)

;)

[swekangaroo]

@swekangaroo

Or:

Maybe that electric shock brought Lester back from that world, back to his home on earth.

The electric lighting bolt in the 1st game brought him to the otherworld. An electric shock could very well bring him "back" home, leaving an empty shell behind, that Buddy and his people later buried.

[Xplict911]

i would love to see a hd remake of this game

[TheAgwoodliffe]

Quite ironic that the one time Lester is saving the other guy's ass, he has to be killed.

[varishnakov]

This never happened.

Chahi was not involved. :(

[ltapsal]

0.45 Chuck norris?

[TheRetroMike]

FUCK THIS HORRIBLE GAME !!

The story of this (sequel) was writed by monkeys.

I mean, Lester and the Alien have just escaped of the jail ...

So, WHY ARE THEY RETURNING IN THIS FUCKING JAIL.

This game sucks, the graphics are good but the controls and the storyline are horribles, senseless.

The first Another World (aka Out of this World) is a masterpiece, so play to the first one and stay away from this abomination.

I have actualy made a review of this game (unfortunately in French).

[hankvoleur]

@TheRetroMike I saw your review (which was fun), you really hated that game. But it doesn't sound that lame. It would make sense for the alien to save his friends still enslaved.

[TheRetroMike]

@hankvoleur I understand the fact that the Alien wants to free his friends enslaved, BUT ALONE ???!!

With just a stupid whip ???!

And why Lester who was severly wounded, return in the jail with the Alien.

THAT'S MAKE NO SENSE.

This game is a joke. It's a slap in the face for all the fans of Another World.

I HATE, HATE, HATE, HATE (X 100) this game.

This is the worst sequel I've ever seen.

Awful controls, horrible storyline, sick ending, deceptive enemies, retarded AI and a lot of others things.

[Chebmeh]

@TheRetroMike I don't know about worst sequel ever... Holy shit that can be debated a lot in today's interactive media, hahaha.

[DrakeNightwing]

You know, watching this in the April Fool's 1911 Filter made Lester's "death dance" about a hundred times more hilarious than it had any right to be.

[KaitainCPS]

It's kind of an unofficial sequel - not endorsed by the creators of the original. It's more like fan fiction.

[hankvoleur]

@KaitainCPS actually, Chahi was supposed to develop it, but he left because of different views.

[salahmander]

Killing Lester is a silly idea but at least he did a little dance while getting shocked xD

[Madnam]

Surprised I didn't comment on this yet.

This is not canonical. Chahi said so.

[Dyoni1]

The reason they killed off Lester was because they decided that since he had no way to get back to his world, he was expendable, and they had to tie up any loose ends to prevent a third game.

[Frostbite249]

It doesn't make sense, why'd they kill off Lester? I don't care if they didn't want to make a sequel, this didn't have to happen.

It sucks, basically someone is teleported from his homeworld, can't get back, so he's imprisoned by some hostile locals, saves/makes friends with an alien, they break out together, and work to save his species, only for Lester to die in the process and never return home. That's not even right, I do sometimes like endings where protagonists die, but not this...

[Kagonic]

@Frostbite249

This was a fucked up "Ya know guys, I don't want to make a sequel, so I kill off the main character" decision.

If a developer kills off the hero to not have to continue the story, ever, it is bound to fuck the story up for everyone, because it feels forced.

And damn, this was forced.

[makinote9]

@Kagonic this game was made without the original creator, and he never liked it! he says that the good thing about the first game is that the player can imagine whatever he wants to, there's no specific ending

[Kagonic]

@makinote9

As far as I know he was involved in the ending sequence of this game and it was his decision that Lester would die.

[makinote9]

@Kagonic nope! he has always said another world should have never had a sequel, and of course she didn't like lester dying. maybe he contributed to make that sequence but of course it wasn't his idea and he never liked it

[Kagonic]

@makinote9

Well, maybe one day there will be a real sequel then. :)

[makinote9]

@Kagonic hahah... im beggining to study basic programming so i can do a game inspired by this :P i can do flash animations, but can't program :(

anyways i got almost everything about the game written down and if someday i make it it will be GREAT lolz

[mrcoolr429]

@makinote9 i wanna do the same thing!

[piratesephiroth]

@Frostbite249 hehehe yeah I thought the same thing exactly.

I was thinking Buddy would put Lester in some sort of alien ressurrection machine, BUT IT FUCKING CRUSHED HIM. I LOL'd. Very good game indeed.

[pavloscorpion]

the guys who make this game should be forced to eat shit, this is a insult to another world, i played it a its horrible

[ixaarii]

aaa, this is from the second game, not the first... i was wondering about that! Thank you!

[glvfan]

Same way Bennett in Commando almost died

[Foxstab]

@glvfan Are you talking about the movie Commando with Schwarzenegger? Because Bennett most certainly dies there.

[Shinge42]

This is a grate game i played it lots as a kid, glad i grabbed a emulator and gave it another go. and to all you people who think the game sucks must not have played it at a young age or when the main system were snes , which is what i played it on.and yes sonic is good but lacks story , and no saving your bird or other woodland friends trapped by a evil guy dose not count.

[Spirit89890]

Leon: LEEEEESSSSSTTTTEEEEEER!

[zachthezombie]

the rotoscope isnt done as well as in the 1st game

[videomordijullo]

LA CAGARON! esto se deberia borrar de todos los servers del mundo y pensar que nunca se realizo, que porqueria!

[egg64]

Wow, it looks like the Sega CD version was the absolute best. These scenes werent in the 3DO either.

[Vladdyboy]

omg, did he die?

[c1k4ml3kc3]

Not a hero unless he dies.

Fuck that I say! He was such a good character, anyone could "connect" to him in a way. One of the best and hardest games ever and yet he dies...

I'm not a "Good ending" lover but this is simply mind blowing because it's messing with the head.

[spacexploder]

that guy is going nutz kicking and shooting the shit out of everything.

[hilarioph]

Lester is dead? What the heck are you talking about?

[WatchRyder]

In this bad sequel they killed him!

Don't recognise it as a sequel and all is well mate.

[zeiris49]

Heh. Luck finally caught up with him.

[hanchiman]

Somehow this is considered as non canon to the original storyline, after all Eric Chahi refuse to acknowledge this piece of crap. Hope Eric will make a proper sequel where Lester doesnt die like a Red shirt.

[KirbyY15]

Damn...:'(

[dafranx]

Lester Chaykin is a physicist; he should use his skills to have those aliens help him find a way for him, to return to Earth. Are those aliens capable of Interstellar travel? Do they have ships that can travel faster, than the speed of light? That should be his ticket home, instead of being killed like a black dude in an American movie.

[Zebonka]

Your friend in teh first game is actually called Hooper.

[pablogog]

Wow I need saw this video on pc game version

[ShadowPhoenix142]

The day the epic died...

[ravenjehuty]

I can't say that i absolutely loved another world or its sequal because of the gameplay but even I have to admit that the ending to "heart of the alien" was lame. I mean, i know lester was screwed from the get go when he was teleported to another world where (lets be honest) EVERYTHING was out to kill him, but they would have atleast made the ending a bit better instead of killing him mid game. if they're going to kill a main character, why not kill sonic? god knows he's seen enough torture...

[yomirose]

lol that hurt sonic fans everywhere...*sniff*

[Chebmeh]

Yay.

[ravenjehuty]

Hey, I'm a Sonic Fan, and even I think SEGA should stop prostituting the Hedgehog and try making a game that'll make sonic the Hedgehog Epic Again. I think SEGA right now is actually pulling ideas out of a hat filled with FanFic scripts that were printed from the internet.

[yomirose]

Yea I agree with you 100%, can't even debate to my friends of why I'd rather play a next gen sonic over somthing like Gears of War, :/

[Chebmeh]

Fuck sonic. A great little experiment when it came to insipid side-scrollers; nothing when it comes to the standards of gaming today, even if the standards are still at a low.

Sonic is just perambulating in a company full of dishevelled kids that don't know a damn thing about presentation.

[FoxyAnimator]

they did at the time :I

[blade004]

I can't be bothered with games today to be honest, and i can't quite put my finger on it?

Perhaps because i am 35 now and verging on 36 and growing out of it, who knows!? but it really is kind of weird when i was a SOLID gamer since about 1979 till 2004 with the old handhelds, Hanimex, CBS Colecovision, Atari 2600, C64, Amiga then PC and now i can't be bothered unless i fire up my Amiga 1200 or C64 for a very seldom retro bash.

Lost the passion for it.

[blade004]

Could it be perhaps that games are not unique anymore? They don't have their own unique sound as per a the sound chip (the SID Chip for example, so now its just a rap song, rock song or classically composed tune).

The graphics in the game are way too true to life with and are trying to depict a real life that we played games to escape from in the first place. If i was playing Turrican 2 on the Amiga i felt like i was in a whole different world unlike any other in all its pixel art glory.

[koopakape]

@Chebmeh I still like Sonic due to the masterpiece that was his series in the early 90s--and though I, and everyone else, agrees that he's become a worthless husk of a mascot a hell of a lot of us will still love him, even if we boycott the trash that has become him in recent years.

I guess the point is, please don't say "fuck Sonic".

[LeetGamersProduction]

i like sonic it is a good game, but another world and other good games are better

[bbenjoe]

Eric Chachi hates this one..

[foxycorredor]

they never should made this game!

:(

[WatchRyder]

They even got Lesters eyes the wrong colour!

From cool blue in the first one to brown/black in this piece of **** game...

[Seelvio]

He didn't work on it. And I must hate this game too. The ending to the first game was so open towards theories. Could Lester find a way to return to his home planet? Who would have known.

I actually refuse to take the second game as canon.

[bojack13]

Someone should do a remake of Another World has the evens of the original but also creates a better story after the original ending. There should be multiple endings based on decisions you made while playing.

[ZakiaCG]

There is a free PC game that basically built upon the concepts of AW, made an RPG system, dialogue (LOL) and many more. It's called Iji, check it out. Be aware though, it's not totally the same, just similar.

[FZeroRacer]

The only thing similar is the graphic style, which the creator has said is a homage to AW. Otherwise it is entirely different.

[bbenjoe]

This sucks, Eric Chachi doesn't recognise this as canonical, Another World 1 is the real game.

[IggyHazard]

I never realized this until just now, but what happens to Lester is a lot like what happens to Wall-E!

\8-O

[bojack13]

But Wall-E lived, and Lester should've too!

[IggyHazard]

I agree. Before there was Gordon Freeman, there was Lester Chaykin.

[LordShagrath]

every generation needs a scientist fighting aliens

[IggyHazard]

Lester kinda lo0ks like John Carmack. And Kyle Blackthorne from the game 'Blackthorne' lo0ks like John Romero. XD

[ERRORxakaRay]

With red hair...(Gordan freeman...Chuck Norris...)Red heads will rule the world one day with their Ginger power lol JK

[Streetmastaalex]

I don't see why people are saying HOW CAN HE DIE TWIZE, the point of Another World's ending was to leave you wondering. There was supposed to be an unanswered question as to whether Lester lived and was wounded or died. Then this shitty sequel was made and ruined the beauty of Chahi's ending..

[pavloscorpion]

Like Chahi said, the gamed ended in another world.

[marcovarius]

the only thing I dont like is. The bad guy should have been zapped too since Lester was holding onto him while he was being electrocuted..

[connoro14]

instead the bad guy got eaten by the black thing

[Jexws]

this was one of Eric Chani's only inputs that got through into the game, he wanted lester to die, but he later regretted it

[Chebmeh]

He didn't WANT him to die, nor did he WANT this game to enter production. He just replied that, logically, there was no plausible way that Lester could return to the past, so he'd probably end up dying.

Then, cue the developer's wrath.

[Jexws]

i know he did not want this game to enter production, but he did make a suggestion about lesters death, then interplay decided to just keep going

[SolidMike84]

I think I'll stick to the 1st games ending, Lester & Buddy flying away, the whole deal if he was dead/alive when riding the dragon...Well I think everyone already have their own version of that in their mind ^^

[xcalibur9874]

out of this world/another world = awesome

heart of the alien = fail

[gamerolled]

Since when did Lester deserve to die?

Lester's a cool guy: He fights for the liberation of alien slaves and doesn't afraid of anything.

[KirbyY15]

RE:

Since when did Lester deserve to die?

Lester's a cool guy: He fights for the liberation of alien slaves and doesn't afraid of anything.

this game was not created by the first game's creator so the just put it like that.

[Chebmeh]

But he doesn't afraid of anything.

[KirbyY15]

yes i know...but imagine he was alive after that bloody war...how would you manage to get him back...apart of that...i tried out of this owrld by myself and it is really hard. at least i was able to skip that werwolf thingy

[Chebmeh]

But HE DOESN'T AFRAID OF ANYTHING.

[Soulsphere001]

@gamerolled

He died because the creator didn't want to make a second game. He decided to kill Lester off, so their wouldn't be another game with Lester, but he regrets making that decision.

[McLarenMercedes]

@gamerolled

Isn't it implied he died at the end of the original "Another World"? Ok, it is up to the player to decide if he is just seriously injured. The fact is he is saved by his slave friend but is still stuck in another world.

[MegaPoepdrol]

@gamerolled he dies because everybody does..... this game is great btw and a great sequal in my opinion

[wadeuss]

Huh? I don't remember this bit? Is this a sequel or is it just different from the Amiga version? :)

[Chebmeh]

Bullshit sequel.

[wadeuss]

Ahhh shame. I may give it a try anyway. I loved Another World.

[Chebmeh]

You'll despise Heart of the Alien.

[rmcdev]

I didn't think it was all that bad, In fact it was a pretty solid title... It was no Another World, but all of these negative comments seem pretty unfounded.

[Chebmeh]

Solid title.

Right.

So it's right up there with Hour of Victory, then.

It controlled like shit, presented itself like shit and it looked like shit.

See, the developers didn't have Chahi's patience when it came to game design. They didn't share his vision, because to them, this game was simply a product, something to net them some cash. The result of that was a messy, broken game that felt massively distanced to the original. To be honest, I can't see how this could possibly be a solid title.

[crazyclimber80]

I agree. I thought it was in keeping with the general tone of the first game. I liked getting to see Lester finally take on an enemy alien without his laser pistol. I was always hoping there could be a 3d version of the game, complete with gory deaths.

[V742]

@rmcdev Sorry, but it wasn't. It was unneccesarily difficult, the controls were very finiky and there was lag btween graphics and sound in the cutscenes. It just didn't work.

[Kamineko99]

u mean, Heart of the Alien has one ending, and Another World another? On both lester die?

How can he die 2 times?

[BladeTheFirst]

he didn't die twice, he was just badly wounded in the first game (another world)

in this one he DOES die

[McLarenMercedes]

@BladeTheFirst

That's something which is often called a "retcon", to enable a sequal to be possible at all.

I think the guy who created the original (Eric Chahi) wasn't involved in this at all, which sounds like a "cash-in".

[anyeos]

@BladeTheFirst. No, he die five times actually: First in the end of Another World, second time when he arrives the alien town, third time when he is put in the floor, fourth when he is leaved alone in some house, and finally five times when he is incinerated (it is the last one time he die definitively). LOL

[KyoFoxfire]

Personally, I think killing Lester kinda defeated the whole point of the game. He was the only reason we know about this alien place, and they just go *BZZT* DED. It was kind of a major letdown.

[Alexoneil]

I have to say, that although there are some 'bad' parts to it, I do like the violent scenes in Heart of the Alien, it was one of those games that was brilliant in it's own little ways. But massively flawed in others.

[Chebmeh]

I just see it as a flawed game. That's all it was to me.

[froshaka]

oops, I thought this was supposed to be from Another World.

[froshaka]

For me the questionable thing about this video is that the animation quality seems to be above what I remember the Atari ST or Amiga being capable of. Perhaps this is Hearts of Darkness-SEGACD

**Spoiler**

In addition, the human in Another World does die at the end. One of the guards breaks his back during a fight. The final game sequence is you as the human crawling across a floor without the use of your legs to throw a switch to save your alien friend's life and finally make your escape.

[revcom301]

That whole scene is just total bullshit. No way is this Eric Chahi's work.

[gawd0r]

he wasn't, that's not his work. he told me himself, I met him in Paris.

[Chebmeh]

You should've kissed him.

[Dflowen]

Lame he got electrocuted.

[pronislaw]

Why the writers kill Lester in this part? *sniff!*

[Chebmeh]

Eric Chahi was put under pressure with this game. He originally wanted Lester to die, but he then regretted it, as he preferred the original ending. Saying that, Chahi was not involved much in the development in this game. This was Interplay's knife-to-the-back-for-cash.

[GuilleOrochi]

hate that game... they walk like drunks, animation is a crap... another world is like a diamond and heart of alien is like a piece of shit.

[foxycorredor]

that game makes me a DISSAPOINMENT person, Eric Chai couldnt authorize that " second part " of the game :(

[Chebmeh]

I think at the time he was busy with Heart of Darkness. Interplay fucked Chahi over and Heart of Darkness came to light. :)