 Hello everyone, and uh we're mixing it up a little bit this week by doing an LP instead of the usual uh stuff you're expecting from this channel. If you're not into this, if you're not feeling it, that's totally fine. See ya next week, but um for now I was uh looking at what other Halloween-y type games I could get into on Tuesday as you could see if you watch Tuesday's video that was Adventures of Dr. Franken and a solidly mediocre game. Not something I wanted to recommend to anybody necessarily. But I figured, hey, you know what, rather than go through the depths and Super Nintendo stuff like, you know, I think last year I went through Bram Stoker's Dracula and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Those two are also not great games. There's not really any new rom hacks for Super Nintendo that are Halloween-y, so to speak. I've done that in the past, too, but I figured, hey, what the hey, let's do just a classic like Super Castlevania IV, it's one of my favorite games. I'm not necessarily good at this game. So if you're watching this for some sort of like complete, you know, like flawless run, like some guys like Arcus and, you know, the Mexican runner and those guys can do. You are not in luck, you're in bad luck, actually. That's not what this is for. This is just to hang out. I've got some 12-year Glenn LeVet over here. However, I don't even know if I'm pronouncing that correctly, but just to hang out, have a drink and play some Super Castlevania IV, I'm not that good at this game, but I figure it's a good time. And also, I want to mention that this is part of a collaboration with somebody that I met through our podcast, and yes, for those that do not know, I do have a podcast called Drunk Friend. It is the combination of SNES Drunk and Nes Friend, my friend, Trav, as part of the Polykill Network. And so we had on a guest who lives in New Zealand, actually. That was a bit tricky to schedule, and she's an artist. She's actually a teacher. Her name is Leila Ataya. I think I'm saying her last name right. I know her first name is Leila, but if you go to the description or if you go to the pinned comment, it will lead to a video where she is doing a giveaway for some artwork she made inspired by this game. It's really good. She's really a fantastic artist. You can go to LeilaAtayaArtist.com and see some of her work. She does a lot of surrealist stuff. It's all really trippy-looking, really insanely skilled. She's very, very talented. We had her on as a guest, and she asked about doing some sort of collaboration. And I said, sure. So this is part of that. So there's also a link to the artwork itself, if you want to check it out. It's very cool, definitely spooky, fits the time of year. And all you have to do to enter the giveaway is just leave a comment and just hashtag giveaway. That way it makes it easy for me to search in the comments and find everybody that has entered, everybody that's interested in entering. And then, I don't know, I'll give like a day or two for people to enter. And I will randomly pick a winner. I'll get in touch with you, I'll respond to the comment. We'll do some verification and that sort of thing. And I'll be able to send you the artwork for free. So that's, it's just all about collaboration and, you know, promoting the arts really. That's really all, what's important to me is promoting other artists and that sort of thing because my mom was an artist when I was growing up. Is there anything back here I never go this way, so I'm just going to keep going this way. Now my, I have a bunch of paintings that my mom made back in, you know, way before I was born in the 60s and 70s that she made back then. So that was, so anytime I have a chance to help another artist or promote another artist like Layla, I'm happy to do so because she's also, one thing I like about her channel is that she's a teacher. The best thing about this giveaway, I think, which is actually really cool is that if you don't win, she actually teaches you how to paint this anyway or how to draw this anyway. So, you know, if you like it and you didn't win, well, just watch the video on how to make it yourself and you still might have it, you know, you would just have to put in some elbow grease and all that to get it yourself. So yeah, all the links are in the description. I also have a pinned comment if you're interested. It's very cool work and, oh, I actually forgot I was invincible there for a second. I should probably talk about the game here eventually. God, I've played this first level so many times I could get through like sleepwalking basically. But yeah, I'm excited to promote another artist. That's the whole point of this. Next month, November, there will be a lot more collaborations going on with some people you might recognize on the YouTube community. I don't want to give anything away yet, but yeah, that's something that I'm looking forward to doing. I try and do something quote-unquote special every Thanksgiving holiday. Thanksgiving in the US, for those that don't know, is usually the last Thursday of November. So what I'm going to try and do is do some sort of collaboration with a couple other YouTube folk. In the past, I've done genre videos like I think I did the giant, here I don't want holy water. I used to think that was ink when I was growing up, like a little jar of ink. But yeah, in the past I've done genre videos on that Thursday and Friday. I've done, what else have I done? I did PS1 RPGs like Chrono Cross and Final Fantasy 7. I did, you know, way back in the day when I first started, I did Mario World and I think Link to the Past were the two that I did. So I try and bust out the good stuff, something different. So this year's theme is going to be collaborations. So stay tuned for that. Hopefully you folks will like it. Hey, I'm cruising along pretty well here. I should have kept the cross. That wasn't very smart. Cross is the best weapon in the game. When I was growing up I used to think it was the clock, which I somehow thought it was like a flower when I was a kid. I couldn't see the clock part of it so I thought it was like some sort of orchid plant thing. Now obviously it's a pocket watch. Not just any pocket watch. It's got to be a Castlevania-ish, ye old pocket watch. But yeah. Yeah, that's the plan though. We want to give away some artwork and we're going to be doing some other collaborations. It's going to be super fun and I hope you like it. What's odd about this timer power-up thing is that it does not work on bosses, which is pretty ridiculous. It reminds me of Lagoon where it's like, oh yeah, you can use magic but you can't on bosses. It's like, well, you're just making up the rules as you go. Oh, it was coming down just a little bit there. Everybody knows that when you play Castlevania, you're supposed to jump to grab the orb. It's just one of those things that goes without saying. It's like when you play an RPG, you know you're supposed to talk to everyone. You know you're supposed to do certain stuff. When you play Castlevania, you're supposed to jump into the orb. Or when you play Contra 3, you're supposed to do the pose with both guns on the top of that concrete tower towards the end of the level, the end of the first level. It just goes without saying. It's what you're supposed to do. Anyway, cruising right along up, somebody grabbed me. Could you let go, please, sir? Or ma'am? I always love the music in this level. That baseline is sick. Oh, we don't want that. Actually we do want that. Screw it. That's right. I forgot I had the timer for the clock. I'm sorry. The pocket watch. The pedantic types will come after me for not saying it, not saying what it actually is. Actually, it's a pocket watch. That's my nerd voice. Anyway, yeah, I still get comments from people saying, like, I didn't know you had a podcast. And it's like, yeah, that's probably because I didn't actually come out and make a video promoting it or anything like that. I've been using the channel comments section for the channel itself to kind of tell people about it. And it's led to some people unsubscribing because I got so sick of hearing about it. One guy's comment was literally like, why am I even subscribed to this channel? It's like, I don't know. Why are you? If you're going to complain about something so easily ignored, but whatever. What the hell was that? That was terrible. I wasn't concentrating. That's my excuse. Jesus. That was bad. All right, let's get back on track here. But yeah, no, we've had on the podcast has been really fun so far. I joked about starting a podcast when this pandemic started and I knew I'd be working from home for a while. And I was like, oh, well, I guess I've got a lot of free time now. I think I might just start a freaking podcast. And Travis reached out to me on Twitter saying, like, are you serious? I was like, sure, I guess. And we started the drunk friend podcast back in March. Was it back in March? I don't even remember what time exactly it was, but yeah, it's been fun. We've had a lot of really, really good guests. We've had Dan from Console Wars on a couple of times and Dan's such a fun guy. I can't help it. It's pretty embarrassing. I always end up getting smashed when Dan's on just because he's such an easy hang and he's such an easy guest because, you know, he knows his stuff. He's a good guy. He's a knowledgeable guy. He's very well-spoken, obviously. He's a very creative guy, too. But yeah, when when he's on, I get drunk to like an embarrassing degree. And when I say drunk friend is the name of the podcast, I don't mean it to be like, yeah, we just get, you know, shit-faced and stuff. And I hate this thing. There we go. You know, that's it's just it really is just a name. But we do enjoy an adult beverage here and there while recording. It's not a requirement to drink, though. We've had plenty of people on the podcast that do not drink. Is this is this a power up here? No, it's not. I know that you can get the cross somewhere here, right? I think. But yeah, our biggest guest so far was Summoning Salt, who is kind of a big deal, I guess, especially in the speedrun community. Dude is obviously really talented, a really good storyteller. His the videos he makes and the way he structures them is awesome. So it was really good to talk to him. And I guess the point of the podcast, I should talk a little bit about that. Is kind of to see people's creative side a little bit, just to see what their process is like, what from the YouTube side of things and from the creative side of things. Ah, shit. There we go. Don't go in there with that fellow. So yeah, when we have somebody, oh, there's the cross. When we have somebody on like a Summoning Salt type fellow, we want to ask them like, you know, what's this what's this experience been like for you? Did you set out to, you know, be the speedrun documenter? And yeah, it turns out this dude is a speedrunner himself. He actually has the fastest time to beat Tyson and the original punch out, which is pretty crazy. That is not easy. That is a tough accomplishment. I don't remember his time exactly. I don't even know if he got him in the first round, but he got him really, really quick. And yeah, the way he structures his videos in case you haven't seen his Summoning Salt stuff is he makes it kind of like a story of like the beginning and end of like the history of this particular, oops, this particular game's speedrun history. And he's got everything from everything from, you know, punch out, of course, to Mario, the original Mario. Shit, I didn't want that power up, but whatever, special weapon, secondary weapon, whatever you want to call it. But yeah, he's what other games he's even done like we golf or we sports golf rather. And yeah, what else has he done? He's done the history of like Mario 64 and every video gets better and better. His video on the Contra Speedruns is really cool and he's a good guy to talk to. Good thing is you can hit these projectiles. Really the first two levels, I got my guy back at least, my lost life that I recklessly threw away earlier. The first two levels in this game are pretty easy, I would say, despite my reckless death earlier. But after that, the game gets a bit tricky. You get those fish dudes that jump out of the water and squirt you and you take damage and you fly backwards, as is Castlevania tradition. You can't have a Castlevania game without that, without flying backwards when you get hit. And this is one of my favorite soundtracks. Maybe my favorite soundtrack period, it's like this in Secret of Mana. Even the little music pieces between stages are so, so good. That's why I do get people saying like, why don't you do LPs more? Why don't you do stream on Twitch? That sort of thing. When I play video games, I like to shut up, I like to be quiet, I like to hear the music, I like to just chill out and relax. This is a fun thing to do by myself, it's not something, I'm not a natural entertainer when it comes to something like this. I see some people do their thing on Twitch that are really talented, that are able to talk and be interesting and play games at the same time. This is pretty easy for me so far, because I've played this game and I've played this part of the game so many times. But other folks, holy cow, like they, I don't know how they're able to do what they do, I think I'm just going to drop down here, hey, that's not fair, I like that sound. Not doing it justice, obviously. How does it go again? It goes wakko? See, I'm not that interesting, I'm not that entertaining, all I can do is promote other people. Well, yeah, who are the other guests we've had on the podcast so far? We've had Dan, obviously, from console wars, we've had, most recently, we're going to have Jenovi on, if those of you that know who he is, we've had Jason Heiney, we've had John Riggs on, he's a pretty popular dude, and it's easy to see why he's popular because he's such an easygoing guy and such a likeable fellow. Hey, I got the third one already, that's neat. This waterfall part coming up though is really, really tough, I don't like it. Yeah, this is, it's after this part in the game where I start to run into trouble, like real trouble, as opposed to the fake trouble I was in earlier. I do also want to say real quick, I get messages about my dog Clyde, and he is sleeping right behind me to my right on my chair on a blanket, of course, that I set up for him because that's what he likes to do, and it has to be just so too, he has to dig around on the blanket himself, you know, he has to make it up to his standards, he needs to, you know, he wiggles around, he wiggles his butt and tries to get in the perfect sleeping position, and then he finally settles down, it takes like a full 90 seconds for him to do it, it's ridiculous, he's the most spoiled dog in history, but you know what, he's earned it, he's a good boy. My other dog Ulysses, we say he's got certain spots staked out in our backyard, and he, my girlfriend and I, we joke that he's quote unquote at work, because he really does spend all day outside, and he just waits for the mailman to come, he waits for like the UPS guy to come, he waits for anybody to walk by, so he can bark at them and let everybody know, and when he barks at something, he goes freaking crazy, like he is just, he's very happy to use that energy, it's always really funny, see, that's what I'm talking about, there we go, that's what's in there, excellent, I just don't want to end up getting that stupid knife secondary weapon, that's one of my least favorite weapons in this game, so I'm cautious to, I don't remember which set of candles it is, so where's my other, there we go, waiting for my other upgrade, yeah this is, I hate this part, this is where the slightest bit of knockback will kill you if you're not careful, and even if you are careful, it's like I try, I was careful, I tried, I tried, I really did, and it didn't work out, I tried so hard, um, oh you know what, that's probably a, yeah, let's grab this, so how are you folks doing, um, yeah no, I did want to do some sort of LP thing, that's more of a hangout, you know, we're all stuck at home, or at least we in the United States are, I am, um, hang on, I gotta concentrate here, there we go, it's hard to talk and do shit like that, I don't know how people do it, but um, yeah no, we're all stuck at home, we're not like likely to do anything, uh, on Halloween, if you are please be safe, don't be an idiot, don't, like wear a mask and just use common sense if you have it, if you don't, then God help you, but uh, just try and be safe if you go out, uh, I would, you know, I think the safe play would be to just stay home, there's plenty of stuff to do, plenty of great classic Halloween movies to watch, what is my favorite scary movie, I'll tell you, my favorite movie that kind of freaks me out and makes me uncomfortable is probably, um, uh, what do you call it, Night of the Hunter that stars Robert Mitchum, and he plays this preacher that shows up in this, he's basically a con man, he shows up on in these, uh, these towns and, um, nice, and uh, basically as a preacher and puts the fear of God into him and wins over the, the whole, the whole, uh, town and all that, and it's, it's only, he's only doing it for just to quote Marge Gunderson, doing it for just a little bit of money, all for a little bit of money, but yeah, he is really, really creepy in that movie, in both a good and kind of a bad way, he freaks me out so much, he's such a, he's really good at being in that movie, he's, oh shit, okay, I was gonna get shot and blasted there, this music in this part of the game always really confused me, it sounds like Ron Burgundy playing Yaz Flute, like what is this music? Okay, I guess it's kind of scary, I dig that bass sound for sure, it's a fucking killer, but the flute is a little odd, come on, there we go, ha, out of my way, bastards, thought it was a cool effect, even though it induces a little bit of slowdown, which is never fun, can I, if I get this guy here, will he still probably respawn? I'm guessing, there we go, no he didn't respawn, Nido Mosquito, all right, what's cool is I could get this guy down here, nice, all right, we're doing pretty good so far, I don't want to jinx it, but so far so good I think, this is where it would help to have like the axe or something like that, I don't think he can hit me from down here, but you never know, it's Castlevania, it's a Konami game, ooh fun, there we go, all right, I'm sure there's some lousy secondary weapon, that's oh shit, look how he sounds kind of frustrated when he gets hit, like he's angry of himself or something, he's disappointed, he's not mad, he's just disappointed, okay, we're coming up on the boss here, I think, yes, boss time, I do believe, and it's the double headed dragon, is it two dragons or three, I think it's just two, slow down, come on, Super Nintendo CPU, show me what you're worth, show me what you got, I'm just gonna hang back here like an absolute coward, and use my special weapon since I have lots of them, even though this music is kind of, you know, it's inspiring and it's very intense and it's, you know, kind of trying to intimidate me, but really this is all you gotta do, is just hang back here with the cross, yay, ah, didn't even wait for it to drop down, went up and got it, you gotta do in this world, gotta go up and grab it by the orbs, all right, so far so good, but I just took another swig of whiskey and that's never a good sign, because that's not really gonna bode well for this part of the game, I'm guessing, ah, this music's awesome, love this part, I forget, oh nice, yeah there is something back here, but it's just that, let's get this guy out of the way, yeah speaking of Robert Mitchum, there's a, there's a really cool, not, maybe I don't know, it's a story that I like, about him when he hosted Saturday Night Live, it's told by G.E. Smith, who for those unfamiliar, he used to be the leader of the Saturday Night Live band, he would come up with most of the arrangements and he was the band leader, he was usually the guy they would bring out, G.E. Smith told this story, so he was usually the guy they would have come meet guests when they first arrived, for whatever reason, I guess he was just a, you know, happy, fun guy, and he is, but Robert Mitchum was hosting and this would have been like 1984, which is kind of unusual because Mitchum would have been a much older guy at that point, okay, I need to concentrate here, nailed it, but so SNL gets, you know, Lorne Michaels or whoever is, Lorne Michaels would have been in charge at that point, I think, but he gets in touch with Mitchum's people, nope, we don't want that, so I just want to go this way, right, yeah, all right, need to concentrate here as well, there we go, all righty, so far so good, all right, this is another part I need to concentrate, very good, okay, didn't even flip it, cool, I'm doing pretty good, I have to say, I'm surprising myself here, I'm not taking that much damage, I am playing like an absolute coward, but when it comes to boss fights, but I'm not getting my ass kicked here, like, oh, that spoke too soon, but anyway, Robert Mitchum, oh, we got a boss fight here, he, his people said to Lorne or whoever was in charge with guest booking and all that sort of stuff, listen, he'll be happy to host, but he requires two things, he needs to be greeted at the door when he arrives with a bottle, a brand new sealed bottle of tequila, and I forget, it's like this really expensive, fancy ass tequila, I forget what kind it was, but it was something absurdly, you know, fancy, and $5,000 in cash, so sure enough, when Robert Mitchum gets there for the table read, I think this would have been on a Tuesday, he gets there and G.E. Smith and a few other people are there to greet him, hey, thanks for coming by, et cetera, et cetera, here's your bottle of tequila that you wanted, and he's like, oh, great, I'll have a drink later, and then he's just kind of standing around like... and everybody's like, what's going on, what's, he's not gonna go in the door, like he's... why is he just sitting there, and G.E. is like, give him the fucking money, give him the money, and oh, and here's your $5,000 cash, and they hand him a brief case, and he takes a quick glance, and he's like, oh, alright, thanks, yeah, alright, let's go, what do you guys want to do, what should we start with, when's rehearsal, what are we doing, blah, blah, blah, and he's like, I'll do anything, and I just thought that was really funny, oh my god, you gotta be kidding me, well, at least I start here. See, now the liquor's kicking in, that's my excuse, but yeah, I always thought that was really funny, where it was just like, I'm not doing shit until you give me what I asked for, yes, for cash and liquor, so yeah, now I love stories like that, like Mitcham's old school, he's an old school guy, I managed to get this perfectly last time, the sound of the leather whip is really satisfying in this game, and yeah, insert a fetish joke here, SNM, whatever, not into that stuff personally, but if you are, good job, good for you, alright, I guess apparently this needs to be a part where I need to shut up and concentrate, because I managed to kill myself last time, so let's see here, let's wait for this, alright, and oopsie daisy, there we go, alright, let's get those whip upgrades, let's keep rolling, ooh, this music's awesome too, that's one thing I keep forgetting to check, shit, I don't have a secondary weapon, that's not good, give me that cross, so I'm going to have to, I keep forgetting to check to see if the, what this looks like with the, with the, what do you call it, the BSNES HD component, if it really does go widescreen, it'd be kind of cool if it did, but it would also be kind of disorienting because it's, you know, it's freaking spinning background and it slows the whole game down, a lot of slowdown in this game, it doesn't get talked about a lot, the problem with slowdown and I, you know, it's, oh, it helps you, it's actually a benefit because it helps you, it's like, no, that, it doesn't work like that, because you don't know when it's gonna start and you don't know when it's gonna stop, that's the whole issue, that's why slowdown sucks, because it's unpredictable, you don't know when it's coming and when it's going, you can't just be like, I don't know, I could go on a rant like that on that stuff all day, all right, so we don't want to go that way, oh, these bats are gonna keep pestering me, all right, let's go this way, another sick baseline, this game is just full of sick ass baselines, yep, I'm just gonna do, that's my let's play, it's just me going, I'm not gonna take that risk, I think I'm eventually supposed to make my way over here, can't get up there, can I, am I up there yet, nope, I am not, so you gotta eventually make your way to the right, but it's above this part, cool, I think I should make it, man, don't need that, not worth the risk there, uh-oh, now I'm trapped, that's not good, aha, I hate the spikes in this game, they kill you so suddenly, there we go, very nice, all right, so I forget, I honestly forget which boss is coming up here, but there's a lot of this game that I forget, let's see, all right, so isn't this exciting, great way to hang out on Halloween, cheers everybody that's having a drink right now, with me, I appreciate you coming up, coming by to watch, once upon a time, you know, I used to joke that I would get like, you know, two dozen views on these things, I didn't expect any, is it Frankenstein, I think so, yeah, all right, full health bar, that's pretty cool, or no, it's the stone, stone dude, stone hinge where good demons dwell, come on you son of a bitch, yes, excellent, just barely, ah, off guard, caught me off guard, I went for a sip, that was the bad, anyway, yeah, if you, if you, if you don't want to enter the giveaway with hashtag giveaway, let me know what you're drinking in the comments instead, oh, shit's getting real now, that's what this means, all right, oh, the dogs are barking, well, not really barking, not yet, they will though, they're fired up about something, maybe they want to be on, on mic, all right, do I want to go this way, does it matter which way you go, one odd ball thing about this part of this level is that the time limit starts to become a factor, if you'll notice in the upper left here, or I'm sorry, the upper right, it's, there's like a very abbreviated time period, which is really strange, and yeah, I've actually come close to running out of time at this part, which is unusual, but looks like I'm actually going to make it to Dracula's Castle, which I was at honestly, kind of, oh, shit, how many lives do I have left, two, three, two, that was a very lazy jump, as soon as I said I'm going to make it to Dracula's Castle, I died, so let's not jinx ourselves anymore, huh, hey, Clyde, what do you think about what's going on, huh, haven't you got anything to say, Clyde? Clyde's not much of a barker, he can be, but he doesn't really, he's a dog of few words, he's very efficient with his, with how he decides to, how he chooses to communicate, if he chooses to communicate at all, and if he does, it's usually about naps or food, usually naps, as Ulysses S. Dog is always very enthusiastic and very happy to express his thoughts in the form of woofing and barking, such as when the mailman's here or the UPS guy, or when somebody walks, somebody dares walk their dog past our house, it's, how dare you, oh I knew that was going to happen eventually, oh well, get this crappy knife, oh that wouldn't have hit me anyway, oh well, yeah as you can see as it's becoming pretty evident now I'm not really in a much of an LP guy, I run out of stuff to talk about and I just end up talking about my dogs, yeah see it's, give me a better weapon than that stupid knife, I need to keep going here, I'm gonna run out of time, we are at Dracula's Castle's doorstep, then the game really gets fun and by fun I mean hard, as soon as I get the health too, as far as, you can, you can always do the, the whip spaz, yeah I'm sure that would work in real life, 45 seconds, check out these statues, that's so cool looking, this one's all busted up, wonder who these people are supposed to be, are they all of himself, yeah see the timer starts to make a weird noise once he gets to 30 seconds, I remember the first time doing that and it was like what the hell is that, I'm just gonna play until I get a game over, I've rambled on long enough, sorry concentrating, intense concentration here and I don't want to whip these dokes, these are good dokes, they're just doing their job, maybe I'm giving the knife a little bit of a bad rap here, seems like it's okay, again if you're expecting a really uh well played let's play here, not gonna happen, this game sure is generous when it comes to ammo though, now I can throw two knives at once, whoop dee do, it does seem to be pretty strong though, so it's got that going for it, ooh fun, I remember seeing this for the first time as a kid and being like oh my god, like so intimidating, all right let's get this, it's not no lazy deaths here and to be fair this is still really impressive looking to this day, got it, all right cool, be cool if there is like crap falling on you from the ceiling or like maybe this thing itself would fall somehow, if you stood on it for too long, I don't know, I'm just, let's make this game even harder, that sounds good and the background effect is really cool too, just the candlelight kind of flickering a little bit intermittently all right there we go, another one, whoof okay um let's go now, let's wait, ah just barely made it, my toes were able to grip the edge of that platform, all right now if I remember correctly there is a yeah it's this damaged, I don't know if it's this one or the next one, yeah it has to be the next one, damn it, maybe not, I could have swore there was a hidden area, maybe it's here, nope, there's something you can do to to unlock this after it falls, I just don't remember what it is and there's all sorts of goodies down there, creepy just the sound they make, shit I'm gonna die, oh that was lazy, what does that guy look like, looks like almost like a Matthew Maudine, oh I could really use some health, come on, see if I can get down there, without anybody killing me, that's not health, but it'll do, oh shit, there we go, promising, oh shit, yeah I don't know who that guy would be, it's like, is that supposed to be a butler, I don't even know who that is, come on, oh I did get some health, Nito Mosquito, okay, yeah who is this dude, is it freaking Michael Buffer, the silver hair makes me think it's Michael Buffer, so I'm gonna stick with that, I don't know what Michael Buffer has to do with Dracula, but maybe it's his brother Bruce Buffer, maybe he took the gig, Michael Buffer turned him down, didn't like the terms of the contract that Dracula laid out, there we go, I could really use more health, any health please, barely dodge my axe, come on, if you get hit with an, if a skeleton gets hit with an axe like that in midair, it's going down, oh I start way back here, sheesh, so at least this gives me another chance to see if I can unlock this, which I don't think there is, hey I got another life, you guys get to suffer with me for another however long, I forgot what it is you do, but something like, it unlocks a hidden area with all sorts of fun stuff, uh oh, I don't want two of these, shit, that did not, should have planned this a little better, there we go, that worked out, ah Michael Buffer, okay, let's see, yeah one thing, when I first did the video on this game, I think it was back in 2014, six years ago, over six years ago at this point, this is one I was worried wasn't going to hold up very well when I played through it, and it more than holds up well, I think this is a top 10 Super Nintendo game ever, a lot of people think, no I shouldn't say a lot of people, but some people think that Simon is a little overpowered, that the eight whip direction is a bit much, that maybe he should, excuse me there, maybe he should just stick to whipping in two directions, since that's the way it was for the NES Castlevania games, and that is a big part of what led to its infamous difficulty, that's this, oh shit, I have to screw you Michael Buffer, moonwalking across those spiky platforms, but yeah, I think it's fine, I think this game is still plenty hard with the way, even with the whipping in eight directions, it's still really tough, I mean the platforming here with the Simon's oddball jump is always going to be you know a bit of a challenge, come on you damn skeleton, yeah if I throw an axe at a skeleton it's not just gonna like, oh he did some damage, it's gonna freaking break it apart in a million pieces, first blow, axes are heavy, you know despite the fact that Simon is able to carry 21 of them in this case at the same time somehow, can this guy go downstairs, he can, okay neat, yep, time to go Rambo, whip first, ask questions later, nothing over here, I'm getting a little punchy, I'm not gonna lie, oh now we are in a dungeon of some sort, oh red skeletons, red skeletons get it, about that shit, red skeleton, the old uh is he, would he call red skeleton a comedian or was he more of a tv star, nobody even knows who I'm talking about so whatever, god damn it, it's a very musical sound when these guys crumble, it's like a bone xylophone, helping hands to help me out there, ah excellent, okay cool, to think there's some guy on the other side of the wall that's doing this, so dumb, and then there's another guy down here, it's just a line of guys lined up outside the house, I should be coming close to the boss here which is that dancing couple, I mean where the heck are these people, the dinner party of the damned, oh yeah we've got our carousel of coffins, very classy, must be tough to make all these coffins, I wonder if he goes to like uh Ikea or something and builds and you know obviously Dracula's not gonna make coffins himself, he's gonna make his minions do it, you know that's what the Tor Johnson's of the world are for, you gotta have henchmen if you're evil, oh yes evil dancing couples, how dare you do romantic ballroom dancing in my presence, I'm going to whip you, I'm not just gonna banish you, I'm going to whip you with a vampire killer whip until you stop dancing and explode into flames, I mean jeez man, dude's got issues, all right more health, more lives more health, just what you, the audience doesn't want to hear, all right I think this is Frankenstein, no that's duh, I already said it's the, I'm trapped, do I go all the way back, no I go right here, okay that's good, not a bad thing, this music is fun, so note to self don't get trapped like an idiot in the corner, let them, let those people bust a move all over the screen, don't sit there and watch them like an idiot, all right I just need a secondary weapon please, hopefully that's what this is, no of course not, that would actually be helpful, now who are these people, it looks like not quite my Michael Buffer, maybe it's, here we're gonna see him again here, well the guy's gray but the woman isn't, the woman looks relatively young but the guy is either blonde or gray, so maybe it's Richard Gere and uh Richard Gere and Christina Ricci, I don't know, that'd be a weird combo, okay I get my guy back every time, yeah Richard Gere and Christina Ricci, let's go with that, I don't have a secondary weapon this is bullshit, there we go just outlast him, caught me off guard, now we are on to the seventh level which I forget if it's the treasury room or the library, I know it's not the torture chamber, that's level eight and that's when the game gets really hard, oh this is the library, this is some of my favorite music in the game, so I'll just shut up and you guys can listen, gotta get out of the habit saying you guys, you folks, you folks, gotta bust out the Minnesota accent you know, every once in a while, you know I was cooking up my stove, gotta go out to my car, yeah I love this music, it's so good, that shit, hey I hit you four thousand times, you're not dying, out of the way, what are these things, they look like rodent ghosts, like their their faces are weirdly skeletal but they're kind of rodent-ish too, like look at that, is that like Rocky the Flying Squirrel trying to haunt me, ah ha finally a secondary weapon and one that's worth a crap, those things come back too once you kill them, they don't just stay dead, it's kind of annoying, boy what an unorganized library, it's got these freaking MC Escher stares everywhere and dorks flying around with jars, no I don't want your stupid axe, yeah I should probably keep these going 24-7, so it's nice about this library stage is that you can you really can just fall and the stage will scroll with you if you don't die first which I am about to do and I started at the beginning lovely, yeah the leather whip is really shitty, here let's study this thing some more, all right we have a it almost looks like a Serpentor style helmet around something, you know like the way Serpentor from GI Joe has that like snake head around his face that's kind of what it looks like, by the way for those that don't know that grew up with GI Joe, Hasbro actually has a YouTube stream 24 hours a day GI Joe episodes and I think it's just the Marvel Sunbow episodes, it's not the crappy Deke episodes that came later which were just awful and you know made on like a shoestring budget and the stories were just you know roadblock you know needs a ride or something like roadblock decides to trust a stranger and gets a ride somewhere or something like I forget something stupid, there we go but yeah it's you can tune in at any time there's it's got it's pretty much just the Marvel Sunbow era which means it spans from 83 to when did those end like 90 or like 89 somewhere around there oh that was dumb but god those guys do a shit ton of damage yeah maybe that's the move man screw you wow thanks a nice boost all the way down here god I hate those things ah all right last life let's make it count I'm feeling really punchy and I just missed my whip upgrade there that was real slick but yeah GI Joe aged a little bit better than I would have thought and by the way uh hot here's my GI Joe hot take I think oh shit excuse me I think uh um Zartan is much cooler and a much better villain a much more interesting than villain than Cobra Commander Cobra Commander just kind of sucks he's kind of incompetent he's got the cool voice but he's kind of a moron Zartan can turn invisible and he can kind of shape shift but only at night or something like that he's he's got a he's I like Zartan and he see he actually seems like he's got his shit together like he's he's coming up with the cool plans half the time it's usually Cobra Commander that screws him up it's what I like at the beginning of the GI Joe movie when uh everybody's like uh like first is Destro that calls him a world-class buffoon and uh yeah good times and then like Dr. Mindbenders right there like he's also a coward and it's the trial of Cobra Commander like he's Jesus Christ or something like that it's so over the top and ridiculous but um yeah the GI Joe movie I'm not all that crazy about uh the opening scene is incredible but just because of the animation and all that and all that stuff is awesome but um the rest of the movie uh like the Cobra Law stuff no not not working for me all right let's see if I can just like why don't I just like teleport down here well that backfired um yeah I'm gonna call this a uh an LP I got to level seven I got to the library that was that's decent and I ran out of stuff to talk about again if you want to join the drawing random drawing I'll give you a couple days um just hashtag giveaway I'll randomly pick somebody and um we'll get in touch after that I'll get in touch with the winner and uh we'll verify everything and uh I'll be sending out some artwork for you and be sure to check out Layla's channel too and uh you can also go to LaylaAttayaArtist.com for her website all right that's all 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