I actually agree with a lot of the points dkc 1 did a lot of things better than the sequel

Sounds like a skill issue

Probably my favorite game of all time and I'd still agree.

im one of the biggest dkc fans ever. Love all 5 games. However i think the 2nd one is the worst. Cauldron and quay are 2 of the most mid worlds in the entire series and they are back to back 😭

HE DIDN'T POWERBOMB THE AM2R QUEEN D:<

Squeak Squad is so good second favorite game for me

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The original Return the Dream Land only had 2 sub-games and Merry Magoland has 10 total with 9 new ones. The Lor Starcutter just added them to have access from the story mode. There’s a consistent lack of knowledge/research in this video

This video aged like milk, unfortunately

Im still so mad Polar Knight didnt get a dlc. All the edgybait won.

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B/W was the first generation where the date of when a Pokémon was caught doesn't get deleted when the Pokémon gets transfered into a future generation. Gen 4 did us dirty, the dates where deleted and replaced in B/W with the transfer date.

Just use the lob cassing for the enchanters and propeller knight 🙄

With DX coming out soon I think it would be totally awesome to play as Propeller Knight, I think hes my favorite character that Ive seen thus far after beating Shovel of Hope main campaign. It would be fun to play as Tinker Knight too but would be fun if he was as he is portrayed as a weaker character, and thus winning with him would actually be harder, consider it a hard mode.

Second comment time! I honestly loved your sections on the first and last game, but with Samus Returns… I feel like you kinda dogged on things like the Metroids, which yeah I will admit are flawed, and the ways you fight them. This also includes the Ice Beam, I don’t even think you mentioned that the Ice Beam does a lot of damage to them and also that you can freeze them and slow them down. Which makes the Ice Beam your sort of, Metroid attack specialist and puzzle beam, which imo made it far more interesting to use. As for the grapple beam, yeah, aiming at a spot is perfectly fine most of the time, and I don’t really see the issue with swapping beams via a quick tap of the thumb on the touchscreen if you for some reason swapped to it. But that’s just me I guess. Also side note, that surprise Alpha Metroid outside the hydro station in am2r was also there in the original M2, the game usually shows you a Metroid shell before a fight, but that one simply just shows up and the shell is revealed after.

THIS IS FAR TOO UNDERRATED OMG ❤

Samus Returns is a 14 hour slog? tool swapping is hard? Running out of aeon sucks? Sounds like skill issues to me. Fr though, I agree that SR has a million tiny little problems that build up, and compared to Dread that is what separates the quality of the two games. Area 3 in particular sucks, and is funnily enough the worst part in all 3 games (in AM2R's case I felt that after several playthroughs), but picks up later in the Tower which is always one of the best. Besides gimmicky gammas in SR, I prefer SR's metroids over the other two. AM2R's make things hard in ways that don't feel rewarding to beat and doesn't feel like my fault when something goes wrong. Their dodges and weird floating just sucks. SR's metroids are real boss battles that reward skill (and you can kill them faster, git gud). One could argue "the faster you get metroid fights over with the better", but then the original has both beat anyways. I also much prefer SR's ice beam because Metroid always had a problem with ice forcing you to shoot enemies more because it froze them. Being separate it's both a beam to fight Metroids specifically and I only freeze when I want to freeze. Also, the other beams do stack in SR. Only ice is separate. Personally I prefer the original 1.0 release of AM2R the most, but it has a potential game breaking bug so 1.1 is a must. 1.5+ are cool but I feel a slight "feature creep" from them. Sometimes it looks or feels better, other times it feels like I'm playing a mod artificially changing things. Like there's the improved Serris on one end, but a bunch of new creatures slapped into every zone everywhere on the other. AM2R is overall my favorite but I don't think either remake truly captures the original's "vibe", and like the micro-problems SR has, it also has little things that are better than AM2R. I mean, SR definitely has the best Metroid Queen fight. Probably the best boss in the franchise.

I can understand some of your points, but I felt like a few others fell flat. I can agree the game is a bit more rough around the edges in the "lategame" because I find a lot of games tend to get like that. DKC2 is no exception. I can even sympathize with a handful of these specific complaints, like the weather stages being rough or the honey levels not being the most fun with a bad camera that makes them way harder than they have the right to be... the King Zing fight also totally sucks. It's easily one of the worst bosses in the series imo. But a decent number of the clips actually felt hard to watch. Why wouldn't your first instinct be in a tight corridor in a presumably final world to "defeat the enemy" in Castle Crush, for example? Jumping over the porcupines and then eventually running out of room felt like a deserved loss to me when you had chances to adapt and defeat the baddies, but did not. Also, these stages DO have checkpoints... so that was a disappointing lie made to frame the game in a harsher light. Either that, or poor research/remembering wrong. What was going on when you jumped into a rope without the timer being reset and knowing you had a TNT barrel in your hand and couldn't grab on? I personally can't process how someone could come to the conclusion that the game was unfair based on poor playing like that. I don't mean to say "skill issue" though because I feel that is unfair to your critique. But these clips rubbed me the wrong way. The pirate theme stuff to me also just feels like a matter of personal taste to borderline nitpicking. Pirate castles? Coasters? Do you see those in media every day? Personally, I don't. I felt like these were fun twists on stuff that was pretty out of the ordinary. I don't think it takes away from the experience, especially when DKC1 had an industrial/military theming present. Military commanders that wear helmets, enemies that wear those military shoulder pads (I forget what they're called, sorry) or camouflage gear. A factory, oil drums, and slicers. These are all a similar theme too, no? If you critique DKC2 for it to boaster 1, it doesn't feel right. I really didn't like your point about the bonus stages. The bonus stuff in DKC1 is cryptic and lame most of the time. Stuff like the bonus room in a bonus room where you have to specifically go for the worst reward so you can obtain it is just stupid. Other levels like Orang-utan Gang have like 5 bonus stages, something DKC2 at it's most never does. Most stages in DKC1 have about 3 as well. The bonuses are almost all the same and I don't feel excited to find them. If you get 3 of the golden tokens of the Animal Buddies too, you also lose progress in a stage. I found myself avoiding them more often than not because it was such a bummer to get them. The DKC2 bonus rooms are all personalized with aiming the player to try a different thing. And of course the stages for collecting bonus content are difficult? Difficulty in games is a curve. Things are expected to get harder as you go further ingame to test the player. If you've managed to collect everything in the base game, I think a hard experience for the bonus world is y'know, expected...? I agree that losing your lives/coins and forcing you to pay up cash for saving is just... bad. You're 100% right. Overall, I did appreciate the video, but I felt like some of these were in fact off-base as you said. I did appreciate watching this video because I can see you still like this game. It wasn't baseless and senseless bashing. There was some genuine critique and mentioned some of what I found frustrating or subpar about the game as well. I know I'm a year late though...

I wanted to wait until I was finished watching this video to leave a comment, but I had to stop in the middle of the final Black Knight fight to say this: your writing is absolutely remarkable. I studied Creative Writing at university for 5 years and the level of articulation, description, vocabulary, and prose flow you demonstrate is absolutely top notch. As a writer it was a bit cloying when I noticed you were doing it so often, but I heavily suspect this level of raw skill on display is what nets you a good chunk of your viewerbase. Beyond that, this video is amazingly well-made and articulates a great deal about the series that I love. I am curious on one point, however; how did you miss the influence of NES Ducktales? I'm not asking in a negative way, somehow after replaying this game 3 times I only just realized it now, but it's arguably the second biggest if not first biggest influence on the game in regards to level design and sheer mechanical handling. Got a subscribe from me and looking forward to watching the rest of this series. <3

Funny story I have with Shovel Knight. When I first bought the game on a Macbook using Crossver fot controller support, the game had a glitch where the first stage was sped up by 2x speed. That meant I had to go through the plains while having the least amount of control on my movements. Yeah, I just fixed the Vsync and it went back to normal, but not before having my ass handed to me by Black Knight NINETEEN DIFFERENT TIMES.

Let Metroid II's title music play for a while. It gets quite impressive a few more seconds in.

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Honestly, all I'd want out of a BW remake is the addition of newer Pokemon, and QOL features like the option between new/old exp share

video was so amazing, i'd say this was my second favourite of the games, it's king, plague, specter and shovel, i'm so hype of the later videos, i'm subbed and ready, keep doing your thing my guy, also if they make a shovel knight 2 i want a scene of plague and Mona getting married and have a baby, that would be adorable, i love them and want more of them, also king knight and his mom would be cool to see make up since she disowned him and he betrayed her

30:55-I wonder if Plague Knight and Mona had sex in their lab.

I'm playing the AM2R on the modded ps4 and yeah its good.😅😅😅😅

I'm glad you gave this game some love. This is my favorite NES game as well. And one of my favorite Zelda games. This seems to be an unpopular opinion.

Where did you go?

As much as I loved the Kratos Boss fight and the Armor of Chaos...ngl once I got my hands on the Xbox version and battled the Battletoads and got the Toad gear, I never looked back 🐸🐸🐸

Man, so above all, great video, well edited. Entitled to your opinion. Really wish there were more reviews that mentioned the Ice Beam is actually kino in SR. or in most games tbh. This happens in Prime as well and it annoys me. The Beam missile Combo works on pretty much everything not just Metroids. AND also you can use the counter button to smash frozen enemies. It feels way better to do in Dread but it's in both games. Sorry that just triggers me every time, and I prefer it to the beam being stacked because it feels boring in terms of combat options imo. Samus Returns' combat is actually super deep and there's things about it I am kinda sad Dread simplified in terms of the weapon switching. Anyway rant over sorry you had to be on the receiving end of that lmao.

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I love plague of shadows, at lest my second or third favourite campaign in the game. Cant decide if i like king of cards or plague of shadow more then the other

It's a crime that polar knight isn't one of the ones to get his own campaign

Links awakening? 😢 I love links awakening… I watched a 22 minute video essay only to one of my favourite games insulted…

I started typing an extremely long comment about the different things that could be done to make DKC2 a perfect game, yapping paragraphs as I tend to do a little too much in KZbin comment sections. But, I decided to clear all of my comment and boil it down to the number one issue in the game. What I’ve decided is the economics. You should be keeping your banana coins and balloons just as you keep all else every time you load up a save file. They just need better ways to earn money and better ways to spend it! Change Funky’s Flights to be varying prices! The first ticket in each area is 3 Banana Coins but then the second ticket is 2 Banana Coins from that same landing strip, the third ticket is 1 Banana Coin, and after three tickets you can fly out of there for free. I think that would be better, long-term rewarding over 2 banana coins the first time and then forever free, maybe add a secondary ticket that is always 10 banana coins which allows you to fly back and forth between DK Isle and Crocodile Isle(although this would only work if they chose to have both games be on the same application and save files which I think could be cool if they made a reboot game called Donkey Kong Country+Diddy’s Kong Quest or something)and the overseas flights wouldn’t be available until after you beat DKC2(while I alr mentioned merging the two games into one I think that could be cool as you play DK Isle with DK and Diddy and then Crocodile Isle with Diddy and Dixie but after you beat the second storyline you can now play with DK on Crocodile Isle and Dixie on DK Isle which would be a great reward!) The Monkey Museum and Kong Kollege would remain pretty much the same. You could still purchase hints only now they would prioritize as cheap as possible, every single one that costs money would only be one banana coin. Saving becomes free at Kong Kollege and you now need to actually be inside of the Monkey Museum to view the podium and this would do good to make the player have incentive to come to the Museum and it would serve as just the Museum having more weight to it and it’s not limiting accessibility since you shouldn’t really need to check this podium out very often. Swanky’s Sideshow would completely blow up out of proportions! When you get there it’s more of a full on club or casino rather than a tiny game show. You can actually walk around instead of just being forced into talking. Maybe it’s a certain bouncer or something but it would probably just be Swanky but outside of the Sideshow he charges 1 Banana Coin to enter the place! Inside, there are a couple more options. You can head over to the game show which would now be focused on high risk, high rewards! Then there could maybe be like a little slot machine or fun little card games and stuff too! Before it was a means of exchanging banana coins for lives well now you can get lives but if you do good enough you can also get your banana coins back out of it! Maybe the highest level game show in each world nets a DK Coin opposed to a life and so all kong levels have DK Coins hidden within them too! With making the Sideshow a bigger deal it would be better to have some variety. Maybe W1 he isn’t prevalent at all. In W2 it’s a Sideshow which is just a smaller version. In W3 it’s the genuine casino. In Krazy Kremland it’s a switchup and is the carnival of DKC3 but with more to do and a bunch of fun games, maybe you can catch the other Kongs and npcs playing here and challenge all of them(giving more life to the game once again!)! World 5 and World 6 could be the Casino again. But that variety would make it so much more exciting! Maybe in the first world on DK Isle Funky’s is also his Surf Shack! Here, you could go fishing and maybe earn some rewards from it including coins! Pull from Returns and Tropical Freeze again. Maybe when you are at one of the pre-existing areas there is an animal buddy who will help you and they make noise whenever you are near secrets so you can put your banana coins towards better being able to find secrets with the hotter/colder system! Now Squawks does have use in the game already but what if they just made it Squawks and if you played a level with Squawks then Quawks would take the place on the branch! I could see Squawks being in any one of the kong friends’ places I couldn’t pick one specific one but I think since you can pay for hints individually for one banana coin that Squawks should be more on the expensive side, like six banana coins! I think this would be one of the better items that you can equip for levels to come out of the newer games as the other items just make the game outright easier and it demotivates people from putting in real effort when they can spend a couple of coins for great buffs! Maybe at Swanky’s or Candy’s or a completely new area is cosmetics! You can buy a yellow tie for DK or yellow fit for Diddy! You can get sunglasses for Diddy, you can buy the stars on Diddy’s clothes. Maybe even buy additional items which makes them have new hidden idol animations! This would be a small feature but could be really cool to have different outfits like Mario Odyssey! Maybe take it a step further like what if you could upgrade your Animal Buddies. For 80 Banana Coins you can get Squitter’s Special Shoes with each shoe costing 10 banana coins! Bit by bit you can watch his kicks change. But at half of them bought he no longer takes damage and just bounces off enemies! And then once you have them all he functions like he does in DKC3 where he has the buff of being able to actually bounce on enemies. Because the level design isn’t built around this it’s not a massive buff especially for such an expensive fee but it’s completely optional and only done if you don’t have anything else you want! Maybe some more intense purchases like some armor for Rambi! Each time he’s spawned in he has a plate of armor which lets him take one hit and then it’s lost but he stays on you! If you do take another hit and he runs off but you catch him his armor won’t be restored and you need a new crate for that! Maybe the charge abilities for each character must be boughten! Idk but there’s so much potential and DKC3 kind of dips into how they could have fun with it!

Yacht club made the best game possible and I‘m happy that I’ve backed the kickstarter back then.

6:25 weakling YOU UTTER ALCHEMICAL WEAKLING You know not the WHIMSY and GLEE you ROB yourself of. The DANGER makes one once a STRANGER to the flight of fancy falling all that much less STRANGE.

I genuinely NEED a standalone Plague Knight sequel. I AM FROTHING, I AM ERECT, THIS TINY BIRD MAN HAS ALL MY RESPECT.

one thing I love about Shovel Knights design is that is breastplate looks like a shield. As in a shield is close to his heart, Shield Knight<3

Your problems with Samus Returns all sound like skill issues tbh.

Yeah, this video will probably age like milk.

The order you took the bosses in was straight blasphemous. I dont know why I feel that way so strongly but I do

I just finished the Shovel of Hope campaign yesterday and I've never been more invested in the emotional journey of Shovel Knight and Shield Knight. I gave my live commentary to my friend who'd played this game back when it was released on the 3DS and I _guessed the plot twist but dismissed it because I thought it was a silly plot twist,_ much to my friend's tense amusement. Still, it was _beautiful,_ I _love_ Shovel Knight and Shield Knight and I want them to live happily ever after. Can't wait to start up Plague of Shadows in a few days!

15:57 WTF TWO moms?????

11:50 nice Doors reference ;)

I strongly disagree

Speaking of fighting games... Did you know that shovel knight has a smash bros clone? The showdown thing below the "start game" option in the title screen is another game interelly. It's actually a mix of smash bros and a minigame collection AND you can play as Goldarmor.