Amazing Island - A Game You Don't Remember | HauntLich

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Man, the KZbin algorithm only just shoved your channel at me yesterday, and already there's content; very poggers

[@HauntLich]

Hell yeah dude that's what I like to hear

[@canalsincontenido]

It showed the channel to me a week ago and in that time I watched like half the content, so I'm gonna take full credit for this.

[@LukeTsarkiller]

Boy, if you could buy stock in KZbin channels this would be the one. Even my commie ass would be all over that.

[@HauntLich]

@@LukeTsarkiller An investment in hauntman content is a sound one indeed (i hope lmao)

[@canalsincontenido]

Imagine playing this with friends instead of playing Dokapon Kingdom with soon-to-be ex friends.

[@HauntLich]

I've not heard of Dokapon Kingdom but now I have to look it up and lose some friends.

[@canalsincontenido]

@@HauntLich it's a mario party rpg. It's fun enough as a single player, but all the mechanics to fuck people over and completely ruin them is what makes it great.

[@samsquatch7579]

I rented this game once as a kid and was so fascinated by it. It wasn't exactly good, but it stayed in the back of my mind. Until a couple weeks ago I thought I imagined this game.

[@OatmealTheCrazy]

This was exactly me until someone mentioned it out of the blue

[@ehhorve857]

Good news! you didnt miss much in the game boy RPG thing. it gives you attacks through the accessories you put on your guy, and just puts an enemy in front of you to attack though a menu of those attacks I just mentioned. mah bro, he figured out that if you draw a big massive body and then cover the mon' with Flaming Manes all over, it becomes a legendary and you can just cheese all the challenge out of the battles. winning gives you accessories.

[@HauntLich]

I'm glad to hear I didn't miss out on much. When I heard there was a GBA linkup I thought maybe it was something cool like how the GBA had a Chao Garden link for Sonic Adventure.

[@ehhorve857]

@@HauntLich happy ta help.

[@sokumotanaka9271]

In an age of remakes this is one of those that totally should get one. You can have better minigames, battling, Animal crossing like chilling with your monster designs, and pet them and play with them etc.

[@PrideBornAmadi]

The only reason I even played this game back in the day is a store called “Hollywood Video” had it for rent. I rented it like 4 times trying and failing to beat that crappy water skip mini-game and never did. I sucked at video games when I was that young. Now I’m realizing that years later on top of that the mini-game was just plain hard.

[@HauntLich]

The water skip minigame is a perplexing ordeal and I'm sad I didn't talk more about how bizarrely it feels to play it.

[@cinemor_the_real_one]

HOLY CRAP YOU FOUND IT!! I've been trying to figure out what this game's name was for years

[@HauntLich]

Happy to be of service lmao

[@Cowmoo83]

Yeah, I’m pretty sure the main draw of this is the stupid-looking monsters flailing around stupidly while playing stupid mini-games. And it gets a 10/10 for that. My friends and I were absolutely hooked on this as kids.

[@stevethemastersword]

i seem to recall the existence of some game on the ps2 with a similar premise of playable creatures that you draw yourself, but it was a 3d platformer/beat'em up instead

[@Chamomileable]

I remember there being a flash-based creature creator for this as a promo way back in the day. Might have found it on Miniclip or on a cereal website or something. Found it in a rental place in a grocery store near me but didn't rent it for some reason. Was a neat concept. I feel like I remember the kid having brown hair and a red shirt in my head though. No idea.

[@HauntLich]

I'm pretty sure the brown hair and red shirt came from the box art, maybe that's how the kid was originally intended to look and looked that way in promo material.

[@vysethegallant638]

This game reminds me a lot of a couple of PS2 games that involve you creating your own visual monstrosities: Magic Pengel and Graffiti Kingdom. The characters and voices in those games are crap, but the gameplay is good enough that it merits at least one playthrough just to see how absurd you can make it through your "skills of an artist".

[@HoneybeeSorceress]

I remember the Wii and DS had a game called Drawn to Life. This reminds me of those.

[@Lonewolf360gaming]

Definitely sounds like a interesting title that could have some potential if it were reworked in some areas

[@HolyGoddessMotherAnne]

JaidenAnimations the sinner introduced me to this, good vid Lich, thanks for making this vid and i don't have to deal with sin whatsoever.

[@Topdoggie7]

I played the hell out of this and still do to this day. I honestly have at least 2,000 hours on the GC this game was my secret heaven.

[@HauntLich]

Bruh I don't even know HOW you squeeze 2,000 hours out of this. I kneel.

[@Topdoggie7]

@@HauntLich The story and how many items the game has. Making characters is also a massive amount of fun.

[@Topdoggie7]

@@HauntLich okay I forgot to add, at a certain point in the game that's not very hard to get to you get full control of multiple rigs -so many- and you also get like full control over creating them from scratch and that is just so much fun that I never stopped doing that. I'm an artist and an editor now, so as a kid, I really enjoyed a game that I could bring things to life that wasn't Drawn to Life(which your character doesn't matter in).

[@26th_Primarch]

Maybe if the game actually let you fight other monsters with the monsters you made as the main feature of the game it would have been better over-all

[@HauntLich]

That's what I'm sayin. This game needed some battle games or somethin man.

[@AndrewChumKaser]

Dude the shopkeepers were really cute/hot thought.

[@HauntLich]

Incredible taste

[@kblaszy96]

Love the vid. Low key though having the rock skin on a water map and barely passing is like using a fire Pokémon in a water gym. 😂

[@TheFruitiestCake]

"rocky bitch" has been added to my daily vocabulary! thank you (also congrats on 3k!)

[@HauntLich]

Glad to see someone adopting some hauntisms! Also THANKYOU I know I can't believe it o_o

[@bobalinx8762]

You can save your monsters onto your memory card, just FYI.

[@erainmartinez8175]

The question ever played Billy Hatcher & the Giant Egg?

[@erainmartinez8175]

well here we go again

[@blankadams3120]

I think Jaiden did an episode about this? Or it's very similar to something she reviewed...? So, it's Drawn to Life crossed with Spore? And I saw that line smooth itself out when you were drawing all those tiny curves for... a beard?

[@HauntLich]

It was supposed to be a ribcage lmao. Also, there are less than 300 videos about Amazing Island on youtube, you could feasibly watch them all. Including Jaiden's.

[@blankadams3120]

@@HauntLich Ribcage makes sense, I typed my comment after I forgot what the drawing had been, I only remembered 'stepped curves'...

[@seanhorrigan677]

I remember getting really good at this stupid game as a kid, and me and my cousins made every stupid monster you could imagine, I made one that was just blocks, a pencil looking one. I tried to make them look like humans, I never realized how stupid it is that you can only really play mini games with them. It'd be cooler if you could take it into an open world and make it fight, like some pokemon hybrid type deal.

[@HauntLich]

This is why we need games like this to make a comeback. There's no replacement for memories like this.

[@Jelly_shy_guy_man]

Probably the reason people know about this game is Jaiden animations, that makes me sad and happy

[@Captainn4t]

I don't know if you've played it or not, but Drawn To Life on the DS let's you draw your hero along with a slew of other things in the game.

[@erainmartinez8175]

No Idea dirty Mouther 2:35

[@ClutchFool]

Is that Wario World music they recycled for this? Great vid 👍

[@phorchybug3286]

Pokemon fans would kill for a game like this.

[@zeroattentiongaming820]

Don't ask them to go back the GBA, they'll give us the fat no backlight model. I ain't going back to worm lights

[@HauntLich]

But how good did it feel to hit that perfect light through the window so you could see pokemon emerald again.

[@zeroattentiongaming820]

@@HauntLich For me it was actually more Red and Blue. Trying to do the original Safari Zone in the dark was certainly character building. For the GBA I had one of those megazord style cases with a thumb stick, speaker, screen light and magnifying glass. Made the damn thing twice as big but it did it all

[@yonaguy6978]

Jokes on you my switch can fit in my pocket, also good vid

[@HauntLich]

Look i didn't anticipate people would have bottomless pit pockets that go down to their socks.

[@erainmartinez8175]

Oh Snap!

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Ayo! Belfremec ball!

[@TheSkeletonVA]

Reminds me of scribblenauts with the drawing your characters

[@HauntLich]

Yeah I'm surprised that ideas like Amazing Island and Scribblenauts don't get used more

[@TheSkeletonVA]

@@HauntLich maybe it’s a headache to program? I have no idea tbh

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Creaking Skull

[@HauntLich]

Creaking Skull

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Haunt Can we talk about those hand gestures near your mouth? 13:23

[@ocm6382]

Hey Haunt, where does your intro music come from?

[@HauntLich]

It's a very short snippet from a commodore 64 remake of the ghosts and goblins ost.

[@joshfly3331]

Hello more reviews on GameCube games please I like your style of video very good very good

[@HauntLich]

There are a few gamecube titles I'd like to talk about, thank you! :D

[@FKDart]

Like the channels aesthetic

[@HauntLich]

Thank you friend

[@FKDart]

It's very 90's computer game vibes. I'd say more channels should go for it but then it'd wouldn't be so unique. Glad I found your channel

[@HauntLich]

@@FKDart Thanks, I'm happy to have you!

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Ever played Ristar?

[@HauntLich]

No but now I will

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[@erainmartinez8175]

if only 3:04

[@GriffinFire101]

this reminds me of graffiti kingdom

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[@y2commenter246]

I remember renting this with much anticipation, thinking that it was the GameCube's answer to Magic Pengel. I never got past the first hour. Fuckin' boring.

[@HauntLich]

Yeah if you were expecting more than kinda mediocre Mario Party, then the game probably wasn't gonna impress lmao.

[@y2commenter246]

@@HauntLich At any rate, KZbin has been recommending a lot of smaller channels (no offense, I'm sure you'll all grow in time!) to me lately. I think that this video is a quick but entertaining look at the game. Keep it up!

[@HauntLich]

@@y2commenter246 Thank you friend! I really appreciate that. I have also noticed KZbin recommending smaller channels, I got recommended a video with only 30 views! Throwing some of those in the mix with your recommendeds is a really good idea IMO.

[@fayztogokodo5928]

6/10 just ok

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[@HauntLich]

I bought him on wish lmao