Axelay (SNES) - 2-ALL Clear on Hard & Very Hard

[@gamblerfls]

I love how every boss music is a heavier version of their stage music.

[@MrRobjs83]

Yeah that was cool, level 3 was always my favorite

[@304bacon]

Properly good

[@mariluciacastelobranco]

​@@304bacon😅

[@DanialTarki]

I also love how the last phase of the final boss theme is literally a remix of the Mission Ending music.

[@jimmytsunami5275]

ARMS INSTALLATION IS COMPLETE. GOOD LUCK.

[@shelbyrice1014]

yes whats that mean?

[@Bloodreign1]

Means you've finished picking your weapons, and they are installed to your ship.

[@gochem3013]

A voice actor on the SNES? Impressive.

[@shelbyrice1014]

@@gochem3013 yes,you should buy this game it is cool! i own it

[@xchimino2]

@@gochem3013 Yes! TAke it with Yo!U

[@JinzoCrash]

Almost 2020, and I still play the soundtrack to this on my youtube playlist at LEAST once a week working night shift.

[@girlmetroid8639]

same😆

[@ferencvad8251]

Same and it’s 2023 now, we are the 80’s generation

[@Ambaryerno]

The animation of the Level 2 boss is DAMN impressive.

[@DeskoDev]

Mode 7 ftw, it's the only time the game actually uses it during gameplay and they did a damn good job taking advantage of it.

[@MrRobjs83]

I'll never forget level 3, hands down my favorite especially the music

[@MateMagyar88]

Kinda reminds me of something out of Super Metroid.

[@edudosmacete]

Amazing game. The best sound track of all times. I have beaten this game in 1994, and still today I'm waiting for Axelay 2. Congrats, nice gameplay.

[@alexandergonzalezblandon1604]

Este era el Contra de Naves, el estilo de Konami era muy distintivo en sus juegos, Castelvania, Contra y Axelay marcaron mi horas en SNES en mi adolescencia en los noventas ....Misión Cumplida...Gracias por compartir, un saludo desde Venezuela...

[@christopherrice891]

Tonight is Saturday March 18th, 2023 and i am watching this KZbin video once again.

[@lambda494]

Thanks for giving this game the love it deserves. Maybe one day we'll get Axelay 2...

[@PEG]

Too bad it will never happen, Konami is basically dead at this point.

[@Blueflag04]

Unlikely, Konami doesnt know how to make games now

[@JudgmentStorm]

Most if not all of Axelay's developers have left Konami though. I wish Konami would quit keeping this franchise bottled up and sell it to either G.rev or Treasure, especially after how well those two handled Gradius V.

[@EnragedSephiroth]

No. I really wish they hadn't put that out there at the end of this gem. I worked there for a couple of years and floated the idea. It will never happen because: A. The company's no longer a game company, and B. Even if their gaming function wasn't necrotized, this title wasn't as commercially-successful as the Gradius franchise, for example, which did get 5 installments. I tried.

[@davidedavidification]

@@EnragedSephiroth wow,! Would like to hear more about those years! Respect!

[@Tenchigumi]

Man... this soundtrack is still awesome today. So much nostalgia.

[@LittleMuffinator]

When I just realised he was farming at the Side Boss in the third stage. This is so genius. I never thought at this point when I was gaming this Stage. OMG Holy SHIT.

[@SoftwareAgentsTV]

This game had some of the best audio from any SNES game. -- AT

[@victuz]

Chrono Cross and TMNT 4 also.

[@Bloodreign1]

@@victuz Chrono Trigger, Cross was PS1.

[@NeoArcadiaSWGAT]

Another great replay. I'm still waiting for Axelay 2^^

[@uokutopa]

+TBYVGS BOS I think we have to make it ourself. Konami died long time ago.

[@maxthompson7107]

1:34:13 Axelay2: Konami's only empty promise. I don't think Konami thought many people would manage to get as PEG did in this video, nor do I think Konami ever thought Axelay was going to be popular as it became. I don't even think a Kickstarter page would be enough to put Axelay2 in motion.

[@Bloodreign1]

I'd not trust modern Konami to do a sequel, not unless they get the original staff back, and give them COMPLETE control of the production.

[@davidediana3007]

This game is my childhood, never finished it but my dad beat the fireboss, one of the most hype moments of my life. I love the soundtrack < 3

[@RenGraes]

This game was my childhood... I remember trying so hard to beat it on Hard and failing each time... I have fond memories of this game.... maybe someone will 'remaster' this game... or not. The graphics have aged VERY Well. Incredibly detailed, yet not overdone.... Every time I think of this game, I can't help but give this a salute for the good times I had when I was a kid. ... heh, it's funny. I always thought World 3 was Mars. You can see why I'd think that. I always thought this occured in OUR solar system,. I never saw the word "Illis"

[@MrRobjs83]

Watching this I want to play this game now. My favorite level was 3 because of the music and scenery. Level 4 was hard as hell and level 6 seemed damn near impossible. But somehow I was able to beat this game multiple times

[@El_bobi]

De hecho el planeta rojo creo si viene siendo marte no si se parece ya el acuario sepa donde es y ni hablar el mundo de fuego el último es en el cosmos

[@christopherrice4360]

This KZbin video just turned 6 years old yesterday. Happy 6th birthday Axelay KZbin video🎂👏👏👏👏

[@Peter_Morris]

People don't talk about it much, but most of the guys that put this game together and the Parodius games are the same guys that went on to form Treasure. When that happened it was the end of the "Konami as we knew it" from the NES and SNES days. And I think we've seen that Kojima was never enough to carry the company on his own. This is a pretty good run, because this game is pretty unforgiving in the Hardest loop.

[@steveoranges1960]

I remember playing the intro over and over with the sound maxed out so the invading ships would make my TV rumble. I'm amazed I beat this game on hardest two times consecutively (I must have because I remember seeing the Axelay 2 message), but that's only because I loved it so much I played it over and over. Can't believe this game had insufficient sales for a sequel!

[@phantomblack5307]

One of those shooters that was made with an artistic sense in mind...one of the best designed shmups for its time hands down

[@josemarioaraujo84]

8:27 the enemies, the music, the background, all in this game is perfect!!

[@Blueflag04]

Imagine beating the hardest mode and then gets a teaser for a sequel that never happens. Thats a big betrayal moment

[@PEG]

Betrayal moments would become the norm for konami unfortunately.

[@Vampier]

Konami let a lot of good titles go to waste..... Maze Of Galious / (SD)Snatcher / Suikoden / Axelay / Contra and so much more... it's not even funny!

[@PEG]

Yeah, it's sad how far they've fallen. Konami was my favorite company back in the 80s-90s, they could literally do no wrong. TMNT, Contra, Gradius, etc are still among my favorites. It's sad what they have become.

[@NeoArcadiaSWGAT]

Agreed. Thanks Konami for your days of greatness. Back then, you Konami went down in history. Today, you're history.

[@JudgmentStorm]

PEG You're right, it is sad. There was Gradius V in the 2000s (available on PSN for $10, but too bad this version is PS3 only). While they didn't develop it, getting Treasure & G.Rev to do it was a good move. What has Konami done for us lately? Nada. M2 should buy this franchise out & get G.Rev to help make a sequel. Good replay.

[@AdventFuentes]

@@NeoArcadiaSWGAT still alive not a husk yet

[@cyphaborg6598]

Have you seen the new contra?lol

[@shelbyrice1014]

Arm installation is complete,good luck!

[@christopherrice891]

Well Shelby i just found a comment on this video of Super NES Axelay by you. I finally found this video again so i can watch it again.

[@wishworm123]

Stage 1 music is the best music I have ever heard... in anything ever

[@AslansMane88]

Iso Tonik You might listen to the music of Gradius III, UN Squadron, Mega Man X, or Link to the Past before passing such hasty judgment.

[@gingataisen]

Maybe, it's his second video game.

[@lambda494]

If you like it, check out Super Castlevania IV, by the same composer. Uses lots of jazz rhythms.

[@Dr0dd]

I like the 2nd stage music better personally

[@nintendomanx]

My friend, I agree with you. Did you ever hear the version from the Konami Kukeiha Club? kzbin.info/www/bejne/lWbRqKyDbrd4mZY

[@lucasvidal2640]

I like how after we beat the Stage's Main Boss, the Starship slightly dances as if celebrating their victory. xD

[@blandcore2773]

Dude that intro is incredible

[@christopherrice4360]

I'm watching this video on Saturday August 1st, 2020. This Covid-19 Coronavirus stuff has really messed up 2020 and it's nice to travel back in time to 2015 when life wasn't so chaotic. Who else watches really old KZbin videos to feel nostalgic and take a break from the present?

[@josetrejo5144]

Right here. I tested positive for COVID and had to stay home for 2 weeks. And all I did was play old retro games , Axelay was one of them! Pure nostalgia!

[@geirandreaske3889]

I played this a lot as a kid! Though I never managed to actually beat the game, hah. Games were certainly harder in the old days. But I see now that I was very close, because wow, that's a short game! And, now I know where Bioware got the idea for the Reapers from. ;-)

[@emgee8483]

Axelay, U.N. Squadron, Cybernator ...games I enjoyed playing so much being a kid.

[@sorayat2333]

Love this Game. Awesome graphics, music and atmosphere.

[@pniiice]

Time to finally beat this game. Never beat it on the SNES even though I love this game to my heart and soul. :( This game is still so epic to me

[@nowonmetube]

Man... This game really uses _A LOT_ of the same sound effects as Contra 3.

[@TheBigL1]

I do recognize the snare drum sample in the music, and the crackly explosion sound (which I'm actually really curious how it was made, like what they did with the waveform to produce it).

[@bamafan73191]

Was thinkin the same thing

[@nowonmetube]

@@bamafan73191 nice

[@sylvesterpeterrameau702]

Yeah really good soundtrack and really good game. I don't know if back then I was a gifted gamer in my gaming years but the very first time I played this game, I ended up beating the shit out of it, lol. I woke up one morning walked into the living room and got my older brother playing this game. I ask him what game is this? He told me axelay and he got it last night but when he got home I was already sleeping. I watched him played it and died continuously, lol. So he had to go to town on an errand, after unbelievably playing this game all night long and not even getting really far. I took a turn at it. True story; I played the game for the very first time on normal settings and was like zapping alien butt. He was like you really good at this game, but you are always good at all games, I laughed. He left me playing and I was advancing to the next level with ease. Until I beat the entire game on my first go without any continues, unbelievable!!! Just woke up, sleep face morning breath and all, shitttt!!!! I called him and told him I just beat the entire game and he was like WTF!! LMAO! But really good game, I also thought the soundtrack of super biometal was incredible as well.

[@NeverbeGoodat]

Bless God for the Slowdowns in Stage 4 and 6. Make the game much easier on Hard and Hardest.

[@mrdm1967ify]

*Sigh*-Konami, what have you become?. Back in the 80s-90s, you were unstoppable. Axelay, Life Force(Salamader) and so many of your shooter games were the best on the market.

[@lucimarmartins1022]

Congratulations! Awesome Game!

[@mclaine7342]

Good Game, nice graphics, legendary Soundtrack! Btw. this guy played the hell out of this game!^^

[@maxthompson7107]

I think Konami really picked the right soundtrack to compliment this game.

[@CENTORGUA]

I play it on hard mode all the time I love it. Yes I still have a Super Nintendo and a bunch of games.

[@Bloodreign1]

Same here, except 2 SNES consoles, and over 200 games (US and Japanese releases), because games for this console have aged well, and never get old.

[@MrRobjs83]

This was one of my favorites with the best music ever especially for the bosses

[@WagnerLuisMartinsSoares]

With great enthusiasm I never tire of saying Axley is the best game if not one of the best on the Super Nintendo,

[@PEG]

It's definitely one of my favorite snes shoot em ups!

[@WagnerLuisMartinsSoares]

and what can I say about the sensational soundtracks 💪🏼🔥

[@hevonperseensuti]

I used to play snes a lot when I was a kid, but I don't remerber this game. I have to say that graphics, music and the whole game is just awesomely good. It really shows the potential of snes and how good this Axelay type of games can be at their best. Too bad many other snes games were close to be scams by their quality.

[@miguel76gimenez]

AXELAY 2 !!! PLEASE !!!

[@gamblerfls]

39:36 yay I finished the game! /throws controller 39:42 Oh shit

[@My2Cents1]

I'd love to see a real 3D remake of this game! With arranged versions of the music, AND... the option to switch to the original SNES OST. ...Because SNES music rocked. That console was VG music king.

[@scottjohnston3098]

17:16 Flinging bombs and bullets, what a boss battle!

[@socialNrocker]

This and Gradius 3 were my fav space ship games on the SNES growing up :D

[@gochem3013]

0:45 BUT... THE FUTURE REFUSE TO CHANGE. 10:36 Mecha Xenomorph

[@djshefu]

Watching you play this makes me wanna boot the game up and play it again! I used to own this game back in the day with UN Squadron & Gradius3. One of the most underrated shooters ever made! So much fun & such an amazing soundtrack. Esp the cavern stage music. So good! It sucks that i can only play it via emulation now..cause thr the game runs so slow and laggy..at least it does when playing it on my hacked PSP D=

[@PEG]

djshefu It works pretty well on the ZSNES emulator, but I always prefer to play on the original systems, and this game is well worth the price!

[@djshefu]

Pegboy im definitely gonna get my hands on a legit SNES so i can play my fav games the way they were MEANT to be played! I regret selling my SNES and all 40 something games to EB, because a friend broke my PSX trying to install a mod chip. Biggest regret of my life lol. Yeaj ZSNES is def one of the better SNES emulators out there. But sadly, PSP only has SNES9x as it emulator. :( can't wait to get a real SNES again so i won't get weirs audio glitches & HUGE graphical slowdown..unless the slowdown is supposed to be there like Gradius has. Then it helps alot lol. Arms installation is complete...good luck! Earthling about! X10

[@uokutopa]

+djshefu Axelays is the best 2D ship shooter.

[@pniiice]

Perfect on a raspberry pi.

[@dumplechan]

Nice! I saw the high score listed on Restart Syndrome. And here I was proud of myself for getting a clear on Hard :)

[@PEG]

dumplechan Good job on that clear on hard, such an awesome game!

[@ArmandoCasasDelCampo]

See you again in Axelay2 :')

[@xchimino2]

Me dan ganas de shorar

[@El_bobi]

Recuerdo que la primera ves que jugue solo llege a Colony etapa 2 y en 2 horas ya lo habia pasado hasta que me hize pro y me la pelo en Hard hoy en dia Juego KAIZOS de Super Mario World Extremadamente dificil Rom hacks

[@scottjohnston3098]

4:00 is when the SNES gets tested by the sprites on screen. I love the difficulty of this stage. It was fun trying to find safe spots. I recently tried playing this again, and got pretty far.....on easy lol

[@jblack5323]

I seem to remember this game being very easy up complete

[@polux82]

the OST is incredible :D

[@MrKeyblademaster1992]

There should be a sequel to this. Too bad Konami didn't make it for whatever reason.

[@uokutopa]

+MrKeyblademaster1992 Konami sucks

[@MrKeyblademaster1992]

+uokutopa They were good back when this one was released, but yeah, they suck now.

[@watertank10430]

I'm amazed by how the designer distort flat images to create a 3D-like world during the time this game is produced, in which there were no 3D model graphics engine around the 90s.

[@watertank10430]

+Tank Water Oh my, and not just the 3D looking, but the way that graphics tells you that your aircraft is flying around the orbit of the planet.

[@scottjohnston3098]

I always set both weapons and bombs to the same button.

[@Bloodreign1]

Konami knew how to make a great shmup for the SNES/SFC. Though Gradius 3 was a misstep (it was the first one they put out early in the systems life, so they didn't know the system yet), we got 3 Parodius games (slowdown kind of hurt them, but it was worse in Jikkou Oshaberi Parodius, hopefully someone comes out with an SA-1 hack, like they did Gradius 3, which removed ALL slowdown from the game), an excellent Twinbee game (and a platformer for that series as well that is outstanding), and this gem. I bought this thing when it was still under 10 bucks years ago ($7.99 off Ebay, because the damned thing would never show up in the couple retro game shops we had here at the time), that won't happen today as the game is now very expensive.

[@Theshark15z]

Dam I forgot how impressive this game was.....IS!! And SEGA fans said that they had all the best shoot 'em up games.....psssh!!

[@Bloodreign1]

SNES had some, don't let those fanboys fool you. Sega had some good ones (Thunder Force IV definitely comes to mind, that consoles best shmup, anyone says different is dead wrong), but no one can act like the SNES had no great shmups. This, and the Parodius games (despite their slowdown), Pop N Twinbee, one of the Gundam or Macross shmups (I cannot remember it's name, R-Type3, and Super Aleste/Space Mega Force are just a few of them.

[@scottjohnston3098]

9:48 this game blew my mind for shooters

[@keenandixon4671]

My favorites back in the day was this, Space Megaforce, and UN Squadron

[@JuanHernandez-pu8fv]

You are spectacular ,I never got it past stage 4 ,I must really stink because you're playing it on its most difficult level while I only played it on easy😕

[@sotheresthat7882]

Great game, but the horizon in the first person sequences…I thought something was wrong with my cartridge 😅

[@MegaMaxism]

Underrated game of gardius it's about a pilot and he's family to save earth.

[@Django333]

They really went nuts with the Mode 7 in this game. I never could get used to those vertical stages. Still a great game though.

[@PEG]

Cid333 It seems like I'm the only one on the planet that really likes the vertical levels in this game. I think the mode 7 effect is pretty cool even if it warps the perspective a bit.

[@BuyMeThingsnow]

Pegboy I like them too ;)

[@uokutopa]

+Pegboy You'Re not the only one. Axelay is the best 2d ship shooter in the world. So many things in this game are awesome ideas, the music is awesome, the soudn effects are awesome, the designs are awesome, the effects are awesome, the athmosphere is awesome, the length is awesome, the gameplay is awesome :O I could go on...

[@SotaYaicate]

The best play of history

[@bamafan73191]

Man this game was so tough to me, even watching it back I think it’s ridiculous to this day.

[@sinfulkivisian20]

The ship in Axelay reminds me of the Last Starfighter battleship

[@Phyroxin]

Such a rousing intro, makes me want to go outside and kick off!!

[@PEG]

Definitely, it really makes you want to annihilate that alien army in the final stage, after what they did.

[@davidhill8565]

Axelay tore a page out of Super R-Type’s playbook in terms of difficulty levels.

[@DeformerNF]

afterb soi many years i loved it.................. gänsehaut ohne ende... SNES best console ever when KONAMI was KONAMI

[@djmars1983]

5:40 the giant enemy spider

[@TachiTachyonKellar_nexus]

I always thought there was a ninth weapon. GG pegboy

[@phillipicus7446]

I'ts been 31 years waiting on axelay2

[@mnlala]

axelay was no joke never could finish the game

[@Rodzilla97]

i beat it on easy, but that was still hard for me

[@LeeZard27]

Am I the only one to think the view of the ship's cockpit and nose cone in the ending sequence evoke the F22 Raptor?

[@scottjohnston3098]

14:00 nice strategy coming up for twin beams

[@axore13]

we dont see the third upgrade on side 2 weapon .. grat play bravo to you i never win this game on hard i never try it ...

[@XXXtremeMuthafucka89]

Oh man! I was so impressed when you managed to survive the entire clusterfuck that is Stage 6 on Very Hard... until you died by those spinning rocks, which in comparisson, are MILLIONS of times easier to dodge than everything else. But still, it was a very amazing run! And sadly, the secret message that you get when you beat the game on that difficulty is easily one of the biggest fucking lies in gaming history... I mean, it has been like twenty-four years since then and Axelay 2 is still unreleased... Oh! One more thing: #FuckKonami

[@PEG]

+TheAlmightyLandorus89 im still not sure how I died from those spinning rocks, I was sitting there for a while and then the game was just like "fuck you" im going to kill you anyway for surviving that long lol. Too bad axelay 2 will never happen, konami is such a shell of its former self. Its just sad.

[@Zecifer]

One could think of Radiant Silvergun and Ikaruga as Axelay spiritual successors.

[@michalander2131]

TheAlmightyLandorus89 See you again in "Axelay 2"

[@nowonmetube]

"spinning rocks" what kind of fucking explanation is that?

[@nowonmetube]

@@PEG you mean like a ghost in the shell?

[@HotaruZoku]

Fascinating backgrounds.

[@phreakazoith2237]

I remember trying to beat the very hard mode by starting with easy and keep on looping. I gained plenty of extra lifes when I finally got into playing very hard mode but the game froze in an early level and it was all in vain.

[@PEG]

Yup, that's happened to me as well, very frustrating.

[@phreakazoith2237]

@@PEG but thanks to you I know that hard mode is technically there and possible to complete. When it froze I just assumed there is not actually a full fourth difficulty at all, just some more playtime and then it is meant to stop. The only difference in the ending sequence is that they mention a sequel that never came right?

[@goof6463]

Omg the music ❤️❤️

[@javiermauricio5061]

Axelay.. uno de los mejores juegos esta dentro de mi top teen de video juegos

[@vei05066]

聞いたことないゲームですけど、ものすごい意欲作ですねえ…

[@srko2012]

Good old days that konami knows how to make good games

[@ssdivizion]

This game is one of the best shmups of all times,Konami's answer to many shmups in those time

[@zebratante]

My childhood in a nutshell

This my Game.

[@Zninety]

I don't know why but the way the spider boss moved always made me uneasy.

[@yep8058]

In the intro my guy goes full MAN MODE

[@MrRobjs83]

Level 3 was my favorite, had the best music ever

[@ivanhervas4398]

Idol!

[@123TauruZ321]

Why are the sounds so much better in this version???

[@VJFranzK]

very strange mode 7 background?

[@dumpling3309]

SNES had very cool arcade games!!

[@EasyGuitarNow]

one of the game very hard ! respect !

[@KryptKicker5]

I remember when that Konami intro would give me excitement. I now know Konami is a stupid, stupid company and it just makes me sad.

[@uokutopa]

+KryptKicker5 It's a different company now. It died and is now someone else. People should split those two things in their mind. It'S like two different product you can buy in a shop with the same name.

[@KryptKicker5]

uokutopa Agreed man.

[@wyovr4]

Looks like you should have gotten hit twice around 1:17:16. Either way, great game!

[@ekfylobifteki]

😲 I'd totally forgotten that I used to play this when I was like 5 or 6 yo 😅 (I'm 32 now)