"There's a tournament for ultimate power." "Who are we sending?" "....Finkster."
@zanethezaniest2746 ай бұрын
Maybe the real Cardinal Syn was the unresponsive controls we used along the way.
@mmichaelson6 ай бұрын
Hecklar is such s great name for an evil jester.
@planetschlock6 ай бұрын
How is that not a Masters of the Universe character? "Heck-Lar: Evil Jester of Skeletor"
@IBmaster46 ай бұрын
@@planetschlock because
@KFCuser6 ай бұрын
I'll mention it just because most people will never find this out by themselves: if a second player picks up the second controller and presses Start when the other player is in Tournament mode, you'll hear the announcer shout '' A new challenger comes ! '' and the match will stop right there. The character selection screen will pop up, second player will choose a character and whoever wins will keep going through the tournament solo.
@3dpprofessor6 ай бұрын
I don't know if I love this or hate it. It's an odd choice for a home game.
@unrealggecko6 ай бұрын
Some of the 2D Mortal Kombat games do this too to be fair.
@MitoNova5836 ай бұрын
probably a feature that was intended for an arcade version of the game, since that's very common with traditional 2D fighters like KoF or Streets
@Nintenboy016 ай бұрын
It was actually pretty rare for CGI cutscenes on PS1 to have voice acting - maybe the console was prone to audio sync issues or something?
@AlexTenThousand6 ай бұрын
It's likely that developers hadn't found a decent way to load in clips and videos together without it taking minutes.
@Mario_bland6 ай бұрын
might be a storage issue,
@datriadx186 ай бұрын
I remember it feeling like sorcery when there was voice acting during Julia Chang's ending cinematic in Tekken 3. Hearing voices during in-game cinematics was one thing... Hearing voices during pre-rendered CGI cutscenes felt like some sort of dark art.
@sonicswag906 ай бұрын
I think it was cut off of the game due to it being rushed out
@NereidAlbel6 ай бұрын
Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain had no problem with it in 1996. Seems more like too many dev teams just didn't have the time to make it work.
@MusicFromAnotherTime6 ай бұрын
This almost seems like what would happen if Midway made a fighting game in the 90s within the Gauntlet universe. It has that vibe to me.
@bluedragon37216 ай бұрын
God, I miss Gauntlet. Dark Legacy is one of the best games ever made.
@drakewarnock12396 ай бұрын
I remember this game! My uncle was one of the artists, so I'm happy that you liked the design and everything in the game since that's what he worked on. Also, I can confirm that the mocap was done by random employees, because he did the mocap for Plague. I remember him telling me about how he had to have his leg pulled up in a sling so he could hobble around on the peg leg.
@kashikitsune87244 ай бұрын
I think it's awesome your uncle worked on this. Next time you talk to him tell him he helped me to fall in love with the PlayStation because this is one of my favorite games on the system!
@registereduser6 ай бұрын
You know we NEED a Fear Effect WH episode now.
@ice_queen96 ай бұрын
imagining DSP trying to input a fireball attack in this game
@Gaia_BentosZX56 ай бұрын
In the Jestah's stage that's ACTUALLY a stage with a decent hazard that can be comparable to smash, being on a moving platform at ALL TIMES while there's the spiked skull in the middle of said arena. There would be stages like this in the Shonen Jump fighters. So A- for effort and a step up from Criticom, guys.
@Superluigi8815 ай бұрын
I can hear the ACK ACK ACKs in my head.
@Zurvan1947Ай бұрын
BUGGED GAME MECHANICS!
@martiankeichan68876 ай бұрын
Those DSP references are getting out of control and I love it
@jazzygeofferz6 ай бұрын
They always get a laugh out of me.
@TheRandomNonsenseMerchant6 ай бұрын
I like videos that are stealth detractor content.
@ThingsOnDemand5 ай бұрын
@@TheRandomNonsenseMerchantit’s much better than overt detractor content tbh
@shakes58476 ай бұрын
Fear effect was so god damn good and parts of it still hold up incredibly well today. The writing and characters were semi-intelligently handled and had a adult theme that pushed the boundaries for the time in a usually non-cringey way (Hana excluded). That game legit creeped me out as a kid. Not all of it worked but it deserves better than it's current fate.
@daviddamasceno60636 ай бұрын
I'm sure Max still has PTSD from that Criticom play session.
@redwolfe70496 ай бұрын
I love how you randomly drop DSP easter eggs lmao
@joeyfarris25436 ай бұрын
I also like the announcer's voice in Cardinal Syn. She has a very commanding voice 👍👍
@Insidious8493 ай бұрын
It's the same actress who voices Syn herself; according to the credits, it is an actress by the name of Mari Devon.
@dectilon6 ай бұрын
The one thing I remember about this game is that Kron has an insta-kill attack where it just kinda eats you.
@joeyfarris25436 ай бұрын
Cardinal Syn isn't that bad of a game and I've always enjoyed it👍👍
@tomorrowwestport26206 ай бұрын
I actually loved this game as a kid I refuse to be ashamed of this 😅
@a.rheser81816 ай бұрын
Me too.
@kozrenaissance45816 ай бұрын
@@a.rheser8181 i was gonna say..its not that bad i mean cmon...
@tadeuferreira40596 ай бұрын
I played recently and I find this tobe an awesome game, not perfect by any mean, but it's above average!
@mystey15 ай бұрын
Yeah I played it and as far as I remember it wasn't THAT bad, but it wasn't THAT good game either also, years later I was like 'there are finishing moves in this game? No way'
@kristopherpoulsen6536 күн бұрын
One of the characters moves was a fart missile ffs. Or at least that's how I interpreted it as a 9-year-old.
@Masterofsome016 ай бұрын
Is it just me or does anybody else think that Matt's avatar could pass as Skeletor's more hip and radical brother?
@worstinshow6 ай бұрын
Headcanon: Stolen
@fbmb13376 ай бұрын
In this game's lukewarm defense, Mortal Kombat's later games implemented Brutalities in much the same way as these finishers, except they somehow made them worse by usually adding extra gimmicky requirements for them like "Land this special move three times during the round". So congrats Syn, your first attempt at this mechanic wasn't the worst iteration of it!
@HB-fq9nn6 ай бұрын
MK1 removed those kinds of requirements for brutalities. Now all you need to do is enter a specific input when performing the move as a finishing attack. (Sometimes distance is also required, but it’s very lenient) It’s much easier to pull off Brutalities than in MK11.
@fbmb13376 ай бұрын
@@HB-fq9nn That's nice at least, sounds like a better way of doing it. Distance isn't even that big of a deal since Fatalies were also always distance based anyhow.
@stevenbishop17826 ай бұрын
I liked this game as a kid especially with that Dragon that can bite the other character in half
@aliceosako7926 ай бұрын
I still want to see Matt cover _Ranma 1/2: Hard Battle_ / _Street Combat_ . The story of this mess, especially the way that they butchered the US release, is worth the price of admission alone.
@aliceosako7926 ай бұрын
@@teruienages962 Ah, thank you for that, my mistake.
@iswitchedsidesforthiscatАй бұрын
Ranma of all things lol. I love that character
@AndrewPowerSM6 ай бұрын
Anytime you mention Vic Tokai, I immediately picture Vic Romano from Most Extreme Elimination Challenge. So that’s… yeah.
@sivalon16 ай бұрын
Right you are, Ken!
@Godzilla19826 ай бұрын
And I'm Kenny Blankenship!
@registereduser6 ай бұрын
Don’t Get Eliminated!
@MsVilecat6 ай бұрын
They're not running from, they're running to!
@emmi08156 ай бұрын
just stumbled across "Theatre of Pain" (1997) for DOS. my first thought was that it could be a worthy challenger for the title.
@danvzare62016 ай бұрын
I remember playing that game as a kid. It'd be perfect for this show. I think it's made by the same people who made Rise of the Robots. (It's nowhere near as bad as that game though.)
@thegrimeyhole6 ай бұрын
I don’t care how bad this game is. I fucking loved playing it when I was younger. So much nostalgia for one of those games I just had a disc of and no case, no idea where I even got it from
@cecollector6 ай бұрын
Fun fact: There was a Filipino Cardinal who is actually named Jaime Sin, which he was called Cardinal Sin when he became a cardinal. :)
@registereduser6 ай бұрын
J. Jonah Jaime Sin (Well, it made me laugh.)
@WrestlingWithGaming6 ай бұрын
Dude, these are always so entertaining
@josephlance11986 ай бұрын
I had a feeling this wasn’t going to be the worst. It looked to cool to be the worst. Gameplay aside.
@practicalgenie43666 ай бұрын
Oh my God! THANK YOU! I played this game once as a wee babi, and the only thing that ever stuck out was the flaming character select screen. For yea- no decades, I was forced to think it was a fever dream with nothing to go on! Unless there's another game with the same kinda select screen, you've finally solved the biggest mystery of my life! I can rest happily now!
@gutseybat6 ай бұрын
I remember playing it a long time ago too. It was on a demo CD on one of the issues of Official US Playstation Magazine.
@lisgod36 ай бұрын
A Fear Effect What Happened is something I'm looking forward to.
@chibinya6 ай бұрын
As a 10 year old kid this game was ULTIMATE!!
@karotconcarne33256 ай бұрын
Oh hell yeah, I was a happy little boi when I found out I can play a skelly in this game. Good times.
@CryptomasterLeviathan6 ай бұрын
The poly count and textures look pretty damn good for the PS1! I know it is likely running in an emulator because of the screen resolution, but it holds up pretty well with just a screen resolution bump. Edit: The emulation also doesn't have the texture warping either, but I think the character models are close enough to the view plane to have much warping.
@Mateus_Carvalho6 ай бұрын
Gotta feel a bit bad for Cardinal Syn, even if the game's not good. The design and the characters looked real neat for its time, even the fighting part wasn't as rough as Criticom's disasterpiece. Kinda feels like it shares Evil Zone's thing of desiging the characters with gusto but then forgetting they're supposed to fight well too. Nice to see it get some attention here and there, even though this would never be quite the contender for King of Crap.
@pabulum286 ай бұрын
Evil Zone was cool though for its "Serial Anime" cutscene stills between each fight; lore was best part about it
@BigBossBr4z1l6 ай бұрын
07:18 remember when we unlocked game extra content by actually playing the game instead of paying double or triple the price in all the dlcs to have the complete game after months or even years?
@insertfunnynamehere89846 ай бұрын
Everyone loves some big honkers in their games
@jonothanthrace15306 ай бұрын
I didn't see a single goose :(
@Vaguer_Weevil6 ай бұрын
@@jonothanthrace1530 When you're looking for honkers, everything starts to look like a goose
@EhrenLoudermilk6 ай бұрын
Preach
@GodOfPlague6 ай бұрын
@@jonothanthrace1530that's the unnamed goose game
@DarksteelHeart6 ай бұрын
I know I do.
@emilysong20006 ай бұрын
So I guess you could say that Cardinal Syn committed several...cardinal sins...of fighting games! I'll see myself out...
@MrTubeStuck6 ай бұрын
Comeback here and go to your room!
@ideitbawxproductions18806 ай бұрын
It's crazy to think that this studio went on to make Fear Effect... I never got to play it, but watching Sean Seanson's video on it made me want to buy a PS1 just to play that one game. Also, it's nice to see that they improved on Criticom, at least
@Totavier6 ай бұрын
If you have a PS3 and a PSN account from Europe you can buy both games digitally for €7 each one since it were released as part of the PS1 Classics line up. Sadly never were released on America for some reason.
@Nast336 ай бұрын
You should, they are great games. Not gonna lie, they are my favorite fixed cam survival horror/RE-like games. Even more than RE themselves. The characters were top notch, some interesting puzzles, gruesome death scenes and actually good voice acting. I'm still salty FE3:Inferno got canceled at like 95% completion and never leaked.
@FlappableElf6 ай бұрын
Welcome back warriors!
@LeftStickGaming6 ай бұрын
I love the hallowed, stinky temple.
@Indian_Ross6 ай бұрын
It is time!
@PostalPacifier6 ай бұрын
"Man, you crazy! I din't do nuthin'!" ~ Cleon
@sven_bender6 ай бұрын
I have *seen* the amateur
@mr.jomjome25696 ай бұрын
Thank you "mk Armageddon kreate a fighter" man
@kingnocturne27616 ай бұрын
Maaaan this brought back some great memories~ Still got a lot of love for my undead dudes, Plague and Stygian!
@MagmaMKII6 ай бұрын
Still waiting for Tongue of the Fatman.
@BrazenScull6 ай бұрын
That’s so obviously the worst fighting game ever that it would have ended the series prematurely!
@Witherbrine986 ай бұрын
Didn't know this was a whole trifecta under the devs' belt. I will agree, the presentation was a bit of a saving grace. If you want an absolutely NASTY stinker of a fighter, though...I would've just said Heavy Nova only and call it a day, but I found another particularly nasty candidate: X-Men for the Mattel HyperScan. Forget modern day lootboxes, imagine locking integral parts of your game behind card packs of all things, and even when you get it all it still sucks ass.
@LeagGael6 ай бұрын
Wow and it's up at 9am Vancouver time! Thank you so much my morning started in the best way possible 🎉🎉🎉
@Gaia_BentosZX56 ай бұрын
This is the worst case of Deja Vu Matt's ever had, should he go up against a Cosmically Powered Starscream as he has to listen to a story behind a story, behind YET ANOTHER story dressed as another story when it comes to the Buu Saga, featuring the titular character who's a primary antagonist in the DBZ fighting games that was previously covered in Worst Fighting Game.
@qu12536 ай бұрын
I don't play fighting games (don't have the crazy amount of free time necessary just to play at a basic level) but I still love this series.
@NeutralDrow6 ай бұрын
Never played it, but I actually remember reading the EGM2 magazine guide to this game back in the day. In retrospect, it's kind of hilarious that, while they were playing the game up for all it's worth...their advice for playing mostly amounted to "find the character's hard-knockdown button and spam it" and "hit them once and run out the clock."
@BasVoet6 ай бұрын
This is one of my favourite series on KZbin! Thanks!
@kenchanha47896 ай бұрын
@16:15 Finally. Someone else who understands how rollback input works. Nice subtle dig lol
@ElSandwich7776 ай бұрын
Also check the time stamp. Switch the numbers and it becomes 16:51. Lmao
@JathanielLunnington6 ай бұрын
Don't forget the "meaningful content" when talking about the roster
@TheXenoNick6 ай бұрын
If this gets us one step closer to a What Happened for Fear Effect! Lets go!!!!! Also yes Rollback netcode is the worst. Eats all those inputs that I did right dood!!!!
@RandumbDoomer6 ай бұрын
How about Violence FIght by Taito? I don't know if the mechanics & game feel are bad, but I know its presentation is hilarious. The character Lick Joe, the ridiculously badly-translated onomatopoeias... Consider it.
@TrophyJourney6 ай бұрын
How amazing that my favorite series on this website has released an episode just as I am bored outta my mind at work! I'm so happy!
@taterman12346 ай бұрын
Speaking of arena fighters and Power Stone... I offer up Stake: Fortune Fighters for Worst Fighting Game consideration. It's basically a Power Stone knockoff released in 2003 exclusively on the OG Eggbock.
@myway73672 ай бұрын
"Happiness is a warm cranium" Still remember the 3 (?) page ad of this game on Playstation Magazine. It was the face of a smiling live actor dressed as the character 1:29 and when you opened up the pages you'd see his head was impaled on a spike of sorts.
@linaciari6 ай бұрын
We need a fighting game that's just all the different versions of Matt fighting each other. Fighter Matt vs. Game Show Matt vs. Spider-Matt...
@lauriepenner3506 ай бұрын
Hey Matt, you've been teasing Tattoo Assassins in the intro since you started this series. I'm STILL waiting to find out if the tattoos assassinate people or the assassins kill tattoos.( I am fully aware that I could google this. I refuse.)
@Maktivus6 ай бұрын
Please do a What Happened for the Fear Effect franchise. Those were some of my favorite PS1 games back in the day. They definitely got some worthy What Happened material. Especially since the remake seems radio silent since they showed off a bit of the first level.
@tedants85736 ай бұрын
Cardinal Syn was really fun though P.S. I hope Matt talks about ‘Fighting Eyes’ soon
@CassiDS6 ай бұрын
So... When're you covering the two HyperScan fighting games?
@stingray-sw3jj6 ай бұрын
Damn this game is just Mortal Kombat Deception: there's kamidogu, a dragon guy, some other third thing
@karotconcarne33256 ай бұрын
I used to reaally love this game despite all it's flaws, still do honestly. It gets the world feel down perfectly. Also I'm curious Matt, since you're mentioning arena fighters like Destrega and Cardynal Syn... are we getting Unholy War on the list as well? It's admitedly a wierd animal, to be sure, but it is... PARTIALLY an arena fighter like Destrega. KIND OF.
@dominicaccardo80506 ай бұрын
3:57 OMG i’m so dense! wha happun is themed like a game show because it’s a show about games…💀💀
@eviltom176 ай бұрын
Big Girthy Honkers... and then Honoka slowly pops up! HA!
@arkadehorror6 ай бұрын
This was a FANTASTIC WFG. Super funny too. Great job.
@branovices6 ай бұрын
Thank you, thank you! Weaponlord!! I've been trying to remember what that game from my childhood was called for AGES now!
@Ranakel6 ай бұрын
Wait a minute. Weapons people and some characters that are just built different. Pickups on the stage. Stage gimmicks including one that just spins around all the time... IS THIS THE PRECURSOR TO CASTLEVANIA JUDGEMENT?!
@pabulum286 ай бұрын
This is unironically one of my favorite games for PS1. Even on Ultra Hard difficulty you can cheese the CPU opponent with jump style attacks. The Bimorphia story scarred me though (arguably has the best ending).
@fluffyman856 ай бұрын
Definitely seems like this could have been something if they had some polish on the fighting mechanics, the visual design is there, and an attempt to make something that was seldom seen at the time, but not quite. And seems they added quite a bit of cheek to a few of the female combatants.
@rachelbowers75216 ай бұрын
I've been waiting for this one, had a demo of it on a disc back in the day
@Rildaris6 ай бұрын
Imo Cardinal Sin wasnt a bad game. It was a surprise tho, discovering each finishing moves. It was gory and fun. I have a lot of nice memories about this game
@a.rheser81816 ай бұрын
TBH one of my favourite fighting games at the time, still love it and pop it in from time to time. Is also loved Weaponlord, and this felt like some kind of successor, at least in characters and atmosphere. Loves the world of this game. Also lots of replayability.
@brandonsclips77416 ай бұрын
LMAO that DSP reference @16:14 is phenomenal. Very meaningful content, brother
@michel0dy6 ай бұрын
At first I was like "hey, the visuals for this game aren't bad at all! .......it's gonna be unresponsive as hell, isn't it??"
@TheHeartlessAlchemist6 ай бұрын
16:15 OMG! That DSP diss was perfect! Nice one, Matt.
@Reebz0r6 ай бұрын
Man I remember playing this back in the day and kinda enjoying. Being a kind of proto-arena fighter gave it a different feel to what was out at the time. Plus you know... pubescent teen + gore = win. Be curious to see if you throw Kensei: Sacred Fist in the ring, Konami's attempt at a Tekken/DOA clone.
@LaZodiac6 ай бұрын
I have no hard evidence for this but I truly believe Dark Rift and Criticom where a Blizzard property fighting game vehicle. The demons are Diablo, the robots and soldiers are Starcraft, the fantasy creatures are Warcraft. I don't know if you've done it yet or not, but you should do "Doomsday Warrior" on the SNES next. I think it'll be a top contender.
@bryannalty18636 ай бұрын
I had this as kid and remembered it being one of my favourites. 😅
@rastan196 ай бұрын
TATTOO ASSASSIN'S. You have it in the intro, but you have not reviewed it. I would love to see TATTOO ASSASSIN'S get a video.
@megazerox_gaming6 ай бұрын
I still have this game,aside from the laggy and clunky gameplay i have a soft spot for It.The cutscenes and setting were cool IMO
@pittsburghboyertown38216 ай бұрын
I had and still have fun with this game. It's one I revisit and is underrated, imho. However, there's a huge learning curve and it's not very pick up and playable, at all. It was also very different from any fighter released at the time back then which made that approachability worse as it's using *all* the buttons on the controller. It's really doing some unique things. Also I think the unlockable cast is far better looking than the base cast.
@JomasterTheSecond6 ай бұрын
The real Cardinal Sin here is not doing a video on Shadow: War of Succesion.
@bananaslamma35Ай бұрын
Oh shit I think I remember this one. I seem to remember that at least one of the characters had a jab attack that was fast enough and didn't produce enough knockback that you could literally just keep jabbing eternally and eventually you'd actually win the fight just jabbing nonstop. I remember this because one of my cousins had this game I think and the reason we never played it again was because that was the only thing he would do, pick that character and just get you in an infinite jab combo and refused to ever play any other character or ever use any other strategy, so it was horribly unfun to play with him.
@IndigoPhoenix216 ай бұрын
Ooooo I've been waiting for this one!
@VulpeRenard6 ай бұрын
I remember seeing a screenshot of this game in an issue of Game Informer magazine, seeing the giant dragon enemy, and deciding I need to try this game. Never actually did, so I'm excited to see how it looks now.
@StormMartinEBFG6 ай бұрын
I swear, every time I thought you were done with the DSP references, there comes another. Bravo.
@RetroMatter6 ай бұрын
"Dangerous Streets" on Amiga 500 (the poor version) is the heavy weight of shitty fighting games. And of course a belt contender.
@Kammithekiller6 ай бұрын
Oh snap, time for me and MattMcPlushie to watch some janky nonsense :D :D @18:06 raziel??
@anti-roxas8506 ай бұрын
I actually used to play this game a shit ton on the PS1 when I was a kid. I MAINED Finkster
@brazilmugenteam6 ай бұрын
I had this game back then and.. I enjoyed playing it. Not perfect, some fail here and there but some good things, like the select screen and some stages.
@NeoRambler6 ай бұрын
My younger brother got this game when it came out, and I remember enjoying it well enough 😂😂😂
@TheWolverineDoll6 ай бұрын
I salute a fellow member of the DSP Snortex
@TheLouzer_6 ай бұрын
This is one of my most favorite series on KZbin, really....but I will NOT stand idly by and just allow this Destrega slander. I freakin' LOVED that game. lol
@fmhummel6 ай бұрын
Concerning the graphics and general presentation I was blown away by the Cardinal Syn demo back then. The levels had actual architecture!
@kirbwarriork337126 күн бұрын
This feels like one of those games where people who grew up with it would say "Yeah, I see how people consider it bad, but I still play it yearly because I love it". There's enough awesome that a kid would kind of just put up with the bad or weird controls to see more of it.
@Regola_6 ай бұрын
Hi Matt and thanks for hosting the best tournament the Internet has ever seen! So, I'm not an expert when considering fighting games but I wanted to bring attention on one I found lately: Twin Goddesses, a PS1 2D fighting game that never left Japan that... listen, I don't know if it's good or bad but it does seem quite peculiar!
@cooltrainervaultboy-396 ай бұрын
I remember playing this game for the first time on a PlayStation demo disc back in the day. Couldn't remember the name of it for the longest time, and it got to the point where I thought I was making it up. I eventually figured it out after going through our collection of demo discs one day. Anywho, I eventually got a retro game emulator console with it preloaded on it. Only, in order for it to fit on the console, the emulator dudes removed some things, namely the cutscenes. Supposedly you can add them back in, but I don't want to mess with it.
@chuckiebobphil6 ай бұрын
Cardinal Syn is one of my favourite games.
@ElVlogdeBob6 ай бұрын
I remember reading in magazines at the time about this game. I thought it looked good but it seems it wasn't. Speaking of Weaponlord, would be cool to see an episode of whathappun? about it. Their developers wanted to do something revolutionary but is now forgotten.
@hotcoldman97936 ай бұрын
OMG please do a video on Fear Effect!!!❤❤❤
@gadgetvolt36406 ай бұрын
I loved this game as a kid, jank and all. The character variation was cool, in my opinion.
@tetravega5676 ай бұрын
5:49 Lin Kuei Grandmaster wearing Shinnok's Amulet?
@davidmartospeinado64446 ай бұрын
I think Jurassic Park Warpath maybe a interesting contender
@corner71816 ай бұрын
The only core memory I have of this game was playing as Orion and fighting the clown Hecklar while eating Salisbury Steak for dinner as a kid. Then I lost my disc of this game forever and forgot what it was called. Guess it wasn't that big of a loss. Lmao You just unlocked the name of this game from that core memory so thanks!