Darkman (NES) Playthrough

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Ай бұрын

A playthrough of Ocean's 1991 license-based action game for the NES, Darkman.
Darkman is an NES game that lets you play as Liam Neesen as a mummy. If that thought excites you, you can stop reading right now: you've found your game!
In Darkman, you play as Dr. Peyton Westlake, a scientist-turned-vigilante. A gang led by the criminal kingpin Durant left you hideously disfigured after a botched hit, and you're on a quest for vengeance.
The quest to take down Durant is comprised of five levels spanning sixteen rapid-fire stages that cycle through multiple gameplay modes.
After clearing the initial warehouse stages, Darkman will snap some photos of his first target, Pauly, and create a mask that will allow him to assume Pauly's identity. Wearing this mask, he'll fight through Pauly's set of Central Park-themed stages, and once Pauly has been dealt with, Darkman will repeat this process as he hunts down Skip at the fun fair and Smiley in Chinatown. After killing all the henchman, Darkman can finally head to the skyscraper construction site for the showdown with Durant.
Like Robocop 2 ( • RoboCop 2 (NES) Playth... ), Darkman was developed by Painting by Numbers, and the two have a lot in common. They both feature bright and colorful graphics, C64-style soundtracks dominated by arpeggiated chords, first-person point-and-shoot minigames, and an endless parade of insta-kill stage gimmicks.
But Darkman isn't quite as terrible a game as Robocop 2 was. It suffers from many of the same issues - the platforming controls are obnoxiously slippery, the time limits are too short, most stages require tons of trial-and-error and memorization to get through, and the collision detection demands you to be pixel-perfect in your timing - but the stages are more varied and better designed, the difficulty level has been toned down, and because the game isn't a port of a C64 game like Robocop 2 was, the presentation better plays to the strengths of the NES hardware. It looks and sounds much better overall.
Mediocrity isn't usually something to celebrate, but Painting by Numbers at least deserves credit for trying to do better. Darkman isn't great, but it is far more competently put together than Robocop 2 was.
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@NintendoComplete Ай бұрын

Darkman isn't great, but it's a big step up from RoboCop 2, and the soundtrack is catchy.

@MikeCrain Ай бұрын

lmao I was just thinking, "Oh god, is this just using the same engine as Robocop 2?"

@marcelohf6390 25 күн бұрын

It looks lazy with just 6 colors on screen

@user-wd6me5vz7p Ай бұрын

this was the only video game darkman ever had. since darkman is one of the most underrated superheroes in the world.

@Loader2K1 Ай бұрын

There was also a video-game adaptation of _Darkman_ on the Game Boy.

@user-wd6me5vz7p Ай бұрын

@@Loader2K1 oh yeah, now i remember.

@jonathand9682 Ай бұрын

Kept in the dark.......man

@user-wd6me5vz7p Ай бұрын

@@jonathand9682 good one.

@Akhnatom Ай бұрын

Graphically it looks really good. And it's nice that they took so much stuff from the movie's plot.

@tilemile1997 Ай бұрын

Спасибо, парень! В 90-е годы я был профессиональным NES игроком, но тогда почему-то я не заметил этот шедевр.

@AlexandRich89 Ай бұрын

Неимоверно сложная игра. Попалась в детстве и доставляла массу проблем. Прохождение этого ужаса с одной потерянной жизнью - это практически идеальный забег. Отличное прохождение!

@NintendoComplete Ай бұрын

Thanks! Yeah, it is ridiculously hard, especially the bosses and the 1-way death elevators.

@jevonknights3507 Ай бұрын

I remember playing this game way more than it deserved

@Admin-qy4zi Ай бұрын

7:36 Well Paulie have a nice flight!

@Jackattack359 Ай бұрын

Hey, at least he actually got a fight, compared to what he got in the film, he probably deserved it

@MBRetroGamer Ай бұрын

nice very good darkman

@marcelosoares7148 Ай бұрын

This developer had a thing for really slippery controls. Even Hook on the NES (which might be their last game ever, that or Cool World on the SNES) is still a bit slippery.

@bigduke5902 Ай бұрын

Couldn't hang with even the first level renting this when it was new. I had no tolerance for the roller skates Darkman is evidently wearing. But, hey, good on them for making something kind of unique rather than the Final Fight rip off it definitely would've been on SNES.

@NintendoComplete Ай бұрын

The Game Boy game was a beat em up. I thought it was much better than this one.

@bigduke5902 Ай бұрын

@@NintendoComplete Someone had a lot of faith in Dark man's potential at the box office.

@Jackattack359 Ай бұрын

Darkman apparently took off his roller skates when impersonating Smiley and Durant seeing as they actually have decent movement and jumps

@MonterDoubleDragon 28 күн бұрын

Великолепные технические решения на тот момент!

@Jackattack359 Ай бұрын

“I’m everyone…and no one. Everywhere…nowhere. Call me…Darkman.”

@hardyjoe4278 Ай бұрын

Yeah, but since he is on a nintendo console, he has been blessed with Super Mario's Traction! Lmao😂😂

@Jackattack359 Ай бұрын

@@hardyjoe4278 nah, that’s Luigi traction he got there

@KrunchTheChangeling Ай бұрын

I like it dark, man.

@JuraIbis Ай бұрын

The problem with a lot of these NES games is putting multiple game segments with different rules in them for variety. This game is 25m long, you dont get variety. What it should have been is just a solid action platformer all the way. The music isn't terrible. There was something here you could exploit, but it feels like a massive miss to me.

@aguswiratama976 18 күн бұрын

The control system is pretty awkward. But since this game defines my childhood, I tried to replayed it lately. It takes approximately one month for me to remember every step and mastering the controls. Oh, and one more thing: You can press A + B turbo button to attack the enemy in close combat. It's not very effective, but worth to try.

@lordcolinb Ай бұрын

😊 wild game

@ShinjiIkari1 Ай бұрын

Did they make Hook too? Because the graphics and gameplay look similar to Hook for the NES.

@solarflare9078 Ай бұрын

Yes

@williamcrowe2576 Ай бұрын

"Julie, don't you think I've always told myself that? Night after sleepless night? 'It's just burns, skin deep, it doesn't matter'. Heh. And I'd cover it up, hid behind a mask, you'd love me for the man I was inside. But as I began to perfect the mask, a funny thing happened; the man inside changed. He became wrong, a monster. I can live with that now, but I'm afraid you can't. Peyton is dead".

@ToddSweeney341 Ай бұрын

I remember when the AVGN did an upload of this one 😅😅😅

@Loader2K1 Ай бұрын

You should check out the reviews of the NES and Game Boy versions of _Darkman_ by Filmnstuff. He REALLY goes in on them on how bad they are.

@BluestablookMusic Ай бұрын

❣️🎶

@POLE7645 Ай бұрын

Were the same guys responsible for the Hook NES game made this? In both games, everyone is a vampire.

@conta7619 Ай бұрын

I love the Hook game ❤

@NintendoComplete Ай бұрын

@@conta7619I liked it, too.

@jonathand9682 Ай бұрын

Not to be confused with Duckman....

@Loader2K1 Ай бұрын

Well, this is another video game from my youth that I'm glad I didn't play, that's for sure. Personally, I refuse to believe that this game wasn't just a slightly-updated, copy/pasta of the NES version of _RoboCop 2_ , which Ocean also butchered. I will say that I think the OST is decent, even though I've never been a fan of the arpeggio sounds on the NES. Good video.

@TheNei Ай бұрын

Nice game, in never as saw before! Is like Dick Tracy + The Punisher! :)

@mpaulm Ай бұрын

Great movie, rotten game.

@conta7619 Ай бұрын

Moleman

@alexh2790 Ай бұрын

Wow, they really just re-skinned Robo 2.

@Andycap1001 Ай бұрын

Wow! you made this look way too easy. I remember the controls for this game being pure garbage. I played it when I was a kid and managed to make it as far as the Skip funhouse. I tried it again a few weeks ago, and couldn't make it through the first scene. Nicely done. "That would be...just fine."

@indrachaudhari7874 Ай бұрын

This game is Robocop 2 in disguise. Take the f*cking elephant.

@Jackattack359 Ай бұрын

Maybe Darkman needs a Robocop mask (even if he technically doesn’t have skin)🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

@4Legacy Ай бұрын

Is this the same game engine as Back to the Future?

@Xx1SailorScoutxX Ай бұрын

Nope. 2 different developers

@solarflare9078 Ай бұрын

Same game engine as Robocop 2 NES, actually

@francisjosephmanuel4923 Ай бұрын

Liam Neeson

@Jackattack359 Ай бұрын

“TAKE THE F*CKING ELEPHANT!!!!”

@francisjosephmanuel4923 Ай бұрын

@@Jackattack359Watch your words there 😠

@Jackattack359 Ай бұрын

@@francisjosephmanuel4923 have you even seen the movie?

@Jackattack359 Ай бұрын

@@francisjosephmanuel4923haven’t you seen the movie?

@francisjosephmanuel4923 Ай бұрын

@@Jackattack359Indeed i am, the first 1990 American superhero film directed and co-written by Sam Raimi. Based on a short story Raimi wrote that paid homage to Universal's horror films of the 1930s, the film stars Liam Neeson as scientist Peyton Westlake, who is brutally attacked, disfigured, and left for dead by ruthless mobster Robert Durant (Larry Drake), after his girlfriend, attorney Julie Hastings (Frances McDormand), runs afoul of corrupt developer Louis Strack Jr. (Colin Friels). After a treatment to cure him of his burn injuries fails, Westlake develops super-human abilities, which also have the unintended side-effect of rendering him mentally unstable and borderline psychotic. Consumed with vengeance, he decides to hunt down those who disfigured him.