Deadly Towers by Dragondarch in

Run starts at 5:30
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[@TheWelshBrothers]

“That’s a Pixie. If I kill it, I’ll lose all my money.” One of the best comedic line deliveries I’ve heard in a while.

[@linkeffect82]

I don't think it's really meant to reference anything, it's just more funny because of the absurdity of the trap of having all your cash taken away from killing one seemingly innocuous creature.

[@THEmuteKi]

What a delightful run of Sinister Skyscrapers

[@KasranFox]

"The last time I saw towers this deadly was when they decided the horses needed more fiber in their diets."

[@BabySkinCondom]

Avgn lol

[@Mythraen]

But the horses' diet is entirely fiber.

[@jonathanwilson490]

What a fun run of Life-threatening Lighthouses.

[@CrasherX2000]

It was an amazing run of def-defying skyscrapers

[@djoshawott2850]

It’s not as bad as its sequel, Badass Bungalows.

[@LMJ81]

This was my first nes game besides mario, it took me a year to get through the game with no strat guide back in the 80's.

[@OneTrueBelmont]

"This game is so bad that Satan wouldn't accept it if you offered it along with your soul!"

[@wheepysheepy9594]

Probably one of the most entertaining runs I’ve ever seen, loved the couch and runner

[@silentdebugger]

- huge difficulty curve - sprawling stone dungeons - bonfire - gigantic bosses this game should be named "deadly souls"

[@harrisonfackrell]

"Can you run full speed up stairs?" "Yes."

[@HellHathNoFuryAtAll8]

You obliterated that run of Eviscerating Edifices.

[@duffduffington843]

Lecherous Lookouts in this installment of Amusements Performed Rapidly.

[@kaynesantor8136]

This is one my favorite runs. I must have watched it a hundred times. Nice work dragondarch.

[@LAVERTUEG]

I love dragondarch. He's in my top 3 best speedrunner to watch

[@ZeldaMaster285]

I watch this for his commentary in particular

[@KittenyKat]

11:30 Gorilla, gorilla, gorilla, gorilla, Hand! Grenade! :D

[@MrMatthias]

It feels like this game had a lot of ideas that are great in theory, but didn't quite pan out in execution.

[@Damaniel3]

Even just getting rid of the knockback would have done wonders. This could have actually been a decent game with a little bit of polishing.

[@dorpth]

My top "great in theory, not so great execution" NES games would be Die Hard and...Battletoads :(

[@wuachurra]

i mean, it's the closest to dark souls in 1987

[@darklordojeda]

Nobody got the Fawlty Towers reference. It was a British sitcom from the early 80's I believe with John Cleese.

[@rushifellpainting4631]

You vicious bastard!

[@themightyleeoh5867]

Man, I love Atrocious Abodes.

[@MrEntaroadun]

Run stars : 7:12

[@ghostfaze6878]

MrEntaroadun ty

[@matthewpaul526]

"Because: Reasons". He should have said that more.

[@Gashdal]

don't worry, speedrunners say that shit compulsively constantly all the fucking time always. i hate GDQ humor.

[@ChikoWhat]

What fantastic run of Perilous Palace, good job Dragondarch

[@ChicagoRetroGamer]

Awesome speed run. Can't say I was the biggest fan of this game, but kudos to the speed runner for making this game look easy!

[@ZeldaMaster285]

My overall favorite segment to watch. I seriously want DragonDarch to run this again, or just have him come back with the couch for a new game with new commentary. I laugh everytime despite knowing the whole segment by memory

[@DinosaurSatan]

Today I learned wearing boots makes it *easier* to climb stairs.

[@CheeseTaterson]

Wondering if the Buffalax that donated during this is the same one who did all those "bad translation" music videos way back in the early days of KZbin? Big fan of their work (I'm the one who made the "BennyLavaPLZ" account on DeviantArt in honor of one of Buffalax's videos forever ago). They disappeared from YT, but the donation message said they are a 6-year cancer survivor... so the timeframe matches up. So anyways, even if it's not the same person, still... to either Buffalax, I hope you're doing well out there.

[@ArcRay20]

very nice to see this game beaten. i remember having this when i was a child, but i never got far of course. the only thing bothering me is that i swear there was a dragon in this game with a long-ish neck.

[@Skullmonkeys44]

16:44 do not touch balls Dragondarch - 2018

[@Skywalker-zu7od]

16:12 Aaaaaaall that grinding on the balls again...

[@danielroden9424]

thanks for that song. its the only reason i bought the game!

[@gunnarbloodhowl8845]

Oh great when I get around to playing this and get to this area all I can hear now in with the music is "gorilla gorilla gorilla hand grenade" XD Also awesome run

[@Dr.SamCarterPhD]

Man, I love me some Treacherous Bungalows.

[@captloki13]

I really like this Medieval Game of Death

[@leandervr]

Cantankerous condominiums is not a phrase I ever expected to hear in my life.

[@raymondrufa971]

Very enjoyable run at the Grungy Gables! 😆

[@ryanwatts7817]

I would love a hole awful games done quick

[@phaganators]

I remember having only this game as a kid😞

[@kulrigalestout]

As stairs are one of the banes of my existence, I would gladly venture through this land to get summa dem shoes.

[@lukfidel7427]

the leaning supermassive dude in the back

[@kevinslater4126]

I played this game for HOURS as a kid. Never got anywhere. Never understood it.

[@NeuralNetProcessor]

My main question is, though, "how the FUCK were we supposed to figure all this shit out as kids?"

[@DiogoSantos-vx3hz]

tha's a very nice game , i play him long time

[@trashandchaos]

the developers of this actually made a really fantastic SNES game called gunman's proof

[@gluesniffer2]

Fun fact: this is the first game I ever rage quit. I hate this game so much :(

[@NeuralNetProcessor]

The "FE" password thing works btw

[@JedrekVRoscoe]

Grungy gazebos!!

[@OriginalDimascus]

"Putrid Pad"

[@terjerber6591]

Dude I love bonkers bellfries

[@stevemanart]

Sadistic Spires

[@ThePokemonChampionRe]

GorillaGorillaGorillaGorillaGorilla Hand Grenade

[@molIymawk]

torsey the torso horse donation caught me off guard. not into botw, but god i hope torsey won -greatjob!-

[@jordanforbes149]

Villanous Villas

[@Zihark597]

Calamitous Cabins

[@MrBlindsight1]

Dubious Duplexs.

[@joelantoine8448]

Fuck yea, Deadly towers!

[@kody654321]

Loathsome/ Lethal Lodge

[@jeremyquiros5483]

The laugh at 23:38

[@Shinigami13133]

Fatal firehalls

[@Ravenleaf182]

I used to play this game a lot Q_Q I didn't know it would be an "awful" game...well truth be told though, I don't recall ever beating it and I couldn't even remember the name of it until I saw this video and was like "OH HEY!! I PLAYED THAT!"

[@NeuralNetProcessor]

This game is maddeningly repetitive (and hard) but the payoff is the music. It has to be some of the best of the NES.

[@casicyber9842]

dark souls before dark souls.

[@theendoftheworldasweknowit3858]

Truly the Dark Souls of videogames.

[@starmangalaxy2001]

Dark Souls. The modern Deadly Towers.

[@trunks10k]

the hero's sprite looks like the one from pro wrestling on the nes

[@sleevman2307]

Run starts at 7:15 and not 5 minute something like the description says

[@BigEd773]

There's a glitch. Once you burn a bell you can just continue to touch the flame and collect burned bells

[@SaxcatGamingCorner]

great run of an awful game.

[@TheGaara802]

@@CheapJabroni no this game is just horrible

[@felineki]

Killer Cabins

[@NatePropst]

My favorite thing about GDQ this year is that they added a start time to the description thats usually nowhere close to the actual start time.

[@riders4finish]

Merci JDG de m'avoir fait découvrir ce jeu

[@sewpeachsasha5088]

Wow

[@clawcakes]

11:35

[@JoseVazQueZ-xp3ul]

Proud to say I beat the game without any help what so ever. only took 8 years to figure out what the fuck is going on !!!! lol I wonder how many people beat this game ever? 50?

[@vietnamgamer9490]

Agitating alcoves

[@sleepydwarf1400]

Anybody ever remember a powerup where the knight throws two parallel swords? I cant find it anywhere

[@brenkrasmer]

I remember that one. Have you found it yet? I remember being so mad when I overwrote it with the equipment that could have two separate shots on screen.

[@8o8g91]

AVGN anyone?

[@pryt86]

Shady B no

[@Slash0mega]

wait, is secret of evermore is in the awfullblock?

[@EanHaworth]

I don't know why, but I lost it at 38:54

[@maxthompson7107]

Gorilla gorilla gorilla gorilla hand grenade Gorilla gorilla gorilla gorilla hand grenade

[@BigEd773]

The final boss is the shopkeeper???

[@zacotb]

This game is rated A for Anaiiiiiiiiiiiii

[@cmr2079]

This game needs a remake.

[@ZeldaMaster285]

It's called Dark Souls

[@AeonQuasar]

Lies. It start 7:13 not 5:30

[@Iammightymeaty]

16:10 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAAHHAAHAHA

[@CrasherX2000]

oh come on this game isn’t bad... *_ITS FRIKEN HORRIBLE_*

[@toxictaro]

Is he shanking the enemies???? I thought this was a kid's game.

[@Masterof7s]

This game. This game! THIS FUCKING GAME! I made the mistake of buying this pile of garbage with my birthday money when I was a kid. I eventually figured out how beat it after several months of rage and frustration, then went on to beat it at least 20 more times out of pure spite.

[@PyrosAura]

>inb4 avgn memes

[@Hagashager]

Attrocious Abodes

[@hondragrid]

I've never beaten this game but I've never found it to be so bad as everything thinks it is. Its just as cryptic and maze like as Zelda and Metroid but people love those games.

[@pryt86]

hondragrid alot of games arent bad as people say they are. Its just people dont have patience. And start nitpicking every dumb thing, and give up. Before you know it, its the worst game ever to them.

[@pryt86]

Hooded Man here comes someone to prove my point.

[@nameless-user]

pryt86 A lot of those things aren't dumb nitpicks. Most of them are extremely sour game design decisions. Kinda proves your point wrong, really.

[@hondragrid]

I owned the game back then, as a child, and still own it today. I actually enjoy Deadly towers more then I enjoyed Zelda or Metroid. Sure the sword sucks at first but just like any Zelda or Metroid there are upgrades. The sames goes with armor. There are more armors in the game besides the ones you find. Just as an example you can see them in the shop in this playthough. This game suffers from, 'The internet says its bad, so it must be true' mentality just like Duke Nukem Forever is a mediocre game that is just labeled by the internet as bad and everyone plays along.

[@Amalga_Heart]

Actually Metroid had more than a few "death pits". If you're playing through the game without maps, chances are you're not finding the Varia anytime soon (if ever, it was absolutely possible to go through the entire game without certain items purely because you couldnt find them) due to the seriously screwy location it's in. So falling in lava is really bad. You take incredible amounts of damage from it if you dont have the Varia, and your movement and jumping gets all screwed up, so you're probably dead (in some specific spots, you're probably dead even WITH the Varia). Even if you have a bunch of energy tanks. There's also the area near the ice beam in Brinstar, which is basically a trollish trap: break though the bridge on the left instead of the bridge on the right in the blue bubble passage, and you fall into a pit from which there is no escape. There's no platforms anywhere in it, it's very deep (like, three or four full screens), and full of monsters. Oh, you could maybe use bombs to boost yourself back out, but just ONE mistimed bomb jump would drop you all the way back, or you'd just crash into monsters on the way up. Not to mention all of the hidden walls throughout the entire game that you *must* find and break in order to get through the game, which have no visual indications that they are there. You're going to be shooting and bombing random blocks for a long, long time. There were also some sections with really, really questionable (bad) design in them. Like the nasty vertical section in Kraid's area. I've seen plenty of ragequits from that one section alone. Or even the fabled "fake Kraid", which made no sense whatsoever from a design standpoint. I think alot of people look back on NES games (particularly the early ones) with rose-tinted glasses, and they forget that LOTS of them were cryptic, weird, nonsensical, and had a general lack of hints, yet plenty of rather cheap moments. It was the norm back then. Alot of players also forget that when they went through something like Metroid the first time, chances are, they had a guide. I dont know *anyone* that played through Metroid back then without a map. And the original Zelda had it's own issues too. It wasnt as cryptic with important items, but it still had alot of problems (and it WAS still cryptic enough that many players got stuck for a long time in various areas). These older games are very, very subjective on how "good" or not they are. I still personally love them though. Even some games that many see as "bad", I often really like. But then, I'm used to them. Notice I'm also not using the "git gud" arguement here. Dont get me wrong, there was a higher level of skill required for most games back then than there is nowadays, but most players were totally used to that. It was just normal back then, so nobody really complained. The idea of "git gud" wasnt a very intimidating one like it is today and the average player's skill level was just outright higher (by alot) than it is nowadays. Taking time to practice in games back then wasnt something people shied away from.

[@Ryusuta]

All of the silly names in the world can't compare to what its actual name was in Japan: Hell's Bells. (Seriously, look it up.)

[@JaneXemylixa]

"At the speed of smell" - I've gotta remember that one. It should've got a better reaction xD

[@brenkrasmer]

I use that phrase regularly. Especially at work in retail. "We discontinued that item. It moved at the speed of smell. Quick to arrive, but then it lingered forever."

[@NightmareSnake]

Shoutouts to armake21

[@mg2779]

You didn't get the double shot, parallel shot, or the blue necklace...

[@kody654321]

Horrendous Homestead

[@dfortaeGameReviews]

I actually like Deadly Towers. Sure, it has its flaws, but for 1986, it was a good RPG for the NES. It was very hard to beat back then without all the cheats.

[@beatchef]

Did Spoony make that donation?

[@philiphunt-bull5817]

Wat

[@WiggidyWack]

Hostile Hostels

[@zorochii]

NES Dark Souls

[@Jackw920]

First

[@sclarke6969]

Basically Darksouls ripped off this game

[@skulldeath2334]

is there a speedrun of the garbage game milon's secret castle???? game sucks

[@Twiztedgoalie]

Milon's Secret Castle is not bad

[@mrobscene4816]

Wish you made you own opinions instead of AVGN or Game Chumps huh? Lmao

[@marcosdheleno]

man, this is the worst resident evil i have ever seen... after 6 i mean.

[@jonnymmac]

For the love of... why does it take so long to show run!!!@###$%^&