Doctor Hauzer (Overblood 0) | Back from the Dead

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[@wilsonsauls2899]

Brit’s love for Devil May Cry is nothing compared to his endless passion for Overblood

[@Snyperwolf91]

I still cant get over about the tragic death of PEEBO !!!!

[@CornishCreamtea07]

TGB: Come on DMC, I do love you with all my heart, but Overblood is so much more wild and untamed.

[@Mr.Faust3]

Devil May Cry wishes it was overblood

[@விஷ்ணு_கார்த்திக்]

@@Snyperwolf91 Too Soon

[@yes.6892]

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[@SuperMarioMan4427]

I'm going to be honest the one thought going though my mind, multiple times was "Charlie actually bought a fucking 3DO"

[@DanielJimenez-vq5gw]

That's real gamer commitment

[@DeepWeeb]

Even crazier is how even when he eventually jumped into the emulator he didn't even tried to tweak the settings to make the game run at a tolerable speed (which I say it's totally earned for the second playthrough of a >1-hour long game)

[@nisnast]

@@DeepWeeb i mean that's understandable When you tweak frame rate/clock speed things can break pretty easily

[@DeepWeeb]

​@@nisnast I tried myself with Opera and it seems pretty functional all things considered. Door transitions were shorter and the menu was full-on 60fps with the correct music speed and pacing, text was sometimes too fast but not that it matters too much, but aside of it the game only increased from sluggish 10fps to a whooping 20fps in the overworld (and still lag if the room is "too complex")

[@suraventri2544]

Nah he wanted one, needed an excuse.....blames us.

[@MrSTVR]

Released exclusively in Japan for the 3DO, making Brit officially the 5th person in history to ever play it.

[@genyakozlov1316]

There is a Russian fan translation of Dr. Houser going around, so definitely more than five people played it. Now on original hardware? Probably.

[@kaparaomer7751]

@@genyakozlov1316 now we got to 6.

[@Nov-5062]

The 3DO sold 700,000 copies in Japan, which is more than any other region, so it has tons of weird Japanese only games. And porn. Lots of porn

[@wymanrtaylor]

Every day I ask myself, “Why isn’t there more Overblood content?!!?” Only Brit delivers! 💪

[@WillBoy182]

Somewhere a better reality exists where Riverhillsoft became AAA devs and we have like 10 Overblood sequels and a Dr. Hauzer cinematic universe.

[@fernie-fernandez]

Of course in this era, Akihiro Hono, who worked on RiverHill Soft, would later form Level-5.

[@WhiteDingo79]

The RiverHill Soft Trilogy is complete... Charlie is a TRUE gamer now. Eat it, fake gamers...

[@fernie-fernandez]

I wonder if Akihiro Hino has a social-media account, and caught wind of Charlie’s interest.

[@commandershepard3904]

I saw overblood and clicked immediately

[@pullsane]

Same lol

[@Mankey619]

Me too and it turned out that it’s a spin-off of the first game.

[@taijisyxom6888]

I do game story research, usually games that released before the PS3, and now all overbloods are in my memory, all today. The cutscenes in OB are pretty good for PSX game standards, so I wanted to find out more. The criticism for OB was a bit too harsh in the other video. I know, terrible gameplay. But the characters and their interactions are done well imo. Or else I would've not made it here ...

[@Coreagrus]

If you had told me when I saw Overblood 1 for the first time that I'd grow to admire and respect the developers and be curious to learn more about their history, I would've taken it as a joke, but here we are.

[@fakeshemp9599]

As ashamed as I am to admit this... I feel the same..

[@fernie-fernandez]

There's so many IPs that are obscure, yet wildly ambitious to a point that they intrigue us.

[@SonicKick]

Never in my life I'd thought I'd hear TGBS talk about the 3DO, let alone own one. Yea I'm seated for this one.

[@Maskedheretic]

Good to hear Brit putting more emotion into his voice again.

[@dysonwitwer6430]

Yeah he hasn't been as humorous lately. I am happy he's a cheeky boy

[@menarian9550]

Right? I was a bit surprised but it's a nice change

[@SuperMarioMan4427]

Yeah! Honestly I've been missing that. Happy the cheeky boy is giving us chuckles again

[@dvda9725]

I'm so glad others are noticing

[@OV3RK1LL3R65]

My takeaway from this analysis is that Overblood would have been improved tenfold if every scene was punctuated by a close up of Raz looking suspicious and unimpressed.

[@Manwithopinions]

This was an interesting look at a long forgotten game that probably deserves more credit than it got. I've never even heard of this game. Need more videos like this.

[@AkumetsuLord]

You know the year is going be a good one when Brit gives us some sweet "Overblood" action. I really like the fact that there are people giving theories and lores to the games now.

[@Comkill117]

I don’t know what’s crazier, the fact Overblood was a successor of sorts to this game or the fact you bought a 3DO. Also with that Riverhill Soft logo’s jingle, I’m expecting Travis Touchdown to jump down from off screen.

[@SSBBPOKEFAN]

Meanwhile, the control screen music is making me anxious when the scary, eldritch shit is gonna happen, Gemini Home Entertainment style.

[@Masterherocard]

Doctor Hauzer is a game with FPS in the single digits, where the time to complete is shorter on average than this video about the game, and is a horror game where it gives you both a shotgun and an axe, then only uses them to break some glass and hang on the wall respectively. How did this not revolutionize the industry?

[@shards-of-glass-man]

I am glad that more people will have the chance to appreciate Adam's excellent smug faces. Trap mansion or not, he's in his element.

[@PrideOnInsightGamer]

Man, those 3DO explosion effects! XD Intentional or not, I honestly appreciate the irony that 'Back from the Dead' is always gone long enough to....come back from the dead.....when a new episode comes out. Gets a slight chuckle out of me and your enthusiasm for these games never fails to make these vids entertaining.

[@MattCrossMedia]

I was not ready for that real 3DO jumpscare the moment you said what console this game was on. Love your dedication to authentic hardware!

[@Mankey619]

It looks nice on the 3DO and polygon character models even looks good too. The expression that Adam makes is really funny. Riverhillsoft did an incredible job making this game and to make those incredible rocking tunes.

[@amosdeguzman9980]

Wow, I didn't expect there to be a game that could be even more slow and awkward than Overblood. But here it is! Doctor Hauzer.

[@gavi888]

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[@theamazingpuggsy387]

The Director of Doctor Hauzer and Overblood, Akihiro Hino, later form his own studio called Level 5 He made dark cloud and rouge galaxy. Will you cover those games too?

[@makeitthrough_]

Holy crap, I had no idea there was a connection between Overblood and friggin' Dark Cloud, very cool

[@Artersa]

Man, this video was fantastic. Classic Brit vibes; fun, descriptive, informative. One of my favorite KZbinrs to queue up during a work day.

[@lichlame]

The Overblood legend continues! At this rate, some publisher is gonna hire devs to port these games to modern systems. And I'm not gonna lie, I'd play them. For Peepo.

[@metavanaj]

Hope the Overblood rabbit hole has infinite depth. Now THIS is content.

[@TartarusPitt]

peepo really did understand...

[@lilacorkindheart8325]

Loved It! Absolutely loved it! Thank You TGB. For Everything. Thank You for coming back.

[@Fedor_Kisliakov]

Your dedication to playing games on the original hardware is both mad and admirable. Can't wait to see the lengths you'd go to if you decide to cover some 80's games. Metal Gear on MSX, let's go.

[@FemboyCatGaming]

Having played the game I found out the eye painting room has a werid puzzle where looking at one painting will tell you its looking left so youll have to interact with the painting to the left of that one and continue with this pattern until you reach the green eye painting. Then youll get a key and the walls will start to close in so youll have to quickly flee to the door to avoid instant death. This green key lets you unlock the door to the "museum room" (the one with Hauzer's ghost and the artifacts that you exit following the study secret ladder) early. There seems to be no point to this unless you wanna see hauzer's ghost early as youll eventually reach this room from the study ladder regardless of if you ifnd this key. In the study (the room with all the bookshelves that you take the secret ladder into) also as a secret where you can take off the vent on the wall to blow pages around that you can pick up for lore. I also found hauzer diaries 2-4 but 1 so there is a secret diary that I missed.

[@Bendilin]

Every time you say, "OB 1" I hear, "Obi Wan".

[@CIOTECHSFX]

And then the cut to Raz when he says it made me think he was jokingly calling him/the game that then I remembered it's just an acronym for the game

[@dmjsra04]

I’m fully invested in the overblood Lore. I need an overblood 3 in my life

[@ReddeSpectre]

Maybe Peepo could understand why Dr Hauzer ran so slowly.

[@PowercellZeke]

I love so much that you put so much effort into covering this weird obscure studio's output, makes for some of the best videos! One super interesting titbit, Akihiro Hino was a lead programmer and designer at Riverhillsoft, but left after Overblood 2 and went on to found Level 5, whose first games was Dark Cloud, a similarly janky game with a lot of heart which has occasional strokes of genius. Anyway, loved the video!

[@KingEgyptian]

Thank you for making videos like these. It's so easy now to follow the trend of trashing modern lackluster AAA games, but you take the time and effort to instead review games that most of us have never even heard of, which is a breath of fresh air.

[@Colddirector]

You've got to admire the stones of these guys, to be so uncompromising in wanting full 3d that they'll sacrifice everything else to get it.

[@dvda9725]

This video put a smile on my face purely because you've brought the personality back. Your reviews are always great but the past couple years or so have really felt lacking without any humour or music.

[@Le_beaubrun]

honestly obscure game overviews is my fav content of yours whether those games are old or new.

[@lilacorkindheart8325]

Legendary review. This will be one of those that I shall marathon from time to time. Thank You.

[@CaoimhinOhOgain]

Back from the dead...things have changed since you've been away. -Winston Chapelmount (Medievil 2)

[@DarkSoulSama]

The real Overblood is the friends we make along the way.

[@nolanbrewer877]

I have such an indescribable nostalgia for overblood despite never playing them

[@mistergremm735]

IT WAS GOSHDARN TRILOGY ALL ALONG!

[@MrNuttyMan]

This made me laugh so many times. Keep up the awesome work! I love your delivery of everything

[@freaknr1]

This was a pleasant surprise! I find this era of gaming to be the most interesting, when creativity and experimentation was at its peak. Shure, it resulted in a lot of hanky titles that haven't stood the test of time, but there is a passion behind their creation that gives them a lot of charm. To me, the PS2/GC/XBOX was the hight of gaming, striking the perfect balance between what was technically possible and and affordable, resulting in titles that to this day are among the best gaming has to offer, but those titles should never have existed without titles like this and OverBlood. Thank you Brit for giving this era the attention it deserves.

[@Vashkey]

Turbo Button? I haven't heard that name in years...

[@vietbachtran1915]

Akihiro Hino is A FKING LEGEND ! Dude went from hardest programmer to Level 5's Founder and an inspiration in JRPG

[@jaxonfiddle4811]

16:33 *sniff* Rest in peace Pipo

[@kapparomeo]

Hey there TGBS, as a KZbinr who’s finding a niche in retro horror games, have you ever considered doing a feature on the Saturn survival horror Deep Fear? It’s a game with a specifically Brit appeal because it was actually the last title to get an official UK PAL release before the Saturn was formally discontinued in the West. The game is fascinating to go back to though specifically because how it tries to be Sega’s counterblast to Resident Evil but just misunderstands so many of RE’s lessons (e.g. resource management - Deep Fear gives you literally unlimited ammo), it’s like looking at 3D controls before Mario64 told us how to do it. Also, I am amazed at how “Jill Sandwich” has been remembered as the hallmark of bad video game voice acting when Deep Fear is so atrocious it makes the RE cast look like Laurence Olivier. Nonetheless, it’s not a game to review just to poke fun at but it actually is a game with huge untapped potential. It’s intriguing to see alternative horror - RE took off zombie movies and haunted houses but Deep Fear cribbed off The Abyss and The Thing for a genuinely novel environment. Some of the concept art looks incredible, the backdrops are atmospheric, and it does have novel ideas like the limited air and flooding mechanics that were a bit undercooked but would be great to remake with modern tech. I still consider the FMV of the Big Table collapsing to be one of the best sequences in games.

[@volioze4205]

Very interesting i didnt know anything about Hauzer and how it legit looks like the intermediary evolution between alone in the dark and re/ silent hill

[@makeitthrough_]

Hey Doctor Hauzer, I'll see you at the party

[@bluecoin3771]

It might be the last Overblood, but not the last of Akihito Hiro’s work. Level-5 has made some good stuff. Perhaps it will soon be time to delve into the Professor Layton series, or Liberation Maiden Shoko, or heck, even Dragon Quest 9.

[@Fimbulvetr]

Honestly I think I could listen to this guy talk about pumpkins and it'd be a good time Also this games expression somehow gives me old-school RuneScape vibes?? I kinda like it lol. Wonder how this game would be if it actually ran well

[@Dizzula]

Help me OB1, you're my only hope

[@MrMister681]

The end? Don't bet on it.

[@wolfgod6443]

5:12 Looking back at the Overblood 2 video, the secret boss on top of the mansion mentions a detective. Adams may be a journalist now, but I wouldn't be surprised if he became a detective after his good work in Dr. Hauzer.

[@ValentineGrimCC]

I wonder how many people had to repeatedly double-take at that Obi-Wan namedropping, not understanding what have Star Wars to do with anything...

[@casanovafunkenstein5090]

RE: the burned discs - part of the reason that burned CDs can be a dog to get running on old consoles can be because the drives that were available back then weren't able to spin as quickly as modern examples. It may be viable to burn discs at 1X speed and get a more reliable end product. That being said the drive in the Panasonic FZ-1 R.E.A.L. 3DO Interactive Multiplayer is prone to becoming a fussy little madam even when it comes to playing official copies of games, so it may be a bit of a waste of time burning a CD at such a low RPM. I'll be interested to see if you decide to dig into any other things on the console but I can imagine that much of the library wouldn't excite you as much as me given I have nostalgia for the platform and it's unique library of obscure titles when you have access to most of the significant ones elsewhere, even if the 3DO versions are often superior (porting games is difficult and anything built for the 3DO as the lead platform generally needed to make compromises in order to run on such radically different architecture, often losing colour depth and certain graphical flourishes)

[@TheGamingBritShow]

Definitely the console I have the least successful burn jobs with. Still, I'm sure we'll see the 3DO again one day, one way or another...

[@DeepWeeb]

Didn't knew the show Neil Patrick Harris did as a kid got its own licensed game And as typical of licensed games of the time, they took certain creative liberties, I see (they even mispelled "Howser"!)

[@nekonekopanicnekonekopanic7335]

I am expecting more 3do videos. You definitely need to give immercenary a try. It's an open world first person sci-fi rpg. Definitely a weird but hidden gem.

[@jawmuncher]

Love your obscure game reviews. Thank You.

[@RabbidKuriboh]

Back from the Dead is back from the dead!

[@Dante_Sparda796]

The exciting saga continues

[@joelcooper6441]

Gaming Brit is gaming's best archeologist!

[@DizzySplits]

i'd actually love to see a video about all those game console attempts by various companies back then and what games released for them.

[@DmarsHeadshot]

I can't wait for the Alone in the Dark retrospective 👉🏻👈🏻

[@16.chapel]

Great video!

[@Flop-Bop]

That description of the end of the game followed by the explosion had me rolling

[@PopMusicKiller]

Great to see the new upload. It would be awesome to hear you discuss and rank one of the Overbloods on the HG101 Top 47,858 games podcast.

[@datbigdude490]

5:51 Please don't quit day job with that singing LOL !!!

[@MrFutago87]

It still amazes me how the director of Overblood and Overblood 2 then immediately went on to found Level 5 and made games like Dark Cloud, Dragon Quest 8 and Ni No Kuni.

[@DeepWeeb]

The irony is that nowadays people often blame Hino for the decay of the company as he insists in being creatively involved with every single project at the company and how each new project needs to have a tie-in manga and anime, just for the games to underperform in sales or be stuck in limbo for years

[@TheRealTHD]

We truly were the Overblood.

[@FarmerSlideJoeBob]

Luv these videos😃😃

[@fhjunior6183]

Thanks for the vid

[@zaperzero]

I got very sad when the Overblood news just wound up being about the wiki and not about Overblood 3. :[

[@chemergency]

I wish there were an English NTSC version of Overblood 2, there's not really a way for me to play it on my Xstation'd PS1.

[@__Xeese]

We can always depend on Overblood to bring the best outta Charlie

[@BIaziken2]

Fuck remaking older Silent Hill and Resident Evil games, when are we gonna get a remake of the Overblood saga?

[@generalkrang7138]

Bombastic cheeky ghost music lol well put

[@mistagoodvibesyt6333]

Listening to Brit is like listening ASMR videos and plus his commentary is so masterful to him speak his mind I would love to see him do some fighting games or some shooters like halo or gears of war

[@bellboy7809]

I’m glad you kept this secret :)

[@endplanets]

It wouldn't be till RE4 that we would get a random room with giant swinging pendulum blades. Maybe earlier, I don't remember.

[@comfyghost]

the absolute weirdest part of this video is the random realisation i've heard of this game before. it was in an article about misconceptions of what were the "first" games or consoles to do a thing, and on the segment about cell shading, it listed this obscure japanese only 3do game, one of the first games to use graphical techniques similar to modern cell shading, and i don't know how they even knew of this game. oh and apparently the first game to use actual cell shading was a random goose bumps licenced games. i think...

[@herugray8003]

babe new gamingbrit overblood vid!!

[@sleepyjustin1922]

That title music is just "legally distinct Beetlejuice theme" lmao

[@AnotherDoomerWeeb]

>D mentioned. Enemy Zero & D2 discussion when? Give WARP & Kenji Eno the love and exposure they were robbed by the Saturn's lack of clout outside of Japan and D2 being NA exclusive for some bizarre reason

[@anttam117]

The truth is that the explosion at 13:11 is pretty sick!

[@marc3122]

Doctor Hauzer is a fascinating piece of history, however I'd like to share my thoughts on the 3D in 3DO. I know that EA (in one way or another) were behind the 3DO, and EA isn't exactly known for delivering the best quality stuff (let alone even care), but I really feel like the 3DO had serious potential and never got the chance to be fully utilized. While it is an undeniably weaker system, it got a very similar treatment to the Saturn (if not worse); greatly misunderstood due to it's difficult learning curve. The only game(s) that really showed what the 3DO could do was EA's own Need for Speed and homebrew projects like OptiDoom and OpenLara.

[@genyakozlov1316]

3DO was apparently pretty popular here in Russia, with many people under the Russian review of Doom on PS1 saying they first played the game on 3DO, and on an Emulator with hardware acceleration that infamous version is actually pretty fine rather than one frame prer second, so I suspect Houser can be made less laggy too. There is actually a fan made Russian transition of Doctor Houser which I saw on the Russian emulation community site Emu-land which I lurk in since 2010 and download roms from. They advertise new Russian translations of games on the front page among the updates on the development of emulatiors, and back in 2019 or the like there was the Russian translation of Dr. Houser, with the post talking about how impressive and ahead of the time the game was. I was going to play it, but was too lazy to set up a 3DO emulatior for one game. I am, however, going to do that for the 3DO version of Gex, as that has a secret space shooter level not in any other version, and I am a fan of Gex, so maybe I can play Dr. Houser too.

[@adolfhitler3238]

Deserve a medal for playing through the leggy mess

[@endrickdonitz6669]

I Remember watching this and Overblood one and two on Game Informer Replay. Over nostalgia for me, for an age long past...

[@TheSecondVersion]

12:08 - "Set the axe on the wall and you'll have access to two more rooms." So it gives you *axe*-cess?

[@Dat1G1]

Pretty cool how in Overblood 2 they seem to have designed the Hayano logo after the old Riverhillsoft logo.

[@windwaker0rules]

You should compare this games 6fps to DMCs 30fps.

[@OingoBoingo--nice]

Another reason to watch all TGB Overblood titles? Please.

[@samaiello7543]

Its like Christmas morning!

[@rhrabar0004]

You’re back, PEEEEPO!!!

[@crowstray]

4:19 if anyone wants a replay of that amazing Brit.

[@samhodge7460]

I'd donate money from my wallet if it would help convince Level-5 to reboot the Overblood series.

[@Darkfawfulx]

Someone should buy the Overblood franchise so it can be rebooted.

[@kinshred1222]

holy shit the madman