Journey to Silius (NES) Playthrough

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2 ай бұрын

A playthrough of Sunsoft's 1990 action game for the NES, Journey to Silius.
Journey to Silius, known in Japan as "Raf World" (Rough World), is one of the pillars that Sunsoft's reputation for stellar NES action carts was built upon, and in my opinion, it sits on par with Batman ( • Batman (NES) Playthrou... ) in terms of playability and overall quality as one of their best.
It's a run-and-gun platformer that puts you in the shoes of Jay McCray, a man whose father was recently killed in the terrorist bombing of a space colony. Jay finds a data disk and a letter addressed to him in his father's belongings a short while later, and in the letter, his father asks him to carry on his work should anything happen. Beginning at the deserted spacy colony and culminating in a showdown at the enemy's spaceship factory, Jay's mission will see him trading fire with the terrorists across five stages.
The game was originally intended to be a licensed tie-in to The Terminator, and was even previewed in Nintendo Power as such in 1989. Sunsoft lost the rights to the license during production and had to rework much of the game before release, but the connection is still pretty clear in some of the enemy designs - the last boss, especially - and the backdrops for the first couple of stages.
It's a shame that it was stripped of the license given how poor most of the Terminator games have been over the years, because Journey to Silius is a top-notch action cart. The action is smooth and fast-paced, the challenge is stiff but fair, the controls are spot-on, the graphics are among the best you'll find on the NES, and the soundtrack is pure 8-bit magic.
When it comes to NES run-and-gunners, the Mega Man and Contra games tend to hog all the glory, and don't get me wrong - they deserve the love they get - but Journey to Silius also deserves a seat at that table.
(The NES version does, at least. The PlayStation port doesn't do the original game justice.)
Oh, and did you happen to notice the posters of Hebereke hanging on the wall at the end of the first stage (3:42)? What a neat touch.
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@ThatRedHusky 2 ай бұрын

Naoki Kodaka man, whata composer. He also composed Batman for the NES and we all know how banger of an OST that game has.

@danalong1237 2 ай бұрын

What’s your favorite Naoki Kodaka soundtrack?

@autotech85 2 ай бұрын

Gremlins 2 and Blaster master also has very good OST 👍😊

@danalong1237 2 ай бұрын

Kodaka also composed the soundtrack to Freedom Force and Spy Hunter for the NES.

@yt-sh 2 ай бұрын

this game visual also reminded me of batman also pretty futuristic like tron edit: Both games were made by SunSoft within a year

@lappeduddel Ай бұрын

Guys when you write naoki kodaka must right writing it's professor naoki kodaka 😊😊😊😊😊😊

@JohnnyCasey 2 ай бұрын

Aside from the fact that the soundtrack is the top notch, what I find the most fascinating about this game is that the music barely gets interrupted by the sound effects playing at the same time, unlike most other NES games.

@NintendoComplete 2 ай бұрын

Journey to Silius sits among the best of the best of the NES's library. What a phenomenal game.

@damianjuarez3991 2 ай бұрын

Hola que bueno juego

@Dorian_Scott 2 ай бұрын

It's one of the best run & gunners I've ever played. And that soundtrack...👌

@MurseSamson 2 ай бұрын

I've never played it, but the gameplay and music seem amazing. Can't wait to watch this after work

@BigBigSack 2 ай бұрын

Interesting. Can you qualify "among?"🙂 Is that top 30? Top 50?

@christopherthibeault7502 2 ай бұрын

Also kind of short. Does look amazing, though. Did you know about the backwards bytes of the actual BGM code? I think the Behind the Code series by the Displaced Gamers KZbin channel brought that up.

@JamesWilliams-fj8vf 11 күн бұрын

JOURNEY TO SILIUS is very UNDERRATED but still one of my FAVORITE VIDEO GAMES games 🎮 🕹 of ALL time

@yusakug 2 ай бұрын

The story behind the Terminator license is that originally Sunsoft wanted to do a Dragon’s Lair like game made up of quick time scenes recreating the movie on the NES. You can find a video here on KZbin displaying that version. However, the team ran out of memory on the cartridge. They then tried a new version, which was a side scrolling shooter that would become this game. When they showed it to the license holder, they didn’t like it, as they felt it deviated too much from the film. So, they lost the license, and Sunsoft changed it to this game.

@stolaire 2 ай бұрын

This game predicted Terminator Salvation: laboratory, some foundry at final, pistol-looking grenade launcher

@dstarr3 2 ай бұрын

Link to the video?

@elijahvincent985 Ай бұрын

You can hear hints of the original Terminator theme in the opening cutscene. 'DUN-DUN-DUN-DUN DUN.'

@JuraIbis 2 ай бұрын

Ah yes a good 1.44MB high density floppy disk filled with all kinds of national secrets

@NintendoComplete 2 ай бұрын

But from the perspective of someone whose entire existence fits into a 256K rom chip... 😂

@magoid 2 ай бұрын

That soundtrack man. To me, Sunsoft's best work and a strong contender for the best overall on the NES.

@SomeOrangeCat 2 ай бұрын

You can still see some shades of The Terminator license in some of the enemy designs. The first and second bosses were obviously originally meant to be air and ground type HKs.

@Dorian_Scott 2 ай бұрын

I adore Naoki Kodaka's work on both the NES and Genesis. He truly had the Midas Touch.

@xxHUNGRY4THETRUTHxx 2 ай бұрын

A would've been Termsinator based game. Just as soon as T2 Judgement Day was green lit for production SunSoft had the license pulled. Still one of my favorites with or without the Terminator branding.

@TheDutchGhost 2 ай бұрын

Ah that is interesting to hear. So that is how the company lost the license. Seeing how well it is received as its own gamer it would have been better received as a Terminator game, especially compared to the Terminator 1 game that was later released on the NES. I do hope that the mech enemies would have resembled the Hunter Killers from Terminator more had the game remained a Terminator game.

@danalong1237 2 ай бұрын

Eventually, The Terminator games WOULD make their way to the NES, but they would be in the hands of LJN (for Terminator 2: Judgment Day) and Mindscape (for The Terminator)!

@rcblazer 2 ай бұрын

Considering this game is way better than the NES games that actually used the Terminator license, it proves that Sunsoft never needed it to begin with. This game would be worth playing for the soundtrack alone!

@VahanNisanian 2 ай бұрын

Apparently, the Akai S700 was the source of the Sunsoft Bass Sample. It sure would be a dream to see all these Sunsoft NES tunes restored. I've seen countless of SNES tunes restored.

@therealseanw.stewart2071 2 ай бұрын

Ah, yes, that Terminator game that ended up being retooled into its own IP. It's another Sunsoft classic, complete with their signature instruments in the wonderful soundtrack. As I've been re-playing the Blaster Master Zeros, the music had a deliberately similar sound there that was meant as a throwback to Sunsoft's NES titles, so I was just reminded of where that soundfont came from.

@Tell_It_Right 2 ай бұрын

The greatest opening scene music and story set up in any NES game, ever....

@AndyGoth111 2 ай бұрын

Sunsoft soundtracks are always such fire

@JFJD 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for letting the entire intro music play out as always, although for something that banging you’d think there’d at least be a gameplay demo or some expository text-and I know it was originally meant to be a Terminator game, but still.

@mariusamber3237 2 ай бұрын

Great OST, one of the best on the system; the game itself can be rather raf in terms of difficulty in a few stages. Overall, it's still a solid game by Sunsoft, possibly in their best era too.

@NintendoComplete 2 ай бұрын

Yeah, it can be pretty [rʌf] at times, but once you memorize the levels and when to lead your shots ahead of the screen scroll, it gets much easier.

@darkerfalcon3747 2 ай бұрын

There's a romhack that restore Journey to Silius into The Terminator.

@supmattboy 2 ай бұрын

I think it's a good thing this game didn't get the Terminator licence back then. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been released on Nintendo Switch Online later.

@mnemonichotpocket 2 ай бұрын

Aw yeah, that's the stuff.

@Jikangire957 2 ай бұрын

All I can hear throughout this entire playthrough is all the sound effects from Blaster Master! lol

@zipperkirbo8702 28 күн бұрын

I love how you sit on the title screen for a little over a minute just to let the song play lmao This game's ost is just absolutely phenomenal so i totally get it

@MurseSamson 2 ай бұрын

The music and sound data in this game must take up half the ROM! 😂 I've heard some awesome memorable tracks on the NES before, but never this lengthy and complex. 🎶🎧 That's insane. Game is also pretty damn awesome 😅 Wow, what a gem I missed out on! 💎

@estebancebreros5432 2 ай бұрын

The first time I had the pleasure of playing this game, it just blew my mind. Every aspect of it is rather outstanding, Terminator license or not. (And just for continuity, I call the main protagonist Kyle instead of Jay. The resemblance is sort of there). But outside of those details, top-notch production from start to finish. Kodaka's banger OST is just the cherry on top.

@ronway7280 2 ай бұрын

JFC this soundtrack is the best of all time!!!

@DoktorWoron 2 ай бұрын

2:30 epic tune

@jamisondonald384 2 ай бұрын

Hey, big ole words was just streaming this last night

@kascnef 2 ай бұрын

Graphics are amazing

@krystalfan 2 ай бұрын

there exists a rom hack (or possibly the prototype) showing how this game would of been as originally intended if it still had the terminator license regardless this is a great late title nes game