MediEvil Review

[@jeromemccalla9520]

So it plays like the original but with better graphics?? That’s what I want though.

[@treywar25]

That's called a remaster. He said this game was marketed as a remake

[@theheroneededwillette6964]

treywar25 well a remaster is just the pre existing game with the original graphics just touched up.

[@zackabean]

treywar25 no, this is a remake. It was made from the ground up, with the intent of making it as similar to the original as possible

[@TheFancyCrawdad]

Y'all are thinking of a reboot where they can change whatever the F they want

[@ShikiFire]

@@zackabean Actually the developers said they made the game with help from the original source code (like how the Crash remaster was made). The only remaster that was made from the ground up was Spyro because they didn't have the original source code.

[@ZimM804]

Daemon : You play as Daniel “Fortesk” Me: *Turns off review*

[@jnub210g]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 dude never played the ps1 version.

[@HyenaMoh]

I don’t think he played the game, just did the review based on someone else’s notes.

[@spider496]

@@HyenaMoh Nobody at IGN play games.

[@ste_the_legend]

My first thought too. Like DAMN dude!

[@SirSpamAlot1928]

Really winds me up, every review I've seen keeps pronouncing it wrong. All seem to be american.

[@DwaineWoolley]

"Fortesk" The reason this video has more dislikes than likes. Play the game next time before reviewing.

[@Motivation_snack6668]

Exactly, that's why i don't trust IGN anymore, i mean....angryjoe literaly streams him playing it, so yeaah...lot of reviewers, better than ign...

[@LeAlejx]

The game literally says the name of the hero in the first minutes 🤦

[@MHA-TSBro]

@@LeAlejx In the the first few seconds*

[@dubbled5287]

Fuming, really annoyed me this.

[@gjlomas]

Forteskew.

[@anounymosgamer]

"Blind luck"? You were using the Axe, which has a straight line of fire when you were clearly both moving all over the place and is being surrounded by enemies, which clearly requires you to use a sword which attacks in a circle

[@619Kombat]

He said bad luck but yes you're right

[@ozthegamer6399]

Also he doesn't even use his shield and then proceed to whine about how often he gets hit. Lmao

[@GenghisWanghis]

@@ozthegamer6399 that's almost every gamer "mmmeerrrrhhh I don't want to use defense, mrrgghhhh"

[@ostrava6315]

@@GenghisWanghis Ive literally never heard anyone say they dont like blocking in games...

[@GenghisWanghis]

@@ostrava6315 lmao, okay.

[@Xtelligence]

MediEvil is too difficult for IGN.

[@xmunoz456]

Fr who thought this game was hard gaming journalism is a joke now

[@mouseburger4183]

@Black Wolf bro I beat the new medievil so easy it was awesome. It's only hard if you don't know what your doing even then it's not that hard to beat

[@trapperscout2046]

Funny considering that I beat this game when I was a kid. I did hate the ghost ship level though.

[@DaFro3713]

This game does have its moments, but honestly, you have to actively try to make this game difficult. There are some faults, but honestly, reviews like this probably damned sales.

[@mouseburger4183]

@@trapperscout2046 hint get the dragon armor flame breath makes the boss easy

[@estevanmedrano6786]

This guy reviewing Metroid game: "You play as Samantha Aran."

[@nintonintendo1]

Samuel arun

[@G2freshmafia]

@Alienxfb14 He'd probably say "Nathaniel Drake"

[@hedwyn8137]

It does say at the start of the video that the review is written and narrated by two different people. Easy mistake to make if somebody is reading the name for the first time having never heard it before, but definitely an annoyance for somebody that's known that name for 20 years now...

[@GenghisWanghis]

@@G2freshmafia nah, he'd probably say "Drakey" at the very least. He seems to do whatever regarding pronunciation.

[@newageBoundhippie]

@Elvick the sheer number of people who still call Lara "Laura" after 20+ years depresses me more than it should.....

[@beezerseamans115]

>"Combat was boring and confusing." >Footage looks like he was spinning the stick and mashing attack as fast as he could

[@Arian545]

You do realize that this is not the reviewers footage, right?

[@gabrielloeb8852]

@@Arian545 huh? Then whose is it?

[@Arian545]

@@gabrielloeb8852 the editor, reviewers for these websites don't record their own footage.

[@lonreed9743]

That’s exactly what it seems. Using your thumb and big toe to mash buttons all while writing the review with your freehand

[@superkerel9]

It's hard to take the review serious when he complains about the combat feeling like blind luck, yet the footage in the video shows him blindly running into enemies and bosses not even trying to dodge attacks at all.

[@MrColdflame901]

Game doesn't hold my hand therefore it's terrible - ign reviewer

[@skyrimwolf9015]

Best way to put it🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️. That's how much of an embarrassment this review is

[@Kwazy-mojo]

@@MrColdflame901 unless it's dark souls, because we already know that people love dark souls

[@anounymosgamer]

He was using the Axe when it was more of a range weapon than a melee one, instead of using his sword which has a round slash attack in case of being surrounded.

[@ZombieVoldemort]

I thought the same thing. It’s like he never learned how to block attacks.

[@LyraTyrell]

"It's frustrating to take a ton of damage due to random bad luck" **flails around wildly while shield is completely undamaged**

[@Arian545]

The reviewer does not record the footage used in the review.

[@Hynotama]

I played the same way and I haven't gotten so much as a single game over. Besides the 7 ones required for the trophy, which I did intentionally after I completed the game 100%. But you have weapons that are great for different enemies or situations. I bet the "reviewer" didn't even switch from the shortsword and daggers.

[@JohnSmith-ip6kc]

Lol it’s like he didn’t know how to play the game!

[@KenFM12.93]

Dont care about the score,still buying it regardless.

[@memelord7643]

Yeah me too

[@HAL_NOVEMILA]

Yep, they're complaining about it being too similar to the original with improved graphics, which is exactly what real fans wanted...

[@cyborgfranky3871]

Same here

[@bauloprete3905]

@@HAL_NOVEMILA and what about Spyro and Crash! They are the same too but they got high scores !

[@-Lizardology-]

Bautista Siciliano Cause those games are easy. IGN is full of trash gaming journalists that want games a 5 year old can beat.

[@codyburnett1592]

Do not listen to this reviewer. He clearly doesn’t know what he is doing. Either he is just this bad at video games or he purposely ran into enemies so he can bash the game. This review is a joke.

[@spider496]

Hes bad. Very bad.

[@bernardkruger753]

Agreed.

[@deathseekergibbsy]

Gonna have to go with never played it. He doesn't even pronounce the main character's name correctly, even though it is said innumerable times during the game

[@koobjenny]

I agree, IGN reviewers nowadays they're not was reliable has a few years ago.

[@WEK-kh8gd]

Cody Burnett I’ve beaten the game and the review is pretty accurate.

[@DJWarnerStage]

He literally says blind luck, then in all the gameplay he runs into enemies blindly attacking without dodging or fighting from a distance. That’s not the games fault, just get better at the damn game lmao.

[@videos1579]

Why you think we play station channel in Japan never mentioned IGN cause They don't played the game before And they are very DISRESPECTFUL 😠

[@ostrava6315]

@@videos1579 I read this in the south park asain accent and am throughly pleased with how funny it sounds.

[@spider496]

Clearly he should seek another job.

[@omegasnake18]

THANK YOU, This game does have decent combat, you just gotta be smart about it. it's not the best combat, but it works well enough that you can easily get used to it.

[@videos1579]

@@omegasnake18 yep cause it's a Remastered of the original so it's supposed to be like the classic

[@notslimshady2943]

His pronunciation of “Fortesque” really pissed me off probably more than it should have

[@jlc1112]

Same >:(

[@TheBatosai]

Melt away you snow flakes.

[@theredshadow401]

You're right, way more than it should have. Way more than you allowed it to.

[@SBeeZy91]

Not Slim Shady he says it quite a few times and every time he does a puppy dies somewhere in the world

[@nickhotaling270]

Considering that Fortesque looks a lot like grotesque, I'm sure that's how he thought to pronounce it. If I didn't know, I'd say it that way too. It makes sense. You wouldn't pronounce grotesque as "gro tesk you", would you?

[@ubersoldado]

"cowardly failed knight" *shows footage of him leading a charge into the enemy lines* failed knight? maybe. coward? nope.

[@n1s2e]

@resistance1207 In the game they think he is a cowerdly knight even do he isnt. The legend has that he got the arow in his eye when he was running away from the battle. I can be off on this becuse i am at work havent played the remake and the og i played like 10 years ago now. But i think thats how it went down right?

[@n1s2e]

@Cynical yeah i know thats the reality but i am sure that there is alot of references that they think he is a coward and its becuse they think he died becuse he ran away which he didnt

[@barbarianzg8826]

Roumors or not,let me tell you a story. Once upon a medievil time,first one who goes into charge usually was the king himself,not the brave captain..lol And don't you,never,forget that.. ;) I don't know why Sony wants to ruin him and make it like fun..it's not funny,duuh!

[@DialgaMarine3]

resistance1207 It’s less that he was seen as a coward, but more a fraud. He never retreated from battle; he just got killed early on, but was falsely credited with defeating the evil wizard.

[@Hijynx87]

Look at the backstory, the game is all about his redemption

[@MackNifisent]

So basically it's just another game thats "too hard" for ign reviewers..

[@erichollingback]

@santi tzalabiras Well, I'm hearing Fallen Order is unforgiving in it's combat. Almost like... the dark souls of Star Wars games...

[@sban8377]

Not having adequate savepoints doesn't make a game 'hard', just frustrating.

[@wordsbutnospaces]

Sandeep Banerjee frustrating because it’s hard. Finishing a level without a check point is difficult, games didnt hold your hand back in the day like they do now. This looks just like the og but with improved visuals, all fans of it will love it no doubt.

[@PhantomGardener]

@@wordsbutnospaces Having no checkpoints in a level is not hard, just unfair.

[@arvidtonning6348]

santi tzalabiras the guy writing the script and the guy reading it are two different people, don’t blame Daemon for it except his pronunciation of the surname

[@bradyj55]

With the exception of dark souls and a couple others, teaching kids what it feels like to actually lose at video games seems to be a concept lost on us within the last few years

[@JohnSmith-ip6kc]

That’s exactly what’s happened. Games today have no original concept, intense level of difficulty, or creative freedom anymore. All the formulas are dead horses that get beat yearly and your spoon fed while the game holds your hand leads you through garbage.

[@kor9]

This guy did nothing but complain about the difficulty of the game for the entire video lol. This game is a classic

[@videos1579]

Dude why you think we PlayStation channel don't ever recommend IGN cause he clearly didn't play it

[@videos1579]

@LameDoodler wrong it's supposed to be like the classic version there's nothing wrong with it

[@videos1579]

@LameDoodler yes I know but IGN didn't get it right They clearly never beat the game How can u give it a 6

[@skilledkilla3119]

@@videos1579 you give it a 6 cause all of the frustrating cons he mentioned,simple. are people really that daft?

[@vaxick]

@@videos1579 because everybody wants to play a game that was flawed back then and continue to do so now? IGN won't be the only folks to give this a low score. Tons of people were turned off by that demo. The game was never perfect, reviews back then even spoke of its shortcomings and the fact they still are here in 2019 makes no sense. This should have been an opportunity to correct its issues rather than do next to nothing.

[@syrkyt37]

Why does everyone say his name wrong? For-teh-skew. It says it at the start...😂

[@FreakinSweet1987]

He wasn't the reviewer, just the narrator. Unfortunately they don't care enough to fact check with each other.

[@lukenotskywalker2957]

Shane Gonzales If they actually played the game they’d know his name.. It’s said many times.

[@patrickstrahm05]

Agreed! This game is not for the reviewer though.

[@Aye_handsome]

@@FreakinSweet1987 The reviewer doesn't know the game either then.

[@FreakinSweet1987]

@@Aye_handsome all the reviewer did was write it for him to read. Nothing indicates he didn't know the pronunciation. If you read "Fortesque" outloud without knowing how to pronounce it, anyone with a brain would assume it's "for-tesk" due to the spelling.

[@jimjamsim]

I don’t know who “Fortesk” is.

[@aaaaAlexandra.Clawaa]

Same

[@kalkanciii]

In french u pronounce it like that but he clearly isnt french lol

[@donkeyIips]

its Sir Daniel Fortesque... get it right ign!

[@vgman94]

“Fortesk”....This review is Grotesk.

[@sasukedarkwolf]

groteskew*

[@TROBassGuitar]

Lol you pointed out exactly why someone would say it that way

[@zeljkovlasic1632]

@@sasukedarkwolf r/woooosh

[@sasukedarkwolf]

@@zeljkovlasic1632 r/whoosh. Mine was a joke aswell.

[@zeljkovlasic1632]

@@sasukedarkwolf Then it was a really, Really bad joke

[@dbeb48]

As a kid (7 years old) I've never thought medievil was a difficult game but only a scary one.

[@2097xl]

"Daniel fortesk" Disliked.

[@Allangulon]

Fort-es-queue!

[@ippothedestroyer]

@@Allangulon Thats how i pronounced it when i read it.I never even played the original game.

[@vee1766]

It's exactly how it's pronounced, it's French, dumbass.

[@mr.blackjacket2915]

@@vee1766 in game the name is pronounced For-Te-Skew, so don't come here trying to tell us how it is pronounced.

[@Arian545]

You disliked a video because of a minor mispronunciation?

[@pythonkatie1985]

No offense but it sounds like you're just bad at the game. I still play the original and don't have any issues beating levels or bosses. And I'm with everyone else, that pronunciation completely discredited you.

[@bardock310]

“Fortesk”..... 9 year old me: “how dare you”

[@mooganify]

Greta moment

[@imaginarycorgi7312]

Damn straight

[@hatemmaher1364]

I don’t know who “Fortesk” is .. in fact Dan Fortesque was first to fall, Cowards are shot in the back .. He is a LEGEND.

[@sangbeta2043]

Was Dan cowardly? He was first to fall, and he took an arrow in the chest! Cowards are shot in the back.

[@airthefallen]

Well... An arrow to the eye but still.

[@bernardkruger753]

Well he couldn't pronounce the character's name correctly. That pretty much sets the bar for what can be expected for the rest of the review.

[@RenShinomiya121]

the remake made all the npc talk about him like he's a fraud though, since he was credited for killing Zarok even though he's the first to die during the initial charge (by the first arrow launched, mind you.....) there's another remake before this where he's an actual coward though, so probably they got it from that. EDIT: The remake i mentioned is MediEvil: Ressurection

[@finalchapter1899]

*eye*

[@firebulletz6186]

How can I trust this review when they can't even get the main character right

[@robertbrown2706]

Narrator was not reviewer...

[@Kserijaro]

Sir Daniel ForesQUEUE

[@ray2dasherthedragon336]

@@robertbrown2706 he meant the guy speaking in the vid he called Sir Daniel Fortesque Sir Daniel Fortesk

[@ray2dasherthedragon336]

IGN should have just called him IT

[@ray2dasherthedragon336]

Ok whatever but still the narrator should still get the name right ill admit with that cuz then it makes the review look better and more professional other wise look how much hate comments would have not came up IF dameon (i think is the guy whos talking) would have said it right its not hard and it is even said at the start of the game

[@underdogmage5607]

I've played the game once, i never heard of it again for years, until today. And it is strange, i remembered every second i played it. I guess this is what a memorable game really means

[@JohnSmith-ip6kc]

They just don’t make games like they used to lol. If more people looked past the cartoony design and actually gave this game a chance back in 98 we’d have a whole MediEvil universe of games by now

[@lolpez]

it is clear when not to trust in an IGN review

[@RepublicofODLUM]

When you disagree with them? ;)

[@bauloprete3905]

@@RepublicofODLUM when they do a poor review. IGN should not handle the entire responsability to one person. The game is clearly interesting but they review it with an okay. Yea, its very off.

[@charlie1234500]

@@RepublicofODLUM Exactly. And they keep coming back regardless lol Every review is invalid unless they give out 10/10's.

[@spider496]

I never trust them in the first place.

[@leviathon1113]

The lack of checkpoint is part of the difficulty of the platform per stage. It was part of the original and im sure it's intended purposely. Not everything is supposed to be forgiving and easy my dude

[@spider496]

He should be playing COD instead. Same garbo every year and yet still gets lots of 9-10 scores.

[@alejandrojimenez144]

I know what you mean. But there are much better ways for a game to be difficult than making you repeat a whole level. It was ok in the year medievil was launched, but now that we also apreciate treasure hunting and exploration of a level. Is actually not fun anymore to repeat almost completed levels

[@bernardkruger753]

Well said

[@stevejones148]

He failed to mention that you’ll have like 2-3 life vials that resurrect you per level. That’s dying like 3 times.

[@p.v.7269]

Considering that you get life bottles that act as spare lives, fountains that refill your health and empty life bottles, vials that also restore health and bottles, plus the fact that many levels are short enough to not need a checkpoint, I think it's just whiny spoiled crybaby nonsense. Cemetery Hill, the Enchanted Forest, the sleepy Village are prime examples of how short the levels are. If you don't explore and find all the chalices and secrets, damn near every level can be beaten in about 2-3 minutes. Why on Earth would you want or need checkpoints in a stage that you have between 1 and 9 lives to complete, full of fountains that heal you, that can be beaten in a couple of minutes?

[@ireallydontcareabouthandles]

"Fortesk" You didn't play this game. You never played this game.

[@robertbrown2706]

Narrator was not reviewer...

[@ERoBB1]

Daemon is reading the review someone else wrote.

[@skyrimwolf9015]

Apparently F@$kin not 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@quartz3699]

crime of the century

[@tetsuokenpachi]

Omg, the game says it wrong so the guy who says it right is wrong... Smh... You people know nothing.

[@360entertainment2]

I still have the last remake on my PSP, now all we need is a remake of the sequel!

[@TeamBazym]

Medievil on PSP is one of my fav handheld games.. 10/10

[@Drprophetius]

@@TeamBazym They ruined all the cutscenes in that one though.

[@TeamBazym]

Drprophetius I didn’t mind them, Don’t really remember them either. I just loved the Fun Fair minigames most I think lol

[@Lioncourt87]

Medievil 2 was fantastic. Deliciously Victorian in a very comic way. Hopefully that's on the cards!

[@Mortisk]

If Dan didn't talk the 2nd game would've been perfect

[@CypherClue]

This guy said crash bandicoot was harder than dark souls.......

[@ArkhamJacks]

I'll agree with that

[@BreakingBlake1]

I’d argue the first game is

[@MrSkullMerchant]

Crash games are amongst the easiest iv ever played but still love them

[@Thomas-te2lg]

Maybe the first one if you attempted to 100% it.

[@luigiguy1360]

I don't get why everyone thinks Crash is hard. Seriously I tri-platted N-sane in few days. It's not that hard game...

[@RealTalkWithMitch]

"games too hard, 6.5/10"

[@victorgallegos9849]

You are the reason why games are soooo freaking easy nowdays and boring.. there is no challenge to them no more

[@frankhunter8703]

Babys like these are why hard games don't really exist anymore. Everything has to hold your hand or its "stuck in the past"

[@mehrad1983]

Victor Gallegos Agreed, I remember most of PS1 games were difficult and challenging and even tho I was only 7-10 years old I loved them all. Tenchu, Medievil, Resident Evil 3, Crash Bandicoot, Twisted Metal, Pepsi Man, Dino Crisis etc.

[@foreversolvent5334]

@@mehrad1983 okai boomer

[@Thomas-te2lg]

You know a lot of games were very really hard in the day simply to extend playtime and discourage renting, right? There is a reason why a lot of games were much easier in Japan compared to West, because in Japan, developers and publishers din't have to worry about rental services (which were mostly illegal for video games).

[@victorgallegos9849]

Thomas Ruth id rather play a shorter difficult game than a long easy game. I find them no fun no challenge just eye candy and easy cruise story instead of it being hard with hard to find secrets and items, difficult bosses that make you want to quit but keep at it because you want to finish the game.. it used to be fun

[@boomerthedingo2196]

Too hard, made me cry 6.5/10 ~ IGN

[@Lattrodon]

This is the worst IGN review I've seen in a long time

[@n1njahawkssecondchannel84]

Me too i’ll never forget about the avengers or more like the failures

[@OfficialDarkSydeMedia]

6.5 rating because they think it’s too hard, boo hoo 😂 I’ll still be buying this game because Medievil is one of my favourite childhood games, still got the original on PS1 💀❤️

[@seth-nico]

TrueGamerOpinion Not if you wanna stay completely true to the original game.

[@ostrava6315]

@TrueGamerOpinion What was wrong with the mechanics?

[@crystalline2150]

Love the classic and yes love the challenge. I highly disagree with this reviewer. These youngsters just can't handle the challenge. 😂

[@DiegoJohnsson]

The fact that he can't even say "Fortesque" the right way, makes me believe he hasn't even touched the game...

[@vee1766]

Next time don't open your mouth to speak about something you don't know, the name is French and it's exactly how it's pronounced. Source ? i'm French.

[@DiegoJohnsson]

@@vee1766 Okay, but Medievil is not a french game, nor a french lesson. I'm simply referring to the way it is said in the game. Source? The game.

[@mr.blackjacket2915]

@@vee1766 what makes you believe that the games is based upon a French city? Game seems to draw some influence on Camelot and King Arthur's Legend which are British not French.

[@stefanloncar6868]

Remakes we need right now Dino Crisis Simpsons Hit and Run Medievil 2 Sly Cooper Trilogy Resident Evil 3

[@zorack93]

Jak and Daxter?

[@caprisuon]

This IGN review

[@stefanloncar6868]

zorack93 well Jak and Daxter had very detailed graphics since 1st game

[@zorack93]

@@stefanloncar6868 so did Sly though

[@MatMo.]

Checkpoints?! When you've worked through the level and know What to do you can go through them in 5-10 minutes

[@shaynasullivan5832]

Can't even get the the hero's name right. Jesus christ. This guy is a joker.

[@BChace18]

Can't take a review seriously when you cannot pronounce the main protagonist's name properly

[@robertbrown2706]

Narrator was not reviewer...

[@FlowerKnight2]

@@robertbrown2706 That doesn't matter, at all. This guy plays video games, he's in a ton of IGN videos, and if he is going to narrate a review he should at least know the damn characters name before doing it. IGN are just a bunch of game journo scrubs.

[@Java9393]

@@FlowerKnight2 that doesnt affect the review itself tho

[@TROBassGuitar]

I didn't know you had to know the main characters name to enjoy a game

[@PLSE_SND_BY_]

Lol you don't have to know a main characters name to enjoy a game. But when you're a channel that puts out reviews in a "trust our opinion" manner, it's really hard to when you can't get the most basic detail right

[@iwanttoforceavegantoeatmea7596]

Everyone, please support this game, I would love for it to have life again.

[@mashedmacaroni6086]

I would love a MedEvil 2 Remake.

[@nirvash7677]

Hopefully we'll get an avengers like game that unites Fortesk, Speeroh, Gax and Charlie Bandicoat against a Thane-like villain.

[@Alastor343]

we can get eetseeo from assassins creed fo join them in the followup!

[@nocturn738]

Lmaooooo

[@fade1473]

Bandicoot but yes!

[@AriaKyuKyu]

Huh, kinda surprised that they didn't give Crash N. Sane Trilogy a 4/10 because is too Hard... It was a "Dark souls of platformers"

[@GOWBuuzer]

Delete this review. You're embarrasing yourself.

[@Motivation_snack6668]

Damn right...

[@hypello9534]

Yh agree. This guy is a clown

[@KJ-je9pm]

This guy complains from dying for the third time in boss battles. Have you ever played Dark Souls or just any other videogame? lmao

[@KJ-je9pm]

@@GoogleUser-wf8mt Nah watch near the end. He says its annoying that he died a third time during a boss fight. Lol what

[@Criticas_QLS]

A Google user games and design do not get “outdated”. that’s just a term sorry reviewers use to justify how horrible they are at games.

[@alejandrojimenez144]

He said that it was irritating to play a WHOLE level for the third time. And yes, even dark souls has checkpoints mid level. In fact, most souls games have bonfires near a boss arena

[@sterlingkart9562]

*cough* Cuphead. I die, retry. I die, retry. Beat it. Retry in regular. I die, retry. Beat it, Got a B+, Retry. I die, retry. 😂😂😂

[@v.e2035]

I'm pretty sure dark souls was inspired by this game lmao I love this game

[@nickhebert8829]

love the remake graphics, I wish they made more games like this.

[@strangegentchristian9783]

I’m convinced IGN’s reviewers never grew up in the era of games being difficult and not complete cakewalks

[@godssalvation87]

he said games havent evolved with the time has anyone told this man about how platformers still the same an so many other genres

[@laos85]

Maybe he meant about the improvement of the mechanic.

[@Parapraxis1980]

Has anyone told you those games didn't need to update their platforming because it wasn't shitty

[@PetarBladeStrok]

Fortesk? FORTESK?! IGN where the HELL do you find those people for the reviews?! Why is someone who seems to have no idea what MediEvil is and maybe even didn't play the game, reviewing this remake?! Dan was not a coward, he was just the first to die. And the game is too hard?! You seem the one who's just blindly running around with an Axe, where the sword is supposed to be used, instead of playing properly and yet you say the game requires you to run around blindly?! Talk about hypocrisy. I hate it when games hold my hand. Difficulty is just fine. What a noobish review, Jesus Christ...

[@Komodo522]

PetarBlade Štrok Summed it up perfectly, thank you

[@mouse_burger8051]

well no in the game in the ps1 he was still a coward he always just played outdoor games with the king and in the battle of gallowmere he was shot first yes. But every one thought that he had fought his way up to zarok and killed him in all reality he was a corpse on the ground the only thing they got right in this review was the lore of dan all the other things are a joke. Like if u use the shield u can win most fights easy while the guy just runs around attacking willy nilly.

[@amplyfier]

@@mouse_burger8051 You can even beat the game without using the shield, i never used in the original, and nor in the remake too, and the game its not that hard, i beat it with no major issues, yes i died a few times, but thats why you have life bottles, seriously, this review doesnt know nothing about the original and the remake.

[@SunnyTacos]

IGN is really just a joke at this point, thought he was gonna complain the boss didn't stand still so he could beat it........Fortesk...Jesus Christ..they are not even trying anymore..

[@Morgan02]

So what im hearing is it's just like the Original and you're bad at the game so it gets a bad review.

[@Jsteiner1974]

Exactly!

[@Dun-N-Dusted]

Sounds like IGN to me XD

[@wolfeye3530]

This review is exactly why remakes fail. This is what I call a perfect Remake yet IGN calls not updated for 2019. Game journalist blame their lack of skill on the game. As always. Git gud.

[@killtubecameron]

I've been playing it the game is brilliant well above a 6.5 I personally would give it a 8 the game definitely isn't boring and putting in checkpoints would ruin the game maybe if he was better at the game he would have given it a higher score

[@josephhooks1292]

Half of the review is IGN crying that the game isn’t super easy like most games are today lol. Hey guys at IGN “git gud!!!!” 😂😂😂😂😂

[@evanholt2898]

So did IGN make the mistake of reviewing a game without playing it again? “For-tesk”?!

[@deceit1143]

The guy who does the voice over isn’t necessarily the guy who wrote the review.

[@dog364]

@@deceit1143 he's reading off a script though, I'm interested in how the reviewer spelled it. I think the reviewer really didn't get into this game.

[@deceit1143]

@@dog364 It's certainly possible, however I think it's more likely that the VO read the name "Fortesque" and thought of the suffix -esque (as in picturesque, grotesque etc.) and pronounced it accordingly. Anyway I think it's a little childish to write off a review just because a name was pronounced wrong; we should be debating the actual points the reviewer made, not a silly flub.

[@PLSE_SND_BY_]

Matthew Treadwell yeah and how exactly do you intend to trust a review that can't even double check the main characters name before recording a review of it? Just reeks of laziness

[@deceit1143]

@@PLSE_SND_BY_ Like I wrote above, the narrator and the reviewer aren't necessarily the same person (in fact I just double checked and it clearly shows at the beginning "Reviewed by Travis Northrup" and "Narrated by Daemon Hatfield"). Should Daemon have looked up how to pronounce "Fortesque" before he did the VO? Yeah, that would've been prudent. All I'm calling out is the idea that because Daemon got the name wrong, Travis must've not played the game. Which doesn't follow, because Daemon getting the name wrong only proves that Daemon didn't play the game, which doesn't matter because it wasn't Daemon's job to review the game to begin with. He's just reading a script.

[@randomenvelope]

Tf was that pronounciation of Daniel's name?

[@KWHere2]

In their defense, I'm pretty sure I heard on a podcast that typically the person reading the review and the person writing the review are two different people. I don't know why, but that's what I think I heard.

[@raadalba6al]

Just got my platinum trophy in the game :) I really loved the game and it's atmosphere, especially I played the original game back in 98 when I was a kid. However, I do understand why some people are upset. We have many games in the past few years that are INCREDIBLE! So yes, it's not one of the THOSE games especially for those who didn't experience videogames back in the days. Still, Medievil will always be a game that I will never forget :)

[@duandutoit8393]

What do you guys think when playing MediEvil remake?

[@xXSilentAgent47Xx]

RDR2 & GTA 5: Too easy and no complaints, we give it 10/10 Medievil: Too hard, amazing graphics and so many complaints, we give it 6.5/10

[@perianh]

There is a difference between hard and annoying. Dark Souls is hard. This is annoying.

[@Jonny-dp6yf]

Red dead 2 is about exploreration it doesn't need to be like playing last of us on grounded or as hard as bloodbourne or sekrio.

[@xXSilentAgent47Xx]

@@Jonny-dp6yf If it's about exploration then there wouldn't be invisible snipers and sudden storm troopers at southern of West Elizabeth. Even in Guarma invisible snipers are annoying.

[@xXSilentAgent47Xx]

@@perianh It's mixed. Most of games are being annoying and hard to complete nowadays. Crash Bandicoot Platinum relics for example. That's what we call it "Challenge".

[@xXSilentAgent47Xx]

@@GoogleUser-wf8mt It's not yet to be reviewed by real reviewers, these on Metacritic are same reviewers like IGN. Check yourself. It'll be reviewed by real people who 100% fully played the game after release, not by these so called "reviewers" who barely scratch games. RDR2 on Metacritic PS4 is 8,1 & 7,6 on XOne reviewed by real people. It's explained everything there. It's 8/10 from me, 9/10 would be if they fixed their games and 10/10 would be no Online (because it's broken and grindy, only would be useful if it's PVP or coop like Graveyard Survival in RDR UN).

[@caninemuncher]

ITS FOR TES QUE!!!!!! IM SO TRIGGERED!!!!!!!

[@ghostmonkey0432]

Thank you!!!!!!

[@Fishofmanyhonor]

If they can’t say they need to just say Sir Dan

[@FlowerKnight2]

So four minutes and thirty seconds of a grown man complaining that a game rated for Teens is too hard for him because there are no checkpoints in the short 5-15 minute long levels, and because the combat is too hard for him because it's chaotic. Yet they bring up none of the outweighing postives of the game, and to top it off they pronounce Sir Fortiesque's name wrong? Hell yeah, you guys are some seriously hardcore expert pro gamers.

[@Dun-N-Dusted]

that's IGN for you

[@johnnybonglips4839]

This game is exactly what I'm looking for in a medievil remake. IGN gets it wrong again. If it was call of duty its like has guns 10 out of 10. 🤦‍♂️

[@johnnybonglips4839]

@swegweg erg no worries m8 just saying its a double standard. you enjoy to your cod and fifa bud 👍

[@Madigan1984]

The Shining soundtrack is on point

[@wazowskiitime3136]

Madigan1984 idk why i thought evil dead

[@leonardoquintero1009]

Not The Shining! The theme is from Dies Irae, which is a Latin thematic sequence that dates back to the 1200s. The Shining popularized it for today's pop culture :D.

[@Madigan1984]

Leonardo Quintero 👌🏻thx

[@steveozone4910]

This masterpiece scores a 6.5. But we all know that Call of duty trash, will score a 10/10 on Friday!

[@kostasspirou1010]

The new Call of Duty looks great ngl, also different reviewers.

[@RelentlessRod011]

I started playing this game because I had a free trial of PSNOW and I fondly remember playing the demo from a Jampack Promo disc I had when I owned a PS1. Immediately I noticed how this game didn’t hold your hand, there was no difficulty selection, no checkpoints, which at first I found frustrating but began to admire because they don’t make games like this anymore. It’s a relatively short game compared to today’s 20-50 hour AAA games. I can see why this game is a cult classic from a much simpler time.

[@46morrell]

Marking it down because the boss battles were to hard for you LOL!... And it's fort-es-que not Fortesk also try using some ranged attacks! 😂

[@mouse_burger8051]

ikr he just charges in and expects him to come out unscathed that may work with zombies but not in the later stages

[@damaniqphillip2756]

My childhood right here

[@juvanio8479]

I don't care what ign thinks this is my childhood game 😑

[@Sunbreaker7]

Then why are you here xd

[@АхенныйкритикЮтуба]

Said the guy who came here to know what IGN thinks

[@sufficatingdreams5605]

i'm still buying this game no matter WHAT ign thinks of the game.

[@theredshadow401]

Exactly how it should be so I'm not sure what your point is meant to be. Reviews should be for reference only. The decision is always yours and yours alone.

[@christiamcruz7454]

Ohh yeah me tooo iam definitely goin' to buy this. I loved it on the PSP so i totally goin to get this one. I dont care what he said

[@guitarspud1723]

This game will be forgotten faster then your opinions.

[@2JZGTE30BMW]

@@guitarspud1723 yeah it was clearly soo forgotten that it was remade

[@nicolasfontenla2396]

Fortesque as in FOR-TES-CUE, NOT FOR-TESK Also, is that the Shining theme at the beginning?

[@nickhotaling270]

Why does the second one matter?

[@RepublicofODLUM]

the metacritic is 67 guys, so clearly ign is not the only one that had problems with the game.

[@salvadormendoza5045]

They gave it 6.5 because it's hard and challenging the way games use to be... The original didn't have save checkpoints so why would the remake have one?

[@messortorvus32]

Because it's bad Design in The first place?

[@DarkPyroZero]

Because modernization, if I wanted to play it like it was, I'd just dust off my old PS1 and play the original, absolutely agree that they should have left these pains in the past, I'd like to enjoy my games, not have them a choir to play through

[@agustinbarret9333]

true

[@okoyehenry577]

@@DarkPyroZero Git gud scrubs

[@godssalvation87]

@@DarkPyroZero have you played the new version yet? or is your opinion based on the reviews

[@TROBassGuitar]

People are acting like the issues he mentioned aren't actually pretty major issues

[@puntybrah]

nostalgic ppl are annoying, all they care about is to have the game exactly the same

[@somethingsomething9006]

@@puntybrah Depends though, what if people wanted the same experience they had years ago? I wouldn't change ANYTHING about Medievil, it's one of my favorite games of all time, even with how it is right now on the PS1.

[@AstraLegg]

sure i guess they could be major issues if youre already used to the hand-holding trashy game designs of modern titles

[@TROBassGuitar]

@@AstraLegg checkpoints are hand holding now? Games have had those since at least the snes

[@mehrad1983]

It would score a 9/10 if it was a Nintendo game lol

[@Thomas-te2lg]

IGN has given low to average scores to Nintendo games before, Kirby: Triple Deluxe got a score lower than this game.

[@KevynBGrams]

Also would have been $59.99, instead of $29.99.

[@lordchaos9148]

And the difficulty would be been a positive instead of the a negative.

[@glennmcadam6276]

I would like to say I never played the original but I played this to 100% I even unlocked the original as a reward and look forward to playing it at some point. I thought this remake was fantastic, charming, funny, colourful and the gameplay was simple and sweet, I never got bored. There was some challenge without it being a pain as for the levels I loved that they were so small it made going through them again fun and learning them wasn't difficult. Combat was enjoyable as I had different ways of dealing with each enemy and I always wanted to try to new weapons. The only downside was I can't go back to the hall of heroes just to look around I wish it was an extra level just to explore

[@UltraRow]

This guy has gotta be one of the worst reviewers at IGN, Sir Daniel Fortesque is a PlayStation legend and his name is echoed throughout the game and this guy still pronounces it wrong... how hard is it to parrot a name? Upset because each level doesn't have a checkpoint every 5 minutes... games used to boot you back to the start of the game at a game over... nevermind the start of the level, this guy needs to start playing his games on the normal difficulty and not on easy mode. Games are meant to be difficult IGN they are meant to test you, if the game respawned you at a checkpoint right at the start of a boss battle with all your health and weapons, of course, you will beat the boss that's why it doesn't do that... you're meant to use your vast arsenal of weapons to plan and strategize against the level, not just run-in with the default weapon mashing squire. (Also why would you get to the end of the level and then turn back looking for secrets, when you could finish the level and then reenter it and then look for secrets, in some levels you have to do that, I bet this reviewer didn't even know you could reenter levels... what a muppet) I can't prove this but, listening to this review from the way he butchers the main protagonist's name and most of his complaints being him dying a lot and starting back at the level, I think he played this game for around 3 hours kept dying on one particular level (Propley because he just ran into a bunch of enemies mashing squire) got upset and just stopped playing and then cobbled this review up and got someone else to record the footage.

[@stevenknowles-dobbs8324]

Yes, how dare they? It's a brilliant game but, I still havnt completed it on ps1 yet after 20 years :D

[@thegrubes8879]

Daemon: Calls game "medieval" me: aight imma head out

[@Kratos-005]

WHY IS THE MUSIC THE SHINING MUSIC?

[@SIXGHz]

It’s Halloween, Kratos. Time to get creepy.

[@imotje]

Why does everything has to be so easy to fit the 2019 audience. It’s a remake, I doesn’t need to lower the difficulty or be any less frustrating. It’s part of the nostalgia!

[@Play_Dreams]

People love to have their nostalgia glasses tightly fitted.

[@The80Kat]

That is absolutely not how you say his last name. Fort-a-schew

[@MisterX867]

The reviewer must've been terrible....cause I've never seen the game over screen for the original game...and I've been playing it annually for a decade.

[@oneeyesy3457]

6.5: Old games are too hard for us Millennials >:((((

[@edybocman76]

Tha game is not hard

[@oneeyesy3457]

Wardo Melena woah really!?!? It’s not like this comment could be... sarcasm... could it? 🤔

[@edybocman76]

@@oneeyesy3457 :o

[@26kempy]

When the reviewer can't say Fortesque correctly you know it best to ignore this review.

[@FrMZTsarmiral]

I never saw the gameplay of the original as anything worth writing home about but the footage has some very dumb actions taken by the player. Why are you moving forward nonstop while attacking? That will just get you hit time and time again in most games.

[@IceRuler]

"It is frustratingly hard." It's the cartoonish version of Dark Souls then.

[@renofheavens2]

I always thought of the original as Dark Souls for kids lol

[@lorievans1760]

Can't pronounce Fortesque's name correctly and then says the game is too punishing and hard but is using the ax on hordes which only attacks vertically. Maybe if you enhanced your Broad Sword for hordes and strong enemies and gathered health from previous levels you wouldn't receive game overs. This is why I like older games like Spyro, Crash, and Medievil. They made you "Git Gud" when you ran out of health or lives and you had to redo whole sections/levels.

[@MegaSantaclaude]

"Får tæsk" means "get beaten up" in Danish. So apparently Daniel Beatup is the protagonist

[@HollywoodLego]

Ok. Them getting the name wrong "could" make sense, if they look at how the last name is spelled, but here's the thing. In the game, they say his last name constantly! The game that he is "playing" to review, literally has the name said to him!

[@TheCardboardClaymore]

As a PlayStation fan who grew up with the original PS, people really need to just admit that with the exception of a handful of games, the PS One had a lot of broken games on it. This faithful re-creation is proof of that I think.

[@Sir_Speederik]

Considering how he says Fortesque's name wrong despite it being said numerous times throughout the game, leads me to believe he didn't actually play the game. Someone else did and he is just reading from a script.

[@bluetarantulaproductions6179]

I miss video games that have a challenge and have you try to remember certain moments in the game so that you don't die again.

[@joshtaylor8110]

Clearly the reader never actually played the game as he butchers the main character's name twice!

[@FlapNasty3]

I fins it funny how the review complains how when you die, you gotta start the entire level over. Guess what, thats the feature, not a bug. These kids these days want easy play throughs, go play a Barbie/Dora game. Hell, most games don't even have lives to test patience and creative solutions. Why do you think Megaman of hold was loved so much? Sonic of old was loved so much? If a game gave me a victory screen with little efforr or consequence, what was the point in even having enemies or health bars.

[@curbsidezues1111]

My whole thing about this review is that it's a remaster not a remake if you want that go play it on the psp. I for one am super happy that it's the same game

[@seaofrage]

Ugh... looks like this guy needed a 'journalist' difficulty.

[@emoimo4171]

Were you dropped as a baby? The complaint isn’t about the difficulty, it’s about bad design and dated mechanics.

[@seaofrage]

@@emoimo4171 bad mechanics and design....? Lol. Sure sure

[@MrColdflame901]

@@seaofrage If it had bad mechanics and design back then it would've just failed back in the 90s when placed along side Crash and Spyro. This game was loved enough to warrant a remake and changing it's core design and mechanics would've pissed off the fans a lot more.

[@Flashh33]

Just bought this, and the game says his name literally 3 times in the first 30 minutes lol.