Mega-CD Longplay [105] Eternal Champions CD: Challenge from the Dark Side

[@synthwave_junkie5010]

Fun Fact: “Deep Water” was intended to remind you that you’re playing a Mature rated game, but it was short lived and last time they used it was on “Duke Nukem 3D” for Sega Saturn

[@sonicthejetsetbeat7465]

Oh! i thought they where making a small reference to Jaws

[@stefcannon2580]

I did wonder why the developer cutscene (an elaborate cutscene, thought it was the game’s opening video) had a dismembered arm…!

[@TheCodedtestament]

The main attraction to this game was how well the story was written. When you read each character profile, it gives believable reasoning as to why this person is important.

[@sonicandashuro9992]

RAQUAAHWA TheCodedtestament enteral champions better volcano music

[@okamijubei]

As it shows that all of them are important or perhaps have a heroic goal that'll affects time for the greater good.

[@legionbeast]

The first 17 minutes are just explaining the backstory then the character's bios. That's a hell of a way to introduce everyone.

[@luisabeleno7662]

eternal Champions is also for genesis

[@jacksonpeds5298]

And the first game is $1 for Steam and has been for around 10 years.

[@ElledarBlackraven]

The game's pretty good and really fun to play with friends. But failing to develop a competent fighting AI doesn't justify putting two final bosses with a total of NINETEEN freakin' forms!

[@user1point0]

What can they say? They're compensating for the flaws :)

[@ElledarBlackraven]

There's good and bad compensating. I've always loved Eternal Champions, but this is just ridiculous :P.

[@B-DShaheed]

ElledarBlackraven I said This isn't even my final form" 19 times lol

[@bananachan2684]

:) :P. Double CUTE! n.n

[@DragonPop64]

Definitly the definitive version of the game right here. The depth of story in this gsme remarkable. They seemed to have put so much into this game. We need a remaster of this. People would love this game!!!!

[@suprememasteroftheuniverse]

Kid, get out of internet. It's rotting your brain.

[@gkiss2030]

If they remade it now in a modern remake, it would easily compete with the newly released MK1.

[@leftcloud9]

You can thank Sega of Japan that the game never reached 3 generations. The Saturn version(which was advertised about on the original box during the initial Saturn launch) would have been awesome.

[@segaunited3855]

No. That's not correct.

[@pedrogabriel3158]

thanks sega japan for killing this shitty franchise

[@Bubba__Sawyer]

@@segaunited3855 Yes it is.

[@segaunited3855]

@@Bubba__Sawyer Nope. You're repeating hyperbole. Why don't you listen to the REAL story to what was going on.

[@PetterNe]

@@segaunited3855 Can you elaborate? From what I’ve heard, Sega didn’t want the Saturn game to compete with Virtua Fighter.

[@VladamireD]

I liked the hidden characters in this version: Chin Wo, Senator, Thanatos, Thomas "Blast" Chavez, and the animals (Crispy, Hooter, Slither, Yappy, and Zuni). You can also unlock both versions of the Eternal Champion. Larcen Tyler got a Game Gear spinoff game called Chicago Syndicate too that I always wanted to play.

[@brandman6134]

Shadow had a spinoff too-"X-perts".

[@NeoGunloc]

This franchise has it's fair share of fans as well as haters. I myself have both the Mega Drive and Mega CD games, and have many fond memories of playing the MD version in the 90's. But even I tough I like the series, I do have to admit that Eternal Champions is not without it's problems. But then again, wich series doen't have it's problems ? As brilliant as Mortal Kombat 9 and MKX are, let's not forget the "briliant idea" that was Mortal Kombat Vs. DC Universe. I'm being of course, sarcastic about MK Vs. DC.

[@Popebug]

You're bad at talking.

[@topherowlish]

I would love if they could rebalance and fix the crazy bosses issues and rebirth this series on modern consoles. I'm sure the cinematics are in this resolution forever but this game had a great art style and the story and details of these characters should really be given another chance to find new fans. I'm sure some of the original developers would love to get more people into this version of the game. I think it's a unique fighter worth looking into for fighting game fans.

[@jonathan27855]

This game had potential, shame that Sega did not know it takes . It has good graphics for that time and an interesting story ( although I believe some strange things like this story to bring the fighters in the last seconds of their lives ) , the look of "Eternal Champion " is ridiculous , both the good, as the evil. If I work - iff with games, do a remake of this game, the Shadow would be the protagonist (as the game suggests that it is ) and in history the eternal champion ( I certainly would change the name and appearance ) convene one Warriors team different times ( without the story of the last few seconds before the killings ) to fight warriors team gloomy champion (which also would change the course name and appearance ) . Would be divided as follows: Time of the Eternal Champion : Shadow Blade Jetta Slash Midknight Larcen Chin Wo Thomas " Blast " Chavez Team Dark Champion : Sophia R.A.X. Trident Xavier Pendragon Dawson Ramses III Raven Senator (which would have a huge and really would not be a joke in the game) A team without character would be the Thanatos , that would probably be a DLC , following the ( bad) proposal of the current games. The game would look like the Mortal Kombat 2011 ( naturally ) Having a story mode ( where he would play with the team of the Eternal Champion, divindo the characters in chapters) and an " Arcade " mode, where which could play anyone . And that's it guys , my crazy ideas to an obscure fighting game of the 90s .

[@PetterNe]

So basically you want to remove the best parts of the story and make it more generic? Gotcha.

[@juliovictormanuelschaeffer8370]

For me, Blade's ending is even more tragic because he's not only betrayed and killed by his own people, but he was also doomed to watch how the scientist got away with his plan.

[@juliovictormanuelschaeffer8370]

@Legend Killer He didn't live to see his plan come into fruition, since the vial broke after he died and the virus spreaded.

[@juliovictormanuelschaeffer8370]

@Legend Killer Still, very tragic.

[@thecowboy2]

Oh. Hell. Yes!!! I've been waiting for this bad boy for a long time. :D

[@KenMasters.]

With all those 3D cutscenes Sega could've given us an Eternal Champions sequel

[@TheShinbe]

Sega of japan wasnt on the move, they wanted all the people attention to Virtua fighter.

[@PauloRicardo-ul8zi]

So... While the winner has a chance to return to the living... The others simply have their fates sealed... Tragic.

[@thebestcentaur]

This is the only game I've ever seen that adds Kajukenbo as a fighting style. Good on them! Then again, this is the only game in which pharaohs, politicians, and mobsters use kung fu

[@Dorelaxen]

What about Senator Armstrong? He played college ball, you know.

[@ReccaWolf]

I had this game a long time ago, and I remembered playing all of the main characters, including the hidden ones, and loving some of the background stage music back in those days. It was a great game, close to Mortal Kombat, but too bad they didn't make themselves an even greater version of the game. However, I did love the fatalities from the characters, the stages, and from the CG movies from the Dark Champion.

[@Godzillafan1980]

This was one hell of a game

[@dumaramutsi]

Music from the "Introduction" it's badass.

[@serpiente11]

Its the only... the rests sucks. The music from Sega Genesis are all awesome and much better.

[@jaykazi9548]

Sega cd sound way more epic

[@thehumbleone1983]

Love the game back in then my friend had 1 & 2 it's a great game especially playing with a couple of ur friends we all had a blast man the death moves were awesome

[@bigloc3442]

Huynh Mai Dang def more brutal than mk! Lmao . Loved this game !

[@thehumbleone1983]

Big Loc definitely bro the game is a good decent fighter off course the first has its little minors but overall it's still good. Part 2 does everything right

[@rodrigomolinsky]

That's one big introduction. O.o

[@farrellmase]

that's what she said? o.O? lol

[@bananachan2684]

O.o o.O? Double CUTE! n.n

[@tiagobarros5666]

I dream of a remake of this game. A few years ago, there was talk about it and even some supposed prints of what might have been images of this remake came out. But then I heard nothing more about it.

[@PetterNe]

Keep your dream alive, friend. There are still people out there who are deeply passionate about realizing the project of Eternal Successors.

[@hanchiman]

I remember this CD version had a "fatality" sequence (during Mortal Kombat "videogame violence era" where Fatality was all the rage). I used to play this game at my friend place, still remembered the intro music.

[@legionbeast]

Yeah, you had to beat your opponent the first round, then on the deciding round, if they had about 1/4th hp and you had comboed them so that they were dizzy, you had to move at the right range and do the right combo, then you'd finish them with a kill animation. Not to mention there were 2 stage fatalities per stage (knock your opponent down in the right spot upon KO), plus the oddly convoluted way to make the Dark Eternal Champion do a FMV kill on each opponent.

[@hanchiman]

***** Sounds to bothersome to do all that, but then again, maybe I been to "comfortable" with modern games nowadays that I forgot all those old "Nintendo hard requirement" and it sounds too "bothersome" in present day me :D (I bet if this game is made in today, it probably would "hold your hand" and give you a tutorial how to do a fatality by QTE). Then again the whole point of doing fatality back then is to show off in front of friends how you managed to "do it".

[@legionbeast]

***** Exactly. The original version of this on genesis had only a single stage fatality in each area, but getting it to happen was rare and it got past the ESRB. I mean, normally, there is no blood and the characters, after being beaten, twitch and writhe on the ground, so they aren't dead, but the "Overkills" suddenly broke this rule. This followup: Challenge from the Darkside, increased the number of stage finishes, added the FMV sequences, and even character specific fatalities that were messy as all hell and, at the time, put Mortal Kombat to shame (which MK always had an air of dark humor about it when it came to the fatalities, because it was gruesome the first time, but then later on you find yourself asking "wait, how did he pull out her WHOLE skeleton from her mouth?")

[@hanchiman]

***** Yeah man, :D although I only get to play the Genesis version, I mean, admit it who the hell would buy a Sega CD especially when you are just a 13 or so year old kiddo with no personal income. But the fatality back then was just "rumors" that you hear from friends friend or you just read it from an English game magazine (I live in Sweden, and there was no local informative game magazine, just shitty ones). Beside, nowadays all these fatality (not including the recent MK), we really didn't ask the "logic" how they managed to pull out (for example how Jax can rip the arm off that poor opponent while standing) or how Kano can rip someone heart out as if human body is made off soft jelly. :D But thats probably the charm of it, nowadays games logic is boring in which they are a bit too "real" and have a "reasonable explanation" on how it works. But still Eternal Champion one thing that bothered me even back then is that, how the character know anachronistic martial art in their time period, although their bio is reasonable. But their martial art doesn't somehow... "mix" so well.

[@markthompson5918]

U've got some skillz that's for sure this game has no mercy hardest game i've ever played ever.

[@JamesEmirzianWaldementer]

0:47 Introduction Animation

[@sigurdtheblue]

The greatest text walls in the stage of history!

[@sigurdtheblue]

You can't even read the character biographies! Unless they are manually sped up, you would have to take screenshots or play through the biography 100 times to learn everything that was written. And it is funny how the music for these huge text walls does not even loop enough and leaves 5 minutes of silence.

[@MajinGouki]

Q:why such pain in ass scheme Mr Eternal Champion ? A:I am a God ,i work in mysterious ways ,sometimes i don't understand myself too

[@dayvid8687]

all stages has two different finishing move the "overkills" and "sudden deaths" and also the characters has a finishing move "vendettas" and finally there's a finishing move where appears the dark champions and takes the loser saying "to your death" is the "Cinekill" jetta is my favorite and the best character pd. sorry my bad English

[@djkcel]

The song for Rax's stage reeks of mid 90s, but it's still pretty cool.

[@Dorelaxen]

Holy CRAP is that the longest intro ever. Kojima would be proud.

[@johnnyzero8853]

Eternal Champions needs to come back to current gen consoles because the characters seems to be badass.

[@bigloc3442]

Mythical Nerd agreed.. the developers of killer instinct should snatch this up and remake it.. ki sold a shit load of copies on Xbox and it's still being played and that shit came out '14. Lol

[@JCM-x84]

The music in this game was awesome, even if it didn't fit the time periods they were in, haha

[@jaykazi9548]

To me it is fitting with the time periods, plus it so cooler than mortal kombat

[@zevilgehannivani256]

I loved me Shadow Jetta Raven those was the Queens lol reptide cool to I wish they could make another one come back its 2015 lol

[@thiagobravo]

begins at 17:17

[@bigloc3442]

Remake please!? This game was the shit when i was a kid... but Xavier will always be my favorite on both games

[@noonethatspecial]

Yo game, Samurai Jack called. They want to use your monologue for their show!

[@betaubtesfaultier3607]

I will never understand why Sega doesn't stick to this franchise back then. It had so much potential! :-(

[@JV-lo7ov]

Betäubtes Faultier There's an article recently in fightersgeneration.com about a possible ETERNAL CHAMPIONS 2 game and it also has some early images of the game.

[@gr8gmr]

It's because of Virtua Fighter. Apparently, Sega doesn't think two fighting game series can coexist, or else, they'll be "competing" with each other.

[@sixtycargothefightinggameg569]

I always found that intro to be the best ever

[@GabrielaSilva-xk5yf]

Shadow has always been my favorite

[@andrewo.8581]

Mine too

[@MisterRON]

This games bosses are like KOF tier difficulty, jeez.

[@unorthdoxcleric6953]

What awesomeness is this.

[@IrishKeshiHead]

I gotta wonder if this could be brought back with this generation of gaming graphics.. it would be cool to see.

[@Donscottmusic]

This is the game that makes me regret selling my Sega CD years ago.

[@KStatus7]

Don't feel too bad, I actually threw mine away along with my 32X, talk about foolish decisions

[@alexander2685]

@@KStatus7 same

[@TheQuarterGuy]

17:20 later, and we finally start the game

[@Blkintrovert88]

I never could execute the finishing moves on here at all when i was young, XD

[@andrewo.8581]

Same

[@MrUserpick48]

Theres almost 20 straight minutes of boss.. wtf

[@KRGraphicsCG]

This game is among my favourite and not only that, it is known for its relentless AI... I miss this game

[@KennethMoreland]

Sega's Mortal Kombat. It could've been a worthy competitor if Sega didn't give up on it.

[@gr8gmr]

Or rather, didn't sabotage it just to push Virtua Fighter in the US market.

[@mikulustudios]

I remember playing this game on sega mega drive, i was very impressed by the graphic and very unique style of playing, i wish sega can remake it on ps4 or 5 or xbox or even on new sega console maybe one day.

[@BikerBenny]

Wow the level music BLOWS wasn't expecting that from the superior one to the regular genesis

[@YukoValis]

You don't show it much here, but I've not seen a game with so many characters. What you see at the start is only like 30% of the characters in this game.

[@RacerNight86]

Phenomenal storyline..

[@Gxyz222]

Text, text, and lots of TEXT! I think this game has more exposition and surplus information in it than the original MK trilogy combined! It's just too bad they couldn't put that much effort into the game itself(though they would have still been overshadowed).

[@NOTHlNG]

37:13 Midknight: "Just a sec, I got an email..." Shadow: "Nope!"

[@marshccinogaming9289]

Ngl, the soundtrack for this game is 🔥🔥

[@marcy419]

When I was young NOBODY could beat me in this game! I would have to lose on purpose so they would keep playing.

[@carloscoy6635]

Damn the characters didnt even change from the first one badass game

[@BLANCARF]

power doesn't corrupt absolutely it instead gives corrupted people power 14:33 (xavier)… wow

[@InitialDL84]

I always wanted to play this game, but couldn't afford a Sega CD when it was released. So I just played the original on Genesis to compensate 😅

[@EvilDogMedia]

I lol'd when I read how Shadow, a top assassin working for a crime syndicate, didn't bother going to the police after her boss tried to kill her.

[@abirtails9251]

0:34 Bowser from Mario

[@DOLLAMAC190]

Never knew this version existed.

[@dksilentbob]

That CGI animation didn't age well.

[@jow14281]

dksilentbob it is 16bit era..

[@fourker1667]

​@@jow14281 He is refering to the 3D animated cutscenes

[@Mateus_Carvalho]

Kind of a shame that there was a lot of effort all across the board, yet it's not exactly easy to play. Don't really fault SEGA for choosing to stick with Virtua Fighter but the lack of love for the franchise is a bit odd.

[@younginvent]

Man I said the same thing, if the mechanics were a bit better then could have had a dope franchise

[@ganjagun0025]

The Sega CD would've been great as a stand alone system. That's where they messed up with the Sega CD and the 32X imo.

[@josejuandelfin6372]

can sombody tell me how to make the music work on the emulator cuz i can see the mp3s in the folder but i dont hear a sound when it starts. thank you

[@julianjv7325]

The X-Perts, jajajaja

[@mrsmillyj]

my friends and I still fire this game up love it

[@wiglafsfilms8418]

Whoever is playing this, could've skipped the whole intro.

[@PetterNe]

Wtf? No? This game has the best storytelling out of all fighters - and you want them to ignore it?

[@gabrielmassa]

The game was good, but the final boss is an absurd. I could never beat he game, only with the chicken. To baf, because of that I sold my game copy. Had they just made a fair boss.

[@sonicthejetsetbeat7465]

The first Sega Genesis update that uses CD-Roms and actually tried to go 3-D and have vocals. & Then here comes the Sega Saturn!

[@sonicthejetsetbeat7465]

TheRepairOfPhanTomDarkSide DEATH! For sure Pal i understand XD thanks i will :D

[@sonicthejetsetbeat7465]

TheRepairOfPhanTomDarkSide DEATH! For sure :D

[@sonicthejetsetbeat7465]

For sure bro i will xD

[@sonicthejetsetbeat7465]

TheRepairOfPhanTomDarkSide DEATH! No worries i'll get to it when i have the chance Buddy! XD

[@sappyfoot]

shadow maintaining that stance proves she doesn’t live for good posture

[@bigloc3442]

I think the makers of killer instinct can bring this game back ! Ki was a great game for the xbox.. make this as an Xbox exclusive as well

[@postlex]

Awesome: all Yngwie and EBM. ❤️

[@derjahgalgion]

This final boss didnt aged well imo, when i was young i feel kinda boring and very stressed fighting him

[@jebraymer]

And I thought the last boss of Tech Romancer was bad.

[@superrobz]

Mortal Kombat called, they said they want their ideas back

[@sigurdtheblue]

+Rob Picken Where is the similarity to Mortal Kombat???

[@docthefaust4519]

@@sigurdtheblue Didn't you know? Midway owns the concept of death XD

[@MexicanSithMaster]

super long intro and scroll text lol

[@asmodeus58XX]

I wonder if ScrewAttack knows this game. If they do, they need to do Midknight VS Dio for their next battle.

[@bgasman]

Man, The intro is kinda long! But how many characters on this game?

[@duce1312]

That Ramses III fight was intense

[@jb-3033]

Do you have any of the unlockable characters since I can't find their bios on KZbin or anywhere else

[@gustavochavarria8161]

I'll be planning to do so since I've been thinking abour it since no one was able to do so. I just need to find a way to reinstall the Sega CD thing somehow.

[@gustavochavarria8161]

Your long awaited wish is finally granted.

[@bonniethewolf7752]

This i'ts like a good mix of MK and SF. :D

[@vinnyhaddad]

This sequel was incredible, the only thing that was better in the original was the music.

[@nicolasherah8258]

Juegazooo

[@mauriciobarbosa3492]

Sega CD é ótimo, pena que a maioria dos bons títulos a Sega sepultou sem novas continuações!

[@dathardscopetho2459]

came here for deep water

[@shaneabbott.]

The logo looked like it had graphics from 1996 or 1998

[@markthompson5918]

Xavier was always my favourite

[@TwesomE]

Nice game but it kinda sounds empty because of the absence of voices,at least the typical ones.It is probably because they put in the cd the music.

[@Rocket1377]

Nope, the Genesis version was the same way. Hardly any voices, just music and impact sounds.

[@MujahbarrukaHunter]

The intro was long! For a minute there, I insinuated the worst

[@RobertBatchelor]

Shadow's outfit from the original is way better.

[@gr8gmr]

I like both of them.

[@yeoedwin1619]

Hopefully Sega remake this game, just like Mortal Kombat reboot.

[@KenMasters.]

Too bad we got Virtua Fighter.

[@Rocket1377]

Virtua Fighter is way better than this. Sega basically invented the 3D fighting game.

[@lioneart19]

A great improvement over the original game but I still prefer the original's soundtrack over this new one. Sad that Sega killed this franchise.

[@gabrieljuniors6405]

Me llama la atención este juego che ..veamos que potencial tenia ..luego daré mi opinion

[@andrewvanhalen1984]

This could've been a good pitch for a movie.

[@victor-vyt]

Wow what a prediction, seems like a movie about this game will be made

[@yandman26]

The game looks good and plays well enough but it's just too cheap, I cannot get anywhere with it, obviously others have but I just don't feel inclined to continue.

[@son_60han]

wizard doing shoryuken !? i have enough of this shit !

[@daishonclary2001]

That was eight times to defeat Eternal. It’s Really Very Hard

[@NintendoPsycho]

Music was better in the original.

[@humbertoserra6251]

Uma pena que essa continuação não melhorou o principal defeito que era da versão do Mega Drive que é as mecânicas do game e sua dificuldade altíssima! Se tivessem corrigido isso o jogo seria top demais!

[@lapesmattie6329]

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[@darkziik]

One hour of inexistent ia and no finishing moves. Bad job my friend