Nosferatu (SNES) - Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN)

[@JamesNintendoNerd]

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[@TheRealLifeSonicTheHedgehog]

I love you 💖 you inspired me to become a game developer I make sonic games I made a castlevania 2 game with dracula in it for you

[@Returnofthecrown]

Perfect timeing thanks

[@BigBossZUCO]

Hey, James. You should do Clock Tower the next year with the upcoming remaster this month. It was an SNES game that didn't release outside of Japan back in the day but it's a classic that took inspiration of Phenomena (1985).

[@ONEMOREMOSHPIT]

I needed this today. Thanks, James!

[@rickmartinez3268]

​@ONEMOREMOSHPIT please review the Smurfs game

[@NintendoComplete]

Funny thing about the game over screen is that it changes once you've died eight times. If she has fangs like she did on the screen you showed, you're too late to save her and you'll get the bad ending. Before that she'll look like she does on the option screen.

[@goldmemberpb]

So, the game wants you to beat it before you die 8 times with the controls that janky?

[@Med1umentor]

And here i was wondering, if her fangs on the photo have some meaning, since huge pixels are quite noticeable

[@jimb.7523]

Isn't this similar to Splatterhouse (2 or 3, I forget which one...)? Where you have to save the g/f before something or other happens to her?

[@SleepyMook]

⁠@@jimb.7523it was Splatterhouse 3 if I remember correctly where your wife and kid can die depending on how fast you play the game

[@Saberfang86]

That's brutal

[@Bernandez4139]

You know, if I were Dracula looking down from the castle, and I saw this guy barefist brawl a werewolf with a knife, I would probably decid it's easier to just find another woman.

[@PrototypeSpaceMonkey]

Plot twist: Dracula never wanted the guy's girlfriend. After hundreds of years of immortality he just wanted to bare knuckle fight a worthy adversary to the death.

[@favoritemustard3542]

A worried boredom while slightly intrigued by his insanity. Dude looks like he's ripped straight from Streets of Rage!

[@dilligaf1009]

This is the only hope for our planet. Please don't run, its the only way into heaven

[@MattPurvis-gt3ww]

How do you "barefist brawl a werewolf" if you have a knife?

[@PrototypeSpaceMonkey]

@@MattPurvis-gt3ww No, the werewolf had a knife.

[@SomeOrangeCat]

Simon Belmot: Yes, I'll need this sacred whip, holy water, knives, axes and this cross that flies like a boomerang. The guy in this game: Catch these hands, son!

[@GeebusCrust]

"Run them hands, boyee"

[@XSAGA87]

​@GeebusCrust Yo diggin the Serge photo. One of the greatest RPG's ever made.

[@GeebusCrust]

@XSAGA87 only real ones don't get hung up on comparing it to its predecessor

[@MAGOnimbus]

in fact he carries his two weapons: knuckles and kicks

[@arohk4415]

ZEMENTFÄUSTE!

[@TheKrossRoads]

Imagine you're Dracula. You kidnap a girl, take her back to your castle, and look out to see her boyfriend riding up to your gates completely unarmed. You pre-emptively celebrate while siccing your army of minions on the helpless fool. Then you witness him beat the tar out of all of them with his bare hands. Then when he gets to you, and the boss music starts, his HP bar is bigger. It is at that moment that you come to a realization: you are not the final boss. He is.

[@nightsong81]

Wait... this isn't my music...

[@schwarzerritter5724]

This is how it must be like to be a vampire in Buffy.

[@BastetFurry]

Maybe the protagonist is somehow related to the slayer. 😅

[@barbedwirefire]

🤯

[@TheRezro]

There is definitive lack of games where you play as the monster. Yes. They happen sometimes, but I feel there should be more.

[@cecilbdemented]

Can you imagine dracula’s minions coming to him to explain how a random dude came into their castle- no weapons, no backup- and just started handing out Ls left and right

[@skyrunner14]

Now, to be totally fair: Seta didn't actually make Wizard of Oz, they only published it. That one was made by a dev called Manley and Associates. Nosferatu, however, was both developed and published by Seta themselves.

[@RagingCookie127]

It seems like a really poor choice to have a game company with one letter difference from one of the biggest gaming companies.

[@toastergaming7783]

The 3 men you should never mess with: 1) Chuck Norris 2) Bruce Lee's relative "Chin" 3) the guy from Nosferatu

[@mariic2]

You forgot about Noah.

[@jimb.7523]

4) Fred Fuchs

[@ClintEastree]

4) the evil barber who won't cut off that combover

[@roninja6929]

4) That guy from They Live

[@oculttheexegaming2509]

5) The Most Interesting Man In The World.

[@TheShy1000]

I find it sad that the Nerd did not finished the game to see the ending, because: If you die too often, and according to him you WILL die too often, the girlfried on the picture in the game over screen will develop fangs, and then the game ends with the boyfriend comming too late, and the girlfriend is now a vampire. Spooky!

[@Thrifty032781]

She had fangs in the game over screens he showed.

[@jeremycarnes1656]

Whoa whoa whoa, we can only handle so m7ch spookiness around here,buddy.

[@realamericannegro977]

It looks like she has fangs in the game over screen anyway.

[@HyperVanilo]

Hmmm, I love me some girlfried

[@TheBlueprintsOrlando]

@@HyperVanilo😂

[@Dragorosso95]

7:32 He completely missed the fact that the girl has vampire fangs because if you die too many times she gets turned

[@geraq0]

One thing the developers really nailed down is the aesthetics, boss backgrounds specially look absolutely gorgeous. I really wanted to like this game but I went through the three phases over and over again until I gave up.

[@JoelUriarte-bj1jb]

The presentation is solid

[@kyrridas1573]

in defense of the game over screen, it has a sense of melancholy. the story is that the dude is going to rescue his girlfriend from dracu...nosferatu. but you died and she was never saved. so now all thats left of either of you is the last photo you took together. maybe it would've been more obvious if the photo was attached to a "missing" sign or something. but anyway, i actually really like it.

[@1Hol1Tiger]

And it has a hidden bonus secret, die 8 times and fangs appear in the photo.

[@DSan-kl2yc]

I liked it. I think it works. Reminds me of splatter house.

[@Kevmaster2000]

Hate to be “that guy”, but Dracula is not Nosferatu, he’s Orlok. Nosferatu I think is meant to mean vampire.

[@Enceladeans]

@@Kevmaster2000 I read the manual out of curiosity, and in this game the vampire's name is indeed Nosferatu.

[@EmeraldEyesEsoteric]

Actually the game over screen is scary for a different reason. Her Teeth are Hidious! If I had a girlfriend with a mouth like that, I don't think I would barefist my way through hordes of undead to save her.

[@conorjohn490]

16:37 I do love a game that locks you in a knockback animation and has the gall to pan the camera for your entire 10-story fall.

[@TakeTheWorld21]

It wouldn’t be October without a yearly Halloween AVGN episode

[@daniellion5291]

And Monster Madness!

[@heyitzphil]

It definitly would still be october tbh

[@markinscotland]

@@heyitzphil 😆😆

[@pyroflare7774]

​@@heyitzphilok non fan

[@PolymerJones]

Miss when these made me laugh or at least chuckle

[@solidskullz5736]

Incredibly fitting how he drops an episode about a vampire game at 11pm in October. Not just Halloween season, but it’s already nice and dark out, perfect for a vampire

[@kingbaby8761]

10pm for me, but close enough

[@slipknotliveshows]

​​@@kingbaby8761Not everybody has the same timezone

[@evanberry396]

@@slipknotliveshows10pm for me too, I don’t see the problem

[@MASTEROFEVIL]

8:39 PM for me

[@adrianjimenez2766]

8:41 for me

[@Tor-Erik]

"Deh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh-eh!" 🎶 - The theme of Nosferatu, the SNES game.

[@michaelharrison5725]

*Oh man he's going to get the bad ending, he's going to get the bad ending, he's highlighting the photograph he's going to get the bad ending!* .......... you blue-balled me, nerd.

[@mellotron12]

The Nerd singing along to the music with complete disapproval and disgust ... now one of my favorite moments.

[@megatronjenkins2473]

Oh, I lol'd!!!

[@sternonisoil]

I knew exactly how he felt because I've done the same thing so many times 😅

[@megatronjenkins2473]

@@sternonisoil so say we all🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@fr801]

@@sternonisoil so. many. times.

[@HPLovesCraftsCat]

😂😂

[@_Vengeance_]

Imagine being this version of Nosferatu: you have weapon upgrades hidden all in your castle in expectation of the human you expect to arrive armed to improve his arsenal. Only for this madlad to arrive unarmed, never even see any of the weapons as if they don't exist, and then when he finally makes it to you, you expect your boss music to play only to hear a completely different music being played while seeing the guy has more health crystals than you do. Clearly, the bad controls are not an oversight, they are a design choice to give Nosferatu somewhat of a chance against that human.

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

_"If that was you on the phone, and you on the bus, then who was flickering the lights?"_ *~ Squidward Tentacles*

[@toainsully]

Nosferatu: *Flickers with the lights*

[@MetallicStar6]

All: Nosferatu.

[@devanshouse5027]

The only reason why most people today even know about Nosferatu... lol

[@timong6101]

@@MetallicStar6 Nosferatu: :)

[@rebootmania7164]

That’s Tennisballs! I mean Tentacles!

[@SirGriefALot]

I think that Game Over picture from 1990 means you didn't save the girl and she got turned into a Vampire that's still alive 100 years later.

[@Vespyr_]

It's a memory, mocking you.. you failed, you made a promise to save her... you promised...

[@SakuraAvalon]

I kind of doubt it. One, their names(Kyle and Errin) are a lot more modern. And two, his clothes scream 1980's/90's. But you are right, it's to let you know you died too many times, so you get the bad ending.

[@Curlyheart]

​@@Vespyr_dramatic much?

[@HSC19846]

Perfect explanation

[@ianswift3521]

@@Curlyheart I mean that's what the OP said...

[@TRDiscordian]

WKUK censored all their remastered content. It's really refreshing having your uncensored style still bless us. Unbelievable how long you've been doing this James!

[@Foxhoundcharlie]

As a romanian myself, I never thought of that. 'Nosferatu' is derived from the romanian word 'nesuferit, nesuferitul(articulated)' (insufferable person).Huh

[@federicoboyer1633]

nosferat

[@TuskActD4C]

nosefart

[@federicoboyer1633]

@@TuskActD4C , 😊

[@failedstates5315]

My son(11) and i have been watching AVGN for 5 years. Yes, he was 6 when he started watched this foul mouthed SOAB! LOL. Every Friday we pick up and XL cheese pizza and watch AVGN. It's our thing and we re-watch old ones when new ones aren't available. It's our weekly tradition and the highlight of our week/month. We appreciate what you do Nerd. Love your videos dude.

[@user-fc6hn8ph7i]

Sounds beautiful! You’re giving your son an awesome childhood!

[@dettloff7]

An XL cheese pizza and AVGN...Bro'ing it up with ur son. Niiiiiiiiice 👍

[@SmugSuspenders]

That's beautiful 😇

[@rodrigozauli6573]

I used to do it with my son too, back in early episodes. But now he is a grown man occupied with his girl and business... but thats ok, maybe with my grandson some day.

[@Chamomileable]

The apes are likely a reference to Edgar Allan Poe's Murders In The Rue Morgue.

[@alfredo2404]

But in that story there was only one ape. Why two? I guess two apes are better than one.

[@RextheDragon881]

Deep cut, nice

[@hardtymz2517]

Apes didn’t exist then.

[@ericpozarycki6601]

Nerd

[@RextheDragon881]

@@ericpozarycki6601 is that an insult or a compliment in the community?

[@Ihartwalrusguy]

3:00 for a digitized scream that was scary

[@Sky_Sovereign]

Idk why but it reminded me of Clock Tower

[@gluttonousmaximus9048]

Seems to be a stock woman scream sound effect too. Nostalgia Critic used it a few times.

[@kbottrill1]

Was looking for someone to point this out

[@xTheGregx]

​@@Sky_SovereignClock Towel

[@TomTokyoYugi]

​@@Sky_Sovereign I heard of Clock Tower the only game released on the Super Famicom system and the only game was released only in Japan! 🇯🇵🗾

[@deadcaliph6414]

I think having a benign photograph as a game over or victory screen amps up the creep factor, House of the Dead has the same concept with photo of the research team you're supposed to rescue, and even that changes when you're getting the bad ending.

[@oneearrabbit]

With the game over screen maybe it’s just the limited graphics, but it looks like the girlfriend has fangs. Like Dracula turned your girlfriend into a vampire and dude didn’t notice until she decides to take a bite out of him. I could be wrong but at least that would give the game over screen a little more gravitas.

[@jonathanrobles7377]

Whoisthisgit made a video on this game citing that detail. Basically if you die too many times, she has the fangs and bites you in the last cutscenes of the game, earning you the bad ending. But if you can beat the game below a death threshold, she won't have the fangs

[@Animalover205]

Basically what they said

[@jamescasson9483]

I'm to understand that's the case, depending on how many tries it takes to beat the game. If you beat the game sooner, I think she's remains normal. At least according to a video I saw about the ending

[@RomanKnights3000]

That's what actually happens in the bad ending, in the Japanese version. If you continue 8 times before beating the game, she gets turned, then bites you.

[@teetea7734]

@@jonathanrobles7377 That's honestly a really cool feature! And knowing myself and a few other gamers, we'd be too stubborn to give up until we got both endings. It's not determination though, it'd be pure spite that fueled us.

[@VindexImperiusO9A]

There is a perfectly valid reason to punch Demons in DooM: *BERSERK*

[@0neDoomedSpaceMarine]

Punching an Imp so hard that his body explodes! More games need violent super punches.

[@5torieTyme]

@@0neDoomedSpaceMarine Throw Brutal DooM on top of that and it's exhilarating.

[@Xarfax321]

HAIIIYAY FOOORCES!!

[@0neDoomedSpaceMarine]

@@Xarfax321 Those approaches are also viable, though Guts mostly used various huge swords, then crossbows and occasionally a small cannon (and it was all really awesome).

[@DMiTree]

As soon as he said you only punch because you ran out of ammo, I started thinking of the hardest game mode and how you punch in order to conserve ammo because it's scarce.

[@tmwk__]

That final fight with Dracula. You should, at the very least, be able to hit him with a shoryuken or hadouken!

[@ghostwaterjones5187]

When he started singing the game music, I lost it 🤣

[@Tranceplant82]

More "barking" the theme lol

[@vonbluhm7201]

Lol his barking is more melodic than the original tune somehow...

[@emovybez_]

i didnt think it was funny, but i understand his frustration. weird

[@thousandyoung]

That's why the Nerd Character cracks me up.

[@romarqable]

Late Night with the Nerd. Nice.

[@RextheDragon881]

Got it a night late, but still, nice

[@dolanSWEG]

Dolan pls

[@romarqable]

@@dolanSWEG slp naloD

[@HEAVY_IS_THE_METAL]

James, you are a true gem. We love you dude🤘

[@Skullduggerydodo]

It's the guy from nightmare on elm street on the NES , he went around punching everything. He killed Freddy now is Dracula

[@OolalaFive]

I'll always love that James calls fighting games "tournament fighters."

[@Rob_Thorsman]

Makes sense. Final Fight and Street Fighter are both fighting games, but only SF is a tournament fighter.

[@ABitMoreJordan]

@@Rob_Thorsman Final Fight is a beat em up, Street Fighter is a fighting game

[@Rob_Thorsman]

@@ABitMoreJordan Still, you could call them both "fighting games."

[@Dargonhuman]

@@Rob_Thorsman Why would you though? That just generates confusion. Imagine if Doom and Centipede were both just "shooting games". Clearly they're nothing like each other, just as Final Fight and Street Fighter are nothing like each other, hence why one is a beat em up (because you beat up multiple people at once) and the other is a tournament fighter (because you fight opponents in a tournament setting).

[@nicholascooney]

Back in the day, the term "fighting games" referred to both games like Street Fighter AND Final Fight. To differentiate, we used to call them Tournament Fighters (Street Fighter) and Brawler Fighters/Brawlers (Final Fight). I still do.

[@GymnasticsCoach83]

"Where we're going , we don't need weapons." -Nosferatu Guy.

[@HaroldoPinheiro-OK]

"You must be the Belmont..." - Dracula

[@MoonlightXYZ]

4:46 RIP Fred Fuchs (Gottfried)

[@Cyberbrickmaster1986]

I can't help but wonder who was the real Fred Fuchs that worked on Bram Stoker's Dracula: The Game?

[@Mr.Classic91]

Fred sure does

[@Smarties.]

​@@Cyberbrickmaster1986He's a movie producer who worked on the 1995 dracula movie along with a bunch of other notable movies his Wikipedia page mentions AVGN lol

[@antster1983]

​@@Smarties.He also worked on the children's anthology series _Faerie Tale Theatre_ with the late Shelley Duvall before hooking up with Coppola.

[@AzureSymbiote]

He passed away?

[@AYJAYKENS]

AVGN: "How many times do we have to tell you this, old man!?" Nosferatu: "Oh, I'm sorry; I'm not in control of my actions~!"

[@PusoSkateCo]

My Family Name is Fuchs too, simply means Fox in German. Always cracks me up when you can't fathom that name :D

[@SmugSuspenders]

For Fuchs sake! 😃

[@Ecua73]

When you realize what’s actually happening in the gameover screen it becomes a whole different level of creepy.

[@KamyKam]

I found it creepy just looking at it, especially the music. But what's going on exactly?

[@Ecua73]

@@KamyKam It’s an incredibly small detail but once you die 8 times the girl in the picture will have her mouth changed from normal to having fangs, meaning she was bitten by Dracula offscreen and even if you reach the end she will bite you and cause you to reach the bad ending.

[@TheStormMage]

@@Ecua73 Would the girl be even visible on the photo?

[@vincentchang0093]

​@@Ecua73it probably just bad drawing, right?(Shaking)

[@donmcron3334]

@@Ecua73I thought I saw fangs

[@KBXband]

I love that James is still making episodes. Always entertaining!

[@lu.cicerone.cavalheiro]

Guy riding a horse in 1990 makes some sort of sense. Maybe castle is in a remote place where gas stations aren't common, and, although he is more than willing punching Nosferatu into ashes, he isn't willing pulling a car without fuel around.

[@SerAvaros]

There’s a thing called gas tanks. Dude could’ve just stockpiled some in preparation for this whole rescue, but maybe the road to drac’s castle is unpaved, uneven terrain, so perhaps a horse still makes some sense to a degree.

[@TheManOnTheHill]

Graphically speaking this game is a masterpiece for the SNES

[@bergfruehling]

Maybe if it wasn't all copper and brass colored.

[@akhandtripathipyz9888]

​@@bergfruehling Yes the colours are bad

[@HellsAsylum]

I remember learning about this game in an AVGN video and now so many years later, here we are.

[@kevle007]

Thank you James. For the last 18 years you haven't missed a Halloween or Christmas, while also always doing Monster Madness on some level on top of other projects and its a tradition that I have never taken for granted. The Original, the Godfather of KZbin and my favorite content creator. Here's to hopefully many more years to come! Again I wanted to say thank you sir!

[@Rusty-METAL-J]

I love the silent film ending. I haven't seen but a small portrayal of what they were like.

[@MarioTheLiopleurodon]

Watch them if you're interested. Most of them are so old that they're public domain and can be watched on almost any website, you can find them super easily. I'd suggest the original Nosferatu movie.

[@mikcnmvedmsfonoteka]

@@MarioTheLiopleurodon Nosferatu, Metropolis, King Kong, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton movies, Battleship Potemkin, The Lodger, The Thief of Bagdad and many many more

[@Tronathon242]

You can find most of the great silent classics on KZbin.

[@xliquidflames]

Even the game named Shatterhand - where the point of the game is that your character punches everything - has weapons. You can get a robot that follows you and has lasers and saw blades that it shoots. It's called Shatterhand! It's a punch-everything game. It has weapons! But not this? You don't even get a crossbow or something? That is so strange.

[@Rhomega]

Shatterhand is also a slightly altered version of Tokkyu Shirei Solbrain, a game based on a Tokusatsu series similar to Power Rangers.

[@MattSayYay]

Isn’t that the one with the bad cover art?

[@cepininja1927]

Shatterhands is a classic.

[@fernandoleonelalba220]

​@@MattSayYayYes, the cover art is the only bad thing about it

[@samamies88]

In shatterhand the main guys fist is also a weapon. It seems part metallic on cover AND you can hit bullets to make them disappear. Let me repeat: YOU ARE PUNCHING BULLETS! He didn't just use weapons. He IS a weapon

[@Odious_One]

Did this guy have NO friends? Even an acquaintence to say "Hey, at least take a stick or something with you" Nope, this dude just DECIDES to go "handle" Castlevania with just his "Dukes". Now THAT is SNES-foratu levels of BADASSERY!

[@taragnor]

I imagine someone did tell him about the wooden stake and his comeback was "What if I just rip his heart out with my bare hands?"

[@Odious_One]

@@taragnor Close but I think THIS character would just punch the heart right out of him, lol.

[@MMscrapshop]

his friend was probbaly jackyl who told him sticks are useless

[@aurthurpendragon1015]

Nothing beats a new Nerd episode.

[@jesickaaddams7199]

What about 2 new nerd episodes? 😮

[@aurthurpendragon1015]

@@jesickaaddams7199 Has such a fabled thing ever happened before!? 😉😉

[@videostash413]

except an old nerd episode

[@Justforvisit]

Except the dude from this game, he seemingly beats everything

[@therunawaykid6523]

I was still surprised tbh that he is still doing new ones

[@fatyoshirules]

earliest i've ever been to an avgn video

[@Vaquix000]

Same

[@kbhalacy]

Same man same

[@Pilotvoodoo1]

yeaa

[@JamesTheGam3]

Yep!

[@RemoWilliams1227]

Grats bruv

[@KamenRiderSeiryuXV0]

Nosferatu. A bad had no weapons, no holy water, and no garlic or onions. Just bare fists? Which reminds me about Double Dragon or Vampire Saviour in FIGHTING GAME!

[@abduljabars]

7:03 is it just me or does his girlfriend in the photo look like a vampire herself? I think the real plot is she got sick of dating a human and left him for Nosferatu. Now he has a bloodlust for vampires.

[@sunshinegamer1981]

It's not just you. She gets turned if you take too long to save her, or if you die too many times (I think) and the game over picture reflects that. So if she's got fangs in the picture, prepare for the bad ending. 😅 It's very Prince of Persia in that way, too.

[@sunshinegamer1981]

@@abduljabars Oh, sidenote to my response above; if you want to see the bad ending to this, check out WhoIsThisGit. He covers a bunch of gaming stuff, especially bad endings for games, and he has a video on the bad ending for Nosferatu.

[@TimBitten]

@@sunshinegamer1981god, imagine actually managing to beat this game and then getting the BAD ENDING 😂

[@sunshinegamer1981]

@@TimBitten Honestly, I felt the same way about the original Prince of Persia game. 😆 And that one is just as hard as Nosferatu, imo.

[@leandrodevilsummoner]

​@@TimBittenAnd detail that the person has to finish the game on difficult mode to see the true ending of the game. And without dying 8 times...

[@thesaferoom6968]

Fantastic. the Phases of Angry Gaming are sooo trueeee, and this was a classic episode all around

[@TPD]

thanks for still entertaining us after so many years, james

[@bickman2k]

8:40 "... then press down and Y." More like press down and WHY!!!!!

[@rbfowler79]

Thanks!

[@peace9272]

"Nosferaaatuu......" - Spongebob & Squidward & Richard

[@thewindthatblows]

:)

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

*Correction:* Spongebob, Squidward, and Richard/Incidental 189

[@Turbos-b3z]

*light flicks off with static*

[@barneyjuniorYT]

Do you have references?

[@TomTokyoYugi]

I love the when Nosferatu smiled in the end and then turned off the light, funny and hilarious classic moments ever with the slime in my face! 😊😂❤

[@Dopeymanthing]

Yoooo this guy's still going after all these years???? What an absolute legend!

[@Apanblod]

You realised this now? 🤨

[@johangomez8122]

I remembered watching this game being played as a challenge in the japanese show: Game center CX , and it took two episodes for chief Arino, the host of the show to complete it using the stage selection code, and by two episodes it means almost two whole days, as for each game challenge he has a day from morning till midnight to complete it.

[@jamesmoss3424]

I remember playing Nosferatu on the SNES when I was a kid it's a very hard game to beat.

[@ScottPiwinski]

I never even heard of it

[@supermariof0521]

Now I'm imagining Nosferatu going up against the Hash Slinging Slasher.

[@Giantcrabz]

I was having a really rough week of depression and this video made me laugh out loud. Thanks AVGN. The three phases were so funny

[@TomNoles007]

Sorry to hear that mate, I hope things improve and you have a great end to the year - and remember, be kind to yourself! 😊

[@Giantcrabz]

​@@TomNoles007 thanks Tom

[@Survivinglife871]

​@@TomNoles007just ask him out on a date already

[@healthsword9888]

17:24-17:44 Stardust Crusaders. Excellent video from AVGN.

[@shenloken2]

Only nobody in the game is a Stand User.

[@0neDoomedSpaceMarine]

I got to thinking primarily about Phantom Blood, because Jonathan mostly does unarmed combat (even if charging his strikes with hamon). Joseph uses various weapons comparatively often in Battle Tendency, and in Stardust Crusaders almost everyone is using stands, which are sometimes basically weapons.

Nah, It's Jonathan vs DIO! Part 1. WRYYYYYYYYYYY!!!

[@Imaculata]

The silhouette of the Nerd on the wall made me laugh out loud. XD

[@michaeltansey4717]

It did???

[@DerFilc]

​@@michaeltansey4717 It's a reference to some iconic shots of the original movie. You can laugh at worse things.

[@TECH097]

Honestly you could just call this game Evil Dead because this guy is equally a punching bag and a badass with how many Ls and Ws he takes during the whole run. The only thing out of place is Ash fighting Dracula but, he fought Skeletons in Medeival times is DRACULA really that far off???

[@pinoytrash]

Jesus lord, that game over screen is depressingly terrifying.

[@musicians_with_gunts]

Go and get laid then

[@Apanblod]

Very uncanny valley 😨

[@CuteRedPanda64]

😰😰😰😰😰😰

[@thegamingprozone1941]

Very Creepy as well

[@shortbus1127]

Avgn for before bedtime. Legendary

[@PataStonks]

I love the silent movie card scene at the end, truly felt like watching Nosferatu

[@Hexxecutioner]

Confusion..... Chance... ..Fatigue......you just described my feelings trying to play Soulslike and Roguelite games.

[@AthanasiosJapan]

In Soulslike games, you have the online option to ask for help. Difficulty radically drops when other people join and help you.

[@daniellion5291]

7:45 The girl in the photo has fangs in the game over screen. Sort of implying Dracula got to her like Mina in the book.

[@Doommaster1994]

I've read she gets fangs if you die too many times, and this will also affect the ending.

[@jessiehogue.]

That being said, Mina survived in the end. The same cannot be said about her friend Lucy Westenra, however.

[@Vercalos]

Guy riding a horse to the castle in the 90s can be rationalized as it being offroad and no way to get a car there.

[@ilovededede]

I kinda wish there was a gag where Nosferatu (or someone else) was flickering the basement lights on and off.

[@joeybel]

[cracks a rolling rock]

[@nekohybrid7610]

A full-powered combo can deal out 75% of a crystal, so two combos takes off a crystal and a half. Of course the challenge is to get to the last boss with 9 crystals. I believe there’s also a cheat to get fully loaded on crystals like the stage select cheat.

[@handsomeblackman255]

No mutant, no weapons, just bad assery.

[@gaiusn9961]

7:55 Does she have fangs?

[@olartio2185]

Yea that's what I thought too.

[@UltimaKeyMaster]

She does if you Continue 8 times before you beat the game, at which point she's been turned. She bites you to turn you at the end if you keep going and finish the game without completely starting over (or presumably starting with the level select which I assume starts from 0 continues).

[@lu.cicerone.cavalheiro]

Yes, she does.

[@MountainLWolf]

​@@UltimaKeyMaster. That is awesome!

[@TomTokyoYugi]

​@@MountainLWolfThis is very awesome indeed!

[@chadhowell417]

You're the best. Thank you for making these.

[@ProphetWing]

13:40 . . . What.

[@Giantcrabz]

hot

[@IsaacKuo]

5:45 "To just go up to that thing and punch it?" "You must be the Belmont." (Castlevania Netflix)

[@VGPreserve]

Dude killing Dracula with his bare hands is wild. 😂😂😂

[@omegamaximus1727]

I felt the same the way releasing the Nosferatu 2024 Movie on Christmas 🎄 ? What ? 2:15

[@trustno173]

Sometimes studios will release their big important movies at Christmas essentially to keep them fresh in the mind for award season.

[@ThatOneDude219]

The original Scream released on December 20th 1996

[@megatronjenkins2473]

MERRY CHRISTMAS, HORROR FANS!!!!

[@anubusx]

Funny how Willem Dafoe played Nosferatu.

[@Games_and_Music]

It's because girls will drag their dates out to these kind of movies.

[@behindthescenesphotos5133]

And Wolf Man isn't coming out until January... is there some misguided belief people don't want to see horror movies in October?

[@agentorangegaming4643]

Crazy you mention that I was just going to watch the 2012 version bc I never have

[@FezFindie]

"That would have been too obvious because blaah blaah blaah smartypants reasoning"

[@kamdan2011]

Box office returns speak for themselves when it comes to horror movies released in October.

[@OriginalMasters]

‘Funky music death montage’ brought joy to my heart.

[@clarktooncrossing3975]

Okay, I was wondering about the Christmas release date too! What an odd date to release a monster movie like Nosferatu!

[@disappointeddaily6344]

So close to Halloween i was getting worried there was no special 😅

[@narindraramdial8318]

Idk why but I love the premise of some dude just pulling up to THE Count Dracula's castle and throwing hands with everything in there even telling the Count himself to square up lol

[@amharbinger]

The futon is back

[@GamingDreamer]

18:00 female vampires don't have weakness

[@littlelittendoeseverything2169]

don't forget Nosferatu is also in Spongebob, that is also the only way I knew about him till now.

[@aidanredding8058]

Don't you just love it when you're rewatching some old Halloween Nerd episodes and then a new one comes out instantly after. Because I sure do.

[@industrialillusionist1305]

For anyone wondering why Nosferatu (2024) releases on Christmas, I have a theory. The original Nosferatu film was partially created by Albin Grau, who was a member of the Fraternitas Saturni (The Brotherhood of Saturn). This German occult order revered Saturn as an important magickal philosophy.... so having Nosferatu (2024) release on Saturnalia makes much more sense than it seems

[@underlightmusic]

Whoa deep cut!

[@ZeitgeistOmega]

Very interesting theory

[@Joey_D_Rowe]

Great episode, Nerd! Loved it! But one thing...BRING BACK THE KYLE JUSTIN VERSION OF YOUR SONG!

[@fwobebe5164]

I like that in both AVGN and James and Mike Mondays, they go from loving the game to hating it at the end. XD

[@Gamerhenky]

Fun fact that the game's cover art was drawn by Jun Suemi known for drawing artworks on Wizardry games, specifically the earlier console ports and even the recent Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord remake (though only did the special keyart but least credited as special thanks).

[@JKZEROkenjiMB]

My favourite artist 👍

[@ElSandwich777]

I can’t get the image out of my head of Dracula looking out over his castle grounds with a goblet of wine. Suddenly there’s this inhuman roar as John Wickham charges up the path spear tackles some poor zombie clean through the door sending splintered wood and metal everywhere. Unrelated but this dude 9:14 looks like Dozer from Timesplitters 3

[@hayden7525]

Nosferatu is my favorite silent film.

[@musicians_with_gunts]

Watch The Passion of Joan of Arc and Haxen.

[@videostash413]

i see.

[@RabbitShirak]

Mine is Metropolis

[@VaderPopsVicodin10]

Anything from Chaplin for me. "The Kid", "Modern Times", "The Gold Rush", "City Lights" ..Murnau's Nosferatu is classic too, though.

[@gilbert1975nf]

7:32 - Well... I suppose horses still exist in 1990!

[@fabstv3968]

He's wearing a hoodie!! 😂

[@theghostranger19]

Love ya James we ain’t letting them cancel you 💪

[@NateButlerFresnoCA]

Your B&W ending to this video is friggin' brilliant!

[@BladedEdge]

I heard of this from the Nintendo Power article on it, and nowhere else. Nobody else has ever spoken of this game to me, until AVGN suddenly dropped this vid