Pulseman Review - Quickies Don't Cut It

[@SuperPiposaru]

I remember when Tembo the Badass Elephant was announced so many people were angry at Game Freak for "betraying" Nintendo, while all I could think was "Give us another Pulseman instead!".

[@RetropolisZone]

+SuperPiposaru It would certainly have been interesting to see the full potential of this character unlocked, but I doubt we'll ever see the day, sadly.

[@BigBossMan538]

+Retropolis Zone He'll live on through Rotom and Pikachu.

[@koopakape]

"I'd never listen to Pokemon compositions outside of the game" -- I could understand this if you only played the oldest entries, but I swear from generation 4 onward there is a plethora of truly good music in those games, and so few people seem to even know this (they either don't play Pokemon anymore or don't listen to its music when they do play). I swear I'm not crazy! And speaking of, it's pretty fascinating that one of the most epilectic-insensitive games out there is made by the guys who made Pokemon - of course Game Freak had nothing to do with the anime as far as I know but we all remember the big seizure event from Japan in the late 90s.

[@glaucosimoes9450]

I don't know why Retropolis Zone only has around 2,000 subs still, your content is so amazing and useful! you deserve much more for your effort!

[@RetropolisZone]

Thanks man! Who knows, we may eventually see this channel growing! :)

[@glaucosimoes9450]

Yeah! Good luck!

[@BladeBlur]

by this point he is close to 5k :)

[@lssjgaming1599]

Portions of Neo Tokyo’s theme are used in Barry’s theme in Pokémon diamond and pearl and platinum

[@Alanzice]

Wanna take a look in a game with even more seizure inducing backgrounds? Tempo, for the 32X. Man, what a trip! Great review, as always.

[@RetropolisZone]

+KamatsuKyoto Never heard of it, but looking up pictures, I can kinda see where you're coming from, haha. Anyway, thanks!

[@Alanzice]

+Retropolis Zone I think Tempo would be a great game to become a review in your channel. It is a very beautiful and unique game, and it's a 32X exclusive. Not the best game in the world, but it is good overall. It's a little gaming oddity worth checking.

[@zipzap8302]

Pulseman & Megaman Starforce crossovveeeerRr????

[@TurtleTitan03]

Holy hell, I was just thinking of that watching this video. I'd buy it.

[@ExoParadigmGamer]

Good review, and this looks like a neat game. Ethan convinced me to download this one on my Wii U, but I've just never got to it. Anyways, you mentioned that this game has elements from Pokemon in it, but didn't really specify what those elements were besides the musical style. Is it just the whole idea of organic beings getting digitized into computer space like the Pokemon PCs?

[@RetropolisZone]

+ExoParadigmGamer Oh god, my earliest days of doing KZbin. Noooo. Anyway, character/enemy designs, music, the whole electricity theme, the presentation of the game... It's been a year since this review though and I forgot a lot, haha. The vibes are just really similar, you know?

[@VeggiePopper]

Also, the Volteccer is Pikachu's signature move (translated in the English versions of the game as Volt Tackle). Compare Pulseman's version of the move to Pikachu's rendition of it as its final smash in the Smash Bros. series.

[@EnderElectrics]

4:34 Since I'm a programmer I may be able to explain this. I think the game is coded in a way where, if you're running up a slope, you lose some speed. Since the platform is moving UP when you were jumping, I think the game mistook that for running up a slope. (Since you're getting vertical velocity while running on the ground) Hope that cleared it up a little for you

[@luisjogos821]

huh,Game Freak was already putting some tape on their code even before Pokemon was a thing.

[@MegaPaige]

This was an extremely well-done review of a very good game. You're absolutely right about the camera being too close to Pulseman--the game gets king of frustrating toward the end because you just can't see the obstacles that lie ahead! Here's to hoping you get the many more viewers and subscribers you deserve!

[@RetropolisZone]

I appreciate the enthusiasm and positivity, mate. Good to read you liked the video. :)

[@muhammadasadbinhameed4750]

Oh pulseman I played it when I was a kid One of my favs

[@RustyRick2023]

This game looks fun to play, maybe I'll give it a try sometime in the future if I can find it. The platforming/shooting aspects looks interesting, but the background seriously looks so disorientating. Great and very insightful review on a very obscure game.

[@Shadownovvah]

I had sega channel when i was a kid and i loved this game and i hope they release this game on steam this and ranger x was also great. glad you did a review on this!

[@ln5321]

Good review. I like that your reviews end with some music clips from the game. Most reviewers don't give much credit to the music, but even bad video games can have some really great songs.

[@RetropolisZone]

+Notgivingmy nametogoogle Music can play a great role in my enjoyment with the game and I feel, like you, that people tend to overlook its importance. I decided to stick in soundtrack samples because words can't really do music justice, and it sets my reviews apart, I think. :)

[@NovaBlastPlays]

the "clone" in stage 5 of pulse man is a character named "Veil"

[@Diabl0Mask]

Man this game is so nostalgic! My only problem with it is that it's too short, I never got past the second group of stages as a kid so I was disappointed when I learned that they are followed by the final stage, I feel like there should've been 3 more stages! Also what's with Game Freak and epilepsy?!

[@Ben-kd7ug]

Pulseman should be appearing in the pokemon anime, but instead of artificial intelligence, he is just a regular human under the name Diego Armando, Beatrice is his landlord(who has secret crush on him), and Veil is Steve Jams(who was planning to manipulate Pulseman, and was later by the end of his debut episode and later sworn revenge on Pulseman and became Veil)

[@retrosoul8770]

Hey man, your videos are great, I appreciate someone who actually gives the MD/Gen some deserved attention. This game looks cool and your review seems spot-on. I look forward to trying it for myself soon.

[@thehumbleone1983]

One of my great favourite Sega gems

[@Darkstar263]

That was good. I didn't dare view it on full screen this time because I knew about the crazy backgrounds. But still made me a little dizzy. I don't know if I could handle playing a game like that to be honest. And I'm not even epileptic lol.

[@wheatleythebrick2276]

willpower

[@shanerpressley]

Thank you so much for uncovering another gem, as this looks like a very solid title in my opinion. I gotta say though, this was a quickie! Haha

[@RetropolisZone]

Thanks man! This was in my early days of KZbin, haha. I don't really like going back to these videos.

[@overlordalfredo]

I need to get this game on my Virtual Console before Nintendo shuts down the service by the end of January 2019 :(

[@danmakuman]

It's a cool action-platform game with tons of nice ideas. Maybe not all are well implemented, but I find this game fun and that's a good reason to own it. Not the best game ever, but fun nonetheless. That's enough for me.

[@RetropolisZone]

+DANMAKUMAN VGM Sounds pretty on-point with my opinion, though I don't see myself revisiting the game anytime soon. I'm kind of puzzled how some people have rated it 9/10, but hey, more power to them.

[@danmakuman]

It's 10 out of 10 for me. Why? Because I really enjoy the game. It's not perfect by any means but I can overcome the problems it have. So yeah.

[@zairrdvordenta7724]

DANMAKUMAN VGM Damn !!! Really Appreciate the Fast paced gameplay. I thought sonic was the only series to do that. Though i would prefer a Metroif style exploration more. This something special This game's graphics are so similar to mm powered up.

[@GoldenGrenadier]

A while back I made cartridge versions of the Sega channel exclusive games and By far pulseman is my favorite. There's an English patch as well which I reccomend. The seizure warning is apt too. its a sight to behold on a real genesis on a CRT TV.

[@SilverBlade1997]

Ya know....I wonder if he be a good character for the next Smash....Since Gamefreak is at Nintendo plus Sega wouldn't mind it I believe. Heck Sakurai revived Kid Icarus back to it's angelic routes so I don't see why not on so.

[@JoseAyalaVelez]

Even without a revival, there's plenty of material to work with if Pulseman was to get representation of any kind. The title character's kit is enough to make for a good Assist Trophy, Ultimate could've easily had some Spirits to the game's name, including a Pikachu favoring Volt Tackle to represent him, and maybe there could even be a stage that can have Dr. Waruyama himself as a Stage Hazard.

[@SQGReviewShow]

This game looks neat. I'll have to check it out. It's unlike anything I've seen before except maybe Ristar. Speaking of which, will you ever review Ristar? I really like that game.

[@bloodblues85]

I feel like Bushi Seiryuuden is much more of a spiritual predecessor to Pokemon.

[@Treyworld]

Thank god I bought this game on Wii Virtual Console before the service died.

[@twinclemoss]

awesome work, suscribed! :D

[@RetropolisZone]

Thank you! :D

[@Pliskin5000]

I remember playing pulse man on sega network.

[@entertainer_ev2747]

I just realized that Pulseman looks like Zero in Megaman Zero specifically.

[@menartd2618]

The Evan Fairplay Who Wants a Girlfriend He kinda looks like Phantom from the Megaman Zero series.

[@kaexewires7531]

oh wow you're actually not wrong! he looks a lot like him!

[@dbe1299]

Pulseman has to save the world from his father who runs the galaxy gang... Maybe Giovanni really is Red's father... Just replace Galaxy with Rocket and Wakuyama with Giovanni.

[@TurtleTitan03]

Hey nice review as always, I'm gonna have to get around to this game, I like Pokemon and Classic sidescrollers, and to be honest I'm getting Mega Man Star Force vibes from this somehow, I think it's got something to do with both of them involving Cybernetic superheroes wearing visors and quite literally "Pulsing In" and out of objects. I've played Pulseman a little bit, but it was quite a bit ago on emulator, and at the time I was too young to know about connecting controllers to a PC, so I played on a keyboard and it made the game come across as too difficult in my eyes. I beat Mega Man games with little problems and don't personally consider them difficult but many others do, and I'm no stranger to classics like Sonic, Contra, Metal Slug etc. either, so maybe upon revisiting Pulseman will feel as average in difficulty as you make it seem. One thing I'm curious about, do you ever consider reviewing the Rocket Knight/Sparkster series of games? Those are some of my favorite classics in the 16 bit era, I saw RKA in your Gunstar heroes video, though I do believe you probably just showed it because it was one of the last games the treasure team developed at Konami before they became treasure as we know them now. I don't know if you'd like the follow-ups but I think they'd make for interesting reviews, Sparkster: RKA2 is my personal favorite of the four games in the series despite me personally feeling it is the most flawed.

[@RetropolisZone]

Thanks, man. I've only played Rocket Knight Adventures on the Genesis. The other games barely for some footage. I might review them someday, but not in any of my current plans.

[@zairrdvordenta7724]

Shaolin Turtle By that logic I'd say which I was yerning several days to say Zx transformation feature gives me ben 10 and vectorman vibe

[@TurtleTitan03]

+Zairrd Vordenta I dunno, I think it's still a fair comparison, both Pulseman and the Star Force series take place in futuristic settings and star electromagnetic super heroes who have the ability to materialize in the physical world, and tend to jump between both said world and the cybernetic worlds within electrical devices in order to fight evil, both Mega Man and Pulse Man are half-human, half-cybernetic lifeform, With Pulse Man having the DNA of a human combined with data of a program called a C-life, Mega Man in Star Force is the EM wave change or combined state of 11 year old boy Geo Stelar, and his EM alien partner Omega-Xis. Again the aesthetic between the two heroes is similar enough between the strong use of primary colors and the whole visor thing, they both are capable of shooting energy projectiles from their arms, and they even pose similarly, Pulseman: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a9/Pulseman_box_art.jpg/220px-Pulseman_box_art.jpg Mega Man (SF):vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/megaman/images/b/bc/Mmsf-wave-road.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110627140204 I'm not at all suggesting they are the same thing, or related whatsoever, there's just more than a few similar aspects shared between the two, and I get MMSF vibes from Pulseman as a result, or vice-versa if you want. I think the comparison here isn't nearly as shallow as the comparison of ZX to Ben 10 or Vectorman.

[@zairrdvordenta7724]

Shaolin Turtle​ I agree with you. Isn't that enough There are many more similarities Ares Extinction Agenda gives me grown up and futuristic vibe deriveed from Megaman. I see what you mean. But keep in mind despite all those SF is RPG exploration while pulseman is like boss battle and run and gun. Metal Warriors and Cybernators were the predecessors of mecha games. Some fragments of Solartorobo Artstyle just takes me to CM Artstyle. The graphics of Einhander and Sector Strike are almost same Zx is more closely associated with ben 10/ vectorman transformation is hals added. Like only a particular body I changed. I did get the SF vibe. BTW I also always had this thing in my head But the psedoroids designs remind me of Pokemon

[@mightykid9581]

C-LIFE ISNT THE NAME OF THE DOCTORS LOVE, ITS THE NAME OF THE TYPE OF BEING HE CREATED!!

[@TsukinoAzura]

2:12 "Yashiyama fell in love with his own creation, driving to digitize and upload himself to make love with sealife" ...and I stopped the video right there and went: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hma2fmiohbmXnM0 "Mixing his DNA with her program core" It doesn't work that way! Who wrote this story!? The guy that later went to to make Fate!?

[@eddieharris9597]

If I where to get Pulseman, should I get the original cartridge or a reproduction cartridge?

[@MartellThaCool]

gotta get this game on my emulator

[@Ben-kd7ug]

Pulseman needs to be on nintendo switch

[@genkaiba15]

Is this only on nintendo services or is it on another digital storefront also?

[@letsgonow5641]

Looks like this is more of a Grapics thing than a gameplay. I think the concept is cool just needed more refinement.

[@rickster008]

i liked this game, i wish there were a second version

[@davidgusquiloor2665]

11:28 is that an onix head?

[@Evilriku13]

Is it me, or was this GameFreaks first Jumpn Run Platformer? If yes, sad to see that they never reproduced such, as they had potential to be classics!

[@SamuraiSarcasm]

2:15 Mm, yes, intended only for a Japanese audience indeed.

[@EXHellfire]

so uh what aspects of this game influenced Pokemon anyways?

[@ericmikesell5252]

Sonic + Megaman = Pulseman

[@Retromancers]

Looks pretty cool actually.

[@RetropolisZone]

Retromancers It's definitely an interesting game to check out, especially for Pokémon or old-school gaming fans. It's not a top-tier Mega Drive title, in my honest opinion, but solid regardless. :)

[@Retromancers]

Nice; thanks for the info ;) Subscribed, btw; feel free to check out our show as well if you like.

[@RetropolisZone]

Retromancers Thanks! Though I hope it was more out of enjoying my content than a sub4sub thing. Will check out your show when I have the time.

[@Retromancers]

I was interested because I have never actually seen this game before.

[@RetropolisZone]

Retromancers Awesome. Just wanted to make sure. :)

[@aliastheabnormal]

With a story like that no wonder it never left Japan.

[@hoobguy]

Hoob Approved

[@KidPrarchord95]

Gotta hate that apillupsee.

[@tahamohammad8842]

Wow it seems game freak put more effort into this than they put in sword and shield

[@danielvieira8978]

i think pulse man is more cool than sonic other than, errrh, not having tranformsations and lack of p i n b a l l

[@silvergoldgaming4354]

Actually there is a little bit of voice acting in the game.

[@krabs6457]

what kind of accent do you have? i can't put my finger on it.

[@RetropolisZone]

I am from The Netherlands. :)

[@draganskoda]

@@RetropolisZone your accent sounds almost like a New England accent to a fellow Dutchie like me. I almost couldn't detect the steenkolenengels

[@DJ4461]

"The clone"?

[@shignificent]

"downsides of taking LSD" 👀

[@spriles]

What's a pulupsy?

[@ThrillingDuck]

Heh, I believe the word you were looking for is half-human, half-AI "abomination" ;)

[@EndUser2090]

Wow looks like a 32 bit game.

[@JesusJavier-MyAccount]

12:00 Uh...

[@kaexewires7531]

wdym? the case is completely solved!

[@Alianger]

you talk in caps man

[@RetropolisZone]

Alianger Not sure what you to make of that, but if you mean I talked loudly here... yeah, I know what you're getting at. See the Gunstar Heroes review for improvement on that.

[@Chris-jx4ij]

I'm still wondering about how Pokemon got inspiration from this. You mentioned a couple times that they were similar, but the only thing I actually heard you say was similar was some of the music. I'm not sure why Pokemon fans would like this game based on your review.

[@zorakthelonemantisoftheapo5680]

Some enemies in Pulseman became an inspiration for some Pokémons like Natu/Xatu or Remoraid

[@seekertosecrets]

There are some voice actors. But they are all in english!