Skeleton Warriors - Sega Saturn Review

[@madaction9373]

I see a new Sega Lord X video....I click it right away. This was a great game!

[@calebpriceproductions2412]

the contrast between the super slow swagger of the character walking, versus his spastic sword attack is hilarious.

[@SNARC15]

I also remember reading that GameFan review of the game, and it was the only review that GameFan did where they gave a score of 11 out of 10 in a category, when Dave "E. Storm" Halverson gave it for the soundtrack. But then again, it was from Tommy Tallarico, so what do you expect?

[@The_Badcompany]

I just got this on Saturn a few days ago ironically...

[@The_Badcompany]

@Ultra CNC As good as he advertised!

[@shaggymcdaniel3216]

Have fun!

[@strebis6]

Where did you find it?

[@rickywise9614]

This is on my rom list

[@rickdavis32]

This feels like it has a lot of Blackthorne influence!

[@an0therdimensi0n99]

more like Trojan for nes!

[@Gaming_since_the_eighties]

This was my thirst thought too.

[@ominojaku1069]

What a game blackthorne was! 👍

[@poposterous236]

I feel like you're pumping these out by the dozen these days, good work ethic dude.

[@pimpedoutstereos9747]

I remember owning a copy of this game on the Saturn wen I was a kid. I always loved the presentation of it but I can’t say I enjoyed playing it all that much

[@jamesmoss3424]

Skeleton warriors is a killer 90's cartoon show and toys and one day the cartoon show and toy line will return. 😀👍🎮💀

[@MatthewCobalt]

SKELETON WARRIORS!

[@9216v]

Unsure why this isn't the highest up-voted comment.

[@melvinshine9841]

I watched an episode about Skeleton Warriors over on Toy Galaxy's channel a few weeks ago. I was a little kid at the time the series came out but I'd no idea it ever existed.

[@billcook4768]

Every game doesn’t have to be a masterpiece. This looks like a quintessential “rent it” game. You younger folks may have to ask your parents what that was all about.

[@tarasybnios5356]

Well if a younger folk was to ask me should I give Skeleton Warriors a try I will definitely tell them "Hell Yeah!" The music, atmosphere and visuals are all a marvel especially back then. I remember I had recorded some of the tracks from in game on a tape and was listening to it endlessly. For sure not just a rent if you are into hack and slash games! I mean what else do you expect from a 2D hack and slash game?

[@Imjussaiyanbro]

This game was well worth it to own and wasn’t an expensive game. Maybe one of the first arcade like (audio,visual,gameplay) games I owned. Other than simple graphical arcade games.

[@shaggymcdaniel3216]

@@tarasybnios5356 You can just pop the disc into a CD player.

[@tarasybnios5356]

@@shaggymcdaniel3216 You mean I could back then.. But back then I didn't own a cd player, damn I was lucky enough to own a Saturn. I was like 14 years old and all the money I could get from my parents I was spending them on video games and comics. So my good old faithful cassette player did the job.

[@Z64sports]

Renting is still a thing. There's redbox and family video

[@outdatedgear5036]

I remember this game for the ps1. I never knew it was a cartoon or had comics.

[@allsportnj]

I still have a few sealed Skeleton Warrior action figures in a box somewhere. Need to get them out some day. lol Never knew there was a Saturn game and I was a huge Saturn fan.

[@SophiaNyx]

I rented this on my OG Playstation when it came out, I was a big fan of DK Country and considered it to have the best 16 bit graphics although art design wise Final Fantasy 6 and Chrono Trigger kicked it's butt. However most pre rendered games don't look great. This was one of the few that did. And it looks even better on Saturn apparently. :)

[@MrKillafolston]

I just bought this game but haven't played it yet.....great video!!!

[@Lord_Deimos]

Skeleton Warriors' graphics always reminded me of Scud The Disposable Assassin, another quirky but fun Saturn game.

[@akalyx]

this is one of my favorite looking saturn titles, almost claymation

[@drproctor09]

I remember this game fondly...As usual thanks for the jaunt down memory lane.

[@thewidowmaker8472]

I love the game. 2.5D is awesome. Thanks for the review! I now own it

[@MisterSouji]

Beginning of this video took me off guard. When I got my Saturn it was years after it was discontinued, and I had no games. A guy at school let me borrow 5 games, three of which were skeleton warriors, wipeout, and alien trilogy.

[@henryrosariogonzalez7870]

I can imagine blood omen with that engine on the Saturn.

[@saiyanraoh5109]

I bought this one back in the day after Gamefans review of it. Thry were true enthusiasts of the Saturn and the only publication then that saw the Saturn for the gem it was.

[@Andrew_TS]

Had it on PS. The worst parts were indeed the bike stages. Felt like they were designed when 3D stages on 16 bit games were a bigger deal. Other than that, decent early 32 bit game. Certainly better than a lot of junk like Johnny Bazooka.

[@neosrt10]

The prerendered Snes graphic on Sega Genesis with parallax suedo 3d backrounds...awesome with Talarico on Audio track..insane

[@HybridAngelZero]

"They made a game based on Skeleton Warriors" "What?" "It actually runs better on Saturn than it does on PlayStation" " *What?* "

[@marakarthegreat]

apparently Street Racer does also

[@orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

@@marakarthegreat yea it does!

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

I believe it.

[@ETK696]

Don't know why it's a surprise. Some games ran better on playstation, some ran better on saturn

[@MANOFGOD9000]

NANI?!!

[@danielsonlaruso2893]

I love the intro to the vids! My fav part is the (kinda rough), animated armored dragon. LOL; The charm is that it's NOT Hi-res 3d rendered.

[@adultmoshifan87]

Skeleton Warriors... I do remember seeing a TV ad for the toys and I do remember reading about this game in the magazines at the time! Because my local Blockbuster didn’t have the game, I never got to play it. I’m actually surprised how few kids games the Saturn got, and even the PlayStation until later into its life! It’s because of this that even though not the best movie license (I still enjoyed it), I consider the Space Jam game to be an important release for both systems! The PlayStation did have a Mickey Mouse game, but it was PAL exclusive. It wasn’t until Hercules that both PAL and US PlayStation users got a Disney game, and only the Game Boy got a Mulan game! While I do feel I should’ve gotten a PlayStation instead of a Saturn back in the day (how was I, a 7 year old kids in the UK (about to turn 8) supposed to know about the Saturn’s rushed US launch?), I do at the same time feel I shouldn’t have got rid of my Mega Drive shortly after getting a 32 bit system! I had to borrow someone else’s Mega Drive at a later date in order to play the Toy Story game!

[@BabusGameRoom]

I don't know how it looks today (I have retro bias lol), but this game would've completely blown my mind in the 90's...and I don't think I ever even saw the cartoon!

[@leonidaschryssinas1723]

as far as I can tell, P.I.E. was involved in the 32-bit Earthworm Jim 2 versions as well

[@livingstranger]

When Skeleton Warriors came out in 1994, I totally loved the cartoon and toy line.

[@ValcristhCR]

For a moment i thought this was a colaboration between sega lord x and jim Sterling

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

Oh good I'm not the only one that gets that reference.

[@Danthrax40]

Yeah I would have never given this game a look just because of Jim making fun of the cartoon. I’m really surprised by how decent it seems to be. (The cartoon is probably still bad, though, LoL)

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@@Danthrax40 Actually I would say it's the opposite the cartoon is actually still pretty sweet (especially if you're a fan of '90s cartoons with crazy premises) Whereas the game is pretty much completely forgotten. I mean we're talking about the people who went on to make the infinitely more popular Tony hawk games before being unceremoniously folded into the teams that make nothing but COD games.

[@MANOFGOD9000]

I'd like to see what you think of "Scud: the disposable assassin" on Sega Saturn. You typically point out things I don't think of in your videos. I still think the character looks cool but the game...yeesh.

[@wolffactor56]

The game looks like fun

[@ridhauddinrazali6545]

This channel make me want own a Sega Saturn again...it very difficult to find in my country though

[@leonidaschryssinas1723]

I used to watch the animated tv series, so I got to love this game as well

[@Estorium]

Dude, the great SLX, will you ever be doing Alien Trilogy as you showed it at the beginning of this video? That was one of my absolute favourite games on the Saturn.

[@AllieRX]

I loved the Skeleton Warriors cartoon! I watched it on CBS back in the day.

[@Imjussaiyanbro]

I had this for PlayStation, never heard anything about it before or since but enjoyed it and played through it several times.

[@godzillagorilla986]

I loved this back in the day and I picked up a mint copy for $30 last year. It was a great flashback- Imo the graphics, sound and playability are fairly good. Still playable today and looks great! Thanks for all the content 🙏

[@ShinobiWan1]

"Tommy freaking Tallarico was on the team, and that's all you need to know" I'm buying this game now, first chance I get haha

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

Tommy should put this on that wonderful new console he's building.

[@ArtofWEZ]

too bad he's a jerk

[@gamingblowsofficial]

Holy shit the music in this is insane.

[@jokeonthisbaby]

Thanks dude, love your work. Keep it going mate

[@kapparomeo]

Skeleton Warriors was never released in the UK, although we got the cartoon which I must have watched on repeat a thousand times, so this is fascinating to see the other side of the franchise.

[@WeskerSega]

Are you sure of that? The game was definitely released in Europe. It is in fact the typical European multi-lingual release with languages as English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and else which was so common on Sega consoles at the time so I'm a bit puzzled about your comment. Especially given that the European version was released by Virgin Interactive and they were a British publisher of all things.

[@kapparomeo]

@@WeskerSega that surprises me, I never even realised - I've only ever seen the box with the white NA spine, never the black EU one. It was also never reviewed in the UK Sega Saturn Magazine, which was always pretty comprehensive and I followed religiously back in the Nineties, although evidently this one slipped under the radar.

[@WeskerSega]

@@kapparomeo I'm not British, but I got the entire print of your Sega Saturn Magazine because I love the console and that magazine is like a love letter to it, so much dedication and enthusiasm for the Sega Saturn. I wish I would have got a local magazine as good as that. But yeah, I noticed that sometimes some games slipped under the radar to them, maybe because they didn't consider it worthy enough to review it, even though they went on and reviewed much more worse games than this, especially in the late European lifespam when the European console releases started to diminish, so I suppose in that particular month they had a lot of games to cover (this was released when the Sega Saturn still held up well) and had to discard this one. But yeah, it was released in Europe, it was released in the main European markets as I mentioned earlier, and therefore it was released for sure in your country.

[@davidneighbour]

This game definitely got a UK release because I owned it back in the day. For whatever reason, this game and a small handful of others didn’t get a review from the official UK Sega Saturn magazine (Battle Monsters, Darius 2, Galaxy Fight, Robo Pit, Rise Of The Robots 2)

[@kapparomeo]

@@davidneighbour Well, wonders never cease, I've learned something new about the OSSM that even they weren't 100% on all things Saturn! I just did a an image search and found a picture of the black-spine box for Skeleton Warriors too, the first time I've ever seen that in all these years too.

[@RetrOrigin]

I only played the PS1 version back in the day since I got my Saturn in late 97. Loved the game regardless of its flaws although that may have something to do with me not having too many games to play at the time.

[@saturngamer1997]

I have the game, and finished it 23 years ago... It was fine, except for the 3D leves... And some of the music is incredible good.. I have it on my walkman.

[@justinclark8360]

This game is so hard to find any info on. Thanks for the review !

[@ottosantiagolassus]

This took me back.💓

[@ZinhoMegaman]

I only played this back at 1997 in black & white. I was able to get a Saturn, but not a NTSC compatible TV (and with composite connection, I played in RF, irk)...

[@edge6441]

I faintly remember this cartoon playing on the TV and then vanishing so thats what happened only 13 episodes! Nice game its one of those attention catchers personally i think that if people werent this obsessed with 3D gfx we could have some pretty unique and cool looking games using this type of gameplay in modern consoles but nope! such wasted potential and thats the world we live in.

[@CheesyNoodlez]

I remember having skeleton warrior branded shampoo lol

[@mattkennedy6115]

How’d it smell? 😆

[@miamimagicians]

You have my favorite KZbin channel! You’re so passionate I love it

[@jonpecker9145]

Good game I never bothered looking at tell a few years ago.

[@jankmedia1985]

I enjoyed this game as a kid and still do. It's pretty mindless but the mechanics are really solid for what it is. Playing in easy mode is a fun experience. Challenging enough at times but not too difficult overall. Allows you to find effective techniques, combat isn't deep but much deeper than you'd initially think.

[@ronsilk6212]

This game looks great

[@michaelk8860]

I was a big fan of the show when I was a kid. Something I wished had made it more than 13 episodes.

[@bigrobotnewstoday1436]

A few episodes got released on VHS and DVD.

[@Big5mokE719]

I had this for playstation when I was a kid and played it maybe a total of an hour. 2 max. I had it for years too it's just one that sat under the TV untouched

[@Uutama]

Wow, this game looks and sounds fantastic.

[@Estorium]

I absolutely loved this game as a teenager. The hover bike into the screen sections sucked ass though. This is also one of my favourite scores by Tommy Talarico. I wish that I had never sold my copy all those years back.

[@BreckVoidAdkins]

Gonna have to pick up a repro. Thanks!

[@bonesjackson81]

I don't mind this game at all. A bit stiff with animations and sometimes too dark to see stupid bats. But its as close to a He Man like game I can get. Edit: I should comment after watching. Ha. You said about everything I said.

[@TechyMantis]

Never heard of skeleton warriors outside of the saturn game, which I never played lol

[@opaljk4835]

The title is definitely something that makes me want to play

[@greenEYEDdj]

How bout the best games with tommy tallarico music video? I used to watch him on electric playground years ago.

[@crazyoldschool6342]

I remember this game. It was fun but short.

[@bra1nc417d]

I liked this game and the music is phenomenal. I swear, some parts of the music sound exactly like one of the Conan movies.

[@RedCometXIII]

I swear some of the sound effects sound like they're ripped straight from the Zelda CDi games.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

Yep, the music might have been pretty great but those sound effects were repetitive and awful.

[@CasperEgas]

Never got far, because I got bored. It is nice to see the other levels for once. Maybe I will try them myself too.

[@cwing1028]

I still own this game, I thought it was excellent, graphics, sound, gameplay. Better than it has any right to be. As I’ve gotten older I realized I’m a mark for pre rendered graphics

[@geoffreychauvin1474]

This game looks cool, I love digitized high res cgi. Looks like the DKC engine on steroids

[@socialengineering2539]

New video thanx sega lrdx

[@RetroGamePlayers]

This was one of the first Playstation games I played! I dig the graphics, I think the other games we played that same weekend were Wipeout and Loaded.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

To play this and then Wipeout and Loaded would I think be a massive step up. Those two games have aged quite a bit but they're still amazing to this day. They play better than they look that's for sure.

[@bjnt922]

I remember watching the cartoon ever knew there was a video game.

[@jascoolo]

These graphics are sick!

[@kupamon]

The control in this is really good, 3d graphics are usually ugly on saturn but here it mix so well with the prerendered graphics, animation is good and some enemy bosses design is really cool, like the first one, a some kind of snowman gorilla. Too bad it doesn't have any saving or password feature

[@ClockedIt]

I bought this in my local Cash Converters back in 1997 if I remember correctly; personally I think this game is not great at all and I'm one of those people who gave up early. The combat was repetitve and graphically, although smooth with animation, I think it looks like trash haha! It's still in my collection but I'll probably never fire it up again. Great review as always man.

[@dsidebotham]

Tommy T its the place to be! Love that guy. Him and Victor Lucas of The Electric Playground were awesome.

[@jmullner76]

Good review, thank you.

[@danielrecommends]

Sega Lord X: "Tommy freaking Tallarico was on the team, and that's all you need to know" Me: "Who is Tommy Tallarico?" Sega Lord X (Facepalm): "Get off my channel"

[@mashk]

i haa a UK Saturn when it was released and pretty much bought games for it and then Japanese games pretty much up to the Dreamcast. Yet i've never heard of this game.

[@Nathan-rb3qp]

I would love to know if any Neversoft employees have any prototypes of the cancelled Genesis and SNES ports of this game.

[@ryangood1156]

Reminds me of Star Wars on the SNES

[@antenant9294]

I'd never heard of this one, but was reading the blurb (quickly!) on the back of the box as it was scrolling down in your video, and thought "nope, this one's not for me". A bit sad how quickly you can condemn a game based on a few words!

[@mikeymike3240]

Awesome review man. 😎👍👍👍🇬🇧

[@marakarthegreat]

those flying ship segments move way too fast on the ps1 version

[@Oniontrololol]

“Neversoft” what a name!

[@shineonnent.7951]

Life water commercial song fire

[@RGF]

Never heard about the csrtoon or this game... but i am not US guy.... The soundtrack looks amazing....

[@Chaz_Mahoney]

If Army of Darkness was a game back then.... this is the closest to what it would be

[@ShamanNoodles]

This game looks awesome =) im gonna try this out

[@Mouritogaia]

Very cool game 👌

[@SuperBoomshack]

I have this on PS1

[@ahhcmon9604]

This game got good reviews when it came out I think

[@KevTheGalaxybender]

I have this on Saturn

[@sethsassy]

The side scrolling levels look beautiful, almost PS2 level. Almost

[@Hektols]

Saturn was much better than PSX running 2D games, I read that at first Sega wanted to make it a 2D juggernaut but when they found that Sony's Playstation project was going to be focused in 3D graphics they had to redesign it, leading to Saturn's hard to program hardware and explaining the graphic differences.

[@alittlebitofwhimsy-o2o]

I think the game is “fine”. Not great but “fine”. I do think it looks good though and plays well, and like that’s what the Saturn needed more of. It’s a shame there are so few 2D/2.5D platformers considering just how well the Saturn handles them.

[@Kraisser]

Great video!! I Love this game. Greetings!

[@nathanbeach7301]

I had this for the Playstation and beat it with a cheat code. It was okay. I also watched the show and had a couple of action figures.

[@kevinstrade2752]

It's ok. Fun to fire up every once in a while.

[@georgesiv2082]

This game doesn't looks bad...I always assumed it was an alternate title to Mr.Bone.