Skull Island: Rise of Kong - Just Bad Games

[@mollyanderson657]

The fact that GameMills were sane enough to publish Big Rigs and are still able to make games today surprises me.

[@jamesesterline]

I wouldn't be surprised if they turned out to be a front for a money laundering scheme

[@Ramsey276one]

Sane? I beg your PARGON?

[@Smellytots]

How do they keep getting thier hands on huge titles like the last airbender game?

[@braedenmclean5304]

@@Smellytotsor the walking dead

[@Ramsey276one]

@@Smellytots Best offer auction???

[@tonybippitykaye]

It’s genuinely depressing to see what Iguanabee had in terms of its initial concept vs what they ended up making. They seem like they had a ton of passion and love behind it. Hell, it maybe could’ve rivaled the iconic Peter Jackson Kong game, only for GameMill to come in and completely annihilate any chance of this passion being realized. The fact that GameMill is still even allowed to publish games is just upsetting. So many publishers get closed down for less, yet they’re here giving us stuff that even the bargain bin would feel ripped off by.

[@leandrocz1606]

I think is really sad mocking this game made by like two guys and basically no budget

[@Code7Unltd]

GameMill has no expectations, but then again their prominent game was "Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing", so let that say what it will.

[@loganreads90]

Yep. Super sad.

[@sadfatdragon9529]

From what I understand is it is a viscous cycle Iguanabee wants to make a good game and have the talent, but just to survive they have to take projects from companies like Gamemill and if I remember gave Iguanabee no money and only a year to make this. Since all Iguanabee has for their portfolio is games like Kong they can't get out from under predatory publishers like Gamemill and onto actual projects with actual funds and time. To put it simply Iguanabee is trapped.

[@monkaWGiga]

​@@leandrocz1606 Disagree. I think it's fair especially since they make it very very clear that it's Game mills fault and not the devs. Hell if it wasn't for this video I wouldn't even know about their other game which I've now added to my wishlist on steam.

[@morrisl123]

"Man this video's REALLY hard to look at... Maybe I should try upping the quality." Video was already set to *4K* ".... Oh no."

[@nonamepasserbya6658]

Such is the horrors of Nintendo consoles...not that this game look THAT much better on the PS consoles anyway

[@chickpea]

@@nonamepasserbya6658 Trust me... it's the game

[@_Twink]

​@nonamepasserbya6658 idk Man, there's some decent looking things on there. This game is some kind of experiment gone wrong...... 😷

[@SlyRocko]

@@nonamepasserbya6658 games by monolithsoft really push the hardware into making such stunning and beautiful games despite the lower hardware fidelity. Trust me, it is the game

[@artbargra]

@@nonamepasserbya6658 This is not entirely true, nor is it fair. Games like Metroid Prime Remastered, Doom and Doom Eternal and Alien Isolation look fantastic on the Switch. Then again, The Outer Worlds looks and runs like a kick in the nuts.

[@bdpickett]

Fun fact: Universal sued Nintendo for the usage of Kong in DK's name, but Nintendo won out in the end. The lawyer who won that case was named Kirby, hence why HAL Laboratory's little pink puffball shares the name.

[@lvl90dru1d]

i thought about john kirby from white house

[@linhero797]

The theory of Kirby being a reference to John Kirby was actually disproven by Miyamoto himself if I recall. They had asked Nintendo of America to give a name to Kirby, I suppose because Nintendo of America had named a large variety of characters for NoJ like Luigi, the Koopalings, and others like them. And the staff at NoA literally picked it from a hat which had a bunch of names.

[@BloodWraith777]

It is also worth randomly mentioning Kirby, the grumpy old vacuum, from The Brave Little Toaster. They both share the same name, and they both *SUCK* ....air, and stuff.

[@jordantatata155]

​@@BloodWraith777thats just cause Kirby is a brand of vaccums

[@qu1253]

Ironic considering Nintendo itself is one of the most aggressively litigious companies in existence.

[@VelvetMagician]

They somehow managed to make it feel like you, playing as KING KONG, were the size of a regular gorilla.

[@seelcudoom1]

considering the size of everything else and the fact they appear to use velociraptors instead of t-rexs i think they legit forgot

[@Ramsey276one]

BRILLIANT

[@nexcorvin4994]

But a really slow, lumbering gorilla.

[@Horvath_Gabor]

You know, I can kind of imagine how Kong's size could've been a game mechanic. Intro is the same, except the big bad dino boss towers over the Kong family, and they sacrifice themselves to let him escape. You start out as Baby Kong, and work your way up the food chain, hunting down the "kings/queens" of the island to eat them and absorb whatever makes them huge. In the beginning, you're small, and you have to go after smaller enemies, like spiders and raptors, until you reach the first boss (which would be the spider, because spiders are small, so a giant one would still be smaller than a giant dinosaur). You beat it, and then you get a time-skip, after which point Kong is adult sized and much bigger, and now you can just squash the spiders you had to fight before under your foot. Then, you hunt down the crab, then the giant sandworm, and finally the three dinosaur "underlings", and each time you get a time-skip, Kong grows in size, and that changes up exploration. He's now bigger and stronger, so he can break the stone walls and floors and swat away old enemies and mini-bosses, but in exchange he can no longer climb the vines or traverse certain narrow areas, because he's too big and heavy. Then, in the finale, Kong faces off against the dino boss from the beginning, but now he's the bigger one, and beats it to a pulp, and since he now took down all the "kings/queens" of Skull Island, he becomes King Kong. Simple, straightforward, easy. But then again, when you're a developer studio with a shovelware publisher breathing down your neck, demanding a game to be finished in one year and pushing out an obvious alpha build as a full release, complete with MTX, ideas to integrate your gameplay and story and streamline them are meaningless, because that's the least of your problems.

[@crazyluigi6664]

In other words, you'd more ironically be playing as Donkey Kong if he were a bad monkey from the start and stayed bad instead.

[@deathsyth8888]

"It was GameMill killed the beast." - 'King Kong' (1933)

[@komm6668]

Its like the developers played Life of Black Tiger and said, "We need that, but with King Kong."

[@Ramsey276one]

Black Tiger: [BOMBASTIC SIDE EYE] For *Shame...*

[@DeadwaveCarrier-oc1wo]

Fred Fuchs will be laughing his ass off in heaven at the thought of Shane and Adam wasting money on that game. They need to do it.

[@valivali8104]

Iguanabee got very little resources and only *one year to make game* - no wonder this game is as it is

[@enderkatze6129]

The Publishers, Not the developers.

[@teddyboukagain9985]

that’s so true about Black Tiger, lolol.

[@ItsBofu]

Even the name "Game Mill" should be a red flag. They do know what "Mill" means colloquially, right? Like diploma mills? Or puppy mills?

[@Yuli_Ban]

That's my take exactly. "GameMill" sounds like a Simpsons gag about a soulless corporate factory farm that manufactures Interactive Digital Entertainment Product™ and yet it's real and it's exactly what the name sounds like.

[@Rad-Dude63andathird]

​@@Yuli_Ban It's even how their website reads, self-awareness is something they lack lol

[@SomeBlokeOrWhatever]

The thing is If you are a consumer, or someone who cares about... Things. Then sure, this is a negative connotation. But if you're a particular kind of middle manager, looking for the cheapest contractor possible? A Mill is _exactly what you want_ -- GameMill continues to exist because this is their market. Licensors wanting to make a "Game" for merchandising reasons that is as cheap and quick as humanly possible, because the point is not and was never to make something good, it's just to make _a thing_ so you can use it for cross promotion. And any suckers that buy it, well, that's on them.

[@ToxicTurquoise454]

Or Heather Mills?

[@andre_601]

I only associate "mill" with stuff like a grain/flour mill... Still fits tho... They grind aspects of a game down into a fine dust of what could've been a good game... or smth...

[@camwing]

Look, we all would've been happy with the commentary, but the insane amount of work you put into the edits does not go unnoticed. This channel is an absolute gem in a sea of low effort talking-about-things-that-are-bad content ❤

[@newhavencon-py5yy]

Unedited video are just the Starfield of videos.

[@koolaid33]

Oh hey, I watch you when you upload. Neat.

[@Carnepiscina]

You here? Now that's a pleasant surprise

[@RTSFirebatYT]

Right on brother! I only wish I could edit videos like these two do. Outstanding work and his channel deserve more subs and views.

[@acfreak55]

Agreed I know this channels pretty old, but they are like a breath of fresh air compared to a lot of bad video game review channels.

[@FrostTheRedeemed]

Note this games failure is mostly the publishers fault. Iguanabee was given 1 year to make it and was forced to come up with story themselves with the only directions coming from gamemill being "skull island, king kong". Funnily enough, gamemill is known for milling out trash tier games, like rise of kong and the walking dead destinies.

[@Macrusader]

I mean, it's in their name: GAME MILL

[@valivali8104]

Wasn’t it one year?

[@FrostTheRedeemed]

@@valivali8104 you are right. I guess i should have refreshed my memory before posting my comment. Thanks for the correction.

[@valivali8104]

@@FrostTheRedeemed even one year was too little time, and having too little time was main point 👍

[@gracekim25]

this is mentioned in the video

[@Ars-Nova258]

Rerez + Recent Awful Game = I’M HERE AT LIGHT SPEED!!!

[@stelomation]

I’m beginning to think GameMill is the reincarnation of LJN. I mean think about. Both companies typically get usually talented developers, rushes them, and aggressively releases trash games. Oh, and they snatch up almost every popular licensed property they can get their hands on!

[@KamenRiderGumo]

The difference is that LJN actually out out a game or two that was fairly decent. JAWS on the NES was actually a lot of fun.

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

LJN werent developers, they were just publishers... which is why ive always felt the modern equivalent of Laughin' Jokin' Numbnuts would be Activision

[@Yuli_Ban]

@@thepolarphantasm2319 GameMill is also a publisher.

[@Yuli_Ban]

I used to say that the "Modern LJN" had to be the now-defunct Data Design Interactive, but I'm seriously thinking GameMill is vying for that title.

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

@@Yuli_Ban for a while we had one guy- fella named Gilson B. Pontes- who was on track to be an LJN of One

[@NirielWinx]

GameMill almost killed me. I worked on NHRA Speed for All, by Team6. I was putting 12--16 h a day with no weekend or vacation, because we were understaffed (we lost half our programmers, the sound guy and all the testers that year) and the requirements kept changing. I ended up requiring emergency open heart surgery. After which I was let go because I "couldn't deal with the pressure". Do not work for a studio who works for GameMill. The executives, HR and team leaders are safe, but everybody else will be ground to paste. Because GameMill asks for too much and doesn't pay the studios. Edit for all the people who say I did it to myself. We had over ten artists, about ten producers, five programmers, and only one physicist: me. For a game that relied heavily upon physics. The entire game was on my shoulders.

[@crazyluigi6664]

I think I could tell for the comparison of What Lies In The Multiverse againgst Iguanabees' two GameMill titles, but thanks for the firsthand confirmation at hand here!

[@Gatorade69]

Hope you are doing better friend. It's not nice being worked to near death, while I'm not in game dev I had a similar experience of being pushed too hard, ending up in the hospital and not getting paid. Hope things have turned around for you.

[@NirielWinx]

@@Gatorade69 > It's been 18 months. I'm still alive and still have a roof. That's all the happy ending I can offer.

[@megamix5403]

Sorry to hear that. :( I love your pfp btw

[@expendableindigo9639]

I’m sorry.

[@shinyagumon7015]

I'm so glad you talked about the weird scale of the game world because this was instantly bugging me. King Kong looks way too small here, even if we go by his smallest canonical height. I get that you have to make compromises between having a cool giant ape as the player character and having an open world that still makes a bit of sense scale-wise, but still, he's tiny compared to everything else on this supposed island. I don't think teasing you with unlockable abilities in the Tutorial is that bad; Metroid does that almost every time too, but the big difference is obviously that it has a functioning map and great level design that reward exploration and makes you want to regain all these abilities instead of making you feel frustrated at the fact that you can't access most of the level suddenly. Also the irony of a publisher calling themselves Game Mill being mostly known for churning out subpar licensed games is so funny. You can't make that up.

[@massgunner4152]

About the last part, that's not irony, it's fitting.

[@saturniidspectre]

Psychonauts did the same thing with Basic Braining

[@benmalsky9834]

Not all of their licensed games are subpar, I will always be a defender of the Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl games.

[@FriendTaren]

If I’m not mistaken, a god of war did something similar, too. Tell me if I’m wrong though, i never played it.

[@Theonionofthedisneyjuniorlore]

Imagine making a game so bad that a video ranting about it has to be AN HOUR LONG

[@shadowsonshadowson3929]

Sonic the Hedgehog (2006) and KZbinr TheGreatClement went on a seven video rant that lasted three hours total…

[@epicfunnygexfan3582]

Imagine making a game so bad, that a youtube channel dedicated to bad video games makes it’s LONGEST EVER video about you

[@lvl90dru1d]

uh, duke nukem forever?

[@lvl90dru1d]

@redbulbuniverseyes

[@exocolt15]

@@lvl90dru1dDuke is different. There’s a lot more to unpack with what was an icon like duke and the fall from grace vs something like this

[@TheGhostbusterfan]

Ya know. The concept of a game where you play as a young Kong slowly making his way to the top of the food chain on Skull Island. Sounds really fun. Too bad the developers had twenty bucks and a long weekend.

[@ladyabaxa]

Twenty bucks and a long weekend would likely have resulted in a better game because it would be short and tightly focused.

[@TheSimba86]

1:23 King Kong sniffing his two fingers after touching her LOL

[@AwakenedAvocado]

Smells like fish

[@9Godslayer]

That Kong puppet for the musical was really impressive.

[@malachitep4276]

I actually want to watch just to see that thing in action tbh

[@Larkatiel]

i was lucky enough to actually see it on broadway, it was as amazing as it looked.

[@alexkogan9755]

King Kong deserves much better than this. The old Xbox 360 Peter Jackson game was diamond plated gold compared to this thing. Godzilla also deserves a proper new game too instead of being left for cameos on other titles and whatever the heck that one PlayStation 4 game was trying to be.

[@bassram3337]

it was released on PS2, Xbox, Gamecube, PC it wasn't an Xbox 360 game

[@GHOST-zy3ji]

@@bassram3337it was release on 360 as well

[@bassram3337]

@@GHOST-zy3ji yes but still, it was a 6th gen game

[@RagnarTheGrey]

That PS4 game was more of a photo mode with an annoying minigame attatched that you had to play to unlock characters

[@fuzzydude64]

The PS4 Godzilla has tons of potential; the kaiju themselves look great, great sound, solid animation and weight, *being* the monster is inherently fun. All the criticism is valid though; Everyone but Godzilla has an extremely limited move-set with no expansion options, the campaign is criminally short with very limited re-playability, the size mechanic is heavily unbalanced, and of course *THE GENERATORS*. I think it holds potential to match or even surpass the Pipeworks trilogy. In any case, what we got was not that. It's sad because the dev obviously had the skill and passion. They only needed the time and budget. Edit: For the record: I did have fun with it! I enjoyed my time with it a lot for a few weeks! Even come back to it occasionally, just for one of the best (albeit rare) reps of Biollante, my favorite Kaiju! Still fun to control her on this and Unleashed. I liked it, but it's not exactly good overall. It just has so tantalizingly sweet untapped potential that I can't help but want more

[@0dayswithoutincident934]

I love how Team 6 Game Studios is becoming the LJN of Rerez.

[@crazyluigi6664]

For racing games, at least.

[@chackbro1]

One of my favorite things about this series is how in-depth it goes. No stone goes unturned with these two jokers

[@Yuli_Ban]

I always felt their comedy was a little "eh, hit or miss," kind of aiming for the "early 2000s fratboy" crowd at times, but definitely they are nothing if not thorough and do their research. For that, I have to commend them.

[@bhiett7448]

I remember rewatching the Worst Racing Games video you all did recently before this one came out, seeing Game Mill's name on Big Rigs was a huge surprise (and slightly not so surprising) after seeing their name everywhere lately pegged with bad games like this. It's crazy to imagine that they're still somehow publishing games so recently with that sort of track record on their backs. I feel like you could make an insane marathon of their games alone, but then again considering how long this one is by itself, you would probably lose your minds lol

[@zeldagameryt4018]

I knew this was going to be on the channel one day. Either this, Gollum, Quest for Balance, or Walking Dead Destinies. 2023 was just filled with Gollum-likes. Edit: I just got an idea for the next JBG video, Silent Hill Homecoming. A game that is basically key jiggling for Silent Hill fans

[@goufr3540]

Gollum-likes should be a new genre, it will make dollars.

[@KesGaming]

It's hard to believe I've been watching this series since there were only four or five videos, and now there are 50. Great work guys!

[@general_wanobi2973]

53:20 bruh, the tail broke as it was swinging mid cutscene 💀

[@FlameLFH]

@3:08 That's the result of a technique called dynamic resolution scaling, used in many Switch games to keep framerates consistent. I guess in this case, the game is swapping resolution so often to the point of distraction.

[@HannahHearsAWho]

Ooo, this one is gonna be a doozy

[@thomasruglioni1589]

Do mario party the top 100

[@robbiewalker2831]

2:27: the TV Show on the left is by the same people that gave us those stop-motion holiday specials; in fact, Rankin-Bass use to be under “Videocraft International”. The King Kong series features an alternate universe that starts with the events of the movie happening, but King Kong is alive, and joined by an audience surrogate boy, with more adventures happening. 2:37: That's because, funny enough, Donkey Kong was not based on King Kong at all. If you remember, Miyamoto based the Donkey Kong game on Popeye, as it was originally planned to make a game based on the Popeye short "A Dream Walking", hence why the game took place at a construction site. Also, the reason Nintendo's Gorilla is called "Donkey Kong" is because Miyamoto wanted a name to catch the attention of American audiences, using words to describe a stubborn gorilla, a "Donkey" "Kong", if you will; in fact, in Japan, Kong is used as a word for a Gorilla. The only reason Nintendo got into a lawsuit is because Universal, who thought they owned the rights to King Kong, thought Donkey Kong was infringing on King Kong, when they published the license for a Tiger Electronics game called "King Kong"; this Donkey Kong ripoff has King Kong tossing Bombs, at a Firefighter who jumps over them, climbing the Empire State Building to rescue a blonde woman. Long story short, Nintendo won the court case with the help of a lawyer named John Kirby, and Donkey Kong continues on existing. 16:00: “It is a good shrubbery.”

[@ultimapower6950]

NI

[@BlazeHeartPanther]

Love me some old Rankin/Bass holiday specials. Had no idea they did a King Kong series. Was that before, during, or after their stop-motion special spree?

[@SlapstickGenius23]

@@BlazeHeartPanther during the stop motion spree. It was also animated by Toei doga of DBZ, sailor moon and one piece fame for budget reasons.

[@robbiewalker2831]

@@BlazeHeartPanther probably before their holiday special spree, since back then, they were under the name of “Videocraft International”, which Rudolph was also produced under.

[@salinium]

Fun fact: King Kong was TECHNICALLY a book before a movie, a tie-in novel based off the screenplay was released in 1932, a few months before the actual movie 😅

[@MrSkerpentine]

Reminder that GameMill is the same publisher that gave the world Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing

[@derekstronf1837]

Oh Holy night...

[@qu1253]

I'm genuinely wondering if GameMill is just a front for a money laundering scheme.

[@DrBF3000]

Fun fact is, that was first test alpha build developers send to the publisher. Some time later, the developers find out that it was released as a finished game.

[@2Scribble]

Fun fact - watch the frigging video 😆

[@crazyluigi6664]

@@2Scribble AND ITS SEQUEL! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@leemcdonald1342]

Opitmus Primal: Well, that's just prime!

[@crazyluigi6664]

Is that a Phelous reference?

[@Reploid-dj9jc]

​@@crazyluigi6664 nah optimus primal was a character from Transformers Beast wars , it was basically his catch phrase saying Well that's just prime

[@crazyluigi6664]

@@Reploid-dj9jc Of course it was that. I said that because I remember Phelous used that clip himself a few times also.

[@leemcdonald1342]

@@crazyluigi6664 I honestly forgot Phelous using Optimus Primal's quote. Forgive me for not responding to your initial reply.

[@crazyluigi6664]

@@leemcdonald1342 Heh, it's all good, man. Just glad that someone else knew what I was getting at there. ;)

[@Darkmage1293]

This game is so bad, when the second spider boss fight glitched out? MY INTERNET CRASHED AND THE VIDEO FROZE. I laughed my ass off at the timing.

[@starcat1234]

when you presented that clip of the Kong animated series it just gave me a rush of nostalgia, i watched and loved that show a few years back, god the memories 🥲

[@Wnick1996]

You know it's a gem of a bad game and a royal screw up to the license when Kong feels like a regular gorilla. Also, for a suggestion for future games, might I suggest either Revenge of The Flying Dutchman, Gollem, or YIIK

[@jasonjones7461]

Yes haha revenge of the flying dutchnan 😂. Have you ever played or heard of the survival horror Wii game "Escape from bug island"? I keep requesting that in hopes they'll cover it. It's dialogue and story are baffling. The way you use weapons is so convoluted and it's just functional enough to make for a truly great video haha. It's one of those games that could have had potential but it's all executed with extreme incompetence. It falls into the so bad it's good category for me but most ppl think it's JUST BAD so it would def work in this channel

[@Wnick1996]

@@jasonjones7461 I've heard of it a long time ago. Would love to see it covered as it's not talked about as much online

[@Channeleven2345789]

Why Revenge of the Flying Dutchman? It’s not good but certainly not worth an episode, especially when you realize the developers went through hell making it.

[@Wnick1996]

@@Channeleven2345789 perhaps, but maybe it can be put in a compilation episode similar to the bad racing games. The reason I want it covered is that I had a personal experience with it on the PS2. Call it bias, but since I don't see people cover the game as much as it should, I feel it's worth of coverage

[@monhi64]

I had to look up what revenge of the Flying Dutchman was only to see pictures of at least two obviously different games. I can’t believe there are more SpongeBob games that have multiple games under the same title, like battle for bikini bottom. Hopefully there’s more in common than battle for bikini bottom

[@sticklyboi]

honestly gamemill itself could get its own video in this series theres a lot to unpack there

[@_Twink]

"Gamemill, it's in the -game- Name."

[@AugustTheNinjaGR360]

This channel is such an underrated banger overall. I have been tuning into this channel since 2016/2017 and it is surprisingly still extremely fun, funny, and entertaining as hell.

[@scout9593]

Rise of Kong is like if Kong himself tried to program a game

[@phoenixsnilloc995]

Even he could make a better game than this.

[@josetomascamposrobledano4618]

Didn’t know Scott the woz and what happened dude were buddies!

[@skynet0912]

Despite how little nostalgia i have for the Kong franchise now, i watched the first two episodes of the 1966 shows countless times back when my dad had an old VHS tape with them back in like 1992. I haven't cared for Kong in over 30 years now, but those two episodes still stick with me to this day for some strange reason, and ONLY those two episodes...

[@thechosenjuan8776]

i fuckin love how funny you two are together in every video you make, its gotta be a hard thing to pull off consistently

[@enigma5613]

Yessss! I'm so glad you guys covered this game. Could you please do walking dead destinies or gollum

[@pristineeevee]

“The clock has stop ticking, The hell are you waiting for?” Is a sentence this game goes by

[@tursilion]

Thank you for persevering all the way through these games so we can enjoy them. ;)

[@Shard-the-hegehog]

If that version of Kong thought Godzilla, Godzilla would had already won😂

[@emmajade9507]

I’m so glad there is finally a new video up, sadly I bought this game. I didn’t know how bad it could be, how hard can it be to make a game about an giant ape fighting other monsters on an island be? Answer, pretty darn hard.

[@oizikosandras7249]

Ima be honest, i thought that swamp was oil and said "Why is there oil in the water? THERES NO PEOPLE TO DRILL FOR IT!!!" only to get cut off mid yell to hear that very flammable looking liquid is just water.🤣

[@oizikosandras7249]

@@SatanenPerkele I know, it's deep underground, not just chilling on the surface water, you gotta drill pretty deep for it tho... You don't just turn a corner and "Oh hey I better not drink this water it's loaded with oil"

[@oizikosandras7249]

@@SatanenPerkele huh... I actually didn't know that. Prolly makes a long way up irl, but I doubt the devs were thinking that for this game though if that's "normal" boggy swamp water.

[@akhimahathir2004]

35:50 Adam: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 35:55 Adam: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO😭

[@RocketRoosterFilms]

Adam and Shane, Thank you for using your talents to make this incredible hour of comedy.

[@JustSomeKittenwithaGun]

I thought it was one guy doing two voices as a joke

[@Kyntteri]

40:06 "Stones shall not hurt me?" -Morphman

[@solgaleo3533]

I mean, the idea of having all the abilities unlocked in the tutorial where you play as a different character who would logically be more experienced than the character we play as for most of the game makes sense

[@JOHANNESwhoelse]

It's still horribly paced.

[@massgunner4152]

Metroid prime did this, but Metroid prime is a good game.

[@anothenblue2630]

​@@massgunner4152 you don't switch to a different character there and the first game was absolutely terrible with the excuse given. You get a light tap and all of your high tech armor is downgraded to hell. This never happens before or after that incident. At least Echoes had the Ing literally steal everything while the suit in the third game had to be modified due to your corruption. Objectively, Rise of Kong explains losing all of your stuff a hundred times better than MP1. It's still a weird choice when you don't even have many upgrades, but I'll take that over minor injury resetting everything.

[@massgunner4152]

@@anothenblue2630 i mean failing to explain the first time Samust starts with no -bitches- upgrades doesn't completely ruin the game.

[@anothenblue2630]

@@massgunner4152 it doesn't ruin the game, but it's still really stupid and the game would be better off just starting you with nothing like Super Metroid and Metroid II. Don't give an explanation if it's gonna be a stupid one.

[@tazgirl_]

I saw the title and got so worried you covered the beauty that was the Peter Jackson King Kong game for the GameCube

[@nahomgirma5095]

Not even Rerez could trashtalk about that underrated gem.

[@tazgirl_]

@@nahomgirma5095The jaw cracking scenes genuinely made me cover my eyes when I played it as a kid, it was so well made

[@Giran_0]

You can't bad talk that game Five magazines on backup

[@nahomgirma5095]

@@Giran_0 Except the Nintendo DS port. That was hot garbage.

[@tazgirl_]

@@Giran_0 I still sometimes hear those lines the director would shout in my dreams. They payed for 3 lines of dialogue and by god were they gonna use them

[@SuperVoodude]

I greatly anticipated hearing about the background of the game's development when starting the video, but nothing could have prepared me to hear about the... "illustrious" and all-too-familiar background of the publisher. Great video!

[@Akursedtime]

I was at a Gamestop and saw this game and just started laughing beause it was right next to Balan Wonderworld and Gollum.

[@Reploid-dj9jc]

Wow the workers actually tried to warn their customers by placing them together

[@Akursedtime]

​@@Reploid-dj9jcThe unholy trinity lol

[@IbadGrammarX]

glad you guys still made just bad game series

[@Totavier]

Kind surprised that the game had many crabs as enemies. And still you guys didn't make a "giant enemy crab" joke, what a missed opportunity.

[@Popebug]

Let's be honest, most viewers weren't even alive in 2006.

[@Totavier]

​@@Popebug Same I could say with 1933. After all we are talking about a game based on a very old IP. 😂

[@zyzzy-ko4ww]

@@Totavier Speaking of very old IPs, not even Greek mythology deserves this sort of mistreatment.

[@ScourgePrimal]

"We have a Kong at home, Kong." Probably the best description of this game. XD

[@andreworders7305]

36:01 even the name betrays that

[@WhiskeyPieSometimes]

I've seen other people cover this game but I love how you all give us the full, detailed breakdown of every aspect. It's like I can taste the rotten instead of merely smelling it.

[@AimlessAvian]

I am somehow surprised that this game didn’t topple the developers and close their studios down like The Day Before did, however if you research these developers, they’ve made a lot of games like this. They do not care. Anyways hello Rerez! I hope you’ll get over the emotional turmoil this game brought. Edit: I’ve just realized yeah this is Game Mill studios, and I forgot about those two other games they’ve made that was horrible. Doing some research neither GameMill *NOR* Team6 has Rise of Kong on their games page. They’re trying to hide the fact they’ve made awful games. Edit to the edit: Iguanabee was the developer so they have the game on their site, they’ve just put the publishing rights on Team6 and GameMill.

[@Ukiby3000]

"Daddy Kong, gone. Baby Kong, inconsolable!" had me rolling on the floor laughing, way too funny XD

[@c-puff]

What really sucks is the expressions that Kong model pulls are pretty good, and a lot of the concept art is really great. Some talented people worked on this trash and I genuinely feel sorry for the devs and artists.

[@MrAweeze]

Saw new Rerez in my feed, exclaimed "nice!", realized it was an hour and in a high pitched voice exclaimed that fact immediately afterwards.

[@AmyStrikesBack]

I was going to say "i saw roblox games preattier than this" but thats a disservice to roblox devs

[@lightsupportweapon]

fr. phantom forces looks almost like a real flagship fps on maximum graphics, if only my pc handled it

[@AmyStrikesBack]

@@lightsupportweapon yea, im still impressed with the amount of detail in the empty shotgun shells

[@thefancydoge8668]

I never understood why people keep using Roblox for comparisons, Roblox has so many different kinds of games that it's basically impossible to use it as a comparison. While there are games that look like crappy plastic but at the same time, there are games that look amazing and look better than some triple a games nowadays.

[@AmyStrikesBack]

@@thefancydoge8668 YEA! honestly a Lot of people that criticized Roblox never actually used the engine or used but activly went after the bad stuff

[@HolyLich]

I love how thorough you are, Rerez. Always a treat.

[@StarryKnightPinkle]

Hey Rerez! I loved watching your videos! ❤ Especially Burglar X your first Just Bad Games video, a classic! Speaking of obscure games, you should check out Spectral Tower, the first RPG made by Idea Factory, a Company known for making terrible RPGs, it has the worst game mechanics known to man, I don’t want to say too much to ruin the surprise, but it definitely deserves to be on Just Bad Games! I would to see you guys play it and hear your funny reactions and edits! ❤🎉

[@Rightchickenwing]

24:37 it's giving you a taste of the awesome Kong that you will be once all levelled up, except games like Metroid do this thing well 😂

[@selkrasouza6262]

It's criminal that this channel doesn't have at least a million subscribers.

[@JonFloFPV]

There’s something cathartic about Rerez’s descent into madness that is Just Bad Games. Maybe it’s our way of letting our money ghost finally rest in peace…. Especially after spending $39.99 on Absolute Zero (the pc game)

[@newcourier7446]

Y’all actually reviewed this

[@zoeledwards6617]

Seems like so. I hope they can recover from just bad game.

[@knightryder11]

Well it was "Just a bad game"

[@jamesbevan9939]

Rise of Kong? More like... rising dong, amirite? At least this video got me interested in playing "What Lies in the Multiverse"

[@10191927]

Considering this was in the same year as Gollum it was a contest of what game was worse to pick from.

[@_SYDGAMING_]

26:42 Damn didnt think I'd hear Scarlet Fire here

[@isVion]

So THAT'S why my headphones exploded

[@MarieAntoon]

Speaking of GameMill, guess what else they made last year... "Walking Dead: Destinies"! They're a gift that keeps on giving you guys material for Just Bad Games! Whee!!

[@leedisley5243]

19:53 "mum can I get kong" "no we have kong at home" Kong at home:

[@TheDorkKnight5419]

Get Hercules and batman in on that dance.

[@JustYourLocalGuyWhoPostClips]

0:27 AYYYYYY IT'S GODZILLA!!!!!

[@Darkfreed0m]

It's like the developers forgot that King Kong ist a giant.

[@alexworld8255]

Worth noting that GameMill also published the Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl games, Smash-like platform fighters both developed by Ludosity and Fair Play Labs, and those games are actually pretty fun. Goes to show that you don't judge a game based on their publisher.

[@Yuli_Ban]

Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing alone devalues anything good GameMill has ever done, and that's not much.

[@killdozer7792]

True, but (and I speak as someone who's played both games) evidently, the first game was extremely rushed. No idea if this was because of GameMill or Nickelodeon, but it was released with many things absent that you'd probably expect from a Smash-like game, such as the option to have items or (like the first two Nick Kart Racers) any voice acting. Ludosity/FPL did add both of these later on, but still... Luckily, Nick Brawl 2 was certainly more polished in that aspect.

[@alexworld8255]

@@killdozer7792 Yeah I can tell the first one was rushed. It was good and fun for what it was, and the quality of life patches did make it feel a lot more complete. I think 2 was rushed a bit as well, which is probably why a whopping 11 characters from the first one were axed, but it still feels a lot more polished overall.

[@alexworld8255]

@@Yuli_Ban Yeah, the devs of NASB really need a new publisher. GameMill's not good.

[@zyzzy-ko4ww]

@@Yuli_Ban Forget GameMill, Big Rigs is so glitchy it was probably programmed by the Glitch Gremlin.

[@RTSFirebatYT]

I only wish I could edit videos like these two do. Outstanding work and this channel deserve more subs and views.

[@supersp9450]

Wake up honey, new Just Bad Games out.

[@POOPSmith-i1u]

Definitely your best video to date! And I'm so proud there was not one banana joke.

[@RasputinReview]

pop-ins during the cut scene? in 2023? ITS RAW!

[@philtkaswahl2124]

I;ve been waiting for Rerez to get to this game, and now we're here faster than I thought. With an hour-long vid too. Gotta love it.

[@crazyluigi6664]

Next game up, Gollum...

[@Scratchman2501]

1:44 How ironic is it that I'm *literally* learning about the Great Depression in High School

[@49gamer51]

Fun fact about the first gaw fight you are correct about the fight being scripted footage I saw always die to him and never actually deal any real damage to him however I actually find it really interesting that the game did have a Fail-Safe but hey it's interesting I've seen a lot of games have a failsafe for those battles that you're meant to lose however some of those battles that you're meant to lose to don't have such a state in fact actually have an alternative ending

[@49gamer51]

Also I never knew there was an update for the PC version of the game however one benefit about PC games is that they can be modded

[@BladeMaster360]

Finally i was waiting for this video when i saw gameplay of the game it was bad but than i thought rerez is definitely going to upload a video about this game and after waiting and thinking this video wasn't going to come out it came out

[@Fay7666]

22:22 how did they not think about saying "So there's this giant enemy crab"

[@DrErikNefarious]

Godzilla is never going to let Kong live this one down

[@Na7ure]

I believe those white squiggly lines that go off in the distance when he roars are supposed to be birds flying off startled from his roar

[@cheesysealAnon]

Nice for you to review one of the more recent games. Maybe you could do Gollum or Redfall next.

[@crazyluigi6664]

Did you watch the Suicide Squad game stream? If so, what was their reaction to it?

[@cheesysealAnon]

@@crazyluigi6664 no I haven't this is the first time I heard

[@julcaos]

Ivé seen many other reviews, but this was the best by far. Great video guys! What if they made a GOD vs KING video game?

[@thefancydoge8668]

Kong: Refund Island

[@breadpanda8429]

It was only a matter of time. Also, I see that Shovel Knight Treasure Trove chilling there. Big respect

[@Just-Plain-Potential]

I remember when Jedi Outcast pulled the "You must lose this fight" beat, but you had only guns while Desann had a light saber and was a SITH. (I later found out by using the cheats that he is invincible in this fight and you have to die to progress. There's also a bug there that can sometimes freeze the game, but that I believe was fixed). Point is, I've seen that done FAR better in a game 21 years older than Skull Island. Also, frozen waterfall? In 2023? I saw a flowing waterfall in Outwars 1998. Yeah it was a pixelated texture mapped onto a curved 2D plane, but, that thing was moving. There is no excuse here, cos I'm pretty sure thr Switch is more powerful than a machine running on Win98.

[@Rad-Dude63andathird]

GoW 2 also does it pretty well and it even properly teases the player with what being at full power is like in the game, then stripping it away. Pretty hard to fight back against a god when you've just drained all your badass juice into a sword that just got smacked away from ya. That said, I remember one time playing through the start again, and I guess the disc was scratched _just right_ or something because instead of being in a weakened state during the Zeus fight, I could just go nuts on him and also discovered yeah, he's invincible lol. Still really funny to grind a major combo out on him while he very very low effort tries to kill you.

[@Just-Plain-Potential]

@@Rad-Dude63andathird You know, I had a VERY similar experience to that, years ago. I was playing Starfighter 3000 and the level Command and Control usually strips you of all your weapons, save for a level 2 laser (out of like ten levels), but I paused for a sec, then all my weapons came back. Let me tell you, fighting the boss "wheel stations" had never been so easy. They went down so fast. Shame it never happened again. That was so fun.

[@jamew85]

"Oh sweet! A new 'just bad games'! perfect to watch during supper" *sees playtime* "...well! Better get some dessert as well, I guess"

[@brandongovreau9218]

King Kong was a book first it went into public domain when the first movie came out in black and white

[@kameronbowden5040]

An hour long review! Thank you, based Rerez!

[@d3oth3tris48]

48:39-48:44 Kong being such a help consoling his enemies is something I really needed in this life TY Rerez! 😂

[@EdgeO419]

At least this game is a throwback to the endless licensed game trash we used to get back in the ps2 era.

[@bloopahVIII]

i have a feeling this publisher will throw *us* back into that era

[@assassin8636]

Nah, there were some really good gems with licensed games in that era

[@bloopahVIII]

@@assassin8636 while there were indeed *some* really good gems, for every battle for bikini bottom there's three jimmy neutron: boy geniuses (and there literally is three!)

[@zyzzy-ko4ww]

No list of "licensed game trash" would be complete without Dalmatians 3 or Snow White & The 7 Clever Boys or Animal Soccer World (or any such crazy formulaic fairy-tale-licensed "game" from Phoenix/Dingo/LJN/whatever, for that matter).

[@bloopahVIII]

@@zyzzy-ko4ww i'm very sure those were *un*licensed games

[@PhazonOmega]

I saw the GDQ speedrun of this game a couple days before this video came out, and was so psyched to see it! When a game can be beaten and broken in 30 minutes within a matter of days or immediately, yeah that's bad. XD