Steel Harbinger Eats People - Just Bad Games

[@Lycanthrokeith]

An old friend once described this game to me as such: "The opening cinematics are nice, and were apparently designed as an apology for the rest of the game."

[@izukumidoriyaisssss3049]

Bruh

[@lesliejen6644]

I (dont) agree

[@pyroflare7774]

​@@lesliejen6644LAZINESS

[@jaygooese4242]

Very close

[@1111-e4p]

I kinda wish they had scrapped the whole video game idea and just made a low-budget, sci fi horror movie.

[@flyingfish1138]

??? Yes

[@Fate263]

Agreed... I mean, this is... wow...

[@benb3316]

They probably spent enough to do it...

[@v00idless72]

@YaboiFenneko you tearing me apart

[@luisreyes1963]

As if "Sharknado" wasn't trashy enough. 🤢

[@OrgaNik_Music]

Tons and tons of youtubers review crappy games, and they're always the same ones. I'm really glad you guys are digging a bit deeper and doing stuff most people have already forgotten.

[@BenBlackEquinoxEngelhard]

Yes, they are the same because... that's what they do.

[@Horrible_Hoarder]

Rerez and snes drunk are fresh!

[@Xayjohns]

I hadn't heard of any of these games

[@KasumiRINA]

I think it's called "just bad games" because those are games that are... just bad. Instead of being hilariously ridiculous LGN trash that AVGN and his disciples review.

[@jolfer1334]

Already forgotten?.....how about never even heard of?

[@creativeusername7951]

"That's not how an earpiece works!" Hey, who said she was using an earpiece? Maybe those headworms have some superpowered psi-de effects.

[@DEMENTO01]

LOL

[@kesiaird8974]

Zachary Jarocki r/boneappletea

[@retrocademediaofficial]

@@kesiaird8974 r/wooosh

[@agedd4c424]

@@kesiaird8974 its a play on words.

[@gracekim1998]

@@retrocademediaofficial you are so annoying

[@TheShadesOfBlack]

Im gonna argue here, all of that FMV footage was pure GOLD, and the art design seems pretty awesome. Too bad the core gameplay doesnt stand up

[@trailersic]

Yeah only problem I see with it is the gameplay stuff like the restricted view and lack of map indicators. Any criticism of the in game FMV seems a bit mean when this came out the same year as Wing Commander which had a budget of $12m which was extreme at the time and was the sequel in a very popular game franchise. I'd be surprised if this had more than a couple of million all in for everything Game and FMV included.

[@trancerobot]

I bet the developers had more fun making this than the players ever did.

[@giornogiovanna7316]

That wouldn't be hard

[@cowbatboots282]

Well yeah, the players didn't make the game.

[@izukumidoriyaisssss3049]

Bruh

[@KingStr0ng]

@@cowbatboots282 R/woosh

[@FlameLFH]

Honestly I'll bet the devs had a fun time making this game, not caring that it's bad

[@Limbbiscuit]

2:12 Little jimmy looks having so much fun here

[@Nov-5062]

I'm sorry but I can't hate this game. I can't hate this amount of 90's cheese.

[@reagandow850]

Nov 5062 - dude...it’s pretty bad though. ;)

[@TheTinman1996]

@@reagandow850 I doubt Nov 5062 was unaware :)

[@stillthekid333]

As if 90s cheese is somehow superior to current cheese

[@GamerBoy870]

Brie and SJWS that cheese enough

[@DCNRS90YT]

I like any kind of cheese

[@blakewayside8517]

"The Axe Of Science" Sounds like something bill Nye would use to explain lumberjacks jobs

[@dr.hugog.hackenbush9443]

Bill Nye is an engineer, not a scientist. Dolph Lundgren is more of a scientist than Bill Nye.

[@notapplicable6985]

@@dr.hugog.hackenbush9443 He didn't call him a scientist.

[@jacobc8036]

Lime Light more like a weapon you would get in a video game after you complete a certain side mission. “You obtained ‘Dr.John’s Axe of Science’.” Or something like that.

[@tylern6420]

Lime Light is a roblox user

[@blakewayside8517]

@@tylern6420 correct

[@lilicat9687]

6:18 The pump Jack part made me laugh so hard, something about the way they move followed by the ultimate question: “can you EAT the pump Jack”!

[@budderpecan4185]

10:36 Is... that guy using a pizza cutter as a microphone?

[@DEMENTO01]

i tHINK SO LMAOOOO

[@MeatEatingVegan777]

He really wanted to cut up his pizza, but got caught off guard and decided to use his pizza cutter as a mic.

[@Ikes_online_video_space_78]

That seems to be a flat microphone it just looks like a pizza cutter so to the cutscene being compressed

[@goatlick21]

i think so

[@BAKU2K2]

At first glance, I misread it as "Steel Hamburger".

[@subzero8679]

I'd rather eat a steel hamburger than play this game.

[@lipstickzombie4981]

With the main character's buns always mooning you, I'm not surprised.

[@remyrichardson2741]

Robo-Sandvich in a nutshell.

[@JHenry-nz7hy]

A steel hamburger would've made a better game than this

[@areyousureyouenteredyourna85]

Eating a steel hamburger sounds painful.

[@TheBigDynamo]

This just screams 90s. The CGI, the references and even how you guys put it all together. It's just too funny to hate! It is a bad game, but besides that, I bet they had a little bit of laughs putting this together. I'd prefer this being a really bad sci fi film that got lost in the rankings.

[@neothurmic3780]

"I've got an idea, let's take the tonal dissonance of RoboCop and Starship troopers, to show a world lied to and manipulated to cope with the horror of the situation at hand, and you have a conflicted hero, half human half alien who can only survive by eating the flesh of the humans she must fight to save." "Wow, that sounds amazing, how do we write something that's secretly that hard but sounds easy?" "My 7 year old is stuck home with a head injury, should be able to knock it out in an afternoon."

[@Bannandorf]

I never thought I'd see this game again, at some point I had assumed it was a fever dream but thank you for proving it's existence and it's terribleness.

[@Spock1777]

This is made by the same people who made Lego Island.

[@absolutewanker4391]

How did the guys that made this game could make something more better and great then this junk?

[@scottthewaterwarrior]

Yup, that game is similarly cheesy, but the gameplay is actually good. Still, I kinda want this game now. Wonder if it uses the R and L buttons for anything important? If not I think it would be great fun with friends and my DDR mats, lol!

[@absolutewanker4391]

@@scottthewaterwarrior you do have a point mister.

[@ZiddersRooFurry]

@@scottthewaterwarrior They move the camera in and out. Something this review left out is that with the camera fully pulled back you can see enemies approaching from far away.

[@ECWPlays]

@@absolutewanker4391 That is what I was thinking!

[@Xayjohns]

Steel Harbinger: fake commercials. Nba 2k19: REAL commercials.

[@ilikecurry2345]

They glued gummi worms to his head!

[@jaypostromboli-jpgamertv-457]

What commercials are in this game?

[@notatrollll]

JPgamerTV did....did you watch the video?

[@Mateus_Carvalho]

...Well, I'll be damned. Someone found a way to make the real commercials be tolerable in comparison.

[@Daminite]

Now I just want to see all of the cutscenes together. This game looks like it could have been a cheesterpiece of it was more playable.

[@koopakape]

The game itself, the bizarre camera / graphics / low-texture-low-poly early PS1 nature, and the insane enemies and design in general, mixed with the off-the-wall hyperactive over-editing and the truly maddening decision to have two guys go back and forth every single sentence off a script for the narration, plus the fact that one of those guys is putting every iota of his strength into this cartoonishly extreme over-acting voice, all combines as I watch this in the middle of the night to make me feel I'm well and truly losing my goddamn mind.

[@wolfetteplays8894]

Same

[@JanoyCresvaZero]

“In the footage you’re about to see, farmer Wilma Johnson is being attacked by a cow. Fortunately, her husband Zeb was there to capture the tragedy on video.” lol and fast forward to 2021, where people will allow a child to be mauled as long as they capture the event in 4K. Seems Metal Harbinger was pretty far ahead of its time!

[@otaking3582]

I'd play this game just for the pump jack. Almost as magnificent as Cheesey's teapot enemy.

[@GiordanDiodato]

I say throw it in the trash and play Loaded

[@GitraSilvermane]

My unlce owned a Pawn shop in the late 90's and let my dad borrow games from it for me to play. This was one of them. Even at the age of 9, when I didn't really know what makes a game good and bad, even I knew this game was bad.

[@davejavu4806]

Got a 7.2/10 from Gamespot by the way.

[@EarthboundX]

1996 Gamespot must have been very different, haha.

[@silvergoldgaming4354]

How did they give it such a good review?

[@Xayjohns]

WHAT LOL?

[@QuichePotatoes]

probably because of the hilariously bad cutscenes in the game

[@QuichePotatoes]

@@silvergoldgaming4354 the cutscenes are so bad that they are goood that they probably listed it as the only reason for getting it since you know, youtube didn't exist back so some brave solider who could buy the game and then get all the cutscenes and upload to youtube for all to see and laugh at without spending a single cent couldn't do that

[@willpitts5223]

0:38 "Many lives are lost...stupidly." First World War in a nutshell.

[@aortaplatinum]

Damn, I've never thought a game could be described as campy, not even Resident Evil. This actually seems like it would be enjoyable even if just for how weird and jank it is, like watching a b-horror movie. I'd look for a physical copy if they weren't so expensive, gotta emulate this some time.

[@FarzynoMusic]

An edible enemy pump jack is probably the most random thing I've ever seen in a video game

[@justanotheryoutubechannel]

The adverts and some of the FMV cutscenes seriously feel like some of them would fit perfectly into something like Not For Broadcast, it’s that same kind of cheesy bad comedy which is just amazing.

[@Crazy_Borg]

oh no, they fused the two bad things together for maximum effect: Bad FMV acting with terrible early 3D graphics. We're doomed!

[@BlackBeWhite2k7]

I owned Bubsy 3d, fantastic four AND Iron Man: Heavy metal on ps1...and I never heard of this game in my life

[@SsnakeBite]

"We don't know! And we don't CARE!" - How very Ashens of you, Rerez.

[@mhfiver2441]

As an Ashens fan, I couldn't agree more.

[@swinelias]

I just read this comment as soon as that sentence came up.

[@the1stwing]

"And that folks is what happens when you eat a Pizza Pocket fresh from the microwave." As someone who has done that, I can confirm.

[@Orpheusftw]

Joke's on you. I just ordered a copy.

[@DEMENTO01]

wHERE?

[@SuddenElephant]

Yo I thought you left KZbin

[@Choatemister]

You just wait until Hollywood reboots this.

[@ashkitt7719]

ngl this game looks dumb in a good way, the way Birdemic might be

[@v00idless72]

And combine it with the mcu

[@prismstudios001]

SciFi channel, here we come!

[@Mr.Substitute]

If this was done right it could be good

[@mackjones7688]

With as stale as the movie industry is. They might actually consider rebooting this. Steel Harbinger could do a collaboration with predator!

[@Kr0nicDragon]

This is the kind of game you see in a movie when they show someone playing a game.

[@scottthewaterwarrior]

Mindscape? They made LEGO Island! I'm kinda surprised they made too, since LEGO Island is freaking legit!

[@kamildrews3517]

A full year BEFORE LEGO Island, as a matter of fact. Who knew?

[@chadandroid]

Had this back in the day from a bargain bin....I had tons of fun with it and its frikin hilarious! Best bad game i ever had... im glad someone dug this one up... i highly recommend this if you like "bad" games! They forgot to mention if you stand still...a laser from space chases you down!

[@officebreakgaming1555]

Yeah man, I still love playing this game. I usually go though it once a year or so for nostalgia purposes. Being a 90s kid was great!

[@current9300]

I actually really like this game's aesthetics. It seems like unapologizing over the top homage to old timey bad scifi. Too bad the game around it is bad, and environmental design is terrible.

[@LordGagamog]

I loved this game when it came out, it was a pure cheesefest…man, I miss the 90's.

[@electricarc6377]

The 90’s were better than the 2000’s.

[@gabrielboorom6196]

Man, "take your daughter to work day" really backfired! This why you *don't tap on the glass!*

[@FainthedCherry]

Knock knock.....

[@countraven8934]

You guys made me actually want to play this game!

[@NickBush24]

9:48 Clearly this game accurately predicted the future.

[@jaysonpressley8642]

The Axe of Science. Not even 2 minutes in and I damn near choked on my dinner laughing at you idiots. I love this freaking channel.

[@prodseyno]

if this is how Area 51 is gonna be, i’m gonna be genuinely disappointed.

[@Anijah2001]

Lol

[@flyingfish1138]

Souper_ Sonic see you there, comrade

[@warlordofvideogameglitches]

Better run with that Naruto run stance because even usain bolt can't run faster than bullets

[@DEMENTO01]

LMFAOOOO

[@FainthedCherry]

S o u p

[@sefzxm6486]

holy shit, i wish i could of seen this "pitch" meeting, i would even settle with a "written log" of that day... a-m-a-z-i-n-g

[@PixelGameSquad]

Dude fantastic editing and flow guys 👍👍👍

[@wraithwolf007]

How have I never heard of this? This review alone makes me want to play this schlock.

[@jamcalx]

Dr.Bowen is played by Edward Albert, who was also the voice of Daredevil in 90s Spider-man TAS and Mr. Collins, the father of Time Force Red Power Ranger Wes Collins.

[@robbiewalker2831]

5:57: why is it that I’m now thinking of Kent Mansley’s comment about the Iron Giant being made by Canadians? “You think this metal man is fun, but who built it? The Russians? The Chinese? The Martians? Canadians? I DON'T CARE!”

[@BloominFleury29]

Lol

[@TheSektorz]

Rerez is the only youtuber whose yelling is actually funny edit: oh come on, those little live-action skits were probably considered hilarious in the 90's

[@JoeyDoesStuff1120]

AVGN: am I a joke to you?

[@Anijah2001]

Angry Joe :I'm a joke to you

[@NightmareLyra]

I feel if this was a movie instead of a game it would be a beloved cult classic

[@edward9487]

Thanks for covering lesser known material - and more properly covering it. Especially in an entertaining way.

[@StockImagesMan08]

3:46 The Canadian disco ball of death, eh?

[@SpikePlaysOficial]

Wow, I had this game for (literally) days, a friend of mine lent me some of his psx games ages ago. You reminded me of this horror, but this time was fun because I wasn't the one playing xDDD Great video :) I enjoyed it.

[@Warm_Summer_Rain]

Those FMV scenes are gold, should be preserved for their cultural significance.

[@exodous02]

I didn't even know those were called 'pump jacks'. Is that their real name?

[@rerez]

We looked it up and yes that was the name. I always used to call them oil pumpies.

[@friendlyfire2615]

The other types are called Oil derricks I’m pretty sure.

[@jadedheartsz]

@@rerez huh you learn something new every day

[@lazy7660]

Those cutscenes are legendary to me.

[@natejoe9924]

Yes I had this game I didn't pay for it it was given to me

[@Xayjohns]

Lol you had to say that as a disclaimer

[@oz_jones]

Who hated you that much?

[@senpaicity3334]

What did you do to that person to let them give this game to you?

[@djoshawott2850]

Most likely still too much.

[@thenifell]

The comments in your replies are sad. Someone (who likely doesn't know much about games) bought you a game, because they wanted to do something nice for someone they care about, and all these people can say is "durr, they hate you!" Horrible. I assume it was a grandparent or parent who is video game illiterate and they just wanted to please a child. Shitty game, or not, whoever was considerate enough to do that for you, is cool in my books.

[@zackdow361]

Lol! The Canadian Disco Ball of Death, Eh still has me rolling around on the floor

[@lonewolffang]

7:21-7:36 🤣🤣🤣🤣 You can feel the frustration.

[@MrHeathcliff5]

1:39 My reaction to the final design of the main protagonist

[@DerpityDerpz1]

The scream at 9:10 sounds oddly familiar...wait..no way! That same clip is used in Happy Wheels for some of the screaming women!

[@TheTinman1996]

1:50 Love the comparison of the makeup appearance to that of Sharpie scribblings XD

[@SilentCheesedude]

This game was hilarious! It was meant to be bad and cheesy. Bought it for 10 bucks and didn't regret it. I didn't have half the problems you guys had. Loved every second of it.

[@saltymisfit6566]

The funny thing is had this been made in the '80s as a low budget sci-fi horror film it would probably have a cult following, cosplayers everywhere, and demand for a Blu-ray release right now

[@fusionspace175]

I had no idea that Dethklok made the most metal PS1 game ever.

[@Komplexitet]

Haha that worm commercial was funny as hell! Reminds me a little bit of the satire in Robocop and Starship Troopers.

[@jasonscarborough94]

When you really screw up in X-Com

[@ZeusTheIrritable]

It's like the 90's threw up into a game disc.

[@PANZERFAUST90]

10:27 *tentical* difficulties

[@crowmigration8245]

I dont remember dropping acid but I guess I must have

[@aaronbarratt4063]

First ps1 game i ever owned as it came bundled with a secondhand console. So glad i got final fantasy vii for Christmas that year.

[@krimsonklaww611]

Cow: *shits land mines* Steel Harbinger: "I have achieved *COMEDI* "

[@anasbakhit4303]

I used to have a ps1 and been all over it and never heard of this game in my life until this video...

[@emmastarr5242]

Say what you want, but I'm sure the devs had an absolute blast making this. I'd honestly have loved to see how some of their meetings went. :P

[@HersheyHemi]

I WOULD say drugs where taken when making this game. But there aren't enough drugs in the galaxy to think of this!

[@AmberLB93]

THE PUMP JACK ENEMY FUCKING KILLED ME, THE WAY IT RUNS SO GRACEFULLY best game just for that enemy

[@lenhamasaki8869]

Its just bad series is really awesome! Please make more!

[@guybrush1701]

"Shouldn't be too hard to find in a world where BODY PARTS ARE TOSSED AROUND LIKE *SPRINKLES ON A BIRTHDAY CAKE!!!*" I'm rolling at how he said that. 🤣

[@michaelsaunders1400]

0:00 Intro 0:33 Story 2:36 You can't change the camera angle other than zoomed in and zoomed out 3:28 Weapons 4:11 Enemies 4:37 Killing Humans 5:06 Eating 5:41 Enemies (Pt 2) 6:34 Fetch Quest 8:24 Saving 8:42 Cutscenes

[@jaynukem1929]

If they could just improve the gameplay, this game would be a CULT CLASSIC!!!

[@MeatEatingVegan777]

This game makes it look like you're wandering around on an RPG overworld map.

[@SpaceLordLono]

The tone of this game is something I want in my life.

[@jstyxx4110]

2:26 No, that’s when you cook a Hot Pocket TM* for 10 minutes and somehow can eat it

[@albireotheredguard1599]

The Steel Harbinger is Kirby's Spiritual Cousin!

[@supermegazeldaland]

Ummm the DNA loading screen is kinda cool...

[@DammitIvaldi]

I remember this game being so much fun (even though i died repeatedly as a kid).. I lost my copy a long time ago, but was trying to remember what it was, and could only remember "hot chick on cover". Finally found it after hours of sifting through PS1 game lists.. and now that i watch this it saddens me to see exactly how bad it was xD

[@grizzlehatchet1]

The scientist daughter looks like Travolta in that awful space movie he did lol

[@shawnfields2369]

Ah, you mean "Battlefield Earth", right? Yeah, I agree.

[@alliekingsley7919]

Oh my god, this game uses 3d assets from Poser. The main girl is the original Poser 3 Posette with a freebie hairstyle. They literally rendered their main character in a variety of angles and poses then turned it into a 2d sprite to put in the game. That's why you can't turn the camera, because it would be too complex for their simple 2d model faking 3d.

[@Ryusuta]

Not gonna lie, I actually kinda got a chuckle out of the cutscenes.

[@TestAcct46]

3:46 THE CANADIAN DISCO BALL OF DEATH EH

[@StephanS]

"Human killed" is the new "Where did you learn to fly?"

[@SmeddyTooBestChannel]

If the gameplay didn't seem so cumbersome, I would say this looks fucking amazing lmao

[@galloe8933]

It's the horrible game play that brings you in but it's the digital T&A that keeps brining you back.

[@SouthwesternEagle]

This game was praised by Electronic Gaming Monthly, GameSpot, and Next Generation with a 7.2/10 rating overall. This game was supposed to be stupid. The '90s were a (mostly) carefree and silly time in America. :)

[@ironox8480]

I' had blissfully forgotten this mess. Thanks, that's for reminding me that this, this was a thing.

[@bloodrunsclear]

I absolutely love the FMVs

[@SylveonTrapito]

Thank you for letting me know this game. I love these 90s nosense live action. So bad it' s actually amazing.

[@DarthBobCat]

If this game was competent, it'd be hilarious in a sort of oddball way. I enjoy the tone and weirdness of some of the enemy choices and the random cut scenes.

[@Gamesta100]

The father in this game is a proper actor. He's in stuff like Twin Peaks and I think he was one of the bad guys in Die Hard 2 or 3.

[@Guntherson220]

8:07 *Microtransactions!* The truest evil in this world!