Stumbling through three Prince of Persia clones

[@Schnitzman]

Makh-Shevet was an Israeli videogame developer/distributor, they would mostly distribute translated version of videogames (most famously Loom).

[@VenturiLife]

That last one though.. haha... respectable effort.

[@tylisirn]

You know you're in bad company when the *homebrew* one is the most playable of the lot...

[@felipesuarez8145]

The ancient rumanian art of glitchfighting...

[@doxbogdan8801]

wwwhy?how?where? so many questions!

[@cischsr2794]

@@doxbogdan8801 zorro

[@therezinUK]

9:49 'People playtested this. People said "Yeah, that looks alright"' - brilliant.

[@TheBreakingBenny]

4:40 & 4:49 "No way!/Oof!" sound *is* from Doom, fun find! 18:17 Grenade throwing sound from Return to Castle Wolfenstein, btw the maker says he was a big fan of Prince of Persia and tried recreating it… and he even chose to use the crazy MIDIs from PoP2, which sound like shite on MPU-401 because of differences.

[@niceguy169]

Zorro, at 4:43, after the plus sign flipped once to dump you and then again when you walked through it, I wish you would have tried jumping straight up, see if it would flip again and lift you up onto it. And in Cruel World it took you that long to notice the red skeleton wasn't attacking? LOL! I figure he's there to let you figure out how fighting works.

[@superkimsay]

the homebrew one was actually quite good to the other ones ;)

[@DavidXNewton]

Yes, it was really good! I think it got the idea of Prince of Persia much more than the others did.

[@NinjaNezumi]

In the old DOS days, V was often used to reset the vertical sync if there was some glitchyness nonsense.

[@Ginto_O]

I remember seeing 16:55 when i was young i was laughing so hard. When i saw the title "cruel world" i immediately remembered that particular trap and was waiting for you to experience that

[@adorablerainbowfist]

Would love to see more of these.

[@helmetluigi]

12:35 lol I can imagine him like Peter Griffin hurting his knee

[@TheRoook]

20:27 lmao

[@C.K.Turner]

Would love to see a video where you when through some good clones. Flashback and Blackthorne were among the better ones I that I remember.

[@Saxdude26]

I will say the music in Cruel World STILL gives me mad vibes of Shadow of the Beast's caverns in the music department.

[@91Coolepinguin]

I thought that you would play Nosferatu on SNES

[@TheBreakingBenny]

I've begun playing Zorro after finding it on The Iso Zone, it's damn crazy because of how strict the detection is for catching ledges, let alone doing running jumps! (Thank god at least the F1 key gave me a guide) But it's still about as glitchy as Prince of Persia 2 on SNES, which the people at Titus Software must've thought was properly tested. At least Abe from Oddworld, Conrad from Flashback, and even Kyle Blackthorne (from Blackthorne, duh) only had to be concerned about being in the right spot to properly jump.

[@DavidXNewton]

That's right, the people who made Zorro were able to make something that looked like Prince, but absolutely couldn't make it feel good!

[@TheBreakingBenny]

As a final touch, the ending is simply being kicked back to DOS. There's not much of a congratulatory message from Capstone, aside from the credits showing who made this game before the company went under. The music (by Bobby Prince!) and "The Game of Z" is pretty nice though, and the FMVs are okay.

[@sridrawings4510]

Your prince of persia1 and 2 content videos is very interesting to watch

[@Selrahcbal]

That was a great video. Thanks for the laughs. Love it.

[@spinningchrysalis4061]

18:28 cracks me up.

[@lancebaylis3169]

The trial and error gameplay reminds me of Rick Dangerous. Except that game had enough charm to actually make you forgive it for being blatantly unfair.

[@MidoseitoAkage]

4:41 did Zorro made the Doomguy UNGNH?

[@olds86307]

yea

[@teh_supar_hackr]

I remember the Nasferatu, and the zoro games. The Zoro one I did'int even bother trying as I heard about the first screen and thinking it was impossible.

[@C.K.Turner]

So I bought zorro as a kid, I believe I beat it, though I remember being very disappointed that there were photos on the box art of areas and special moves not included in the game. It also had some FMV cut scenes that I'm sure have aged really well ;)

[@boriskondratev1704]

I've some time with those "Zorro" and "Cruel World" PoP clones. Even had some progress in "Cruel World" cause to level selection. I think its "N" and "M" on keyboard. Also, my PoP-clones search gave me "Nosferatu" on SNES (via emulation, cause its limited regional release or something) and this thing - "Death by Dark Shadows" kzbin.info/www/bejne/nGjagHycjN-trpY Well, not so many PoP-clones after all - this sub-genre is hard to master. It's great we got "Another World" ("Out of This World"), "Flashback", "Blackthorn" ("Blackhawk") and "Bermuda Syndrome"! And this sub-genre grown into "Fade to Black" and "Tomb Raider" which born the new genre - Action/Adventure. Just finished "Shadow of the Tomb Raider" couple of weeks ago. Still feels this PoP platforming vibes. Some people complaining about "meaningless" DLC's with tombs and traps - common, tricky platforming puzzles are never enough))

[@nangld]

The "my first gamemaker project" prince is apparently the best of them all.

[@tree_alone]

lol the story of cruel world: NO LOITERING

[@vegitoblue2187]

21:36 this does look awfully familar from back when I was 12 or something. Probably used game maker

[@kloakovalimonada]

The running animation in the last one looks like Sekiro's!

[@aliendrone]

Thanks ! I had a memory of my brothers playing Cruel World, and i couldn't remember nothing about that game except that it was pretty much like Prince of Persia, but i remember the blue monster that came out of nowhere ! Been bothering me for years haha !

[@glamonails7666]

can't handle the pressure of the game anymore! JUMP! SAVE YOURSELF!

[@DavidXNewton]

Hah, that's exactly what happened - I didn't want to get another massive shock from that zombie thing :)

[@Qoko88]

Ffs I don't know why I'm watching this at 2:30AM but I haven't laughed this hard in a while, cheers😁

[@gk_tonic7843]

Love the commentary xD hilariously funny video

[@Seventeen_Seconds]

Watching this 7 years later but having a great laugh anyway! Just wondered...do you ever play another world or flashback?? Different developer from prince obviously but it's no secret they openly took their ideas from our beloved POP. Be interesting to know your thoughts.

[@SteveFusionX]

lol funny stuff. Love the boulder appearing out of no-where. These games inspired the dark souls creators? :)

[@ameyas7726]

You weren't supposed to kill the skeleton at the start...he was your friend just following you!

[@SpaceHearts160]

Oh my goodness, Zoro costume. Oh my.

[@soulsparx]

castlevania dawn of zorro

[@garnhamr]

doom noises are all over the place

[@MosoKaiser]

Not that surprising, Doom used *a lot* of sound effects pulled from effects library CDs.

[@garnhamr]

@@MosoKaiser Makes sense. It's the door noises and death cries. Just every now and then I'm like 'IT'S DOOM!' in my head :)

[@TeaAndFloppyDisks]

That's the farthest I've seen anyone get in the Zorro game. :D

[@DavidXNewton]

Hah, yes - it’s so broken and unplayable! There’s a playthrough floating around here where the settings go into a desert, a fortress and a jungle of some kind… it even looks like some of the levels aren’t in the correct order, maybe they never expected anyone to get that far

[@TheBreakingBenny]

@@DavidXNewton Going by the FMVs, the jungle and prison sections are not sensible considering Zorro's being taken to meet the "new" governor Anabella "Cutty Tsar"... Capstone Software is the studio described as "The Pinnacle of Breaking [Civvie11]'s Balls".

[@19Szabolcs91]

The third one actually isn't that bad, especially for a one-person project. I made a game once and know how hard it is to make it feel even remotely good. The other two are utter trash though, they are nonsense troll "games".

[@bimapringgo]

Anyone ever played Blackthorne? It's like Prince of Persia but with shotguns instead of swords.

[@jokesterthemighty227]

Blackthorne was made by Blizzard so there's a lot of people that played it ( :

[@thegardenofeatin5965]

That Zorro game, man that era of DOS games. Or the era just before it, when computers really sucked. My father had this Indiana Jones game, and it was TERRIBLE. It wasn't the Lucas Arts one, it was this piece of shit: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZ-no2RtZrBmmqc

[@MrZillas]

I used the skip-button to make 5-seconds-jumps on your video. Whenever I did that, you were falling or dieing. lol

[@DavidXNewton]

Sounds about right :)

[@olds86307]

@@DavidXNewton btw, there was a button that showed the controlls on zorro

[@LunDruid]

That first one is the answer to why Zorro isn't more popular these days.

[@cobalfrostwyrm]

Actually the zorro one is an update of the c64 zorro game. that one was horrible too.

[@Czyszy]

Is your logo inspired by ZZT?

[@DavidXNewton]

It is! The white-on-blue smiley face that starred in so many adventures by so many people :)

[@josephfrye7342]

If only there is a manual for it

[@josephfrye7342]

But eh i think prince of persia clones has a an engine formula

[@NinjaNezumi]

That last game actually has promise, all it needs as a skilled pixel artist. :D

[@pixelsnek4819]

I love this 🤣🤣🤣💔

[@blerygriltt206]

The first two seem like a failure of level design more than anything! Obviously the engine is not as good as the thing it's imitating, but the level design is inexplicable.

[@DavidXNewton]

They’re bizarre, aren’t they - like the levels were randomly generated and they just chose the ones that just about worked!

[@fRikimaru1974]

Quite funny 🤣

[@segaalltimer4143]

Interclude 😂😂😂😂😂.

[@rodrigoconstantine9381]

Perfect 😂