Oh man, this brings back memories! I was 10 at the time and Bruce Willis was still riding high from The Fifth Element. A friend's older brother rented it, but we never did beat it. Ugh those damn lava jumps!
Beat this game this weekend and I had a good time with it. Great memories from playing it when I was younger but not sure if I ever finished it so nice to wrap up that chapter. Pretty damn fun
Great review! Recently found your channel through your Warhawk review and binged all your content, really dig your style. As for Apocalypse, been meaning to play it for a while, shame to hear about the platforming though, seems like a weird design choice to focus on it when the action seems so well done
I never beat this game because I didn’t have a memory card, but I would consistently get to the platform level with the lava floor and always die It was a very fun game
Great videos! I found you when looking to reminisce about Loaded then wanted to watch all the other reviews you have. I had forgotten about apocalypse. Seems like it held up. Maybe they should have given it a less generic name.
Yeah I use Duckstation. I have mixed feelings about it as I can capture the original hardware through RGB upscaled but in the end emulation is easier and looks better. PS1 emulation is just so good though and makes the graphics more palatable to modern audiences. But I may switch over at some point.
So like another commenter, I was also 10 and a massive Bruce Willis and Fifth Element fan. I played this game off and on for years after that. I genuinely loved this game and finally beat it as an adult when I realized you can actually use DualShock sticks. Oh and SOAD’s War showing up in the city level was single-handedly responsible for my musical tastes in middle school.
Yeah rooftops was my second big hold as a kid also. First one i couldnt get past was in third level, when you need to destroy 2 tanks and smaller one is coming at you. He would always come too close and burn me to death. And rooftops platforming at the end where you need diagonal jump with floor getting destroyed.
I use a scart cable to an OSSC. So the OSSC upscales the signal to 1080p and outputs to HDMI. However, I've been capturing footage with Duckstation, because it's easier....and I'm having issues losing signal to my capture device, which I haven't successfully fixed yet.
This is a topic I've definitely thought about and in the end I went with the content I would like to see, as far as what I'm able to produce (I have no idea what I'm doing). I know it's a niche scene and I'm in the minority. I still actively collect and play these old games way more than current ones and most of the channels I enjoy do not gain a mass following. But I do love Caddicarus' channel, for example. But I could never pull off what he does, and it's painful watching countless videos that try and fail.
