So Sketch managed to escape the comic book, with Alissa, who originated from the comic book, in tow. That pretty much means Sketch created his own real waifu.
Meta E. You do have a point (I mean, Sega by itself gave "treasures" like Golden-Axe: Beast Rider and Project Altered Beast). But Comix Zone was released in a time where beat-em ups became stale, and because of that, people never gave a chance to this one.
benomidfinger Very true, and Comix Zone was made of pure awesomeness. If it ever does happen, I hope they keep the original playstyle, rather than change it for the new-gen, because that's usually where all the badness comes from in the treatment.
Meta E. The game's pretty straightforward at heart. If it gets a remake that stays true to the original game's mechanics, like they did to, say, Double Dragon Neon, it could be a cool thing.
benomidfinger Yes and no. DDN had issues. It was a step down from DD3. I know that seems overly harsh, but if you consider how in-depth the combat system was for DD3 you might understand what I mean. More than anything it is simply fashionable to hate DD3. Getting off-topic here... anyway, as long as they aren't lazy about creating a good game engine and aren't focused on cash-grabbing like with DDN, a Comix Zone reboot would be a great idea.
Carter Pike well chances that you are transported to your comic without the "help" of mortus are low and so the chances of getting alissya out by herself without help of sketch or the nuke explosion
Yeah, I know he was alright in the good ending, it also mentioned him in the text afterwards. It's only in the Game Over sequence that he (mostly likely) dies.
So a comic book artist gets put into his comic book by his own OC, and if you beat the game with the good ending he leaves the book with another of his OCs and then they kiss? Sounds like something straight out of AO3 to me.
It is stated in the manual, in this "Artist's Profile" pannel that appears before the comic, that Sketch got the influence to draw his comic by some frightening nightmares. He even hints that Comix Zone may be really happening in another dimension or something. That means that the being Mortus (and/or Alissa) was already existing before Sketch started the comic, and Comix Zone serves somehow as a link for him with the real world. In such case there is no way that Sketch can recreate Alissa once she is dead. However it's not explained why Mortus needs to kill Sketch in order to gain a real body but Alissa doesn't. I can only think that if Sketch isn't killed, he will eventually reach the end of the story and stop Mortus from attacking the real world with a real body.
Martes draws so hard, he breaks a pencil every time and if you look in one of the cut scenes, there's only 4 pencils in a cup he already uses all of them spawning in minions and that's why they trap that person inside the nuke themself
Wondering when Banjo-Kazooie is gonna be in this list...I had to DIVE across the room to shut off the N64 whenever I save and quit the game before the Game Over movie played, even just the music gave me chills D:
The good guys in the comic have to make it to the end of the comic and succeed in order to escape, but the bad guy has to kill the hero to escape. think it as a comic logic, it kinda makes sense
I never knew that ending existed. Mortis just said "How could you let her drown?"And... nothing happened. My character was trapped on that last panel for eternity. I thought that was intentional.
Oh man, I love this game. Glad to see you've played it. Personally I've never been scared by this bad ending, since I thought it would be weird that a guy would relive all that just to bring his creation to life.
Man, I used to play Comix Zone on this epic Genesis remake think for the PlayStation 3, and I loved this game. The art style is epic, and the fighting mechanincs kick ass. What a brilliant game.
From what I understand, the health mechanic coming from Sketch destroying parts of the world is because he's now ink and paper, and henceforth part of the comic world. ...It was some explanation I read in the manual, and personally I think it's BS, but... As I recall, there was a mechanic in the game Sketch could use to tear off a piece of the background and fold it into a paper airplane to attack enemies with. Did some damage, but also took off a chunk of health upon doing it...
Thank you for this video! This game WAS a pain back in the day, and the GAME OVER did spook me when I was younger. Genesis games had that power to really make you feel bad that you didn't complete the game. We need more endings like that in today's games. And I agree that Alissa wasn't alive to begin with either. Maybe now he can create a hotter chick this time! LOL
I'm digging the creativity, art style and the rock music. And also the fact that kind of art manages on the SNES! I'll check this out. (Although I suck badly at platformers AND beat 'em ups.)
So far I've not played any of the games in this playlist of creepy bad endings, until this one, I didn't play much of this, but I can remember the menu screen very clearly, I have a Sega collection disc for ps2 and I'm pretty sure this game was in it somewhere, unfortunately you have to meet certain conditions in other games to even unlock this game to be playable, so I never got to it very often.
i think the reason the comic book doesn't get destroyed is because the nuke didn't have enough fuel to launch..and the nuke was required to destroy the comic book and alissa's empire hense why if u lose or the bad ending is achieved the rocket in both situations has enough fuel to be launched...while in the good ending..the prison gets opened and the fuel emptied..therefore no fuel to launch the nuke
The comic didnt get destroyed because it got sold, as said in the large stream of text. On a side note, how could he "re-live his adventure in hope of a better ending" if he burned his comic? Wouldn't he have to re-draw everything?
agreed. that occasional "hey" or "listen" or "look" or "watch out" with some simple dialouge isn't so bad, but Fi? oh my god, when she has something to say, she will NEVER just let you be. she has to give you an annoying beeping sound untill you answer, and when you do, she says something completeley obvious and slow paced!!! hey Fi! news flash! YOU'RE THE MOST ANNOYING SIDEKICK THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN!!! the only reason we need her is because she SOMETIMES actually helps. god, that's terrible.
I can't remember if Sonic Mega Collection was E or T rated. Ignore this if it is T rated, but if it is E, how? It included Comix Zone. So how is the rating possible?
I finished Comix Zone on the PS2 in the Sonic Mega Collection Plus, I needed save states to do it properly though. I finished it at about 6! But, now, to the main point of this comment. I never found the bad ending to Comix Zone creepy at all, I was also never enraged enough to go totally nuts. Maybe it's just me.
A curious thing about the JPN release... is the fact that the game gives you up to 5 extra lives compared to the extra 2 of the overseas versions (1-up each time you get to the next page).
Alissa:I'm drowning Sketch:Don't worry I save you but first let me smell my socks... Alissa:What? Sketch:hummm...Urgh this stinks I shoulld really wash them more times *puts socks and shoe in his feet again* Now where was I? Alissa: .... Sketch:Oh great...
3:30 I know it's probably for the sake of the video, but I do hope you know you're supposed to use the dynamite on that door. ...Which I guess you already showed on another door later in the vid, so yay. ;P Also, a Shoulder-bash (hold forward and attack while "pushing" against an object) breaks stuff faster with less damage to you. ...GAME TACTICS IN A STORYLINE OBSERVATION VIDEO AHOY :V
I remembered playing this game for the Sega Genesis classic atgames console a bunch of times. I was trying to get as far into the whole entire game as possible, but I kept getting the same ass game over screen over & over again... Remember This game has no extra lives. So if you die once, twice, or thrice... The game is all over
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I play this two years ago; but got the bad ending because i thought was going to be a simple fight. I really wasn't paying to any switches. I never played after i beat it because it was exhausted playing it normally; so i had to use cheat codes.
I always found the game over screen creepy, but it pales slightly in comparison with the Game Over and Endings in The Ooze, which I think you should do.
Six pages? What a short comic book! But lucky for Sketch he didn't draw manga, he'd be stuck in them a lot longer and have to do everything backwards! XD
I could never get the final boss to go to the lowest level to hit him with the rocket. He just stuck to the upper levels and refused to move. Sometimes literally. I think he somehow managed to get stuck or something, but who knows? I've tried the battle on multiple platforms, with different debug codes enabled, etc. But that jerk refuses to kill himself. How impolite.
It was a bit of a joke, although I do always hope any animals in movies survive to the end. (Honestly, I was just as happy as the Nostalgia Critic was when I found out Boomer lived until the end of Independence Day)
