Danan the Jungle Fighter for Sega Master System - Review | hungrygoriya 

This is one of the games I got when I started collecting SMS games again, back in 1998. I hadn't heard good reviews about it at all, and I finally gave it a shot one rainy afternoon. I was able to beat the game on my first try, which felt great because I pretty much suck at videogames and I don't have the time or patience I used to have when I was a kid, so it was a great experience overall. Danan is now one of my favorite "unknown gems" for the SMS. Great accurate review and love your videos! :)

Those swimming sections are hilarious! Too much fun for mere mortals, haha.

"Linda is ...weird" Something about that delivery cracks me up

This seems like yet another game that would've driven me bonkers, but you calmly waltzed through and finished in beastly fashion. Great work, and another nice review :)

Great review! Always enjoy your Master System reviews. I actually do not have this one even though I am in a PAL country. It is a rarer game so it's a bit pricey. But I still will hopefully get it if the price is right.

This game was special to watch. I love your reviews.

One again, you pull out a Master System game I've never heard of, I love learning more about the system's library, even of this one ended up being a little mixed. It would have made an awesome early-90s manga tho. And I may have some insight into the out of place quotation marks: in Japanese text, especially in games at the time, it's common to use brackets like 「this」to denote important words or names, there really isn't a direct equal to this in English, so I feel the localization team subbed in quotation marks as the closest English equivalent [DISCLAIMER: I am not a native Japanese speaker, I am only studying the language, if I'm incorrect, someone please let me know]

Keep covering more master system! It’s hard to find quality videos like you put out on the master system!

The pixel art on this looks better than most early Genesis and SNES games, the SMS was terribly underrated.

Great review! I can't remember playing this game and now this is going to be played over the weekend. Thank you.

Glad to see a new vid uploaded! Seems like it's been awhile :D Also, I've never heard of this one, but I'm certain that the tunes in the first half of the vid were from wonderboy in monster land. Thanks for sharing!

Really nice sprite work on Danan!

WOW, I have not heard of this before. I thought I would of at least remember seeing the box before. Nice

Thanks for the entertaining and very funny review!

Great review of a game I've never heard of. Although the buff guy looks similar to Rastan, it doesn't seem quite as fun as that one.

You've gained a new subscriber! I can sure appreciate your love for the master system. Its the first console I've owned and only had the pack in game hang on / safari hunt. Its nice to see so many gems on your channel. During that time I wish I would have known about so many great titles, I only got games were twice a year birthdays & Christmas but shortly after Nintendo came over and took over in my house.

I really enjoy your reviews of these quirky games that I've never heard of. This one looks like a strange combination of Conan and Beastmaster...that's some 80s nostalgia overload! It took me many years to confront my bias of Sega games (grew up in a Nintendo family, lol)...I had no idea there were so many classics like this one. :)

I think the Master System definitely has some nifty gems in it's library. It still has a place in my heart along with the Saturn. I'd say in my gaming "Career" I probably completed only 20 games for the Platform originally. Unlike the couple hundred for the NES. It had great colors and a nifty music chip. Ahh...those were the days. I miss them, honestly. Great video! I'm really vibing with your channel and personality. RU-vid is great!

It's an action Platformer with a heavy amount of text and conversations that beefs up the story line to give you this false illusion that your character is in for one hell of a fight when in reality the game's ending and story fizzles out 5 times as quick as when the story opens in the beginning. I have not played Danan for a very long time but I had a go at it today and managed to just make it to the end in one sitting and finish it. I had only 1 health number remaining on my last try. I remembered with the stage 2 boss, (the Moralos Clan leader) there was a trick to hitting him, you have to jump over him and give him a slash otherwise he just blocks all your stabs with his battle shield. The stage 3 boss was easy, the guy that gave his life to Emperor Wolf in the ship, he swoops down every now and then for a free hit at him. It's an okay action/platformer probably rate it 6 out of 10, it's not a bad game but by no means is it great and it's fairly short.

I’ve had this picture for years, and wondered whether or not it was an actual screenshot from a real game or just something mocked up. It’s danan and Linda, with a text box that reads “life for life’s sake has no value without honour.” I always thought that was a really worthwhile thought, and I’ve used it in a variety of ways. I’m really excited to see not only where it originated from, but also that whoever made the game seems to have had more on their minds than just pounding out another simple action game. I really need to get some master system games together and finally give them a try!

Where do you get ypur patience haha. I play these games alot but ill die for a while on one and just continue it next week once its been a bit. Eventually I learn the game. Thats how I finally beat ninja Gaiden. You sit and just push through the frustration. Its super impressive. Thanks for these Hungry, love your reviews. : )

I never even heard about this game. Looks pretty great actually. Gotta check it out some day.

What i recently found out is that there are statues of the (Akkadian and Mesopotamian) demon Pazuzu. Also used in the Exorcist. Very weird addition in the final level of the game.

First hero I've seen in any media who mains a knife.

Played it all the time as a kid! At first i usually died on the first boss, and when i got better i always died on the second. I can't remember the third stage, so I can't have beaten him many times.

Great video! Thanks.

Another great video review. Ive subbed now so looking froward to more. And will check out more older videos. Looks a bit strange they went futuristic in this fantasy style game. Looks like a super hard game. I might not have the patients for this one.

Great stuff as usual :)

After a successful career as a jungle fighter, Danan would go on to found a yogurt empire

It's good to know Danan has a few animal buddies on his side. I like how the developers didn't do much to account for your characters larger size. Though I gotta say, A one shot run kinda feels stressful. At least it's not terribly long! Thanks for yet another game to consider getting!

Out of curiosity, do you feel this game might have been pitched as a Tarzan, or naybe even a Conan game? It just hits a lot of beats with both properties.

as a life long Tarzan fan this was one SMS game I had sought out, and I enjoyed it well enough but it has so many faults and was hard to find and rather expensive when you do. All those things combined put it in the "I like it but I can't recommend it" list

The song playing at the 5:22 mark is the same song from the Genesis version of Ghouls and Ghosts.

At first I got so frustrated with this game. I always ended up running in circles..finally beat it.It's a great game makes want to keep going. This console is full of good games. I love Golden Axe Warrior, such an awesome game as well. Really good video! Saludos, me suscribo!

Danan needs yoga, confirmed :-D Loved your review, thank you again for sharing this semi ridiculous game.

The lack of a distance attack is pretty frustrating, indeed. I've never heard of this one! Kinda seems like a weird cross between Astyanax and Castlevania. The graphics are actually pretty impressive! Tons of vibrant colors is no surprise for the SMS but the level of detail is quite awesome on the sprites! Nice review!

Oh man, I still have to play this one! I loved games like Astyanax, Valis and Rastan back in the day and I definitely still like playing 'em occasionally today, so I'm always looking for ones I've not heard of. In the last couple of years, I've played Cadash, Legendary Axe and Alisia Dragoon trying to find more of these types of games - if it's not a tedious indie Metroidvania, and it stars some badass fantasy warriors on an epic quest wherein they have to hack and slash their way through loads of magical creatures and monsters, I want to play it... even if it's not quite good enough to achieve "cult classic" status, like it sounds Danan doesn't. Still, it definitely seems good _enough_ to check out for for a retro fantasy action junkie like me. This and Dahna: Megami Tenjou are probably next on my sidescrolling fantasy hack-and-slash "To Get" list, so I'm glad this review reminded me it existed :)

Quotation marks are used in Japanese, and most Asian languages to mark important words, to tell the reader it's where they should focus. Like we in the West use bold fonts, or change text colour. Brackets [ ] are generally used in Japanese games, while in France thei use a stylezed quotation mark ‹‹ ›› , like those.

That pixel art looks nice, looks like it's from something stronger like the turbografx, or amiga/amstrad, the levels look simple but it's layout looks tight, not like the usual stuff you see master system or nes.

Danaan needs to take a yoga class for sure.

And again you present us with a new obscure game from the 80's. You are a wealth of good stuff! Thanks, girl!!

good call on the nes rambo music

Holy cow, look at that hitbox at 3:03! You were like 3 feet away from that guy - just the threat of being stabbed caused the bad guy to take damage! And of course, just before that, you stabbed someone and touched them with your hand while the knife is buried in the baddie's stomach - oops, that hurt you! With the huge swings in boss difficulty, it makes it seem like this was a school project that got last minute funding. Fun, but completely unpolished, and possibly based on a foundation that doesn't really make sense.

Looks like budget Conan... please give that man a sword! I recently purchased a SMS and it is great that you are one of the few youtubers covering it. As a fellow north american it is great fun to explore a system that was virtually non-existent when I was a little kid. Do you use the stock controllers? Both of my SMS d-pads are total mush, so I use a Genesis controller instead. Thanks for the great videos!

I was so pumped for this as a kid- nagged my dad into getting it as soon as it came out! Took it home, finished it on my first playthrough....was kinda super disappointed :\

We can imagine that Rastan is Conan, that Danan is Tarzan but where is Rahan? They have all the common points of having their names ending in "an" and that they are all three in their underwear.

I'll admit the name kind of made me think it wasn't going to be quite as layered when it came to its narrative. But that whole mechanic with its time kind of makes it feel like a poorer Wonderboy in Monsterland. At least in the sense that it's kind of interesting, but some of those mechanics (like the time limit) make it sound a tad painful to play when starting out (which you certainly highlighted). Who knows… maybe if I see it as a cheap find I'll check it out :)

I love how this game transition from fighting amazons in the jungle to fighiting nazis on a submarine. Not the best SMS game, but it was fun and enjoyable, I have fond memories of this. Have you ever tried Kenseiden? It's an action game with a samurai setting, I think you may like it.

That’s too bad I was hoping to move another great SMS game to the top of my list. I hate when your weapon is a tiny little knife. Thanks for the heads up lol

Trains harder get strong as Conan and specialized in pocket knives. Get girl in a red skirt to dig a hole to catch him (unwanted love interest?). The 1 life and tiny knife would've made me scream as a kid, a shame they never expanded it as it feels like a sword or ax might suit well. I also saw you stabbing amazons in the leg and that not even does damage?

Your voice over has really improved. I take it that this game has lousy music since I heard some Rambo and Ghouls'n Ghosts tunes in there. The graphics are great, but other than that, this game doesn't sound very good. When was it released?

After each mission, you are warned to not undergo the next course unless you have sufficient endurance. You'll have to start from the beginning of your last opportunity to save and, what's worse, points are deducted for not accomplishing the pass with your first try.

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I wonder with your comments about the game speed and the fact the vast majority of the master system's popularity was in Europe and Brazil (PAL regions) that the game was designed for PAL consoles and just sold to NTSC regions with little or no optimisation.

I had this game but i really did not like it at all. Good to see this for nostalgic purposes though. Thanks.

I played and finished this game and I liked it but I don't think I ever really understood the story or what the heck was going on 😂 Good game though

I don't like the fact that the game has a timer. It bugs me for some reason.

Danan was friends with many animals but only with these 3.... As many animals wanted Danan dead. 🤣 lmao

Another one of those games where you basically have a banana and the enemies have long shorts and range weapons. I have a much harder time playing games like this and Ghost N Goblins because of the no save feature all in 1 sitting.

It kind of give me a Rambo nes vibe.

Tarzan x Beastmaster?

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5:11 Is that Pazuzu!? That makes sense, because I found this game to be extremely hostile to the player. I think I played for maybe an hour and quit. I would rather play Rush n Attack.

in fairness, Danan looks like a guy who worked out so hard he's just a brick of muscle and has no flexibility. I can relate. Not to that tiny knife though. What self-respecting barbarian doesn't at least know how to do the underhand dagger stab?

Why oh why couldn't Rastan have these graphics. If you made Rastan into a game like this but polished it and finished it better than this game. Man, Just think of the legend Of Rastan Saga on Master System. Oh while we are at it put in some FM chip synthesis.

Looks mediocre at best. Why just a dagger lol Interesting to watch tho, I dont think this was released in Australia

Im going back thru your old reviews I havent seen yet. Hey, maybe itll boost the algorithm if I leave a comment! So - This looks kind of like a cruddy version of NES Rygar with even more annoying arcade features!