You should of called war on it but it might be in the history books knowing that means that calling war on it would make future kids die (even if the game lost and died so quickly that it was useless to have it in history it still would be known and kill everyone)
Jekyll storytime: My friend rented this game for his sleepover birthday party in the summer of 1988. It was ALL the entertainment we had for the ENTIRE night. Less than 1 minute into the ENTIRE night, we got insta-killed as Hyde by the lightning bolt. We just looked at each other. We honestly thought the game had glitched. So we blew into the cartridge, reset, tried again, and the exact same thing happened. The 5th time. The 10th time. We had no idea why we were being instantly killed without getting to do anything. No internet to look it up. The videostore was already closed. The absolute horror set in that this was it for the ENTIRE night. Imagine that fucking feeling.
When I was a kid, my dad had a coworker he traded NES games with. One day dad trades Metal Gear for Dr. Jekyll. I still give him shit for it, 25 years later.
I totally lost it when he said: "Is church going to be any better? Is the priest going to throw candles at him? Is Jesus going to come off the cross and start hitting him with it?"
For everyone who wanted to know about puppy dogs in France in 1951. I think AVGN was referring to an infamous bout of ergotism, a kind of acute dementia brought on by eating foods infected by a particular fungus, and it produces similar symptoms in dogs, a syndrome called "canine fright." Ostensibly, many people, and dogs, came down with "madness" in a particular French town in 1951 due to the way they were treating their bread.
I think it get it. The monsters when your Hyde are the towns people. The towns people are killing him because when he turns into Hyde, he sees them as monsters and kills them. That how I'm going to try and explain it.
But from repeated stress attacks, and how many times the player controls Hyde, you would think the townspeople would know how to properly deal with it. If stress or death makes Jekyll turn into Hyde... Yeah, you get it. Townspeople just simply hate Jekyll.
You could actually argue that the AVGN represents the hyde of Jame's Rolfe. Rolfe has a loving family and is a great person while the nerd is barbaric and aggressive. Not only that but while Rolfe deals with the confines of the rules of humanity the AVGN is celebrated for his anger and malevoncence! The AVGN is a way for Rolfe to release his anger and other dark emotions so he can better deal with the confining rules of society.
In may 2021, it has officially been more years that AVGN existed (17 years) than Dr. Jekyl and Mister Hide (1988 - 16 years) existed by the time of that 2004 review. So if AVGN just started today, a similarly nostalgic game for him would be San Andreas or Halo 2.
Looked up at some of the character descriptions. "And mysterious man who shows up and drops a bomb when least expected" Shouldn't the towns people hunt that guy down instead?
I actually got some a few weeks ago and wanted to Google it but I got so summer I started phasing in and out of Mandela effect universes and forgot what the quite was so I said screw it & smoked another bowl... And started watching the Earthbound video
@@Keithustus That's pretty sweet, those versions are not available anymore. They had to remove a lot of copyrighted footage and music from their videos at one point. The Ghostbusters reviews had the actual Ghostbusters song for example.
I once saw this “game” in a old game store and I walked up to the owner and asked if I could destroy the game for 20$ and he said sure I got a hammer in the back. That was my good deed for humanity that day.
That might be in the series finale. At the start of the series, the Nerd had 3 banes of existence: Simon's Quest, Jekyll & Hyde, and LJN. As of today, he's forgiven LJN and Simon's Quest, so if he can ever bring himself to forgive Jekyll & Hyde, then it would be all over.
And to this day, the citizens of Tokyo still run in terror as Godzilla almost blows the entire island if Japan because he is still mad about how Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde came into existance.
+scottski02 Oh my fucking GOD, THIS! Seriously, why the hell do English teachers try to interpret a book and then state their interpretation as FACT?! Good thing this isn't the middle ages or else we'd have more Bible situations on hand...
+Jesse GD That is mainly due that many people who teach high school finally get a chance to use the subjective voice, rather than the professional/academic objective voice.
+scottski02 There's a time in my school when the author of one of my school's literature book came to visit. We asked him what a certain line (the curtains were a melancholy dark shade of blue) meant. Our teacher immediately began to scold us, saying that she had already taught us that it meant that he was depressed and seeing even mundane objects in a negative light. The author immediately said: "I didn't mean all that bullshit, I meant the curtains were fucking blue.".
+Desmond Ng That story's pretty old, besides the original doesn't say "melancholy dark". You ruined the point of the original story by adding that bit, because if the author actually uses those words then he clearly meant to say more than the color of the curtains.
Admit it though. We'd all hit Justin Bieber with a cane if we could. Also, advantage, she's a painless way to turn into Hyde. So she's....actually a medkit. That takes forever to work.
Turning into Hyde from time to time is necessary to get the good ending. Oddly enough, the only level that Hyde is allowed to overtake Jeckyl (and needs to) is 6 and you can't reach the singing lady in that level to hit her.
James considers this the pinnacle of the AVGN, and rightfully so. This episode is simply a masterpiece, even more so because it is fueled by a personal vendetta of James' against this game. There might objectively be worse "games" out there (like Tiger games or filth like Hong Kong '97), but this is, without a doubt, the game James and the AVGN both hate the most, due to personal reasons. I always found that bad games you have a personal history with are much more fun to tear a new one than games you have never played before, and I think this holds true for the AVGN episodes, as well. The best ones are those where James has personal reason to hate the games he plays, like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; Ghostbusters; Back to the Future and so on.
DraculaCronqvist It's my all time favourite episode. It's the sheer futility of attempting to play an unplayable game mixed with the inherent hilarity of the Nerd being flipped off by Robert Louis Stephenson's remains!
He said he considered it the worst game of all times...except if you consider "PLumblers Dont Wear Ties", in that case, that would be the worst. I think there are worse games than this (like Superman 64), but as you said, there is something personal here, James HATES this game.
maybe he was thinking artistically and was like HELL YEAH!!! Let's toast them turdy games! I think regardless of what was played in it, it's a unique and fun nintendo 'mod' that has gotten him quite a bit of fame for his craftsmanship. I mean it is pretty awesome looking regardless good / filth played on it :D :D :D Didn't you want one when you saw it? :P *(i did)*
HEY AVGN I'M JUST A FRIEND WITH A FRIENDLY TIP. JUMP OVER THE BOMB IT WILL MISS YOU 100% OF THE TIME. THE HIT DETECTION IS ON THE GROUND😺🤘 WHEN AS THE CREATURE GET MUCH COINS AND SURVIVE YOU COME BACK TO WHERE YOU STARTED. THE COINS ARE FOR THE SINGING LADY PAY HER SHE'LL STOP SINGING
@@legrandgougoulilumine6940 No alcohol lol. Frustration of this game made me map out the hit boxes for detection. I measured the reach And drew on my television screen the long-range of the bomb when it goes off and it's time that the bomb recovers basically the recovery time like you would do playing a fighting game like Street Fighter. Dr. Jekyll Jump covers half of the measurements before he lands indicating your chances of 25% being hit by the bomb I also mapped out the bomb detection it's hitbox is formed like an L. Jumping back will give you the full effect the only way to go is forward I tried plenty of methods to avoid the strike
Having only just seen the 1932 movie of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, I can see where the game drew its inspiration from. Considering what the Nerd looks like when he changes into Hyde, he must have noticed the similarities as well.
MannyMMA Reminds me of how people react to Witcher 3. clearly over-rated and eveyones is giving it a 10/10 ... should be 6/10 thus outside the reach of AVGN but still
Some people's bodies can not accept the bomb vaccines so they intentionally get themselves injured and burned to build up an immunity, to which the Twofort Bomb Charity helps them with. I give generously to them every paycheck.
It's inverted perception. Hyde is watching Jekyll, Jekyll is watching Hyde. Hyde wants Jekyll to lose control and it's why Jekyll is utterly powerless. Jekyll struggles to not lose control, and when he does, he stops to struggle with Hyde. Playing as Hyde is actually taking place while Jekyll is moving. Jekyll, as Hyde, fights off his paranoia and evil intents in order to keep Hyde at bay. If Hyde catches up to Jekyll, Jekyll doesn't regain control, and Hyde leaves the mental realm to take control. What you're seeing when the lightning strikes is Jekyll loosing control over Hyde. However, if Jekyll regains control, he fights off Hyde and continues his trek.
Based on the Angry Video Game Nerd's breakdown of his least favourite rainbow (guess which episode), the NES version of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde was programmed by a bunch of Laughing Joking Numbnuts who also ruined not only the NES and Sega Genesis versions of Back To The Future but also Hotel Mario and three Zelda CDi games too many.
It'd be funny if the ending was like the one in Bugs Bunny's Birthday Blowout. " All of Dr. Jekyll's friends came up to him at the church and laughed. They were playing a joke for him as he travelled to his wedding."
I want this game to be a punishment. For what, you ask? Imagine a high school class. Now, imagine a kid that isn't paying attention. Every kid that doesn't pay attention in class has to play the game and make a presentation on it two weeks later. The presentation must explain what each thing in the game represents, symbolically and/or realistically. This would make kids pay attention in class more.
That statue taking a piss isn't so weird for me. There is one in a garden in my neighborhood that literally has one. For the name of God, I'm not joking.
