Gungrave Overdose Review: Fixing What Wasn't Broke 

After seeing how much you praised the first game, hearing all of your dissapointments relating to the second game feels painful

From your descriptions, it sounds to me like the game might have originally intended for you to use all three characters in a single playthrough, and designed the levels accordingly. But then they changed it to how it is now (possibly to make the game technically three times longer), and never went and rebalanced the levels to work for every character.

I know you usually don't do show reviews but give the Gungrave anime a shot some time, I really liked the mafia parts even if the more sci-fi stuff from the games didnt fit all too well with it.

Juji and Billy are awesome characters though. This game had a lot of cool content but lackluster execution.

29:30 Cvit This rant about stop playing or caring about games that don't interest you is amazing. I am a massive game collector and some games are said to be good, but don't engage me, or I don't like the game play loop or genre. Playing something through just because you started it doesn't make sense anymore if you don't like it. Snatcher is one of the greatest visual novels ever, but when I got the emulator working I didn't enjoy it. $1000 for a copy I didn't spend is not enough for me to continue. Honestly one of the best decisions you ever made Cvit. It made my gaming experience 10x better.

I find it baffling that the voice acting for this game is this bad. Especially considering the anime's dub is great. I really want to know what happened during development

And so, this series was led to an early (Gun)grave.

For the bulldozer fights. You can lock onto their handles to take down the shovels. So you could damage them from the front. As for everything else, yeah I agree. I have no idea why people think overdose is better than the first

This game was certainly an odd experience when I first tried it, curious to see how the new title will turn out.

Cvit plz do everything wrong with yugioh gx season 3

I'll be real normally I like most of your reviews but this one comes off as you barely trying to learn the game or you just being flat out bad at it. A lot of your problems were just stuff I didn't run into. Day of the dead and its upgrades make a lot of the game's problems quite easy to deal with, like the helicopter for example.

How could the art in the briefing scenes be from the mangaka of Trigun? It's too boring.

The way you described the original Gungrave as "feeling like an arcade game you never heard of ported to consoles" reminded me why I like Sin & Punishment so much, it feels exactly like that and it's great.

Still better than G.O.R.E.

The studio that worked on the game and that was responsible for making the anime went bankrupt madhouse did the animation but bandi "namcoms old animation studio" went bankrupt in 08/09 overdose was suppose to get another anime but because of that it got scrapped. The people who worked on these two games went to work at ark system works.

Critics are against arcade length. Kinda sucks that this game tried to bloat itself just to sell to critics.

I thought this game was pretty good when I played it 2 years ago one on the PS3 through bc and one on emulator. For this game they want you to use the drive,slow down and your specials when you get conored the last game kinda played like the tps version of virtual-on this plays like a mix of Max Payne and early vanquish.

I hope they remaster both PS2 games for consoles and pc. And actually do good ports unlike GTA Trilogy. Hoping Gore turns out good. More interested in games like that now than most AAA games.

Are you going to do more Yakuza videos? Your Yakuza 1 video was pretty good dude. 👍

When is "Everything wrong about Yu gi oh gx season 3" coming out?? Really enjoyed them

Was this game made by Hollywood because it seems like it’s following the rules when it comes to sequels making everything that was good about the original Terrible in the sequel

Oh man. I tried going through this game recently with the help of some friends (I had previously dropped off right after finishing the casino level since it didn't come close to measuring up with the original) and kept muttering/screaming to myself "How is this level WORSE" with each subsequent encounter afterwards. It simply never ends. The Gamefaq I was reading from for control help described this game as *playable* so I thought I was going insane with how bad the hitstun was, so it's great to see some haterism actually breaking down all of what makes the game just not work. My personal favorite foible is how the rocket enemies don't have a sound cue so you can have 5 of them up your ass and not even know it.

So that discount Bayonetta fight against Sherry is actually kind of odd in a narrative perspective. Sherry was actually the wife of Harry McDowall, and daughter of Bear Walken from the first game, and the only way you'd know this is if you watch the anime, which is the only other time she appears. The anime isn't even canon, as certain elements are drastically different. It's infinitely better than this game though, and I recommend it.

I enjoyed the original game and the anime quite a bit, so I've been thinking several times to check out Overdose, as I heard it had many improvements, but seems like I dodged a bullet. XD To bad, because there seems to be several good ideas here, but the gameplay just seems so sub-par. I love Nightow's art and ideas, even if they can be a bit chaotic.

GTA the trilogy-the definitive edition: pretending to fix something that wasn’t broke

let's hope gungrave gore turns out alright.

I found the gun grave game at my local retro game store for $20 and I really wanted to buy it but I didn’t have enough money but I will get it

I liked the faster mobility and the new moves but the rest of the game was a mess. The shield nerfs was too heavy, the constant knockdowns and horrible camera made this game a mess. You can see that the story was clearly at least a 13 episodes anime but their budget was so limited that they couldn't animate anything. Yuji experience in this game is why people said "never bring a sword into a gun fight" his slashes should have been his main shots and should not be cancelled when you move or dodge.

Hey man what happened to the yugioh series 🤷🏻‍♂️. I havent seen ur videos for aaaaa while

THANK YOU. Everyone seems to give this game the same high praise as the first, which I couldn’t believe when I finally played it. It’s such a step down in so many ways.

I definitely recommend Blood Blockade Battlefront if you want to explore more Nightow works, it's great

The comment about parts being built for grave and others being better for juji make it seem like they made levels tailor made for the characters but to extend to the game length they mashed every level to every character.

This game was one of the hardest games I ever played on the PS2. I put up there with God Hand and Spartan Total Warrior in terms of difficulty.

I like to call this game ‘MY F**KING EYES! THEY BURN!’

Gungrave G.O.R.E better be good we need more games like this

Loved Gungrave back in the day, he made me think of a Alucard /Vincent Valentine fusion on steroids 😅

I didn't even finish Grave and Billy's campaigns. Grave felt really bad to play and Billy wasn't that fun, i did have a enjoy my time with Juji though, his fire pattern is kinda lame but his dashes and katanas were fun enough. PS: might want to check out Shinobi for the PS2, it seems to really fit in that list of games you mentioned at the end.

Here's a question: Why was an animation stupid in charge of game development? That is like asking a company that specializes in geology to build 5 sport cars without telling them anything about constructing automobiles or engineering.

oh whoops someone's bad at playing gungrave overdose several of your complaints stem from you straight up being unable to play the videogame. the shield doesn't recharge "when out of combat", it recharges when you've taken no damage for a few seconds and are also not shooting. so you trying to recharge your shield by standing behind cover and shooting guys is not going to work. you can recharge it if you weren't fighting. but why do that when overdose specifically makes your shield recharge when you use a demolition shot? it's almost like it's some kind of game mechanic that rewards you for high style points and using your resources wisely. gunkata going all over the place? damn, i wonder if that's because that move is intended to be a general AOE normal attack and not focus fire. trying to focus on a single target? lock on. now you can also move! maybe that helps you dodge metal objects traveling towards you at high speed. "but i would like to stand still and shoot one guy a lot really fast!" wow, that sounds nice! have you tried holding the left stick forward while you're shooting and not locked on? though yeah some sections actually are awful.

That was a great Bentley impression

I'm glad I'm not the only one who had a miserable time playing Overdose

glad to here you comment on the graphics. I thought it looked worse than the original because my emulator settings were bad or something, but no the first game just looks way better lol. even though i've only played the tutorial, i dont get how overdose got a way better reception. I went into it like you did, expecting a even crazier sequel. but the low fps, bad graphics and choppy gameplay with mika stopping to explain junk totally turned me off.

I always turn off the vibration everytime i play this since the first time i did when the option on my hands are numb as fck after i finish the game XD

I have an emulator that makes games run worse than Gungrave Overdose (on laptops and desktops my brother and I own that run pretty much every PC game despite people telling me that an emulator can run smoothly on a laptop & desktop like ours), bought the game at some point and played it on original hardware (on a console that is a slim and doesn't recquire a paint can placed firmily on top of it to play), no issues you described were there at all.... Am I living in the fucking twilight zone?

Jesus Christ this review is terrible

Review the James Bond PlayStation 2 game the one that’s called Russia with love. phenomenal game

I'm only 30 seconds into this video and the horrible horrible memories of me loving these two games are starting to flood back in a way that I cannot move or comprehend at the moment

I wonder if they improved things in gungrave G.O.R.E

Poorly executed Indeed especially seeing how the first is easily one of my favourite games ever

Gungrve VR was also kinda bad, though the thing that kills it is the slow 20 degree stepped turning makes it impossible to play. If the turning were analog and smooth it would be a fun game. Unlike most VR games it uses a gamepad and is otherwise just Gungrave (the game is still third person) with aiming controlled by the HMD and in a 3D environment. The frustrating thing is they *almost* had it but one bad design decision with the controls ruins it.

No lie, I would like to hear your thoughts/review on the Gungrave anime.

There is a Undub patch for this game that restores the japanese voice acting that is much better (The first one had dual audio and options to change the voices) and removes the inverted camera controls. Not a big deal but it makes it better.

Concerning the part with Juji in the casino where you have to bust up those slot machines. Is there any reason you couldn't just go over and cut them up with his swords considering his melee-focused? I mean, that seems like a pretty simple solution to that problem.

One thing to remember about game reception back during the 6th gen was the idea of more game length = objectively better, despite by now many have figured out how that's not a definitive fact. So while a good critique by now, saying a game was "too long" is going against the popular mindset of the day that many people fell for, including devs as a means to satisfy the players, reviewers, and publishers desires.

This was a fun budget game imo, it only retailed for $20

13 year old me loved this game ; n ;

So...when are you going to review the anime?

Yu Gi Oh season 3. Thats all.

Elevator section had me stumped as a kid, Went back back and beat it as an adult and it was still a pain. Even with all of its faults I still love the game but I just wish it was shorter. I have no idea how I put with some of the shit it throws at you as a kid though.

OMG the frontloader fight almost made me ragequit the game, it's so bad... the only way I found to reliably damage enemies at a reasonable pace was to dodge shoot since it has a much faster rate of fire. Of course it's hard as tits to actually do it reliably since your lock on is more shortsighted than my grandma (seriously why is it like that) but if you get in a good position you can dish out loads of bullets very quickly while avoiding most damage you'd otherwise take if you were trying to do the guns barrage (which is sadly near useless in this game)

Who else is waiting on Gx season 3?

Thanks for the vid

I think a Gungrave reboot/remake with arcsys like graphics would be great with the gift of hindsight

this game is a lot better if you get stuck on the spider tanks and start over on easy mode, also the other characters are playable after the first mission (not the tutorial) but you need to start over to play them.

7:01 bold of you to expect that from a Japanese game trying to pad out it's playtime.

Holy shit that was a really good Bentley impression

Where is everything wrong with Yu hi oh season 3 (Can’t remember what it’s called) please release it

PS : I'm replaying the campaign as Juji recently and holy shit it's way better than grave .not only those the demolition shots are way easier to charge them and you are way faster than grave making it easy to parry any missiles and really satisfying to mown down enemies, specially if you activate the slow motion

You seem to have issues with the gameplay because you aren't exploiting the dive-barrage. Locking on to enemis then diving and shooting lets you place yourself out of harm and damage spike consistently. It lets you lay out almost all of the bosses easily.

Just found your RU-vid channel and became a fan today. Watched a bunch of your videos, keep making them some of my favs

Tbh those bosses aren't even that bad , I'm surprised that at any point he didn't mention the weird mutation thing from previous bosses .. That thing it's the worst boss fight I've ever played in a videogame

i like how it took 2 years for the new game to get another trailer

Ngl, i saw the thumbnail and thought you were going to talk about that one takeshi game like jontron did, lol

Why don’t you make more yigioh videos

Rip at the beginning lol

Gungrave Overdose Buggrave Overdose Gungrave Overbugs Buggrave Overbugs

I recently bought Gungrave G.O.R.E. and I am having alot of fun with it. I wanted to look back at the rest of the series but based on this review I should only look at the original. I'm excited to hear you cover Gungrave G.O.R.E. . It's not a perfect game but it seems like it fixed alot of things you mentioned as issues. One piece of advice is to not play it on Hard the first time like I did as it throws so many enemies that it's common to be overhelmed by them. Unless you have routed every stage perfectly for an S-Ranked every or grind early stages for enough upgrade points to level make you capable of dealing more DPS so the enemies don't pile up wave after wave.

I love gungrave the first game PS2 and the anime!!!! Overdose No lie maybe want to snap my PS2 controller.... And I paid $50 Canadian for this game....

I feel so blessed that I haven’t played this game.

You're not very good at this game are you bud?

This is extremely upscaled right?

This game was so insanely good. Rocketbilly and Jyuji were blessed additions to the story/game.

Enemy Stacking the Video Game! 😂

I hope I'm the only one currently wanting to know when you think you'll continue the everything wrong with yugioh series because I'm just curious

Hey just this week the gameplay and trailers of the new gungrave ate poping up

Bro can you do a everything wrong with Pokémon like you did with YuGiOh. Maybe compare the anime series with the games. Idk I just love how you did those videos

Playing Overdose right now. Huge step down from the first game, which I genuinely adored. Damn shame...

I actually cannot even finish this game it is too frustrating. The elevator mission is horrible. They tried making the game too fast paced when your character cannot react in time. You have nothing to dodge several rocket attacks coming at you from all directions

Awesome review. I enjoyed the first game and wanted to jump to OD, but this review discouraged me. The problems present in here does seam annoying, I might try it later. Have you heard of a game called Gungage, I think it deserves a review :)

I'm only 32 seconds in but from what I've seen, it looks like a clusterfuck of bad game design.

I just tried it myself and got to stage 9. The first couple hours were alright then it just draaaaaaags. Also the lack of level music makes it even more boring. I gave up after the enemies got too annoying for me to have any fun.

Thanks for this review, almost bought this game because I enjoyed the first one. This does not look like fun.

Gx season 3 video

Beeg OOF! Also yeah as someone with ADHD I tend to drop something I don't like after a while as well.

52 episode anime that should've been half its length in the 00s......you make it sound like that's a bad thing?

X play review on this is funny af

When ur still waiting on GX season 3

you do a review on the suffering

I dropped the game when u fight the boss thats a giant blob in the midde of the room and u have to destroy shields around the circle room

ok so i'll admit i didnt end up watching the whole video, but most of the gameplay problems you had mentioned by about the 16 minute mark can be solved by diving more. gungrave od expects you to be less the terminator and more Tequila from Hard Boiled. It sounds like the reason you didn't have fun with it is you refused to engage with it on its terms. I had the same issue with gungrave gore at first, but once I started playing the game that is instead of the game I expected it to be, I started to really enjoy it.