wanted dead is a video that released this that is p cool OR IS IT who knows i will talk about it and also the mister fpga and also hugo ps1 and also other things its good trust me! #wanteddead #misterfpga #hugo
"Let em' do a Drakengard" is the most glowing endorsement I've ever heard for a company. You got me, I'm adding this to the list of things to play over the summer
I love the running gag where the title card comes later and later in every "So I've Been Playing" video, it keeps blindsiding me RIGHT after I've settled into the groove thinking the video's just about one game. In a couple more years it'll be in a separate video, released the day after the actual episode.
@@yxxnkxm Reminds me a lot of Monster Hunter. You spend forever mastering a weapon. Next thing you know it's all you want to play. I've got literally thousands of hours on one weapon across multiple MH games. I just don't get tired of it. Gameplay I've seen towards the end of Wanted Dead seems like it has that same vibe. "I've mastered the basics. Now lets perfect them."
I like how you get car ears for easy mode, as if that was something that people would feel punished by, when really cat ears just make everything better.
Actually the reason why Hugo's gameplay might appear so simplistic has to do in great part to the reason of his popularity as a TV game: you basically had to play it on live television *through a phone line,* so you can imagine the awful levels of latency you would get back in the day, thus the design was accommodated for that (the home version would "betray" what kids watched on TV if it had adapted its design to a more permissive environment) As for Wanted: Dead, I got the impression that the publisher wanted to spin it as the next "so bad-it's good" game, which it's a very misguided thing to aim for without end up phoning it in (see Deadly Premonition 2). "So bad it's good" it's not something you can force to be as much it's something that happens by accident, or it's the way rather mediocre games mask their failings claiming to be "self-aware" until it just becomes genuine cringe.
I remember watching those shows, the helicopter jetpack level especially, and thought it was so cool to play a videogame.. on a tv program.. through the phone.
My general advice on how to deal with enemies in this game. If they have a rifle, cut them with your sword; If they have a sword, keep the distance and shoot them with your rifle. Works extremely well during the first hours of gameplay until you unlock all the melee skills and master parrying.
I'll be having the worst day. Just a boot nasty awful day. Work email inbox overflowing, distractions everywhere, no time for creative projects or a good book, just angry and depressed, worried about money -- and then I'll see a new ThorHighHeels joint and my face literally lights up. Thank god for these videos. This lane of video essay is so refreshing and really ideal for this time in my life.
The voices in my head said “wanted dead is no more heroes but made by someone other than suda51” and that perfectly sums up the game and why it failed.
Hugo as a TV show was full interactive in which you use a regular phone pad to do actions on the screen. Imagine the latency in which the select contestant have to deal to reach the Tower’s peak and confront the witch in LIVE television. And this is before TwitchPlaysPokemon was a thing.
It is weird that I'm a bit mad the Hugo map doesn't show my country? Like hell we in Chile also suffered this and we're not even in the map?? Edit: YES THOR MENTIONED IT THANK YOU 🥰 Gotta love a person that does his research dutifully :'D
Yeah, the TV show in Argentina was called “A jugar con Hugo”. There was also another show with a game that you controles with your phone that was called “Kito Pizzas”.
heads up, I genuinely appreciate that you put in the effort to make the shorts their own thing so many people just can't grasp the idea behind shorts, "it's just tiktok/stream clips" and not put in any further thought so I really do enjoy the little mini-review format you've been doing and I hope it can continue, it also works really well with your style
a week has passed since I bought the game based on this video. unironically one of the... well, not best game, but best experiences I've had this year. the supa hot fire 1:1 loading screen recreation and the strangely awesome bop that is Stefanie Joosten's No Back Seats in the HQ, I fucking love this game. it reminds me so much of the late 2000s, early 2010s crazy bullshit that you see in niche Japanese shooters such as binary domain, vanquish, bullet witch, or yakuzie dead souls. your knack for portraying games widely considered as trash in a different light has gotten me to play several games I never would have touched. dude. I played Left Alive because of you. That's saying something.
@@chrisossu2070 I didn't know about this game so I googled it and it looks super cool (it's also pretty well reviewed on Steam), thanks for bringing it to my attention!
This is my literal first exposure to this game. It looks fun but the fact that I'm on the internet pretty much every waking moment and still never heard of it has me worried, so thanks for making this video
I just love your videos so much. It's just like a get a very particular but pleasant feeling from each of them. And also the fact that it's like all the stuff that a should love but never new before you just makes it even better. And ngl you vids help me to go through some tough times, dude. I really happy to be alive at the same time as you :)
Yes! I’ve been playing Wanted dead since it’s launch on PlayStation and love what it offers. I’m so glad to see you do a video on this, thorhighheels, thanks for the upload!
Love watching your videos on a calm,slow day and think "yep ill try this game coming summer. Looks fun!" You always pick the interesting games, that made me pickup some titles on sale already.
Man, the memories of watching Hugo on TV as a kid and how nobody ever seemed to be capable of beating the game, back then I didn't know what input latency was or how horrendous it must have been considering the whole thing was played through the phone. I can clearly remember how the girl that hosted the show here in Argentina had to ask almost every single kid to please lower the TV's volume cos otherwise the return messed with the audio big time, shit was so low tech looking back at it. Ah, nostalgia. BTW Wanted Dead definitely gives that vibe of an action game I'd love to play... as soon as it gets a good discount, no way I'm paying full price for that.
thanks to your channel i discovered alot ps4 game that's right on my alley from Stranger of Paradise, Valkyrie Elysium,, Wanted Dead, Like a Dragon Ishin, No More Heroes etc, only Gungrave GORE failed to captivate me, but atleast it still paved way for me to Discover Evil West
I'm from San Juan, Argentina and in my town there was even a shop called Hugo. It's been closed for ten years but the marquee with the character is still there. I also can´t forget his slimy voice "Una vida más... para jugaaaar"
13:05 My thoughts exactly. The "synthwave" "aesthetic" is homogenized, lowest-common-denominator plaster. It's as tasteful as your grandma's dining room wallpaper.
Here in Israel things were always backwards as fuck. Back in the 90's Hugo was our sole live television video game, by which I mean that the kids channel (we only had the one) used to call kids at home and have them play it over the phone. Thing is there wasn't even a system to handle that input- it was a poor student who heard the specific beep of the numbers 4 and 6 and had to input the commands for the kids on the channel's PC, basically working as a human controller. No one has ever won that shit, they kept promising prizes like a PlayStation but shit was more rigged than the lottery.
Had that shit here in Russia as well. As a kid I always wondered how would someone with an old disc dial phone (a lot of people still had those) even use that stuff, and even though I didn't know what input lag is, I always thought this game was some unfair bullshit. Also, some kids were able to get to the end, but then it would come to a "choose 1 of 3 puzzle" that would have you rely on pure luck. Sweet memories lol.
Every time you come out with a new vid im like "i can just listen to this one, i can just listen to this one i can just listen to this one" and then i don't even get a minute in and realize i need to dedicate my full sttention to it. How dare you make such good shit. *i'll be back*
Thor is one of the few youtubers who I can say with full honesty that I've watched every video from. This man could describe paint drying and find a way to make it a vibe, LOL
I got through Wanted Dead on normal and I thought it was hard too, but there was some revelations I made about the gameplay that kept jumping me forward for a while until I hit another wall. It’s really great! ALMOST GOTY!
You got me to smoke Left Alive so Wanted Dead just radiates that same energy for me. For sure want to smoke this shit. Bless you my man. A goated video once again : )
Videos like this are the reason why I love Thor's content, mans can really appreciate some good Kusoge, flaws and all, unlike other reviewers who just say, "ERM THIS IS THE WORST GAME EVER IT'S JUST BAD."
As soon as I saw this game I knew you'd have a video about how it's probably got some cool shit going on with it, lol. Not in a bad way, I've been meaning to check it out as well.
Clicked on the 'highlight' part first out of curiosity, heard the Tekken Tag Tournament character select theme. THH is just an absolute legend when it comes to music selection.
Games like these make me more apt to buy NOT on sale since I know reviewers shat on it and I love that games like these are still being made. Great review Thor, I also recommend The Electric Underground's review since he looks at it in a quasi-shooter-character-action lens. Also side note, I enjoyed your guest appearance on Insert Credit. Those guys are mad chill, did you have some fun off-mic banter that you can share?
God, Thor i really love your videos, its also pretty cool that you got a "MISTER", that thing really cool and might be better to play psx games than a actual psx nowadays lool. Also look up for Baroque, pretty unique and cool psx game.
Definitely a game I think people could have a general appreciation for but selling it at full price is the death blow. Looks and plays alike a game from generations past but they are charging full price. If they had came in at a lower price point many would have taken the plunge now people are just gonna wait for deep sales.
just seeing a few seconds of clay fighter reminds me how much i wanted to have this game when i was young (and got it eventually). cant exactly recall why, tho 😅
Believe it or not, I was a big Hugo fan as a kid. when you priviliged kids played Mario Kart, I played Hugo: Buckazoom Race, when You played Banjo Kazooie I played Hugo: The Evil Mirror. In my 10th birthday a friend burned 2 CDs with those games shown in the video as a present, and I couldn't contain my excitement. I mean seriously I have a ton more things to say about Hugo.
@@sisterimmaculata1680 Hugo was extremely cursed. I don't understand how that was ever popular but every retail shop in my country had Hugo PS1 and PS2 games. I made sure to avoid them every time. To this day, I still don't know where it came from exactly.
Hugo TV interactive game was super popular in Russia in 90s, i was born in 93 and even played it live once, i still have a vague feeling that it was impossible to progress
Argentinian here: There was a Hugo TV show were you would play the game live via...inputting commands on your phone (phones used to have physical buttons!). As you can imagine, the input lag was insane, making the game almost unplayable. If you somehow managed to get to the end, you had to pick between 3 doors to save Hugo's family or whatever, so winning or losing was randomized, on a phone service that would charge you a premium per minute. It was on the air for several years....
Wario land 4 is so amazing such a fun game. I still have my gba copy but my gba is fucked up so I can’t play. Hopefully they put it on the gba app for switch
Was fun as always. I wish I could play or find out to play games like these but instead I am just fighting the power by playing resident evil 4 again when Resident Evil 4 released. Or Resident Evil 5 again. It will not likely release again.
Having just picked up a PS5 last week and slowly finding time to actually play it this might need to get thrown on the pile of titles I'll purchase with my fuck around money. Last year's Stranger of Paradise was purchased on a whim due to that video and I adored it, I definitely got that blind trust in Thor.
