When I started watching the Panzer Bandit section I thought "oh, no, please don't be another person who calls it a simple Guardian Heroes clone" and, thankfully, you did proper research on the game. I should not have doubted you! Great video as usual.
Panzer Bandit looks like something I would've been obsessed with as a kid, I love beat-em-ups in theory but usually find them too cumbersome. And those anime robot aesthetics are awesome!
Panzer bandit is a great beatem up, it's a shame it never made it to USA, I got a copy of panzer bandit about 2 years ago, this game is not cheap but worth it
For tokusatsu game in PS1 like Hurricaneger I recommend Kamen Rider Agito. While the game is relatively shallow what really stood out to me is how smooth the animation is as if they're motion captured (or maybe rotoscoped). It's a fun game overall, I feel it's better than other Kamen Rider games on the system that came before or after.
Very glad you didn't just dismiss Panzer Bandit as a "Guardian Heroes clone" and actually went in depth on how the two games are very related to each other! Apparently both Panzer Bandit and Guardian Heroes actually started life as remakes of a cancelled Treasure Mega Drive title called "Axion" that was later turned into Yu Yu Hakusho: Makyo Toitsusen. It seems like both games eventually were reworked into their own thing later on in development, the only reason Panzer Bandit gets labeled as a clone is because Guardian Heroes came out first! Also that opening bit about the Negcon support in Side by Side Special 2000, guilty as charged :V
I say this with full sincerity you have legit become my favorite youtuber , you deserve more love dude. I love these videos and you have single handedly nearly doubled my ps1 library
Here in Chile, we had a lot of PSX and PS2 Piracy available, you could go to the street market and buy a copy of a game for like 50 cents. So we played lots of japan only videogames and even Japanesse editions of games. Panzer Bandit was great
Love this channel (I recently discovered) .. it's so chill and cozy... really helped me go to sleep last night, in the background. And enjoyed actually watching it this morning. Thank you for it and your work! ^_^
Community pom has a translation now!? Thats amazing! I picked up the game after your video and love it so im excited to check that out. Also that panzer bandit intro is so unabashedly cruel angels thesis, ha!
Seeing the intro Ninpuu Sentai Hurricanger mixed with the game footage made me giddy and put a big smile on my face. I'm so glad it turned out to be good; Sentai, Power Rangers, and tokusatsu in general have a big place in my heart. Praise the viewer wheel, its chosen, and the herald of the wheel, Sean Seanson, for bringing these games to a wider audience!
Honestly my favourite content creator on YT rn. Always make time to watch your uploads, brother. Thank you for giving us this amazing nostalgic content.
was keen to pick up both firemen games - one look at the prices made me reconsider rather quickly! Another brilliant video, with some pretty great picks too :)
Nice episode! I never actually played Panzer Bandit, but I recommended it to a friend of mine that loves Guardian Heroes and he ended up loving PB too, so much so that he did a let's play for his channel, I could never have imagined that the two were so closely related and Mad Stalker was involved, which is a game that both me and my friend like.
The number of great fire fighting games out there will surely surprise everyone. Most of all I want to see what everyone thinks of the protagonist of FD18, who hates journalists.@@noaht2005
I adore the ps1 load up sound and I think it was my first nostalgic moment thinking back to teen years of pre/post pub entertainment and always talking with some of the Japanese games we wished we owned. I have so enjoyed these videos to unwind and think back on old mags and illicit looks at games like a Victorian Peepshow gentleman and a ladies ankles
Another cool video Sean, very interesting to see many of these early games in action & they do have some cool ideas/ quirks for there time for sure even if a little dated but still that's what the PS1 is best known for, the experimental nature of the games we get to experience.
There's something satisfying about firing up one of the games you recommend and finding out that people have worked out a set of achievements for it at Retroachievements (Panzer Bandit, in this case)
Finally caught up on all the "obscure" videos and now I can start watching all the other videos you make. So glad the algorithm recommended me this channel, you make some awesome videos Sean. All praise the algorithm and all praise the wheel.
As a generic American PlayStation man I thoroughly enjoy this channel. Love the long videos, they have been so relaxing on long plane rides. Keep up the good work!
Great episode and it's nice to know I've played 3 of these games. Firemen 2: Enjoyed playing this with my Dad, it was amusing discussing the implications of inexplicably maleficent fire. For anyone interested in more firefighting action games I'd highly suggest the recently released Nuclear Blaze(which has a few neat twists) or Firefighter FD18(PS2), a 3D arcade take on the Firemen games which also includes inexplicably malicious fire(including but not limited to possessed T-shirts, cars, factories and robots). I also enjoyed playing Panzer Bandit with my Dad too. Great that you went into the interesting and somewhat recursive influence the game's creators had on Guardian Heroes, most who cover it seem to get the history backwards(which is understandable). And HAMSTER for posterity.
Managed to binge all the Japan Only vids in about 10 days, now sad that I need to wait for the next one. Got here thanks to Continue?’s Gamera 2000 upload. Sean, you’re my new favourite channel
First off, as always, I want to thank you again for making such an amazing video! Very informative and funny. Game 1: I have seen this game (as well as the prequel) so many times, yet I never tried it myself. Game 2: Interesting. Looks like a mix of Virtual On and Iron Soldier. Game 3: Oh man, I have listened to the opening song so, so many times. It's just THAT good! I still have to play the game though... Game 4: Uh, careful. You have the opening there and that might give you trouble. I had the opening of this very game favorited at one point and eventually it the video got deleted by the copyright holders. Game itself looks alright. Kitty spotted at: 45:44 49:59 (2 kitties)
You gotta try the Firemen sometime, such a fun way to spend an evening! Hopefully the opening doesn't give me much trouble, but we'll play it fast and loose now and cross out fingers haha. Excellent kitty spotting as always friend! thanks for watching :)
I somehow missed this video when it first came out. Pony Canyon has a bit of an interesting history. Not just in bringing Ultima to Japan, but also in the music scene. They got have been around since the 60's, and have produced albums for a lot of artists, such as Miki Matsubara, Yukiko Okada, Hiro Shimono(more known for his Voice Acting), and The Pillows (before they got popular).
omg i was not expecting to win it the first time i participate lol, really thank you enjoy the episode a lot and im more happy that you enjoy the game even without being a fan of the franchise, and yes you are correct in everything why i love the game it really is a game made for the fans with love and appreciation shame the other sentai games that came after it were again just low effort cashgrab with dumb minigames. Also i knew you gonna love the soundtrack it is really good, again thank you for showing the game to more people really appreciate your effort.
@@SeanSeansonreally glad to hear that indeed i bet you really enjoy being the hamster xd, would love to see more of your stuff in the future and maybe get a bit other suggestions
RU-vid randomly recommended this video to me, and I'm glad I gave it a try! It's fascinating seeing just how many Japanese-only PS1 games there were, and how obscure some of them could get. The fact that you've done *14* of these videos is nuts. Time to go and watch the others once I'm done with this one...
Hola Sean! Quería dejarte este mensaje para felicitarte por el canal y por todos tus videos (al día de hoy los he mirado todos). Mi consola favorita siempre ha sido la Playstation 1 y me alegra ver que aún haya gente que se siga interesando por ella y, más aún, desenterrando viejas joyas ocultas y juegos olvidados. Tus análisis son muy detallados y entretenidos y me motivan a jugar casi todo lo que muestras. En fin, me encantan tu canal y todos tus videos. Disculpa si no escribo en inglés pero, si bien entiendo la gran mayoría de lo que decís, me cuesta muchísimo hablar el idioma por mi cuenta. Seguramente encontrarás una forma de traducirlo. Que tengas un muy buen día y te mando mucho afecto desde Buenos Aires, Argentina.
“Like I’m not gonna pretend I wouldn’t pop hard at some clutch high level hamster play, you know?” I think that’s a sentence that no human being has ever spoken before
Thanks for another great video Sean. I got to say after finishing the video I have the urge to play basically every game in it. Maybe playing some Metal Jacket will get me ready for Armored Core 6 who can say
After being blessed by the RU-vid algorithm nearly six months ago, I've finally caught up in watching all of your wheel videos. Like many before have mentioned, your approach to the shows' formatting is enjoyable, and the depth you reach in your provided thoughts are exceptional, to say the least. Even when many others simply discuss major gameplay aspects, you seem to explore each title's content to the fullest extent, which is as some would say, something I love to see. This comment is already getting lengthy, but there is one small addition I'd like to suggest. For your viewers, it'd be ideal to allow them to better see the possible choices for each wheel in an external file like a public Google doc to avoid suggesting duplicate games. Or, perhaps that's something you've considered before but chose not to do, so as to keep some degree of mystique regarding the wheel. Nevertheless, you've quickly become my favorite content creator, as your output has been consistently great since the very beginning.
Thank you so much for the kind words, really glad you enjoy the videos! I actually have a public google doc for them, I just don't advertise it very often haha I'll try link it below since RU-vid has a habit of deleting comments with external links.
I'm not sure if these apply, but there's Tenchu: Shinobi Hyakusen, a standalone expansion compiling one hundred user-created levels, also Rittai Ninja Katsugeki - Tenchu 2, or Tenchu 2 for short was improved upon the Western release, as the Japanese version was released after it. Veterans of the US/PAL release will notice the Japanese version is almost like a Redux version in comparison. More textures and objects on stages, improved 3D models, added voices for enemies when no in combat and fine tuning of controls, among others.
I really liked 'The Firemen' (the first one) so I'll definitely check out the 2nd game, looks very similar to the earlier entry, even if it's not as good. Haven't heard about the others, so can't opine there... but Panzer Bandit at least looks fun (ah, the wheel - well, the folks, to be exact - almost provided Policenauts though, hah)!
Instantly *smashed* that like button. Cheers for these videos; one of the best gaming series on RU-vid by far. Also, who on *earth* directed that intro animation for The Firemen 2?! It's incredibly unsettling. The way the overly-cheery music starts to warp, the cutaways to shots of the building steadily becoming more ablaze, the children's laughter that becomes drowned out by the sirens of the fire trucks, and the creepy choir "aaah" at the end is just the icing on the cake. A little too effective, if you ask me! Reminds me of something out of those 70s Italian supernatural horror films.
Late gen PS1 games are always so pretty and impressive looking! Love how the Power Ranger models in the 2002 game have hand poses (probably a mesh that gets swapped out). Thank you Sean for documenting all these cool games I've never heard about!
Panzer Bandit looks like a blast! I have no idea why it wasn't released in the West, yet more bizarre (and great) games like Dynamite Heady and Mischief Makers were. PB looks like it could be released today as a budget Arcade title (with a 16:9 option and some graphical clean up).
Probably worth mentioning the inclusion of voice acting is another point for it above the original, although that is mostly lost on non-Japanese players.
Another great episode lad, always fun to see you take a look at an eclectic quartet of games from Japan. There's so many gems to discover out there, so it's awesome that we can get a headstart with your videos. I do lament that Japan got the awesome Power Rangers games while we got...well those janky beat em ups 😭
Very pleased to say that I've managed to find a copy of Firemen 2!! My son and I are having loads of fun with it!! Nice one Sean lad, we wouldn't have known about it if it wasn't for you!! 👍
Glad that not only did I get my game selected I also finally got to see a ps1 pinball game get talked about again, especially power ranger zeo pinball cause i kinda love that game. Great video sean, loved seeing panzer bandit get it's chance to shine from the wheel.
Just found your channel yesterday. I think about the PS1 days often and your channel really hits the spot. Thanks a lot for covering the PS1 and its games.
Awesome watch as always ^^ Happy to see Panzer Bandit, wanted to suggest it myself, but I knew it was gonna be a popular choice so went for more obscure titles XD
