Kasumi Ninja - The Worst Fighting Game 

Some games back in the 8-bit micros days (especially on Atari systems) would do this. Instead of calling the AI "CPU" or something they'd use the machine's name. Kind of adorable, looking back at it now.

I mean, the Spanish translation of Mario Party 9 did that as well, calling them "Wii". Then given that French also has a different word for CPU, all of the versions of MP9 released in north America have different words for the computer controlled opponents

It was a selling point, they would say "its thinking"

@@chriscangelosi9438 "Selling point" lmao

Pretty smart joke to be sure.

@@n0m4nic Semantics. Literally doesnt matter. The Ostrogoth and Visigoth tribes were called Goths. Adding "The" is pointless.

@@Cessate It's to separate them from the more modern group that shares their name, but is otherwise completely unrelated in any way.

@@enomiellanidrac9137 a x

@@kadosho02 Depends on if you're using the Western definition (animation specifically from Japan or a nonJapanese cartoon that follows the styles and tropes of Japanese animation) or the Japanese definition (literally any cartoon).

What's the difference between a Rolling Stones song and a Scotsman? One says 🎵Hey, You ... Get Off Of My Cloud 🎵... and the other one says "Hey MacLeod, Get Off Of My Ewe" ...AHAHAHAHA!!! 😄🤣😝🤪

O M G XD

Scottish anime ?????

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And the general consensus that you would rather call Dr. Phil and tell him your kids are addicted to Fortnite and watch the drama rather than spending ONE terrible minute playing this console from hell, the Atari Jaguar!!! Oh wait we were talking about Kasumi Ninja? The hamster found it a nice room divider!

The character select screen too, that's quite impressive for the console. Anyone whose done programming can appreciate when you put a shit ton of effort into something, take a step back and realise it could have been done in a better way, but you spent so much time on it you just think "fuck it, that's staying how it is". If I spent weeks on an elaborate 3D character select screen for the Jaguar, you're sure as shit that's staying in even if it is complete garbage.

I think he's from the Forgotten Kingdoms expansion (that probably was already a part of the old Age of Empires 2 HD edition - before the later AOE 2 remaster). That expansion was modified and improved from the old namesake mod for the original AOE 2 game.

Alaric for Mortal Kombat!

Rome should have just accepted his resume, but noooo. "We can't let a filthy German be one of our generals!" #AlaricDidNothingWrong

Unfortunate that they made him look so pathetic here. Could've looked extremely badass, though to be honest none of the character designs in this game were executed out very well anyway (looking at you, Senzo the surgeon)

If anything, the use of "Goth" for that subculture is pretty strange. The term likely comes from "Gothic literature", stemming from a time when "Gothic" referred to Germany, as many of the earliest forms of Gothic literature were inspired by the foreboding architecture and landscapes of Central Europe. Etymologically, though, you'd probably have a more accurate name for the subculture if you called them "Vics", since a sizeable chunk of the literature came from British writers of the 19th century, like Brahm Stoker, Robert Lewis Stevenson, Marry Shelly and so on, and many of the fashion choices of Goths are at least in part inspired by Victorian fashion trends, like the corset. Also explains why there's often an overlap with Steampunk.

I was about to mention this. The Goths are an old and defunct nationality. I don't know where or when but I do know that they were playing about in Age of Empires 2.

The Goths vs Goths. Who would win?

@@madpilotmurdock Goths

That Creepy Reading? Holy shit, what yah doing here? 😂🤘🔥

But that doesn't make sense because the game is supposedly set in modern times, and they never said he was immortal.

@@Xetan123 They literally say in his bio that he's "one of HISTORIES most feard fighters." And using basic context clues, you can early determine his cloths are from ancient Germanic times, and not "Marilyn Manson" brooding 90s teenagers. Not sure what more explication you want for the word history...

@@Xetan123 By that logic, then ninjas wouldn't be in this game. They're not as prominent as you would think since there's no need of them in modern-day Japan. Same with samurai.

@@Cessate He must be an immortal dude like Mclaude from the Highlander series.

Yep. Alaric was the king of the Visigoths. Sacked Rome. He was a badass dude in real life.

I'm amazed there were no comments on that bit.

Likewise, Angus would be the only character worth even considering saving for another game!

@@valutaatoaofunknownelement197 They should make a new "Mortal Kombat" like game using all of the best characters from all of these knockoff games and later on pit them against each other using modern graphics & technology.

@@joeesperanto678 I honestly agree, but since most of these characters are forgettable, place in at least 1 character, or characters, from each game. In other words, the best of the best.

@@valutaatoaofunknownelement197 Yes, like the cool caveman from Time Killers game & dinos from Primal Rage. Also add in bosses from other knockoff games and throw in some of the better known characters like Scorpion from Mortal Kombat as a "guest character" just to boost the sales and have people interested in it. Maybe Netherrealm Studios can do this new "Knockoff" game. The boss seen here, Gyaku in his demon form can be reused as a mini boss, and Dural from Virtua Fighter can be a second boss, and the final boss can be Exor the War God which can turn into a huge dragon in his second form. The game can become a super hit, mostly since most of the licenses of these franchises are expired or dead anyways, so why not try it?

One of the multiverses greatest warriors

honestly 1 spelling mistake in a game that might've been forced to make big changes at Atari's behest seems like a small oversight especially when a lot of games were translated and have lines like "all your base are belong to us"

Kinda reminds me of when I got my hands on Clayfighter 63 1/3rd. My sister and all my mates thought it played like complete crap, but we all played it together for a while. We just liked it, it was just too silly to hate.

End of the day.... it doesnt matter what other reviewers or people say. Everyone has their own preferences. Nothing wrong with liking a game/having nostalgia, or even in my case i love the 6 button version of the jag controller. I think its great. Dont listen to anyone else thats says anything to the contrary.

Well hey, terrible games can be fun to play.

Many people were had back then.

There were plenty of fighting games made during the 90s, a good deal made by developers to attempt getting a piece of the popularity of titles like Street Fighter, Tekken, and Mortal Kombat. Many of said titles are best left forgotten as they were shallow clones of other games or attempted to rely on some sort of gimmick that blew up in their face. But there are some that are hidden gems of the era and deserve more attention from old-school gamers.

The best I played was def jam 2 fight for ny The worst had to be def jam 3

@@ggn3 One of the hidden gems of fighting games was Eternal Champions, which even got comic books and pilots made from their games.

@@joeesperanto678 I was never good at eternal champions but I know the Sega CD version is the best version of that game and you can play with a 6 button controller. I have it on my retropie

@@marccaselle8108 That version was the best since it improves upon the Megadrive version and has more background killer stages. I think Cinemakills are also only in that version, I can't quite remember. Although in the American version the female known as Shadow had her costume changed into a green kimono because Sega USA was too prudish back then and didn't want her wearing her "Victoria's Secret" black outfit. Also, more characters were introduced and even an odd one named "The Senator" (Whom oddly looked like Bill Clinton), could be used as a hidden playable character, along with Death itself, and a host of animal creatures that were also playable. The final boss here was an evil version of the Eternal (Final boss), that was supposed to be his brother in the cosmic balance. This character was extremely broken and seldom times has been truly defeated. He along with Rugal on KOF are the worst game final bosses of all time!

But you don’t get a guy shooting fire from his kilt! You wouldn’t happen to know any good Jaguar games by any chance?

"No literally. The score is my ass one, Kabuki Warriors zero." I remember laughing a bit too hard at that point in the review.

That would be cool to see footage of that happening.

I second this

By far the worst I ever played

@@mikeconner9905 Yeah, definitely one of the worst along Way Of The Warrior game etc

Or his love of inexpensive fried food lol

@@brendanw8136 Angus is a bit thrifty type isn't he?

I wonder if it's what inspired Nintendo's fascination with unwieldy controllers that would haunt players for the following years.

Nah. None of Nintendo's controllers are *that* unjustifiably bad. As strange as the n64's controller was, as awkward as the WiiU was, neither were on-par with...that.

You can't. Mine gave me real pain in both hands after a couple of hours use. One of the worst designed controllers of all time.

I think the jaguar controller wouldn't be so bad if they got rid of the stupid numberpad. It would be like a better version of the NES controller with 3 buttons and a rounded top

The problem was the Jaguar was so rushed, that programming for it the way it was intended was a huge pain in the A. Programmers stuck to the 16-bit chip because it was less of a headache.

There was only the first wave of games too. You see it in every system that the launch titles look pretty bad compared to what comes out a couple of years into the system's life. In the case of the Jag it didn't last long enough for them to come out. I think Skyhammer by Rebelion and some Jeff Minter games were the only real games that took advantage of any kind of knowledge of the system.

Rebecca Heideman, the woman who sadly had to make the 3DO port of Doom by herself, said that she felt the Jaguar was the most annoying console to develop for

The six button version was great. Had shoulder buttons and of course six facing buttons. You can find replicas of it for relatively cheap. I also got a box to use it on PC lol

The keypad was used mainly for secondary game functions such as different camera views or going to a secondary screen such as a map. It works well with FPS games like Doom where it offers instantaneous weapon selection without the need to cycle through a menu. That controller is not nearly as bad as the 'me too' comments claim it is.

"Didn't Naughty Dog work on this one? Why isn't he mentioning that?..." You're not the only one.

Well, Andy Gavin, one of the heads of naughty dog till 2001, apparently helped make this, since he was in those credits Matt showed. Or not. Maybe another Andy Gavin. British Andy Gavin versus American Andy Gavin.

@@arkdetective No wonder the game was garbage.

For real?? 😯

What's it like to be digitized like that? Was it tedious to do that many poses?

I hope so

This is a Naughty Dog game isn't it?

@@MrQwertysystem That would explain this garbage.

...Matt is NOT READY for that!

Kasumi Ninja was actually quite a valiant effort all things considered, IMO.

@@kadosho02 Pit Fighter on SNES. The arcade version is good, but the SNES version is absolute unplayable garbage.

I didn't think Fight for Life was that bad. In terms of Atari developed fighting games for the Jaguar, Ultra Vortek is the best game (that games in a lot of fun, great stuff), Fight for Life is okay (it looks like crap, but once you get into it and learn how to play it, it's fun. It took a bit of practice, but I ended up having a fun time with Fight for Life) and Kasumi Ninja is freaking HORRIBLE (I legit HATE Kasumi Ninja). Also, to bring in the two third party Atari Jaguar fighting games into this, Double Dragon 5 is just as freaking horrible as Kasumi Ninja (I loved the previous Double Dragon games, but Double Dragon 5 sucks ass. Granted, Double Dragon 5 is slightly worse than Kasumi Ninja because Double Dragon 5 has way worse graphics than Kasumi Ninja. Nonetheless, both games play horribly), but hands down the WORST of the freaking WORST is "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story" (that game is garbage to the point where it makes Kasumi Ninja and Double Dragon 5 look good in comparison. Dragon is unspeakably horrible and hands down the worst Jaguar fighting game and one of the worst games released during the early to mid 90's). So in order: 1) Ultra Vortek (AWESOME!! Great fun!!) 2) Fight for Life (It's Okay, can be fun at times) 3) Kasumi Ninja (it sucks) 4) Double Dragon 5 (it also sucks, but worse than Kasumi Ninja since it looks worse) 5) Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (garbage!! Throw it in a dumpster!! GARBAGE!!! Worst Jaguar fighting game, one of the worst games in the Jaguar library, and that's really saying something, and one of the worst games released on multiple consoles during the early to mid 90's. GARBAGE!!!)

I think the ninja in Way of the Warrior is more generic, I mean, come on, his fucking name is Ninja

@@theawesomeike6085 yeah your right he way more generic

Dude was in WCW, of all things.

GARY SPIVEY?! WHOOOOOOOAW!

The very first Joel video I ever watched was the stream where he played a bunch of awful fighting games and this was one of them. I can literally hear that quote in his 2015 pretty much still Swede accent

it's like they REALLY wanted to give this game a complete story but they realized how pointless it was just before writing the ending

Kasumiiii Ninja

Evaaaaaaaa freeeeeeeee

what stream did he play this, would love to see my favorite fecal funny man play this equally fecal game

"more like six feet underground" - mr fecal funny

@Chedmond I've never heard of those 2 terrible games but fight for life's storyline sounds like a rip off of eternal champions on the megadrive

Lol I actually liked cosmic carnage. Then again I did enjoy some bad games now and then

I’m pretty sure it is it

Either that or some kinda rain day would be coo.😮

I’m Apache, a few tribes did that a couple of times and you never hear the end of it.

@@THANATOS-PRIME To be fair it was more than a few tribes and a couple of times. It was an established battle tradition. It's seen all over pre-colonial sites... Crow Creek Massacre for example where 90% of the 486 bodies unearthed showed evidence of scalping on their skulls. That being said I realize it wasn't all tribes. This isn't something that only natives did either, Scythian warriors scalped their foes and hung them their horses as battle trophies- there's also evidence of scalping and cannibalism that has been discovered from stone age Europe. It's nothing to really get upset about, humans are violent, and war trophies were/are a common tradition to many cultures... Not just native American ones.

Sounds badass to me

Maybe he lost his smile a few times?