Leave My Eyes Alone 8! Dreadful Graphics And Visuals 

I'd watch a "Leave My Hands Alone" for examples of games with clunky, unintuitive controls.

The Final Boss had such terrible graphics it literally lowered the video quality to 144p. Most powerful video game graphic of all time?

1:53 I’ve been stung by something poisonous during a vacation in Mexico. Of course my vision didn’t look like that but since I was stung on my right heel, it felt like that to walk.

Turning down my phone brightness in preparation..

Y'all may be talkin' about Top Banana's crown with JJ Squawkers, but I still haven't forgotten Hoi AGA's final level

1:30 God bless RU-vid's proprietary compression algorithm. Just reinforces the eyesore!

This is why our generation has wodespread use of glasses

It isn't you in terms of the Dragon Quest stairs. It's very minor, but I can definitely see it happening.

JJ Squawkers… What were they thinking with the final level? I’m guessing what happened was they play tested the boss rush, but didn’t know what the background would look like yet and then only added it after the play testing phase and way overtuned it.

Thank you so much for picking up Pulseman as one part of this episode. Not only that this game inspired my roots on how to make music (including Konami's beatmania, which I met this game after Pulseman), this game reaches its 30th anniversary at this year (2024, to be exact).

I have a new suggestion for a new series: Leave My Hands Alone. It's a series where you can go over bad/annoying controls that hurt your hands. Not just button mashing and messing with muscle memory, but also controls that have buttons you don't want put in places where you can easily press them. An example I would come up with is a recent one: the Atari 50 collection's 7800 games, which have an L button that can't be relocated or changed (within the game that is) and will immediately reset your game and make you lose all of your progress if you press it. On PS4 and PS5, the best way to do this is to go into Settings and re-locate the L button with Triangle. I imagine it's the same to do the equivalent for the Xbox consoles. On Switch, however, you can change buttons to remove the L entirely (as well as that screenshot button while you're at it), but only on the Joy-Cons, which are poorly made and known to "drift" if you use them too often. Use one of the Switch's alternate controllers to avoid this problem, such as an SNES controller, whose shoulder buttons hang out like an exposed posterior, meaning you easily run the risk of taking a big, fat L by pressing the button by accident. Your best option is the NES controller, which still has the L button, which is at least small and easy to avoid pressing. It lacks an X button however (required to press before you press A to start a game) so you still have to have a different one on hand to press X to initiate the game in question, be it a Joy-Con or otherwise.

17:27 Might be "Miam-miam !", French for "Yummy!". Now, maybe Lub Lub is yummy too, but that's one of the many questions I can live without an answer to.

Top Banana will always be in my nightmares because of this series (Still an interesting and good series though)

So not only does J J Squawkers have absolutely atrocious graphics in the final stage, but the music there is just the boss theme that loops incredibly quickly, becoming very grating to listen to. Hoi Aga's final stage had kickass music despite the over the top visuals, and even Top Banana had the decency to not have any music to demolish the eardrums with.

I'm not the biggest fan of the faux-3D during the SNES era. The one example that sticks out to me is Secret of Mana. Whenever you want to take off, you're greeted by an extreme close-up of Flammie's sprite that looks less like it's flying towards you and more like it's becoming a pixelated mess. But this pales in comparison to the world map, where technical limitations really make it hard to look at, let alone navigate. Oh, and the lightning strikes in endgame aren't helping

I hope you don't take it personal if I skip all future iterations of this particular series even if I'll still follow the rest of the channel. Owww... I still remember how ridiculously young I was when trying FF6 for the first time, not even understanding what that pixelation effect coupled with the heartbeat noise meant at first. Mega Man 2's boss flashing was even worse then, especially the dragon. Glad most modern games avoid this kind of thing.

I believe those pumpkins are saying "Yum Yum" or maybe the French version "Miam Miam"

This series makes me glad i avoided most of those games back when i suffered majorly from epilepsy.

17:56 JJ Squawkers starts exactly like Growl.

One of my own personal leave my eyes alone experience was in the original kirby super star when you defeated any boss or miniboss, the screen would erupt into red and white flashes

The people who made jj squackers final level background probably made the same mistake as the people who made hoi agas final level background

J. J. Squawkers has a hard mode. I *think* the last level's background has a different palette and I swear it's even worse.

I think Violet Wisteria, a fairly recent indie game, would make a good fit for this series with at least two parts I’ve seen of it.

Iznogoud has all the charm and design of a CD-I game.

the poison flashing while playing fire red at 2x speed as a child is so nostalgic haha 16:11 that is the most ridiculous thing i have ever seen hahaha

Happy to see Mega Man V and Pulseman get mentioned, even if it wasn't for good reasons. I actually really loved Pulseman's aesthetics, only the final boss really caused me eye pain but at least he's not too tough.

I don't even have epilepsy, but even I'm a little dizzy after watching this one, so be careful everyone!

Solar Jetman would be a good candidate for a future Leave my eye/ears alone videos.

Wait, do Tick-Tock and the lamp not exist in the original DQ4? Because the lamp lets you go straight to night-time and carries over from Meena and Maya's equipment

oh, that last one reminded me of an arcade game i saw once , LONG ago. in the second level, the enemies will spawn RIGHT where you are standing, EVERY ONE OF THEM! unless you DUCK just BEFORE they appear, you DIE to EVERY ONE. and no, you can't crouch-walk!

9:33 does the night light not exist in dq4 nes? I could've sworn it's at least in the ds remake

I have a nomination, and it's literally one of my FAVORITE game series of ALL TIME: PS1's Spyro Tilogy. The Magenta and SUPER Bright Greens that are used in Spyro give me splitting migraines if I play more than 30 minutes at a time. I hate even nominating it, but the reason why I love the Reignited Trilogy so much is they got rid of those super bright colors that featured so commonly on 3d models in the Play Station 1 era. It causes me severe physical pain. My eyes start hurting, my head hurts, and the migraine can last for more than a day. I love that game so much, I'm so thankful the reignited series came out because otherwise I haven't been able to play it in 2 decades.

10:00 i can see the screen flashing specifically while ur on the stairs

Argh, I had to be reminded of these nasty poison effects! Good thing they got less annoying over time

i just remembered a "trolls" game i played on an Atari 800 many years ago. EVERYTHING on the screen (except my character) flickered and flashed in different ways! i couldn't even tell the walkable parts apart from the background!

Seriously, the poison effects in Final Fantasy 6 (and the rest of the NES and SNES games) makes me feel like the poisoned character (poisonee?) is actually piss ass drunk - which, honestly, is a form of poisoning in and of itself. I feel like if I walked enough, the character will stop to throw up.

I'll say this: Saturn's flashiness is WAY less of a factor on the original Game Boy, because the screen size was small enough that it didn't really hit that hard. When you blow it up to a bigger screen, it has a lot more impact. So that can at least be excused as an accident of modernity. I think I picked up on what you were talking about with DQ4 when you went up and down the stairs, there definitely was visible jittering there. "You press Square to jump, hold X to run and press Circle to attack." ...Right, someone get the fucking Hague on the line, I'm pretty sure that's a Geneva Convention violation. I wasn't too bothered by the JJ Squawkers one...until the last phase. That one was brutal. My eyes are unfortunately used to pain. Clearly official games are far from immune to visual atrocity, but the untamed world of ROM hacks has no quality check entry barrier. And I've suffered quite a bit of visual atrocity from them...some of them are just ugly, but when they start getting flashy it starts getting painful.

The bit rate at the end actually helped me because everything looked so blurry that it was difficult to concentrate my eyes on something and everything became a jumble of things like watching static on a television xD only the text was legible

Thank you for showing off JJ Squawkers, this game has Leave my eyes alone as its 2nd home!

The character in iznogoud looks like he'll give me a thousand lashes if I don't die of laughter

Becoming blind suddenly became slightly more appealing after seeing that final boss

Finally, a mention of one of my favorite (and one of only two) Mega Man games I ever played, even though it's just to talk about Saturn! EDIT: Dunno why I said "Fooleys" in there as well. He never mentioned or showed them even once. Their screen-strobey effect is slower, so I guess to him that means they're less eyestrainy.

a game that did that poison flash effect even WORSE than FF6 was Eternal Filena (also on SNES)- thought it was bad enough it went every step when you were poisoned? try getting that effect EVERY TIME YOU TAKE A STEP, during an entire UNSKIPPABLE section where the protagonist is blinded, with *NO WAY TO STOP IT* other than switching Filena out for someone else...

Definitely wasnt about to go to sleep before seeing this, nope. My eyes surly will be fine!

A very good (if slightly hard to swallow) video. Anyway, all points are subjective and personal, if understandable, but I had to note some moments: -I'm pretty sure, DQ4 stuttering effect is caused by NES being unable to render at fast speed. It's also probably not very noticable at monitors it supposed to run on. On ladders it's actually intentional as someone's bright idea to simulate stepping. Indeed, on modern monitors it annoys much more than it's supposed to deliver. -As far as I'm aware, you're supposed to pronounce it "is no good". Also I think, it's two different laugh tracks, but I can't get them to be side by side, so I'm not sure. -On the same matter, background remind me of Zelda CDI games, where, if I remember correctly, they were hand-drawn, not prerendered (as in 3d prerendered). Not a good sign either way. -Pumpkins kinda do sound like they saying "LubLub" more than "Nyam-Nyam", as other people claim. I think it is close to the track you used for your elephant LubLub back then, except in lower pitch (rather your one is in much higher pitch). Maybe it's the same one?

9:47 yeah the going up and down on the stairs I could definitely see the flashes.

Wow… Glitchy

I disagree with that last game taking top banana's crown.

I’m so glad I’m not the only one bothered by that horrid stock child laugh. Also I’ve never heard of JJ Squawks I have got to try that out

Someone should make a rom hack of pulseman that doesn’t make people’s eyes bleed it’s a great game if you ignore the visuals.

If you think the clouds in that FF6 fight were terrible then wait until you see a certain boss fight in Romancing SaGa 3

I've never played ff6 and I thought, "oh come on it can't be that bad." Oh my god that was horrendous.

J.J. Squawker boss rush sure is nasty on the eyes and Sega Outride/Outdrive.

Try doing "big bang" on the acorn archimedes

DQIV, at least from the recording, does seem to stutter, but not flash. The stuttering is very distracting, though.

While it's relatively minor, the Shadowfell in Baldur's Gate 3 has this annoying lensing effect that makes everything look blurry. Not that bad if you're playing the game on a computer monitor or a TV, but a handheld PC like the Steam Deck? The image becomes so muddy because of the lower resolution that it feels like I'm playing the game without glasses on. Luckily it's a short section, even shorter if you're smart and kill Balthazar before entering the Shadowfell (which you should, because fighting him in the Gauntlet of Shar is way easier).

6:00 Can Mega Man V be remade already? It's a fresh concept, to have bosses based off of planets (and, as of recently, a dwarf planet) of the Solar System. Speaking for myself, all 9 are at the very least... good. Even Uranus, widely regarded as the weakest, and Venus, my least favourite are decent.

I could have sworn they toned down the poison effect for the FFVI PS1 port.

Okay that wasnt just me with LttP and that section, I also did that lol

Wow, that one in Nightmare Circus is BAD. I was feeling fine for most of them until that one.

A suggestion for a video, horrible tiles.

OH NOOOOO

Dear Gods!

Glad I don't suffer epilepsy (apparently, Armake21 wasn't so lucky, supposedly dying of it, poor guy).

10:49 What about stage 6-4?