Now Kirby's Dreamland 3 I have to disagree. Because for one it was late in the life cycle and the last first party game they did. It flew under the radar, the game did what it set out to do, look like a coloring book. The graphics are better than you stated, they had to use a different technique to implement that water color look. A lot of people love this game. Tell the Japanese it's overrated 😂. We can agree to disagree I agree with most of your content. Not Kirby 3 though it just didn't click with you.
the hype for donkey kong country is well deserved. sure the other parts of the series where better in some regards but usualy when people praise donkey kong country the mean the whole trilogy on the snes anyway. I personaly still like the original first part the most because its so iconic and has this nice basic story of the bad crocodile king stealing donkey kongs bananas and you go to the top of the mountain to defeat him on his pirate ship. its a perfect classic video game plot. the bosses especialy the first 3 are simple af but its all so well executed and not overdone... the controls, the music and the graphics still hold up today you can still play this and it still feels good even compared with modern jump&runs. f-zero and mario kart also still hold up. they still look good and they are still fun to play. top gear on the other hand just like road rash, pole position and other racing games in the same style where you dont actualy have a real racetrack but it feels like you are fixed on some kind of endless scroll or something.... sorry man thats just outdated trash. people maybe have nostalgic memories for it but racing games at the time needed the mode 7 rotational map to come alive. before that it really was the dark ages for racing games. it was useless, it played like ass and the games dont hold up today not even rad racer, super hang on or outrun. I would show them to a young kid to show them what old games were like but I wouldn't expect anybody to have fun with this stuff today.
Liked just for Final Fantasy V. That game is so so good and my personal favorite Final Fantasy, it really doesn't get talked about enough/receive the praise it deserves
Captain Astronaut I would say that FFV is not talked about or “underhyped,” due to the strange localization process with Final Fantasy games. There are still people who call Final Fantasy 6, #3 because that’s how it was released here. So V not being released in the US hurt it quite a bit I think. It’s still one of the franchise I’ve never really played but really want to... just gotta make time.
Honestly FFV is my favorite as well. FFV is just complained about because well FF fans like kinda dark and edgy melodramatic stories like VII. And FFV was very whimsical and light.
I liked playing ffv. But repeated playthroughs and no completion with that game just left me feeling hollow about it. I certainly like the gameplay, and the characters of the game. I've just played it so much that it just disinterested me. I would still put V as a really great game. But i'll come around to it some other time
As many other ff games i totally loved V as well. The music kicked ass and the job system made grinding a lot less tedious. Another thing i liked was it was a difficult final fantasy. You couldn’t just breeze right through it without a little training. The story wasn’t great but who cares?
I had heard great things about it and my friend had the cartridge in their collection so I gave it a try. Its been a few years but I just couldn't get into it. I am sure things would have been different if I had played it as a kid, as I would squeeze any and all redeeming characteristics out of a game if I rented it or owned it when I was young and bored. But as an adult playing it for the first time I found it had a few cool features, but the gameplay itself wasn't something I could get into.
Here in Brazil, Top Gear is a total classic, the majority of the people considers Top Gear superior to Super Mario Kart and F-Zero, for example in a poll in a brazilian channel (Velberan) to the best racing game and Top Gear win both games in the list. There is even a espiritual sucessor made by Brazilians with the same composer and even a remix of the theme of the game.
It's a little funny... I live in Brazil too, and I find it so strange when Snesdrunk says Top Gear is underhyped. In my opinion, Top Gear is seriously overhyped here in Brazil. Everybody loses their shit when talking about Top Gear but I never found it to be so amazing of a racing game. I prefer f-zero much more.
Was the SNES a popular system in Brazil? I know that Mega Drive and Master System reigned supreme there, but was Nintendo popular there too? I'd love to know!
music was better. levels had better flow. areas were unique yet made sense for the island. enemy design fit the level/world and didn't look like they were made of clay.
played donkey kong country recently with my gf, she is 23, so she never played it before. While yes, finding all the bonus barrels is a pain in the ass, I think it still holds up. Great gameplay, controls, great level design, fair but serious challenge, just overall very round. We had lots of fun.
Wasn't expecting Demons Crest on the overhyped list. This was a game I was very fond of, and not alot of people were talking about it in my school. I thought it was a hidden gem
I considered Demon's Crest under hyped, but that's because back in the day, I hadn't heard much about it. I picked it up at the store in the 90s without almost any knowledge about it. I played through it several times, and was blown away by everything (the sound, the visuals, the controls, and the whole presentation) my first play through.
In my experience, the Famicom Phantasia is so unknown to the western world I was surprised to even see it mentioned here, especially as an overhyped one, since people rarely know what I talk about when I mention it to them. For me, it's one of the finest RPGs of its era with a better take on the technology-took-us-back-to-medieval-times-theme than both Secret of Mana an Chrono Trigger (even though these are damn fine games as well), and to how they managed to get such character development from just text and no voice acting as they did in Phantasia is just beyond me! For me, it's everything but overhyped :)
people overhype it thanks to the "Arche fucks like a tiger" meme. Phantasia SNES is probably the worst version. Yes, worse than the GBA version. tbh if you want an ARPG on the SNES, stick with Illusion of Gaia or Terranigma. they're far better. Hell even SO1 is better, though I recommend First Departure R for that.
@@GiordanDiodatoI'm actually quite liking Phantasia. The visuals and music are enough for me to paper over some shortcomings and the combat feels satesfying and relatively intuitive once you get the hang of it, and I didn't enjoy either of these things as much in the couple of hours or so I put into the PS version. Although the random encounter rate is indeed atrocious
No stretched out 10 minute mark videos. No begging for likes and subscriptions. No in video ads. Just great SNES content. No sir, YOU have a great rest of YOUR day.
Agreed. Although I *thoroughly* recommend everyone try the English translation of the PS1 version if you haven't already. I love this game too, but the PS1 version is superior in nearly every way, while still keeping the feel of the SNES original.
In Brazil, Top Gear is almost a SNES institution. Everyone loves this game, everyone has played this game. The music is legendary. That being said, Donkey Kong is awesome boo
I love Final Fantasy V and recently bought a repro cart for my SNES to replace my no-longer functional PSX copy. No load times and better sounding music make it so much better.
final fantasy 5 ancient cave hack is a must try. It makes the game infinitely better. Main prob with it is it takes too long to learn skills (dualcast for example 999 ap fughedaboutit), and some classes were useful, but to have a roguelike where you randomly get jobs that are much better than nothing (even blue mage and slow berserker are useful), it makes the game far more fun to play.
GBA version IS the definitive version (let's see how the Pixel Remaster will be). Yeah,yeah,yeah. Horrible audio. If you haven't figured it out, there's a sound restoration patch, too.
Kirby's Dreamland 3 is amazing for the amount of combinations between the companions and the powers, I've yet to see a game with so many combinations. Plus, the art style is amazing.
I always thought it was the most re-playable of the Kirby games from that era. SNESdrunk calls it "Slow" but I feel like you have a lot more control with your movement in that game, the other games were the ones that feel slow.
Yeah completely disagree with SNESdrunk, I felt like the “slow” gameplay made me enjoy the game much more and I was able to enjoy all the levels throughly. also, l loved each puzzle to get the heart stars and it’s actually pretty smart. Also, the boss fights are pretty challenging and the art is so cute! There’s a reason why it’s my favorite Kirby game and I was born in 2004 :3, I literally found this game on RU-vid on thanksgiving and it changed my life, and plus It inspired me to do research on video game graphics as well, if it wasn’t for this game, I don’t think I would be this video game crazy 💖💖💖
Disagree on Demon's Crest. You make it sound like a bad thing that there are secrets and passageways to discover with other gargoyles. If anything it gives the game replay value. And the levels are too short and straight forward to 'not know were the hell to go'. But then again, I played it longer than 15 mins. It is actually an underrated game. Like Actraiser. The worst thing about Demon's Crest is that it is very short.
When I saw how people argued about DKC in comments (before seeing that part in your video) I thought something like "Oh no, he didn't just shit on DKC." But the way you presented the issues of the game was really good! Many people just rant about popular games they don't like, but you presented your arguments in a well mannered and objective way through comparing the game with its sequels. This way you can defuse arguments early on and your actually won me over (to an extend) by pointing out the issues I realized since the first day I played it. I really love DKC1, but the item placement really infuriated me as a kid. While it didn't age as well as its sequels and looks kinda simple in comparison, it started this awesome series.
Yeah he has some decent insight most of the time, but I can't agree completely either, Final Fantasy V is one of the worst games Ive ever played. This comes from a huge FF fan who has played every single one save XV yet.
Jet Diamond V is my favorite FF, but I only like 1 through 6 at all -- the fancier the graphics, the worse the SquareSoft/Square/SquareEnix game has felt to me. 7 breaks the traditional damage system and 8 just bastardizes it -- and it's just downhill from there (to me). 5 took the brilliant concept of thr job system of 3 (real 3, not 6/"3 USA") and made it totally custom and ground-breaking. Were some elements of 5 a little corny? Sure, but so what? It was awesome!
[Feels bad for the person who says V is the worst FF but hasn't played XV yet.] Then again, my opinion is of no real import, and I thought the series' best were V-IX, except for VII. [Equips Flame Shield/ Slots Elemental with Fire materia in armor / Junctions 100x Firaga to ElemDef]
I very much disagree with you on Demon's Crest. While I could definitely do without the demonic theme, the game is absolutely fantastic. It's kind of like Metroid, but they took that idea and did there own thing with it. It's a pretty unique game. I would never call Donkey Kong Country over-hyped. It wasn't over-hyped when it was released, and it holds up extremely well to this day. Complaining about it by saying that the sequels did certain things better is just silly. That's what a sequel is suppose to do! Yeah, the sequels are better games, and that's how it should be.
I remember when Bubsy The Bobcat was getting previewed in IGN and Gamepro... Nothing but glowing previews saying this game was incredible and that Bubsy was the next big thing. This was back in 1992 when I was a 16 year old with a part time job. I bought the game at launch before the actual reviews came out, most were positive, but I still remember this game even today as one of the biggest disappointments (or over hyped games) I ever paid for. Maybe do a video on some of your worst SNES purchases?
+SNES drunk SimEarth was notable in that it's one of the few games that carried a warning of sorts in Nintendo Power. It was diplomatically put, but NP basically called it boring. I got a mere handful of hours out of SimEarth. One of the worst gaming experiences of my life.
I remember picking FFV for the Game boy Advance and being fascinated by it! Loved how you could mix and match abilities you unlocked from different jobs (specially the Ninja being able to dual wield weapons)
Dude, it is not that you should get hate for dropping rating on games that are good according to users, but starting comments like "I would avpid games like Demon's Crest, it is not worth playing...", seriously? Game is far from being a master piece, but graphics design and music are awesome... It is worth to play
Just the opening scene is worth playing it for to be honest. Its worth a longer play than that though. The graphics and design are awesome. So is the soundtrack. Its part of the Ghosts 'n Goblins series. That alone makes it worth at least a play through.
I will say this: you've got some balls on you. :P I will say I can't understand your view for tales of phantasia, as well; as aside from just being a stellar game it basically spawned it's own genre and left enough of a positive impression for two separate remakes. Seems like well-deserved hype to me..
cant understand your points about tales of phantasia. like in many games you cant remember everything about a story, but the endimg in top is somehow ... very interesting. even the battle system is interessting and somehow funny and not every enemies or boss is easy sometimes you rly need good tactics to win.
Nintendo Power rated DKC as game of the year in 1994 over FF6, back when Nintendo Power was still a pretty big deal. I don't know if DKC is over-rated today, but the hype did get a little out of control when it first released since everyone thought rendered graphics were so amazing at the time. It's still a great game and even a classic but I can see where SNES drunk is coming from.
Most people probably never played any of these games except Donkey Kong Country, which I don’t think is overhyped. It’s fun, has great music, great gameplay, great graphics, and brought a forgotten gaming character back to the video game scene after a decade of abscense.
Well, Tales of Phantasia for me was one of the most memorable J-RPG that an I played on Super Famicom... But agree that the linear motion battle system is a mess and the high rate of random encounters is bit annoying...
I disagree on Demon's Crest. The whole point is to go through the levels and explore to find all of the alternate paths and items, which leads to the true ending. I kind of think you didn't play it the way it was intended to be played. To anyone interested in the game for any reason please give it a chance.
Top Gear actually comes from the a series on the Amiga. Much nicer looking, higher quality music, but for whatever reason, the amiga has problems using both music AND sound effects...making it feel weird that you generally can't have both.
Pretty sure it was just a hardware limitation. The sound cards back then were integrated right into the motherboard and for cost effectiveness (seriously I've got a magazine advertisement saved on my computer right now from the 80's/early90's advertising a 10mb hard drive for over three grand) relatively simple with few channels. The personal computer was still an enthusiast device back then, all hardware was pricey as a result.
TOP GEAR! Great call. Both the original and the sequel were some of the rare racing games where I could actually compete with my best friend, who was a flight/racing game master.
I really like the underrated list but the overhyped doesn't really make sense when you only say that the games from a franchise are not as good as another one in the same franchise. That doesn't make them overhyped, it only makes them "not as good" in comparison to their other iterations.
Over hyped: 1. Demons Crest 2. Kirby's Dreamland 3 3. Mega Man X3 4. Donkey Kong Country 5. Tales of Phantasia Under Hyped 1. Sparkster 2. Legend of the Mystical Ninja 3. King of Dragons 4. Top Gear 5. Final Fantasy V
Could not disagree more regarding Demon's Crest. I think it has some flaws, but the level design is *fantastic.* The way it has multiple nonlinear levels which are huge and sprawling, with paths leading to different boss fights with different rewards, is just fantastic. It's essentially a middle ground between Super Mario World and a full-on Metroidvania.
Bang on about Final Fantasy V, I believe it is likely underrated solely due to its lack of US release on the SNES. Here in Europe, we never had any until 7. So I look at 5 as 4 & 6s equal.
Top Hat Gaming Man ummm FFIV and FFVI are far superior products.... graphics to start..... narrative second.... FFV is easily one of the 3 worst FF titles..... while it's SNES peers IV & VI are arguable the best titles in the series.
+Arctica171 The Super Famicom version of Phantasia is flawed from inconvenient apporach to melee battles against aerial enemies to poorly planned learned magic order (Have fun going through Ymir's Forest/Treant's Forest with only 15 panacea bottles). FFV put attention to combat in a way many entries wouldn't dare to do today and... gave you options to play however you like, not even FFIII gave you such opportunity. FFV gets overlooked because people want to play a game for story and not to play the game itself, so naturally it doesn't get much attention.
Zicconnuts I don’t think people overlook FFV for any reason other than it wasn’t released in the west until very recently. When I was younger we didn’t even know it existed, due to Square’s weird localization process. I was so confused when FFVII came out for a long time... “Final Fantasy VII! Wait did I miss something?” - 12 year old me.
+XiongGou Final Fantasy V has been available in the west since 1999 being part of the Anthology compilation, though released near the end of the PS1 life-cycle. That being said, it was a bad port of the SFC version with bad sound quality and localization, on top of having need to load.
@@Verbalaesthet How much hype did Demon's Crest even get? Donkey Kong Country was promoted through the roof. Demon's Crest was something I almost never heard of.
The dialogue in Tales of Phantasia is just okay? Damn, I guess my DeJap version's saucy dialogue is much better than what we ended up getting on the PS1 and GBA :P
That's what I was thinking, he probably played the PS1/GBA version, and automatically assumed the SNES fan translation by Dejap had the same dialogue. I still think the dialogue is one of the best parts of the snes version, if you have the Dejap translation applied.
Sometimes it feels like this -> a well made game that deserves the praise it gets so it is liked by a lot of people = overhyped because a lot of people like it....
Lol thats kinda how I feel actually, a good example being ff7 over the other ps1 ffs... but that's because it's not that ff7 is a bad game, it's actually great- it's that the others which are also great are completely overlooked
You can't say DKC was overhyped because future games improved on it. At the time, the hype was completely justified. Also, the 100% completion isn't necessary to beat the game. It's an extra thing, so issues with it being non-intuitive are pretty minor.
Mystical Ninja man that was one of my favorite gamed I owned back in the SNES days. Great co-op Top Gear was another I sunk a lot of hours into with friends.
"If you like this real time combat style, you could argue Star Ocean does a much better job than Tales of Phantasia" I mean yeah you could argue that, but you'd be wrong.
Hmm, while at first I absolutely loved Bahamut Lagoon, after a while of playing the game felt kinda dull and boring, I vastly prefer Tales of Phantasia over it, although I do have to agree that the plot is pretty damn generic.
I felt the same about Bahamut Lagoon. I got so bored that I had to drop it. I absolutely loved Tales of Phantasia the first time I played it in 2006, and even after playing the newer versions I can still enjoy it.
I do have to admit that in part it was my perfectionist, min-maxy type of gameplay that helped me get bored of it, it's specially worse with tactical games. It's a great game though, the music is really good, I wish I had the patience to finish it nowadays, along with Front Mission.
I wouldn't say it's generic, it's just not FF6/CT level. You can't really tell much in the future of ToP's plot, you can't really tell what's coming next, the ending caught me COMPLETELY off guard! lol
- Demon's crest is worth trying out, if you are a big SNES fan, but probably not worth ur time to beat it. - Didnt even know Kirbys dreamland 3 was a thing lol. Kirby Superstar is AMAZING - MegaMan x3 is garbage, might as well play the other good ones if youre gonna play megaman - I used to played King of Dragons at this arcade when I was a kid. it was the shit. never knew it was on SNES til 10 years later lol. - Donkey Kong 1 is the best one in the series, if not evenly matched with #2 . dunno what ur talkin about lol. that music, the level design. its a good game. - Top Gear was good, but I preferred Battle Cars. that game was awesome - Tales of Phantasia was awesome at first, i liked the battle system. But I got bored with it after a few days of playing. - Final Fantasy 5 is my favorite on SNES. Actually no, i have to tie it with FF6. but ff5 is so fuckin good, and pretty challenging late game if you dont grind to the point where its easy as pie.
I remember the last time I played Demon's Crest, I was just sorta playing at random and I had no idea where to go or what to do... and then like 30 minutes later there's the end credits and I'm like... WTF?
But Tales of Phantasia has a great plot! Somewhere unpredictable, somewhere even grimdark-ish. Jokes are fun, characters has flaws in their personalities, none of FF of SNES time had that.
The characters in Final Fantasy VI beg to differ. Many of them are flawed or at least imperfect and have a level of depth that was unreached by many games of its time. While you may or may not have liked the game, it did have great characters.
I love this list and agree with everything. Everything except DKC. Game is a masterpiece, a timeless classic with an unforgettable soundtrack with tremendous replay value. But to each his own i guess. We all have a game we hate that everyone loves. I’ve always thought Halo was garbage.
i cried when you put phantasia as overhyped. its an unknown rare gem that needs MORE popularity, not less. unmemorable plot? where do you get that? FF5 had less plot. And the plot ties in with symphonia. a strong disagreement here.
It's only overhyped because it never came out in the States. There's nothing special about it other than the graphics were pretty good when it INITIALLY came out IN JAPAN.
Underhyped- EVO: Search for Eden, really awesome platform where you upgrade your animal with new parts to evolve yourself so it has some RPGish elements. Fish level->Amphibians->Reptile level (let's you turn into a bird if you want)->Mammal level x2 where you can turn into a human. Lots of weird stuff in the game too including a really hard to find alien level hidden in the Reptile era.
Dude, the things you brought up about Demons Crest were total bs. It had multiple endings based on your choices in game, multiple different demon forms with different abilities, rpg elements, and great music, all things that were pretty novel at the time.. You complained that you have to play levels over again, but you neglected to mention that you do so with different forms and it unlocks new areas. Its painfully obvious that you just played the game a little bit, and then made it fit your narrative for the video. Try again.
"Its painfully obvious that you just played the game a little bit, and then made it fit your narrative for the video." Oh please. Demon's Crest has its own video on this same channel. "You complained that you have to play levels over again, but you neglected to mention that you do so with different forms and it unlocks new areas" That's right it did, and the level design STILL was not a good enough match with all those cool abilities. That's my entire point, the level design did not hold up its end of the bargain. But, you're still under this weird impression that I'm calling it a bad game. Demon's Crest is not a bad game. The entire point of this channel is about managing expectations for the player. You recommend it, but I'd rather play something like Sparkster. There's nothing inherently wrong with that.
Im just saying I dont think its overhyped, its hyped for good reason. I mean how many games have you played like that of that era? It was original on many fronts. Also, I cant stand that Sparkster, when I first played it was on an emulator and I was like is this some fan-made knock off of Rocket knight Adventures (genesis)? I loved Rocket Knight Adventures though.
Hey monkey's uncle, I love DKC1, but your critic on the 100% is on point, this is still an awesome game, the music is outstanding and .... Wait, you just put it on the list to make people comment right? I need to remember that trick for my own channel, maybe I will use it someday to. PS: Love FF5.
I LOVE Tales of Phantasia up to this day. But if I would pick one of all the versions I'd say the PSX version. Second is for the Super Famicom. Donkey Kong Country (the first one of the SNES trilogy) is the weakest but still enjoyable. Final Fantasy 5 is a pretty good game. Nothing to argue about. Tastes are different. And that's good.
Great video! I agree with everything only have 1 different opinion. I would alter slightly your closing remark on Kirby 3. I would change "Even if you like Kirby, feel free to skips this one" to "Unless you really love Kirby, feel free to skip this one." It's still a decent Kirby game, fans of the series wouldn't want to miss out on it.
I love FF5, but besides labeling the story as lighthearted, I would also call its structure fairly, well... stupid. There are some transitional moments in there that are incredibly hard to swallow, even with all of the suspension of disbelief in the world. I will give you that it's a much more involved game than FF4 though, which although good has its reputation carried mostly through nostalgia. FF4 has its strength (good level design, some hard fights near the end, and forcing you to adapt your strategy a lot through constantly changing party members), but from a storytelling perspective it's a bit of a dusty relic. And to be fair to F-Zero, it's pretty challenging in its own right. I sure as hell can't beat it, anyway.
+Ghost7856 Final Fantasy V definitely has a stupid storyline, but its combat at least make up for it. I love the job system and that's really the only thing that makes me come back to it.
whaaaat i thought the storyline was cool in FF5. i mean sure it's simple, with the crystals and all, but shit got REAL in that game dude lol. I thought the whole Faris being a woman thing was kind of stupid though. But not stupid enough at the time to make me think the storyline sucked. I tend to look at games more of how I enjoyed them at the time of playing though, not by todays standards.
FF5 is cool, but I wish there was more of an incentive to play around with the jobs end game. Why would you not have a party full of Mimics with S-shot?
FF IV is vastly superior to V. The only thing anyone ever talks about when referencing V is the job system. People have fetishized it into something it's not. Just because a game had a different gimmick, but literal garbage story, and literal garbage overall plot/game progression (how many times were you forced to warp back and forth between "realms" or "worlds" or whatever?) Its an insane way to drag out a needlessly long game. And on the topic of "but muh job system" for Christ's sake, III did this years before and yet most people act like II (which has its own problem for sure, but not like V, at least it has a compelling, if basic, story) and III don't exist! V is a mockery to me, of the entire series. It's not even witty enough to be a satire or self referential parody, because it doesn't commit to that. It literally half-asses everything compared to other games before it, with its one trick pony gimmick, that everyone likes to tip their fedora to, which in and of itself, while perhaps somewhat forward thinking in design, is not even that useful, as others have pointed out. There really isnt much incentive to swap around jobs or play in creative ways. Yeah, I guess you CAN make a party of 4 time mages, but would I ever want to? Not really. This game is traumatically bad compared to other Final Fantasy games, ESPECIALLY IV which actually has a beautiful story and themes for something told through chibi sprites. V falls between the asscrack of IV and VI, both games that have vastly much more to offer in terms of an experience, which is what RPG's and Final Fantasy in particular, are supposed to be about. Not grinding away hopping back and forth through the same worlds wasting your life away for a retarded nonsensical story about a guy named, "Butz". Its as if the programmers knew the whole game was like a stupid fucking fart joke in the midst of the actual intellectual conversation that are the Final Fantasy games.
Ghost7856 i should slap you silly. FFIV invented the idea of story telling through typed narrative. Still probably the best story of the FF series.... also one of the best endgame sequences. I can admit the gameplay is very linear. Although it is also the first final fantasy to have complete dungeons for optional summons.... slyph/bahamut. Also two of the best FF characters come from IV... Cecil and kain. IV & VI stand in a league of their own for SNES..... V belongs with mystic quest..... just straight inferior
I’m a giant fan of DKC, especially 2 and 3. And I completely agree with you. That first game was cool in 1994 mostly from a tech perspective but it’s not a very good game overall.
