SHOGO: MOBILE ARMOR DIVISION - RAW POWER 

"Keep it in your pants pal" "Fukken excuse me?"

"Keep It In Your Pants, Pal" "Fucking, Excuse Me?" will go down as one of the single greatest interactions Civvie has made with an NPC

Fun fact: There was a gaming magazine (whose name escapes me) that had 2 games they rated a 100/100: Blood and Shogo.

*murders an innocent girl begging for her life “Alright, what now?” His voice. The timing. Cracked me up.

fun fact : If you enter a loading area from mech to human; If you switch weapons right before the loading screen, you can take 1 mech weapon into the human mission :)

I had to laugh out loud at the edit to DoomSlayer throwing the screen away. 10/10 transition and joke

Aww, he didn't go to the end cutscene. See if you explore the base back near the beginning there's a bartender who refuses to serve Sanjuro cause he's on duty. At the end of the game you're back in the bar, bartender refuses again, Sanjuro shoots him with a rocket launcher. Then the sisters chase each other around with shotguns. It's literally the only thing I remember about this game, the pure WTF at the end.

*"MAGIC CLAW!"* *"MAGIC CLAW!"* *"MAGIC CLAW!"* *"MAGIC CLAW!"* *"MAGIC CLAW!"* *"MAGIC CLAW!"* Quick Saving.... *"MAGIC CLAW!"*

5:36 I can’t wait for the sequel where Gabriel becomes Gabriella

"I'm not angry about Kathryn." "Well, I am angry, but I'm not going to kill you." Now that is some truly touching dialogue. Really shows how deeply Kura cares about your character.

"Keep it in your pants pal." Fu*kin' excuse me?! That got me laughing

About the MAGIC CLAW (cat toy): it does not hurt people at all but is modeled after a weapon and therefore will stun-lock everybody in your cross of fire. This is a glitch, but a awesome one. Since the toy does not need to reload or ammo (and you stun-lock regardless of the actual animation) you can stun-lock one enemy indefinitely. If done right you can get rocket enemies to shot each other. Also I always thought it said Mother Claw.

You're one of the few gaming channels that delivers consistent and actually funny reviews. Great work

Kathryn - "Can you get inside?" Civvie 11 - *literally being vaporized at that moment* 29:15

"This is exactly the kind of game you get when talented people polish up an unfinished product." This is definitely the most succinct and accurate way I've ever heard this game described.

The genuine glee in his voice at 3:24 when he talked about the cute little car and blood splatter really got to me. So wholesome!

Pro Captain Claw when ?

I kinda like the dialogue. Sure these guys are unprofessional as fuck, but the banter makes them seem human and relatable. It's cheesy but also endearing.

'Fucking excuse me?' I actually laughed out loud at the gym. Everyone looked at me. One of the best reviews yet.

20:38 is a classic Civvie moment no doubt.

Two of the most common causes of death in Shogo are random crits and doors. Lithtech doors are lethal.

5:55 is the single greatest clip ever put into a youtube video

Fun fact: Shogo and Blood 2 share so many technicalities that you can pick B2 weapon model files, change their filename to the equivalent Shogo names, drop them into the Shogo folder tree where you'd expect them to go and have Blood 2 weapons in Shogo. Easy as that. You can even load the models into a fanmade tweaking utility and change the timings. I remember I replaced the uzi (or was it the assault gun?) with B2's chaingun, made it fire a lot faster, and just wiped the floor with everything. Aaah, fun times.

The true boss of the game: Some guy with a shotgun and his accomplice the corner.

Shogo is such an amazing oddity. A first person shooter made by western developers with an anime-esque artstyle and premise that tries its hardest to feel like an actual anime but comes off as something you'd see on a 12-year old's Dragon Ball/Gundam doodle and fan fiction on their notebooks thanks to its deviantart-tier drawn portraits and hilarious 3D models. Oni seems to have pulled this off better. I remember having a significant amount of hours on the prologue on-foot mission at the base, just shooting the guards and staff trying my best to actually get through it somehow. I'm glad you had the same train of thought the first time you got on that level too lol. I wish more games did that where you could kill friendly NPCs that won't result in an instant game over (or just setting them as invulnerable). And your thoughts on the shotgun are perfectly on point. Despite its heavy flaws and being an overall raw mess, the game still has a special place in my heart and had a lot of fond memories of it as a kid. It's one of those rare games where a western developer is trying to work with something usually Japanese rather than the other way around, and it's oddly endearing to see them try something traditionally eastern with a western mindset. It's never going to happen but I'd love to see some sort of remaster or spiritual successor of the game, FPS-gameplay mechs and all but actually polished up, designed and balanced properly. Also nice to see Claw get a mention here, I played both on pretty much the same time-frame as a kid. Definitely would love to see you cover that in the future.

"Keep it in your pants, pal"

"Every time it zooms it does a 3 round burst." Must be made by Dahl then.

I just LOVE the oversized weapons the characters fling around in cutscenes. It looks so goofy.

It's nice to see the DeathCam™ find work again after that incident in the Burger King parking lot.

Alright, so we've got Shogo and Blood II in the can. Does this mean we can expect No One Lives Forever in the future, or are you going straight to KISS: Psycho Circus and Contract J.A.C.K., in an effort to put yourself into a disappointment coma? As always, keep up the great work!

Shogo is the epitome of "mixed feelings" - from an artistic point of view it is amazing. Looks pretty nice (for its time), has cool music, quite a decent story (with jealous-sister-girlfriends and multiple endings based on the player's choice) and lots of mass destruction. From the technological point of view, however, it is a horrible mess - even worse than Blood 2. Splash damage is so broken that it defies any attempt to describe it. Getting one-shot before you even see who is attacking you is the norm, even on the lowest skill setting. And if that's not enough, there are countless bugs and crashes just waiting to make your day that much more miserable.

Oh, how the time has changed. Back when I first launched SHOGO demo, I was amazed how freakin' good it looked, having some nifty little details I hadn't seen in a shooter before. Like (fake) reflections on weapons, visible explosion shock waves and surprisingly good sense of scale. Hey, it was the late 90s, every new game brought new graphical improvements to the table. It hasn't aged well, has it? Seeing how good anime games like Dragon Ball Xenoverse look, I'd love to see what a modern SHOGO would look like. An FPS with similar art style could be something really special.

i got a possible explanation for blood 2 gabriella thing, in shogo there's gabriel and when making blood 2 they forgot about the gabriel from blood 1, they didnt want two gabriels in their games so they switched one (probably shogo's lines of dialogue were already recorded - they just did ol' genderbendaroo on a chosen)

Got this during the Steam sale, I like it. I'm a fan of Gundam, Robotech, SDF Macross, and Ghost in the shell. I get what they were going for. Shogo Mobile Armor Division could be great if remade today, especially if they went with a cel shade art style. Definitely could nail the anime look. Too bad Monolith Productions no longer makes games like this...

I played Shogo when it was new and was a big fan... I don't remember all this instant death stuff. I think it might be a problem with new computers, like maybe the faster clock cycles or something makes the enemies more deadly than they used to be.

Those ventilation shafts you mention it, actually maked me remember the level design of Armored Core(which came out in 1997), because there is a lot of missions which takes place in facilities and so on, that are meant for your mech...but you just wonder "Where could be something for humans anyway???"

3:48 I see you, Evangelion reference. Don't think I dont.

I find your channel strangely addicting as an older gamer. I actually watched a couple of your reviews twice. Keep up the great work. You are certainly a rising star here especially with your PRO reviews of Blood and Postal 2.

20:16 "I love my sister as much as you do." Wait, the MC is the BF of the sister...

I love how they went with the most Japanese-sounding names they could think of for all the initial characters, and then Gabriel, presumably in a nod to how a lot of sci-fi anime often borrows names and themes from various religions. And then Hank Johnson shows up.

I remember Mandalore Gaming doing a video on this too...it's special, it really is.

I was just telling all my friends how i used to play this game back in a day, and nobody even heard about it. Thanks civvie now i know it exists and im not crazy. It was an awesome experience in my opinion.

Uziels big gun is just a scaled up Juggernaut... When you pick it up, it's just more ammo for the Juggernaut if you have it... Hooray.

Darn it Civvie, you said "Blood 2" and the game I was playing instantly crashed

Maybe I was just getting used to the jank by this point, but I died so infrequently in the second half of this game I thought I had broken a barrier and become psychic. Then I tried to replay it and lost my budding mental powers. This game needs a complete overhaul.

I was literally just thinking I could do with a new Civvie video :) great channel

"How did I gain 15,000 subs when everyone up there is dying..." had to check the date on that one.

20:56 judging by the scream and the tone of the main character's voice, I'd say either he was the one who voiced the cultists in the first Blood game, for years nobody could figure out the voice actor of them, some say Stephen did them but he was asked in an interview and he couldn't recall it. Then again some of the same screams were used for Caleb and innocents in that game too and could have just been a stock sound effect used for all of them.

Goddamn, I love that doom 2016 Cutaway.

This game looks so much better in my childhood memories of it

RIP Hank Johnson. The GOAT we never knew we needed.

Shogo is my gem, and I can't help but find it a hilarious trip.

I'm pretty sure Hank's voice actor is also Doc Mitchell from FNV.

>overly complex plot >MECHS >horrible dubbing Yep, this is Anime alright.

Dude finding your channel I felt like I struck gold. Seriously and I genuinely appreciate your work and opinions. Keep up the good work man.

I dropped the $2.50 on Shogo a while back and put it on the backlog because of this video. Finished both endings last night and think it's one of my favorite shooters now. Clearly a passion project, and the shooting/ mech stuff was super fun. Loved every moment of that campaign, particularly the story and weapons/ weapon sounds.

"Ever hear of Uziel-""No."

This is the first time I've ever seen anyone talk about Claw. Amazing work Civvie, hope they boost your rations.

What a mysterious Shogo.

There's also this fun glitch where if you pause during a cutscene and un pause, you can use the mouse to spin your character in place like a madman

You should do ‘Requiem: Avenging Angel’ next, it was one of my faves back in the day. All these games you’ve done lately reminded me of it. Also I think one of the best parts of Shogo was the music.

Been watching your whole back catalog for the past 2-3 weeks and I'm so glad I stumbeled over this channel, keep up the awesome work!

14:15 Having watched this before, listening to the following silence speaks volumes and I love the joke.

I remember playing this! Thanks for the type of games you cover and how you do it, always well entertained!

Damn, for me, that "Magic Claw"-sound brought back all the memories :')

Oh yes. I have been waiting for those Gordon Ramsay clips.

According to IMDb, LT. Cor. Kathryn Akkaraju is voiced by Kathy Levin, who (also according to IMDb) voiced the HEV suit in Half Life 2.

18:41 - and then Wildlands just started the cinematic in the background where El Sueno starts with "I have killed thousands". Suddenly the doll was so much more epic. On the other hand I'm one of those that liked Shogo. Came as the free game in a magazine - and I don't think I've ever finished it. Probably I just liked the anime vibe. Again at that time I didn't know even the slightest bit of english so maybe not even that :)

Hey. I just discovered your channel a few days ago. Now this happens. Awesome!

I only ever played the MP part of this game, in an internet cafe with my friends. It was good fun back then moving between mech and soldier during deathmatches.

I recently found you scouring on youtube, and you deserve a lot more praise and attention. I'm sending thoughts, prayers, and less sewer levels toward you. And also essential oils, because that's what everyone evidently needs right now.

Thank you so much. I’ve been looking for this game since 2001 when I played it last as a 5yo kid.

I remember playing this years ago, maybe 4 years after it was released and the reaction times weren't even close to as bad. I'm guessing that reaction time is tied to the CPU speed somehow.

Shogo was made by the first primitive proto-weeaboo.

This channel needs way more videos on it. I binged everything in two days, now I gotta rewatch it all.

17:24 That took me so off guard that I about spilled water all over my keyboard.

"Okay, I am angry but I am not going to kill you" is now my favorite piece of dialog in any game ever. Talk about an abusive relationship, if it has to be stated that you will not be murdered that is a sign you need to get out of that relationship and look into a restraining order.

So now those shadow people in the beginning have been confirmed to have killed Civvie 11 in the original timeline.

The comedic timing on that quicksave during the magic claw bit was astounding

Excellent videos mate, your stuff is criminally underrated.

In a way I love the fact the game actually uses FPS controls for mechs sections. Back in the day many mech games had crappy controls and even the ones I love like Heavy Gear II for instance. Here in shogo you can easily maneuver your mech and that's great. This is a shame that weapons didn't had alt fire because actually it would fit the game and its over the top nature. And yeah I love shooting corpses in this game because they fly away delivering gallons of blood. It's just like in older UT / Quake games where you can just blow up corpses and have a good squish sound.

3:49 That 'CURVE' logo is a parody of Evangelion's "NERV' logo lmao

The few clips with Doom 2016 got me of guard, good job! Fockin' raw!

I loved this game! Thanks for covering it!

Holy shit that Doom transition just got me I'm glad to found this channel man keep it up

I loved Shogo when I was a kid. I know it doesn't exactly hold up well but I still have fun with the GOG release. Multiplayer is amusing for a bit if you can get it working. The doom monitor throw never gets old.

Love finding your channel, as a 35 year old guy who grew up on this shit there are SO many games i have forgotten i absolutely loved... Thank you for doing this and please keep it up!

"i know we can make it tooooooogeeeeetherrrrrr!"

Ah, the late 90's.. so fresh, so good.

Maybe play Slave Zero for an awesome giant robot game next.

CAPTAIN CLAW REVIEW WHEN, CIVVIE? lol for real tho, Capt. Claw looks neat af with that smooth animation, and him shouting "Magic claw!" over and over seems like a spot-on reference for anyone who played it. Made ME laugh, at least. Keep up the good work, btw. Love your content!

I picked shogo up out of a 5 dollar bargain bin in some obsure and forgotten mom and pops (yes, they did exist) computer store and was forever enamoured with this train wreck of an awesome game. Thank you for playing it.

Y'know, lore-wise I have a feeling that Shogo might actually be connected to Blood. Maybe not in the same universe explicitly, but at least in the same multiverse. If Monolith's ever able to bring Blood back, perhaps through ignoring most of what happened in Blood 2: Still Pink On The Inside and making a much better Blood 2, they could get away with making some nods to Shogo. Also, they should bring back Hank Johnson and his Dwarf Magic. Dwarf Magic is some of the most useful magic, and it's always handy to have a battle-ready axe to back you up.

I love this game, even if only in my mind. It was just so gloriously unique.

Great job. This is the one that got away from me growing up - never got to play it. Thanks for an excellent review 👌🏻

I lost it at a random enemy quoting Blood's cultist, that annoying MARANAX INFIRMUX never gets old

Shogo was awesome....well....it was Anime-ish lol. I loved that they used the same little spherical blood effects!

That DOOM cut got me to subscribe.

Reminds me of Slave Zero on the Dreamcast. I always liked the scale of these mech games. Thanks for the video its awesome.

Heyyo Civii, hope they fed you this week. Wanted to get your take on Shadow Warrior 2. I just bought it and honestly i think it's a departure from what made the original and even it's reboot so good. The teleportation makes it all feel like i'm following a grocery list and the map shows literally everything. But damn do i love the double barrel shotgun. Love the content bud. Please consider Cancer Mouse shirts.