Sony's Forgotten First Party Game: CHASE THE EXPRESS 

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I swear Thor can make literally any game sound interesting. He could make a video about a game that’s just a guy farting on a bus and I’d still have the urge to try it out

holy shid the backgrounds look so good for a ps1 game. it's as if pre renders except were .fully 3d. Late ps1 releases were impressive.

I've always thought that this game was a fever dream I had when I was a child... thank you Thor for proving that this game exists!

This is one of my favorite PSX games along with Metal Gear Solid, Parasite Eve, Silent Hill, Resident Evil 2 and the Dino Crisis. I replayed it last year on DuckStation, an amazing experience, even better than I hoped. It has some rough edges and the controls aren't very good, but the atmosphere, graphics, characters, plot and branching storylines make up for it. For anyone wishing to play it, be careful with ammo, use several save slots/save states because some enemies respawn but your bullets don't and you can get stuck. PS: I love how most of the games I named revolved around some sort of optical disk where some kind of precious data is stored. And they're often beautifully depicted with suiting colors and the mesmerizing rainbow effect real CDs have.

I bought this game the day it came out when I was stationed in Japan. It tried to do so many things and succeeded at none of them. I love how stupid the plot was, and the voice acting made it so much worse. It was the best. Thanks for bringing back some ancient memories.

In a world of retro rare games that everybody knows about. You actually bring up the one's no one brings up. This is meant as a complement.

Games confined to one location always gets me pumped. Usually means you’re in for good pacing and steadily upping the stakes.

Man, those times when a villain could become all powerful and rule the world with a CD.

Oh god thanks for this one! This game has been stuck in the back of my mind ever since a cousin lent it too me. I forgot the name and NEVER heard anyone talking about it, watching this vid felt like scratching an itch that I've had for years.

Never heard of this game before, it definitely looks interesting, even if it's just for the way they constructed the graphics. My guess is that it's a "sphere" wrapping around the camera like a skybox with the real-time objects on top, a mixture of how the PSX RE games did it with how Scratches (it's an indie adventure game) for PC did it, conceptually simple but very clever. Also using a survival horror set of mechanics to build what's essentially a typical train heist movie plot is pretty unique.

I lost my mind when I realized Japan Studio made quiet a few American action game games on the PS1 and PS2 with all the them being English only and with this train game being the only one to come out outside Japan. It is why the English dialogue is so insane, it was directed by Japanese and I Love it

Trains in video games are just such a cozy setting, gonna have to smoke that one something fierce. :0

My boy tried to pay with OFFICIAL WILLEM CURRENCY

I loved this game back in the day. It had oddly fragile discs though - the tiniest smudge or scratch and it would not play cutscenes properly. I wanna play it again...

I'll take a willem orb

I loved this game. We need more non-horror tank control games👍

All We Had To Do Was Follow The Damn Train - The Game

Long time watcher, now just wanna thank you for your videos.

i've been enjoying your videos for months and never knew I was listening to your music the whole time youre mad talented

OK every video you make is a work of art. And when I'm not broke I'll buy that album you just made and a couple others 'cause it's all good e: yes I actually listened to them

So, Resident Gear Solid on a train. I wish I'd found this game back during the PS1 era. Pretty sure I would've enjoyed it a lot.

i agree with you Chess the Express is a rival to Resident Evil and Metal Gear Solid.

Thank you for this! I had this game. I loved it

Never heard of this one. Would have been my thing back in't day

The album IS really good btw, lovin that shit. Glad to see you’re releasing music, half of what draws me to your vids are your music

Your whole channel is amazing

Loved your train vibe video, nice to get another

I actually own a original copy of this game. Being Brazilian and all that says a lot. I had a pirated copy when I was a kid, always thought this game was underrated, it's really good stuff. If you play it without any guide you can get like four different playthroughs the first four times you play the game, so the game takes like six hours to beat but you can get like 20 hours worth of gameplay out of it without having to look around very much for guides secrets etc.

Fkn love ur weekly uploqds keep up ❤

If he doesn't want the Willemorb, I'll take it!

3:02 Stole Edea's curtains and Mandark's laugh. A man of who enjoys the finer things.

Damn, the graphics are pretty nice, it has a dreamcast vibe.

Your style doesn't always appeal to me, but what I got to give you credit for is that you consistently find games I haven't heard of. So many use "hidden gems" or videos to talk about games that anyone who is a gamer would know.

Hey man, amazing job on Lunacid. I got the game and was listening to the soundtrack on youtube, when who should turn out to have made some of the best tracks in the game but the one and only ThorHighHeels. Judging by the music's 90's-japanese-soft jazz-lounge style and heavy synth choirs I'm inclined to believe it's you.

I remember only seeing this game advertised on the back of one of the Tenchu game's instruction manuals. I'm glad I finally bought a cheap used copy and did a full play through on Normal difficulty and I got the true conclusion. I liked the game, shame it will never get a remake or remaster. Sony shut down the dev.

I like how this is basically a sequel to your Train Games video :)

Thank you for the video!

Low-key have no idea how I never heard of the first game!

3:20 Hahaha, his teleporting sound is the quake teleport sound effect.

oh lol, haven't seen this game in a while. As a kid I bought anything that resembled Resident Evil and Chase The Express managed to lure me in somehow : D

I love this channel keep up the good work thor

This game on medium respawned enemies it was rather annoying but I did enjoy playing it.

Man you blow me away 🤯💜

I audibly shouted “YEAAAAAAH” when I saw what the next game will be!

Nice Crash Bandicoot Soundtrack 😜

I forgot all about this one. It had flashes of the game every now and then, but forgot what it was called. One of the few games I rented from BlockBusters. I loved it at the time. Man I miss the psone days. If dithering was a woman I'd marry it.

I was fondly remembering Overblood today whilst slogging through a 12 hour shift, memories of playing it as a child. I get home and slap youtube on and notifications tell me Thors uploading again, yay. Weird seeing it briefly pop up in this vid. Would be good to see you give it a bit more air time.

The weirdest thing about this game to me is that me and my friend found the Disc 1 for it in the middle of the road on our walk home from school. And this had to have been in 2010 at the earliest.

Waiting for this since the "trains in games" bideo Bless

I won this game at a videogame magazine lottery, didn't play at first because I was a bit young and found it boring (only played GT2 around that time) but when I finally played it, it was pretty entertaining!

n a h iconic but yeah, the video was great, love finding out about these randomass games that everyone seems to have largly missed

Oh man can't wait for the SGF and game grumps playthrough

I played PRODUCER 2021 last month and really enjoyed it a whole lot, so many tracks be slappin

ok that RE 4 ellie and joel killed me fr

I played it back in the day and recall enjoying it.

Damn I loved this one. A chill commando weird fun romp.

What're ya sellin' ? *Willem Orb Ahhh. I'll buy that at a high price !

Dang There really are just games upon games of stuff I never heard of, huh? We love to see it.

Yay a Challenger reference!

We know you'd never actually give the wilem orb away. It's the source of all your power after all

All the

It's a cool game. I wish we got a Chase the Expression 2 - Bullet Train Menace, one can dream right

0:29 That evergrace 2 song took me by absolute surprise, i was listening to the ost yesterday, it made the image 10 funnier lmao

I have never heard of this game before. I am impressed by all the background details.

This unlocked a core memory I didn’t know was there. I remember this on those PS1 demo discs and it stopped after you reached a plot point or ran out of time. I remember this and a sk8ing game with enemy POV

Thanks for the vid

I first played this game around 15 years ago and basically found it enjoyable enough to beat. However I didn't know "Chase the Express" was another title for it.

please have a retrospective review or "so ive been playing" of patapon, you gave love to one of my old fave (yakuza series) when it wasnt really booming yet, and now would love to see your take on another old fave of mine, PATAPON! since they just announced a spiritual successor (Ratatan). idk if you ever played it before but would still love to see your takes on it with a fresh set of eye balls lol. anyways always love your videos, and you got me into the whole Boku no Natsuyasumi series. Edit: not to forget Legend of Dragoon!!!! the fact that you made 2 videos, one to kinda redeem yourself to hard fans of the cult game but i enjoyed your take at it.

i loved this game. still have my ps1 copy

Love your editing wish I was as talented as you in editing lol I film edit on a broken Samsung that has a big circle asteroid crack on my screen lol.

I LOVED this game wow, so glad to see it discussed at all, no one seems to remember it.

Ngl i read the title as first, party game and was so excited for sony party in a train :p

I demand more train game videos. Metro Exodus perhaps? You'd fuck with it hard.

I remember this game. I still have the mag that had this as a feature. It was described as Seagal on a train.

you made that game up. this didn't exist until today

0:39 i have that Pikachu plush, it is indeed quite old.

I played the fuck out of this game when I was a kid, it felt so tense and against the clock

Picture my surprise when I realized that this video wasn't about party games at all, not even the first one Sony made!

It looks like the technique this game uses for most rooms is cubemaps; similar to skyboxes in most more recent games. It combines i think one big tessellated box combined with some real geometry mapped to the same cubemap set of textures for occlusion purposes. A big problem with these sorts of techniques is that PS1 does not support subpixel positioning precision for its texture mapping, as the vertices get quantised to integer pixel coordinate before being sent to the GPU. So it's always going to look a little bad and warbly. You can't even pick the geometric resolution high enough to combat the affine rendering issue of PS1, since you will just make the warble more annoying at the vertex position level. You might think you would get better mileage if you were to manipulate texture UV to offset the error introduced by the vertex quantisation, but uhh the the UV resolution is in terms of integer texels, and since you can't really afford texture resolution of much more than one texel per pixel, you don't have the latitude to introduce any real correction.

Never even knew this existed. It apparently got released as “Covert Ops: Nuclear Dawn” in US and EU. Why did we never hear about this game 🙀

I remember this game being called Covert Ops: Nuclear Dawn. I really enjoyed it back in the day

Never seen background does that before, I thought it was 3D and I'm like no way can PS1 do 3D like that.

Why has RU-vid betrayed me by not notifying me properly of a new Thor video 😢 few days late but worth the wait

So this game was developed by Sugar and Rockets which is also known as Exact that made Ghost in The SHell PS1 game and Jumping Flash. And They became part of Sony Japan Studio. RIP Japan Studio...

I have to leave to go somewhere in 20 minutes so that’s just enough time to drop everything I’m doing to spend 15 minutes watching one of your videos.

This title made me think it was Sony's first "party game".

I absolutely pissed at the Overblood callback

Oh my! The Nazaré Tedesco meme.

Had sound muted for the first 30 seconds or so and legit thought you were doing a silent bit.

Knight of the Apocalypse dude looks like the nihilists from Big Lebowski lol

Thanks for not burping in this one

Well this is definitely a game 👍

the tomber express got me clickin'

I literally was looking this game up like a month or two ago. Don't remember where i saw it but saw this blatantly Metal Gear Resident Evil game and was like, "damn, i'd have loved this as a kid." And i kinda love it now.

Nice

What's the cat sfx of the money from?

Cool to see a short video! Playing games on easy is hella lame though.

Time to Binge watch 10 plus ThorHighHeels videos because RU-vid sends his videos to the shadow realm and I need to catch up.

Wasn't expecting another video so soon, what a pleasant surprise. So did you see the new Sonic announcement yet?