Star Wars Masters of Teras Kasi - The Worst Fighting Game 

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I do like that the word "Teras Kasi" translated is "steel hand" as a way to honor the game's inspiration being Tekken (Iron Fist), cause the game sure as hell doesn't honor it lol.

Her fighting Vader while working for the Empire isn't really surprising to be honest. Vader tries to kill half the people Palpatine takes a liking to in the comics so he doesn't get replaced.

More people need to be made aware of the legendary Star Wars hero that is HOAR.

Don't underestimate my boy Thok!

6:23 Matt, it's not so much that there isn't a Senate at that point of the story, it's Palpatine himself *is* the Senate. Which really just makes it all much better because fuck yeah, a deadly tournament where you win a ride on Sidious' lap sounds amazing.

I love every installment of The Worst Fighting Game. I think the Transformers Beast Wars Fighting game for the N64 would be a good pick for the next episode.

I hate the fact that we never got another Star Wars fighting game after this. There is so much potential for an awesome Star Wars fighting game, with the vast array of powers and the enormous roster of characters that has been built up since the game came out.

Probably the biggest compliment the Star Wars fighting game could be given is how it is one of the better "Worst fighting games" out there. Yeah, this was bad, but when you look and compare it to the other games we've seen thus far, at least this one can have some enjoyment we can squeeze out of it. Not a lot more at least you'll get more blood out of that stone than you would with others.

The most interesting thing was that before this was made, there was supposed to be a Star Wars fighting game made by Capcom. Once that fell through, Capcom simply retooled it into Star Gladiator.

The worst part of this was that according to Seth Killian, Capcom originally pitched Star Gladiator as a Star Wars game but Lucasarts turned the pitch down.

So glad you mentioned the Episode III fighting game within a game! I remember playing that so much longer than I ever spent with the actual main game. It was loads of fun and honestly felt like it could’ve been developed into a game on its own. I even thought at the time, “why is this in here and why is it so fleshed out?” Amazing to find out they just did it for kicks, truly some skilled developers.

Matt… ”Narttu läpsi” means ”A bitch slapped” so thank you for makin me burst out with laughter

Since we're talking about the Empire having a senate, I might as well point out that it did have the Imperial Senate. However they were powerless and just the Empire keeping up the facade of wanting to restore order to a corrupt governing body.

I liked this game as a kid, it was one of the few games my uncle had that actually let me played with lightsabers, that was until jedi academy took over my life of course.

I remember buying this at a garage sale for 10 dollars. In 1997. I was stoked that I could put it in my discman and listen to star wars music on the car ride home. Then I think I ended up playing an hour total and traded it in the next month.

Yeah, this one has to be in the category of "games I played on my teenage years that I desperately wanted to like but couldn't". The concept of a Star Wars fighting game was just so cool, and the presentation was top notch, but the gameplay was SO bad. Everything just felt so stiff and clunky, especially when compared with other fighting games I had at the time, so I ultimately didn't play this much. Talking about fighting games that I desperately wanted to like (and one that I did liked in a very "guilty pleasure" way): I hope you eventually cover the Dragon Ball fighting games that were released for the PSX, like Final Bout and Ultimate Battle 22. Granted, I'm not sure if they were ever officially localized in English, but they fit with the theme of the show so I thought they merit a mention.

Interesting concept, but poor execution dragged this game down Fighter Within for the Kinect... that one should have a place on here in the future. A poorly controlling Kinect Fighting game with no visual charm whatsoever? That has a chance of taking the crown as the worst.

Matt, I am telling you, this series will continue until you cover Bikini Karate Babes. That is the actual worst fighting game ever made, once you experience it you will realize there is no contest.

I had a love hate relationship with this game as a kid. My parents were very strict and I wasn't allowed to play most fighting games, but this was one they gave a pass to. I do remember it being rather fun to force choke people out of the ring. It was not a particularly good game, but I did manage to have fun with it, and once you get used to abusing ring out, it's not that hard. Cool for the time, if very flawed.

When I was ten, my parents wouldn't let me get Street Fighter 3 because they thought it was "too violent." But they allowed me to buy this game. And really, which was the more damaging to a young child?

This is actually the game that got me into fighting games. Holds a special place in my heart.

If anyone's looking for a GREAT lightsaber fighting game, play *_Star Gladiator 2/Plasma Sword._* It is legitimately awesome and the soundtrack slaps hard!

4:16 is my favorite joke in TWFG so far lmao why is it so sudden and so short and so barely related to its neighboring cuts I can’t stop laughing

I remember playing this around age 5 or 6. My aunt shows up and says "I brought my PlayStation and with Star Wars" and my brain pictures a Space Station playset with Star Wars Action Figures.

"Narttu Läpsi" lol It would be a good running gag if every martial art in the galaxy far far away had a janky Finnish name nobody in America can pronounce properly.

As a Finn, it never stops amuzing me they named a Star Wars martial art in Finnish...And kind of screwed it up. It should more properly be "teräskäsi", one compound word. Finnish (like German and a bunch of other languages) pretty much always compounds nouns whenever it can. At least in the official material they did correctly put the dots on the Ä, which a lot of English material miss, probably because standard English typefac doesn't have them (A without dots is pronounced about the same as the A in "car" or "alarm", while Ä with dots is pronounced like the A in "cat" or "hat"). Without the dots it'd means "steel eight" instead of "steel hand".

Imagine a Star Wars fighting game where you play as the Mandalorian and one of his moves has Grogu drop in to Force choke the opponent.

Imagine saying no to the company that created Street Fighter 2 and making this instead. WTF Lucasarts

Ah yes, the most iconic in Star Wars. Hoar.

You should cover Iron & Blood: Warriors of Ravenloft. It's like someone took a really bad version of Mace: The Dark Ages (Another game you should do) and slapped the D&D Ravenloft setting on it. The Ravenloft setting is a gothic horror setting that has no business having a fighting gmae.

I remember this and I was disappointed that it wasn't more like Bushido Blade. Having matches last two swings would be cool in a weird way.

Literally went out of my way to get a "Hoar vs Hoar" clip like, last week. Happy to see it in here! This is one of those games I played a TON despite always recognizing it as not being very good. I'll always have an affection for and I would lose my SHIT if someone ever brought back Ardyn Lyn in an official capacity.

I saw the thumblail and thoght "What are Sailor Mars and Darth Vader doing in the same game?"

I think they should give the idea of a Star Wars fighting game another shot.

this was one of the first games as a kid I couldn't help but to think "this game suck", and believe me, that's saying something. I remember I couldn't pull off any special moves and how slow it was to attack normally. by this point, I had already played Tekken 3, so we can't even say it was plainly a matter of learning the game, since Tekken was just so much more accessible from the get-go

Top 5 Star Wars fighting games 5. Masters of Teras Kasi 4. 3. 2. The Vs mode in Force Unleashed 1. Soulcalibur 4

A fun detail is that this game was supposed to be made by Capcom, but they were rejected in favor of Lucas Arts. Then Capcom retooled that failed pitch into Star Gladiator. Would have been cool to see how a Capcom Star Wars fighter would have turned out.

This game is so stupid and janky and I absolutely love it!

Game suggestions? There's Shura no Mon, a Japan-only game based on a popular karate manga. The game is one of the rare games to ever receive a low score from Famitsu and isn't very highly regarded, to put it lightly. I'm not sure if you have any ability to navigate Japanese games, though.

Thanks for the shoutout, although I only know one person named "Chad" that's not a complete tool... but I'm not up on all the lingo of teh fellow kidz! ;)

11:05 Dash is one of the few characters I will not miss from the Disney's order 66 upon the old continuity.

i rly love how u used those old ass star wars transitions with the swipe to the side!! so nostalgic man.. love it

I'm impressed you didn't tackled this one before! You summarized it pretty well, I've played this game more times then it deserved when I was a kid and I had issues with the same things you pointed out here. Love your channel, can't wait to see your take on Konami's Deadly Arts for the N64. ^_^

I was wondering when the next episode of this series would release, and I'm glad to see this continue

It's Yoda wearing Boxing Gloves for the save file!

14:20: Oh, I do love when I hear someone use Asuka 120% Burning Fest music. That game has such an underrated soundtrack.

It was cool to be able to pick your favorite Star Wars character and fight it out with a light saber or weapon. It could use better controls but I've played worse fighting games.

I remember this was my very first psx game. I loved it. It may be a bad game but it’s a special one to me. I remember doing tons of practice trying to find all the combos and hidden moves and stuff.

I remember that my best friend bought this back in the day and he invited me over to play it with him for the first time. I finally was like, "This is really bad." To this day I don't know if he was trying harder to convince me or convince himself that it was good. We all try to cope when we buy a bad game...

My family and I got so much mileage out of that Revenge of the Sith game when I was a kid. That fighting game mode was so surprisingly fleshed out for an unassuming side mode.

I'd really love to see you rip apart Heavy Nova for the Sega Genesis. I saw one of my friends play it and good...LORDY, it was a painful slog to watch. Dude had a tough time playing through it even with a Game Genie active! You know your game's done something wrong when your Game Genie isn't as effective. For everyone that doesn't know, it's a mecha fighting game...but there are several mechanics that just don't make sense and has platforming sections that somehow make Mythologies Sub-Zero look good in comparison. Not to mention, the A.I. abuses infinite combos like it was John Belushi doing crack, and it only gives you 3 continues, too.

My brother and used to play the hell out of this game and we loved it!!! We would do running commentary over it as we were playing and just laugh our asses off. Awesome video my dude

I love that Thok is getting shit faced after a hard days work

Google translated "Bitch slap" was the high point of the review. I probably laugh to this for a days to come. :D

I find myself looking forward to your videos more than any other of my subscriptions these days.

Luke getting punched by a Stormtrooper in the Skywalker family jewels is fantastic. Also when you said that other people exaggerated by calling this game the worst SW game evar, I immediately thought, "Super Bombad Racing." Then you brought that game and others up as being worse. Thanks.

Yes, this was a bad game by today's standards. As a kid, however, it blew my mind. Love it and played it to 100 percent completion. As someone starved of Star Wars movies/games during the time, I really thought it was top notch (when I was 10).

Ayyye the best content is back! Next time Matt, can u do Dangerous Streets on the Amiga CD 32? I love your channel bro!

Okay, I saw that clip of the opening cutscene, now I would be _very_ interested in seeing you play Star Wars Demolition at some point, Matter Hat

As a casual fighting game fan, and a Star Wars fan. I was excited for this game. I ended up unlocking all the characters and learning the supers and such, but man it was rough.

The N64 game "Dark Rift" is kind of a Star Wars like fighting game. Although not a licensed nor based Star Wars game, it has that sci-fi theme to it. Was a pretty decent game with good graphics.

Been looking forward to this video since you mentioned it on TKO, great work!

I totally remember loving this game as a kid. I always chose Luke for his Lightsaber super and my brother would spam the crossbow gun with Chewbacca. Good memories...

I absolutely LOVED this game when it first came out. As a kid though, it was challenging as hell, but I loved unlocking the characters. You’re bringing back some awesome memories Matt!

Does Marvel Rise of the Imperfects count as a fighting game? That game deserves (at least) a Wha Happun...

Umm I just want to know what the tiny white bar that fills when damage than goes down is. Does that buff your character or does it fill the force bar faster. Matt like glace over it but what does it do. It was more distracting than the large force bar.

2:51 Dat Tekken 4 Airport music tho XD

Just want to say that I love this series. Always excited when a new episode drops.

I remember when PBG talked about this in the worst licensed games years ago. Glad to see it again 🙃

I remember seeing this at my Blockbuster as a kid and for some reason my gut feeling told me this game was garbage even though we weren't in the digital age yet haha. A few years later my brother and I played this at our best friend's place and it was one of the worst fighting game experiences we went through. xD

One of these days we're gonna get that Fight for Life and/or Shadow: War of Succession episode. I can feel it.

Two DBZ games: Ultimate Battle 22 and Taiketsu. Played both (own Taiketsu) and they both stick out in my mind as some of the worst games I’ve played in general.

You and Justin Wong releasing a video on this at the same time is great

Dude my vote goes to Cosmic Carnage. I TRIED SO HARD to like that game in the mid/late 90's when I was in denial of Sega's downfall.

I love how Disney made so much of Star Wars Expanded Universe Non Canon, except for this. Anyways for a future video I’d love to see you play The Simpsons Wrestling.

Holy crap, they put Mara Jade in it? This gives it a point of cool for me. The Worst Fighting Game might just be the best series on RU-vid! Ok, maybe not but I'm loving every episode of it!

As much as I want Matt to cover Xenophage as soon as possible, I'm morbidly curious about his reaction to Tongue of the Fatman.

I was waiting for this day since criticom

Kabuki Warriors for the Xbox is another prime candidate for this series, with a 32/100 on Metacritic. It's a game that's very much aimed at Japanese gamers (though it was released in NA first for some reason), since it expects you to know a lot about kabuki theatre, and the English localization fails to take that into account for Western audiences. Makes me wonder why it was ever released in NA at all, much less made for a system the Japanese didn't give two shits about.

My brother and i loved that game it was more virtual fighter levels of inputs along with the options for weapons but it was actually pretty good imo

4:16 were have I heard that song before? Edit; Right, it's Devil Trigger, from Devil May Cry.

I know when Teras Kasi got name dropped in Solo it threw me for a loop, I don't know about anyone else. But maybe that's what cursed it to be the second lowest grossing Star Wars movie of all time.

The game is fun when you're slightly drunk, and doing luke vs vader only, and luke can't use his lightsaber. Shockingly, that evening finished with luke ahead by two wins. Never played it since.

I often wonder about Cardinal Syn. I played the demo way too much but never found a physical copy.

What was I doing when Booker T got ahold of a Lightsaber? I cannot believe I either don’t remember it or missed it.

My sibling and I still play it when we get together. One of our favorite games from our childhood

Please take the time to look at the Zero Divide series. No one in ages has ever even looked upon these games ever since their releases, and I think this could be a great opportunity to do so. Especially since ZD introduced some key features FGs usually would have today, but was looked over for other FGs that just took some pointers from it and used it in their games. Makes me wish the series was revived properly but I know that'll never happen.

I played SO much of this game as a kid and had a feeling it was not good...I’d often end with ring outs just to see the cool backgrounds.

what does the term 'tenstrings' mean? I googled it after hearing it in this and I'm still not sure tbh. like an mk style string?

Love the shoutout for the Revenge of the Sith game, of all the movie tie-in games around that period, that one was way better than it needed to be. Which, from the fact that they made a whole fighting game mode in their spare time shows that they actually gave a damn

I spent so much time playing the demo of this on my PS1 demo disc, wanted to own the game so bad back then.

When I got my ps1 for Christmas this is the game my grandma got me because the guy in electronics told her it was the hot new game. Thanks Kmart!

Leaving aside how bad "Masters of Teras Kasi" is, I LOVE the original character they created for the game called Arden Lyn. She is one of the most wasted and underrated Star Wars characters of all time. Believe me, her story according to the official guides is just INSANE, as she is actually a Jedi who, 25.000 years ago, caused along another Jedi called Xendor the first Great Schism in the Jedi Order

I remember playing this at a Toys R Us kiosk whenever I saw it. Guess I did not have a PS1 yet.

13:26 very interesting to see the WrestleMania 21 HUD used for this fighting game prototype.

What an unexpected video to come across. Back in the day my friends and I loved this game. All time great? No. Horrible? No. Fun two player fighting game? Yes. We did have lots of beer though - maybe that helped.

No playable Lando no buy

Does anyone know the name of the fighting game that was shown in the video that had the dude with the red ball bat on his back? I used to play the hell out of that game on the Dreamcast back in the day and can’t remember the name of it. I’ve been wanting to find that game for years!!

I was just wondering where this series had gone, good to see it back. Even as someone who knows very little about fighting games I find it interesting.