Get Surfshark VPN at surfshark.deals/rebeltaxi and enter promo code REBELTAXI for 83% off and 3 extra months for free! There's RU-vid shows about gaming, I wanted to make a gamer TV Show. Hopefully this is that. I dunno. I also included a lot of magazine scans and stuff for the vid. Hoping it's not distracting. If this vid does well, there's so many more games I wanna cover than hardly anyone else does. Hire me G4. My soft reboot self contained comic Notorious Loki IRL is out www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/loki-irl/list?title_no=193101 0:00 Intro 0:36 Fantastic Four PS1 4:53 Virtual On Cyber Troopers 8:12 Run Jesus Run 9:20 Monster in My Pocket 12:15 AD 13:20 Ocean Hunter 16:21 Wild Snake 19:04 Snowboard Kids 23:23 ExciteTruck 26:53 Death Jr 32:28 Tao Feng Thanks to It's Only Magic! for extra voice help ru-vid.com/show-UCs8Ckpbm7v3D3lhH4E3GvVQ
My man deadass got Yakuza Kiwami 2 just to play an obscure arcade game. That's not even a power move, that's just a natural part of the Yakuza experience.
Don't forget that Yakuza is also the only modern way to play Virtua Fighter 5, a damn good fighting game stuck on old platforms. It truly is the Yakuza experience.
There’s so much about Yakuza that it nearly has everything, even the classic SEGA arcade games... Still, I sure as nuts would love Rebeltaxi playing Yakuza.
I loved all the overlays and framing, it's clear that Pan has really mastered that aspect plus with all the "commercial" breaks it really feels like I was watching a tv channel. Great work man, you continue to inspire me with your work
I absolutely loathe TV and the incessant commercial breaks (as well as ads on RU-vid), but Pan's stuff is so interesting/well done/transitions so seamlessly that I don't even mind.
The vibe of his “commercial breaks” remind me of the bumpers cartoon network used to have particularly those of the CN characters living their daily lives in a city.
I remember getting that game a few years ago because it was in box (this was back when I was obsessed with getting games in box at the time). I only played it once. I remember enjoying it, though.
@Marcos Cárdenas It's starting to happen now, as 2000's nostalgia begins to enter the pop culture. I would love to see some bigger projects use the art style, as I think it is incredibly charming and good looking, even after all these years.
I love it when RU-vidrs who aren't primariy videogame reviewers do videogame reviews. And tackle games people have never heard of. Pan, you got me into Anarchy Reigns and I thank you.
The fighting game and beat em up are both just great. There is also Super Robot Wars and Front Mission series which while not Pan friendly games (reading and tactics don't seem like his bag.) are great for fans of the genre.
Amazing video but the one thing that I kept seeing that just made me appreciate this video so much more had to be finishing each game's segment with their game over, credits, or finish stage cutscene. Just incredible.
That Death Jr artwork reminded me a lot of Mike Mignola,which turned out it was him. Maybe if it got more popular like they hoped,they could've made a crossover with Hellboy.
Snowboard Kids was a huge part was childhood. My brother, who sadly passed away from Covid loved the first and second game. Snowboard Kids 2 was WAY BETTER than the first. It had a story mode, new characters, bosses, and unlockable boards like the Dragon Board which had a infinite rocket on the board. I miss playing these games, and I miss watching my bro play them too.😊😢
>"It's like a bunch of frat boys trying to triple-DP a fleshlight at their fraternity, #relatable, wish I was that fleshlight..." First Pan says he's tired of goth girls, now this? I think I know where this is going... PAN IS *BECOMING* THE GOTH GIRL (male)
I remember and love the Death Jr. series. I’ve played all of the games, and read some of the comics, I really cherish this franchise and I hope one day it can return!
This honestly of pans best videos. The editing, the music, the commentary, all of it makes it one of his best and I’m so ol happy to see perfect his craft
I first played Ocean Hunter in the arcade on a Disney Cruise oddly enough. As a kid fighting creepy sea creatures while being in the middle of said sea was kinda terrifying.
I read the death junior comics when I was in college. The college library had both stories in their graphic novels section. I was hooked. So grim yet full of heart. It's a joy to read and I highly recommend it.
Hey Pan, how about making a review of The Suffering series? It's a third person horror survival/shooter released for the PS2 and Xbox. It's got these cool creepy monsters based off of murderous stuff, like the Slayers who are creatures with blade swords for arms and legs. It's one of my favorite games.
Second this, I love those games (when I saw them released on GOG a couple years back I nabbed them up immediately, especially given my PS2 copy of the sequel doesn't work properly anymore). It was especially interesting to see how the morality system changed the story and such (especially in the sequel where the interactions with the ghosts change dramatically depending on if you're good or evil, even giving the player a unique late game boss based on this). And while the devs may have recycled a bunch of enemies for the sequel I still thought it was creative how they re-contextualized them and redesigned them just enough to fit the new setting (for one the monster you brought up represents death by shiving in the original, while in the sequel it represents violent knife crime in urban environments, and the enemy that represented lethal injection in the first game represents rampant drug addiction in poor areas in the sequel).
I will die on the hill that it is valid to call Frankenstein's monster "Frankenstein." He literally refers to Dr. Frankenstein as "Father." He is Dr. Frankenstein's creation, aka his son. He is a Frankenstein.
Alright if he is Frankenstein's son and the original Dr.Franekstien is the father, then this Frankenstein son, with no other name of his own, should thus be called Frankenstien Jr.
Also: I think it's acceptable to call both the creation and it's creator Frankenstein's monster. A man that creates a creature and disowns it due to his repulsion with it is monstrous, don't you think?
You found one of my childhood games that has been stuck in the back of my head for year!! I barely remember anything from Snowboard kids, but when I saw it I knew that it was the one I had been searching for!!
I feel like I remember seeing a thing for Death Jr. on an old copy of Disney Adventures Magazine saying on the calendar when the game would be coming out. Damn.
Legacy of Kain. Timesplitters, Fallout Tactics and/or Brotherhood of Steel, Garou, Nights into Dreams, Heretic/Hexen, Blood, Soldiers of Fortune, SiN, No One Lives Forever, Plasma Sword, and Mechassault should be talked about in the next installments.
heres one for you: the munchables for wii. it was made by bandai namco and is something of a spiritual successor to katamari, except instead of picking up objects you play as a little gremlin who hungers for the food shaped enemies. eating enemies levels you up and every couple leves you get larger, letting you eat different enemies and unlock more secrets. some stages are linear platforming ones where in order to get some collectibles you need to make sure you've eaten enough enemies before moving beyond a point of no return, while other levels are like open loops where you have to reach a certain level to finish the stage but going above that will net you more goodies. the plot is simplistic but surprisingly starts to have a few interesting bits near the end of the game, nothing groundbreaking but more enjoyable than you think it will be. the soundtrack is also filled with bangers, in fact if theres one thing you know from the game its the boss theme, panic restaurant. thats not the only good track though, you have tracks like the funky upbeat sizzling paradise, the fun chiptune of chocolate dining, the more surreal jam that is the greenish illusion remix, and my personal favorite the laid back and weird track gobbler a la carte, which perfectly compliments scrolling through the enemy bestiary and reading about what exactly you've been eating. the game holds a special place in my heart because i played it to death when i was really really small, and if you can get past the sort of "kid friendly" goofy aesthetic you have a game with (admittedly simplistic) satisfying gameplay and a great ost to match.
You should check out Heavy Metal: Geomatrix. An arcade arena fighter made by Capcom based on Heavy Metal magazine, which features a lot of metal tracks from the likes of megadeth. It was ported to the Dreamcast, tho the arcade version was the only one to support 4 players at the same time.
i was obsessed with death jr. when i was little. my big cousin had it on his psp and i would try to play but the game was extremely scary to me for some reason. it felt empty and alone and the character designs were so scary. then years later after searching creepy fish game i finally found out the name and now i see its pretty cool ☺
Death Jr. is very nostalgic to me. The ds game is one of the first games I played on the system, yet I had the volume down because of the eerie music. Tbh, to this day I still keep the volume because of the music.
ExciteBots and ExciteTruck were my absolute JAM. Thanks for the mention. Honestly playing Bots then getting Truck later felt like a downgrade. Bots just feels more kinetic. Plus proper Wii Wheel support.
Death Jr. looks 100% like Pyschonauts. I suppose that art style was very in. They even have a giant meat/entertainment mashup stage! (Although it's a circus and not an amusement park). And Double Fine's (dev of Psychonauts) has a similar logo character to the adjoined twins character in DJ. Curious if similar people worked on both projects. Man the early 00s had some kinda style, idk if it's just a rip of Burton's works or coincidence but I absolutely love it, just finished up a replay of Psychonauts and am so ready for the long awaited sequel coming out later this year.
So glad to see Virtual-On getting the spotlight it deserves! I was also one of those kids that played it all the time in arcades. The original game is available on the Japanese PSN store for PS3 and PS4. Sadly, the latest game in the series (which was a crossover with a light novel series) never got an English translation.
Guy on Tao Feng box art: What!? You don't pee in the shower like I do!? Pussy!!! Me who pees in the shower without noticing: Maybe I am like Tao Feng Guy.
I need more rebeltaxi video game videos just because nothing takes me back to being a kid like low graphic clunky games with weird techno eurobeat soundtracks.
Pan, I know this game is pretty much 100% out of your element, but you should definitely take a look at planescape: torment. It has gorgeous art direction you could have quite a bit to talk about
Yo so I'm not the only one who thinks a lot of (particularly older) Japanese games often have a slightly melancholic and nostalgic soundtrack. It's absolutely my favourite type of game soundtrack.
Oh snap, surprised your doing a vid on 8:26. I remember seeing that on the Oneyplays Christmas episode from last year, didn't know it was that underrated lol
