Was it Good? - Silent Bomber 

I didn't realize this game was even close to be somewhat remembered enough to make a video like this about it. I remember playing it when I was 7, I distinctly remember that the bomber in question was absolutely not silent.

That was probably the coolest delivery of "I regret nothing" ive heard to be honest

I absolute *adore* that the tutorial has the same kind of voice I heard in basically every instruction video I watched when I was in the Marines. It's perfect.

I remember buying this game from a flea market as a kid because of the box cover and the cool sounding name. I didn't even have a playstation.

46:35 So Jutah didnt know his commanding officer seven years ago and apparently followed the order of some random voice coming through his speakers? 10/10 storytelling

There are a lot of classic and retro games that I would like to revisit that I either don’t have the time, or the patience, to play in 2023. This series is probably more enjoyable to me than playing some of these games again. First YT channel I’ve ever actually waited for a new episode of.

For the chess part, if you use 8 bombs to kill the enemies it shortens the stage considerably, the enemies will make a different sound when they explode and for Benoit himself I just place the bombs in the ground and wait for him to walk through, made it so much easier and I was so happy the first time I beat this. Awesome game I still replay every once in a while when the emulation bug bites me.

Along with megaman x4, ff8, tekken 3, re2 and silent hill, silent bomber was one of the badass games that my much older brother had in our collection. I was lucky to have played this as a kid

This game was so friggin fun back in the day.

I used to play the first level of this game on a demo disc over and over and over as a kid... I had completely forgotten about it until I saw this video. Thanks for taking me back!

Thing I love most about your channel is finding these kind of games which I absolutely never would've known existed. Also your commentary on these games is top notch 👌

Yeah, I remembered having so much fun with this game. Even recognized the Silent Bomber reference in the .hack games. Beating this game was probably one of my biggest gaming achievements as a kid, because I figured out that in the final boss fight against Benoit, the arena actually has no borders, so I just infinitely ran down the whole fight and jumped over whatever Benoit did, only stopping to plant a bomb on him, kind of like what Josh did. Kudos to Josh for actually having played the game, too!

I loved this game growing up my older cousin borrowed it to me and he never got it back, he passed away two years ago but he was the greatest. R.I.P ❤

Fun fact, Tail Concerto's intro theme, For Little Tail, was also Kokia's first song! Unfortunately I've never been able to find a good quality version of the original, but she did pretty good versions since. She provided vocals for a few little games later on, such as Demon's Souls, Ar tonelico Qoga, FF 13-2 and Dark Souls 3.

I remember playing this in one of those old ps1 demo discs. For years I tried to find the game but never came close because I was a little kid and never got to know the name of it. Al I remembered was the white-haired protagonist.Thank you Josh, form the bottom of my heart. I can now sigh of relief

27 videos later of "was it good" and im amazed Josh didnt go insane from witnessing the pure art of those games

loved this game so much as a kid...I really wish we'd get a revamp for it

I requested this a long time ago in the hopes that you knew what is was, but I would never've thought you actually did! It's so nice to see one of the first video games I remember playing being featured here ❤ Thank you Josh.

Between this and the Future Cop: LAPD Video - I’m convinced that you’re on a Mandela effect timeline with me and my brother where you’re one of the few people who actually played and enjoyed these classic games. Nobody ever seems to talk about them. Would love to see you cover Galerians at one point! Another amazing PS1 hidden gem with a really dark story and some really unique weird gameplay mechanics!

i love this game, still replaying it from time to time

Funny that you bring up the demo disc. I've played and beaten Silent Bomber a couple times but I'm positive the most time I've spent with it was playing a Japanese demo on a Playstation Underground disc over and over for days when I was a kid. Other than *maybe* a PS1 Ghost in the Shell demo -- or a demo for Tail Concerto, funnily enough -- from a different OPM disc, it's probably the one demo I've played more than any in my life.

You got to love '90s anime villains in their melodramatic delivery of everything lol.

8:17 - I did read the manual back in the day, and I have a minor correction for you. As you noted, Jutah was created as a weapon as part of Hornet's military government to suppress a popular uprising. The uprising succeeded though and Hornet underwent a revolution, in which Jutah was arrested as a war criminal. However, *Jutah did not break out.* Rather, he and the other members of his little squad are almost all criminals on Hornet, each with their own reasons for imprisonment, save for the squad leader who's the only representative of Hornet's military (now under civilian control) and John who is a partisan who volunteered. They're sent as a kind of "Dirty Dozen"-type of force to try and exploit some IFF codes the Hornet government had gotten to board the Dante and conduct sabotage. They might not be able to destroy such a titanic ship itself, but they might be able to disrupt it and disable some of its systems, so that Hornet's fleet (backed up by a lot of mercenary ships) would have a better chance at stopping it. Oh, and when that guy does a creepy laugh about "Which player will be fortunate enough to checkmate fate," it's not *just* a cryptic comment out of left field. "Fate" is Jutah's surname; he's taunting Jutah (and using some pretty heavy-handed foreshadowing.) [EDIT]: This also explains Macino at 26:03. She too is a criminal and she thinks she found a way to escape, and she intends to coerce Jutah into helping her. At 40:21, while it's not a *complete* explanation, according to the manual Benoit is this kind of legendary rebel, but he's not picky about *whom* he's rebelling against. He'll find some cause people are fighting for, join the side looking to overturn whatever the current status quo is, then help them. Not only that, he will seemingly sincerely believe in whatever cause he joins, even if the ideology of that cause is completely opposite of an ideology of another cause he seemed to sincerely believe in. What he seems to want to do is to simply keep overturning the world, constantly, forever. He can't leave situations static, it's the chaos of revolution and change he seems to love. This is speculation on my part, but The Dante is this super-weapon of an interplanetary empire (they use it like the Death Star of Star Wars to threaten planetary destruction as a way of imposing their will,) and by taking it over and destroying it (even if that means crashing it into the planet it was sent to destroy) seems like one of the biggest things he can do to upset the power of that empire, and he's loving the thrill of it. It has to be one of the biggest scale revolutions he's been able to participate in.

Haven’t played this game but the yellow suited nemesis reminds me so much of Teisel Bonne in megaman legends. You become nemesis’ with him simply due to you both looking for the motherload and you inherently stopping his plans. And every time you fight and beat him and his family, he has a “HOW?! HOOOOW?!?” Mentality. Also each fight has a bigger machine. To the point where one fight takes place in an “industrial district” of the first city where you fight a massive machine that crushes the buildings around you (aside from the first fight with them where it’s in a residential district and people’s home can actually be destroyed). What a great game

The designs of enemies are so impressive that i'm thinking on use as examples for my architetonic projects.(in real life)

I've always wanted to play this since the demo disc I saw it on gone be a good video 😊

THIS GAME WAS UNDERRATED BACK THEN ! *LEGEND*

This was one of the toughest games back in the day it was so tough to figure out how to beat the guy with the green spinny disk things. Fantastic soundtrack and ultimate epic boss fight at the end. Love it josh thanks for the nostalgia.

This game was literally my childhood. It brings to mind so many good memories.

It could score a "I regret nothing!" out of 10. :D Thx for the video. It was a blast. :)

I really don't have the energy or space to subscribe to any more channels, JoshStrifeHayes is enough for me

thank you for giving me so much grade-A nostalgia content to sift through while I play Guild Wars 2, I love your videos!

I remember the sense of solemnity and melancholy this game had, even though i played it as a kid

I remember playing this against my cousin and he beat me every time, but it was still fun hehe.

Couldn’t be more excited to see this here. So many memories!

On the one hand, yeah the story is melodramatic and the ideas you had about gameplay choices would have helped a lot. On the other hand, they literally said in the first cutscene that they AREN'T a crack unit and that they're surprised that they're all Hornet could scramble together for this mission. There's a reason they needed a war criminal who got locked up after a training mission gone horribly wrong (for real how did our character get so badass? Did they keep training Jutah as a weapon in prison? Is he a super soldier?) Your impression is supposed to be that they're a bunch of dumb rookies but at least they've got heart or whatever and that's why Jutah the Great sticks his neck out for them. But maybe i just read too many manhua where you feel bad for how hard all the side characters have to work just to be worthy of shining MC's boots and have some sympathy bias lol

The design of the game sort of makes me think that perhaps they wanted some sort of arcade-centric game, realized that game centers just aren't a thing overseas, then dolled it up a little bit for a home release. The 1-2 hour window is what many modern arcade games shoot for.

Genuinely squealed a little when I saw the title of this video. This game was frickin' amazing and I don't even care if Josh hates it. I love it. I still have my PS1 copy, even tho I can't play it on anything. Amazing game.

I remember playing a demo of this when i was a child and loving it. Been thinking of it lately but forgot what was its name. Thanks for making a video about it Josh. i wish i've played the full version back in the day.

Such a classic gem! Thanks for shining some light on this great game

Would love you to take a look at Galerians. Amazing but hard game. Could never beat it. Your narrative style is amazing. Keep on keep it on🎉

This is actually a game I never played or knew about. Thank you Josh!

Yooo, you just unlocked some hiddens memories from the back of my brain with this video. I remember a friend had this game and i borrowed it several times but never got to beat it. Great video as usual!

Amazing video as always. Love how you analize the games and can see the best in bad games and the worst in good games. A true gamer.... Keep up the good videos! Love from Portugal!

The craziest thing for me is that this is the second time I hear Richard Cansino pop up, voicing Benoit. The first is The Bouncer where he voices Dauragon. The significance of this is that Richard Cansino is in Rurouni Kenshin, and he does a great job in that role.

oh my good lord, I only ever played the demo of this, I thought it was afever dream for a while.

Never even heard of this game, but I'll be checking it out for sure now! Love your work, great stuff !! I appreciate how thoroughly you review these titles.

I love to see How many people is supporting your work! This Series is amazing keep it up 👏🏻

Dude first Chrono Trigger, now this one. One by one you're reminding me of my childhood games and making me replay them after 25 years. I'm so glad you do. ps. I can't believe I managed to beat this game when I was 10!

Finally this game gets the recognition it deserves. Hope you cover Tail Concerto too, love that game.

i still own this game and replay it every so often. i love it

I remember playing the shit out of this on a demo disk and enjoying it. I just never could remember what the hell its name was. Thanks for bringing back this childhood nugget.

The narrative issues with some games, lots of Japanese ones (their media in general) is they make hard contrasts in character personalities. It's supposed to help define each character, but what ends up happening is you have archetypes acting out tropes instead of being plausible people. It's especially glaring when dealing with professionals or soldiers of a kind, because they don't act like they've been through any training whatsoever. I think it was less painful back then and all the more glaring now when you've grown up seeing it done so much over the decades.

Looks like an awesome game. Always sad that CC2's original works are mostly ignored, even with the recent Fuga 1 and 2.

I never even played this one but still had to watch it all. Keep covering these golden age classics!

I would I could put into words how grateful and happy seeing you upload man. Currently going thru Opioid withdrawals and it’s lowkey kicking my a$$ 😭🤣🤣

Before watching the video, i want to say something. I never finished this game, i got stuck at the chess battle level. Still, i played a lot of this game, the versus mode was an unbalanced mess, but i had so much fun with my brother that it was worth turning it on regardless of my inability to beat it. Good times

Always loved this game, the final boss is way too hard.

That ending scene, especially without the context of the instruction manual, is so gloriously over-the-top. Awesome

This chessboard boss still haunts me. I spent hours here...

Could we ever have a "was it good" for chaos legion? A game i loved but havent heard anyone talk about it and think itd be a great game to cover

I miss games like this, not to imply new ones are bad, I just miss the unique mechanical emphasis a lot of old PS1 games had, I wish we could get more stuff like this nowadays from studios but at least we have the indie scene.

I fondly remember getting my original PlayStation back in the Philippines in 1999. The country also had a pirated games market where you can get dirt cheap copies of any game of any localization. Needless to say, my parents got me a thirty-plus game collection, and Silent Bomber was part of it, specifically the original Japanese version. The graphical and gameplay design absolutely dazzled me at the time when I saw my dad messing around with the game for a bit. I tried it out for myself eventually, and oh what fun it was working through the Hiragana and Katakana. As you can tell, I love this game and have played it to death. With that said, I’d like to correct some info in this video and add a few of my own. In the Japanese version, you cannot skip the tutorial at all, whereas you can in the North American version. Also in the Japanese version, you are taken directly to the pause menu when you…well, pause the game. No need to press Start and THEN Select. There’s a pretty well-hidden mechanic in the game that is somewhat hinted at, which is the score multiplier. Basically, amassing a kill streak will result in the score being multiplied ranging from x2 all the way to x10. Each enemy yielded different score amounts, with the mission objectives yielding the most, so it was ideal to amass the multiplier from smaller foes before going after the big fish. The kill streak ends if Jutah takes a hit or after a three-second period. Speaking of scoring, the ranking system factors in speed, remaining health and kill streaks. If you’re fast, have taken no damage and have blown up plenty of hostiles, you’re guaranteed the highest rank. And the highest rank is actually S, not A. And each rank is separated by increments of 50000 points. For each increment you hit on your total, you go up a rank. So the challenge becomes reaching an S Rank in every mission, which is far from easy. Of course, poor performance, including using a Continue after dying in a mission, will reduce your total score and thus your rank. The incentive for reaching high ranks in every mission is unlocking Benoit and the Cat Tank in the 1v1 mode. You get Benoit for Straight A’s and the Tank for Straight S’s. Anyway, I’m so happy that Silent Bomber is being remembered in 2023, and with a hefty 200k views to boot. This was a nice watch. 😊

This is probably my favourite series on this site now. The deep dives into games I know and don't know have been great. Excited for the inevitable Gex dive.

😎 First!

this game brings back so so much nostalgia x3

I appreciate the macabre coincidence of this particular review being released on the day of the unabomber's death.

Dude every time you do a new video it unlocks a memory I didn't know I had!

I loved this game growing up but forgot the name of it!! Thank you for helping me rediscover a childhood gem!!!

Great vid! I remember this on a demo disc, and regretfully didn't think much of it and now I definitely regret that. Also I double dog dare you to do Tail Concerto next!

THANK YOU for playing this. I played a demo version of this game when I was young, but could never remember the name of this game

You have def my sub my friend. Great work! Can’t wait for the next!

I never played this game, but I thoroughly enjoy your content. I just popped in here to recommended a few games I would love to see you go through. Final Fantasy 6 (3 on the SNES), Star Ocean: The Second Story (PS1), 7th Saga (SNES, and my favorite RPG of all time), Golden Eye (N64), and Perfect Dark (N64). These games, plus a few youv already made videos on, were my childhood. And you present things in a way I respect And adore. Thank you for your content 😊

Awesome video. Now I wanna see you playing Jade Cacoon: Story of the Tamamayu. That was one of my favorite playstation games growing up and not many people know about it

Holy FUCK! This game is so good! I spent years trying to remember its name back in the ps1 emulation days and when I did i played it during the entire week! Great memories!

I played the crap out of this game and had completely forgot about it! So much fun! Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

Absolute legend, I commented on your last video asking you to review this game, thanks

Was hoping you would cover this game, loved it when i played it.

An underrated classic.

This is one of my favorites for the ps1. I stumbled upon this by accident, and was hooked. I still have my copy, and still play it from time to time.

Oh wow you plucked this memory from childhood I couldn't even remember the name of the game. But the soundtrack and strange combat stuck with me.

I played the demo of this a ton and could never find the full game in stores. Thanks for the memories!

Not halfway done with the video but this is looking like a real hidden gem. Not like those fake hidden gems, mind, but an actual one. Good shout!

The blue mist Colonel's death line reminds me a lot of Metal Gear Solid bosses and their attitudes towards battle

I loved this game, I spent a decade not remembering the name, then finally remembered it recently, and now josh is playing it - zeitgeist

I was just watching Gaming Brits's video of Silent Bomber like a few days ago, thinking this had something to do with Bomberman. What timing! Edit: While on that quick-topic of forgotten PS1 games, I hope one day you'll be able to take a look at Koudelka.

Me and my friend just cheated to get all the vs characters unlocked and we spent many hours playing it after school, good times.

Loved the video! Always nice to find out about a cool game I never heard of. The VS mode made me weirdly angry in a good way because I love playing as the enemies in games, but it never happens as often as I'd like. A mode where I can be any of them, fighting anything? Yes please!

Oh my Holly Molly! I played this on a burned CD on my ps1 with 6 years old. I always loved the gameplay and the aesthetics. Never thought someone knows this game.

Thank you so much for the review. this is one of my favourite ps1 games.

I don't know how you find some of these games, but I appreciate it. There are many games I played and liked but never hear much about. Some of them I don't even remember the name.

Knowing that the game just crashes and how to fix it has solved a mystery that's bothered me since my pre internet childhood. Thank you.

I love how you always give attention to voice acting, such an important factor that is often ignored. Awesome video, thanks! Have you thought about making some videos specifically about voice acting in videogames?

Oh my God the one I've been waiting for 😭 Literally never clicked a video so fast. So gassed for you to cover one of my favourite ever games. I played the absolute shit out of this when I was a kid, but never made it past the chess boss - I remember it being hard as nails! Can't wait to get stuck into this later ❤ Edit: Just finished - another fantastic video! Glad I wasn't the only one that struggled with that bloody chess battle. Surprised you didn't mention the soundtrack/sound design much - definitely one of the most memorable aspects of the game to me!

UI, System sounds, music, colour palette and graphics heavily remind me of Armoured Core!

It fills me with nostalgic joy to see you cover this. I was one of the unfortunate crash victims as well, what a bizarre way to fix it. This game will forever be remembered because "Welcome to the Brain Room" has always been a such a memeable phrase for me :D

What an amazing coincidence that this video went up on the same day that the real life Unabomber passed away

I like how the commander was just like "you already atarted a warcrime you may as well finish it."

This unlocked a memory holy moly, I had that exact demo disc!

Oh my good gracious, I loved this game but only had the demo so I played the living bomber out of it! I’d never had remembered this, so thanks for bringing it to my attention!