Worst Levels Ever # 35 

Never heard of molotovs?

@@neoanimefreak_7606 Molotovs don't usually explode though.

@@neoanimefreak_7606 the reason its annoying is cuz in the books, a potion GIVES Asterix and obelix invincibility. Yet in this game a bomb which has appeared no where in the books at all and an invincibility potion doesn't exist

@@frosteddonuts1633 I was about to say that Obelix would just be petrified if he drank a potion if Asterix canon was adhered to but the book which shows this ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix_and_Obelix_All_at_Sea ) was released after this omnishambles of a game so I have to agree with you here. The Asterix arcade game (which is actually really good, and the reason why I decided to buy this) used boars to power up Obelix while the potions were usable by Asterix but that was a scrolling beat-'em-up so it fitted the franchise better than the potion-centric game play here does.

@@tempestfennac9687 also this book was Written by Uderzo (the Artist) alone, since Goscinny had died and it... wasn't really Great.

But hey on the good side this game has a few bangers!

@Simple Weirdo the TAS run is pretty unique, though you’re probably right about actual human runs

At least it's beatable. Looking at YOU Commodore 64 port of Rastan!

Or just use the normal difficulty

@@lrgogo1517 Even EASY mode is hard as heck!

@@lrgogo1517 doesn't matter. The game is bullshit on every single difficulty.

210th like!

Yeah, this game looks to be REALLY bad.

No, these are developer time relics

Whoisthisgit should make some crash bandicoot analysis.

I'm interested to see a Crash 4 analysis, since the levels aren't *so* bad by themselves, but it's when trying to get the Perfect Relics where they become strong contenders for Worst Levels Ever (Toxic Tunnels, Crash Landed, Bears Repeating...).

@@letterfour4840 i agree, i’ve done bears repeating & the tawna counterpart but havent been able to do either of the other 2

@@letterfour4840 welp one week later, managed toxic tunnels finally but crash landed still eludes me

Really? That second lava graphic may have been better by comparison, but it's literally just red water.

And then a cyborg girl walks toward you, shouts “VALKYRIE FORCE!” turns into a giant boss and intense music starts playing

To quote toomanymoths, _”You’re gonna need those 8 minutes.”_

​@@GyroMan5136 best boss.

Honestly Asterix as an IP is more suited for a beat em up than a platformer. Like the xxl games

@@eemelikorteniemi3966 Yah, the comics is about some Gauls using potions to raize hell on the Romans, not them running around like the boar or the potion is their medicine to not suffere a fatal heart attack

Yeah, you're probably right. Have a lenient timer on easy/normal for the player to learn the game; give double the contents for potions on easy, and respawning on easy/normal; give potions an aiming arc on easy; rework the sections where damage boosting is *required* , or if keeping them on hard give the players chickens. That way players can *learn* the levels and how to use their potions effectively, and damage boosting becomes a "see if you can work it out" strategy on hard. Then fix the basic gameplay. More warning on falling platforms/leaves. A punch that works on enemies on a slope below you. General physics and hit boxes. Better explained boss mechanics. Some indication of which blind pits are okay to go down. Easy is the basic "learn the game" mode. Normal is the "You've got time to correct mistakes" mode. Hard is the "You sure you've learnt the game? Learnt all the little tricks? Now *Prove it* " mode

That lava takes the cake, but the whole game looks like some kind of bloody prototype where they still have to fill in the basic building blocks of the stages with actual graphics. It's ridiculous.

The floating leaf platforms are an exception

Whats strange is that there is a master system version and for the most part has the same levels but without the time limit! You only get 3 hits in that version and you also gotta seitch between Asterix and obelix with a combination of buttons, but at least there is no time over

@@alex_-yz9to YEH BOI

5-2 would still definitely be the worst level in the game even without the time limit but this point stands true for the vast majority of the game

@@alex_-yz9to That is very strange indeed. Did they think the Master System version was too easy or something?

And once you do, it says "now do it without hurting enemies" and that's the moment your super villain backstory is complete

@@dededeletethis9940 When you do both, it shows an image of the dev team flipping you off.

Well done...now try completing the level without any checkpoints!

So Hard Mode is literally a Kaizo?

​@@autobotstarscream765in the 90s with the English definition, yes.

Yeah, except at least this game is beatable.

Cacofonix's boss music has a really hypnotic vibe I did not see coming. It probably says something that after listening to the normal stage music for so long, I instantly fell in love with a ditty I'm sure was _meant_ to sound bad.

or bad dudes

@@lrgogo1517 You just described my feelings perfectly

action 52 contains a shit ton of plagarised music

And in hard difficulty.....

I did that... as a kid...

I've beating it as a teen on hardware and remember liking the game but never played it again after finishing, now I remember why, btw I still have my copy of the game too

@Angel Guerrero I've done the same with Wolverine Adamantium Rage, Sub-Terrania, Battletoads (GameGear), even thou I'm playing Battletoads nes on an emulator I'm still not using a save stat... btw if you must know I've hit a brick wall on stage 11, at least I'm better at Robo-Manus now then this video ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yC9-Pc3_Llc.html

I believe the Master System game simply titled Asterix was better. A LOT better!

I really think they ran out of time... Look how beautiful the buffet is despite the fact that nobody will ever go there, or how you have some entire world ( like the aqueduc, sewer ) which are only used once... I think they never finished the game.

So... they ran out of time? Maybe they are just really, really, really bad at time management!

@@vaimantobe3034 Or maybe half of the team went away because of external reason (that's what happened to Sonic 06), or maybe they didn't had a date until the last minute... Or maybe it wasn't possible to succeed to meet the date in the first place. We never know. But often, bad game are bad for a reason...

@@Haganeren that was probably it. But them having a debilitating inability to manage time would explain the insanity of the in-game timer too XD

@@vaimantobe3034 Well, i have a theory on that. The game is on "hard" difficulty. What would you do if you had to design the difficulty mode for your game ? Creating a more complex IA or putting more ennemies takes time. Having ennemies take more health out of you can create situation where it's impossible to win since you carry your health level after level. So the simplest way is to play with your timer because it basically need no test, no additional feature and no work from you. So yeah, just ask your testers team ( the QA ) to speedrun your level in order to determine what challenging time the player could have if he already finished the game. The QA plays your game all days for several months so of course they are very VERY strong at the game which is why the timer could be so insane. I really think that's how it happened but it's still just a theory.

I played the first Asterix game on the Master System 2 and the "Rising fire level" (i think it was Stage 5) was hell. But that was only one level and not the whole game

@@Athrun82 Rising fire level in a pirate sheep? Yes literal Hell, in special the flying plataform. However, there are another asterix games, inclusive a port "Asterix and The Great Rescue" whitout time limit.

@@javilillomath8130 What system did this game appear on without a time limit?

@@randomteen678 Master System port. However, I recomend that you play "Asterix" and "Asterix in secret mision".

Asterix and his buddy need to travel parallel universes like Mario did in Mario 64

Dragonfetus's credit is in the top left of the thanks for wacthing.

I can guess the Advance Wars subreddshit will defend this game. They already defend the likes of Rivals AC, Waylon Flies Again, and Crystal Calamity.

This is much closer to the Battletoads WLE

@@MasterKnightDH whoever defends Rivals AC needs to be put in mental institution

@@ohandthefracking I think I remember hearing the devs straight-up apologized for Rivals AC somewhere. I never got there, didn't have the patience for Kanbei's Error AC. Crystal Calamity was... Ugh. Nine insta-win properties for the enemy in one map, it's worse than troll maps in AWBW and those aren't even serious! That's a future Worst Levels Ever candidate right there. I don't remember Waylon Flies Again giving me nearly as much trouble. I remember it took a while, though, and it certainly wasn't as interesting as the other levels before it.

Or those realistic trees at 26:45

Also sometimes for whatever reason the level design does resemble "Cartoony history" like it should but then there are those stages that look like a chessboard castle (?) And then there's THIS- 24:53 A dark void filled with blocky, half-existant plants where the ground is made out of children's building blocks. What the fuck does that have to do with Asterix and Obelix...?

You mean that "Joueur du Grenier" knock off ? (jk) That "Joueur du Grenier" (JDG for short) is basically French AVGN, and while at first he seemed to copy AVGN because of the games he reviewed, nowadays most of AVGN bad video games are already reviewed on JDG's channel. Most likely because, well, there's only so many video games to review. This Asterix game is one of his earliest videos, actually ! I, for one, would actually love to see James' takes on this game

@Mia Wu oh c'mon he's not that bad. Sure he's not as good as back in his heyday, but he's still enjoyable

@@khemically6124 The main issue with AVGN now is that James Rolfe himself doesn't write up the newer AVGN episodes or do as much as he used to. Screenwave Media aka the guys who took over Cinemassacre some time ago do the writing for episodes now while James just follows from a script. James at one point was wanting to retire The Nerd but the Screenwave guys convinced him to keep doing it if they wrote scripts and James just acts parts out. I understand James has a real family now and doesn't have as much time as he used to, but I really hope that The Nerd character isn't dragged and brutalized through the mud for years to come and that he properly retires The Nerd in one final blaze of glory in a way that makes all kinds of throwbacks to older episodes and wraps everything up on a good note. Until James takes the helm for himself and does things the way he used to, those other guys will just keep holding him back.

James doesn't really care about video games. Cinematography is his passion. I guess you meant AVGN the character?

@@Anaklusmos42 I only wish his videos were subbed in English. My French is really, really bad.

"But man, this game may be hell incarnate, but damn the character models and animations are gorgeous. They feel very authentic compared to the Asterix cartoons. I love that." Dude, just play the SNES game, you'll get to see what a good art style is.

It's actually very accuarate to the source material. In the comics they do in fact beat the living shit out of entire armies of roman legionaries thanks to a special potion given by the druid Panoramix (Obelix has a permanent effect for falling into a calduron full of it when he was a child).

@@darksoulsismycity indeed, and since obelix is so powerful permanently, the writers sometimes raise the stakes by incapacitating him, like in the 3d-animated movie, where obelix is close to starvation and thus can't help his friends - making the moment when he gets food and thus the strength to fight even better

The only thing i question is mortality of the characters. In movies and comics, they are basicaly unstopable, but then comes the question if they can die. Asterix games made me question this. Asterix is standart mortal, unless he drank the potion he is powerless Obelix can apparently die by drinking more than an ounce of the potion, as apparently stated in the comic, where our heroes go to america and obelix apparently can turn into stone by drinking the potion, since he fell into it. In the Chez Les Bretons movie, Obelix is seen avoiding a guy with a spear, before grabing him and bashing him against the other soldiers. So maybe he can be damaged

i guess his idea was to show up how strong you are, so everyone is amazed after his two personal tiger beat you, too bad he, like alway, under estimate asterix

The comics usually presented Caesar as a good loser.

I recommend reading Son of Asterix. In this issue, you would be shown more about Caesar

A right nasty little git. That’s who.

(Play Seinfield theme here)

Level concepts. Their structure suck balls!

Im just wondering what the hell the plot is Did caesar make a pact with the underwolrd so that he can take over Tartarus or something? if so, why does he think sending two tigers at our gaulic heroes will do anything, considering he knows they bested things like Germanic tribes, belgians, and probably gods as well (last one i cannot confirm, as i didnt read comics that much, only saw every movie)

I mean if I were to consume gunpowder I think I'd probably be in too much pain to take my time or care about any hits I take.

Yeah but.. Asterix literally already HAS an established canon invincibility powerup...

@@314Pirasy my theory is that this was first supposed to be the magic potion, but then they remenbered that obelix cannot drink it, so they put a random thing

@@nikokuma1087 I mean that wouldn't be the first lore inaccuracy in this game

I agree. It's kinda of a shame, with puzzle elements like platform potions, it could be a good game, but sadly, it isn't.

music is what prevents me from use my earpods, the sound is like scratch an iron pot with a fork

@@aioriadeleo326 you're using Grefg iiiiairpods

I thought that was called playing normally.

I think someone else did it and sent it to him

So true

*they?*

@@dweeeebreal they can be used as singular and plural

@@alicestudytips7937 but isnt the channel ran by one guy

whois is a he

Nah it sephiroth

He did one video about this subject

At least Corpse Party had some interesting world-building and characters you actually care about to round out the distressing setting and time investment in the editing room.