Until We Win: Deadly Towers
Written by LordKaT Thursday, 22 October 2009 00:08
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10.22.2009 - 00:29 | PublicEnemy
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01.01.2010 - 19:56 | TheotherevildeadguyNah,Dick Tracy is difficult but not impossible. I can beat the first stage but after that a just used an emulator to skip to the final level, then messed around til I won. :0
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10.22.2009 - 00:34 | SpazzMaster
Excellent job, sir!!!
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10.22.2009 - 05:55 | benzaie
HARDCORE :!: :!: :!:
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10.22.2009 - 00:39 | The Brit
It was great in the forums and its great here
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10.22.2009 - 00:42 | The sad panda
you're way more patient than me man,congrats.
is there any saves or password at the end of a level?or you do oyu have to finish the game in one sit?
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10.22.2009 - 01:53 | MindOfCrazyPerson222I still can't believe you beat this game.
Great episode. I can't wait until you're officially a member of the site.
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10.22.2009 - 02:17 | mwong04
hey cool deadly towers
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Does that bother You?
:cheer: love your videos! great stuff.
I have a couple of good requests.
Solstice (NES)
The Immortal (NES)
I played a lot of Solstice growing up, but never beat it.
and The Immortal just looks like an interesting game to see played to the end.
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10.22.2009 - 03:34 | CompletelyWrongWhat about more modern difficult games? There aren't many of them, but I can think of two:
God Hand (PS2)
Ninja Gaiden 2 (XBOX360)
I'm not sure if you are able to review these, but they're both comparatively new and very difficult.
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10.22.2009 - 05:20 | LordKaT
Thanks for the compliments guys!
Just as a reminder, since it was in my blog post, but not in this: kdenlive (my video editor) decided to eat my gameplay footage, on Thursday night (and I upload on Friday morning), so I did use an invincibility code to get ALL of the footage I needed. I had no desire to play through the game a second time.
CompletelyWrong, Oh god do I ever want to!
I currently don't own any modern consoles, which is a shame, but with the videos hitting the front page, and with a little luck, I'll be able to pick up a 360 and some games.
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I mean I'm sure it's far from the best game out there, but I didn't think it was that bad. I played it and beat it well enough when I was younger. sure it took me a long time, but I kind of enjoyed it. It certainly didn't hold your hand, and it kept pace with the very difficult games of the time.
I still have my gaming notebook from when I was little, and it has about 10 pages full of maps and notes about this very game. I enjoyed making that, and it added a lot of fun to the game. So yeah despite what other people say (most of whom probably never played it at all) I liked this game, and I liked your UWW.
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10.22.2009 - 05:59 | LordKaTYukoValis, one of the lost arts of gaming is writing your own notes and mapping out difficult areas. If you gave a modern gamer a game where you absolutely HAD to map things down by hand, he'd never turn the game on.
It's a shame too, because being forced to write things down in the real world really brings a different level of interactivity into the game.
I remember comparing notes at school with my friends for games taht needed - but didn't provide - a map.
Also Deadly Towers isn't a terrible game. In fact, I daresay, it's a good game. It was certainly surpassed in quality by Zelda, but overall the game had an original idea, and the equipment boosting your stats idea wasn't really fleshed out in video games at the time.
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10.22.2009 - 06:16 | LimeGreenSquid
Oh, Dr. SBAITSO!! I miss him! Hehe. I've been searching everywhere online for a way to download that program, but it's nowhere to be found!
"I have a crush on the math coprocessor." (or something like that) was my favourite line from him.
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10.22.2009 - 10:41 | DoomGuy
Oh please, DMC is easy
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I have a great title for you to try out
Crystalis on Nes
personally I liked it but I am stuck really early in the game...I am a high level and have only killed the first boss lol
Awesome review and play
Stay Forever Hardcore...Fusa out B)
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10.22.2009 - 07:33 | Deimos1984rd
A big congrats on beating a horrid game like this.
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10.22.2009 - 07:38 | chefprotossDude, you should totally do Ninja Gaiden 3. That game is impossible, plus everyone loves Ninja Gaiden so it would make for great subject matter.
Nice series btw.
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Well ive not seen any of your other vids and i cant seem to find them (maybe thats just my lazyness) so please forgive me if you have already done these games but id like to request 2 games that i find to be hard:
Halo 3 legandery [b][u]SOLO[/u][/b] (multi is a lot easier)
Castlevania 3 Draculas curse
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10.22.2009 - 07:48 | LordKaTA7X4EV3R,
My website: http://www.LordKaT.com/
All of the Until We Win videos: http://www.lordkat.com/ category/category/until- we-win
My Blip account: http://lordkat.blip.tv
My YouTube account: http://www.youtube.com/ FearTheKaT
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10.22.2009 - 09:28 | JewWario
I am so glad to see this show on TGWTG. Good stuff.
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10.22.2009 - 09:45 | Poipoi
That was awesome. I really enjoy your take on video games.
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10.22.2009 - 10:32 | zombywoof
Great job on the vids LordKaT! This is only the second one I've seen, but UwW is quickly becoming one of my favorite series. It's just a brilliantly simple idea, like the wheel of video game vids. Anyways, congrats on getting a well deserved spot on the first page. I'm off to find your Battletoads vid, that final screen has eluded me for years!
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10.22.2009 - 11:01 | Lusk1993How about Warlock for Genesis?
That game was ridiculously weird when I played it as a kid.
Oh, and great reviews. I went back and watched all of them in the last 3 days. Really nice job. One of my favorite people on TGWTG. (Right next to Nostalgic Critic, Angry Joe, and the Spoony One.)
Also you're stand-up is funny.
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10.22.2009 - 11:12 | Shygetz
I saw this before you were featured, and I started to wonder when they were gonna feature you. Glad they finally did. If ratings were enabled, I'd have given you 5 stars. Great job! Now go play something fun.
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10.22.2009 - 12:15 | LinksOcarina86
Good review dude, detailed and it actually makes Deadly Towers look a lot less daunting after the Nerd's Review.
And on a personal note...Goat balls ;).
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10.22.2009 - 12:26 | Vulkan
Yes it is bothering me.. Seizure warning next time :unsure:
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10.22.2009 - 13:02 | BananaJane
Alright! You're featured again!
I really hope you become part of this site ^ .^
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10.22.2009 - 13:19 | Braeden Orr
Awesome new video!
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10.22.2009 - 13:37 | Silrun Pepin
Don't feel bad about talking about games others have reviewed. In my eyes your videos are more of a walk through, which offer a completly different spin on the game than the kind of reviews the AVGN has done (though to be fair I've only watched a few of his reviews).
I'd heard of this game a few years ago after the protagonist was featured in a sprit comic. The comic put an interesting spin on the character, trying to flesh him out as a decent guy who was unfortunatly cast in a "bad" game. Since then I've been interested in seeing the game he originated from. I think it's an interesting concept, though I am basing it purely off your video than actually playing it.
Anyway, nice job as always. I think the idea of the doctor was novel and you were able to keep the jokes different and flesh (loved the "women's clothing" part and ending). Can't wait to see what you review next.
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You should show beating the game without the use of invincibility. You mention the game isnt too hard once you get the hang of thing, but no game is if you dont take damage.
I dont think this game is as bad as people say it is. I played and beat it when I was young. Having to draw out everything was a lot of fun as well, better then now when you can download everything, and have the answers to everything. Being stuck was great too
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10.22.2009 - 14:14 | LordKaTSlammer612,
I'll quote myself:
"Just as a reminder, since it was in my blog post, but not in this: kdenlive (my video editor) decided to eat my gameplay footage on Thursday night (and I upload on Friday morning), so I did use an invincibility code to get ALL of the footage I needed. I had no desire to play through the game a second time."
I have multiple versions of multiple playthrough's sitting on my hard drive for the games I do. When I need footage that I didn't capture in a previous playthrough I usually go back with an invincibility code, because some of these games are impossible to play within the tight time constraints of the show multiple times.
Of the times where I didn't go back to grab footage, you guys yell at me for not showing something on screen that I talked about.
In short: "just think to yourself it's just a show, I should really just relax." ;)
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10.22.2009 - 14:04 | Anthony R
More and more of this great show coming to the front page...this is awesome.
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[quote=LordKaT]YukoValis, one of the lost arts of gaming is writing your own notes and mapping out difficult areas. If you gave a modern gamer a game where you absolutely HAD to map things down by hand, he'd never turn the game on.
It's a shame too, because being forced to write things down in the real world really brings a different level of interactivity into the game.
I remember comparing notes at school with my friends for games taht needed - but didn't provide - a map.
Also Deadly Towers isn't a terrible game. In fact, I daresay, it's a good game. It was certainly surpassed in quality by Zelda, but overall the game had an original idea, and the equipment boosting your stats idea wasn't really fleshed out in video games at the time.[/quote]
I am glad I'm not the only one who thinks that way :) heck I might play this game again. If you still have your notes it's really fun. You will look at what you wrote years passed going "ok wth was I thinking? what's this? hmm" and then you will relearn stuff all over.
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I know people are always givin ya suggestions (usually of games done by other reviewers), but any plans on doin Dick Tracy? Or is that game another Bayou Billy where the reviewer says it was an impossible game but it turns out it isnt as hard as they claim