"It sparks feeling of hope and adventure in me which is perfect for a game that eats away little pieces of your soul every time you die. Me realizing how many times HG died in this game. *HG has no soul*

I was looking forward to this after seeing you talk about it on twitter. I inherently love most GB games that try and squeeze as much as they can out of such limited hardware, but this game was just too unforgiving for me. The jumps that have you disappearing offscreen were just too much. I'm happy to see such a detailed review of it though. Thank you for taking the time

Back in 88 when me and my friend got game boys for Xmas, he got this game and we would trade often. I liked this game more than he did, and I played it a lot! It surprises me how well I remember it all these years later! I never beat it and I don’t know that I got that far even, I just remember playing the balls off it and feeling really frustrated. I always liked that challenge though. I love this game, and I’m glad you reviewed it!

It's nice to see a positive review on this game, for once. Given when it was released in the Game Boy lineup (one of the first titles), an action platformer was a much-needed change of pace vs. all the static single-screen games and slow-paced puzzle games that most development studios started with.

And yet, through it all, I still enjoyed the main music score! Thank you for this fun and thoughtful video of a game which I never would have heard about otherwise.

I can't believe that I beat this game back when it was initially released.

The jumps remind me of frustrating ones in Simon's Quest and Castlevania the Adventure. It was funny seeing the knight switch to jump damage while still in the air and also hearing how enemy patterns on the last stage totally change. Go you beating a difficult game and thanks for another video!

Such a catchy tune. GG Hungry!

This is how you do a proper video game review!! Thanks for sharing!

I love this GB game as I have fond memories of going to Toys R Us with my friend with his birthday money and choosing this game with him. - And Im glad you mentioned that music... as I LOVE it... takes me right back! Classic... although I dont think either of us ever completed it lol

Excellent video Hungry! I especially loved how you put the failed jump attempts there with the giant skull face for the outro. Simply loved that you saw the charm in its difficulty. I honestly never knew there was a separate Wizards & Warriors entry on the Gameboy that was not a port of the NES version.

I commend you for tackling this beast! For a game so stacked against you; you seemed to power through it and make light of a lot of it. I need to pick up the NES games as well and this is more inspiration to do so!

You have a fair bit more patience than me, H.G. This is the sort of game that would make me pitch my Gameboy across the room in frustration.

I love this game, I couldn’t beat it was a kid so I rebought it and..... it keeps glitching when I get far 😅 I’ve just bought another copy so my 20+ year battle with this game continues

Nice review again :) I don't think I heard about this game before, I will try it one day. Congrats for finished it.

So most nostalgia the moment I saw the sprite of Kuros. Least I can do is model it in Dreams.

Great video and great job beating the game! I haven't seen much of it past the 2nd stage. I originally got it for the title screen music, and to this day it's the only game in my collection that I haven't beaten, and I'm okay keeping it that way.

its so hard...this game so hard.

Thanks for sharing, as I had no idea that this existed! My only experience with this series however was short lived and frustrating while playing the nes titles growing up hehe.

This is one of those games I wanted as a kid just because the box art was cool.

I actually did enjoy this game a lot back then. When I started reading about people hating on this game in my later years, I was a bit surprised and tried to replay it. Yes, it's not perfect and kinda wonky, but still I kinda enjoyed it.

Those bats hitting you even when crouched = brutal sadism.

Great review HG! Those NES games are in my future.. I'm not very excited. :D

Dali popka brought me here nice review 8-)

Glad I’m not the only one who found this game crushingly hard. Idk if I made it past the first boss ever. The music slapped though

Another Hungry G video better than the game it’s about. Now I know why after all these years this game has never found its way into my collection lol.

Wow nice job beating that one. This is actually my favorite W&W game funnily enough. Other than the music & art style, I didn't like Wizards & Warriors very much, and the NES sequels less and less. This one is for some reason more charming for me. Maybe that's just how much I love the Game Boy. FoF's kinda scraggly but I did manage to keep getting better and better the more I played. I think the main thing that got in my way of finishing it is just the sheer amount of Game Boy games I have, beckoning for me to play them all! but, one of these days...

I absolutely loved the three NES Wizards and Warriors games and had no idea that there was one on the Gameboy. Time to get busy!

I had this as a kid and even then wondered what happened to parts 4 to 9. There was one Spell of Invincibility in the whole game, if I recall, near the start.

Kikoskia did a let's re-play of this not recently, he did pretty darned good.

Well done

I had this as a kid and still do. The jumps are very cheap. It ruins the game for me to some extent. I have never completed the game without savestates. You are a better gamer than I am... or have more patience, and yes, the music is great!

The chest at 4:35 contains a scroll of invincibility :p

Great review. Er ... I'm probably focusing on the wrong thing here, but do I hear tunes from Iron Sword? :D

I had this game as a kid and its nice to know I didn't just suck at it haha

I have to say, I never enjoyed the NES games, but this one looks better due to the reduced scale. ^^

Rewatching this now that I've secured my "Hero" status.. I nodded the whole way through! The fall damage is pretty lame, but I think it adds some interesting challenge as it makes you have to plan out those jumps.. but what is really a kick in the chops is how enemies are placed on those tiny platforms or how quickly the fly at your cranium.. very fun watch!

Wow. I can't believe you got a sense of accomplishment from this one - props! These are just not-great designs, but you really dug in there and showed this who's boss :) The music at least is objectively very good - that's just sort of assumed though, since Rare developed these and they were perhaps at maximum "80's British micro computer developer" status back in those days. And those UK studios really knew how to pump out great beats and melodies on tinny sound hardware. Man, _Wizards & Warriors_ is such a bad series full of unrealized potential (hell, they never even *attempted* to make their warrior look like the Fabio guy on the boxes), but it's *such* a good name for old fantasy games. You'd figure that, if one could not get a D&D license, or Might & Magic, they would've tried to acquire the Wizards & Warriors name from Acclaim at some point. Heck, it's weird that Acclaim themselves didn't do much with it after the 8-bit generations - it's easy to imagine them using the name for an SNES title in the vein of something like Cadash or Rastan, or an N64 title like Dragon Sword 64. Weird that they just stopped unceremoniously.

Is it sad that growing up this and a Tiger hand held were my ONLY exposure to the Wizards and Warriors series?

In my opinion, the first Wizards and Warriors game was just a masterpiece. Every sequel they released however I hated. I wish someone would reboot the series and make a true sequel in the spirit of the original.

That fall damage is a load of bologna! I think that in itself would make me turn off this game and never play it again. "it sparks feelings of hope and adventure in me. Which is perfect for a game that eats away little pieces of your soul every time you die" ... I don't think you could sum it up any better! xD Congrats on taking out this game and putting together another solid review. Now you just have to beat Wizards & Warriors III! :)

YEAHHH THIS GAME LOOKS HELLA HARD

Another great review. Was curious about this one. Now I know I think I might just skip this one.

I am a collector of complete gameboy games and I LOVE the box art for this game. Although I have yet pick it up.. I am curious how do you get the footage? Do you just use an emulator with a capture card?

Very good.

I don't know why but I've never liked this perspective some platformers and beat-em-ups have where it's at a slight angle. I get why someone might would go for that art direction though. I think it can sometimes be a little confusing on platform size because of the extra information the depth provides.

Never knew there was more than one of these games

This is the most positive review I have EVER heard of any Wizards & Warriors game. IMO they're all kinda' kusoge. :-)

Never understood why there's this golden axe kick ass character on the cover and then you control an armor Knight

I had this as second game for my GB, ouch. First one was Tetris.

Well, at least the game apologizes for bludgeoning your soul.

I hated the clouds you can't jump on as a kid. I reached that area for the first time with one life left then died due to falling through a cloud. I don;t think I ever entirely forgave the game for that.

I gotta admit - I certainly have mixed feelings on whether I want to check this out. Being a Rare game, there's the acknowledgement that it ain't as polished as one might expect from a platformer developed in Japan for instance. But the question is… is it worth diving it as the first one, or skip it and try the NES instalment instead?

3:20 Invincibility chest can be seen in this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gLF6f9N-2cvKp5c.html

This game was soooo hard. I never got very far and didnt play it often. I believe that it game with a game collection I bought from a neighbor girl when I was very young. Did you ever play the Robinhood gameboy game?

Nothing like having the final boss disappear in an explosion puff 💥 that has the word ZAP or POW on it. And they couldn’t have a different music track for the final levels? Why do all the sprites look like placeholder/programmer art? Oh well, I’m more critical and less patient as an adult. 😀

I kinda like the look of this game, but it seems like it could be pretty frustrating.

I wonder what ever happened to Fabio. (The guy on the covers lol).

W❤️W

i've never played dark souls probably because i played this as a kid.

I'm probably in the minority here, but the only Wizards & Warriors game I liked was W&W3. The first one seemed kinda bland, the second one had horrible enemies/the worst jumps, and this one is too hard/oddly structured. I'd say the 3rd one was the most balanced and fleshed out. Managed to beat it as a kid, so it couldn't have been as bad as Legend of Zelda II (couldn't beat it back then) or even Simon's Quest. Then again, it's just my subjective opinion.

So it's Dark Souls for GB? lol I always thought it was strange when on the cover of these games, the character is a typical looking Barbarian(or Fabio) but in game, we play a generic Knight.

Fyi: "invincibility" is a translation error. It's invisibility, and the power is pretty useless. The "U Can Beat Video Games" channel shows you where to find the powerup, and demonstrates what it does, but strongly advises against getting it.

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No continues so it’s that type of game