Still would love to see an HD Remaster of Gauntlet Dark Legacy. Or better yet, a new game.

One of my favorite games I played as a kid, glad to see other people remember this series

7:25 "Learn to block" is the kind of tough love I've come to expect from Gauntlet games over the decades.

The best Gauntlet game. Many weekends playing this on PS2 with friends and a multitap.

Yep, this game is a guilty pleasure. Did kind of love how every main hero got a visual upgrade every 10 levels.

I remember my local arcade getting this in back in the day. I spent a whole roll of quarters on this just to get through one of the stages and to beat the boss. The arcade version slowly drained your health over time so that you had to put in quarters to add more health. Which I get cause they're trying to make money on the machine, but that was so much BS to drain your quarters.

the sheer level of nostalgia for this is unreal, i used to play it with my brother whenever we'd go to our uncle's house, and literally all of the sound effects and cut scenes are so ingrained in my mind. My favorite level was the carnival looking one, I always played as Valkyrie, and we thought the word 'meal' was the funniest fecking thing in the actual universe. I haven't played it since I was a kid because I'm always worried to go back to old games and realize they were terrible lo l

One of my favorite games of all time. Played the many versions of this game from the n64 to this. The music is this game is up there with the metroid prime games for how it sets the atmosphere and tone of every level.

I've wanted a remaster of this for so many years. Probably my most played PS2 game.

Never played this one back in the day, but I sure as hell remember seeing the ad in game magazines and Yellow Sorceress definitely had me feeling some kinda way

I used to love playing with the Jester, all I'd hear is "Batter up", don't understand how I never got sick of hearing that XD

I remember being so excited to unlock their alternate forms. I think I grinded all of them to 99 even.

Dark Legacy and Legends are insanely fun, the best games in the series by far.

I fucking love how every class had four different costumes, like they're not just palette swaps and are full blown costume changes (Blue Dwarf army for life!) This game was the most epic shit ever to me at age 7. Incredible co-op game.

I remember saving up 20 bucks to buy this game on the ps2 at a thrift store downtown. Me and my buddy played and beat this game multiple times. Great times Amazing game!

Yess! Loved playing the demo for this back in the day and then getting it a year ago. I got a fair way through doing single player but it gets ridiculously hard toward the later worlds, obviously because it's meant to be played co-op.

My favorite co-op game. My brothers and I would play this all the time.

Been thinking about Dark Legacy lately. We desperately need a remaster. Dunno if I trust them to make a good new Gauntlet after that last one.

This game was so hype! Also had a great sequence if you quit out of the game or went to delete it from the PS2 memory card.

Oh man, I LOVED this game as a kid! So glad to see you playing it.

Your humor is right up my alley and playing a favorite game from my childhood? Allright you got a new subscriber.

This game has deserved an HD Port / Remaster for years and they just won't give it to us. I play this game at least once a year on Dolphin Emulator with the upscaled graphics. This was my childhood. Glad everyone loves it as much as I do.

Matt, your commentary is top notch, I love the aimless bantering, reminds me of childhood where you BS with your friends.

I miss midway. Got real fond memories of this game.

Game was real fun back in the day. Bonus challenges unlocked the extra characters. Basically reskins of the already existing classes, but with higher starting stats. Game had a ton of content and was fun. Kinda wished it was ported so we could play online with friends.

Man,me and my uncle use to to play this game alot when I was a kid.

I don't remember on what platform, but I recall playing this often with my big brother some 20 years ago. It really would make my life a little more complete to be able to beat it, some day. A remaster would be so cool.

I had this on GameCube. Every weekend when my brother and I was at our dad's house in the summer we would spend hours on this game. Green Jester was my favorite

16:40 As Jim Sterling puts it, "They don't want some of the money, they want ALL of the money" And God, I would love to see Legends and Dark Legacy ported over.

Gauntlet Legends for the N64 was a big part of my childhood for my brother and I. Years later when we acquired Dark Legacy for Xbox... oh man. Great times. Would love a remaster of this for current consoles...

This game is so much of my fucking childhood man, can't tell you how many times I beat it solo or with my bro

The place were my local fighting game scene is located actually has a legit working (at least it turns on anyway) Gauntlet arcade cabinet. I haven't played it yet (I think it was because I thought it was Mace) but seeing this makes me want to get my friends into putting a few quarters in whenever we get that COVID booster shot. Looks like good simple coop beat-em up/dungeon crawler fun.

Yo. This game is a total JAM. I still have my PS2 copy.

I love Death running around his arms up, chasin after ya at every turn. He's strangely adorable.

Dark Legacy is the best one. I would love if they remade this one with bonus content. How are you playing this!?

Man this brought back some good memories. This came out in arcades first, and I used to play it a bunch with my brother. There was a password save system in the arcade so you could keep playing your character. We were so excited when it came out for gamecube and we could play at home!

I remember introducing a lot of friends to this game. Hearing no one outside of my family and friends mentioning this game made me think it wasn't a well known game.

I’m in the same boat as Matt in that I rented it from Blockbuster and played the hell out of it. I played the rental so much I honestly thought for years I owned it; then maybe 3 years ago I discovered I didn’t. Immediately bought a copy for my PS2 and spent the next few weeks solid playing through it with a number of characters. This game truly has an obscenely underrated soundtrack which features a few different musical themes repeated throughout in unique ways, including the classic Gauntlet theme. The levels are varied and imaginative; I especially enjoy the later ones like the evil circus, haunted house, “Your Worst Nightmare”, and the Maze of Illusion.

If they brought back Dark Legacy I would go WILD. I'd buy copies for friends, like, damn!! This was just so much fun and I only played it when I was young and dumb and bad at video games! There was so much to unlock and find, and it'd just be awesome to actually... explore some of that properly!

"You are now entering-" aww, so this is what nostalgia is like.

Couch Co-Op at its finest! LOVED this game! I still quote the "Needs Food, Badly" phrase. And man, those tiered costumes for the characters. The secrets too!

Videos on this game come along so rarely. Thank you for giving it some spotlight.

Still one of the best GameCube multiplayer experiences. Still have this in my collection.

While I always have a good time chilling and watching your videos, Gauntlet is my JAM and it's really nice to see you getting a chance to play it again. I grew up playing the arcade version with friends, when it was ported to consoles we laughed at how much money we'd already spent on it...and then bought it anyway. Got the original on N64 and the upgrade, Dark Legacy, on the gamecube. These days though my gamecube doesn't work, and I've never successfully found a way to emulate the games. Been a really long time since I've seen these games now let alone got a chance to play one. Thank you for bringing some fantastic memories back, and hopefully they will remaster, or bring out another arcade style gauntlet someday. Though with the way the arcades have gone, I don't think that's super likely. Regardless though, I'd definitely be into more Gauntlet. Thanks Matt, see ya next time.

God so many hours spent on this game growing up. We used to bust out the multi-tap and play this literally all night growing up. I had a level 99 I wanna say blue or red jester and I was so proud.

Probably my favorite Gauntlet of all time. I played Dark Legacy mostly on the Dreamcast, which also worked with the Hi-res VGA output and looked incredibly sharp and clean with it. Still, there was so much to this game and a pretty insane roster of unlockable characters in the Home version. (The arcade was no slouch with the way they kind of allowed you to unlock (some equivalent to Prestige classes) once you leveled up enough in one of the default classes. Like how the regular Archer could unlock the Falconess class.) Gaining Familiars. And some of the coolest unique features of classes in the series. One of my favorite classes was the Sorceress because she was kind of touted as some Witch that was at home in the Poison Swamps. And her potion's special secondary ability, was that any Poison food, in the vicinity of its effect became Good Food. (Which is a big reason I played the class so much). Poison food? Not anymore!

Played so much of this game as a kid on the ps2, that jester class is awesome and with all the hidden weapons and characters it took forever to beat. The later levels like the dream realm, hell and the icy mountain not to mention the plague airship are all awesome.

Fun Fact: the voice of the announcer for this game and Gauntlet Legends is actually Doug Lawrence: the voice of Plankton on Spongebob

I found this game years ago when looking for alternatives to Champions of Norrath and Baldur's Gate for PS2. Totally worth it.

I have this game on the GameCube and I can attest to its awesomeness and fun factor. It's even more fun to play with friends. A little bit about Death in this game: Death comes in two flavors - red and black. Red drains your life while black drains your experience (yes, this can cause you to lose a level). There are three ways to deal with Death: The first and best way is if you have the Anti-Death power-up (looks like a halo). When activated, Death will run away from you and if you touch him in this state, you will continuously drain either life from him if red or experience from him if black. The second way is using a magic potion. As long as he is in the blast radius of the potion, it will one-shot him. You can even kill him in his dormant, statue-like state. The third way is to hit him with a ton of basic attacks. I think after like a hundred hits it will kill him, but I don't remember the exact amount of hits it takes. All I know is that it takes a lot. I suppose this was programmed as punishment for not saving potions.

Yeah the feels are real for this one, I was way more into the N64 one, but man they were fun.

Matt is so incredibly funny!

I have a lot of nostalgia with this. Even now the voice and atmosphere is graved in my mind.

Green Jester all day. Flying pig familiar! This game was so good. The tag team attacks were always fun.

My father an d I played this all the time! I spent hours trying to figure out which character I wanted to use. Thanks for the memories! :)

I was just thinking about this game and Gauntlet Legends a few days ago! Brings back memories. Please continue your journey of this fun game!

Man I was so bad at Gauntlet Legends as a kid but I dumped quarters into that machine all the time. Anytime a place I would visit had it the cabinet would have a line and people crowding the machine from all sides to watch the people playing. Take me back.

I loved this game when I was a kid. I remember one time my mom and I played through the entire game in the arcade thanks to the ability to hit the start button to gain health. I would always use the red warrior and my mom was usually the blue archer.

Love this game.. I still play legends on the 64 every once and a while

Remember renting this game as a kid cuz I (or almost everybody) was real into the Egyptian mythology phase and saw the Egyptian looking guy on the cover. Gauntlet could totally come back even as a one-stint stinker, with how many co-op loot shooters/hack-n-slashers there's been for the past generation you'd think someone would try to spin the formula with the game that kind of started it all.

20:44 Death being all like *"HUUUUUUUGGGG MEEEEEEEEEEEE..."*

Currently loving this couch co-op with the wife on PS2. When our two children our big enough to play, I'll have the 4 player adapter ready.

This was my first PS2 game I really played and my first Gauntlet, outside of I don't kniw which on arcade. I unlocked all the characters and beat the game like 8 times or so, I loved it.

Man I fucking love this game, an absolute classic.

Put in so many hours in Gauntlet Legends and Dark Legacy, such fun games and we need them back.

Yes! Thank you for playing this game! I freak’n love Dark Legacy! I just bought a GC controller so I could play it again.

"You are entering the poison fields" - the first thing I hear as I'm sitting here with poison ivy rashes.

So nostalgic for this. Wow.

What the- I literally had the quote “Food is good” randomly pop into my head 2 days ago… He’s fusing with the spy algorithm that reads minds to advertise at you.

One of my favourite games of all time. Would love a switch port

I loved this game in the arcade. I remember grinding the castle 4-6 times by exploiting the chimera and memorizing the best route before running into the area you meant to beat that day.

whoever is doing your editing is making your videos all the better. pay them more.

I used to love playing this back in the arcades. The announcer was the pretty much the only main thing I remembered over a decade later.

My Nostalgia meter is at full erect I used to play this on the OG Xbox when I was a young lad thank you for playing this it's been so much fun to watch

I'll never forget playing this in a movie arcade every weekend with dad back in the day, didn't know what the hell I was doing though.

My all time favourite game, still go back to it a few times a year

this was my dad's favorite game to play with all of his kids, it really holds some sentimentality for me. the games after this one(seven sorrows) had a divisive level design. I never played the one that came out for pc but it reviewed kinda poorly and I didn't have money. I believe that gauntlet, once a top-down arcade/twin-stick shooter, turned into an isometric RPG when it transpired into 3d, making it a stepping stone of the dark fantasy, isometric, hack and slash, RPG genre. today in place of gauntlet I have Path of Exile and its sequel coming soon and a more true homage in Hammer watch.

This was one of my first ps2 games. Used to play it all the time with my bro. Good times.

I don't think I've ever played a game from this franchise, but this definitely looks like something I would have played the shit out of back in the day and still enjoy today. I've always wondered if there were more games that did the cool appearance change that Knights of the Round had and now I have my answer. Thanks Matt.

Loved watching Matt play this. This was my favorite Gamecube game. I'd bring this out every sleepover trying to get all the character unlocks. I would love a Switch port of this game, I miss all the hokey goodness.

Glad you covered this game from a great and hard series.

“I need food badly” still haunts my dreams as I see my full health co op take it

I only ever played Gauntlet 1 & 2 on NES and Dark Legacy once at the arcades. Good games. Sometimes, you just want to smash the enemies and not worry about anything else.

Gauntlet Legends is so weird because it was on N64, PS1, & Dreamcast along with the Arcade and each version had levels & bosses that might not be in the other versions. Dark Legacy basically had all of the levels, plus more levels, and even more characters.

imma keep it real with you Matt. I would like to see a 90 part series of you 100% completing this game.

No, no... the real genius of this game is the avatar progression system, where you get cooler and bigger and badder until level 99 where... you get a big head and holy shit that is an accurate callout.

Watching this made me realize that X-Men Legends and Marvel Ultimate Alliance took the Gauntlet format

My family spent a week at a cabin in Tennessee early this year and it had an arcade machine for this game set on free play I was extremely happy

WAR was awesome, used to love playing it in the arcade back in the day.

The editing is getting better and better on these videos!

I played this as a kid and this brought back random memories

The memories… Thank you Matt!!

This game is so nostalgic for me

for Christmas me and my brother got a PS2 in this video game and we played that game so much. Ah the memories.

You trolling Death was funny AF.

BATTER UP BATTER UP BATTER UP BATTER UP BATTER UP Spent hours trying to get the anubis skin with clan, finally get him, have to level up from scratch. I never looked back…

I played the heck out of this with my brother back in the day

Matt.....NEVER stop talking about Turok. You have to keep the memory of the lost lands alive!

I remember that Dark Legacy straight up gave me nightmares as a kid. Loved playing it though.

USE MAGIC TO KILL DEATH!