Yes, that's a very good use of colors for a NES games.

Looks like a master system game

There is a lot of depth to the sprites because they are so big!

The boss fights aren't quite as epic as would match the rest of the game sadly. Bavmorda was a real disappointment.

7 year-old me played it at a friend's house and the wind effects blew my mind. It was such a dramatic effect, and I don't think I saw any game properly try anything like it again until MGS3

Zelda had the flute that summoned tornadoes in 1986 Much as I love Willow, he can't summon tornadoes

@@ChibiKami I think he can call lightning, though

@@ChibiKami yeah but a bird is far less harmful to summon than a tornado. My house keeps getting messed up everytime I summon one. With a bird I might just get a little poop on my shoulder

And had a sword that slashed, instead of just awkwardly stabbing.

@@ChibiKami great point

I want that Capcom back. They're killing it with Monster Hunter and DmC these days, but damnit, give us Mega Man (Legends 3 pls), MvC, and all the other good stuff they've slept on for years. It's bad enough that Konami makes gross fanservice-y Castlevania pachinko machines and nothing else.

Capcom is doing great stuff these days. Resident Evil 2 and 7 are top-notch, as was Mega Man 11.

@@ChargeQM The best news I've heard is that Konami is going to let other people make their games. They've treated their franchises like crap for way too long.

@@ChargeQM Is still refuse the existence of that castlevania pachinko machine. There's also a megaman pachinko game (rockman ability) with original designs for the characters and cinematics. There's way too much effort into that one, it's kind of impressive.

Capcom and Konami made the best licensed games back in the day

Cause it's old af derrrrp

@@ramrodbldm9876 I absolutely refuse to believe a movie is "old af derrrrp" just because I was 7 when it came out. 0_O

This game's musics scared me when I was a kid

Holy crap. John RiggsXSNESDrunk is the crossover I never knew I wanted but now absolutely need.

Yeah man... really dug this one too! As well as the movie ;) That would make the arcade title the other other Willow for me Lol

@@IanDeMartino That happened already! Look it up on John Riggs channel. It's the video called "SNES games that should've been on NES" I tried to send you the link but for some reason my comment was deleted.

One of my favorite movies that I never knew had a video game.

I sort of remember this game and I remember enjoying it. I loved the movie. Aren’t they making a sequel soon?? Ugh I know but I’ll watch it.

About that...

Very true, but that healmace is super easy to miss; if you just fight Bogarda without first getting the wood shield and THEN talking to the elder of Dew, the elder never gives it to you.

It is true that there is such a possibility, although I have never seen it so "super easy", although not unlikely. It may be because the moment I received the shield and they explained to you that you should speak to the chiefman, I quickly went back to visit the houses that I knew were inhabited, specifically the only two with unique portraits. The clues and instructions that the game leaves for you are so clear and exact compared to, for example, Simon's Quest or Zelda1, that it gives me the feeling that to skip something you should not have been paying attention or wandering aimlessly avoiding talking to the NPC.

I remember doing it on my second playthrough...spoke to the chief first and then the shield guy, did well enough fighting that I never needed the mace, and didn't check for it until after beating Bogarda. Some players might not realize the chief's text changes after recieving the shield...especially those who just gloss over the text because they'd like to get to the next action part.

Yea don’t miss the mace. It makes the game almost bearable. Almost

I thought I was the only one. I remember being around 4 or 5 and walking around the village with it's happy go lucky music playing then encountering some of the enemies with the music suddenly changing definitely gave me goosebumps. It's funny when I think about it now.

@@therealmccoy15 yeah, it's definitely hilarious looking back on it now. You're not alone in that though, for a little kid, that's spooky as hell. Like out of nowhere spooky music starts, the world starts wobbling around, and skulls start popping up from the ground, lol.

What scared me the most were some of the faces for the portraits. Bavmorda's facial expression in her portrait shown in this video is frightening for 8-bit hardware.

Nope. He was paid about 10p for willow. Unfortunately the prejudice in those days affected pay packets as well as everything else

Oh hes not even human hes a midget

The high majority of time, actors don't own rights to anything created in a film, because they didn't create it. The character, Willow, wasn't created by Warwick Davis. He was a paid actor, paid to represent that character. It's called "work for hire", and it is what it sounds like. You get paid for work. And it's usually a flat fee. George Lucas, Ron Howard, Bob Dolman & Nigel Wooll got rich from it, though. :)

@@j0nnyism They hired a TON of people for Willow, and they had a low budget (not super low, but low enough that they felt they couldn't offer a ton of money, considering they had to pay Val Kilmer and Billy Barty, and a few other big names). Warwick's low pay had less to do with prejudice and more to do with budget. The fact is, he got the role because George Lucas wrote the story specifically for Warwick. They had been doing the Star Wars stuff. Warwick played Wicket. Lucas had a lot of respect for Warwick and rewrote an older story of his specifically for Warwick to play the lead role. Lucas had practically begged Warwick to do it. Warwick had mutual respect for George, so he accepted. But, Warwick was only a teen while filming the Star Wars stuff. Willow was a dad, and a bit aged. George needed to wait many years for Warwick to be old enough to fit the part well. It was about 15-17 years worth of planning, on George's part. lol (he came up with the concept for Willow in the early 70s, but needed a short person for it. It was called Munchkins, at the time. When they filmed the Star Wars stuff was when he watched Warwick acting and changed his entire premise of the story to fit Warwick...ending with Willow releasing in the late 80s)

Residuals then...

So basically you're saying you were/and still are a betawimp

I watched it a while back yeah its still good. Trolls and the part where all army turns to pigs is still scary ha

written by George Lucas back when he took feedback, directed by Ron Howard who is always on point, and exceptionally well acted by an excellent cast. Totally worth watching today though after you watch it, see if you can track down the novelization; it adds some scenes and fills in a few blanks based on extraneous material for example, what happened to Willow's third acorn: on the boat to Fin Raziel's island Willow had to fight a sea monster. He used an acorn there and the entire sequence is skipped in the movie

@@ChibiKami That sea monster sequence was shot, but was cut from the finished film, which is why Willow's hair is inexplicably wet in the next scene. The scene is apparently included on the blu-ray release.

@@ArcaneAzmadi Very cool.

@@ArcaneAzmadi neat. Was wondering if it was deleted footage or merely storyboarded

This and Batman Return of the Joker are probably 2 of the best

Check out The Guardian Legend & Faxanadu as well

Have you even seen guardian legend

Looks like Zelda also took some inspiration from Willow.

Airiks gauntlet sword thing was super badass too. the easily a top childhood movie for me.

The scene where everyone turns to pigs is still scary

@@johnm3907 I still remember it. Had freaking nightmares

Yeah, that enemy was a nightmare Indeed. However if you get the Devileye sword, magic enemies are more easy to kill.

He can't turn me into something I already am.lol

You're high . . Madmartigan vs Iceman though . . bare knuckles, I'd vote for that

It's in the second town after obtaining the wooden shield. The chieftain will give it to you if you have that shield.

finding the swords I really didn't feel this is too much of a problem. I still to this day love the idea of having a more powerful sword but at a cost to how much damage in total in addition to slow swinging. Makes you need to perfect that timing prior to it becoming easy. Now I did feel this way regarding the shields. Just as soon as you get one, you're trading it up for the next. Now that I'm older and very familiar with the game, this comes off far worse than how fast you move through the swords. The highest levels only seem tedious now, when you breeze through most all the game and only want to bump your level up so that the best sword is swung with ease. Otherwise I still love the game.

Willow would make an excellent title to port to consoles. I'd pick it up and play it again.

Not every screen matters in dungeons in Zelda. There are lots of extra keys, extra rooms (including pointless locked doors). Have you played it recently?

@@kekeke8988 If you'd played Willow recently, you might see my point. Most maps in the game are MxN grids or slight variations thereupon. It often manages to be maze-like only through sheer length, between-floor transitions, and exactly identical rooms. In Zelda 1, even the 'empty' rooms play a specific role in the dungeon design, if not for the player, and often they also play a map-role in terms of symmetry and shape. At the very worst, a room in a dungeon matters because the shape of the dungeon matters. Most of the rooms in Willow play neither a room specific role, not even to the point of merely delaying the player, neither do they play a specific map role, as symmetry isn't a feature, relative placement in the map is meaningless, and there are no special map shapes. The only role that most of the rooms have, is the meta map role of making the maps large enough that the player can get lost in a simple grid shape.

Thanks for taking the time to watch Josh, I do have a few more NES game Patreon requests like Ultimate Stuntman and Mission Impossible, those should be coming up soon