When I hear people mentioning how great the music in a game is, I have to think of an old interview with Yamaoka Akira (early 2000s; have a guess which game...) who said something like: It's not hard to compose music for a scene. The hard part is to decide, when to NOT add any music.

The idea of Review Speedruns is absolutely hilarious. 10/10.

14:53 There's also The Coronet Brothers and their leader Jason. Jason and the family as a whole I guess would be the...Quintenary Antagonists?(Gripyhon is the main antagonist, Diego is secondary, Colonel Daren is tertiary, and Mr. Kelly is Quadrenary). You fight 3 of them in the first half of the third to last level, 7 of them in the 3 minute door defend section, and the last 3 in the second to last level ending with the dual with Jason. ANYONE who's beaten the game on Very Hard or Red Wood Revolver difficulty knows the terror of the Cornonet Brothers. The 3 minute 'Defend Jack' section of Siege is the hardest part of the entire Red dead series

Don't think I'd be where I am without this game's legacy, absolutely phenomenal game and it's descendants.

We must take a moment to remember the odd transition from Revolver to Redemption, Gun. Gun was also an amazing game

17:33 man I respect the fact you don’t care about the graphics! Too many people focus on that way too much and honestly it’s a little grating and it’s like a breath of fresh air to have someone that’s videos don’t consist of “this beautiful looking game” “it look gooder then that” keeps up the good work man :)

I like how it feels real but also looks cartoony. I enjoy that, gives the game character.

So glad you mentioned the soundtrack! The importance of audio design & music in games is highly underrated imo, but a sweeping soundtrack can make the difference between a boring deserty wasteland and a sandbox of adventure!

I have fond memories of me and my cousins playing the absolute madness of the poker death match mode. Such good times, and such a unique idea.

Hell yes. I played the HELL out of RDR and somehow never got the message on open-world Red Dead.

Another solid video. I remember watching a preview of this game on a Toonami segment and being pretty bummed I didn't own an Xbox or PS2. It's a crowded space but I really do believe you're carving out a place for yourself in the video-game review/essay/character study arena. Your deliberate attempts at humor land more often than not (although I could have gone without Pubesworth tbh) and your more subtle comedic inserts are very funny and showcase your personality very effectively. Good structure and pace despite the length and also it should be noted: good radio voice. Thanks for the content! Definitely gives me hope that I'll see some classics from my childhood that I really enjoyed get the kind of closure offered from one of these videos and I'm always looking forward to the next hero/villainpedia entry

Grea video and yes, this game also slipped under my radar back in the days, i never knew Red Dead Redemption had something of an older sibling and from the glory days of Xbox, too. If i had seen this game back then, maybe my taste in games would have drastically changed to Red Dead and i would be playing this game non stop today instead of that Elder Scrolls with the iPhone menu and Halo. Funny enough, what you say about the Music of a Game can also be said about Elder Scrolls and Halo, i mean Marty REALLY pressed his mark on Halo and I can't imagine an Elder Scrolls without Jeremy Soule's lovely music, i mean i am still listening to Morrowind's soundtrack today and get teary everytime, because of how i remember the time i had while playing this game over and over and over again. The Music of a game is as important as gameplay, graphics or the setting/story, it's not just one subcategory type of part of the game, the game's music is one of the core elements.

I remember convincing my Dad to rent this game from Blockbuster for me. It was one of the best weekends of my life. Those memories of playing through the story with my Dad make it one of my favorite games of all time.

I want more opinion speedruns. Not that I want condensed content, I just want to be able to hear you opinions on parts of games that might not always get talked about and that seems like a format that would hit those parts while leaving time to talk about the rest of whatever game it is.

this game was my literal childhood. I used to play it with my dad and friends and there are parts of it that i remember vividly to this day. The opening credits, the fight with griff, the ugly gang shoot out and the weird paper boy that screams extra extra on the corner of brimstone. It was a huge part of my childhood and i have such fond memories playing the showdown mode and beating the game for the 30th time. Glad to see it get some of the love it always deserved.

You actually convinced me to buy this game in 2022:P I pondered on buying this game back in the day after I fell in love with Red dead redemption. But as I got the understanding that Revolver was more its own stand alone thing, only sharing the same "universe" and a few hints and nods with RDR and wasn't a prequel of any sort I ended up not doing it. Now I really want to experience this charming hidden gem for myself. It might not be the greatest work of art in video game history. But this game seems really fun and interesting for what it is, with its spaghetti western campiness. So I ordered this game for PS2 on Ebay. I'm looking forward to play and experience it for myself:D

I remember playing this game when I was like 10 years old, and absolutely loved it. The first minutes in this video explained the whole premis completely. I didn't know English language that much, but still figured out all the perks and tricks in this game, unlocking the characters and having upper hand against my friends when playing against them in the versus mode. Still I remember the bar fight and how awful that was and Jacks deadeye special move. You should have showed that in the video, absolute satisfaction ;)

The challenge mode you mentioned does exist! After you complete the game bounty hunter mode has exactly the challenges you mentioned wanting!

if you like red dead revolver you should check out darkwatch, its a first person shooter cowboy vampire game... its a weird game but its fun, the movement is fun, the combat is hit and miss but mostly fun once you get a hang of it, and the story is decent. its got unreal tournament and red dead revolver vibes while looking like the van helsing movie from 2004. also check out gun, that game doesnt need to much introduction.

I have to admit, I really never liked this game when I was younger. The reason was because when I first bought this game, I was expecting a game similar to Neversoft's GUN which in my opinion, was the absolute best western video game of the 6th generation as it showed the game genre that the old west works best in, an open world adventure with plenty of oppurtinities for exploration. And I figured that with the Rockstar emblem on it, Red Dead Revolver would be like GTA on horseback. So when I found out that this game was almost entirely linear with a lot of difficult and frustrating levels, I really lost interest in playing it. But now as I learn more about Red Dead Revolver, the more I understand why it is the way it is. It was originally a Capcom game that was supposed to be the 3D equivalent to Sunset Riders but development was handed off to Rockstar partway through, which would explain its linear nature. But there were portions of the game, like in the town of Brimstone that were basically an ersatz open world where you had to trigger missions by talking to people, which I'm totally convinced was an addition from Rockstar, who pioneered the open world genre at the time.

I absolutely love this game when it came out. This one and gun were phenomenal. It actually really irritates me when everyone's clamoring for a re-release and remake of the original Red Dead Redemption. I would much much rather see this game get a modern interpretation.

My favorite game when i little. Literally took me hours just to finish the final duel.

Can't wait to see this become a huge channel. ❤

as a kid I played this game to death and to this day i have a few quotes that live rent free the first being on the first train mission before the stand off in the train if you talk to the bandit he says "what you botherin me for, sit back down." and when you go after the Mr. black the sheriff says "bring em in dead or … well dead." I'm paraphrasing a bit but yeah this game is burned in my memories.

11:03 Bartlett’s Journal?

My all time favorite game quote is in this game at the end. "It never was about the money"

33:50 Uh…Bounty Hunter Mode. It’s already a thing

I have *no idea* how you did it, but you basically said everything I've wanted to say about this game ever since I first played it when I was really young; in my opinion, this amazing hidden gem deserves far more recognition than it gets these days, especially given what its' successors would later do for the gaming industry as we know it today. Alongside Tony Hawk's Underground 2, Black, Halo: Combat Evolved and Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, this was and still is one of my absolute favorite games from the 6th generation. (at least, out of the ones I had at the time) I forgot if it was my dad or my cousin that bought our OG Xbox many years before I got ahold of it, but either way, thanks y'all!

Excellent retrospective, Revolver deserves more love and attention. I love this game to death, its such a fun janky little action game. If you want to check out a (significantly more expensive secondhand, sadly) similar game that even includes some of the little suggestions you'd like to have seen in Revolver (like dress up!), check out the incredibly weird and fun Samurai Western. The title tells you everything you need to know about it.

Hey Ghostcharm. I found your channel through your villianpedia series and I am now a big fan of your content. Keep up the amazing work!

I remember having such a blast with this game. unlocking multiplayer characters to play against my brothers with. Billy the Kid was OP as fuck

27:44 You’re supposed to use the bottles as a knife, they go down fast that way

Had a buddy who's a serious gamer now. Much more serious than me, dead ass tell me I was misremembering this game as the first RD redemption. But from about '96 to 2015 I was a hardcore no-lifer. Had all the consoles, rented tons of games every week. Would just stay up days straight playing games and going to school. Only sleeping on the 45 minutes bus ride to and from school. I'm just like, "no Google it right now. There's no way." Dude thought he had one on me since hes no-lifed all the RD Redemptions hardcore. MFer never even heard of RD Revolver! 😂😂😂

I need the song used in the music chapter!! It’s beautiful!

I'm a fan of the rants !!! lets rant more, reminds me of 2004, was pretty good.

See, what I remember about this game was that it got entirely overshadowed among everyone I knew back at the time by another western game called 'Gun' that was a lot more campy and a lot weirder, but which was ironically more memorable, at least for me. It also came out in 2005, a year after RDR. I mean, I liked Red Dead Revolver. It's a good game! I just remember that Gun was the game that people remembered at the time as the 'western' game.

Revolver always reminded me of an Anime Western, like if Cowboy Bebop was actual cowboys.

I am so happy that I found this channel so early. These videos just scratch an itch, unscratched by other creators like Anderson, Raycevik etc. Not better, just different.

For better context; spaghetti westerns were filmed in Italy, using the Italian inland outdoors to simulate the American west. They were filmed en masse due to cheaper budgeting than Hollywood, thus Westerns were the 50-60’s equivalent of todays superhero media; everything, everywhere. Clint Eastwood is one of a handful of actors that started their career in Spaghetti Westerns. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly is perhaps his most famous Spaghetti Western.

Let’s get you to 100K Ghostcharm! You deserve it!

A bit late to the comments, but I like these retrospective reviews. You have kind of a different style/approach to these compared to someone like Liam Triforce, which is appreciated. I'd love to see more of these.

I remembered playing this game but couldnt put the mission i remembered most until i saw the pig josh mussion at like 22:45ish and then it hit me, yeah i remember that fucking mission, i hated it! But damn this was one good game. This and Gun got me into the westerns when i was a kid. Loved these games

Remembered maybe, but it's place in the context of history is admittedly quite small. Plus the background stuff with Capcom, devs sleeping in closets, being sold to RS on the cheap; It doesn't exactly paint a picture of a game that anyone loved more so that it was a project in dire need of saving and that saving inspired the devs to take what they learned and apply it on a new project... or that RS (after the acquisition) was like "lol, just slap this on our open world formula and print money" as that was their MO at the time.

My favorite childhood game along with Gun

Omg I LOVED revolver, was such a great game!!!

Loved this game. Was great fun

This man cares about artstyle more than graphics itself which is awesome.

My brother and I used to play the multiplayer like almost daily.

i was just watching vids on this game yesterday, bravo!

I love your vids my mans and your editing is great

Such an amazing review. Well done

I just discovered your channel and I've been binge watching all your videos your channel is awesome !

You should check out Call of Juarez: Gunslinger. Its a first person arcadey western shoot bang with the same level of flavor and w a decent story that follows alot of those classic spaghetti beats.

Your narration style is so fun, and I really enjoyed this video. Thank you!

Insightful video. Always look forward to your content dropping. This channel is definetly going to go far!

The split screen multiplayer gave me and my brother so many amazing hours of fun our favorite character was chicken 😂

Great Video! You should also check out GUN from the same era if you haven't played it before. It's sort of the spiritual predecessor to Red Dead Redemption, being an open world western "GTA" and all. But it has some of that same spaghetti western campiness like Red Dead Revolver. Great villains and an awesome soundtrack. You'll love it!:D

I wish you had way more reviews because your writing is excellent look forward to see more :)

It definitely does deserve to be remembered. I loved playing splitscreen.

I must say that your channel overall lends itself heavily to flavor and style. You always are able to see quality in anything, and I think that both of these qualities make your channel a great fit for obscure topics. Nice video.

Damn, now I think I need a Villainpedia on Dutch Van Der Linde

Love all your videos man

This game was my whole childhood, such a good experience

Me and my boys still play multi-player on this to this day

I have such fond memories of this game! I remember being a kid and playing it with my brother and dad. My brother and I played through the story again recently.

Bro I was just looking for reviews of this game cuz I barely remember it, and boom you drop a vid, been binging your channel lately and was surprised to see this lol

I remember renting this from game crazy and not one of my friends cared to try it out

One of my favorite games!

Finally someone covered this masterpiece!

I adore this game and i still ahve very fond memories of it on the PS2

I mean the only red dead redemption like game from around this time would be Neversoft's Gun, but Revolver (which I also own a copy of and play frequently on my PS2) is possibly one of the most under appreciated games that played a part in the spark of cowboy games like Redemption.

I played this game with my dad. Its what got me into the Western genre and I think the music of the hake played a massive part in that

Mann loved this game as a kid ! Brings back fond memories that I wish I could relive just one more time...

Do a review on a game similar to this called Gun(2005).

This was my first game where I took the leap from watching my brother to playing the game, had a split screen deathmatch was tons of fun and the main story is unmatched

The death noises in this game were truly next level.

16:19 - swung*

John is definitely modeled after Red

Every time you upload I look forward to the next upload

Fuck that bar fight young me had the hardest times trying to beat that shit same with Mister Kelly

Always love when Ghostcharm uploads a video.

love your content and personality keep it up

Its a shame we never got a propper sequal to this game

Alot of this reminds me of the old game gun which is a great western which anyone should check out if they haven't!

Tnt?? Why couldnt it be bacon n beans?!

Diego mission was definitely the hardest for me I HATE that mission and it’s impossible to protect the two demo guys horrible!

Great video! I just restarted the game yesterday. What a coincidence!

Easily one of my most beloved games from way back when - Also one of the few games I still have a working copy of.

I have this on ps2 still

I had forgotten so much of this game. It's nice to remember why i loved it so much

I remember playing this game a lot as a kid. Not because of how fun it was but because of how often my save for it was wiped. I had a memory card for my ps2 and don't know why only this game automatically wiped the save.

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These videos give me what can only be described as depressing nostalgia

14:00 I mean, they all play different roles. Griff sold out the Harlows to save his own hide and for greed, Daren actually pulled the trigger and led the attack, and Diego was behind both of them. (But being a traitor is considered the worst sin so Griffon goes last)

This was one of my first games ever and made some my earliest memories right after halo.

my friends and I played the duels endlessly, that was a very fun game mode

Phantom Dust gameplay! Underrated gem, amazing game if hard

15:40 “red leaves us with the coldest, most bad ass line in the history of the red dead franchise-“ “AT METRO BY T-MOBILE!”

Heropedia on john martson coming?

I have vague memories of playing this when I was 6 or 7. I remember when Red dead redemption came out how pissed I got that no one ever played red dead revolver. I'm playing it now for the first time in 18 years and its astonishing how well its aged.