The Return of the King!

I'm so sorry you content creators have to deal with this nonsense. Great job on the video! You described exactly how I feel about Bubsy 3D and its more positive aspects.

I downloaded the original

Damn you WWE! At least this gives me the excuse to enjoy this video back to back

Can't believe the fed crapped on you. I'm moving all their games down to 1/10 scores out of spite! Sorry about that happening to you lad.

You better like Daredevil

It's such a common situation with licensed games :(

@@SeanSeanson If the intention of Bubsy 3D was to make it visually similar to an Outer Space Cartoon with Maurice Noble's background art (It is rumored that Chuck Jones partook in the art direction for Bubsy 3D and is never credited for it), I kinda see what you're trying to explain, especially since the whole premise of the game is Bubsy being kidnapped by the Woolies in an act of revenge to the first game (because according to Bubsy 3D, the Queen's Poly and Ester got cut in half), and you have to collect Rocket Pieces to return home. I believe the biggest issue with the game comes down to three problems: 1. Bubsy's Voice - It's not so much as him talking a lot (that's part of his character), but to my guess, with the amount of tutorializing, it's the type of voice he was given is what people hate. See, before Bubsy 3D, Bubsy sounded more masculine, and a majority of his appearances prior to Bubsy 3D was voiced by Rob Paulsen; which I can only describe his vocal performance as Bugs Bunny if he was voiced by Yakko Warner. His voice isn't that great, but it's much more pleasant on the ears by contrast; Rob Paulsen would even think Bubsy is not worse than Coconut Fred. When Bubsy makes a return in 2016 for "Bubsy: The Woolies Strike Back", he ends up getting a voice change again, this time his voice is more similar to his debut back in his first game: "Bubsy in Close Encounters of the Furred Kind", which, again, is more pleasant sounding than the "Bubsy 3D" voice. Lani Minella, best known for voicing Rouge the Bat and Omochao in Sonic Adventure 2, Larry Koopa in the Mario games since NSMBWii, and Ivy Valentine from the Soul Edge/Calibur series, doesn't think fondly of her Bubsy voice. The Bubsy Wiki states that she expressed regret for the role; and did not like the direction she was given for the character. One would wonder if her voice as Omochao was a take that to her Bubsy Performance, especially when you can actually attack Omochao or even carry him around and throw him into a Pit. But yeah, it's not the character that's the issue, but it's more of the change in voice that felt inconsistent compared to other Bubsy voices. 2. The Controls - Let's face it, Bubsy has some serious control issues before Woolies Strike Back. When Bubsy was introduced, Accolade was using Sonic as the blueprint for the gameplay, and the reason for that was to highlight reasons why Sonic is a success. The creator of the character would also state in an interview he wanted the game to be as fast as Sonic and as deep as Mario. There's a catch, though. because of Sonic's speed, he has to have a safety net when running into enemies, hence why the Gold Rings play a role in it. Bubsy has no such safety net, at least in the first game (as well as Fractured Furry Tales). Bubsy did get items that heal him in the form of Bandages in Bubsy 2, the Paw Points in Bubsy 3D, and his own T-Shirts in Woolies Strike Back (giving Bubsy the Mario treatment in the health department for Woolies Strike Back). It's no secret that Bubsy 3D was a terrible game, due to having tank controls in a platformer meant to have freeform platforming like Mario, and having to take an entire year to complete the game is not a full-proof plan (Super Mario 64 began development in 1993, while Bubsy began development in 1995, so a few years would've been enough to polish it more). In a game like Tomb Raider, of course it would have Tank Controls, but that is to give the general vibe of the world she lives in being similar to that of an Indiana Jones movie. It totally works for Lara Croft, not so much with Bubsy. In honesty, I would like to see what it would be like if Bubsy 3D had Mario 64 mechanics... say like, a Rom hack of SM64, but Bubsy is the Player Model. The free movement would've been more forgiving. 3. The 100% Completionist Ending - Honestly, out of the two endings, The "Bad" ending is better than 100% Completionist ending. Although it felt like Bubsy wouldn't be able to make it, it's better than being sent back in time for no inexplicable reason, other than this: "In addition to procuring 32 rocket {piece}s, the speciment took far more atoms than the Rocket Engines can handle, causing an inverson loop overload of the primary core thruster, resulting in a hyperbolic cascade overreaction that will tear the very fabric of the space-time continum; in other words, the bobcat will find himself hurtling through time to an earlier period in the planet's history, losing track of the rocket somewhere in the dark ages." First of all, what a terrible way to end a game that gives you the promise of returning him home. Second, what if you didn't have as much atoms as the game thinks you have? Does using a single atom result in sending Bubsy to the Prehistoric times? If I was playing the game as a kid, with the incentive to save him by getting all the rocket pieces, only to be given a fuck-you by this ending, I'd go get myself a refund.

@@robbiewalker2831 Jeebus, that's a lot of thought about BUBSY 3D of all things.

@UnjustifiedRecs Hey, I had to give an explanation as to why people hate Bubsy 3D, since he didn’t give much thought on why.

​@@robbiewalker2831 Go outside

Thank you so much for the kind words, appreciate you watching! 🙏

Has Caddicarus older videos been taken down? I searched for them last year but could only find mostly more recent videos.

​@@christallh24 I don't think so? He has a playlist for all of his older videos and the compilation Season # videos. But yeah, I didn't feel Bubsy was properly covered until Nitrorad. And Caddy has moved on from being a reviewer to just being an entertainer.

@@jailynneverett3972 Going from videogame-review exclusive to just being all-out entertainers is something many of these youtubers benefitted from and gained my respect for! Caddicarus, Jontron, I think the AVGN should do it too. I'm glad they at least could get something out of these old games, a laugh at least, because not everyone has to be a gaming-historian, but it's so much better when they don't pretend to be such a thing

Great comment, and thank you for watching! :)

I love that; thank you for sharing that reminder.

One of my university lecturers had a saying: "those who fail will always tell you how hard they tried." Most of the Bubsy 3D devs took the L graciously and made Syphon Filter. Most of them. I keep forgetting his name but there's that one saltlord whose interview is in all these Bubsy 3D videos who to this day has continued to whine about how hard he had worked, and not how much he had learned.

@@reloadpsiYou're talking about Richard Ham. The originating interview where he rants about how hard he worked, but not on how much he learned, was done in a magazine to market another game with a lot of promise and potential: The often overlooked and troubled online FPS from 2011, Brink. Richard learned a few things at least, having worked on Fable 2, and the Siphon Filter games.

You only get one chance to be the first, and they nailed it. Kudos to them.

​@@sven_bender I haven't yet watched the video, so perhaps I will feel differently in two and half hours, but Bubsy 3D is not the first, or anything close to it. Alpha Waves waaayyy back in 1990 is perhaps the first 3D platfomer, predates Bubsy 3D by an entire 6 years (may as well be an eternity for how quick video game tech was improving in this time), and I would argue plays better. Even just on the PS1, multiple 3D platformers beat Bubsy 3D to market. Both Jumping Flash! 1 _and_ 2 (themselves spiritual successors to Geograph Seal made in 1994), Crash Bandicoot, Tomb Raider (more action adventure, but has plenty of 3D platforming), and Floating Runner all come to mind. I would say all of these play better than Bubsy 3D, though Floating Runner is a tough call. That's not to say it should have borrowed ideas from these games (though I'm almost certain it _did_ borrow from Jumping Flash!) because most of these would have been revealed and released when the game was deep into development. It's just, others did it earlier, and better, with either as few or fewer existing 3D platformer blueprints to work from. Never mind Mario 64 over there on the competing hardware. It's not the worst game of all time or anything. It probably wouldn't even crack a top 10 worst PS1 games list were I compelled to make one, and I feel a lot of the criticisms it gets are unfair and stem from a complete lack of understanding of the game, but it's also hardly something worth praising for being first or for nailing anything. It's interesting, and slightly more competent and functional than given credit for, but not much else.

​@@321cheesemanI like turtles.....😗

yes of course they tried their best at the time. but let´s be real here, they tried and they failed spectaculerily. it´s terrible game made by very talented people that went on to make syphon filter and days gone. so the lesson here is imo not, oh bubsy 3d actually wasn´t that bad. it most definitly was bad but that didn´t get them down. they got back on the horse and delivered some cult classics after such a spectacular fail and thats commendable

@@321cheeseman…this is why you watch the video before making an argument.

More of a biggest disappointments race. Sonic 06, Batman & Robin, Bubsy 3D, Superman 64, Duke Nukem Forever all had high hopes and let down masses of fans. A similar effect has allowed more recent games to embed themselves in gaming history like FlatOut 3, Fable 3, No Man's Sky and Cyberpunk 2077.

Appreciate the kind words, thanks for watching! 🙏

Appreciate the kind words, thanks for watching!

I love videogame reviews! Even if someone doesn't like a game, if they have something interesting to say about it, props. It's also okay just use it for jokes, but be honest about it! It's annoying as hell when they do it while pretending to be experts, and then have people repeat what they said thoughtlessly

Something I've thought about recently is that true shovelware is a sign of a consoles success. Before the days of digital distribution, only very very successful consoles would see huge influxes of budget software. The PS1, PS2 and Wii are the best examples of it, everybody was trying to cash in. So I try not to think of shovelware as diluting the qaulity of the library, more so just an odd by product of success.

​@@SeanSeansonfor sure, With the N64 every bad game is kind of a tragedy, because there's only 388 of them. A bad game on the PS1 is just some clutter to sweep out your front door.

It's honestly quite the vibe, the music is so so good.

I can't because again, Mario 64 and Crash Bandicoot 1 had their own fair share of developmental troubles (especially Crash 1, because of the strange way Naughty Dog relocated from Boston/Washington DC to California and Universal being really stupid) and they turned out to be GOOD GAMES, Bubsy is terrible. Mainly because Accolade were a terribly managed and horrifically organised publisher. They DID make good games, such as Test Drive and also published a few good games made by Interplay, however they were very poorly run and failed to learn from their predecessors at Atari and their compatriots at Absolute and Activision (yes, all three companies, Activision, Accolade and Absolute were established by former developers at Atari, and the main trait all of them had was that they named their companies so that in the Yellow Book directories, they would appear higher up the list than Atari as they are alphabetically assigned).

@@DR3ADER1The producer of Crash 1 literally made a whole Facebook page to talk about how troubled Crash 1's dev cycle was politics wise

I got radicalised by a guy in college years ago who kept saying certain games were bad because Yahtzee didn't like them. It's been brewing up in me for years 😂

@@SeanSeanson As a long time Zero Punctuation/Fully Ramblomatic fan, even Yahtzee himself tells people that his opinions aren't definite and should be taken with a grain of salt, especially with certain genres or franchises he personally dislikes. So the idea of someone basing their entire opinion of games on his admitted exaggerated riffing is utterly insane to me. :/

Because a bad game is a bad game, you can't polish a turd by drawing smiley faces on it. I recall playing a lot of terrible games as a child that I liked then (mostly licensed dreck), I will not play those games ever again because they suck so much. Childhood denial is a powerful drug.

@@DR3ADER1bro only plays GOTY’s.

​@@DR3ADER1"Good" and "bad" are arguably subjective terms. Sure there's conventions on what's commonly seen as good, but at the end of the day, it really comes down to personal opinion

@@rockettaco Incorrect, "Good" and "Bad" are objective by definition. And are qualified by quality standpoints, design standpoints and most importantly, practical positions.

@@DR3ADER1 Again, there's commonly defined conventions of what may make something good or bad, but personal views will differ between multiple people.

What a lovely comment, thanks so much for taking the time to write it! Appreciate the kind words and support! Much love

I have never played Bubsy 3D but the colors look striking and beautiful because PS1 graphics are what's "nostalgic" now. EVERY SINGLE TIME when it comes to nostalgia a lot of the most hated stuff of an era will end up being fondly remembered looking back in time. That's why I'm weary whenever people collectively hate on something that's "bad" or "too mainstream/annoying", even modern "bad" games as overtime there will be folks looking at said game at face value.

i've only ever seen the first level of Bubsy 3D in reviews, so i can't even give the game a fair shake. 2D Bubsy sucked on Genesis, though.

@@giselletorres4156 Bubsy 3D has always looked like shit (not so much the colors but the jitteriness of everything the level geometry looks straight up unfinished) and you're seriously telling me with a straight face there will be a time people will unironically like say Big Rigs or Super Monkey Diabouken or SQIJ? Christ I think I just found the Chris Stuckmann of gamers

It's almost like it's an incredibly Inconsequential small clip that is like a drop in a whole ass two and a half hour video But KZfaq will be KZfaq and be a pain in the ass

They suck so much. I watch a couple channels devoted to combat sports/performance & they've wrecked or robbed or prevented some really wonderful videos covering the art + sport of fighting + the fighters. They're so needlessly irrationally pointlessly grabby about things that are fair use. It's not even like the fighters + other people who do the kayfabe + crew the infrastructure + matches ever even benefit from WWE just yoinking or shutting down any material on the fighters or sport or their history/lore --- almost of the stuff that uses WWE is either making it a cool edit or meme or they cover the sport + care about it deeply, & care as much or more about the wellbeing of the fighter-performers. So it feels like another way they get to keep their fighters down & throw their weight around in the culture + in the sports world. Apparently Canal Studios is equally bad. A channel was trying to upload a deep dive into a 90s film, "Jacob's Ladder", & Canal just shut him the F down. After rounds + rounds of the usual re-edits around the trigger happy legal behemoth threats, the creator was begging Canal to just let him please release the video he thought was one of his best, saying he was totally fine with being demonetized, he just wanted people to see it, & it was positive about the film --- he wanted to share it bc he loves the film & the framing of the video was an exploration of his theories about Jacob's Ladder being an influence on the Silent Hill franchise, particularly the original SH2. I h8 how they can be legally wrong but they have the money to intimidate. It's so needlessly stressful on creators & I've heard a few implicate those release-block-claim loops combined with unresponsive YT staff who don't seem to understand their own product/platform/ToS. Ugh sorry apparently I had a lot of feelings.

Lani would go on to voice other iconic characters such as Rough the Bat and Omichao for the Sonic games and voiced all the characters in the underrated Sega Saturn game Astal, a personal favorite of mine. Not only that, she was also the person who got John St John casted to be the voice for Duke Nukem.

@@BlazeHeartPanther Minella is also known as the main actress who voices Nancy Drew in the eponymous Nancy Drew games. She also voiced Commandant Steele in Borderlands 1 and Ivy Valentine in the Soulcalibur series.

Phew, glad to see this comment because I was always very sure that the noise is actually the enemies and not the music itself but the video kind of made me second guess. But honestly, just whipping up some extracted OST already should confirm that this is just the enemeis you hear. I get it though, since they are everywhere in levels, people mix it up and think that's in the music itself

Thank the gods for programmable shaders, must've been a real pain to pull that off on the Playstations GTE.

I recall it looking amazing in stills in game magazines, but once you saw it in motion you were like "oh dear..."

Dark Cloud 2 used the same method for its outlines I think which is why it's not 60fps like the first game

Holy SHIT what a throwback, I haven't thought about that in years! I had to look it up to remember it, but like the first few seconds of gameplay was all I needed to remember that, I think I remember Vinesauce playing through it back in like what, 2015?

I'm just glad we finally got some bubsy action. How's the metroid video coming along? It's gotta be a huge undertaking, but you handled castlevania and lotr better than any extra long form video game essays I've seen, so I'm eagerly awaiting the final product.

I've heard a lot of people big up Mort over the years. It certainly looks like a trip!

I enjoyed both of them back in the day, peak early 360 jank.

Two Worlds is peak euro kusoge

Aw thank you so much! Appreciate you watching :)

All roads lead back to Hugo

Me outside a church banging pots and pans

It's light years ahead of the same old rehashed "bad game lists". I love this "undercard/underdog" re-evaluation thing he's doing here. Love this format.

Ay thank you, much love!

To be fair I said it was Dice Canada, which was the name sandbox changed to after the acquisition. It would be like the difference in saying a game is made my Ubisoft Montreal or Ubisoft Montpellier, it's the one blanket but I know they're two different studios.

I don't know if I'll ever be able to live with that information.

She was also the voice director for Duke Nukem 3D and voiced all its female NPCs. Lani Minella is a very accomplished voice actor.

She also voiced ivy from soulcaliber That's right she voiced both ivy and her fursona😂

@@reloadpsi oh my god it's her??? that's cool!!

you're nice

Wait I’ve been here before…

thanks you for the kind words! appreciate you watching :)

Ay much love

I never really gave a good game topic much thought honestly, but I think doing this gave me a better appreciation for the really good stuff so it's something I'll keep in mind for sure. Appreciate the kind comment and thanks for watching! :)

Fade to Black really is something...

Halo is a landmark title for a bunch of reasons, but its contribution to good console FPS control is so undervalued.

I love a good listicle so the comment is much appreciated, thank you!

Aw thank you, appreciate you watching! It's called Kyoro-chan no Purikura Daisakusen. It's a very cute little platformer based around a Japanese food mascot, well worth checking out!

Thank you for the kind comment! And yeah I still find it hard to believe Fromsoft is this darling of the gaming world nowadays. A group of people making some of the most niche and hardcore games imaginable, and they made it big by sticking to that formula. A real Cinderella story, and I couldn't be happier for them! I'll definitely check out Bubsy's Back! Bubsy 3D: Bubsy Visits the James Turrell Retrospective. I've always admired it from afar, but I think after finishing Bubsy 3D I owe it to myself digg into it properly. Appreciate you watching! :)

Bubsy 3D is still shit, and Richard Ham's comments about the criticism still reinforce my position on the game. However, Batman and Robin was just Batman Arkham Knight, only 18 years older and made with less knowledge of how to make good 3D games in the British Isles and Mainland Europe. It's also coincidental that both games were developed in London, the only difference being that Probe was from Croydon and Rocksteady is from Kentish Town, on opposing sides of the City (South and North) and the River Thames.

Oh you just mentioned in the video. Very good!

@@systemmonitor5295 gotta give these videos continuity somehow haha

It sucks but it is what is. I won't let it get me down! Appreciate you checking it out

Oh for sure, a major part of the problem lies in the lack of euro centric videos on the topic, or at least ones that make it big on the platform. That could be down to interest in the topic itself, but if we want people to care about these games, we have to take the time to show them why, in the same way people do for American and Japanese games.

¡Gracias por ver! ❤️

You're legit a god for 100%ing it

ay thank you! :)

Amen brother, you get it. I've only ever seen Cosmic Race in action but it generates a tremendously negative aura. I'm looking forward to it.

Gain Ground got and still gets shit on because it's such a unique game

two choice picks! appreciate you watching :)

yeah that's my own ignorance showing tbf

The issue was that Eidetic focused primarily on resolution, not the camera, or the movement, or the level design, in fact, they ONLY focused on having the "highest" resolution of any PS1 game.

The issue was that Eidetic focused primarily on resolution, not the camera, or the movement, or the level design, in fact, they ONLY focused on having the "highest" resolution of any PS1 game.

yooo much love

Exactly! Its bad, but charmingly bad. A uniquely bad game made with good intentions! Appreciate you watching :)