That and like I said, the checkpoint recoveries are shockingly fair for this game's age. The longsword is in the bell if barrel boy shanks you. Its saved by its good stage design. In the end, I still say go play Black Tiger after this.

The master system one would be a good port if the secrets to recover your power were there. It kept all the wackiness but missed the essential secrets. If only there were one fairy on the cliffsides!

Yeah, I never played the arcade original until decades later on a terrible laggy emulation setup - which wasn't pleasant. At least the version I had at home wasn't chopped up to fit on a smaller ROM chip like a few other unlucky SMS ports did en route to the West, I guess..

The pressure pad version or the 6 button conversion? The designated cab of it is beautiful either way!

While it's darn good, no. It's not the greatest of the bunch. It's meant for a very niche set of players that want a super challenge. The werewolf fight is absurd and that automatically disqualified it compared to bloodlines. Rondo is closer to that top contender spot !

Oh crud, I made a MASSIVE voiceover mistake! I know better, Versailles Palace is France. Remind me NEVER to do voiceovers at 1 AM again!

That PAL version was horrendously butchered because of Germany and Australia's laws. Konami didn't even include it in the collection. No guts allowed to be spilt.

Super Castlevania 4 is my second place favorite. It has the advantage in the raw cool factor, even over Sharp X68000 Castlevania.

Rondo is REALLY good too, it's my third favorite Castlevania, but I like bloodlines more for Eric + more variety in the stages. Can't deny Rondo has more stages , they're all great, they're just all castle themed.

If you want to use the font yourself, you can get it and many more from Death generator. Just make sure you have transparent background on, then you can add it to OBS.

Hey, that did the trick! Ultima 3 on DOS looks correct with the shader! You're knowledgeable, thank you!

It might not even be an intentional crash / ending! There was another winx bootleg that was released bugged, You can't even complete the fire level at all in Winx The Movie because the exit location wasn't moved !

@@kyokusagani8869 I assumed they skipped level 1, 5 and 6 because the boss of the level (or the level itself) had really nothing to do with Winx. But that's assuming they even knew/cared what Winx was about :D On which system is "Winx The Movie" found? And what does it rip off?

Also, I went and tested Winx Club 3D, the bootleg of Valis III made by the same studio (KRASH, ironic name). It is based off another bootleg russian translation of the game, so they turned a good bootleg into a chaotic mess with not plot: - They at least changed the name of Yuko to блум in all textes, but they didn't care about the names of any other character/lore element. So Bloom the Fairy used the Valis Sword to destroy the Dark Lord Glames, that's now canon. Also she calls Valia "Mama" but maybe that's just a roleplay kink. - They changed the order of the subsections of their first level for no reason but the rest of the game is mostly the same, just sometimes they removed entire parts of a level (maybe cos they could not bother to playtest the hardest levels). - Because they removed all cinematic scenes, you can beat some character-specific boss with any character, so that's nice. - They disabled MP consumption, which makes the game way easier : you can just spam spells to be invincible and kill enemies faster. I guess they activated infinite MP for debug/playtest and forgot to switch it off in the final product? Now I almost want to buy a cartridge of this shipwreck.

Winx the movie was also a bootleg of Valis 1 on Megadrive. I see you're a true valis fan! Remind me to review the Famicom original over this. The Japanese called it a Kusoge, but it has so much going for it, it deserves praise.

​@@kyokusagani8869 If you have a good source concerning the bootlegs, I'd love to try them all :D but just looking on google, I'm not getting much results :( I sure wouldn't mind a review of Famicon Valis! It is a crude gemstone like most Valis games, certainly not my favorite but it deserves a few words. Also, I checked your video about X-Multiply, I like your style, and you made me want to plug back the PC Engine and play some R-Type or Gates of Thunder. And of couse, I will give X-Multiply a try :)

That's a possible inspiration for the game's prequel! The prequel goes much further back in time than this, mixing the 1930's with the prehistoric age!

There isn't much else like it, except for Namco's "The Return Of Ishtar" ! I would play it once for just how unique it is. It's not a masterpiece but it fills its niche.