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 This is indeed the horror classic whose name you likely haven't heard in twenty years. Does it hold up? Absolutely not. Join me if and only if you wish to see how poorly-made a game could be and still find an audience back in the early days of survival horror. Also recommended for your viewing pleasure is the LP of Kalisto's The Fifth Element, which puts the Nightmare Creatures engine to a much less polished and enjoyable use. TAG YOUR SPOILERS (Note: This game does not feature anything that can be spoiled) Videos (Playlist) 01 - Chelsea 02 - Spitalfield 03 - Thames Tunnel 04 - India Docks 05 - Highgate Cemetery 06 - Hampstead Heath 07 - Queenhite Docks 08 - City 09 - Smithfield Bonus - Cheats 10 - Regents Canal 11 - London Zoo 12 - Marylebone 13 - Bloomsbury 14 - Pimlico 15 - Westminster 16 - Westminster II Monsters          Items         
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I recall renting this game as a kid and while the cut scenes were interesting, I vaguely recall the bosses being poo poo.
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Oct 17, 2017 15:28
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My cousin had this game. Cheat codes were the one true way.
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Oct 17, 2017 15:49
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Oi, massive nostalgia here. Finally I get to find out whether me never getting anywhere in that was because I was a kid or the game's keyboard controls and difficulty were rear end. e: Are we to understand you are not playing as the monk who makes monsters explode by kicking them? e2: Oh, nevermind, do carry on. It does make me wonder though; I know I played this on the PC, but that was probably a PS1 port? I'll know once we get to the cemetery level. anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Oct 17, 2017 |
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Oct 17, 2017 15:54
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I owned this game on PS1 shortly after it came out! The music and the dismemberment are the best things about it. I remember that it drags in the second half and finishing it was a chore but I got there. I think I played Nadia because she has a better jump attack or spin-move or something....I can't remember I do remember that those ripper guys you saw winning the N64 monster battle are a bit of a pain when you reach them. The adrenaline meter only made a very challenging game more tedious. Glad they removed it.
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Oct 17, 2017 15:59
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Ah, early 3D. Heady times. Also kind of lovely times. Looking forward to this one.
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Oct 19, 2017 06:32
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These werewolves of London seem like some rude boys. But their hair is perfect.
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Oct 19, 2017 08:07
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This and...Deadly Arts I think it was called were the only two games my cousin had for his N64 that I hadn't played when he got his in 2001. I'd say both were pretty meh but this one I kept playing because I enjoyed the horror aesthetic and also the music. Some of the creatures shown in the intro, when I first ran into them in game I was actually pretty terrified so good job game. I didn't even know that the N64 version was a year later, I've never seen those cutscenes or heard that audio until today so thanks Fiendly 
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Oct 19, 2017 15:52
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Update 02 - Spitalfield Aces High posted:I didn't even know that the N64 version was a year later, I've never seen those cutscenes or heard that audio until today so thanks Fiendly My distinct pleasure, I didn't know about all that cool stuff myself until I started researching for the LP and realized I'd have to buy the game twice. dscruffy1 posted:These werewolves of London seem like some rude boys. I'm legitimately angry I didn't make this reference myself. I should have my LPers license revoked.
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Oct 20, 2017 12:56
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Huh. So, do kicks have a longer range than the sword? It seemed that way, but that also feels kind of wrong.
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Oct 21, 2017 03:25
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KirbyKhan posted:My cousin had this game. Cheat codes were the one true way. This game had cheat codes? Of course it did. Not that I knew that the one time I rented it. My sister and I took turns trying to beat it but it was pretty hard.
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Oct 21, 2017 04:02
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I remember playing this on PC I think, had a demo disc of it? Maybe PC Zone. Reminds me of Escape : ODT which was also early 3d jank.
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Oct 23, 2017 13:40
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Update 03 - Thames Tunnel This is the Day of the Dead, and as good a time as any for a sewer level.
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Nov 1, 2017 13:33
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Fiendly posted:Update So much drum-machine in that boss fight.
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Nov 1, 2017 14:05
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A Perfect Twist posted:So much drum-machine in that boss fight. What really gets me is that it's off tempo, like they took an Agoraphobic Nosebleed drum track and just put it under their music. It seriously reminds me of this.
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Nov 1, 2017 15:28
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I didn't know the game had cheat codes. I just brute-forced the simplistic password system and somehow wound up at the last level with 24 lives. I still almost lost.
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Nov 1, 2017 17:08
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I would have thought a giant quarterstaff would have more operational reach than a foot. Shows what I know.
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Nov 2, 2017 06:24
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Fiendly posted:What really gets me is that it's off tempo, like they took an Agoraphobic Nosebleed drum track and just put it under their music. It seriously reminds me of this. I remember taking the playstation disc of this game and putting it in the CD player and you could listen to all the music! GTA 1 had the best soundtrack but this one came close. I don't remember the first boss track being so rough. It got me to look up the music on youtube here - the sewer snake track sounds better isolated from the game but the drummer seems like he was trying a little too hard - and goes off-tempo at points. The Adam Crowley boss fight theme is pretty bangin' in a teenage-metal-phase kind of way. A Perfect Twist fucked around with this message at 09:08 on Nov 2, 2017 |
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Nov 2, 2017 07:50
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Fiendly posted:This is indeed the horror classic whose name you likely haven't heard in twenty years. Well, that's not quite accurate  https://youtu.be/7rPiqo397lM
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Glazius posted:I would have thought a giant quarterstaff would have more operational reach than a foot. Shows what I know. Ignatius holds the drat thing almost vertical for all his attacks and it drives me crazy. Yet another reason I prefer Nadia. A Perfect Twist posted:I remember taking the playstation disc of this game and putting it in the CD player and you could listen to all the music! Oh poo poo, I never owned a Playstation so I never would've thought to do this, but I just put the disc in my PC and indeed the whole soundtrack is on there. I already bought it off the composer's bandcamp though, because it's very good and I needed the music isolated for an upcoming video. Rodyle posted:Well, that's not quite accurate Yeah, I heard about the announcement of the third game, but I hadn't seen the trailer. It looks really bad, and the developers working on it don't inspire a lot of confidence. Nightmare Creatures has enough good ideas that a new sequel could be really good, but I'm expecting it to be another interesting mess like the original.
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Nov 2, 2017 13:22
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I think this is as far as I got because of all the gently caress you traps. As a kid I didn't have the patience to bait them out while trying to race the adrenaline meter.
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Nov 2, 2017 22:48
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So if you subscribe to descriptive linguistics, octopi is actually a valid pluralization nowadays, alongside octopode (rarely ever used) and octopuses.
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Nov 3, 2017 01:54
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I never liked the boss fights in this game, no. 1 because the music kinda sucks compared to all the other tracks and no. 2 they're kind of boring what with the whole only a specific way to do damage thing
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Nov 3, 2017 20:05
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Update 04 - India Docks A forgettable level, but it does introduce a significant mechanic. Also, it's not a sewer.
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Nov 5, 2017 09:16
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Fiendly posted:Update It has been so drat long since I saw this stuff. That otherwise uninteresting boat with the upgrade near it. Those annoying screaming things. The confusing level layout that makes no sense as it's meant to be a functioning city but is there to make the adrenaline meter a problem because you get lost easily. Blue dudes dropping in from space. So many cheap deaths. I never knew about the sequel until you mentioned it. I looked it up on youtube. In 2000 it might have been cutting edge but looks just as bad as the original. Rob Zombie music in the cut-scenes sounds like a good get for Kalisto entertainment. Are you going to LP that as well?
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Nov 5, 2017 12:52
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A Perfect Twist posted:I never knew about the sequel until you mentioned it. I looked it up on youtube. In 2000 it might have been cutting edge but looks just as bad as the original. Rob Zombie music in the cut-scenes sounds like a good get for Kalisto entertainment. Are you going to LP that as well? I'm not sure what I'm gonna do about the sequel. As of right now, I don't own and have never played it, and all I know about it is the Rob Zombie thing. It's on my radar, but no specific plans yet.
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Nov 5, 2017 15:46
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I rented this game for the Playstation and replayed the first level over and over again for the atmosphere (also the game was kind of hard). I also remember loving the commercial, to the point of dissecting and analyzing it with my friend using our grade-school vocabulary, but I don't remember any detail of the commercial. So far, this game looks like a product of its time for its time: acceptable then, for whatever reasons, but horrible now, for obvious reasons.
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Nov 5, 2017 21:19
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Mr. Highway posted:I rented this game for the Playstation and replayed the first level over and over again for the atmosphere (also the game was kind of hard). I also remember loving the commercial, to the point of dissecting and analyzing it with my friend using our grade-school vocabulary, but I don't remember any detail of the commercial. I remember playing this game with a friend and getting as far as the first boss before hitting the point of, "Your game, you beat this piece of poo poo." Back then it was probably acceptable because the street brawler/hack and slash genre pretty much liquid poo poo the bed, and this game was just a rank dutch oven in comparison.
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Nov 6, 2017 01:32
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Mr. Highway posted:I rented this game for the Playstation and replayed the first level over and over again for the atmosphere (also the game was kind of hard). I also remember loving the commercial, to the point of dissecting and analyzing it with my friend using our grade-school vocabulary, but I don't remember any detail of the commercial. This game has a good first level to suck you in. All my friends who played it said either the bosses sucked or the fighting feels like a chore to which are both correct. It has character that makes up for a few flaws but not all of them.
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Nov 6, 2017 02:12
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So basically you're a shark? You have to keep killing things or you die?
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Nov 6, 2017 18:32
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Update 05 - Highgate Cemetery https://elmobo.bandcamp.com/album/nightmare-creatures-original-game-soundtrack Fiendly fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Nov 7, 2017 |
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Nov 7, 2017 12:37
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This level is good and what I remember best about the game  Kalisto releasing this level and the first as demos shows that they knew their creation was uneven and how to take advantage of it. Sly bastards.
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Nov 7, 2017 14:39
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Is it okay if I ask to see the password system shown off in either the video or a screenshot? I think this might be the game from my childhood that wound up inspiring my tastes for horror stories taking place in bleak voids, but I only really remember the password input system the clearest.
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Nov 7, 2017 23:29
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We'll be seeing passwords when I get around to showing off the cheats, and I've figured out how to use passwords to minimize the damage the next time a recording gets corrupted (which is inevitable, don't record the N64 if you can help it), but I uploaded the footage of the password screen I already had recorded for ya here
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Nov 8, 2017 03:13
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Yeah, early 3D feels like it had a lot of dudes jumpin' through windows.
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Nov 8, 2017 04:48
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I actually played the sequel and remember it being not completely awful, probably some rosey nostalgia I'm sure. OH poo poo yeah look at this poo poo right here. So loving spooky Dreadwroth fucked around with this message at 07:24 on Nov 15, 2017 |
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Nov 15, 2017 07:15
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Dreadwroth posted:I actually played the sequel and remember it being not completely awful, probably some rosey nostalgia I'm sure. I owe Rob Zombie for his cheap licensing fees making so many improbable PS1 sequels possible. Nightmare Creatures 2 does look pretty cool from what little I've seen, and it apparently drops the false premise of being horror and admits it's an action game. I'm definitely gonna pick it up at some point whether or not I decide to LP it
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Nov 16, 2017 05:56
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I've made it through all of the episodes now, and thoroughly enjoyed them. Also this is very late, but I want to thank you for showing off the password screen. Unless the directional input icons vary between the playstation and N64 versions, I don't think it was the game I remember. I'm still grateful regardless though.  In return, I come bearing some news. There seems to be remake of this game planned, and it seems quite... well, see for yourself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suzAp7PAnRw
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Nov 26, 2017 06:05
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EagerSleeper posted:There seems to be remake of this game planned, and it seems quite... well, see for yourself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suzAp7PAnRw They're saying that's a revival, the third game in the series that everyone's always wanted. Usually a trailer that doesn't show any gameplay looks too good to be true, good on them for showing us nothing and still making it look terrible. The team working on this is best known for Spooky's Jumpscare Mansion and an unreleased game about the band Psychostick, so I've got high hopes. Sorry for the insanely long delays in updates everyone. I've got more videos recorded, I've just been... busy.
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Fiendly posted:Sorry for the insanely long delays in updates everyone. I've got more videos recorded, I've just been... busy.  Please be okay, Fiendly.
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