Crystalis - NES vs GBC - Game vs Game

Crystalis is a fantastic NES Action RPG from SNK, how does Nintendo's port to the Game Boy Color fare?

[cogb]

I live in a small town in Venezuela and I do not know how a Crystalis brand-new copy managed to end here... but I purchased it when I was 8 years old. Today, I am 35 and I still own it.
In retrospective, I am impressed how good Crystalis is, considering it is previous to A Link to the Past. Definitely, a gaming jewel of all time.

[SNESdrunk]

I liked how the story was told in the original NES game, it had more of a sense of mystery where you had to go around and find out what's going on for yourself. The GBC story to me had too much of a same old boilerplate "good vs evil" thing. Also, the field theme on the GBC version sounds like it came from a crappy TV show licensed game or something. Great video as always

[waaaaaaah]

I played Crystalis on the GBC first, and later on the NES. Both have their pros and cons, and each have their own memorable pieces of music.

[ConsoleWars]

I love this game. Good to know I'm not missing much with the GameBoy version.

[ilikemetroid]

This was one of the first games I ever owned, my dad bought it for me probably in 2000 or 2001, the GBC version. Luckily I was ignorant of the superior NES version, and I absolutely loved this and played the crap out of it, finally beating it many years later

[Desertpunk]

That was an excellent video! I grew up watching my dad play NES version. It was my first introduction into gaming, and it has stuck with me to this day. Mom bring chopped carrots with Ranch and dad just crunching away and reading the text to me.

[nimaiiikun]

Crystalis is the most underrated action-RPG on the NES (another is Radia). Wish SNK would make a sequel

[mathieupelletier]

You are doing an excellent job at comparing video games, all of your videos are really interesting. Thanks for the good work, it's one subscription I don't regret!

[CoreyDeGrandchamp]

New subscriber, was watching your older stuff first but just watched this and I'll be adding it to the wish list for sure! Game looks great, thank you for showing it off!

[wschippr]

There's a good translation patch, that completely retranslates the original Japanese title to English, that makes the game much more enjoyable. There's also the rebalance patch which gets rid of the forced grinding and makes the game more modern and reduces some of the artificial difficulty. Those are all for the NES and imo is the best way to play the game today. Plus, there's one where they updated the main hero's Sprite and it just cleans it up a little. They're nothing major and don't change the feel of the game, if that's anything one would be concerned about.

[bobothehobo]

this game was my intro to the action-rpg and remains in my top 5. Fantastic game

[TheRmm]

5:01 the altered beast voice when you pick up a sword is hilarious!!

[PuzZLeR_]

What is amazing about SNK is that although they were known for war/fighting games around that time, their best NES games IMO were those outside their regular genre, and Crystalis was one of them. (This, and Baseball Stars 1, were among the BEST EVER games on the NES.)

NES Crystalis was as good a game can get on the NES, even with its minor quirks. Great score, graphics, control, gameplay, and perfect difficulty curve. It was very addictive and very fun. I remember when I first got it and couldn't wait to tell all my friends about this fantastic purchase.

It was too bad it never made it to the Neo Geo, or that a sequel was scrapped, and that the GBC version was quite inferior. Just too bad.

I still have hope for a new better-than-ever Crystalis on a modern system from SNK/Playmore/Leyou, or from whoever owns the rights for it.

[Chaotikku]

awesome you're back! always loved this channel, so many games I've never heard of and stuff that isn't covered by anybody else, it's just interesting. Great stuff :D

[OsyenVyeter]

There is one way in which the GBC was superior: they altered a bit about the end of the game, the order of the boss fights making for a more epic ending.

[AvalancheReviews]

Never even remotely heard of this. That's crazy! Also, did you green screen those live shots?

[billny]

I don't know what the proper pronounciation of Crystalis is but thank you for pronouncing it like I do. CRYS-tuhl-is just sounds nicer and simpler to me than crys-TAHL-is.

[Trialwolf]

I owned both copies but sold the GBC version 1-2 years ago. Still have my NES version and enjoy it a lot. Really well done video.

[MakotoTsuguri]

SNK's first RPG IP. Very honored to have played it from such a company.

[CazMeister]

Good look at a rather obscure NES gem and its GameBoy port. If I did have one suggestion, it would be to watch your audio levels since the background music is a bit too loud at times and hard to hear what you're saying.