Ghost Master Review

Ghost Master is all about strategically commanding your own legion of haunters to wreak havoc on the town of Gravenville. Don't forget to pick up the Complete Edition!

00:00 - Intro
00:38 - Issues & Fixes
02:28 - Game Premise
03:14 - Visuals
05:00 - Music & Sound Design
06:50 - Gameplay Mechanics
13:46 - Story
15:39 - Conclusions
16:24 - Credits
17:33 - Cleansing Flame

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[TheNextDecade]

Ah, I remember this game. For one particular reason.

I first discovered this game in a book full of walkthroughs, and the Hospital mission had a note that "A rare bug may leave a mortal stuck in the parking lot. The only option then is to assign the dog ghost to piss on them for an hour or two until they go so insane they disappear from the map due to stat overflow."

And of course when I played this game myself I DID in fact encounter that bug.

[Maksie]

My favorite little detail in this game is when you enter your name, you hear the people performing a seance ask "is anyone there?", and if you enter "no" on the ouija board the game simply closes itself.

[GhostMasterCompleteEdition]

It's a pleasure to see this video come out after all these years teasing it with the music. I'm glad you liked our mod!

[scholterstag]

The rabbit Harriet is a reference to Harvey, a play about an invisible entity called a Pooka named Harvey that takes the form of a 6 foot tall anthropomorphic rabbit.
Popularized by the 1950 film of the same name starring Jimmy Stewart

[ComradeBread]

Honestly it's incredible the work people will put into mods, patches and fan updates for niche content, usually for free. I don't think stuff like that gets acknowledged enough it's honestly so cool of people to do

[FearlessSon]

There was an old Sega Genesis game that had a similar premise to this called "The Haunting". You played as a teenage ghost ("Polterguy") who was killed by the negligence of a rich family, so you haunt them and drive them out of every household they occupy. It predates Ghost Master by about a decade, but it's nice to see the idea didn't die with it.

[OsaPL]

For years, I've been bamboozled into thinking there will be no Ghost Master video.
I really love this game, and Im happy complete edition gets some recognition for how many things it fixes and adds.

[papaduck]

there was this old flash game about being a little ghost in a house that wanted to scare everyone out of a house party, and i played the hell out of it. there was a whole terror meter where it influenced how scary you could be with your possessed items, but you had to balance terrifying people so they leave but not from the third story window (which meant people were now in the house as ghosts with you), which was a cool balance too! it just directly stimulates that long rotted part of my brain

[EastyyBlogspot]

I love this era of games along with stuff like Evil Genius, Startopia, Dungeon keeper etc

[horacevonbergamot]

>They wanted you to face down Native American shamans, highly trained Jewish exorcists... Feds.
And they said Wraith: The Oblivion Campaign would never get a game adaption.

[TinyGladiator]

Seeing you showcase the various different ghosts, especially with the subtitles on to see such a lovely gem as 'Electrospasm', and then seeing and hearing Harriet the furry ghost rabbit talking about her gams was like getting hit by a cartoon jack in the box with a spring-loaded boxing glove thing. What the hell.

[YoungTom]

There’s something about hearing the Goosebumps theme for your October videos that never fail to put a massive smile on my face. As always, love the video!

[ComradeBender]

I feel like this game is in category "Thank God you made a review of it, now i am sure that thing exists and i actually played it when i was a child and it was not just my imagination"

[DerFreiegedanke]

Finally, after all these years, we get the game from which we hear the awesome soundtrack in nearly every video. Drove me insane!

[elliepira]

The game deserved a sequel, played it loads years ago and thought nobody else even knew it existed. I actually like how normal the environments are, really reminds you of old ghost hunting shows that do cheesy recreations where regular environments like shops and police stations become haunted. A sequel could have expanded on the ghosts backstories by giving them individual story missions that relate to their death or maybe they want to take revenge on someone and this unlocks their full potential in the rest of the game.

[CareerKnight]

I am surprised you didn't touch on what was always me and my brother's biggest problem with the game, that it desperately needs some sort of sandbox mode. Unlocking ghost in missions sounds good on paper but with each requiring very specific powers to free and some of those being very limited in terms of how many ghost actually have access to them it ended up with a lot of your ghost roster feeling redundant. Some sort of sandbox mode would have allowed for a lot more experimenting with different ghosts and different combos.

[Kerath]

We truly live in a creatively-bankrupt world, if something like Ghost Master never got a worthy... "spiritual" successor.

[zacharythomasfreeman]

So this isn't the only game like this. Way back on the old Sega Genesis there was Haunting Starring Polterguy, which is literally this game stripped way way down to one ghost with many different powers scaring a single family out of their home. Very much the same vibe, even similar art style only pixelated, so much so that this team had to be inspired by it.

[FiksIIanzO]

Oh my god. I tried _everything_ to try and run this game when I was a kid. I can certifiably say, it barely worked 15 years ago, too. Time to tinker, I suppose. Thank you for reminding me it exists!

[MahDryBread]

Man, you've got a superpower for picking games that on their cover I have zero interest in, but the moment I click the video I'm hooked. Thanks for including the info on getting these old games working again! It's gotten me to go back and replay a lot of old games that I either missed or didn't know how to get working anymore.