Is Nightshade Worth Playing Today? - NESdrunk

A strange, funny, original, but flawed NES game that's currently available on Nintendo Switch Online...

[doddeddo]

Old Mexican gamer here.. this game was a gem for me, I even created the game genie codes where you can play as other characters during fights, walk all over screen and more, this was way before the internet and later I uploaded them online you can find them easily now but they dont credit me. Nightshade is amazing still for today's standards..the music, humor, art..all is top notch. Thanks for making a video, very good surprise, This is one of the best games ever made.

[bmardiney]

Every single sports reference you make will forever go over my head.

[gemfruitgames]

This is actually one of my all-time favorite games, I had it on my NES growing up, and slowly made progress as a kid exploring what at the time felt like one of the biggest games ever. I later beat it around 18 years old or so, but still to this day haven't figured out every last item usage / secret (I refuse to ruin the experience by looking things up). I actually have the cover art in my downloads folder right now, as I planned to print it out on canvas or something, it holds a special place as both a gamer, and developer! Glad to see you covering it, and more so that you were able to get past the quirks and appreciate it for what it is.

[koolandblue]

This game is like the Beat em Up version of Deja Vu.

[hudsonhawk]

1:40 If you scooch you're way around the wall where the sewer grate is the bomb won't damage you when it blows up. This game was revolutionary for me when I was young and I always loved it's world and characters. It's a shame they never made another or a remake was never made.

[neonshadow]

"Ack! Burnies!!" .. best quote from the clips, right there.

Looks like one of those games that really tried to aim high and mostly succeeded.

[jamesesterline]

0:50 I personally like thinking it takes place decades before Megamind (now I'm imagining Megamind telling Sutekh that he's a villain, just not a super one because he lacks PRESENTATION!)

[jeffersonderrickson]

Robert Z'Dar is a treasure. I just saw his weird video game review show pilot from the 80's a couple weeks ago. It was as Roger Corman as it gets and I loved it.

[silentfanatic]

Really glad to see you cover this one. Nightshade was always one of my favorite games as a kid. You can kind of see how Beam did a rough sketch here for what would later become Shadowrun on the SNES, too.

[RGT]

Love Nightshade. Didn't play it til I was an adult but I was blown away at how different this game was.

[Waffletigercat]

I always looked up to Nightdive as a kid. He seemed really grate to me.

[joelachiana]

Wild. One of those seen in magazines but never played games.

[ArkThePieKing]

My favorite gag in this game is finding the box of red herrings

[Spideytrom]

I like to think Nightshade is shaking his fist at the moon all like “Hey you Anubis ripoff get outta there!”.

[rdrouynriv]

Nightshade sure wears his sunglasses at night.

[WillKeaton]

The game's full name is _Nightshade Part 1: The Claws of Sutekh._ I am uncertain of this is because they were hoping for a sequel, the game was at one point much larger and they ended up having to cut a lot of it, or it's part of a joke, since the game has this weird sense of humor.
I actually would like to see this game get a remake in some form which smooths out the bits that don't work, because _Nightshade_ is unique, and there's nothing else quite like it.

[masterrserch]

2:26
SOULTAKER!!!

Or, as Tom Servo would riff, "BUS taker...!"

(i like how you didn't go for the layup of Maniac Cop, or
"this pig, he broke my ribs, my leg, and my jaw...!"
"you broke THAT jaw?"

i feel comfortable not even giving the name of this classic line from this classic movie lol)

[scoob]

2:30 "Look at this cop! Look at that old timey cop!"

[ZEKESPILLEDINKMUSIC]

You should definitely play Nightshade. It was originally designed to have multiple games, but that didn't pan out because it was released in 1992 very late for the NES at a time when people were already playing the SNES.

For those who are stuck or frustrated with fighting the jackal henchmen, you have to jump over them and punch them from behind. You'll know that you're doing something right if they they start spinning around.

[Wolfburns]

That was a really neat idea for how to handle continues. I like how it kept it sort of realistic for game logic. And the intro is just grand as well lol.