I really like how the boss at the end rips it’s own head off and throws it at you as a weapon.
So is Altered Beast III !
Arise from your grave.
And rescue my daughter! I didn’t resurrect you so that you could just lounge around. You’ve got a job to do!
I, for the past several years, have seriously been saying this to my imaginary audience every morning when I wake up and engage the energy necessary to get to the kitchen and make a coffee. I had a girlfriend in 2019 that would get a kick out of it.
I thought you were going to say you said this to the dishes you left soaking, right before you do the dishes.
I never saw an arcade cabinet for Altered Beast and only played it in Genesis where it was kind of a shit game compared to Golden Axe.
So there are already tons of annoying enemies in Fromsoft games, but if they ever put one of these fuckers in something, it would be the single most annoying enemy in any of their games.
Imagine having to go on some adventure where you sleep directly on the desert floor and it’s full of deadly hand-to-hand combat killing hundreds of people, and thinking, “I’m gonna wear my white and red bikini and red boots.”
It was the 80’s (Golden Axe released in 1989, to be specific) . It was the style of the time.
Pic from Red Sonja in 1985
Just played and beat the second Golden Axe Arcade game with my kid. It’s great.
Don’t sleep on “Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder”, while not available for Genesis, definitely the best version there is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6inP3NQPXY
And if you’re ok with some “jankiness”, there are several fan made versions worth your time for OpenBOR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUybVkHLRMo
If I had a nickel for every quarter I lost playing this in the arcade…
All the 40 somethings in here: “Altered Beast!”.
Everyone else: “Uh, what?”
It’s funny to see which things haven’t transferred over through cultural osmosis through the years. I would have assumed most people here would still recognize this. Clearly I’m an out of touch relic!
Actually I’m the oldest! I just had a lot of games that weren’t exactly cutting edge at the time lol