Episode 26
Timecode - 2:31: D3's Love * Ping Pong, a budget ping-pong game for the PS 2. These budget games are always kind of funny. This one in particular has very stiff animation for the players. See here
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8:58: Private Nurse, an Eroge for the PC. The only thing that I found interesting about their footage is the title screen, with the narmful tagline, "Private Nurse... It's great".
Episode 27
General: This episode delights in showing you clips from Dracula Unleashed, which began life as a console FMV game, and ended it as an interactive DVD game! It's obviously a cheap production, but not one of those soul-threateningly bad ones. Highlights include:
- Alexander, the Serious Business main character entering a bar full of drunks singing a song about a vengeful woman "dealing with" her cheating husband. Alexander dismisses it as "a rather tasteless song", but the barmaid tells him to not be harsh on them. Then, a wolf howls in the distance, and she says, "They's frightened."
- Alexander has a nightmare where he lies in a coffin and a Yankee vampire hunter drives a stake through his still-living heart. It's actually kind of a disturbing scene for this game/movie.
- A chilling scene where someone gives Alexander a box. What's inside? Why, someone's very fake-looking decapitated head.
- The ending, where Alexander and Dracula's would-be "bride" fend off Dracula for good. It starts with Dracula bending Alexander's cross like it's made out of Play-Doh or something, but then Alexander pulls down all of the curtains in the room. The walls are covered in crosses, which weaken Dracula. Then, a support beam splits in two and impales Dracula in another rather cheap-looking special effect. A few cuts later, and he's already crumbled to dust.
This episode also showed an early trailer for Dead Rising. It's interesting to watch not only because it's Dead Rising, but because it shows a lot of differences between the early and final versions of te game. For example:
- The blocks representing Frank's health were grey instead of orange, making them less distinct on the HUD.
- Instead of showing up after you take a picture, the game displayed icons for certain genres of photography on the border around the camera's lens.
- An encounter with a certain survivor has two major differences. Firstly, when he's "recruited", the game displays his name as "David Garrison". That surname actually went to a different character entirely in the final version. Secondly, they show Frank giving him a piggyback ride to David, who is an old, pudgy guy. Frank is strong, but not that strong.
- Steven, the notorious boss in the supermarket, is known only as "Market Manager", and his health is displayed with an orange bar at the bottom of the screen. The final game didn't display the health of bosses in that fashion.
Oh, and the song that they played for the trailer? It was later used as the theme for the boss fight with Isabela.
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