A rail shooter seems like something that would be pretty difficult to get wrong. Even when they are bad they are playable. Well, most of the time. Enter Death Crimson, easily the worst game on the Sega Saturn.
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By: Jan Neves
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Episode Notes:
1. Captured on real hardware.
2. Believe it or not Ecole is still around and is working on Death Crimson 3!
https://www.deathcrimson.info/
3. The article I referenced can be found here:
https://www.badgamehalloffame.com/death-crimson/
4. Ecole made a few other Saturn games. Not as bad as Death Crimson here, but still pretty poor overall.
Pappara Paoon (1995)
Death Crimson (1996)
Segata Sanshirou Shinken Yuugi (1998)
5. I see this compared to Crypt Killer at times, another rail shooter. make no mistake, Crypt Killer is 1000x better than this.
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Worst game i ever played was a tank game on the OG PlayStation. I remember being so mad that i even rented it and wasted my 5 bucks or whatever. It was THAT bad. Gameplay, graphics, sound, music all bad but the worst part is the game was broken. If you bump the tank into a building, your tank would fall into the seam between the bottom of the wall and the street. Vibrate violently, then fall into the skybox void underneath. I remember trying a few times then giving up and taking it right back. Second place would have to be Cosmic Carnage for the 32X. Nice concept with the scaling of the sprites in a almost vectorman type thing where the models are a jumble of sprites animated to look like one sprite. But the game played and looked like some other game if you tilted the cartridge and scrambled the data.
What a mess
I had a Japanese book detailing the best and the worst games of the Sega Saturn, and this Death Crimson game and its series keep popping up in the very worst rankings. I didn't know what it was nor did I care, since getting such a abysmal rating by Japan standards means the game is really awful. Thanks to your video, now I know what it is, and why it truly deserve the worst game moniker. Such a travesty that even the Dreeamcast also had these series going.
I'm reminded of Crypt Killers and Congo, which I struggled to play through as well.
Absolutely terrible! Crap game, to be thrown in the trash (maybe not even recycled)
Thank you
It doesn't look or sound that bad. Maybe the way it's presented.
Images of pain and suffering 🤣
Flying squirrels are the best innocent bystander. I'd feel bad if I shot one.
Hydlide is the worst game ever. For the NES. Then there’s subsequent versions. The Saturn version, Virtual Hydlide… also contends.
Reminds me more of a 3DO game.
7:42 wtf HOW ARE YOU DEFENDING THE MUSIC OMG SEGA LORD
Its not only the game or the graphics, the music is comical
Also, play the sequel sega dork
AVGN should review this
will you be doing a follow-up on the sequel Death Crimson OX?
I remember trying Death Crimson OX on the Dreamcast and didn't like it. The first Death Crimson on the Saturn doesn't interest me and I think it looks like a bad clone of The house of the dead.
I thought this was a 32x game for most of the video, and even then it looked bad.
Fraud review. This review seems to be using a emulator and doesn't take advantage of lightguns which is a big fault in reviewing a lightgun game.
Any chance that this was originally meant to be a 16bit game?
Describing the music as "the kind of stuff you might hear at an end of life clinic" is definitely one of your more poetic descriptions! What a fascinatingly bizarre game.
Glad to say this is in my collection. Got it for $90
Ah yes the greatest shitpost in gaming, beautiful. Glad some heroes in the comments are doing this game justice
Death Crimson has too much charm to hate. It's a cult classic for every reason listed in this video.
Me before the video: It's going to be one of those alright games that have a rough around the edge charm to them.
Me a minute in: Dear god this game is ugly as hell and looks even worse to play.
Please review the remake and sequel on the Dreamcast!
Eww, thankfull I was spared this garbagio back in the day.
My god those graphics are awful. Even for 1996 standards.
That DRUG comment took me out 🤣🤣🤣🤣
In my opinion, the worst game ever still is The Flintstones in Master System.
This looks more like a low budget GBA game that a Saturn game
As funny as a lot of the bad parts of this game are – you should see the videos on YouTube of the composer defending his work on this game as something utterly amazing – one thing I absolutely despise about this game's legacy is the "Death Saturn" – a Sega Saturn console with a copy of the game super glued to the disc spinner, the lid super glued shut, and the gun controller super glued into the controller port, so that all you can do with it is play Death Crimson. What an absolute waste!
Someone must have liked it cause it got two more games on Dreamcast
Just wow…
This game is ass.
'The kind of music you'd hear at an end of life clinic'
I mean, wow, where do you.go from there?! Hilarious
I never played this game but there are some things I like about it honestly, but the graphics are horrible I’ve seen DS games look better than this. Maybe would’ve been more acceptable in its time .
The first sign that a game is bad is when it has a badass title (all the design went into naming it).
Sega Saturn is dead who still plays on Sega Saturn must have no money to afford a PS5 xbox series X even the Nintendo Switch the Sega Saturn costed only $200 the Nintendo 64 was more powerful then the Sega Saturn this console also has a major problem if your battery dies all the savings gets deleted you need a 4mb ram cartridge to play X-men Vs street fighter
Still better than Mighty Hits lightgun Saturn game.
So bad it's hilarious! This game just looks like a school project at best.
What's with rail shooters on Saturn? I remember that the lowest score on a Saturn game in my favorite mag in Italy was Revolution X
The game looks a bit bad but not bad like it makes me want to take a shower. For 1996 the backgrounds look nice, the animations are not horrible, it supports the light gun and does not seem to have any downright offensive or subversive content. There are bad mid 90's rail shooters and I'm not sure if this one is drastically worse than the others but of course it should not be mentioned in the same sentence with good or excellent rail shooters like Virtua Cop 2.
I haven't played Death Crimson but i did play the sequel Death Crimson ox on Dreamcast and i enjoyed it.
I love DC ox on PS2, never played this game tho. Glad I missed it
That makes Crypt Killer look like VF2 by comparison. But I do love Crypt Killer. It's so bad. But still good.
Looks like a very early version of SwitchBack on PSVR 2.