Uploaded August 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
The Punisher is often recommended as a great best 'em up for beginners to start with, and it was one of the first ones I cleared when I got into these games. Going back to it now, it's easy to see why. The Punisher himself has a large moveset that covers just about anything you'd want or need in these games, and he's also very mobile with a huge jump range. The game itself is very well balanced too, with no strange quirks to learn or egregious difficulty spikes. And it's not hard to clear either.
Capcom recently announced they'd be porting this to modern platforms as part of the Marvel vs. Capcom Collection that'll be coming out, so hopefully it'll be a nice gateway for more people to get into these games.
I actually enjoyed this more than I did when I first played it, so I'll probably do a run on the Japanese version with Nick Fury in a bit too. That one is at least a little bit different, but all I know off the top of my head is that your jumping kick has a flame property to it, which is cool.
0:00 Intro
0:53 Stage 1 - Back to the War
2:49 Stage 2 - Raid on Pantaberde
5:57 Stage 3 - Waterfront Warfare
11:18 Stage 4 - Death on Rails
16:09 Stage 5 - Kingpin's Wrath
23:50 Last Stage - Final Punishment
31:45 Ending & Credits
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Beat 'em Ups (e.g. Final Fight): youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfI6IYca_kvMhpG1GR9sk8OYiWQMZZTgl
2D Action (e.g. Metal Slug): youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfI6IYca_kvNFjpnJ59Th6N0IU1PSpD3d
STG/Shmups (e.g. Dodonpachi): youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFE6B3779BE759F71
The Punisher is often recommended as a great best 'em up for beginners to start with, and it was one of the first ones I cleared when I got into these games. Going back to it now, it's easy to see why. The Punisher himself has a large moveset that covers just about anything you'd want or need in these games, and he's also very mobile with a huge jump range. The game itself is very well balanced too, with no strange quirks to learn or egregious difficulty spikes. And it's not hard to clear either.
Capcom recently announced they'd be porting this to modern platforms as part of the Marvel vs. Capcom Collection that'll be coming out, so hopefully it'll be a nice gateway for more people to get into these games.
I actually enjoyed this more than I did when I first played it, so I'll probably do a run on the Japanese version with Nick Fury in a bit too. That one is at least a little bit different, but all I know off the top of my head is that your jumping kick has a flame property to it, which is cool.
0:00 Intro
0:53 Stage 1 - Back to the War
2:49 Stage 2 - Raid on Pantaberde
5:57 Stage 3 - Waterfront Warfare
11:18 Stage 4 - Death on Rails
16:09 Stage 5 - Kingpin's Wrath
23:50 Last Stage - Final Punishment
31:45 Ending & Credits
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Beat 'em Ups (e.g. Final Fight): youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfI6IYca_kvMhpG1GR9sk8OYiWQMZZTgl
2D Action (e.g. Metal Slug): youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfI6IYca_kvNFjpnJ59Th6N0IU1PSpD3d
STG/Shmups (e.g. Dodonpachi): youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFE6B3779BE759F71
![[4K60] Cyber Shadow - 100% Completion / All Story Scenes](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vl969ieEwT0/mqdefault.jpg "[4K60] Cyber Shadow - 100% Completion / All Story Scenes
0:00 Intro
2:45 Chapter 1
11:35 Chapter 2 - Disposal Facility
24:17 Chapter 3 - Mekacity Ruins
40:28 Chapter 4 - Reactor
59:05 Chapter 5 - Research Lab
1:15:48 Chapter 6 - Robot Factory
1:20:59 Chapter 7 - Outskirts
1:32:49 Chapter 8 - Return to Mekacity
1:53:12 Chapter 9 - Mekacity Docks
1:59:23 Chapter 10 - Meka Island Spaceport
2:06:31 Chapter 1 Revisited
2:08:44 Chapter 2 Revisited
2:10:39 Chapter 3 Revisited
2:12:36 Chapter 5? Revisited
2:12:58 Final Stage
2:14:13 Last Boss
2:18:25 Ending/Credits
Cyber Shadow is a new 2D ninja action game from Finnish developer Mechanical Head Studios, and published by Yacht Club Games. Its blatantly inspired by a number of retro action games (and even some modern ones), with Ninja Gaiden being the clearest example. It differs from the NES classics in a few ways, though. It has a bunch of health and magic upgrades to find, some permanent progression, and its relatively long in comparison. But I really enjoyed it, and I would recommend it to any action game fan. Its on Game Pass, so you have a very cheap option to try it out if youre interested.
Reusing the description I wrote for my boss video, Ill change it and fill in more detailed time stamps later today.
Beat em Ups (e.g. Final Fight): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfI6IYca_kvMhpG1GR9sk8OYiWQMZZTgl
2D Action (e.g. Metal Slug): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfI6IYca_kvNFjpnJ59Th6N0IU1PSpD3d
STG/Shmups (e.g. Dodonpachi): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFE6B3779BE759F71")
