The A.V. Club is playing Ghosts 'N Goblins: Resurrection on Twitch today
Games News Ghosts 'n Goblins
If there’s one thing we here at The A.V. Club’s gaming team love, it’s getting our teeth kicked in in public. Hence why our regular Twitch stream this week is set to feature Capcom’s love letter to one of the must obnoxiously brutal games of all time: Ghosts ‘N Goblins: Resurrection.
Released this week on PlayStation, Xbox, and Steam (after coming out on Switch back in February), the new Ghosts ‘N Goblins has been picking up steam and hype for months, at least among the sort of people who really enjoy the thought of being rendered literally naked by an uncompromising horde of beautifully animated monsterst. As with the original games, the new installment pits hapless-but-heavily-armed knight Arthur against roughly a million enemies who all love to move in unpredictable patterns through brutally arranged levels. And despite his arsenal of 8 different weapons, and armor apparently held together by three rusty screws, he’s always just a few slip-ups away from nudity, and then death. (Typically in that order.)
To celebrate this milestone in sky-clad monster hunting, we’ll be streaming the opening hour or so of the game today from our Twitch channel, twitch.tv/AVClubTwitch. We’ll be going live at 2 p.m. Central, so if you’ve ever wanted to watch an equally hapless, far less heavily armed games writer get absolutely demolished by zombies, now’s your chance.
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A throwback to the days when video games were designed to suck as many quarters out of your pocket as possible.
“Zantar is a gelatinous cube that eats warriors in a medieval village. And every time it eats a chieftain, you ascend to a higher level. the beauty part is, you can’t get to the next level, so the kids keep coughing up quarters.”
I remember playing Ghosts n’ Goblins as a kid, but I can’t recall where it fell on the Battletoads scale of impossibility.
Battletoads is probably the hardest game I ever beat. Half the levels were about the same level of difficulty as beating Tyson in Punch-Out.
I actually finished Battletoads back in the day. People act like it was some sort of impossible game but you can’t bet against the patience of an unemployed 16 year old who is still too young to drive.
I could never scratch the surface of Ghosts ‘n Goblins though in any of its formats though. That was a ridiculously hard game.
So, who is the AV Club going to baselessly call a KKK member today?
My guess is…Brent Spiner.
This is going to be the video game equivalent of a snuff film.