Exactly, if any of them decided to press the start button, that would have brought them to their inventory which includes health packs and antidotes, and they’re hating on the game because they couldn’t figure out what most people did in less than 5 minutes

None of you thought of pressing start to see if there was an inventory? Or remembered skulls in videogames either mean death or poison?

I’m frankly surprised, James and Mike usually are awesome videos, this one left me frustrated. I played this game back when it came out, I was a only 10-11 years old. And I didn’t need to read the manual or even know english (I’m from Brazil) to think about pressing all buttons to see what they do.

I agree about the ‘saving poison’ problem though, I had forgotten that happened.

Wish any of you had thought of asking how Indy’s gun has infinite ammo XD Though since you never got to the part where you find guns with non-infinite ammo, I can’t really expect you to.

The game was ported by Factor 5 and only one of the original LucasArts programmers was involved so, largely, it wasn’t LucasArts fault that the N64 port sucks the most balls.

I agree with that. It didn’t happen on the PC, because we got to save whenever we wanted and didn’t rely on checkpoints.

Give the PC version a go.

I agree with you wholeheartedly, but I played this game as a kid (the PC port was different and, I believe, superior) and have only fond memories of it.

That’s why watching this video was hard for me, as they’re criticizing a game I really like, with most of their criticism stemming from a clunky checkpoint mechanic (which didn’t exist on the PC, to be fair) and not checking the inventory for the antidote.

The rest I can agree with and, on later stages, the game gets more intense as you fight both the soviets and the creatures protecting the trinkets that power the Infernal Machine.

Also, I understand that was done on the spur of the moment, yet I can’t avoid but feel ambivalent about it. I wish they’d give it another chance…

The PC one, I mean, not the N64 shitty port.

Also, like in Tomb Raider, you have to holster your weapon in order to climb.

I don’t know why, but this episode of J&MM is the only one where I didn’t even crack a smile. Maybe it’s because I really liked this game (played it on the PC), even though it was a bit clunky to be Tomb Raider-esque. I have very fond memories of solving all puzzles and beating the game by myself.

By the way, to those who haven’t played it, the main gist is that the Soviets are looking for the power source of a Babylonian god and a quartet of magical trinkets are used to power the afforementioned Infernal Machine.