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Willow (Arcade) Playthrough – NintendoComplete

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Willow (Arcade) Playthrough – NintendoComplete



A playthrough of Capcom’s 1989 license-based action-platforming arcade title, Willow.

Played on the normal difficulty level, default settings.

Willow is one of two separate games Capcom developed based on Lucasfilms’ 1988 high-fantasy movie. But whereas the arcade version plays like a traditional side-scrolling platformer, the NES was a whole different beast – it was an ARPG somewhat like the top-down Zelda games. You can find my playthrough of that version here:

The arcade version, if I can hazard a guess here, is the far lesser known of the two. It is the only game Capcom published in the first year following the CPS-1 hardware’s introduction to not receive a port to a console. I believe it’s also one of the extreme few (along with Nemo) CPS1 games that has never seen a home port at all, even through modern emulation-based compilations. I can only imagine that licensing with LucasFilms has a lot of bearing on that. Do any of you guys know? I’m curious about that one.

The game itself is pretty good. You switch back and forth between Willow and Madmartigan as you run from left-to-right, killing anything that breathes, collecting money, upgrading at shops, and saving random babies. The control is tight – this *is* golden-era Capcom, after all – and the platforming feels natural. Just be sure to keep in mind that Willow is a “pure” arcade experience in how it hungers for your coins. It’s very hard. Maybe it’s not quite Ghosts’n Goblins hard, but if you had played this to mastery in the arcade, you would have gone broke before managing a 1 credit clear. I would’ve never been able to afford to play it as much as I practiced for this video if I had to drop a quarter per every two lives. Oh yeah, and instant respawns upon death? Hahahahaha, good one. No, there’s a checkpoint system in place. If you can’t finish off a boss in one life, you’d best figure it out. No credit spamming here – it requires legit skills and memorization of patterns.

It’s fun, but it’s also very old-fashioned in its design. I tend to think of Willow as the last true “80s” arcade game that Capcom produced. They released a couple more games in 1989, but Willow seems to draw the line of demarcation between their 8 and 16-bit era design philosophies. Willow sits with Strider, Ghouls n Ghosts, and Dynasty Wars in its traditional (though highly refined) style.

But following Willow, Capcom’s next release, UN Squadron, established the more energetic, colorful, and flashy style that defined their arcade games for most of the 1990s. Case in point: Final Fight came directly after UN Squadron. Coincidentally, Final Fight ended up being Capcom’s final official arcade release of the 1980s, just squeaking in under the wire with a December 1989 release date.

So that bit of musing on Willow’s significance in Capcom history aside, it is right on part with their other greats of the time. Just like the game play, the presentation is equally as dated yet still excellent. The sprites are on the small side and the animation is a bit limited, but the quality of the artistry on display here is fantastic. The non-digitized stills of the actors are all easily recognizable, and the backdrops in the outdoor levels really make for some sights to behold. The music is great with classic old-school FM tunes that hit the fantasy mark dead-on, and the sound effects are well done, even including a few muddled digital samples of screams and bangs for good effect. And I really got a kick out of the ending – it’s one of those games that rewards you with a big chunk of digitized speech for a job well done, and I found it really “neat.” I know that sounds corny to say, but cool doesn’t quite say it. It was “neat,” and totally unexpected. The game is already hard enough to provide a sense of satisfaction once you’ve overcome its challenges, but that ending made it feels just a bit more special. All the more so, I would think, if you’d done if after pumping tons of money into it.

It would be easy to say this was a generic fantasy platformer, but that would unkind and unfair. There’s nothing wrong with doing a game that treads familiar ground if it is done well.

And you play as a Nelwyn (midget) and as a Daikini (Val Kilmer), which normally wouldn’t be that exciting, if not for after the South Park movie I can’t help but think of the pair as the “midget in a bikini” from the TV news.

Lodge that association in your brain and I doubt you’ll ever be able to play this again without cracking a smile.
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.

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Comments 35

  1. Solar Flare [Who likes uploading SSBU replays] says:
    1 year ago

    7:32 Hello Strider

    Reply
  2. russ G says:
    1 year ago

    Damn! I remember playing this arcade game in the community E-Z laundromat! And at Chucky Cheeze!!!
    Man, George Lucus is a genius!

    Reply
  3. J-One says:
    1 year ago

    I needed to see this… Thank you. It cheered me up

    Reply
  4. DK3CHAMP says:
    1 year ago

    Definitely an extremely hard game. Wonderful game play!

    Reply
  5. TheColdbrews says:
    1 year ago

    I never knew this existed.

    Reply
  6. Crosley’s Toy Party says:
    1 year ago

    Arcade1Up needs to bring this out ASAP

    Reply
  7. David says:
    1 year ago

    34:17
    "Darkness has given away to a world of peace and happiness…"
    At least till the Shadow War Novels takes place and most of the people and places we knew in the movie get wiped out.

    Reply
  8. blindjustice316 says:
    1 year ago

    Why no snes port?!?! Smh

    Reply
  9. WhatsHisName26 says:
    1 year ago

    This game should've gotten an SNES port.

    Reply
  10. donbasuradenuevo says:
    1 year ago

    The OG Cuphead

    Reply
  11. Winston S. says:
    1 year ago

    Graphics are pretty good. Gameplay seems solid enough–challenging. Level design is kind of meh. The story follows the film well enough. But man… that music is horrendous.

    Reply
  12. Obscured Oblivion says:
    1 year ago

    Sounds like Sega music

    Reply
  13. The Cheeseburger_666 says:
    1 year ago

    "winners don't use drugs."

    Reply
  14. Drowning Lemming says:
    1 year ago

    I would love this on my Vita, it seems perfect for it.

    Reply
  15. Christopher Jakel says:
    1 year ago

    I loved this movie. You can get it on Amozon for the low low price of…..

    $130.00 😳 WTF?

    Reply
  16. Rob Morris says:
    1 year ago

    Shop Keeper: My information is:

    1 – Eat food and you will not starve

    2 – Kill enemies. Do not let them kill you.

    3 – If your health goes down, you should bring it back up.

    4 – The enemies will throw and fire things at you. This will hurt, so you should avoid it.

    5 – No, you are not the Willow from Buffy. She had a much better run than you could hope for.

    6 – Nah, the sequel novels didn't get picked up either. Too much 'happy ending override' going on.

    7 – Lucas still talks like this will be revived any second now. No, I don't know if the Mouse owns it now.

    8 – I really don't have time for your xover fic between this, Dragon Heart and 1981's Dragonslayer.

    9 – I've…never heard of this Ghosts N' Goblins thingy…have to speak to my lawyer.

    10 – Bavmorda is a bad person. I do not like her. No sir, not one little bitty bit.

    Reply
  17. Twenty After Four says:
    1 year ago

    That wagon scene was clutch. Talk about enemy spam, lol
    Great job.

    Reply
  18. zarcon42 says:
    1 year ago

    how do you play this kind of arcade port?

    Reply
  19. Alfonso Aguiñaga says:
    1 year ago

    Waooo!! Eres la puritita verdura my friend!! Nunca habia visto los demas episodios ya que cuando yo lo jugaba de morro se me hacia sumamente difícil y terminaba por desertar la misión…no cabe duda que esos cabrones de capcom les gustaba desquiciar a los morros de aquellos ayeres con juegos si, muy divertidos y con graficas adecuadas para niños, pero no por eso faciles como para que no los pudieran disfrutar los mayores y de igual forma terminar desquiciados con los niveles…

    Reply
  20. The Original Captain Trips says:
    1 year ago

    SPENT A FEW HOURS ON THIS 1 DAY W/ A FRIEND IN THE NICKLE ARCADE & BEAT IT…BACK IN 1989

    Reply
  21. Shion Kreth says:
    1 year ago

    Thanks for the upload, I remember this really fondly from when I was young, and now I can see why – aside from the length this could totally be released as an indie game today and it'd do well.

    Reply
  22. Rameus says:
    1 year ago

    Willow Ofgood

    Reply
  23. Michael Freeman says:
    1 year ago

    Val Kilmer and Warwick Davis need to be in the next Marvel vs Capcom.

    Reply
  24. Google+sucksballs says:
    1 year ago

    I remember playing this before playing the NES game but was upset that the NES version was not a port of the arcade game. lol

    Reply
  25. David Dux says:
    1 year ago

    I could never get past the first boss 💩

    Reply
  26. David S. says:
    1 year ago

    Where did you find this? Please send me a link!

    Reply
  27. Kevin Diaz says:
    1 year ago

    Treasure box out in the open that is easy to get to, 200 gold. Treasure box kind of hidden on the side and requires some platform jumping to get to it, 1 gold. Man, Capcom are dicks. LOL

    Reply
  28. Kevin Diaz says:
    1 year ago

    Bluish-purple wolf dog thing, takes two hits to kill. Dude in a suit of armor, one. Ah, video game logic…

    Reply
  29. Talking About Games says:
    1 year ago

    "Willow, be careful. Baumorda's fingers penetrate outside of the villa."

    One of the most strange fantasy game warnings ever.

    Reply
  30. CookiesfromHell says:
    1 year ago

    This actually looks decent, wonder why it never came out on the SNES

    Reply
  31. curtloadblower says:
    1 year ago

    those wolf rat things in the beginning, when they howl it sounds like the roblox deathsound

    Reply
  32. David S. says:
    1 year ago

    If Willow was this proficient in the movie with magic, he could have beaten Bavmorda single handed! Also, Madmartigan is much nicer to Willow in the game then he was in the film. 😀

    Reply
  33. nate word says:
    1 year ago

    loved this game

    Reply
  34. haldun dere says:
    1 year ago

    looks amazing for a 30 year old game. just fukkin ossum.

    Reply
  35. Markooz - Games & Nostalgia says:
    1 year ago

    33:19
    So Val Kilmer has a game!

    Reply

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