The lights are on
Our original plan for Super Replay was to give the best games of all time a lengthier treatment than our standard Replay episodes. I kicked things off with my favorite game ever, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. We continued with the classics by playing through Super Mario Bros. 3 and Resident Evil 2. However, things changed as soon as I picked an unassuming 1997 PSone title for our Replay Roulette during the Revolution X episode. We were so intrigued by what happened during the initial minutes of Overblood that we knew it needed to be the first obscure title to get its own Super Replay treatment. A year later, and the GI staff has Pipo t-shirts, the community has created remakes in Unreal and LittleBigPlanet, and we've watched (and participated in) the rise of an active Overblood/Replay fan group on Facebook. Now, it's time for us to play through Overblood 2.
The circumstances around this sequel are even more odd than our discovery of the original. Never released in the United States, Overblood 2 was widely reported to contain a game-breaking glitch that makes its completion impossible. Ignoring these warnings, we decided to order a UK version of the game off of eBay and try our luck. Can we finish the game, or will the bug result in our first-ever incomplete Super Replay? Will we see the return of Raz and Pipo? Can it possibly live up to the original? Watch below, and find out along with the Game Informer staff.
(Each episode will feature myself, Tim Turi, and Andrew Reiner, with a rotating cast of GI editors filling the fourth seat)
Want to catch up on all of our previous Replay episodes? Visit our hub, then head over to the fan-created "I Watched The Entire Overblood Super Replay" group on Facebook for discussion.
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It is finally here!
The first OverBlood had a Resident Evil feel, but I think this game is going to be more like Final Fantasy 7 and 8.
I stopped playing Skyrim & Saints Row 3 just to watch this. So worth it.
I can't believe what I have just seen!!
Piiiipooooooo!!!!! I was worried it wasn't going to have anything to do with the first one, lol. I can't wait to see the rest!
YES!!!! BEST DAY EVER!!!!
this was interesting.
I believe we were all waiting for this.
Thank you GI for this fantastic Happy New Year's gift!
BRAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
I've been waiting for this all week, surprised when I saw it up. Thought tomorrow was Dec 31. Awesome!!!!!!!
Great first episode guys. I was so excited to see it up on the site when I got online this morning. I really like the FF VII look to this game. I have a good feeling this is going to be better than the original Overblood. I just hope that we avoid the rumored game-breaking bug. Happy New Years Eve everyone. Got to get ready so I can make it down to Times Square for the ball drop later on.
Been a longgggggggggggggggg time coming
This is great. This game has some serious potential for some weird, messed up stuff to laugh at
This was a very nice start to what might become the greatest Super Replay ever!