Golden Axe 3 [Genesis] - play as enemy characters!
21This is a demonstration of controlling the enemy characters in Golden Axe III for the Genesis / Mega Drive. Read on below for more information...
This is demonstration of the enemy characters being controlled by Player 2. A clever individual has managed to come up with a method that allows ALL of the enemy characters in this game to be controlled like a normal player character, which means Player 1 can walk through the game and have Player 2 control ANY enemy that appears!
This is quite an amazing trick considering it's a scrolling fighter - enemy characters are usually not controllable like a normal character at all in these kind of games. Maybe Sega originally intended to have all of the enemy characters selectable in VS Mode perhaps? I know that the Eagle boss is the only 'enemy' character who is playable in VS Mode.
I've split the video into 2 sections. The 1st section will be a part-playthrough of the first level which shows me using Player 2's controller to control and demonstrate the enemy characters who appear (spear guy, club guy, mace amazon); and the 2nd section will show me demonstrating the lizard skeleton.
===== Additional Information =====
---- Some of the enemy characters will freeze the game if you perform the B+C (Strike+Jump) move.
---- The only characters you can't control are the little thieves/elves.
---- When controlling an enemy character, you can just walk off the screen and the game can progress.
---- When controlling an enemy character, their speed of walking properties is very fast. This is obviously because they're not intended to be controlled by a human player.
---- Obviously under human control, you cannot do 'walking back' motions with them.