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Great info. I've been a fan since DQI came out when I was a kid yet there was some new info in here for me, thank you. I concur that the Japanese art style would have turned me off, probably wouldn't have gotten the game. I was sold by the western style commercial and envisioned those type of characters

good video

tbh I never liked that Prince of Midenhall gets singled out as "The Hero of DQ2" because in my eyes, all three Scions of Erdrick are The Heroes and act as a single unit.

I remember growing up in the 2000s when everyone was always talking about FF7 and 10, but a lot of the older games were often left out of the conversation so watching this series has been fascinating! Before this I didn’t know anything about these games.

Kinda cool how the limitations of character sprites in the 8-bit era meant marketing in different regions were able to take such different interpretations of their designs while still fitting them and their themes.

That’s cute, but it’s actually Wizardry that is the moajrpg

I played the first Xenoblade recently. I really enjoyed the story and characters for the most part, and the concept of repairing Colony 6 and filling out the encyclopedia. However it ended up getting very tedious, and far too much RNG. I think I will check out 2 some day, but hope they fixed some of these mechanics and improved the combat a bit.

I never did own a copy of the game when it came out, but I rented it so many times. Too bad 13 year old me didn't have the patience to save the money each time and buy it in a year or so. It was such a step up from DW 2. Great video. Lots of interesting information.

I doubt anyone will believe me lol, but Ive beaten every Dragon Quest game through X (late to the party on XI). I got the first DQ in the mail as a kid actually! Nintendo Power was doing some kind of promotional thing, and they literally sent me and other subscribers a free copy of Dragon Quest (yes I know the video mentions this). I think I was 7 or 8 years old so this was a HUGE thing to me then, as a kid, opening your mail and finding a free NES game was what dreams were made of lol. Never in a million years did I think I'd still be playing the series 30+ (!) years later

Dragon Warrior* 🐲

Are you planning on doing Megami Tensei retrospectives?

I have to disagree that the remakes of this game solve a lot of the issues. Maybe the pixel remaster does but my playthrough of the GBA port earlier this year was an absolute slog. I do agree overall with this video in that I believe the designers deserve praise for their risk taking and establishment of series staples. I also had a very similar experience where I had to force myself to stop grinding to go finish the game, though I never derived any enjoyment from that even though I do in other ff games.

That was a beautiful message at the end... Thank you.

I believe barring the UI/Interface, Dragon Quest is more similar to old/contemporary CRPGs rather than modern JRPGs.

Looking forward to your video on dragon quest 3.

FF6 is so boring

Thank you so much for this great video! It was very well-researched and narrated. I still love that old first game and the rest of the series. I might be one of the few people left in the world who loves grinding for experience and getting stronger, and your description of that part was excellent. I still look for it in new games, but it's not part of the design anymore. I get why people don't enjoy it, but still love it. I think your description was perfect - life isn't like that. I've worked extremely hard on certain facets of life, and it got me absolutely nowhere. But in these games, you do get stronger every time, and that's so rewarding and the perfect form of escape. Looking forward to watching the rest of your videos.

I found your DQ and this video today and look forward to a DQ3 video

1:23:12 Women aren't warriors. Don't be retarded.

FF2 ff3 snes good memories all nighters sleep overs with popcorn crt

Amen

And the Father is Wizardry

For me Chrono Trigger was monumental. And i think the style was heavily similar to Dragon Quest

You should be paid a lot of money by developers to review their product. (Not that I recommend it, or discredit your approach and efforts) Very professional, thorough, organized, enticing, sincere and passionate. Absolute justice has been served in the representation of one of the most significant works of art and entertainment in history. Thank you for stirring a renewed nostalgic affair of dream and desire in hope. My greatest achievement is being able to name my heavenly daughter Celes. She is two now and unbelievably beautiful, strong, and sweet. Blonde curly hair and big blue eyes that captivate anyone who is fortunate enough to cross her path in life 😄🤙 Unparalleled creation, just like the game (character) she was named after. Thank God for kids, Final Fantasy 3 (6…) and also this review.

Replaying XC2 and watching Rex meet Jin, Malos, and Nia. Rex: Drivers and blades. Me: Well, no. Just blades.

they better be sure to fix the wrong stuff in the hd2d remake of 1 and 2

Wow! Just finished this and the DQ1 episode. Very well done! Subbed!

Very much in agreement with everything said here. I backed Sea of Stars day 1 on Kickstarter when I knew it was by Sabotage, and anxiously awaited its release, only to be disappointed by what felt like a game that could've gone down as an unmissable masterpiece if it only had more time in the oven to polish off some rough edges.

Since the pixel remaster I really want to play it but somehow I can´t get myself to pay 17 euros for it on steam. I´d buy it for 10 in an instant but it feels too expensive to me like it is now. It´s very odd because it looks great.

Final fantasy ix is the best final fantasy in my heart but I'm sure vi is miles better than whatever final fantasy has come out the past ten years...

Today I've defeated DG II (modern remake version) for the first time and I was so intrigued to know why it felt so much more difficult and unfair compared to the first one. This is an amazing retrospective, a subscription well deserved thou hast received!

You guys remember how nintendo is trying to sue pal world for stealing the look of their characters? Most every gen 1 pokemon is stolen directly from this series and no one ever says anything

Wow I came across this a year after you posted it and I appreciate your video! I love ff6, I played the snes version (FF3) when i was a kid and got stuck right at the final boss never being able to defeat him then I was never able to find it again, until one lone day, 12 years later, I come across the anthology collection at a swap meet. I instantly recognized the game I knew as a kid and didnt care it cost my whole weeks allowance. FF6 is one of the very few games I have played all the way through more than once. I love the story, I love the character, I love the music, and I LOVE Kefka. Thanks for sharing with me your appreciation of this game and putting it into words Ive always had a hard time of describing. I want so many to feel the awe and wonder and turmoil this game inspired in me but ff7 cast such a huge shadow over this game it is incredibly hard for any one to give it the chance to shine.

Thank you very much for this video. It's my favourite game of all time and this video which describes very well why it's a masterpiece. I was born in 1999, so I didn't know the SNES version, but the GBA version (so for me Dragons Den, Soul Shrine and the new espers will always be key challenges that I don't want to trade for the experience of the original SNES game). But, through this video I was amazed to realise how groundbreaking the SNES version was - some small ideas such as switching between characters with ATB bars filled made such an impact to the extent that we take them for granted nowadays.

In today’s Netflix and prime, doing big fantasy series, I have to wonder why no one has tried to translate this story into a multi part series with his cast of characters and locations in an all the crazy dialogue that you can just add in the sunsets. Yo kind of bare bones in the game. It seems like the perfect story to convert into a TV series.

With my Celess I can put a Jinji glove on her and an offering and she would do 80,000 damage per turn

My Celes was sooooooo powerful that I could use her to do the final battle by herself and she wont even let any of the bosses get a hit of her.

Hey! Nice video and nice analysis on FFXVI (it is as good as all the other FF videos on the channel😊). As a nostalgic long time fan of this series I really find crazy how a franchise once was so good and so powerful to give us stories and games like IV-VI-VII-VIII-IX-X and so many others, now has become this derivative mess of an arpg that only ever thrives when it copies from other once inferior franchises like Devil may Cry or Game of Thrones. Of course this is far from a bad game but I just wish for them to come back to their roots. Stop indulging in copying what works for others and tying instead to regrasp the greatness of past FF storytelling and characters. Maby one day....

Can't comment on this game specifically since I haven't played it. I was oversold on it, but asked for a refunded immediately as the reviews came out, and it has nothing to do with gameplay. It's a really tall order to be proclaiming one to be a CT successor, I didn't followed it closely so I don't know if the studio claimed that or the fans did. Mimicking the visual or presentation aren't enough, which is why Chrono Cross is a great game, but isn't one of my favorite game. CT has soul, but for me it was the unforgettable characters and their relationship, that's what made it special for me personally. The reason why the adventures in CT was fun for me is due to the characters.

I'm playing the game now, 40hrs in, and it's alright, but didn't amaze me like I thought it would. I will beat the game, but the gameplay is not inspiring and can get tiresome with the grinding. The decision to cap the experience points from the monsters after a few level ups made the RPG aspect completely pointless. It's bad enough that you have to spend so much time grinding, but it's not even rewarding. I guess I am more used to the old Squaresoft's jrpg trope of having an overworld and epic heroism, and slightly more serious overtone. Actually I like the light hearted dialogs in this one, the unique recurring NPCs, and the watching the growth of the two protagonists. The game is padded to stretch out the total playtime, but I already experienced enough of the gameplay so it is now just a chore, and is continuing playing just to finish the story. I read that the later series from this franchise become more childish and animoo like, which is enough to let me know I'm not in the right age and demographic this franchise is meant for. So not sure if I want to bother playing the second chapter after this one, and not likely will be play any newer games from this franchise. edit: just beat the game, disappointing and waste of time. read some reviews of second chapter and it seems more of the same. i'm done with this franchise.

good job. starting the series with og ff7, considering vi or x as my next game

Thank you for this! what features, or what changes could be made to allow it to hold up better today? (like in a remake)

No lie I just never think about this game, but man that trailer was hilarious. This video made me interested in it!great job man, appreciate the great work!

This was a pretty damn amazing review. I played dq2 a couple of years ago and the game is really amazing, I mean with what the game did, its crazy, they fit so much into that game. My only true issue is the invisible items lol, outside of that I'm cool with the prince dying so much. Great job man I really appreciate this, can't wait to hear you tackle dq3. I also couldn't imagine having this game as a 10 year old kid, dude I would of been crazy hooked for months, this was like the type of game that was a community type game. Everyone talked about it and it was a big piece piece conversation.

Not my favorite title in the series, but this video made me appreciate FFVI a lot more by helping me remember many great moments I had with it. It must have taken a lot of time and effort to put such a long video together, so thank you for all the hard work.

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Thank you for this video, Altercate! It was a pleasure to watch, as always. I have a love-hate relationship with this game. I appreciate everything it did for the JRPG genre as a whole, and it is fundamentally a good game, but the unbalanced battles and the cryptic puzzles certainly don't show the game from its best sides... DQ2 is one of those games that I'm happy that I played through once (I played the NES version), but probably wouldn't want to ever touch again. Fortunately, the next game is Dragon Quest 3, a much much better game. I'm looking forward to seeing your video on that, once it drops! On another note, I think I said (or hinted) this on another video, but I would love if you would cover the original Phantasy Star series. It would be lovely to see videos on the original Phantasy Star on Master System, and Phantasy Star 2, 3 and 4 on Mega Drive/Genesis!

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cool vid👍

Awesome video, I hope you can continue to make more, especially about Dragon Quest.