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Oooohh, Boiling Point got a mention! Now that is a game I played a lot and enjoyed, But never heard anyone else mention. Would love to see a video on it at some point!

I would love a modern remake in the vein of a Yakuza/Like a Dragon game. They definitely share some DNA.

Speaking about remasters and remakes rogue trooper got a Redux play it now quite a good game

Man, no one does small, urban open worlds like Sega. Great review! I would love if 3d beat’em ups made a come back, especially when they include exploration like this, yakuza, and Shenmue

Hey did you know Sega sangio survived yeah he's in a ramen cup commercials he apparently became cyborg

I totally agree that there should be more Thundercat games I've been trying to get retro studios in studios that do beat em ups to make a thundercats game for a very long time I even had the name of it thundercats return to 3rd Earth

Not gonna lie, I would totally watch you do a TEW stream.

Another good review Swanny, keep it up! The consistency is key. Look forward to seeing your Pirates review in January.

I find it funny that you released this on the same day that the new Power Rangers beat-em'up game is released. Not sure if this is a coincidence or not, but still, i think thats pretty funny

Another awesome review. I havent heard of this game before . I always like when you cover games I dont know much or any about. You review covered the game pretty good. Hope you had a good Thanksgiving and have a safe and peaceful christmas/ holidays. Thanks mike

Speaking of Rent a Hero and Yakuza - those who played the first Ichiban Yakuza game remember the sidequests with the same name and see the origin of them.

There is a Rent A Hero point and click adventure that has nothing to do with this game except the name. So technically we have Rent A Hero.

I understand how people feel but for me, suikoden 4 is the best for me. the graphics and the story is for me. I remember how when I'm still kid I'm in awe for this game

lol those Saturn commercials were really _something else_ … 🪐

this game has 10 times better combat than dark souls. its an insult to compare them. in dark souls combat is just doge the attack and hit the enemy.

Am I the only one who sees Conan O'Brien in the old Gabriel Knight?

great vid!

I have mentioned that I don't really care for the series but I did play all 3 when I was younger and they somehow all just blend together. I want to say it was 3 but I remember some really awful ATV section that infuriated my two friends and I.

Love your videos and reviews. Your commentary is wonderful and make me laugh. Keep up the great work mike . Cant wait to see what's next

Another banger video! I never knew Lara went to Area 51, it really adds to the pulpiness of the series. I’m guessing they were struggling to think of more famous ancient ruins in countries to explore

If I recall, you have to hold L1 with a controller to back out of crawl spaces. That said it's very much a trial/error thing, I love these remasters but for some reason only having the manual for controls (including the all new modern controls!) on a website is a dumb move. Lara's front flip out of crawl spaces is actually ported to this game as it was introduced in Chronicles. (though it was cut from both TRIII and IV for some reason initially.) I actually found the original TR III save system worse as TR1 had plenty of save crystals but TRIII has far less of them and often locks them behind deadly secrets. (which combined with the more unfair level design means I had far more issues with TRIII compared to the original.)

Weren't the monks in Tomb Raider 2 friendly if you didn't shoot them? Just played through TR3 for the first time this year. The levels are so long that it became a slog to finish. The levels had problems with objective conveyance to the point I just used a walkthrough once I hit London.

"Oh yeah, I just can't stop tombing." - Lara Tomber

Suikoden 4: Islands of greatness amidst a sea of dullness. There are so many neat ideas and character concepts that just never realize their full potential here. Funny thing is, the spinoff game for S4, Suikoden Tactics, is a far better game in most respects and an excellent SRPG on its own merits. I know that the name of Suikoden Tactics was changed to Rhapsodia in Japan. I've never quite understood why, but if I had to guess, I'd say it was Suikoden IV's poor reception and the closest thing Konami has to shame.

I think, structurally, most of the main story is brilliant...right up until the end. It sets up a well-composed mystery and wheels-within-wheels machinations that taps into the natural animosity between the Grasslanders and the Zexens, and unlike the previous game's City-States vs Highland conflict, it bothers to demonstrate the general unease and existing tensions between the two cultures BEFORE the war begins in full. I've thought a lot about this game's story since it released, and ways I would rewrite it to fix the problems therein (redoing Geddoe's stuff though not his crew as they have some of the best character-writing in the game. Chris's arc is likewise, excellent and I have no real complaints about it. Her fellow knights are very obviously references to the knights of Arthurian legend...which would make Chris herself Arthur. I do agree that the knights' personalities and roles needed to be expanded upon to show that despite how powerful they are, they too are just human in the end. Hugo needed an actual character arc instead of this odd placebo arc he gets. Why Lucia cedes command of the Karayans to him makes no sense given how outwardly proactive she was in Suikoden 2 and that in their specific situation, she is by far the most experienced commander in the Grasslands, having fought a long campaign under Highland in the Dunan-Reunification War. But my biggest rewrite would come to the main villain's stuff. My main problem isn't necessarily who the main villain is and why they're doing what they do so much as the actual plan he comes up with. Without spoiling anything accidentally...the main villain's solution is like blowing up half your house just to stop an arsonist from setting it on fire. It makes no internal sense. Which is a shame, because the villain's heel-turn on his own villainous faction would have made for a pretty great moment in itself had it been the lynchpin for the Harmonian Army's failure. (they're on the verge of victory...and then something disastrous happens unseen within their ranks, and this is what allows the main characters to actually regroup their mangled forces into a cohesive unit to start winning on their own terms; learning only much later what happened and why)

15:27 The Strategy Battle system they chose looks as cheap as it does because it's secretly a low-overhead buffer-screen to facilitate loading and unloading all the combat action scenes in 3D; a problem the previous two Suikoden games didn't have. I don't say this to defend the strategic battle system of S3, because it is very fundamentally flawed and it reeks of something they threw together because of pressure from higher up at Konami for Suikoden to get with the times and modernize. (this happened again in Suikoden IV, resulting in a lot of misplaced priorities for that game too) Personally, I would have greatly preferred if they had taken Suikoden 2's system and polished it up mechanically, because it was a phenomenally good story telling device that portrayed the scale of multiple armies battling within a specific location perfectly.

BIRD

A truly jewel

I always assumed Lazlo was saved by his mother’s memories and soul within the rune as a former wielder of it. Similar to how Shinji’s mum caused Eva 01 to instinctively shield him when he was in danger in episode 1 of Neon Genesis. I also thought maybe that played a part in why he ended up being the intended new bearer even if Glenn played the role of temporary host for a bit. But the game really should’ve explained how he survived properly. For me, the biggest suspension of disbelief aspect to Suikoden IV is how little everybody around Lazlo is freaking out and beside themselves with terror over the fact they could all be killed at any moment. Knowing the rune is draining at the life force of the user whenever active should be a very sobering thing, it’s sad and scary for him and all of them, too. Especially for someone of his age. He’s barely out being a kid, but it’s not treated as such. The story itself doesn’t take the gravity of his potential future death seriously enough, and just how much using the rune is playing with and shortening his life, while endangering the lives of everybody around him. No, instead it does moronic things like forcing you to waste one of your finite chances to use it in order to kill a goddamn crab boss. That’s just stupid. Where is the starkness and the gravity of Lazlo’s deadly circumstances while host to the rune? Why did Snowe get the best character development? Suikoden 4 had the potential to be amazing as a game, with an incredibly deadly rune and a story focused on atonement, punishment and forgiveness, you could do something with all of that, but nooo.

Alundra is still my favorite game. Developed my problem solving skills as a kid.

the control and the shooting is just terrible for me, everything feels slow and clumsy... half life, quake 1 and 2 and even doom have a better feel

23:46 Just wanna point out this is one of like 3 times in the entirety of Excel Saga that "Fuck" is ever said. The anime, on the whole, hardly swears at all but is quite unhinged.

As a Chinese kid in 2004, I found this game's pirate copy in one of the pirate market in my hometown for around 1 USD. Was shocked by the graphic and gameplay. My PC was struggling, had to save an entire year of breakfast money and Chinese new year money to upgrade a Gforce video card, which was around 100USD at that time. Then enjoyed the game for literally next 10 years. Beat the game with no saves in 2015. Last year the game is on steam, as a 30 something yr old Chinese in 2020s, I'm able to buy the game with no stress, bought 5 additional copies to give to my friends, to make up the guilty I played pirate as a Child, although knowing it will never pass censorship and wont make it into Chinese market at that time. Still wish the original dev can receive some money from my purchase. Thank you for bringing such a masterpiece onto this world, and, my world.

I feel like the Dreamcast version is superior, even without the expanded content, because on Gamecube the sound chip is nowhere near the quality of the one in the Dreamcast and the whole game sounds really scuffed. I genuinely didn't realise that the whole soundtrack was generated from MIDI until I heard audio from the gamecube version and couldn't believe how terrible it was by comparison. I feel like playing a shorter game with better sound is preferable to a longer experience that is accompanied with substandard audio.

Ebony. Darkness. Dementia.Ravenway. 😂😂

Are there many m rated star trek games outside of klingon honor guard?

HELL YEAH, BRAVERN!!!!

There is no blade of darkness in the game, the whole title is the result of a mistranslation. Should have been "Edge of Darkness". I got the game demo in the early 2000s with a magazine, which also had an interview with the developers. The demo had only the intro level with Sargon. Then we had the full version in the cybercafe I worked at, and we did play the multiplayer quite a few times, together with Halo: Combat Evolved, Medal of Honor Allied Assault, Unreal Tournament and Age of Mythology. Never finished the game back then.

I love that you kept all the edits to the cropped window for the game, and even gave everything that interlaced, bit-crunched look. Very nice attention to detail

13:10 Isnt the OG ActRaiser available on Nintendo Switch Online's NES games?

Hey there, I got a lot of Grandia goodies on my channel (interviews with the VA's, farewell to sue fully voiced, Grandia Abridged) Just thought i'd stop by and give ya a sub! <3 awesome video dude xxx

33:06 You want a game with a LOT of Gowron? Star Trek: Klingon for the PC. It's an FMV game where Gowron captures you in order to teach you about Klingon society by using the Holodeck to simulate a Klingon adventure. Its genuinely great, and Gowron screams at the camera directly in your face a lot

15:52 this was a reference to the film fatal attraction

11:08 how every bit in one of my intros are lol

This game was great

Awww, you ended up getting the real Grandia experience. Fall in love with the first half, wonder wtf happened in the second.

The spiteful drama farming content is so effective since there are so many children on youtube nowadays, and they love to watch that crap on their phones and ipads. It's a sad state of affairs to be sure. The new generations + the rise of phone technology have ruined the internet for me personally. So it makes me glad when little bits of gold like your channel pop up.

I enjoyed this review. Personally at the time I pirated the game (I had a potato PC so most games didn't run). The game barely ran on my system at launch but I loved it so much I bought the game to support the devs. I know some of the devs left and started the Metro series which I only have a little familiarity with.