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17:05 It's also a reference to a pretty similar side quest in Trails to Azure, where Shirley also helps finding a lost cat.

Thought that was a picture of Estelle and a glasses wearing Joshua from trails in the sky 😅

1:03:40 is why I quit the series and am now listening to your videos to see what happened in the story. After 8 games it felt like the games didn’t respect your time at all, there’s so much buildup to NOTHING happening at the big events

Xenoblade 2/3 (especially 2, which is probably my favorite video game soundtrack) are similarly great about use of leitmotif.

Im currently reading Umineko and I'm part way through ep6. It has unironically changed the way i perceive media and has spoiled me with how great it is. It is a piece of art that can change your life while you're reading it. Its just that thought provoking. I also watched the And Then There Were None movie adaptation from the 1940s and it was kind of funny to see what Umineko took from it and dialed up to 11 out of 10. Great video that i will recommend to anyone thinking about getting inti Umineko.

Thanks for the video man! About to start CS4 and needed a refresher on CS3 as I took a pretty long break between games since I was pretty burnt out after playing CS2 and CS3 back-to-back. Awesome video!

It's also my favorite vn but the writing doesnt come close to what you would find in average literature at all, it's definitely addictive and entertaining, mysterious too but to claim it's "the greatest piece of fiction I've ever read" either means you havent the capacity to appreciate better writing or it just reveals that you havent read a lot of books, like at all.

No MK?

I'm freaking laughing even thought i don't know anything about this character

Spoilers from ANSWER ARCS FOLLOWS FROM HERE ON (A minor scene but there's some spoiler either way): The cheese scene in Ep6 is a show of how much Umineko made me question myself and change my views. When I heard about the question my first thought was "what's the shape?" and I almost reached the true answer. But when every character clued at 3 as I was reading I assumed it was a cheese wheel. (My boyfriend reading also said 3) I stopped thinking. Why did I do that? Because everyone said it was 3. I realised that I had lost something I prided myself as a child. To always think and stand by my thoughts. I stopped thinking because I took what the game presented me at ace value. When Battler suggested an alternative I immediately got what he meant but because I stopped thinking til then, I only got it when said by Battler. I realised I need to get that back. My confidence to state what I believe no matter what.

ive been tryna get thru the first game on steam but idek if i can xd

I was so burnt out by the end of Reverie so I came looking for a recap/summary. You hit the nail on the head on how the series is so unwilling to let some of their characters just simply die. Building up scenes of supposed death just to bring them back half a game later cheapens the experience as a whole. This is why I enjoyed Sky/Zero arcs better as the writing is much more tight. That said I'm looking forward to fresh new faces in Daybreak. Thanks for the video btw!

I feel like the Quartz system was a downgrade coming down from Azure. Personally liked the puzzle aspect of learning arts. Another thing I noticed was that character balance was a bit of a mess. Doesn't get much better in CS2 but it is noticeable in CS1. Fie and Jusis in particular have difficulty fitting in the party since their niches weren't really there until CS2. Fie doesn't have her ranged counter attacks, making Gaius the better evasion tank. And Jusis lacks the master quartz that empowers both strength and arts as well as Royal Shield. There are also characters like Machias that takes a bit of creative thinking to get his playstyle going, he wants a lot of debuff quartz in his orbment.

I think Rean’s self sacrificial nature is fine even in CS3. It’s directly connected to his depression. He was improving in CS2 but then Crow died. And then he was conscripted by Osborne. And then he returns to Thors after all his friends graduated and moved on with their lives. It makes perfect sense for his depression to relapse and he falls right back into old habits. I also think his regression is crucial to his character development by the end of CS4 and Reverie.

Are you going to review Daybreak ? I've enjoyed your previous reviews of the series.

So I'm reading the manga for for 2 reasons, one my laptop is terrible and struggles to run even basic stuff and 2 I did watch about 10 hours of a no com playthru on RUclips and while I was interested in what was going on, my attention span is both dogwater and I was kinda half asleep. But reading it's manga, is so far I've finished episode 2 and it's just fun to see what Beatrice will do just to mess with Battler as well as the mysteries of the island itself. I may not be particularly a fan of Visual Novels in general aside from Ace Attorney and Danganronpa 2 but this is something I would recommend to anyone

Gideon is not Lughman lol, Gideon dies in Trails of Azure, Rose is not the Grandmaster

I wish these games had more voice acting because I often find myself zoning out after reading all the dialogue and then having to watch these recap videos

In some of your gameplay snippets, I can see you are using turbo mode, and during the dialogue sequences when it's on, it looks like you have auto text advance on but the text boxes don't advance super quick. I am on cs3 on PC and when using turbo mode I really can't have auto text advance on at the same time or else the text boxes go by way too quick.

Hey I caught that xenogears music snuck in there.

16:00 God, I want so much to have 1% of that type of experience on my region... Oh and the "Smash players only play Plataform Fighters" take is the most real thing in the world, I say this for myself, even though today I am able to play other FG sub-genres without finding it a torturous experience and understand the appeal, I don't find any of them that interesting as PF's.

Trails the 3rd is a masterclass in RPG songwriting. Especially the battle themes. Til the Night of Glory is the biggest standout

although far from spoiler free even on the "non-spoiler" parts, this is genuinely THE best way to recommend Umineko to laymen. VN fans generally extremely despise spoilers and i wouldn't recommend this video to the VN community because of its nature, but generally others are way more lenient to spoilers, especially if it's only about the early chapters. great video, i'll probably use this video as reference if i were to recommend Umineko to my irl friends.

This is the type of fgc content I live for

oh daaaamn I love Dissidia it was such a fun game!

Also i would avoid twitter in general And spend less time on social media in general

Unfortunately i dont have any friends (who play fighting games)

Smash and particularly brawl was everything when i was young Its kinda strange how big of an impact it had I have started to play a lot of guilty gear in the past year but i dont think its comparable to smash at all it feels completely different

Just wanted to say thanks for the recap! I’m sad you won’t be doing more of them in the future, because this was super helpful for me, but I appreciate it nonetheless.

Byalan dungeon's theme spotted lmao Great video dude, the smash player to FGC player pipeline is a real thing :,)

Man i was in the crowd by myself during that Majin match but a small group people of behind noticed. Before we knew it we were all yelling tand screaming throughout the match, then proceeded to go crazy as neegan was announced lol. Always great to see how some of players fall into the genre, thanks for sharing!

Cold steel 3 isn’t a bad game by any means but it’s hands down my least favorite. I think my biggest gripes are 1. Solidifying the cold steel problem of no one really dying. All of a sudden everyone who’s ever died is brought back and it makes me feel nothing at what should be a shocking ending. Obviously they aren’t gonna kill off three major characters if they can’t even keep the minor ones dead 2. General pacing and structure of the field studies. They just felt too long and not interesting enough. You technically only visit two brand new locations and honestly they’re not even that interesting. It also made me feel less connected to the branch campus compared to the main campus since you were there for less time then the main campus. 3. The plot twist build up. The end of game plot twists are cool but they have literally no build up to them. Unlike in sky FC, zero, and CS1 none of the previous chapters build to the curse and ash’s assassination attempt, it’s just “hey orobouros is doing stuff with aions”, something that doesn’t even get a proper conclusion and reason for until CS4. It makes the end of game cliffhanger feel cheap, rather then sky FC’s and CS 1’s cliffhanger they don’t resolve anything in this game before the plot twist, they just throw everything at you at once and then say “oh now you have to play cold steel 4 to see a resolution to literally any plot point”. Not to mention with that many plot points the game struggles to give any of them appropriate time. The branch campus and main campus rivalry gets introduced and then goes away until the end of the game, whereas the class 1 and class 7 rivalry of CS 1 and 2 felt like it got proper time to develop. Again, I still enjoy CS3 but I just can’t get past all my gripes

i like the mazda rx7

A really incredible collection, brother! Congratulations! I hope it grows with the release of the next games.

If it’s actually Shiki he’s gonna go this chair scene

Prisma Illya was your first entry into Nasuverse, I assume.

thing about sharon is she is still part of oroboros and part of the reinford group she just chooses the rienford group as a higher prio

Before starting Trails in the Sky FC: “There’s TEN games in games in this series!?” After finishing Trails in the Sky FC: “ten games is not enough…”

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I love this video. Your story on how you got into fighting games pretty much echoes mine. ❤

The way that one track cut in :skull:

“Play what you want when you want” that’s actually great advice 👍

I love 6 years of joy because people told me "Its pad or stick." STicks are expensive and modern gamepads SUCK. THEY ARE SCAMS. ABSOLUTELY ATTROCIOUS. For the love of the FGC stop telling people to use controller. Play on keyboard instead.

Whats the background music in your video called. The last part

I didn't play visual novel, only manga... At it has been 10/10 for me in every chapter.... What I loved is that they also changes the Text Colors In the manga depending upon the statement... And art style of manga makes it quite intriguing as well.

As someone who just finally finished Umineko after trying to solve it for 16 years without talking to anyone about it or searching it on Google, etc. - Listening to others praise it makes me feel extremely emotional.

After being disappointed in cs3 hoping cs4 would be better i ended up dropping it in act 2. So now here i am watching this so i can go & play Reverie

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I really enjoy your videos and speculation so I hope this difference in opinion doesn't come off the wrong way. Act 2, the way I thought of it in my head was as follows. There's a war about to start, you need all hands on deck. This is the assembling of "the avengers" or whole marvel spectrum, so to speak. But that's just my opinion. Thanks for an awesome video!