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For the beginning if the video i have to COMPLETELY disagree with you putting Junpei over Mitsuru in FES, you said that " she doesn't learn any severe spells " as if Bufudyne + ice Boost ( accessory )+ Ice Amp doesn't literally have more than TWICE of Brave Blades base power. Budufyne: √320 = 17,88 ×1,25×1,5 = (33,54)² = 1125 effective base power For reference Brave Blade is 550 (×2 = 1100) base power, meaning that Mitsurus bufudyne is TWICE as powerful as Junpeis Brave Blade. In fact you said " Mitsuru in Reload is what she SHOULD have been " despite the fact that ... no ? In FES Mitsuru was the objectively the BEST DPS Party member, meanwhile ( as ill explain later ) she's actually the 3rd dps party member behind Akihiko and Junpei and before she gets Diamond dust she's actually also behind Aigis and Ken Dyne magic was BUSTED in the original p3 , why else do you think all dyne spells were nerfed to only 160 base power in P4 and P5, and even when they got buffed again in Reload they only got buffed to 220 For Reload: 1. Aigis trait is basically " Phys Boost/amp " which buffs all phys attacks but only by 10% / 20%, however this does stack with boost and amp of accessories/weapons, I do agree with you that she isn't as good as she was in FES mainly due to how late she gets her Ma-buffs and also how late she gets her good phys moves, but I feel like she should still be heigher than Mitsuru and Ken, especially since she's the 4th strongest party member in the end game. 2. I dont agree with Akihiko being so low, he's the only character ( other than Koromaru ) that gets both boost and amp of his element ( something even Mitsuru doesn't have ) and because of how early you can get the amp accessories this means that as soon as he gets Elec boost he becomes the first party member who can maximize his magic damage + when he finally gets God Hand he actually becomes the second strongest damage dealing party member ( that's not even mentioning his trait that buffs the power of buffs applied to him from ×1,4 to ×1,8 ) so even tho Mitsuru technically SHOULD outdamage him with pure numbers, if he has Tarukaja applied he's actually the strongest party member. Example: > Diamond dust + Ice Boost + Ice Amp + Magic ability + Tarukaja (30% boost ) : √(600)×1,25×1,5×1,25×1,3= 74,63 > Gods Hand + strike boost + strike amp + Tarukaja (69% boost thanks to Akihikos trait ): √(800)×1,25×1,5×1,69= 89,62 3. I feel like Koromaru should honestly be number 1, Getsu-ei during a full moon is 552 base power that he STARTS with which is almost as high as Brave Blade (650) a SEVERE LATE GAME skill + gets Masukukaja and a trait that AUTOMATICALLY applies Masukunda during every encounter thats essentially " ALI DANCE " on the ENTIRE party, and with power howling ( all party charge ) he powers up Mc, Akihiko, Junpei, Shinji and Aigis from the MOMENT you YOU GET HIM + Revolution which stacks with Apt Pupil and Junpeis Crit boosters. Koromaru honestly knocked aigis down as the best support party member in the game. 4. Junpei should honestly be number 2, he's actually the strongest party member in the game with DPS, and yes ... this INCLUDES THE PROTAGONIST Junpei can disg out more damage than the MC himself. That's because of Junpeis passives ( crit boost/amp ) which buff the damage of critical hits. And ots actually possible to get Junpei to 50% crit chance : Masakados Katan (Apt pupil doubles crit rate ) + Dragon boots ( auto rebellion, adds 7% in crit chance ) + innate crit boost and amp which increase crit by 5% and 10% (additive ) and increase crit damage by 20% and 40% + Revolution from Koromaru which increases crit rate by 15% (additive) : Brave Blade has innate 20% crit so: 20×2(apt pupil) = 40+7(rebellion)+15(revolution)+10(crit amp) = 72% crit chance Crits increase damage by 1,5 with crit amp thats also increased by 1,4 : √(650)×1,5×1,4 = 53,53 With slash amp (×1,5) this jumps to : 80,30 For comparison, Mitsuru with Diamond Dust + Ice boost + Ice Amp + Magic ability ( a set up thats she won't get until the very end of the game ): √(600)×1,25×1,5×1,25 = 57,40 4. You ... honestly overestimate Mitsuru by a lot .... despite being the " Magic Nuke " of the team, before she gets Concentrate at level 55 she's actually stuck being the 6th DPS party member for the majority of the game behind Ken, Koromaru, Aigis, Akihiko and Junpei, here's the math to prove it: For Ken and Koromaru: Kougaon/Eigaon: √(350)×1,25×1,5 = 35,07 For Akihiko + Aigis + Junpei who all benfit from Koromarus power howling ( charge is a 25% boost over 2 turns ) : Gigantic fist (+ strike boost gloves and strike amp accessory ): √(380)×1,25×1,5 = 36,55 ×1,25 = 45,68 Blade of Fury (+Slash amp accessory, junpei gets no slash boost weapon): √(42)×1,5×2/4 = 19,44/38,88 × 1,25 = 24,30/48,60 Myriad arrows (+phys boost + pierce amp accessory , aigis gets no pierce boost ): √(40)×1,1×1,5×2/5 = 20,87/52,27 ×1,25 = 26,88/65,22 Meanwhile Bufudyne ( ice boost + Ice Amp accessory ) : √(220)×1,25× 1,5 = 27,81 So before she gets Concentrate the only character that Mitsuru outdamsges is Yukari and Ken. And even after getting concentrate she's still behind Akihiko, Junpei, Aigis and Koromaru who all have much heigher base power moves , on fact even in the very end game when she finally gets Diamond Dust + the sword that gives her ( Magic Ability ) at the VERY END of the game she's actually STILL behind Junpei and Akihiko because of their theurgies that buff their stats passively. Mitsuru also has the worst 2nd theurgy, Almighty is actually a huge nerf for her, because that means her Theurgy doesn't get boosted by Ice boost/ice amp, this means that Mitsurus first theurgy ( which is ice ) actually OUTDAMAGES her second Theurgy. You put Mitsuru at number 2 but personally? Imo she's the worst party member in the game, she's a " damage nuke " that's stuck nearly dead last for DPS almost the entire game

Metaphor and Unicorn Overlord are my favourite games of the year. Good tier list, you should try unicorn overlord

would be majorly shocked if wukong won. It got an 81 on metacritic and the same people who made it get an 81 are the ones voting for GOTY. Meanwhile all the other nominees have 90+ by those same people voting for GOTY

Very harsh criticisms, but everyone has their own tastes. Love hearing other people‘s opinions on battle themes. Personally Masthema‘s, Beelzebul’s and Tehom‘s battle music I love so much and I love Shiva‘s so much.

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That's a decent list! Honestly, It's gonna be a showdown between astro bot, Black myth and either ff7 rebirth and metaphor. it's basically a 33,33,33% chance. There's no clear answer so far as to who will win.

This list is absolute shit (i know its opinion blah blah)... well done

KH DDD is still an improvement over Re:Coded and 358/2 Days. Re:Coded just sucked and 358/2 Days was just so repetitive I literally had to use an action replay to skip the repetitive missions because I would have never beat the game otherwise.

For me the worst Tales game was Graces. I mean the story is nice, but dear god the combat was slower than a dead snail. Like it's a step backwards because Asbel's combat style is just painful to play with.

This shit is so ass, i wanna say everyone has musical preferences, but no, fuck it, fuck you

Respectfully disagree with a lot of this apart from…. Mortal wounds and trailing in Judgment (both of which were improved for Lost Judgment). Big fan of 5 and Kiwami 2. I do get the story goes all over the place in the second half.

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Respect your opinion about Cold Steel, but the Trails series has arguably the best world building in JRPGs

Humans, demons and sounds like a scramble for your life thats why i like it

Link please. My taste is sooo different

Your definitely a troll, trails is the best jrpgs out there.

14:23 Okay this part sound like some that came out of Mega Man Zero or something. Specifically the song Cannonball.

I liked cold steel 1 and 2 gave up on the series with 3 ik crossbell and sky are better I agree never really got into kingdom hearts or tales of. I see zero in the background thoughts on drakengard 3?

My theory as to why they changed Yukari the way they did was because the way she was portrayed in Reload was the original intent for the direction of her character but they just rushed the story. People will say that they changed it because "nobody understood the point of The Answer" and I'm like... Okay and whose fault is that? The main point of contention I see is the pre-breakdown scene where she tries to steal the key from Aigis and... I don't really care? Like I wouldn't complain if they kept it in the game (matter of fact I actually think the scene would fit better in the context of Reload as it would be much more shocking) but at the same time I think it's understandable why they didn't Overall I appreciate what The Answer tried to do but at the same time I completely understand why people hated it so much initially.

One recent game I gave up on soon was Octopath Traveller. I found it unbearably tedious and dull and the lack of character interaction really bothered me.

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One RPG I just couldn’t finish was FF15. It just… the combat just sucked. It just did. I’m a huge sucker for gameplay, and the gameplay in the game was about as deep as sonic forces level design.

I personally enjoyed the cold steel games

19:55 oh shit, I never thought about that but you’re right, that does sound like that weird sound from TTT1 Hwoarangs stage LOL I used to not like crazy dancing but that might bump it up a notch for me

demons, humand and ... sounds like ass? your tier list is ass, you dont ve any decent musical taste....you suck

I actually really enjoyed Dream Drop Distance! I had no issue with the drop function since I just focused on one character at a time if I remember correctly. I really liked the flow motion mechanic and I enjoyed the story! I went through it very engaged on my 3DS I had at the time! I guess I'm just weird 😅

I totally agree with Sakura Wars. I got it on sale too and thought it would be like persona but there isn't enough action and the side content is not enough to make it engaging, especially if this is your first Sakura game. I couldn't bring myself to finish it.

I played through all the cold steel games but stopped at about 20 hours into the 4th one cuz i couldnt take it anymore. The start of the 4th game was actually rly good but then it turned back into all the stuff I didnt like about the other ones. walking into empty open fields, doing horrible side missions and grinding at small enemies for a long time cuz else bosses are just a pain to beat. Seriously I dont know who thought these bosses randomly healing themselves back up to full life midbattle were a good idea. The story as a whole is actually good but I understand why people quit after the 1st one. The whole 1st game is just a setup for the story and up to the very end nothing rly crazy happened.

Vesperia confused me a lot. I played it after finishing my first Tales of game, Berseria, which I loved. I'd heard Vesperia's praises sung from rooftops but it was 4/10 and I dropped it 15 hours in. As for Kiseki and Cold Steel, yeah that arc sucks (Cold Steel 1-4 are games 6-9 of the franchise). But the 5 games that come before it, and a few after it, are all masterpieces. Cold Steel is a bastardisation of Trails to the level of something rediculous like Game of Thrones S1-4 compared to S8. I implore you to try out Trails in the Sky first chapter.

In my case the only JRPG I couldn’t finished was Star Ocean 1 (switch version), god I hate that game so much. I enjoyed more and finished megami tensei 1 and 2 (remakes) and smt 1. In resume: -The combat is so barebones (understandable from a game of the snes) is kinda difficult trying to adapt old fashion action jrpg combat after playing games like Visions of mana, KH3 or Elden Ring, -Another thing that is so frustrating is the encounter rate and the insane difficulty spikes, even using a skill that supposedly lowers the encounter rate feels like don’t change anything. Finally the worts part in my opinion, how the skill system is implemented in the game, every time you level up, the character get points that can distribute in a variety of skills (painting, biology, pickpocket etc…) in addition you don’t get stats while leveling aside from HP and MP you have to max up some skills that get you strength, magic, agility… If you level up skills that don’t get you stats (for example combat related skills) you’re character get so weaker than in the late game 3-4 hits from one enemy can instantly kill him/her, furthermore you can forge weapons and armor but the catch its is random, if you want to forge an armor for you’re melee, fuck you because the healer is the one who is forging it AND its gets worse, sometimes you get an useless items wasting you’re time and resources. This game is one of the worst JRPG I played in my entire life holy molly.

I couldn't finish Tales of the Abyss, because of Luke. He's such a whiny, insufferable bastard that after the big dramatic reveal that's supposed to be his "change and growth," I stopped caring. He loses all his agency after the whole mine town nuke thing, and becomes a spineless yes-man pussy.

with Sakura Wars 2020, I can understand some of your complains, but you should know that the Sakura Wars franchise isn't a realistic date sim at all, I mean look the game literally ambients in a steampunk period just a little before than the 2nd world war, and where the world has combat mechs designed to eliminate demons, while the combat squadrons work at theater companies as a fake to entertain people, these kind of games are date sims, but they are more focus in the lore and don't want to be realistic, the problems with some of the girls here is that they are frustrated for not being like their old members of the imperial theater, who are those members? well the squads of the old Sakura Wars games from Sega Saturn, Dreamcast and PS2, the girls here have a good character growth and development and as a captain you must gain their trust, I suggest you give it a 2nd try with the game and at least if you can't simphatize with the girls once again, at least try to stay for the story which is pretty good, and also I would recommend that if you can check the first Sakura Wars from Sega Saturn, which it has a fan translation patch and is one of the Saturn games that isn't a pain in the ass to emulate, so easily recommendable, my final point is that the Sakura Wars franchise even being a date sim don't take it as a realistic depiction of girls, cause that's not the game main focus, just enjoy the lore and try to keep the trusting bond with the girl you like the most, cause that will improve the battle performance, I hope you can enjoy it in the future or with other game in the franchise, cause this SW for PS4 is a soft reboot by the way, so it builds the lore introducing a new cast, but it also considers what happened in some of the previous games, so take that in mind.

The Trails series REALLY drops its quality with the Cold Steel releases. Players like me just worked through it because "Rean cool", especially in CS3/4. Please go play the Trails in the Sky and Trails to Zero arcs. They fix all your arguments but the side quest one.

I'm...so fucking bored of Trails. I played all of them up until Reverie and that game genuinely just feels like pointless filler to give them more time to make Daybreak which apparently isn't great either and I'm tired of the stupid 'non plot' crap that's just shoehorned in for the sake of the increasingly annoying trope of the characters going hey did you get that reference? Isn't it cool?

Once you put Sakura Wars into the dating sim department, and not mecha action, it's a great game. However, when people see Sakura Wars, they immediately think that it's gonna be like Persona with mecha action where the sim game is a side thing. Vesperia, well, I liked Vesperia when I played it on xbox. It was the first Tales Of game that I've enjoyed back then. Now I replayed it, it felt weird, but I realized that I was spoiled by its successors' gameplays that playing it again felt awkward. Graces improved its battle system and made it a bit complicated with the combos, Xillia made it faster and more combo-oriented, and now we've reached Arise's gameplay where we can just spam skills left and right in mid to late game. I've only played Valkyria Chronicles 1,2 and 4 so I don't know much about Revolution. They have permadeath features for non-main characters. It was if they're downed and not retrieved by a teammate, after few turns or an enemy got into their position, they're considered "dead". That's why I always pair one up with another to prevent this, especially with a favorite. Yes, you'll get a favorite non-main character while playing. Never played KH:DDD Never played Cold Steel 2. I only played 1. Played From Zero and Azure, already had Reverie in my library but haven't touched it yet along with Daybreak. I have this bad habit of buying JRPGs and not touching it for a long time.

I loved Trails in the sky trilogy and the crossbell duology, but I freaking hated cold steel more and more every game. I played up to start of chapter 4 of cold steel 3 and just dropped the series because how bland the Rean and all his cheerleader squad that try to pretend to be party memebers was and it got worse with every game. Also trying to be persona with social link events and still just forces every girl to want to get in to Rean's pants by CS3 anyway is just a waste.

Cold Steel 1 and 2 are very peculiar chase, and even as fan i can see how first 2 games could not click for lot of people. Specially if you haven't played Crossbell games (Trails from zero and Azure) as lot of things in Cold steel tie back to story of those games, and even to Trails in the Sky trilogy. If you don't have that connection to the world, and over arching story its very understandable it wont really hit same. For example Giliath Osborne, who is pretty central character was introduced in sky and we have heard of him always just outside screen pulling strings, seeing him in CS1 and 2 obviously has very different meaning for players who been following the story over multiple games. And that being just one such example, there are numerous things like this, expanding and exploring things set up much before in series. Of course for new player games exploring these seemingly random things will hold no meaning, which is a shame but what can you do... But i still do despite everything i just said, think cold steel 1 and 2 could probably have been condensed in to one game, and it would have been better, as it does drag on for too long mainly just setting up stage for last 2 cold steel games. It really can not be understated how important with whole trails series to start from first game (Trails isn't the sky) as all of it is so connected. But i do very well understand why many players started with Cold steel instead of Sky, as sky and Crossbell games are top down 2d and specially sky is bit dated, which isn't for everyone, and even worse for longest time Zero and Azure were not available in English in official capacity. Thankfully both Zero and Azure got fantastic versions relatively recently for modern platforms, and Trails in the Sky is getting full remake treatment next year.

i don't really understand the tales of vesperia hype, i regretted buying the game, felt obligued to finish it. Phantasia, symphonia, berseria, xilia, graces and arise are more entertaining

I have similar issues with Vesperia, but the nail on tje coffin for me was that the game doesn't have some markers or a good in game summary to tell you where's your next objective, then i was running in circles because i took a break from the game and i couldn't remember why i was in that point and where was my next objective. And i have the same problems with Trails from zero (even with knowing the lore thanks 🙏🏻 to youtubers that do great summaries of Sky), I'm very close to the final chapter, but the corny tropes always makes me to put the game for later. One game from falcom that i like and it hurts me that I'm so dumb with directions and I can't finish, is Ys 8, the game is great, but the maps are awful and I'm always hitting dead ends and running in circles.

Dude we are kindred spirits. I dislike Vesperia because of the cast. Yuri has no agency at all in his story. Estelle is driving the story and she is so undecidive. I call her 'chancleta' (flip flop) The trails series man...that game is so self indulgent in its story and world building that my friend and I kid about even a park bench having an all encompassing back ground. It's a circle jerk of games. I wanted to like Valkyria Revolution but the combat was unrefined and made it unplayable. Kudos for lasting so long. And finally Dream Drop Distance. It's like they dropped Sora on his head multiple times. I hated the story and the dialogue and the world, huge, empty and tedious. Like I said to my friends. Kingdom Hearts have two sagas: Kingdom Hearts, Chain of Memories and II end proper. The rest are It's own thing that conclude on III.

Cold Steel 2 is definitely the worst one of the 4 (id still consider it a 8.5/10) but i really dont understand how a turn based jrpg fan couldnt like it. To each their own though lol

I 100% agree on Cold Steel 2. I finished it but I don't remember anything about it. Trails to Azure and Trails through Daybreak are absolute gods among JRPGs, but the entire Cold Steel arc is boring shit

All of these games are actually on my radar so hope to play them soon and see for myself but the only one I've played and finished is DDD and yeah it's not the best but I persevered so I could 100% before KH3 😂

My only problem with sakura wars was koi koi it took me around 8 hrs of my life to get that trophy

Vesperia is amazing u just have bad taste

I went in expecting Sakura wars to be a very corny anime dating game, and to be honest, I enjoyed it enough to finish it and do a second playthrough. I don't think the girls are unlikable, just very tropey. If you eant to turn your brain off and laugh a little, it's a good gme.

This makes me want to play P5R since I just played the vanilla one lol. Anyway, about the Cold Steel franchise, fans get really passionate about it but I share your sentiments 100%. Though I only gave up on the 3rd installment. I know it's full of anime cliche tropes but goddamn, the plot doesn't go anywhere until the very end of each game. I realized as I grow older that I want my game to have minimal to no downtime. If you're gonna slap me with anime cliche's plots and twists, at least make the characters and conflict interesting. The only plus here for me is yes, the combat but it's still nothing special too. This is a great video by the way and I hope you stand by your views and not let anybody make you second guess your opinion.

Vesperia is definitely a tough sell, looking back. When it first came out, it was amazing. I got the PS4 remaster and was hyped to replay it, but... it felt wrong. There was nothing changed that made the game worse or anything, but its cracks were easily visible this time around. The early game is rough and clunky. You characters move slowly. There's no variety to playstyles. You run out of your TP (basically mp) very quickly and resort to spamming basic attacks. That's when it hit me; the game was great when you saw these flaws, and watched as your characters would overcome different parts of it to cement themselves in their own mechanics. Yuri was a combo master, stringing skills together more freely, entering a personal overlimit mode and recovering his own TP as he lands hits. Repede runs literal circles around the battlefield and becomes unkillable. Judith launches things into the air where they can't fight back while she rips them apart. You get the idea. Starting over from scratch, knowing full-well what these characters were capable of sucked. I wanted to get to the fun gameplay, but I had to slog through the muck first. On a first play, the possibilities were the draw. "What is this character gonna do? WOW! That's amazing! I'll have to play them sometime, but I'm having so much fun with this character's stuff!" Knowing the limits just kills that wonder.

I agree wholeheartedly with Sakura Wars. I was excited because it looks great, the action mecha videos looks nice and wife loved original SW. She even cosplayed Erica Fontaine from SW3 so I really tried to get it. Here in Brazil was impossible to find, and I didn't want to buy digital because I hate digital, so I ended up importing... for around $160.. And customs charged me another 100% in taxes ROFL.. Only to put in my ps5 and get the WORST game that ever existed. No voice acting, and whiny and cringe girls and meh romancing. I did less hours than you, I didn't even get to experience the action mecha, so bored I was tbh. I bought Valkyria without understanding the game's intention of being action, I saw Valkyria and bought expecting a gun/tactical as the others... what a let down, but it was my fault not searching throughly first. I tried playing the Vesperia but didn't like it much. I like the characters designs, but idk, it wasn't making me like the characters themselves. Even Arise did a better job keeping me wanting to know more. My favorite Tales is Tales of Abyss (3DS).