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Anyone who cares about spoilers, abandon this video at 23:09 Up to that point, the video is very insightful

This is such a good review! I know i’m a few years late but I really wanted to say so. 🥳

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Hello! As a fellow PMD fan I can't help but comment about some points here. -The Patsy Band can be a pretty useful item in the right circumstance! The main thing you need to keep in mind is that some foes will actually catch the Band, so you can throw it at them to make them take more damage. There's a couple of held items with such negative effects, that's their point. -Reviver Seed stacking is an incredibly strong strategy, but you have to keep in mind that on a fundamental level, Reviver Seeds are only failsafes for mistakes and don't help you in tackling whatever challenge comes. Orbs, seeds and other utility items are focused on solving perhaps more niche scenarios, but much more effectively. But I do understand why you would think they feel weak compared to an item that can basically fix every issue as long as you stack enough of them. -While the point of the game restricting side Pokemon in the story is fair, I do think this misunderstands that the point of letting you use other teammates is for exactly that: Open the window for the player to start experimenting. While your starter and partner might be your most leveled characters for the most part, the niche other Pokemon can provide for certain dungeons is valuable, so there are always reasons to use them if you want to be creative with it. The game just chose not to enforce because there are other players who would rather pick their duo and call it a day, which is also valid. -Shedinja dies to one Gravelerock! Never forget to stock on them they are very neat! -While I respect the story summary, I think that it would have been better to talk about what you like of the story instead of summarizing something that people watching this most likely already know. It's difficult to get much of an impression on what makes you like the game so far when a lot of it is just you narrating events. Nice video!

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Good stuff dude. Keep making vids

claims to be a love letter to 6th gen yet doesn't balance it's melee and ranged combat as well as ratchet and clank and jak 2 and 3. and honestly thinking about it what about it is trying to be 6th gen outside of trying to have melee and ranged have equal focus?

OH man I played that captain crunch game. also I only played like a SNES game and the dog we had at the time bit through the controller I was using. Also watched the turbo movie a lot as a kid.

if we are judging it as an rpg this game was innovative for its time but as an action rpg its very flawed

one time when I played I decided to cheat my stats to the max, and I didn't feel super overpowered. I guess they expect the player to max their stats ASAP. From what I heard morrowind doesn't expect that even when it has a similar stat increasing method to oblivion.

Yager have PVP ?!? I never know that ! 😮😮😮😮

Underrated sci fi ship game, I wish they can make a remastered or yager 2. Love this game and world lore

When you said stuff about reddit not giving damn about the plot, I became interested and checked the most commented threads about SoP on reddit. You are lying.

This game is a good game despite the dialog 😂😂😂

6:00 wasn't it the other way around? hikawa and his cult wanted to remake the world since they already had their reason in mind, yuko was along for the ride as the maiden. then later she changed her mind and decided she just wants the world to go back to how it was.

Great retrospective, Nocturne is so much fun, I like the dreary atmosphere and the gameplay is up there. It's surprising that Nocturne took so long to come out, SMT2 was released in 1994 and Nocturne came out in Japan in 2003, almost a decade. Not just that, the next mainline game after that also took a while after that too, Strange Journey came out in 2009 and was meant to be mainline but then they changed their mind, and SMT4 took all the way until 2013 to be made. 4 Apocalypse came out in 2016, but then SMTV took all the way until 2021 to come out. It's interesting how long mainline titles take. It's fascinating how spinoffs took over for a while. I don't have stats but they were very popular in Japan, Devil Summoner even had its own TV show. The developers gave the mainline games some attention too, they got a lot of remasters on modern consoles at the time, like SMT 1,2 and If on the PSX. A lot of these games have mainstay additions too, like more fiends, new angel design that was used in Nocturne, Metatron etc. People don't realize that the fiend theme in Nocturne actually orginated in SMT: If on the PSX! I wonder if Nocturne had some development issues too and was rushed. Digital Devil Saga has a lot of mechanical improvements over Nocturne. I really like how Nocturne is an homage to SMT 1 and 2, it has a lot of callbacks and music from the older games re-done. The protagonist is amazing and gets unique skills which we don't really see again until SMT V. The bosses and fiend bosses are great in Nocturne too. I'll still say it, Nocturne is the only game that actually does fiend boss fights correctly! In all other games the fiends are 1/256 chance which is horrible, or in Twisted Tokyo which is an awful dungeon, or they're paid DLC in SMT V. Dante being in the game is so silly but it's probably the only cameo I actually enjoy out of any media. It fits so well, you play a demon and Dante is a demon hunter, and both were extremely well known PS2 franchises at the time, it genuinely felt amazing playing both on release and I like how they even put in Dante's fake coin in the game. If you play DMC2 before Nocturne you'll learn in the story that Dante has a double-sided coin. He always wants to always help people, but he doesn't want to be taken advantage of, so he pretends as if he lost a bet to help people. If you know this coming into Nocturne, you can recruit him for free because you know he has a double sided coin on him. It's just so neat how he's a boss fight, you fight him and talk to him several times etc. I think you're right about Dante's dialog being a bit off, this game came out when only Devil May Cry 2 was out and his character is not as established as it is now. This depiction of him in Nocturne is pretty much how he acts in DMC2, which isn't bad though I'm the only person who finds some value in that game. I like how he's so aloof! It's better on the original release because he was free with the North American release. 15:40 I like the dungeon designs and puzzles so much, it really is still a dungeon crawler but in 3D, I like the symmetry and the interactions between floors like teleports and pitfalls, I know I'm in the minority but they really make you think and it feels great when you figured it out.

I feel like with reasons that Chiaki and Isamu get are trauma responses, Isamu gets owned and kidnapped and the player is unable to get him out of problems and he gets out on his own, Chiaki sees a world where power rules and also she gets attacked by the manikin guy who wears faces of other manikin, and she probably considered him "ugly" for that and wanted to get rid of "ugly" people I have a theory that the whole of the vortex world is intended to get people to these awful mindsets and awful reasons. As for the angels deciding to side with her, honestly the 3 reasons would get the same results for YHWH, (one of the later SMT games does say that YHWH wants either law or chaos to win) the freedom and true demon endings are ones that actively goes against YHWH's plans. And yeah the series generally sides for the neutral endings, most SMT fans (Well, fans of pretty much everything in general.) have pretty bad media literacy. Also Devil summoner and soul hackers does at least have different designs for some of the demons and a few demons from there haven't been seen outside of those games.

some of my favorite games are old but maube not this old .. late 90s is where the peak of the industry started but its good that some are checking these old games from the 80s where some concepts started taking shape

Thief is so bad that the upgrade the ninja is considered a different class instead of just an upgrade according to some people I saw do rankings. Also redmage best class

Nostalgia, always used to play this in the back of mom’s vehicle. Also started looking at this after ordering the analogue pocket

Sorry to hear about thr recording my man, i hope u will thrive with the channel❤🎉😊

How Fun Is This Game To Play ? How Fun are the boss battles ? How would U Rate it out of 10 ?

didnt know that existed, i might have to give that a try, thanks!

mech subgenre seems to be the perfect genre for action rpg with mech building incorporated to the expoloration...but mech fighting games or shooting game are salso good but i still feel its better in a game where not everything is about fighting and there is expolration and other things...plus having the ability to leave the mech will greatly help the immersion..to make it feel like a mech not just a shooter with mech skins

Nice video man subbed

5 is no where near considered the black sheep , 2 is wondering who you have talked to

Great review!

Always considered V underrated. Started when I was lent the first back in '91 along with the first Nobunaga's Ambition and have been a fan of both since. This one I didn't play this one until the FF anniversary a few years ago and bought most for $5 each off the ps store.

funny that this was the first ever ff game i played

Love the review! It actually works great since I saw this game on steam the other day and was really curious. I really was not expecting evil twin you could date... But regardless thanks for the review <3 And yeah for the sub skills they have something like that in princess maker that determines how good they are at certain tasks and whatnot, but can also be hard to understand there too.

In the map menu the save feature is at the bottom of the choice list

Guy u can definitely save in this game

from the story summery it seems like this game might have had a really troubled development, also third birthday did what mindjack did better and that's really sad.

Your opinions are wrong.

OMG I would never-ever think that such game exists...!! Well, the game itself is obviously not the best, I've seen worse though... But the soundtrack is awesome!

Hey man, great video and everything but could you please add some background music? Something from the game you are reviewing would be nice

I forgot if someone said this but I remember hearing that vanillie was originally meant to be the main character but because of early stuff they showed of XIII didn't focus on vanillie they changed things and it's part of the reasons why cutscenes are like that.

I'm only in part 2 but I'm looking forward for the rest of this video series! I personally love the 13 trilogy but I love to hear people's perspectives on it regardless. Keep up the great work

My problem with this game, is a lack of tutorial or just scheme of controls. How i supposed to know how attack, parry, block and what i can do, if i cant know it from the game ? I just drop it, both. But first game was good, i term of tutorial at least.

I happen to really enjoy this game last year, this game can't bad. It has everything to offer , great story and charecters and the music.

I have some issues with this “review” (its more of a recap of the game with some comments on the side) for many reasons. This isn’t really going to be all that organized but to be honest the actual video isn’t either. For one, the comment about EarthBound and its supposed “clones” is really weird. What “clones” are you talking about? Are you talking about Undertale, which is honestly the only one I can think of? Because it’s its own thing and honestly not extremely similar outside of superficial aspects. And “bizarre for the sake of bizarre” isn’t how I would characterize any Mother game at all either, but whatever. Like you said, you don’t care for them so I don’t expect for you to look that deeply into that stuff. As a final note, have you played Dragon Quest before because G.O.D. isn’t really all that similar to EarthBound’s combat and UI outside of obviously being inspired by those games? I would mention how there is a plethora of games that use the “find the Macguffins to defeat the villain” plot and EarthBound didn’t invent that at all, but to be fair the stones and melodies are pretty similar. Another thing I have to say is that “psycho” can also mean psychic. It’s honestly not that uncommon of a word to be used in that manner (M Bison?) so I have no idea why you’d think it’s an attempt to prevent clone accusations, but once again: whatever. I personally never had an issue with grinding in this game, especially after playing FF5 and FF6 where grinding for jobs and magic took literal days if you wanted everything. With this, I took a few hours of my time at a grinding spot towards the end not because I felt like I had to, but because I wanted to. This game is actually pretty lenient when it comes to experience and Cosmo Stones. The complaint that death has no consequences because you just “get reset” is genuinely confusing to me, too. You mean like pretty much every RPG ever, except ones like Dragon Quest and the original Megami Tensei for the NES which let you keep your levels but halve your money? One of my bigger complaints about this ramble is the fact that you don’t seem to understand the concept of storytelling through gameplay. I think you’re more used to story and gameplay being separate entities from one another which would explain why you review RPGs the way you do (like your SMT5 one but that’s an entire can of worms on its own). I’ll try to explain in semi-coherent detail. I can understand sequence triggers being obtuse, but the concept of going to a town, finding someone who needs help, going to search for the quest item, and being able to progress without a large cutscene is not inherently an issue. What you’re complaining about is backtracking and obtuse sequence triggers that require you to talk to a random NPC. This can slow down the pacing of the game, but that’s not really a knock against its overarching story. I could probably make the same comments about games you like and by your own logic, you wouldn’t really be able to refute it. The rest of the rant about learning about side stories from NPCs and completing side quests (heaven forbid) follows the same formula so I won’t even bother. The entire Michael portion is so tedious because you seem to have forgotten entire parts of the story where it is clearly shown that the reason he is opposing you is for the benefit of the aliens plus he has sympathy for humans (remember the entire cutscene in New York? Like seriously... come on) You literally contradict yourself so I’ll let the video do the talking there. The fact that you say that “he just says and does the same stuff he always does” blatantly ignores that he is doing that out of denial in the big cutscene you showed a piece of onscreen but sure. I have my own problems with Michael’s arc and I even agree with you on some parts when it comes to plot (especially Ai) but you are omitting key parts to make the story look “stupid”, which is why I take umbrage with this. The flippant tone section makes me laugh rather than genuinely annoy me, so I hope I don’t come off as mocking you. You start by comparing two entirely different and spaced-out parts of the game (Inuyama Zoo and Africa) and then use that as an example of “tonal whiplash”. I feel like I shouldn’t have to explain how ridiculously bad this complaint is but let me try. Let’s say I bring up… SPOILERS: FF5 as a game that has extreme, strikingly bad tonal issues for having a comic relief villain that makes constant jokes throughout his fights but then turns around and sacrifices himself while still making jokes. I would never do that because I don’t believe that all (in fact FF5 is my favorite in the series) but on that note, let’s talk about how MacBeth is a tonally confused mess because it had an entire scene of sex jokes right after a king was murdered and the body is being hidden (I wouldn’t do this either because I don’t believe it and again, I love MacBeth too). This is ignoring many, many stories that have more drastic shifts in tone but still manage to keep audiences’ attention during the drama but sure: “It’s impossible to be serious while trying to be funny. It never works. Please ignore all the other media that disproves my point”. The harping on the jokes feeling “lazy” ironically feels more lazy because it feels like you’re parodying yourself. “Oh no! This game has a silly smiley-face enemy while expecting us to care about the plot! Recurring jokes are the only funny ones! Let me complain about how silly it is that animals can suddenly talk in the zoo area when there’s cats and dogs all throughout the game that can talk and a recurring villain is an inexplicably-talking bat!” Otherwise-serious games sure are strangers to having silly jokes. FF4’s dev room? Psshaw! Metal Gear Solid’s fourth wall breaks? Please! I have nothing else to say about this but you’re right about Batty being awesome, though. (On a side-note. No, I’m pretty sure an obscure Japan-only RPG released in 1996 did not have a Trump reference in the original. You’d be surprised how much fan translators throw weird reactionary tangents into RPGs. Just look up wildbill.) You complain about the aliens being “evil for evil’s sake” villains but if you’re going to boil down aspects of a game you dislike purely because of your dislike for it, it might serve you better to not show entire scenes that contradict your points. Sure, they’re over-the-top and cruel and you don’t like them for that reason and you don’t think they’re interesting. Completely fine. Except the fact that the scene during that clip shows the alien clearly stating that they’re more of Sephiroth-like, “Taking back what’s rightfully ours” type of villains. You might find this cliche in itself or you may be arguing that what I’m saying is semantics, but no matter how one-dimensional that may still seem to you, its just weird that you’re portraying them as generic doomsday villains when the game even tries to humanize them later on. You really should have complained about that instead of just lazily mischaracterizing them. The last portion of the video exemplifies all of my grievances and this “reviewing” style in general. Firstly, just because the thing is weird doesn’t mean that it came out of nowhere or was never explained. At least look up a cutscene before making claims that anyone who has ever played the game can debunk. You spend so much time characterizing this game as “stupid”, “bizarre for the sake of bizarreness”, and “farcical” simply because of its humorous moments, turn around and call out its overarching plot for things you either missed when it was told to you or omitted for no reason other than to prove your “point”, and it just feels like a list of reasons why you don’t like EarthBound rather than a genuine critique of G.O.D. All-in-all, I don’t want to seem like I’m saying you can’t have an opinion or that your personal reasons for disliking story-through-gameplay RPGs is wrong, I’m just sick and tired of RUclips reviews that mischaracterize things they don’t like and then make it out to be “bad”. Even if I took everything you said at face value, how could G.O.D. be considered bad and not just mediocre? There’s no shortage of genuinely bad SNES games so acting like an “EarthBound clone” that has some missteps in the plot and decent everything else would rank among them just comes off as if you’re disappointed that it didn’t live up to your expectations. Sorry if this felt rambly and bitter, but that’s just how I feel.

Hola Dónde puedo conseguir el Soutrack que suena al inicio del video ante de que juegas

The fuck r u talk. Bout.... Ys been around since the 80s Faxanadu, Legacy of the Wizard, Dragon Slayer Hilde Lyde and much more. Game is off the hook!!!

Ys is such a strange series, because it was so important in JRPG history and it's still going, but few people talk about it. Also I can't help but to think the character portraits reminds me of the RPGmaker style