Finally got around playing this gem this summer after a really busy semester where i didn't had any free time play games at all. You weren't lying at all when you said Nayuta was one of the pinnacles of the PSP. Limited combat (by current action Falcom standards) aside, Its genuinely impressed me, one of the most fun games i played in a while, loved the comfy energy it gave me while playing it. The level design was very good for something that was made within the limitations of the PSP in mind. You'd think the season change mechanic is just to pad things out for content but they added a lot of new sections for each. The game also visually holds up surprisingly well by today standards, wish Falcom experimented more with with cel shading. Old handhelds games really were built different with how high quality they could cram in such limited hardware.
Yeah, i genuinely feel like especially today the only thing you cant do on a handheld is a consoles level of scope, scale and presentation Basically it cant do fancy set peices as well (but i can still do them within its limits) and since a basically dont care about that stuff it means i can just love the hell out of handheld games
haha I'm glad :D If I can introduce something to someone they otherwise would not of discovered I consider my job done Makes running a channel covering more niche stuff worth it
Just bough for ps4, great game! Games of psp /ps3 era were so much funny to play at... I had psp and loved it but never played this game because was only in Japanese. Really happy to play it now!
Oh man, Nayuta. It's admittedly not my favorite of Falcom's games outside of their big two -- I do prefer Xanadu Next for just hitting personal preference more closely -- but it just holds a special place in my heart. Like you said, it's one of the coziest games they've made and it's probably the easiest to just pick up and play if you want a quick half-hour session or something. And I love the fact that, for all the world-ending threats, it's still just kinda something that happened to Nayuta. Like, not even really the most important thing in his life. I think they say at the start of the game something like 'this is the story of my incredible summer vacation' and yeah, he just goes back to school afterwards and that's kinda great. Anyway, great video! Nayuta fans always get my respect! ... And with that out of the way, can we *talk* about the lore implications? From here on it'll all be mad ramblings, so by all means feel free to tune it out. But I find Nayuta interesting narratively for the ways that it bridges the gap between Ys and Trails. Like you said, it's definitely a 'greatest hits of Falcom' and you can see easily what they took from where. But I kinda like to believe that what it's meant to do is use the familiar frameworks of each series to show how certain aspects apply to others. Like take the People of Mythos, for instance. The comparison to the Eldeen writes itself given the ancient civilization destoryed by humans using their technology, the wings, the controlling a source of magic-equivalent through two twins, the turning into stone on death. Or the fact that the Astrolabe feels like the Ark of Napishtim but with Orbment Gears and the Constellation Core feels not insignificantly like the Black Pearl. But then the question is why? I like to think that it shows a through-line between the Eldeen, People of Mythos, and an unseen ancient race in Zemuria. Going back to setting, Ys takes place on not-Earth with two moons, Nayuta on a planet (I think) explicitly referred to as Earth with two moons where one is decidedly not a moon, and Trails in a setting that (seemingly) has no connection to Earth and only one moon. So what's the deal? Well through implication, like how Lost Heaven is a satellite crafted by the people of Mythos, we can infer that Ys' second moon is some form of Eldeen construct which then continues to imply that there isn't one in Zemuria because their ancients didn't *need* it; both the Eldeen and People of Mythos suffered terrible catastrophes at the hands of humanity which destroyed their civilization and left a significant chunk of the world either uninhabitable or underwater. Then we have Zemuria where there *is* an understood limit to the landmass like in these two, but no seeming explanation for *why* and the apparent calamity that happened affected humanity in the Great Collapse. Which brings us back to the cause of the calamities. In Nayuta, the People of Mythos were destroyed utterly because (IIRC) they shared their technology freely with humanity and then the humans made terrible weapons of war which blew everything up. In Ys, the Eldeen were destroyed because they only shard a *limited* technology with humans who grew jealous and tried to steal what was left, ruining everything when the Ark of Napishtim went out of their control. So where does that leave Trails? There's an obvious third scenario: the 'Eldeen/Mythos' of Zemuria simply refused to share any technology and thus managed to keep humanity suppressed. The Great Collapse is when the 'Darkling' equivalent in Zemuria either tried to challenge the Ancients or grew powerful enough to worry them and so they dropped the hammer and wiped them out. The boundary on Zemuria represents a kind of nature preserve invisible fence the Ancients are using to keep humanity in their place and out of their world. But of course, this begs the question of what about Aidios? Since she seemed willing to share at the very least the Septerrions with humanity, how does she fit in? Well she could either be a rebel among their people trying to uplift humanity because she thinks it's right or a member of them tasked with slowly developing humanity until they're willing to join the Ancients without resorting to immediate war and a technological arms race. And assuming the Grandmaster isn't Aidios, the fact that she looks like Creha is *very* interesting. Now I don't think that she's literally Creha, but Creha and thus a resemblance to her represents something critically important: one half of a pair of ancients much like Creha and Selam or Feena and Reah. I'd contend that the Grandmaster, Creha, and one of the Twin Goddesses (I can't decide which; maybe Feena because of the golden ornamentation) are *thematically* the same person and Aidios stands in as the other of the pair. Ouroboros and the Septian Church stand in conflict as a proxy war between their respective Ancient Twin Patrons who disagree about how to utilize whatever artifact -- Black Pearl, Constellation Core -- lies under their command and how much access humanity should have to it. Remember that in Ys I, it's mentioned that the Twin Goddesses represent Freedom and Order which feels like it maps pretty one to one to Ouroboros and the Septian Church. And there's the fact that the Wings of Water/Weatherlight have more than a passing resemblance to the Spetian Church's Stigmas and seems to fill the same purpose as the Eldeen's White Emelas wings which could be taken as an implication that the Stigma are a kind of testing ground for preparing humans for transference into something akin to Emelas bodies. And like, if the Astrolabe is meant as a season control system and the Ark of Napishtim a weather control system, perhaps Zemruia itself is just an extraplanetary colony that was terraformed by the Septerrions -- something which ties almost directly into the fact that Kai looks like it'll be dealing with space which goes back around to the two moons point and -- you know? I think I've lost coherency. I'll leave it at that for now. Sorry for the wall of text, ha ha.
I'm very glad I was able to manifest the game into the west cause when you start ranting about a jp exclusive psp game in 2023 you get weird looks on the bus thats for sure
Great to have you back Kraft! I owned a PSP, but not a Vita. I know that it was definitely a platform of choice for NF though, and so many of the Vita's games got ported to the PS3, like Lost Dimension and Trails of Cold Steel (I have it, but still haven't played it). This was a nice look back at a game I had no experience with, and I'm definitely interested now. It looks charming. I still recommend a look at an ancient game called Legacy Of The Wizard. It was the fourth game in Nihon Falcom's Dragon Slayer series, which would eventually spin off another series you might have heard of called The Legend Of Heroes (massive sarcasm there). It even has an impressive soundtrack by a composer you might be familiar with named Yuzo Koshiro (even more sarcasm, for effect). I played a ton of it when it came here in the US in 1989, but I think you might love the primitive style and sounds that would go on to inspire some of your favorite games. You're a bright lad, and I'm sure you can find some way to emulate an NES game. Give it a look, and see how much, and yet how little, has changed over the decades. Keep up the good work!!!
glad to be back (made a big fancy return a month ago and then got swamped with outside factors and work again) granted thats partly cos I've got a big project in the works (no spoilers on it tho) I definately have my eye on the gagharv trilogy for falcom at somepoint, and the likes of popful mail and wot not, eventually I'll work my way back to falcom's older stuff
@@Kraftium Oh my goodness! Popful Mail! That's a name I haven't heard in a lifetime. Cool. I'm just glad you're making videos on games you enjoy. Keep up the good work, and don't let this stuff burn you out.
@@100Servings its all good dw, gonna do a quick look impressions on something I forgot I ordered a code for which'll fill in the gap also the big project has ballooned in such a way its gonna be multipart which is useful cos I'll need to fill some gaps in my video game ... resume? (the list of games i've beat) before I can do certain parts for now tho I'm gonna celebrate a done vid with some alan wake
I must admit I’m guilty of underestimating this game, discounting it as some sort of spin-off leveraging its loose connection to the main series to sell copies and little else. Well, regardless of the strength of that connection I must say I’m impressed by all that’s on offer here and I regret being so brash in my initial assessment of it. Congratulations on an awesome video! Your entire channel is hugely underrated. I wish you much success!
I mean considering how badly it sold in japan I don't think you're the only one but I will continue to shout the gospel of nayuta from the rooftops lol also thanks for the praise my dood, I apprciate it. I love making videos but the slow growth can be a tad draining at times, tho I guess thats my fault for liking niche jrpgs lol
This was a very informative and interesting video. I have a lot more appreciation for this game now, I played Nayuta earlier this year, and I enjoyed it, although I will say that towards the end of the game, it was starting to overstay its welcome a bit for me. I was like, holy shit when is this game gonna end lol.
I can very easily see that the ending can feel a little drawn out especially with the after story if you're not on boarded with it 100% I had the thrill of it being this super secret PSP game when I first played it which probably kept me going
Nayuta was so peak. Till this day, It is still the last falcom game that have fun boss battle. Games after this have so underwhelmingly weak moveset and gimmicks in their boss battle.
It definately is a everything but the kitchen sink approch to falcoms combat I think the other ys games still hold up thanks to stuff like boss patterns and general higher speed but stuff like most of ys7 feels alot weaker these days
fuck yeah probably the best way to go about it doing a first NG+ on infinite is fun but some of the stuff is like "oof this game's got hands" when they scale the difficulty up twice in a row
...The guy that, I think that was Kondo? Saying that "He knows what he is doing"... NO. NO HE DOES NOT. I do NOT wish for Nayuta Boundless Trails to be connected to the complete and utter mess that are the later Trails games! Still, this was a nice review.
I can take or leave nayuta being part of the main canon tbh, i feel like people act like it needs to, to be considered worth playing and that opinion is lame but at the same time I the more bullshit thats added to mr kondo's wild ride the better cold steel as a whole was definately a fumble but I felt like reverie is them getting back on track and I think kuro looks super cool either way thank you for watching i'm glad you enjoyed it
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Everyone be sure to say thanks to Mr Kraft Nayuta for manifesting this official localization.
what can I say except "your welcome"
is that the CEO of Nayuta?!
The one and only
Finally got around playing this gem this summer after a really busy semester where i didn't had any free time play games at all. You weren't lying at all when you said Nayuta was one of the pinnacles of the PSP.
Limited combat (by current action Falcom standards) aside, Its genuinely impressed me, one of the most fun games i played in a while, loved the comfy energy it gave me while playing it.
The level design was very good for something that was made within the limitations of the PSP in mind.
You'd think the season change mechanic is just to pad things out for content but they added a lot of new sections for each.
The game also visually holds up surprisingly well by today standards, wish Falcom experimented more with with cel shading.
Old handhelds games really were built different with how high quality they could cram in such limited hardware.
Yeah, i genuinely feel like especially today the only thing you cant do on a handheld is a consoles level of scope, scale and presentation
Basically it cant do fancy set peices as well (but i can still do them within its limits) and since a basically dont care about that stuff it means i can just love the hell out of handheld games
This looks amazing! I would have never known about this had I not checked out your channel. Great stuff!
haha I'm glad :D
If I can introduce something to someone they otherwise would not of discovered I consider my job done
Makes running a channel covering more niche stuff worth it
You do not give yourself enough credit for that og video
thank you very much
its still the most proud I am of pretty much any of my videos but I do think it has its fair share of problems
Just bough for ps4, great game! Games of psp /ps3 era were so much funny to play at... I had psp and loved it but never played this game because was only in Japanese. Really happy to play it now!
feels good seeing people pick nayuta up after being the first and only person on youtube talking about it for like 2 whole years
Oh man, Nayuta. It's admittedly not my favorite of Falcom's games outside of their big two -- I do prefer Xanadu Next for just hitting personal preference more closely -- but it just holds a special place in my heart. Like you said, it's one of the coziest games they've made and it's probably the easiest to just pick up and play if you want a quick half-hour session or something. And I love the fact that, for all the world-ending threats, it's still just kinda something that happened to Nayuta. Like, not even really the most important thing in his life. I think they say at the start of the game something like 'this is the story of my incredible summer vacation' and yeah, he just goes back to school afterwards and that's kinda great.
Anyway, great video! Nayuta fans always get my respect!
...
And with that out of the way, can we *talk* about the lore implications? From here on it'll all be mad ramblings, so by all means feel free to tune it out. But I find Nayuta interesting narratively for the ways that it bridges the gap between Ys and Trails. Like you said, it's definitely a 'greatest hits of Falcom' and you can see easily what they took from where. But I kinda like to believe that what it's meant to do is use the familiar frameworks of each series to show how certain aspects apply to others. Like take the People of Mythos, for instance. The comparison to the Eldeen writes itself given the ancient civilization destoryed by humans using their technology, the wings, the controlling a source of magic-equivalent through two twins, the turning into stone on death. Or the fact that the Astrolabe feels like the Ark of Napishtim but with Orbment Gears and the Constellation Core feels not insignificantly like the Black Pearl. But then the question is why? I like to think that it shows a through-line between the Eldeen, People of Mythos, and an unseen ancient race in Zemuria. Going back to setting, Ys takes place on not-Earth with two moons, Nayuta on a planet (I think) explicitly referred to as Earth with two moons where one is decidedly not a moon, and Trails in a setting that (seemingly) has no connection to Earth and only one moon. So what's the deal? Well through implication, like how Lost Heaven is a satellite crafted by the people of Mythos, we can infer that Ys' second moon is some form of Eldeen construct which then continues to imply that there isn't one in Zemuria because their ancients didn't *need* it; both the Eldeen and People of Mythos suffered terrible catastrophes at the hands of humanity which destroyed their civilization and left a significant chunk of the world either uninhabitable or underwater. Then we have Zemuria where there *is* an understood limit to the landmass like in these two, but no seeming explanation for *why* and the apparent calamity that happened affected humanity in the Great Collapse. Which brings us back to the cause of the calamities. In Nayuta, the People of Mythos were destroyed utterly because (IIRC) they shared their technology freely with humanity and then the humans made terrible weapons of war which blew everything up. In Ys, the Eldeen were destroyed because they only shard a *limited* technology with humans who grew jealous and tried to steal what was left, ruining everything when the Ark of Napishtim went out of their control. So where does that leave Trails? There's an obvious third scenario: the 'Eldeen/Mythos' of Zemuria simply refused to share any technology and thus managed to keep humanity suppressed. The Great Collapse is when the 'Darkling' equivalent in Zemuria either tried to challenge the Ancients or grew powerful enough to worry them and so they dropped the hammer and wiped them out. The boundary on Zemuria represents a kind of nature preserve invisible fence the Ancients are using to keep humanity in their place and out of their world. But of course, this begs the question of what about Aidios? Since she seemed willing to share at the very least the Septerrions with humanity, how does she fit in? Well she could either be a rebel among their people trying to uplift humanity because she thinks it's right or a member of them tasked with slowly developing humanity until they're willing to join the Ancients without resorting to immediate war and a technological arms race. And assuming the Grandmaster isn't Aidios, the fact that she looks like Creha is *very* interesting. Now I don't think that she's literally Creha, but Creha and thus a resemblance to her represents something critically important: one half of a pair of ancients much like Creha and Selam or Feena and Reah. I'd contend that the Grandmaster, Creha, and one of the Twin Goddesses (I can't decide which; maybe Feena because of the golden ornamentation) are *thematically* the same person and Aidios stands in as the other of the pair. Ouroboros and the Septian Church stand in conflict as a proxy war between their respective Ancient Twin Patrons who disagree about how to utilize whatever artifact -- Black Pearl, Constellation Core -- lies under their command and how much access humanity should have to it. Remember that in Ys I, it's mentioned that the Twin Goddesses represent Freedom and Order which feels like it maps pretty one to one to Ouroboros and the Septian Church. And there's the fact that the Wings of Water/Weatherlight have more than a passing resemblance to the Spetian Church's Stigmas and seems to fill the same purpose as the Eldeen's White Emelas wings which could be taken as an implication that the Stigma are a kind of testing ground for preparing humans for transference into something akin to Emelas bodies. And like, if the Astrolabe is meant as a season control system and the Ark of Napishtim a weather control system, perhaps Zemruia itself is just an extraplanetary colony that was terraformed by the Septerrions -- something which ties almost directly into the fact that Kai looks like it'll be dealing with space which goes back around to the two moons point and -- you know? I think I've lost coherency. I'll leave it at that for now. Sorry for the wall of text, ha ha.
bought it for the switch, its such a joy to play
hell yeah peak gaming
just finished chapter 7 a few hours ago... what a game
Nayuta is amazing! Didn't know that it existed for the PSP and pick it up recently for the Switch and I loved it.
Totally recommended
I'm very glad I was able to manifest the game into the west cause when you start ranting about a jp exclusive psp game in 2023 you get weird looks on the bus thats for sure
Great to have you back Kraft! I owned a PSP, but not a Vita. I know that it was definitely a platform of choice for NF though, and so many of the Vita's games got ported to the PS3, like Lost Dimension and Trails of Cold Steel (I have it, but still haven't played it). This was a nice look back at a game I had no experience with, and I'm definitely interested now. It looks charming.
I still recommend a look at an ancient game called Legacy Of The Wizard. It was the fourth game in Nihon Falcom's Dragon Slayer series, which would eventually spin off another series you might have heard of called The Legend Of Heroes (massive sarcasm there). It even has an impressive soundtrack by a composer you might be familiar with named Yuzo Koshiro (even more sarcasm, for effect). I played a ton of it when it came here in the US in 1989, but I think you might love the primitive style and sounds that would go on to inspire some of your favorite games. You're a bright lad, and I'm sure you can find some way to emulate an NES game. Give it a look, and see how much, and yet how little, has changed over the decades.
Keep up the good work!!!
glad to be back (made a big fancy return a month ago and then got swamped with outside factors and work again) granted thats partly cos I've got a big project in the works (no spoilers on it tho)
I definately have my eye on the gagharv trilogy for falcom at somepoint, and the likes of popful mail and wot not, eventually I'll work my way back to falcom's older stuff
@@Kraftium Oh my goodness! Popful Mail! That's a name I haven't heard in a lifetime. Cool. I'm just glad you're making videos on games you enjoy. Keep up the good work, and don't let this stuff burn you out.
@@100Servings its all good dw, gonna do a quick look impressions on something I forgot I ordered a code for which'll fill in the gap
also the big project has ballooned in such a way its gonna be multipart which is useful cos I'll need to fill some gaps in my video game ... resume? (the list of games i've beat) before I can do certain parts
for now tho I'm gonna celebrate a done vid with some alan wake
I must admit I’m guilty of underestimating this game, discounting it as some sort of spin-off leveraging its loose connection to the main series to sell copies and little else. Well, regardless of the strength of that connection I must say I’m impressed by all that’s on offer here and I regret being so brash in my initial assessment of it. Congratulations on an awesome video! Your entire channel is hugely underrated. I wish you much success!
I mean considering how badly it sold in japan I don't think you're the only one but I will continue to shout the gospel of nayuta from the rooftops lol
also thanks for the praise my dood, I apprciate it. I love making videos but the slow growth can be a tad draining at times, tho I guess thats my fault for liking niche jrpgs lol
This was a very informative and interesting video. I have a lot more appreciation for this game now, I played Nayuta earlier this year, and I enjoyed it, although I will say that towards the end of the game, it was starting to overstay its welcome a bit for me. I was like, holy shit when is this game gonna end lol.
I can very easily see that the ending can feel a little drawn out especially with the after story if you're not on boarded with it 100%
I had the thrill of it being this super secret PSP game when I first played it which probably kept me going
Great video. You know what you should do? Drop a trials game tierlist
that is an idea
might do it as part of a milestone video or something
Falcom spoiled us.. Doesn’t get any better than that
no one does it like mah boi nayuta
Nayuta was so peak. Till this day, It is still the last falcom game that have fun boss battle. Games after this have so underwhelmingly weak moveset and gimmicks in their boss battle.
It definately is a everything but the kitchen sink approch to falcoms combat
I think the other ys games still hold up thanks to stuff like boss patterns and general higher speed but stuff like most of ys7 feels alot weaker these days
....ever played Ys? Because this is just a weaker Ys in that regard my boy.
playing NG+ on hard, gonna go for another NG on infinite, this game rocks
the gameplay is godly, its a fucking gourmet meal
fuck yeah
probably the best way to go about it
doing a first NG+ on infinite is fun but some of the stuff is like "oof this game's got hands" when they scale the difficulty up twice in a row
you made me buy the game and i loved it :D thanks
LETS GOOOOO
Another Nayuta enjoyer to join the cult- i mean squad >:)
...The guy that, I think that was Kondo? Saying that "He knows what he is doing"... NO. NO HE DOES NOT.
I do NOT wish for Nayuta Boundless Trails to be connected to the complete and utter mess that are the later Trails games!
Still, this was a nice review.
I can take or leave nayuta being part of the main canon tbh, i feel like people act like it needs to, to be considered worth playing and that opinion is lame but at the same time I the more bullshit thats added to mr kondo's wild ride the better
cold steel as a whole was definately a fumble but I felt like reverie is them getting back on track and I think kuro looks super cool
either way thank you for watching i'm glad you enjoyed it
@@Kraftium DID I STUTTER!? To hell with the later Trails games! I do NOT want Nayuta to be involved in ANY of that worthless mess!
@@kuraux56s59 i believe in kondos plan (he doesnt have one and i love it)
@@Kraftium I DO NOT.
@@kuraux56s59 thats it meet me by the bicycle rack a 4pm