I’ve decided to no longer limit mini-reviews to the length of shorts, so this one and any coming out after it will be closer in length to a segment in a Launch Games video. Anyway, my next video will be one of my longer-length ones (over 20 minutes.) It should be coming out in June. I'll officially announce it once it's near completion. By the way, this review originated as a suggestion from Games & Movie Nation: www.youtube.com/@gamesmovienation3516 Here is the mini-reviews playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLCqYT5HGVMdsmFWujmBSPpP4jIM5m5xZE
You should put these mini reviews into larger compilations. They are more convenient to watch that way, plus they'll be picked up better by the algorithm.
I’ve actually been planning from the beginning to put them into a larger compilation, but I’ve been wanting to wait until I have about an hour’s worth. To make up for that, I’ve been pinning the link to the mini-reviews playlist in most of these. But yeah, these double as shorts, and I don’t expect them to take off as much as my longer videos (though, some of the shorts versions of these are regularly among my best performing videos.) They’re mainly made so I don’t have long gaps of no uploads. But I do appreciate the suggestion. It’s definitely something I want to do with these at some point.
There seemed to be more jester led games than I expected because this is certainly not Pandemonium. 0:27 - First party? Now that's a surprise. I certainly didn't see mentions of Jinx in PlayStation All-Stars. Which Sony studio made this then? 1:01 - The even funnier part is, combined with this game being a Europe exclusive, Sega had designed NiGHTS specifically to appeal to a European audience. They seemed to be under the impression that PAL territories like jesters a whole lot. 2:08 - Small hit boxes in these types of games tend to be a right aggravation. On the plus side though, you don't take damage from simply coming into contact with the enemy.
The name of the studio was Hammerhead. The most notable thing they did was probably the PlayStation port of Quake II. Apparently after Jinx they reformed back into Traveller's Tales, which is where they originated. I didn't know that about Nights. I guess I can't speak for the whole jester thing since I'm not from Europe, but it seems like there are more appealing things they could've gone with.
@@LegendOfGames Just tried looking them up and their studio name just links back to another game they developed. If they re-merged with Traveller's Tales then technically they are doing well. I think trying to find unifying themes for the whole of Europe + the UK is not exactly an easy feat and NiGHTS is at least an interesting take to try and appeal to such a vast array of cultures.
I had that game back in the day. I don't think I ever finished it, but I remembered it for all this time. I even thought several times about emulating it, but never went with it. Welp, maybe some other day. Thanks for the reminder! PS: I'm looking for the names of two games. Maybe you will be able to recognize them with the very brief descriptions I had in my mind. I think that the first game started in a castle. The cutscene may have shown a blonde princess among other people. It had the 2D RPG style graphics and the battles were turn-based. I remember the green patches of grass on the battle screen (and MAYBE gray stones/rocks in the background?). You probably controled more than one character in the battle. And finally, you potentially moved between locations using a world map. That's all I remember. As for the second game, it was also a 2D turn-based RPG. I think you started in some forest and after defeating a few enemies you made it to the city. In the town, you had to go into one of the houses and maybe there was some elderly people with a crystal ball or something? And after some dialogue , a big white light started emanating from the ball, and then my game was always crashing. I tried to find them for some time, but without any results. Any ideas? 😅
I’m not sure about those games since there aren’t enough details. Some possibilities, though: Beyond the Beyond Breath of Fire III or IV Thousand Arms Lunar 1 or 2 Valkyrie Profile Suikoden I or II Dragon Quest VII Wild Arms
As a bona fide European I can say that while I enjoy jesters, I can't say I felt any particular urge to buy and play games with them juat because they were jesters, you know? Maybe it was just some weird fad going around... never played this one, at any rate. And I'm not sure I'd want to search through auction sited for what will no doubt be a grossly overpriced version of the game...
I’ve decided to no longer limit mini-reviews to the length of shorts, so this one and any coming out after it will be closer in length to a segment in a Launch Games video. Anyway, my next video will be one of my longer-length ones (over 20 minutes.) It should be coming out in June. I'll officially announce it once it's near completion.
By the way, this review originated as a suggestion from Games & Movie Nation:
www.youtube.com/@gamesmovienation3516
Here is the mini-reviews playlist:
ruclips.net/p/PLCqYT5HGVMdsmFWujmBSPpP4jIM5m5xZE
Such a great review.
2:30
Ah yes tomba a game series that Sony's donkey Kong country
It definitely has some similarities. I'd say the first Crash Bandicoot is also very DKC-inspired.
This was a great, quick video. Can't wait for more and to watch this channel get big!
You should put these mini reviews into larger compilations. They are more convenient to watch that way, plus they'll be picked up better by the algorithm.
I’ve actually been planning from the beginning to put them into a larger compilation, but I’ve been wanting to wait until I have about an hour’s worth. To make up for that, I’ve been pinning the link to the mini-reviews playlist in most of these.
But yeah, these double as shorts, and I don’t expect them to take off as much as my longer videos (though, some of the shorts versions of these are regularly among my best performing videos.) They’re mainly made so I don’t have long gaps of no uploads.
But I do appreciate the suggestion. It’s definitely something I want to do with these at some point.
There seemed to be more jester led games than I expected because this is certainly not Pandemonium.
0:27 - First party? Now that's a surprise. I certainly didn't see mentions of Jinx in PlayStation All-Stars. Which Sony studio made this then?
1:01 - The even funnier part is, combined with this game being a Europe exclusive, Sega had designed NiGHTS specifically to appeal to a European audience. They seemed to be under the impression that PAL territories like jesters a whole lot.
2:08 - Small hit boxes in these types of games tend to be a right aggravation. On the plus side though, you don't take damage from simply coming into contact with the enemy.
The name of the studio was Hammerhead. The most notable thing they did was probably the PlayStation port of Quake II. Apparently after Jinx they reformed back into Traveller's Tales, which is where they originated.
I didn't know that about Nights. I guess I can't speak for the whole jester thing since I'm not from Europe, but it seems like there are more appealing things they could've gone with.
@@LegendOfGames Just tried looking them up and their studio name just links back to another game they developed. If they re-merged with Traveller's Tales then technically they are doing well.
I think trying to find unifying themes for the whole of Europe + the UK is not exactly an easy feat and NiGHTS is at least an interesting take to try and appeal to such a vast array of cultures.
I had that game back in the day. I don't think I ever finished it, but I remembered it for all this time. I even thought several times about emulating it, but never went with it. Welp, maybe some other day. Thanks for the reminder!
PS: I'm looking for the names of two games. Maybe you will be able to recognize them with the very brief descriptions I had in my mind. I think that the first game started in a castle. The cutscene may have shown a blonde princess among other people. It had the 2D RPG style graphics and the battles were turn-based. I remember the green patches of grass on the battle screen (and MAYBE gray stones/rocks in the background?). You probably controled more than one character in the battle. And finally, you potentially moved between locations using a world map. That's all I remember.
As for the second game, it was also a 2D turn-based RPG. I think you started in some forest and after defeating a few enemies you made it to the city. In the town, you had to go into one of the houses and maybe there was some elderly people with a crystal ball or something? And after some dialogue , a big white light started emanating from the ball, and then my game was always crashing.
I tried to find them for some time, but without any results. Any ideas? 😅
I’m not sure about those games since there aren’t enough details. Some possibilities, though:
Beyond the Beyond
Breath of Fire III or IV
Thousand Arms
Lunar 1 or 2
Valkyrie Profile
Suikoden I or II
Dragon Quest VII
Wild Arms
Even Pomni cringes at this game.
As a bona fide European I can say that while I enjoy jesters, I can't say I felt any particular urge to buy and play games with them juat because they were jesters, you know? Maybe it was just some weird fad going around... never played this one, at any rate. And I'm not sure I'd want to search through auction sited for what will no doubt be a grossly overpriced version of the game...
I'd definitely recommend emulating this one over getting an actual copy. Doesn't quite seem like a game that would improve a collection.