I played uncharted waters when it was released. I was about 12 years old. It taught me far more about geography than 12 years of public education. I learned about where some commodities originate. World powers at the time, and port cities that endure tto this day. There are very few games like it, because gaming today is driven by sales, and i really dont care if my char has a zebra print jacket or cool shades. I care about content and quality of experience. I would call this era of gaming the golden age for this reason. Thanks for sharing, and im so glad younger generations can still enjoy the experience this game brings.
"I was unlucky that i had to wait out 2 storms" you got lucky, West Africa is brutal and will often throw over 5 storms on you for daring to go down there without preparation.
this right here was one of my favorite SNES games. I beat all campaigns, but I've re-played Catalina's campaign hundreds of times... though usually not to completion, more like a sandbox. There are so many secrets, so many ways to play. You can super cheeze the game too. I regret the future installments, none of them hold a candle, and most were not translated into english anyway. Heck, it's even up on steam now, but no english.
Did you know that in Japan they release a second version of this game with two new campaigns on it? Did you know this game is getting a totally modern remake that's releasing on Steam this year? AND IT'S BEING LOCALIZED IN ENGLISH PRAISE THE LORD!
I think the remake is out now... Is it good? I don't trust Steam reviews (or, for that matter, IGN & Metacritic) for KOEI games. They have a history of being review bombed by rabid fanbase and hatedom alike.
The remake is decent, but its an MMO, everything is more complex, with even more systems. And its quite the timesink. But its very pretty, fixes all of NoA censorship and even add new admiral stories. But it has microtransactions, and all new admirals (and Pietro) are paid currency only. If you like to play for the global influence aspect, i recommend, but if you rather stay single player and wants a faster game, stick to NH.
Always great to experience a game you enjoy alongside you with the review. The Uncharted Waters series does make me wonder, how there were so few games that cross RPG and open-world trading/seafaring sandboxes more heavily. Of course there were games like Sid Meier's Pirates! and maybe even stuff like Elite in space kind of touches the same nerve, but UW2 especially seems kind of unique in leaning stronger on the RPG and story side of things, instead of being a pure sandbox.
Well if there's two things KOEI Tecmo are good at is making unique stuff nobody else does and... running franchises into the ground with no good reason. There's Firaxis milking every iteration of Civ and spinoffs and there's KOEI casually dropping unique franchises and then rebooting them out of nowhere with mixed results.
I played the heck of it on Sega MD. (it's basically the same game, just using sega soundchip to produce the same musics). I absolutely fell in love with that game when I was kid, trying to figure out the game mechanics in complete blindness of the foreign language. Hell, I even discovered save function to amazement of my friend who owned the cart and didn't know about this feature.
A sign of a great review/video essay is it teaches you something new you didn't knew before. "Disease of more" not only explains this game, it also explains every other game franchise and ALSO a thought tool to use in IRL work. Impressive work, really! (and I will give this game a go too)
UW2 New Horizons has a minor fever of More, if you want to see real disease of more, go to Uncharted Waters Online. people who love the game love to death, but boy it has way too much shit, and spread itself too thin.
As somebody who started with NH and played the original later... I knew the apprehensions you were going to have and I'm happy you took the dive. It's one of my favorite games ever sidenote: you should add Privateer for the DOS to your itinerary if you love this sort of game. It's Uncharted Waters..... *in space*
thanks for this. New Horizons was one of my favourite games as a kid. Of course I could never find it in stores so I had to rent it every freaking weekend.
Learned everything I know about the age of exploration and world geography from this game! You mentioned in battle sequence that you only control your own ship. You actually have the ability to "delegate" the AI of your fleet and seek to attack or flee in whatever way you see fit. It just takes a little longer after first engagement.
@20:00 I would argue the "filler" characters are more for a relaxing sandboxy-type experience without the nagging of NPCs to "go here, do this" as you get in the "main" campaigns. You can load up an Ernst game and just enjoy playing the game, do whatever you want, nobody's nagging you to go here, and do that.
Except you can't go to Japan. I always found Pietro the best choice for a sandbox experience, though I tended to go with Joao or Ali just cause they had the best stats/skills.
@@Dhalin As per the video, greatpiratesolomon42, and from personal experience. Both Japan ports are undiscoverable until you have enough rep ports to unlock them as Ernst.
@@bthojh9849 Is there really only two Japan ports? Or is it that there are more ports that sell the Japanese type ships? I know some people love that huge ship they sell if you do the work to get their shipyards maxed out, and I remember seeing those oriental ships at what I thought was more than just two ports, but memories are fuzzy.
I remember really being taken in by this one when the first didn't quite do it for me back in the day. Glad to see it holds up! I think that New Horizons SNES box is kind of rare.
Found your channel looking for an in depth review of this game. I loved this game so much when I found it collecting. I love the discovery aspect, gotta give it another go sometime soon.
Taking missions for the King are not a waste of time. With every promotion you get an additional 10% discount buying goods in any port allied with your home country. By the time you reach duke it's 50% off!
It depends on the character. If youre Otto or Ali, its worth doing jobs for the king. However, there is a programming glitch with Ali. The king will ask you to invest in ports, but if you need 10 ports to invest in and you only have 8 to invest in, too bad. So dont invest in ports unless the king tell you to (if youre playing Ali). With Ali, you also get a better relationship with Turkey, and that means a cheaper tax free permit.
I love this game. I'm still pissed that the later games in the series never came to the US other then the online game, and steam has the first two but only in Japanese for some insane reason. My favorite campaigns were Catalina and Otto. I grew up reading a lot of novels focused on age of sail naval officers and privateers wo being able to play that kind of story in the game was fun. Even though most of the novels I read were set long after this ships and naval combat really hadn't changed that much. (The earliest setting for a series I recall was the seventeenth century while the most common period was the late 1700s or early 1800s)
@@fargoretro Daikoukai Jidai Gaiden was released for the Playstation only in Japan, it has only 2 characters, one who is Salvador Leis, son of Redbeard (AKA Khayr Ad-din, that turkish pirate with insane level and 10 venetian galleas fleet.) and the other is Miranda Verte, a literal 16 Years old Fangirl of Pietro Conti that believes to be his fiancee due to a misunderstanding.
I have never played both of those games but damn i loved your reviews of them. It really makes me want to try, at some point. Its really impressive that games with that quality for the SNES are rarely talked about, and they definitely aged well from what i can see in your reviews. Thanks for your videos man its been awesome watching your journey trough those games
Yes Final Fantasy VI is excellent, and the Pixel Remaster was great too. Yes, Chrono Trigger and Earthbound raised the bar. But nothing ever screamed "untapped potential" and "hidden gem" like this game, to me. A while back I showed it to a friend of mine who never really got into the SNES, and he got totally addicted to it. Because while most people today play SNES RPGs out of nostalgia, or because they want to explore the classics or legendary video games - if you got this game running on someone's smartphone today and called it an "indie game", they wouldn't know the difference. It's so far ahead of its time and so incomparable, that it's still a really fresh and well-directed experience 20 years later.
Couple things to note, Ali's required money to beat his campaign I believe varies by how much you have when you get to that point. I think its default 100 Ingots, but you probably had more. Also the discoveries are not all the same each time. Each playthrough you will have 100 villages with 100 discoveries but theres a bigger pool than that and they are somewhat randomized each playthrough. Sadly the pool isnt that big so you will see a lot of repeats.
Otto was my first campaign, and so it ended up being my favorite. Also, I almost exclusively relied on dueling. I got the biggest ship, remodeled it to hold extra sailors, and then rammed the flagship. I had the best sword and armor, so I won almost every duel without having to reload. Good times.
This was my favorite game when I was a kid. I got it for almost nothing at a hollywood video on the used game shelf. I played it so many hours I can't even count, absolute banger of a game
I remember playing this game when i was younger, one of my main work arounds in the ship battles was to have my captain duel their captain thus save alot of resources
1:35 How could this -not- make sense? How can people not understand how intimidating something you love doing something new is? The fear of something new tied to something you care deeply about- what if it is bad? And maybe more terrifying- what if it is better? I do not understand a person who doesn't immediately relate to this.
@13:30 "Otto/Catalina's campaigns are hard" Who said you had to do the battling right away? Put your Galleon into a moor and grab yourself a Light Galley, something you should do on EVERYONE'S campaign. Modify this Light Galley to be 0 guns, 5 crew (don't forget to assign 100% for navigation), and rest in cargo. Go to Istanbul, put 5 food and 5 water in the hold, fill the rest of the cargo with Silk. Sail southwest to that town on the island (the one they teach you about in Ali's campaign), sell the silk there, and then buy art, and go back up to Istanbul. At first, it will be a little slow, but if you buy/maintain tax-free documents and if you learn the merchant perk, you will quickly be swimming in gold bars. Once you do that, go up to Antwerp (right next to Holland) and invest in the shipyard there until it's maxed out. This will make them sell a unique ship called a Full-Rigged Ship. These ships are *INCREDIBLY OVERPOWERED.* They are stronger than Venetian Galeasses, by a pretty large margin. One maxed out with the best guns can shear off 40+ hull off of even those dreaded pirate ships in a single blast.
I get you homie. Tecmo Bowl was my jam, Tecmo Super Bowl scares me. Romance of the Three Kingdoms 2 was my jam, Romance 3 is scary and omfg Romance 4 noooo. Nobunaga was awesome but Lord of Darkness...I wet my pants.
Uncharted Waters 2 New Horizons was a heavily censored game on its SNES and Genesis releases, there were many changes, including, but not limited to: Removal of all religions in the game, the Japanese version had Churches and Mosques, all replaced by the "Round Earth Society". Enrico Malione was changed to a Scholar instead of a Jesuit Priest. João Franco mission from his father was changed from Searching for the Kingdom of Prester John to Atlantis, and that also affects a later part of the plot. and thats why Atlantis is where it is in the game. the Kingdom of Prester John was very important to Portuguese Sailors, as a Mythical Christian Kingdom long lost. All Beverages were removed, including trading goods, the Raisins are in fact Wine. Catalina dialogue with waitresses is the same as other characters in the japanese version. Matthew Roy is a drunkyard in the Japanese version, and he manage to drink 120 spaniards into commiting treason.
This game was way ahead of its time, and I have yet to find another game of its type which is better. I would love if they ever did a worthy remake or if a true spiritual successor were made, but I am probably just going to have to go back and play New Horizons again to scratch the itch. Also, from what I remember, I think Ali was probably my favorite character, as he seemed the most noble, and figuring out all of the most profitable trade routes with him was a lot of fun.
I LOVED EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS GAME. I will say for Ottoman Turkey, coffee makes total sense. Can't drink cuz Islam and coffee houses were so big a deal the sultan shut them down whenever the populace got restive.
My father died with $250,000 in student loan debt. The week it happened, I got a call from a collector trying to get me to agree to pay it. I was not nice to them, then told my siblings if they got similar calls, they were not liable for any of it. My sister got a letter in the mail about 6 months ago saying our father's loans were forgiven. He died in 2020.
The Uncharted Waters games are that rare game that looked and played better on SNES than on PC. BTW, I invested hundreds of hours into both those games back in the day. I loved most of what KOEI was producing back then.
Hehe i played this game so much, after awhile, and finding everything out, I'd keep starting over all the time. The strongest i could get, the quickest way, was my goal. It's funny that you said you only did dueling as a last resort, when in actuality, you can end fights in under a minute or two every time np. All you had to do was buy an s rank weapon from a shop at 2am. Just focus solely on the cost of the weapon. The best one i liked, was from Timbuktu, again, at 2am And Ali is the "best" character, skill wise. He's so good hehe. I'd start a game with him, and totally avoid his main quest, because of his amazing skill set lol. He was so good at getting gold early, that i could easily buy the s rank sessions very early. Then destroy the rest of the game by dueling every single captain lol
When we where kids my cousind and i would play this game for hours, when one fell asleep the other took over, and thats something no other game in my life will acomplish
I bought this game on the Wii virtual console a long time ago. There's something about the idea of it that appealed to me then and even today. But I think it's just not for me. Maybe I just want a simpler execution or more interesting gameplay and combat. But I have to admire its scope and ambition.
I like how you analyzed the groups of characters. I always felt that the top row of characters were the 'main story' versions of the 'Adventure', 'Combat', and 'Mercantilism' campaign, and the bottom row characters were the 'sandbox mode' characters. You wouldn't want to play Ernst over Joao for the story, but maybe its nicer to kind of just get started doing the thing you want. Great video had to watch it again :D
Ive been thinking about this game for decades. Like brain herpes the itch always comes back. My holy trinity were romance of the 3 kingdoms on genesis, aerobiz supersonic on snes, and new horizons for snes. Anyone got a recommendation for a spiritual successor to new horizons?
I know I played through the first game but the only 2 memories I have of it was my inability to properly invest in some location near india because of the way you couldn't carry much money and how slowly it took to sail from Seville to Lisbon.
FWIW, the age stuff (and the alcohol stuff) in UWNH for SNES is all weird localization. Otto is in his fifties in the PC release and I'm pretty sure Ernst and the girl are both described as older there too (but I can't remember because it still is the least fun one).
The only other protagonist not named Ernst that cannot go to Japan is João, and for similar reasons. the only places that makes sense having the pubs sell no alcohol are Islamic countries, and the good ol 90 censorship doesnt end there, the "Round Earth Society" doesn't exists in the PC version, on that version its straight up churches and mosques, and Christian characters cannot go to mosques as Muslim characters cannot go to church (AKA Ali, or anyone who defects to Turkey).
Joao is awesome. He's almost as good in combat as Otto and Catalina, starts at a lower level (so more potential to gain stats quickly), and is generally better at other shit. I think Catalina is better in intuition though. I remember wearing through maps and naming Catalina after my crush at the time, even though they look nothing alike.
Actually, Catalina's intuition is terrible, she makes for a terrible adventurer, her talents lie in violence. I find very fitting that her intuition is bad because she gets bamboozled several timea during her story and is too immerse in grief to notice anything, that woman has tunnel visioned herself into the path of vengeance.
I appreciate you reviewing all these weird games, because a lot of SNES RPGs are a waste of time, and instead of it being MY waste of time it's YOUR waste of time, and now I can go play Uncharted Waters II without having to slog through all the other snes games that aren't so good.
I forget how I came across this game - I didn't buy it, yet somehow I had the cartridge in my collection. I loved it. I still love it. But even more memorable was that a week after I decided I loved New Horizons, I read through a maybe year-old issue of a games magazine I had at the time and saw, amazingly, that this somewhat-obscure game was reviewed in the issue. Now, this was the kind of games magazine that would give, say, FF3 a 95%, and Shaq-Fu a 65%. I think the worst review I ever read was a 59% for some awful fishing game. They gave New Horizons 32%. They savaged *everything*. The graphics, music, gameplay, blah blah blah. It taught me that games writers, at least in the early-to-mid-90s, didn't know what the fuck they were talking about. I never read the magazine again. But I am glad to watch a video by the one other guy in the world that loves New Horizons as much as I do. Ahh, memories of investing in shipyards 'til they let me build ridiculously overpowered ships and fighting the Spanish. Searching for villages. Dying of scurvy and starvation. Fuck I love this game.
One note: when you're hiring crew, etc., if you cursor over to the leftmost digit and press "left" again, it will max out the counter. Also useful when moving food/water/cargo around.
One day, Jason will go into PC gaming and play Uncharted Waters on PC, and then play Legend of Cao Cao, Star Control II, and then he will disappear from the world.
The music killed this game for me. The town music makes my ears bleed. Beyond bad, a 2 second annoying loop over and over again Uncharted waters (the first one) is a pleasure to listen to, from the sailing themes to the town themes
I was surprised to learn from your video that the composer went on to have a stellar career, no doubt due to the commercial success of uncharted waters franchise@@JasonGravesPoser
@@vangelis7 The thing about the soundtrack is that every console and computer uses the same notes, but there are times the instruments are different. I like the X68000 and Genesis versions of the soundtrack better. The SNES version of African ports sure did make my ears bleed. Its not the first time Koei's games sound programming made my ears bleed (Bandit Kings of Ancient China in particular). Yoichi Erikawa did most of the programming for the games himself, including the sound programming. I find Yoichi Erikawa did better with computers and consoles that used Yamaha sound chips.
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I played uncharted waters when it was released. I was about 12 years old. It taught me far more about geography than 12 years of public education. I learned about where some commodities originate. World powers at the time, and port cities that endure tto this day. There are very few games like it, because gaming today is driven by sales, and i really dont care if my char has a zebra print jacket or cool shades. I care about content and quality of experience. I would call this era of gaming the golden age for this reason. Thanks for sharing, and im so glad younger generations can still enjoy the experience this game brings.
So the old why your playing stupid video games all day can be tossed back at their face with this game 🤣
"I was unlucky that i had to wait out 2 storms" you got lucky, West Africa is brutal and will often throw over 5 storms on you for daring to go down there without preparation.
this right here was one of my favorite SNES games. I beat all campaigns, but I've re-played Catalina's campaign hundreds of times... though usually not to completion, more like a sandbox. There are so many secrets, so many ways to play. You can super cheeze the game too. I regret the future installments, none of them hold a candle, and most were not translated into english anyway. Heck, it's even up on steam now, but no english.
Did you know that in Japan they release a second version of this game with two new campaigns on it?
Did you know this game is getting a totally modern remake that's releasing on Steam this year? AND IT'S BEING LOCALIZED IN ENGLISH PRAISE THE LORD!
I think the remake is out now... Is it good? I don't trust Steam reviews (or, for that matter, IGN & Metacritic) for KOEI games. They have a history of being review bombed by rabid fanbase and hatedom alike.
The remake is decent, but its an MMO, everything is more complex, with even more systems. And its quite the timesink. But its very pretty, fixes all of NoA censorship and even add new admiral stories. But it has microtransactions, and all new admirals (and Pietro) are paid currency only. If you like to play for the global influence aspect, i recommend, but if you rather stay single player and wants a faster game, stick to NH.
Always great to experience a game you enjoy alongside you with the review. The Uncharted Waters series does make me wonder, how there were so few games that cross RPG and open-world trading/seafaring sandboxes more heavily. Of course there were games like Sid Meier's Pirates! and maybe even stuff like Elite in space kind of touches the same nerve, but UW2 especially seems kind of unique in leaning stronger on the RPG and story side of things, instead of being a pure sandbox.
Oh, man. Jason should like Pirates! Gold on Genesis.
Well if there's two things KOEI Tecmo are good at is making unique stuff nobody else does and... running franchises into the ground with no good reason.
There's Firaxis milking every iteration of Civ and spinoffs and there's KOEI casually dropping unique franchises and then rebooting them out of nowhere with mixed results.
I played the heck of it on Sega MD. (it's basically the same game, just using sega soundchip to produce the same musics). I absolutely fell in love with that game when I was kid, trying to figure out the game mechanics in complete blindness of the foreign language. Hell, I even discovered save function to amazement of my friend who owned the cart and didn't know about this feature.
There is something rad about that Sega Soundchip
A sign of a great review/video essay is it teaches you something new you didn't knew before.
"Disease of more" not only explains this game, it also explains every other game franchise and ALSO a thought tool to use in IRL work.
Impressive work, really!
(and I will give this game a go too)
UW2 New Horizons has a minor fever of More, if you want to see real disease of more, go to Uncharted Waters Online. people who love the game love to death, but boy it has way too much shit, and spread itself too thin.
Been binging your videos for a couple days now. Refreshing review style.
Glad you like them!
As somebody who started with NH and played the original later... I knew the apprehensions you were going to have and I'm happy you took the dive. It's one of my favorite games ever
sidenote: you should add Privateer for the DOS to your itinerary if you love this sort of game. It's Uncharted Waters..... *in space*
Yoko Kano did the soundtrack for Uncharted Waters? That's AMAZING!
My favorite SNES games New Horizons, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy.
I feel u bud. we have the same interest lol
thanks for this. New Horizons was one of my favourite games as a kid. Of course I could never find it in stores so I had to rent it every freaking weekend.
Learned everything I know about the age of exploration and world geography from this game!
You mentioned in battle sequence that you only control your own ship. You actually have the ability to "delegate" the AI of your fleet and seek to attack or flee in whatever way you see fit. It just takes a little longer after first engagement.
@20:00 I would argue the "filler" characters are more for a relaxing sandboxy-type experience without the nagging of NPCs to "go here, do this" as you get in the "main" campaigns. You can load up an Ernst game and just enjoy playing the game, do whatever you want, nobody's nagging you to go here, and do that.
Except you can't go to Japan. I always found Pietro the best choice for a sandbox experience, though I tended to go with Joao or Ali just cause they had the best stats/skills.
@@GreatPirateSolomon42 Eh? You can go to Japan with Ernst, except for *one* port that's hidden for plot reasons.
@@Dhalin As per the video, greatpiratesolomon42, and from personal experience. Both Japan ports are undiscoverable until you have enough rep ports to unlock them as Ernst.
@@bthojh9849 Is there really only two Japan ports? Or is it that there are more ports that sell the Japanese type ships? I know some people love that huge ship they sell if you do the work to get their shipyards maxed out, and I remember seeing those oriental ships at what I thought was more than just two ports, but memories are fuzzy.
I remember really being taken in by this one when the first didn't quite do it for me back in the day. Glad to see it holds up! I think that New Horizons SNES box is kind of rare.
It is.
I’m so excited for this! Thank you. Just started my first play through last night. Have 2 dollars!
Found your channel looking for an in depth review of this game. I loved this game so much when I found it collecting. I love the discovery aspect, gotta give it another go sometime soon.
Taking missions for the King are not a waste of time. With every promotion you get an additional 10% discount buying goods in any port allied with your home country. By the time you reach duke it's 50% off!
It depends on the character.
If youre Otto or Ali, its worth doing jobs for the king. However, there is a programming glitch with Ali. The king will ask you to invest in ports, but if you need 10 ports to invest in and you only have 8 to invest in, too bad. So dont invest in ports unless the king tell you to (if youre playing Ali). With Ali, you also get a better relationship with Turkey, and that means a cheaper tax free permit.
I love this game. I'm still pissed that the later games in the series never came to the US other then the online game, and steam has the first two but only in Japanese for some insane reason.
My favorite campaigns were Catalina and Otto. I grew up reading a lot of novels focused on age of sail naval officers and privateers wo being able to play that kind of story in the game was fun. Even though most of the novels I read were set long after this ships and naval combat really hadn't changed that much. (The earliest setting for a series I recall was the seventeenth century while the most common period was the late 1700s or early 1800s)
Yeah I read there was a 7th Campaign for a Pirate character from North Africa in one of the versions we didn't get.
@@fargoretro Daikoukai Jidai Gaiden was released for the Playstation only in Japan, it has only 2 characters, one who is Salvador Leis, son of Redbeard (AKA Khayr Ad-din, that turkish pirate with insane level and 10 venetian galleas fleet.) and the other is Miranda Verte, a literal 16 Years old Fangirl of Pietro Conti that believes to be his fiancee due to a misunderstanding.
I have never played both of those games but damn i loved your reviews of them. It really makes me want to try, at some point. Its really impressive that games with that quality for the SNES are rarely talked about, and they definitely aged well from what i can see in your reviews. Thanks for your videos man its been awesome watching your journey trough those games
Yes Final Fantasy VI is excellent, and the Pixel Remaster was great too. Yes, Chrono Trigger and Earthbound raised the bar.
But nothing ever screamed "untapped potential" and "hidden gem" like this game, to me. A while back I showed it to a friend of mine who never really got into the SNES, and he got totally addicted to it.
Because while most people today play SNES RPGs out of nostalgia, or because they want to explore the classics or legendary video games - if you got this game running on someone's smartphone today and called it an "indie game", they wouldn't know the difference. It's so far ahead of its time and so incomparable, that it's still a really fresh and well-directed experience 20 years later.
Couple things to note, Ali's required money to beat his campaign I believe varies by how much you have when you get to that point. I think its default 100 Ingots, but you probably had more. Also the discoveries are not all the same each time. Each playthrough you will have 100 villages with 100 discoveries but theres a bigger pool than that and they are somewhat randomized each playthrough. Sadly the pool isnt that big so you will see a lot of repeats.
Hell yes, new review, been waiting on this
Otto was my first campaign, and so it ended up being my favorite. Also, I almost exclusively relied on dueling. I got the biggest ship, remodeled it to hold extra sailors, and then rammed the flagship. I had the best sword and armor, so I won almost every duel without having to reload. Good times.
It's a legend game, i already play all the caracthers to the end👍
This was my favorite game when I was a kid. I got it for almost nothing at a hollywood video on the used game shelf. I played it so many hours I can't even count, absolute banger of a game
Man i love this game nostalgia hits hard
I remember playing this game when i was younger, one of my main work arounds in the ship battles was to have my captain duel their captain thus save alot of resources
Glad to see love for this game. Unsharted Waters 2 was my go-to as a kid.
Played this game when i was only 600 years old and its the best
Always fun when you review a game I've never heard of. Great video as always Jason!!
One of my favorite games to replay every now and again.
Did you know about the secret weapons, armor, ships and ship accessories??
Those shady 3am business dealings.
Your basketball analogy fits even more so w the sport of baseball. Just look at the angels w mike trout and otani..
1:35 How could this -not- make sense? How can people not understand how intimidating something you love doing something new is? The fear of something new tied to something you care deeply about- what if it is bad? And maybe more terrifying- what if it is better? I do not understand a person who doesn't immediately relate to this.
@13:30 "Otto/Catalina's campaigns are hard" Who said you had to do the battling right away? Put your Galleon into a moor and grab yourself a Light Galley, something you should do on EVERYONE'S campaign. Modify this Light Galley to be 0 guns, 5 crew (don't forget to assign 100% for navigation), and rest in cargo. Go to Istanbul, put 5 food and 5 water in the hold, fill the rest of the cargo with Silk. Sail southwest to that town on the island (the one they teach you about in Ali's campaign), sell the silk there, and then buy art, and go back up to Istanbul. At first, it will be a little slow, but if you buy/maintain tax-free documents and if you learn the merchant perk, you will quickly be swimming in gold bars.
Once you do that, go up to Antwerp (right next to Holland) and invest in the shipyard there until it's maxed out. This will make them sell a unique ship called a Full-Rigged Ship. These ships are *INCREDIBLY OVERPOWERED.* They are stronger than Venetian Galeasses, by a pretty large margin. One maxed out with the best guns can shear off 40+ hull off of even those dreaded pirate ships in a single blast.
Great game, did Ali's campaign as an adult and really enjoyed it. I thought the sailing music for Ali sounded kinda like "Allentown" by Billy Joel.
I get you homie. Tecmo Bowl was my jam, Tecmo Super Bowl scares me. Romance of the Three Kingdoms 2 was my jam, Romance 3 is scary and omfg Romance 4 noooo. Nobunaga was awesome but Lord of Darkness...I wet my pants.
I loved that deep nba team composition knowledge
Uncharted Waters 2 New Horizons was a heavily censored game on its SNES and Genesis releases, there were many changes, including, but not limited to:
Removal of all religions in the game, the Japanese version had Churches and Mosques, all replaced by the "Round Earth Society".
Enrico Malione was changed to a Scholar instead of a Jesuit Priest.
João Franco mission from his father was changed from Searching for the Kingdom of Prester John to Atlantis, and that also affects a later part of the plot. and thats why Atlantis is where it is in the game. the Kingdom of Prester John was very important to Portuguese Sailors, as a Mythical Christian Kingdom long lost.
All Beverages were removed, including trading goods, the Raisins are in fact Wine.
Catalina dialogue with waitresses is the same as other characters in the japanese version.
Matthew Roy is a drunkyard in the Japanese version, and he manage to drink 120 spaniards into commiting treason.
Regarding the oldest 25 year old, I started going gray when I was 11 or 12. By the time I was 30, my hair was mostly white.
This game was way ahead of its time, and I have yet to find another game of its type which is better. I would love if they ever did a worthy remake or if a true spiritual successor were made, but I am probably just going to have to go back and play New Horizons again to scratch the itch. Also, from what I remember, I think Ali was probably my favorite character, as he seemed the most noble, and figuring out all of the most profitable trade routes with him was a lot of fun.
I LOVED EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS GAME.
I will say for Ottoman Turkey, coffee makes total sense. Can't drink cuz Islam and coffee houses were so big a deal the sultan shut them down whenever the populace got restive.
My father died with $250,000 in student loan debt. The week it happened, I got a call from a collector trying to get me to agree to pay it. I was not nice to them, then told my siblings if they got similar calls, they were not liable for any of it. My sister got a letter in the mail about 6 months ago saying our father's loans were forgiven. He died in 2020.
The Uncharted Waters games are that rare game that looked and played better on SNES than on PC. BTW, I invested hundreds of hours into both those games back in the day. I loved most of what KOEI was producing back then.
Thanks for putting all the work and effort for making this review
That duel looks exactly like card-jitsu from club penguin.
If only UW had sledding
Just come across your videos dude, they are awesome
New to the channel. What is that game listed as GOAT tier?
Hehe i played this game so much, after awhile, and finding everything out, I'd keep starting over all the time. The strongest i could get, the quickest way, was my goal. It's funny that you said you only did dueling as a last resort, when in actuality, you can end fights in under a minute or two every time np. All you had to do was buy an s rank weapon from a shop at 2am. Just focus solely on the cost of the weapon. The best one i liked, was from Timbuktu, again, at 2am
And Ali is the "best" character, skill wise. He's so good hehe. I'd start a game with him, and totally avoid his main quest, because of his amazing skill set lol. He was so good at getting gold early, that i could easily buy the s rank sessions very early. Then destroy the rest of the game by dueling every single captain lol
When we where kids my cousind and i would play this game for hours, when one fell asleep the other took over, and thats something no other game in my life will acomplish
I bought this game on the Wii virtual console a long time ago. There's something about the idea of it that appealed to me then and even today. But I think it's just not for me. Maybe I just want a simpler execution or more interesting gameplay and combat. But I have to admire its scope and ambition.
Can't wait to watch this! Love this game it had my vote.
Heh, the three good characters were the ones I suggested to play thru as 1 of each of the 3 pillars of the game.
If you like Auto-Battle, may I introduce you to our lord and savior Ogre Battle? :D
I'm making an Ogre Battle like game on my channel, in a few videos it might even look like a game :D
Curveball at the end, and thus ends my live tweet watching of this video. Hats off Gravesy.
I like how you analyzed the groups of characters. I always felt that the top row of characters were the 'main story' versions of the 'Adventure', 'Combat', and 'Mercantilism' campaign, and the bottom row characters were the 'sandbox mode' characters. You wouldn't want to play Ernst over Joao for the story, but maybe its nicer to kind of just get started doing the thing you want. Great video had to watch it again :D
Ive been thinking about this game for decades. Like brain herpes the itch always comes back. My holy trinity were romance of the 3 kingdoms on genesis, aerobiz supersonic on snes, and new horizons for snes. Anyone got a recommendation for a spiritual successor to new horizons?
I know I played through the first game but the only 2 memories I have of it was my inability to properly invest in some location near india because of the way you couldn't carry much money and how slowly it took to sail from Seville to Lisbon.
my favorute part was when he said its charting time and charted all over those waters
Uncharted Waters, nah brah.
I like when he discovered new horizons
By the way, which one's Waters?
FWIW, the age stuff (and the alcohol stuff) in UWNH for SNES is all weird localization. Otto is in his fifties in the PC release and I'm pretty sure Ernst and the girl are both described as older there too (but I can't remember because it still is the least fun one).
When I saw this game in the playlist I felt happy for you even though I just started watching your shit yesterday.
It looks awesome and I kind of want to try it now.
In my top 5 SNES games.
Speaking of snes sequels that are pretty cool, breath of fire 2 when?? BUT very Excited for Fe 4. That game is amazing besides some pacing issues
Love this game so much but never managed go get through a single story.
The only other protagonist not named Ernst that cannot go to Japan is João, and for similar reasons.
the only places that makes sense having the pubs sell no alcohol are Islamic countries, and the good ol 90 censorship doesnt end there, the "Round Earth Society" doesn't exists in the PC version, on that version its straight up churches and mosques, and Christian characters cannot go to mosques as Muslim characters cannot go to church (AKA Ali, or anyone who defects to Turkey).
Yeah coffee got so big because Ottomans used coffee houses instead of pubs.
Joao is awesome.
He's almost as good in combat as Otto and Catalina, starts at a lower level (so more potential to gain stats quickly), and is generally better at other shit. I think Catalina is better in intuition though.
I remember wearing through maps and naming Catalina after my crush at the time, even though they look nothing alike.
Actually, Catalina's intuition is terrible, she makes for a terrible adventurer, her talents lie in violence. I find very fitting that her intuition is bad because she gets bamboozled several timea during her story and is too immerse in grief to notice anything, that woman has tunnel visioned herself into the path of vengeance.
Otto campaign has the most freedom. It's good for doing a world domination or other silly runs.
U should do an NBA Jam review 🏀🏀🏀
I appreciate you reviewing all these weird games, because a lot of SNES RPGs are a waste of time, and instead of it being MY waste of time it's YOUR waste of time, and now I can go play Uncharted Waters II without having to slog through all the other snes games that aren't so good.
I forget how I came across this game - I didn't buy it, yet somehow I had the cartridge in my collection. I loved it. I still love it. But even more memorable was that a week after I decided I loved New Horizons, I read through a maybe year-old issue of a games magazine I had at the time and saw, amazingly, that this somewhat-obscure game was reviewed in the issue. Now, this was the kind of games magazine that would give, say, FF3 a 95%, and Shaq-Fu a 65%. I think the worst review I ever read was a 59% for some awful fishing game.
They gave New Horizons 32%.
They savaged *everything*. The graphics, music, gameplay, blah blah blah. It taught me that games writers, at least in the early-to-mid-90s, didn't know what the fuck they were talking about. I never read the magazine again.
But I am glad to watch a video by the one other guy in the world that loves New Horizons as much as I do. Ahh, memories of investing in shipyards 'til they let me build ridiculously overpowered ships and fighting the Spanish. Searching for villages. Dying of scurvy and starvation. Fuck I love this game.
One note: when you're hiring crew, etc., if you cursor over to the leftmost digit and press "left" again, it will max out the counter. Also useful when moving food/water/cargo around.
So you're saying if I want get to better a basketball, I should play this game.
This game isn't for everyone, but play it if you have any questions about what happens aside from there's 6 original character stories.
Thanks...
One day, Jason will go into PC gaming and play Uncharted Waters on PC, and then play Legend of Cao Cao, Star Control II, and then he will disappear from the world.
Hopefully by the time he gets to Nobunaga's Ambition he will learn to pronounce daimyo as it is spelled... And not as... dynamo)))
Not an RPG, but watching this I think you might like another Koei game, PTO. I prefer the first to the second, but YMMV.
Jo-ahn-un*
But don't feel bad, that ~ sound is as hard for English speakers as the -th sound for Portuguese speakers.
Sell art in Istanbul and buy carpet to sell in Athens where you buy art run.
Great content
It's good
Shout out to William Robert Lee, i was afraid i was gonna have to watch a Fire Emblem video.
Loved this game
Kurt Thomas went to the Knicks and did an even more average job. Nash deserved at least one mvp
😂😂😂 it is always funny how Americans say João....kkkkk might be better calling him John...
You have such sadness behind those eyes
IRL 1000% returns on tea and porcelain runs from China to Europe were not unheard of.
Go spurs Go
The music killed this game for me. The town music makes my ears bleed. Beyond bad, a 2 second annoying loop over and over again
Uncharted waters (the first one) is a pleasure to listen to, from the sailing themes to the town themes
I prefer the original's music, but NH's isn't a dealbreaker by any means
I was surprised to learn from your video that the composer went on to have a stellar career, no doubt due to the commercial success of uncharted waters franchise@@JasonGravesPoser
@@vangelis7 The thing about the soundtrack is that every console and computer uses the same notes, but there are times the instruments are different. I like the X68000 and Genesis versions of the soundtrack better. The SNES version of African ports sure did make my ears bleed. Its not the first time Koei's games sound programming made my ears bleed (Bandit Kings of Ancient China in particular). Yoichi Erikawa did most of the programming for the games himself, including the sound programming. I find Yoichi Erikawa did better with computers and consoles that used Yamaha sound chips.
I put hundreds and hundreds of hours into this one.
Yoko Kanno 4eva
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"A 1000% return on investment which is the craziest thing I have ever heard"
Laughs in (some) crypto investing (if it is done RIGHT)
Look up tulip bubble. 🌷
It's crypto from Uncharted Waters period.
Algorithm. Some people could do with a little bit of help.
This chick needs a bigger green screen
You talk to much at the same thing over and over again..
I have that same shirt. lol