The FromSoft Games That Lie To You

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  • Опубликовано: 23 дек 2024

Комментарии • 139

  • @officialprozac
    @officialprozac 5 дней назад +38

    hey kbash, long time listener first time caller, at 35:03 i was drinking the last dregs of my hot ginger drink and at the thumbs up emoji clipart and your falsely enthusiastic "we care about fun!" i laughed while drinking. Immediately, hot ginger shot to the back of my esophagus, as well as through my nostrils. I was coughing for at least five seconds straight, in tremendous pain.
    great video man keep it up

  • @ThatReplyGuy
    @ThatReplyGuy 5 дней назад +75

    It's about freaking time someone did a video on the Otogi games. I've been mentioning them in video game essay-tuber comment sections for years.

    • @nunothedude2
      @nunothedude2 4 дня назад +2

      Why didnt YOU make a video abt it, im sure ude learn so much

    • @ThatReplyGuy
      @ThatReplyGuy 4 дня назад +2

      @nunothedude2 I'm busy enough as it is, I don't have the time or talent to make content like this. I listen to these types of videos while working, and I've always felt that when people talk about older From Software games, the Otogi games are never mentioned, so I would bring it up in comment sections just to shed some light on them. I assume most people have never heard of the Otogi games since they were Xbox exclusive games with no PC release.

    • @nunothedude2
      @nunothedude2 4 дня назад

      @@ThatReplyGuy what do u do? I mean u can def do that, its just something we tell oursels, i am like that too but i try to make stuff here and there

  • @OneSleeplessOne
    @OneSleeplessOne 5 дней назад +26

    A bit of context, Raikoh and his family were executioners and political assassins for the imperial court. He left the capital after orders to kill his father and nearly died after a supernatural storm leveled everything. The only reason he's "somewhat" content to fight demons is to redeem himself.

    • @SnakebitSTI
      @SnakebitSTI 5 дней назад +4

      I was wondering if the story wasn't some variation the classic samurai theme of "sure sucks how your boss is evil. Now go follow those orders or bury a knife in your own guts, because there are literally no other options".

  • @yurareigiryu
    @yurareigiryu 5 дней назад +49

    5:38 I appreciate you calling out players that slap "lag" on anything that isn't actual lag like hitstop, hitstun, blockstun, and recovery frames.

  • @RougeMephilesClone
    @RougeMephilesClone 4 дня назад +4

    This was deserved and appreciated. I've wanted to hear more about Otogi for a long time, and I don't know if many other video essayists would have broken down the full scope of what these games are like Kbash did.
    Now I really want to see a Kbash Lost Kingdoms video, even though 2 is one of the first reviews on the channel or something.

  • @mrlucy7197
    @mrlucy7197 4 дня назад +3

    I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO FOR 20 YEARS! Finally we get some Otogi love. I played this so much as a kid, and forgot it was even Fromsoft game for a while.

  • @ncrtrooper7153
    @ncrtrooper7153 5 дней назад +78

    Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.

    • @LuciferHunter-kt7pm
      @LuciferHunter-kt7pm 5 дней назад +1

      Froze my ass off out there in the Mojave in 2011. Ate turkey puck for thanksgiving in the sand.

    • @DirtyMike124x
      @DirtyMike124x 4 дня назад

      ​@@LuciferHunter-kt7pm lmao I just tried to look up "turkey puck" and had no luck. It's beyond the expertise of AI apparently too when I tried to ask one. I'm committed now. Please tell me what turkey puck is 🥺 lol

    • @LuciferHunter-kt7pm
      @LuciferHunter-kt7pm 4 дня назад

      @ army turkey. Looks like a hockey puck. lol

    • @DirtyMike124x
      @DirtyMike124x 4 дня назад

      @@LuciferHunter-kt7pm 😂 I figured but had to make sure. I'm going to ask my army buddy about it and see if he's partaken 🤣 puck turkey lmaooo

    • @LuciferHunter-kt7pm
      @LuciferHunter-kt7pm 4 дня назад

      @ and turkey puck isn’t even the only puck! There’s all kinds of meat type pucks

  • @abrigedon
    @abrigedon 5 дней назад +13

    Love your videos KBash! Thanks for covering Otogi!

  • @Seoul_Soldier
    @Seoul_Soldier 5 дней назад +13

    Raikoh's existence is honestly horrific. I feel for him.

  • @EmissaryOfSmeagol
    @EmissaryOfSmeagol 5 дней назад +5

    If _Lost Kingdoms_ is the Dark Souls of early-FromSoftware, _Otogi_ is the Dark Souls 2 of early-FromSoftware.

  • @dragamation3266
    @dragamation3266 5 дней назад +3

    Loved that ending. So many amazing games that are made by so many folks that weren't that well known and still aren't
    When I find a not well known game I really like but with sparse info about it or the folks that worked on it it's a bummer, because I wanna see what else those artists worked on

  • @apophisgaming4964
    @apophisgaming4964 5 дней назад +10

    I wake up and get new kbash straight up?
    Breakfast of Champions.

  • @marsrobotic6940
    @marsrobotic6940 3 дня назад

    Dude that last chapter single handledly was one of the best narrative retrospections I have ever heard. I hope that games are taken more seriously as an art form someday. Your videos are the best things I've ever seen on RUclips.

  • @nkozi
    @nkozi 4 дня назад +1

    This ending statement is one of the most gorgeous and heartfelt you've made yet.

  • @Loganmccoy1996
    @Loganmccoy1996 5 дней назад +2

    Thanks for talking about one of my favorite franchises I have the moonlight great sword in both. Wish there was a third love Otogi hopefully new players will finally find this absolute gem of a series

  • @Tolly7249
    @Tolly7249 5 дней назад +5

    I love this video. It feels like you feel about these games the same way I feel about the original Drakengard. It's not a good game, in some ways it makes me crazy with frustration, but the story and characters and the alternate timelines that wind up leading into the vastly more popular Nier series will stay with me forever. I still sit back and just... think about Drakengard and the risks Yako Taro took. He made some fascinating games with some truly horrible lead characters who are somehow more relatable than the army of Serious Brown Haired White Men we deal with in most games the last couple decades.

    • @Vulgarth1
      @Vulgarth1 4 дня назад +2

      I agree, but also: Caim is a very serious brown haired white dude.

    • @Tolly7249
      @Tolly7249 4 дня назад

      @@Vulgarth1 Oh, he is... But he's also the kind of EXPLICITLY bat-guano unbalanced that would lead to someone actually merrily slaughtering their way through an entire empire and enjoying it.

  • @Erekt0
    @Erekt0 5 дней назад +21

    The concept of making the final boss harder, for no reason other than reducing the harm done to others, is actually so fucking sick.

  • @HalcyonAeterna
    @HalcyonAeterna 5 дней назад +2

    Finished the video and amazing work as always. The ending especially really resonated with me and interestingly enough made me think of Hbomb's Plagiarism video, though of course the focus is different. So much contemporary cultural history (even pop culture) isn't being recorded or even considered, and in turn we lose a lot of that history. Anyway I'm glad you covered these because I adore the early full 3d area of games because a lot of them were experimenting both mechanically and at times narratively.

  • @myminion74
    @myminion74 3 дня назад +1

    Holy shit the peanut butter and fish fucking got me so bad I'm still giggling in the workroom over it and looking like a maniac
    Absolutely not expected at all

  • @aeopu
    @aeopu День назад

    That was an incredible dive into a pair of games I've never heard of. Holy shit dude, you're such an incredible essayist and storyteller, legit. Thank you for this wonderful little gem. Have a happy holidays and I can't wait to see what you get out there in the New Year.

  • @daviddobarganes9115
    @daviddobarganes9115 4 дня назад

    I just wanna say your pacing and jokes are on point this one, very clean

  • @justindibe8543
    @justindibe8543 5 дней назад +21

    Babe wake up

  • @KAKA42-c3t
    @KAKA42-c3t 4 дня назад +2

    Maybe that is the thing about not caring for the canon of a medium: it takes a while to get used to notion that you are walking your own path, but eventually you realize that not a lot of people would dare wade through that path. By rejecting the canon you become an illuminating figure of your time.

  • @yeetkunedo
    @yeetkunedo 5 дней назад +2

    Bruh. A Xmas present like this is too much.

  • @Juwce_86
    @Juwce_86 5 дней назад +1

    Finally someone is talking about this classic. I have both on the OG xbox and number 2 was absolutely incredible with different story beats depending on whomst you finish certain levels with.
    The wolf guy really hates the spiders.

  • @thelongerrun
    @thelongerrun 5 дней назад +2

    When I saw Otogi in the first frames of the video, I knew I was in for a treat. I feel like history just swallowed this awesomely fun game. Yes it's janky, but it was the right jank for me in the XBox days.

  • @creativeusername6453
    @creativeusername6453 2 дня назад

    I appreciate that you have knowledge in or are willing to research topics outside of video games. That's something thats severely lacking in video game coverage, people that are able to approach games within the context of art or just human history as a whole.

  • @SomniaCE
    @SomniaCE 5 дней назад +1

    Otogi is damn near peak Fromsoft tbh and I'd absolutely rank it up there for its era. Hope it gets remastered someday.

  • @quinnviandsej
    @quinnviandsej 2 дня назад +1

    THAT'S WHY FINAL FANTASY USES A MINI MALLET TO CURE THAT AILMENT?!?!
    I don't know which deranged patrons requested a review of these two oddball games, but they and you deserve a medal for this video. Otogi seems pretty dope, narratively at least.

  • @gandorokkorodnag9028
    @gandorokkorodnag9028 5 дней назад +2

    Damn bash you gave me war flashbacks mentioning enchanted arms…

  • @ryuke8866
    @ryuke8866 5 дней назад +3

    The ending section was great omg

  • @JimFaindel
    @JimFaindel 5 дней назад +1

    I love this era of gaming, and am immediately reminded of my beloved Kingdom Under Fire series. Now those are some underrated games!

  • @TyGuy9001
    @TyGuy9001 5 дней назад +7

    Ok, so the editing in this is especially well done, a big fan of that hard work! It’s interesting to see a game just strip most of the interesting narrative away for a sequel, It’d be better to have Otogi 2 follow up that narrative with some good reveals and nuance instead, but what’s there is ok I guess. Always more interesting to see a game tackle some class conflict and themes of governmental oppression/corruption. Some of the jokes in the video overall were great, not so sure about the lie creeping behind you bit, but not every joke is for everyone. Always love hearing about a game I’ve never played and some interesting stuff about it, so I appreciate what you do as always KBash! It’s been a great year for these videos! I look forward to stuff on the second channel and the new stuff in the future!

  • @iwanriley8047
    @iwanriley8047 5 дней назад +4

    Jebus Chrimst my dude you’re putting our bangers at an insane rate! 😍

  • @blackdragoncyrus
    @blackdragoncyrus 5 дней назад +13

    Please play the Trails series.

    • @backlogburning
      @backlogburning 5 дней назад

      Oh good, I’m not the only one asking.

      Or is the phrase “cursing?” Because…holy time sink.

    • @Ragefat
      @Ragefat 5 дней назад

      Kbash will die, Trails is just too much.

  • @volpe2077
    @volpe2077 5 дней назад +5

    Really cool look into early FromSoft!!

  • @flumphflumph6021
    @flumphflumph6021 3 дня назад

    This was a nice Christmas Present. Thank You KBash.

  • @Ameiii
    @Ameiii 5 дней назад +1

    This one video has more accurate lore on this game than 20 years of the internet, nice.

  • @blaiseoffury4866
    @blaiseoffury4866 5 дней назад +4

    Please play enchanted arms, so I’m not alone

  • @DaikonDev_
    @DaikonDev_ 5 дней назад +4

    This may be the only time I see a kbash video with 1 view

  • @Valkenhyne
    @Valkenhyne 5 дней назад +3

    Damn, just happened to refresh as this dropped lmao. Let's goooo!

  • @Kyoslilmonster
    @Kyoslilmonster 5 дней назад +2

    6:19 dont think i didnt hear that Parappa x Daffy Duck clip

  • @Redbri3
    @Redbri3 5 дней назад +3

    oh god I bounced off otogi when I was a wee lil bab. I did not have the motor skills required to get good

  • @sylviastone628
    @sylviastone628 4 дня назад

    "Blow it all like your next paycheck"
    Cut to me, crying, as I look over at my $150 Klonoa Nendoroid (you should check out the Klonoa series btw, it doesn't get nearly enough love or recognition)

  • @HateSonneillon
    @HateSonneillon 5 дней назад

    This world and story is so interesting that I started writing a d&d campaign based on it. This is really cool, namely the twist about most of the demons once being humans. I can imagine, if given the chance people would want to rebel against the princess after figuring it out.

  • @LorenzoErialtiAudio
    @LorenzoErialtiAudio 5 дней назад

    I remember playing the first one 20 years ago on the first Xbox, it's a series I hold dear in my heart :')

  • @METC500
    @METC500 5 дней назад

    thank you for another great year of videos, man

  • @RetroEmulationArchive
    @RetroEmulationArchive 5 дней назад

    Finally...I was starting to believe that this game was just a dream of mine...nobody talks about Otogi for some reason...

  • @steampunkerella
    @steampunkerella 4 дня назад

    lost kingdoms 1 & 2 are some of my most fav video games ever. it was funny going into demons souls being like, hey wait a minute, an evil fog enveloping the land??

  • @MaximumDong
    @MaximumDong 3 дня назад +1

    people of the algorithm detection team, I need your power!

  • @DrakeDoe
    @DrakeDoe 5 дней назад

    Going to have to come back to this one when I'm not trying to fall asleep because I have to be up in 6 hours. 50/50 if a k-bash video is going to have loads of the equivalent of a jumpscare audio sting but for comedy.

  • @the13thjoker
    @the13thjoker 4 дня назад

    Oh boy i love when you cover up a game i never hear or see ! I might try this game now

  • @ImUsingTiltControls
    @ImUsingTiltControls 4 дня назад

    Radiata Stories mentioned! Hopefully one day KBash will talk about it and Radiant Historia.

  • @xXIzZy120Xx
    @xXIzZy120Xx 5 дней назад

    So glad you got to these, always felt like these games were too underrated. Hoping FromSoft brings Otogi back after Armored Core

  • @TheMrHego
    @TheMrHego 4 дня назад

    HOLY SHIT! THANK YOU FOR SOLVING A 20 YEAR OLD MYSTERY! When I was a kid, I'd regularly buy an XBox magazine wich came with a disc full with demos. I'd often spend hours replaying demos for hours on end. One of them was Halo CE, where the silent cartographer mission was the demo and I've replayed that mission 30 times. Anyways, there was one other demo I've played a lot and I couldn't remember what it was, just that it was an asian fantasy game starting with the letter 'O'. Each time I've tried to find it, I just found Onimusha, which wasn't at all what I remembered. Because it was Otogi! It's kinda funny, because I'm a huge dark souls fan, but I never knew they made something else than armored core and kingsfield.

  • @ToastyCubes
    @ToastyCubes 4 дня назад

    The Four Kings fight in DS1 is literally just a condensed version of Otogi 2.

  • @ShirtlessCouch
    @ShirtlessCouch 5 дней назад

    I've had these games on my radar for quite sometime and i seen them on the xbox game store and considered... but i am too chained by nostalgia i need to get the original xbox versions to experience it the "intended" way... thank you for re lighting my interest in these games i can't wait to play them myself.

  • @hemangchauhan2864
    @hemangchauhan2864 4 дня назад

    HOW DID I MISS A KBASH UPLOAD

  • @Sylnir
    @Sylnir 5 дней назад

    What? A KBro video shadowdropped?! I’m on it! 👏🏼

  • @ParmMannREBORN
    @ParmMannREBORN 5 дней назад

    Woah I've never heard of these games before. Got emotional hearing about the amount of lost info there probably are about games

    • @Juwce_86
      @Juwce_86 5 дней назад

      The fact they were exclusive to the OG xbox alot of people havnt heard of it. Niche Japanese games back then weren't popular. Hence why okami unfortunately failed at launch.
      I was there. I tried to educate everyone around me to the joys of these games but they were too COD and halo washed.

  • @DanielBrown91
    @DanielBrown91 5 дней назад +1

    RADIATA STORIES ANALYSIS TEASED

  • @axellycan5070
    @axellycan5070 4 дня назад

    Even for 2010 that blog quote is something else hahaha

  • @billy65498
    @billy65498 5 дней назад

    Always a good day when kbash uploads

  • @dulemaster1
    @dulemaster1 5 дней назад +1

    Wats the ending song i feel like I've played the game for hours

    • @abdirahmansaid2674
      @abdirahmansaid2674 4 дня назад

      I'm looking for it too. He lists a few series the music in the video is from in the description like castlevania, f-zero, sonic adventure 2 and fable so that might nudge your memory. Please do tell me if you end up finding it lol

  • @FoxLenar
    @FoxLenar 5 дней назад

    "Me when I take off my pants" took me by surprise 🤣

  • @randomsandwichian
    @randomsandwichian 5 дней назад +1

    Abe no Seimei, Abe no Lincoln, and Abe no Shinzo; what problems do people have with Abes?

  • @jofzzlszzl
    @jofzzlszzl 5 дней назад

    new kbash upload baybeeee

  • @Markmywolf
    @Markmywolf 5 дней назад

    Damn. Not the adventures of cookies and cream. The game with the two bunnies. One is pink and the other has a pot on his head

  • @joemama2499
    @joemama2499 5 дней назад

    Hey, you're into highly specific games for weird people, you should cover Penny's Big Breakaway.
    It's highly off putting to casual players but once you understand its momentum mechanics it's really neatly designed (bar a few level specific pacing issues) and a really great first effort for a new studio.

  • @kyubbiman2255
    @kyubbiman2255 3 дня назад

    So I actually played Enchanted Arms, it is like a half remembered dream. It was alright kinda hard though. Think I got stuck on the Earth Emperor

  • @kademcneely6009
    @kademcneely6009 5 дней назад +2

    Onmyoji would be a fire username

  • @zachfutv9986
    @zachfutv9986 5 дней назад

    Hey, that was Radiata Story, one of my favorite games.

  • @PowerfulMint
    @PowerfulMint 5 дней назад +3

    Me, seeing this drop in my inbox: "New kbash video? Oh joyous day!"
    Me, at that ending section, taking a drag off a metaphorical cigarette and thinking existentially: "man..."

  • @gray1665
    @gray1665 5 дней назад

    so which britney videos were included?

  • @GuiltyGaming
    @GuiltyGaming 5 дней назад +1

    I beat you to making an NG/Eva crossover and you do this to me? I’ve been writing an Otogi retro for two months and you do *this* to me??!

  • @abdirahmansaid2674
    @abdirahmansaid2674 4 дня назад

    What's the ending song?

  • @dustyyyyyyyy7
    @dustyyyyyyyy7 5 дней назад

    I've thought about this game ever since I played it on the original Xbox next to Morrowind and Phantom Dust.
    I've never played a game like this since that had something this unique.
    If you have, I'd love some recommendations.

  • @pikaboom6539
    @pikaboom6539 5 дней назад

    I am addicted to Xanax but when I listen to Kbash I am healed

  • @Vulgarth1
    @Vulgarth1 5 дней назад +1

    No Ninja Blade? KBash....

  • @Labyrinth____
    @Labyrinth____ 5 дней назад +1

    Radiata Stories!

  • @RedSageGames
    @RedSageGames 5 дней назад

    Enchanted Arms! rented that game forever ago.

  • @ergothgamingfillername5202
    @ergothgamingfillername5202 5 дней назад

    YO WAS THAT FUCKING RADIATA STORIES AT THE BEGINNING

  • @DonutSwordsman
    @DonutSwordsman 5 дней назад

    Thanks for continuing to make awesome long vids. I remember years ago I whined in the comments and you replied and was like, homie is dope and cares. You'll always be a giga Chad of true patrician taste to cover such underground games

  • @blahfantasy
    @blahfantasy 5 дней назад

    Radiata Stories coming soon I assume ❤

  • @Rihcterwilker
    @Rihcterwilker 5 дней назад

    I'm still waiting for a pc version of Radiata Stories.

  • @sanfransiscon
    @sanfransiscon 5 дней назад +2

    I enjoyed learning about these games, they seem pretty interesting to me in gameplay.
    But I've come to realize I can't stand misanthropy and moral nihilism.

  • @LyrisTheCat
    @LyrisTheCat День назад

    man your final segment hit me hard as hell, and i heavily agree with you, even more on the lower budget games or games that flopped.
    or even games that were deemed "shit" by their fanbase, i dont know how people can shit talk ff13 while being one of the best linear games ive ever experience and the difficulty of it being really damn well tuned, one of my most favorite games ever being megaman x8 had a talk about how senseless is the logics of war BY A MOTHERFUCKING PANDA, its a literal double take showing how war and it's sides are not so easy to distinguish as black and white.
    then me playing the VEERY buggy release PC build of Gunvolt 1 created one of the best gaming memories ive ever had which resembled on how dark was megaman zero, just for me to see gameplay of that same section and it getting ruined by the overblown anime music......
    sometimes silence speaks more than what anyone can design on purpose, all you need for a proper build up of an enemy or a main villain is a dramatic background and pure sheer silence.

  • @aokyoutsuki7744
    @aokyoutsuki7744 5 дней назад

    45:43 keepin this for personal use

  • @antoniusrexplays9657
    @antoniusrexplays9657 5 дней назад

    YES OTOGI! Man, these are such great games.

  • @gweeen_tea
    @gweeen_tea 4 дня назад

    The otogi 2 entourage is just the average discord server tbh

  • @katielaforet5652
    @katielaforet5652 4 дня назад

    I could listen to you talk about anything and I do

  • @shiina4826
    @shiina4826 5 дней назад +1

    new kbash wowie zowie

  • @lrodrigues7488
    @lrodrigues7488 5 дней назад +1

    Need more marriage jokes!

  • @sinmenon4347
    @sinmenon4347 5 дней назад

    Seimei was also a girl in Kuon, so maybe they are being consistent?
    Fromsoftware interconnected universe

  • @qsmith2514
    @qsmith2514 5 дней назад

    YUGIOH FALSEBOUND KINGDOM MENTIONED 🎉🎉🎉

  • @anguset
    @anguset 5 дней назад

    As if KBash wasn't based enough, bro is getting into the From back catalogue

  • @ClarkKentai
    @ClarkKentai 5 дней назад

    FUGGEN WHAT
    BRO
    BROOOOO
    BLESS THIS LOVELY WORLD

  • @colinwilliams9436
    @colinwilliams9436 5 дней назад

    That first otogi game looks like the 2002 shinobi game on ps2

  • @crls4726
    @crls4726 5 дней назад +1

    another banger

  • @YTHandlesWereAMistake
    @YTHandlesWereAMistake 6 часов назад

    So this is basically Sekiro with less duels and more roleplay.
    And has more color and fantasy. Huh.