Aidyn Chronicles | Retrospective | The Greatest RPG That No One Played
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- Опубликовано: 24 сен 2024
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Links:
/ @shamsukz
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/ sevoran
It looks like Lil' Shammy changed their RUclips name to Shamsuk. Oops! Anyway this is the link to their channel lots of good stuff there
And the subreddit for Aidyn Chronicles is also linked, there is a wonderful active community there that can answer any of your questions, and you can also find some fun NEW ways to play the game :)
I think I first played Aidyn Chronicles when I was 11 years old. I remember in my first playthrough that I never leveled up Dexterity because I didn't know what Dexterity meant. Strength? Hell yeah. That's an easy one.
But I never bought it, I just had to rent it all the time. Eventually like 23 years later I saw a copy at a local game store and decided to play through it again.
And honestly? I think I enjoyed it even more mostly because now I understand the game systems and most importantly, what the word "dexterity" means. At least as it relates to video games.
This is less of a review, more of a nostalgic recollection and description of the game systems, characters, and story. It gets pretty rambly at times, and I'm pretty loose with the editing (because I hate it) but I hope you enjoy it!
Just wanted to say I appreciate everyone who took the time to watch, as well as all the subs, likes, and comments. I hope you liked the video and enjoy your time here. Thank you.
Played this game when it came out and it’s burned into my memory forever
The first month posted, 30k+ views, 700+ subscribers, and over 1k+ likes on an Aidyn Chronicles video. My friend, I think you are breaking Aidyn Chronicles' history here on RUclips!
Whatever your next project is I truly wish you the very best and am extremely grateful for all you have done for our little hidden unpolished gem of an N64 rpg.
Thanks for introducing me to this game. I wish I’d found this one as a kid. Great video, the game audio is really quiet but overall I really enjoyed it.
A 90 minute video about an old game I've never heard of, let alone played? Count me in.
I start 6 hour Morrowind analysis videos before bed then fall asleep 5 minutes in
Never even _heard_ of this one.
And you are not alone lol. I think outside of my video store I only saw one ad for it at the back of Nintendo Power.
Very late N64 release, and one of very few (i.e. single-digit) RPGs on the system. Always been fascinated by its obscurity…
Odd games like this are always so fascinating. Old, buggy, broken, weird, sometimes simple, but made with so much heart that their flaws can be excused.
Finally some regular-person-adopted-by-royalty-who’s-not-at-all-secretly-also-royalty representation!
This game had generational representation
Appreciate the shoutout and really glad to find others who are hardcore fans of this game just as much if not more so than myself!
Name change I figured was something more relatable to the actual game versus fan artwork that was created. I played Necro back in the old Diablo two days and even though he is a bad dude, Shamsuk is still my favorite, idk why still to be 100 percent honest.
I was right around the same age when I first got my hands on the game as well. I think for me not knowing how all the mechanics worked and even later getting the guidebook PDF online that is hit and miss on its info was all a part of the amazing journey Aidyn has to offer.
Personally, I have to go back to Aidyn maybe once every other year at least to just give it a glance if not a full playthrough to remember the good old simpler times.
This nostalgic recollection and description of the game was excellent! What a breath of fresh air to actually get a review-type deal from an actual fan who played it fully through and was more than fair.
Your diplomacy and loremaster skills of this game are very high! I hope all who watch this will go back and reminisce on their personal fond memories of the game or give it a try for newcomers alike.
Thank you very much again for all your hard work and dedication put into this project!
I'm glad you liked it! I've been a fan of your Aidyn videos for about a year or so now. I could not believe the Farris trick was actually true! It really is an under appreciated game and I try to get all of my DnD friends to at least try it out.
Wow, I've never heard of this game! This would have been right up my alley back in the day.
Oh yeah. It was honestly kind of a prophetic game for me, I had no idea my future game library would be with similar but improved systems. It really cemented my love for RPG's.
Core-memory.... my brother hyped this game up, he played it at a friends. I know nothing about it except the name instantly rang a 20+ year old bell
I bought this at k mart for 30 bucks. This is my favorite game i ever played.. full of bugs but way ahead if its time. What a great video!
thanks dude! I will probably do another playthrough in a few months. the customization is just too good. I may try an Alaron only run lol
I love that my algo has been giving me smaller channels lately. I've been finding hidden gems like this account. Subbed and hopefully you don't stay small for long this is premium content
Hey thanks! My favorite videos on youtube are mostly people talking about old games for like 3 hours lol so I figured I'd make one too
I loved that game. Spent hundreds of hours on it back in the day.
I love this game and pray I find a game that scratches the same itch it does one day
This was my first RPG! I loved this game growing up. Even to this day I think about it every now and then. I named my bearded dragon Rooughah :)
That's sick. I think mine was FF7. Played it too early though, I couldn't figure out how to heal, or that lightning did more damage to robots, and I also couldn't make it out of the reactor on time
Finally a new review of this game, this makes me super happy
I'm glad to see so many people enjoyed the game as I did. Thought I was nuts for the longest time because most of my friends hated it lol. Which I understand, its very frustrating at times
@@Sevoran117 Back in the CoolRoms days I was looking for RPGs on the N64 and stumbled across Aidyn Chronicles, I think I loved it because it has a really unique vibe and actually tried to be more in depth than alot of the ones i had tried until that point even if execution is a little iffy. Great video!
I'm really happy to see someone else who can enjoy Aidyn Chronicles. I was pleasantly surprised two years ago when I finished my first playtrough. That being said, if anyone wants to play the game, I recommend to use a high accuracy emulator that support N64 CPU overclock. Aidyn Chronicle is one of those game really, really beneficiate it without having any issues. The change to FPS is amazing.
I love gaming retrospectives, people become more appreciative of games as time passes by
I think I really appreciated the writing and the lore much more this time around for sure. Lots of it went way over my head back in the day
Dude, I’ve never heard of this game but you have so much passion that this is such an enjoyable watch.
Hey I appreciate it! It's got its fair share of problems but I just love the atmosphere
FINALLY!I have found another person that has this game!
Right? I was shocked this many people played it lol
No matter how tempting it was, I simply could not leave Abrecan behind....he is Alarons true father, his teacher, his protector, his hero.
The algorithm gave me your video, and I’m glad it did! Always nice to see a fellow new gaming channel.
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This game was WAY ahead of its time.
I believe it's due for a remake. In the right hands and minds, I believe this game could be a masterpiece that will spawn several different sequels and media.
I can tell that the lore of the world was WAY too heavy for the N64 at the time, and they couldn't implement everything that they wanted to the way it was in their heads.
Honestly I still don't completely understand the lore. Just a few days ago I found a channel that went around reading all the books with max Loremaster, and I learned stuff I didn't know while I was making the video. I wonder how much is still undiscovered
Haha loved this game as a kid. Out of all the glitches there is a good one I remember. Dougal's betrayal was only coded to happen at the entrance to the dragon's lair. So he never betrays you if you don't take him there specifically. He will even help you kill Rabisat herself lol.
Well that would have been nice to know lol
Okay fine i'll play aidyn chronicles again. I remember thinking abrecan was the coolest ever as well, that grizzled warrior with a soft spot for alaron.
A fantastic retrospective, you have my sub, looking forward to future projects!
I still remember renting this from Rogers Video back in the day with my brother. We loved this game, despite its bugs and quirks we were hooked.
I played it with my best friend. We would just pass the controller back and forth trying to take down Kitarak, that first trip from Gwernia to the mountains is one of my favorite memories of my life
@@Sevoran117 Kitarak was the bane of our runs! We were vastly under leveled and our builds were horrid. We lost so many characters
I was subbed to this channel before even 500 subs!
Invested early, love to see it
I will always love this game, despite its flaws. I love needlessly ambitious games that push hardware to its limits. Plus at the time I was an RPG fan that only had a Sega Genesis and N64 so I was starved for meaty roleplaying experiences.
I was in the same boat. And I didn't have a PC so I didn't have Baldur's Gate or anything like that either. At the time this game and Morrowind were my favorites
A few years ago I put in over 200 hours into this game and had a blast. It's not great, but I really got into it and took it slow.
Keep the opening party members, at the end you get extra dialogue.
Yeah I didn't know about the extra dialogue until very recently. I wish there was more for Becan. But I say that about most parts of the game, "I wish there was more" lol
Great video man, new subscriber!
Been enamored with this game since I was a kid. Been looking into speedrunning it the last couple days and your video popped up. Really happy to see some one give it a proper retrospective.
Have you seen haktical's speedrun? I think its like 3 something hours. I'm pretty sure he's the world record holder right now
I played it. I found it unsettling at times. But I’m glad I was able to basically beat it during a time pre internet and there wasn’t a lot of resources to figure out where to go next. The random crashes were fun and it’s been stuck forever in my mind since
I did ok until the desert, then I needed Gamefaqs for the Burial Grounds. Actually I think I meeded a guide for the Tower too because I wanted to get all the loot
Love this retrospective. This is one of my favorite games from back in the day. I still remember pre-ordering it!
I was glad my memories of it weren't just rose tinted goggles. I have another playthrough going now actually, but I'm also checking out Ogre Battle
I actually didn’t know where to get the sword when I first played and ended up wall of bonesing Lugash the Lich and got stuck on the final boss. Luckily I was able to go down to my schools library and look up where to go on their PC. God bless the people who created made the GameFAQ guides back then and the Ctrl+F function!!!
I needed gamefaqs for the sword too. I ran around the desert aimlessly for a very very long time. But now you have me curios if anyone out there has done a no sword of lodin run
I recently picked this game up, as I heard it was bad - it really isn't. It's a solid DnD inspired rpg with a lot to explore and mess around with. The open world is really what gets me, it's fairly detailed (with the expansion pak as it adds some foliage!) and the landscapes you see when getting to higher elevation are MAGNIFICENT. Love me some low-poly open world scenes. Thank you for bringing attention to this game.
Also if you put "!crawdaddy" in the rename character option, you turn into a crab which is just the cherry on top.
I didnt know about !crawdaddy! I did mess around with !darkside for awhile to get the lightsaber. I was gonna use it to cheese through the game and get a look at different characters...but it crashed and I couldn't recover the file lol. Rip
Thanks for sharing man, loved the journey with you.
Thanks for checking it out!
So glad to see someone bring this game up. Haven't seen anyone play it since I was a kid and my dad barreled through it.
I loved how simple quest 64 was. A great game.
fantastic video of a game that I dearly feel nostalgia love for. Also, I cannot say how much I appreciate your shout out of lil shammy. He truly is a lore master of the game and has so much info and research for those who want to dive into every aspect. I really respect his work and I am glad to see someone with a platform do the same
Shammy is the freakin man.
I loved this one. I'd love to see a non-jank modern remake
3:18 Ha, nice Branderson reference!
Lol good catch, I'm actually re-reading the stormlight books before Wind and Truth right now
I love this game so much. Usually consider it my favorite-- or among favorites-- of all time. I've played through it an embarrassing number of times.
Taking Keelin and Brenna together can be fun. The love triangle aspect gets heavily played up.
This was such a well done video! Very entertaining and informative. Subbed and can't wait to see what else we get from you.
I borrowed my cousin’s 64 for this game.
I did not sleep the first two days, literally played it in my sleep until I decided I should sleep properly.
I think my playtime was 71 hours.
I used the bone prison on everything towards the end, even the boss. One turn victory.
Good times.
I never got wall of bones to work on her, she always resisted it. And I don't think I even found it on my first playthrough as a kid. But man I hated that spell with a passion...it felt so unfair lol
what an accurate title for a video. great work.
I’m surprised games workshop didn’t try suing them for calling their enemies “chaos sorcerers” and “chaos warriors”
cool it's like an open world shining force
I had to look up Shining Force, I've heard of it but never seen it played. It looks awesome. I had a Genesis but only Sonic games and Golden Axe lol. Edit: Hey it's only 99 cents on Steam. I guess I'll try it out
Play Shining Force! @@Sevoran117
@@Sevoran117 it's a great game, like fire emblem without the anime. there's a bunch of them too. i even think they rebooted it on like gamecube or wii
Subbed and liked for no other reason than to boost yer numbers mate. Do more old games. Good luck.
Dude thanks! Number go up
genuinely thought for a few seconds that you were making a joke when you showed the n64 box art on screen. had never seen nor heard of this anywhere before. super interesting game, great video!
Lol thanks dude I swear it is real. And yeah I had only ever seen one advertisement for it in the back of Nintendo Power. Apparently they made a commercial at some point but I've never seen it
Thanks for watching! It is an absolute fever dream of a game. Equal parts frustrating, fulfilling, wacky and broody
The dream or vision at the beginning of the game and the strange atmosphere running through the forest really set the tone of the game. Along with the art style for characters. It was eerie and kinda scary, but that's an atmosphere I have never seen again. It is definitely unique.
I really enjoyed this video. I love this game. I remember reading previews for it in magazines and being really excited. Bought the game on release and fell in love with it. I still play it regularly.
Thanks for giving this game the respect it deserves. Too many people’s “reviews” of it consistent of them wandering around the opening forest and saying its okay. Without ever really giving it proper attention.
It’s underrated.
It really is underrated. The only advertisment I remember for it was a single page at the back of a Nintendo Power that I had. After that I saw nothing of it until it popped up at my game store.
Of all the games out there its Aidyn chronicles I want a remaster of. Just ease of life things like more fps, better movement speed, higher resolution etc. Leave everything else alone
I've had this discussion with friends a few times. At least let us find some Boots of Speed or something lol
One day boys will get chatgtp to rebuild it for us
If you use an emulator, there's a patch you can get on the subreddit that someone made. I haven't tried it yet, though. It's called 'Aidyn Plus'
My friend got this for his bday didnt like it but I loved it! He traded it to me for a code red mountain dew at school, best trade in human history.
@@Flock_of_Seagulls Damn you made out like a bandit
@@Sevoran117 I also grabbed the Prima guide book on sale at best buy waaay back in the day could of used it during my 1st playthrough ha.
Oh the Pandara Amulet is automatic, you fail the gate at least once and walk away from it for a bit and it triggers a cutscene where she comes and tells you the answer. I can see why you miss it, the cutscene trigger is kinda just.. in the nearby mountains somewhere - but I actually thought that the game wouldn't let you answer yourself until you saw the scene.
Oh look who showed up in my recommended 😂 amazing video brother.
During my only play through i got lost in the castle for 2 and a half hours because i thought i was told to grab 3 members but i couldn’t find a third. Whenever i revisit this game id like to see where i went wrong 😅
Great retrospective and this definitely got me stoked to give Aidyn Chronicles another go
Thank you my dude! Your videos have been very inspirational. The ending of Hybrid Heaven was so absurd I thought you had dubbed over the real audio somehow lol. And I enjoyed Van Helsing: The Movie: The Game: The Stream yestersday! It's too bad the multistream was being weird
I did love this game as a kid, despite first becoming aware of the concept of lag thanks to it. Until giving up on it because I came across an impossible difficulty curve due to my party members dying, and not having good saves to reload from, and not wanting to restart the entire game.
Same. But lag was more apparent to me in WoW. Couldn't even go to Ironforge...
Nice to meet you I am No One or as I prefer for RPG MC names NoBody.
Love this game and want it on the switch glowed up to what it was trying to be.
Ohh! I heard about this one but never played it. Looks like a real gem and certainly will try it.
Keep up the great work :D
Thanks dude!
Honestly this is one of my favorite RPGS of all time. I got so sucked into the world when I first played it. I literally snuck from the Castle to Erromon because the Minotaurs scared the shit outta me as a kid. I use the name Txomin sometimes in Souls games and other RPGS. Love this game, hopn it gets a remaster one day.
@@terminalpower. that's awesome. I'm with you on a remaster...it's cool to see how many other people liked it.
I really hope we end up getting this for Nintendo Online. Introduce a lot of people to this flawed but fun game.
I remember my grandpa bought this game along with Ogre Battle 64. While i enjoyed Ogre Battle 64, I remember spending a long time trying to beat Aidyn Chronicles and omg I got stuck in the snowy mountains near Erromon trying to complete the quest of wiping out all the goblins lol
@@marywallace3620 That's cool! Hey I got stuck in the mountains too. Beating Kitarak was a huge achievement at the time. No potions, never leveled Dexterity because I didn't understand what it was, and no spells lol. I was all about swords and axes.
I have beat Aidyn Chronicles a few times. My only real complaint about it is the distance that enemies spawn from you in battle. Especially on multi group encounters. I would spend more turns trying to get to the enemy than I would fighting them.
@@brock2443 Ugh yeah and at the beginning people like Becan can barely move
Love the video. I think it is time to dust off the old N64, maybe, haha
Great video! Found your Diddy Kong Racing video through this one too, also great! Keep it up
I’d always wonder what the story behind this game was. It was released at the very end of the n64’s life cycle so it was mostly ignored. Thank you for this video because I’ve always wondered what the game was about
@@Daftanemone yeah if it wasn't at the video store I never would have heard of it. I dont even know why they had it lol. The lady there eventually let me keep FF7 because I was the only person who ever rented it
This was a treat. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
I remember being _told_ characters can only learn spells of one school and not being able to train Rheda or Godrick cross-discipline and thus putting thought into which _single_ school to have Alaron learn. I never thought to try having him, specifically, learn something else once he already knew one kind of magic.
I usually went with Elemental from the healer (Strength and later Fireball) or Necromancy (Cheat Death and Acid Arrow). Naming just never felt particularly spectacular or useful compared to the others.
I also never got to the Dryad NPCs. The ghost wolves are where I always got stuck.
That's true I did forget to mention that. I had to sneak around the wolves actually. They beat the shit out of me
The whole "No True Name makes you go mad" reminds me ALOT of Pillars of Eternity where their are individuals who can suffer getting memories of their "past lives" the plot point for YOUR character is after surviving an ambush on your caravan, you and two (or one) survivor get caught in an experiment done by the Big Bad of the game. While they are SUPER dead (as in DEAD CORPSES with their SOULS dragged out) you are FINE, just suffering what I mentioned! Eventually you are TASKED with finding how to deal with this otherwise suffer MADNESS and you're advised into finding a man at an old fortress that will be your HQ after meeting the man! You end up FORCED to fight him though as he SUCCUMBED to the madness of such a fate of knowing "two lives" as he can't tell reality from fantasy anymore and there's even a SPECIAL game over you can get if you kill someone ESSENTIAL to the main quest that isn't IMMORTAL where with them dead, the trail goes cold and eventually, you're character is overwhelmed and goes mad from their past memories like the Old Man before (Their called Watchers! You're the NEW Watcher so the game gives you a Voice Acted name LOL and because you had to KILL the Old Man) essentially your memories are you use to be a VALUABLE minion to the Big Bad in your past life. But you died and got reincarnated! It's just coincidence and fate that you ended up EXACTLY where he is and in order to save yourself and make PEACE with your past, you need to stop his plans and kill him!
This game gave me ALOT of vibes of that game specifically in a way! Sad I skipped this (It looked GENERIC looking and ironically I was STARVING for RPG on the N64 as FF7 is what got me INTERESTED in them in the first place! The funny irony is this was ALSO when I found Baldur's Gate on the PC, so I REALLY feel regret missing this one from the look of it LOL) butt then I also skipped Ogre Battle 64 which I only got interested in the Ogre series around the PSP era with Tactics Ogre FIRST remake then WiiU had OB64 up and man I wish March of the Black Queen was available.....Oh well at least Vanillaware made their own Spiritual Success Unicorn Overlord! THANK GOD for that! Vanillaware NEVER fails
PoE has been on my list for awhile. I guess I'll have to bump it up
@Sevoran117 as a fan of the original Baldur's Gate trilogy because as much as I love Baldur's Gate 3 it doesn't feel like a continuation of the trilogy I just feels like much of the original trilogy was I just slapped on not that I'm mad since at least two of the original party members have legit reasons for being still alive one being an elf and the other one being well himself and somehow getting petrified LOL I am upset however because of a certain dark elf being made evil along with a certain other character as well I really feel those two should have just been not in the game at all because at least with the other two they make no Major Impact other than being former Companions of your protagonist from the original trilogy but the two are mentioning have two different type of endings where they remain evil or they have a change of heart and instead of just feels like they tried to mix the results basically they tried to be good were too weak and then went back to being Pure Evil way to destroy a Redemption story it's why I just treated as though they never really went through their Redemption stories. Vicona was scared off early and Sarevok was revived but not taken through throne of bhaal. At least then I can justify them being SUPER evil in BG3 (Vicona was a romance redeem choice of mine, that's why I'm salty)
Butterfield's like if you fix the bunch of things well I'd say in a way this could be given a sprucing up like they're doing with Romancing SaGa 2 which also had many things similar to this the whole you can't replace party members unless they've been permanently killed off Affair you can't even kick them out the party the upcoming remake has changed to some of it so you aren't forced they have the Perma kill them for no good reason just to replace them but how you describe this game story would have made this one of my favorites if I had only gotten to play it I wish they had put it on the Wii U shop like they did ogre battle 64 I would have likely given it a try seeing it there and then would it likely Fall In Love With It I do want to say though that maybe it would be nice to give you five party members you know an empty slot for all these forced Onto You characters so you don't have to force someone out your party and you could still get the Jester as he does feel like a dmpc important to your party because while they just killed off a character day forced you to give up a party member to add to your party at that point so he's there to make certain you don't but he isn't too Mighty that he has to handle everything alone I think in video game form this type of character works in the game where if your protagonist goes down it's game over because they can't hard carry you yet still can hard carry you if you use them right and while it would be nice to keep him in the partying after his time was done I can't really see him as anything but late game character like for example if you recruited that traitor then the moment he betrays you and starts the boss fight are clown friend pops up to take the position that he once held and this is how you recruit him because then at least you get a bit of a reason to put such a late game oh this is a traitor meant to start a boss fight if you were foolish to recruit him into your party yeah you'll have to deal with losing half your money or whatever and having to fight the dude but at least you get to have a pretty overpowered character back I will say I hate when a game decides the final boss can only be hurt by certain characters or certain tactics like you're stuck playing in a certain way rather than playing in multiple different ways because I'm starting to wonder if the final boss was given a large Armor class just to assure that only the main protagonist can hurt them which made your other party members kind of useless if this was a movie I could see them having to play distractions so that the only character who can harm the big bad evil girl can focus on curb stomping doesn't really feel awesome I like my final bosses when I don't have the cheese to win but instead I had the basically pick a tactic and keep to it because it's what I've been forming up since the very start of the game because can you imagine reaching the final boss with a pure party of Fighters because the game has been discouraging you from using magic and then the final boss pulls out a nothing but spells can hurt me now making your party and strategy completely useless and not even apologizing for it like seriously if the final boss pulls that then give us something to let us give our party magical weapons so it counts as still hitting hitting them with spells spells would be more effective but at least you didn't just get your entire strategy made pointless are useless or at least hint to it so if someone knows that a pure party of muscle heads are going to get curb stomped ahead of time then they have no one to complain about
But I will say pills of Eternity is interesting game I didn't care too much for the sequel but I guess that's because obsidian got way too ambitious where the first game was at least a lot like BG1 with BG2 in a GOOD way.
How to make the 2nd half of this game the easiest thing ever:
Since this game runs on D&D rules, having a stat of 0 means you're functionally dead if not actually dead. It's like being hit by the Wall of Bones spell. It disables you.
Rheda's whole thing is a naming wizard. Which means she buffs party stats, and debuffs enemy stats. With enough levels in the spells, they eventually even hit multiple enemies.
If you can find a stat the enemy has very little of, you can easily drain it completely. When I was playing this, from being on that Chaos island onwards, most of my fights were:
*Fight starts. End turns until it gives me Rheda. Cast Stupify (Intelligence Drain) on all the chaos demons (or whatever im fighting). Chaos demons are unable to fight. Fight ends."
I used Stupidity alot on like rats, bats, and ogres but never thought to use it on chaos demons. Always seemed they resisted me alot, though Alaron was my only reliable spellcaster and usually I just spammed Fireball. It's such a funny way to win though lol
@@Sevoran117 Fireball is definitely also good lol
Pretty cool to see a new deep dive on this game - even cooler to see how many people did actually play it in the comments. I talk about this game sometimes online and most people have never even heard of it - and I don't think I've personally met anyone else who played it other than my brother and I. I watched him play through the whole thing as a kid, and have played it on and off over the years myself when I feel like I need a bit of an Aidyn fix. Still have my original cart.
The game has a ton of great ideas and was super ambitious, despite the rough edges there's a lot to love if you have the patience for it. Definitely a title that stuck with me over the years.
Indeed. I'm genuinly shocked at how many have commented about it...almost no one at game stores I talk to could remember it
This was a great game! And it’s weird that some of the choices you made were the same as mine.
Great retrospective!
yo thanks for checking it out
Hey there! I really liked your video essay on Aidyn Chronicles! I'm kinda amazed that the YT algorythm recommended me such a small RUclipsr.
Keep making good stuff!
Your audio seemed a little quiet tho (could just be my setup).
Thanks dude! It is quiet, at least more than other channels. I think the gain on my mic was too low. I had to increase all the audio in Shotcut lol
I had this game as a kid and have never finished it, I appreciate you giving me the rest of the story. Hopefully it finds its way to the switch list
Man that would be sick
Love, love, LOVE this game. First RPG i ever played, my first brother would watch me play it and we shared some fun times in this game. I own the cartridge copy to this day :)
Edit: also, 53:17 is lol
I used to play with my best friend! The memory that sticks out to me the most is when he woke me up at like 3 am as I was running into the wall of a mountain in Erromon. Makes sense because I nearly fell asleep walking from place to place in this playthrough as well lol
@@Sevoran117lol I love it. Ah, I adore 90s and 00s gaming. We had it good :)
Great video man, looking forward for more content.
Thanks dude I'm working on another one
Liked and subscribed. Great video. Love obscure RPGs this sounds like great fun to try out. Keep up the good work my man
Thanks dude!
Dude, this is a really high quality video! I rented this back in the day, but I wasn’t very well versed with RPGs so it didn’t really click with me. I’m working on a full US N64 collection and just purchased this one a couple months ago. This video has convinced me to give it another try. Definitely earned a sub from me and I look forward to whatever you come out with next!
Thanks dude! It's fun if you can stomach the pitfalls. I just love medieval settings and D&D so much. Plus alot of nostalgia mixed in as well of course.
Never heard of this game. Great vid.
Thanks dude. I just stumbled on it by pure chance. The only advertisement I remember was a single page at the back of Nintendo Power
Can’t believe I’ve never heard of this it’s so cool
I played the hell out of this game back when it came out. Glitched the game so Farris was a permanent party member. Maxed stealth and crawled all the way to the desert from the start of the game. There's quite a bit of replay value in just messing around and seeing what you can break. Which is the thing that ultimately holds the game back. It breaks so often, even when you're not trying to break it.
It was an odd, ugly little duck, even ugly for its time. But it was well worth the experience.
To this day I have not done the Farris trick, the urban legend was that it would break your game and that scared me away from doing it
@@Sevoran117 I think that I wasn't able to finish the game due to having Farris in the party. But what specifically broke I can't recall.
Begged for this game as an RPG lover who owned an N64, having been told all about it in Nintendo Power. Burned a birthday gift from my grandmother on it. Was vastly disappointed based on the bad framerate, awfully drab and ugly graphics, almost complete lack of music, and oh yeah--IT DIDNT SAVE TO CART. I had almost exclusively first party N64 games and did not even know there was a "Memory Pak" for the console. So for MONTHS I was stuck replaying the first hour and a half or so of this game before I would inevitably shut it off.
I still think the game sounds cool.
What? How have I never heard of this game. Looks awesome, thanks for bringing it to my attention.
I wouldn't have had I not randomly stumbled across it years ago. And it just happened to release when Square was pumping out some pf the greatest rpg's ever made lol I guess it didn't really get a chance. Plus all the unfortunate bugs and crashes...I dig it though
Discovered this channel as the 56th subscriber! Good video, great content ❤
Thanks dude!
I remember seeing this title at Game Crazy. Always wondered what it was. Great video. Subbed.
God this takes me back. Sadly never finished the game due to a bug that made a main quest item disappear, but otherwise I did have fond memories
I’ve been craving old school/retro games lately, so its funny you’re covering them now. I don’t believe I owned an n64, so I probably missed out on some classics, but ngl I still feel like I’d have a hard time completing this lmao. It looks kinda… hard mode >_>. As someone without navigation skills, and the whole rip character thing, I’d be reloading my saves quite a lot. That said, great video :3
Thanks for watching! The game can be hard and is indeed very tedious. Which makes losing kind of worse. But you can also do silly things like cast Stupidity on beasts/ogres/bats and whatnot and you will autowin because they will be too stupid to take a turn. And once your party's dexterity gets high you often end up steamrolling. But early game is frustrating with all the misses, especially at night
@@Sevoran117 Ah, hacks xD Just what I need! lol
I need this game! I’m going to buy an N64 and this game. Couldn’t find any modern day ports,remasters etc. I love nearly all RPGS, especially older RPGS. Found several N64 and several of the games for sale. Yay!
Right on man. I hope the playthrough goes well
@@Sevoran117 Thank you so much. N64 and Aidyn Chronicles with some other games in a bundle on the way.
sholeh can be found in the desert fighting a chaos major you can aid her in this instance there is only 3 enemies in the battle at a time sholeh will be a guest for the battle
@@tenofclubs2 thanks, gonna have to look for her next time
Happy this came up. Never played the game but loving the videos ❤
I am Sub #69! Nice!
I love retrospectives! I had never even heard of Aidyn Chronicles 'till your video :)
Nice!
Yeah it came out at the end of the 64's life cycle, didn't sell too well and didn't get great reviews. I love it but I get why people don't like it or tend to avoid it. Lots of walking, lots of bugs lol
I had this game in college. I know i had it, because this is the only black cartridge RPG on the system. I vaguely remember the main character art work, but wow - i remember nothing else about this game. I'm not sure i have the patience to play this game myself at this point in my life, but i wonder if it would feel more familiar if i tried it out...
If I wasn't recording and note taking I'd say it took around 25 hours. I had forgotten pretty much everything past Erromon outside of Shamsuk's Tower. Even then I discovered my memories of that place were completely different, I remember it being much darker and having Chaos Generals all over the place, but nope
I played this game so much as a kid. It was a very save-scummy type of game though. There were few areas where enemies respawned.. so I remember fighting enemies in some basement for weeks before progressing. The thing that killed the game for me was the later combats. There would be 10 enemies... and each would like.. cast a spell to buff every other monster. Which would be okay, except it centered on each monster for like 3 seconds each time. Grinding in this RPG was like being in a black hole. You could literally spend an entire hour fighting one monster group. It was crazy.
I also got some random great skill or item from some monster in a basement.. great? Yeah sure. Now that I knew you could obtain the item from that one encounter, I had to get that on my subsequent playthroughs.. and oh my rnjesus was that hard. You might encounter 1 level 2 rat, or you might encounter the man in robes boss and 3 golems or whatever. It was way too random for a game that had limited encounters. Yeah, you could restart the game and grind random mobs in the overworld, but certain encounters were 1-time-only so if you didn't get a good encounter, you'd have to restart if you wanted a leg-up... which you needed.
I will forever love this game, but I think the only way to play is on an emulator with 100x speed and 3 different guides open so you don't accidently miss something. It is a fun game to play for the story but holy cow it's almost like Chrono Trigger, in which you can't possibly figure out the entire story in one playthrough because you can only have a limited number of people in your party and they all have unique interactions.
very cozy video!!
Thank you!!
Great video, I’m going to play this now.
Have fun!
Aidyn Chronicles deserves a remake, imho.
i don't know why I never tried this. I am gonna load it up on my handheld and dive in. I get a bit of an old school EQ vibe from the graphics, which earns big points in my book!
@@Brianybug My advice: save often! Lol. I never played EQ but I've always been curious about it. Alot of my older MMO friends preferred it over WoW back in the day
@@Sevoran117 thanks for the tip! You can always jump on a free EQ server like Project 1999, The Al Kabor Project or a similar one. Still has a lot of charm and a surprising number of players.
subbed when i heard the Alethi mention. my kinda youtuber
@@AoeadaTown lol thanks. I'm re-reading in preparation for Wind and Truth right now
Love this game, real sense of adventure !
I remember it being hard as a kid! Not that I knew what I was doing really. I had to sacrifice brenna in order to beat kitarak. My save bugged and deleted itself when I got to the chaos demon island. I'd like to try it again!
@@TheGollumGuy Don't think I've ever made it through with Brenna lol. She's so squishy. It took me days to beat Kitarak...and I kept getting lost in the mountains.
Isn’t it so weird that little Abrecan starts out at level 8 as opposed to the warrior of LONELY MOUNTIAN Becan at level 6? I figured with be much older and wiser his experience/skills should have reflected that a bit more. At least Becan can learn thief for more backstab damage.
Pandara’s amulet I do believe will trigger a cutscene if Alaron is wearing it when you first enter through the Jundar desert and will give you some advice. Can’t remember what she says though….
Beg to report sir, I’ve heard of people on the game’s social handles who said you could fight and kill Arturo but never seen evidence of it before when you first meet him on the bridge.
Side note: merging with spirit self (speaks backwards) gives you a few maxed-out spells, maxed wizard and stealth, along with some minor stat upgrades.
Side note 2: Get your name from the dragon and then go back to Terminor to recruit Dougal to dodge his betrayal and keep him in your party if you so choose.
Lodin’s sword and Light reaver are the only two weapons in the game that appear to be of their own special damage type that nothing in the game has resistances to which makes them so OP causing massive damage even to end-game enemies.
To magic!
@@korbinianbavaria4473 wow I really missed out not putting Thief on Becan. And yeah I think I was wearing Shamsuk's amulet when I first approached the gate! I'm gonna have to play through again. I want to to a Abrecan/Rheda/Brenna run (where she lives) and a Keelin/Arturo run soon
@@Sevoran117 Baird and Donovan can also learn thief combined with their warrior skills. Arturo is basically just like Abrecan who can't learn thief or wizard. Teach Rheda shield, thief, and warrior with her magic and yeah I agree she is pretty amazing if your willing to spend the time and exp!
Good luck with your keeping Brenna alive run HAHA, she never really makes it past Erromon for me….
@@Sevoran117 Sholeh can also learn thief and Niesen (if you don’t kill him off before going into the tower for someone else) can learn thief and warrior to make him way more helpful in Shamsuk’s tower.
@@korbinianbavaria4473 I took Brenna to the End Credits. She has some fun banter with Keelin along the way and ended up being a more capable fighter then Abrecan (who I dropped for Becan in Erromon)
I recall being able to fight Arturo but I don't remember if I was able to do so at the first meeting on the bridge. Pandara did come to help me solve the riddle at the gate of the Jundar Desert but again, don't remember how I triggered it. She flies around Alaraon like she did in the forest before and speaks in riddles herself if I remember right
According to my memory cards I have played this game for seven hundred hours in the last 25 years.
Oops
I put a lot of hours into this game. I felt there was some missing content like stuff had to be cut. There was a lot of charm to this game. The music was weird but that was definitely part of the appeal. Part of me wants a reboot/sequel lol while keeping a lot of the charm.
Also since I saw a recent review of it Drakken for the SNES was another favorite lol I know I just made like a thousand people mad.
@@edgeldine3499 I feel the same way. It does feel unfinished, like yoi can hear dogs barking in the fields but there are no dogs lol. And very few side quests. I think there are only like three or four