I've legit summoned Knights of the Round, gone and made a sandwich and sat down before the summon ended. I'm glad Majima is on that level now, he deserves it, and thank you for sharing what he gets up to in a zombie apocalypse
Yeah....Especially having heard what Majima actually sounds like in Japanese, that summon is definitely....DEFINITELY happening 100% for real, no imagination needed Ichiban
Maybe there is less lighting and "knifes" (I think they are call ninjato)... But from the little I know, that animation is probably underselling what is really happening.
I have a beautiful headcanon involving Majima forcing his underlings to haul thousands of tanto blades to the roof of every skyscraper in Ijincho, Kamurocho, and Sotenbori. Y'know, just in case.
Summoning any old dragon in Skyrim is great and all, but Durnehviir is by far the best one to do this with. Not only is he a dragon, with all the benefits that come with that, but he's also a terrifying undead zombie dragon that you occasionally let out of a soul-eating hell-scape who himself can tear out the souls of his enemies with a unique shout, Soul Tear! Though he is a chill bro about it all and teaches you how to do this horrifying shout.
The Skies of Arcadia summon needs to be the first on a list video of “7 Innocuous Details in Games That Are Entire Plots in Other Games” as Prophecy is clearly what you’re trying to prevent in Majora’s Mask
Well, it is also a plotpoint in the game itself where you try to stop others from causing meteorshowers from the moons, because of the destruction it would cause. Yet you yourself just throw the whole thing
@@ichijofestival2576 A story about a ragtag group of heroes trying to prevent a meteor from destroying the Planet, in which the final boss can also blow up the sun. Several times.
As soon as I read the title "Prophecy" was what I thought of, didn't think it would be on the list but I remember seeing it for the first time and thinking...I don't think they deserve this
I'll be honest, I never had a problem with killing Skyrims dragons.... but then I rarely have a problem killing anything so long as I've got a weapon in videogames.
What about Karstaag, he is something like a Frost Troll on steroids. Being the most powerful enemy in the game, killing him enables you to summon the behemoth 3 times...
I can see the OX meeting from here: "Come on crew, how are we supposed to fit 7 animations in that list with the Knights of the Round taking half of the video!"
I remember my favourite summon in Golden Sun as a kid was "Eclipse" which basically calls forth a gigantic dragon who blasts a huge beam from outer space, basically resulting in a nuclear explosion. So... definitely not overkill :'D
You can actually chain the knights of the round multiple times in a row. It takes a LONG time. Edit: also the FF 15 summons should be on this list. They change the environment
Absolute best way to take down those pesky weapons, IMO. One person equips KotR and Phoenix, plus the materia that allows for double summons, everyone else just uses Mimic. Murder and healing/resurrection all in one long, unstoppable go.
@@jekebe4858 KotR+Quadra Magic, the others have Mimic. 12 KotR in a row. Then you put Last Breath+Phoenix on one party member along with the material that lets them block all incoming damage. Preferably everything Maxed so you can do it up to 5 times. The rest of the material should be magic damage boosts, and Defense boosts.
@@jekebe4858 i put final strike (i think that what the materia was) and pheonix on tifa once while fighting weapon....... needless to say, you didnt have to do anything 30mins.
I was definitely gonna say some Soulsborne summoning is in order. I especially like summoning randos to fight in each other in DS3, the sorta arena after the Pontiff. One person keeps summoning as one on ones happen in the arena. It's a trip.
One time I was bored and decided to summon both Solaire and Lautrec for the bell gargoyles fight. They obliterated the gargoyles before I could even join the fight.
That was me. I saw it and I was like "Okay, this one is quality for having Majima." And especially mentioning that it is 100% something Majima would actually do xD
Should be noted both Knights of the Round and Eden use their summon attacks in FFXIV, though you and seven other people are very much on the receiving end of the animation.
@@geekfreak5100 An interesting thing about Alexander that I noticed in FF14 is the Toy Alexander minion - the description states "the Illuminati use this fully functional replica of the primal Alexander..." FULLY FUNCTIONAL. Apparently one of our cosmetic minions can time travel and use Mega Holy.
In relation to knights of the round I had that paired with pre-emptive strike (automatically used at start of combat) it went off at the start of the final boss fight killing the boss for me XD lol it was great
Set it to HP absorb, and Mime to Counter (the blue one, not Counter Attack) and you can kill the Weapons with only a few button presses. Just bring a book to read! And the underwater materia for Emerald.
@@someguy1ification pff, you can beat weapons without pressing a single button. if you are willing to grind ap for maxing materia that is. final attack - revive / final attack - knights / final attack - knights / hp mp
Iris is a really beautiful summon and stupid overpowered, because not only do you throw the entire enemy party into a supernova, but it also fully heals your party. Silly post-game summon, I'm only going to use you against mobs and maybe the final boss
Honestly, there's a few summons I'd have put on the list other than Catastrophy. Personally, I prefer the look of Judgement's animation even if it's basically the same thing, for example.....
I was waiting for FF8 to make an appearance on this list - it was the first FF game I played, and I remember summoning Eden just one time in the entire game because it just took WAY TOO LONG.
Don't ever play the original FF7... some of the summons are longer. And you can use abilities to let you double cast them and then mime to have your next character do it mana-free.
@@ReiyukaE FYI the FF7 Remake handles everything differently. Summons become like an extra party member that you can order but can't play as. Then again Remake is not turn based, but more like an improved version of FFXV's action combat system.
@@Chris_Sizemore Huh, that's weird - I mean, I did like the FFXV combat system (tho I also like turn based because you can just think about what you're gonna do and take your time) but the summon thing is kinda weird?? Now, I do have the original FF7 lying around (that I rediscovered after moving house), so it might be an idea to play both as a comparison. XD
@@ReiyukaE Wait for FF7 Remake to go on sale, then try it out. Remake is basically characters, plot and maps from the original but modern FF mechanics with an added layer for materia instead of the usual skill tree. By the time Remake goes on sale part two of the Remake should be just about released incase you fall in love with the first part.
Considering you only get to use him for a single gun attack, Satanael is little more than a cut scene in a final battle that was already dragging its heels.
@@MoostachedSaiyanPrince Yeah, although I did like a lot of their designs, the espers just weren't that great. It would have been better if you could have summoned them, and then played as them during their summon duration.
How about Ark, from FF9? A airship coming from the outer space, start transforming while it's re-entering the atmosphere. Then bombards the enemies while charging a massive laser that I'm pretty leaves a massive crater than can be seen from space.
I'm never gonna get tired of seeing Bahamut Zero/Rei playing Final Fantasy 7 for the first time and realizing that I didn't merely summon a six-winged Metal Dragon, but a six-winged-Metal-Dragon-Shaped Orbital Laser
I like how the FFVII Bahamuts get progressively lazier. Bahamut flies down to the battlefield, Neo Bahamut meets your foes in the sky, and Bahamut Zero can’t even be bothered to leave his home on the moon.
FFXV, when you summon Titan in the battle against Adamantoise. A giant dude with no pants on punching a mountain sized tortoise smack bang in the middle of the forehead. Instant classic
You can also instant kill Adamantoise with the Ring of the Lucii. Just keep casting Alterna, replenishing MP, and casting again. Eventually it will work. WAY easier.
You think that's bad? Play FF12. The gambit system is so good, if you set it up right, the game literally plays itself. And Yiazmat has 40 million HP. You can enter the fight with Yiazmat and go watch a couple movies, and when you get back you still won't be done with the fight.
@@michaelandreipalon359 yep. It takes that long. You can make the fight go faster if you take a more active approach, especially with attacks that break the damage limit, but you risk getting killed and having to do it all over again. And that's not even the worst gaming has to offer. There are world bosses (or I guess "galactic" bosses) in Eve Online called "Peerless bosses" that can take entire fleets of players literal days or even weeks to take down.
Busting put the Golden Sun summons... How did you guys not talk about the giant planet sized dragon that summons an energy pulse the size of a small sun? Lol
I'm surprised there wasn't a mention of Odin from the Final Fantasy. He has been killing you enemies for you since Final Fantasy 3 and sometime you don't even control him, he just shows up when he feels like it.
Well, I can tell that you did not play Trails of Cold Steel 1. While I am not saying you can't summon anyone in that game it's a Major undertaking and Valimar is definitely not an all powerful being as you discover at the beginning of 2. Although, you may already suspect that at the end of 1.
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How about Cerberus? A colossal three-headed hellhound that unleashes its eldritch might to... let the heroes cast more spells. OK, that one's a bit of a let-down compared to FFVIII's other overkill GFs. Handy, though.
Dude, that was really a tough summon to acquire as well... Forget the gold chocobo, or getting lucky defeating Ruby weapon with knights of the round. I still dread marlboros, thanks ff8
The issue is that he uses Frost Breath instead of fire, which is resisted by about 99% of enemies. He is also always level 20, while Odahviing goes up to 50, so if it weren't for his summoned undead there'd be absolutely no reason to use Durnehviir over Odahviing *at all*
@@astuteanansi4935 pretty sure they aren't since you can summon them both at the same time....unless I misremembered and just had a low cooldown or something.
The games "Summoner" and "Summoner 2, a goddess reborn" are overlooked forgottern gems, I loved those games especially when the whole thing revolved around you summoning or turning into powerful demon creatures. The jade dragon and the 13th summon were especially fun.
Not going to mention Anima from Final Fantasy 10? A creature that instantly kills whatever it looks at and is tied up so it won't wreck havoc which it totally can considering that its limit break brings enemies in a different dimension where it is unbound and punches the crap out of EVERYTHING?
Knights of the Round had to be first lmao 😂 I remember my brother working ages to get that one. Edit: Now that I'm seeing FFVIII included I feel strongly compelled to mention that is only the base damage, too. If you have Boost and good timing, you can increase the damage by 250%. And with a summon as long as Eden, it's really easy to get the number to the right point for that extra damage boost.
Eden is a GF where you cap the boost about a tenth of the way through it, then go off to get a snack while it takes the next hour and a half to finish up.
TBH even if you don't have good timing, you've got long enough to screw up by hitting the boost button when you're not supposed to, reset the counter, have to start again, and still get to max boost so long as you make the mistake early on. And with a 72+ second summoning animation, "early on" is relative. I know the first thing I always do after getting Eden is to swing by Balamb and unleash a max boosted Eternal Breath on some unsuspecting Bite Bug or Glacial Eye, the most scrub of scrub monsters, as payback for what a chore harvesting magic from their low-level asses was at the very start of the game (which is the fault of my own crappy starting stats but I choose to take it out on them).
Eden's the one case where a summon's long summoning animation was a tactical benefit! ...Well, the one case I know. Inform me of others in response comments.
I know it's not an RPG, but man do I love the first time you summon Nightmare in DMC5. It's so over the top and destructive, and it really gets you hyped to play V. Awesome!
Given how some of the Yugioh games feature progression similar to an RPG, I gotta throw up Exodia. It is so over the top that, should you actually get it, a cinematic plays with Exodia being summoned and straight up obliterating the opponent for an instant win.
@@Puncherjoe1 if you take into account each character's ultimate attack, then you could say that there's one for each, plus Prophecy and Blue Rogues Attack, but if you don't consider them, then yes, only 2
What about the Skies of Arcadia summon where you literally summon your entire crew to com lay the smackdown on whoever you're fighting? And it totally depend on who your active crew is. One of my favorite non-FF summons. 😁
Summoning Ohdahving during one of those fort assault missions is the best thing in Skyrim. I saw one strafe an entire wall full of archers while I'm below trying to lightning bolt everyone. It felt like an actual fantasy war.
Gah, Skies of Arcadia is such an amazing game. I loved playing it on my Dreamcast, finding items on the VMU in highschool. The Dreamcast was an amazing system.
In ff14 the knights were legendary heroes that had statues all around the city of Ishard. As summons are used as boss battles the battle is absolutely amazing. It's not my favorite fight as it's annoying as all hell but it is one of the prettiest
@@Rozesama It took me a while to work out who/what King Thordan and the Twelve Sers were. Up until I saw the name of his big move: Ultimate End. I was doing really well until I saw that and froze because I realized I was fighting THEM.
I love how both of the ones mentioned for FF are now major boss battles in FFXIV, and somehow I'm sure both fights are shorter than their respective summons.
Thanks for another great video OX 😁 Atmos in FFIX was what I thought of first. While not quite over the top as some of the list, the cutscene where it's used by one of the villains to finish off Lindblum's destruction by hovering up a good chunk of the city and its population into its black hole of a stomach was incredibly memorable for me. FFIX had some fantastic Eidolon cutscenes, which gave them an amazing sense of power and scale, also considering its age, dam visually impressive I think.
@@Weirdgirl213 He also sounds way more friendly. The posing, maniacal laughter, taunting after cutting someone open? It seems like DIO. Plus, he's the other side of Kiryu who reminds me of Jonathan or Jotaro. They did have the voice of DIO at least once, that guy Ibuchi
Why would you pick Odahviing instead of Durnevhiir? Durnevhiir shows up after a short animation, summons his own allies from the Soul Cairn and rips people's souls out through the power of the voice
I will always have a soft spot in my heart for the Juggernaut summon “End of Days” from Legend of Legaia, it was a pain to unlock but was so much fun to watch.
All the magic in that game are summons, but Juggernaut doesn't even wait for the summoning to be completed before he starts stepping on enemies. Definetly overkill.
In the version of Legend of Legaia I have, the move is called "Dark Eclipse". Yeah, Juggernaut is not taking any crap from your enemies and starts off by smashing them before getting to his main attack.
Persona 5 in the final boss battle of the game the main protagonist Joker summons Satanael his ultimate persona to defeat the final boss Yaldabaoth with the Sinful Shell which combines all seven deadly sins into an attack powerful enough to kill a god.
2 Final Fantasy summon and neither were Ark from FF9?! It shots a miles wide diameter laser beam completely through the planet. Like in one end out the other.
I didn't see the whole list, and as SOON as I heard the opening trumpets for Skies of Arcadia, my entire face lit up with a gigantic smile. Best. Game. Ever.
I just got done playing all three of the Yakuza games on game pass back to back (300 hours) and I gotta say, it's not surprising to hear that Majima is a favorite of the community. I love Gorogorogoro-chan!!!
The Majima summon is absolutely my favorite summon because it's just so perfectly extra. It's very on brand.
I know 90% of this is in Ichiban head but honestly think that one actually happens
You can spawn my daughter
It's above extra. One might say it is.... _outside_ extra!
*badum-tsss*, I'll see myself out, thankyouverymuch, have a good night!
At first I was kinda nervous about getting a turn based yakuza game but I see it now. I see why I must have it.
Kiwami means EXTREME!!!!!
I've legit summoned Knights of the Round, gone and made a sandwich and sat down before the summon ended. I'm glad Majima is on that level now, he deserves it, and thank you for sharing what he gets up to in a zombie apocalypse
Now combine it with mimic...
Wait! Don’t spoil the Knights of the Round summon, I’m almost halfway through the animation.....I hope.
The novels were better. The animation skips out on so many chapters and details it's just not worth it.
@@Bluebedo bruh
....and you started playing the game at release, didn't you? ;)
@@Bluebedo i prefer the movie
it cuts a few points but keeps the main feel of the story
16 hours after your comment: you done now, or still watching?
Yeah....Especially having heard what Majima actually sounds like in Japanese, that summon is definitely....DEFINITELY happening 100% for real, no imagination needed Ichiban
Maybe there is less lighting and "knifes" (I think they are call ninjato)... But from the little I know, that animation is probably underselling what is really happening.
I have a beautiful headcanon involving Majima forcing his underlings to haul thousands of tanto blades to the roof of every skyscraper in Ijincho, Kamurocho, and Sotenbori. Y'know, just in case.
Summoning any old dragon in Skyrim is great and all, but Durnehviir is by far the best one to do this with. Not only is he a dragon, with all the benefits that come with that, but he's also a terrifying undead zombie dragon that you occasionally let out of a soul-eating hell-scape who himself can tear out the souls of his enemies with a unique shout, Soul Tear! Though he is a chill bro about it all and teaches you how to do this horrifying shout.
The Skies of Arcadia summon needs to be the first on a list video of “7 Innocuous Details in Games That Are Entire Plots in Other Games” as Prophecy is clearly what you’re trying to prevent in Majora’s Mask
@@ichijofestival2576 not to mention the friggin Behemoths that casts that as an F-U, in attempts to take you down with him.
Well, it is also a plotpoint in the game itself where you try to stop others from causing meteorshowers from the moons, because of the destruction it would cause. Yet you yourself just throw the whole thing
@@ichijofestival2576 A story about a ragtag group of heroes trying to prevent a meteor from destroying the Planet, in which the final boss can also blow up the sun. Several times.
@@Cross177
Not to mention Red Chocobo-s.
To be fair, the Meteor in FF7 much bigger compared to other games.
Another excuse for Andy to use Yakuza's clip which I wholeheartedly support.
"Don't make me turn you into Macho Man Randy Savage" is right up there with "I will boil your teeth" as the most intimidating threat I've ever heard.
It's such an odd, yet vaguely threatening, comment...and I'm quite the fan.
The world in Skies of Arcadia actually has 6 moons, so moon-wise, at least, they're technically fine.
In real life plants with two moons orbiting around them tend to result in one of them crashing into the planet so i wonder what would happen with 6
@@rebelwolf772 I guess it would ultimately be decided by moon size/placement and gravity “strength”
@@rebelwolf772 Jupiter has like 17 or something 😅 even Mars has two
As soon as I read the title "Prophecy" was what I thought of, didn't think it would be on the list but I remember seeing it for the first time and thinking...I don't think they deserve this
@@HeinerGunnar Fun fact, Phobos will almost certainly crash into Mars sometime in the next 10 millions years or so.
"Don't make me turn you into Macho Man Randy Savage"
Go on and threaten me with a good time.
Hey... he could have made them into dragon trains
I think you mean Oooooooooohhh YEEaaaaaahhhhh
The inclusion of the Golden Sun series in this video just reaffirms Andy’s impeccable taste in video games!
How impeccable?
@@michaelandreipalon359 Not a single pecca
And he forgot to mention the Dark Dawn version, Judgment turns into that thing.
@@DeuxLeftHands So, it's "imble"?
Im so happy golden sun has been getting much more attention recently
psychotherapist: english majima doesnt exist he cant hurt you
emglish majima: its goro majimas comeback tour
hahaha, English Majima go brrrrrrrrrrrr
Yeah. Matt Mercer is one of my favorite voice actors -and not just because of critical role- but the Yakuza games are much better played in Japanese.
“There is no more deadly enemy in skyrim than dragons/macho man randy savage dragons.”
*confused Luke’s frost troll noises
Luke and the frost troll have the perfect relationship, move over batman and joker
I'll be honest, I never had a problem with killing Skyrims dragons.... but then I rarely have a problem killing anything so long as I've got a weapon in videogames.
What about Thomas the tank engine dragons?
"Noooo .... Nooo! Hell is empty, and all the devils are here!"
What about Karstaag, he is something like a Frost Troll on steroids.
Being the most powerful enemy in the game, killing him enables you to summon the behemoth 3 times...
I think this whole list could've all been just from Yakuza: LaD, they really knocked it out of the park and I loved every single one of them
"He's the man, as you saw, Goro Majima! Maaaaaajiiiimaaaaa Constructionnnnnn!"
I can see the OX meeting from here: "Come on crew, how are we supposed to fit 7 animations in that list with the Knights of the Round taking half of the video!"
Anima in FFX is something else in my opinion. It is some horrifying eldritch abomination that completely and utterly destroys your enemies.
It's also the primary antagonist's mother, so that's an extra layer of wtf.
And her overdrive is just nightmare fuel
Although sin itself is the most horrifying actual summon in the game...
Was just about to suggest Anima! The background info on her makes it all the more horrifying...
Anima is one of the best designed summons, but yeah, Doomtrain is amazing too.
"Theres no enemy in Skyrim that is more powerful than a Dragon"
I think Luke has an opinion about that
Karstag?
@@JennaJennaJen that first Frost Troll you run into, obviously :P
*Sees Majima in thumbnail* ahhhhh people of culture
SEEING Saejima i clapped
Goro Majima, the guy that can be as random as possible, but it just fits him
I remember my favourite summon in Golden Sun as a kid was "Eclipse" which basically calls forth a gigantic dragon who blasts a huge beam from outer space, basically resulting in a nuclear explosion. So... definitely not overkill :'D
You can actually chain the knights of the round multiple times in a row. It takes a LONG time.
Edit: also the FF 15 summons should be on this list. They change the environment
That and the ff15 Knights of the round kills you in the process
Absolute best way to take down those pesky weapons, IMO. One person equips KotR and Phoenix, plus the materia that allows for double summons, everyone else just uses Mimic. Murder and healing/resurrection all in one long, unstoppable go.
@@jekebe4858 agreed. It was barely even a challenge at that point
@@jekebe4858 KotR+Quadra Magic, the others have Mimic. 12 KotR in a row. Then you put Last Breath+Phoenix on one party member along with the material that lets them block all incoming damage. Preferably everything Maxed so you can do it up to 5 times. The rest of the material should be magic damage boosts, and Defense boosts.
@@jekebe4858 i put final strike (i think that what the materia was) and pheonix on tifa once while fighting weapon....... needless to say, you didnt have to do anything 30mins.
I can only hope to one day reach Majima's God tier level of extra. He's love and choatic madness all in one awesome package. 😍
I see a distinct lack of “Jolly Co-operation” here...
I was definitely gonna say some Soulsborne summoning is in order. I especially like summoning randos to fight in each other in DS3, the sorta arena after the Pontiff. One person keeps summoning as one on ones happen in the arena. It's a trip.
One time I was bored and decided to summon both Solaire and Lautrec for the bell gargoyles fight. They obliterated the gargoyles before I could even join the fight.
One word: Tarkus.
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Three words: TARKUS! TARKUS! TARKUS!
I'm a simple girl, I see Majima, I click.
That was me. I saw it and I was like "Okay, this one is quality for having Majima." And especially mentioning that it is 100% something Majima would actually do xD
A true person of culture. You have my respect.
me too :)
I'm a boy. And I click.
I second this.
Should be noted both Knights of the Round and Eden use their summon attacks in FFXIV, though you and seven other people are very much on the receiving end of the animation.
Thordan's crew rather lacks the punch of Arthur's, as long as you do the mechanics right.
My character Kirin Ebondark can attest to that.
@@geekfreak5100 An interesting thing about Alexander that I noticed in FF14 is the Toy Alexander minion - the description states "the Illuminati use this fully functional replica of the primal Alexander..."
FULLY FUNCTIONAL. Apparently one of our cosmetic minions can time travel and use Mega Holy.
In relation to knights of the round
I had that paired with pre-emptive strike (automatically used at start of combat) it went off at the start of the final boss fight killing the boss for me XD lol it was great
Set it to HP absorb, and Mime to Counter (the blue one, not Counter Attack) and you can kill the Weapons with only a few button presses. Just bring a book to read!
And the underwater materia for Emerald.
@@someguy1ification pff, you can beat weapons without pressing a single button. if you are willing to grind ap for maxing materia that is.
final attack - revive / final attack - knights / final attack - knights / hp mp
FF7’s Bahamut Zero, a.k.a. “Nuke-the-site-from-orbit-ga”
Then we have Bahamut Fury..
Lol!!!!
Bahamut Zero's laser sound effect remains one of my favorite in any videogame.
Iris from Golden Sun is pretty overkill too though, she sends your opponents right into the sun...
Iris is a really beautiful summon and stupid overpowered, because not only do you throw the entire enemy party into a supernova, but it also fully heals your party. Silly post-game summon, I'm only going to use you against mobs and maybe the final boss
Honestly, there's a few summons I'd have put on the list other than Catastrophy. Personally, I prefer the look of Judgement's animation even if it's basically the same thing, for example.....
Less collateral damage that way
In the 3rd game you even see her create a sun specifically for that purpose
@@alexcurtis6180 I mean, you get Iris by beating the absolute hardest boss in the game, so it had better be OP as heck.
I was waiting for FF8 to make an appearance on this list - it was the first FF game I played, and I remember summoning Eden just one time in the entire game because it just took WAY TOO LONG.
Don't ever play the original FF7... some of the summons are longer. And you can use abilities to let you double cast them and then mime to have your next character do it mana-free.
@@Chris_Sizemore Oh dseesh, good to know - thanks for the advice. XD
@@ReiyukaE FYI the FF7 Remake handles everything differently. Summons become like an extra party member that you can order but can't play as. Then again Remake is not turn based, but more like an improved version of FFXV's action combat system.
@@Chris_Sizemore Huh, that's weird - I mean, I did like the FFXV combat system (tho I also like turn based because you can just think about what you're gonna do and take your time) but the summon thing is kinda weird?? Now, I do have the original FF7 lying around (that I rediscovered after moving house), so it might be an idea to play both as a comparison. XD
@@ReiyukaE Wait for FF7 Remake to go on sale, then try it out. Remake is basically characters, plot and maps from the original but modern FF mechanics with an added layer for materia instead of the usual skill tree. By the time Remake goes on sale part two of the Remake should be just about released incase you fall in love with the first part.
You forgot about Persona 5! You fight god and summon Satan with a giant gun, never forget the power of anime!
Exactly! I was hoping we'd at least get a mention of Satanael!
Considering you only get to use him for a single gun attack, Satanael is little more than a cut scene in a final battle that was already dragging its heels.
@@TheBlackSeraph In a new playthrough you can summon him in normal fights
@@joshuagriffin5917 Good to know -- only played through it twice and needed a break afterward each time so never played NG+
Persona 5 and Persona 3! Summoning the God of Death by....evoking your Persona.
Ty for including Golden Sun: The Lost Age! It’s one of my favorites 👍
Andy just do the Majima cosplay
I've never seen this character before and that was exactly my first thought.
I would kill to see that.
I have to say that my favorite in Skies of Arcadia is the Blue Rogues Attack, 'cause I get to see all members of the crew attacking.
Is it really a summon if its not over the top?
If it's not over the top than it stops being a summon and becomes a waste of time. That's why I hate the ones from Final Fantasy XII.
Exactly. I must have spent 200 hours playing Final Fantasy VIII and I estimate about half of it was waiting for summons to finish. Good times!
@The Gaming Meta Does that actually exist in a game?
@@MoostachedSaiyanPrince Yeah, although I did like a lot of their designs, the espers just weren't that great. It would have been better if you could have summoned them, and then played as them during their summon duration.
Counter Example: Choco/Mog
How about Ark, from FF9? A airship coming from the outer space, start transforming while it's re-entering the atmosphere. Then bombards the enemies while charging a massive laser that I'm pretty leaves a massive crater than can be seen from space.
that ALSO takes forever to watch. But holy hell is it awesome.
The backblast can be seen from space. And that laser is only made for 1 HP. He opens up with Boss!Ark's reduce-to-1HP move before the laser fires.
I'm never gonna get tired of seeing Bahamut Zero/Rei playing Final Fantasy 7 for the first time and realizing that I didn't merely summon a six-winged Metal Dragon, but a six-winged-Metal-Dragon-Shaped Orbital Laser
I like how the FFVII Bahamuts get progressively lazier. Bahamut flies down to the battlefield, Neo Bahamut meets your foes in the sky, and Bahamut Zero can’t even be bothered to leave his home on the moon.
It's good to see Golden Sun getting some love!
FFXV, when you summon Titan in the battle against Adamantoise. A giant dude with no pants on punching a mountain sized tortoise smack bang in the middle of the forehead. Instant classic
You can also instant kill Adamantoise with the Ring of the Lucii. Just keep casting Alterna, replenishing MP, and casting again. Eventually it will work. WAY easier.
@@NigelWatersFWA true, that is much easier. But it is also about six orders of magnitude less awesome.
Sephiroth's Supernova is so long and unskippable that you can literally cook noodles, and watch Knights of the Round Table on RUclips
You think that's bad?
Play FF12.
The gambit system is so good, if you set it up right, the game literally plays itself.
And Yiazmat has 40 million HP.
You can enter the fight with Yiazmat and go watch a couple movies, and when you get back you still won't be done with the fight.
@@GeneralNickles Is this true? If so, what the fridge!
@@GeneralNickles Also, what movies should I watch so I can calculate the timeframe?
@@michaelandreipalon359 yep. It takes that long. You can make the fight go faster if you take a more active approach, especially with attacks that break the damage limit, but you risk getting killed and having to do it all over again.
And that's not even the worst gaming has to offer.
There are world bosses (or I guess "galactic" bosses) in Eve Online called "Peerless bosses" that can take entire fleets of players literal days or even weeks to take down.
@@GeneralNickles Yikes.
Still, what movies?
Busting put the Golden Sun summons... How did you guys not talk about the giant planet sized dragon that summons an energy pulse the size of a small sun? Lol
I'm surprised there wasn't a mention of Odin from the Final Fantasy. He has been killing you enemies for you since Final Fantasy 3 and sometime you don't even control him, he just shows up when he feels like it.
I'd say that Ark from FF9 gets an honorable mention, it's so wildly unexpected the first time you summon it
Every JRPG ever:
>Summon an all=powerful being from another universe who fires a laser from space big enough to fully engulf the planet
>12 damage
Well, I can tell that you did not play Trails of Cold Steel 1. While I am not saying you can't summon anyone in that game it's a Major undertaking and Valimar is definitely not an all powerful being as you discover at the beginning of 2. Although, you may already suspect that at the end of 1.
My favorite are attacks that wrecks the sun just to get to your enemy..
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I legit thought my screen cracked when I saw that text
Doomtrain is so horrifying that only a giant cactus with a moustache can properly cleanse our brains from the horror. Fortunately...
How about Cerberus? A colossal three-headed hellhound that unleashes its eldritch might to... let the heroes cast more spells.
OK, that one's a bit of a let-down compared to FFVIII's other overkill GFs. Handy, though.
@@Amaritudine Cerberus just wants to help. He's a good boy.
Dude, that was really a tough summon to acquire as well... Forget the gold chocobo, or getting lucky defeating Ruby weapon with knights of the round. I still dread marlboros, thanks ff8
Fitting that when you guys mention eden from ff8. Today's the day the final eden raids for ff14 comes out
Durnehviir is the more OP dragon. He LITERALLY summons high-level undead after you've summoned him.
Plus he's literally a zombie dragon.
The issue is that he uses Frost Breath instead of fire, which is resisted by about 99% of enemies. He is also always level 20, while Odahviing goes up to 50, so if it weren't for his summoned undead there'd be absolutely no reason to use Durnehviir over Odahviing *at all*
@@astuteanansi4935 except, since one is a shout and one is a spell, you can summon both at once just for the sheer overkill of it
@@gothicbutterfly013 They're both Shouts
@@astuteanansi4935 pretty sure they aren't since you can summon them both at the same time....unless I misremembered and just had a low cooldown or something.
The games "Summoner" and "Summoner 2, a goddess reborn" are overlooked forgottern gems, I loved those games especially when the whole thing revolved around you summoning or turning into powerful demon creatures. The jade dragon and the 13th summon were especially fun.
thank god i am not the only one who loves.. heck, even knows about these games.
You can pretty much put in every Golden Sun summon. They're all the very definition of overkill.
I believe Eden was the first attack to break the 9999 limit in the FF series
Yeah. Total surprise when I first saw that 5 digit number.
Well technically squalls final limit break usually comes first to break the 9999 limit. But eden would be second.
Technically Kamikaze (Cactuar) is what you're likelier to get first. It's a single BDL hit, too.
You could do it as early as FFII, it just didn't show all 5 digits, IE. if you did 12,000 it would show 2,000 but still do the full amount.
There really should be a RPG about law. Then you could have summons summons...
What do you mean by “law”? Can you be more specific
@@makotoyuki345 A summons is an order to appear before a judge or a magistrate.
@@Michael_Lindell ohhh, you mean it’s a pun on “Summoning” in court and “Summoning” in RPGs. That’s really clever actually
I cast Subpoenaga!
Wait isnt that the whole idea behind Phoenix Wright?
All the summons from Final Fantasy XV are amazing... Bahamut in the fight vs Ifrit is my favorite, but Leviathan's summon is particularly beautiful
Yes. Golden Sun. You guys have wonderful taste in games. Cheers.
Never thought I'd see Skies of Arcadia here haha. That game sparked my life-long love of turn-based RPGs.
Not going to mention Anima from Final Fantasy 10? A creature that instantly kills whatever it looks at and is tied up so it won't wreck havoc which it totally can considering that its limit break brings enemies in a different dimension where it is unbound and punches the crap out of EVERYTHING?
That's such a cool theme for a list
Please let this be at least a hundred part series of videos
Knights of the Round had to be first lmao 😂 I remember my brother working ages to get that one.
Edit: Now that I'm seeing FFVIII included I feel strongly compelled to mention that is only the base damage, too. If you have Boost and good timing, you can increase the damage by 250%. And with a summon as long as Eden, it's really easy to get the number to the right point for that extra damage boost.
Eden is a GF where you cap the boost about a tenth of the way through it, then go off to get a snack while it takes the next hour and a half to finish up.
TBH even if you don't have good timing, you've got long enough to screw up by hitting the boost button when you're not supposed to, reset the counter, have to start again, and still get to max boost so long as you make the mistake early on. And with a 72+ second summoning animation, "early on" is relative.
I know the first thing I always do after getting Eden is to swing by Balamb and unleash a max boosted Eternal Breath on some unsuspecting Bite Bug or Glacial Eye, the most scrub of scrub monsters, as payback for what a chore harvesting magic from their low-level asses was at the very start of the game (which is the fault of my own crappy starting stats but I choose to take it out on them).
Eden's the one case where a summon's long summoning animation was a tactical benefit! ...Well, the one case I know. Inform me of others in response comments.
I know it's not an RPG, but man do I love the first time you summon Nightmare in DMC5. It's so over the top and destructive, and it really gets you hyped to play V. Awesome!
Knights of the Round, echo, echo, endlessly, for about a week, and then Emerald Weapon dies.
You forgot w-summon before the mime mime. Lots of toilet break time there
Works for Ruby as well as long as you have HP Absorb to refill after the Ultima counterattack
My god I love Majima. They seriously need to make a game with him strictly as the main character.
Yakuza 0?
@@ilimuninati4929 great game, but he was a secondary character in that one. I’m talking a full on game based around just him.
@GotCamel he was, at the very least, a co-star. You play as him for half of the game and learn his backstory.
Odahviing is great and all, but what about Durnehviir? He is a literal zombie dragon you summon from hell (or something at least equally unpleasant)
I'm so glad to see Catastrophe here. The GS summons always were one of my favourite part of the games. It's just. So good. Such good designs
Warms my heart whenever I see something from Golden Sun make it on a list. Today video was no difference.
I really love how much Andy loved this game. It really shows
Given how some of the Yugioh games feature progression similar to an RPG, I gotta throw up Exodia. It is so over the top that, should you actually get it, a cinematic plays with Exodia being summoned and straight up obliterating the opponent for an instant win.
And always makes me happy whenever Golden sun comes up. I feel like that game went very unappreciated.
Man, I need to replay Skies of Arcadia. It's been years since I last played it. I don't even remember summons being in that game.
I think it's the only one.
Or maybe there's like 2? It's not a major part of combat
@@Puncherjoe1 if you take into account each character's ultimate attack, then you could say that there's one for each, plus Prophecy and Blue Rogues Attack, but if you don't consider them, then yes, only 2
What about the Skies of Arcadia summon where you literally summon your entire crew to com lay the smackdown on whoever you're fighting? And it totally depend on who your active crew is. One of my favorite non-FF summons. 😁
I am extremely happy that they included Eden from ff8
Eden was the first time I saw the damage limit broken. Seeing a five-digit number instead of the expected 9,999 was a surprise.
@@oldDNU yeah that was a good time
Summoning Ohdahving during one of those fort assault missions is the best thing in Skyrim. I saw one strafe an entire wall full of archers while I'm below trying to lightning bolt everyone. It felt like an actual fantasy war.
Waiting for Corazon to casually show up wearing an eyepatch with a snake on it.
Gah, Skies of Arcadia is such an amazing game. I loved playing it on my Dreamcast, finding items on the VMU in highschool.
The Dreamcast was an amazing system.
Knights of the round in ff7:r should just be the protagonists from all the final fantasys past and present
"Cloud, who--" "Relax. I had a dream about these guys. We fought some bad guys and then had a dance-off."
In ff14 the knights were legendary heroes that had statues all around the city of Ishard. As summons are used as boss battles the battle is absolutely amazing. It's not my favorite fight as it's annoying as all hell but it is one of the prettiest
@@Rozesama It took me a while to work out who/what King Thordan and the Twelve Sers were. Up until I saw the name of his big move: Ultimate End. I was doing really well until I saw that and froze because I realized I was fighting THEM.
I love how both of the ones mentioned for FF are now major boss battles in FFXIV, and somehow I'm sure both fights are shorter than their respective summons.
I thought of Lord of the Rings The Third Age, where you can summon Ents or Eagles to reign hell on like 2 orcs if you wanted to
Thanks for another great video OX 😁
Atmos in FFIX was what I thought of first. While not quite over the top as some of the list, the cutscene where it's used by one of the villains to finish off Lindblum's destruction by hovering up a good chunk of the city and its population into its black hole of a stomach was incredibly memorable for me.
FFIX had some fantastic Eidolon cutscenes, which gave them an amazing sense of power and scale, also considering its age, dam visually impressive I think.
I would very much like to see Andy's alternate Kingdom Hearts "Small World" summon.
Eden, and ff8 in general I love. It was my first final fantasy game, and eden is the last GF you can acquire. So cool
When you summon the Yakuza version of DIO to he extra for you.
He’s much too nice to the protagonist to be the Yakuza version of Dio.
@@Weirdgirl213 He also sounds way more friendly. The posing, maniacal laughter, taunting after cutting someone open? It seems like DIO. Plus, he's the other side of Kiryu who reminds me of Jonathan or Jotaro. They did have the voice of DIO at least once, that guy Ibuchi
To be fair, Majima's dance routine was in his head during karaoke. On the other hand, he did clone himself before Ichiban showed up.
The thing with KotR compared to other longer animation summons like Eden and Ark is that it is easier to cast it multiple times in 1 turn
Maybe not as spectacular as some of these but I've always been fond of the Anima summon from FFX. That Aeon's limit break is nuts.
Eden took so long to cast that it only just finished in FFXIV.
Somehow I knew Eden had to be on this list. One of the most OP and awesome summons from the FF series to date.
Why would you pick Odahviing instead of Durnevhiir? Durnevhiir shows up after a short animation, summons his own allies from the Soul Cairn and rips people's souls out through the power of the voice
I will always have a soft spot in my heart for the Juggernaut summon “End of Days” from Legend of Legaia, it was a pain to unlock but was so much fun to watch.
All the magic in that game are summons, but Juggernaut doesn't even wait for the summoning to be completed before he starts stepping on enemies. Definetly overkill.
In the version of Legend of Legaia I have, the move is called "Dark Eclipse". Yeah, Juggernaut is not taking any crap from your enemies and starts off by smashing them before getting to his main attack.
@@chrisdesouza1333 You say that like it's a bad thing...
Also, hey, there are 2 other people I see who remember Legend of Legaia. :)
Persona 5 in the final boss battle of the game the main protagonist Joker summons Satanael his ultimate persona to defeat the final boss Yaldabaoth with the Sinful Shell which combines all seven deadly sins into an attack powerful enough to kill a god.
Yea but, like, Majima
Gotta love Yakuza :D Majima Goro was a favourite since Yakuza 0
2 Final Fantasy summon and neither were Ark from FF9?! It shots a miles wide diameter laser beam completely through the planet. Like in one end out the other.
Summoning Mr. Slave in South Park Stick of truth.
Especially if you get the achievement for doing it while inside of Mr. Slave
I would have said Mr. Hanky
I didn't see the whole list, and as SOON as I heard the opening trumpets for Skies of Arcadia, my entire face lit up with a gigantic smile.
Best. Game. Ever.
I would not want fight Majima ever especially if choose dance fight me like in Yakuza 0 which was very overpowered.
We really need a remaster of Skies of Arcadia. By far my favorite game of all time
In skyrim it would actually be Duniver (most likely miss spelled it
Hes more usefull cause even if he cant land he still makes an army of the undead to put a shield between you and the mudcrab your fighting
GOLDEN SUUUUNNNNNNNN!!! I'm SO glad it's getting recognition on here! Such a great classic game, I'd kill for a remake of the GBA games.
I just got done playing all three of the Yakuza games on game pass back to back (300 hours) and I gotta say, it's not surprising to hear that Majima is a favorite of the community. I love Gorogorogoro-chan!!!
5:21 I am so glad to see golden sun in this list ❤️
I was waiting for Eden. I would have been thoroughly disgusted if it wasn't included lol
Skies of Arcadia is one of the best RPGs ever made! It deserves more love
Japan,
Just list Japan.
My favorite summon is the guardian dragon from Adventure Quest. He and his child defined my childhood. I love his quotes.