Minor spoiler for New Game+ I came back to this game a few days ago after about a year after beating my first play through. I tried to do NG+ right after, but I just couldn't. But this time around I'm having a great time. I put the game on Very Easy and got all my characters to max level by the time I was done NG+. Now I'm rushing through NG++ to clean up the routes that I haven't taken and after this run I'm going to finish it off on Hard (or maybe just normal) and take my time with the Golden Route. Then maybe once I'm done that I'll wait a year and start a fresh file. What a game. I listen to the soundtrack all the time. And just to make it clear, I do recommend that you knock the difficulty down and skip cutscenes in the middle playthroughs. Don't skip all the cutscenes, just the ones that you've already seen. But also if you want to do 4 40-hour playthroughs, go for it. I just don't have time for that, personally

Hey, thank you for making this. Your background work was fantastic and really helped me understand this game better.

Kowloon walled city is actually a "city" WITHIN the Kowloon District of Hong Kong. So the "Kowloon" Is more likely referred to the District and not the KWC itself.

I get the rich cake metaphor. I absolutely adored my first playthrough, but the last thing I wanted to do was play it again. I was worried I’d take the experience for granted and wanted to savor the remaining play throughs. Now 2 years later I’m preparing for my second playthrough and it might be my most anticipated thing this year.

I’ve subscribed now for more weird games. I might not like to play them myself, but I sure do love to hear other people talk about them.

Looks like baroque for the XXI century

im sorry this game is not a masterpiece. enjoyable, but not a masterpiece in the slightest. KZbinrs just be throwing out words i swear

Does this game have romance options?

The review is GOLD ! Pretty unique and I like how you explained things by mention cheese, cakes, agarest etc.

Great video! I finally played through this game the last couple months, and loved it despite the flaws.

While i have only watched a few minutes i did want to leave this comment thanking you for bringing this gem of a game on my radar which i have purchased and been enthralled by

Appreciate the shoutout to Betrayal at Krondor. I don’t know if it’s possible to recreate the feeling of playing this game on your family’s 486, no gamefaqs or Nintendo Power to help you out, and forget about having another classmate who’s even heard of it.

i just picked up this game and wow this game is awesome and i love dungeon crawling games

Hey well 3 weeks later and I’m back… just found out this game is on the PlayStation and Switch!!!

I love that Kowloon, of all things and places, seems to have so inspired game developers for a while there.

Looks fun.

you can actually get the true ending first if you make the "right" choices Albeit the path itself is ridiculously difficult if its your first attempt since it was probs wasn't intended for 1st runs Getting the true ending on your first attempt however feels soooo satisfying

I love weird games too, I recommend looking up Kowloon’s Gate

10:49 Honestly, incense might be worse

You may enjoy Cute Knight

I'm glad this showed up in my recommendations. I hope you make some more videos like this in the future.

Will he pronounce Kowloon correctly? Edit: he didn't

This game is a certified "0 out of 10, best game ever"

brother i am begging you to play E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy

Persona meets Danganronpa V3, but nobody online knows how it works

Dude finishe the story

Yup...just came across this video, felt exactly like my long ago high school experience in the Kowloon area 😂

LISA: The Painful RPG is another great example of a "choices matter" game.

Shining Force II is the gold standard I rate every other trpg against.

hachi machi they still want 59.99 for this almost 2 years later?

Good stuff

I'm so glad you mentioned it, because as I was watching through your video I was like "Holy shit this feels a lot like Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters," and wow, to find out that it's a spin-off of a much larger franchise is really cool! I haven't finished TTGH but it's also very weird. It was a similar dialogue system, which was the first thing that clued me in on the similarities, but the actual ghost hunting gameplay is totally and completely different, unlike anything I've ever played. Definitely recommend trying it out! I'll take a look at this one on the Switch, too! I would have never known this without your video, so thanks!

You should play “undernauts labyrinth of yomi” or “Peret em Heru” both remind me of this game,””

If Jojo's author made video games.

14:08 I have no problem with understanding (or at least I think I do) "cold" option. Cold demeanour would be deadpan, emotionless response, think about all the ice-related proverbs, "in cold blood", "cold-hearted", all the "Ice Queen" insults etc. With "Hot" I admit it is a little confusing, because the word alone can mean something sexually, or just serve as direct opposite of "cold", so very emotional, HOTheaded response, but I have a feeling "hot" here means for "spicy", which would cover both flirting and bold, arrogant responses.

Excellent video! Try to make more videos of the “modern-classic weird” games genre. Your narration and explanation it’s well done. Keep it going!!!

Also if you were ever hit by a tennis ball, you’d know it does hurt like a muther focker to the point you’d prefer a grenade.

The combat is kind of Fallout 3. BTW not shooting the groin area as first try of the dog’s weak spot shows decency.😂

4:23 "I had never been addressed by my true surname in a video game." I take it you've never played any Persona game? (Or, I guess, never used your real name in one)

Also, the second game in the franchise, Fuju Hōroku, was released in the year 2000 as a WonderSwan exclusive. The WonderSwan was a handheld game console made by Bandai, the console itself was never released outside of Japan. The game did get a GBA port 4 years later in 2004. That makes it even MORE obscure, mysterious and overall strange. From the linguistics to the themes to the plataforms it was released on, for us from the west this media franchise is strangeness incarnate. It doesn't help that it has little fans outside of Japan so theres little translated content here overall.

Maybe hot and cold means the way you talk? Like getting passionate or too excited for hot and having low energy for cold

I wonder if when persona 3 was being made if atlus looked at their old titles like this game and got inspired by the dungeon under school to make their high school into tartarus

You do realize that games from 2004 probably had game manuals. Did this port come with the digital manual?

it looks to me like the emotion wheel consists of four primary emotions with twi leve,s of intensity each, so "cold" (as in detached and basicakly not giving an inch to friendliness) acts as a lower value kf anger compared to what they actually call anger. same with somber and grief. i can't explain why hot and love are xjfferent thingsthough.

That game looks like something one would dream with a 41°C fever while also high and drunk and maybe on the Line of dissociating. Oh hells. I wanna play it with friends and get drunk off my ass while playing together!😔

This sounds like a more gothic Persona and I think it'd be dope as hell

woah i didn't know there's a game even about like.. kowloon. i was too hyperfixated on this shit for too long, and it was worth my time. pretty interesting topic to learn about

Here at 1.8k

glad I found you while your sub count is under 2k because in a year when you hit 50k, I get OG bragging rights

Par for the course for a youtuber to take a mildly unconventional non-Western game (bonus points if it's Japanese, no one ever looks into South Korean, Polish, or Czech games), completely disregard the tutorials and guides in the source language that you can run through a translation tool, and wrap it into a "video essay" (bonus points for leaving in mistakes/bloopers and correcting themselves right in the script in order to seem more relatable and funny) where the youtuber is essentially puzzled and dumbfounded for 15-30 minutes, with little to no actual analysis going on.