I like doing solo ff1 runs. All classes but the crap thief can do it.

0:50 What version/platform of FF1 is this?

Nice video mate

Finished PRFF2 last night. Look forward to starting FF3. Especially after watching your review, thanks!

Well 21 years has to be a record for the genre for having a franchise going so long without a weak entry.

Mmm, bikini beach scene has my attention, haha. Great unboxing brother, I personally love these kinds of videos you do 😎

From best to worst: 2, 5, 1, 3, 4

Fewer unboxing videos. Far more interested in reviews and countdowns. Not intended as negative, but rather constructive criticism from a LONGTIME subscriber who wants to see your channel grow. Cheers!

Odd score dude but otherwise a solid review. Been hearing both great & not-so-great things about this one. Guess Falcom is feeling the fatigue of these constant releases now. Hope they can take a much-needed break after the Y's X Proud Nordics.

I massively need to play these games

So if this is the final game in this chapter does that mean that the third one if we get another one will be a new chapter

Rogue Galaxy?

EVERYBODY knows why the scenes are half-voiced, this is NOT a mystery and it's annoying when youtubers complain about it without explaining in any way why it's that way. Each trails game has more text than all 7 Harry Potter books put together, Falcom is a small business that has never, in its history, ever employed more than 70 people. NIS America is also a small business that has never employed more than 200 people. The VAs for trails are all top-tier talents (one of the VAs for Daybreak II's English localization is a guy who is extremely famous and doesn't really need to do trails VA work) and top-tier talent is expensive. So, the choice is, with limited budgets, either half voiced with top tier talent or all voiced with shitty VAs. Falcom and NIS American made a sensible business decision. Trails is NOT a AAA quagmire that youtubers are used to reviewing, it doesn't have a quarter billion dollar budget and a 7 year development cycle. I'm not saying the half voice dialogue doesn't annoy me too, it does, what I am saying is that I understand why that is and I understand it was a business decision brought about by limited resources, and not because of laziness on the part of the developer. You can complain about this all you want, but if you don't take even a second to understand the very obvious reasons why this is, then this is an extremely lazy youtube review video.

I remember playing a demo for folklore! It was definitely an interesting game.

3:50 ACT 3 definitely is the worse with how it straight up goes against the themes and morals the game itself brings up

So glad someone finally mention the half voiced cutscenes would honestly prefer it to not be voiced then only have 1 character voiced it usually only happens with the protag i don't know why they do it i assume they want you to be able to kind of self insert especially with the bonding events but man i always internally scream when i hear a character speak to me and you don't talk back

By far one of the worst and weakest entries in the series, i genuinely hope they wrap up the series because its just ridiculous at this point and i hope they create something new.

God, I miss thus series!! Classic 90's/early 2000's RPG.

I definitely agree with some of the criticisms in this video (this is one of my least favorite games in the series and took me forever to play through when it came out), but this game is definitely not filler. Whenever Kai releases in English you’ll see that certain plot points (the rewinds, the conversation before the final boss) are VERY relevant to the overarching story. The one commenter who said this game is like the epilogue of CS2 is right. This game should’ve been trimmed down IMO, but you can’t really have Kai without some of the plot points introduced in this game. Also, as for the filler point as a whole it really in my opinion goes to one of the issues that’s causing divide with this series in general: newer fans don’t care as much about the overall story and just want a good rpg. For example, people who are starting with daybreak and like it don’t see it as “filler” but the people who have been invested in the series up to this point tend to get fed up if any game doesn’t move the overarching plot forward significantly. While I am a long time fan of this series, Daybreak 1 is my favorite game in the series because it appeared to address a lot of my issues with CS before daybreak 2 and a good portion of the first bit of Kai delved right back into those depths smh. But yeah, the issue here in my opinion is that if they want to have a soft reset to start each arc then they really can’t move the plot forward significantly due to having to introduce new characters/character arcs, plot lines, lore, etc. you’ll notice that after they’ve done this, THEN they move the plot forward (Kai is so crazy that it moves the plot forward a good amount and recontextualizes moments going all the way back to Sky SC). This is seen in cold steel with CS3 and 4 in comparison to 1 and 2. I’ve noticed that a lot of people who played cold steel have the complaint about daybreak not bringing the series forward enough, but cold steel had similar complaints back then. Daybreak fans may even have the same complaints in whatever follows this arc (which, if the final game in the arc is at least as good as CS4, in my opinion will be arguably the best arc even with daybreak 2 included). The issue is the overly self indulgent writing. Too much dilly dallying and dancing around plot points. They need to edit these games down and take longer in between releases (2-3 years IMO). These games should be much more concise. Chapter 3 and on of Kai should be the pace most of the games move at this point. The other conundrum is whether falcom is going to keep trying to soft reset or not. Believe it or not, they were very successful with that in cold steel but before cold steel there were only 3 prior English release. There’s too many trails gamws now and they’ve dug their own hole. Not as many people want to jump on at this point and I don’t really blame them. If they stopped using new casts going forward then it could hurt sales (soft resets are good entry points for newer fans) but the series would move forward faster. Honestly not sure how they handle it going forward because I’m seeing the divide in the fanbase really starting to deepen, and a lot of it stems from different expectations around where people started in the series and what they want to see going forward (which is perfectly understandable TBH and if falcom had better editing we would probably have 3 less games in this series)

Why did they remove the victory poses and result's screen !

My biggest problem with Daybreak II was the action component of the battle system. I would prefer hitting an enemy outside combat to trigger a turn based battle with an advantage instead of needing to hit an extra button to engage turn based mode. And this has o be a better Trails starting point then my first Trails game (Cold Steel II) I had played the first Legend of Heroes game when I was a kid, and a couple of games from the Garghav trilogy later and I've never really cared about playing a game series in proper order. So when I found a used copy of Cold Steel II at a local used game store soon after getting my PSP (which I knew was coming and had stockpiled some games for) and my Vita (Which I had no idea was coming) for Christmas 2016 I grabbed it.

I’ve been on the fence on whether to play daybreak or not for multiple reasons. Trails has been very hit or miss for me. I’ll probably end up playing it eventually, but it is definitely low on the list, especially with how cold steel ended on such a good game :p

Thanks for the review ! You re one of the few KZbinr I trust.

Zero party member deaths? You sure about that? I think the SSS might say differently. KeA in particular. And wasn't there similar things going on in CS1, CS3, CS4 and Reverie?

These Trails games are run on a factory line. Of course when they are done at this pace it will catch up to them and only die-hards will still love it. They really need to slow down and make other IP because it's a bit ridiculous as many games as they have released, they still haven't come into real prominence like Persona. It shouldn't be hard to overtake Final Fantasy in it's current state without graphics, just have an excellent story and good gameplay. I really couldn't get into the series as it felt too introductory for someone that has seen it all and leans into a lot of tropes that I can read the characters and plot twists through them or narrative direction.

This game's plot is weak because this is not really a sequel Trails game as we are used to. This game, along Daybreak 1 feel like an introduction game together. Think of it as if you played Cold Steel 1&2 up to the final fight, before the divertissement, and then you had a different game that had divertissement, the last chapter which is more of an epilogue than a true chapter, and the random dungeon to work as your playground. Add to that some filler to extend this "second" game, and you get Daybreak 2. Falcom usually have introduction and sequel, but this time we got introduction and introduction postgame. Kai is the actual sequel of the Calvard arc (different name, with so did Zero and Azure).

STRONGLY AGREE with the criticisms in this review. This is the worst game in the series and as a whole it is a grindy, boring, repetitive slog.

Thanks for the review, I can’t wait to play the game, already per ordered my collectors edition.

I started with daybreak 1 and loved it. Went back and finished Trails In The Sky 1st and Im just past the midway point in Trails In The Sky Second Chapter. Ill be pausing my playthrough to jump right into Daybreak 2.

The negatives in these reviews seem like positives to me. I just finished Daybreak 1 and loved it, but it had some tedium. This looks to shake things up more and the combat looks even more bombastic. I'm in.

CANT WAIT 🫰

Thanks for this review. I have it on my birthday purchases, but I guess I can shift it a bit.

awesome review! as soon as I’m done with DQ3 I’m jumping straight to this game

Your patting yourself on the back for something that people dont agree with and congratulating them with your own stupid choice like someone else chose it for them.

Am i alone in getting so nostalgic and excited from hearing all these titles and wanting to just talk about them with anyone. Im this close to just going door to door like a darn jenovas witness....sir have you heard of the church of the one winged angel? You are killing me with all this awesomeness

I'm all for opinions but dragon quarter higher up than 1&2?? It wasn't really a breath of fire game. Only BOF in name. You should have played the GBA versions of 1&2 it fixes a lot of issues you have.

Anyone else find the ironic that Barrett became the monster he set out to destroy when he became an oil tycoon

Is this still not released in digital?

The voice :D I can't watch the video..... It's too much hahahaha

Love the video and the commentary the background music honestly with your voice made me feel like I was about to enter Jurassic Park

I can’t beleive so many people put 1 so low. It’s my favorite game of the series and I don’t think any of the games except for 2 even come close

Probably the best video I've seen, about a game I haven't played in decades. Thanks, algorithm!

The Music in Breath of Fire IV is also incredible.

So the Aeris thing is hard coded in the game to set her default name when you acquire her. If you skip that bit of the game it goes back to defaulting to Aerith. They very purposefully named her Aeris for the English release very late in development.

Nanaki is also an anagram for "Anakin," which is something I always found interesting, given the fact that Biggs and Wedge are perennial characters in Final Fantasy, who also share names with Star Wars characters, albeit far more blatantly.

*When Jenova disguised as Sephiroth kills Aerith

Good video👍 Never heard about that facts

They just scratching each other like on Vagrant Story😂.Scratched by the crossbow😂😂

Am i the only one experiencing the game crashing on me several times in 2 days on the Switch?

Great review brother, I just recently picked this one up for Switch myself! Looking forward to it~