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Well... In Chronicles (and most versions that aren't the PCE one) you fight monsters in Darm Tower because they are there. Most of the time you can't skip them, and you still have to play well because they can seriously hurt you. I speak for myself, but I think what's fun about Ys I and II is the gameplay, and I don't consider the fact that you can mindlessly grind to trivialize the challenge in the PCE version to be a positive.

Oh man, you gave me massive PTSD flashbacks bringing up Sticker Star. TTYD is one of my faves too and Paper Mario 64 was essentially the game that got me into RPGs. I didn't hate Super Paper Mario by any means, I actually liked and thought the more action oriented/metroidvania style was really cool, but I also yearned for a TRUE follow up to TTYD and was excited for Sticker Star. This was during a time when I didn't even have internet so the only way I could find things out about a game was through magazines like Game Informer or from friends. I bought Sticker Star blindly because I loved Paper Mario and man, that was a game so horrible and disappointing that it made 18 year-old me sell their 3Ds. The sticker system is one of the worst gaming design choices of all time. Like you said, every single attack functions as a one-time use sticker item. You can't even perform the simplest jump or hammer attack without a sticker for it and since every item is one-time use there's absolutely no incentive to battle any enemies you aren't forced to fight. There's no experience/level system and you are legit penalized for fighting when you don't have to since it just wastes stickers. Even the items known as 'things' are one-time use only, these are objects you find on the overworld that you turn into stickers and they're powerful attacks that take up a lot of space in your sticker album, but since it's a one-time use the only way to get it again is to backtrack all the way to where you originally found the item, so it's just a waste of time and unnecessary padding. Every single boss in this game has an absurd amount of HP unless you find the proper object in the overworld and turn it into a sticker that you use on the boss and then the boss just becomes a complete pushover. So basically you have two options for difficulty 'unwinnable' or ' laughably easy' The whole game is just a joke and one of the biggest tanks in quality from what was once an amazing and consistent franchise. We can only hope that with the recent release of TTYD remaster that Nintendo finally realizes there's a market for the real successor the fans have wanted all these years and they'll let Intelligent Systems make it now.

You totally got a point here ! Personally if we exclude the PCE version, I will chose Eternal over Chronicles just for the soundtrack alone (grew up with this version and the General MIDIish rendition of the OST have a little something that I LOVE it)

To be honest I don't mind. I would like it if we got KH3 remix, while I did enjoy the ReMind Dlc I would like to see what more they could have added.

@NeoKakarot Imagine you're talking to a beginner or newcomer. I'm sure you'll find something helpful to share. I find this chat fascinating and wanted to share something I struggle with during recordings. I often lose track and over-explain, wondering if people understand me. To improve, I use tools like ChatGPT to identify areas where my explanations might be unclear. Lastly, have fun while sharing your thoughts! If you're enjoying yourself, even simple topics can captivate others. That's the magic of engaging communication.

You look solid for not having competed

Knee of justice Knee of justice Knee of justice Knee of justice Knee of justice !!! nice video :) it gave me huge nostalgia. I remember meeting new people around this game when i moved and it was a blessing. it was the first time i met pro players. They told me i was very good for someone that knew little to nothing about advanced tech... to then oblitarate me. I was asking for it. I wanted to understand what was actually going on. Despite understand what i was whitnessing i was unable to actually process how to get there and it was so fking awesome to just get wreck so hard lol I won one time and it felt wrong xD now that being said, speed up your voice ^^' 1.5x

Hey bro, im a few mins in. I really like your video. I think if you spoke just a little quicker, or sped pace up a little, it would benefit your delivery. Keep it up!

Who forced you to make this video?

While I'm just getting into Falcom games (through Ys), I've been listetning to a LOT of music from them this is by far the more FAIR video about Singa's work I've ever seen, folks mainly just hate the guy without even trying to think about the work he has to do and how much Falcom is using him, thanks for this

The future remains uncertain for the time being. So don't get your hopes up.

I really hope the re-releases does NOT become a thing for Falcom. It's a scummy practice already made by other companies (For example, ATLUS as you pointed out in the video) and it'd be devastating if Falcom were to follow their steps. Granted, the re-releases are far more accepted in the Japanese industry. However, we often in the west tend to get the "better" version when the game gets localized. It was barely a few months ago that YS X was released here and these news are quite literally a punch in the face. Now, there's the possibility that Proud Nordics is a hell of a expansion (which i doubt, due to the content explanation) that could be considered a separated Game (Digimon Redigitize: Decode as an example. Which has 3x the amount of content compared to the original). Anyway, why couldn't be just a dlc?. That aside. The Sky remake looks GORGEOUS, and the Best thing about the announcement is that it won't be a Nintendo exclusive (imagine if nintendo was the publisher. Sheesh). Talking about publishers, it seems that pairing with gungho entertainment wasn't just an out of nowhere decision since apparently a lot of workers from XSEED (including the previous president) moved to gungho. So that'd explain why Falcom didn't just straight up paired up with either XSEED or NISA

It's mostly youtubers who have their panties in a bunch over Ys 10 Proud Nordics. Here's what the situation reminds me of: I used to be an avid reader of Marvel and DC Superhero comics. Every year, those two companies did their annual event crossover. Titles like House of M, Infinite Crisis, Avengers versus X-men and many others. Fans HATE event comics, and a lot of comic book forums are taken up with fans complaining about event comics to high heaven. It wasn't just the main book either, during events, pretty much every comic across the company would stop the story it was telling and do tie-in stories. Sometimes, those tie-ins were key pieces of the story, and other times, it was window dressing. People complained about this to high heaven, and there was a ton of anger over it. Why did publishers do it if it pissed off fans? Because event comics sold a metric crap-ton of comic books. For every fan on the internet who complained about it, there were 25 other fans who were lined up with their wallets open ready to buy in. Some of these events were really very well done, others were garbage. If you don't like the business practices a company is using, don't support it by buying the product you find questionable. We live in the Golden Age of JRPGs, The intense competition should mean that if you object to a certain game's monetization policy, there should be a dozen games that don't have that wart that you move up your list of games to play. Don't hope a policy changes, if you don't like it, don't buy it. If it doesn't sell, companies will stop doing it. If most customers are stupid and fall easy prey to abusive monetization practices, well, that is kind of a bummer. As far as I know, comic book fans never did catch on and stop buying those event comic books that certain fans complained so loudly about.

“What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.” All except for the Nayuta stuff. I literally just started it last night and am only about ten minutes into the opening as I started it before going to sleep and already I know that this is not a cute throwaway side story prequel. From the little I heard and read so far, this story will come into play later. It's kind of like the Ys Origin of the Trails series. Not required but helps to fill in a lot of gaps that will impact the story later. Glad you had fun making the video though.

Why I don't interact with the Falcom fandom. It's like come on people there's already a few of us and most of the people in it insist on being elitist pieces of crap. Just be thankful the company is still making games.

Not the marth vs ness matchup

Nice video :) Both Zwei games are on my backlog since I got my silver anniversary edition of Ys Memories of Celceta. The last song on disc 3 of the included Soundtrack collection is the "the typing of Ys" version of the song "Theme of Adol -2001 Version-" which in the CD database is credited to the "Zwei!!" OST. Also, I think it's funny for the second Zwei game to be called Zwei 2 because Zwei is the german word for the number 2, meaning it would just be 2 2. In german it's kinda pronounced like the "ts" from tsundere followed by why.

W video as always ! About the future use of the Cross Action system, I have a feeling that Falcom learned their lesson from the 4 party system games, they’ll probably be able to change stuff up well enough for it to not get old too quickly. How they’d do that I’m not exactly sure yet lol… I still have hope that one of the next games will be a team up of Adol and Geis tho!

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Genuine shock that you don’t L cancel idk if I can even watch you now

my intro to Ys and still my favorite soundtrack in the franchise. that endgame is so hype

so basically what I understand is that the ending of kai is a masterpiece and reddit people are *insert a lot of swear and bannable words with some of the worst depictions of people and anger I can evoke*

8.5 is fair ! Don't want to spoil but I really love where the game is in the timeline (especially since I just bought a PC Engine Duo and played the Ys games on this console before playing Nordics) I'm at the beginning of Chapter 5 and so far it's awesome I am really loving it ! My favorite song is the ancient fish fishing song (Through the North Wind). I also agree about Viking Laxia...eeeh I mean Karja lol the character development is quite good in this one and the bad guys are interresting ! By the way I never experienced that glitch of yours (yet) on PS5 ! Awesome video man, keep up the good work ! :)

spent months on Ys 6 on my PSP during highschool! Still will play it here and there today, love it!

My major issue with Trails is that its getting ridiculous to pay $60 a pop for games that keep teasing shit. Im gonna give Daybreak 2 and Kai a chance but I really prefer Ys now. HELL I love modern Ys as its all I played. I also think some of the hate for Kai comes from the fact that Kondo kinda lied and said we wouldnt see an arc as long as Erebonia again but then Kai was CS3 all over again lol That makes me wary to defend that he said next arc is last Trails arc because it could be another lie

You killed me with the "elephant in the room" 🤣 Yes Singa is producing tracks at industrial level, and a lot of bland tracks, still he doesn't deserve all that blind negativity all the time, it's just bashing at this point, compared to some other composer, it's really not that a different ratio. When Jindo produces a turd, fans are like "omg peak" and when Singa produces some actually good songs, it's "I like music"... I don't think there's too much hate on the Ys side, introducing the party system especially after VIII, from time to time you see a salty one telling you the bump system was better blabla but they're a minority. For Kiseki tho... negativity sparked by the CS arc, the source of it all is that it doesn't respect the player's time, what until this point most Ys and Eiyuu densetsu games did and I can only agree with that, CS arc can be contained in 2 games at worst. Falcom fans are a strange beast for sure! If Falcom would become Square Enix overnight, they would riot and burn the company to ashes 😆

Man do i love YS Seven. it was my introduction to the series. At first i thought it was just going to be another standard rpg for the PSP and i couldn`t be more wrong about that. The gameplay is simply mechanically satisfying, the guard system while broken, it was really fun to use, specially in higher difficulties. It wasn`t only my first YS game, but my first FALCOM game, so team JDK slapped me with that gorgeous OST they are renowned for right in the face. Even now, i think the story is still fairly good even when compared with the other entries in the series, it really sends the message of "Those before you failed miserably, what makes you think you`ll be any different?", and as someone who`s at the time didn`t knew about Adol`s world-saving record, that message went deeper. so yeah, A great game that i always come back from time to time.

You forgot the best thing about VII. Dogi being an actual PLAYABLE character! Also Tia. Best girl Tia. God her story was so tragic. Ys VII is very rough around its edges, but it added so many important things to the franchise like crafting and the party system and for its time it had the best story in the series (I think VIII and IX surpassed it, but VII is my 3rd fave after those ones, still need to play X though) All the core Ys elements are there and this title represents everything I love about the series with the addition of extra strong storytelling and world-building on-top of the fun exploration, addictive combat and a kick-ass soundtrack I always expect. The party AI is a bit rough at times, but since it was the first game to implement that system I can't blame Falcom for it being rough around the edges. All in all, I have very little bad to say about Ys VII and I'm always happy to see other people who appreciate it.

TITS FC and SC are my favorite games of all time, and not because of nostalgia, because I played them on 2022 after having played games like The Witcher 3 and P5 Royal on my PS4. That's right, these games whipe the floor with every game I've played in my life. I just hope Falcom doesn't go the Square Enix FFVII route and destroy one of their most precious games.

Keep glazing bro, doesn't make it good.

The other thing that the sales negativity completely misses on is that the Japanese video games market has shrunk *as a whole*, since those earlier games they try to compare to. Sales are down across the the whole industry since the days of Azure. That's also not considering that Faclom's games have stopped launching on handheld (which is very important to JP), they have still been in a very Sony-first approach (and Sony is continually becoming more unpopular in Japan), AND the fact that the Japanese game sales chart only includes physical sales and no digital. Japan hasn't embraced digital sales quite to the extent the West has, but it's still a very significant factor. So when people point to launch week sales vs the distant past, they are either ignorant of multiple layers of nuance or intentionally leaving them out of the equation to push a narrative. Holding at roughly 50k sales on launch week over the past few years of sequels is pretty respectable. As someone who has looked at the JP sales charts pretty regularly over the years, I would say that anything that charts 60k+ these days is a solid hit, and it's rather rare for anything to break into even the 90-100k range. Now, where I would start to worry about doom and gloom is if Falcom puts up Disgaea 7 launch numbers of 9k units sold. NIS, I actually am concerned about. Falcom is doing just fine.

You should do a Falcom composer tier list

after grandblue relink im all for this type of combat.

Man sound like the Burger King Foot Lettuce guy at half speed but we always need more Falcom videos so I’m here for it

I’m still quite new to the Ys series and pretty much Falcom in general. Played Ys VIII, loved it. And Ys Origins which I also liked. Unfortunately I had to skip Ys IX, definitely regret it….because finding a cheap physical copy of the game at any of my local retailers I visit….is nearly impossible now… *sigh* But anyways, I’m currently still playing Ys X. Absolutely enjoying the combat system, not sure if Falcom will ever retread this combat system because yeah like you said here….it could lose its flare when the system continues within the next 2 or so games. On another note….it’s unfortunate that Falcom seems to have abandoned those Animated introductions from previous Ys games…particularly since the last Ys game I played was VIII and that had an animated introduction, I assume IX doesn’t have an anime introduction at the start….I’m not sure again, didn’t play it lol. Enough of my rambling though….I’m gonna definitely pre-order “Ys Memoire: The Oath of Felghana Refined Edition” for next year.

same impression here... wow at the end of the game.. 7gb game, manage to impress me with satisfying combat and challenging.. i played ffxvi stop after fought garuda, and i seen enough how the gameplay develop and i think i how the story goes... and to make it worse ffxvi 156gb worth of asset ingame.. owh god

Here's hoping we get the cross system again in Ys XI, but with Dogi handcuffed to Adol instead XD

FF X was my fave ever since I played it 20 or something years ago when I was just a kid, it was the game that got me into the series and ever since that game it hasn't even been close for Final Fantasy to surpass it. XVI did the unthinkable for me and did that. I never expected a mainline FF title would ever reach the same level as X for me let alone even surpass it, but that's what happened when I played XVI. It became an instant classic to me. The narrative alone has so much depth to it, so many themes. An emotional tale of brotherhood and family bonds, of living up to and fulfilling a legacy, of betrayal and revenge, of love and loss and most importantly of the power of freewill and the insurmountable spirit of humanity and it's all drenched in philosophical, religious and sociopolitical commentary as well. One of the most thought-provoking games I've played in a good while. The world-building was so detailed as well, Valisthea was such an immersive world for being only one game, it damn near reached the level of Trails with how much detail they put into that world and its history. Clive is an amazing protagonist and the supporting cast, even just NPC characters at your home base have so much personality and depth to their character thanks to the masterclass voice acting. Oh and those Eikon fights are no exaggeration easily some of the most epic boss fights I've ever seen in a video game. XVI def feels dated in a lot of ways thanks to the MMO quests, the GOT style dark fantasy story and world and the DMC combat with the God of War/Asura's Wrath boss fights, but the fact it's so outdated is exactly WHY I love it so much. It has the souls of a long lost hidden gem from the PS3 era, but with the production values of a modern day AAA game, so it's the best of both worlds IMO. XVI is the new standard for the series to me. Here's hoping XVII will be even half as good and we don't have to wait another 20 years for an amazing FF mainline game again.

10:14 Wait, there are people who don't talk to all the NPCs in a Falcom game?

Hard agree on the fact that reusing this new battle system in new entries would burnout even faster than with the party system. Can`t say for sure what Falcom may do in Ys X + I tho

Love the way you talk, cool vibes bro.

This is what adventure is all about! There could have been treasure under the map, had to check.

The kai hate at the start of its release was just ridiculous to me as someone that beat the game recently and considers it the best Kiseki game in the series currently. People on reddit and hating didn't play it themselves and if they did they didn't pay attention to the story cause ain't no way its bad or what the haters thought. kai was peak fiction and we can only go up from kai and we are truly approaching the end of the series now. As for Ys i think 9 is the best modern title but i don't play Ys for stories i play it for exploration and combat. Not a large fan of X and looking forward to Memoire more. Also Coldsteel 4 haters can leave the fanbase if you ask me. Coldsteel 4 is the best coldsteel game and its integral to Trails now because of reveals in Kai. Also agree that falcom is on the rise.

Skill issue

Is this video spoiler free? I'm at hajimari right now, or should I save it for later?

negativity has been increasing all over the place, not just games sadly

they still ask all departments to wear formal suit to work LOLOLOL