Surely you mean DRAGONWARRIOR.

This analysis captured so much of what I felt. I really liked the game at a lot of points, but just had frequent moments of disappointments, many of which you articulated perfectly. There were so many payoffs they could have made but didn't. Also, I was bothered probably an unreasonable amount by the lack of ability to explore the major cities in the game. Walking up to the gates of Oriflamme only to never really get to go there was so disappointing. It just felt like there were these awesome things set up or dangled in front of you, but that you never get to experience or don't get payoff for.

Dragon warriors monsters.

Really cool retrospective!

Excellent video and a fascinating analysis. I think you helped me understand why I came away with the "very good but not great" feelings you explain.

I loved the leveling a progression

Great video man! 33 years later i just found out my mom got the game for free!

I agree. FF6 deserves every love letter we can write. It is hard for some people discovering today to appreciate just how massive that game felt playing it as a 10, 11, or 12 year old back in the ‘90’s. It far surpassed everything else that had come before.

I'm a little older, so I appreciate FFIV more than FFVI. With that said, I recently beat tge FFIV pixel remaster, and am looking forward to tackling FFVI.

I hope the next one focuses more on creating a rich full world, interesting characters and less on making it look like real life because the super high end graphics are massive budget eaters, those flashy Eikon battles being a huge loss. They need to have it be grindy as in stuff that you can create or earn to give a reason to play the game beyond just completing the story. The monster arena is a good example in Final Fantasy 10 which allowed you to farm materials for crafting / leveling. Rock Paper Scissors style elemental damage / forcing you to choose wisely.

Great and very informative video. In my experience of ff1 pixel remaster so many QOL changes were added to make the game more smooth and fun to play but hot take it just ruins some of the more complicated stuff the original had .Anyway I really enjoyed this video and just finished DQ 1 snes remake after watching that retrospective.

Nunca lo consideré un juego, para mi es FINAL FANTASY VI ES UNA OBRA DE ARTE

By mother you mean Adventure Atari 2600.

What a great video, love Dragon Quest I hope you’ll make more videos about this series!

What a great video to watch after just beating the pixel remaster of FF3. I learned a lot about the original game from your video and appreciate the depth of your analysis.

I never completed DQ1 until I imported the trilogy on Switch, completed part three and then my mind was blown! Still working part two though. Anyhow remember the weekends way back then when I’d sit there and watch my older brother play these games with a few of the neighborhood kids. Those were the days…

‘Final fantasy 4 had complex characters that grew and changed throughout the story -and Rosa’

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Ty

So… you think it was pretty decent, then?

as someone who played it back in the days, this was life changing. Hell I just finished replaying it just now on the pixel remaster. But what sticked with me the most until now, was the HUGE variety! I played secret of mana just before that.. and it was AMAZING.. then I played FF6 and my brain exploded! went from like 9 weapons and a few healing items to hundreds of items, combinations, espers, magic spells.. my god it was HUGE at the time.. and hell look at FFXV (haven't played XVI yet), it doesn't even come close.. there is like what? 5 summons? Back then this game just broke everything that has been done so far, it was incomparable, and to some aspect it still is.. Last games to propose such variety was the FF on PS1 in my opinion, it's all downhill from there. Also it's the last famous RPG AFAIK that proposed 2 players coop.. it's probably marginal but I noticed NO ONE ever talk about it somehow. Yes most people don't care or never used that function, but I DID back then with my buddy on the couch, and we could share that FF experience together instead of having just one boringly watch someone else play.. and obviously no one will ever get the chance to experience that anymore.. Hell I don't think it's even available on the pixel remaster for some reason.. FF6 is just something ELSE. It's like there are singers, and then there are michael jackson or elvis presley or whatever. they're just not part of the pack, they're their own thing altogether.

Now, am I gonna play this next? or FFV?

This honestly gave me a great creative burst this morning! 😎🤟🏾🌩️

I don't think the game telking you what to do is a very valid criticism. You gotta think of the era it was made. Plenty of NES games give you zero information on what to do and would hang players up at the time forver. Castelvania 2 is a prime example. Within the constraints of the system I think they did an excellent job making accessible to progress.

Dragon Warrior (I know, that’s just what it is to me) has always been my favorite game series. The first rpg I ever played was dragon Warrior on nes and to this day it holds in my top 5 games of all time.

FF6 searching for friends

I'll take the Dragon Warrior main screen over the bland looking Dragon Quest one any day of the week.

Its fun to know that gaming journalism was corrupt even back then. Marketing your own game.

IV IMO

Men du måste!

I'll be real, I think the box art and overall aesthetic presentation of the North American version was better than the Japanese series. All the way through Dragon Warrior 4. It's one of the very few examples of that. But I guess I just never really gelled with Toriyama's art style. Totally recognize his amazing talent, but.

Ngl, one of my biggest motivations playing the game was to get my ultimate revenge against Clive's mom, Annabella...............I felt and still feel cheated. I would have loved for her to be Ultima's puppet (willingly doing everything to make Olivier Ultima's avatar or something) and her being merged with Ultima as an eikon-like final boss. It would have been more cathartic.

This is the second video on this topic I've watched today, and both yourself and Overnight Siren have very succinctly expressed all of the reasons why I felt kind of flat after playing FFXVI. I have very recently finished FFX and felt so emotionally connected to that game and it really drew a contrast to how I felt after finishing FFXVI. You've done an excellent job and clearly put in a hell of a lot of work.

I assume you've already heard the Decisive Battle version in FFXIV, but if for some reason you haven't look for a video titled "FFXIV OST Sigmascape Boss Theme ( A Battle Decisively )". It's very close to the original. I usually am in favor of the original sound (especially the Opera), but that updates does wonders. And a bonus song the Grissini Project's organ version of Dancing Mad.

Very thorough honest retrospective!

Great work 💯

Thank you for good review, my stupid fucking friend is trying to get me into this series and he said the old games were dogshit and not worth his time, but, after seeing this video, I am convinced that I should ignore him and dissasociate from him postwith. I will be BUYING the FULL SKY SERIES Tommorrow (Or when I get $$$$). Thank you sir. Also your video actually told me everything I needed in the first minute so thank you, keep it up :).

I had 2 copies back when it was new

One thing i hated are the animations when outside of the cut scenes, they are horrible loke its 2008. Especially when there is a very nice cut scene and then it jumps to the stiff in game animations it really breaks the emersion

FF16 was my first final fantasy game, I was amazed initially, the cinematics were spectacular, I had high hopes, but it definitely was half baked. The barely voiced scenes killed any immersion, lazy side quests left me wondering how a game could be so good and also so bad. Now I’ll be playing Witcher 3 and RDR2 again as a palette cleanser

What makes this a JRPG other than being made in Japan, which itself is a weak argument as we don’t have FRPGs or GRPGs for those made in France or Germany.

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It just didn't feel like a final fantasy same as 15, they want flashy action

I recall enjoying this game far more than I expected, while I couldn't even make myself finished FFIII (mainly due to the dumb final dungeon). I didn't know about the stats going down though, I played the PSP version ages ago. Maybe that aspect was changed as I was able to make a viable mage/archer. I think. It's been a while.

difference between a good game a competent game

Poor translations matter not to this Kainazzo.

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I recall replaying this on my psp 15 or so years ago while on a plane. I was trying to remember how to get the airship and I suddenly couldn't look it up online. So I had to back track and talk to every NPC until I figured it out. Really took me back to how obtuse RPGs could be back in the day.

Wow, I didn't realize that this video was only 3 months old. You did an incredible job discussing all aspects of it. One thing I really loved about Dragon Quest (in a full sense as a tradition of the series) is the Victory March. Once you beat the game you can visit everyone and some of the NPCs will have unique lines (or as we get closer to the present, everyone will have unique line), its what makes every playthrough worth it to see the legitimate happiness brought to people. I do agree with all of your complaints as well. Dragon Quest was a touch too simple for its own good. When you were describing the Desert Maze I had that same exact experience when I first played the game and was legitimately angry when there was nothing at all there. Honestly, the grinding could be draining, but what Dragon Quest lacked was just one more optional dungeon in the Southwest (or maybe even in the Desert Maze) to offset a bit of the grinding with purposeful progression. (And one level of Equipment between Broadsword/Flame Sword - Half Plate - Magic Armor - Iron Shield - Silver Shield) - That way the money grind is still worth it, but that the jump in power from getting these isn't so highly pronounced. Minor quibbles in the long run. I just beat the Switch Remake yesterday. I'd beaten it on the NES, SFC (patch), GBA, and Mobile, and Switch (though I guess those last two are quite similar). It's a game I can endlessly revisit and I'm not sure why. Sure I saw it played as a kid, but I never played it, I had little nostalgia for it, but one of my favorite games of all time is Dragon Warrior VII for the PS1. A gargantuan game that took me a whole Summer to beat. Probably the first game I ever stayed up until dawn playing. And one of my brother's absolute favorite games was the GBC version of Dragon Warrior III, what a masterful piece of work that game is as well. Looking forward to revisiting Dragon Quest II,and I hope you've got something planned for that too down the line!

I still need to get back to this game. I did put casual mode on pretty early due to frustration, but I'm glad you can switch it off and on so I might try going back after I get a better handle on the mechanics. Only a few hours in thus far.