Started playing Ryza 1 recently. Sorta getting the grasp of how both combat and alchemy works. I hope I don't eff up smth and either the game or Ryza's thighs are gonna break me (altough I like Klaudia more for design and personality) I pretty much grew with the PS1/2 platformers and only started playing RPGs seriously after KH1. Even then, I tend to not play a lot of the AAA scene, I'm more focused on the AA stuff like Trails and such. I'm still a bit cautious with the "cozy" kind of games like Atelier because of some of their elements (time limit for the older ones and in general me being confused with the hyperfocus on crafting these games have), like I feel they have smth hidden in them that it's gonna kick me in the butt later on if I'm not gonna find out.

High level play is crazy but I find way more joy in yugioh than any other card game playing with friends. When you pull out a raigeki or a stronger monster everyone is like “OOHHH!!!!” When it comes to mtg we are already ready to switch to different game before the first match is over.

Bad video

i never understood why there's no special summon limit either, why do you only get 1 normal/trib but you get line 4000 specials

Pretty sure quick play spells and all that other “crazy” stuff has been in the game for awhile. It’s not really that big a deal, none of the criticisms in the video are. Sounds like someone drumming up any possible thing they can say for content.

Some great comments here that summarizes why Yu-Gi-Oh feels off for me. Really appreciate more experienced people sharing their opinions! Now, if you want more of me, know that I stream from time to time! I'm mostly a fighting game streamer but I'm also mixing up some MTG here and there. So, see you there!

Yu-Gi-Oh is... well, it's an incredible game. The art is stunning, and each archetype feels distinct, with personal touches evident in everything except perhaps the top 1%. There are even mini-stories embedded within the cards, which is a clever touch. Instead of each card being a standalone reference, the cards often tie into broader narratives. On top of that, archetypes sometimes blend into one another, creating unique matchups and opening up entirely new strategies. That said, there are a few aspects of the game that I find frustrating. Chief among them is how some players confuse "fast-paced" with it being acceptable to have a four-turn game, where each turn takes 15 real-life minutes to complete. Then, you’re forced to surrender because you didn’t draw the right card or got negated repeatedly. I’m not suggesting that the game should stop production to focus on a "Yu-Gi-Oh 2: Electric Boogaloo," nor am I calling for an overly complex rework that invalidates all the effort players have put into collecting cards, researching strategies, and perfecting combos. However, for all its greatness, it’s clear the game was never designed to handle this level of power creep-because no game is. Watching your opponent set up their board for 15 minutes while you stare at the wall shouldn’t be equivalent to, "I’m waiting for my turn because I didn’t draw four hand traps."

You are correct, it's awesome right? Honestly yugioh is buy far the most skillintensive cardgame there is.

Power Creep is inevitable. However: The thing Yu-Gi-Oh lacks -- in comparison to MtG, Netrunner, Pokemon, Hearthstone, and other tcg's -- is a limiting resource. Just like other games, there are OTK's, Infinite Combo's, timing restrictions, deck optimization, RNG, 20 minute turns, etc. But Yu-Gi-Oh is exclusive as the only TCG that has no hard limit on how many things you can do every turn. Yu-Gi-Oh's Meta issues are only a problem because the only limiting factor is how well you can build a deck, and by extention, how big your wallet is. Whereas in MtG for example, you can choose between different formats to determine how competitively you want to play; and you are limited to one land a turn and by what you're able to pay mana for, period. In Netrunner, you have X number of Actions and N number of Credits to spend, period. In Yu-Gi-Oh, it doesn't matter: if you're not running 3 sets of Hand Traps, Maxx C, and a deck that can do 30 things a turn, you're going to lose. And if you are running that, it comes down to a coin flip. The other issue is that Yu-Gi-Oh explicitly punishes any sort of deckbuilding variety through the way they design cards. In other TCG's, they print a few hundred cards that the player then has the onus put upon themselves to make into a deck. In Yu-Gi-Oh, every deck theme and archetype is predetermined when it's printed, and a handful of them are always the objectively best decks to play to get the best win-rate; it's simply a matter of whether your brain's pattern recognition can pick up on the best archetypes and whether or not you can afford to build that deck.

hand traps need to be limited to 1

"We want to have back and forth matches against our opponents, see what we can set up that's the best of our Deck with what we have or knock down what our opponents have set up. We want to be allowed to play the damn game! That's the best fun with it we can have! And yet so frequently with the modern game we're not allowed to. For real players of the game that's manifested in the form of the Meta where if you let your opponent do ANYTHING, then you yourself will in turn not be allowed to do anything instead. I want to have a good back and forth with my opponent to see if I can't outdo what they've done. But if you play that way, thanks to the game in the modern meta… Congratulations! You've already lost. Games these days are decided exclusively by either one turn kills or control decks so broken that if I give them a single turn I'm locked out of doing jack all. That is not fun. That's downright toxic. And Konami has completely abandoned all responsibility towards policing the worst offenders of the metagame." -Des Shinta

I can take 4 board wiping efects, no problem, just be better prepared, i can take my opponent denying my whole strategy with a single card, i should've prevented it, but i CANNOT stand hand traps, even more when they are activated on the first turn

this game is stupid and i hate it!! you haven't even gotten to the mechanics that practically gives the advantage to the most pedantic of rule-attorneying jerks and cards that miss their timing for some esoteric reason!! i spent thousands of hours playing it, but you don't know hell until you've tried playing master duel on master rank... and oh yeah, you can just open up the logs window on the bottom right and you can read all the effects that happened

Brother, Yu-Gi-Oh was ALWAYS crazy, it's the game's charm, a fast-paced card game that requires deep knowledge of your deck, and while it's true that with time things got even crazier I must inform you that even in its infancy the game had crazy shit like Yata-lock, Painful choice, Graceful charity, etc... Most of the best-banned cards are from the game's infancy, I know that it's a daunting game to throw yourself but I think that people should face it like they face games like Dark Souls, it's hard, it's a challenge, sometimes you lose because you got comboed for 10 minutes others because you had bad luck and bricked but there are also those duels, the ones were you and you opponent throw everything each other have, the ones where the deck is almost at 0, where you learn that you can recycle monsters in ways you never imagined because once both you and the opponent survive the initial onslaught it's like two dying warriors tired trying to deliver the coup de grâce, it's amazing and unforgetfull

Played this game some years ago, tried to get into it again, and coming from the anime, I was confused. Can't even remember what they did 5 summons ago and it's round 1.

Despite being pretty repelled by Granblue's actual gameplay and gacha-isms, I've always really liked its art and especially its music. I had been looking forward to Relink ever since it got announced and was loving it when it eventually came out. I really hope that another game in its vein with lessons learned comes out eventually, it was a blast.

the genius of Hayato Asano music

Crazy that i found this video while being unable to sleep like i have no tired feeling at all even after taking melatonin

I'm forever grateful Ryza was my first ever JRPG trilogy and I love her so much I just wanna bear hug her fr

that's sneaky ryza's smug😂 @2:33

May the thighs be with you. Jokes aside. It is a great game. Personally I like the second one better.

Thighs do save lives

thicc thighs saves lives, i guess?

Ryza got me back into gaming, It felt really fresh. It was more grounded and lighthearted. I just saw it on steam and it seemed pretty so I bought it, impulse buy so I didn't have any expectations unlike the big AAA games of modern gaming trying to be more epic and bigger scale than the rest.

Ryza music is god-tier. One of my favorite parts when I played the trilogy. Great video! Glad the music had such an impact on you. Hope you're digging Ryza 2!

2 games have kept me going, deep rock galactic and monster hunter. Fucking love video games

There's an old clip where Gabe Newell talks about realism being brought up during the development of the original Half-Life and it's the angriest I've ever seen Gabe get.

What do you think? Why do we strive for realism in video games? Thank you guys for watching the video! If you want more of me, I also stream on Twitch nightly every 22:00 (GMT + 8) until midnight! -> twitch.tv/ichikarika

Weather it's a gatcha, a fighting game, or an action jrpg, Granblue has a vibe that is hard not to love

I understand the point of view of this video, and agree that magic is inherently a luck based game, but I think most of the arguments downplay the skill component of the game. Obviously deck-building choices matter, but even in a mirror match, skill can overcome luck and the player with the objectively worse draws can still come out on top. There is a reason why the best players in the game's history are the best, and it's not because they are "luckier" than others, at least in the sense of the game.

this feels like an essay of a tilted man, who got mana flooded one to many time. Also *put nerd glasses on* You dont always untap you stuff and you dont always draw a card to keep on living. Screeches in [[Damia, Sage of Stone]] and [[Eon Hub]]

its already been proven multiple times that mtg arena fixes games and card draws so unless your playing in a tournament for money literally just throwing cards out at random will net a 40% winrate

whats ur friend name?

As a lover of mtg and existential philosophy, thank you, I love finding how philosophy relates to real life. Life imitates art and art imitates life, philosophy is also art.

Boy. Mtg arena is very toxic. Do what everyone does and play commander or oathbreaker. Commander as precon level or less. Cedh is also very toxic. magic is a wonderful game, camus never play mtg (sadly) you need to learn more concepts. Consistency. Mana curves. Mana necesities. How ever. Play commander and be happy

i will want to add I Have 2 decks that are built so well i never draw what i dont need but its so focused the only issue i can have is if i dont pull 1-2 islands after a mulligan i just need 2 islands to do the rest of my objective, one is a manarock / mana creation and i use that mana too steal your cards (the deck isnt played so much cause its powerful / also its a commander memnarch deck ), the other deck is a minsc and boo deck built around buff spells that buff my cards i use too nuke my enemy, 90% of the decks success is me making sure i always find a new avenue to upgrade my luck based hurdle (for minsc and boo that was changing the build from dinos that are big (since i wasn't guaranteed to have high ramp early i switch to buff spell , with recursion so i can run a tad more ramp then needed since i have like 10 draw spells and minsc and boo can draw 4 cards for me as well the turn after he drops , also i only play casual commander.... at like power level 7-9, we usually have 5+turn games the key to having more consistent games in my opinion is to build your deck with 20-30% of the core plan 10-20%draw around 40%lands 10-20%board removal/counterspells, and the rest you just fill in as needed to do the objective you want like ramp or whatever u need

That felt like an anime moment where they win by a hair

I can tell you skipped ff9. Dude, go play it.

This is the best video i've seen in a long time. granblue is also my absolute favorite franchise and i associate so many strong emotions with it and that's exactly why I started KZbin. Hearing your story about how you came to granblue actually touched me. Especially at 5:28 you speak from my soul. I really felt the same way. When I walked through the village during the demo and I heard the music, tears came to my eyes. It was so overwhelming seeing all these backgrounds all these characters in 3D after all these years was so beautiful. Your speech at the end really hit me hard. "And Granblue fantasy has been with me through all of that" it sounded like you would almost cry..... I thank you for this emotional video and I would love to play with you some rounds in rising and chatting if you want 🙏

Great content dude 👌

I grew up as a FF fan. I found Granblue and fell in love with it.... and THEN I found out how it's spiritually related to FF lol.

When I see the title I think it's time for me to drop the mantle after ~9 years of experience in the OG and move on. thank you

For a second there I thought it was going to be EoS.

>Aranea the only female Dragoon he knows. Freya from FFIX: Am I a joke to you?

Nice. been playing on and off the OG game, but relink really cement my will to continue playing the OG game. 1 things that I really admire with granblue, are the state of the gacha game right now are so good. they adept mobile playstyle with auto-ing, but in their own way. like some character are okay to full auto, but some can played full auto but lower their effectiveness. they also introduce some of the pro-skips method (might want to check it yourself) THAT CAN BE GAIN JUST BY PLAYING THE GAME. USUALLY GREEDY COMPANY NEED YOU TO PAY FOR THIS. with siero academy right now, you're good to go and with the game itself in BROWSER game, which you dont need to install anything, you can even play it while work. (those 2 monitor setup finally have purpose) That';s all i can tell for the game, for the music,, They really don't need to go that far, especially with Zero, The Ultimate, Paradise Lost. gosh some of the boss music also really banger, I'm astonished and amazed by their music. REMEMBER, this is browser game, they don't need to go that far. but damn.. I can only GIVE PRAISE!

As someone who also got into gbf as FF fan and become a big fan Man i miss dissidia They really did fumble NT super hard

Nice

Great video! The Shoryuken is my favorite fictional fighting move ever!

I'd wake up DP for fear and hunger coin toss loot

i wake up dp for free come on now