Never saw glide armor up close. Looks pretty sick. Too bad it didn't make it into xDive.

9:56 That red alert 1 death sound had me death.

man I really look forward to your videos now, the humor is so on point. cant wait for more 😁

You know, the subject of which of the two worst X games is worse usually causes some confusion between the community. Honestly, both X6 and X7 are very bad, but one being bad doesn't automatically negate the other one from being any more tripe (TLDR past the X7 summary): -X6 was a rushed title using the basis of 2 game engines prior that had virtually no issues with them outside of X5's awful RNG sequences and being unable to skip Alia. The fact that X was not the best to play with no matter what armor set you used (Pretty much the reason why almost everyone uses Zero for that one, even if they prefer X), the level designs being frustrating because they existed to either kill you with mostly untested enemy and hazard placements, and having some of the worst actual settings for platforming made the game infuriating to play. There's also the conventions of that game's gimmick being the Nightmare system which exist only to screw the player over more for just playing the game and seeming like an example of a system that was released during Beta tests for how unfun and horribly balanced they were, which isn't helped out by the reworked Rescuable Reploids and Ranking systems that require grinding to make use of parts (Some of which are mostly required to beat the game...), and with bosses that are so pathetic they make Spark Mandrill Syndrome seem tame make it a romp you'll rage-quit because you're trying to rush through it. -X7 was a new system that tried to intertwine 2-D and 3-D together with the concept of using 3 characters (2 a stage) with ideas that had ONLY 2-D Mega Man design in mind, which was where the game was honestly just DOA conceptually. The newest character wasn't bad, but with the fact that you had to unlock the damned namesake of the franchise (Who could be busted, but more or less required that you not only backtrack to certain stages to get Armor parts for him and used him exclusively so that any Rescuable Reploids' items went to buffing him, was just not good design, plus the unlock requirement was pure ass) and the character everyone continued to fanboy over being made worse because they simply didn't make him work in 3-D well (Outside of spamming Raijinshou...) were just a kick in the balls for anyone wanting to try and find something to praise the gameplay over...if you could get past the (Original's) long load times, Alia's constant reminders for shit you've seen over and over, and the utterly mindless to atrocious level design no matter which gameplay style you stick to. What makes the primary issue with X7 even worse (That it's just boring and tedious versus X6's frustrating and unfairness) is in how the overseas versions balanced boss fights by making it so that you do LESS damage no matter what you're using (And that's even counting if you're using "weaknesses", because V. Tornado, S. Laser, Explosion, and S. Missile literally work on fucking EVERYTHING, even the bosses you get them from...) for bosses with long health bars isn't going to make anyone wanna do reruns of the game if they also don't rage-quit it for how tedious it is to play. TLDR; X6 is the worst in terms of taking an already good system and rushing it to make a quick buck by being a frustrating, poorly-balanced mess of a title where the game doesn't really "work" well most of the time, whereas X7 is a new system that is so bland and tedious that you'd be hard press to continue playing after a few stages, but both of them will more or less make you want to rage-quit playing them because they're just not good titles...Also, amazing vid, Wes. Looking forward to the next vid. 👍

I am always baffled when people call X6 the worst in the series when X7 exists. Like you mentioned, at least X6 feels like a MMX game. Very very least, bc the controls are the same as X4 and X5, it feels good to move and shoot/slash. X7 has absolutely NOTHING going for it. Not the tight controls, and not even X himself for majority of the game.

I still prefer zero's english voice in MVC3

Let me just say that I really like your sense of humor.

15:00 I...I can't tell if that's the weapons name or if youre making fun of it

The "Glide armor for good" bit was hilarious!

Yes, X7 failed at almost everything it tried to do, the soundtrack being the one exception. And that's why I say X7 is preferable to X6 for me. All I felt out of X6 was sheer, unadulterated frustration and rage.

One good thing It's funny

If anyone has one good thing to say about this game I sincerely urge you to post it here

It’s not just that quiet is kinda like a frog it’s that she gets absolutely torched at the very beginning of the game and to save her life she had to have a parasite put inside her with the side effects of having to breathe through her skin, in a round about way it’s big boss’ fault she dresses like that

Hey bud….i enjoy the video, but Working Designs had nothing to do with the localization of Grandia.

If X9 ever happens, I hope it finally ends the story of X. I just want an ending that leads straight to the Zero series.

this game is a p*dophile because of Feena and Justin. It wasn't even mid when it came out. I played it back then; there were better RPGs that year. Many people like FF VII but that's up to you, I'm not the police. If you think this game is good, then you probably should talk to the police because, like I said, this game is pedop**ile

Wait. What?! All this time Grandia was connected to Lunar!? 😮 PS: I was in my HS play"s production of Fiddler on the Roof 😂

Hello, My name is Anicras, and I'm also a KZbinr. I watched your Metal Gear Solid Iceberg video and i was very impressed of the quality of it. I'm planning to create a similar video in French, because a Metal Gear Solid Iceberg video hasn’t yet been made available to French-speaking Metal Gear Solid fans. With your permission, I’d like to use some elements from your video as inspiration for my own, and, of course, I’d be sure to credit you for it. Thank you very much for considering my request, and again, great work on the video!

I never knew about the change in music. It's a shame the music took a dip in quality in the GameCube version. Still great sound track tho

Correct me if I'm wrong, the compass points in the direction your supposed to go in, no? Like, where the location objective is? 🤔🤷🏽‍♂️

I never played the first Grandia, but pretty young I played Grandia2 tho 🙏🏽

If you think this one's good I am urging you to play Grandia 2. It changed my life growing up. Really gave me my first view into character writing and more complex storytelling. This was before FFVII for me. To this day I think it's my favorite JRPG. Play that and give a few other classic JRPGs like Star Ocean 3 a shot too. I just subbed

You're in luck with Grandia 2. It's about half as good as the first game

Are there any games with a similar vibe to this?

m8 why is your interlude volume like 50x louder than your speaking volume? real hard to keep watching when i gotta adjust the volume constantly

Is there a pink zero shirt?? Girl zero please

I like Vesperia, but I wish I loved it. It's a 7.5/10 game with the potential to be at-least a 9

Ha i had never gotten through the whole video and forgotten i asked to be roasted. You got me good Cheers

I LOVED Megaman Xtreme as a kid

“It’s pretty X-cellent”

Great Video.

I played Grandia right after i finished ff8, and a friend of mine played it and showed the game to me. As soon as I saw one battle, i HAD to go out and get my own copy. After all these years, it is a game i go back to again and again. Easily one of my most favorite games of all time. I really got a kick out of your review style with the brief commercial breaks and such. Takes me back to older times. Keep up the excellent work!

32:08 and like that, justification for piracy.

What an amazing intro! Suprised you dont get more views.

Thank you for your amazing video! Since I was way too young and not smart enough when I first tried to play it on the PS1, I tried playing again Grandia on the switch in 2022 or 23. Got filtered hard by the final Baal fight and still never saw the actual ending of the game XD Heck, that fight hurts. But I am glad that people like you are talking about it! It was one of THE JRPGs I played in my youth.

I miss this series so much and wish they would do a remake ala star ocean second story r. There was a cool romhack called grandia redux a decade ago

Phuc you. X2 was literally the best of the 3 goddman x games on snes. 👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼

I look forward to you making a digimon Retrospective so i can buy some new t-shirts and sweatshirts <.<;

The SNES OST was far better to me. X3 Saturn started the trend that I very much disliked where the Rockman series moved away from rock towards a more techno synth sound. Even though X3 was SNES midi, it's clear that it's samples were intended to emulate guitar riffs...X4-X6's decision to move away from the genre right as they got the ability to have CD quality music will always be baffling to me.

Grandia and Grandia II are soooo gooooodddd. though yes the camera is terrible and the compass is even worse lol also if you want the edgy snarky protagonist, boy does II have that in spades

Lunar? In my Grandia video? This is so oddly specific to my childhood it hurts Literal first and second RPGs I ever played

Best girl Feena indeed. I grew up with this game, always love to see more content related to it. Oh and the compass does work! It's just super clunky. It always initially points towards the end destinations (unless you are in areas that have none), but you can change that by using some button (don't remember if it was R2/L2 or R3/L3, or something else) if you do that it swaps between the target, start, and tertiary target areas (usually some bonus content that are in some sections of the game) Otherwise, I do agree that the game sorely lacks a minimap and that the camera is a bit annoying to fiddle with. One minor grievance with the video is the stick around sections.

57:00 boy ur funny and good and have a great sense of music shame ur not big

If it helps, the compass by default is pointing to a goal, the faster it spins the closer you are to it, hitting L2 or R2 makes it spin to aim at the way you came in rather than the endgoal. some areas are excluded from this and it just spins like an asshat. One of my fave games though, as a kid I'd tear up at plenty of moments like the goodbye letter, sue leaving and appearing again, and a few others. The ghost ships music freaked me the fuck out too. It's genuinely great. I'm not fully through the video yet but if you look up a DaveyValentyne he's gone out of his way to track down the VA's and such and plays these regularly with fans and them alike.

Thank you for not fluffing your video by using basic plot points as entries in the first two tiers, and using legitimate Easter eggs that many people aren’t aware of

Aight my dude, you earned a sub. Im 5 minutes in and between the nice calm jazzy music, a couple of good jokes, and talking about time committment aversion, you're gonna be a guy I go to for chill doing chores listening.