Oh man that's super funny you thought Gabby was evil lol. It's all about perspective, I suppose! In Japan, Elivra's name is literally Evil so lol. I bought the physical copy that includes the figure and it says "EVIL INSIDE!" on the box lol.

@onecontrollerportplus OH HAHHAH

@@onecontrollerportplus oh so her english name is gabby! i thought it was still gaia 😅

@onecontrollerportplus i want that version so bad even the gabby one

I feel like I’ve gotten better but I feel like every corner I turn I realize I still am doing it lol. But yeah I’ve been tuned out of it myself minus occasionally seeing mentions of layoffs here and there. It does feel like an space that’s growing more extinct by the year. I have mixed feelings about KZbinrs a lot of the times I think. Though I feel like there’s often a danger with a lot of creators who try to take on a more journalistic role without really the experience. But maybe it’s how historians would feel about like armature game history videos on KZbin as well lol. Thanks always for listening and sharing your thoughts!

@tullioserafin4511 hmm not sure if I changed any settings. What options are there?

I don't typically score games but I thought it was good! Hope that helps!

I have not! I'll give it a look! Thanks for bringing it up.

The outfits were cute lol. I wish they were a litlte more prevalent but with how many there were I can understand why they'd mostly just sit in the menu. That didn't stop me from buying a ton of em lol.

If it's the one I'm thinking of, That's a crazy cutscene. I thought the game was progressing a bit straight forward for awhile, then that one just turns the game on its head lol.

Unfortunately last I heard the cabinets were re-purposed into Pripara machines. There may still be some out there, but not sure how many survive or if they're functional.

@@onecontrollerportplus ok

Yeah I don't like talking about it personally too much on the show since I don't want to distract from the topic of what there is to be gained by Square Enix bringing it to a game dev conference, but ultimately I do have a lot of concerns about it in terms of what it means for workers on a more mass scale (vs. like disrupting individual industries). But I also am far from an AI or laborforce expert so I don't necessarily want to come on the show and start saying one thing vs. the other. I'm definitely more interested in this dynasty warrior over others. Though a sick part of me will always be interested in checking out the open world one eventually lol.

Thanks for listening and glad you enjoyed it! And yeah unfortunately there's always someone in the world being hateful, but can only do our best to bring in more positive conversations.

@@onecontrollerportplus Vinnk occasionally does livestreams where he sits and plays some games as he tests them for the store, and is very open and giving to the comments. A couple years back there were people leaving disgusting comments about his then pre-teen daughter and it upset him to the point of quitting the steam then and there. Since then I've made it my mission to moderate the streams so that never happens again. Vinnk's so welcoming he didn't think he needed a moderator, but Twitter has become such a cesspool it sometimes spills onto youtube.

@@SatoshiMatrix1 Yeah I've shifted a lot of my EN language conversations to Blue Sky. Twitter I'm mostly focusing on Japanese fan bases now. That's awful though, I'm glad you guys were able to find a way to moderate it, but just knowing people like that are out there I'm sure is an awful feeling.

Thanks for listening! And yeah the concept of being a parent is incredibly foreign to me lol But I do have a sister so I do have some experience with kids and parental relationships around video games. But yeah Vinnk is kind of on another level of video game passion so I think he's got a ton of interesting insight. Plus I think the flexibility he has is really nice with being able to hop between talking about Minecraft and then being able to play through Xenoblade with his daughter. I wonder if there's any correlation with the target market for older fans being mobile games and such where they can more directly take in large amounts of money, so a switch version might be more targeted directly at kids who they may not trust to be capable enough to do more complicated genres.

Ah sorry I don't have a list. These podcasts are supposed to be pretty low effort so I don't really bother with editing video since it adds a lot more time. If there's something you're curious about, I can definitely check to see if eiither I or Vinnk has a video / stream about!

I'm sure if you were to email Vinnk he would be happy to recommend you some games age appropriate for your children. In general his children enjoy puzzle games the most so you can't go wrong with classics like Puyo Puyo, Tetris, Panel De Pon, and so on. Beginner friendly platformers like Kirby and Mario are easy recommendations. He and his eldest daughter have been playing visual novels together, so that might be a fun activity is your child is a bit older. Visual novels are a fun way to help your child read aloud and problem solve. But ultimately it depends on what your kids are into. Even the best kids game won't do much for. you if your kids aren't interested.

@@SatoshiMatrix1 Thanks!

I'm also with you I wish FF14 ARR didn't just abandon the design of 1.0, because there was a lot of potential there if it could've been refined. I've never liked their design of something not working and just throwing it in the bin entirely. Basically everything from 1.0, cross classing in ARR, the original design of eureka, constant new relic creation systems that get more and more simplified, jobs getting completely uprooted.. It's just sad that if something is too unique, or provides too much friction, there's a likely chance it'll just be completely abandoned, even if it had potential to be greater than it was.

For some reason I thought the price was $9 and they increased it, but looking at it I think my brain got confused by the price increase from going from Phantasy STar Online which was $9 to FFXI which was $13 lol.

lol glad you enjoy them. Really I just looking for things that catch my eye, though at the same time with Japan Retro Direct its pretty funny that like I get most of my imports through him so it's like a weird double filter that happens. What does Vinnk find interesting, and then after that, what I find interesting, then makes it to you lol.

Thanks for your impression! Yeah I've heard very little about the series, so I'm happy to see someone with some grasp on what's going on. I was immensely confused early on lol. I'd say Soma Bringer fits into that like JRPG diablo style as well. Curious what Monolith Soft was directly inspired by, thematically Shining definitely feels closer lol.

@@yemelian.fabrichnikov thanks so much for watching!

I hope you can play it some day! There are a lot of emulation options out there today too, though it'd be lovely if they re-released it officially.

Lol Honestly I think it probably could run on one.

Thanks for watching! Glad I could pull up some positive memories! It's definitely still one of the most memorable games I've played in the last couple years.

lol You must have logged a lot of hours. Did you play another other games like it?

When you say struggles on steam,, do you mean the region restrictions or something else? And yeah I'd be curious to see if Sony takes any shift to their approach with content like this. I know the last DoAX3 game got re-released quite a bit later but I think they removed some of the jiggle physics or something from even the previous release.

@onecontrollerportplus Region stuff since it was available at first so if you didn't get it early you'd have to go elsewhere. And yes, the Switfh version has more features as a result.

I forget If I mentioned difficulty at all in this video, but I feel like the mini-games could have the potential to be a little futzy based off my memory lol. Maybe its worth giving it a look again sometime! Would love to hear your thoughts if you ever do.

@@onecontrollerportplus I might revisit! I was randomly reminded of it while getting into FF14(online) due to the battle theme. Hopefully this game wont give me as hard of a time as it did back then. I remember retrying and retrying and retrying and eventually just quitting because I could not do it. Its a shame because otherwise I really enjoyed it

@@nizidafabie Oh interesting, did FFXIV specifically reference the chocobo games?

@@onecontrollerportplus Nah, I was just reminded by the battle theme. Because I remembered Chocobo Tales also had it

@@SectionSkyly SJS doesn't exist. It's just a imaginary carrot lol. And yeah thanks for chatting! If I hop on ephinea I'll let you guys know

Thanks for listening and sharing your story! And yeah PS0 is a personal favorite of mine as well, but it never directly came up so I decided not to force it in lol. I personally haven't really relooked at it to figure out why I liked it so much, but honestly I think part of it was the feeling that everything felt within reach in a way I think pretty much any other PSO doesn't feel like it has. But SectionSkyly and DeployableLover mentioned, sometimes that really hard to get thing is a huge part of the fun lol.

Just to comment on Phantasy Star Zero; for myself at least I never had a DS back when it released so I only got around to trying it out a few months ago. I've only played a little of it so far but found it pretty enjoyable for the most part. I probably just don't have as big a reverence for it just because I never played it back in the day! You sound like you're as deep in the Phantasy Star rabbit hole as I am 😂 It's always nice to hear of other people who love the games!

Thanks so much for listening and sharing your experience! Those kind of journeys are always fun I feel like lol It's a nice breath of fresh air sometimes to hear all the unique ways people can fall into loving the same game.

well thats how i am too started on ngs, goung back to pso2 and dont felt like it for its combat(especially just attack mechanic) then backtrack all the way to pso where i find its cook game but camera controls not so not playing it then instantly hooked to PSU because 1 certain summer event that happens om that private servers, and by then i learnt alot of modern entry of phantasy star after PSO era and thanks to PSU i am able to finally enjoy PSO2 except nobody plays PSO2 anymore now making it like a ghost town my favorite? ofc PSU and by some extent PSP2 infinity (and start to imaginating if PSU has PSP2i aspect mainly in combat) NGS kinda hard to felt after Ver.2 relases, it is definitely moving in good direction but the way the development cycle and story continuation added to the game was generally too slow compared to pso2 in its servicr days on Japan, and not to mention gearing system that somewhat discourage me especially when rarest ever gear became common trash loots that dont have value having them a year after(which they seem to try to address this now,havent played ngs again for a Month or so :D)

@@ShiroCh_ID I'm surprised at the attraction to PSU, but that's cool to see people really digging into the series!

Thanks so much for listening and sharing your thoughts! There can be something fun about that too. Sometimes when I play Final Fantasy XI, it's nice to just feel kind of out there in the world on my own vs. just playing directly with friends.

@Josephll64 thanks for listening and always great to hear an outside perspective on this stuff! Sometimes conveying the value to a game like this to someone with no direct experience can be challenging lol. Glad it was interesting even without that direct context!

@kieronoconnor9878 thanks for listening. I never got to play destiny but can absolutely see the comparison. It's cool to see a more modern game fulfill those elements for you too!

Yeah, I think the best metaverse experiences are probably ones that don't intend for you to really hang out in them lol I'm not sure if that was ever the intention for that, but given its completely empty every time I log in and they're still updating it, the more I think it's just kind of a funny little side project they did as a way to celebrate their company. Part of me feels like with big business all I can ever think about is how they quantify the decisions they make into actual money made, but given it's all still just people, I wonder how true that is. And honestly, I kind of like them making something pretty inoffensive like this or that bowling game you mentioned lol. Here's a weird thing nobody asked for, but in some ways that makes it more enticing for me lol.

@@PanRhei lol it's not much of a looker but someone put some effort in for sure

Thanks for asking! I'm actually not 100% sure if that's a proper term, but the way I was using it here is basically the idea that they take the game to an early point in its lifetime. In the case of HorizonXI, they are brought the game back to a 2005ish style gameplay experience, since modern Final Fantasy XI in 2024 is a very different thing. Hopefully that clears things up! Lemme know if you have any other questions.

Oh nice! Yeah I saw the Vs. dance mode but unfortunately no way I was getting someone to play that with me in my friend group unfortunately lol. Seems like it'd be a really cool mode though!

Oh interesting! Shame I missed that, but glad to know! And thanks for watching! I recently picked up Mahoroba Stories for the PS2 as well, which seems to be Pinky St. Licensed. But it's an Japan-only RPG so we'll see if I can get through it lol.

aaaaaaaaah that explains a lot thanks

@@derrickle494 REALLY

Glad you enjoyed it! and yeah I'd love to see a remaster and at least with JP voices as an option. Is it a part of a series?

@onecontrollerportplus Well idk for sure about a series per say. But I remember there being a cameo boss which made me think it was a series😂

Yeah it's not apart of a series, but does have a superboss cameo battle from Luminous Arc, the first game the ARF developers ever made

Thanks for watching and the comment! I think you've talked a bit about storytelling before in what felt like a more academic sense; I forget, do you have an education that stuf too? I may be miss remembering lol Maybe it's just getting mixed in with us at one point talking about Japanese story structure vs. western one.

@@onecontrollerportplus Well we talked about both topics in the past. I have nothing but the generalized English course you take in college for all career paths. Reading more into the academic side is something more akin to a hobby really. Sates my curiosity for why mediums have developed the way they have over time.

​@@Josephll64 You definitely seemed more well read on it than me lol But I'm also not exactly a book dude so. I appreciate your thoughts on it!

It's been awhile since I played it lol. In my mind I think that's the typical control scheme, but yeah it's definitely a bit clunky compared to modern day games lol. But sometimes that's part of the charm! I love learning a new control scheme sometimes. I also like finding moves, like the side dodge, that can couple as movement options in addition to their original intention as well.

kzbin.info/www/bejne/sHrPZ6eVo8mqaZo Aaah, I wrote up a big reply earlier but seems like it didn't go through through. Here's the video at least, I'll try to get back to you about Chaos Rings later. Sorry about that!

@@onecontrollerportplus Aww, that's too bad, but thanks for taking the time.

@@PanRhei I think any time you praise story stuff it's real hard to convey how individual story points interact with each other to make something that feels special or unique. It's something I've been thinking a lot more about with Xeno and also hearing other people talk about Trails. So while a lot of the stuff I say may not necessarily individually be interesting or distinct , I think the context, focus and interconnection between these elements do matter. But some spoilers in here for sure. So there are four couples total. The first two I think highlight the dynamic of dislike or hatred between partners and also envying the other couples and individuals who may, surface level wise, appear more aligned with you. But it's all about digging in deeper and finding the core thing that keeps you, and the person you're struggling with, together, to push you though and overcome your issues. One of those first two couples ultimately completely overcomes their internal conflict, but the other, despite coming a really long way, still can't quite overcome it by the end. But it’s nice that they recognize that the damage may never be undone, but they accept what happened and why and move forward. 3rd Couple is kind of interesting since both of them are not who they say they are, one knowingly lying about their identity, with the other having amnesia and not being able to remember. So it’s largely about someone having to put on a face while accept the misdirected love someone has, then ultimately overcoming the deception when it gets out. Another added wrinkle with that relationship is on that is the one with amnesia starts to remember his past self and the love he had before, which results in a jealously story. But instead of manifesting as passive aggressiveness or arguments, it’s much more of an internal struggle as they’re ashamed of how they feel. And in the case of this world, that shame literally makes them a weaker couple in the death game. The last couple is a bit less interesting, and I also am a bit blurry on what happened since my game corrupted before I could finish it and can’t find all the cutscenes online. But one interesting dynamic is that they’re actually with their proper companion, instead it a clone made to be more powerful. And ultimately, despite it basically forsaking the human race, chooses to be with the original weaker one. But part of that dynamic is also the clone still thinks they’re the original as well. So despite I think them knowing pretty early on they’re not their original companion due to the increased power they have, they try to treat them as repsecfully as possible and treating them as their companion even as they die in a fight later. Anyways, yeah idk I feel like this kind of description of events is hard to really convey why it works lol. But maybe that’s a goal in the next year or so; How do you convey how pieces connect with each other to create something powerful even if the invidual pieces can seem uneventful.

Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for listening!

That's awesome! Did you ever watch the movie or play the game? How faithful was it?

@@onecontrollerportplus I watched the movie. I didn't hate it but it wasn't a particularly good adaptation either. Never played the game.

@@ErdrickHero Aaah that's a shame lol.

@@onecontrollerportplus The books could have made for a really good movie series. But it's clear the studio either didn't have the requisite budget or wasn't willing to spend it. Or spent it wrong. They also made some changes to the fictional tech to modernize it, but the concepts just don't hold up as well this way. For example, in the Stormbreaker book, Alex gets a Gameboy (Color?) instead of a DS. The games are all actual playable games, and if I recall correctly (the book's actually right next to me on my shelf as I write this, but I haven't read it since middle school) this is relevant as the tech mogul Alex is spying on should recognize popular video games of the time. They weren't made from published games, and Alex needed to be able to play them to demonstrate that there wasn't anything fishy about them. But every single cartridge actually was a separate gadget. No Mario Kart or similar real games just for play. This is completely skipped over in the movie, Alex only ever plays Mario Kart DS and it reeks of product placement, and the other cartridges don't really interact with the console much, so the fact that the gadgets are disguised as video games is completely irrelevant in the film. The whole plot point was reduced to what felt like filler, so they could have a scene with this series' take on Q. The movie also treats the Stormbreaker as some full-body anti-gravity VR nonsense the size of a small room instead of a powerful prototype desktop computer intended for mass production. The device looks stupid and makes the villain's plan of getting one into every home just asinine.

@@ErdrickHero Oh that's interesting! I didn't know he had a history with video games lol. I'm not much of a book guy so I don't know if I'll ever read it, but I really appreciate you giving me the run down!