@@goncalosoares8420 hahaha it’s hard to do a review to a sequel without going into too much spoilers. But without it, SG is a great novel, no real gameplay, about a strange main cast. The first half is a little slow to set up the characters but it really pays off if you like them. SG 0 is just depression hahahaha a much more somber tone with more splits in the story and while it is still fantastic it doesn’t quite hit as hard as the first game.

Nah, I like persona 1 the way it is. Kaneko's art feels so much more in tune with his early SMT design and color palette (which is obvious given how he was much more hands on than the later SWT and persona games). I also enjoy the fact that you could straight up avoid battles if you had the negotiations straight, which is absent from the later games. The music for ps1 and psp remakes is also on point, and the story focuses on occult themes. Random shit like saving the game through a Agstya tree inside of a room, the 3d style for character design and 2's rumor system. The fact that we had guns in persona 1 before their return in persona 5 still puzzles me. All characters having access to the velvet room, having multiple personas, all that stuff is such a breath of fresh air from the synthetic 'rules' set from persona 3 onwards. Personally, I feel like Persona 4 the best out of the three modern games, but 1, 2 and 2.5 had things that I wish played more role moving forward.

It really is! Different battle mechanics, different rules, different characters for the most part. And I agree that they were all fantastic for the series. It’s wild that each entry is so vastly different from one another, even the mobile and anime have different rules. It will probably make it a little hard to bring it all together if they make a third but I think they can do it!

Aladdin wasn’t sultan yet, he and Jasmine had started dating and he doesn’t get married until 3. But Genie being free is one that annoys me because they bring back the bracelets because it “looks right” but that was a symbol of his imprisonment. It also annoys me how nerfed and dumb Genie becomes after the first movie because he can fix almost any problem with magic.

Yes

Though I haven’t played the demo, from what I’ve seen and know about it, it does show you the main gameplay loop. Some story, long dungeon then crazy boss. Probably limited with the jobs and RPG side which adds more variety to the whole package. So if you like the demo and want to do that for another 40 hours then $20 is probably good. But the bosses are the highlight and are the main kind of draw so don’t fully judge it until then

@@Lytane I'm a propper FF nut anyhow lol it says play first 3 chapters if remember right so deffo give it a whirl, just seen the pixel remaster collection too for 50 so deffo grabbing that, (1 to 6)

@@mancman-bu4kzoh if you are a FF fan then this is a huge love letter to the series with lots of references and nods. Made to celebrate the entire franchise. I just pre-ordered the physical pixel remaster so I am looking forward to that as well!! It will give me an excuse to play 6, one of the few I haven’t played.

It truly is a hidden gem! I love buying strange games on a whim and then being blown away by them and Wuppo is one such game. Took me a little bit to get into it as the temple puzzle at the start of the game glitched on me which annoyed me but it was fantastic after getting past that. I love the music and art and how challenging it is. Have you ever done the boss rush challenges? The one where you can’t use the shop is just brutal!! But a great challenge (even though I got mad many times lol)

This game does still exist! The problem would be getting ahold of it physically as it is old and out of print. As for Disney, no they will not take it away from you, you buy it so you own it. Disney is just not going to remake or rerelease this any time soon.

Ahhhh well, in the west we have two types of visual novels. One that is a strict novel with little gameplay elements like choosing a dialogue such as Steins;Gate then we have the ones that have more gameplay like this. So yes, it is a visual novel but it’s the one with gameplay. It’s only confusing because in Japan this is called an adventure game while Steins gate is a visual novel, for some reason out here we put them together. I hope that clears up some confusion. Oh no, fire emblem is not the only SRPG I know of, but it is far easier to compare this to a popular and more well known series so people understand the comparison. While it might be more similar to Rance 9 (I haven’t played it) most people probably haven’t heard of the game so it wouldn’t be as impactful to my audience. Still, all that aside, have you played Prelude? Or are you looking to get into the series?

@@Lytane It would be an SRPG regardless of how you or other people would "classify" it. It isn't a hybrid novel like something like Danganronpa, it's an SRPG with long stretches of dialogue. Kojima games are known for having long stretches without gameplay yet they aren't suddenly classified as a different genre. Just as tear ring saga can go nearly 30+ minutes of pure dialogue between chapters yet it's still an SRPG. It is pretty annoying that anytime anyone wants to say something is an SRPG they go "so it's like fire emblem" you don't really need to say that when you can just say the genre and show gameplay, people can definitely make their own conclusions.

Yes, it would be an SRPG, but games can have more than one classification and Prelude is a Visual Novel. It has all of the elements of them that is not just long story sections. Otherwise Metal Gear would also be a visual novel like you said. So things like, the slice of life sections, the dialogue choices, the style and delivery of the story, the elements such as use of eroge, CGs and more are reasons why Prelude would be a VN and Metal Gear wouldn’t. It is a hybrid game we’re 80% of this is the novel and 20% is the SRPG, that is why I wouldn’t classify this just an SRPG. The same is true for Danganronpa, the zero escape series, Ace Attorney and Death end Re;quest. Look at 13 Sentinels, that is a visual novel with RTS gameplay, but would you call that just an RTS game? No, it’s a hybrid as it’s more than one thing. I also agree that Fire Emblem is overused in the SRPG world but it is done so because it is popular. It’s like comparing things to Mario or Dark Souls. Sure, it’s been done a lot, but it does help the casual person understand what this game might be similar to. If you were telling a friend about a game and they asked what was it similar to, would you pick a game they haven’t heard of or go with the more popular one instead?

@@Lytane Games can definitely be multiple genres, but not two mutually exclusive ones. If a game takes place completely in first person and is a shooter, it cannot be a first person and third person shooter. Visual Novels are called as such because they are.. novels. Novels do not have gameplay, though they can be little pick your own adventure stories. Hybrid novels exist because adding a puzzle or logic element or two like in Danganronpa or Ace Attorney isn't enough to actually make something a puzzle game, it's just an extension of the novel. Can't speak for zero escape, haven't played it but death end re;quest is an RPG first, and then arata's part is an extension of it, expanding on the story, that does not make it a novel. Yes, you would call 13 sentinels just an RTS just as you would Divinity: Dragon Commander, just because it has elements that supplement the gameplay does not equate it to being a novel. For something that's actually multiple genres, an example would be like Fallout 3 and the sequels, managing to be an RPG and a First Person Shooter, which AREN'T contradictions. In short, Visual Novels are books, you play Utararerumono, you do not play books. It would not fall under the categorization of "Visual Novel" Bad example on the fire emblem point though, I wouldn't go with a popular broad appeal game as a comparison, i'd compare it to something I know they've actually played. Also while Mario and Fire Emblem are actual comparisons if overused, nobody is actually non-disingenuously comparing dark souls to other games unless it's a "soulslike" and even then people have just started saying soulslike, the people who say stuff like "Crash Bandicoot is like the Dark Souls of Platformers" are just baiting for engagement.

@@enymetouche2558 Your very strict way of classifying a game is a little flawed. A game CAN be two "mutually exclusive" genres. First off, Strangers Wrath is a First AND third person shooter, it's both genres. Your example of Fallout is also a bad example because you can play the game in third person, and by your logic, that would make it a third person game. While I didn't play the whole thing in that way, people have. By your own arguments Danganronpa would JUST be a puzzle game, so would Ace Attorney as they aren't "Strict novels" and Zero Escape would be a puzzle game as well, they all have too much gameplay. The thing is like I said, in Japan they ARE a different genre, the adventure game but when those games came out here they are labeled as Visual Novel alongside games like Raging Loop, a game without any gameplay aside from making dialogue choices. To describe a game like Uta or 13 sentinels by the genre that isn't the the main focus comes across wrong. If I told someone to play this RTS game 13 sentinels and then they spent the next 40 hours reading and 15 hours in the RTS they probably wouldn't be happy. Same as saying, oh you like SRPG then play UTA but fail to mention that it's 80% novel. I personally think we should adopt the "Adventure Game" genre here to help differentiate the games so when World End syndrome and Zanki Zero come up they can be labeled better but at the moment "Adventure Games" are more typically point and click things like Grin Fandango or modern ones like Little Hope. And of course when talking to a friend you would try and accommodate to games they have played but if they haven't played ANY SRPG then you would use the most well known one as a base. If you were talking to someone you'd never met before that's probably the easiest comparison instead of something like Langrisser or Shining Force. It's like if I'm talking to someone new about JRPGs I'll start with comparisons to Final Fantasy before Lost Odyssey or Eternal Sonata. Lastly, soulslike has become its own sub genre now due to the way gaming has evolved just like metroidvanias did before them. So when talking about Hollow Knight its classification would be a Soulslike Metroidvania 2D Platformer, where I would compare it to Dark Souls and Metroid for the average person as they are much more likely to know what they are. I do agree though that people saying a hard game is soulslike just because it is hard is dumb and clickbait. I'm pretty sure I complained about that very thing in my Crash Bandicoot review.

Yeah you can see the lower budget here which sucks, I do like how mundane the normal world looks so when you are in the common it really stands out. In the sequel, they had a higher budget so the visuals are so much nicer. Check it out if you haven’t already!

That would have been incredible! They are set around the same time so it would totally work. That is the kind of cross over that would have made me jump for joy but alas, I’m sad we will never see it

It’s to slightly hide the reveal from the episode so if someone watches it themselves they can have that tiny twist. It isn’t much but I like to try and keep some fun moments a secret for newer audiences

It’s amazing how many known people were in this show! I’m not surprised about Jason though as he also worked with Disney on Aladdin

Still nothing that I’ve seen. The last word is that they are working on a project. If that’s a remake or sequel or an original game who knows but they have been dark for a long while

It is! I love how versatile the world is that even with a different protagonist and gameplay the Oddworld aspect shines through making it feel part of the world.