Writer is just like ‘I dunno tf I do about story now just need to get it done’ but we still love how silly it is lol

This is what I pictured in my 10 year old brain when I played ff1 for the first time.

running through the trails series now from fc all the way through daybreak (just started CS2) and i'm still thinking about azure the most out of all of them, its just something incredibly special and the payoff in these games in general is awesome

i absolutely adored unicorn overlord, i think for me the gameplay just maintained extremely fun for me with how much customization and freedom was present (both in the combat and also the exploration) and the story wasn't as big a deal for me as i can just really enjoy simple stories and overlook flaws, above all I think Vanillaware's games as a whole just have a lot of heart to them that makes me adore them.

I felt more at Jesse’s death than Aerith’s death. No amount of retrospective flashbacks in Part 3 will change that. Let that sink in.

I just hope there is a timeline/world that Aerith gets a life and to be happy. I would like that for Zack as well. They deserved more.

Funny how a "budget game" applies to the development budget, not what the user pays as it's the same as any other game.

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the fan in me says i love this...the completionist in me says i hate thos

No they BUTCHERED it and Part 3 won't save this Trilogy since the *Damage* is already Done

In defense of the ending I think it's brilliant. I'm what feels like one of the few final fantasy fans that loves the original and remakes of FF7 with Rebirth and the original being my favorite Final Fantasy games (16 right under them) what I enjoy about the remakes is the new story and changes to give more incentive to want to play these titles with adding more these characters. I love that they are basically sequels. But onto the ending, I understand why people dont like it. This is a hard scene to nail for fans of the original. However ib my opinion I honestly prefer how they handle Aerith's death in Rebirth which I know most fans would skin me over but given that false sense of hope that you actually save Aerith gave me so much happiness and joy until seeing our efforts were futile, Sephiroth just had us in a sort of illusion. Making the player have that false sense of hope temporarily just to see she still dies, hearing her theme play and watching Cloud's despair that he thought he saved her. I cant speak on all players but the way that was handled had me and some other friends so emotionally driven that anytime I see that moment I get so depressed each time, the first time I absolutely broke down at 1 AM screen sharing the game to a friend the weekend it was released. I think finding a new way to add a sort of emotional impact and shock value of almost saving her is so brilliantly written for players of the remakes and the original. This is just my opinion of course and I know I'll probably get slandered for it but I see so many people who played the original hate these games it feels like I'm one of five people who love the original and remake games. I started with remake then Crisis Core Reunion then the OG and of course Rebirth (not couting the other FFs I've played that aren't 7)

Basically they didn't learn from xv

Whats he talking about when he mentions online reaction to pre orders

"an angry man by the name of Jack..." That's all you're gonna get about this guy, folks!

It is by the best story game I have played so far... And I've played all the good games out there.

Reviews the story but doesn't mention that it's bad due to the way they build the ending reveals, classic

the point about undermining her death in part three was genius

most excellently done

I wish the game was good. I love it when I got fie because I loved how broken she was in cold steel and always found her 100% dodge chance build in cold steel to be super hilariously broken.

I feel like the end is enhanced. Yes, the shock and awe is no longer really there, but it's been almost 30 years. It's almost impossible to recapture that feeling, in essence, what it feels. Like they are going to, it is some what make you feel like you failed throughout the third game, so it hits harder and harder every time you think about it

Thankfully Capcom does understand what a remake is and easily sweeps this foolish company with its standout remakes Resident Evil 2, Resident Evil 3, and Resident Evil 4. And they did it with each being a complete game in one package! No multiverse, dr strange crap there.

While i definitely agree that the story felt very disjointed and unnatural, I still think it did an alright job and I enjoyed the game nonetheless

By merging the timelines, sepharoth can just snap his fingers and change any outcome that doesn’t go his way. That’s his goal. You saved areith this time but seph just snaps his fingers and changes realty to her dying anyway. It’s cool

This ruined my childhood imagination of FF1 world

I absolutely love XV. It’s one of my favorite games of all time and I’ll never forgive square enix for cancelling the rest of the Dawn of the future DLC. I have a pipe dream that one day, they’ll remaster the game and include newly developed content to wrap up the story more neatly, like the content they’ve added from unused ideas in previous FF remasters.

FFXVI most certainly improves on what XIII and XV were trying to accomplish. Still not perfect but getting very close to being the perfect modern FF

I agree a ton with this review. I will say any final fantasy fan should enjoy this entry, I don’t see why they wouldn’t…. FFVIII still #1.

As a big fan of final fantasy 1, campy bullshit, and edgy 2000s games, Strangers of Paradise is easily one of my favorite games of all time. I can't say the story hooked me or made me *that* emotional but it was rule of cool all the way into the end with as much mellow drama as it wanted. It's no ff6 or ff16, but I didn't want it to be.

The game was the best movie I've ever played. I loved it all the way through and I agree with this review 100%

The battle system is so bad and I cannot understand how people like this game. It's so so bad. I want to play a game not tell it how to play itself.

I stopped playing because the story wasnt bearble for me, father gets killed and mc chills with the murderers at the bar

9:34 even the version with no dlc you can use them if you unlock the skill. You cant just play their solo story

I tried in ps4 graphics were horrendous.is it better on ps5?

Two ways to see this game that explains everything: 1 - This is a great movie that you get to play. 2 - If you’ve ever played FF14, the game design makes sense due to understanding who made it

I've played the Sky trilogy and Crossbel, but I'm honestly thinking about skipping Cold Steel... it looks too dated for me, should i just skip to Daybreak?

For me, I feel the game needed better side quests and a stronger antagonist. The main cast was interesting and the antagonists were cool too. The main antagonist was garbage

messy disorganized remake series

Haha this is a beautiful disaster :D

Im in the same exact boat as you, I am a massive fan of the trails series, but I am not exactly a fan of the 5 cold steel games, they are still good games for the most parts but compared to the previous arcs and Kuro (Daybreak) I absolutely had much more issues and much less fun when playing them (tho for me CS II is the best of the bunch, dont get the love for III or IV especially). Daybreak is a return to form from Falcom to me, it reminded me of all I loved about the series and I couldnt be happy to see that they can still pull it off (tho much to my chagrin Kuro II already has a split main character pow and Kai which is essentially Kuro III does bring back the cs cast and rean as another mc so its a three way split, which I do not like at all). It is a much more mature take (for Kiseki standarts anyway) on the series and it is a lot more personal again as the first game does start a lot like Sky and Crossbell did, venturing around Calvard (which I really like, especially in comparison to Erebonia) and there is a plapable feeling of adventure at all times. The cast is my favorite since Crossbell and their writing is very high quality, everyone has distinct personality and place in the story, nobody feels like anyone's hanger on or a friend by association, they are all people who are growing closer together through their journey and they develop marvelous chemistry, some more unique than others but all very satisfying. Van is definitely one of my favorite characters now, having a someone like that after so long with the epitome of the goody two shoes is such a breath of fresh air, he understands the realities of the world and it tempered him, it didnt make him cold or unfeeling, he still has a good heart but he understands that compromises and sacrifice is sometimes necessary, such is the world (you know, outside of cs anyway). Imo he is also another tragic character done right, after Kevin, his reasoning for keeping away from his friends and the sacrifices he made in his life, the position that he put himself into all made sense and they arnt delivered through the lenses of him being the most important person in the world, by which I mean that neither the characters nor the game treat him like they are aware he is the protagonist or like he is the one that matters the most. And yet we get to see him being slowly broken out of his shell by his new part timers as his everyday life is changing quickly and he cant hide from his past anymore either, Ferri seeing him as a role model and a master (she is so adorable) Aaron annoying him as a brat of a little brother, Risette chiding him as a serious coworker who cares for his well being and of course Agnes bringing out the good more to the surface and making him feel like he belongs and at the same time he provides them with his advice and experience. His relationship with Elaine and René are also a standout imo, I do hope and think we will get far more of that in the future installment but even here the setup is great and the chemistry, the theme of reestablishing a friendship/relationship so forcibly ended is very interesting and it makes me super invested in what will happen with them in the future. Still, he is cool and unapologetic, has great snark and comebacks, adult viewpoint of life, very clear and defined preferences, what he enjoys and values, and just overall a pleasant chill atmosphere around him. The cast is overall fantastic, Judith didnt grow on me as much and Bergard barely has any screentime but everyone else is stellar. Being able to again go around with a smaller cast, seeing how they slowly get to know each other better, driving around the new setting like they are on a eurotrip or something and having villains who are actually evil and events that do come with actual consequences that arnt immidiately taken away is simply immense for me, the writing is so much better overall, in the last 10 years of Kiseki only C route from Reverie comes close to how much I enjoyed Daybreak. I really hope it does well here in the west, Kuro II is a bit of a filler game with really only the last few bits being important like how CS III was for example but I have at least some hopes for Kai even if they felt it necessary to bring back the cs cast so soon. I just hope that they wont have a kneejerk reaction and change the writing style to the high school shounen harem anime type with battles of will, over power of friendship abuse and no consequences type we had for so long. Mind you, I am not against anime tropes, Sky and Crossbell also had plenty of those, but as you say, they were written strongly enough that it didnt matter and of course the tropes were also far less numberous and less aggregious, but the writing quality is the main thing. Also the updated graphics and combat is big, it does make the game a lot more pleasant to look at and play, it also helps that these are imo the best character designs in the series, everyone looks great but Elaine and Shizuna are masterpieces. As for combat, I always liked it but its just very low on my list of priorities when compared to story and characters. Oh and I love Tharbad's music, that one is absolutely awesome, overall the soundtrack is great, but that one is standout. Great vid :) You earned a sub.

sooo i better never checked this vid or comments, bro I am always alone in everything whole life, so fuckin i am only one that fell in love with story, aside from great gameplay

Vanilla ware peaked with Dragon Crown that game is fun as hell but very ahem DISTRACTING Unicorn have the style but again the gameplay is....eh Another critical acclaimed game 13 the sentinel has a similar issue but in the opposite direction, people praise the story but my god the gameplay is so boring an unapealing it looks awful, in contrast Unicorn looks incredible but I have been skipping animation and just reached level 10, rescued the girl which name I cant even remember and ....I don't want to play more. Masterpiece my ass.

this is the most anti ff game in the whole franchise. combat and story is good but its 90% cutscenes and story. compare that to ff12 with open world, drop mechanics where u actually had to use brain to establish a "infrastructure" outside of combat. this game is so insanely not ff im surprised i dont see more ppl talking about this. just shows that modern gamers just want 0 brain activity games, which i dont even know why that is

I love the ending because it put me in the characters shoes. I was confused, I was angry, I was hurt. Yes at first I absolutely hated it. This ending was on par with The Last of Us part 2 for endings that made me upset. But the difference between this game's ending and that one. This ending actually fits the story they're telling. Just look at this through Cloud's eyes. His mind and actions aren't entirely his own. He doesn't understand what's happening to him, why he's behaving the way he is yet is powerless to stop it. It's such an emotional gut punch when his own broken mind believes that even for a second he was actually able to save Aerith only to have the rug pulled out from underneath him. And because of the differences these games have made over the original we're right there. We think that this time the outcome was different. Yet then reality sets in and like Cloud we have to face the truth. Over time I've grown to love this ending and actually prefer this closer for the second act more than the original. The 6 stage final boss is still a boring slog though ngl.

This isn't a hot take. The ending is very good. I haven't heard anyone say it wasn't.

The ending sequence would work if it wasn't the end of the game, but now there's a 4 year gap and playing 80 hours to have no emotional impact or questions answered is not satisfying. There's so much of "they'll explain it in part 3" that it left part 2 unfulfilling

The entire sandstorm mechanic in Drakeng...err, Drakenhold was silly, and is a microcosm of why I disliked the game as a whole. All it did was block your LOS - it didn't hamper support attacks from mages and archers (how the hell can they see where they're shooting?) and flying units had no issues flapping around in it. It was nonsensical and really showed me the level of 'strategy' required by the game. Also, timers. Nonsensical method of artificially increasing difficulty when there isn't even a need to do so - you're almost always on the offensive, trying to dislodge enemies from highly defended positions. Why the hell do you need to stick a timer on it? The developers probably realized how ridiculously easy the game so they dumped that on top of it. Lazy and disappointing.