Sekiro is kicking my ass. While XC3 Future Redeemed kicked my heart.

I've been on a pretty big retro RPGs kick lately! I've finished Earthbound and Link's Awakening DX on NSO for Switch, and I've been replaying Final Fantasy VII (PSone) a lot of the middle parts of the game I haven't seen since I was a kid, and I've been appreciating so much about it in both story and game design. I've also been working through Breath of Fire III, another childhood fave, but mybold disc was so screatched up I couldn't finish the game, but I finally got a working copy a while back, and I started Tales of the Abyss, which has been sitting in my backlog far too long

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weirdly i loved ghostwire but i seem almost alone in that. i really enjoyed the virtual tourism aspect and reading about all the mythology in the game

Always good to hear from you! I’ve started playing Loop8 and am having a pretty good time with it so far. It’s like a little puzzle box that I can’t put down.

"The Last Guardian" To this day, I still don't know if I enjoyed it or not. I like the ideas, the atmosphere, and just the wonder of the setting. But actually playing it...yea-no. I haven't gotten so frustrated with a game since, funnily, doing the Hard Mode Time Trials for the PS3 version of "Shadow of the Colossus, the one with burked physics causing Wander to stumble constantly. "Ghostwire Tokyo" I still feel like I want to play this, especially in lieu of Tango Gameworks closing, but I just can't bring myself to. It gives me the exact same vibes as "The Evil Within" did. As silly as it sounds, I have some real scars of insecurity due to how much flak and ridicule I ended up getting for liking that game at the time, it scares me off from even bothering with this one. "No One Lives Under the Lighthouse" I've never played it but I did watch an analysis review of it by Pastra. It definitely seems like an interesting time. Very much a sort of experience you let gradually soak in.

Tark! Youre back!!!🎉 Heres some sugar for you

Just been playing Mario party with the fellas lately

I bought this, for science reasons

The Last Guardian is my favourite game of all time

I made it roughly 11 minutes into Ghostwire Tokyo and realized in the first 30 seconds that it wasn't for me.

Algorithm! I've been playing through Yakuza 3 on PS5, Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky on PSP, and just started Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown on Switch. They are all incredible, just like the algorithm that suggests Tarks Gauntlet to people.

Hai tarks, do you know nanashi no game/the nameless game? If not, it's a (fan translated) weird horror game for the Nintendo Ds that you might like.

Platinum'd Sly 1 for the third time and I've started playing Daxter that's been fun. Until i got my hands on another certain game now nothing matters until that's done Was this this your first time playing FF4?

Game I've been playing? Hum.. ...🤔 Silent Hope. ( Repetitive but kinda addictive ) Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord ( You WILL rot blood ) Stranger from Paradise ( God this suck I didn't even finished it ... Go on people... throw me rocks😶) Monster Menu: The Scavenger's Cookbook ( it's bad. ) Trinity Trigger ( I was very disappointed ) Kuro no kiseki 2 ( It's amazing and addictive like freakin' cocaine ... oh Gods Kai no kiseki in September? Please stop Falcom ... No don't stop ...yes stop! NO DON'T Hook theses games in my VEINS! ) ( I think I need a Therapy )

PSP version of FF4 specifically has the Interlude as well. For what it may be worth.

Tarks Gauntlet upload!? I’m sitting my ass down and listening! Also glad to see how big a fan of The Lighthouse you are. It is also one of my favorite movies. I love all e of Egger’s films and can’t wait for Nosferatu

Great content dude! Thanks for sharing your thoughts on these games and bringing it to new audience.

I take back my compliments from last video...weeb ❤

Why is everyone so wrong about Ghostwire?

After playing through endless ocean luminous, I've been going through games I've had in the backlog. First I played through valkyrie profile, which while a little confusing to get ending A, I absolutely loved it. I'm working on that mass effect trilogy now, still in ME1, but it's super engaging rn

2nd channel link returns 404 bro

Love you Tark. You're the best. And the best dad.

I think the wingleys were advanced humans and the whole god on earth or the earth for that matter were aliens the ship had literal moniters and the virgels were just robots

250 days, looking forward to the next one This charm of this Era is something I miss dearly. Looks almost like a must play to me

Don't know how I feel about this game. I loved it until I made it to the Infernal Castle. I hated every other part until I finished the last 16 level dungeon of the old school house. The game didn't know when to quit and there were waaaay too many boss fights. I just beat it and I am still angry about it because the game lied and said it was the final fight so many times only to throw in more and more boss fights at you. I can't see myself playing the game again because of that. That being said I loved the final ending and it made me cry. It was so emotional.

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This is one game I'll be truly sad if it every completely disappears, and is one reason I believe game preservation must happen. It's only ever been on PS2 and 3DS, not the most accessible things anymore between the game, systems, and play ability comfort. I don't know how well to trust them to remake it anymore either, given things that happened to Symphonia. But I hope it gets another port, especially on PC, and more especially a good port. And with the same voices, don't redo that, it'll ruin the feeling of everything.

The biggest complaint I have to agree with is, if you want to fully experience this game, you basically need a guide. A good amount of the optional end game stuff is locked behind a side quest where you have to go back into a dungeon for no other reason than to meet an NPC, a dungeon you walk by like 50 times over the course of the game, and there's like a single plot point A to plot point B window to do it. Then you have to meet this NPC again in a town with no prompting inside another very small window of time. If you mess up either of these, you can't see about 25% of the game.

I've never gone looking for reviews of this game, but I also almost never see anyone putting one up in recommendations. This game has possibly ruined many other games for me by not being as good to me by comparison.

That King Arthur game did little on its own to give itself a chance sadly. It's sad what happened to Enix games, because I knew of Enix as the company that made some very good games. Some bad ones, too, but they were a company I went to for their oddities

Oh man! I thought you were gone. Your videos are fantastic. You give great reviews and I find myself liking a lot of similar things. Thank you, sir.

As a single player game, Jet girls isn't much unless you just wanna check it out. But for Time Attack and Online play it's super fun and plays as it was intended.

Japan's media is just as (((taken over))) as western media with filth it seems.

ah,so the waifus are only decorations and only use two guys?...pass

Really awesome video! I finally dusted off my Vita this week and modded it. The modding and homebrew scene for the vita is so excellent and still quite active! People are figuring out ways to port new titles to the system and emulation continues to improve year after year.

This game is just so definitely my jam. The special brand of late PSP character models and environments, the light-hearted tone, the little attention to detail. This game just holds a certain joyfulness that's really hard to quantify, in a way that really is similar to Megaman Legends or Grandia

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Amazing retrospective. I found this game as a kid by accident and it became one of my favorites on ps2. The relentlessly dark story and soundtrack are the things that hooked me. I still remember that dude who throws himself off of the tower. I found the game to be too grindy in order to unlock the secret characters and level enough for the final boss which was too hard for me to ever beat. I also found the summon system overly confusing. Arc the Lad TotS might be the best game i never beat. I could revisit it as an adult but i don’t find much motivation to devote time to rpgs anymore. I greatly appreciate finding your video as it let me relive some of these precious memories.

Love the work thank you so much. I always hated how the party treated Luke. In my opinion Luke doesn't have responsibility for sinking of akzeriuth. Van does. If we want to stretch more, so does jade, ion and even guy. Tear knew how little Luke knew of the world. ToA used to be criticized for its heavy use of jargon, but that may be purposeful as Luke serve as a surrogate for the audience. He's as clueless. Even a cute woodland creature knew the basics of phonic artes well enough to know what "5th phonon to the ceiling" meant when jade commanded. That's how normal this is to everyone except the audience and Luke. That's brilliant story telling but I digress Luke's condition is obviously abnormal. And nobody took him seriously. Imagine not just being amnesiac, but literally not knowing anyone. Having your own personality, but having to be someone else you never knew. He never knew his parents, Natalia, anyone in baticul. He never knew how to walk, talk, what 1+1 is. Literally formless. And everyone expects him to know all of that and more. No wonder he was such an asshole. Nobody took time. Nobody except Van. What did they want to happen when they get frustrated with his lack of everything? Of he's gonna latch on to Van and trust him. ToA is a great experiment on identity, empathy, and responsibility. It's a helluva tales of game

Im wet….

This is the only Trails game I still need to play not a huge fan of action RPG's but I know Falcom will make this entry important to the overall story of Trails at some point.

Just ordered mine can't wait 😊

Falcom's real intentions are clear: they are trying to make a Towa multi-verse. The connection between Nayuta and trails is that Towa and Nayuta have the same last name: Herschel. There's a popular fan theory that Nayuta is Towa's great uncle. NIS America doubled-down on this by having Towa's Zemurian Ore weapon in Reverie be "Boundless Trails". Between that and Towa showing up in Tokyo Xanadu, I'm expected Towa to show up in X's 10 Nordic when it releases later this year. Y's is the only Falcom property without Towa and its high time we fixed that massive problem. The other extremely popular fan theory is that the Grandmaster is one of the mythos from Nayuta and that the game functions as the Grandmaster's back-story. Now that Reverie has come out, that theory has lost a bit of steam, but it's still possible. Other than that, when I played Nayuta last year, I came away convinced that Ada (the girl who runs the weapon's shop) is a relative of Noel Seeker, as both have red hair and a penchant for showing us their butt (definitely not complaining about that). I had an amazing time with Nayuta and I really liked the game a lot. It's the kind of simple, easy to understand, comfy platformer that used to be so widely seen in gaming, but seems to not be around anymore.

I've always said "Ba--ten Kay-tose" myself. I had finished the game once, and have always liked it. My early gaming days are a bit fuzzy now, though Baten Kaitos may have been my first actual JRPG. Took me all the way to Mira to start actually figuring out that I was making the game very difficult as I was using the elemental strengths of enemies in my attacks and defenses in each fight, having a much easier time once I stopped being the biggest dumb. I remember Mira the most of any location from all the odd places you visit, and that damned garden with the hands and slimes, took me hours to figure it out. I was a smart-ish kid, but wasn't too bright in some areas.

This game is on my backlog, but i love the idea of a trails game with Ys mechanics

Loved this and love that you are back! Yeah I hope to get this one eventually. Really looking forward to your future reviews on all the Neptunia games that you have missed.

The world is good again when Tark uploads a video.

Funny enough I think this game has better combat then any Ys game....

This game is insanely underrated. The gameplay loop was SO satisfying and fun, it has one of the best soundtracks, and I felt like the story was better than at least 75% of Trails games. People who love this game should play the 2 Zwei games, because this is basically a spiritual successor to that older Falcom series. Also, worth noting that the PC version at the very least has anisotropic filtering, so you wont get the static-y textures when viewed from oblique angles.