Are there any characters besides Freya herself that actually confirm Sir Fratley knew who she was to begin with? I have a theory that Freya was just a confused fan girl, and Sir Fratley just happened to conveniently lose his memories so he goes along with it later.

For as long as there are hoards of real life people that fit right into Steiner's blind duty/patriotism/obedience trope, while never going through the same personal growth, I hope that the trope persists.

Best damn turn based system EVER

This game is one of my favorites from the era. I still have my physical copy of it! It is by no means an unmitigated classic, but I still hold its convoluted mechanics, the themes, and the beautiful artwork close to my heart. In the end, I fully agree with your review, the game is super flawed, but that wont ever kill my love for it.

This game blew me away back in 2000. I remember playing this when I was about twelve and relating a lot of Gustave’s childhood being the reject and all. The art style always inspired me too.

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For two decades I’ve been trying to remember the name of this game I played on a underground demo way back in the day

I will always love this game. One of the hidden gems in the PS2 era. The NPC's along having a pattern in the day and night cycle makes it feel so alive. HUMAN PATH was always the best because Jack was so assertive. Plus, recruiting the different guild members and guild leaders was fun!

what's the game at 1:10? :)

Steiner is awesome. I wish he was playable in Dissidia 012 or at least Vivi

This looks awesome! How have I never heard of this before? A fantasy action adventure game with these charming PS1 visuals is right up my alley!

It's a dire game.

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What is the game song name thats playing in the beginning of the video?

This game is such a hidden gem it’s not even funny wow it’s such a great time capsule to my childhood I’m playing it again on switch lite and enjoying every single second of it.

just found your channel: i know you haven't been active for a few years, but i'm still subscribing! such nice, earnest content

Loving your reviews! My favourite newly discovered channel! Keep it up! Loving the nice clean thumbnails too!

What game is this 0:13 ?

I had no idea there were people who criticized turn based games as "non realistic" lol. That shit is silly. It's a game and what does "realistic" even mean in this context?

Oh the memories. I got every square game after FFVII for PS1. There was no shortage of things to do on that system back in the day. And they were killing it. Felt like back to back to back just fun stuff. FFVII, FF Tactics, FFVIII, FFIX, Vagrant Story, Xenogears, BFM, Dewprism, LoM, And a ton more that just kept flooding in. Good times.

While the game isnt perfect it is easy to tell that you arent that well versed in saga games. Also the diss of the soundtrack is a huge trigger for people.

4:45 Combat System

Never knew there was a 3rd or 4th 😱😭

Got a sub for showing me this game sadly. Cant play it

Realistic ≠ better I’ll never understand gamers acting like making a game feel/look more like real life matters in any way to the quality of the game

and the music is very well chosen, the closing is too good

This is very well done. We love the video selections that you chose and we can remember playing 🎴 that game there with the aztec looking wheel 🎡 and the quadrants! Very well thought out 💭🤔 thought good sir.

Game is easily in my top 5 games of all time

I'm not sure why but something tells me you need to hear this but thank you for a awesome video

Hey, you should add, that this movie is only about JRPG and thiers TBC. Here u miss very crucial thing, which is board.

I really don't like the random stat growth because only HP and SP and new skills are learned, we have to rely on equipment/gear to get good gear smh.

Hmmm. I always thought about it as less of an abstraction and more of a metaphore.

The only downside to Suikoden I is its brevity - it leaves you craving more of its captivating world!

I'd say I replay this game at least once every two years, I only played on an emulator now because I have to have that fast forward mode. I fast forward through the battle loading and enemy attacks oh and the magic attacks. With that there it makes everything tolerable because I just don't have the patience to sit through all the crap in that game anymore because I've already seen it 15 + times

The reason why Freya is hardly mentioned inside Final Fantasy becomes increasingly overt when you hear more and more about 7, 8, and 14 these days. FF9 is the obscure one compared to even 8. It's not that she in particular is forgotten about by the fanbase, more that the 'fanbase' never got into 9 in general in the first place. It says even more when you have them talk endlessly about how Aerith's death is the most shocking thing ever, when the death flags were all over the place. Nothing about Tifa especially. Peeps think Aerith is just bubbly, cute, and meek or whatever you'd find from your typical anime healer girl. Nor any of the goofy shit that went on in FF7. And so much more. It's clear now, it has far less to do with Freya being the "Red13" of the game, whom also was just DONE after his extremely short arc. But still though...This is ridiculous. This is too heavy for anyone to just let bottled up for the entire run after finally finding the man at home after being missing for all those years. It just doesn't feel right to be satisfied or done with just finding him or conveniently have the journey's constant distractions get in the way of literally anything and everything else that could have came of this.

Dude I love ur vids ❤

Have you played the other Breath of Fire titles yet?

Wow, very intelligent review! Broke the game nicely down with nuance, hit all the nails on the head. The innovation and art direction stood out to me as a child playing this one

Freya is basically the main character imo

the most beautiful part of the game is steiner and beatrix fighting side by side <3

Good video. I think that Suikoden 4 provides numerous instances where the silent protagonist falls flat and comes close to ruining scenes. This is emphasized all the more since the game has voice acting in big scenes but the protagonist stands mutely staring. The npcs will say how inspiring and charismatic the protagonist is, that they just draw others to them, and the protagonist just stands mutely staring. One might be tempted to attribute this solely to Suikoden 4 being rather mediocre, but it is a problem that seems to plague many rpgs. The only thing worse, perhaps, is the over talkative, try-hard protagonist that won't shut up.

I love this game! I finished this before ffvii and ffviii mainly because of its lighter tone and voice acting.

While Suikoden 2 may have elements that are better, there is no denying that Suikoden 1 has the far superior OST and one of the best in all of gaming

Suikoden 1 is in my top 5 fave games of all time and top 3 OSTs of all time

saga frontier 1 had a way better battle system - you could very easily regain your spell points my just swapping ur characters around

I agree with this review 100%. :)

That timeless artwork is freakin beautiful ❤️

Great video! Nice to see this game getting some love :)

R.I.P legend of dragoon DLC for PlayStation all stars battle Royal.

FF9 is unique but what irks me is how Freya's story is sidelined so fast and when she's sidelined in Alexandria for the whole of disk 2 and we have NO background as to where she went or how she was kept safe. Also Zidane could've hugged her at least once (they travelled together for a year). She went through so much and it's hardly acknowledged. Her ending as well is not the happy ending we wanted as it''s bittersweet. It makes it feel her 5 years was for nothing . I'll never forget her and how can I when she's so compelling.