Actually Plague of Shadows the boss fight uses blacked sprites of Regular Plague Knight, not body swapped. And it's not Mona transforming, it's actually Plague Knight fighting against himself in his mind.

That finish to the video with the dbz theme got a big smile and a chuckle out of me, good skit writing all around. Commenting for algorithm

Tark and Legend of Dragoon!? 10/10 video

I was never expecting a Disgaea video using TWEWY mysic... Some of my favourite games combined into one.

It still feels unreal to me that I actually had a friend who got into this game with me as young teens. Nothing else hits like it. The OST is full of standout tracks, the vibes are ?????, and everyone talks shit for no reason. (the Magic Square sequence... damn, still gets me)

" _stop talking about wild arms already_ 🗣️🗣️🗣️ " *NEVER* i subbed cuz they mentioned wild arms 🔫 I'm hoping armed fantasia is good too 👀 Also, screw the rules: Golden Sun ☀️

I would sell my soul for a HD2D remake in the vein of the one Live A Live got for Terranigma, Bahamut Lagoon and Treasure of the Rudras. Square-Enix is sitting on a treasure trove of IP from the SNES era that they're doing nothing with, and it drives me crazy.

Additions offer a little more depth than that. Some additions give more damage, some more spirit acquisition , some additions have no chance of counter. I like the elemental idea though. I also feel that you get some what punished more times than not, using dragoon forms. Loosing access to items is a terrible trade off for the limited boosts dragoon forms give you. I find the game to actually be far easier when you ignore the gimmick of Dragoon forms.

The bomb jump CAN be repeated before you touch land... just not if you're using the float burst. Using the double-jump gives you enough time to charge a second, and throwing bombs stalls you in mid-air, allowing you to use the pause in momentum to land with a lot more precision. I say this because I actually found the platforming a lot more fun and interesting in my second playthrough, in which I committed to beating the game entirely without it. --- I believe Specter of Torment's levels do have a progression of difficulties. When you're in the selection screen, it tells you how much gold you'll get for beating the boss at the end, an indicator for how hard it'll be, it's just that you can easily ignore it... or miss it completely. --- Evidence SUGGESTS King of Cards has some chronological overlap with SoT, but it's still MOSTLY before. At some point before KoC ended, they printed a card for Dark Reize, but by the time you fight King Knight in SoT, he's actually already part of the order and you're just setting him back on track... which does imply that, if SoT had a canonical level order, Pridemoor Keep would have to be pretty late in it. --- Lastly, Pocket Dungeon has mods on PC and also Exceed is very fun so if you wanted reasons to check those out...

Whats the game at 33:10?

The game is awesome. And the canon is directly connected to the second part. The right order is: First game - bad ending, Second game - good ending, First game - good ending. If you play it this way everything will come to its places.

Aayy, LoD mentioned, i find, i play, like, and comment. Im not too crazy with your take on additions tbh. There WAS some utility to the different additions, in that you had to balance out SP gain vs damage inflicted. I think the implementation of more additions with either status or recovery effects, or more varied statistics, would be fine. Really I think if we can find a way to fix dragoon forms, we can fix additions as a byproduct due to having increased importance of sp vs damage vs difficulty

I was waiting til the end to comment Legend of Legaia, but you mentioned it off the rip.

last remnant biggest hidden gem of square enix, with a pretty unique combat

uh, actually... Vandal Hearts is part of the FF12 universe and therefore part of the FF series which already has tones of games in recent years, so breaks your own rules. :P But seriously, while I would love to see a successor to any of the others, Vandal is the one I would be least interested in. I just really didn't enjoy it at all when I gave it a go. But maybe that has more to do w/ the games narrative design and having absolutely no idea where to go or what I needed to do to progress after only about 30 mins in. So w/ a new attempt maybe they could straighten that out while keeping the mechanics intact that most of the people who like it seem to praise. Also if anyone likes Legaia and hasn't tried Xenogears, it has a very similar combat system of inputting commands to unlock special combos. My one criticism of the system is that, much like what was said about LoD, it can get stale very quickly. Once you find the optimal combo for doing the most damage, you just do that over and over and nothing else. At least in dragoon the other combos kinda had a purpose as later additions got harder to execute and you might find do more damage succeeding at a previous addition than failing at a new one. I think to really make the system shine EVERY move needs a special characteristic, like elemental damage, or damage type or status etc. So that the combat became about picking the best moves for the enemy your facing and trying to build your combo around that. Instead of just picking, the same optimized damage combo every turn. On a side note, Legaia 2 was fine. Not as good as the first imho but still quite good as an RPG. If the main complaint you have about it is that the main character uses a sword, your reeeaaaaaaalllllyyyy reaching for something to hate.

I actually like Legaia 2. I guess I'm in the minority🤷‍♂️

Xenogears and chrono cross had somewhat the same system as legaia

Did someone say.. Wild arms!? I’m still hoping for anything out of the .hack// series. The original 4 games and G.U. series were some of my favorite PS2 games.

100% agree of breth of fire and i think there is possibly in the works of bringing up a remaster. I Also want a remake of chrono trigger. That ideah of the infinte fusiion idea we got that suikoden remake out in about 40 days thats off.. Phantansy star back tot eh rpg turn based not the online mmo.

BRO! I'M SO FLIPPIN GLAD YOU BROUGHT UP LEGEND OF LEGAIA FIRST! I'm still waiting for a spiritual successor to that game to this VERY DAY! That game had the most unique battle gameplay system that essentially made it a rpg fighting game. AND NO ONE HAS BOTHER PICKING THAT SHIT UP! LIKE BRUH! THE COMBAT HAD SO MUCH POTENTIAL! 😫😫😫

agreed

I see legend of dragoon and I click.

Some good news on the Vagrant Story part, there is a cyberpunk style game with similar mechanics to Vagrant Story and Parasite Eve called .45 Parabellum being made by Sukeban games. Might be a different setting, but there is potential there. On another note I'm currently making a game that is some unholy godchild of Legend of Dragoon that exists in a Megaman Legends-esque world. I more or less came to the same conclusion on the additions having different button inputs to a specific timing, but also having some additional effects that you can choose for specials. There is a whole system to it, but that's out of scope here. (There might also be a "Overclocking" element that's more or less a dragoon form but with Mechs ) :)

The hooded one has spoken. It's time for the return! (Spiritually)

Wild arms is goated

Dark cloud needs one ASAP

What JRPG do you think deserves a spiritual successor if given the chance? Also, big thanks to Derek and Tarks for joining in on this. Go check them out if you haven't already.

Thanks for having me on Hoodlie! This was such a fun video to be a part of!

This is my first time seeing your new channel mascot! It's cute! As far as niche RPGs I'd like to see iterated on, Dark Cloud as briefly mentioned and Okage Shadow King. The former for how it mashed dungeon crawling together so well with other genres (I'm a big fan of 2's photography specifically so a game based on dungeon diving specifically based around that sounds badass) and Okage for its less traditional style overall, both narratively and visually.

with Daigusto, please

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Glad to see some love for this game. Never played atelier but I loved this game! Nora and the time studio is also on DS and very similar to atelier. (It has an English translation)

The song you were thinking of that was "Level 4" is called "Lonely Rolling Star" on the OST btw

I kind remember reading somewhere that originally it was supposed to be another PS1 game, but got bumped to the PS2 right at the tail end of the development to try and stand out more. Which, ya know... launching the same week as Final Fantasy X really wasn't what they intended.

First game i play of the series and it still has a special place in my childhood.

You did not see the same opera I have. In the version I saw, they found it but arrived too late to give it to her.

Had the OG SK on my Wii U, got each individual update and played the hell out of the 4 modes.

26:05 GOD DAMNIT JUSTIN YOU BONE HEAD. I love this game.

Okay you need more views. Your prose and writing are very good. You change words a lot, you don't repeat yourself. Well done. Take my sub and like you've earned it.

this might seem wierd ... unless 😂

I think you only needed the fire one and two others.

Missed this one, such a beautiful and fun looking game , just bought it physical while the prices are still sane, very excited, I chose it out of 1 - 3 cause I heard 2 is the best one?, gaming 4eva 🕹🎮 ♥️

I bought this game because I enjoyed the second game, I never finished this one though.

at 24:00 ish where you're talking about missing Sue and all her magical abilities, when a character leaves the party, their earned XP gets deposited into your storage box, which you can in turn give to any other character. Maybe someone has explained this to you by now, but if not that's something to be aware of when speccing the characters that leave into some magic or physical attack style! I usually make Sue just use her mace a lot so that I can use that XP for Justin later on so that I don't have to train that aspect too much.

I played last year, it's a ok game, is not bad by any means!

jade coccoon shout

trust me, A TON of the gameplay issues you mentioned are resolved in covenant

I stan this game and will do so until people appreciate it. I am the #1 Okage Shadow King enjoyer.

This video is so good! Love all the stuff you're saying, and it feels very authentically spoke aloud. I just grabbed this game a week ago... uh oh lol.

I liked this one more than Eternal Mana but I never finished either of them. Atelier Iris 2 is still the only Atelier game I have ever finished, it's also the first game in the series I ever played.