Classic Game Room HD - BLACK SIGIL: BLADE OF THE EXILED ds

[@Lungkisser]

I still keep up with Classic Game Room and I'm so grateful because I love that I can find an old CGR review for a game I just discovered in 2016 to determine if I want to buy it or not. All hail Lord Karnage!

[@NejisBreakingVlogs]

did you get it yet

[@les907]

Lost my DS years ago. Bought a new one recently. This game stayed on my mind but couldn't remember the title This brought it all flooding back. Thanks.

[@MinoruLeo]

The game is very good, has a decent story and charming characters, but the fatal flaw is the *_astronomic_* encounter rate that can really get on your nerves later on. It's also quite easy and very few boss battles will pose a threat if you're decently equipped. Still, it's worth a shot if you're a fan of RPG games.

[@Jack_80]

really? that's weird, i just came to check this game out because it was on a top 10 list of hardest rpgs.

[@DrumstickFL]

It's 16bit, okay? not 8! twice the emotion!

[@KajDarkwind]

Not only that, but every video I've seen so far on this game the reviewer didn't apparently know how to pronounce the word "sigil". After hearing it pronounced "seagull" for about the 18th time I have to admit even I'm a little bit annoyed.

[@Jack_80]

yesh, i kept thinking it looks like a snes game, not an nes game.

[@jb0258jr]

Finally going to get to play this game tomorrow. Have a copy on its way from eBay! This ones been on my list of games to play for far too long

[@evanczthehunter57]

This game needs more attention. -.-

[@dashboots376]

Looks like my kind of game I still play Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VI and sword of mana also other of my favorite RPGs include Golden Sun and Paper Mario

[@phenixqc3197]

why youtube put this game in my feed??? I love it so much 11 years ago until I lost it

[@Zedekar9000]

and I agree with what a guy said below, you are the best reviewer of all, I don't like to see reviews so much, but I can spend hours watching yours though, even of games I don't like and sometimes you even convince me of trying them out :D

[@Rakiarmas]

Oh man there's so many interesting looking RPGs on Nintendo DS. I wish I could find more of them to my collection. I really love RPGs. they are probably my top favorite game genre ever. :) So many games, so much to play.

[@Zedekar9000]

Haha, I got the same feeling sometimes when watching these reviews, I wanna play them all, lol.

[@Rakiarmas]

***** That's the reason why I hate not being rich & have to buy consoles much much later after the release. Most of the good games are very old & you can only get them used, which can be a very difficult to find. Especially here in Finland, that doesn't have even close as huge gaming market as in USA or Japan for example.

[@Zedekar9000]

Rakiarmas True, me too, I'm from South America, and the prices are crazy because all is imported. I wish I would live in Japan, haha, or at least know japanese, there are lots of asian titles.

[@RMD00]

It reminds me of Chrono Trigger almost. The sprite look and the combat system. kinda look like it.

[@BelowAverageGaming13]

I just picked this game up in a pawn shop for $5.00. I’ve never heard of it before, but it seems like something I’m going to love. I’m going to start playing on the bus tomorrow.

[@saitada]

That may be so... I agree with you that this game would seem more at home on the Super Nintendo than the NES but the 16-bit RPGs still followed the same archetype as was established on 8-bit systems. There was no fundamental shift between the 8-bit and 16-bit eras. I think it's perfectly valid to call this sort of game an 8-bit style RPG because all of the basic elements from games like Dragon Quest remain.

[@tumest]

I'll be damned, I didn't know sigil could be pronounced with a hard g, but I looked it up and it can. Learn something new every day.

[@Mr.Sojiro]

This game looks fantastic, not one I have ever seen for the DS, the visuals instantly make me think of other 16-bit JRPGs on SNES. This is one I will have to track down, looks right up my alley.

[@PixelOutlaw]

I'd say it is closer to a 16 bit RPG. 8 bit JRPG's had more trivial menus and much less intricate story.

[@merksperk2]

Black Sigil has received a lot of attention. Not bad, considering that this is Studio Archcraft's first published game. I'll be looking forward to their next game, and hopefully a sequel to Black Sigil down the line.

[@stillgaming]

This game looks and feels so, SO much like a Chrono Trigger/FF6 hybrid. The character designs, dungeons, and text fonts.. all so familiar.

[@LegendaryOutcast]

This is a good video. I played this game for more than 50 hours. It is very glitchy and you encounter way too many mobs when trying to travel, a very old school feel. That being said this game is definitely worth giving a try and by that I mean play it for at least a few hours, just remember to save often. The main reason I loved this game was the Story and the music. Combat system is good, easily comparable to chrono trigger. which i love but i would not compare the game entirely just based on the combat system.

[@NewCanadianTurtle]

First time I saw this, I could easily tell inspirations were truly drawn from 16 bit era RPGs like ChronoTrigger. Amazing!

[@Jodie842]

All DS games feel 'old school' because that's the best this handheld can do!

[@WillSerenity]

I saw this game on the EBGames website and thought it looked really interesting. After seeing your review, I'll be sure to check it out. I loves me some Old-school RPG action. ^_^ Keep up the good work, Mark. Love your reviews!

[@sozaj]

kudos to you for mentioning phantasy star

[@janxtrinidad]

You gotta love the intro

[@Farreach]

dude most reviewers should be like u to sound so excited to review a game but nowadays we got ppl who just review with no soul dude keep it up u should find a good ps3 game to review if u didn't do call of juarez: bound in blood u should do it for ps3 just to let ppl know how awesome it is

[@DaemonRiku00]

a main character who is hated by everyone...now that's a nice touch of story other mainstream games do not use often

[@MiniAgnostic]

just as an easy reference for anybody the original versions of Space Invaders, Pac Man, Tetris, Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros etc were in the 8 bit era, the magnavox odyssey and atari 2600 are 8 bit era consoles, the change from 8 bit to 16 bit was quite a leap foward...

[@Zedekar9000]

Dam it , I love this kind of art, old school art? you know, like comix zone, or blades of vengeance for sega genesis? can someone recomend me more games with this kind of art? reminds me so much of final fantasy II too, the one that starts with the robots walking in the snow

[@AlexBSPLUS]

This Final Fantasy you're talking is VI, III in the ocidental release for the SNES. Maybe you would like the Lunar series. It's pretty similar to Black Sigil. Also Phantasy Star 3 and 4!

[@todaysdesperadohatesavocad7109]

... what are you on about? Comix Zone is ahead of it's time in graphical style with a unique comic book aesthetic that I would be reluctant to call 'retro' or 'old-school' let alone anything like this games art style. I'm not even going to TOUCH the mix up/confusion between Final Fantasy II and VI.

[@LoliComplicated]

...you know you can run on the main map right?

[@bbqrainbow]

a lot of copies are apparently defective so go ahead and buy this game directly from the maker's site if you plan to buy it. Otherwise they say "it's only pirated copies that have the freezing glitch" even though the very game bought was directly from Amazon.

[@NasriNaim]

nice reviews!

[@DemonKuAbyss]

This is not 8-bit. What NES game are you thinking of?

[@grimmSOL]

Those were inspirations stated by Graffiti when they were developing this game... its a shame this didn't see a lot of love, 'cuz it really is a great game. It draws a lot upon the RPGs, on the SNES in particular, of the early to mid-90s. Truly the golden era of RPGs including games like Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana/Evermore, Seiken Densetsu 3, Final Fantasy III and Dragon Quest, among many others. But yeah, I really enjoyed this game. Shame it was overlooked.

[@laughingfurry]

@konataGAMERZ It actually makes sense. Everyone in that world can use magic and the first person to be born without magic powers managed to cause massive destruction to their world, according to legend. Since the main character is the second to be born without magic, fear of the first resides. Basically, for them to meet someone who can't use magic would be like for any of us to wake up in bed and see Cthulhu laying there. Quite alien and pretty scary due to legends.

[@laughingfurry]

@konataGAMERZ I don't know. There's other ways for a villain to be powerful. Comic books prove this a lot with villains like Lex Luther and The Joker. There's also various anime where the enemy isn't something that can use magic, but someone with incredible strength, Ki, and/or Psy. The magicless characters of Black Sigil obviously have great power not tied to magic. The ability to fight without relying on magic is what's intimidating.

[@JackHoundENT]

It has few , but I don't think it will effect on how you will enjoy this game.

[@Sonic2332]

@Deiradinn It also reminds me of the battle system in Lunar: Silver Star Story and Lunar: Eternal Blue.

[@Anemite]

nice 16 bit RPG, not too new but also not too old a game developed with the feeling of gold age games IMO (snes/genesis era)

[@gravedigger752]

thhe game reminds me of a cross between secret of mana and chrono trigger, which are both fantastic games and chrono trigger is one of my all time favorites

[@Ricjones1994]

Yeah i agree with you. This reminds me alot of Super Mario RPG for the SNES

[@kolpik3708]

My dad may have done a lot of awful sh^t, but he never locked me in a cave. XD

[@MooseBurrito575]

i like the music in the beginning game vid

[@ivantopito]

its just the feel of it...actually it looks more like one of those 16-bit SNES obscure rpgs. Anyway, back to playing final fantasy mystic quest HELL YEAH!!!

[@SMAAAASHTV]

@VayuPurana No, I'm not attacking you nor was Chrono Trigger a "Mainstream or overrated" when I first played it. I loved it then and I love it now. It's fine that you don't think the story or characters are kick ass. I don't expect everyone to like everything that I do but your trying to make an argument out of nothing. Chrono Trigger was and is still a great game, just because something better has come out since doesn't nullify that.

[@BoxcarWillie42]

Great game while taking a dump..

[@TheShockblast100]

Sir, you are an inspiration

[@jzblue345]

Thanks for the review tho I love this game awesome battle system and story

[@illusion274]

Woolie sent me here

[@SkulloMad]

Ayy

[@OneColdRepublican]

Ya mean from the Best Friends group?

[@illusion274]

yep from the best friends

[@OneColdRepublican]

aw man that's awesome.

[@hanzoyabe8702]

i replayed this game twice tho..

[@AlexejGravius]

The only bad thing about this game is the random encounter rate, it's way too high.

[@popimpi]

The many sidequests of that game give much background detail on each character not to mention they all literally have their own ending. No other game has thoroughly taken the history of mankind from the extinction of dinosaurs right up past an armageddon, maybe you didn't catch the connections to real-life.

[@JayFFAFAlesanaES]

3:50 I will enjoy the gameplay mechanics of... Black Seagull? What is that? TO GOOGLE!

[@9Gorgeous]

they should make this game into a manga the storyline is cool

[@edichka83]

Agreed. And how do you review this game without once mentioning Chrono Trigger or FF6? Did you actually miss out on two of the greatest RPGs ever made?

[@broceollomon]

So... the main character is Gustav from Saga Frontier 2?

[@defunct32]

Lol "locking him in a cave cause he upsets everybody else, now that's parenting!" haha.

[@EnglishTurtle]

A jrpg made in america. I think its very cool. Very much like Chrono Trigger.

[@unknown2594]

nice!

[@saitada]

Of course it's not actually an 8-bit game, it's on the DS, what he was saying was that the game follows the style of the old 8-bit RPGs, which it does, 2d graphics, top-down viewpoint, random battle encounters, turn based gameplay, EXP/HP/MP system, sure the graphics are updated (a little) but other than that how is it NOT like an 8-bit style RPG?

[@Syndo]

looks and character moves just like chrono trigger lol, the battle system kind of reminds me of lunar games for sega cd to

[@TheKensei777]

Syndo the battle system is exactly like chrono trigger too. I like it so far

[@merksperk2]

@whatsitwho Hey, at least it brings back memories of that era when every game was ridiculously hard.

[@ZellMurasame]

Sigil is pronounced with a soft 'g', like how you would say in angel and not angle.

[@popimpi]

I still think Link to the Past was a fairly boring game, even Link's Awakening shat all over it.

[@Yepimdatguy]

Yes, and I could easily see why fans could still love the game to this day. Even for now it is not horrible. I just think it is extremely overrated.

[@Revanthewicked]

Chrono Trigger is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@AnimeManga3000]

similar to the wild arms 1,2,3 battle system!

[@illmoneygreen]

@MrSunnyboy1999 totally!

[@Yepimdatguy]

Hm. This seems to have the awesome gameplay of Chrono Trigger mixed with an actually good story, which is something CT lacked IMO.

[@jimpietz]

Graphics remind me of Chrono Trigger

[@RedFalconGamers]

nice music

[@SENATORPAIN1]

thankyou i was just going to say that, no need now.

[@Drathy]

Haha, was going to say that too... bugged me!

[@Jinzo126]

i LOVE Old Scool RPG´s, and yes it looks and fels like a Crono Trigger Clone, but this is not that bad ( thers just no Time Travell, or ??? )

[@MrSunnyboy1999]

This Game kinda remind me of Chrono Trigger........That's awesome

[@korea92]

Lol, kairu, like kaoru, the female lead from rurouni kenshin, the best manga ever.

[@GameDeath]

true.. but the developers of this game deliberately ignore the high capabilities of the ds just so that this game have that 16-bit old school JRPG feeling.

[@InsanePickle007]

its a mix of final fantasy and chrono rigger withough time battle

[@whatsitwho]

I tried to play this game but the battles killed it. At least early on. The difficulty for the game was high but only because your characters on the screen can't move through each other and sometimes the "arenas" are small so the characters in the back just can't move. You're left with one person who can attack in the battle and it happens often. Not to mention, there's so little mana and health pool. I wanted to like this game. I'll look into it again...

[@hellrazor117]

Good thing I held onto my copy 🤑🤑🤑

[@jb0258jr]

It's insane how much a copy is, especially a complete one. I was lucky enough to find someone selling the cartridge by itself for $40 a few days ago. Jumped on that immediately and it'll be here tomorrow 😃

[@hellrazor117]

@@jb0258jr I have a full one On the top shelf with all my cool games Maybe one day I will give it to my son so he could buy a nice used Toyota lol

[@Greatnik]

ya, I always hated those random battles. I think FFXII got it perfect, that and kingdom hearts, those 2 combat systems just work perfectly for me.

[@Satadrian]

It actually reminds of really deep RPG's with no fucking around -.- Oh and fighting System is like in Lunar or Lufia...

[@dragonlord498]

have this game the story and characters to me are the only major plus.would've liked if it had better graphics. also apparently it is considered a glitchy game especial around mid to end part area of the game.

[@Forteoverload]

Note to self: get this game

[@secilu4lifeX]

the girl with the red hair reminds me of colin from codegeass

[@smiller2323]

Reupload?

[@CoachKussenVuist]

looks a lot like seiken dentsu is this game from squaresoft?

[@SsjSned]

this story sounds just like a manga called "Break Blade". main guy cant use magic but the rest of the world can. they use magic stones to cast magic and control mechs but he doesnt have the skill. they dig up a ancient mech from the old world and magic stones wont operate it but the main guy who dosent have magic can and its very powerfull. he also uses a big sword that has chips in it hence the name break blade. check it out. plus its gona get turned into a anime so keep a look out for it.

[@kaikai9201]

This game is ridiculously expensive. Needs a remake asap.

[@hellrazor117]

I ha e one

[@konataGAMERZ]

@laughingfurry still, the thing about the magicless dude is pretty funny

[@Talicus]

@PianoOnWheels You'd better name your son Kairu now!

[@darkdragonforever]

man if this was on the nes dragon quest and final fantasy probably would'nt exist today being killed by this lol

[@TheCommentGuy8]

was this game released in europe???

[@RazorBladezX]

Hmm its $30 on Gamefly I might snag it

[@MidBoss666]

A game such as this, which combines elements from several kickass 16-bit RPGS like Chrono Trigger or Final Fantasy VI just couldn't end up not awesome... too bad most of the newer, next-gen-spoiled players wont be able to appreciate it...

[@sweetstrawberry1995]

Seems to be a good game, but would anyone whether this game was released in Europe. It's been a while since I've played anything like this. I suppose I could buy chrono trigger but this game appeals a lot more to me.

[@popimpi]

That's fair enough to say you could care less abotu what it pertains to outside of the game, but I beleive there is fair amoutn of depth to the characters compared to a LOT of other games where ther is none. Just wondering then, (in a not at all negative way,) what makes a story interesting to you?

[@isy51]

true you are.. 8-bit dont look like that.. its 16 bit style ½

[@konataGAMERZ]

They should fear a powerful magical guy, not a magicless dude

[@REDGrimmm]

you read the manga? i'm only on book 5 lol

[@OverlordMercury]

I once bought a hack pack of games that cost me $60 it had this game in it but I could never get the game to work sadly.

[@Haseorunemanga]

isn't it 16 bit?