What the HELL Happened to White Knight Chronicles?!

A Level-5 and Japan Studio franchise that disappeared over 8 years ago without notice. Will it come back? Let's find out what the hell happened to it.
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[@neilsdechamp]

This game is my favorite game of all. Played it everyday after school. Was in a guild where we were the top 5. #3. It’s amazing. Still have the game. Miss playing online :/

[@robdunnett1258]

Agreed. I forget the name of the guild I belonged to, but we ended as #2. I still play the whole story through a couple of times a year, even as Level 80 GR30. The polished game mechanics in the second game are far superior to those of the first.

[@yunie4296]

@@robdunnett1258 Ranked 2? Is your guild Light Hunters?

[@julianrangel2774]

They should make this game back to life for ps5 🥺😭

[@yunie4296]

@@julianrangel2774 Yeah I really miss playing the game with my guild.

[@Entrepid83]

@@julianrangel2774 A port to PC with re-opened MP servers might be able to resurrect it. It's definitely a fun game.

[@hutchservesgaming]

White Knight 3 if it was ever made, would be epic. With all the new tech that is around today. Gosh it would make me so happy if they were to ever make it

[@topazzz1546]

I would literally cry. idgaf.

[@hutchservesgaming]

@@topazzz1546 I would be crying with you

[@topazzz1546]

@@hutchservesgaming Worth it lol

[@drftr6073]

if xenoblade can absolutely thrive in today's market, so can wkc, had it's shortcomings been treated with care and it's story written and told better. It has magnificent design and music buried under lame and sluggish combat, god awful pacing and crippled by general early 2010s jrpg shenanigans (similar to ffxiii, literally all jrpgs suffered for some reason)

[@hutchservesgaming]

@@drftr6073 yeah the combat was janky but it didn’t feel completely horrible. The grind and the upgrade systems was amazing tho. And building your own town was just the best damn thing ever. Especially having materials you needed in them. I need it back

[@LoneKuroRaifu]

Don't know who you are, just glad someone else remembers it X)

[@WizelBalan]

All I want to do is play this game again on PS4 with the servers and all the unreleased content, I was and still am upset we never got our Avatar story quests which wrapped everything up. Hence every avatar I make on every game I play is named Wizel in honor of the great times I had.

[@matrex_.]

I feel Level 5 and Japan Studio could totally improve the franchise in today's gaming system; sadly, they probably won't

[@khmerbraveheart]

Loved this game... Best memories.

[@julianrangel2774]

Hell yeah it was 🙏

[@michaeledwards1644]

he said this game was not addictive?..i must of put 1000 hours into the online multiplayer mode questing for everything in the game

[@The_Destroyer16]

Ikr same here my name was Red Fang

[@Chrissers88]

For me it was all about the online on both games. I sank around 2000 hours on the first game, and made a really awesome friend. The first game felt better to play in the remaster included with WKC 2, WKC2 improved alot of features. I didn't sink nearly as much time into that one. It's a shame the servers died, and from the ending, it looked like we might have gotten a WKC3.

[@Lessonlearned00]

The way they ended it did look like we would get a wkc3😥

[@jb0258]

I bet we ended up doing quests together at some point lol. I put almost 1000 hours into the game and was ALWAYS online checking out different towns people made and going on quests. It was honestly the most fun online experience I ever had, even to this day. It honestly made me sad when the servers were shut down. Haven't been able to bring myself to replay the game in full since. Hoping for a remaster if the 2 games (or even just the first) so we can have the online back. I can only imagine how amazing a third game would be on ps4. Maybe one day....

[@Chrissers88]

@@jb0258 Haha yeah we might have done :) Yeah it helped me out of depression and I still chat with someone who I used to play with :D

[@matrex_.]

@@tommyjohnson7758 not just the level cap, but the gr cap was 50. the last quest (like the toughest one, similar to Upper Apex for EU) was one called True Knight, where you had to verse every single Knight without any breaks. It was the ending to the Avatar Story, which was another JP exclusive thing that focussed on the Avatar in the form of quests.

[@Chrissers88]

@@ichijofestival2576 Maybe we did! These days I don't play any online games, too much of a backlog, but I have fond memories. Shame it wasn't on PC and someone could have made a online server.

[@DeusVlad-qg5ni]

I'll tell you what happened, The company that made white knight chronicles 1 and 2, rudely scammed the consumer in their DLC then shutting down their servers and not refunding people for many bought DLC and then what happened was boom shutdown so people paying real life money upto even 200-1000$ on their guild and building it up and they stole their money as when they shut down their servers they took with it their purchased items in game. and prevents access from guild options which means you lose out on many quests and items that are on the disk but unnatainable without a guild which is the online mode of the game, they could of given it all to us in an update to say sorry for shutting down but they didn't, a lot of people protested against this by boycotting the company and its sales went down the shitter lol serves them righit they scamemd me of almost 300$ 2 months later they shut down I lost it all. No refunds

[@mr.h77799]

I thought both games were fun on the ps3

[@Nickzstuff]

About to head to class and one of my fav rpg youtubers puts a vid out! Gonna be a good day!!! Good stuff bro keep it up!

[@ErickLandonRPG]

Thank you.

[@jonp1952]

Honestly if you ask me, the reason the second game didn't sell as well was because the first game had a lot of issues. The second however was amazing imo. It fixed every problem I could have imagined from the first, and made it so much better. Monsters would hit you from miles away if they started their attack near you, guarding was almost pointless iirc, etc. There were just a lot of problems with the first that, while I did enjoy it, It also frustrated me due to these issues. I just think people were like "Nah, the first one had too many issues, I don't wanna go through that again on the second". The second was definitely MUCH more polished and much more amazing, including being able to have your own customizable Knight. I didn't really get that far in the online, but I still saw quite a few people who would play the online a long time after it's release. The people who did buy it continued playing it for a long time. Even today, White Knight Chronicles in my opinion was one of the best games I've played, at least, WKC2 International(because it had both 1 and 2 and fixed all the issues I had with the game). I even started over from the beginning on WKC2 just to play it from the beginning without all the issues the first had, and it was SO MUCH BETTER. If it had released with all the fixes from WKC2, I believe it'd definitely have sold a lot more.

[@God12322]

I have the white knight chronicles series an it's a underated gem which is sad

[@ErickLandonRPG]

Yeah, overlooked gems.

[@fivesevengaming7249]

This game series… oh my how much good memories it brings and a game I platinumed with flipping 800 hours of playtime (after finished FFXIII) and owning all 3 games. It was also time I got new laptop and internet to use for online gaming. Finding rare mats, guild quests, own Georama Building and online stuff. While many of the tracks were nice, I personally liked "Battlefield Flower" most. Still playing it time to time while hoping possible revival in the future. After WKC ended I was dragged into FFXIV...

[@ErickLandonRPG]

Yeah, it's a pretty good series. Too bad it's gone for good =(

[@bennybeck]

The multiplayer was the heart and soul of the game while everything else was kinda generic in comparison but there were a lot of cool concepts and things that could have been better, I hope the series comes back

[@ErickLandonRPG]

Yeah, it's not a series that stands out with originality, but it was good nonetheless.

[@velvetimpulse]

Man, this game was FUN. Fun like few JRPGs have been in the last decade. So fun in fact I overlooked a lot of its issues (specially with some of the combat bugs). I wish we would at least get a remaster :(

[@reyntime1950]

I think this game was a masterpiece. Despite it's flaws it was exactly what i wanted lvl5 & SE to make. Mmo lite with a preposterous amount of grind.

[@ErickLandonRPG]

Yeah, it was pretty good.

[@LuizGustavo-ib6sb]

"masterpiece" is a bit too much, you know...i love the 3 games, lost huge amount of time playing, but i always knew the games are bad, and its not a problem, because the fun is the most important thing about any game...and WKC is bad.

[@julianrangel2774]

@@LuizGustavo-ib6sb u were just not such a big fan of the game and that’s understandable 🤷🏽‍♂️ but i think it was a masterpiece 1 bc its very underrated and its not a huge company with big resources and yet they made a very well made game, that a first its wierd to get use to the mechanics but once u get the hang of it and explore and new wepons was amazing. This game had little details that made the game awsome not to mention from cool looking armors and even the sounds of them depending if wish how heavy it was changed and i loved that ( remember this is a ps3 game) It cant be compared with new modern games. And the comunity? Hell i think it was one of the best comunitys every one was so freindly idk man i loved this game and missed it 🥺

[@LuizGustavo-ib6sb]

@@julianrangel2774 "u were just not such a big fan of the game and that’s understandable" You probably didn't read my comment because i said i LOVE this game, the 3 ones (White Knight Chronicles 1, 2 and Origins for PSP). The fact that you and me like the game doesn't make it good or a masterpiece. Yes, its a PS3 game and can't be compared with today games, but even in the year the game was release was a bad game (compared with the other games in same time) with "PS2 full HD graphics like" and PS2 gameplay. The best thing about this game(1 and 2 actually) was the online mode + character customization with no class limitation + craft and georama. Some equipments in the game are very cool design, but most ones are the same with other colors or have shit design. The story is cliche and bad, gameplay is slow but ok, grind is IN-SA-NE! (Online ofc), but...I LOVE this shit game. Not a masterpiece. A average game with cool stuff, but its not good. 6/10. Level 5 made good games, WKC franchise is not one of them. Still like this crap

[@AikuraShardless]

Thanks for the video Erick, it's always really interesting to learn the background behind these less well-known franchises! I felt quite fortunate to pick up a copy of White Knight Chronicles: Origins on PSP recently - managed to find it in New Zealand which also got that limited PAL release. Something about it really appeals to me.

[@ErickLandonRPG]

No problem, man, thanks for watching!

[@pincopallino1135]

White knight chronicles was really good, I don't get the reception the second game received, it really gave a sense of continuity thanks to the remaster and the usage of the builds from the first game I didn't expect new gameplay from an jrpg, I expected a new story and the second game was a blast

[@reyntime1950]

Best fcn game ever. MMO light worked so well. Getting to pilot a knight was hard earned.

[@jb0258]

Back in 2011 I put over 100 hours into the first game, and three quarters of the time was me playing online after beating the story. It was my first true online experience since I never played an mom before. Man the different towns people made were amazing! It blew my mind with how much work was put into some of them. I could never get enough when it came to seeing different towns and doing quests with my friends. I tried getting into the 2nd game, but unfortunately I was busy playing dark souls 1 at the time of its release.... by the time I got around to playing the 2nd game, there was announcement of the servers being taken down... It was truly a sad day when the got shut down. Tried to replay the games again a couple years ago but without the online aspect I just wasn't staying interested in the game. It's truly an unfortunate thing because the online was so good. Hopefully someday the two games (and maybe the psp version?) Will be remastered and bring that sweet sweet online back. Heck, even a whole new 3rd entry would have tons of potential to be a success

[@SlygoneLive]

Of all the RPG games I Played on PS3 and PS4, White Knight Chronicles was by far my favorite game of all! Played it for over 2000 hours and I still miss it till this day. If they make a sequel or release it again on PS4/PS5 I’ll definitely be among the first people who buy it!

[@jonlandry3751]

I don't care what anybody says about this game!! I still play it offline to this day!! STILL LOVE IT!!!

[@chickletsushi2761]

Cries. You too? Let's be friends.

[@jonlandry3751]

I was an axe/ longsword player..and yourself?

[@chickletsushi2761]

@@jonlandry3751 I was only an Axe player :p I used my skill points for status enhancement here and there in every skill, but only focused on the Axe skills for combat.

[@jonlandry3751]

Once the servers went down I had to rebirth so that I was able to solo certain quests with the spear

[@LuizGustavo-ib6sb]

Same. Trying to platinum both games, but still playing the first. Spear to solo everything in the first and Axe/Bow in the second

[@trikkycane1638]

A remastered version can put this game back on the map I'm just saying

[@ShinKamaitachi]

Sony doesn't care they're more focused on censoring every game that gets released out of Japan, or releasing woke content that nobody wants. Also Sony already killed up Japan studios and yeah.

[@Jeganthry420]

I loved this game. I made a lot of friends playing this game online. This game was greatly underappreciated. I remember being online questing with my friends when that dreadful moment happened with the servers shutting down. I just hit gr 28 and maxed out the luxbringer long sword and came really close to maxing out both spectral and gilded armor sets. A sad day indeed.

[@Lessonlearned00]

I put 3685 hours into this game. I knew ppl i could 2 man 6 person quests with or do chaotic an kill all bosses minus knights arua..we were gods- Soulise, streghtre, s.o.b xiii, justice, evalyn & more all +20 armors an true, madoras an lux weapons no mods lol although i personally knew ppl who had them...an the grind was the best part...going from trash to godhood....made it all worth it...then helping newcomers...*sigh* good times😥

[@julianrangel2774]

Feel you pain man 🥺

[@lordlank2099]

I played both of the ones on the ps3 and loved them both. To this day it is my favorite video game franchise of all time. I just wish Sony never gave up on it. RIP White Knight Chronicles 😢😢😢

[@tomjohnson5276]

Definitely I remember I found the second game a few days after beating the first Game had something about It i loved I miss it, wish there was a ps4 remaster-remaster

[@lordlank2099]

@@tomjohnson5276 I agree. This series was just so fun that to us fans, it was more than just devastating when the servers where shut down. I am staying optimistic on a possible White Knight Chronicles comeback even though it probably won't happen.

[@robinhoekstra3079]

I've played Wkc2 around 850 hours, while my dad managed to get 1000+ hours and platinum trophy on both Wkc 1 and 2! I'd wish for my dad that there will ever get a game like this released again, great story, not too fast paced fighting system and lots and lots of grinding! When I got my own PS3 back then, I went and join the guild where my dad was in (don't remember the name) and we had so much fun there! Such a nice community, lots of talking, questing and farming together! I have such precious memories of these games

[@JigglyBooties]

Loved this game too. Still have it. Maybe I'll do another playthrough sometime

[@kevinarmitage6114]

A great game, under appreciated!! Love this game and played it till the end

[@FearlessCaper1]

false the game didnt do poorly in japan the wk2 did poorly in EU and NA because it didnt have all the levels as Japan had. Level 5 screwed us.

[@pockystyx4087]

still needs a remaster of 1 & 2 on the PS5/PC.

[@thehylianlegion9714]

White Knight Chronicles 2 had DLC that the developers kept locked in Japan which alot of people outside of the region didn't liked . I personnally grinded like crazy to prepare for the content to be released, but not only did they NOT unlock it, but they shut down the servers . there was to be more online quests, raids, and there was word of a new story for the created character..

[@saraxis1280]

i used to skip school to play this game all day i miss it :/

[@GetLostGames1]

I played this game everyday. Thousands of hours. June 18 was a sad day. I got my true king sword to +7. I miss this game so much

[@robdunnett1258]

Not sure about you, but I spent that last day of June 18, 2013, going from Georama to Georama of my friends, saying goodbye, and doing the odd quest. I even named my Georama Tim Hortons, so that the Canadian players knew what it was. LOL

[@GetLostGames1]

@@robdunnett1258 haha. What was the names of like the two main community farming towns? I forget. Everyone went to the same two towns lol. Man i miss that game. I had around 26k hours playing between one and two. Everyone tells me to get xenogears to fill that void but im not sure. I have a colored chart of velgander still on my ohone and a pic of my character and his stats. I was in the KnightWolves guild as lostboyryan. I bet we may even played together. I would pay anything for that game to go back online.

[@astaroth99]

I've played all of these games, I didn't know it was a failure, but I grew, made friends, made a community which we saw the shutting down of the live servers together, even gathered and cheered and took screenshots together on the day of closure. THIS game lead me into FFXIV which I still play today. The geomancy town design SHOULD have been implmented for NNK2 Revenent Kingdom with his Kingdom building mecachinc to be able to build and explore your very own kingdom, with it's own buffs party links being effected with who was assigned where and what field they where good in. Overall tthe avatar as you was great, and impacted the story I though and had a wide way of side quest and trophies to grind for with friends. I so wany Level 5 to revisit this world, and build and take it forward, because at the end there's so much of it's history left to discover. The OST is one of my favs even the party make up I'm found of, a true forgotten gem

[@alvercaine8893]

while i like the gameplay, the charater and village creation, and the customisable avatar knight (my only escaflowne fix ever with vanguards bandits) the story was uber shit and the cast totally incompetent. it was nerve wracking to see them destroy in every cutscenes the work i did in 4hours of tedious dungeons. (the princess gets abducted like what, 4 times?)

[@dickgori2623]

Your princess is in another castle

[@SeventhheavenDK]

Yes, the Princess multiple abductions was just well...stupid.

[@lyuris277]

i hate how all my favourite games never get love :'D Paper Mario (1 and 2), White Knight Chronicles and Grandia are 3 of my favourite RPG's, and i hate what happened to them. :(

[@draiken88]

It would be amazing if they made a new one or like a spiritual successor to this game. The whole story was awesome in my opinion

[@Onecelestialking]

There’s private demon souls why can’t we make private server for white knight chronicles I don’t get it

[@altyriaalty8756]

it's not that the game was not accepted well, it's that the people implimented mods and cheat codes, that made level 5 shut the servers down. also, i had many friends who played the game with me. to me it's the best online rpg to have taken part in. we had guilds in wkc2 and at one point my guild was ranked number 3. so despite what people say, to me and my friends these games were very fun.

[@Capostrophy]

It wasn't the modders that killed it, it was conflict with WKC2 being dropped by Sony America (US Sony publisher) during loaclization and being picked up by D3. D3 didn't want to localize updates (the end of the online story) while not making the return of investment they had hoped for. It all turned into a headache for Sony, so they just killed the US and UK servers 16 mo after release with the Japan one to follow a year afterward. It was a huge slap to the face of the online community and I still don't buy Sony stuff to this day.

[@thedeadman4481]

I hold hope for an eventual improved continuation of this game. I loved the fact that you are the side character watching and helping the main character grow.

[@thelegendaryzoltan9628]

Thanks fnr the link in the description, man! The people in this comment section, including me, are the ONLY people that like White Knight Chronicles. Hahaha. I just recently started a new game where I'm gonna go for that 1000-hour platinum!

[@ErickLandonRPG]

No problem, dude, I hope you get more patrons soon!

[@LuizGustavo-ib6sb]

Same! Too bad the online was gone and we cant play together for the platinum LOL

[@otherprisma7354]

Well, I didn't know White Knight Chronicles 2 has the first game remastered on it! What a deal!

[@ParagonOlsen]

These games were a fairly big part of my childhood. Don't know exactly why they resonated with me, but they sure did.

[@michaeledwards1644]

the midevil aspect with the questing with other people grinding for epic items.. was much better than World of Warcraft or CPU bs..

[@Orinmaxden]

I loved WKC and i loved Building my own town and visiting other peoples towns. But WKC 2 was just going backwards through the same world map.

[@TheGoldenPS1]

The Legend of Dragoon, Alundra, Dual Hearts, Dark Cloud, Rogue Galaxy, White Knight Chronicles, Kingdom of Paradise, Legend of Legaia, Wild Arms series. Sony can't catch a break with RPGs. When will it stop and aim high for quality?

[@Lessonlearned00]

Legend of dragoon was good, wild arms 2 was good an wkc2 was phenomenal an my first mmo rpg so...it had/has major sentimental value

[@st4r444]

The character creation was so good Problems: -online shutdown no local host -repetitive sp grind -06 trailer was a lie

[@Raximus3000]

Try merciless grind on EVERYTHING!

[@ArtumTsumia]

@@Raximus3000 Probably one of the few games where I spent hours grinding just to _save_ time. Grinded out all my rebirths back-to-back so I wouldn't waste time with the intermediate leveling progress slowing down my progression. Cool idea but the grinding...

[@reyntime1950]

Local hosting update before geonet went offline would have been awesome.

[@LuizGustavo-ib6sb]

Yes. If the game had some local online, even if was only with your added friends would solve most problems with boring INSANE grind

[@gabrielcarvajal66]

Is there the possibility that something similar to White Knight Chronicles return?

[@JJBCrimsonKnight]

WKCs servers shutting down was the reason I got into FFXIV. The beta for 2.0 come out shortly after the servers shut down.

[@retiredlegendaryroleplayer5613]

I platniumed WKC1 and 2. It was one of my first online mmo style games. It's a shame there was so much locked content we never got on disk...

[@kencasteel1428]

Not sure how this 5 year old video ended up in my feed, but it made me blow the dust off my ps3 and play wkc2 again

[@RedMageGaming]

I LOVE this game, I wish they would remake it. Add a little polish here and there, but don't be too drastic with the changes. It's a solid game, and subverts your expectations from the beginning. I laughed so hard after spending over an hour creating my character, to find out I wasnt even the main character. Just someone along for the ride. lol

[@AniShikima]

Awesome! I was able to locate a copy of 2 with the updated copy of 1, I will now dust off the PS3 to give it a try!

[@ArtumTsumia]

Both individually are relatively short games, so treat the whole package as a single game and hopefully it'll be an enjoyable experience. The sequel uses a lot of content from the first game, so it's more like continuing your quest than a brand new game.

[@AniShikima]

@@ArtumTsumia thank you for the extra info :)

[@megakoni1]

I played the hell out of white knight chronicles 2 (with the first game remastered included, i havent played it before so it feels like 1 game to me). First i only bought it for the story mode. The story was kinda cool and i really liked the gameplay with these knight transformation. And also the music. But then the only multiplayer kinde got me really hooked like no other online game. You could play all the missions with other people and can unlock so much more content such as weapons and armors etc. I was in a guild which was almost always in the top 10. I also platinumed the game after like 700 hours of playtime. I don't think i have ever put so many hours into 1 single game. I really miss this game now that all servers are down. I only started to play it 1 year before they shut down (i think 2012). It was a short lifespan

[@gurr1264]

Online grind was to much of a chore in WNC.

[@innerpapacubecube2817]

I had just recently bought this and can't wait to try it myself.

[@SeventhheavenDK]

I still have my copy of WK2 (so I have both games in one), and I still enjoy very much. The story can be very cliché, but I still like it. My problem was that the first game was just too easy that sometimes I got bored. But the nww balance that WKC2 brought to the first game (and obviously to the second) totally saved the game for me. Sadly I think it was too late.

[@galacticknight55544]

This game had amazing concepts, but was very poorly executed. It's too late for there to be a WKC 3, but someone might make a new, better-executed game with similar concepts. That game would be a hit.

[@matthewbarnett34]

I loved this game so much I played it for 3-4+ years and I played nothing else, all my friends loved reading my Blogs and had the nickname Angel (looked like one) ran with Axe/Bow support. 😁

[@Maester0]

I love this game because of the story and soundtrack

[@Kingronthegreat]

Loved this game, and the concept of Arks and Knights

[@courtesymusick]

I didn’t realize it had this issue while playing I felt like it was the best game for that year and seems to did well everyone I met enjoyed it which comes to such a surprise that it fails this whole time.

[@thEundiying]

I remember playing this because the the cover caught my eye and i was hooked until my ps3 died with YLOD back then, really miss it.

[@saylers20]

Nintendo should pick this one up, it will do great on the switch.

[@hugoleonardo5536]

It was the first game I bought with the ps3, I realy liked, they could make the knights battle more complex, but it was good

[@ErickLandonRPG]

Yeah, nothing outstanding but good nonetheless.

[@jadeusdragias]

I really want a remaster on current gen.

[@PSNMyfoot]

I would buy a Switch port in a heartbeat. It was just ok offline, but online was a lot of fun. I would do it all over again.

[@Lessonlearned00]

Agreed

[@sebastianmartinez1843]

Is Sony Ip

[@Xedhadeaus]

Played white knight 2 Yeah... I tried to grind the guild rank up enough to hit level 80 without losing my mind... I got close, and ran out of gas. I love the crafting system and the weight system. But by god the ai and online quests are not balanced to be played solo, you will draw aggro immediately and get stomped. I love the game though, so gorgeous. I wish sony didn't have anything to do with it though, because they already have brilliant games like legend of dragoon and maybe even hexyz force that they'll probably never even look at again. I wish they didn't rip everything off the store too, can't even get the character change ticket, or use the npc hairstyles.

[@LuizGustavo-ib6sb]

The grind is really insane and for solo everything and platinum the game is a nightmare, but possible. Just use the triad Axe/Bow/Staff-Magic. Axe+Bow can solo most things

[@Mitaiii]

I'm glad to know the reason why the servers got terminated, and it's disappointing to hear about the games success. I've made so many good friends on here that I will never see again from online, it's sad :'( Thank you for the video good sir.

[@DynoSkrimisher]

If this game came back with a full action combat system, then hella yes!

[@sageky]

Combat-wise, i enjoyed the game, but part 2 was kinda lame. "Backtrack chronicles 2" is what we nicknamed it, since the story campaign just revisits a good chunk of places from part 1.

[@ErickLandonRPG]

Really? I won't expect too much of it then.

[@alvercaine8893]

@@ErickLandonRPG the only "carrot" you get is that your avatar get his knight (customisable too) BUT only before the last mission of the game. with the online out most of the content is barred behind 2000/3000h of offline grind. look at the excellent screenshot lp of "Nine gear crow", no one got so deep in this game than this guy.

[@HeyhoBrando]

This was such a underrated game in my mind and I still remember to this day when I bought the international edition my brother used the code inside to play online on his ps3 and I was pissed because I had to pay 5 dollars for a key. And this game was the first I ever dabbled in buying stuff (other then cod map packs) If this game was ever got a release or a remake this would be amazing. I know in today you can play the first game on ps5 on the premium edition but only the first game. So as much as I wanna play the game again, that’s the only reason I’m Not.

[@ShinKamaitachi]

I don't get why D3 kept on making excuses on why they couldn't really certain patches because it's all just BS excuse like it's only released for Japan, but the whole game is Japanese. We never got the Avatar stories mode in game because it was only meant for Japanese audiences, but that was a lie. They could at least just tell everyone that they're lazy, and they couldn't just f****** do it.

[@TwinTurboZach]

Dude Im still wondering what happened to dark cloud. That game was by far my favorite childhood game...

[@SpiderShrimpGaming]

White Knight Chronicles I and II was a really fun and good game. I played over 500+ hours in the game. I also played the entire game armorless and also another play through without using skills points. Too bad the servers shutdown so early. :(

[@itzonionknight405]

I playd this game for over 2000 hrs. It was awesome!! Sadly my litle brother broke my disc and i couldnt find any stores that still sold a copy.. when i finaly found a "used copy" i was told the severs were going to be shut down in less then 5 days. That really broke my heart. Was one of the best times i had to date

[@XDarkEcho]

This game was a diamond in the rough, unforgettable and a fun online mode. If they were to release another one, it'd probably be better off as MMO. I would love to see a another company pick it up, or make a spiritual successor, but probably not likely.

[@julianrangel2774]

This game was by far my favorite game of all time 3-4 years of none stop playing and more then 5k hours of play time 😭 i miss this game so much 😭 the only problem that this game had was 2. 1.the exclusiveness of content between regions ( japan had more story line and more dongeon, more armors, than us here in US) 2. The fact that they didn’t had away to gain profit 🤷🏽‍♂️ what i mean by this is that back then the only way they thought of making money of a game was by selling lots of copies of the game now it doesn’t have to be like that hell now a day the best profitable games are free to play game... look at fornite... so yeah. I think they should have a try at the game again and make more content and have like battle pass or something to gain out of it so they can make more content for us to play. The game was amazing and yes it had a slow start but it was a guaranteed that when you started playing online you were going to get hooked with the game. The community it had was so friendly and 0 toxicity... and the flexibility of low players to play on quests with stronger players was amazing. This game was so much fun. Cool armors designs, cool wepons etc

[@ExtraordinaryBoris]

Imagine White Knights 3 with crossplay among all platforms v.v

[@edaphus]

A large part of what happened is that D3 fucked the western playerbase over.

[@Tython82]

While I loved the games I felt the grind was to much since the drop rates were so low.

[@reyntime1950]

I remember raging about farming for week for some rare drop... Flimflam253 or something. I never found it lol. Still, i love this game.

[@LuizGustavo-ib6sb]

YES! The grind are total bullshit! So much waste of time...still, i love the game haha

[@ArtumTsumia]

While I rather enjoyed the gameplay of _White Knight Chronicles_ (even getting the platinum trophy on the sequel), there was quite a bit to complain about for the series. I recall one of my biggest problems with the sequel being the fact that aside from the story, it reused everything from the first game and pretty much only had new content at the very beginning and end of the game. Understanding that, the fact that the entire first game is "remastered" is more a testament of how much content they reused. Still, it was a rather interesting way to do a sequel. I don't recall how a "fresh" game worked with the sequel, but pretty much (if not) everything could be carried over from the first game; doubling the level cap (40 to 80 as I recall) and also gave you a free respec if you wanted. This made it feel much more like a direct sequel (in a good way) compared with other series where they'll reset your character for one reason or another. Overall, like much of Level 5's stuff, it's probably a game that works a lot better on paper. Underneath the grindy and slow combat, there were all sorts of good game ideas, and the skill tree system is probably one of my favorites, even if it ends up largely forgettable as a result of the game it's in.

[@alvercaine8893]

"free respec" which level 5 selled on the psn otherwise, as well with the color pallets for knights....

[@thedreambirds]

its really upsetting to me looking back on this game looking into it online for the first time ever since my childhood since i remember doing the online as a little kid and loving the games story with White Knight Chronicles II being one of my favorite games from my childhood. I Love this game and miss it. I wanna play it again I still have my copy of II which obviously has I included and it was probably the game I spent the most time on on the ps3. But sadly I do not own a ps3 anymore I lost it to old "Friends" :) so I can't.

[@DK_Son]

I loved this game. I played through the first one like 20+ times. It was like Dark Souls. It had replay value. So while it was short-ish, you could play through it heaps of times. It was a little grindy, but a heck of a lot of fun. So it didn't feel grindy until much later on. Honestly, games that drag on (Dark Souls, Skyrim, Fallout, etc) can become too overwhelming and time-consuming. I find myself stopping after some days/weeks into these big games. I just get worn out.

[@travakes34m34]

I am sorry but the game to me was wonderful i loved it i met friends on that game that i am still friends with today 10 yrs later it was my very first online game i ever played so for it holds a very special place in my heart. I will always stand tall for WKC even now in Ff14 name of my FC is WkC!!! WKC fan FOREVER!!!

[@MK-od9tm]

It was and always will be the best online rpg ever...so many good memories...too bad they ruined the game by not giving us the dlc...its sad that all of it is lost in time...

[@LVL5esper]

Honestly if you just take a look at the original WKC game you can tell that it was rushed out. Most of the JRPGs that were set to be part of the PS3's early line ups were busts even FFXIII was a bust, not in sales, but in overall gamer reviews. XIII-2 had half the sales of XIII. End of Eternity(Resonance of Fate) which looked so promising but it too failed. WKC's gameplay was clunky, slow, and buggy if you played the main campaign. The online portion with party members alleviated that slow gameplay and that is where the fun is. Its also bad that their original teaser looked SO BEAUTIFUL but the actual game looked nothing like that with subpar character model visuals. The map looked so different from that teaser, it was beautiful but the actual game's was ugly. Same with the animated 3d models in the menu screen for that teaser and the actual game was just ugly stills of the character's face. Along side a beautiful op trailer movie that looked so promising, but the actual op video in the game looked nothing like it too. Theres a lot that went wrong with wkc. I think the single player mode suffered due to the online portion. The biggest reason was most likely that wkc didnt have an identity. Is it a standalone single player game? Or is it a hybrid mmo? Because I felt it was neither of those 2. The goal for the online portion was to just get stronger gear. The single player campaign was unfinished. The game didnt know what it wanted to be. The avatar was introduced later after the original teasers but played no actual role that was most likely the start of the problem, the online aspect of the game. Also if you look back at the original trailers/teasers. Caesar was missing from all major cutscenes. Most of them only ever featured Leonard, Yulie, and Eldore. They didnt even update the escape cutscene from the final battle's island to include Kara, Caesar, and Cisna boarding the ship, it was the same scene from the original movie trailer with just Leonard, Yulie, and Eldore. The main story was half assed too. There was no mystery that the player couldnt see coming because hints were dropped everywhere and the characters all figure out the antagonist's plans beforehand too. In WKC2 it gets worse, turns out every major plot character knew the mystery of the giant knights. Then for some reason a visit to Dark Cloud's time traveling and the Big Tree dude shows up too and is still a zelda knock off. This cements that the story had no direction. I can even come up with better ideas with just 10mins of brainstorming. I loved this game. I was hyped for it. I LOVE Level5. The end product of WKC though......was an identity crisis.

[@ebonwings1313]

My favorite RPG of all time, still play it to this day

[@funinabun298]

Just started streaming this game from psnow. Missed this game.

[@Taikaru]

What a shame! I really enjoyed White Knight Chronicles and was looking forward to the sequel, but maybe due to life getting busy and having less time for games, never ended up picking up WKC2. Maybe I was part of the problem. I'm sorry... Edit: But it does sound like maybe an undue focus on multiplayer hurt it, when gamers were hungry for single-player epics.

[@ErickLandonRPG]

Nobody's part of the problem. Sony's just too lazy to properly market and develop certain games, that's all.

[@jwarendsen]

The version of White Knight Chronicles II on Playstation Now seems to be the 'directors cut' version. It also appears up-scaled and up-ressed compared to my PS3 copy. I've put 2 mins of footage up at kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5LVl3qBmJuKosU

[@kaosapprentice]

I clocked 5k hours between 1 & 2, i even imported the jpn version to play the avatar quest line because they didn't localize it such a shame

[@dailybugle2147]

I loved this game. Only gripe I had was how ur character might as well not have existed.

[@Biz_God]

Actually was an adult by the time I played white knight chronicle

[@yamamancha]

I still miss this game.

[@julianrangel2774]

Im so sad you didn’t had the chance to play the multiplayer if the game that was were the beauty of this game was ❤️ favorite game of all times i miss this game so much 😭

[@SerithValComnion]

I really enjoyed the first one. When i saw that the second one was coming out i was actually excited and then i got to pay it and was disappoint right out of the gate. The sight change to the battle system immediately made the game seem slightly off, party members were missing, and that early forest segment just dragged on and on. The part of both games that bothered me is that it didn't matter how far you were from an enemy, they could still hit you with their attacks.

[@Ydla]

God I loved this game. It was my FF14 lite (pre rebirth) back in the day. :') i really wish they release a dlc for the other teased knights especiall the female one (forgot her name) my fb group was so hyped for it to learn just a month layer that servers will be shutting down. :( If only someone can host a private server, I'd jump back to this game in a heartbeat.

[@ErickLandonRPG]

I never got the chance to play it online, but it sounds like a lot of people had a blast.

[@ShxpxRok]

the game wasnn't addictive I remmeber duo hunting the rare bosses with an old friend it was so awesome...

[@freddytrips]

Al_bundys' town had an impossible obstacle course.