Fighting Game's Biggest Underdog

[@ghostlymilk13]

my pal didnt just cook, he made an entire feast for kings and queens

[@gxgycf8348]

So true hit gamer @ghostlymilk13

[@penzfgc8009]

So he cooked.

[@DeepestDankest]

I wasn't expecting a full on documentary about FB's history tracing it all the way back to Watanabe. I feel like Kamone's PR presence is too strong that everyone forgets about bossman Narita. Excellent work. Always did want to cover the UNI's concept and prototype stage ideas. Just as a side note: Rinne/Linne just flat out means reincarnation. It's the Japanese translation of the buddhist concept of Samsara. Chemeti is pronounced Shumeti, if Phonon's own pronunciation is to be believed. I miss mob boss Hilda's design SO much. UNICLR was even less than what you described, it had no story addition. It was JUST Lond's arcade mode.

[@scouthenry]

flashiest modern fighting game btw

[@scouthenry]

i mean that unironically

[@xinion412]

It truly is the most flashy fighting game out there (imo)

[@metis7534]

And we love and live for that. Live love Uni

[@GorillaMashingWagnerMain]

the only video essay i didnt use as background noise, my favorite french bread game is uni2 thats why im watching this

[@metis7534]

Had to pause the video because I needed to glaze Raito in the comments. This. Man. Is. So. GOOD. He put his heart and soul in the Under Night OST man. I found out about Uni1 while looking up random games on psnow, literally months before bbtag got announced so you can imagine my excitement when I saw Hyde show up when I was really just there for Yu Narukami + Ruby Rose since I wasn’t familiar with Blazblue. I’m really glad you made this video I’m hoping this series continues for a long time and floods the main stream. I’m really hoping for an anime or manga because the potential this series has is insane if handled correctly

[@baziworld]

Under night In-birth is basically far cousin of tsukihime/melty blood and fate series

[@Hondunu]

Yep.

[@Ukyoprime]

Not even THAT far of a cousin - Eltnum/Sion is in all 4 titles if you count Carnival Phantasm as a FATE property.

[@haku_68]

Dont have to, Sion is in Fate as Sion Eltnam Sokaris

[@baziworld]

​@@haku_68 well sion is part of nasuverse, so she exists in all of universes , it is just her life may be different depend on universe( and Eltnam is part of mage association , so she exists in all of universes , unlike characters like shirou or ciel who exists because some accident trigger their stories , but sion exists nontheless , because her family is part of who she is

[@-Fraud]

The French Bread culture in one video, amazing.

[@msyon.]

Truly one of the game studios

[@ScrappySensei]

Oh absolutely

[@someguywithabirdface2583]

French bread really inspired me to make a fighting game my own maybe 4-6 characters. Although i lack experience when comes to fighting game.

[@TAZERAT]

I'd help you but I also have zero experience, anyway best of luck pal👍

[@surrendering2within]

good luck have fun❤

[@EmaSkyeRealForensicScientist]

Me too! I’m aiming for around 10 characters on release.

[@gameboy6092]

9:30 School Days was developed by 0verflow, not âge. Drill Milky Punch is a Muv-Luv fangame, with a couple characters from Kimi ga Nozomu Eien, both made by âge

[@aa-id7li]

I would gladly have added an extra half hour of watching this to also have gotten more of the history of Melty and how it influenced French Bread and Melty.

[@nezumicake]

amazing video, i was already an Under Night super fan since before EVO 2019 but this video gave me an even bigger love for Under Night and everyone involved. thank you

[@Kon-PainLover-Masako]

“Long Live The Night” That sounds so raw to me. Anyway my fave French Bread is Under Sheets In Bed. But seriously, it’s Uniclr. Unexpectedly, I fell in love with Uni through BBTag of all things and made me check out all their supers and trying to guess who would be put into BBTag. After a few years for my birthday, a friend of mine, who is just a small streamer, gifted me an nintendo eshop code enough for uni2 and a month of NSO (I only have the switch as my main console as of this moment) and would make Uni my most fave fighting game that I like to play casually and spend some time in the lab. Uni has made a special place in my heart and I can’t wait to play Uni2 once I get it. Once again, Long Live The Night

[@thatonecaster6501]

3:38 that transition was godlike

[@Twisted_fgc]

Sent this vid to all my French Bread bros. Good vid, very thorough. Keep up the great work!

[@ScrappySensei]

Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for the assist

[@Mellophenomenal]

I've been a massive Type Moon fan for years and only over the pandemic got into fighting games. I fell in love with Melty Blood and have been super hyped for UNI2. This was a great video to understand just how special the UNI franchise is and a perfect way to spend the work day before UNI2 comes out officially

[@chaseyoung7693]

Undernight Zero had a STRONG story, they should have 100% struck to that

[@kevinb5417]

The problem with UNI's story is that it's more or less purely a visual novel. Making a story for a fighting game wherein there's no actual gameplay is a terrible decision. BlazBlue finds the perfect middle ground with a visual novel story accentuated by various instances of gameplay. UNI just.. makes you read. A lot. And even as a fan of manga and light novels, I think that was a terrible choice.

[@thesilentsociety3252]

Hope they rework it as a new story in the UNI universe since UNI2 is the end of the story.

[@GGenieFGC]

Great work! Love the in depth history of French Bread and some insight into the lore of the game. How they grew from just a couple dudes making doujin games to a full (albeit still small) studio with a super dedicated following is really inspiring. And that we're finally in the rollback era with UNI I really hope the game grows even bigger!

[@bangsailbest]

the intro is fucking insane, brought out the potential in the song that the game doesnt bring out, truly epic

[@wtf.is.this.new.alias.system]

French bread my beloved. Consostently creating my favourite fighting games. Wish melty TL had a comeback after rough launch.

[@SpeedStar1642]

And then the DLC got announced and Uzuki, Ogre, and Izumi are confirmed to be in the roster in that order.

[@ScrappySensei]

I was wondering about Uzuki, she was part of the script at one point before I cut it down. She was voted to be the next character to be added to UNI2 but I guess some people mattered more to the story.

[@jordantaylor4390]

One of my absolute favourite gaming moments was finding a used copy of Under Night In-birth: Exe Late and picking it up on impulse. Knew nothing about it was just spell bound. Great decision I think!

[@Len-rx78]

Under night always gave off the energy of like a fusion between melty blood and blaze blue

[@endermah5995]

Just got into UNI with the recent release, this helped give a lot of context to the game. Great Vid!

[@heavymetalmixer91]

Awesome video there. Not many talk about the history of French Bread and they need more fans than what they do right now.

[@MikhailMadnani]

Great video. Thanks for your work.

[@SolidusRay]

as someome who really loves key vns and passion project games like efz and air flight, it was awesome to see it accurately covered in unis history, ty scrap very edutaining video

[@technorobert535]

THIS NEEDS MORE ATTENTION

[@Sin606]

Didn't know I'd have all this info taught to me. I greatly appreciate it, sometimes the story behind the game makes it greater.

[@raydeh96]

Got an hour to kill before UNI2's release, perfect time to watch this

[@oldmanburly]

That original story is fire! Great video, learned a lot.

[@itisirandom]

This is a really great watch. Amazing job!

[@BBbreeze]

Really appreciated hearing the history of French Bread, just started getting into Undernight recently, so your video has been extremely informative! Thanks!

[@lrdalucardart]

The nostalgia trip... oh god never though I would ear anyone talk about Ragnarok offline in 2024

[@Lucess]

absolutely fucking IMMACULATE video and i loved every fucking second of it, amazing work dude. remember. Long Live the Night.

[@ScrappySensei]

Thanks dog, glad to see people enjoying the work

[@Lucess]

of course bro, you did great

[@LotsofLatte]

Thank you so much for spotlighting this little series' history with so much love and care. I remember finding exe:late before it released and finally being so excited about a new modern fighter, it reinvigorated my love for the genre, and it's now definitively up there as my favorite fighting game series with some of the greats like Marvel 3 and Melee. I genuinely think it belongs in the echelon of Third Strike in terms of its absolutely beautiful sprite-work and fantastic gameplay mechanics.

[@vendigear4700]

20:07 "Hyde should look more like a protagonist" Said the maker of RAGNA THE BLOODEDGE???

[@ScrappySensei]

Gets me every time

[@zazenbo]

I bought it yesterday and booted it up about 10 times. Can’t wait to finally play it

[@zazenbo]

that being said, Frenchbread games are still ahead of the rest by a large margin.

[@DandyRaytona]

Damn a whole hour? That’s what’s good, 10/10 content

[@omarmuhammad7546]

Nice video bro. I got into uni just recently it this video came at a good time. Didn't know much about French bread's history and I learned so much.

[@purplesauce827]

i got this game after just just getting interested in fighting games and i love it

[@cctz_1]

Ngl the scrapped UNI story and character sound way more appealing to me, what we got rn seems so generic. But to mori's credit there's a decent chance that added genericism helped it do better success-wise

[@StarforceCosmowave]

I just learn from this amazing community and I'm eager to see future videos / tournaments, great video sensei 🎉

[@ashun9792]

shoutout to you for making an amazing hour long retrospective

[@daehan8227]

This is some good content here. Might just make an iceberg for this series to show my appreciation and respect for the series

[@feartheolivebread]

I just platinumed Under-Night In-Birth last week on PS5. Now I'm working platinuming Melty Blood Type Lumina.

[@surrendering2within]

nice!

[@BlahNetworkBro]

Hour long under-night video essay!??! MY Nigga 👏🏾

[@Bakaudon]

Good work man

[@aegisreflector1239]

Thank you so much for shining light on one of my favorite underrated developers ever French Bread with their beautiful cheffs kiss 2D sprites

[@xbgsheikiii3593]

Thank you for bringing up the lore in this video, i desperately search a specific video about it and still couldn’t find one Im subscribing for the efforts hope to see more videos about uni in the future

[@NuageMH]

Holy shit I didn't know about the Maria-sama game, as a fan of the anime I feel like I must play it Thanks for making such an in-depth documentary :)

[@t_rev0351]

The title made me think of the Arcana Heart series. Under Night was been a main stage game at Evo, I think that disqualifies the series as being an underdog. I do like a lot of the under night characters and mechanics tho. Still waiting for Ryougi Shiki in the new melty blood.

[@EmaSkyeRealForensicScientist]

Arcana heart has some struggles due to its aesthetic not having a main stream appeal, (at least in the west.) All the characters are young girls and some of their designs come off as uncomfortably suggestive to some. (Take Mei-Fang for an example.) When all the characters have the same aesthetics it lowers your audience by a large margin. If there were a couple of magical girl aesthetic characters among with other characters with other appeals I think it could be solid because the gameplay itself is pretty solid (it could use some tuning though to help speed up gameplay.) Possibly if a fourth game released there could be a timeskip that could allow some of the more suggestive characters designs to dial themselves back, while also introducing some characters that feel more distinct, maybe some more villains. Possibly a full monster character instead of just whatever Pistrix is. I honestly hope that arcana heart 4 eventually comes out, but it does need some severe changes to get people to even look at it.

[@Meta9871]

Thank you for the excellent video man. A lot of research and editing must have went into this. I had a ton of fun learning about DFC by the way, game looks hilarious.

[@jekufo]

The close-up to the diamonds at around 14:02 got me like 😲

[@freshboy3968]

The foreshadowing of GRD

[@JustGusB]

This video got me hyped to play Uni2.

[@JosephRiveraSantiago0617]

People, please watch this! I speak for all of the UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH fans

[@cidlunius1076]

44:55 "Anime games have some of the worst naming conventions in fighting games." They refuse to keep it simple or make it something that you don't need 5 minutes of lore to understand why it's named that way.

[@surrendering2within]

i look forward to trying dangeki bunko & actress again. so far type lumina is my fave bc it’s all i’ve played by French B

[@tyw4405]

Great video! Favorite FB game will always be Type Lumina just for having saber in it, but Unist was my first one

[@Zedible]

Return of the king

[@thikdikriky1559]

Hoping this video blows up

[@zanzox]

Immediately subscribed to your channel! This video is great!!!!!

[@soulsurge6909]

Bro wtf. I would've been more invested in undernight zero.

[@peroxxide]

great video!

[@ichi_san]

this was a brilliant video thank you!

[@retroliar]

May this vid blow up

[@GramdalfFGC]

Long time Street Fighter player, I started playing UNI at the very end for something new, now i'm playing UNI 2 and in my humble opinon French bread make sick fighting games. People complain about modern fgs but Uni feels like the opposite to me, it feels like you are rewarded for execution and the grd system is so good. Weirdly as well, as a SF player, it doesn't feel too anime to me, yeah the characters are, i mean in the gameplay, it feels way more grounded than a lot of games. I love it. More people should play it

[@kinglogiic4603]

Awesome video man. Glad to know adult swim inspired others as it did for me someone in their mid 20s

[@monochromematrix464]

My biggest disappointment was that unknown actor wasn't the opening song😂. Great Video!

[@kenzonPower]

I love Type-Moon and French Bread

[@ElionMars]

"I don't know, I don't think ASCII is THAT big, right?" *Sees Kirito in the background* "Mmmm, my own words are delicious."

[@cameronsmith9562]

UNI is forever goated in my eyes. I absolutely love the games.

[@QuandaleDinkle]

I’m so happy UNI 2 got into EVO 2024. It was by far my favorite top 6 of that year.

[@riffcrypt8438]

Now this is how you make a fighting game documentary!

[@NDV6845]

I'll need some snacks for this one

[@ryujinnchair]

french bread's story is really inspiring! it almost makes me wanna make a game of my own... 😵‍💫

[@TheHermitZ]

this is great, thanks!!

[@DavidLe-i9e]

RBO fans, where you at? It blew my mind as a kid when I learned Frenchbread made UNI back in the day. Gotta love Raito's music.

[@MuhammadAli-xw4yc]

I wish I could thumb up this video a thousand million times, This is ULTRRRAAAA prime quality viewing experience.🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@rsnight2590]

Your voice is perfect for youtube

[@MuhammadAli-xw4yc]

I can't take it. This video is so good, dat I had to pause it to copy da URL into a youtube to mp4 site. Man the quality😍😍😍🤩

[@jadariewilliams]

Melty blood actress again is peak French bread

[@MorbyLol]

as someone who got into the fgc in like 2021-22ish its crazy to me that uni didnt come out in like 2019 or 2020

[@QwertYuiop-yt3uh]

Undernight goated franchise. Also if anyone can tell me what is the game the song is from for the udnernight zero section

[@jpVari]

Between sf6 and tekken I don't see myself getting to learn uni in depth but I'll be watching the shit out of it. Loved type lumina, these guys make beautiful games, absolutely so much fun.

[@Juth2003]

HOLY CRAP GLEAM OF FORCE MENTIONED

[@TotskuyaKurogane]

39:18 FREE BYAKUYA. HE AINT DO NOTHING MY BOI INNOCENT 😭

[@dj_koen1265]

That undernight zero story actually sounded pretty good Probably better than what we got maybe?

[@8-Frames]

I just bought UNI2 Sys:Celes but it's a shame that it has Day-1 problems on PC. Still, it looks awesome. This is an excellent video as well.

[@salmonella7993]

Ahh yes, my favorite game, Under Night In-"Burf" 😂

[@getinthering1548]

you didnt mention it, i only think of it because when i see this game i think of it LUL Juuni Taisen. 13 eps, assassin vs assassin battles in the tokyo night without any passersby. the game's background really make me think of that lil anime gem i let pass me by & rediscovered years later. 2010? forgot.

[@jasonngo1966]

I don't wanna be rude, but why does Juuni Taisen sound like a 50% discount Great Value! version of Jujutsu Kaisen you'd find in the Value Tv Shows section of Walmart? Once again, not trying to raff on Juuni Taisen, but the two titles weirdly sound similar.

[@goodie2shoes874]

Interview 2 went on forever

[@slatt_lvlup]

this vid is amazing

[@-nerdface-7924]

watching this as Uni 2 got onto the evo big stage

[@Hzul_]

awesome video

[@RiotAugust]

pop off dude

[@EXFalchion]

dengeki 2 is next!

[@ScrappySensei]

I wish so many new characters to add

[@kouhaiforhire]

Jesus Christ that was amazing.

[@Kartak965]

Nice video but persona 3 didn’t create the whole teenagers with super powers fighting at night in a pocket dimension , that is just a basic trope in urban fantasy specially in Japanese urban fantasy from the 2000s which was the golden age of chunni stories.

[@DigiCube4]

i..FUGGIN LOVE THE MUSIC OFF THIS GAME!!!!!!!! jfc the hype meter when certain songs play. even a novice like me starts beatin ass. it just HAPPENS!