Final Fantasy IV, The Last Guardian, Ghostwire & More! - Games I've Been Playing - Tarks Gauntlet

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From RPGs, to adventure games and 3 different flavors of horror, todays episode of "Games I've Been Playing" shows once again that no one genre will ever hold my entire interest.
When I first made this video more of the game companies that made these games still existed...
00:00 - Shilling
01:15 - Final Fantasy IV PSP
04:53 - The Last Guardian
08:17 - Ghostwire Tokyo
11:05 - MADiSON
13:35 - No One Lives Under the Lighthouse
15:55 - Outro
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[@cw6132]

Great content dude! Thanks for sharing your thoughts on these games and bringing it to new audience.

[@ArbiterLibera]

PSP version of FF4 specifically has the Interlude as well. For what it may be worth.

[@user-vm7ny8xg2u]

Always good to hear from you! I’ve started playing Loop8 and am having a pretty good time with it so far. It’s like a little puzzle box that I can’t put down.

[@rifway22]

The Last Guardian is my favourite game of all time

[@potatopower2144]

That game REALLY needs an option to play at higher framerates on PS5

[@TarksGauntlet]

The Last Guardian had some wonky updates and patch history, but I believe (Don't quote me) if you never install updates for it on PS5 it should run in 60fps. But there's potential for the game to crash (Maybe even be unbeatable) without the patch that knocks it back to a locked 30fps.

[@HybridAngelZero]

I've been on a pretty big retro RPGs kick lately! I've finished Earthbound and Link's Awakening DX on NSO for Switch, and I've been replaying Final Fantasy VII (PSone) a lot of the middle parts of the game I haven't seen since I was a kid, and I've been appreciating so much about it in both story and game design. I've also been working through Breath of Fire III, another childhood fave, but mybold disc was so screatched up I couldn't finish the game, but I finally got a working copy a while back, and I started Tales of the Abyss, which has been sitting in my backlog far too long

[@Fast_Travel_Gamer]

Algorithm! I've been playing through Yakuza 3 on PS5, Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky on PSP, and just started Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown on Switch. They are all incredible, just like the algorithm that suggests Tarks Gauntlet to people.

[@S_Hyde]

Sekiro is kicking my ass. While XC3 Future Redeemed kicked my heart.

[@vicdaman]

Tarks Gauntlet upload!? I’m sitting my ass down and listening! Also glad to see how big a fan of The Lighthouse you are. It is also one of my favorite movies. I love all e of Egger’s films and can’t wait for Nosferatu

[@Official_RetroMania]

Some really good titles! I hope you will enjoy them!

[@devin8367]

After playing through endless ocean luminous, I've been going through games I've had in the backlog. First I played through valkyrie profile, which while a little confusing to get ending A, I absolutely loved it. I'm working on that mass effect trilogy now, still in ME1, but it's super engaging rn

[@Geno746]

Id reccomend Lost in Vivo for people looking for a good horror game. Very much Silent Hill inspired with exploring a kinda gross abandoned area with creepy unsettling atmosphere.

[@tjgii1207]

Tark! Youre back!!!🎉 Heres some sugar for you

[@Fast_Travel_Gamer]

I made it roughly 11 minutes into Ghostwire Tokyo and realized in the first 30 seconds that it wasn't for me.

[@TarksGauntlet]

I'm very stubborn sometimes.

[@HyouVizer]

The story kinda meh, open world collectathon bullshit, but gameplay is decent fps. Oddly enough it looks like ass on XB Series X but on PS5 far superior graphics and framerate. It's like the devs just did it for Xbox one dev kit and called it a day labeling it "XB X|S" when it definitely isnt lol.

[@Geno746]

Im currently going through Sea of Stars. Im not super far into it but its just a really fun turn based rpg. Ive played alot of Last Guardian but for whatever reason just never finished it. I remember leaving off on a part about these pots with an aroma or something but had issues doing what i was supposed to and just quitting.

[@SakuragiRed]

I felt the same about ghostwire, I just enjoyed the side quest the most since they felt like I was doing something since the main story was meh.

[@StewNWT]

FFIV is the best, my favourite game of all time - I wish you were playing the original SNES version though

[@helenFX]

weirdly i loved ghostwire but i seem almost alone in that. i really enjoyed the virtual tourism aspect and reading about all the mythology in the game

[@helenFX]

and, of course, i am a major graphics snob that was all over the ray tracing on the pc version 😀

[@TarksGauntlet]

The PS5 version has a ray tracing option too, which of course looked great, but as you can expect knocked the FPS down considerably so I just settled without it. The baked lighting still looked good, just not AS good.

[@hellblazerjj]

Love you Tark. You're the best. And the best dad.

[@TheRobastrana]

Hai tarks, do you know nanashi no game/the nameless game? If not, it's a (fan translated) weird horror game for the Nintendo Ds that you might like.

[@RikusonOne]

Platinum'd Sly 1 for the third time and I've started playing Daxter that's been fun. Until i got my hands on another certain game now nothing matters until that's done Was this this your first time playing FF4?

[@TarksGauntlet]

First time finished FF4 I played it 2 other times in my life and made it most of the way through the second time, but I was a teen then playing on an emulator. It's been a long time

[@KramerJones]

Just been playing Mario party with the fellas lately

[@TarksGauntlet]

Based tbh. Enjoy the vibes dude!

[@shadowmaksim]

"The Last Guardian" To this day, I still don't know if I enjoyed it or not. I like the ideas, the atmosphere, and just the wonder of the setting. But actually playing it...yea-no. I haven't gotten so frustrated with a game since, funnily, doing the Hard Mode Time Trials for the PS3 version of "Shadow of the Colossus, the one with burked physics causing Wander to stumble constantly. "Ghostwire Tokyo" I still feel like I want to play this, especially in lieu of Tango Gameworks closing, but I just can't bring myself to. It gives me the exact same vibes as "The Evil Within" did. As silly as it sounds, I have some real scars of insecurity due to how much flak and ridicule I ended up getting for liking that game at the time, it scares me off from even bothering with this one. "No One Lives Under the Lighthouse" I've never played it but I did watch an analysis review of it by Pastra. It definitely seems like an interesting time. Very much a sort of experience you let gradually soak in.

[@TarksGauntlet]

I really liked Evil Within 1 (More than its sequel even) It's a shame it didn't get much love at launch, but it's a game I think people will look back on more fondly over time.

[@jasonjackson216]

2nd channel link returns 404 bro

[@thezeddy]

Works for me

[@TarksGauntlet]

KZbin is doing you a favor. (I'll look into it, thanks!)

[@thezeddy]

I take back my compliments from last video...weeb ❤

[@Punkqurupeco]

While I love FF4's characters I also don't think it's one of the best, the story is too short and the whole game feels like a giant cut-scene with the exception of the 2/3 bosses that actually require some thinking, HOWEVER The after Years is where the good stuff is at, I know a lot of people like to criticize the afters years as just a repeat of FF4 and maybe it is on a superficial level but The after years is much MUCH more than just a repeat, it enhances the gameplay aspect with QoL and it rewards exploration with better collectibles, it ramps up the difficulty of nearly every zone in the game making it harder to breeze through the game by just pressing A like in classic FF4, it introduces the combined attacks and lunar cicle mechanics, the bosses both new and old returning ones also get more HP which makes their unique mechanics actually relevant and harder to cheese with spells like Bio or Kain's Jump and the new characters are just as charming as the original cast and also enhance said original cast, all in all The After Years is easily Top 3 Classic Final Fantasy A side note: Good to see everything's goin well hope you can find a good balance between your family, work and this channel, cheers

[@user-dg7st6io1c]

Game I've been playing? Hum.. ...🤔 Silent Hope. ( Repetitive but kinda addictive ) Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord ( You WILL rot blood ) Stranger from Paradise ( God this suck I didn't even finished it ... Go on people... throw me rocks😶) Monster Menu: The Scavenger's Cookbook ( it's bad. ) Trinity Trigger ( I was very disappointed ) Kuro no kiseki 2 ( It's amazing and addictive like freakin' cocaine ... oh Gods Kai no kiseki in September? Please stop Falcom ... No don't stop ...yes stop! NO DON'T Hook theses games in my VEINS! ) ( I think I need a Therapy )

[@TarksGauntlet]

I've heard silent hope was quite a surprise hit for some people. Trinity trigger is divisive to say the least. It's a Furyu game I believe, so I kind of expect some questionable design. Still want to try it myself someday though. I like how much it looks like a 3DS game.

[@goldensyrupgamingshow2978]

Why is everyone so wrong about Ghostwire?

[@TarksGauntlet]

I don't know man. I don't even know which group of everyone I fall into, cause the game got pretty darn good reviews, but I hear a lot of complaints too.

[@goldensyrupgamingshow2978]

@@TarksGauntlet love you man, keep up the great work!