Final Fantasy XV but ₜᵢₙᵧ or 𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞

Final Fantasy XVI? nah were talking about FFXV COMRADES & POCKET EDITION because no one else is!
#finalfantasy #ffxv #finalfantasy16

[@thorhighheels]

PATRONE: bit.ly/3LIDh9C a album i made: t.co/84Blk7PDbY sorry for this taking a while lol. as stated in the video, i ended up working on 2 videos at once, hence why. but that also means that next one will be out v soon!

[@colonelmuffinss]

"Pocket Edition might be a smaller meal but my god is it seasoned" is such a good line imo

[@josephgarfield3363]

"Final Fantasy XV comrades is a strand type game" is not a sentence i was ever prepared to hear

[@Duskof81]

This truly is a Final Fantasy XV moment.

[@funkrobot9762]

Nah, a ff15 moment has to be shoddily put together, confusing and disappointing

[@pyrojinn]

Certified ™️ Final Fantasy XV™️ moment™️

[@bungifish2227]

​@@funkrobot9762you keep telling that to yourself and follow rest of the sheep. Yes it's unfinished but I rather play FFXV again than most triple A games out recently

[@crassweller11]

​@@funkrobot9762This is the "we love shoddy games" channel

[@rainbowkrampus]

Hm, imagine if at launch you played FF15 right up to the point where we time skip. But instead of the usual way things go, suddenly a character creation menu appeared and you had to spend the next 20 hours or whatever playing through the Comrades game mode. Like, it's just part of the base game. I wonder how the reception to that would have gone.

[@lordofchaosiori]

People already hated the transition from the open world to the linear last third. I don’t think people would’ve enjoyed a switch to a mission-based monster hunter grind before the end of the story.

[@rainbowkrampus]

@@lordofchaosiori Probably. But I also hated the time skip and having something unexpected that contextualizes the skip might've been pretty interesting. Hard to say looking backwards though.

[@1chibanKasuga]

​@rainbowkrampus compareds should have beem a single player dlc imo would have worked better and Royal edition could have just suggests you to play it before

[@rainbowkrampus]

@@1chibanKasuga I only played the launch version of the game. I keep thinking about picking up the Royal edition when it's on sale. I didn't hate the game by any stretch. But whenever I think about that ending I just get completely turned off by the idea. It'd just be nice if there were some way to redeem it.

[@zacman8265]

Badly

[@sukamadik5983]

I'm just glad you are covering this one when it's still relevant with a large active player base.

[@TristanCannon1]

Red XIII's species were almost driven to extinction because of the exotic pet trade.

[@PopTartNeko]

FF15 honestly has my favorite vibe of any FF. It's also only fantasy game to blend high fantasy with 1960s americana. That world's so goddamn pretty and photogenic.

[@infsteve9132]

Even tho Comrades is grindy, has a confusing crafting system, spongy enemies and less exploration, I still really enjoyed it. I had fun with the combat and the different sigils and weapons to basically be able to assign yourself a combat role (warrior, mage, support, etc). The character creation was great; I loved seeing pictures of my character after every mission and being able to dress them up. The music is actually pretty good too (they didn't have to go that hard on the Deathgaze boss theme). And playing with others makes the game 200% more fun. It's an unfinished, sometimes frustrating mess of a game, but it's also got a lot of charm imo.

[@anthonywheeler2082]

Nobody can Frankenstein a video together like Thor. He's got it down to a science.

[@sagewaterdragon]

Great video. I'm a big FFXV fan, I've been writing my own thing about it for a bit (I write really slowly!), and I'm stoked to see someone else talk about Pocket Edition. XV is a game made out of the skeletons of a dozen other games, and Pocket Edition looked at the final product and rebuilt it from the ground up to hit the same notes and themes. I really do think that, if it had had the visual splendor and combat of the base game, it'd be a straight-up better way to play it. I'd miss the open world, but what it gains in focus is super important.

[@chaosdestructionlove]

Does it fix the unresolved plot elements? I was always curious about pocket edition.

[@sagewaterdragon]

@@chaosdestructionlove Not really. It has extra voice lines (they were all recorded for the base game and unused there), and it expands a lot of inexplicably short areas into full dungeons (like the Shiva stop), but it doesn't add whole new story beats. It mostly just makes what was already there make more sense.

[@megazorzz]

I also think the truly bloated FFXV baroque-multi-media universe is why I like it so much. There was so much effort and triage put into translating an FFXIII story into its own setting and I think that passion really comes through. It is not the best FF game, but it is my favorite FF game.

[@TheCrewExpendable]

Usually these transmedia/multimedia projects go terrible. FFXV is the first time that the transmedia is all better than the actual main game its centered around.

[@artorias6321]

weirdly enough, I actually love FFXV Pocket Edition, I purchased it on switch and honestly I felt like I was playing an older FF game despite its hand holding. I remember people complaining about pocket edition when it was announced as a "useless edition to nickel and time us" but in honesty, I think it was a blessing in disguise.

[@sgt_triometra7114]

I remember seeing the strangers of paradise trailer in a group call at E3 or sth and shouting "shit is that my guy: Cor Leonis the immortal?" sending my friend into a laughing fit only getting worse with every "Chaos". They also always laugh when they learn he has maybe 8 minutes of screen time in the base game, even less in the base base game where Insomnia is just a goal, not a place. "Why are you so obsessed with this guy", I have no idea, somewhere along playing it myself, then fermenting in the fandom for 6 years. But I didn't know that Pocket Edition actually has merit, I thought it's the exact same with a bit weird looking models. Finding out they actually turned it into a roadtrip and enhancing this whole team has me interested.

[@TheSoykeith]

It’s wild how a thing can kind of be better when you do not have to “do” as much or hit a run time. FFXV is genuinely a good story behind too much stuff to do. I will take a 300 page book with a good story over a 600 page tome that vomits world building and lore any day. Then again I am not the boss, I don’t make the rules. People be happy with what they got and who am I to say what is better. FFXV pocket edition just knew what it wanted to give us and I liked more because of that.

[@OtherlingQueen]

I really love this new Jack Garland conspiracy

[@bobther0bot]

Thor really acting like we don't want to see him do a pinball tie in game retrospective

[@mister13eyond]

It's so nice seeing someone talk about Comrades... I haven't dusted off my ps4 in ages but I spent a long time playing Comrades with friends when we were all deep into FFXV and I really loved it. The vibes are really cool- I love the expanded worldbuilding showing how people were getting by in the apocalypse while Noctis slept- and I stand by the fact that even though it's kinda grindy, it's genuinely a fun game to play with friends!

[@akiinmoonlight79]

I can't describe how much i love his videos 😭❤

[@VoxelPassport]

Maaan, I had been considering Pocket for so long thinking that it would be cool to check out and you absolutely sold me on it. And maybe even giving FF XV another try. Need to get that final DLC tho, to check out the big capital city. I remember being absolutelly bummed that we got next to nothing to explore there in the base game, besides the few destroyed streets in the ending. That's the one thing I miss most from the Versus XIII concepts. Can't wait for the XIV vid!

[@mrokid1]

Man I just know you’d LOVE Fantasian. Super cozy PS1 Final Fantasy feel with incredibly charming visuals. Shame it’s an Apple Arcade exclusive but Sakaguchi wants it on other platforms so there’s still hope🙏

[@cj_iwakura]

Also, huge chunks of the story happening off-screen or in forgotten chunks of missing thread is a big Tabata thing, see also: Type-0. Kingsglaive is really good, though, and arguably way more cohesive, so I'd love to see your review on it.

[@chatomaltes2492]

Thor da 🐐 no 🧢 Coincidentally there was also Dragon Quest XI which everyone knows was the big return of DQ to the JRPG mainstream, but not so much as the 3DS demake thing they did exclusive only to Japan and years later fantranslated to English. They both might be the last examples of this simultaneous GBA/DS/PSP/Vita/3DS demake thing.

[@KitsuneAmy]

Your created character's cake in those khakis is incredible.

[@Galanthos]

Man, I really loved 15. I didnt play it when it came out, so by the time I got to it, I had all the patches and DLC and junk. There was just a really solid vibe to the game that came across despite the haphazard way it was glued together. I also seriously mourn for all of the content that never got finished, the areas you only get glimpses of while you're on the train, the second season of DLC that was cancelled slightly after Episode Ardyn, the various dungeons and stuff in the game. I also played Companions solo. It also had a solid vibe, and more story than I expected. Pocket Edition actually looks like a real treat, and I might have to hunt grab a copy now.

[@TheBandoBandito]

Every time you upload it's like a senzu bean after a long day. I appreciate you man.

[@TheSuperRatt]

i really enjoy waking up and seeing an upload from you thor, thank you

[@fellthekerl]

Always makes my day when you upload a new video! A banger once again

[@guillermotesoro]

It was a trip going back to your "So I've been playing FFXV". Your essence was there but you have really come into your own style in the past 6 years. Great stuff, I really appreciate your videos.

[@nano8640]

the sidequests in ffxv are the best part for me. the fact that you can stumble onto something very insanely cool and fleshed out gave the game a sense of wonder and really added to the emo boy road trip vibe. i spent a lot of time digging around the world for sidequests and it felt very fulfilling to me, and i guess consequently it didn't feel like i was getting jerked around by the main story

[@meowy2k]

always love seeing a new upload from this channel!!

[@tylerkeating3784]

Hey Thor, this one was so good. You have such a unique voice, and it comes through in your editing style for sure. This episode slaps, thank you for your hard work bud

[@VCV95]

I love your videos because of the true passion, joy, hatred, and emotions feel very true. Always a great watch.

[@Valtid_]

It always amaze me how the last bit of civilization in FF15 is Cuban´s Havana.

[@newgenderplus]

they need to make more gba ports of big ass games

[@ikagura]

More demakes, fanmade or not, are always interesting to see. Sad that nowadays it's nonexistent since handheld gaming is no longer a thing.

[@jadedavillain]

Your thumbnails are so cool and alluring, keep it up 👍🏾

[@itsachickenwiththing]

I really wish we'd get another fantasy roadtrip game. That concept is really the best thing to come out of XV.

[@ikagura]

Wasn't FFX that? I mean a religious one of course. And what about FF7 (as an internal journey)?

[@itsachickenwiththing]

@@ikagura No I mean a literal roadtrip like in XV. Like, you drive a car through bumfuck nowhere and fight monsters and explore shit.

[@SATOhara3173]

The split second you played Omnis Lacrima immediately brought me to tears and got me redownloading XV goddammit

[@Vieweer]

Dude your thumbnails are insane, i love it keep up the great work

[@makikuma91]

I fcking love your videos man, that shidd always makes me happy

[@WordsOfWisdomForReal]

The best 26th birthday present I could have wished for: a new THH banger. Thank u Thor🙏

[@tiend15]

Happy Birthday!🎂

[@WordsOfWisdomForReal]

@@tiend15 Late response, but thank you friend

[@bethebadger5517]

Awesome vid! I love your stuff keep it up!

[@Sunikkaazu23]

Apparently some of the later boss fights in Comrades like Bahamut were designed by people from Platinum Games, so supposedly they're pretty good, but I've never played them.

[@mclovin3844]

The bahamut(hardest version) fight was imo one of the best ff boss encounter, it was nearly impossible for me to beat solo and waited a week before I could other players to help, the classes were very unbalanced however as dragoon just did substantially more damage than any other class with warp and jumps

[@Unquestionable]

I love FFXV despite it being sort of a train wreck in ways. The road trip vibe of "I'm just gonna pull over cause that place looks neat" to the very jarring tones the story switches between it hit me in a way a lot of memorable jank titles do, something I hope to revisit eventually despite knowing it's not the pinnacle of an experience. I've always found the hate severely overblown but suppose that's true of every divisive game. Meanwhile I'm at the tail end of FFXVI (went hard at release only to run out of steam at the final section) and while I definitely dig what it's done in a way it makes me miss stuff from XV if only for the less somber story.

[@alexdperdomo]

completely unrelated but that Terra Wars mission is one of the fondest memories I have of FFXV, which is funny bc it's completely off the main game, and it feels like a dream Noctis forgot about the second he left the portal. Maybe thats part of it's charm for me. In anyway, I can't forget it

[@Sonyboj]

The FFX comparision is spot on. Need games with vibes like that.

[@mandoloriansoju3841]

Chrono Cross is an excellent game that has very similar vibes in terms of atmosphere and setting

[@ikagura]

​@@mandoloriansoju3841Both came out in the same era.

[@honestlynotarobot2285]

me: oh boy, new thorhighheels vid!!! I am EXCITE!!! THH: *plays a bit of DoC* me: *backflips around the room, screaming, worshipping the polygon tomato* I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO NOTICED THE POLYGON TOMATO APPLE THING!!!!!! I have been blessed, I am renewed, the edgey ps2 beast has awoken in me, the box case of DoC on my desk at home calls to me.... I will watch the rest of the vdieo but dang, nothing makes me feel so creatively alive then the feel and vibes of a THH video. Thanks for everything 👏

[@WHYZEE]

Holy shit the way you describe ff XV gives me the words to describe my thoughts on Xenoblade Chronicles X I'm pretty sure you can just waltz right into an endgame area, or find pieces of the life hold, right after you do the tutorial., and though gamplay-ly the devs accounted for you doing that have lover lvl collectibles/mobs there, it t makes literally no sense plot wise. But I think it handles its unfinished-ness better. Making the line between main quest and side blurred.Thus naturally you're just doing them anyway while in the process of doing the main quest. Fixing a problem in the XC where getting knee deep the town/NPC social link stuff kinda shits all over the pacing of the main story since the side townies literally are the story .Kinda Deadly premonition Vibes with many even having their own routines depending on the day and unique dialogue that can happen outside of any side or main quest.But less intentional and feels more like either the Devs lacked focus or the didn't have enough time to make a main story. Like you can not know what's going with the main cast, yet you can stumble on a whole mini arc with a woman being bored in her house only to then mid-end game when the cat ppl immigrate, have a cat girl pool party.

[@cyber-phoenix01]

7:59 Ever tried the The Rogue's Sigil? You can airstep to your heart's content as long as you MP isnt 0

[@chasesmay7237]

So I was too little to ‘understand’ or beat ff4 (2) on snes. My first real play through was on the ds with that same cute ass chibi art style. I adored those games (ff3, 4, Crystal chronicles, all the handhelds ones really) I didn’t even know ff15 pocket existed, but I bet I would like it more then regular. I like stories told with intent, and intent gets lost in open world sandboxes imho. So thanks for the great video, I found something cool and new that I didn’t know existed.

[@ediapaff8858]

I truly love FFXV. So much so, that I was not angry about the rushed last few chapters but saddened by the fact that I could not experience the story as it was supposed to play out. Idk why...I just really love the guys...minus noctis. I loved hanging out with them. there was something so special about that. at least to me :3c

[@OscarFudakus]

After playing Dirge of Skerbussy last week for the first time w/ the EDGE CAR and funny cloud posters fresh in mind, and putting an ungodly amount of hours into ffxv proper, this vid hit the spot

[@SatNightShasta]

Every time the "So I've Been Playing" shows up I squeal like Lucille seeing Gene Parmesan.

[@IzzuZiq]

Pocket Edition was how I experienced first FF15 that isn't me watching other people's let's play so watching this was neat

[@MakoTenseii]

I found a few of those coca cola figurines during my year in japan. Including that khimari actually

[@ParmMannREBORN]

I didn't even know FFXV Comrades was a thing

[@watashiwamosura]

XV was such a vibe! My partner and I played it on launch and really loved it. After XVI I've been thinking of revisiting it to see how different it is now.

[@bemodreamy]

My mental and physical health needed this video. Thank you thor

[@lightspaceman5064]

Vincent is the official unofficial mascot of your channel at this point and as one of the 50 other people who likes than game I support that.

[@jayfugazi9751]

XV pocket edition is such a special game to me because I wanted so badly to play through FFXV but it was the only way I could and I ended up falling inlove with it. did all the find the cactuar and scavenger hunt sidequests and everything

[@Oknopuac]

I might want to see you review the pinball game, because I like pinball, also curious if the table changes

[@bloodblues85]

Thank you ❤

[@alexlight4178]

Kingsglaive was cool though. My teenage self that was so deflated by spirits within nodded in approval

[@shrgnatlas]

3:13 I do. I want you to review the pinball game.

[@Daftanemone]

15:46 prompto what are you taking a photo of here?!

[@ikagura]

"Ah yes, to make that journey perfect I need to take a chocobo's behind pic."

[@MikhailKutzow]

I've been curious about Pocket Edition for a while. It honestly sounds like a better experience for my tastes. The open world in FF15 wound up distracting me a lot. But it never actually is that important or rewarding. So I wound up spending many, many hours, getting totally overleveled, and ultimately feeling very unsatisfied because it wasn't worth the time. I will have to give Pocket Edition a try.

[@salemite]

Definitely gonna try out Pocket Edition. I tried to play FFXV on PS4 at a friends recommendation and absolutely loved the setting, I love car riding with bros and chocoboing, but man that sandbox design was not my jam. This? This might be what gets me to finish the story. :)

[@salemite]

Coming back in, I am loving this dumb thing. It's exactly what I wanted.

[@kobalt_ren01]

comrades seems so cool, love character creators, shame I only have PC but hey haha

[@tyler3972]

always love some dirge o' berberus content

[@flaffles87]

I liked 15 back when I played it but it does give me something to think about when the story pacing has kept me from replaying it as much as I do other RPGs

[@jamesbrincefield9879]

I’ve considered trying Comrades lately since I’ve been working my way through XV again anyway but assumed the player base was likely non-existent and the game was essentially dead but I could definitely see this video acting like a defibrillator to give it a little extra life.

[@Cam-pe3nd]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who loves FFXV.

[@MrDarksol]

To be Fair I keep forgetting that this game had a multiplayer mode because none of my friends ever played it and I forgot about pocket edition because no one ever talked about it. I think I heard about it once and then never again. At least it fixes some of the issues but that may as well be the tag line for 15 as a whole: final fantasy 15 some of the issues are fixed.

[@brandonwaters4955]

just opened youtube thinking "hope there's a new thor video today" 🙂

[@d1zzaster393]

Oooh ya, ze art

[@Sonyboj]

I just want FFXII back. Perfect game.

[@zaygr]

I finished Comrades and still haven't finished the main story. The slight limitations on builds was more interesting than Noctis's access to everything. Also Lightning from XIII appeared in Loius Vutton ads.

[@datguyuno98]

I like that Stranger of Paradise has become a meme for this channel

[@tugasnake]

The Rogue's Sigil (which is the best one) allows you to do air combat in Comrades...

[@Galaxy_123]

Fun fact ff15 chibi version was my 1st ff game lol

[@pablozambrano16]

I'm pretty sure I had that same FFVIII wallpaper on my PC twenty years ago...

[@noaag]

Nice vidya mr heels u make me laugh

[@NataliaQuesada]

I almost choked with the sad Kiryu reference

[@Papapaya101]

I'm glad to know I'm not the only guy obsessed with FF15's bizarre offspring

[@novelezra]

I compeleted 15 for the first time this year and I already forgot that the world ended.

[@roadsidepeekneek7259]

I just beat my first final fantasy, being 16, and I loved it. Playing 7r. 15 next?

[@alirelax8761]

we want ff16 full video also...🎯

[@Coolio_Ash]

I was actually thinking about 15 pocket edition earlier what a coincidence

[@gatchamonster]

glad I'm not the only one who plays DoC annually

[@MakoTenseii]

Comrades gives me God Eater or Freedom Wars vibes

[@eazybuxafew]

Gladio chattin up shorty with the CABOOSE

[@BulldozerBilly]

Music at 19:00, anyone give me the title name??? Isn't is FF8?? It's gonna scratch away at my sanity until I know where I've heard that music lol

[@BaneDane_JB]

I enjoyed Comrades a lot more once I started playing as a mage, because its the one thing you cant do in the base game, and ranged/cowardly/flying enemies are no big deal when you're lobbing stuff at them. Granted I played it at release and got to play with randos all the way to Ifrit which I barley squeezed by.

[@camuhron]

Let’s goooooooooo

[@nitrohell]

As someone who used to believe in Creative Business III, the fact that Thor played XVI and then made a video about XV - saying "well, it wasn't THAT bad" - speaks volumes about the state of FF.

[@linklindlink]

I knew I heard some lightning and thunder

[@thetinhat1022]

Canned tidus laughter is meta. Ily

[@ikagura]

Did I hear a boss theme from Gunstar Heroes?

[@snazzydrew]

I swear the moment I saw Jack I said "This that just Cor?"

[@44mmoj]

18:22 I GYAT something in my eye