Harry Potter RPGs - Casp

[@KaoruMzk]

Fun fact: the two GBC games were technically adaptations of the books, not the movies. They were in development at the same time as the movies so the devs couldn’t use them as references, they had to use the books instead, hence why some scenes from the books that weren’t adapted into the movies appeared in the games.

[@Caspicum]

Well that explains a lot of the visuals in the first game. All things considered, they got pretty bloody close to the movies, hey.

[@ItsReallyColdOutside]

This comment is amazing, how do you know this?

[@DreamWhale]

@@Caspicum almost like they were based on the same source material...

[@Caspicum]

NO!!!!!

[@Soynereh]

I think that holds true to every itteration of the first 3 books. When the game cover wasnt a screenshot from the actors.

[@izzya8132]

I think what HP games are missing is the real charm of the books, which lies in a balance between fantasy/battles and characters/interaction. The Persona system would be great, a game where you spend half the time talking to your friends in Hogwarts / building relationships / being a student, and the other half doing fantasy battle stuff. That's the thing, so much of the Harry Potter books are about chilling around in the common room with people in your house, and the games just don't attempt to capture that. I think having a Persona-style system is great, with maybe a few Social Links exclusive to a certain house (or the order you get the links is dependent on your house, i.e. you befriend members of your house on day 1, but need a few months of the school year to start meeting people of different houses) It can have original characters, or have you as a classmate during Harry's time if that's what people want (to interact with the existing characters), but regardless of how it would be done, I think this is the best way to have a video game implementation of the Hogwarts experience. It seems like such a fun game to me that I'm angry it doesn't exist.

[@Knightwolf1994]

Just let me summon either Lucifer or the Grim Reaper to shoot Voldemort in the face and you've got yourself a game.

[@Caspicum]

I reckon you could get an idea like that moving if you pitched it to someone. "Okay, so get this... It's Persona, but everyone is gay." JK would go mental for that.

[@iqbalfebri4082]

Well there is a shitty harry potter games om mobile phone, and its almost similiar to persona style game minus fantasy battle.

[@TheMovieGuyTMG]

Scabbers learned a new trick! Black Death

[@Owl90]

That cracked me up

[@MasterKnightDH]

I see no foreshadowing!

[@int3rs3kt]

12:58 Scabbers learned a new trick! BLACK DEATH Nice game for children you have here

[@Caspicum]

Black death is what I call my wiener.

[@cognitivedissonance8406]

Scabbers learned a new trick! INTERSPECIES PEDOPHILIA

[@JSHADOWM]

I cant remember what it was called but scabbers had a 20 damage + Stun attack against ALL ENEMIES. it might have been black death even.

[@ZoanBlade90]

"Scabbers can now summon SCP 049!" 😀

[@TheLonelyGoomba]

Oddly enough, I got the GBA game packed in when I got a GBA SP and man... I played that game a lot. Like, I probably played through it 3 times in a row. (I don't know why). Good to see someone else talk about it, and actually praise it too. Not seen a single person talk about it since I played it.

[@Caspicum]

That's a quality yield though. Like, who the fuck just ends up with a Harry Potter RPG? Not me, that's for sure... Not me...

[@TheLonelyGoomba]

@@Caspicum It also came with a game called "Ace Lightning". So, if you're running out of video ideas just remember. Ace Lightning

[@Caspicum]

@@TheLonelyGoomba Funny you should bring that up, I used the PS2 version of Ace Lightning in this video! That feels more like a Liam sort of deal. I'd fuckin' love an Ace Lightning RPG though, that'd be rad.

[@RyumaXtheXKing]

These games are clearly a labor of love. Look at all the nice animations the put in there, especially the dragon at 10:51. It's beautiful. And it also like the styles of the enviroment. My friend like the Eragon RPG they made, so maybe they did manage to improve after all. And they also made a bunch of cool Lord of the Rings games for the GBA, after the first one was a horrible, buggy mess of a JRPG. Still better than the SNES game though. Great choice for a video, this is the content I'm here for!

[@Caspicum]

Oh totally. If you go to the last bit of the Philosopher's Stone and look at how they animated Quirrel/Voldemort, that's bloody mental. It has more inbetweens than literally any anime ever made.

[@deltasbj77]

Speaking about a Dragon/wyvern at 10:51: it looks like they are eating a pillow. Most likely this is not the case, but even then they are having a snack in their bed which is not the best idea tbh (Are they stress eating?). I really need some context to this scene (I am not really familiar with anything HP- related).

[@Sivrn-Val]

Snape in the Prisoner of Azkaban game looks like he's been hitting the 'potions' if you know what I mean

[@CryptoJordanVR]

I actually owned Prisoner of Azkaban on the GBA and I've got to say it wasn't half bad. I mean it wasn't amazing, but it was still pretty darn enjoyable.

[@ZetaHaru]

I remember replaying that game many times on emulator as a kid

[@bellowingsilence]

It was a genuinely above average, licensed GBA game

[@hanezutchins2786]

It was great except for the Lupin fight. Nor because of the difficulty, but because you're locked out of getting into Fred and George's shop during this time and then are put in a fight where you're gonna need to heal Buckbeak alot. Like, wtf were the developers thinking?

[@TheDaemonDD]

These games were my childhood for sure. If I ever get the chance again, I would try to finish the second game because I never managed to do it as a kid. Harry Potter games were actually pretty dang awesome up until the 4th movie came around.

[@Caspicum]

Loved me some Philosopher's Stone on PS1 hey. I want to try the PC and PS2 versions, because I've heard they're fantastic.

[@GuardCancel]

That awkward moment when you forget a KZbinr exists because it's been so long since their last upload and you suddenly remember they're one of your favorites.

[@Caspicum]

It's only been 2 months... and some change.

[@GuardCancel]

Months might as well be decades in the digital age! I miss you man, I wish you could upload more frequently ; w;

[@Caspicum]

I'll try! The old goal was at least once a month, and if I can get back to that, I'll try to make it once every 3 weeks, or something. I backed the wrong genre horse for getting videos out fast.

[@A-9-A-9]

@@Caspicum Don't let it go to your head.

[@GuardCancel]

Yeah, I'm bellyaching but trust me, the audience will always take quality over quantity and you do good work, mate. In fact, maybe I'll just delete my browsing history and start over from the beginning, I'm sure you'll have a new vid by the time I catch up again XD (p.s. really looking forward to that Jade Cocoon vid)

[@DeadwingDork]

>random Majima clip in the first ten seconds approving of this channel tbh

[@Caspicum]

ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy good taste brigade

[@TheOenghus]

"Slap the shit out of a tuba" As both a Tuba player and an Electric Bass player, that joke made my day. Thanks, Casp!

[@Caspicum]

That's an odd combo of instruments. I respect that. Keep it up, my bass brother.

[@lohto3]

Mahou Shounen Harry☆Potter

[@Caspicum]

Please. PLEASE.

[@AstraIVagabond]

_Yes._

[@smnksorc6663]

14:54 a trail of spiders ,not ants (i hate nitpicking xd)

[@Caspicum]

Oh shit, they are spiders too! Well there you go!

[@smnksorc6663]

Exept that nitty gritty detail it was still an awesome video!

[@JankyJankProductions]

Why couldn't it have been follow the butterflies?

[@RyumaXtheXKing]

They could've made the spider trail less hand holding by making the spiders crawl over some walls, making the trail disappear.

[@sheilaburrowes9081]

Harry Potter is not based. Casp is based. Therefore, I like this video. Tbf, back in the day, the HP franchise wasn't that bad and certainly not totally gay and self-hating yet (unbelievably, there was a time when HP was a fine-ish modern representation of traditional Britain; LOTR took that crown almost immediately but we somehow needed some Anglo convict's distant relative to get there). Rowling really went off the deep end and then had that delicious realisation, like so many before her, that the people to whom she'd been pandering were actually super shitty. I gained some vague amount of respect for her for sticking to her guns on an issue about which she's totally right, but that was from a hugely negative starting point after she began retconning her characters and coming out with lots of terrible opinions, while nominally being an ambassador for Britain on the world stage. There was actually another dude covering all the old HP RPGs on here and then - guess what? - he stops midway through his series because the JK trans thing had just broken and he took a Very Principled Stance(TM) by refusing to finish the videos. I thought he sounded suspiciously beta-max and sort of campy before I even knew about his virtue beacon so it was kinda perfect in a way. The moral of the story is don't bother apologising to neo-Marxists and also don't try pandering to them in the first place -- they'll treat you every bit as badly as a paid-up member of the NSDAP as soon as you fall out of line with the Current Thing. I'm just keeping my head down waiting for the real fun to kick off when paedophilia becomes The Thing (it's already happening around the fringes with stories about celibates in Vice and the whole "MAP" thing, but it's going to be fascinating to observe their strategy for mainstreaming it; anyone who thinks it can't happen merely needs to look to history to see that they normalised a lot of overwhelmingly unpopular things, for better or worse, over the 20th century). These games look kinda interesting. But the lack of cursor memory and poor battle UI is such a killer for a turn-based RPG. Imagine trying to watch a movie while playing a Pokemon game where you can't just mash "A". Cheers, m8. Love your sense of humour and '00s irreverence-bordering-on-edginess (god, I miss that era). And yeah, living in Britain is a year-round seasonal affective disorder. But I love bleak weather so it's perfect for me. It matches my current outlook. Pathetic fallacy or whatever. (Btw, long shot question since it's unlikely you'll even read this but, as a JRPG expert and on the matter of pseudo-lack of random encounters, are you aware of any JRPGs where the total number of [potential] fights is fixed? That is, enemies never respawn and there are no random encounters [or a finite number]? I like that concept because the difficulty curve is fixed and you know you're never overlevelled for any given encounter, and it completely precludes grinding. It happens in some CRPGs/ARPGs, like Nox and the first Dungeon Siege, but I'm not a big JRPG player, so IDK about that.)

[@L1nkk9E]

A trail of ants? Are you kidding me?

[@Caspicum]

Yes.

[@HidinginPublic]

"I'm gonna leave that in, that was pretty good" I like your charisma lol. first I've seen of you, I played the first two movie games on PC and they were obviously much different. I didn't know these ones existed and it was super interesting learning about them. Well done!

[@Caspicum]

They say first-impressions count, so hopefully I didn't come on too strong. I just recently discovered that the PC games were different from the PS1 games, so I've got a lot of Pottering about ahead of me. Going down a rabbit hole hey.

[@charlesgray6385]

When wizards didn’t have plumbing they just shat themselves and vanished it? Thanks Pottermore.....

[@Caspicum]

POTTERMORE? MORE LIKE POTTYLESS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

[@kanchomerocks12]

@@Caspicum AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[@cognitivedissonance8406]

This actually explains why the Forbidden Forest exists and is so dense and overgrown All that fertilizer had to go somewhere

[@Caspicum]

@@cognitivedissonance8406 That's not only a great shitpost, but a legitimate point. You're a good kid, qtzz7

[@cognitivedissonance8406]

@@Caspicum Hehehe shitpost. Thanks

[@Memesis]

The GBC games were my favorite things to play as a kid lol I would love a harry potter rpg with todays graphics, imagine a game where you play through the whole story of all books, maybe with a few more options like customizing your character and your spells and stuff like that.

[@Caspicum]

I think an entire game similar to the gameboy ones, but which has the full content of every single book/movie would be fantastic. No filler required, hey.

[@kirielbranson4843]

Not really an rpg but I loved the Lego games

[@georgeparkinson1314]

Chamber of secrets. The elder scrolls oblivion of the gameboy color

[@jamesalexhowlett]

LEGO Harry Potter lol jk

[@Knightwolf1994]

I know there was some leaked footage of rpg game supposedly in development that takes place in the HP universe.

[@FaustXVl]

There are some inaccuracies towards middle of the video: 12:35 Harry's ability is using card combinations, not the scan. Hermione can scan too. 14:53 spiders, not ants. This is relevant to the story since the spiders are fleeing from the basilisk which is also why it doesn't feel as handholdy to me. 15:37 I don't quite agree that there's "no time to stop" given that you can pretty much go almost anywhere in hogwarts at any time 16:01 there is no crafting in CoS One other thing about CoS that I feel deserves mention is that its maps are much more compact than in PS which improves the pacing a lot. I loved that game as a kid

[@Caspicum]

Yeah, I skimmed through the footage as I was writing, because I played the first 2 games about 2 months ago, so I was largely going off notes and game cap. Some of the game cap got corrupted, because my hard drive is on its way out. There's a couple cross-fades in the Azkaban parts for that reason. I know that Ron and Hermoine have the scan ability, but I tried to use it with both of them, and it wouldn't let me select it. Maybe I was up against enemies who I had already scanned, but I genuinely thought only Harry could use it. That said, the confirm button on the controller I use is a bit dodgy. I just assumed they were too lazy to re-design the UI for the other characters, so just disabled the use. The spiders/ants thing was something that I completely forgot to check. I should've seen it in editing and proof-watching, hey. The "no time to stop" was more a complaint about the lack of side content. You can go anywhere, but there's no reason to if it's not story-related. I recall like... 3 side quests over the course of the 2 GBC games. Also wizard duels, which I only did a couple of because I didn't realise there was a fairly early story cut-off. :( That shit was sick though. I don't know why I didn't mention those... Are you sure there's no crafting in CoS? I swear to fug there was. I must've just got it mixed up with the first game. I did most of my crafting in Philosopher's Stone just before the final fight, and I moved on immediately to the second game, so I think that might've been where the wires were crossed. Thanks for the comment!

[@TH-cl4km]

This is why I love this channel. Casp is more than happy to discuss games and series that few others will. I especially appreciate that in this case because I actually played and loved Chamber of Secrets when I was a kid.

[@Caspicum]

I live for weird shit that relatively few people talk about. I hope to do a lot more of it in the future!

[@jordandehart6905]

I love these games, but I fully admit they're not the best. Chamber of Secrets is my favorite though, I think because I think it lended itself better to the RPG formula than Prisoner did. Which is a shame because Prisoner did basically everything better. Little sad you didn't mention the music in Chamber of Secrets. It's legitimately one of my favorite soundtracks on the system, especially the final boss theme. Always wished you fought Tom Riddle in that game as a final boss, since then you could actually use magic and stuff. Also on a side note, this video made me nostalgic for the time before J.K. Rowling fucked up everything in the HP universe and especially before those dreadful Fantastic Beasts films came out.

[@Caspicum]

I'm not a music-commenter-guy, I am 200% an audio pleb, you can probably tell from the video mixing. The extent of my music criticism would be "Yeah it's good." The only time I really mention music or audio is if something really stands out, so a lack of a mention is a good thing... In an odd way. That said, I loved all three soundtracks. I had a bit more of a chub for the GBA one, because it reminded me shit Final Fantasy 4 a lot for some reason, and I adore that game. That said, the dirty, low-quality Gameboy Colour sounds speak to my soul. Funny you should say that Chamber of Secrets is your favourite, because apparently the developers were fucked around by the publisher with the development of Azkaban, and it got heavily nerfed as a result. One of the blokes said that the first 2 were incredibly fun, and the third was a nightmare. I would've loved to have seen a Chamber on GBA, or a system where it could flourish. Imagine what they could've done had t not been stuck on that tiny little baby system for babies. I gotta stop rambling, but thanks for the comment! Maybe one day Disney will buy Potter and say all the non-movie shit isn't canon like they did with Star Wars! I don't know whether that's any better than JK, but wizards don't believe in toilets...

[@ultrairrelevantnobody1862]

Alongside Chamber Of Secrets on both PS1 and PS2, This trilogy of RPGs is arguably the high point of the Harry Potter licensed video game series.

[@Caspicum]

How's Chamber of Secrets stack up against the PS1 version of Philosopher? Because that was sick.

[@ultrairrelevantnobody1862]

Philosopher's Stone on PS1 was okay but Chamber Of Secrets on PS1 was really good.

[@danielcarrilho5217]

Don't forget Azkaban on the PS2, probably the last good HP game

[@ultrairrelevantnobody1862]

Azkaban on PS2 was good as well and arguably has the best spell challenges. However the frequent pausing to switch spells due to only holding 2 at a time does hold the game back a little for me (seriously, what was wrong with holding 3 at a time and why couldn't they assign the character switching to one of the triggers?).

[@Tentacle]

Bless you Casp for dedicating your content to the most rabid fan bases on the internet

[@Caspicum]

If you don't dive in head-first, you can never fracture your skull, and really, what's living without nearly dying?

[@everythingpony]

0:07 also this has been told YEARS AND YEARS before this tweet, we knew this before 2019 but its just suddenly exploded in popularity

[@nicholasmoore3893]

I'd say the gameboy color versions were more based on the books rather than the movies from what I've experienced

[@Memesis]

Would be cool if you check out the mega man battle network series

[@Caspicum]

I agree!

[@deejay3297]

*coughvalkrieprofile *coughturningthefrogsgay

[@Caspicum]

@@deejay3297 I've already turned the frogs gay. I am the ultimate chemical.

[@Memesis]

@@deejay3297 no valkyrie profile please my heart can't take that there will never be another one, next to persona 4, silmeria was prolly in my top 5 rpgs ever

[@zayaannashrid1374]

Can't wait for Casp to complain about the tutorials

[@raushanlatiff96]

Harry's jumping animation in the second game is so adorable ☺️

[@MaxMarriner]

Good to see I'm not the only person who remembers these enough to make videos about them. Nice work.

[@pages4573]

On a side note, the reason I like this channel so much is because you really dig into the improvements series makes from installment to installment. Small or large, it's why I love seeing you tackle series like Golden sun/Digimon etc (And maybe Yo-kai watch one day) I always love see how a series evolves and how developers genuinely try to improve their games. Something a lot of reviewers tend to ignore or don't focus on.

[@Caspicum]

I love learning, so when I see that developers have done it, that shit makes me excited to talk about. Also, Yokai Watch will happen eventually. I've played half of the first game and thought it was pretty good, and there's like 4 of them now, so I'd love to see what has changed. Thanks for the comment!

[@thefalsekingslayer3717]

Mmm that gbc Harry Potter and the philosophers stone theme game me nostagia tingles

[@JankyJankProductions]

I remember playing the PS1 version of Philosopher's Stone 17 times over. I loved that game. Then I played it as an adult...and only beat it twice. I'm pretty surprised I never heard of this as a kid. I would have loved this back when I was a young, dumb kid.

[@The_child-catcher]

I don't really care about Harry Potter, but I was entertained none the less. That's a sign of a good video. Also glad to see you haven't committed toaster bathtub.

[@Caspicum]

What a waste of a toaster. I also wouldn't be keen on wet bread.

[@mindyauron]

Anyone that still plays the original GBC game, there’s a nifty way to level up super well if you do it right Go to the item menu, use the combo cards and use one *AFTER* a big fight and *ONLY* if you won and have enough cards to do this. You’ll auto win, gain Xp then SAVE. Do this again exactly until the game freezes and it will after like 6-10 on average Afterwards, restart, win another fight and repeat. If you do this EXACTLY like this then you WILL not only get stupidly accumulating xp and items depending on the fight but can really cheese this later on if you have the Level Up combo. Trust me on this. I’ve tested this out countless times

[@Caspicum]

That sounds sick! Thanks for the tip.

[@mindyauron]

Casp O'Saurus thanks! The reason I HEAVILY say after a big fight is xp points but if you do it off the bat if you lost or didn’t do any fight it glitches the game a bit. Nothing too bad but is annoying My best friend found this glitch when she was little by sheer accident and we have since then never seen it mentioned anywhere. Thought this would be the only place we’d get a chance to mention it. Sadly the second game patched it out

[@MHMistol]

Honestly prisoner of Azkaban was my childhood, loved that game

[@mindyauron]

I am STILL missing exactly 1 card and dammit I can’t find it anywhere!!

[@ZetaHaru]

I remember replaying that game many times on emulator as a kid

[@mr.vidjagamez9896]

How I wish EA had just kept the handheld Harry Potter games all as a series of RPGs for each of the books/movies.

[@Caspicum]

Me too!

[@Hamantha]

_“Ants”_ _”All I want to do is play with Hermione”_

[@lolhiyoko7832]

Yes, these are RPG's. But what people are asking for is creating their own story, exploring Hogwards and Diagon Alley with a character they've created. Not as Harry and the gang.

[@Caspicum]

I'm more interested in this, tbh. This is weird. You can't intentionally make weird shit like this, I love it.

[@antitheist3206]

You know what the definition of insanity is? Being insane

[@Caspicum]

It's definitely not chasing the KZbin dream, I can tell you that.

[@ScottRobRubin]

Did you know that Prisoner of Azkaban is the game the devs hated the most to work on? That's because EA was forcing their ideas into it (specifically, make it closer to the movie than the books) and the devs had to stick with that Even the art style had to be changed (in the unused data of the game there's still the portraits used for the old art style, they looked closer to the GBC portraits but bigger and better) check the TCRF page of it EA didn't bother them for the GBC games because EA was already impressed with what the devs were able to pull on GBC It's a shame, Prisoner of Azkaban could have been much better if EA didn't do their usual bs My favourite is still Chamber of Secrets because it's the better product, has amazing music (thank you Ian Stocker) and still to this day it's a very good time for me

[@Caspicum]

Yeah, I read about that after I made the video! I'd still say Azkaban is overall the better product, but you can tell they weren't quite done with it before it shipped. According to the interview, Azkaban was only about 50% complete, which makes me think it would've been a 10/10 RPG. What a bloody shame. I gotta wonder if EA forced any major gameplay changes, or if it was a barebones version of their original concept. I'd love to speak with one of the devs indepth before they all die from old age.

[@ArmaBiologica35]

I had and completed all of these as a kid and for the audience they were going for they are mostly pretty good games. I hope one day we'll get a big budget RPG set in the Harry Potter universe.

[@Caspicum]

Me too. I'm not the biggest HP fan, but I love me an RPG, and it's been 15 years, it really is time for a new one.

[@libbycouch9923]

Well, I hope you’re sitting down.

[@AvatarDesTopfes]

Also..wtf, Golden Sun was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the GBA footage.

[@Caspicum]

And that ain't even a bad thing!

[@cashnelson2306]

damn it's almost like games take influence from popular entries in their genre. crazy

[@runratchetrun]

14:53 I'm sorry, Harry follows a trail of WHAT through the forest?

[@Nathan-rb3qp]

Griptonite also made Shinobi 3D on the 3DS.

[@thatterrariaguidenpc8054]

I love that youre playing the Prisoner of Azkaban gbc osts in the background That shit is lit

[@slashermaster28]

You know, it really is a shame they stopped with the third one as I would loved to have seen them adapt all 7 books into JRPGs. They were clearly onto something with these and, to this day, the second and third one are arguably the best Harry Potter games. Granted, yes, the first one suffers from making you play as only Harry and no one else, but the others more than made up for this by improving the gameplay in more ways than just giving you allies.

[@marcolizzetti265]

Ah, Griptonite...I recal their Herry Potter RPGs and that fun Diablo-like LoTR: The Return of the King game. Flawed yet fun rumps.

[@jordandehart6905]

They made that LOTR game too? Yeah, it was pretty fun. LOTR surprisingly had some good licensed games back in the day.

[@marcolizzetti265]

Indeed, LoTR is one of the few recognizable names out there which was never destroyed, and received for the most part good vidya adaptation. It's thanks to those names I found out about turn based and action RPGs.

[@TheXBladeist]

Just when I thought I had no other rpgs to look into, you show up and give me something in my childhood movie series to check out. Thanks Casp, much love

[@Caspicum]

I aim to please! Appreciate you, baby. xoxo

[@jeremoople]

Honestly, I wish more movie tie-in games had taken this approach. Even though these didn't work great as games, they seem like a really cool way for fans to simply re-experience the story.

[@Caspicum]

Absolutely! They might be a bit rough, but boy are they charming.

[@UnderAvg]

Duuuuude they were so cool. I'm mad that they didn't get more into this and went generic adventure game after the third one.

[@Caspicum]

It's tough to turn movies into RPGs without extreme padding but people like HP padding tbh.

[@JasonGodwin69]

I'm having fucking Vietnam flashbacks to those Harry Potter roleplays I did as a kid.

[@thomasrink2469]

I was obsessed with the gbc Harry Potter RPG. No one I knew played it or even knew it existed.

[@ofanichan]

Nice! New video from my favourite moomin

[@paspharo]

Those jokes at the beginning were hilarious, along with the others throughout the video. I was told to check out this video, just found out about your channel, and like that you have a new subscriber.

[@Caspicum]

I appreciate that, my dude. I spend way too long re-writing jokes, so I hope they tickle at least a few pinks.

[@robl9767]

Boo you know who...

[@paspharo]

Not a problem. Aside from the comedy, coming from someone who does video editing, your video editing is awesome.

[@sushiroll3002]

Holy shit I played Chamber of Secrets ages ago and forgot all about it. Huge Nostalgia here my dude. I like the enemy animations in this game.

[@nickmaster3886]

I only played the third game and I liked it.

[@freakinfiretruckxx]

Oh lord the first one, major nostalgia. I used to love that one as a kid 😂

[@GameNinja13]

I freakin LOVED the second one though. Man those games do have nostalgia in me.

[@Caspicum]

The more time that goes on, the more I regret being so harsh. There's a lot to love ehre tbh.

[@cjhs2006]

Kryptonite Games?Superman’s my All Time Favorite Superhero,a Gaming Company That Reminds me of His Penultimate Weakness Doesn’t Really Get my Hopes High

[@ciscomartinez6092]

This brought back memories I forgot I had

[@Caspicum]

Don't you love when that happens? You hear an old song, and everything comes flooding back. It's like *magic*

[@captain_chompers]

Holy shit those animations are SMOOTH

[@Caspicum]

There is a lot of attention to detail in the visuals, despite some maps being a bit... Rough.

[@Aperson-62]

I had Philosophers' Stone on GBC as a kid lol. Looking back it's not too great but I really enjoyed it at the time and it clued me in to the fact that Pokemon was just part of a much larger genre. I was going to get Prisoner of Azkaban but changed my mind at the last moment. Still, I may not necessarily have deviated outside of Pokemon had it not been for this game, it eventually lead me to get into the Final Fantasy series and play games which truly excel.

[@akil1000]

Wow this video brings me back to my childhood I loved the Philosophers Stone game as a kid it was my first RPG next to Pokemon and helped teach me to read.

[@Caspicum]

That's fantastic. Pokemon would be a great starter to a language. I plan on using it to help with my Japanese study!

[@pages4573]

This is unexpected. Can't wait to see a ton of games I never really noticed before.

[@Caspicum]

I'm honestly surprised more people don't know about them, but hopefully I can change that!

[@warhammernerd52Daxx-Lorenzo898]

*Harry Potter Flatulence Anime*

[@dragoon1090]

Finally a video on these games. I played the shit out of these as a kid.

[@Caspicum]

It's strange how little these games are covered, given that they're flippin' Harry Potter RPGs.

[@Coldheart61595]

GB philosopher's stone is my favorite game back then. took me forever to finish it

[@drew8235]

These RPGS are excellent and under appreciated gems. I was glad to have discovered them as a kid. They do the books justice in a way that the other mainline games in the series absolutely do not. I jumped in at the Chamber of Secrets for GBC, and this is probably a great starting point for those of you who have never played these, because the first game on GBC does feel almost like a proof of concept for the second one. It is a great game, to be sure, but the second one just improves in every single way. Also sad because this was a video I was planning to do at some point and you beat me to it. But I don't mind so long as more people experience these games. =)

[@Caspicum]

You should still do it! No doubt you'll cover it in a different way to me, and might even reach people I couldn't!

[@iHawke]

Man I just couldn't beat the final boss of the chamber of secrets

[@NuggetKBDC]

I just want to say this was the first video of yours I’ve watched and since then I’ve started binge watching your entire channel i got to say you make some good shit and i hope you make more in the future

[@AvalancheReviews]

You're doing god's work here. Keep it up.

[@Caspicum]

I do it for the people. They need me.

[@RyumaXtheXKing]

It's god's work to review forgotten license games?

[@CarlolucaS]

I though about one thing the whole video: "Why isn't there a wizards RGP?" Than I remembered there is an old MMO called Wizard101 and every RPG has a generic "Wizard" in it. I guess Wizards aren't that interesting after all, at least in video games.

[@Caspicum]

Seems like almost every RPG has wizards in it. An RPG solely about wizards is definitely unique though.

[@CarlolucaS]

@@Caspicum Would love to play one that is implemented wizards correctly. Just haven't found one. Recently found a game called Project Warlock and it's basically Doom + Wizards and another one called Tactical Breach Wizards. Both like you said unique but I just can find a decent Wizard RPG. Great video btw.

[@jkl1110]

i totally forgot about the prisoner game...man....brings back memories. I remember enjoying it very much

[@TheGoshDernBatman]

“I can’t believe you’ve done this”

[@doki531]

wow, never realised the GBA game's music used the same score as the PC/PS1 games! such a great composition

[@Caspicum]

Yeah! I think all the versions share music, they just reworked the tracks or something. Pretty neat stuff.

[@doki531]

@@Caspicum the crazy part is the composer Jeremy Soule, famous for stuff like the skyrim OST, composed the soundtrack without hearing John Williams compositions for the movies, so it's interesting how close they ended up sounding in atmosphere!

[@Blighted_Ashes]

Fun fact. The harry potter gbc game has a mode after beating the game where you keep your levels so you can do the extra hard quests you mentioned. And incindio is the best spell in the game lol

[@SetoShadowVT]

In the Chamber of Secrets you did forget a few things, there was a lot of cards to collect. If you get a whole set you go to the talking paintings to get some goodies including exclusive armor sets. The Wizard Dueling is by far the greatest addition to Chamber of Secrets. You fight a student representing each year and each 1st unique victory you get a reward. You can re fight each student a number of times to cut needless grinding in any other map. Each fight between a student in the Wizard Duels refills your hp and mp

[@Caspicum]

HOW DID I FORGET TO TALK ABOUT WIZARD DUELING?

[@SetoShadowVT]

@@Caspicum It happens to the best of us

[@gerudokupo2225]

I didn't know there was a third! I obsessively played the GBC pair in my pre-internet days. Chamber of Secrets quickly became one of my top 2 (non-tactics) RPGS - Along with FF4 of course!

[@Caspicum]

Oh shit, the good taste train just pulled into the station. FF4 is bloody amazing, and tactical RPGs are my favourite genre.

[@FearghalDuggan]

holy shit ace lightning at 00:49, every so often i remember that show but had totally blanked on the tie-in game. i played the hell out of chamber of secrets on gbc as a kid, glad this video got recommended to me

[@Caspicum]

OH SHISH! Someone noticed Ace Lightning. Can you believe it got a game on the PS2 and the GBA? What crazy times we live in.

[@FearghalDuggan]

@@Caspicum damn i had no memory at all of there being a gba version but looked up a gameplay video and realised i totally owned a copy back then! what a weirdly unmemorable couple of games

[@Caspicum]

@@FearghalDuggan When you looked it up, you could say you became... The Googler.

[@eqa1997]

I played a lot of the Prisoner of Azkaban when I was younger. I remember it being different than anything I had played at the time. It felt like I had really accomplished something when I solved a puzzle or beat a boss.

[@AndysTake]

Honestly, never played it, but this game looks good. Beautifully made for the GBC.

[@cognitivedissonance8406]

Might we say that the wizarding solution to bodily excretion explains the existence and density of the Forbidden Forest? They had to send all that fertilizer SOMEWHERE

[@alexanderticonuwu7591]

That's a good shitpost and a good question.

[@thekiss2083]

I think the GBC Potters were really impressive for their time & limited hardware. You never mentioned it but Jeremy Soule's music is so good it even transfers well to the 8-bit sound. I loved the extra rooms as they expanded upon even what was in the books with things like the music and art classrooms. And all those statues and paintings telling dad jokes were pretty obviously self-portraits of the devs, which I think speaks to how much they cared about what they were doing :-)

[@Caspicum]

The portraits being devs never occurred to me. You've blown my mind. God knows if it's true or not, but I don't see why it wouldn't be. The classrooms would've been fine, if they had some purpose. Seems like wasted effort to make these rooms that you can't interact with at all. You could say it adds a more accurate take on the school, but where :clap: are :clap: the :clap: hufflepuff :clap: and :clap: ravenclaw :clap: common :clap: rooms???? HMMMM>?>?> Also, the music was great. The GBC stuff was a bit rough, but that was the limitations of the little handheld's sound. I typically don't comment on audio because the extent of my music analysis would be "Yeah it sounded pretty good." You're definitely right though, that music was nice.

[@thekiss2083]

@@Caspicum At the time of the game's development, nobody knew where those 2 common rooms were located. That info came in Books 4 and 7 (2001, 2007). And yeah, they've gotta be the devs. Their hairstyles don't fit the Hogwarts aesthetic at all, they're all young people, and none of them are dressed like wizards. ;-)

[@Caspicum]

@@thekiss2083 The common room point was more about the fact that they're literally nowhere. Or maybe you just think they're nowhere, who could say? Also, that's a good point about the portraits. That said, weren't the portraits meant to contain people from ages past and older generations and whatnot I'm not too keyed in on the lore. Come to think of it, the GBA title has more the types you'd expect in the portraits. I gotta track down that dev bloke on NeoGAF and get an answer. He's probably still alive.

[@thekiss2083]

@@Caspicum My guess is they agreed not to use anything from Goblet of Fire as it was published only a few months out from release. The common rooms obviously exist in the world of the books and they didn't want to just guess and end up being contradicted later. Plus Harry couldn't get in anyway. And the way the game is laid out, the Slytherin common room is in a corridor right off the Great Hall, right where Hufflepuff turned out to be. It'd be weird having 2 common rooms within a stone's throw of each other

[@Elitelupus]

HAY! We get more than 1 hour of sun in the UK XD We get 1 hour and 11 minutes Haha i really enjoyed your video bro

[@Caspicum]

I'll believe it when I see those extra 11 minutes! Thanks for the comment, my friend!

[@Elitelupus]

@@Caspicum xD

[@Twisted_Logic]

Remember living the first game when I was a kid. Never finished it, though

[@dwayneparsons1333]

Played Chambers of secrets for GBC til max level lol I loved that game as a kid Wish I still had it

[@jadenasher6290]

I forgot I even subbed to this channel. Probably the first upload I've seen as its new. Cool video.

[@Caspicum]

Hopefully it was a pleasant surprise! Thanks for stickin' around.

[@vamplust667]

I loved these as a young teen!

[@EmilForsberg_GRYBO]

14:53... have you actually seen the movie? Those aren't ants. I know it's such a minor thing but it needs to be said *Inhale* SPIDERS!!! *exhale* 21:27 "A" warewolf "A" fucking warewolf, bgdaaaa

[@EmilForsberg_GRYBO]

I have friends as you probebly noticed

[@gnarly_charley]

As a kid, the chamber of secrets on GBC was amazing. I did the new game + probably 8-9 times so I could afford the highest level armor...lol I know this reviewer didnt like it, but I appreciated the closeness to the story the games followed, even at the expense of losing a party member

[@mendydem]

hey man you've get my french subscribtion thx for the Synchronicity Prologue link i was looking for him hours

[@Caspicum]

Enjoy it, my dude!

[@lucas.baladi]

"Snape looks like he's been hit on the head a bit". Man I laughed at this more than I'd like to admit!

[@Caspicum]

Snape never let his disability get him down.

[@TheMasterNewman]

I played through Chamber of Secrets like 15 times when I was younger, and never realized there was a crafting system. Damn.

[@Caspicum]

It's only in the Philosopher's Stone as far as I know. I got the two mixed up :^)

[@setteplays]

Casp, your videos are always an RPG box of surprises. And that's wonderful. Maybe next time you'll play (*thinking of an obscure licensed RPG game*) BIONICLE Maze of Shadows!

[@Caspicum]

Any RPG's a goal.

[@bubbastevegarcia2459]

Hell yeah dude!!! Moving up in the world!

[@Caspicum]

YEAH!

[@dorememe8548]

I loved playing these games. It felt like I was experiencing something in between the book and the movie. My favorite was the Prisoner of Azkaban on GBA, but I played the GBC Chamber of Secrets and liked that. Didn't get into Sorcerer's Stone GameBoy adaptation though. At least not yet.

[@Caspicum]

There is a certain magic that only a game can capture. It's such a shame we never got any more.

[@dorememe8548]

@@Caspicum I can't express the disappointment I felt when I got the portable game for the Goblet of Fire and it was the trashy game that it was. I learned to eventually appreciate it for what it was, but I really wished that they had kept with the jRPG formula.

[@5Porygon]

Awesome piece of content. Keep up the great work! :))

[@Caspicum]

THANKS!!

[@PunkZombie1300]

That fucking nostalgia trip when I clicked on this video and heard the GBA PoA soundtrack...

[@Caspicum]

I felt nostalgia for it, and had never played it prior. magical tune.

[@namkha209]

Bionicle Heroes for the DS (aka the REAL version of the game) QUALITY NUT!

[@Caspicum]

Oh shid, a first-person shooter that doesn't look like garbage on the NDS? What?????

[@namkha209]

@@Caspicum Fun fact: the PC version and a few other versions was built from the ground up as a FPS, but was changed because Lego couldn't stand a T or M rating (This was a time where merely being an FPS can land you in a M rating). Yes. They fucking pulled a George Lucas and "pull the camera back" (a.k.a waste a lot of resources redesigning the core of the gameplay and level design) because of ESRB fuckery.

[@Caspicum]

@@namkha209 And people say the ESRB is a force for good *shame*

[@namkha209]

@@Caspicum Whoever said that is a fucking brainlet lmao

[@OffSatan]

0:24 god damn, Lilo and Stitch 2 ripped of digimon! Wait, do anyone know what I'm even talking about? It's not a bad game either, not one I'd recomend going out of your way for, but it's good enough.

[@Caspicum]

I never saw Lilo and Stitch 2 :( I love the first one though! Wait, Lilo and Stitch 2 the movie, or the game?

[@OffSatan]

@@Caspicum the GBA game about the second Lilo and Stitch movie(Stich! the movie(no relation to anime Stitch!)) which isn't the same as Lilo and Stitch 2. Personaly I like Stich! the movie but I don't care for Lilo and Stitch 2, but that might have something to do with nostalgia.

[@blackwing2da445]

What the ACTUAL HELL was that Trivia at the start of the video!? Those... Those CAN'T be real! XD