I just wanna keep playing Rivals of Aether 2

[@TheBLTproduction]

"Im getting annoying and I'm suddenly way more attracted to judy hops. That's how you know" is SO funny oh my god

[@Rukir]

its pretty funny but im upset that thats all anybody thinks about this game as if its made for people to jack off to or something. no one said this about sonic when it came out or cartoons with animals in them. so annoying

[@johndinner4418]

timestamp?

[@TheBLTproduction]

@@johndinner4418 I feel like you must've watched the whole video by now but 5:56 lmao

[@johndinner4418]

​@@TheBLTproductionyeah I thought it was in a fleet clip, why did he mention judy there lmao

[@TheBLTproduction]

@@johndinner4418 he’s just making a little fun of furries here ahah He’s saying he’s becoming a furry by saying he’s getting more annoying and being attracted to Judy hops.

[@HibbySloth]

Went from "Y'all dont want hear my thoughts on Rivals 2" to "I can't stop playing" you love to see it

[@user-ng2du9jl2h]

Exactly. He only said Rivals 2 was a bad game to try to sound cool

[@finthetrashcan]

@@user-ng2du9jl2hnope he said shielding was too good/ shield was too strong making the game less rounded. they made shield way easier to break and now he loves it. feels consistent to me

[@jon630]

8:26 "She threw PEANUTS at me! Who throws peanuts at Mango? Really?" The fact that he didn't turn this into an hbox crab joke shows tremendous growth.

[@itsrottweiler9545]

As a rivals player for almost a decade I gotta say I won with this timeline

[@punkypony5165]

Feels so good to stick with a game for so long and see its sequel be appreciated.

[@Figgy20000]

As an Ori main I'm extremely disappointed she won't be in the game

[@p0kepengin592]

your sylv goes crazy bro

[@maxhenryminecraft]

Your cloaks and dagger forsburn single handedly kept me playing rivals for so long

[@Dagobert_Doc]

I'm an ult player and I won to cuz I got a game that's balanced, has a good online and is fast paced while not being so damn hard

[@zachcashman7236]

some of my favorite mango moments are when he gets a combo and then goes “NNNEEGGHHYYAAAUUUUGHH”

[@nameforcomments4092]

He did that just as I read this.

[@deadfr0g]

I am desperately trying to convince my brain that this spelling isn’t just somebody long-screaming the N word

[@tacitozetticci9308]

RoA has always been a thing of beauty. I think we could dream big this time around, it deserves its place up there with titans like Tekken and Street Fighter. Every single matchup feels so distinct and iconic. I hope the roster will keep finding new directions to push the game towards competitively. Then people tend to underrate the rivals' designs, most of them are actually pretty memorable.

[@leojones1964]

It's wild, plus the community from RoA 1 has brought on a lot of interesting ideas and I can't wait for the devs to consider bringing some more of them on to the RoA 2 roster.

[@TheVirginMeri]

I gotta disagree on the designs, characters are SUPER basic and forgettable and design overall is prob my biggest gripe. Man it's fun tho

[@JeanKP14]

@@TheVirginMeri They are definitely memorable they're just not specific characters tied to franchises like Smash so of course they'll never be as "memorable" as characters you mostly already know.

[@tacitozetticci9308]

@@TheVirginMeri I never said they were masterpieces when it comes to their looks, so it's easy to agree with you, but I wanna put it like this: time will tell. Meaning - think about pikachu, is that super basic and forgettable? Inherently, yes kinda imo, but decades later here we are, you can ask your grandma and she'll know pikachu. Maybe this says more about people than these characters' designs, but still, I think a character like Orcane has all it needs to take over a little corner of your brain forever and make you happy about it.

[@tacitozetticci9308]

@@TheVirginMeri and yeah I'm taking Orcane as an example because he was meant to be the most mascotteish of the roster

[@wildmonkeycar]

Hey, glad you're enjoying the game! I hope to see more, from you! To do the little flip thing to aid your recovery as Zetterburn, press air dodge immediately after using DownB to cancel the hitbox and get a bit of extra distance 👍

[@hctaz]

Nickelodeon All Stars and Multiversus just needed to be made by people who actually know what the fuck they’re doing. RoA is proof of that. Could you imagine if those games had the same level of polish and care as RoA2???!! Bro, we’d have lost our goddamn minds.

[@Hotline64]

I hated Multiversus but NASB deserves more credit. It was made by devs who knew what they were doing, with Slap City being strong proof of that. Unfortunately Paramount / Nickelodeon both a. rushed the game out the door with NASB1 and b. charged a ludicrous amount for NASB2.

[@x9x9x9x9x9]

What sucks is NASB could have been really good. Slap City was very good and was made by the same people who made NASB. I dont understand how they failed so hard with it.

[@roninrainier803]

NASB2 was actually really good and imo had one of the best game mechanics in platform fighters, which makes sense because Slap City was so fucking good. The real problem with the game was that you're choosing to spend money on a Nickelodeon game nobody played vs a Nintendo game with an already huge established fanbase. That, and I think most people would rather say that they're a Mario main than a SpongeBob main lol

[@IsaacG97]

Multiversus’ failure confuses me, it was so easy for them and they somehow failed

[@tidalwaffles]

Game is bad. Nasb2 failed because of price tag, multiversus failed due to literally being a bad game. It's so slow, it's a jab fest, characters play very lame, it's just a snooze fest to watch, neutral is purely grounded fishing for jabs etc... ​@@IsaacG97

[@artca9508]

Screw popular IP's. Just stick with Rivals 2. Phenominal rich gameplay/combo's same tier as Melee; and no more sponsor shitshows with parent companies attacking competitive scene.. All the people who bitch about it having furries forget Fox and Falco are furries lmao. + Kragg and Orcane are pokemon, you cannot convince me otherwise.

[@TheDancingSaxophone]

Melee* will always be more hype because it's faster, but Rivals 2 does seem pretty sick.

[@JunaSSB]

No our work isn't done yet, Rivals 2 fills the void of Project M, but we're not done with Melee yet.

[@artca9508]

@@TheDancingSaxophone Rivals 2 is just as fast, only one faster than Rivals cast is Captain Falcon. Both the games combo games are Rich and freeflowing, Melee's feels better admittedly, but that's because you have to fight the game to achieve them. In Rivals you just have to focus on positioning and hitfalling to hit just as cool, or much cooler combos than Melee offers.

[@ThatPinkOtter]

@@TheDancingSaxophone Rivals 2 at top level play is actually as fast, if not faster than melee. Has everything to do with understanding the engine, so wavelanding, ledge dash, etc. I suggest watching the top 8 of the recently streamed RoA2 Coinbox, with certain matches you could convince someone who's new/casual to the game they're playing on 2x speed. I love melee, but we need to be fair here and give credit where credit is due. This isn't killing melee and people need to stop looking at every platform fighter like that because the only thing killing melee is Nintendo.

[@thenumbertrenton]

@@TheDancingSaxophone you did not see top 8 of coinbox last night, the commentators couldn't even commentate they had to fill the noise with stuff about the game

[@FieryAnubis]

This is gonna be my go-to platfighter for like the next decade or until RoA3 comes out anyway. Love the game, can't wait to see what else they add over time, and it doesn't have to get more complicated than that.

[@mccsnackin]

Project M Wolf is that you?

[@riplix20]

Rivals has been out for seven years now, and it's always had PM Wolf

[@RePlayQ]

Best spacie to choose to emulate imo

[@iliya1933]

Fights Rongunshu and goes “This guy’s 1491? Jesus Christ, this kid’s a LOSER!”

[@T0NI_]

I've never enjoyed playing fighting games, but all these people playing it is making me want to try this game

[@Mrbookworm-k4v]

Go for it man, just have fun bro if you worry. About winning. Your never gonna enjoy fighting games

[@xSABRET00TH]

you should worry about winning but use it to drive you to WANT to be better. not to be mad that somebody else might currently be better. you can always learn and improve.

[@drakeusmaximus2459]

Devs that care about the competitive scene is so nice and it feels like a good investment to get good at this game, compared to smash, Nintendo is still figuring out the internet and has yet to learn about esports.

[@agentjp106]

I love that Rivals 2 seems to be doing really well, hope it stays doing well unlike MV and NASB, which it looks like it will!

[@phypesmash6154]

Well the game is nice to play and look at for one lol. MV looks and plays like shit and NASB feels souless compared to Slap City (same people)

[@artca9508]

It actually has animation quality matching SmashBros quality, and deep rich gameplay. Complex custom combos. Fast as fuck fighting. It's not going anywhere but up. Especially when La fucking Reina comes out; and we have Tekken King in a plat-fighter (the ant has 7 command grabs). And when the WORKSHOP is out. 2D workshop is crazy in Rivals 1. But 3D opens up for such easy modding potential to create high quality fighters. Will actually be the best plat-fighter as soon as workshop is out!

[@ThatPinkOtter]

@@artca9508 I agree except with workshop. 3D has a significantly higher barrier of entry as compared to Rivals 1's workshop, I have plenty of friends who made workshop characters who while they are artists aren't coders, I didn't because I don't like working with pixel art. I do however have 8+ years of experience with 3d modeling (modeling, sculpting, animation, you name it) and am competent enough at coding since my actual job as a net admin/net security analyst is tangentially related, even then the fastest I could maybe manage to make a character is about 2 months if I made it my job and worked on it 8+ hours a day 7 days a week. Modeling takes a very long time, on top of that animation is hardly the only thing you have to worry about, and even animation is more complicated in RoA2 because the game isn't locked to 60fps and making a character feel good at higher framerates gets exponentially harder past 60fps. For the simple things you have the character's speed and gravity which are as simple as changing some integers, but for the more complex you have hitboxes (which is always trial and error and needs to be tested extensively), morphs (for things like disjoints and to make things feel/look smoother with animation) and a fair/balanced movelist. This is just a teeny, tiny little fraction of the work that goes into making a character for ANY fighting game, making a custom character in Risk of Rain 2 or something like a VRC model is a cakewalk compared to making one for RoA2, Tekken, SF6, etc. With all the extra elements needed in balancing and making an FG character feel good it's a painful, slow, tedious process if you don't have a team working on it. It's a lot of little deliberate choices and is no easy feat.

[@tangerinepaint3643]

@@artca9508 The moment Rivals 2 workshop opens I just wanna know how long till we get a smash character in the game

[@trucomment]

i hope this becomes THE platform fighter, im so sick and tired of peeling my friends from brawlhalla i hate that game

[@3three3three3three]

brawlhalla is terrible. you are not the crazy one, they are. i just hope you know that

[@davidhernandez358]

I dont even know what they see in that game tbh

[@x9x9x9x9x9]

I hate how good Rivals is. I did not like Rivals 1. However RoE 2 is actually incredible. I dont want anything to replace melee but if nintendo ever goes full insano mode its nice to know we have this.

[@thefutureisbread]

I agree. I borderline hated Rivals 1. And I tried all the smash clones and none are great. Rivals 2 is the first one that's matches the level of quality of official Smash imo. I can honestly accept trading Melee for it even..

[@cosmic5665]

​@@thefutureisbreadyeah "smash clone" not funny

[@writersfantasy5064]

​@@thefutureisbread it's your opinion at the end of the day. But what was wrong with Rivals 1?

[@NoUnboundFreedom]

@@cosmic5665 there's nothing wrong with the term though?

[@soulofalbedo]

I'm kind of the opposite, I loved rivals 1 and just can't seem to vibe with 2. prolly cause it feels more like pm than rivals

[@CriticalxMiss]

This is a great game! Needs more characters, but it is so nice to have a platform fighter that actually has comp in mind

[@thehero8573]

They have stated every character they add, ever, will be free. And we already know that an ant wrestler is getting added eventually

[@finthetrashcan]

@@thehero8573no way!?? the workshop character?? that's awesome!!

[@thehero8573]

@@finthetrashcan yup, she was the winner

[@leojones1964]

Lucky for us we're getting 4 ever year, all for free. Plans are set up to Year 2 but it's looking like the game is gonna be active for the next decade.

[@Beastmd]

Zetterburn down b flip: down b+shield. You can also use down b to put fire on the ground between stocks, as it’s an easy 5 percent tick damage

[@Caketurtle7]

How tight is the timing because every time I try it, it doesn’t do shi, and my shine has years of lag and stops in the air instead of having momentum

[@jazzerjaw]

​@@Caketurtle7 It's just during the startup, before his fist goes down. Not too tight, but it is short. Nothing a little practice can't change though.

[@ojodeoro1106]

Seeing high level gameplay makes me hopeful I am just bad at the game. It's gonna take a long time to learn though. I feel like my rivals 1 knowledge doesn't translate well so it makes the game feel clunky

[@kkokay4]

Ya jts more similar to melee than rivals 1

[@TheSaltedSalmon]

The return of blunt man

[@HauntLich]

Weirdly enough it seems Multiversus actually didn't fail, it just doesn't have a competitive scene. It's brutal monetization and slow game speed make it very approachable for the most casual audience, but it makes it enjoyable to almost exclusively the most casual audience.

[@ThatPinkOtter]

It's not as dead as NASB2, but it definitely did fail. The amount of people playing it and the rate at which people drop it won't be enough to support the game long term, I expect it to be shut down again in the next 5 years just because it won't have enough people to monetarily sustain it unless it gets a huge resurgence. It's really sad to see, they had something good for both casual players and competitive players and for some reason they frankensteined it, replacing it's guts with greedy monetization and making it a sluggish, dumbed down ghost of it's former self. To this day my favorite platform fighters (Aside from Melee/PM/P+) are RoA1/RoA2 and Rushdown Revolt, though sadly despite how fun/unique RR is, it's as dead as you can get. If you ask me in order for any fighting game to succeed you need a good game that appeals to casual players and top level players, monetization that isn't insulting, a publisher/dev team that communicates with their community and participates on both the casual and 'professional' scenes and you need exposure to a broad audience via advertising. RR failed at everything but monetization (and communication with it's community) since the game wasn't very casual friendly, but Rivals 2 is 99% of the way there. In a Q&A the publisher for Rivals 2 addressed advertising, they know most melee players have at least heard of RoA2, their focus is going to be gaining an audience of players from outside those communities whilst still actively supporting the competitive scene. I really do hope RoA2 makes a name for itself not just within the platform fighting community, but also the broader fighting game community and even as a casual party game.

[@curse5697]

if it didn't have popular IPs it for sure would've died a long ago, barely surviving off of those with horrible feeling gameplay

[@TheWatchmanOfTheEnd]

Mango doesn't know you can shine nair like 50 trillion times in a row

[@jaredlindsey9851]

Any attack that glows purple when it hits, means no DI can save you. Only way to live is to tech somewhere. If it doesn't glow than it is survivable (survivable as in not getting launched past the blast zone)

[@Mr.L9]

It would be nice if you can di after the purple hit

[@jaredlindsey9851]

@@Mr.L9 it won’t happen until very late in percent, anytime perfect DI won’t save you essentially. Like a kill screen in smash bros except it doesn’t lie

[@Mr.L9]

@@jaredlindsey9851 ofc I’m just saying it would be handy IF you can di it. But the purple hit is guaranteed kill lmao

[@onthedre]

This feels like if Smash and Freedom Planet had a baby

[@imaginationland474]

bruhh how r u so cracked wtf... also need ur rivals 2 melee comparison take

[@benkevelson5942]

Rivals is OD, glad you’re on it Mang0

[@ethanpritt542]

Mang0s zetter is flames!

[@Huckle777]

Quit smash like a year ago and have been waiting for rivals 2.. Finally so close

[@YoungSimbaFGC]

thank you mang0 for saying nasb 2 could be something, hopefully we can show the world at platfighter how cool the game is truly

[@actuallymario7676]

ITS A MANGO ERA ITS A MANGO ERA

[@XxHistorikxX]

I burned out on Melee a few years ago. But holy shit Rivals 2 is so fun.

[@RidaRyokoShaBeacoNofHope]

3:00 all that for 14 damage lmfao love zetters shine though easily one of the most fun characters to watch

[@crono812]

yea, but their mental will be in shambles!

[@Rhyme_Time]

The only platfighter besides Smash worth anyones time tbh

[@Jaziel_Berumen]

Game is fun and the GOAT is good

[@sqoosh636]

At 9:47 the whole sequence was just up throw > neutral b > f smash

[@LavenderU9]

it's crazy how good you still are at video games despite how old your are

[@ezelalia5739]

Why would he leave them for being old? He gains money pñaying videogames and there are literal grandmothers on youtube playing videogames

[@marisasak4770]

What is the song at the end?

[@MochaMochaMochaMochaMocha]

alternate title Mang0 vs the pause button

[@jojoviviator9258]

More Mango Rivals 2!

[@fritothedemon6647]

Rivals 2 is the best platform fighter since melee

[@laffy7204]

Coincidentally, I was drawn to the same character as Mang0, lol. No other character appeals to me

[@fishe7892]

rongunshu at 8:50 Classic

[@surfingraichu7594]

Any chance for RoA2 on switch? Looks cool

[@eddiesantana3009]

thinking about buying , is it as good or better than brawl?

[@thesillychops]

blunt man in the building

[@KrAceZ-z9r]

Wolf....PM Wolf? Is that you??

[@no_problem8023]

cashin in on the subs and viewership this game is gonna bring, smart business move. But like every smash clone, all top players will milk it for a month and then abandon it and go back to melee.

[@lizardking3268]

Jesus he’s already so good lmao

[@FoliumSakura]

fleet really did just say awawawaw and died

[@jameswoodland2719]

Is it just me or does this game’s hit sound effect sound like someone snapping their fingers?

[@darkeviljaxson]

Dude this game looks fucking sick

[@PalPlays]

This game is CRACKED!

[@protonskull]

i beg for this game to come to playstation we have no good platform fighters

[@NinjarioPicmin]

there are confirmed console plans, high priority but at the same time a bit further down the line since they want the console launch to be a more complete package and have stuff like crossplay and cross progression completely working. So it'll happen, just not anytime super soon

[@ToraToraTora虎]

so fine so fresh

[@darklurkerirl6101]

Mang0, we want you to just play it too

[@lakessbm]

Zetterburn = Zetterberg Forsburn = Forsberg LOL

[@OfficerFlatFoot]

Is this on ps5

[@B3nchwarm3r708]

Day 1 of asking Mang0 to tell C9 to restock Mang0 merch

[@BathwaterBender]

That is not Mang0. Who tf is that guy

[@xMrLuckyx]

This game got schmovement

[@meatballsyes3854]

This has 70k views but somehow rivals only has 11,000 concurrent players. That’s so sad

[@TrizollinTehWorld]

11k concurrent is great for an indie fighter! There are some AAA multiplayer shooters that don't have that.

[@nostalgicturtle6757]

That number is actually really fucking high. And it's only getting bigger.

[@carthagegaming5545]

They still have DACUS in RoA2 right?

[@AJinxxedFella]

yes

[@GlyphAnim]

5:56

[@AndrewRKenny]

Anybody who watched the full stream wanna tell me if he changed any of his opinions on shield being too strong?

[@flyingphalangerolo]

it's not so much that he changed his opinion as it is that the devs changed shields. they're a much weaker option overall now so there's good balance. if you haven't played since the last beta release, pick it back up! it's super fun

[@AndrewRKenny]

@@flyingphalangerolo I haven't played it since Genesis X lmao. I'll check it out again fs, thanks for the reply!

[@flyingphalangerolo]

@@AndrewRKenny sure thing! hope you enjoy playing again!

[@manuerth]

when workshop?

[@HuebertEllowit-LOL]

this game is so awesome...

[@evilspoon88]

This game needs to work on its casual scene like yesterday if it wants to succeed

[@GameRock06]

Agree. It's really good but it's too niche

[@TheVirginMeri]

Yep, it can be fun all it wants but I honestly do not care for these animals at all. Also not too visually appealing.

[@gonzohanzoalonzo]

It's not even fucking out yet wtf???

[@yawbyss981]

@@TheVirginMeriI fundamentally disagree, but I can see where you’re coming from

[@sefflikejeff1917]

Why would casual players be interested in a competitive game like this?

[@skytroopr6189]

Mango... multiversus didn't fail

[@d3lta_p]

You couldn't get me to play multiversus in it's current state, even if you paid me

[@skytroopr6189]

@d3lta_p what "state" ?

[@d3lta_p]

​@@skytroopr6189Multiversus's current state is slow, floaty, and demands a disrespectful amount of money from its playerbase.

[@majoraxx2427]

Game is buns bro

[@skytroopr6189]

@@majoraxx2427 nice non argument "bro"

[@elohceem4247]

He's fun for the new guy

[@thelastotaku4852]

ya i would LOVE to play a game i dont go 0 - 10 in as well LMAO

[@KynG5]

algorithm

[@madmonk4214]

im fucking notched brother

[@borthYT]

yo I'm in a mango vid :00

[@ChickenC3]

POG

[@natejohnson1083]

Rivals of either

[@BronzeAgePepper]

not "ayy-ther."

[@miguelsi7543]

LFG!!!

[@elguty4045]

5 ping?

[@banagher5629]

So zain beat mang0 out of melee ?

[@3three3three3three]

mango was a mario kart streamer in 2018, but then he came back. give it some time

[@juanse5601]

nice

[@3three3three3three]

clairen zetter is 60/40

[@templetonbob]

Dat ain’t melee

[@DreamcastSoupYT]

And? He's having fun let him be.

[@artca9508]

It's better. Fuck Melee ledges and grabs; Top platform camping ass matchups. Jank controls that you have to grind hundreds of hours to be able to control. Rivals 2 is all the good parts of Melee with non of the ass.

[@DreamcastSoupYT]

@@artca9508 well said bro well said. ♥️ I started actually playing melee 6 months ago and realized that mid level sweats and try hards make this game incredibly unfun. Ive tried playing fox, falcon, Marth and Falco and I'm okay with all of them but I still get lamed by almost every character in the game. It sucks 😔 Edit : To clarify by actually playing I mean like trying to improve and get good at melee and smash instead of being a audience member

[@HighLanderPonyYT]

The UI/UX leaves a lot to be desired though.

[@artca9508]

@@DreamcastSoupYT Yeah, it's not really worth it. I just play a 'balance' mod of the game I made in 2020 if I boot it up anymore with my friends. I might be interested in making a full on mod to remedy Melee's inherent issues if the game ever gets decompiled (25% done! So maybe in 2030 lmao). I started playing Link more to deal with the camping meta of the ranked cunks. And now have just found him to be my favorite character by far in the game. Too bad he's too slow with committal ass moves lmao.

[@jake.speare]

Rivals 2 animations are all amazing EXCEPT zetterburn. he's so stiff, am I the only one?

[@3three3three3three]

probably because he's always the first one they make. same situation in the first game until they updated him

[@jake.speare]

@@3three3three3three I think you're right, I had the same thought

[@dramion5486]

Lawsuite is incoming for patented game mechanics.

[@aksissilva]

the pirate mothership will be underwater for until the giant pyramid gets built, warioland 4

[@aksissilva]

jk

[@aksissilva]

just watch it

[@aksissilva]

you know what i mean

[@SMD_N_LMB]

Damn, didn't realize how much mango would swear during matches. Really off putting.

[@vsy_viii]

how is this game even legal

[@roninrainier803]

Because of how good it is?

[@Extracredittttt]

If you mean because it is similar to smash, it is like saying battlefield would be illegal for copying COD or even DOOM lol