Jack vs Friends - Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin

Jack vs Friends - Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin

[@torshec8634]

"The real Chaos was just the Fiends we met along the way"

[@bluerosekoro8875]

More like killed in the process….

[@silverflight01]

@@bluerosekoro8875 Friends that we met and then killed along the way, turning them into Fiends

[@elvampe13]

@@silverflight01 How does killing them at this point in the game turn them into fiends? Like, do their bodies become the black mist and go into Jack and come back out as fiends or...?

[@silverflight01]

@@elvampe13 Have you played the game?

[@elvampe13]

@@silverflight01 Yeah. Though some parts of the plot left me confused.

[@BlueLightningSky]

Jack is simultaneously this edgy protagonist and this dork who shares Frank Sinatra's My Way with his girl on his iPhone with airpods.

[@almac5446]

He is best character now he's a dork and an edgy that is the perfect package

[@vincenthawthorne9360]

Was that the actual song.

[@di4mgaming115]

@@vincenthawthorne9360 nope, it was MAIN THEME FROM FINAL FANTASY, the music thats in every FF game

[@cat55198]

@@vincenthawthorne9360 but it is in the game, in end credits though

[@RX29]

In my head, it will always be Limp Bizkit

[@Darth_Bateman]

So Jack had a raging desire to kill himself this entire time and has been oblivious to it….ironic.

[@Ryevil9494]

6:29 "This is crazy! I can't fight you!" Jack before Kaining his friends's asses

[@shadowstorm6458]

This man Jack picked the SMT Apocalypse anarchy ending🤣🤣🤣

[@TheTigersAssassin]

At least you have a choice with that ending

[@LocalAnonOnTheInternet]

@@TheTigersAssassin I couldn't stand the party, so it had to be done lol

[@callmezeldaonemoartime]

Bro so true

[@mistertaz94]

@@LocalAnonOnTheInternet Navarre had to go and sacrifices had to be made

[@LocalAnonOnTheInternet]

@@mistertaz94 I made him my partner because he clutched so many fights with the buffs lol

[@Zerobasssoul]

Jack is an edgy goof but this story in terms of how it relates to FF as a whole is pretty good

[@nightcloud2014]

If only more people would see the beauty of this game, but alas it released close to Elden Ring.

[@Garland846]

i sort of like how beneath the edgy exterior he's just a goofy guy who likes to listen to music

[@michaelfissel1357]

@@Eldritch_Mage Yeah, there could have been a lot done to improve it. It's pretty much just fanservice for all 10 people who played the first Final Fantasy game, after the 1980s.

[@bourky93]

@@nightcloud2014 got nothing to do with it, the game is just stupid as hell

[@GottEddy]

@@bourky93 Yall just don't get it

[@KittyKatty999]

Wow...Never thought I would feel genuinely bad, for fucking Mr "I'm going to *KILL CHAOS!!!* ". He's like a sad puppy after being forced to kill his friends. The fist bump at the end, with no one to return it for him, especially made me feel bad.

[@DynoSkrimisher]

This is literally you being the final boss.

[@NinetyNineNo]

Damn, those are some brutal finishing animations. They didn't hold back at all here.

[@wojtaxelite8600]

Imagine how difficult this part of the game would be if character was not set to be invincible

[@Marky-Mark1337]

Wait you are invincible!?!

[@wojtaxelite8600]

@@Marky-Mark1337 Yep, your companions deal damage to you but you cannot be killed. They however have to be to progress.

[@hubbabubba2570]

@@wojtaxelite8600 that's underwhelming should've included a dual ending option or a restart maybe.

[@13Kr4zYAzN13]

"Bruh I buffed them _SO MUCH"_ NotLikeThis

[@xentrix89]

the game has failed right there

[@chakravartin3356]

1:03 "you'll never forget your first love" Garland: o' (then proceed to walk towards the exits and ignores the girl's confession) dude have a tendency to walking few steps ahead of others. he must be stopped before it's too late

[@ariezon]

didn't expect I met you here.

[@chakravartin3356]

@@ariezon wtf, lol

[@davidstevens9461]

So I took out Jed and Ash first and just see Jack smack them around and think 'oh, okay, he's just knocking them out... maybe less so with Jed.' And then I see Jack impale Neon on her own sword and then I'm like 'oh... oh they ded.'

[@LocalAnonOnTheInternet]

11:26 My final message.

[@hendreor.m6685]

Goodbye

[@hendreor.m6685]

✌....

[@ivanalexeev6505]

13:50 I unironically find this scene very tragic and touching. For a story so bad the characters are still likeable to me. In fact, I liked them even from the announcement trailer because of their meme potential, you know. So seeing Jack having no friends anymore is kinda crushing.

[@Bahamut998]

The story isn't bad.

[@Unit_6227]

Yeah especially if you play with people online over time each one embodies the people you did multi-player with along the way and this whole team feared nothing and no one this one hit pretty hard when you play this game as a whole. And to the people who say Jack is an edgy dork the man would tear any of these dudes to pieces. They didn't do math in Jack's time, the math they did was subtracting actual living entities off the map, so he had to be a little viscious which people might be out of touch with that.

[@FBI_Not]

My fucking god, FF canonically is the first Isekai game now

[@joshuagraham2843]

this is depressing, this is fourth time jack tried to save princess and dies and dies again and resets jack is like thulsa doom from conan tried to be a hero but failed to be hero end up as a villain

[@EatTheMarxists]

I think that they’ve actually been through this cycle far more than just four times; Astro makes some comments to that effect.

[@jondeiconic2552]

i knew it.. Jack Garland.. is actually Garland Chaos.. we have been playing the villain the whole time..

[@KyngD469]

No shit lol

[@rionaka8835]

We knew that since the second trailer. They revealed it in the second trailer because people were already figuring it out, the only thing that was hidden by that point was WHY he becomes Chaos in FF 1.

[@donbototo5068]

Now we need a new ff with golbez as protagonist

[@Rhoen13]

Ive always loved stories like these. It used to be the villains were just some random asshole who popped out and decided to fuck up the world, but its so cool to see who they were before it all-and what the fuck happened that made them this way.

[@Dan-qf5xt]

@@rionaka8835 Yeah I didn't watch that trailers spoil everything

[@arkthompson9869]

Jack runs up to his dying friends: Ashe: ... Jed: AHH, FUCK JACK!!! I'm bleeding out my ass!!! It hurts so bad!!! Did you really have to stab your hand through my intestines?! I'm gonna die bleeding out my ass!!! Neon: Jack, I think there's something poking out of my back... I can't get up... Sophia: AAAAAHHHH, MY FACE IS ON FIRE!!!! It burns so bad! Everyone gets non deforming deaths while I get 3rd degree burns on my face?! How is that fair?! Jack: Geez, I'm sorry. I mean you guys jumped me and I flinched. Jed: Don't just stand there! Cast curaga or something?! Jack: ... Um, yeah. I got to go be Chaos or something. Jed: I can't shake the feeling that you have the white mage job on some sort of weapon wheel or some-... Oh my God... Jack runs away...

[@josevictorionunez9312]

I think Neon got stabbed through the throat. Makes it more painful and gruesome and she should be gurgling blood

[@arkthompson9869]

@@josevictorionunez9312 Really? I couldn't see where he stabbed her. They zoomed the camera in. I assumed it was the back.

[@SaiyanGamer95]

I mean, they had every intention on dying anyway. They goaded him into attacking, knowing he would eventually kill them.

[@andreimaxwell4455]

Jack flinching like that is kinda plausible lol

[@EatTheMarxists]

Yeah, this whole part is kinda silly - it’s not like Jack *had* to kill his friends because he pretty easily could have just beat them unconscious! What would they have done then if he didn’t kill them? And what sort of great friend kills his friends when he could have just knocked the snot out of them? Plot-Holes are plot-hole-y.

[@enthiegavoir5955]

3:00 is a scene i wish more people talked about

[@Bluemayje]

I think FF1 would have gone by quicker if the WoL and his friends had fancy futuristic iPhones in their fantasy setting.

[@Unit_6227]

There's a reason Jack and his crew of maniacs are out of place and it ties in pretty well with how 4 guys in FF1 need all the help they can get to beat Garland and company. Play the game, this party crushes ass.

[@Zanmakenninotachii]

10:54 Sophia noticing she is screwed

[@KyngD469]

An origin story for Garland is pretty Rad. But why the fuck is he from 2017 🤣🤣🤣

[@girlyknight8817]

It's not strange idea, FF games have always had this weird mix tech With some games have future and medieval tech, and even FF13 was mostly sci-fi with some medieval elementals

[@KyngD469]

@@girlyknight8817 oh for sure. but FF 1 had none of that. So it's quite bizarre to think about the WoL from some 600 BE era fought Garland.. who is some guy who used to OWN AN iPHONE!!!!! lmao

[@broodybats5398]

@@KyngD469 Jack is a Lufenian, and Lufenians are an advanced civilization that use technology. Since FF1 never expanded on the Lufenians, SoP took creative liberties, but at least they made a point that the only bearers of advanced technology in this universe were the Lufernians. Jack is meant to be like an alien coming down onto a more primitive world. By the time FF1 happens, Jack is clearly 100% adjusted to the world, is devoid of an iphone or modern day clothing, so it still preserves that medieval-ish aspect.

[@im50yearsold]

@@KyngD469 FF1 was full of time travel machines and its main plot (while very simple being a NES game) dealt with a time paradox

[@EnchantedSmellyWolf]

He is a Lufenian.

[@eW91dHViZSBpcyBjZW5zb3JzaGlw]

damn buff i wish you were streaming this. hearing jacks anguish made me tear up a bit. but i knew this was gonna happen, the 5 of them mirror the 4 fiends and chaos as jack. shit dude i am coping this day 1, i wish it was on steam thoiugh, i hate epic! thank for this bro! i cant wait for the next upload!

[@angellara7040]

The kill animations are so good

[@Diablosco]

And its Nomura so can we see Jack in Kingdom Hearts 4? As Jack looks like Luxord.... Nomuraaaaa what are you planning!!

[@EnchantedSmellyWolf]

🍿

[@TheMidWave]

Final Kingdom Smash.

[@herald8855]

Dude. Yes

[@bradleydrake6941]

It's not Nomura since he only designed the characters

[@N3bu14Gr4y]

Please, God, let Brian Clevinger reboot 8 Bit Theatre with this game in mind!

[@TheNoybusiness]

He knocked them all down.

[@Hikaru0kamiki]

Im dying to know what this ost is it sounds familiar to one of the ff1 themes i just can't think of it XD

[@pedrobrazon6610]

god damnit, i can't handle Jack's Gigachadness xD

[@AllyMonsters]

Ohh, so Jack picked the Yes Man ending.

[@13Kr4zYAzN13]

Jsut got through this part Actually made me _really_ sad Didn't want to kill my own friends :(

[@futureplays6060]

jack had no choice kill his friends and give up his humanity to be chaos

[@EatTheMarxists]

I love how Jack, Ash, Jed, and Sophia wear clothing and have technology that we wear and we own today in a mid-fantasy medieval setting. If you were somehow able to travel back in time to about the 1400s or so while wearing your typical clothing and holding an mp3 player/iPhone in your hand they would have you tied to a stake and set ablaze before you could even say “But it’s just Frank Sinatra!”. Apparently no one is too concerned about the weird-ass clothing these guys wear.

[@di4mgaming115]

Yall know the name of the OST? Been looking for it for ages

[@umbramuninn]

If you mean the battle theme, it's actually "Battle: Strangers of Paradise" Disc 4, Track 12

[@di4mgaming115]

@@umbramuninn yup that, but cant find on KZbin;-; thx btw

[@raffausfaus]

I can’t wait for the next games with Mateus Palamecia, Claudia of Darkness, Jose Golbez, Jeff ExDeath and Kevin Kefka Palazzo

[@Unit_6227]

Kefka ramming maces up people's asses as finishing moves and being devious with his gang

[@Odrikah]

​@@Unit_6227 Ngl I'd play a game as Kefka slowly devolving into madness while growing more powerful. Literally just Joker 2019 with magic.

[@bluebirdsigma]

Golbez would be named Ted.

[@S1EEPLES5]

Linda Ultimecia

[@ceoofceos5219]

Anyon the name of the theme that plays when he fights them?

[@TheHunchy101]

Up

[@GRAG3R]

Battle: Strangers of Paradise.

[@ceoofceos5219]

@@GRAG3R thanks yo

[@obololegal]

It's kinda sad but by this point in the story the game has lost all of its PS2 kusoge energy imo

[@EdgardoJCruz-dk5kv]

PS2 Kusoge energy? What are you talking about? Please elaborate.

[@Darth_Bateman]

@@EdgardoJCruz-dk5kv he refuses to elaborate further.

[@EdgardoJCruz-dk5kv]

@@Darth_Bateman Okay then.

[@Unexpectedstuff]

@@EdgardoJCruz-dk5kv “kusoge” - roughly translates as “shitty game”. I think they mean that this game felt at the beginning like Japanese shovelware game from that era. Showelware not exactly the right word, but I hope you get it.

[@EdgardoJCruz-dk5kv]

@@Unexpectedstuff Ah, I get it now. Thank you for explaining.

[@FlamingZelda3]

Someone should make a mod where you're not invincible for this fight

[@KingOfMilfgaard]

Whats the music during his flashback with Sarah? Also whats the music when he starts fighting his friends?

[@chakravartin3356]

Limp Bizkit and Limp Bizkit

[@cmatista1]

they went out their way.

[@LhLeo]

This is so fucking goofy it’s good lmao

[@jeankisaragi1502]

In this part I didn't wanted to fight them, but they forced, haved the dark knight job and using a scythe to fight, i obliterated them one by one when I used lighbringer, ngl it was very sad this part, I really liked them😢

[@JordansoBASED]

Dang that's f*cked up

[@Xsonic974]

give an egg to a woman u trust kkkk lovely

[@dale7326]

This is first of the 3 endings for this game btw.

[@marsbars5941]

There are 2 more endings?

[@chakravartin3356]

Oh no, another game with multiple ending bs. Pls tell me you are lying

[@ubermatoa8753]

How the hell did you know??

[@EatTheMarxists]

They’re not multiple possible endings per se and more endings to the main game and then the expansions that lead up to the true Warriors of Light defeating Chaos in the original game.

[@devonpearson3321]

Without an evil there is no good never one without the other

[@EatTheMarxists]

The game is a bit odd and the story makes very little sense at times, and it looks like absolute CRAP on PS4/Xbox One (game looks like you spread Vasoline on your tv screen) but it was pretty fun. I’ve since upgraded to the PS5 and Xbox Series X versions (I bought the game on my Xbox One so the upgrade was free, and I installed it on my PS5 since it’s now on the PlayStation’s version of GamePass, whatever it’s called) and it’s definitely much more enjoyable when you can actually make see the screen! This wasn’t a *great* game and it’s never going to be on most people’s Top Ten Greatest Video Games list, but it’s definitely worth playing. The combat is fun, the different classes and Jobs are enjoyable (especially since you can switch between two of them during combat at will, which really makes combat fun) and the story is pretty fun, despite its tendency to be a bit mind-boggling. If you’re on the fence about giving Stranger of Paradise a try you should do so and it’s pretty cheap now! Every now and then you gotta have a little ‘strange’ in your life, right?

[@Unit_6227]

We need to get the flip side of the coin for every final fantasy antagonist, although Clive was basically the villian of ff16, nothing more empowering than taking on the whole world with a nutcase as the main character you play.

[@arcadia7341]

what the heck is the story of this game? what is going on? how did this guy get from being a meme to being betrayed by his friends for revolution or something????

[@JB6GD684]

Play the game

[@wzx6x6z6w]

Jack is the final boss of FF1, now you can pretty much figure out the rest yourself.

[@KyngD469]

Wtf lmao

[@ThaetusZain]

I like it, it's dumb and fun. But let's hope they don't consider this canon. I really prefer "Sakaguchi's D&D game cut down to NES" feel without all the muddy weirdness to conflict with the old muddy weirdness of the original. It's cool, but it's cool like good fanfiction. It just confuses the story.

[@LLLawlied]

I think SE mentioned it that it is indeed not canon, more like retelling/alternate universe

[@gman8D1]

yeah not like ff1 is built on a time paradox loop or smth 😒

[@Odrikah]

​@@LLLawlied FF1's story is so vague you can kinda fill in the blanks however you want. This seems to occupy a "canon if you want it to be" sort of area.

[@dantederi5062]

Who tf memorized a song? It's to be listened

[@Weathersohot]

You don’t have songs playing in your head? Gee

[@FlamingZelda3]

it's the final fantasy main theme. the whole things it like 18 seconds. not too hard to memorize

[@blackwolf4766]

Damn this story is so damn bad

[@Twelve357]

U never played it

[@blackwolf4766]

@@Twelve357 yep i did, was told it was good and it just kept getting worse, shame i actually spend money on this shit

[@jacoryarnett7347]

@@blackwolf4766 Story is shit yet you never play FF1 and Dissidia to its story and lore.

[@blackwolf4766]

@@jacoryarnett7347 except dissidia for the psp had a decent story

[@TheUchihaCub]

It’s a prequel and set up for the original final fantasy? Pretty sure anyone could’ve pieced that together just by trailers and the demo. You’re the one who spend $60 on a really predictable story- A story I wouldn’t even call bad, considering most people haven’t even played ff1.