The Xardion "review" | Every SNES ""RPG"" #54

[@espfusion]

Props for calling BS on people wrongly labeling games Metroidvanias on your RPG series. You didn't have to do it but you did anyway and for that you have my appreciation.

[@PCFROMVCS]

Toenail cancer is such a serious problem. Thank you for this tribute to Stovich ❤

[@fargoretro]

We should start a medical fund for Stovich (for the cure)

[@DavidKRoebuck]

Stovic died in horrible pain, man.

[@Mamiya645]

The people who throw a metroidvania label on everything including Faxanadu that also use the Soulslike label when it should in fact be Virtual Hydlide-like give me tchaikovsky syndrome.

[@baumdf9134]

What is tchaikovsky syndrome? But regardless I agree fully

[@jonc2242]

Getting my toenails checked asap. Long live Stovich

[@rinkuhero]

my theory on the center issue is that perhaps it was in the center in japanese. when they translated it to english, they forgot to adjust the location. i imagine the japanese rom would be perfectly in the center for its japanese text. english is a slightly different width to same the say amount of thing (usually more width for the same sentence).

[@JasonGravesPoser]

That's probably a better center theory

[@apostlenik809]

Still puzzled by how such a star-studded production resulted in a game so quintessentially 5/10

[@RPGFort]

Jason Richard 🤝 Reviewing games that aren't RPGs for their RPG shows

[@isaacpimentel6482]

Never trust fan mail that tells you to get a haircut

[@cubey]

Get a haircut.

[@ZacHawkins42]

"Metroidvania? You keep using that word, but I do not think it means what you think it means."

[@videostash413]

now I want a peanut

[@Hits9Nine]

Context sensitive, man must have been playing Conker’s Bad Fur Day.

[@bradford433]

A jank childhood classic. Not sure why but I've always found this game strangely compelling. You're right about it being a nice, short experience. I still think about it from time to time though, but I'm just weird like that.

[@kageris6]

Same here. Just one of those old childhood memories that comes up from time to time. I know at least part of it stood out cuz the wolf/panther mech character dies near the end. Not alot of games did something like that.

[@CidAghast]

Idk why but I appreciate the super obvious flavor text in real time.

[@jpbishi]

Sweet! Been waiting for you to review this one. Only ever seen it in Nintendo Power. 30 years later I never bothered to play it even on emulation. Keep up the great work!

[@chriskoschik391]

Xardion is the definition of a game that I wanted to like far more than I liked it

[@Neon002121]

I do not trust this Stovich and his alleged toenail cancer. I suspect he needs a haircut.

[@flameguy21]

Can't believe SNES game devs didn't know how to center a div

[@AshleysBallistics]

That letter looks like it came from behind a waffle house.... I approve 😃

[@magitek_riding_imperial_witch]

Yo! My friend and I LOVED Xardion back in the day. It was the closest thing we'd seen to a Voltron game, so we'd use Panthera as much as possible even though he sucked.

[@hanchiman]

I realized the bleak storyline of Xardion was assisted from Gainax as well, since Gainax used to be infamous with morbid downer endings

[@danieldoherty420]

My guess is that there isn't any center-aligned option, because it would take up too much space in the code. They're probably placing the text by hand every single time.

[@EdmondDantes224]

Yeah its kinda silly that he assumes that text placement in a SNES game would work exactly like in a modern paint program.

[@Mirauge]

I thought I was gonna hate this game. Hell, I owned it. Never played it and thought I hated this game. Little did I know, I loved this game. I ended up playing it later after years of never touching it. Actually kicks ass.

[@wknight8111]

I'm with you, I had Xardion as a kid and I generally enjoyed playing it. The controls were stiff and the robot switching gimmick sucked because none of the robots excelled at anything. What happened is you used that first robot until you died, and then you were stuck with the other two until you couldn't progress anymore because you couldn't shoot upwards. It wasn't a game that was so bad you hated playing it, it was like there were good ideas all over the place that just didn't get implemented correctly.

[@danielreynolds7458]

this game looked awesome in nintendo power and i wanted it real bad. then, i rented it and...yeah

[@MasterBelch]

dude love the channel. and glad youre livestreaming. looking forward to watching this video.

[@The-Hawke]

Love your content dude. Thanks for the great times

[@NeptuneKnives]

Great camera.. love this background and style

[@HPRshredder]

11:00 - Game looks pretty terrible, but I like the trees that jump out at you here. You’re right that fun can be a mindset. I enjoyed my time with Ice Climber for example. Most today would probably say that game is unplayable garbage.

[@lancemagmer9701]

I .liked this game enough that I rented it a few times

[@DustMan2704]

FINALLY another every snes rpg review. You got sidetracked way too hard.

[@Shishkebarbarian]

the best youtube of the week

[@ldl1477]

I saw a review for this game ~30 years ago, and then proceeded to name my new dog after it. He ended up getting along really well with my cat Yoshi, but of course Yoshi wasn't named after the Mario dinosaur, but instead Hamato Yoshi (aka Splinter from TMNT). Yep, 12 year old me, naming my dog after a robot, and he made best friends with my cat named after a giant mutant rat man... carried his frozen corpse around all winter until the parents forced me to bury the remains. 12 year olds are so weird.

[@thelifedragon2156]

i found this channel from the paper mario video. i have now binged watched your entire snes rpg series. i dont really even like rpg games that much, or at all really if being brutally honest. just not my cup of tea (exception is paper mario) but i wish i had more to watch. keep it up.

[@yhwh88]

Omg I loved my snes ascii pad. The input speed was exactly right to infinite bomb jump in super metroid.

[@WeeWeeJumbo]

i heard Stovich is friends with Dremskiy

[@rclaws3230]

The robots were so cool and that was good enough for my 8yo brain to convince myself I was having fun. The red one was my favorite.

[@MattsFreeChannel1]

I really appreciate your possible explanation of the alignment. Sincerely, more people should use critical thinking, even if it might not be what happened; just thinking about what might be, rather than saying "I don't get to think."

[@MrNoobed]

I remember renting this from blockbuster or warehouse and was pleasantly surprised. I was often disappointed by shovelware titles. The pretty easy difficulty and cool graphics made this a perfect rental. It also had a nice write up in nintendo power to hype me up. Metal storm was too hard to beat in a rental.

[@DavidKRoebuck]

I love his prancing walk

[@crism8868]

Never trust someone with laryngitis in the hair follicles

[@dauntlessoperator41]

This looks like it had potential. I would have liked it as a kid. The sprites look decent. This could have grown to a Genesis, Ranger-X style killer IP. If it could have just found itself. So much potential wasted. Fun is a mindset, great writing!

[@jescis0]

8:19 I have the Japanese version of the ASCII Pad and I LOVES it!! The Pad though isn't any different than the US one, but it is only because the box is in Japanese!! those switches though 😍 😍 😍 😍 ASCII also made Castle Excellent and the NES/SNES Advantage joystick controllers too, if you didn't know…

[@jamesstaggs4160]

What you don't realize is that toenail cancer is a misnomer and it's actually your toe hairs that get cancer. Toe hair cancer doesn't roll off the tongue as well.

[@Kenshiro3rd]

I actually love and have a CIB copy of this game. It's not good, but I love it anyway... due to its mecha designs, music, story, and concepts.

[@MrPartisanhack]

I have Pubic Hair Cancer and one week to live. Do Knights of the Round or King of the Dragons as your next "RPG". Also if you are not going to cut your hair grow an equally gross beard.

[@jeffcox6539]

I saw this in a book about SNES games back in the day. It was one of those games that the still pictures of it looked cool to me, and 10 year old me wanted it, but now I'm glad I never got it.

[@stevep9177]

What did you do to William Robert Lee

[@waylonoconner9121]

I liked this game back in the day.... as a rental

[@ryan.harvill]

Jesus christ, Jason's voice aged like 30 years here 4:10 . He sounds like he works in "sanitation".

[@JoLiKMC]

Ah, _Xardion._ The game I picked at complete random to Let's Play back in 2011 because the name sounded interesting. I stopped after three parts, not realizing the galaxy map could be *interacted with,* then I played it through to the very GAINAX ending. It was worth playing, but nah. Not an RPG. Not "open-world". It's a standard-ass (and very slow) action platform with shootie gun 'bots.

[@Ale-ft4re]

nice

[@johns8369]

I love this game. Hard disagree on it sucking. It had a save feature when few games did back then. And it was fun. Solid B tier game.

[@PolybiusArcadia]

Ohh, context sensitive. I get it

[@pallas29]

Not an RPG. I would play this game now, but not as a kid.

[@througtonsheirs_doctorwhol5914]

aaction RPG robots!!!! This was a jam for my best friend , my bro n me! NEver had it... but during the pandemic i Bought in in japanese for my super famicom! :P

[@Spillpolitiet]

what the darn

[@leadbones]

I have a lil soft spot for this game. Rented it a few times back in the day. I wouldn't call it good, or an RPG. I like it tho. A lot of that probably had to do with the mechs.

[@peosea]

The ASCII pad carried my teenage @$s a long way

[@Alianger]

You're doing ARPGs now? You should look at Dragon View, Brain Lord, Secret of Evermore and Terranigma if you haven't Edit: Oh you've been for a while lol, sorry

[@fargoretro]

lol at being whelmed by a game

[@aquamidideluxe5079]

7:57 Uncensored bloody holes in a localized SNES game? And also, how did this get localized but not Dragon Quest 5? Like damn.

[@pikaporeon]

Eva girls are an instant click

[@StoneCresent]

Doesn't the SNES/Super Famicom use tile and sprite based graphics? It looks like Xardion's developer used a tile per letter for the text rather than a text box object. I don't think a text box object is even possible on the system.

[@Zarathustra-rj4yz]

What a cute pvm. Come on bro get a 27" trini

[@equip-y3p]

What is a video game

[@pennsworth996]

Life's too short to play games with poorly aligned text boxes.

[@videostash413]

it's too short to notice they're not centered

[@fromsinking]

Xardion, more like Fardion, am I right guys

[@frankf684]

Is this review a Metroidvania?

[@bobyrob9261]

Well fuck

[@feliciavale4279]

get a haircut

[@SomeeRandomGuy]

This text misalignment explanation is outright wrong and convoluted. They just chose a position that was incorrect. No calculation, no "align middle", just chose the wrong x position. Normally this happens because in localization they didn't adjust the position for the new string, but in this case it's just positioned incorrectly.

[@meaninglez100]

Phony...

[@crescent5311]

This guy thinks he's a celebrity. What's the world coming to.

[@tomrwills]

I guess you missed the point.