Trying out Robot Alchemic Drive for an hour

[@hibikikensaki]

Oh no.. That's where Nanao lives.

[@Kirbyoto2098]

I have never heard SGF cackle as much as he did when grandma got blown up.

[@al145]

Oh no, grandma.

[@forestsavior]

I loved this game already but I absolutely adore the unhinged opening exposition crawl: 1969: Humanity goes to the moon 1969-present: Space fucking hates us and will kill us with nectar if we attempt to leave earth

[@fofalooza]

Be sure to hit Nanao up for her AMAZING bread soup recipe. Well worth the misery of her recounting every horrible thing that ever happened to her and boy howdy is it a lot of recounting. I'd add that if you decide to continue playing, your flight ability is handy for getting to decent vantage points. Or fight from it's shoulder like a true heir to the Tsukioka family! Sandlot revisited the giant robots in later EDF games and sadly/fortunately improved the whole "how do I even see what is happening" aspect of playing a video game. I'll always have a soft spot for the R.A.D. way of doing it though.

[@gabrielsobral6682]

OH MY GOD OKAY IT´S HAPPENING What a pleasant girl, i sure hope nothing bad happens to her in relation to her family and emotional state

[@Hargrimm-]

Stellar VO work on display, presumably from whichever English-speaking interns they could round up from the office building the developers happened to be in.

[@Assasin2]

The English Dub is intentionally extremely cheesy, it’s by the same people who make the EDF Games

[@nikodem123asdf]

@@Assasin2 the voice of German professor once commented on my Longplay of this game and confirmed it's actually both intentional and unintentional. The people who did voices were not professional voice actors, many just worked at Enix of US and they were given little to no direction. In fact the German accent for the professor was his idea and nobody stopped him haha. He did say that Enix did upgrade their standards for Grandia Xtreme and you can definitely notice.

[@fakajuu9519]

I love the remote control thing, really brings out the scale.

[@pbjandahighfive]

This might be the greatest game ever made.

[@DrHackmoff]

It is !

[@nikodem123asdf]

I've never clicked faster on an SGF video. RAD is in my experience the most fun game in existence. When I played it together with a friend I laughed and smiled so hard my face hurt. This is one of those games where even parts which are "bad" make it better and parts which are good are amazing. Also this game secretly has the first lesbian MC in an English game simply because none of the dialogues change based on which hero you pick.

[@peppermillers8361]

Doesn't Fallout 2 have it beat by a couple of years, or do CRPGs not count? Didn't Fear Effect also have a lesbian MC? Still, that's a funny quirk. I love stuff like that.

[@nikodem123asdf]

@@peppermillers8361 honestly I didn't know about fallout 2 having homo erotic relationships. Fear Effect may have come out around the same time as this. I remember it was released for PS1 when PS2 was already out.

[@peppermillers8361]

@@nikodem123asdf there are sibling characters in Modoc you can marry, they marry you regardless of gender. Only difference is who you pick.

[@DairunCates]

I love this game so much. A couple things if you continue. 1. As people have said, get on top of buildings for a better view of your robot. 2. You eventually get all 3 robots. Gilang is actually the most newbie unfriendly one as it lacks the plane bot's mobility and Valvoga's powerful rocket punch. As shown too, the fortress mode for Gilang is kinda trash since you have to damage enemies before they stop teleporting. It still gets the job done, but if you want to try other ones, I recommend Valvoga. Especially since it inevitably becomes your main robot anyway since it gets a super mode eventually. 3. If memory serves, the tutorial actually has story and lore in it... including explaining why you have rocket shoes. (It's what you expect. It's experimental tech for the company that you're testing in everyday use and no one seems to care).

[@peppermillers8361]

Ah yes, story relevant tutorials, my favorite! (Unironically)

[@kaargen]

We did it. We saved the city.

[@gorgonm3208]

I love the part where you ran over like fifty civilians in your giant tank-mech and the game didn't acknowledge it. This game rocks.

[@peppermillers8361]

MAKING THE MOTHER OF ALL OMLETS! CAN'T FRET OVER EVERY EGG.

[@Popebug]

So many grandmas

[@tapamn]

17:28 Guess what? The character designer for this game was also the character designer for Cowboy Bebop.

[@EggBastion]

Toshihiro Kawamoto? It is! It's right there in the credits 0:16 _And_ Masafumi Takada from Grasshopper Manufacture too 0:45 I'm goin nuts!

[@peppermillers8361]

​@@EggBastion that's so awesome!

[@vicepresidentfru1tly]

Yes! YES! Nanao's suffering begins.

[@SnappleRyRy89]

With the doomsday setting, people running away, the kaijuu, and grade A voice acting/writing, this game gives huge EDF vibes minus all the insects

[@EmergencyChannel]

Same developers so makes sense

[@ryszardbies]

I saw a lot of clips from this game beforehand but i still wasn’t prepared to witness the whole thing.

[@sweetpotatofreak]

Gllang bristles with missiles!

[@vookatos]

This is the funniest thing I've ever seen please continue. I want to know more about this unhinged game

[@usov656]

AW YEA I'm gonna heat up some bread and water soup for this.

[@keenenwilliams9878]

ive been waiting for this! this game is near perfection. innovative original gameplay and unintentionally hilarious

[@somexe]

This game is rad as hell just for existing

[@peppermillers8361]

I know, right?

[@ArkannVII]

Everything about this was perfect, thank you to whoever recommended it.

[@deathsandals]

I'd heard about the exploding grandma scene, but this was my first time seeing it. I laughed about as hard as you did.

[@animegirl4209]

genuinely one of my favorite games ever.

[@Blasty007]

This was my first PS2 game along with Vice City.

[@jgminto]

It's bread and water soup 😊

[@foxyshibata3783]

Oh my god is this the 'Vegetables are Less Expensive here' game?

[@forestsavior]

Yes it is. And there's SO much more chaos to see and cause in this game.

[@raticus79]

15:57 SGF is slain

[@mikepike7139]

Gllang (?) stumbled so Gigantic Unloader Barga could walk

[@babypinksnail]

I'm glad when I saw Dr. Hourai I thought the same thing before you said it in the video.

[@styxthelich]

oh hey i remember this game pretty RAD 😎ta see ya checkin it out hope ta see more

[@jamesmason3734]

We beat the bad guys and 50 humans where killed in the cross fire! a new record!

[@nemotoad9315]

Nanao my beloved

[@alaricwilliamson5067]

This games just everywhere now isn't it?

[@someoneorother3610]

I'm glad it's finally getting the attention it deserves, the voice acting is simply magnificent

[@wiselcore]

Omg I was just thinking about this game. Nanao...

[@zacharyhicks6237]

This game looks really cool.

[@overkillsroyce]

I've been waiting my whole life for this

[@Kramdaddy]

I have never seen this game and the idea you "pilot" the mech on foot with a controller is novel and very stupid. I like the goofy melee combat, I like the wonky projectiles being aimed the worse way possible, and I like Nanao's grandma

[@ThingsOnDemand]

The good news about liking Nanao’s grandma is that there’s so much of her to go around now.

[@peppermillers8361]

For games it's a pretty neat idea, though for anime/tropes this has existed way before the original Mazinger Z (namely Tetsujin 28 and Giant Robo). Makes sense considering I've heard the devs for this worked on a Tetsujin 28 game.

[@mateuszjaniak2771]

I would love the full playthrough ❤️

[@BrainwashingDetectiv]

oh man it's supergreatfriend!

[@Klarden]

I wonder if it's intentionally comedic and absurd or the developers wanted to make this dramatic. Because there are so many moments where it feels like Dr. Strangelove kind of straight face absurdity.

[@Webwielder]

I'm not sure I've ever heard voice acting quite like this. It's bad in a very particular way, like it was recorded at a high school.

[@raticus79]

34:38 it's like Tomoe is working very hard to speak clearly and nail her pronounciation but hasn't quite gotten the hang of fluent delivery yet

[@kris2097]

Gllang may now be my new favorite word.

[@KenTails]

In the Japanese version, Nanao's name is Nanaho (奈々穂). I'm not sure if it's a weird localization change or just a mistake (they do sound similar and other names seem unchanged).

[@DrHackmoff]

Excuse me its pronounced NAH-NOW !

[@raticus79]

Now now, Nanao

[@Atrus999]

I found this game a few months ago. It's fun but it gets repetitive quick. The monsters you fight in each level are all basically the same with minor variations.

[@d1halberdgnoll963]

Where do you FIND this stuff? Any time I think it can't get weirder...

[@jackmehoff9957]

Naanaow is best girl

[@tsuna6240]

How do you find these gems

[@derecksheppard5913]

I...found that really fun/interesting. Hope it wasn't too much of a pain for SGF to play because, wow..

[@al145]

Tower 7 with that 2nd robit fight

[@natp8387]

I hope you land a full playthrough of this one.

[@TrashPanda-2112]

Being 17 in japan is hard.

[@peppermillers8361]

Being a teenager in Japan is hard, every mecha requires teenagers to pilot or control them.

[@ZappaSlave]

Oh no, he's dying

[@grandpathong]

never clicked a damn video so fast in my life.

[@Karma20XX]

There's only one thing I know about this game lol

[@TheMayonakaMidnighter]

WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS

[@dopplegangerdavid]

hahaha you blew up tokyo city hall in shinjuku. i never liked that building.

[@peppermillers8361]

Unfortunately, it was only 60% of that building. The other 40% still remained.

[@RIAN69]

Wasnt this a game on the ps magazine disk called jampacked demo disk back in 2000

[@Mr_x_19922]

Cool waifus, this has some Persona 3 vibes

[@lucasanderson1516]

I like to think that old games had bad voice acting for the same technological reasons they had worse graphics.

[@raticus79]

Pronouncing it like NecTar kind of works for its role in the plot... has humanity stuck like a tar pit

[@JuanPerez-cs1gx]

I know American Anaim and Japanese English translations in general are (for some reason) supposed to make characters sound like they are all mentally but this game goes beyond expectations in terms of Anaim voice acting. Jokes aside there's something very curious about this game. Most of robot games from Japan are kind of inspired by Gundam style quick moving robots. This one with this slow moving hulks destroying everything around them makes me think of Robot Jox which is something I would never have thought of being attractive for Japan.

[@sinisterwombat3128]

Armored Bore

[@danhectic5629]

hmm is the Nihongo version cheap? i will become fluent and be able to sell my US copy of Panzer Saga!

[@johandagger]

46:04 oop sorry everyone :_(