All of youtube used to be like that. It was really personal

Yeah I really like it

Agreed.

I miss these kind of videos

Yeah, same, VP along with Xenogears are the only ps1 games I have played xd

I couldn't get into Valkyrie, but Strange Journey Redux is in my top 3 favorite video games.

I think the standard Atelier/NicheJRPG fan also plays From games (not the other way around) so I think they kinda overlap. Its not really a Ryza3/RE4 case. I think the diehard fan would try to buy both, though.

Atelier Ryza generally had much bigger marketing in Japan, as well. I’d never heard about it until going to Japan for a few weeks and seeing it EVERYWHERE.

Lunar 1 and 2 in the 2D HD art style would be amazing

Maybe the other small niche jrpgs, but not the big titles. Notice how NISA waited for Square to announce Final Fantasy XVI's release date before announcing Trails into Reverie's.

From Pokémon to SMT 😄

I bought Persona in 1996 and it turned me off from the series. SMT is a hardcore series. I recently watched playthroughs of a bunch of non-Persona SMT games, yeah I would never have played them on my own, you need to put so much effort into simply navigating the games. Even if they had no competition I don't think they would have done well. Persona 3 and especially 4 popularized SMT because they are like 1000 times more accessible.

@@xxJing That's more so the older SMT games. The SMT games from the Nintendo 3DS era and onward were/are much more accessible and fair.

Yeah, I'm an older gamer and a lot of these I remember coming out and this seems a bit like revisionist history. A lot of these games didn't sell because they were obscure and a lot of people didn't know about them or they were on systems that very few people had at the time (like Lunar 2 on Sega CD). That being said content gotta crank out the videos somehow I guess, and I enjoy his content, so even though it feels like a reach I enjoyed watching.

I also played it some time after it was released, and really loved it. Yeah - There where some bad acted and animated moments, but they where not frequent or distracting. The main game was great. I liked Blue Reflection 2 too. It's clear Gust learned a lot with the development of the Atelier Ryza games, because it's clear some mechanics found their way in Blue Reflection 2. It's a terrible shame that the Blue Reflection "Sun" mobile gacha garbage game completely ruined the franchise by dumping in a male protagonist in the game series. Not only is a male character not really done in a Yuri oriented game series, but making that male the main protagonist is an insult to the very core of the series. We probably will never see a Blue Reflection 3 (and even if we see one, it will probably be with a male protagonist too)...

Agreed.

Not the same crowds. A foul-mouthed 12-year-old CoD zombie won't even play non CoD games. Though I guess today Fortnite and its peers are now the normie bait.

@@asmodeus58XX for example, Ryza 3 was being overshadowed by RE4 remake

But...aren't those 40 characters (which is decent I think) all the characters that exist on the game? I don't get what you are saying

@@Fermin-hw5pd Let's take Chrono Cross first. There are 40 characters that you can recruit, then there are also a lot of unique characters (with story relevance and special models) that you cannot recruit, aside from that there are also a lot of NPCs with no particular importance to the story and they only say random things. In Radiata Stories, basically all the characters in the game are unique characters. In addition to that you can have most of them as party members. Radiata Stories basically did what Chrono Cross originally set out to do but gave up on because it would be too much work.

@@xxJing Oh okay, I get it now

I loved the Lunar Series and still waiting for another remake on the current console

My family couldn't afford a Sega CD, I think it was like another $150 at least in addition to the Genesis so I didn't play Lunar until like 1999-2000 with the PS1 remakes. The funny thing about Trigger and Cross is, Trigger is accessable to basically everyone. It's a simple game. Cross on the other hand is very involved and makes you question whether it was the same team that developed it or not. Honestly I'd almost say Xenogears feels more like a sequel to Chrono Trigger than Chrono Cross does. Xenogears has basically a straight up Gundam anime plot pretty much.

Yeah, deep and sad character stories and fun combat, if only it had a better story outside character recruitments

I couldn't get into it.

I had to burn it back in the day because Europe... Haha it didn't get a release here until the psp 😂

At least old games are accesible by emulation today!

It had 1 ending and an epilogue that was playable after the ending where Hiiro goes to the moon and finds lucia after fighting the 'star dragon' boss who is that weird gunslinger boss you found early in the game just after you get the blonde mage-girl. It was a good game, better than the ps remake IMO. I liked the magic experience system (people hated it because saving cost some but the amount it cost was basically negligible like 3% thru the game), but being able to select which skills you wanted to level up how much was really cool. I don't know if the music was better too. T he ps1 version of the silver star had inferior music to the sega cd version so I imagine eternal blue did too but I never actually heard the full soundtrack for the ps1 version. I wanted to try Valkyrie profile so bad but could never find it up here in Canada. Some block buster rental places had it for like a week and then not because they would end up 'lost'. Cold steel 2 is my least f ave trails game, though I still love it. Cold steel 3 is much better imo. The new main cast are alot more evenly fleshed out. Rean finally grows up a little and by being an instructor, his self-sacrifice epiphany moment I'm worthless nonsense he has to relearn 500x is less cringe since he IS the instructor so it makes more sense, and the politics are good, much better than Azure's imo which everyone raves about.

It's too late; Square Enix is already becoming the Disney of Japan. :(

never heard of it before now. Already eBayed a copy. Yet again, damned expensive as almost all copies are either from France or America. I've really gotta stop watching this guy's videos :)

@@TheBlackSeraph yes my roommate cheated me out of a physical copy, I got digital and the second one physical

And also with Persona (Neo TWEWY) and Monster Hunter (Valkyria Chronicles 4).

You are wrong! Super Mario Galaxy is the game that released 4 days before Radiant Dawn.

Those 2 are 1 year apart bro xd

@@Fermin-hw5pd Rhea really messed up when he put this kid in charge, or is she secretly trying to rewrite gaming history via proxy?

Storywise and gameplay, no; but maybe staff? I dunno.

@@tigerhorse6321 Gonna try it out. I like Disgaea and FF Tactics so this looks good.

It's not made by the same people (I think) but it is a gothic JRPG like Shadow Hearts. If I recall, it has multiple stories told from multiple protagonist's POVs, and all of them are searching for the titular Eternal Poison. It's one of Erick's favorites, so finding a video where he talks about it shouldn't be hard.

@@Kaitou1412Fangirl Nice. I'll probably be playing it on the emulator tonight.

uh? It doesn't stop after 4 games. Trails into Reverie is out in August, and it features many of the same cast, many of the protagonists are cold steel characters actually. Also you should play trails into the sky 1(FC), 2(SC), and 3rd (same series, has some of the same characters like Olivier, Tita, Agate, and later on, Renne). Then you can play Trails to Zero and Azure.. Please don't play them before sky. Like all the best scenes involve Renne, and they will fall flat if you don't have her backstory. Ideally you should play them before Reverie because alot of Reverie's content is crossbell stuff, including one of the 3 main protagonists (Don't play zero before sky! =P).

Only if you go crazy over a couple digits on a fictional character's wiki page, lol.

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