Most Tales franchise games do have additional fights, story, etc. In New Game + ... The grade shop is there for you to customize your NG+ and choose what does/doesn't carry over.

9:40 I'm sorry, Laser Swords?... LASER SWORDS?!?! HOW DARE YOU!!!

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Regarding the red lightsaber in Jedi Fallen Order and Jedi Survivor: No, the ability to change your lightsaber to red is not canonically gained at the end of the story of the first game. Cal never picks up a red lightsaber in the story and is never seriously tempted to fall for the dark side. The red lightsaber and inquisitor outfit only appear in a horrifying vision of a possible future that could happen if he were to gather the force-sensitive children named in the holocron to try and rebuild the Jedi Order (in the vision, the Empire finds their hideout, captures them and then the Inquisitors torture the children to break Cal to give in and become an Inquisitor himself). While you can equip that outfit and red light saber in new game+, it remains a non canon gimmick feature that clashes with the actual story, just as much (or even more) as e.g. wearing a wooky fur suit or a clown costume would. Thus it makes absolute sense to lock those cosmetics behind new game+ in both games. Of course you could argue that games shouldn't take their story too seriously and should allow players to goof around to their heart's content from the first minute of playing. That goes for silly cosmetic items as well as doing story-breaking things like kicking the annoying NPC the game prevents us from attacking, going on pointless rampages or walking around wrecking stuff for fun. But whether a game wants to allow players to do this or not is also an artistic choice. If you are annoyed that the devs want you do experience the story as intended and would prefer to goof around, you can always go play lego star wars instead. ;-)

Wait, I thought the auto pickup option was just an option you can toggle and not a ng+. Im sure I changed it after I looked through the options.

i would like the option of an outro

With regards to the Grade shop in Tales games - if you manage a battle badly (and it's not always 100% clear why a fight was badly rated) it can return negative grade. Even if you always get positive grade, it rewards grinding which you may or may not regards as a good thing. NG+ in Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is , notoriously, paywalled, so you not only have to complete the game for NG+ but then pay to unlock the mode.

One thing that should be added to some games on NG+ is making unskipable cutscenes skipable since they no longer serve their purpose. It's half the reason I struggled to go back to The Evil Within as the first 30 minutes is basically just a button control tutorial and pointless for a hardmode or "Akumu" run.

I agree with the way you got the bandanna by resisting the torture and the stealth camouflage by giving in. It felt more fulfilling earning it, to me, back in the day.

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The Easy & Challenge Mode features in Black 2 and White 2 aren’t typically New Game Plus features. You need to unlock them in the other game by catching either Regirock or Regice in the post game to get a key that will unlock Easy Mode or Challenge Mode. They would’ve worked if Black 2 and White 2 had multiple save files, but they don’t.

What is with the MGS camo for an entry? It makes the game stupidly easy. Why would it be included at the start? It’s far from an “accessibility” feature and I have no idea why you would say it is. That’s like saying “infinite ammo is an accessibility feature”

I've got a really random question that has absolutely nothing to do with this video but I've always wondered,if a computer or something can overheat then could it undercool?

I agree with everything but the camo in mgs, that would completely have ruined the game to have it in making it ridiculously easy and trivial. Why not just put god mode from the start in every game and make it boring?

i miss the days where you could get bonus stuff if you had save data from previous titles of a game series

Every one of her videos, I see the American McGee's Alice next to a statue of a character that looks super familiar but I can never figure out who it is. Now the decor is different and there is an XBOX light now. I guess I won't be distracted by the background anymore, but still always wondered who that character was.

can’t remember what game but there was one where about 40% of the rest of the game was behind new game+ so to speak as you just could not get a certain item on your first play through to get to an area that continued the adventure for another 20+ish hours.

I can’t believe you mentioned the “Senate hearing” when talking about Final Fantasy 7! 😮😂

The original god of war games and the costume system. I loved it so much. “Zeus! The COD of war has come to end you!”

Jess, the cat tree implies a cat. Now we need to see said cat. How many paws up do games get?

Nice new cat tower Jess!

Dope, the host has the exact same cat tree that I have

The Horizon face paints were accessible before ng+. You just had to know where to buy them 😂

That setting in rebirth is there at the start I turned it on when I first started

Another title for this video. " i dont like games with replayability"

Premium Adventure is not NG+ in the Yakuza/Like a Dragon franchise, it's just a post game time killer. Because if you really played the game there is nothing left to do in Premium Adventure, besides picking fights with thugs and playing one of the many minigames for the millionth time. But you can still level up or farm materials/equipment or money and then create a NG+ save file with your Premium Adventure data.

No mention of the Baku The Voiceless shop in Ghost Of Tsushima is shocking. Why isn't that available in the main game to begin with?!

i’m not sure why but every persona game i’ve played locked the optional superboss behind ng+. elizabeth and margaret were the same

the orange lightsaber is were its at honestly

Back in my day, Final Fantasy used to make us by heels and pure’s and any other item we wanted one at a time

"FF7 Rebirth is full of padding." Well, I, for one, am shocked. 🤣

Well, in tales if Xillua 2 they gave your protagonist a voice..

With metal gear solid it's explained the stealth is made by Hal and you only meet him in game

Stopped taking the list seriously after MGS Stealth suit

Now that you've read this and are at New Video+, you've unlocked: - Not wanting to watch this video again - Annoyance at a number of the elements here Seriously, this was VERY low quality content. And I'm highly displeased at whoever wrote this. Too bad we can't unlock the writer once we finish the video.

The frickin grade shop dude...Abyss became so annoying when I found out about that

This isn't New Game Plus stuff but why the hell is Symphony of the Night not available at the start of the PSP Castlevania Rondo of Blood Collection? Some people rather play that instead of Rondo of Blood. It's kind of tricky to unlock too. You need to know where it is hidden and play through a somewhat challenging game to get it. Using Maria makes things easier. Unlocking Maria is easier than unlocking the games.

I don't believe someone talked about Shin Megami Tensei 1 and 2. This brings back memories from SNES and the 90s. Such great games.

You know what, I agree with you on pretty much all of these. Games should come with all content unlocked from the start. Better yet, they should take out all of the bosses and difficult sections, and the fiddly bits where you have to control the character. And all trophies should pop when you start the game. Who are these arrogant game Devs who expect people to actually have to put in work to unlock stuff?

Still mad there’s no NG+ for CP77.

That is quite the cat tree.

On my third playthrough of Persona 5 Royal, I did it in 59 hours.

Jess, your hair is on point. No lie!!!

Raging that auto-collection isn't in the first play of rebirth. It's winding me up

"It's a lot of times, even for persona!" Nervously looking at my three completes of Persona 4 Golden, four of Persona 5 and two of Persona 5 Royal

I like that yellow Poster in the background. What is that?

Wait. Let me stop you there for a second. *METAL GEAR SOLID* has a point. Everyone can beat that game, but if they gave the players the option to unlock the stealth cammo at their first playthrough, those would have been tempted to cheat their way out to the end and lose the unique experience that game offers. ("unique" at the time, of course) Is instead a good reward (as the unlimited ammo) for the players who worked hard to reach the end and that now just wanted to play again, with less effort and just enjoy the story.

Honestly I wish New Game+ also had more story inclusions if it's something that's like an adventure of some kind. So added missions, dialogue, lore, etc is added in could make things fun. Although maybe not a dozen different endings that have to be extremely meticulously found and implemented like in Silent Hill, Elder Tale, Nier: Automata, Personas various games, etc. Lol

Somebody did some spring cleaning.

Ender Lilies had its difficulty slider (among other things) locked behind clearing the game first, which was just so stupid. Making the game harder is one thing, but you shouldn't be locking makin it easier behind clearing the game first.

I could only dream of having hair as good as Jess 😭💜

From number 7 onwards “don’t make me actually play this game” 🙃

That’s what a lot of these items and features are: things you can’t get until after you finish the game (sometimes twice), do everything, and now you have it, but don’t need it. 😕

Pressing triangle to pick up items is just too harsh. It's padding and a horrible slog. You should just select a chapter and instant-unlock everything.

Red lightsabers are not forbidden for Jedi to use but it is frowned upon because it is unnatural.

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Miles morales is certainly not 7 to 8 hours long,upon doing everything you can do 1st time through took me 15 hours ,considerably shorter on playthrough 2 due to being powered up ,

Day 12 of asking for 'Games where the bad ending is the canon ending'. Please include Shadow Hearts series.

Also, for the Persona 5 one. You don't need to do a NG+ for the secret final boss. You just have to get maxed out affinity with 3 specific characters. If you DONT do it. The game LETS YOU KNOW to do a NG+ so you now know there is a secret ending if you do things right. You guys do hate replayable games lol

This gotta be one of the most complainy lists put together on the Channel. Bruh. Sometimes yall gotta play the game. Yall complain when the game MTXs yall and says hey let us unlock it. Then comes the games where you can unlock it and we get a headass list like this

The MGS entry was ridiculous lmao 😂 might as well ask for infinite ammo while you are at it. It should be a feature right? According to your own logic.

What would be the point of having the stealth camo immediately? If you just want the story, not the game....watch a playthrough or a cutscene compilation. Why buy the game, at that point?

Judging a game made in the 90s with modern sensibilities like why doesn't it have accessibility features is like going to ancient Rome and asking hey why don't you guys have trains it would make getting around a lot easier

ALSO< THE GRADE SHOP HAS TO EB NEW GAME PLUS CAUSE U HAVE ZERO GRADE AT THE START, do some research into the franchise

Today's edition of missing the point the stealth camo destroys the game if you had it at the beginning what would even be the point of playing the game to begin with. Also the whole just experiencing the plot thing sorry news flash both let's plays exist and there's a Metal gear solid motion comic which tells you pretty much the definitive story of metal gear solid 1 if you just want the story that's probably the best way to go

Jessica is such a beautiful Queen ❤👑

Ok, to defend persona 5, that boss is worse than some FFX dark aeons, and dam near impossible without 1 of like 3 specific set ups that youd have to follow a guide to do on run 1.

Definitely not the worst offender, but I find it really annoying when the best ending for a game is locked behind New Game Plus. Like, if it's a shorter game, it's not as big of a deal, but if it's like 40+ hours long... no. Just no.

10 obvious clone cash grabs from major studios. Example Prince of Persia: the Lost Crown and ZAU. Both are just the same game in a different skin. Both by Ubisoft and I can't help but feel angry about it.

I mean. .persona series has always done this? It isn't a new thing. 😅

The Metal Gear Solid is just wrong, starting with the camo would only lessen the whole experience and the essence of a "stealth" game.

I know you're not going to talk about this because who the hell talks about super robot wars except me down in the comments section so I might as well say it super robot wars W the true final boss is hidden behind new game plus

Clicked on this video cuz Aloy is the thumbnail

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Half of these are basically. “I don’t want to actually interact with this game I paid money for.” If all you want is a story, watch a video. You don’t want to experience the actual intended experience that everyone who made that game spent so much effort on, nope. Just gimme, gimme gimme. Want everything cool up front, screw earning something, Gave you money now gimme! Some of these make perfect sense. FF7Rebirth and the items are an insult. Face paint in HZD was an afterthought probably and added in a later patch? Still dumb. Not being able to change you Clothes? Dumb.

Clearly you don't understand so let me explain. New game + is for ADDITIONAL enjoyment and gameplay.

black and white 2 was freaking easy on its own, so meh

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Uh make MGS stealth camo available from the beginning?! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! That would completely trivialize and make pointless the entire idea of the gameplay. Hence, why this is a reward for beating the game. If you can’t figure out how to sneak in MGS, you don’t deserve to play it.

Did Jess get a cat?!

funny how these are console games, its as if they want you to be on them more then making good games

There's only one final fantasy 7 and it's not rebirth so I don't care that you've got trolled.

Mgs doesn't belong on this list. This video needed padding I guess.

Why do game journalists never wanna play to work towards anything? Some of these are ok but some you should HAVE to work for.

Miles Morales made the bigger mistake of keeping the platinum trophy for completion of a new game plus run. It's almost as if they knew their game wasn't worth the price they were asking for so they basically forced completionists to double their playtime.

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That has to be one of the dumbest take I've ever heard. That you should be able to start with, not use a cheat code that you had to find or figure out, BE ABLE TO START WITH the camo from MGS, an item that takes away the challenge for the majority of the game. Get out of here with that nonsense

Is she for real? The stealth camo in MGS is an ultimate reward for beating the game which makes it a breeze the second time. Why on earth would you want to start the game with it???? Is swear this channel gets worse and worse.

Wow i cant realy agree with your opinions on this one guys.... Some of it maybe, but this is how they get you to play the game more than once... You guys really are dullards