I hope you guys get into this one. If not..... well..... I know where you live. So.....

Front Mission is definitely one of the unsung greats of classic Squaresoft.

Hey Avalanche, cool thing about Shadow Hearts is that the creator is actually working on a spiritual successor to it called Penny Blood, had a successful kickstarter alongside Armed Fantasia, which is a spiritual successor to Wild Arms! Hopefully Penny Blood comes out as good or better then Shadow Hearts :D

Just remembering there is a full English patch for Front Mission 5. Also, for those who like the Record of Lodoss War for DC, the same developers made two games in the same vein for PS2, Shining Force Neo and EXA, and they are great too, extremely addictive

In regards to Eternal Poison: I used to work at a game store and was collecting late stage PS2 games, preordering them specifically to make sure some were sent to our store. I had read about the title before it came out in the states but I'm pretty sure it got stealth dropped or something because I never saw a copy, never saw an announcement, I just found out a few years ago myself that this was released in the states.

Glad to see Shadow Hearts getting some love! Probably my favorite aspect of the game was how grotesque and dark the enemy designs were. It really lended to the horror vibe that the game leaned into and made it feel all the more unique.

I never thought I’d see someone make a video on Legend of Legaia in 2022. What a gem, will never forget the rage of fighting the rot boss or the many battles with Songi. Good stuff. Curious if you like legend of dragoon as well

I remember playing Eternal Poison as a kid, and I remember Thage and the box art so well. But for years I could not recall the name! So I’m glad you mentioned it, going to definitely revisit it. Shadow Hearts was one of my favorite games, as well as its sequel. Hopefully that gets some love on your channel as well some day.

Still hoping Skies of Arcadia gets covered one day. One of my favorite games of all time, and right up Jared's alley being from the Dreamcast then ported to the GameCube

Eternal Poison looks interesting, definitely flew under my radar. The isometric 2D assets remind me a bit of Septerra Core. So this SRPG reminds me of a WRPG that plays like a JRPG.

I remember being just 8 years old back in 2000 and I had become enamored with RPGs ever since playing Final Fantasy 7 just a couple of years prior, and I remember getting into Gundam around this time and thinking to myself "Man, if only there was a RPG with mechs!" So you can imagine the pure joy I felt when I found Front Mission 3 at my local Walmart. Such a gem of game that was! Thanks for adding that series to your list, Jared! It's very deserving of being on it.

I was waiting for this one! Ive watched your previous video so many times I lost count. Something about your editing, the subject matter, narration, and the duration make this content so relaxing. Plus I shared a lot of the same thoughts and feelings on the games in the last video as you did. Can't wait to watch this a million times too.

Shadow hearts is probably my favorite jrpg of all time, I love the story (minus that one cutscene), the characters, the gameplay, I adore that the system puts all the risk on you, that you get to decide if you go for the critical and risk missing the attack entirely, I love that it's the same for items, even healing items, do you go for the extra healing and risk missing it and leaving your character more screwed.

Jared. This was an awesome follow up to part 1. A video that I’ve watched a dozen times. Also I love that Legend of Legia saw some love, that was one of preteen me’s favourite games

Legend of Legaia was my first RPG that clicked with me. I absolutely loved it and I dove into the genre right after.

Love your RPG videos, and your work in general. A video about fan translation games sounds awesome!

Once again another amazing video. Only thing I wish was different is for it to be longer and to go more in depth on some of them 😂

Thanks for giving Shadow Hearts some love Avalanche! Hope you check out Shadow Hearts Covenant and Shadow Hearts From the New World. Hope they remaster this series in the future

I know this is a weird thing to praise, but I love the explosions in front Mission 3. They might be low-res, but they've got so much grit and texture. It really sells the volume and debris of the fireball.

I love the amount of time you spent on each game in this video. Lots of great stuff to check out here!

Breath of Fire 3 and 4 never got the love they deserved. 2 is also great but you HAVE to use the retranslation patch, and the anti grind patch is nice too.

Love these type of videos and learning about games I haven’t seen before

Absolutely want you to do a fan translated video series. I was baffled when you stopped at front mission 4 and I thought no way does he not know front mission 5 was translated years ago, then you addressed not including many translations and I had a deep sigh of relief. consider your reputation retained 🙂 seriously though please do it and thanks for the countless hours of entertainment.

You, sir, are my hero for covering the Arc the Lad trilogy/spinoff! I was such a huge fan of the series as a kid. I had my mind blown one Christmas in the early 00's, when my mom somehow managed to track down the Arc the Lad Collection (which had these really neat thumb-sized cardboard stands of the characters, and joystick "hats" on top of the trilogy itself), and even more incredibly she somehow managed to source a subtitled copy of the anime. I also totally agree about how JRPG (I'd argue a lot of Japanese media in general - unless the translation is god-tier - not because they can't write, but because of differences in information density/sentence structure between the languages) scripts suffered as a result of voice acting. Oh, and fuck yes please continue on with a Japanese-exclusive episode of this series!

Legend of Legaia's atmosphere was so damn creepy, no other game i played back hen had the same feeling, the music and everything about it was so unique.

I feel like I'd have a great time with Chocobo Dungeon and Eternal Poison, not to mention the whole Front Mission series... and damn, I liked most of what's on offer, you sure dug up very peculiar gems. Thanks a lot for the video, it made my day.

21:13 spritework is just gorgeous 😍

last video i commented about how i would've loved to see Legend of Legaia in it since nobody ever talks about it... :D love you, man. this game was one of the first titles i played back when i was a starry eyed child with a new PS1 i got for christmas. it always held a special place in my heart and despite knowing that there's many better rpgs, it's still one of my favorites of all time. i loved figuring out all the combos back then and felt like a genius when combining several combos with similar inputs together for a huge chain combo barrage. i still play it every few years or so and still knowing all those combos from the very start, which monsters to capture and use and the general ins and outs of the whole battle system makes it a blast from start to finish. i really hope some more people give this game a chance after seeing a bit of it here

I decided to look back at your channel after I binged it dry a while ago. It was a good idea.

Nice to see Legend of Legaia on someone else's radar, and getting some exposure. I had it back in the day, and always found it had great atmosphere on top of other pros you mention.

Thanks for the summary of Shadow Hearts and Eternal Poison, I'm no longer able to play these old RPGs due to lack of time and these videos are the only thing left for me. 48:25 she looks like one of the main characters from Evergrace by FROM Soft. Wish they made something else beside Souls but times changed and it would be most likely not profitable or received well...

Fantastic video, dude! Thanks so much for this huge list of games for us to check out!

I love these videos. cant wait to try out some of these!

I'm always up for videos that highlight obscure and overlooked stuff to broaden my horizons. There is some truly great stuff burried beneath all of your Final Fantasies and Fire Emblems and what have you, and it ain't right that these titles go about unnoticed when they could become someone's favorite game.

3:33 Just finished the Digital Devil Saga games - absolute bangers, and the sequel does pick up right where the first ended!

Always love seeing videos from you Jared! Keep up the good work! Hope you, Jo and Rufus are doing great!

So glad you included Legaia. I played that before I ever heard of Final Fantasy.

I'd love a video focusing on fan translations. There's so many that I have missed over the years until someone brought them up.

Very cool coverage. Love this format. I've heard differently about FM series, in that people prefer FM1, 3, 5 over 4. I've not played 3 and 4 but really enjoyed the DS version of FM1 (comes with antagonist side of story too).

I really can't wait for your next list, hoping there will be more SRPGs I haven't heard about.

First of all, I'm happy that you're making content for us RPG fans who make up a small minority of your subscriber base. While I do love survival horror games, I do get an RPG itch here and there and am happy to see games i haven't even heard of. On another note, I'm surprised to never hear you mention fighting dungeon crawling RPG Ehrgeiz in any of these lists since you are a huge FF7 fan. Good, bad, forgotten, or over/underrated; i'd love to hear your opinion on the game sometime in the future!

Weird to describe Mistery Dungeon games that much and never say that they are roguelikes. Talking about this kind of game, I loved Azure Dreams as a kid. Great video.

Amazing video, so many of these games I'v never heard of and I considered myself at least "knowledgeable" on games. Keep it up with videos mate, doing God's work.

Legend of Legaia was my childhood man. I even memorized all the moves.

Love the return to this series. RPGs are my favorite games ever. Side note: check out Chained Echos or Sea Of Stars if you want more old SNES style goodness. They both look sick.

Just welcomed the dog I'm dog sitting, cracked open a cold one and checked my notifications just to see this glorious video just uploaded. Common Avalanche Reviews W. Cheers Jared

I feel like i've been at bat for Legend of Legaia and Front Mission 3 for SO LONG. It's so awesome to see someone else represent!

The fact that both you and me were playing treasure hunter g for the first time this month man

hey man, will you do a video about The Callisto Protocol? really miss your horror retrospective (especially DS games)

Great job as always !

God damn, I honestly didn't expect to remember the sounds of Legend of Legaia as strongly as I did. That combat clip at the very end of the section was a massive blast from the blast. Loved the game as a kid even though I never understood anything about what was really going on besides the very basics of mist being bad =D

Hey avalanche, really love your reviews, coming from one of those same "wierdo resident evil / silent hill avid fans", I really love your style! Was wondering if you ever have covered or would ever cover the JRPG Breath of Fire Dragon Quarter (5)? It got a lot of hate from diehard BOF fans, but being able to approach the game from an individual standpoint, I thought it was amazing and never wanted the experience to end!

Shadow hearts has a spiritual successor in the form of penny blood. My favourite part of Arc the Lad 3 was actually a side quest, in the begining of the game you have to pass an exam to become a hunter and at its end you need to beat an examiner who acts as the boss, after you progress enough through the game you can take a side quest in which you act as the examiner and act as the boss of the test dungeon, i loved that, it gave a sense of progress that was and still is rare to find in games. I also loved that you were not the hero and that showed that the world didnt revolve around the hero and his quest and even normal people can contribute to its security.

Shadow Hearts is my favorite! It's such a great mix of Gothic horror and Jrpg, its weird and has such a unique system with the judgement ring. I love it so much and I'm so hyped for the spiritual successor Penny blood! Much love for covering it!

Well done. I never really gave the Arc series much thought at the time of their release. From what you've touched on, I think I'll try the earlier releases. ggs

Good video, I'd argue that Treasure Hunter G did come out at the end of the SNES's lifespan since N64 came out the same year as the release of that game

I need more! Will you continue this series?

Back on the PS1 Era some of my top favorite games were Legend of Dragoon, Legend of Legaia and Final Fantasy 8 & 9!

These hour videos are to savour .

But... that ghost story was one of my favorite voiced moments in any RPG! that scene has lived in my head for I over a decade now.

I absolutely loved arc the lad series. Picked it up back in the day from 'Funcoland' as I was weird and drawn to offbeat sort of anime stuff. When metal gear solid 2 came around and everyone else was up in arms about it I remember saying 'They Arc the Lad'ed it, didn't they.' Sucks I lost the trilogy in a house fire... thanks for the memories!

Played front mission 3 on my vita and I fell in love with it. Just got the front mission 1st remake on switch and I can't wait for 2 & 3 to get a remake as well

I believe this is the first time I’ve ever seen even a modestly-sized KZfaqr talk about Eternal Poison! I actually bought it off Amazon a few years back just because the box art looked sick. I still haven’t gotten around to trying it out yet, but even just the mention of it makes me happy. Also, just ordered a used copy of Front Mission 4 off Amazon. Thanks!

Definitely need to try the Front Mission games. I recently finished Jeanne D'Arc on the PSP. It would fit well into this video.

Just sat down to eat my lunch, what perfect timing for a new upload!

Someone who knows Front Mission and appreciate it is a person that I would respect, you are doing a awesome work with this mini-series. About Arc the lad, always have been a some sort of sleeper for me, now I will give an opportunity on the psvita

boss, have you played Record of lodoss deedlit in wonder labrynth? im running it now on my switch, an A+ Metroidvania at best

Tons of great recommendations as always. I’m glad to hear Front Mission 4 is the best in the series, because it’s by far the most affordable! I got a sealed copy years ago but still haven’t busted it open yet. Maybe it’s time to change that.

Definitely think you should cover Alundra in one of these videos. Not really an rpg, but it has a similar aesthetic and the game (and story) is amazing.

An Avalanche Reviews JRPG video is in my feed, it is automatically a good day. Almost all of these are in my collection or on some sort of wishlist. Especially Eternal Poison, which I have seen exactly one copy of ever, when I was broke, and when I came back the next day when I got my paycheck, it was, of course, gone. The Arc the Lad games are actually all still available (for $6 each, no less!) on North American PS3/Vita, and Twilight of Spirits is available on PS4/5! Front Mission was great timing, since the Switch remake came out literally today, and it's been really well received, it includes the extra scenario from the Japan-only PSone version of the game as well. The devs have confirmed they're working on a remake of the second game, and are in the planning stages of remaking the third as well! Sadly, Chocobo's Dungeon 2 is one I missed back in the PSone era, but I definitely recommend the Chocobo's Dungeon game on Wii (which recently got a very comprehensive remaster for PS4 and Switch) It also makes me very happy that you brought up Legaia. The game has an eternal spot in my heart, and it's world and aesthetic inspired me so much. I even designed my own Ra-Seru as a kid xD (it was a turtle, btw) I'm always down for more of these videos!

Record of lodoss war kept me company in high school too.Thank god when i entered my university abroad i bought 2 copies of it,one pal and one NTSC for dirt cheap.I booted it up again last year and damn i experienced the same as before.

the music for Arc The Lad 1-3 was done by the great Masahiro Andoh the guitarist for the band T-Square the man also responsible for one of the greatest musical composition known to man "Moon Over the Castle"

All of this interest in old-school games getting modern remakes or ports (Front Mission, Tactics Ogre, Valkyrie Profile, SaGa games, LIVE A LIVE, etc.) gives me hope that the Arc the Lad series will get something soon. It's too good to be forgotten. At least give us Parts 1 and 2 on modern consoles.

I remember Chocobo's Mysterious Dungeon, still have the Japanese edition I got back in the day :D So many fun little games that I need to go back to and finish!

Front Mission 3 was my first foray into the FM series. Looking forward to the remake of the first game.

"complete and total subjectivity" The long lost brother of "Complete and Total Objectivity", both coincidentally nonexistent.

I love chocobo dungeon! Played and finished it a couple of times. I remember stealing from doom by kicking items from the market up to the ladder then picking it up before i go down. 😂

was the FM3 recorded via emulator? it looked a lot pixelized than normal

Legitimately wanna play shadow hearts... But voiced by Jared, just him all voices.

Oh yeah, I'm HERE for this! :D

This video is everything I always want and more. 2 games in and we already got two bangers. Arc the lad and Front mission. Jared get out of my head homie

can someone please tell what the name of the game at 00:20 is. i remember playing a not so legal copy my dad had when i was younger, but i dont remember the name.

Always great seeing Shadow Hearts get some attention.

Oh someone does remember arc the lad series. That some good stuff

God I enjoyed seeing you talk about some of my favorite games. Legaia and Front Mission made my PS1 life

I have a soft spot for Twilight of the Spirits. It was my first ATL game and something about how it adapted tactic games to 3D just struck a chord with me as a kid. But I can understand why it wasn't for everyone and the voice acting (despite having usually good actors in some roles) was awful. "I'm Bebedora" lives forever rent free in my head.

I remember picking up Shadow Hearts 1 on a complete whim. Little did I know it would turn into my favorite JRPG series. I love its style, story, characters and I was rather surprised by a route the story went. I even did all the side content it had to off and while the game can be challenging at time the side stuff can even be harder. The people behind this game are actually making a brand new IP that they started on Kickstarter which I backed. The game is called penny blood if your curious about it. Man Legend of Legaia blew my mind when I first played it. Mainly cause it looked so dang detailed while in combat and it was sort of like a fighting game. I remember hearing TORNADO FLAME a crap ton of times. Also the first section with your town being raided by the mist was pretty dam creepy.

As a legend of dragoon kinda guy, I've always wanted to play shadow hearts. Wonder if there will ever be a modern port of the series

I'm definitely down for a video of just fan translations.

Great video! I need to resume treasure hunter G, it’s awesome!!

i just played front mission 4 and 5, i think i like 4 a little more, but i do love the part customization in 5 alot. i also like having the ability to somewhat customize your team a bit. you seem to have skipped 2 and 5 in this video, they do have an english translation now

Right on Mr Reviews, this is some retro content from you

Jared delivering that good good just in time for the holidays buff santa style

I really liked this wow was this long, but wow I subbed to your channel.

Some great titles on this list and I'm impressed I knew them all. Eternal Poison legit passed me by a good half dozen times, always seeing it at the local game shop and knowing full well what kind of title it was it's amazing I never took the dive.

I recall Eternal Poison first in a game magazine? The artwork stuck it in memory and would confuse it with Grim Grimoire for some reason. I've played a little bit of it, yet it's a SRPG, so I'll need to find time to set aside for it properly.

The game takes place on the shadow isle Mormo. Bell and ashraam base.

record of lodoss war really killing it back in the day, hope the developer notice this hidden gem and remaster it with today hardware

Haven't clicked a notification that fast in a while. Awesome video!

Front mission on the FXpak pro is so much fun