Yeah that... happened. I haven't even seen that movie even though I used to be a fan of that show. I have its artbook though because there's some great fantasy inspiration there. (Including a bunch of stuff that was too dark to make it into the film, like a city built on a dragon skeleton whose inhabitants mine its crystalized heart. Yes, this is real.)

What game's that from?

@@BigKlingy Darksiders 3

You'll... see. Anyone who's fought the Superboss in this game WILL have Girimekhala burnt into their brain.

I love it when characters mock other characters' voices like that. Not just the revenge, the ORIGIN STORY!

Yeah him being the son of Gale's Demon form is... probably irrelevant, but it's a nice detail. 28:40 Oh man the "official" translation of the OST butchered that song's name. ("Bell That Doesn't Supposed To Ring")

@@BigKlingy It also reminds me of Usas being the daughter of Dyaus which is probably irrelevant as well. That translation sounded like a big oopsie.

That's cool! Thanks for looking into it! I can see it being both a piano and guitar now you mention it, I just wouldn't have noticed before.

29:18 Yeah I'm talking about him. We'll see him next time. 38:22 Wait, really?? Thanks for reminding me, I'll come back for that in... like Part 25. (I record ahead)

1:11 Cue "no wonder he went full villain" joke. Love Raiju's animations too. 9:15 Yeah he's one of the few good ones. 17:22 THE SUPERBOSS' 6 WARRIOR ATTENDANTS! 28:45 Wonder how they animated this. 38:51 Sentence of the year. 48:23 That would look so cool.

Ah, okay. Didn't know about the kanji for torpedo and land mind though.

9:15 Okay that'd explain a lot. 15:20 +Stone and a multi-hit physical attack was a fun combo in the Survivor games. 15:34 At least he didn't get stuck with Slime. Or Mara.

Eh, to me it's obvious Poison Dart works like that. But yeah, that'd mean the Stone part of Gate of Hell is blocked by Void Death. I guess it also works this way for a certain optional boss' signature move, which is Almighty but has a 100% chance of death on anyone not immune to that.

9:33 I was just thinking of that. 33:43 Except much better. I wish Lilina had more Speed.

DDS1's story is interesting in it's fairly stand-alone but a lot of it makes more sense once you play 2.

I think some Nocturne speedruns actually go for the skill that makes enemy ambushes less likely. They're THAY deadly there.

@@BigKlingy Ironically the mechanic called "ambushed" that doesn't let you transform in this game is separate from the enemy getting the first move, which just seems random who starts. Though if both ambushes were combined at least you couldn't get hit by weaknesses.

Definitely sounds like these guys were on friendly terms at some point.

There's quite a few enemies in RPGs that have a cannibalize attack. Though I still can't get over the P3Re one where you're expected to LET them eat eachother.

I think this fight went badly for me on my first run too. Gate of Hell is a nasty skill. Random encounters with it tend to be dreaded.

Yeah, true. Wait... what? Also, why does it not surprise me that you know that? I've always seen it as pale green and I have no idea why people think it's brown. Except for the veins, I agree. (Speaking of veins, I just beat Mara in Vengeance last night)

⁠@@BigKlingy "just beat Mara" eh?

Definitely not. I mean, Sera and the others going to the beach? Reminds me a lot of 358/2 days oh wait!

A few of their explorers must've made it out there (I think Hitmonlee's inspiration, the people with torsos but no heads, also comes from Africa. Edit: Yes, this is true. Akephaloi. The part of Africa pasr Egypt was known as Lybia to the Greeks.) and I think Basilisks also originate from early impressions of African wildlife. (Reminds me of how Kirin seem to be inspired by Giraffes, if the Japanese name is any indication. Not surprised Giraffes would be seen as dragon/horse hybrids.) I mainly know Catoblepas from Castlevania, where it's a recurring monster... and its stronger palette swap is named Gorgon, which is a stretch. This apparently derives from D&D.

@@BigKlingy Torso but no heads... Wait Xingtian isn't a one off legend?

@@matts5747 There's several around the world. No idea where they all came from.

If done properly it usually dies before it gets this big. I didn't re-do this fight because I found the trainwreck amusing. (And, like I said, I've never had it get this big before) Hmm... I'm not sure that's true but it'd be funny if it was.

0:11 No, and that's the problem. 9:20 I mentioned the Metal Gear one here, but FMA's is definitely a good guy. 19:10 I suppose that's kind of fitting. 28:42 Yeah, that one. 33:45 And no itty-bitty living space. (The Jinns were several dungeons ago) 35:10 I don't see how people DON'T see it as green. 42:38 Glad to see some agree.

Agreed, it looks nice, and it's not all that complicated either.

23:37 Lol. Jehtt's videos are great.

It seems like a lot of things are going to get revealed once we fight Varin. The Raiju design looked way cooler. I remember Catoblepas as a summon in Final Fantasy since it is all about petrification. Some exclusive physical attacks like Andalucia can hit 1 to 4 times I believe. Serph needs to learn how to jump. That is one reason why I like getting the poison cure spell ASAP when I play FF1. I would only be able to make a photoshop of that since I am no artist. Good to hear that the grinding is almost done and I hope you don't suffer more than you already have. At least Vengeance sounds like it is going well for you so far and hopefully the game keeps delivering as well. I wouldn't mind seeing that. For myself, the TTYD remake is probably my favourite game so far but Trails from Zero was also amazing and Resident Evil 3 was a pleasant surprise for me. I didn't do a video going over the games I have played so far since I haven't played that much but considering the games I am playing this year, the end of year video should be a special one. As for myself, my B-spec driver has now all been trained up to where he needs to be with 100 Machine skill and 70 Course and Battle Skill. The reason why I am satisfied with this total is to get 100 in Course and Battle skill, I need to go to pretty much every track in the game and grind the B spec driver for a bit there as well but with him how he is now, he will be more than enough to do what he needs to do. With that done, it is time for more endurance races and now they are getting very long considering we are taking on the Roadster 4 Hour Endurance which is for Mazda MX5s only and it is about completing the most laps in 4 hours. I am using a 1989 Mazda MX5 which I would find in my favourite colour for this car in Mariner Blue. So far, we are two hours in and things are looking really good and one of the reasons why I trained the B spec driver is so he can help me complete these events since you can swap drivers during a pit stop and he has been doing pretty good himself. As for the Three Houses randomized playthrough, we are in the post time skip after Maiden did some shenanigans at Garreg Mach. We find Dimitri who is kind of freaky since he still looks like young Dimitri but with Dimitri's boar voice and him always carrying an unsettling smile, it is part funny and terrifying at the same time. At least we got Jeritza's help who replaces Gilbert and he is pretty good since he is really fast at base but we decided to use Tomas instead. Pollardo was replaced by Lorenz but he still went down with ease. Next battle was defending Garreg Mach from Duke Aegir who replaces Randolph and he was much weaker than the other enemies on that map but it was still a pretty easy map. By the way, Fleche, or Maiden's replacement, is going to be very interesting to talk about once we get to Gronder. We also did most of the paralogues which included Ionius, who wasn't being deployed before this, defeating the Death Claude with his magical prowess so our Death Knight can get reunited with the Scythe of Sariel which should be pretty good as he is a Falcon Knight in this playthrough and a very hard one to kill with Ancient Dragonskin and the Aegis Shield. Next map was at Aileli where Dimitri gets reunited with Ashe who is Rodrigue's replacement and we killed Gwendal's replacement, a Dark Knight Bernadetta who seemed very happy about dying. At this point, my brother's builds was basically finalised with stuff like Wyvern Lord Dimitri, Wrath + Vantage Mercedes who replaces Sylvain and Gremory Nemesis being some of the highlights but everyone we are using is either doing really good or just fine. We also made Tomas a Holy Knight to curb his power level a bit since his stats are really insane so making him a Wyvern would be too good for example. Next map was the Great Bridge, where Seteth was decently strong as a War Master and so was Ferdinand's replacement in Trickster Lystheia. There was also female Byleth who replaces Lorenz and he was quite the pushover as well as the Flame Emperor who replaces Acheron. This map was also easy especially with Mercedes going ham since alongside Wrath + Vantage and her amazing offensive stats, she was also a War Master. Next battle will be Gronder which should be an interesting one with Maiden facing off against Dimitri once again and the Alliance with Hegemon Edelgard also making an appearance.

@@BerserkerRohan A lot is probably going to be an understatement given the implications about what's going to be revealed. Yeah, that design worked better; The other one looked off for some reason. Now that you say it out loud, I felt like I've heard about them also being in FF too, but I'm not sure from which game. Maybe since looking at the skill description it doesn't say how many random hits, but I'm not 100% certain. Not even jump, just learn how to move a chair and table out of the way. You'd think with all of the fancy maneuvering he did at the start of the game he'd be able to get through some of this stuff with ease, but apparently not. Xp I also feel like it's in older games like that as well where game devs decided to be generous with poison cures in that some really old ones early on were just brutal with poison and the more limited ways of curing it. I get that feeling as that's the most I could do too and my artistic skill is probably in the negatives if we're being frank. Thankfully at the time of writing this... I'M FREE! Frikin finally! I was ready to snap and if my last opponent before I hit 100 didn't DC'ed and I had to play out more games, I would have lost it. But now I'm good and can get back to actually fun stuff now. Like Vengeance. And thanks for the well wishes of it going will since I really hope it continues to deliver. Sure I'll leave a link, albeit in another comment in case it gets nuked (also keep in mind you might need to set comments to "newest" first to actually see it). Also that sounds about right for your favorite games in this year so far. Also yeah, normally I just save my talk for top five favorite games of a year until later, but since I've gotten a lot more done this year, I decided to do a quick mid-year result list for what I have so far. Great to hear your Spec Driver is finally done with his training and is helping you out. That's also pretty generous for the game to let you swap between yourself and the Spec Driver mid-races as well; Also answers the question I was about to ask how it works exactly (i.e, does it need to auto-race manually and you have to watch it/or does it do its own races while you do something else in the game). Best of luck finishing up those endurance races. Well this session was certainly... Interesting. Little Dimitri is doing that one scene of RD with kid Ike with his adult voice and taking that up to 15, the Alliance got sick of Lorenz's crap and kicked him out, forcing him to resort to banditry, and Jeritza decided to join the Kingdom to reunite with his sister. And that was just the start. Also the fact you're hiding who Flèche got replaced with worries me lol. Not sure what I find sadder in the next chapter, Ashe being Rodrigue, meaning another one of my favorite 3H characters is going to kick the bucket, or Bernadetta being happy that she gets to die given her backstory. At the very least, your brother's team is shaping up to somehow be really good, which I find a very rare occurrence in a randomizer, including somehow being lucky enough for Jeritza to get his scythe back. While sad with some deaths on the bridge, the Acheron Flame Emperor one had me giggling. Imagining him donning the Flame Emperor armor to make himself look a lot more important as this big and mysterious villain that pops out of no where, only for him to get run down as he realized the stupidity of his plan, is very amusing to me. And oh boy, that next fight is just going to be absurd in a rando as well. Best of luck to your brother there.

@@BerserkerRohan Okay, so YT decided to nuke the link to it, which sucks. Seems like it's in a mood, so I'll just list it out. 1. Unicorn Overlord 2. Battle Brothers 3. Skul the Hero Slayer (specifically the Demon King Castle Defense Update that properly concludes the game). 4. TTYD Remake 5. DQM3: The Dark Prince 6. Super Mario Bros Wonder A lot less fun just to list them out compared to the silly edits I made, but at least I can tell you without YT being mean about it.

@@jaredfayette2567 Next part is going to be a very exciting especially considering who the boss is. That first design seemed more fitting. He is a summon in FF5 and FF6 at the very least. Much like Wes in Colosseum. That does feel like the case as well. I didn't draw that much and I wasn't very good at art in school as well. Good to hear you are free so now you can make the most of it by playing more Vengeance. No worries since I have to do that frequently with my own comments section so I will probably have a look once I wake up. It will also be fun to think about what my favourite game out of Gran Turismo 4 and TTYD is going to be. You are right that I watch him race but I also need to give him instructions like telling what his pace should be and telling him when to overtake and pit. That is exactly what Dimitri is like in this playthrough. Things worked out quite well probably because a lot of the faculty do have pretty good base stats so they are good replacements for any of the students who underperform but my brother has felt the need to bench any of the Blue Lion units which was a bit unexpected. Also, my brother somehow got all three Jeritzas in his army with the Masked Jeritza being Flayn, the Crimson Flower Jeritza being Gilbert and the Death Knight being Balthus. Something unexpected was the Flame Emperor being able to wear the armour of the regular classes which happened both times we fought him.

@@jaredfayette2567 Maybe I need to try that UO demo at some point considering how much you enjoyed that game. Battle Brothers was a fun game to hear you talk about and reading that review of DQM3 was pretty fascinating as well. At the moment, my list is: 1. TTYD Remake 2. Trails from Zero 3. Resident Evil 3 Nemesis 4. Street Supremacy

Ah, FEH and its OCs. Including my favorite headache Hrevelgr. Who, contrary to what FEH tries to indirectly claim, has NOTHING to do with the myth of Yggdrasil. That would be Vidofnir. And it's irritating since wind is my favorite element so I'm very aware of the truth in this one instance

lol I guess that works.

We'll definitely be seeing him again in a... far worse capacity. Eventually.

@@BigKlingy oh i know i have seen people be the Lamb to the Slaughter

10:02 I fully agree. 28:52 Not the actual meme one though. That comes in an optional area. 48:24 Actual Megidolaon that's used!

Almost certainly. (Not looking forward to having to complete the Cielo shoot-em-up minigame though...)

@@BigKlingy take your time, thanks for the reply

V at least implies there've been different Creators in the past, from the Caananite and Egyptian pantheons, among others. But yeah I'd like to see more of that too.

@@BigKlingy Well, at least we get to see [BLEEEEP] as the Creator God in Digital Devil Saga 2.

6:32 I'd like to see an Australian Pokemon region, if they consulted the right people. 20:59 You might want to save that for a few videos from now... 23:40 [Has the Siren boss theme from Hades 2 stuck in my head now] 39:12 That'd be funny. It's POSSIBLE, definitely. 45:38 I don't think I've seen that one?

@@BigKlingy 6:32 I was referring to Megami Tensei but an Australian Pokémon region would be cool. Have you thought of anything for it like starters or legends? 45:38 It's the vine compilation.