Early Fromsoft games have such good vibes. Excellent video as usual!

FromSoft is one of those rare developers whose games are worth knowing about even if you never play them. Just watching a video about Echo Night or Eternal Ring or Shadow Tower can be as interesting as playing one of them, and your videos are very well made.

Don't usually comment on videos, but I want you to succeed. You create very well laid out videos about games that, as a self-proclaimed gamer, I have never heard about. I love being able to experience these games that I would have never known about, through your videos. Hope this does well to push the algorithim in your favour!

When my wife and I were first dating, we'd have spooky-game nights and Echo Night is probably the only one of these we still talk about. Never got to play any of the sequels unfortunately...

Neat an Echo Night review. Would love to see you cover more old FS games

I've now watched a bunch of your videos and I'm really impressed with everything you put in. You're thorough but don't drag on any points longer than needed, you have a great mic and calm disposition, great comedic beats without it overtaking the serious analysis you're presenting. Great job.

Just wanted to say thank you for always providing such peak and entertaining content. I learn more and more about the world of games almost entirely forgotten in time because of you and I love every second!!

One of the interesting things that I feel like a lot of people overlook is this series would go on and become Déraciné, another Fromsoft's underrated gem came out in 2018 (which is their actual last first person game btw, as opposed to what you said). There are a lot of similarities between the two like how you go collecting things, experiencing people's memories, solving their problem, and multiple endings based on how you finish their story. It goes to shows that Fromsoft despite having lots of original IPs, never really strayed from their past but rather evolving from their old games. For example Kingsfield would go on and becomes Souls games, Tenchu becomes Sekiro and of course Echo Nights become Déraciné. I would be excited if they attempt another survival horror like Kuon after seeing how scary Bloodborne can be. Would be so cool if Miyazaki is inspired by Keiichiro Toyama at some point in the future

I got nothing new to add other than I fell in love with this game when I first got it when it came out. Played through it with heart racing whenever I get into a dark place scrambling for the light switch . 10/10 would do it again.

I love this game. It’s one of those weird totally accidental purchases, just spur of the moment. And it really sucked me in.

Echo Night Beyond is a game I picked up years ago, a couple years after it was released for cheap on the PS2. My greatest ever purchase, I gotta admit. I wish I'd done the same with Rule of the Rose.

Very cool! Thanks for the video. I really enjoy looking at these old FromSoftware games. So many of their unique world-building and gameplay elements date from before Miyazaki, and it's very interesting to see the roots of those elements.

Please keep making content. Love this vibe so much Idk why but i feel like this game would have thrived as an early nintendo ds port

A friend of mine has LPed or streamed a ton of the older FromSoft games so I've gotten an appreciation for them. I'm personally a huge fan of the monster designs in the Shadow Tower series. It's always nice to see these games getting more attention.

I really appreciate that you not only review each game, but you also give a complete synopsis of the story. Sure, I’d like to play some of these games and see the story for myself, but that’s not always possible. After watching your video on the PS2 Kunon game, I looked it up and found out that used copies are going for hundreds of dollars! 😨

These older game retrospectives are great. Liked, commented, enjoyed. Cheers

Man I wish you had more subs. Just found your channel and it's just perfect. You've become a new favourite

Most FPS games used to have that style of control. The switch to mouse look was a pretty big change back in the day.

I appreciated the use of comic sans in the title cards for the silent film. Really captured the period.

I love your videos, I leave them on when I have migraines or stress, because it calms me down. Thank you for the entertaining videos and may God bless you!

Kings Field's slow speed for moving was what drew me in. It felt like there was less room for error in some fights because you had to plan ahead. Never finished that game, but it wowed me and I played it years after the initial release.

Early 3D/PS1 graphics make the best horror game atmosphere, and nothing will ever change my mind. 👌

You gonna hit 1k soon man! Don't you dare to stop, I need more of these videos

I enjoy videos like this, i see retro games i would have never known about, Or on the contrast ifi did hear about them in passing finally knowing what the gane was

I've watched a couple videos of yours from the sidebar and enjoyed them, so I visited the channel to see what else was in store. Didn't even have to look at the rest of the uploads before I subbed because I realized the channel icon featured Pokiehl from LoM, and I need no further persuasion. Obviously the wisest creator on the platform, 10/10. Now, please don't judge me as I binge the whole channel.

I actually bought this game when it came out and played it as a kid. Never finished it but for some reason I loved just hanging out in it and wandering around the ship.

I liked the way you reviewed the game overall. I liked the way the way you shut down the tank control haters. well done Tank controls are one of the most intuitive solutions to prerendered backgrounds games, they're simply stupendous.

I agree, Ps1's style is pretty charming and I can't think of too many indie games that capture it, though some do rather well. Oh yeah... I fucking love tank controls! Great video brother.

Hope you'll make the reviews of the other two installments in the series one day 😌

Impeccable pace of uploads, i look forward to your inevitable 1k+ milestone soon!

Great video as usual, can't wait for videos on the sequels!

Great review! This has always been on my radar, but I've never gotten round to playing it. Looks like it's worth the playthrough!

I grew up with some of their early titles and loved them. For me it was Lost Kingdoms and later on Eternal Ring.

William Rockwell out here looking like Sneak King

-screams- I LOVE ECHO NIGHT. TY for uploading

Good channel. Shocked that you don't have more subs

Echo Night is my favorite horror game, appreciate your positive review!

Phenomenal video, as usual - great to see a content creator look at some lesser known spooks from yesteryear - eagerly awaiting some more Saturn vids, my fave console from back in the day too, and I see so few people talk about the gem of a console, so thank you for bringing it to the forefront

I mean, technically it's not the LAST Original First Person Horror game they made. They did do that one for the PSVR a while back that has some horror vibes.

The Echo Night trilogy each need a remake on more modern consoles if FromSoftware ever decide to revisit some of their older games.

One of the best From games.

I do like that you can frustrate the ghosts in this game and there's even a different ending if you get none of their orbs, from what I recall. Echo Night Beyond is really a phenomenal game when it comes to achieving atmosphere. Also pretty great graphics for a PS2 title. Are we not counting Deracine as a first-person FROMSOFT original game?

THE ROCK OF ALL MIRACLES *headbangs furiously*

I was 15 when this game came out. I think I had the bad stabbing the police ending. I liked the Casino room. It's a very spooky fun game.

Ur videos are awesomeeeee. Im watching literally all of themA

This game was pretty good. I remember playing and beating it as a teen

I recently played kuon! Thank you for this video so I can play more of their games.

a great video essay!

Great little game, whe you get used to the controls and the ghost encounters it becomes a realy chill spooky adventure.

I have fond memories of playing this with my childhood friend. I have no idea how though, as I don’t think it ever got a PAL release. We must have played some crazy bootleg pirated version 😂

Ty for share i like how you made this (was lot‘s of work) wish an nice day😙 greets,..

will you play the other 2? I hope so I enjoyed your deep dive a lot!

Thanks for the vids you make.

I'm late to the game, but I just downloaded the game to my PS3. I'm so glad the store is still accessible and I can still buy shit in December 2023

I like tank controls in horror games, fixed camera too!

I'm loving learning all of these non souls borne fromsoft games

Great video again. More like this please, wooo!

Just finished the koudelka vid and gotta watch this one now so I’m ready for part 2😂😂

I was really skeptical if kings field would be any good, or if it was just fan boy hype. But kings field 4 really is the early stages of dark souls, even some of the enemy animations look identical. It's just as addicting as the soulsborne games.

New Dungeon Chill? Heck yeah.

Love these creepy little games.

Oh wow the train looks exactly like the train in Fear and Hunger 2, and Henry really looks like Henryk from that game.

Fantastic work as usual.

Love the video and game, I never really knew that they made so many horror games.!

Great video! Liked and subscribed. Reminds me of the early Monty videos. Keep it going and I'm sure you'll get thousands of views and subs!

The train bit at the beginning reminds me of Fear and Hunger 2, I wonder if the dev of that game took inspiration from this one?

I had forgotten about this one. And knew very little about it when it was originally released. But it's quite interesting. Nice review. I wouldn't mind finding this and going through a playthrough. Perhaps the sequels too. By the way, I hate tank controls and strafing, but that's a different matter. I just want to run around in 360 degrees like I was a child. I call that fun.

Love your videos

When I picked up Deception again with an emulator I rebunded to the analog sticks, but because it was converting a digital button press to an analog stick it was just awkward

This looks interesting, I'm gonna check it out.

Ah yes, the Rockwells the family of the rock that makes you murder

I enjoy your videos.

I love this game.

14:30 Ha! Honestly much funnier than rick and morty

The red and blue stone sounds Astro Boy ish. The movie, I mean

I swear I played this when I was a kid but stumbled around

Great video, keep it up!

I wonder if Dungeon will do a review on Hellnight in the future? Think it'd be an interesting game to see him do lol

I feel like this game came out a year after Titanic mania to milk off of that, even if there's not much in common

My favorite FromSoft game is the Adventures of Cookie and Cream on the ps2

I just sit here sighing for a decent Tenchu sequel.

Great video!

Loved echo night beyond

I am loving that which this is.

i mean, by today's standards, old games do have a lot of objectively bad design decisions in them, and nostalgia is a hell of a drug (and one that admittedly doesn't effect me), but complaining about it is like complaining about Shakespeare talking funny, or about old movies having bad pacing. the art form was much younger and standards for accessibility were much lower, but we got to today's quality of life features and addictive progression and engagement psychology directly because of the risks that old games took in trying new things. like, i find tank controls to be terrible for combat and immersion because it adds an extra barrier of artificiality between the gamer and the character, but i'm glad games with tank controls exist, even today, because that era of games made today's games possible. art evolves through the work of artists and without those steps and missteps, we would have the smooth control language that we do today. people like to complain (i suspect because of the personalized curation of today's media), but games are better than they've ever been, and that doesn't just happen. it's a process of figuring what what works, what doesn't, and why. it's fascinating.

Thank you

His father was a Painter you say....

I played all three of them but didn't finish the second one. the first one's puzzle was pretty difficult. the third one was a good game but it didn't leave much impression on me.

I feel "speechless" after that, even though I'm going to say a few things. I'm not in my own best state of mind and have worries distracting me while watching this, early in the morning while waking up, but damn that was one of the hardest stories to follow and wrap my mind around I've encountered in quite some time, I went back so many times to watch the story sections again, trying to understand what the hell was happening.... so it was pretty hilarious when I finally got to the end and you said something like "the story doesn't really make sense, don't think too hard about it, it's more a skeleton to hold up the adventure game elements and vibes the game is going for". I suppose so, jesus christ lol. It really does give the feeling of there being something amazing to piece together, a truly deep, tight story told in an extremely unconventional way, with all the seemingly random time travel and everything else.... like it's Pale Fire or something. It reminds me of both Eternal Darkness and Shadow Hearts 1&2, which do both have stories that ultimately make sense, as weird and strangely told as they are... and shares thematic elements with both also, while being made and released prior to either. Of course, all of them are simply drawing on the same much older source material for inspiration, and coincidentally ending up with story elements and storytelling styles and methods that are all reminiscent of one another, and overlap in various ways... but this really does feel like something very beautiful and masterful that is kinda missing the detail and depth to reach its full potential. I'm quite fascinated by it, and wonder if there was anything lost in the translation, or that had to be cut due to time constraints, that the creators did have but simply were ultimately unable to fully convey... or whether it truly is, as you say, just a lot of neat elements put together, but not worth overthinking because there's nothing concrete ultimately there. Was that their intention? I'm having a hard time coming to a conclusion, and would love to play this myself... but I can see how it really could be intentionally using all these tropes to construct something fascinating to think about, but never meant to have clearly defined answers to all the questions it raises, and that being meant to be up to the player to come to their own conclusions about. Fascinating, beautiful, and frustratingly incomplete, simultaneously. Oh well, I guess that's why I love something like Shadow Hearts 1&2 so much (Eternal Darkness is great, but it's a little TOO concrete and lacking in some of the aesthetic sensibilities that the Japanese games of this style are so wonderful at), because it has all these kinds of themes and elements, but actually pulls it off in the end having everything actually make sense, as much as it possibly can anyway. I wish I had played these early FromSoft games back in the day, I would have really loved them.

This was pretty good

man, it was so long ago to even remember this was a fromsoft game, wth

is the moonlight greatsword in these?

Fun video!

i wish they will go back to making games other than soulslike. thats all they create now pretty much

3:24 yo 🤣 that's your grand daughter son. I'm not putting down weapon. He lost his damn mind ¯⁠\⁠_⁠ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ⁠_⁠/⁠¯ I don't know that girl bruh. Old timer must be losing it. Those games controls was crap. You damn right I re-bind king's field controls to my stick. These good tank controls (old school RE/SH) & there's complete sh*t tank controls. Free cam with trank controls equals a complete nightmare. Looking at you the dead are not dead. The story is interesting 🤔 but the controls was horrible. Echo night sounds boring as all hell. Well I got 18 mins in. I gave your video a like. I can tell you really put a lot of work into it 👍🏾

Neat!

So in some sense.........the Rockwell family is kinda like an alternate version of the Mishima family ahahhahahah

i assume the merchant was Death

Commenting something because I feel so inclined.

Is your channel inspired by Grimbeard? I get a similar level of enjoyment.