I think he liked it, but you can never be sure with Yahtzee.

You might like Absolver btw

Just in case you have a continued interest in this type of game, the combat that you described as Final Fantasy-esque is actually derivative of the combat system of the original Valkyrie Profile on PS1. Actually, it's EXACTLY like VP. Valkyrie Profile, in my opinion, was a near perfect JRPG. Combat mechanics, story, characters and character development, art direction...all-and-all, a true masterwork. If you've never played it, you're doing yourself a disservice. It was released digitally on the PS store back in the PS3 era and it got a physical re-release on the Vita when it was still a thing under the name Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth. So it should be VERY easy to get your hands on a copy. Please check it out if you get a chance. It's a game that deserves love and attention lest it be forgotten. And that would simply be a crime.

@escapist Sorry for the long post I don't usually write so much, but i think what i need to say is valid here and i sincerely hope you can give it a read :). I just want to say mad respect and wanted to ask if you have played fighting games and learning legitimate combos before? The reason i ask is because i have and im a fucking huge fighting game nerd. That being said, the large number of characters and different variety of moves and the different combos you can do is incredibly refreshing to me. People keep saying that it's just mashing and it's not too fun and the fighting is not too good, but i beg to differ. Since the turns pause when you start doing an attack and enemies cant interrupt, there is absolutely no downside to taking your sweet ass time with your turn and linking different attacks into others, that being said i love to take my time and use every characters different attacks and link them into each other and with so many different characters and moves there's a lot of different combos you can do, not to mention some characters have level 1 2 and 3 specific supers. If you're getting bored, switch the character and try others with different moves. There are so many different possibilities for combos with different character combinations. I can see if the game gets boring if you kinda just press attacks as soon as someone has a turn and just do stuff (which im not saying you're doing that just saying some people do) but the game is meant to be played by doing combos and different stuff, like launch with Ajna into some projectiles from another character, into two more ajna hits into 2 hits with dhar and another launcher into razmi 2 hits and level 3 special for example. The game is cool when you try to explore different combinations and try all the different moves and i think it really shines when you try ALL the characters to see who synergizes with who. Thanks.

Pretty sure stating that something has "writing on a level slightly below bottom-tier anime" would be sufficient for a libel suit.

Nah, a Valkyrie.

It's more like the western-developed version of Lenneth Valkyrie.

@@JackgarPrime copy pasted it more like.

Ooh, I like that

@a HERO that doesn’t know what protect means Okay.

And I honestly wish Indivisible kept a little closer to it. You got to do super moves in that game by getting a big combo, making the long combos feel more meaningful.

I came here to specifically say that, glad to find gaming gurus around who know their games *high five*

I recognize this game's publisher copy paste it from that legendary game the first 5 seconds of the game's battle trailer.

makes the "Innovation" seem not earned doesn't it

@@afruitypunchy Since no one else is doing that style, I'll readily support any developer that chooses to. Even the Valkyrie Profile series itself ditched it after game 1. : (

It was, for about 8 minutes. Then there came all the other cast.

@@trident042 did they develop a romantic experience? I expect such cliche to happen

@@azzzanadra - I do too, but I'm probably somewhere between 1/3rd to 2/3rds done and haven't seen it yet. They still all firmly hate him.

@@trident042 i expected a romantic experience because i remembered an anime in which the main protagonist at the first episode kills the girl's father as he was a soldier, many episodes later they fell in love. so i thought them becoming love interest would be a common thing to occur. although i find the idea funny "mommy, how did you meet daddy?" "well dear, i met your father when he killed my father".

@@azzzanadra I finished the game, doesn't happen.

What kind of course takes ten years? Unless if it’s med school.

@@90maducc or law school

AGREED!

TEN years?!? You poor sod

@@lpsp442im 18 years old and im not in law school i was just giving an example of a long lurning curve job

How is it compared to the previous one? I've been meaning to get it, but I prefer text over audio.

@@JelloThatsMellow The previous one how? The first in the Jacques McKeown Saga (Will Save the Galaxy for Food), or the previous book Yahtzee wrote (Differently Morphous)?

@@Jaminhawk Save the galaxy for food

@@JelloThatsMellow It's a lot like the rest of his books. Mostly a parody of something but with enough forethought and world building that makes it good on its own. Filled with witty asides and references to Yahtzee's other works. If you like Yahtzee, you will most likely enjoy his books.

@@Jaminhawk Alright, awesome!

"Basics of CQC" is a staple of fatherhood, or it damn well oughta be.

I'm beginning to think I won't enjoy the last season of GoT. Suppose Old G.R.R. Martin should have gotten his shit together and finished the books before going along with the TV series. Ah well, most of it's still pretty good.

@@hazukichanx408 "Most".

@Magnanimous Ire - Most of the series. Not necessarily season 8. Haven't seen that yet. ;)

there is another tier between fanfiction and GoT: Erotically charged self-insert crossfics where everyone is a plant.

@@hazukichanx408 Imagine establishing an intricate world with countless side plots and set ups for future pay-offs only to get bored of the project halfway through so you decide to tie it all up in 13 episodes. And you do so by ignoring three quarters of the side plots and set ups because you have to rush through all the action stuff that's been looming in the horizon for 6 seasons but must happen in order for the series to end. That's GoT seasons 7 & 8 and that's ignoring all the smaller complaints like lazy dialogue, even lazier editing (how many scenes ended with something interesting being said then simply cutting to the next scene with no conclusion to the scene?), boring CGI scenes, plot armors and characters teleporting. Usually shows go on too long for their own good. It's kinda rare to have the opposite happen but they managed to pull it off.

Modern Warfare called. They didn't sound happy.

UNT PRECISELY VUN! (I don't even remember which review that's from)

I'm just glad he gave one its own episode for once instead of acting like every indie game is half of a pair of identical twins that have to share a room.

@@MogFlintlock Zack and Wiki :D

Well have you played the game?

The only Pirate Lesbian I trust is Delta and if anybody understands that refernce have a box of mallomars

Same

Why does this joke make me laugh regardless of where I see it?

My brain is my most priced possession. I’d at least think twice before letting people waddle around my glia-cells and Hypocampi in the first place

@@ichijofestival2576 Eh, I wouldn't let people into my brain even if I could come up with clever metaphors about it.

@@ichijofestival2576 But the people who put ideas into my brain still get to go home to their families that night, so it's not really the same. It's a bit of a "you wouldn't download a car" situation.

If the game ended with Ajna saving the world but going completely insane I would have liked it.

@@OdaSwifteye that would take risk and a dark edge

Katana to be fair they do tie him up...for a while

Yeah, gotta say that's one of the reasons why 2 is my least favourite. Also the fact that the main twist is given away in the first 10 minutes but then we act like this was unexpected? But yeah just felt like any sane group would have broken his kneecaps and left him tied to a hospital bed for the rest of the game (other than the trials and all that)

Chris Amburn In his livestream he admitted he didn’t play it saying it didn’t releases in the eu and was on PSP which not many owned

@@caellanmurphy4751 "It shall be engraved upon your soul! Niebelung Vajesti!"

@@caellanmurphy4751 Yeah. I was lucky enough to have it growing up, but it's probably the #1 RPG I'd recommend people to play on emulator or whatever.

Yahtzee? Like? A thing? Let's not get ahead of ourselves.

@@caellanmurphy4751 Well the sequel did release in Europe.

Why isn’t this top kek?

And retire with Phan-Tom & Jerry Thread

His next film after that will be "The Last of The Meowhicans." Followed by "Gangs of Mew York."

That one line is essentially the base line of Yahtzee's Jacques McKeown Saga

You mean spunkgargleweewee?

Pheoniz I mean to be fair he murdered her dad and worked for the group that was responsible for most of the main casts problems. Not a lot of reason for them to be nice to him.

@@SuperGreenSmartie But at the same time he has not only proven himself to be an honor-driven warrior, but constantly questions Ajna's actions, her reckless behavior when it causes more issues than it solves, and is the only character to directly confront her when it's become abundantly clear she's in the wrong. I'm sorry to say, but I have a lot of respect for Dhar, and I'm fine with the party hating him, but in my book, he's gained my respect and redeemed himself over the death of someone we barely knew.

@@Phe0niz And Dhar is not sloppily written and has actual depth and development, compared to the other characters who are very one-note and flat.

Neo Rock Dhar and Thorani were the only characters with good writing at all. I hate how much the game tries to make you like Razmi because she’s the worst.

i probably wouldnt mind the shitting on him too much if..... 1. It was Funny and B. there were more party members in a similar situation to Dhar (people who antagonize Ajna being forced to parter with her). But (even though i havent seen all the party members imma go out on a limb and say...) He's the only one

Ah yes, the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon!

1:52

she is 16 and you need a cold shower.

Knowing what artist was involved sadly it does scream that. I don't need a cold shower I just roll my eyes at it.

@@Ninja-The-Red-Shinobi thtat's the leagle age for damn near 80% of earth.

just wanted to leave this here "leagle" and also yes it is the "leagle" age for most of the earth

@@dynamicsketch I thought the controversy was just about being a general creep towards women and not pedophillia

but the sprites are beautifully animated?

I remember some people in the Skullgirls community really got mad at me when I said "skullgirls is inspired by anime". Apparently, the artstyle is a reference to classic cartoons just like Cuphead... yeah. Not to mention, lab zero fanbase consists of just weebs.

@@ViktorKruger99 There is that one cartoon character in Skullgirls... but this wannime artstyle as yahtzee puts it, it's a weird middle ground where neither western nor japanese animation fans regard it in either of their camps.

There's only one character in Skullgirls that seems inspired by classic cartoons. The rest are anime. I do like the soundtrack though.

@@ViktorKruger99 Who cares it looks great.

No, it's not balanced. The outro at least was still way too loud.

They Changed It Now It Sucks! ;-)

@@badmanjones179 You do realise that it says "rickroll" in the link, right?

@@mikaxms and the domain is "viruslink", and its not a real link because i made it up.

Sounds like so many games these days, tbh.

Yep. It was fun right up until it just...lost all focus and context for anyone's actions. Far too many random events and contrivances with no purpose to them ("You just have a power now"). The combat trying to have combos and shield break attributes was good until they just didn't do anything else with it; Once that core part of the game just became a chore, the back half of the game just really burned my motivation. And god that final boss was just silly.

A lot of hyped indie games seem to get this a lot. Hell, Bloodstained got the same statements and criticisms, and I agree altogether. Is just the case of getting our money's worth? I dunno. Nonetheless, I lowered my expectations and know my standards and had found enjoyment in the game, like I have with Bloodstained.

Having beaten it, I really didn't appreciate the back-loading of giant platforming sections towards the end of the game.

It feels like they had a bunch of ideas they wanted to put in, and kept backing up to fit them in until someone said "wrap it up" and they had to tie down whatever was in progress.

Speaking of which when can we expect Indickisible.swf? End of 2020? Just in time for one last hurrah before Adobe takes Flash out behind the shed.

@@nogravitas7585 maybe

Ditto for Shantae.

He must have a pretty high opinion of anime to think bottom tier anime is any better than a 1st time web comic.

@@CarrotConsumer Like One Punch Man... wait...

@@TheMightyBattleSquid yeah. Most of the time people call something worst of its kind, they have zero idea about the actual worst.

@@TheMightyBattleSquid Or, more likely, someone reminded him of Takes On The World recently and this is his way of self flagellating. Side note: I actually kinda like Takes On The World. But then again i'm quite the webcomic slut.

​@@TheMightyBattleSquid Because whichever anime may be considered bottom tier, they still had a production team that consulted each other to try and solve problems. As for webcomics, that's really all on the artist alone and how arsed he or she wants to be that week.

Nearly half a decade? So less than 5 years:! The hel

That's actually a pretty cool idea!

So basically Legion: The Game.

Edit: Does Killer 7 count? I'm not sure if it counts.

I think Harkon from Curse of the vampire coast had that going on

Sounds a bit like tira from soul calibur.

We’re all pirate lesbians on the inside.

@@SterlingDeklin We got another one lasses

There are 3 types of Pirates -Somali -Arrrrrrrrrr -Software

Maybe the REAL pirate lesbian was the friends we made along the way.

Or . . . you just like to steal video games.

You mean Yahtzee harped on something he could have educated himself on with a 5-second Google search? HHHWWAAAAATTTT? THIS. HAS. NEVER. HAPPENED. BEFORE.

In short: Urdu for pseudoscience

@@gagejoseph91 it being a real word in another language doesn't make the spelling any less awkward, so wtf are you even on about?

@@folx2733 Yeah. French spelling is retarded. So why does it matter if it's real?

And that is a bit of a spoiler

Tragic

Zone-Tan isn't a porn artist. It's the MASCOT of a porn artist. The more you know~

Zone is problematic now? I thought sex-positive internet lefties loved that freaky shit. This one does, anyway 👀

Donny Lurch same. But their argument was that the characters she draws are from cartoons intended for children. If that bothers you, fair enough, you dont have to look at it. But its hardly hurting anyone.

@@1blackice1 Sounds like they just need to learn to internet.

@@donnylurch4207 Nah lefties aren't particularly hateful of this game The art style sells hard

yup because innovation is truly dead.

And the ability to store souls in the main character's body to use in said combat.

What even is that game?

An old PSP/PS1 game called Valkyrie Profile, excellent JRPG btw.

If only more games used it... Where us the final Valkyrie Profile?!?

You mean with art by Zone!

Speaking of which. WHEN SKULLGIRLS 2 DAMNIT!

@@SymmetricalDocking Zone-sama is a contract animator for Lab Zero, ever since 2013. He'll be working with them for a long while

@@zigslotheon I remember Mike Z saying in an interview that they will be focusing on their current game (indivisible) but the idea for a future Skullgirls 2 is not impossible.

Takes of Berseria at least doesn’t make you waffle around with dozens of different possible characters who all have descriptions that don’t go into nearly enough depth to build combos unless you’ve tested them rigorously beforehand. Having played both games, let me tell you that I massively prefer Berseria’s combat system. There’s some imbalance knocking around, sure, but it’s simple enough to get the hang of and it’s got decent style, and you can knock the difficulty down if you’re having trouble. Side note; Tales of Arise presents an interesting solution to the ‘enemies have too many hit points’ problem by making the special attacks you can trigger after draining an opponent’s stamina bar instantly kill them, which rewards you for learning how to string together combos really well. Also, it’s actually somewhat less depressing and edgy than Berseria’s plot despite its primary narrative theme being slavery. I highly recommend it.

@@jacobschott6955 Well, maybe I should give Tales of Arise another look. After being annoyed by how overly damage spongey all the enemies in Berseria were, I wasn't exactly excited for more of that. Otherwise, I was okay with Berseria's gloomy plot and like the anime style, but seriously, those needlessly long, button mashing battle wore on me. Battles weren't even hard, just so unnecessarily long. Those instant kills you mentioned might be a good solution, depends on just how long it takes to drain enemy stamina in the first place. And general jRPG experience leads me to doubt they'd work on bosses, who are of course the spongiest of damage sponges.

@@Alloveck Generally, yes, but they deal an immense amount of damage and briefly stun the boss. And some bosses have special sequences where if you use the right character’s interrupt-move at the right time it plays a unique animation that does the same thing. As for how long it takes to break stamina… well, that depends. Obviously bigger enemies tend to be harder to break, but there’s also the consideration that in early-game you don’t have access to the Artes or stat upgrades that make chaining together long combos easier. Still, it’s not really that hard once you get the hang of it, and the animations are nice and snappy while feeling appropriately powerful. I won’t claim it’s a perfect game, it’s got a few frustration points that stuck in my mind, but it’s really good as Tales games - or action RPGs in general - go.

@@jacobschott6955 The key question for stamina break time is whether it's noticeably faster to break stamina and insta-kill in Arise than simply whittling down HP the old fashioned way in Berseria. Based on my limited experience with such systems, it usually seems like stamina-drain criticals are a different strategy rather than a faster strategy.

@@Alloveck Eh, like I said, it takes some time to get used to the stamina-break system and build your character combo understanding to do it well. But then it also takes some time for enemies to get strong enough to become damage-spongey… Just discussing it isn’t really enough to measure that for yourself, though. Watch a gameplay video or two, I say. But if you liked Berseria aside from the frustration around its enemies getting too damage-spongey and the combat getting too repetitive, then you’ll most likely enjoy Arise.

That could have been AMAZINGLY HILARIOUS XD

I love that we can fix problems in games post release now, but I'd really rather have a game delayed and released as a fully functional good game rather than pay full price for a half decent/shit game that would be patched up later.

@@Resters52_official Even then, patches can only fix small/balance problems. No amount of patches can rescue a fundamentally bad game, making Miyamoto's quote still valid after all these years.

@@nousername191 yeah, but I'd rather the game be tested and balanced pre-release and buy it without needing to update it, I'd rather wait an extra few months for clean up than pay full price for an unfinished game that they'll complete over time, it's like paying full price for a beta or alpha (whichever is closest to release)

@@Resters52_official True but the cold, hard truth is that there will often be bugs/glitches that testers could never catch in a reasonable time frame. Patches allow developers to cover those. Though the habit to cover obvious day 1 glitches is a terrible one, I agree.

@@nousername191 yeah, I understand that, but I fear a reliance on patches, where they can release a game so bug ridden that 20 exterminators couldn't fix it, and then fixing it over time, like I said, I'd rather have a game delayed to fix bugs rather than buy a full price game with horrible bugs and wait for the patches

Prepare to be disappointed.

@@victablanche3891 I THOUGHT THIS SAME THING before opening up your reply! HAHA

I was very happy with the game, myself

Funnily enough, I think the same thing happened for the names in Final Fantasy 14.

@@allooutrick8266 From what I've heard, the Sea Wolf Roegadyn names are meant to be Welsh-based.

It's certainly a very British thing to say about Indian names.

@@maninthemists2299 ah interesting

But if they really sound that way?

I was looking for this comment.

do you play the combat or do you watch it? if you play then what do you mean by "semd them off" and "get updates"?

@@Resters52_official For Ragnarok? Unfortunately not really. and maybe? There are three endings to the game and I vaguely remember the "Best" Ending involves running through a battlefield. It's been 5 years since I last played any version of the game (8 years since I got the best ending). You play as one of 3 Valkyries going recruiting for Odin's defense on Ragnarok meanwhile you have to keep some Einherjar with you to get through the dungeons. You have to weigh your ability to get through the dungeons with getting bonuses for sending Einherjar, because yes, Freya pays you for your Offerings.

@@Resters52_official Realized I didn't answer a question. Freya will ask for an Einherjar with some qualifications, Atleast Level 5, this time we need an Archer with a specific skill. Things like that. You can't use them to explore anymore but Freya pays you in Equipment, bonus experience you can distribute to new characters and other things. At the end of each chapter you can ask how your former party members are doing and there'll be either a Report detailing their deeds and/or a small cutscene of them interacting with the Aesir/Vanir.

@@TheGurumash so you don't play that specific part?

And it's titled like an Isekai novel! Wishlisted!

I'm not totally sure if I got the title right, but I love the semi-turnbased combat system. You can in theory command every single party member to attack, but every action you set fills up the enemies aggro gauge. When it's full they attack you. There's also very silly classes like "accountant" and "bookworm" which can be combined for team attacks and stat boosts

@@_sleepco you might like Chrono Trigger, the combat system is somewhere in between final fantasy and Indivisible, it has the menus but you have a gauge that fills up for each character, you can do combo attacks as well, so you can decide between summoning lightning to smite your opponent or having your friend set your sword on fire as you spin around like flaming human buzz saw, it's pretty great.

@@Resters52_official crono trigger is the best I played it when I was but a wee lad, the grumps stream of it was so good

@@_sleepco I bought the 3ds rerelease a while back, I got stuck on that grey triceratops in the prehistoric era, put it down and I'm yet to pick it up again, I'll beat it one of these days.

The demo seemed to imply that everyone dies if Ajna kicked the bucket as well. Which makes it even more terrifying to me...

It would be if the game ever addressed it. It really is like Yahtzee said, the same as in every other RPG but with a needless story reason.

@@cambur3 Too bad, an idea like this if explored with more depth could have made for an much better story.

It's not for sure that they die in there if ajna dies, at least it's not directly said with my 19 hrs of gameplay. Apparently it's very comfortable in there so after the initial shock characters seem to like it. The inner realm also doubles as a town to buy the two kinds of upgrades and talk to the training guy. The complaints about it's inclusion seem like nonsense to me.

In a less fantasy world setting: "Id... Ego... Doppler.."

Same

.......goddamn it, you're right.