I loved it! I remember playing this on my PSP for months. It brought back a ton of good memories. I hope we get more Dissidia in the future.

Holy shit they remembered crystal bearers!?

In regards to Opera Omina, I’d say it’s a better version of Fate/GO in that you are able to PLAY and level up ALL characters but the gatcha is limited to weapons and materials. Overall, ff is a less horrible than a lot of mobile games.

Have you played WoFF fully? You've had references to it a few times now... I'd love to see a video on it; it was overlooked in its time, but has good gameplay with real challenge available, and if you are mislead by the cutesy appearance the real AF story is going to gut punch you. Seems like plenty of content for a video, and doesn't involve 3 different systems!

Oh man another Final Fantasy video of yours to jump onto and devour. Can't wait to see you talk about FFTA2 one day *coughcoughcoward* But no really, I loved the video and appreciate it greatly. I started playing Opera Omnia a while ago and because I was too poor to get a PSP way back when, it was my first Dissida. I was exhausted from it after a while but now I might pick it up again to check out that spicy lookin 2nd act 👀👀

This is incredibly reassuring to know, thank you for sharing!

I think he also did Mobius FF

Well, that puts to rest any fears I had about FF7R. Thank you for that.

That someone needs to be responsible of more games.

I wish he and BD1 did KH3

what's with final fantasy and the oedipus complex XD?

On one hand I want an FF Musou, on the other I feel like a lot of the older games (apart from 7)wouldn't get proper representation and that would make me sad...

@@freakyfro99 depends on the director really. Some of the musou spinoffs like hyrule warriors and pirate warriors have a great range of characters, while others like fire emblem warriors are horribly stunted and do a poor job representing the franchise. I think Squeenix would insist on at least the characters that make up the main casts of dissidia/opera omnia.

Could you imagine ARDYN BEATING UP GRUNTS WITH AN UMBRELLA. essentially, an expanded version of ardyn dlc

I'd buy a musuo ff game, and I haven't really played much ff. I master the original tactics game, and war of the lions......actually I've beat every ff tactics game, but none of the main line games.....funny

@@Highstar25 Very true. I had FE Warriors on my mind but those other two are really good examples of well done casts. Especially One Piece. I don't even particularly care for OP but the game was super fun to play in part because of the wide variety of characters. I like how they dealt with upgraded versions of the characters and I feel like that mechanic would work really as a way to bring over the job system that's in some of the games. It could be really interesting and I'd probably buy it regardless tbh... Now we just need to petition Squeenix to give us a Musou lol.

Why is that?

Part of the intent of making it team-based is dilution of responsibility, where if things go wrong you can mentally blame your teammates that one time and go back to try again - the likes of League of Legends do it. In theory it makes sense, but after the prior Dissidias and their great single-player content it felt misguided.

And not being on switch.

Yeah, it's more of a fighting game than a strategy game, so it's better in a 1v1 format than anything else.

@@haruhisuzumiya6650 Dissidia not being on Switch has nothing to do with its not being a viable eSports game.

I remember after Duodecim, and then hearing the next one would be on console, the main fan wishlist seemed to be, "We want more characters, more moves, and customization options!" Apparently Square heard "We want fewer characters, fewer abilities and 3 vs 3!"

I miss running on walls and destructible environments

Tell me about it. The extremely different playstyles and the absurd level of customization were all I loved about it and NT just ruined all of it. Not to mention how Dissidia felt like so much more of a labor of love than the almost wooden NT.

NT's garbage story is what ruined it for me. The combat it sound, but definitely should have been expanded upon.

@@vadandrumist1670 I'm sorry but I don't agree at all. NT's combat is just sad in comparison to the PSP games. Characters don't feel nearly as unique as they were, movesets are not only much smaller but a lot less interesting and 3 v.3 is not only a mess but makes the whole feeling of OP monsters and titans fighting one another disappear in favor of a faux party system.

Probably cause its an RPG, something Final Fantasy fans are already used to and like. NT being an arena fighter is what already makes so many western fans adverse to it. Its just not a kind of game they typically play

Good dialogue between a likable cast can save almost any game for me, and im usually a Gameplay>Story kinda guy

@@oniuserjh Luckily OO has great character interactions, way better than I remember from even the first Dissidias.

@@oniuserjh That's why I like Tokyo Beatdown on the DS. It has some problems with its gameplay, but the writing is some of the best I've seen in a game.

My KZfaq comments are glitched

*Destroying Feral Chaos with lvl 1 Golbez noises*

@@jg2116 I remember doing that too, I heard the set up from a forum and checked it out myself, its was hilarious.

Just use Exdeath, why learn a lai strike setup when you can use Omniguard (it can block hp attacks) to block and hp attack counter everything

Exdeath's skill ceiling is ridiculous. He could theoritically be the best character lol.

Kinda funny that Duodecim let you make a custom mode where you can set up a sudden death with massive EXP gain. Go in with a level 1 character against level 100 Gabranth. One shot him instantly for mass level gains while he can't even hurt you without EX Mode, in the off chance you miss. Probably the easiest level grinding method in a final fantasy.

played opera omnia for a while, but it's definitely not a game for the fans. Unless you sink hundreds of dollars into the gatcha system you WILL eventually hit a brick wall. Not to mention the constant limited time events purely designed to press on that whole aversion to loss part of our brains and get us spending.

@@aliciafraser1835 I don't know about your luck, but I've been playing Opera Omnia since day Global's release and I keep up pretty well. The game is actually very generous with gems and tickets needed for the Gatcha, and the Gatcha itself is really not bad at all. I'm a semi-F2P (I only spend money for some alternate outfits). They always give us events to keep us busy and the story is good as well.

@@bondyaliano I started the same time you did but stopped sometime after act 2. I was constantly stopped dead in my Tracks by fights that were just impossible for me to complete, and rarely got more then a single gold when rolling, generally the garenteed one from full pulls, and it was always garbage, never once saw a banner gold. And never once got a gold from single pulls. And that doesn't change the fact that they do those crappy limited time banners at all. Hate that garbage.

@@aliciafraser1835 To be honest, you probably just have shit luck. There are enough people who have no problem playing this game. The RNG just hates you, i guess. (Terrible FE 7 flashbacks.)

@@aliciafraser1835 That's not exactly true. All gacha games are insidious to some degree, but DFFOO is by far the most generous of its type that I've ever played. You would literally have to spend hundreds in order to get the same amount of gems that you can get by completing a single month's worth of content. I've been playing since release, there is very little content I haven't completed and while I have bought a few costumes, the ratio of paid to free gems is like a drop in the ocean. I have upwards of 30 EX weapons (I admit my luck is above average, it does help) and am currently sitting on a stash of 412k gems and 350 or so tickets, waiting for the introduction of CHAOS and EX+. The system has continued to improve now that there is a hard cap of 75k gems per EX weapon on any given banner, which was introduced earlier in the Global version. That said, I'm sorry to hear you've had bad experiences with the game. But compared to most mobile P2W garbage out there, I've had a lot of enjoyment out of Opera Omnia. Enough that it's the only game I've actually uploaded footage of so far, lol.

I think it's hinted at once in a missable scene, and the way Seifer holds his gunblade is the same way Laguna does in the movie scene, which is a nice touch.

There are a lot of scenes in Opera Omnia that made the thing we want happening. Jecht and Auron together, the meet-up of Ivalice Alliance heroes, Gilgamesh finally has a fight against Exdeath, Eternal Calm-era characters having a reunion with the deceased Sin-era characters, and finally a conversation between post-mortem characters and living characters. For the issue of needing money for the rare weapons, you usually need one or more of these following: 1) Know about the JP version, which has 8-9 months ahead on its content. 2) Manage your resources 3) Make sure you have characters that can carry you throughout the era of the game (Cloud and WoL would carry you in early Chaos Era). This is a Gacha Game that is not burdened by rarity of items, and farming the currency of this game (in this case is Gem). I am F2P Day 1 player with the knowledge on JP version. I have now 32 EX, with a lot of them would carry me in Chaos difficulty Era.

The fault with Gacha games entirely, Ray, is that you got lucky. That's ... that's it. You got all this stuff by managing your resources, but I know players of many gacha games that spend money and aren't on par with lucky F2P players. That's the nature of a Gacha game.

@@Nekufan1000000 Unlike other other Gacha Games, this game is beatable even for those who played it for 1 month. I just saw players managing to complete Chaos difficulty, the next difficulty after Cosmos, with minimum characters they have. Usually the JP players have a struggling part as they have to go through this game blindly without knowing who are the meta right now. This is the game where they have a feature that ensures you obtain the specific item. I have a Gacha Game where I do it similarly to this game. But because they don't have that feature, all my currency (that I saved it for 3 months) of that game just spent without getting the unit I wanted (in my case is Rudolf Lucia, an Event-only unit on Guardian Hunter). I was overwhelmed for not getting that unit that would really save me from going inferiority. For this game, hold your Gems for 1 month and you earned enough of it to ensure you get the EX Weapon you want. You can even get EX Weapon from just tickets or EX Token (from the Event-only Start Dash and later in the future, Farthest Ends of Dimension). This is just even without having a knowledge on another version that was 8 months ahead of its content.

Ray John Ner Cacao This video motivated me to redownload OO, and WOW is it friendly for f2p people. There is so much in here to get new people up to speed, from past characters being permanently available, to no stamina system, to infinite Crystal farming, I had no trouble getting up to speed. I downloaded the game and, in a matter of about 7 hours, got MULTIPLE characters to the level cap, almost maxed their Crystal strength, and, through good gem management, got a good amount of EX and 5* weapons. I was even able to SOLO the current multiplayer focused event raid, fighting a level 70 boss with a team of level 50s. This is an INCREDIBLY friendly gacha game, not to mention the stellar writing and music, with good presentation. This is one of very few mobile games I can legitimately recommend to people.

He's slow as fuck.

GiantEnemyMudcrabz I used Chaos.

Garland for me

or just lvl100 cloud at highest diff lol he love to spam that one move and it very ez to dodge and punish back

guilty

Qaztim Eleven I've played both opera ominia and ffbe. Both games definitely have issues with gatcha mechanics but I enjoy opera ominia for everything stated here and ffbe for a good throw back to 2d final fantasy games and having a good story with likeable characters.

I agree with this. I tolerate the gacha because the game itself is both generous and consistently enjoyable, but if there was a full console RPG Dissidia then I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

The older titles are certainly worth trying out (except FF2, *shakes fist*) but it might take a little bit of research to know which version you want, since a lot of them have gotten remakes for the DS and PSP.

Same here. I love Clemps' energy and passion for these games.

@@Msoulwing Yeah FF2 is pretty bad. I tried to give it a fair shake but I just hate how that game is designed.

@@otooandoh9556 possibly the most tedious progression system ever devised.

Go play the other games dude, they are worth

I wish I could look as flattering as the very polite artists who draw me make me look. ;_;

I'm amazed there even is any fun writting from modern Square anymore save for Kingdom Hearts and some of Dragon Quest.

The ability to have way more characters really did wonders for letting the common ground between many characters to come to the surface.

The first few chapters were really bland IMO, although a lot of mobile games tend to start out that way since they don't really know what direction they're going to take. The more recent chapters, starting with Act 2, are more interesting, since characters regain their memories and the chapters themselves often make references to what happens in the characters' original games. It's not groundbreaking, but there are some good character interactions.

wait for another 10 years lol. their 20th anniversary begins with Dissidia. now 30th is this Dissidia NT

I love it

The best part is that Shantotto's absence during her mini-expansion in XI plays well with her presence in Dissidia, where her motivation other than escaping is researching an "ultimate spell", which might as well be multiversal travelling, something useful if XI ever shuts down, and something she's acting on since she's the XI character in the most crossovers (again, because of Dissidia, because before that SE never really bothered to present XI characters to people not already playing it).

It sounds so good with the character interactions and all the diversity.

Same. I started playing it right after watching this video a couple months ago. Finished Act 1 and half of Lost Chapters in like 4 days, now I'm just waiting for future stuff to be released.

I liked playing as almost every character but Zidane was the one I was the best at using when it came to playing against friends, don't think I lost to anyone with him, so I guess I would say I'm a Zidane main too.

I usually flip between him and Terra, but I always found him more fun to use. I never had friends who played Dissidia but he was always my first pick for the offline stuff that was available

Kefka was easily one of the best raid bosses in the whole game... and not even originating from FF14 at the base :D

The Ivalice raids and Gilgamesh's involvment in the Hildibrand quests were way more satisfying fanservice than dissidia nt

@@Xenitag0 Dude as someone who beat kefka on savage and heard the remix of the final part of dancing mad.....it was the most satisfying and and exciting moment i had with any game in my life 14 is sooooo good and with shadowbringers its now legit mu favorite final fantasy if not...my favorite game ever

@FantomOmega I'm on HW and I'm LOVING it. Quickly becoming one of the top FFs for me!

Oh man...The Phantom Train made me feel like a kid again. That was awesome.

Been playing that wayyy too much lately, its really fun for a gacha game

Liam Aspinall same. I thought I’d play it for like a month or two at best and here I still am a year later

There’s literally no reason to own the original anymore since Duodecim includes the ENTIRE first game, plus a second game on top of it. It’s a 2-for-one deal, and you can transfer your character progress from the original to 012. So you can go into the game with level 100 characters from the get-go

step mom and step brother, a older step brother....

God this must be so weird for people who don;t know who ANY of these people and cats are.

Record Keeper did, but that's another gacha game.

I miss Luneth so much. Seeing him as a skin for Onion knight honestly hurts :(

Record Keeper and Brave Exvius use them, and IIRC they have completely different classes in each. One of them is also in WoFF IIRC. I still think it's a good thing Dissidia went with Onion Knight - the 1st, 3rd, 11th and 14th FF put you in control of "blank" characters you get to make, and while named protagonists are more marketable, "blank" player characters are still an important part of series history and can be put to interesting use.

Max Morgan Same. And I feel the exact same way watching this.

Yeah... Everytime this line comes up in retrospective, it makes out the PSP games like they had no ability to be fair for 1v1 fights, when it totally can and has been.

So, out of curiosity, what were your thoughts on it?

Mood

@@cobaltdeleon This is from my other comment. Sorry for the late response. I play NT competitively, so I think I can give a different perspective here. Keep in mind that im heavily biased as I absolutely love this game. First off, this game is a discord fighter. The playerbase is too small for the ranked mode to reliably give you good matches, you have to organise your own. But even then, the game is very unstable when it comes to lag and disconnects. That and the very steep learning curve mean that its really really hard to get into the game. You basically have to join a new community and get your butt kicked for weeks until you are somewhat competent at the game. There is also the problem of people expecting the game to be like the old dissidia games when it really is more like a fighting game. There are fun modes here and there, but most of your time should be spent online, fighting real players. Once you do that however, the game is insanely fun. The 3v3 aspect brings in a lot of complexity and depth to dive into. You can play a character for weeks straight and still not be great at them as there is just so much to learn. Switch up your team composition and there is yet more to learn. And the most important thing of all, once you cross all the hurdles: Get a smooth match, find a permanent team to train with and get competent enough to appreciate the finer details of the combat system (Frame data, memorising dodge timings for HPs, learning to defend yourself safely etc.), it is actually insanely fun. There is just nothing like it. Saying the game has little replayability totally misses the point. Replayability comes from wanting to get better at the game, joining communities and tournaments etc. Its the exact same with normal fighting games. If doing these things doesn't interest you, then the game simply isn't for you. But that is sort of the problem, not a single reviewer actually bothered to go through all these steps and give a meaningful review. Every single reviewer so far consumed the game on a casual level. And on a casual level, the game is objectively trash: Ranked is dead, there is not a lot of content and it just looks like a button masher. This is why no one except the die hard fans seem to like this weird game. But when you go through the trouble and actually learn and play the game in the way its supposed to be played, its such a good pvp experience.

I dived back into it too, and I have no regrets. All the updates it has had is making it the best mobile game I've ever played.

Welcome back!!

TKM20XX it had limited online and you could only fight CPU, sure it was story based but for me I always wanted to fight a character that knows what its doing instead of an easy win, this is a guy who played the PSP games.

It's not hard to find tournaments still. Plenty of people still play Duodecim competitively.

After finding out about the bravery to hp attacks you can unlock, that's pretty much all i used. Because i played with AI on its max level (i believe it was called strong), they would always dodge normal hp attacks. Bravery to hp attacks pretty much remove the flaw of the hp attacks, which is usually the startup time.

@@okagron Yeah for those AI bravery to hp attacks where the way to go, if not you were in for a world of hurt lol.

Dunno, man. BBTag and Power Rangers BftG were pretty good online.

@@yvastel8153 diamonds in the rough then. Smash bros, mario maker, kirby clash, along with the host of missing features like friends list, an easy messanger, catalogs, and complete cloud spaces for all first party games. It just rubs me the wrong way.

As a Switch user, this is pretty accurate.

@@yvastel8153 I should add to that: Power Rangers *EVEN WITH CROSSPLAY* is insanely good online. American Switch player fighting a European friend on PC, there was *zero* noticeable lag. ...I had *zero* noticeable skill at that game, but that's beside the point.

@@emulationemperor8924 Yea you are right. MK11, BBTag, Splatoon, Warframe, Paladins, Smite, and Power Rangers. Everything else is super subpar.

I always found it genuinely bizarre how megahot they made CoD and (to a lesser extent) Ultimecia.

According to his podcasts he’s been a fan for a while

Nothing wrong can come of inserting a Rich Evans 'weeeooooahhhhhhhhh' into videos.

He’s been using RLM clips in his videos for years