Funny thing about FF2 is enemy status effects are also broken. There's always a chance of being ambushed, meaning your enemy gets a free turn before you do. And the further you go in the game, the more likely enemy status effects are to apply, until they're basically guaranteed by the end. So if you're unlucky, you can start a battle, have your entire party stunned, and then get hit by guaranteed instant death effects before ever getting a turn, or have your own OP party members confused and start destroying your own team. And in this game, you can't clear confusion by attacking the affected ally.

The true broken game is the friends we broke it with along the way

not mentionned here because its not a game many people would even think about: Quest 64 The core battle system is turn based with a field you can move in where at the start of a turn, you have movement circle you can navigate, place yourself and choose a spell to cast. The game encourages early that when an enemy casts a spell, you use your own movement to try and dodge these spells yourself, kind of how mario RPG games let you try to take action to mitigate or avoid damage. Oooooor you can just get lvl 36 earth and get Magic Barrier that completely negates all magical damage for 2-3 turns, which is like 99% of all the attacks in the game, I don't even think there's a boss with a physical attack. Congrats, the entire premise of learning spell patterns to dodge them is now meaningless for the entire remainder of the game. Oh, also before you even get that lvl 36 earth you get the spell avalange at lvl 24 earth, which is arguably one of the best spells in the game with a bit of RNG. It's ridiculous to a point where the only other element you might even need in the game is water to heal yourself the damage taken between the turns magic barrier runs out or to teleport back to the previous town if needed. Near max water lvl you can even drain magic out of your enemies if you so happen to be running out of magic, but that's rarely an issue. Wind and Fire might as well not exist.

Final Fantasy 10 with a Lord of the Ring paintcoat? Omg, why have I never heard of that 😍

I remember learning about one of the lesser broken setups, playing Morrowind at age 13 I found out by accident that if you can make it to the Ghost Gate, you can steal a half set of Glass armor with zero sneak skill, then if you have Mournhold, you will get a set of Dark Brotherhood armor. So as long as you can dodge Cliff Racers, you can get a half set of the best light armor and the other half being the second best before level 10. I still play a light armor 2h build with alchemy and alteration every time I end up playing it

I really liked how you provided more details on how to actually use the broken strats in this video. I use pretty much all your who is best video to determine my party comps but I don't always exactly know the "build" from the information you provide. This video felt like I had a little bit more than normal

I don't consider a game broken if you need to rely on obscure save scumming cheats. I consider a game broken when you can get an OP item or a skill legitimately

Shining refrain resonance can be so broken where you can either best a boss with ease if you have the type advantage or lose to a mob all jumping you. Fe awakening can be pretty broken due to how dual guard galeforth can basically make your army unstoppable Tales of vesperia I don't consider broken with the wave technique as they knew what they had with the skit.

These videos are really fun.

Persona 1 should be on that list. Just use a Devil/Moon persona on the male characters and Judgement on all others and you are practically immune to magic attacks (except for Hama/Mudo/Kouga/Eiga spells). Magic attacks kill more in that game than physical attacks.

Cool list!! Xenogears power crisis and Citan Usuki came to mind, maybe for a future list

Pretty good video except for the crossette talk. She never falls off even late game and is used in WR runs of land of challenge for some of them like poisoned paradise. Also surprised about the lack of 3 being mentioned in the video since Xenoblade 3 ups the crazyness and has even more broken combos than 2 allowed. This would make for a great series honestly since there are so much broken stuff in so many games. Very great video and list. Also hot take but FF8 junction scaling is underappreciated by many given how hard it probably is to make harder difficulties. If this does become a mini series i have a large amount of suggestions for other games like a majority of modern persona, SMT3 Nocturne and 4 Apocalypse, trails series as a whole, Star ocean games, FE Engage, Souls games could make the list too honestly. Etrian Odyssey 1-3, Bravely Default 2, FF6, Paper Mario the thousand Year Door.

Amazing video! Thanks man!

I don’t know about you all… but I **love** being god-tier in video games. I always play easy so I can feel absolutely unstoppable. 😅

The funniest part about XC2 is that I'm reasonably sure the game is pretty hard it you DON'T break it (specifically the superbosses). But Corsette and Corvin are so good that they are legit a crucial part of most XC2 speedruns

in castlevania SOTN you can always unequip all inventory items in that same room, lure the wharg enemy close enough to the exit, jump towards its head and when you touch it you fly back-all the way to the room following the death cutscene. music bugs out but and you cant do anything except traverse to the nearest save room carefully. once you save just exit and you can access everything again realizing you still have all starting equipment. you can still find your starting items in the castle too.

12:09 I love that you show the multiple versions of the game👍🏿 🙏🏿 I didn't play FF II until it came out on GBA so I'm the most nostalgic for that version

I would have included sands of destruction. You can chain flurry attacks together and once you figure out how to do it you can one shot every single enemy in the game for the entirety of the rest of the game except flying enemies. So you get two bosses that are mildly difficult and everything else does instantly through no real hard work of your own

I liked the lord of the rings rpg, it and the summoner series were my favorite non final fantasy ps2 rpgs.

Killer video, do a part two pls this is gold

Thought you would add the "broken" dagger from Dark Cloud 1 😆

Wild Arms you can max every characters stats before finishing their tutorial by exploiting the item glitch in apples. You then hit shot every battle until late in the game

More RPG-adjacent, but one of my favorite aspects of the Borderlands series is how utterly broken some builds can be. Like I stumbled onto 1HP Moze in BL3 and had an absolute blast seeing how quickly I could clear out entire rooms of baddies. Short version: At the end of the first campaign, you get an item which takes away all your HP except 1, and puts it into your shields. This would be an iffy tradeoff for most characters, but Moze has an entire skill tree dedicated to getting combat and shield buffs when her HP is low. Properly built with a couple other key upgrades, Moze can wade straight into an entire mob of enemies, racing around and shotgunning them in the face while ignoring all their attacks, and come out the other side with *more* shields than when she went in.

Oh, shit, that's a pretty brilliant video concept! If it's been done before, it sure wasn't very much, and I bet they didn't have TEN!! Great vid!

Ff8, weapons are one of the least broken thing it can offer lol. They jjst increase a little bit of damage by a little bit. The extra abilities for Squall arent even that good excpet Lion Heart. But I agrre with the stats and limit brreaks being broken as hell. Zell armageddon fist only does 1M+ if you have 11 seconds and max strength. Selphie's the end depends a lot on luck. But other games in the series have the other instant death that goes through immunity too. ff7,10,13 to name a few.

😶That Symphony of the night one....wow...

No Trails series with the evasion tank build? Thought it would deserve a spot.

OH WAIT HANG ON THIS IS ACTUALLY A NEW VIDEO I NEVER CATCH THESE! Firstly, Love for The Third Age makes me so god damn happy to see anyone talking to it and yes, It's absolutely broken as all shit and the worst part is you can literally just grind everyones abilities as soon as you get them. Literally any Final Fantasy game can count here just by mechanics, same as Pokemon... The most broken one I can think of that I do for fun is Lost Odyssey. Level up the mortals to get their last abilities, get all 4 immortals to learn every skill, then literally just make whatever party you want. Or Eternal Sonata as Viola just, makes the game completely broken on her own, add Polka and I actually don't think they can die at all.

Oh that amnesia move with Alakazam, Mewtwo or even Snorlax...those were good times.

No mention of the badge boost glitch in gen 1 pokemon?

Does final fantasy tactics count as a RPG? Because Hiting cap level with cap skills in chapter 2 seems pretty busted. Not to mention duel welding 2 handed swords and ninjas using the math skill to 1 shot entire maps in one round... And don't even get me started on the mimes... And that's just thhe easy stuff..

I know in the original pokemon game there was a glitch if you beat the elite 4 them put the first pokemon of your party into PC after the whole cutscene they gain something to their stats. I can't remember exactly how it works but i unintentionally made my Alakazham invincible

Finally, someone mentions the absolute beast monster who everyone sleeps on: Irvine!!

Surprised fft wasnt on this list. Between tg cid breaking the game the gear that breaks the game not to mention the mime ane calculators.

Started laughing out loud when you mentioned Morrowind because holy hell you aren't kidding

Final Fantasy 8 : once you are in the town of Laguna, you get to a kind of highway where an overpass has a spot where you make an enemy appear from the air , landing above you and attacking you. You can repeat this fight with a turbo/automatic controller and leave your party (once strong enough) to level up to level 99 at this spot. Same thing : Final Fantasy Legend 3 (aka Saga 3) is a game with a space ship homebase, with a computer simulator combat spot to level up. Use a turbo/auto controller mode to level up during the night and return the next day. Final Fantasy 6 has this on the river escape scenario with a looping river path that can be exploited the same way!

I nominate Steven Universe: Unleash The Light for a belated entry on this list. SP Engines are so powerful once you can get them set up in the mid game, and you unlock the single best character through the story about 1/4 of the way into the second world of levels. To be fair, 2 characters are almost completely useless until the back 1/2 of the game at the minimum, but it’s so horribly balanced that it’s an absolute blast.

Final Fantasy VIII is not only my favorite FF game, but also my all-time favorite video game ever and has been so since 1999. I was obviously expecting it to be on this list, but when the second place came up and it wasn't FF8, I knew it would be the number one LOL.

Favorite thing to do in FF8 was draw the sleep spells to max on each character in the Seed training ground. Junction them to everyone's attack then proceed to force every enemy your characters hit to fall asleep. Even smacking them while they were asleep wouldn't wake them.

honestly, for morrowind, it's probably easiest just to use the spellmaking exploit with jack of all trades. Can be done basically after leaving seyda neen and reaching balmora. Makes all stats super high.

Is FF2 pixel remaster still broken?

I used to always have to use the wolf to send you flying PAST the reaper in Castlevania. Never knew about how it was done here.

Of COURSE Nr1. is FF8... Such a *beautiful Broken MESS* 😂

Final Fantasy II might be one of my top favorite/frequently replayed RPGs specifically because of it's exploits There's so much fun to be had out of messing around with it's mechanics and seeing what ridiculous things you can get away with

Another Loclo fire video!!!

no ff7 and ff8 infinite limit break trick?

I honestly wasn’t expecting both FF2 AND FF8 to make the list, but they have both indeed earned their places on the list

I had hard time to beat FF8 when I was 16 :D Bu I had no internet so I had no idea it was broken. I realized, that level scale. Still I leveled up and beating bosses with highier level seemed more easy. Maybe because when you farm xp you also draw magic and make GF stronger...

8:08 sorry, but in Gen 1, Normal was physical.

ff8 im just on the intro but its gotta be ff8 on #1

There must be an FF8 mod that balances the game around going crazy broken in the beginning. No, not nerfing anything, just boosting the enemies around you!

The third age is an amazing game!

I remember when I played FF2 for the first time and I became aware of how the leveling system worked. I immediately began to exploit it and have party members beat each other up for as long as possible while confused imps watched on, lol!

Honestly hitting your own characters to increase their HP in Final Fantasy II is actually pretty awful. The real way to break FFII Pre Pixel Remaster is to run one naked frontliner and build evade% and Evade level. Evasion determines turn order and boosting evasion level to 10 few enemies can actually connect with physical damage which is good because enemy drain attacks work the same way the Blood Sword does. Toad is hideously busted. You also don't want your magic to increase too quickly early game in FFII.

idc if its a worse ffx or busted we like ctb battle systems round here

It’s possible to go through skies of Arcadia without taking any damage except ship battles and boss fights

I always wondered why in the show ash needed a ghost Pokémon to fight the psychic boss… never knew that ghost moves were suppose to be super effective lol!!

This was a really fun list! I usually don’t try to get overpowered in RPGs but it’s entertaining to see how broken certain characters can be

Baldur's Gate Dark Alliance 1 can be broken if you just do circles around every single type of mobs.

Speaking of Xenoblade 2 DLC, Elma enables X's Overdrive

Huh, never even expected you to consider Fallout 2…good selection, sir!

I was about to say SO2 since you could literally break the game with Marvel but then SO2R release and you could literally break the game IN MANY PIECES when you unlocked IC. SO2R is an EXTREMELY POWERFUL system that Chaos difficulty is TRIVIALIZED the moment you unlock the IC system....THAT BROKEN!!!

squall with all the strength and two ladies with regular revive. keep squall life low and spam pass turns until his limit break comes up, squall smash. if squall dies revive with normal revive to keep him in limit break range. use ladies to buff everybody and heal each other.

Why fo2 over 1? Navarro runs are hell to do if you arent very experienced in the game, in FO1 you can get the alien blaster after getting out of the first cave and the games over

Castlevania Symphony of the Night you missed an exploit : The medusa shield! Use the high luck name code when creating your file, and go kill some medusa heads in the eastern tower... use medusa shield to kill enemies at the touch. Earlier than Alucard shield without the glitch !! Also : you can do it the normal way, it takes me about 3-5 hours max each time I did it (3 times normal, 2 times with luck)

Where is the eiyuden chronicle hundred heroes tier list? 🤔 🤷🏽‍♂️

I remember when I first realized I could blast my own party in Final Fantasy II, that was it for any semblance of balance for that particular run.

Who is thumbnail,think i saw him graffitied on a wall in my area

Can't forget any tales of series game

Literally any Trails of Cold Steel game can be broken via Evasion tank Fie, physical nuke Laura, magical nuke Emma, eternal Delay Rean, a plentiful choice of CP batteries, a plethora of orders and busted S-Craft spam strategies - not every method works in every game, but every single one of them has a combination of several of them.

To make FF8 more broken learn Diablo’s No Encounters along with the suggested card strategy. Not only will be junctioning high end magic, but you will be keeping yourself at a low level due to fighting required battles only.

Joon hi in like a dragon. Just head trauma.

No honorable mention about the W-Item glitch in FF7? Once you get it you basically can create 99 of any item and in theory have infinite money with it. The remainder of the game gets broken with 99 megalixers.

20 plus years later, and folks still can't pronounce Suikoden.

The item dupe in Demon's Souls is pretty bad. I think you can do the same thing in Dark Souls 1 too.

bravely default with hasten world and stillness made you literally unkillable by any enemy in the game

Skyrim Fortify Restoration loop... You can become invulnerable and one shot even the strongest of bosses while still being level 1

I would add Final Fantasy Tactics. Sure, the game gives you characters that can dominate with zero grinding, but with grinding you can easily break the intended limits of your stats. You can level up with a job with high stat growth, trigger level down traps with a job with low stat growth, since, repeat, godhood.

Final Fantasy 2 is not a mess... I love it as intended, a 8.9/10! you can level up before going across the river with the canoe, learning no more than 2 words... and level enough to go down west to go to Mysidia before starting the game... you get to the opening of the last dungeon at the start before learning the 3rd word! NO other RPG offer s you this. This is unseen to this day OPEN world to the truest! Like The Legend of Zelda 1 on NES! the open worlds on NES !

Although all Suikoden games *can* be broken with the right combo of runes, it’s certainly not immediately obvious to the average player. :)

I feel like the ability to make a broken character is almost a necessity in a single player rpg

"Unbalanced"? "Misbalanced"? Try imbalanced. There ya go.

Final fantasy 8. Maybe I should take a Selphie.

Final Fantasy II’s Ultima spell works as Hironobu Sakaguchi intended in the GBA versions and later. It is a joke in the original and PS1 versions.

Final Fantasy VI would like a word (looking at you Ultima + Quick Combo)

4:00 Suikoden 5 characters kinda interesting though encounter rate and ps2 loading was awful. Georg Prime not in vid was balanced by the fact he wasn't always there 😂 and the story so slow you may not continue. 7:57 pokemon wrap/fire spin stun lock is torture. Saved me with rental rapidash toxic in pokemon stadium for switch online with no imports. 8:40 oh good stated. I don't think items can be used PvP though I wondered what x accuracy worked with so thanks 12:24 pixel remaster boost fixed ff2 a ton and 12:55 double shield finally allows unarmed attack with no ultima magic interference, and both benefit for the formula. Shame no clips for that PR nor blood sword/ancient sword wielding for life drain and curse to own ultima weapon in psp/gba versions soul of rebirth. Vid more overpowered than not working broken. Also ff5 quick and rapidfire are up there with ff6 Gau rages.

I just started watching and wana know why Skyrim is number 1 lol 😂 ok I know why but seriously if it’s not idk 🤷‍♀️

How in the hell does FFT not make this list?

Is it really broken if Xenoblade X's insane builds require tons of playtime to set up? I think it's a testament to its design that you can achieve such crazy builds.

I assumed that FF tactics would have been there, but great list nonetheless.

Final Fantasy VI? Breath of Fire?

Actually normal is a physical type in ge n 1

Star Ocean Second Story R (never played the original so I don't know if it measures up here). there are just so many ways to break it in half and unlike the Xenoblades you barely need to be trying because there are SO many ways FE Awakening. I guess this game deserves points for having pretty serious ludonarrative harmony in the usual "power of friendship" story because goddamn if pair-up or whatever it was called doesn't break the game.

I'm still waiting for a ranking of all the party members in Persona 3 Reload and maybe you can do as well a ranking of all the party members in Xenoblade 3 Future Redeemed

11:01 answer is easy...alchemy.

Here's an idea: most broken JRPG spells. Dunno if you'll read this but I swear to the Gods if you do, kudos hope you do it. There are so many broken RPG spells, but like, 3/4 of them are JRPG spells, iirc.

i wasn't aware that each and every character in a RPG have to be "balanced" to each other, like clones, what's the point then to have a diverse party? can you explain? your obsession with balancing

I was assuming FF6 would be first: Vanish + Doom.

Every game is a fever dream lol

*Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden* - Exploring to max out your damage by finding artifacts and silenced guns trivializes the game. Bormin (protagonist) has the most broken disabling skill in the game, while Dux (deuteragonist) can be specced to have guaranteed criticals and snipe from nearly a whole map early and he deletes robots, the bulk of late enemies. *Wild Arms 4* - Raquel deletes even bosses with a couple of normal attacks, not to mention Intrude being the most broken thing in the game. Arnaud is extremely durable for a mage, not to mention he can shut down several enemies offensively and help party members get more turns if they need them (especially abusable with Yulie mid-late game). *Xenogears* - As soon as you get the Yggdrasil, buy Ether Doublers and give one to Elly and Fei. Give one to Billy, Chu-Chu, Emeralda, and Maria when they join, and every battle will be a joke, especially in Gears. Bart’s Wild Smile stacks, which guarantees whiffing on basically every attack. Magnetic Coats further trivialize Gear battles.