Twilight of the Spirits is one of if not my favorite video game of all time and I really wish it had gotten more attention.

I'm so glad to hear someone else's opinion of this game! It's been my personal favorite game of all time; right beside Grandia 2 and FF Tactics(on the PS One)

as a mixed race kid that game blew my mind back then

One of the most detailed videos I've ever seen about TotS, and I've seen many for many years :)

This is a great series that died along with all the other great JRPGs of the previous era. The last game in the series for the PS2 era was a complete garbage fire. They made an extremely no thought put in Action RPG to try and bring in a larger audience but it backfired. Its a damn shame so many games series I would love to see brought back and not as a shitty mobile game. Lunar, Grandia, Phantasy Star, Wild Arms, Suikoden, Golden Sun, Shining Force, Valkyrie Profile, Growlanser, Breath of Fire and probably so many more most of which all died around the same era due to the world not being ready for JRPGs yet. Most of these series are looked back upon as hidden gems/masterpieces, but at the time they were just barely getting by. The first 3 games are all really good and I highly recommend them especially the first two. You can get them on the PS3 shop and they are for sure worth it. The first game is short and just a pretty generic Tactical RPG but the reason it must be played first is the second game is a direct sequel. The second game is a masterpiece, it may just be the best tactical RPG ever made and I have played a ton of them. The third one I personally really liked it but a lot of people didn't, it has a very generic story but what I loved about it is the fixed party. You only get 5 or 6 characters can't remember the exact number but you use all of them and they all play a unique much needed roll in the party. Probably my one biggest pet peeves of a long time Tactics RPG lover, is the fact so many games have tons of classes/characters but the majority are clones or useless compared to other characters. I love the games that make you use all the characters and they all have a unique style to bring. Which is why I love this series as it rarely leaves a character behind making them all useful and needed at some point. Sorry for the long post I always ramble on when it comes to the games I love the most haha.

Delma being voiced by Jennifer Hale really surprised me when I realized it like 8 years after I played this game. Also, "Natural Selection" is one of the songs from this game I frequently return to listen to. It's an amazing track.

Loved this game. Played it wayyyy back when I was a teenager, and i'm playing through it again now, with my wife. She loves it.

Absolutely my favorite video game. It being released on PSN was the best thing for me.

I found this game on demo back in the day (2002/03) when I first got my PlayStation 2. Thanks to the PlayStation store. I was able to find this on my PS5, I’ve been recently playing it and I am about 35 hours in, for the time and the ability to make games graphically with moving action, this is one of the most enjoyable games I have ever played, I cannot recommend it highly enough.

This is really a great game.this was my first entry in the series and played it more than a decade ago

Amazing retrospective. I found this game as a kid by accident and it became one of my favorites on ps2. The relentlessly dark story and soundtrack are the things that hooked me. I still remember that dude who throws himself off of the tower. I found the game to be too grindy in order to unlock the secret characters and level enough for the final boss which was too hard for me to ever beat. I also found the summon system overly confusing. Arc the Lad TotS might be the best game i never beat. I could revisit it as an adult but i don’t find much motivation to devote time to rpgs anymore. I greatly appreciate finding your video as it let me relive some of these precious memories.

A shame this series is kind of dead in the water right now, as my first jump into it shows it has a lot of potential. Any of you play this series before? What do you all think? Also... this video isn't likely to get much traction, so if you feel so inclined, I certainly wouldn't dissuade any shares haha! Have a great week folks!

I figure I'd mention Deimos aren't considered monsters. Monsters are a separate class in this game.

Like Chrono Cross, this is another game I have a lot of good memories of. Like you mentioned, the voice cast is really good in this game, including Cree summer, Quinton Flynn, to name a few you didn't as well. I hadn't analyzed it so directly, but your point about the layers to the world building being expansive but not intrusive is spot-on and part of why I like it for sure. Like you, I'd never played the previous Arc games and got through it jus fine, so they're really not necessary. Great review!

Awesome video! Twilight is one of the most underrated games on PS2.

Quality Review I'm always looking forward to ur Game Reviews

Love this game (& the 3 before it). Love Twilight of the Spirits the most, which I'm playing now, in fact, for the 1st time since it released. 'tis bringing back memories. I've not one complaint on this game, actually. I also have the Working Designs box set, the Arc the Lad Collection. After I finish this, I'll also be replaying 1 thru 3 for the 1st time since release. The nostalgia. I can't believe Cattle Call also made the one after this, The End of Darkness. It's horrible on all fronts.

Tots was my first arc the lad game too and I still love it to this day.

I remember playing Arc the Lad one, two, and three (never finished three) they were pretty cool games. I’ll say this the first two games are the highlight of the series and worth playing. Make sure you play Arc the Lad one first as the sequel is a direct follow up and the first game allows you to transfer your data to the sequel.

Arc the Lad hardly hear that name anymore... I love that working designs arc the lad box we don't get them like that anymore

Quite surprisingly deep story

Great video! Really interesting and great footage.

This is a blast from the past, I played this game a lot in middle school and loved it. It's good to see the game generally holds up.

Well written review. Bravo 👏 I'm still trying to finish twilight of the spirits

You probably already know this, but this is the fourth mainline title in the series, chronologically. I, too, originally started with this game, but then I stopped playing it and went back and played the earlier ones, then came back to this one. I found that it was much more rewarding that way, as I actually understood all the references to previous characters and locations. Great video. I enjoyed the relation you made between the game's depiction of humans vs deimos to our own world in respect to racism. I made a similar observation in my own video review of this game. :)

The main problem with End of Darkness, was that it was an action bastardization. I'm also not going to care about a mobile game. The series must release an actual Strategy RPG on consoles, if it ever wants to actually revive.

I remember playing this game when I was younger. It’s been stuck in my head lately, I couldn’t remember the name or anything!!

i got introduced to this series from this exact game too. was in my late teens 18-19? and stumbled upon this treasure. I too was thinking to myself "Arc the Lad?"... "Like... Arc, the nice chap?" lol. Out of curiosity and looking at the front cover and game intro at the back, i decided to give it a try. And boy did I made a great choice! xD It is because of this game I went to hunt for ATL 1/2/3... played them all and was genuinely surprised not many people are talking about the game. A friend of mine did tho and he was awesome to lend me the Arc the Lad anime DVD. hahaha. I've played End of Darkness too and I did enjoyed it however the mechanics were changed. I primarily enjoyed it because I could literally get to visit the place and music again in the previous title. However, it definitely pales in comparison to Twilight in terms of the story telling. Didnt know there's the mobile release, however I'm unable to find it on the app store, figured it might be region locked. :(

One of my favorite games ever!!! I feel the need to play this again.

This game is available on the ps4 store

excellent review

Awesome tark! I have also always been curious about this one, never ended up getting it though so lets see if I shouldve :p

I'd say this game mostly sits between a 7/10 to a 8/10. However, Darcs 1st chapter is straight up 10/10. Unfortunately the rest the game doesn't live up to the bar set from that section

I remember enjoying this game and accidentally marathoning it as a kid. Glad that some people still remember it. Kinda sad you didn't get into the later plot points in a spoiler section.

My first jrpg that made my favourite of all time

So I'm watching this years later and there is a profound message in the game that Tark speaks of at 3:19. Quite powerful to listen to while observing what's going on in Ukraine.

Personally one of my favorite games! I'm going through a new game + right now

Game is so good. Back in the complete without the internet days

Bebedora, the best character s2

Had u played it on the ps4 its in the PlayStation store

I loved the game on PS2 but could never finish it. The final Boss has a ridiculous difficulty spike that i couldn't over come. I even tried it again when it released on PS4 as a port. Still couldn't beat the boss. :(

I have a friend that wanted me to play this, I feel guilty now for not playing it yet. Great review

I played this game when it first came out. No idea what I was getting into. My friend gave it to me. I enjoyed playing allot.

Oh arc the lad 1, 2, and 3 are all on psn for 6 bucks each

This game was great. I really liked it. The story could have been a little better but nonetheless good. The final battle was long, at least in my case, but entertaining.

I bought this game for 4$ the other day. Am way super excited to play it, looks amazing.

I'm a ff fanatic but this one of my favorite games EVER and the only arc the lad I've ever played.. also can't find it in the ps store

Great review you can get the first 3 games on psn

A personal favorite of mine

Lol I just replayed this game trying to get every unique character equip and I missed the knuckle guard 😅

Arc the lad was my shit back when I was feeling down

I played this game around the time it released as a kid and it too was my first game in the series. I didn't really understand a lot of the game mechanics at that age (more used to Pokemon at the time), but the story was captivating, and even to this day it's one of my favorite games. It's the kind of title I just need to play through again once every few years. As for the other ones? Well, I've never played AtL 1-3 either but I hear they're pretty good, although nothing incredibly unique if you've played other Tactics games of the era. Probably still worth checking out though. And End of Darkness was so bad that it did kind of kill the series due to its quality. However even by that point I think the company that made the series was starting to go under anyway. TotS may have reviewed extremely well but I don't think it sold well at all. As a result, EoD just felt very lazy and like they were trying to scramble one final game together before they went out of business. I swear like 90% of the assets were just copy-pasted from TotS, there's no more than a dozen new voice lines, and the story reads like a glorified fantiction. I still think it's worth checking out, but don't get your hopes too high. Anyway, thanks a lot for this video! I kind of want to play through the game again now.

I’m playing it for the 2nd time now

Ngl i am waiting a lot from this game too Tho i only played this one, i plan to play the others tho Definetly one of my favorites of all time

I played it when I was younger but didn't like it too much. Trying to level was a pain.

This actually became my favorite game I bought it back around 2007 at micro center for $12 bucks and suddenly im like wth who is this great hero and holy mother (Arc and Kukuru) later found out there was an Anime and Arc 1 2 and 3 and Ressurection of the machine god and I'm like wtf y am I hearing about this all late so once I turned 18 I found a job and bought Arc 1 2 n 3 and i was like wtf so good for an 95 game and i got the Arc the lad 1 2 n 3 for $40 that was till 2011

I beat this game when I was like 11 or 12 and I’m very confused as to how i accomplished that lol

I really wanna replay this game, sadly my PS2 is not in the living anymore. TT_TT

During that era it was definitely a case of if you didn't get a good review score you almost never got a sequel Breath of Fire being another example of a great series that got erased all because of 1 game not doing well despite previous titles doing well and the new title taking a different direction with the series but nope it was still bad so clearly no one wants games from that series anymore just can it, that's more or less the mind set of that era of gaming. Now a day's things get sequels no matter the quality because of name recognition and nostolgia what a change of the world at large

Steve Blum, Jennifer Hale!! X]

Battles r only long if u choose not to grind which is a bad idea

as somebody who got Arc the Lad: End of Darkness when I was younger for cheap, I'd just like to vouch that it is indeed complete and utter garbage and we should try to find a landfill somewhere and E.T. every copy of the game in it. I can't find my copy of the game, but if I ever find it, I would be more than willing to give it to you, thats a BIG if since I haven't been able to find most of my ps2 collection for close to a decade.

Making bank of these views then ;) your welcome

The rant about "humans [being] fallible" kind of turned me off from this review. I'm glad to see somebody talking about this game, but I was more interested in the game than the asides about human nature and politics. It was noticeable enough during the first 8 minutes that I didn't want to watch anymore.' That might just be your style though. No reason to change it.

I love Darc. Bebedora is adorable as well. The sequel rode the curtails of this game so hard for sales only to be a dumpster fire that destroyed the series. Biggest complaint The tails. Why do they start at the upper back and not the base of it. It's offputting and I personally ignore this

the psx trilogy and the anime is way better

Damn, had to wait until 12+ minutes to find out combat was turn-based. No thanks.

Your racial preaching was so cringe it convinced me not to play it.