Same.

Had me clapping tbh! Suikoden V was the first game I played in the series and I adored it. I still consider Lymsleia one of my favourite child characters in RPGs. And Lyon messed me up at the end because I didn't know about the whole Stars of Destiny thing. Cannot believe that a company with so many great IPs under their belt turned to so much shit.

Im guessing from this statement your at least 30? I remember asking my mom for the same thing plus chrono cross

Xenogears didn’t come with an FF8 demo in any region.

@@Danielzilla Holy crap you're right. My memory is bugging. The demo was in another game. I could have sworn it was in xenogears but I'm wrong. That's what it was! I got parasite eve for the demo disc. Loved parasite eve. And after playing ff8 I saw xenogears on it and that got me interested in the game. Forgive me, it was over 20 years ago

@@dangelojohnson1744 36. But I'm partially wrong. The game with the demos was parasite eve. That demo disc also had xenogears. FF7 and FF8 just got me into jrpgs so I wanted more. The internet was barely a thing so that xeno demo caught my eye

@@dangelojohnson1744 chrono cross... parasite eve.... FF7... FF8.... xenogears. God I miss peak golden age square. This is why psx is my favorite generation. That and metal gear solid.

Agreed it is one of my favorite games

I love Falcom, but I got really bored with Tokyo Xanadu after a while.

@@scottmichaelhedge5055 yeah it can happen, to each his own.

I’ve had my eye on it for a bit, would you suggest it to someone who loves Ys?

@@withoutthejuice7193 for sure, it has similarities in gameplay. I started with Ys too and bought Tokyo Xanadu when it was on sale and I'm so glad I did so. It was a really good game imo, which gameplay/ story peaked in the mid of the game until the end. It can feel very slow in the beginning but believe me, the end makes up for it for sure. Oh and the music is also extremely good.

Or HAHA Kingdom Hearts go brrrrrrrr And honnestly let's not talk about the poor JRPG which were release in Japan at the same time as a Dragon Quest games XD

@@nesoukkefka1741 RIP

And if Square is taking a hiatus or something its usually Nintendo going, "Hey there, made myself another first-party RPG."

Truth be getting spoken here.

That they are. Dark themed games like them are rare. I didn't know they were released next to other titles.

I doubt it has anything to do with release schedule. The reviews of 1 were rough, reviews on 2 were hit or miss, most people don't even know they are sequels to Kouldelka, and they were barely advertised if at all. RPG's back then got little to no love in general, even Final Fantasy was considered small and niche until 7. It is hard to describe it to people who didn't grow up with it, but until FF7 it was not cool to play RPG's, like you were weird even to other people who played video games.

@@DKarkarov I never had problems with other gamers thinking I was weird for playing them back then....probably because I played other games besides JRPG's.

The 3rd one is crazy fun too. I love the series.

I love the Shadow Hearts series, but the game play and graphics for the first one were ROUGH. Its story is what it had going for it. If anything, the first one was somewhat lacking in the trademark goofyness of the other two. I only went back to play SH1 after SH2.

Why SEGA release jrpg's with the same time of Square Enix games ? And most important WITH x50 LESS BUDGET FOR GAME AND NO MARKETING IN WEST !!! Examples: - Skies of Arcadia (SEGA) / FF IX (Square Enix) = SEGA GAME flop, IP dead - Valkyria Chronicles 4 (SEGA) / Dragon Quest XI (Square Enix) = SEGA GAME flop, IP dead (?) - Shin Sakura Wars (SEGA) / FF VII Remake and Trials of Mana (both Square Enix) = SEGA GAME flop, IP dead (?) Its like SEGA want kill franchises other than Yakuza and Sonic intentionaly.

@@nr2676 To be fair Skied of Arcadia was awesome just released at the absolutely wrong time.

​@@Melodyofthesea78 Yeah, but VC and SW are also very good, those games also suffered in bad release date. Also Skies of Arcadia was released on dead platform - Dreamcast, and Gamecube release date as u mentioned was very bad. Fun fact: all those games series i mentioned are from the same devs - Overworks. They worked on Sakura Wars 3 and 4, Skies of Arcadia and Valkyria Chronicles. This dudes are seriously so underrated.

@@nr2676 sounds like SEGA believe that they can compete with square kek

@@shutup1037 Yes without 100 000 000 $ production budget and no markateing, its fucking impossible to compete Square in this moment. Why they trying compete SE with new IP's in West with absolute no money behind ? Maybe they still have complex: ,,SEGA must win with Nintendo from 90 years'', now they have new complex ,,SEGA must win with Square Enix''.

I agree while claiming suikoden 2 to be overrated and Suikoden 5 doesn't the attention it deserves since I can only experience it in my memories since my PS2 doesn't work anymore.

@@Gooong my ps2 is damaged too.. but I still can play suikoden 5 in my laptop.

Interestingly, Square was saying the same because of Enix's Dragon Quest Series, until Final Fantasy 7.

@@brycekillor318parker6 waat, didnt know.

@@hiro6164 Dragon Quest is basically Japan's FFVII: the game that introduced the concept of the RPG to the masses. In many ways the progenitor of the genre. It's so absurdly popular there that Enix negotiated with Nintendo to ship new releases on Saturday in Japan specifically because so many people would skip school/work to play it (as opposed to the industry standard which was Thursday).

Whenever I see a Giant Laser Cannon I still say "Moonstone Cannon FIRE!"

@@zepheric3188 same here but i have a knack for "harpoon cannon fire !" instead, the fight vs grendel is printed in my mind

I loved Skies of Arcadia on the GameCube so much that I wrote my own guides, completed it multiple times, and feel nothing has come close to imitating it. I love the unique ship combat.

It is more like don't release your game on a tanking system, with literally no fanfare or advertisements of any kind.

@@DKarkarov That also doesn't help.

Dunno how much hate gonna get for this but yeah had to get trials of mana above ff7r. It just came across as a real good remake/remaster where as the FF title just felt wrong to me

And Capcom with Breath of Fire, and Sony with Wild Arms, Grandia, Alundra and SE with Xenogears, and Chronos games...

The problem with suikoden is the OG team who worked on it already disbanded but konami still hold the ip and im not sure konami still care with gaming industry

Let's keep praying for Eiyuden Chronicle to be good

Konami makes most of it's bank with Pachinko and VLT gambling machines I'm pretty sure. The whole gaming section is kind of left behind.

I still hoping there will be Suikoden 6. There are many stories and mysteries not answered and tell.

Tokyo xanadu 2 would be a blessing from falcom

@@jahboidb It would, would love that so much

I think I read somewhere that part of what stands in the way of a Suikoden V digital release has something to do with voice over contracts. I wish it would come though. I had to sell my game collection, due to homelessness, and getting a copy now costs so freaking much. I have also had terrible luck trying to emulate it.

The graphics for Suikoden V were about the best cel graphics for the time as well. It blew most of the competition out of the water. Looked way better then Star Ocean sprites.

From my understanding, The Blazing Blade did very well both in Japan and in the west which is the main reason why they pushed forward with the Path of Radiance series on the Gamecube. Sadly, they didn't get the success they wanted with those titles and after a few more misses, were in danger of Nintendo pulling the plug on the series until Awakening released and basically saved the franchise.

FE wasn't known because it wasn't released outside Japan before BB

Tales of Arise dope gotta finish that playing shadowverse champion battle

Getting it on Thursday, just finished up Xillia 1 to make room for it.

Well, Falcom's not as big as Bandai Namco unfortunately. They feel like the underdog at this point.

They might go back to waifu simulator cause it sells...

No marketing + bad release date + new IP (in West) + low budget game = bad sales

Ruined seems like the wrong word when it’s mostly about poorly timed western releases

If only I could figure out how to get a working ps2 emulator on my computer

@@sharebear421 Pcsx2, what gives you trouble?

@@Fermin-hw5pd it’s a lot more complicated than getting something like a gba or snes emulator going idk. Just too high tech for my dumbass

I'll wait until it's 100% translated.

Both of those games, as well as phantasy star online, were my top 3 played games on dreamcast. I admit the dreamcast was not my favorite system, but even with later ports I felt it was the best way to play those games. (I just hated the controller and the weird memory cards)

I try and I like Suikoden 2 than Ff7.

🥺 well Tecmo Koei has a game called the Hundred years war Jeanne D Arc is in the game its a Strategy beat em up game.

Seriously doubt it, they stabbed themselves in the foot just like Capcom did with Breath of Fire by massively changing the games mechanics and not in a good way. I was a die hard wild arms fan, and 5 hours of 4 had me returning it for a trade in at gamestop. By the time 5 showed up the IP had already been shot and left for dead.

That’s like a classic Falcom move haha

*If* only they would port Tokyo Xanadu EX+ to modern consoles including the Switch.

No, it was ruined by Purist like you. Same thing you guys did to Sakura wars V.

@@Kaimax61 Sakura Wars V was actually Sakura Wars unlike 2019. It was ruined by Sega not caring about their western market. It took them FIVE YEARS to translate the game. The fan translations beat them to it by at least two years. Sakura Wars 2019 was just a cheap Dynasty Warriors knock off with no stakes.

Maybe becouse Shin Sakura Wars was made for new Western fans who dont played past games (total casuals in musou and Visual Novel genre). And this is first game made by not original studio Red Company, but made by Team Sonic - they didnt created a good Sonic game for years and you expected a good Sakura Wars game from that studio ? They should give SW to Valkyria Chronicles devs, where a large proportion of the employees are former members of the Red Company, not to unexperienced with SW Team Sonic . Also combat change was a bad idea (Valkyria Revolution flashbacks). Musou without RPG elements and progression system is very boring and repetive. And u just cant made musou with teamwork feature from older SW games, this is impossible becouse u cant play all 6 characters in one moment in action game like in turn-based SRPG (in one turn) . I think its still good and fun game, but as i man who played all SW games i understand why fans are mad on that game.

@@ohnosmoarlulcatz Sakura Wars 5 was not translated by SEGA, but by NISA, thats why translation of this game took 5 year. Yes release game on PS2 in 2010 was great idea :)

​@@nr2676 Sakura Wars was revived because of a poll conducted by Sega of Japan towards the Japanese audience. It doesn't make sense to use that poll to justify the creation of a game directed at a western audience rather than the target demographic of your poll. It's just another thing to pile onto the dumb decisions made by Sega. And like I've said, they had plenty of time to try to correct this. Yet, their mobile game and anime only doubled down. I suggest you take a look at how Warriors Orochi is done. It's Musou with a basic framework of teamwork features. Warriors Orochi 3 even featured I think a 5 man Gauntlet Mode (I forget the exact numbers, but it was more than 3) during the PS3 era and you could switch between them as well. You could utilize teammates as assist strikers and team attacks. Warriors All Stars was another twist on this that utilized 1 playable character with 4 assists. Was it crude? Yeah. But Warriors Orochi 3 was 5 years before Sakura Wars 2019 and Warriors All Stars was 2 years before. Considering Sakura Wars 5 had its numbers fudged by NISA's 9,999+ report rather than a more accurate sales figure, that's not something you should have confidence in. The total figures since then look a little better at about 120k for the west, but not sure if those are accurate numbers for Sakura Wars 5 as it is from VGChartz, which is not a reliable source.

Also with zelda skyward sword hd along the way

From what I heard, the bad localization choices and lack of marketing killed it way more than the other games that launched at the same time. I'm a Squeenix fan and at least pay attention to what they put out, and even I didn't know NEO TWEWY even existed until 4 days ago.

@@koxame um zelda isn't a rpg...

It can be matilda gate glitch or cheat

It became the canon ending only AFTER the true ending of SH2. Where yuri goes back in time to make things right

Nice, I really liked it too on PC.

Reason is simple: Sakura Wars PS4 had lowest budget from all Sakura Wars games. Only opening in Sakura Wars 3 costed arround 3 000 000 $ (in 2001 !!!), its 1/3 budget of PS4 game. In interview they mentioned: Team Sonic must had to choose between ENG dubb or subtiles in multiple languages (German, Spanish, French, Italian). They had to choose subtiles becouse its ofcourse cheaper. Simply they dont had money for porting game.