Ecclesiastes 4 : 13 - 14 A poor but wise youth is better than an old but foolish king who will no longer accept correction. The former can come out of prison to reign, while the latter, even if born to kingship, may become poor.

Poggers

It's just a contextless word that makes no sense.

@@meta527II Ah I see! Thanks for the anwser and have a great week! ^^

It's short for play of the game, that's where it originated from

Cohorts has gotta be one of my favorite words

The game really felt as though there was a Civil War among the writers and developers and not writers versus developers more like some writers and developers versus the other half of writers and developers. Part one feels like a traditional fire emblem and balance Around that. But then you have a big lipped alligator moment that is part 2 And an even bigger one when the 1st half Of part 3. Is that by the time you're given control back of the Dawn Brigade, Feels like someone didn't tell the guy who is making the levels these specific chapters you're being given back a group of Characters who are still at the stats they were at the end of that chapter but you're fighting enemies who are balanced around say Ike's group. In a swamp level with fog of war! I was like what the h*** were they thinking. And the worst thing is There are just so many better characters that the only reason you would bring any dawn brigade Other than the 2 protagonists of the story (Sothe and Micaiah) It's simply because you decide to say f*** it you like them enough to keep using them but they do not have enough character development after part one for you'd even cared too much and the support which is supposed to make up for that is bare bones that it doesn't make up for it. Because a lot of players playing radiant dawn are likely going to be returning path of radiance players Who likely have old save bonuses so basically anyone who was in the 1st game Are gonna be so much better than anybody exclusively new to this one. In the end you have a s*** ton of filler characters who really didn't do their job as filler characters they just existed because they had a mention about them like Meg And even then that's more of a blink and you might miss because it relies heavily upon you having supported Zihark and Brom Do you have any idea of who she might be, I mean once part 2 comes around you'll make a lucky guess of who her father is if radiant dawn was your 1st game and not path of radiance basically you started playing on Radiant dawn and never played path of radiance. And then some characters really get shafted like Tormod Whose path of radiance bonuses does not save him. There's a reason why you didn't see this type of format ever used again in fire emblem. Story wise it's interesting gameplay wise it's freakin annoying and redundant and the support system which had pretty good writing And made up the back story for the characters who are not the main characters in the story and even enrich the characters who were the main characters in this story Got shafted all because they wanted to put as many fillers and so you would not be without a full army and then you get to the tower of guidance at the end and realize you're gonna cut that number even lower especially since they're gonna give you the royals who pretty much Kick a** and you have to actually choose not to use Which unlike another fire emblem's sorry Bud you have to take many of them so now the numbers further cut.. I enjoyed radiant dawn but it's one of the fire emblems I would least replay The other one being genealogy of the holy war. Blasphemy yes but it takes a lot out of me 3 houses gets replayed Only because new game plus gets rid of much of the tedium As some of the bonuses that I allow myself to use without breaking the game means I have less busy work so I can enjoy the f****** game. There's a bit of a reason why I like traditional fire emblems like fates and engage. It's nice to play those like 3 houses but not so often. And I really really want to play power radiance which is also a traditional fire emblem but radiant dawn as I said never again. Play the 5 times and refuse to do so again. And hated how you had to do many times just to get one secret character that you can only use in the final map I have to ask why did they regulate the "Gotoh" that is Sephrian/Lehran To such stupid requirements just have a chance of using him in the final Battle when hes kind of redundant. Because you know you're replaying the game after certain point so he really doesn't add anything. At least the Gotoh of FE6 Blazing Sword/GBA Athos Join you for both halves of the final battle.

​@@paulman34340 I dunno, it did not feel like that, it felt like that was intentional and was intended to make it more of a challenge. They were thinking that the Dawn Bridage levels should be really tough. I mean they are not all better, some are still useable and viable despite everything, they do have enough character development after part one or you to care enough about them and the supports are not all bare bones and it does make up for it at times. Not everyone actually. They are not filler characters and they did their actual jobs well, no they are fully actual characters for the most part. They did not all get shafted and they are not filler characters. Actually he is not reduntant as he has some use. Wrong he does add something as he is a useful unit.

@@Jdudec367 Let me be clear, I do "NOT" hate Part 2, frankly speaking it was my favorite chapter STORY WISE as a Path of Radiance fan because I got to see Elincia growth as a Queen (She's honestly my favorite Nyna in the series likely cause I think she's the ONLY playable Nyna in the series! Playable as in "story given" rather then unlocked by completing the game for the challenge modes) Part 3 can cause a split because you have the Greil Mercenaries (who even without their POR Bonus stats have great base stats) vs the Dawn Brigade (Who you better HOPE got lucky RNG wise with Stat growths and you training them properly! Found I only needed Laura, Aran, Micaiah, Sothe, Nolan, Leo and Edward and no one else! But damn will I despise the chapter you get them back in! It's like how Cecila in Binding Blade joins you....on a DESERT MAP THAT SEVERLY CRIPPLES HER MOVEMENT WISE AND MAKES HER EASY PREY FOR WYVERN HELL! Well at least the Fog of war map is manageable compared to that hell (though the irony half that map was reused in Blazing Sword and it's where you get Pent was just cruel as being an unmounted Sage in a Desert made him run RINGS around the bosses of that level is not lost on me! Poor Girl) Lets just say we know who's going to win in popularity (even if you DIDN'T play POR to have an Ike Bias, you know their are FE players who choose their characters based largely on their Base stats cause there's less work to do in making them viable then take a chance on a potential dud! Not that I ever know! Other then one time with Dimitri in 3H and even that was recoverable! I never got RNG Screwed, or felt like I did in a FE game because I know how to adjust! Have played where I used the Dawn Brigade from start to End any chance the game let me) Part 4 though REALLY shows the game was Narritive before Gameplay with the "let's split up gang" to wrap up plot points and threads on the way (If you found a way to use the Fire Sage Kid without POR Bonus or whatever! Power to you! Only used him once and Late Comers are not very appealing to me without the Stats to prove it! Will Say Engage RESTORED some fate in late comers as they CAN be worked around to be useful despite their join time. GOTOH runs strong with Veyle LOL! But fuck Oliver! Never was a fan of him in POR as I ALWAYS saw him as a villain! But did love him for the Meme status he has garned like Gheb from Sacred Stones! He SURPASSES him! Gameplaywise I already have like TWO Saints that are better and Micaiah who is a Upgraded LORD Saint who is mandatory as the Main Character, so I have no need for more then one other Saint choice) which as I'll remind, storywise it's alright, gameplaywise, I'm using alot of characters who won't make the final line up (because IS for SOME GOD DAMN REASON decided to SEVERLY lower your final line up for ALOT of characters who are needed storywise! No making them just be with the group and you could choose to deploy them, YOU HAVE to deploy them, lowering who you can FREELY choose! Note they never did this again in future FE! The only mandatory Deploy's was the Lord of the game and the Avatar, and then just the Avatar til 3H for obvious reasons! But you never felt FORCED to use some characters! I HATE when I'm gimped of who I can use when you give me a shit ton of characters) But hey that's MY View and Opinion of Radiant Dawn! I will admit after playing it like 40 times over the Wii Lifespan (as I searched in vein for POR again, I regret trading it in after beating it once, assuming I'd buy it back later) I have little desire to play it again despite liking Micaiah (Especially as Heroes and Engage REINVOGRATED what I loved about her) over Path of Radiance (But that may be as I said, because of my regret selling the game after beating it all those years ago! I was young and foolish and I did this with Blazing Sword & Sacred Stones before! Sold them while they were new and got them back after I had time to cool down later cheaper then their original price! Didn't know about limited print back then! CURSE YOU NINTENDO!) But I will say it was a great finale to the Tellius and Ike's Story (Even if it had a crappy Support Conversation system! At least Paired endings are there....even if limited)

@@paulman34340 Yeah sometimes it really feels like the level designers are just spiting the players and are being sadistic lol. Ah yes Oliver, aka power hungry fool lol. Yeah honestly I look forward to eventually playing them too. Fire Emblem games can get pretty expensive online.

Same, it was just a fun ride. The combat took some time to click, but I had a lot of fun once I started using all of the tools it gave me properly (and learned to play everyone and not just Velvet).

As a zoomer who played cod 24/7, Berseria was the first single player story based game i played and i haven't seen games the same way since, i don't care if people say its cheesy or whatever but it'll always have a special place in my heart

I loved Berseria. It even made Zesteria less bad in retrospect. Making that world suddenly less pure good vs evil really makes Sorey's journey more interesting.

As a TALES FAN, BERSERIA is the worst in the series... ok not the worst but at least its better than the one before it... since you guys played BERSERIA, play their older games too... SYMPHONIA is OVERRATED, but at least try ABYSS (best story), VESPERIA, GRACES and XILLIA...

@@erickreyes7902 I will probably give Vesperia a try one of these days so I guess we will see then. I'll likely always have a soft spot for Berseria anyway though since it was my first tales game.

I see you live in Nether Wallop as well!

No joke, I went to Target one time, and a bunch of teenage girls who looked and sounded like they came out of Mean Girls were having a heated discussion over Star Wars legos.

That's where a lot of my inspirations come from, so I'm glad it shines through!

I kinda forgot how wild some of those sidequests got, and damn were there some good ones.

You can possibly throw up Gaiden/Echoes for debate as well. But I love Genealogy, my second favorite game after PoR

Can't forget Sacred Stones either, though I guess moving through the world map came from Gaiden first, but it was the first to have grinding and branching class paths.

I really like Arise but I'm a lot more split on Vesperia. I like it, but I've never pushed through to the end

I love most of the tales games I have played. A funny thing I had with Berseria was Velvet... I almost feel like her playstyle was purpose built for people like me. Usually in tales games a level of grade grinding Is required for NG+ to get everything... Somehow me maining Velvet the whole game caused me to have 10x the required grade for NG+. Arise was a really nice fun change... I do however wish they would have included multiplayer and Cameo Cosplay outfits (I mean come on Alvin and Dohalim's kits were literally mostly Stahn and Leon's kits from destiny) they could have added in a new mystic arte for each cast member based on the Cameo costumes to reference them it would have been dope.

@@rdraken I love Velvet's fighting style so much, but, to be honest? I… I kind of want a game about the Velvet of the prologue. The caring, naïve, idealistic, impulsive woman who fights like a demon because her body won't do otherwise. Because heaven forbid she sit still when she could _move._ There's just something about the contrast between her caring nature, and her impulsive will and reckless, feral grace, and I think it almost makes her a more interesting character than the Velvet we follow for most of the game. You know, the one who refuses her true nature again and again and again because she believes she can't be that anymore, and never gives in to the idea that she _can,_ and when she's almost about to finally realize she can still care and love the setting's metaphysics chime in to literally tell her she can't. It's telling a worthwhile story, yes, and Velvet is a good character, but prologue!Velvet speaks to me more. I want a Tales game that tells the story of a character whose motivations and personality are basically that of prologue!Velvet. Or someone who loses that and has to learn all over again that she _can_ care, and that her care and her passion are her strength even in a world that fights them at every turn.

Still my favorite open world game, and perhaps favorite game of all time. Still holding out hope for a sequel or port.

@@Dualblades47 It was very experimental and I don't know how likely it is. Xenoblade is now well-known for its emphasis on story and X sticks out like a sore thumb due to lacking story and likely wouldn't appeal to most fans who've played XC2, XCDE, and XC3 on Switch. It's a shame because it was my first Xenoblade, but I'm not expecting much of it anymore.

@@jmaster4941 It's kind of ironic to think that X has the least focus on plot in the entire franchise, and yet it ends with a cliffhanger that calls for a continuation of said plot...

The first time you enter Noctilum and you're blown away by the art directions only to realize you were only looking at the front door and found the REAL Noctilum at the edge of it

To me Xenoblade X is more than a game. Is mankind's attempt to create an entire f*cking planet. BotW? A field Gta? A city The other Xenoblades? Continents MINECRAFT or NO MAN'S SKY?! ok well those're an almost infinite ammount of almost infinite worlds But Xenoblade X with Mira is the first full fledged planet I've seen.

Skyward Sword had a great story because it really emphasized the relationships between Link and the other characters, moreso than previous games. Link had a reasonably defined personality as well which I always loved.

Your life has only just begun. Go and flourish, my brave soldier.

I was 10 when Skyward sword came out and it was my first Zelda game

I had been married 2 years at that point. I feel ancient.

Same.

I was a biiit harsh on her lol. At the very least her script is charmimg

She may be the comic relief character but the reason she acts like that is pretty messed up so i find it fits the tone of tragic chatacters pretty well in its own way 😭

Nah, Magilou is awesome This guy's the only person I've ever seen diss her

I've actually never seen any hate for her until today. Only either love or completely neutral opinions on her.

I’m pretty sure Magilou is a fan favourite if you ask me. I love her lol, that mischievous smile she makes before some absolute hilarious bs comes out of her mouth is just gold.

I'm on the rise, I'm shooting for 1 mil by the end of today🔥🔥

Maybe i'll put that on a shirt. Or a tacky dining room decoration.

I finally played it through for the first time with the HD remaster and I absolutely LOVED it. You should def play it again

LMAOOO don't worry, Velvet goes hard

It really is a strange concept, it's like an official wattpad fanfiction. All of the Nintendo musou games feel that way honestly.

​@Super Hambone Even though technically it's an alternative story a what if rather than a sequel like persona striker's was, Age of calamity was a mix Between a Prequel and a What If 3 hopes had its fault storywise but the story was still decent enough and well I'm guessing some of the character changes I can forgive because I got to know the characters I pretty much 100% 3 houses before And I enjoyed the gameplay and story with its faults A fanfic can be good on occasion. Even better than so called masterpieces I have found out As of late

I remember completing that game, and my two thoughts were "wow, what a great experience" and "so... did I LIKE Magilou, or not?"

By the way, I feel like Intsys may have constantly shot themselves in the foot with the "no big loss" excuse given the support system of the SNES era onwards (except Shadow Dragon) made them more than just another fighter that happens to be named and they could've taken a page from their existing audience and said you could just reset if you weren't satisfied with the results.

Heck yeah, Velvet fan club. That's what we are here at the Super Hambone Military Compound/ Correctional Facility. If I had to choose a favorite Tales game it would be between Arise and The Abyss. I'm currently playing through Abyss in full for the first time and I'm really enjoying most aspects of the experience. Outside of some freezes and a very odd softlock I encountered it has been a pretty consistently high quality experience. I especially like Luke as a character and think his arc is well paced in the sense that he begins to change right as the player and the party begin to get sick of his shit. The change isn't an immediate 180 either, he's still impatient and naïve, just with far less selfish motivations. I can speak on Arise in its entirety since I beat it back at launch and thoroughly enjoyed nearly every aspect of it. Even with the pacing problems in the second act I had fun from start to finish and am happy with the direction the series is taking. I've spoken on Arise at length though so I won't rewrite the sermon. Though all of this may change when I play Tales of the Tempest. I've heard that game is so good it integer overflows to a 1/10!!! Can't wait.

@@Super_Hambone Abyss is considered to be one of the best in the series, and luke is one of the reasons as to why. I love his character arc throughout the game, and I think the cast is solid for the most part, my favorite being jade! As for arise, me and you share the same opinions on it as a whole, especially the fact that it brought a little more folks to a wonderful yet very cheesy series for the most part. I just wish the last portion wasn't such a slog to get through, but hey can't always hit. My favorite out of the series is Xillia 2, though my favorite combat wise is Graces f and Destiny DC. Glad you're having a lot of fun with the series!

Berseria is a decent starting point. Arise works as well considering it's the newest entry. If you're looking for a more old school experience then Symphonia or Vesperia will work as well.

Nah, they actually wrote it in cause they saw my video

Thank you very much, new General! It's time to go to Arby's!

@@Super_Hambone it's an honour to serve, no Arby's here in Ireland unfortunately. It's time to go to the closest alternative to Arby's!

@@aaronkelly5678 you do not understand our supreme leader. you are being permanently transferred to Arby’s. no matter how far. I only wish I could be in your position!

@@deikay5414 a true honour. In that case, to Arby's!

Absolutely agree. Berseria had better character development, story, and god I hate Arise’s skits, both for the new format and the fact that too many are must exposition, where prior Tales games used skits for further characterization and fun moments. Berseria ended up my 2nd favorite Tales after Abyss (then followed by Vesperia and Symphonia) so I was rather let down by Arise (rather telling the developers later admitted Arise wasn’t even a Tales game early in development).

@@doctordoom85 Never knew Arise wasn't meant to be a tales game at time, but that explains why it felt so off for me. Skits are one of the best parts of tales games at least for me.

@@doctordoom85 Too bad Berseria is not on Xboxone.

@@doctordoom85 Tales of arise has skits of the main cast having conversations reflecting on past character events that affected the characters.The main cast of Arise talk about moving past there losses. Alphen and Shinone have skits confessing there slow affection towards each other the further you get in the game there is even a skit of Alphen confessing his love for Shinone. Law and Rinwell have a skit trying to move past the trauma of there dead family, but agrees that revenge will not bring them back. Arise has at least 80 skits about the main casts moving past there issues. arise has the most skits of any tales game.

@@qrowthebird7496 Tales of Arise has skits of the main cast having conversations reflecting on past character events that affected the characters.The main cast of arise talk about moving past there loseses. Alphen and Shinone have skits confessing there slow affection towards each other the further you get in the game there is even a skit of Alphen confessing his love for Shinone. Law and Rinwell have a skit trying to move past the trauma of there dead family, but agrees that revenge will not bring them back. Arise has at least 80 skits about the main casts moving past there issues. arise has the most skits of any tales game.

Berseria also makes the plot of Zesteria less bland. SPOILERS!!! Knowing the origins of the good vs evil thing Sorey is doing makes that entire world feel morally compromised which adds just a little bit of irony to the whole game, making it much less bland. Unfortunately you do also have to play the game. And the story itself is still the same, even if knowing the amcient past gives you a little extra context.

The other issue with Zestiria is the cast is made out of paper-mache. The party members go down so easily so higher difficulties are just a slog unless you are over leveled... And even then the AI controlled party members have a notably high mortality rate. I get that was the design swapping the Seraphim and using Armatus to rez the Shepard/Squire... But that was so bad. I liked how Xillia 1 encouraged you to swap party members mid combat to get advantages and it felt funnily enough less forced.

I loved berseria but I seem to remember the middle dragging as well

@@SaintJoseph911 Maybe a little when your monster hunting. But it's a lot shorter on the slow parts. Zestria's problem was more than half the game was you going through these entire maps to get divine weapons to unlock each form. Then you had to go through ANOTHER dungeon to unlock the super skill of each form. So most of the game was you dungeon diving over and over while the main plot largely just ... waited for you to finish. The main bad guy only jumps you once or twice and other plot relevent things are more like distractions from the dungeon diving rather than happening during them. On the other hand when you're hunting the special monsters the enemies are constantly on your tail and interfeering. Of course if you want to 100% the game you have to find all the crucibles and junk which slows the game down. But that's optional.

Ok that’s based ahaha. Overdrive is fun as, when you learn it that is. But oh boy it’s worth learning to mastery

Real and true

Close enough!

Ever heard of... lord of the ring??? Wrote it.

Your kind words are appreciated soldier. Got 8 more videos dropping later today.

Very charming games with Akira Toriyama designs, super easy to love

The world would very much benefit from an x port

@@Super_Hambone Nope, X is the worst in the series. It might have some fans in America, but it bombed in Japan. For an RPG the Japanese fans are more important.

Many Japanese studios are in the process of changing focus to overseas audiences. For a lot companies it isn't economically advantageous to focus solely on Japan so just because a Japanese game didn't sell super well in Japan, that doesn't discount the possibility of a rerelease. Especially considering the popularity the Switch era has brought to the franchise, I imagine the title would sell rather well.

@@Super_Hambone Monolith Soft said the reason why Xeno 2 is more anime is because they some people criticize the stiff expression in X. I completely agree, the X cast have lifeless expressions. Why would we want it back????

​@Orange Slash so did the original xenoblade on the wii and yet now we have an upgraded version of the game with much more expression. Why could the same not happen for X?

It's nice to be able to call Xenoblade 'famous' and have it actually be true, if any modern JRPG franchise deserved success it was Xenoblade. And I didn't include TMS on this list for a multitude of reasons, the biggest being that I know next to nothing about it. I like the colors though.

@@Super_Hambone Sounds fair. If there is something to tell about it, that would be it has a pretty satisfying combat system imo. And its the dream of every fan of both Idol and either FE or SMT I guess.

33% of Partners in Time fans are mysterious people in top hats??

Honestly some of the hate that game got end I will agree it's my least favorite of the star oceans but the hate it get filled way to overboard. But Hey it at least is still considered canon along with 4 as 6/Divine Force Showed so at least Tri Ace still considers it and the last hope still decent those games weren't completely bad I enjoyed my time with them they may be my least favorite but none of them Are below that 1 game that I consider completely non canon even the creators view it as non-canon that is SO3. People overhate on SO 4 & 5 but those games are at least star ocean games I don't know what the h*** 3 was. Says something when 3 is the only one without a "Kenny" in it😂 But yeah I still accept SO5, It might have annoyed me with its story and at least some of the characters and it's attempts to be star ocean 1 without the time travel. But I still remember having a good time with it.

I've had at least four or five people claim go be PiT fans, could my calculations have been wrong?!

@@Super_Hambone they are fakes they didn't beat the elder shroob with no items and babies only.

You are Salamander.

@@Super_Hambone You got him

That is sad and very funny

Fun little story, I've never finished Radiant Dawn in its entirety but I remember watching my older brother play it when I was wayyy younger. Those final few chapters and last shot of Ike has stuck in my brain like a leech, such a powerful ending.

@@Super_Hambone I can relate with some games I grew up with like Ocarina of Time that I had a hard time with as a kid so I just watched my older brother do it. I'll always love Radiant Dawn for just how ambitious it was.