long time viewer here. i think one of the main reasons yba feels so different today than it does back then is simply because of how much larger it's become. it used have very simple graphics, easy to grasp mechanics, and a very nice feeling combat system. these days, that's all gone now. not to mention that with how convoluted and overpowered things are these days, it's even more of a hell for new players than it was prior. in all honesty, the game is still enjoyed by tens of thousands of people daily. but it's just that for myself, and many others, we aren't those people. and we aren't going to be. regardless, i hope uzu and the team still does well, as i can't deny the game is stunning visually and all. i just hope sometime that same spark it had before can be reignited. keep up the good work, big man.

It’s sad to see a once beloved game that I used to play EVERY SINGLE DAY go down this path… it hurts me to see how little uzu cares anymore

i miss old yba, you may not see this, but i am incredibly greatful for everything you've done for YBA, i used to love the game, and you sometimes talking about how the game isn't as toxic as it seems really helped me as that was something i struggled with most, i'm glad that someone who's a good person like you got to the position you did instead of one of the toxic players, i can't possibly describe or thank you enough The good days

Oh man I really can relate to that. There was time in my life when I would play YBA daily, I met great people there that I'm still friends with and I had a ton of fun. When you listed all the things you'd do like get ganked and call friends, try to discover new combos and stuff it really resonated with me, like you were talking about my experience of playing YBA too. Truly magical feelings that no other game or video could make me feel. Thanks.

i started playing yba around 6 months after you did. my join date says it was in November, but i got the prestige 1 badge on October 5th, 2020. this video really resonated with me, especially the latter half of it. i do miss the days of the best combat out of any roblox anime game, the days of eclipse playing telephone with the devs or tuning into tournament livestreams. some of the moments from the last little bit of the video, i watched those videos as soon as they came out, and i remember laughing at whatever silly incident happened in the clip. even though new yba has so many pros to old yba, old yba still will be yba's prime. not just for gameplay, balance, effects, but also the memories and the state of the game and whatnot. i also remember the week of the heaven update which added made in heaven and twoh, the game had 100k players. it's so hard to believe that the game had over 100k players for a solid while. but, oh well. good video, i think you really conveyed your thoughts well. cheers, eclipse.

Damn the ending of this hit way harder than I was expecting, now that I'm in my 20s I'm starting to feel that way about lots of things including YBA. I was not expecting a "haha Eclipse is gonna rant about YBA again" video to turn into that 😭

I literally started to smile and cry with emotion watching the flashbacks at 18:18 I used to play since 4 months after release like Eclipse and fell off after Crazy Diamond's rework update, I felt the game wasn't the same, it was good and all but... me and my friends wasn't enjoying playing as much as we did before, and we didn't know why at the time. Thanks for being my favorite youtuber since 2021, Eclipse. I met you through YBA, stayed for you. I like to see this video as a letter to YBA and it's community as a whole, seeing the good, the bad and the ugly from 3 years of YBA. I enjoyed watching your videos in the morning before playing with my friends at night, and now I enjoy watching your videos besides don't playing the game for months, and see what the fuck are the devs doing with those new stands and reworks. Thank you Eclipse, I see you next time.

Nothing nostalgically hits harder than remembering hopping on yba after school and fighting the entire server with my friends. We used to literally discuss plans on how to counter the meta stands and where in the map we could run to for cover. I used to run sf Hamon for fun and actually got decent with it. Despite there actually being better/worse stands, you could play every stand and do okay if you know what you’re doing with that stand’s playstyle. They took that uniqueness and replay ability out by just making every spec have a combo. There’s no more character to it, it’s just another good looking jojo game with combos. It’s really sad something so special and well built upon was just replaced by what made it stick out.

A quality of life change that you didn’t mention were Rokas. In the Beta at least, they reset your level as well 😂

Sucks how hard the game has changed so fast, old players like me (started 2020) literally can NOT deal with the new stuff. This hits so hard since I saw the uprise of eclipse's youtube channel (saw him go from 400 to where he is now), and being on the same level as him in terms of combat skill and game knowledge, I had a lot of common understandings, laughs, and grievances with his videos. And this? This hits like a truck, because I couldn't agree any more than I can right now. YBA may be good for the newer generation players, but oldgens like us just lost the game we once loved

I thought this was going to be like one of those videos like reviewing a game, but no, this was much better than I thought. 20 minutes just about reminiscing over a game that's over 3 years old that i didn't even play very much with gameplay in the background and commentary over it was still entertaining to watch. This is why Eclipse has to be one of my favourite youtubers to watch any day of the week.

I remember the days that I skipped school just to play yba with my best friend, JorgeAche, we played hours and hours, and he sadly passed away 5 months ago. I never heard his voice, and I did not even see his face. He was a discord friend... but he was the best. Sometimes, I play yba to keep his memory alive, I miss him so much... I love you, Jorge.

Eclipse was holding back his soul while talking positively about YBA

This video made me ALMOST tear up. The clips you showcased from back then brought the nostalgia as I recognized some of the clips from your previous videos. Not even just about YBA; if I could rewind time to when I was that happy, I would 😢

I got hooked on YBA around September 2020, and have also been watching you since you were around at 12k subs. I remember I got hooked on your channel when I saw the “YBA has fallen from grace” video and liked your style of making videos. I loved Yba from its simplicity and all the fun glitches that would happen, although some stuff was agonizing. It was a fun ride to play the game whether it was agonizing to grind or I got in heated gang wars. I stopped playing a year ago and faded away from your channel after trying to focus on other things. This just came in my recommendations and it was nostalgic to see all those old clips of your old videos of the game I once loved. Thank you Eclipse for the work you did in this community, and all the laughs you gave us.

I have been watching since the start, I remember I would always check out your new videos right when you uploaded, I would hop on YBA nearly everyday to play, and I would generally have so much fun and many laughs. I miss the old days and the old YBA. I also nearly cried at the end part, I started playing right around when you did too, and to see all of those memories and flashbacks from your previous videos was just so nice, I used to recommend this game to alot of my friends and we would enjoy it together. And Eclipse, you have done a huge impact on this community, a great one, you practically saved the game with your content, events, messages to staff and it was just great. This is a very great video and I would like to say I just miss the old YBA and the old fun. Thank you Eclipse, Thank you for everything.

YBA... has changed. It's no longer about balanced movesets, free flow combat, or having fun. It's an endless series of gang wars fought by sweats and one-shot combo users. YBA - and it's production of skins - has become a well-oiled machine. YBA has changed. ID-tagged players carry ID-tagged stands, use ID-tagged specs. Hamon infusion inside their bodies enhances and regulates their damage output. Genetic control. Information control. Emotion control. Battlefield control. Everything is monitored and kept under control. YBA has changed. The age of Balance has become the age of Skins... All in the name of averting catastrophe from revenue drops. And he who controls the skins... Controls the players. YBA has changed. When the players are under total control... Unbalanced reworks become routine.

Damn dawg that ending hit hard. YBA will never be the same

Everything explained in this video represents my feelings towards the current state of this game so well. And that last bit at the end with the old YBA music and the old clips really hit hard for someone like me who’s been playing for almost 3 years and has been a fan of yours ever since the first YBA video.

I remember playing YBA when the heaven update was released. Seeing YBA grow into the unbalanced but visually stunning gameplay (even though it makes it so laggy) is such a blast from the past and I can’t thank YBA enough because it was the only reason why I made such great friends. I love this game, as broken as it may get down the line, I love it with all my heart and I do wish that it will continue growing.

Thanks for everything you do Eclipse. I've been watching ever since I joined YBA in mid 2020 and I have branched out into more of your content as well. All of the games that I play would feel massively different without having your input and reactions to them. You helped me get into so many games (Mostly Subnautica) and left a huge impact on how I approach situations in-game and out. Truly, Thank you for all of your hard work.

As another Content Creator who has been playing YBA since February 2020 I 100% agree I just feel like YBA lost is uniqueness simplicity and its actually great PVP, back then when you que up for ranked you wouldn't know what stand you would come across however now it's always the Stand Skin with the highest values (usually SP, KC, TW/TWOH, etc). I know nostalgia is a huge factor but the older specs (besides old Spin) complimented stands more rather than it being a second stand you know? I just feel like Uzu's trying to turn this game into some JoJo Blox Fruits which would be hella lame

5:01 the words “I’m just need spin” reverberated in every steel ball run player’s head until this was implemented

Yo eclipse, dont know if you gonna see this but, i follow your channel since around the start of 2021 (or more, my memory if bad) i have been playing yba since the first month of release but i have never activelly played it, only when i decided to get like twoh and max prestige. But i actually enjoyed a lot watching the game on your channel, all the opinions, reviews, the fun different videos, bingos (i love these) its everything right on the back of my mind, i find it really nostalgic to even think about all the fun i had watching you playing the game. I got to know a lot about the game by your channel and i followed the game state from all these years until today even though i have almost not even played it (not even 100 hours for someone who started playing almost 3 years ago). The point i'm writing this is to show my appreciation for all your hard work over this game, and for bringing me a lot of fun times, when you stopped playing it i also stopped watching it but now, you're coming back and im back at having fun. This is my open discurse to eclipse, thank y'all and specially you eclipse for all of your work, the flashbacks on the end of the video almost made me cry, see ya (sorry if i have a bad english, not my first language)

Yba combat has changed a lot. Back then it was more simple because stands and specs where not that complicated but now most reworked stands has over 7 moves and specs are also really complex now

I remember when YBA was released, ABD was the popular game at the time and I would tell my brother how YBA is gonna be the next big JoJo Roblox game. (I’m talking when it was in BETA)

Man you actually made me feel a little something at the end there 😭 I’m kinda missing old YBA now (been playing since mid 2020 and played a few times way before that)

I remember back when I started playing YBA because of a friend, fun times. Found your channel down the line and enjoyed your content a lot.

It's so cool how eclipse went back in time to record footage for this video; the dedication is crazy!

I agree Eclipse, the game has changed a ton since release. Gameplay has changed and the game has had many ups and downs in general. However, I’m glad we all had good times while they lasted.

I've watched almost all your videos since you started posting yba back in early 2020, your original guide video helped me so much, and where you, yba and I am in life are completely different. YBA is completely different to when I started it in december of 2019. I don't know where you are but I can tell it's way different then where you were back then. Where YBA is in comparison to before is drastically different. And where I am is drastically different, I got super into JJBA and YBA my freshmen year and now I'm a senior in HS and could care less about both of them, it's not yhe same game and doesn't have the same spark that ignited my passion (both jjba and yba).

As someone who started playing the game because of you, i am with you, i miss the old game so much. Also thank you for being an amazing member of the community, with the hours you spent trying to help this game be as good as its potential showed.

I feel like a way of balancing out the new reworks is increasing to maximum vitality rather than changing the damage of stands. If this is the route Uzukee is going to take with YBA from here on out, at least let us be able to survive the long combos

Finally. Someone put what everyone's been feeling into words. and dammit Matt, making me damn near cry at the end. I remember all those old videos coming out, watching them in discord calls with friends. I remember how that game used to make me memories. It just "isn't the same anymore" and I think that hurts more than the game straight up being gone.

Yeah, I also remember the wacky but good times in YBA. Especially when using GER back then was way more fun than now imo. When scorpion barrage was a thing, counter startup being annoying but kinda funny, being able to stand on the tree, awakening turning you into a literal terminator, etc. Btw you should have included the old clip where you killed a TWOH with hermit purple. I found that clip super funny! Great video though and nostalgic :)

Bro Eclipse It's good to have you buddy you're really a saver for the community, back then when I first started playing YBA I didn't know what to do and so I searched for YBA guide and first video I watch was yours titled The Ultimate Beginners Guide To YBA and because of that I got to play properly and I got to complete the whole story line because of your help, man If it weren't for your videos I wouldn't have played YBA nor got interested in it I give my thanks to you Eclipse been here watching your content for the last 2 years apparently keep it up!

Having started at around the same date, the feeling of the game is definitely a lot different. That sort of jank was a real charming part of the game and despite the overall balance still being terrible even then, it almost felt more excusable in some ways. The game isn't unplayable for me or anything now -- I can still enjoy playing with some of the new stuff, but there's just a much different feeling in my gut when I hear a stand or rework is released today as compared to all that time ago. It felt a lot more, I donno, special for sure.

the only way i see yba not having 90/100% combos is to just increase everyone's health cuz they aint fixing those 90% combos :( as someone who also has been here (yba) since the almost very beginning i miss how it was just something special you needed to have skill for before it became the shiny grinder/ autocombo simulator it is toady and i think that that is very sad

I remember getting into this game in 2021, during the time of the content drought. Your YBA guide was the very first video I watched, and I have been a longtime viewer since.

I also started playing almost three years ago, and I agree with most of what you said. However, I feel like skins themselves aren't really that detrimental to the game on paper, but in reality, people have gotten WAYYY too addicted to them. It's to the point that a majority of people don't even want to improve on their combat skills. It was way easier to find a competent opponent to play a fun 1v1 back then but nowadays hardly anyone is remotely decent at the game. I've already quit YBA for a few months, but some of my friends still play it and they can back me up on my claims. Another thing I don't agree about is the map change. Sure, I think that the map was a lot better than the old one. The main issue is though, it is a LOT laggier than the old one. For comparison, with the fps unlocker, I could manage to get 120+ fps on the old map in a vip server. Nowadays, I can barely manage 40. This may not be as big of a problem on other platforms, but we're talking about Roblox here. Most of the people playing aren't very old and are usually playing on low end laptops and phones or tablets. I know that the developers have put efforts into making it not such a laggy mess, but it just isn't enough. I agree with everything else though, and it's sad to see that the only aspects that made YBA stand above other games (mainly the combat) have just been ruined with 50% hp combos. It was rare to see a skin back then, and now it's become the norm. How good the balancing is right now is still quite similar to what it was back then (horrible of course), but I would argue it still feels worse right now. The combat used to be void of massive combos, which is what made it stand out in the first place, but now the new reworks are just riddled with huge true combos. I feel like it's just sad to see the original main attraction of the game being completely destroyed.

I used to play a lot of yba around 2-3 years ago, I remember how hard it was for me back then to win fights. I made a lot of friends and even a whole gang just so we could help each other, especially in sbr. It was a lot of fun since we actually needed to use our brains and think of ways to win the game, but now that's all gone.

You're one of my favorite youtubers ever, thanks to you I discovered yba and stayed in your channel not for the game you were playing but because of your great content and personality, and I'll stay for that too Long gone is that game but I'm glad you're still here Still I'm glad there's a yba replacement in your channel and thanks to it more old-like videos like stand reviews, bingos and so on will keep been made, it's heart warming how the games you play keep changing but you don't Keep up the good content and take care

Perfect video. I joined the day this game came out and I had similar memories of this game, hanging out with friends, fighting whole servers, waiting for updates and watching your vids. Times have really changed since then. I miss those days...

Thank you so much for making this video everything you said in the later half of the video is exactly how i feel about yba. I used to be in a gang with a couple of people for a long time and ended up quiting yba for like 4 months due to personal reasons and i never really reconnected with them. I made some of my best memories with those guys.project, ginge, epixgamer, cheesecake, this is fixer.if you see this i wont ever forget you guys i cant reach u in in discord cuz i lost my old account but i really loved playing with all of you. Those midnight gang wars were sick 😂

It really has. It's full of one-shot combos that could be easily avoided but still somehow made it through

i started playing the game around july of 2021 which isnt too long ago, but the end just reminded me of getting off of school to play with friends that are no longer active anymore and watching every single one of your videos to try and get better at the game which was just enough to make me shed a few tears

All goods things must come to an end. Well, it would be more accurate to say that nostalgia for the old, broken mess rather than for the new broken mess is inevitable. Eclipse, I discovered you through your GER is broken videos (the first one) and never missed an upload for YBA since that day. For me, the reason why I kept watching your videos was because you were genuinely helpful when it came to being good at the fighting aspect of the game. I as a stupid kid wouldn't have figured out all the kinds of jank you can do with stuff like King Crimson, Hierophant Green and GER back in the day. Even now with your new vampire and S&W videos you showcased some combos that many people didn't even know you could DO (at least me). You're very informative whether you realize it or not. I don't play YBA anymore, and you can probably guess the reasons. But I still watch your YBA content because its YOU that presents it. I can understand why you would quit too, and if you will eventually stop uploading YBA because of what it has become, most of us will understand. Adapting to all the BS this game throws at us is annoying as hell, but if you decide to keep at it, rest assured. We will all support you. If not, I'm gonna smile at the memory of the best YBA youtuber there ever was.

I think the main reason playing yba feels different than it used to is not just because of the game changes anymore. I believe we all have changed a fair bit since the time we started playing yba and maybe grown out of it. It is not that easy for a game built in a kid's platform to sustain the charm it had for players that have since grown older anyway. Having said all that, I miss the good old times as much as the next person.

The time I started playing YBA (keep in mind I've stopped playing now) was I believe nearly right next to initial release. I wasn't the FIRST to play it in any regard, but I do remember being there before SBR, Requiems, or Prestiges were even added. Rokakakas actually used to reset your level and you'd need to find a pure rokakaka which only reset your stand if you wanted to keep it. I watched YBA turn from a cool passion project that was original and enjoyable despite it's lackluster (at least, compared to the modern day) stands because, well, it was a passion project based on one of my favorite things to a corporate hellhole where all Uzu and the dev team seem to care about is money. The more popular YBA got, the more greedy the devs became until everything just... sucked. We have a game today that is devoid of all substance; what made it fun is long gone. No more new mechanics, no more new gamemodes, hell, we haven't even gotten a requiem past SPTW and Uzu promised that EVERY stand would have a requiem. I'm not saying old and simple is always good, but I think I'd prefer if all stands dropped their *visual* quality in favor of a backtrack to the fun and nostalgic feeling as well as FINALLY a decent update schedule. Also, why the hell does the storyline give you a requiem arrow?! What??? I remember working my butt off every single day in SBR and FINALLY after LITERAL DAYS beating SBR ONCE. In the past, SBR used to give you access to the requiem arrow; it was this whole quest thing with a lengthy but really rewarding process. You'd talk to the prestige master at prestige 3 in SBR, he'd give you a quest to simply beat SBR, you do so, and you get the ability to craft a requiem arrow at a different NPC for a hefty sum of money. I PREFERRED THAT SO MUCH. That last SBR game that gave me access to requiem was INSANE. Like seriously! The only requiem that was out was Gold Experience's (which at the time looked AWESOME compared to all the other stands) so I had Gold Experience and I would try for I think a whole MONTH to beat SBR. And that feeling when I got requiem was so amazing, it felt like I was a cut above the rest for all the hellish work I put in, that I actually accomplished something of worth. Aaaaaand of course they decide to make the end of the storyline give you requiem. What once was a super rewarding experience after beating SBR is now replaced with +1 pelvis and no other rewards except maybe money (I got Tusk Act 4 by literally inputting a code...) So yeah, sorry for ranting but basically what I mean is, YBA has lost all of it's original charm for me. It used to be a fun passion project, and now I can't really find any reason to play it anymore. It's a broken mess of terrible balancing and none of my friends want anything to do with it (hey, I see why). YBA just doesn't even feel like the same game anymore. And yes, drawing in children for hours on end just for them to get a slight remodel of a stand that they apparently really want IS scummy and it always has been. I've really always hated the idea of skins for that reason but obviously I won't rag on others for having them, in the end you're not FORCED to get skins since it's your choice if you want to grind for them. In summary, a lot of aspects may have improved a LOT, but it's never worth losing all of the original charm. I miss and will always miss the old YBA.

Yba is the game were i met my friend group. I had so much fun with them, the gang wars, the screams in vc while playing sbr. I miss all of that. I quitted after the new map was released and rejoined after the soft and wet update out of nostalgia and i was stunned by how different things had become. Back in the day it was fun to try and beat unbalanced stands but rn it's a pain thx to all of the sheer amount of effects that destroy the framerate. I can say that you are the yba youtuber that i had the most fun watching. The videos always had a friendly vibe and would make me crack up from the laughs. I remember the d4c lt sbr video. The same day that video came out i asked my friends if they wanted to try and do that. At the end of the day what i feel the need to say is ty yba for making me meet the friends who helped me grow as a person and ty eclipse for always showing your love for the game and for its community.

that was an emotional way to end the video, i remember back when i met my first group of online friends through yba. it was still so fun and mysterious to play, and the game had me hooked and interested, i dont know how long ive been subscribed to you but all i know is that ive enjoyed your videos and i miss the only yba too

Started playing a bit before the heaven update, and I feel like a fish out a water trying to m1 trade. It makes me kinda sad to remember the day of KiLl TrAde is gone.

The combat has changed so much that AUT might actually be better after some time, the thing that separated them was the fact blocking, parrying and M1ing were wayyyy more important than in AUT, with the combat rework and recent spec and stands reworks in YBA Aut might have a chance of surpassing it, because if they balance the stat points the heat mechanic makes fighting better, since you need to land hits before peforming your 100-0 combo

watching your tournaments, bingo videos and almost all else of your videos were so much fun to watch. I used to bringe watch your videos while grinding yba all the time. Especially when you went 4 tw's in a tournament and won

You can't imagine the amazing felling of seeing those old videos at the background. Thanks Eclipse. Dude, the final part of the video, those memories of you, and at the end, of all the olf fans, i dis almost cry my man, i've enjoyed all of your content, i just wanna say thanks for those laughts you made all of us get, ty so much, Eclipse.

I don't know how to feel about this video. I've been feeling this way about the game for a while now about the skins and stands. I think i just needed somebody to finally cover it's transformation.

Yba be changing faster than a dad leaving bro

I've been watching since forever and been playing almost as long as you This video, as cringe as it is, made me kind of emotional. I started playing YBA when I was like 14 in mid-late 2020, I bonded with friends over the game, I played it just about every day, I used every stand spec combo I could think of and adored every aspect and now whenever I boot up Roblox to try it out again I find myself quitting because I have more keybinds than keys and end up just throwing things out. I loved this game, I was on the 1v1 leaderboard multiple times, I had so much fun and now I just hope that it isn't over forever. Thanks for all the memories, Eclipse, absolutely banger video.

The ending hits really hard, i started the game about mid 2021 when it was the mih and twoh update. I vividly remember how a guy helped me with story mode and taught me how to play, I had no idea about pity or skins back then and you cant imagine how happy i was to getting the world on my last arrow, also I was helping my friends with rkers and getting happy to the worst skins there are. I wish I could go back to that time and enjoy yba again, im crying while writing this. Im not an og of your channel but Im still thankful for your great vids, keep up the work. 👍

I just got off of playing YBA after not playing the game for a year, I’ve been playing this game from almost the games first release and it is crazy how much has changed for more over the worse in my opinion. There’s a lot of great quality of life and other things but just the game itself has changed so much, YBA used to be the Jojo game people played because it was different, it wasn’t a skin farm sim ability spam game you had chains and bread and butters, now it’s just like any other jojo game idk if you should even engage in m1 combat unless you have one of the new specs that can do everything. The sheer amount of moves as well is so much you have the now 5 spec moves (maybe more I’m not sure) and your stand moves which is so much to even juggle on the keyboard like using vampire with a stand like killer queen is near impossible with how many keybinds you need for all the abilities. The sheer amount of those keybinds is just a symbolism for how much the game has changed it’s just so bloated with all the stands and bugs that have not been prioritized because of the new skins and the new design philosophy as there’s no way they can not be knowing what they’re doing when they make some of these stands and specs. The game has just now been bloated with all the effects and the lack of drive to make the game good and it’s sad to see it become this.

The game kinda lost its uniqueness especially in combat, the old days of doing m1s trades are no more instead you mash alot of moves and win and stands just dont feel valuable anymore which may or may not be a good thing to some people

I feel exactly like you, I used to play so much and i loved this game a lot, i quit during the one-year update gap but sometimes come back, mah e to check out an update, and i don’t really recognize the game anymore, it changed so much. Maybe it’s because I myself changed, but i don’t really enjoy it like i used to, when i played daily with my friends. I’m a long-time viewer, dare i say, I came for YBA guides and stayed because i love your sense of humor, so that last part that included footage from your older videos hit hard. I can’t say YBA is worse now, it’s probably better off, but dammi i miss the old times.

Damn i miss old YBA, back then watching your videos. I even watched your beginners guide because i had no idea about this game. I had so much fun seeing you rage with whitesnake, that was my favourite part. I still miss the Bingos, Build or Busts, Tournaments, Streams. Thank you for this amazing video, Eclipse

long time viewer here. I think the a big reason YBA feels so different is because of the new reworks, small gameplay changes, UI changes and model reworks. a great example would be comparing old boxing to new boxing, sure both are op as hell, but old boxing felt less annoying and while it was more op in comparison to the other specs than the new boxing, it was a lot more fun to play against because there were less one shot combos. Stand and specs are a lot more overpowered now than they were before, and the models changing makes a bigger difference than you think. Another point I'd like to make is that a lot of the gameplay in YBA right now is just trading, and that was largely impacted by the fact there was often codes to give lucky arrows and the fact they kept adding new skins. I generally like skins in games but in YBA it isn't done too well and it ends up doing more harm than good. Some people may like this and that's fine but this is just my opinion. In terms of the player-base there was less changes, not to say there weren't any, a prime example of something not changing much is SPTW mains, they generally are either sweats or people who aren't even max level but think they are hot stuff. They use SPTW and assume they are the best and that it is completely skill based. SPTW has been nerfed and buff but ultimately the stand is just more annoying now than before, and the players remain the same (for the most part anyways). A prime example of something changing without having any in game changes is HG. HG mains generally rely on their spec and are at least decent at the game, they use the combos with something like HG boxing to their advantage, now I will admit this has been a thing for around a year, but it peaked around 8 months ago and is still common with HG mains. I could probably think of more but I am very tired. I hope you liked what I said and I would like to clarify that not all SPTW mains are like that. It is just a majority. Goodnight gentlemen, and remember that star platinum aerosmith exists.

I used to play YBA with some of my online friends almost every day for roughly 2-3 years and the final moments of this video hit me quite hard. Old YBA was definitely a product of it's time but definitely carried a unique sense of fun that not many games (or itself) has quite achieved to this day. There was a certain charm that the old YBA had that the new version just simply cannot match anymore. I stopped playing YBA about a year ago and still to this day have no interest in returning to it so it's a shame to see such cherished memories with my friends almost fade into obscurity overtime and watch this game almost crumble into dust especially in the balance department. I remember watching a lot of your old YBA videos too, and would share them with said friends to gather their opinions on the stand you were reviewing. It was honestly some of the most fun I've had on Roblox and online as a whole. Shame too, because I only speak to one of them now as opposed to the five that there were. Thanks for bringing awareness to us older players to the many issues this game continues to face and a reminder to always cherish things before they're gone.

another long time viewer here, where to start. I started yba a month or so after launch, but didn’t really continue to play and actually grind out to prestige 3 around the heaven update. This was around the time your channel had blown up and i remember watching the kc hamon review and seeing you easily take over yba YT as a whole. Besides having legitimately creative youtube ideas for such a niche genre, you were also pretty steadfast in making content you enjoyed which was again also super rare on YT as well as something as random as a jojo roblox game youtuber. I can’t even imagine how much hours i put into the game and can really empathize with your feelings of passion. Despite the absolute mountain of bs rampant throughout the game just the amount of freshness using a new stand combo from a youtube video or carrying a friend in sbr kept me satisfied. I never really engaged in the community much mostly out of a lack of knowledge on discord activity and what not but when I did I had a lot of fun. I participated in that first tournament (diamondmaster3600/mlgtricks) and placed second, which friends in yba talked abt so much at the time. it was just a really cool experience and in a way your channel has been that timelog every step of the way. As of rn i haven’t really played yba consistently since the halloween update, but i pop into your channel almost all the time just to hear your insight on topics and it reminds me of that golden period of yba. cheers

Man, the montage of old memories at the end of the video really got to me. Eclipse, that ending montage in black and white almost made me cry. At least we have the memories of the old days.

We should just make our own version of yba

i forgot about yba

I never played Roblox in general but I love your vids and the nostalgia captured in this vids kinda encapsulates why. Always sad going through this kinda change.

This genuinely made me cry in a very lovely and beautiful way, as an old viewer and subscriber, I have been enjoying your videos since the old TW days, I loved the love train d4c SBR challenge that you used to do with your friends, even though yba has changed the only thing that will never change is old YBA inside my heart. Thank you for making me happy Eclipse, thank you.

My friend introduced me to the game and we started playing it all day tryna get the heart and pelvis. Shit was fun. Anyways now we get absolutely destroyed in 2v2’s 💀

I feel like YBA evolved both forwards and backwards at the same time.

I know this will probably be off topic but, about fighting styles. The reworks are cool and all but I wish they would give you an option to choose the old spec or reworked spec. For example, when you try to get boxing the npc will ask you “would you like the old or new boxing?” If you chose old boxing you have boxing with the barrage, jawbreaker and eye gouge. Same thing with the other specs like pluck, hamon etc. I hope eclipse sees this and could ask the devs if they can make this change. Anyways awesome video eclipse! I love your mixed up content instead of just posting videos about yba. Keep it up!💪

I started playing YBA just after the release or just before of skins if I remember correctly. I remember seeing your content and thinking of it something like lazy purple's videos but more simplified and on a Roblox game. I found the game itself to be fascinating and was I good at it? god no I sucked ass but I had such a ridiculous amount of fun just trying out so many wacky ideas. It is always so sad seeing something you love go. And I'm upset old YBA was one of those things. But thank you eclipse, for in my opinion one of the main reason the game is still around is because you joined it and brought a lot of attention to the game. Thank you eclipse for prolonging the life of the game we loved. Even if its mostly gone now there's something left that others can enjoy. And I find peace in knowing that.

Has it really?

0:35 Quality of Life 3:43 The Map 5:10 Visual Effects And Sound Design 7:20 Updates 10:28 Balance 12:36 Combat 16:04 Community (Personal timestamp) 18:16 - The end Nostalgia on Old Yba

Yo eclipse I’ve been enjoying your vids for a while now and it’s sad that yba along with many,many,MANY other jojo games go down this sad path.

ive literally been here ever since yba released, I remember getting star platinum on my first arrow lol. fr tho coming from a guy who played YBA since release and a fan of yours since you had around 200 subscribers, its a shame how much the game has changed, its like a whole new game now and it no longer had its charm that it once had before. i remember dominating main game with twoh and killing people in sbr with my friends having a blast but now it just wont feel the same knowing about the newer PVP of one shotting everyone. and if you're not playing the game for that its just a grindfest for skins that wont do you any good in the long run. yba has changed, and in my opinion, for the worse. I quit YBA around 2 months before the Stone Free update, then came back to it on April of this year, and I feel like I'm a literal noob when I was clearly not. every stand that releases nowadays is always so broken and then pairing that with a spec increases the craziness by ten fold. effects cover up your whole screen, still no new gamemodes, and more. back then, yba had a terrible balancing, but it had a charm to it that many of you guys can probably agree with me on. the PVP was stupid but in a good way. i miss being one comboed by a twoh or sptw. i miss ger yoinking all my health because of scorpion and barrage. i miss the infinite speed on mih... (actually idk about that one) anyways, on a real note I truly miss yba. clearly its now out of its golden age and onto its modern era. but ill forever miss the good old days... arigato, yba.

YBA was one of, if not my first experience In roblox, I started playing due to one video about Jotaro and Dio’s fight made in YBA, and I got hooked quickly, i met most of my close friends there, and of course, eclipse’s amazing channel, which i enjoyed (and still enjoy) after so long, three years sharing laughs, frustration, fun, and anger, i wish I could turn time back to where the game was at his highest point, and enjoy it one last time before closing the door behind me, but I will always remember all those nice moments that I had with the game, and all the fun I had watching your videos all up until now, thank you eclipse, for always giving people laughs and fun.

I played YBA on the Heaven update, yba was so fun before, grinding for the new busted heaven stands and trying out different specs with different stands, playing sbr with friends, pvping with normal the world as you suffer for twoh, gang wars, trolling others in main game with friends as we use aerosmith, there was so much new things compared to today, I don't think uzu cares as much as he did back then, him adding skins had so much impact on the game's trajectory, i miss old yba, you were my first yba youtuber that i watched, your videos are really awesome, i still remember the tourneys, you getting twoh and mih after rokaing it.. etc etc, thank you for creating good content ong

I've been watching your channel since pretty much the beginning. To say that this video hurt me to my core is an understatement. Especially the memories segment near the end. I really wish the circumstances were different.

Hey Eclipse, I kinda get how you feel when games change so much you barely recognize them. The earliest memory I even have of Yba is when I got the game recommended to me a few years ago. At the time I remember the game being really old with the story not even being finished. Now watching this video, the game has changed alot. One of these days I do plan on doing a retrospective on yba and it would probably be cool to talk to you someday.

Ive been playing yba from the beggining and thats how I found eclipse he gave me insane amounts of joy by binging hios videos on wekkends whilst grinding for mih and twoh watching this made me cry i quit yba a while back and came back for a short while as much as i miss the old yba the new one is great i just dont see myself playing it anymore. Thx for the memories the streams the guides and everything else eclipse you made the game fun for me and many others. Im crying typing this but I Want you to know that you need to make content you like making ill watch it.

Thank you eclipse, i actually started playing YBA before i even knew about your channel, you had around 40k subs, so i was a bit late, but you did make me want to play yba everytime i saw your vids bcuz of how fun it looked. Damn to think its been YEARS dude, i remember the hype for the heaven update and how the SBR servers were extremely laggy bcuz everyone needed the corpse parts Lmao i remember how everyone tried to kill any MIH in the SBR bcuz it was a free win for them (b4 they nerf it) And i still get your stands bingos recommended sometimes. Anyway, thank you dude for the good memories, from the bottom of his heart, this random guy in the internet sends you all his love. Byeee dude.

I've been playing yba for ever since December 2020. I have to agree with nearly every point mentioned. The combat was way more fun back then, specs didn't require you to map a whole new moveset rather like 3 keys max. Another small thing you didn't mention in the combat section was the ability to see players health bars, This small change actually matters a lot. People in 1v1s would sorta heal trade. And nowaday you don't see anyone doing this because of how much the combat change to big op combo does 70% your hp. And now with every update it takes like 3 months to make a single stand that looks amazing but is a pain to fight against and isn't tested. Not sure how to transition this but I love the content hope you keep it up 👍

This video really resonated with me as a yba player since the beginning, and as an Eclipse viewer since his first couple stand guides. Really hit hard.

Eclipse I completely get your pain. Mostly because I’m feeling the same way. I’ve been playing for 3 years. I think I joined in June 2020. I remember the days of sptw and twoh hamon. Even though this game was a buggy mess. I hope uzu makes a separate game that is just yba around the time of the heaven update or whenever. And do minor bug fixes. I don’t even care if I would have to buy everything again. This was all I played during Covid and it got me through a deep depression. I even my best friend through yba 2 YEARS ago and we still play together. Also block breaking knives were hell. I love your videos and I’ve been a big fan for awhile. Keep up the good work. ❤

super long time viewer here. and I feel the exact same way. I miss the way how you could get an entire server chasing you after you annoy them enough and barely escaping by the skin of your teeth. but now you just get hit once and combo'd to death in seconds. I feel like the charm of the old game was the lack of balance between stands, having to team up with my pals to bring down a good twoh user, it felt like a grand battle, which makes sense if you think about it like it is jojo. even with a week stand like beach boy or mr. pres, if you fought hard enough and played smartly you could win. and when you won it felt incredible. been watching since the kc stand review. keep up the good work eclipse.

i have been a subscriber ever since u hit 50k and that last part was kinda hit hard for me seeing how you lost a part of the very thing that took you this far in the first place and also miss the old yba but i guess that is just how time works it will just continue spinning regardless of what whoever thinks or does

Fuck that ending hurt man. Hit me in the feels. I came into your days of YBA and loved em... Not because it was roblox jojo but because you ALWAYS had something funny, or silly... I miss that... Feels bad man... Lots of love brother, i know what its like to loose a game that feels like an old friend...

Lol I started playing a week before you did I’m glad they added that join date feature.

Have never touched YBA in my entire life. However, it was good seeing the content you, and the ones inspired by you made. But, all good things end, eventually.

VERY long time viewer here. I quit YBA about when you stopped as well because it just didn’t sit well, only seeing getting updates on the game from your videos. Seeing the state it is now, I’m really glad I didn’t come back. It gave me so much memories but it’s not enough to bring me back. I still love your videos though.

I picked up yba after aut went into its big new universe update as a replacement, thinking I'd never touch it again when aut came back, but after spending like, a year or smthn on there n finding your channel I just stuck around, met a ton of my current friends there and just enjoyed the hell out of this game. haven't touched it anymore since vampire came out, having played a few matches of twoh vamp, which I always played, just felt disgusting how much damage I could do with minimal effort. I truely do hope the devs do hear what we have to say, cuz the way this is going they're gonna be/are losing a lot of people who used to love this

I playing YBA since 2020 and I have been following your channel since then. I've watched you fight for the community quite a few times and after that video I wondered what YBA would be like without you eclipse? You've done a lot for YBA. Good job eclipse.

I've been watching you eclipse ever since the golden days of yba and i'm pretty much sad that the game has turned out this way over the years but maybe some people enjoy yba still but it's because the game is easy now cause of the broken things that come out. but i'm truly sad to see this mess become worse the stuff we had in old yba was atleast somewhat better then this. but in all honestly i hope everything will turn alright in the end, cant wait for your videos tho they make me happy :D

honestly, as soon as you started playing music in he background that was in old yba, showing old footage I almost started crying from nostalgia god I miss yba

I've been a viewer for quite a while and honestly i miss it too your not the only one who misses old YBA but it still hasn't strayed off too far yet alot of stuff has been reworked but there is still alot of old parts of yba that still remain in the game i'm just hoping they don't rework ALL the stands even though its bound to happen

You are right Eclipse. New YBA is visually stunning and the quality of life has changed a lot. But nothing can compare to the old YBA. It was a mess but it was the mess I fell in love with. I joined a little bit after the Heaven Update had released and I was kinda confused on how to play, but it was so fun learning the ropes and have so many friends helping me. We used to have so much fun together and so many laughs. This game is filled with some of my best memories, some bad ones and with friends I made along the way. The combat was always kinda unbalanced but in old YBA it was a lot smoother and you needed more strategy to beat your opponent and not just hit one move and you getting a kill. I remember when the game was a skin simulator for that one year with no content updates and honestly it was kinda better than it is now. I haven’t played the game in months but I still watch all your vids because I respect you so much and I feel like we’ve been through all of the changes and we’ve played together for as long as I’ve watched your vids. And man the end of the video was just…touching as hell. It’s so funny how I remember all of these videos and I laughed when I saw the clips just like I did with the full videos when they came out…ok…maybe I cried a little too. Thank you so so much Eclipse for being in my childhood the way you did, you only affected me in the best way you could hope for. Keep up the good work, I am rooting for you.