i mean the basd story of swsh ended up having a new storywriter be hired (i think anyways) and creating the great PLA story and literally the best story in the series with S/V

Me on Ebay, buying her action figure because it's cheap and looks cool: "Wow, that's cheap and cool, I'mma look up where she comes from while I wait for shipping" (This video pops up) "Oh..."

It’s just like final fantasy 8 which people rag on like crazy. But FF8 is possibly the best final fantasy and when it comes down to it, it’s critics don’t like it because the system is foreign and they’re STUPID and LAZY

So, way late to making a comment, but as someone who's streamed the game and beat it... I never got far on the advance version, because dumb me using VBA and barely playing optimally existed. With FF1 advance I eventually beat it, took a while but hey I did, and than Pixel remaster came out years later, and I beat that. Now FF2 advance I never beat, but when I played on stream I used Minwu's swap to raise HP, would mess with the MP mechanic, etc. I raised stuff, I grinded and I beat the game. I felt proud. It was a good game, sure I can see when people hate the level up mechanics but it's not actually bad, just tedious. Still the game doesn't deserve the hate, people just need to figure out what they could raise without doing stupid stuff. Sure you can get the 9999 HP thing early but still

still hope for a remake. It desrves one. Maybe we will hear soemthing next year, 20th anniversary and all.

Who let my 10 year old self watch this anime with no subtitles, just Japanese, the entire thing just went over my head... the only thing I remember is the outro, now as an adult I suddenly remembered this anime and....damn....now I know why I turned out weird... My god this anime is something, my kid brain thought it was a slice of life anime with a group of friends.... I totally missed the romance aspect somehow...

Final Fantasy 2 in a nutshell: Great game. Shame about the dungeons. I'm shocked by just how few people have played the PSP versions of FF1 and 2. They're easily the best versions of both and the PSP version fixes a lot of the bigger problems with FF2. The pixel remake version actually has decent fixes for everything, including the awful dungeons. ^_^

In the Twilight Wings mini series, Oleana is a minor researcher or secretary. She's shown with her partner pokemon, a Trubbish! If we go with the new storyline, Oleana can be an immigrant from Unova, who lived on the streets(where she met Trubbish). Rose takes her in, gets her a job and with the newfound job security, catches more "stylish"pokemon. She'll always love Trubbish tho ❤

For some reason the KZfaq algorithm recommended this video to me (I don't usually search for videos or channels about anime on KZfaq), and I'm quite happy, at almost 34 years old it was one of the ones that I knew existed in my adolescence and I still have in my pending to see, your video is very good and it helped me understand about the series and frankly I didn't know everything about it, hopefully one day I will have a spice & wolf type remake but I highly doubt it...

3 years late but ur a total genius like this is a masterpiece needs to see this stuff i have no words..

If you REALLY know how leveling system works in FF2, hitting yourself is the least you should do. You raise agility which affects evasion only by ENEMY's attack. That's why the speedrunners do "shield dance" instead. Also if you bump up too much HP, regular enemies just run away. It just makes more difficult to level up such stat.

I mean... I played the Pixel remaster version... and I.... semi liked it... I was stuck so often but yeah it was also the time I started with the final fantasy series... so you can expect I was so inexperienced that my stupidity scared away FF2

thanks to you you unlocked a memory and this is basically the reason why i dont watch anime anymore

Yes it is

Final Fantasy 2 is better than Final Fantasy 1

I wish the manga continued more, I really liked the art style better.

I am currently playing though this game on the pixel remaster (I just obtained the Ultima tome). I personally agree with all of your observations. I saw a lot of hate about the leveling system before I started. I am enjoying it thoroughly by just playing through it normally, and I have not found any need to grind at all. The pixel remaster has a lot of improvements and can be set to balance the leveling, but I haven't found it to be necessary. Great video, I subscribed and I'm looking forward to watching your other stuff.

Yeah i loved yhe TV series. Yeah, it sucks most of the books never got a translation. But most people didn't like the show in the West. You can always hold your phone over each page (translate app) or learn Japanese. That's the only way 🤔

Yuji sucks

I would really like two more changes to the story. First, 1000 years in the future is waaaaay too long. Not incomprehensibly long, but you can't *really* imagine it. Being so far out means that Leon is objectively correct, waiting a few days literally won't matter. Instead, the wishing stars should run out in about 100 years. That's still a ways away, but near enough to justify Rose's panic. He wouldn't be worried for some nebulous future generation that will have better technology anyways, but for his own grandchildren. Secondly, I think it would make sense if Eternitus was manipulating Rose and possibly Oleana. It's basically a Lovecraftian, Ultra Beast kind of thing, so lean into that! Finding the fossil allows it to subtly infect Rose's mind; but fully controlling the chairman, but pushing him towards the choices needed to bring it back to life. That could also explain why Eternitus waited so long, because cloning technology in this setting is still 'relatively' new.

I never played the original DS game playing the PC Adaptation felt like I was playing one of those old Anime OVA’s

About the Darkest Day content repeating so much, it's because Gamefreak targets toddlers who need repetition to learn. They forget that the people who made Pokemon popular are the fans who grew up with the game before it became so hand holdy.

Final Fantasy 2 is amazing its basically an RPG with a lot of freedom of choices

I didn't know, that adventure and novel mode were not the same from the narrative point of view, so now I am frustrated, because I've played like 90% of the time in adventure mode. But this game became even more interesting now.

I'm a fan of this.

I played the gba version of the game and I had a great time honestly. It would be nice to have a 3d version. I enjoyed the world and setting.

After violet I love the game more the game play and the mecanics like camping but like the video said the story is dry but not unberable

pretty generic spiritual 2000s anime with mc starting to see some monsters/ghosts/vampires etc no one else sees and meet magical girl fighting them... literally this formula was isekai of 2000s hahaha

i played 999 on a rom, but i did put it on to my dsi first which spared me from having to mess around with settings, so i got the true experience. and im thankful i chose the original format over the remaster, i dont think it would've hit the same. also this video finally made me realize why i had to turn my ds upside down so there's that lol. i assumed it was to represent akanes perspective somehow, but knowing that its actually just turning the bottom screen into the top screen to show junpei is solving the puzzle makes a lottttt more sense

The scene of Junpei's kidnapping could've just given him a pet. When I walk home I say weird shit to my cats all the time. Or have him on the phone? Like it wouldn't have been THAT much effort

As someone who just played and beat the NG version on Vita, I don’t know if it helps or not but I kinda wanna play though the true ending with the other mode because the sheer amount of talking at the end got me so downtrodden. I know its revelations and all that but you CANNOT tell me we have 30 minutes left and yet we had time for ALL THAT YAPPING. If the game said “you have an hour left” that makes way more sense that all the stuff happened in a hour. Also, the flow chart showing you that there’s 9 additional chart parts past the coffin really made me feel the slog. If playing again in that mode will make the timing feel better then I’m all for it. I really wish I had played the ds version, because I wanted to feel the sheer weight of the revelations everyone else felt. I really wish it solidified itself in my soul like with so many others. And that’s what a bad/questionable port does. It ruins how that game resonates with its audience. That…is devastating

Was story its only redeeming quality?

its peak #firionsweep #guyspeakGOAT #mariasolos

Pussies that "know" how to cheat the system, but bitch that they own the game. These people are pussies that want easy, but bitch they had an easy choice.

FF2, and its grind, is so much better than 3 and its grind. Fight me.

Oh, I planned to read this light novel because I remember liking the anime when I first watched it. Pretty sad to hear the state of the LN’s

FF2 is good, but what is not good are your overly-long excerpts of other people. These things should last five seconds at most, not a minute or more. I stopped watching at the second time that you did it when referring to hitting yourself through a hundred different authors over and over for far too long.

If anyone is interested in playing this game without the frustration, I recommend playing the Pixel Remaster on the Switch. It comes with boosters, like no random battles. It made the game far more enjoyable. This version also highlights the needed keywords to ask each NPC so you don't need to waste time trying them all.

When you have to make a video defending a game, then it's automatically a bad game. You don't see anyone having to defend good games like Final Fantasy 6 or 9. Final Fantasy 2 doesn't have good story telling or memorable characters. It's bad.

yeah it is pretty bad compared to other games. Try Final Fantasy 6

GOD villains whose motivations are "Save the world." are the BEST!

The leveling system is terrible. It's not about "having choice." It's about the completely foolish way it's employed. Example: Esuna cures petrify. However, you need to get it to level 6 to get it to work. How does one do this? Well, you MUST get into battle with a weak enemy and constantly cast Esuna over and over again until it's leveled up because there are never enough organic instances to use Esuna to level it up. And it's not "just another option." If you want the spell to fix status ailments, you need to improve it to level 6. And if you're having issues with grinding while hurting yourself, that's on you. It's FAR easier to increase your weapons, HP, MP, and spells to grind by hitting yourself. It's not the least bit frustrating. It's far FASTER than grinding normally. And there are ABSOLUTELY parts of the game that require grinding. If you think that this is a great system, or even an excusable one, you're an idiot. And the dungeon designs are AWFUL. The vast majority of paths lead to empty rooms. There will be 4-6 doors, with 5 of them leading to an empty room. It's not just boring--it's LAZY. It makes the game uninteresting. And don't tell me the word system is excusable. It's tedious and needlessly demanding, as you might think you're good to go, travel across the world, but then you realize that you missed one dialogue and have to trek all the way back. It's not "quick." It's terrible.

999, VLR, ZTD. I see you're a man of culture.

Watched this after finishing the port yesterday and yeahhh there’s stuff i didn’t realise that you go over in this

I just bought the steam version yesterday, and at first I wasn't sure what you were talking about with the redundant narration, but now we see it everywhere. I'm sure they could have done some unvoiced narration in between dialogue, and trim some of the fat so to speak

Rose as an Elon Musk type who wants to see the world saved but only if it’s HIM doing the saving is such an effective villain motive ngl

The problem with 2 is not the game. It is because it has Final Fantasy slapped on to it. People hate the leveling system in 2 but will go and manipulate TES games to hell and back and defend it. When in practice, it is the EXACT SAME LEVELING SYSTEM. Especially Morrowind. Don’t get me wrong I don’t like how long it takes to increase stats in the later part of the game but by that point you are needing to go long distances and cover a lot of ground and will fight plenty of enemies. It is the black sheep. Black sheep are not bad, just different and people hate on it for it.

FF2: *Makes leveling system different from usual JRPG* Fans: "BOOOOOO" Skyrim: *Makes leveling system different from usual JRPG* Fans: "SO COOL AND INNOVATIVE"

Ok I actually looked up the weapons and apparently they were all created around equally Excalibur: 100 ATK Masamune: 150 ATK Holy Lance: 90 ATK Rune Axe: 95 ATK Diamond Mace: 90 ATK Cat Claws: 86 ATK Yoichi’s Bow: 90 ATK Yeah the swords is the most powerful and the cat claws (it’s a dagger btw) is the weakest its just of course sword is often made always the strongest in games but I’m sure you can work with these weapons and let’s not talk about how busted the blood sword is

Imagine if we had a fixed pokemon league like team Yell cheating just for Marie but it's also for their people, they don't use dinamax energy and showing that people in that town don't live in great conditions, like having an actual crisis that is happening NOW, then you could base Rose motivations to make a better Galar, with the excuse that's going to happen in all the region. To make the battle with him have some sort of logic, make us understand the legend, introduce Eternatus and it's danger before the battle you can have Leon fly us with Charizard to stop Rose, you win because your the protagonist, but it's to late he has already awaken Eternatus so yeah it goes that same as it did. For last just remove the rose tower before the tournament and during the crisis, also make us see the POKEMON THAT ARE DINAMAXING to see and actual crisis from Eternatus, not after the ending it's just dumb how great this game could've been, it had the best Pokedex and gym leaders ever 😊