Okay, there's a lot to unpack here... As someone who's been playing these games since I was around 10 years old and just recently played Great Ace Attorney, I can tell you with certainty that you just happened to pick the worst game to start with. None of the characters the series is known for make an appearance and the ones we do get in this game are quite blander and less unique in comparison to their descendants. However, one thing you should keep in mind if you keep going forward with the franchise is that they are at their core visual novels, meaning that the gameplay and animations aren't supposed to be very in-depth or complex. There is supposed to be tons of dialogue because the main focal point is the story and its characters. I believe five chapters is the standard throughout most of the series, but they typically take me about two to three hours to complete at most (even with this game). I also figured I'd mention that the game is from Ryunosuke's point of view and the reason that they explain and hype up a lot of stuff from the English side is because he is a foreigner who has never been outside of Japan before, and we're meant to experience ye olde England through his and Susato's eyes. To them, things that we consider ordinary are unknown and incredible technological marvels. I recommend trying out Ace Attorney Investigations next since it revolves a lot more around investigation rather than trials, but I highly suggest playing Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney and Justice for All on the Nintendo DS beforehand so you can get familiar with the main series characters. You'll also be getting the truest Ace Attorney experience that way.

While your feelings are 100% valid, I do have to point out the irony about someone called "RNG Gaming" complaining about the RNG distribution of items from an NPC. It's worth a giggle. Having said that, I'm sure it's frustrating if you really want that trophy. I'm the type of person who really doesn't care about trophies/achievements at all. I'm sure lots of games I really, really enjoyed would have gotten me frustrated if I dedicated myself to some achievement hunt in them.

This was one of my first 4 gameboy games I got for Christmas. How dare you drag it's name through the mud! I remember learning the JOYS of the input delay. I don't think I ever got past the 3rd level lol. On a side note, the follow up game is pretty neat, although pretty tough w/o a guide.

LJN strikes again. Fall of the foot clan came out the same year. I'd recommend that

I still remember that stupid crouch kick. It looked so ridiculous to us as elementary school kids, we'd sometimes do it to each other on the playground for laughs.

lol for me back in the day when you had no other game to play, this was awesome. I tried playing it again through emulators recently and man it is not how i remembered it to be. Still fun memories though.

Ai thumbnail = auto thumbs down and a do no recommend Channel.

I had this game on my original Game Boy back in the 90s. It's a terrible game, but I somehow managed to get to Venom with it. I guess as a kid and not having many games to play, this seemed almost good compared to many super difficult 8-bit games of that era. That being said, the game was cheap as heck.

Omg lol😂

I just feel like 400 days only connected to season 2, episode 3 the most & I really didn’t like season 3 but it was ok

I loved telltale so much the walking dead, the wolf among us, Batman, tales from the borderlands i played so much there was some other but wasn’t as big for me but was still ok

Hard mode is suppose to be hard

But the thumbnail 💀 (btw how old are you?) im 13.

You play such random games 😂😂😂

Nostalgic

I may have play this.

Frst

I got so happy when I saw this! My brother bought a few multi-cartridges when I was a kid. I borrowed one of them and this was one of the games I was playing. So nostalgic! 😊

I've beaten Resident Evil Code: Veronica X twice and I needed to look at a guide on the internet each time to figure out some of the puzzles.

This game looks so good🎉

I agree with your assessment. Great game. Looking forward to picking up pt2. Playing through Deaths Gambit now. Very similar, but there is a game save glitch you have to be wary of. Very expansive map as well.

The mood of Blasphemous REALLY stuck with me after I was done. There were times that I felt the control response wasn't as crisp as I would like, not sure if that's the fault of the control I was using, but I still love the game a lot. I stumbled into the statues ending you mention without even knowing I had, which was a different kind of feeling but still felt like I was robbed a bit somehow, but in hindsight I appreciated what they did with it. It's hard but it's not sadistic or anything. I didn't complete the time trials, though, a few of the harder ones built up too much resentment in me

That softlock stuff is insane they let that slide. Good video👍

I loved watching this live stream 🎉

RNG it was good meeting you last weekend. If you are ever back in Ohio I will have to get you a beer for basically giving out your pitcher haha ohhh and I will TRY to get through Crime and Punishment this summer haha

Unfortunate that you didn't like the game, probably my 4th favorite game ever. Guess it's just not your style and that's fine, Having fast reaction skills is key to playing this game aswell as a want to learn the games score system centered around "Kudos" to get S+ ranks on stages. Maybe it was the megaman x exploration and boss patterns for you, but I dont know why this game would seem worse for you when you seem to like megaman x. Also Prevasion (The thing that makes you invincible when energy levels are above 0) makes the game too easy, which is why the games main motivation is for the player to learn how to not get hit on levels when going for high ranks.

So, 13 years of skill issues? 😂

*This is a very common example of someone playing the Binding of Isaac wrong.* You see the same criticism all over the internet (especially reddit) from players that don’t understand where player skill comes into play. You are the kind of player that constantly resets the game until you get a strong start, and thinks that the game can only be won if you have an op item or synergy. These players don’t learn how to take deficits and hurdles as challenges that help them become better at the game. It takes them at least three times as long to completely achieve anything as a result, because they don’t know how to clutch a hard run. Then they take that frustration, and complain about how the game is so random and luck based, while also complaining that op items got nerfed and they always get bad items every run. The attitude is a crutch. And then it gets even more stupid, because people compare binding of isaac to other games and say “how come it takes so long to 100% complete?” “I want to ‘beat’ the game”. These people have gained an unhealthy and unrealistic expectation that if a game doesn’t hand you every secret and every challenge, that it’s bad (or in your words, ruined). The completion of this game is meant to be long, it’s meant to be a grind. It’s not like how it was originally, where you beat the last stage a few times and you’re done. As someone that’s achieved a complete save multiple times (throughout every iteration of the game too), there is nothing wrong with approaching the game casually with small goals as opposed to trying to optimise everything. You are literally having a tantrum over a game you enjoy because it takes too long to unlock 600 secrets, despite that literally just being content tangential to the core game.

That ps5 crash you talked about sounds like a sony problem and not a isaac problem, I have had my ps5 crash a lot on games that should work perfectly and it is very frustrating, I wish sony cared enough to do something.

sound like skill issue. nostalgia is hitting way to hard for you. only valid take is item description. 2:43 rebalance is good thing. 3:01 u still build broken or stupid build. 5:45 by just playing game, most of those secret can be unlock 5:57 sound like u didnt interact with those npc.. 7:39 overpower? not every run is overpower, sometime u just get bad rng.... wht? mom knife and brimstone still broken... afterbirth plus? was worst. the modder keep alive that how we got repentance.

Dude, just say you’re not good at the game anymore. There’s no reason for this video to exist. You’re complaining about getting more content for your so-called “favorite” game. If I got content for my favorite game, Dark Souls, in the year of our lord 2024, I’d shut my mouth and happily play what was given to me. Oh, but what if it’s harder? What if it rebalanced all the weapons? What if it changed enemy locations and added DLC areas and all that? GOOD! Let me be able to gain a new experience and get better at that than bitch and moan about how good the old version was and how shit the new version is. Seriously, dude, you need a whole new outlook and you REALLY need to stop being so bitter about content being added to your favorite game when it’s good, challenging content with the same wild and crazy synergies you were talking about, just with newer items.

Atrocious take.

Repentance is the reason that I now enjoy Isaac. Ngl, old isaac sucked and the balance was garbage. Edmund and his team really made repentance out of love for the game. The only parts of isaac that I still dislike are parts that were there before like Hush and delirium.

I think it’s mad to say you don’t get anything out offloading a run. I mean it ist a mechanic to learn the items so that is what you get out of loosing of accidentally picking up cursed eye. I learned it the hard way and you should do it too. It should be harder because it was boring a lot of the time. Just braking the game every time an win is more boring to me than loosing an hour long run because I’m bad. I think repentance is fucking great or almost perfekt accept for maybe some a little unbalanced or unfun Charakters (like Jacob and Esau). And I played since afterbirth + and if you like this one more just play it. But for me winning every run is a timewaste more than loosing once in a while because it’s actually a game with skill and knowledge involved

This sounds like that god of war dev bitching about metroid

NEVER COOK AGAIN

The new balancing of items made the game better tenfold, it prevented you having runs that were ridiculously weak or ridiculously strong all the time

you basically said that edmund made the items that were way too powerful unintentionally less powerful and made the unintentionally bad items better, i dont really get your point yes that was the intention of the balancing and that is why it is called balancing

Not to flog a dead horse, but skill issue

I wanted to buy this game awhile ago when it was on sale, my biggest gripe is the naming scheme. So you have Bindings of Isaac, then you have the next game, which is also just Bindings of Isaac. Then After that, i genuinely have no idea. THeres like Repentence, Requiem, Afterbirth, Afterbirth Plus. They also do not make it clear at all if buying repentance buys all the previous DLC, what orders they go in, if you can buy them in a whole package. It's such a bad naming scheme. Also, the game normally costs almost 60 dollars with all the DLC. More if you live where I live where it can be almost 75 dollars. The game almost never goes on sale after being this old, and I'm pretty sure one of the DLCs was basically just a mod someone made. I think it was Afterbirth. So, no reason to charge that much money. They did this with Board Game as well. It was originally just 45 bucks, but now it's 160 if you want the full experience, and they are adding even more Expansions to the game for money as well next year. I think they need to update their storefronts better, and maybe work on their pricings.

most of these are valid complaints but almost none of them are exclusive to repentance

found the nuclear take

Complaining that the game got harder and therefore it now sucks is kinda troll ngl. Like I get the "they changed the rules thing" but considering the "rules" were rather imbalanced I can hardly blame them for it. The item rebalance is hard to get used to but realistically pretty much none of the previously stupid broken items are actually bad now. Saying that S tier stuff got nerfed to C tier is some massive copium tho I'm gonna be honest. Even if we're talking about pre-repentance pretty much every item that was nerfed would still be good in AB+. Furthermore, they added items that are arguably even more broken than what AB+ had (glitched crown, death certificate, C section). Not knowing what items are until you see them a couple items is also standard. you can't tell me you started playing Isaac and immediately knew what every item was with zero hours, unless you did research beforehand in which case you could easily do the same with repentance. furthermore, if you don't like the alternate path, you aren't really forced to go onto it every run...? like unless you're trying to fight mother but even then it really is just relearning the game. In fact, that's what pretty much all of this is, relearning the game. You are essentially regaining the experience you were getting when you originally started playing. tl;dr skill issue, play more and you'll figure it out eventually (or this video was bait in which case I fell for it like an idiot)

Bro I cant think of a single item that got nerfed except holy mantle (which they then had to buff), and theres been like 800 billion buffs. Like half of the quality 0-1 items got turned into quality 2-3 and even 4 items. They even made a q0 item (how to jump) into a two item (ok an item and a trinket, panic button) pure invincibility exploit that im pretty sure remains unpatched

If you've been playing something for 13 years and don't remember what the items in the game do, that's not the game's fault my guy

personal opinions are your own. you've got good points- and also the cringiest cold open I've seen in about five years

there is a mod that shows item dexcriptions on steam if someone ever needs help know hwat items do (also tbh afterbirth and afterbirth+ sucked really badly not repentance)

Personally I really like Repentance, easily the best DLC out of any of them. I think the nerfs are fine, they never really bothered me. I really don't find it fun when you can easily get insta-wins. Bad items having some sort of use is also good, not saying I want them to be good but it's nice to be able to use the items the game hands to you. Some buffs I'd argue are really good ones. Breath of life went from annoying garbage, to really fun offensive item that if use correctly can deal tons of damage. I don't think theres any insta-lose items in my opinion, with the exception of TM Trainer sometimes because it's very prone to crashing. I think overall the game's difficulty is in a good state. Blitzing through the game is fun, however it's not fun to just be able to steamroll every run. The runs where I've got some crappy run going on where either I have to try hard barely scraping by to win or start scrambling to rig the game is so much more fun to me. Getting value out of items that I had never even thought of being too valuable is really fun to me (Old bandage is a Q4 imo, deaths list is ungodly good for some reason just to name a few) I recommend not using the wiki too often personally, it's the difference between having fun with tainted cain and hating him. I think since repentance items breaking your build have gone down, you just don't know the new items that break stuff yet. Repentance added so many synergies. The only synergy that kills your run and has no synergy still I can think of is Soy Milk + Mom's Knife. I can't deny a lot of it has changed and is different, but I think it changed for the good and still is what isaac is.

Womp womp

There's actually a fix to the nerf thing. By getting better at the game and by stop being a crybaby, it will actually make the game disable the nerfs. Hope this helps! :)