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I played this game 3 times. My view of game is worse everytime. I don't think the characters or story are good..and the 2 other games did not fix tht for me. But for your it was good. We just have different views

I played this game for a little over 11 hours and am already getting somewhat worn out. I thought it was going to get better eventualy, but this video just got by bullet point every single problem I had so.... I will just skip the ds entries and read the manga lol

This video explains everything wrong about the game while trying to convince us it wasn’t an actual problem when playing through. Hindsight is 20/20…

The story is decent, the soundtrack is one of the best in the series, the combat gets pretty enjoyable by the mid-late game, but I agree it starts off quite slow. Where it truly falls short is the linear levels (although the environments themselves are nice), the lack of side content besides hunts, and Snow. Every time he’s on screen I completely sympathize with Hope’s goal for the first 5 chapters. At the end of the day it’s alright, and I do play through it again occasionally, but it had a lot of room for improvement.

need this on ps5

Honestly this is one of my favorites and watching this video was amazing. Thanks so much for putting it together.

2:28:19 You're mad that BBS made the KH1 character importants cosmically to the universe by being chosen but wasn't it revealed in KH1 that Kairi is a princess of Heart? They were never "random plucky teenagers to enact good in the world" Also about the Keyblade thing: It matters that the Kingdom Key is the only keyblade that opens worlds and does the functions it does not every keyblade has the same abilities most are just swords with magic based on that persons magical abilities, not every Keyblade can do what the Kingdom Keyblade does...

Posting before I get into the meat of the video: I played this game on launch, and I replayed this game within the last year. The game's plot (and datalog reliance) made me quite angry both times. It has a reputation for a reason. Also, the PC ports of the XIII games still have issues that can be corrected with basic patches, but Square Enix dropped the ball. Edit: I will say that the gameplay made way more sense to me after the first playthrough. The first time through was like banging my head against the wall for days.

I feel like the vitriol people have for FF13 is unfair. FF10 was essentially the same thing where its a linear path until the "open" calm lands then right back to linear paths until you get the airship. I FULLY believe that the loudest critics for FF13 and its subsequent sequals are/were from those whose first experience with the franchise was with the earliest titles. Everyone I know whos first experience was with FF7 or onward greatly enjoyed the story and gameplay for FF13. Another fantastic high quality video. I cannot wait for more!

No we weren't. 13 is a bad game with bad characters. If you wanna wear rose tinted goggles be my guest. Most of us prefer not to lie to ourselves, and don't need gaslit into thinking what we saw wasn't true.

Been binging through this series and i have been enjoying them! This is the first video where i had a slight resistance to your take on the damage output issues with 1 being the floor. While annoying yes, I feel like playing through the game on the hardest difficulty and B-lining through the story will leave you underleveled everytime. Just one thing i had an issue with. Now the super bosses in these games can be actually unfair. People tell me you have to learn patterns and take advantage of openings and my counter is to show them a casual player trying to fight the one in this game or the Anti-Aqua in KH 2.8. Ive done speedruns and maxed out every game. However i havent beat either of them. The Anti-Aqua fight, in my opinion, is just as bad if not worse than the one you fight here.

Great Video. I think XIII is a great divider of tastes. How much you enjoy it depends on what you consider a "good story" and whether you are willing to see the sacrifice of exploration and a living world as worth it for telling the story.

the themes and foundation of a great story are all there in this game but the poor execution and delivery really sells it short. the dialogue and writing are so bad and the plot gets so nonsensical that it completely takes me out

I think that it truly is a matter of opinion, always has been, and should be. If you love or hate it, great. But don't form your opinion around what someone else thinks. If you hate it, great. If you love it, great. Listen to alternatives if you want, inform yourself, then make your own decisions.

Looking back kingdom hearts seems so cringe but then you see Clayton loading his elephant gun while straddling a giant invisible monster and it goes so hard I’m back on board.

Yomi is an acronym meaning "Your only move is (not to play)"

I really disliked this game when it first dropped. I bought it, but really put off playing it for years. One day I decided, "Okay, let's get stuck in, give it a chance." I was having fun! It was great, I enjoyed the characters, the story, etc. Then I get about 20+ hours in over some weeks and the game literally walled me at the airship sequence. It was enough for me to lose interest. Not that the game is difficult per se, but the combat is so jarring. First, you need to use the analyze ability, or your team mates you can't control will just do stupid stuff. Second, you really have to master the whole paradigm shift thing. Third, the game prevents you from getting too strong for a certain area. So if you suck at any of the above, then you're just hot lasagna on a brick wall. Can make this complaint about any game, but few rpgs. What does this say? I don't know. Other than I suck at this game, not much I guess. Very anecdotal. It was my takeaway though as an adult man with other things vying for my attention. I hope to come back later though. Give it another shot.

This game is one of my favorites for a reason. Thank you for pointing out so many amazing things about it that I didn't even realize while playing

who is "we"

Crazy to think roxas was completely down to murder diz

To be totally fair, I think the argument for why Quiet needs to rely so completely on her skin breathing and photosynthesis is because of how she was nearly burned to death at the start of the game. SlHer lungs are practically charcoal, while The End and Code Talker are very old but still have functioning organs. The parasites serve as a supplement for them while they are literal life support for her. The camera-work isn't excused by this, but eh.

No.. I don't think I was. in all three games I was not able to explore Pulse and see the world.

I been known

From my understanding, Venom Snake being named Ahab and the Moby Dick references plays into you developing a Cult of Personality in your crusade for revenge which ultimately ends poorly. Not unlike Capt. Ahab and the crew of the Pequod. A few other things play into the “Revenge is a fools errand” (to paraphrase RDR2) theme including a tape Ocelot gives on the Soviet-Afghan War wherein Mujahideen fighters would decapitate and castrate Russian soldiers and in turn, the Russians soldiers would be even more brutal to captured Mujahideen which leads to… and so on.

5:19 overstated

I just rediscovered this game after years of not playing it and wanted a deep dive into his background. This video was exactly what I needed!

I hope you cover the other Final Fantasy 13 games as well

2:04:34 idk if I agree with this part, although I agree with the overall assessment that Eli is a weird part of this game, especially where the plot thread ends, in absence of that cut mission. Its omission honestly wouldn’t matter much if he just didn’t take Sahelanthropus but still left. That aside, you talk about wanting to see him grow, learn things from Venom & Diamond Dogs-Venom tries to do exactly that! Importantly, this is something we know the original Big Boss would never have done, considering he loathed the Enfants cloning project and had little interest in them. Only by MGS4 at the end of the timeline does he finally acknowledge and do good by David/Solid. Your proposed idea of Eli growing enraged and leaving cause of Venom killing a parasitized one of the kids doesn’t sit with me. That’s because it’s honestly up to question whether he even values the kids as peers or just subordinates-would he realistically care? Would that be in-character? I would be more surprised if he did care. I would think Eli/Liquid sees other people as means to the ends of his goals, or useless. It also removes the one big moment I do like in his story, where from minute one of being offered guidance and kindness by Venom (who he thinks is his father at this point), he rejects it. Eli denies the opportunity for growth and mentorship. It’s almost a moment you can read as him cementing the way he’ll behave for the rest of his life, like that’s the moment he couldn’t help but become MGS1 Liquid. Not taking this kind, earnest, uniquely-Venom gesture and changing his ways, marked his blown chance to mature past childish hatred, loathing, and revenge-seeking. When it comes to existing characters, MGSV is more about showing a step we never saw towards the person they become in later-timeline games, than rewriting them. I think the way Eli cemented himself as the Liquid of MGS1 in V is good without changes.

I would take a closer look into the mobile version.

You aren't immortal, your memory is sent back in time.

End Times is also linked to an item, so doesn't require the supernova

Harmonica and whistling are wind instruments, not just acoustic.

13:00 the first bit is piano, the second bit sounds like a crystal or music box sound, or maybe a gamelan? The next bit is possible reversed instrument

Me trying to work out how the character dies in the last loop before you start, just based on the sounds.

Calm down! You don't have to have zero knowledge. You struggle to remember everything when playing a game. It is different to spending hours playing it.

If i could change the gameplay just a tad, id add in a feature to change party leader in battle by pressing the right trigger to cycle through characters, use the left trigger as an "ATB brake", slowing or outright stopping the battle so you can navigate the manual command menu without losing time making decisions with a full ATB gauge and everyone else continuing to battle, and allowing up to eight paradigms, with the menu structured as a 2×4 grid similar to the command and item menus.

No we didn't. This game is so fucking boring Square won't even remaster it to current gen consoles because nobody would buy it

I can’t agree with FF13 being good. I appreciate that some people like it. I tried to play it myself 3 times and was never able to finish it, and I think the main culprit of this is that the plot lacks direction and momentum. While our characters not being able to agree on what their focus is is believable and interesting and in character, it results in everyone going their own ways for the entire first half of the game. It is literally 'unfocused' and that's what kills it. Because even when you get the party together, they *still* don't know what they're going to do and if they don’t know, then the player doesn’t know what they're working toward either. The character drama kept me interested lomg enough to get to Gran Pulse, and then, as you said, the characters and plot take a backseat to the gameplay. And, let's face it, the writing for most of these characters is decent, but not *exceptional*. A lot of the big interpersonal issues are resolved ealier on, and the rest are given lackluster resolutions that left me confused and unsatisfied.

PS2 was 6th gen.

Everything about these games sucked and always will be

Like MGS5, this video is almost perfect

So I’ve been watching your series as I’ve been replaying the games, and I finished a Crit run of Birth by Sleep just yesterday before watching this. As someone who enjoys the game a lot more than you do, I’d like to offer the following thoughts: 1. Regarding the command melding system…yeah, I’ll agree that the method of farming abilities is pretty screwed up and impossible to optimize without a guide. My endgame experience with all three characters was decidedly more pleasant than yours BECAUSE I looked up how to get Once More, Second Chance, and Leaf Bracer ahead of time. It’s a shame, because as a way to build stronger deck commands, I do think the melding system suits BbS’s purposes well - I feel pretty rewarded when I make a nuke like Deep Freeze or Mega Flare - but the ability farming aspect sours it a bit. I almost feel like passive abilities could have been found through treasure chests like various other commands. 2. The boss design, I’m a bit more mixed on. It’s funny, because I do remember thinking the bosses were a weak point on my last playthrough, but over the course of this one, I noticed some of them grew on me? I won’t say the inconsistent stagger or lack of parrying are “good” elements, per se, but to me, bosses like Vanitas encourage a very defensive play style that felt satisfying to come to grips with. With Aqua, in particular, I felt like I had to react as quickly to his attacks as he reacted to mine, almost like a nail-biting game of cat and mouse. It makes finding out how to deal efficient damage - setting mines, sweeping him up with Aeroga or Zero Gravity as he recovers, building up a Blade Charge - really rewarding. It’s certainly DIFFERENT from KH2’s more aggressive play style, but I could see it going over better if it were more refined. Unfortunately, the cracks are pretty obvious. I largely agree with you on the pacing issues. I think Braig as Terra was where the defensive rhythm clicked for me, but those sniping phases are just excruciating. Even bosses with great elements have some irritating phase or wrinkle that drags them down, which is a shame. It’s certainly the most obvious step back from KH2. 3. Regarding the combat system overall, though, I can’t say the under-the-hood mathematics at play bother me as much you, haha. I also noticed I was doing only light damage once I hit Deep Space, but I took it as an opportunity to emphasize my strongest commands and styles. Usually, within just a few rooms, I’d catch up to the Unversed and be dealing normal damage. I’d also give more credit to the enemy variety, too-the gas pump Unversed that you have to attack from behind, magic pots that encourage elemental command styles, enemies with long-ranged projectiles that you’re encouraged to take out first. On Crit, I felt like the enemy arrangements in each room really forced me to play carefully and use my commands effectively. Even as someone who loves KH2’s combat, I do see merit in BbS’s variety and customization even if it’s hardly as polished. Like you said, there’s an audience! 4. Story-wise, see, I actually think a lot of the callbacks to KH1 were kind of poignant. There’s something solemn and tragic to me about the way Sora, Riku, and Kairi’s path was paved by these three unsung heroes who all met unenviable fates. Sora even acknowledges this in Blank Points with “I wouldn’t be who I am without them.” Since there is a heavy theme of connection, like you pointed out, I think it’s only fitting that the heroes of the past would have a connection to those of the future. On a deeper level, I think it shows how our lives can be changed forever by small moments or chance encounters, and we don’t realize how significant they were until much later. Terra passing the Keyblade to Riku was especially heart-rending for me for this reason. It’s almost like Terra is passing on his legacy to Riku as a Keyblade wielder forced to reckon with their inner darkness. In shaking Xehanort’s control and reclaiming himself, Riku succeeds where Terra failed-which plays into ANOTHER theme of Birth by Sleep, belief that anything is possible and that a tragic fate isn’t set in stone. The whole ending is predicated on the idea that while the Wayfinder Trio all suffered great losses, this isn’t how their story has to end. Aqua’s last line in the story, after all, is “there’s always a way.” 5. With that “anything is possible” theme in mind, the “deus ex machina” elements you pointed out don’t feel out of place to me either. It would hardly be the first time powerful emotions or feelings of love manifested something supernatural in Kingdom Hearts, I.e., Kairi’s letter opening the Door to Light in KH2. The Wayfinders aren’t literally magic, but they gain power through what they symbolize in the characters’ thoughts and feelings. Honestly, I don’t think it’s TOO far off from Kairi’s seashell charm manifesting as the Oathkeeper keychain that gives Sora power, if we treat that as something diegetic. 6. It’s funny how you go so deep into the impact of BbS’s retcons, since I was actually thinking last night about what meaningfully changes about the other games in light of BbS. You brought up some points I didn’t consider, but I don’t think the implications are that drastic for a few reasons: - In the ceremonial speech, the line “so long as you have the makings” is doing a lot of heavy lifting as to how Keyblade succession works. As such, I don’t think Terra passing the Keyblade to Riku undermines the conflict of KH1. Sora WAS just the courier initially, but when Riku gave himself over to darkness, he lost his worthiness, whereas Sora proved himself worthy through the “my friends are my power” speech. It was only after Riku began to recover himself that he earned a new Keyblade, the Road to Dawn, and at that point, he and Sora had both proven themselves worthy. - Nomura’s comment that “maybe Xemnas wasn’t using the Keyblade on purpose” is a bit of an odd statement, but I always assumed that while MASTER Xehanort could use the Keyblade, APPRENTICE Xehanort could not, whether due to his amnesia or the instability of his heart as a forced fusion of two people. (Days does establish that someone can “forget” how to summon the Keyblade, at that, unless Xion was a solitary case.) Maybe this is just a headcanon I’ve unconsciously adopted because the point is ambiguous, but it’s something I’ve always taken for granted. - And if Apprentice Xehanort’s amnesia is authentic, then it’s not so far fetched that Xemnas and Ansem SoD would have slightly different motivations from Master Xehanort. After all, they only have Apprentice Xehanort’s memories and maybe a few repressed impulses from Terra. It’s only in Dream Drop Distance that Ansem SoD and Xemnas are invested in the Keyblade War, and that’s after all the Norts have been gathered from their place in time for that express purpose. - As for something like the Keyblade being less distinctive, I think this is just something that happens as shonen series escalate in scope, kind of like Super Saiyans becoming more common in Dragon Ball. It’s not something that bothers me much, personally. Sorry if this got too dense, but the game is fresh on my mind, so I had a lot of thoughts lol Interesting video overall, and I look forward to seeing more!

no offense but nothing in existence is up to god

This is my favorite trilogy ever made 🙏🏽

Since the trailers in I think 2008-09 I’ve loved the game.

My trophies clear me of any allegations

I love FF XIII trilogy so much, u need to make a video for each

i stand with you 100% i've always loved ffxiii's charm, art, story, characters, gameplay and have always defended it. im so glad you've made this, thank you so much