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@@deewills353 thanks, I appreciate you checking it out. I would give up most of the modern AAA releases for more like this, but with modern quality of life.

It really is. For every bit that games like uncharted wanted to be like movies, this game succeeded in being like an anime, it's a shame it's kind of forgotten.

It would be hard to convince me he wasn't a big influence on the design, shame we've never gotten a good Nightcrawler game. Also, If you want to try the game sometime, they've got a remaster coming out Dec 10th 2024.

That would have been a huge punch in the gut. It's bad enough when a game cuts off with a "to be continued" but to cut off with a "8 more dollars to continue the ride" would leave me pretty sour. Also, sorry if I pronounced your name wrong.

That would be awesome, a mountain dew fueled teenage Kal probably would have loved this game, but a mountain dew fueled middle aged Kal just wants a little more substance. I don't know anything about the dev team demographics that worked on this one, but I'm all for more people and more types of people making more games for more types of people.

Yeah it was really cool, just like those movies, but you gotta have that cooldown period or it just becomes noise you know? It would be awesome to see what the team could have made if they got to keep refining the formula.

Anger management therapists hate this one weird trick!

Well I hope I don't sound too critical. It was very cool, even if I do wish some things were different.

@@KalTheSkeletonAll your criticisms were valid. It’s a very flawed game but I love Cyberconnect2 in general and their experimental games like .hack, the Little Tail Bronx series, and this game. It’s so sad that they’re just a Bandai namco anime game mill because when they make original stuff it is always interesting and unique.

@@ObliviousBen1 it is sad even though as far as the Bandai anime games go they still make some decent stuff, it feels very cookie cutter. I actually really loved those .Hack ps2 RPGs when I was a kid, but I tried playing Infection a few months ago and it is rough.

I'm so far from cool, I had to Google this lol. Thanks for checking it out.

@@RPC87 Capcom has been talking about remastering some of their older stuff, it's the least they could do to let people play it on other platforms.

@@KalTheSkeleton agreed! PS3/369 era is being forgotten these days

​@@RPC87at least the ps3 emulation had come a long way, though I've not looked in to the roms much because they're so big. I love those games, even if they are all brown and use too much bloom.

@@KalTheSkeleton ya for emulation you need some time to sit down and tinker with it to get the results you want. The bloom problem is real hahaha. I just loved how the developers did so much with so little. Now we have so little in terms of originality with so much power.

@@skinschizo Fuck, that's a good joke... It's too late to put it in though.

@@early-tv I was entirely surprised at how much I liked it. Hopefully a lot of people will give it a chance, it's hard for it to spread through word of mouth when people don't want to spoil it.

@@early-tv thanks, and they really do tell a story. Not a story I'm allowed to tell on youtube though.

I am incapable of taking a compliment, but I appreciate you and hope you enjoy it.

That's awesome, there really is something special about those games. Thanks for checking out the video.

I will never, EVER forgive Bob the vampire!

Ha, well I hope it's good for you. I'm still thinking about it sometimes.

Nice, I'm worried about the day my ps3 finally gives out. Thanks for checking out the video.

You know I did clock that he had a very different design than the rest of the game, but I didn't think to look in to it. I bet you're right about it being a historical reference. For some reason I assumed he learned alchemy from Mathias based on how much he seemed to look up to him. I wondered if Mathias manipulated Walter to turn Rinaldo's daughter and then allow him to live there, but that would require him to have started 5 years prior, and he apparently only fell to evil in the last year after his wife died. This game does suffer from it's lack of pagan snuggle parties, but I try to look past the mistakes of the past. They didn't know better.

Thanks, I've tried looking at how a lot of other creators format their videos to improve my own, and change it up a little each time. I'm definitely looking forward to the shadows saga, though for clarity I have no problem with sequels, I just struggle to stick to any one series. I didn't know 2 had a bad reputation, though that does make sense considering I never hear it talked about. Also, fffffffuuuuuuuucccckkk I can't believe I forgot to put them in the description, thanks for pointing that out.

The pact is sealed, your soul is forfeit, your magical powers are in the mail. Glad to have you.

@@KalTheSkeleton Glad to be here. I'm a huge Castlevania nut.

You know, I've bought lords of Shadow 1, 1.5, and 2 on at least 4 platforms but I've still never made it more than two hours in. It seems so very my shit, I just have a terrible attention span. I did see that Rinaldo was mentioned in there (No clue if it's the same one), but apparently they never discovered what happened to him. I love when series have recurring lore like that. If Legacy of Kain and The Thing are any indication, they're probably already working on the remaster for these, it's a gift I have, apparently, and a spectacularly scary Samhain to you, as well.

Yeah it felt like fate to be uploading some Castlevania right as I hit that milestone. Thanks, and a Happy Halloween to you too!

I like horror that makes you think, rather than just startling you. The kind that creeps up on you right before bed.

Ah but I'd never lie to you, at least not intentionally. I'm not sure what you mean by a soft review, but I would always want you to have the context of my thoughts on a game especially for something like combat, and I figure if I lied about it, you'd just see me get hit and the health bar not go down, and then it kind of invalidates the whole review, ya know? I did the same as you, bouncing off it several time, but I really wanted to play the later Kain games and get the story first hand. This is one game that could really use a remake. Anyway, thanks for check it out. It being my first video, it's kind of hard to go back to it for me.

@@KalTheSkeleton Soft Review as in you spent a lot of time talking about the lore and background. Not just the game and mechanics. Looking back that sounds shitty, but I didn't mean it like that. I prefer lore heavy content. I prefer videos exactly like you made. And just to be super clear, I loved the video and have been watching most of your other videos. It's a great video. I just hate that you didn't 'play it' if that makes sense. I'm subscribed and can't wait to see more of your content, and I apologize if my previous comment sounded shitty. I'm excited to see your next piece of content. Some of my aversion might be that I personally refuse to use cheats, codes, mods, or exploits in games. I could 100% see using shit like that for gathering footage, but I think it puts too much of a twist on a game to only 'play it' rather than play it. I hope this makes sense and maybe takes the edge off of my previous comment. I'm for sure a new fan.

Ah no worries, I understand what you mean, and I didn't take it as shitty, I just didn't want to assume. Typically if a game is so janky or unpleasant that I would have to actually use cheats (outside of savestates) to get through it, I would just give it a pass entirely. I really wanted to start from the beginning with Kain though, and I picked it as my first game to make a video on before I actually played it for some strange reason, so I felt like if I didn't follow through on that, I'd be somehow failing. Of course I also played it and wrote a script without recording the damn thing, so that's why most of my footage is tagged with credit to the Longplay Archive so it was kind of a failure anyway lol. I'm rambling but the core is, I agree that it's difficult or impossible to really experience a game without engaging with it in the way the designers intended it. I make excuses for myself because I have limited playtime and I try to put out a video every two weeks, but I also want to be upfront about it because it's important to me to be authentic to whoever watches them. I need more hours in the day!

After getting through it the first time with the lives cheats, I did a partial second playthrough for extra footage without them and you're absolutely right, it does feel easier. It's a game that rewards you for mastering it's systems, and I love finding games that do that. I had a similar setup with Dark Souls because I grew up in the sticks with no internet, and didn't get a lot of new games even though I had a job back then. So I just kept slamming my head into that brick wall until it broke. Now it's a game I can blow through in a day because once you know it's systems, they are easy to exploit. Obviously Bloodborne had the benefit of learning from Dark Souls, but you're right, the flow of it's combat and the cohesiveness of it's design absolutely is better, it's probably better than all of the souls games because it's tight while they get a lot more bloated, but I've still only played it once compared to at least a dozen times for ds1 because it's the comfort game. I got off topic, but anyway. Definitely looking forward to the second one, though it will probably be awhile. I have a tendency to wander between genres. Thanks for checking the video out.

Are you my dentist? If so, yes, but actually. No. Never.

I don't know why, but despite starting Medievil at least six times, I've never made it past the fifth level. I'll have to buckle down on it one of these days, it seems like a fun game. I just struggle with the attention span.

It was unfortunate, I'm not sure if there was something else I could have done, but I made it to the start of that level with like 15% health and I could make it to the last ramp with that pipe explosion and couldn't get around it. If they put even one med pack in the start of the level, it would have been fine. I think I forgot to mention in the review, but one of the control styles gives you pretty standard third person shooter movement and camera controls, and I really appreciated that. Anyway, definitely an enjoyable game. Thanks for checking out the video.

I read something like that, and I think he was really upset when the director of THE THING FROM OUTER SPACE hated The Thing. That guy said something like "if you want to see blood, go to a slaughterhouse." It's interesting to see how the two persisted culturally though, I don't believe I've ever heard of THE THING FROM OUTER SPACE outside of the context of it's history with The Thing, though I'm not much of a film head. Anyway, thanks for watching.

Hey, if you're doing art at all, you're still better at it than 99% of the world. I think that's awesome, good luck with the game dev. I haven't dabbled in it in a long time, but I do love that kind of creative work too.

@@KalTheSkeleton thx man. Its like Danny, the main dev of eastshade, said in one of his recent postmortem videos on eastshade, that doing big projects is pure joy the initial 20% or so of the project(first year in his case), after this its a matter of pure endurance and will. Still fun, but from 20% to 80% its pure grinding. And at 80% to 100% its suppoused to be hell. Not there yet, but will see. I am trying to programm everything as simple as possible, to avoid complicated bugs. But developing any rpg is throwing a bunch of systems in a sandbox that interact with each other, so bugs are unavoidable (Oblivion). Looking forward to that 80% mark.

It really is a shame, they could have been printing money over all these years but they just... don't? I mentioned Gears of War because this version of it is so action focused, but a telltale or even some kind of social deduction roguelike would have been fantastic too. Monsters are always spooky, but it's the "it could be any one of us, even your best friend" that makes The Thing so special. I was trying to think of other poorly managed franchises, but I'm not much of a film head so I just bounced around Pokemon, Halo, and everything Konami has ever touched. I'm playing through a Castlevania right now thinking "This is great... what happened to this series?"

"Yeah whatever there's a princess and a bad dude go! Kill skeletons!!!"

Definitely a valid point, I think the idea I was totally failing to communicate was that money in Maximo only has a few uses. It's basically just there to save and buy healing items, and the game ties the safety of saving, armor and health together to balance the difficulty where almost every game I've ever played keeps saving and survival as separate functions. When you save in Maximo, you are actually choosing to give up some of your safety net to buy armor and potions. But again, not a bit of that came out of my mouth, so here we are. Anyway, thanks for watching.

Man that's crazy, to think that the OG's are still out there and people can still learn from them is like some apprenticing under Michelangelo as a painter shit. Pretty cool

Man, I want to have a witty comeback, but despite owning all of those games for years, I've only gotten a few hours in to the first one. I've let you down. Even considered grabbing the new console releases a bunch of times, but I didn't know if they would be lacking compared to the PC version.

@@KalTheSkeleton i haven't beaten a stalker game either but i have put around 10 hours in each except chernobyl some day i want to at least beat a couple.

@@skinschizo they seem super cool, but I have a tendency to start a game and think "this game is great, I should save this for when I'm able to enjoy it more" and here I am, still waiting lol.

*Proceeds to tell you how to cook meth while also giving a detailed list of exploitation mechanics for a hentai MOBA*

Man I love a core memory like that. I can see how it would stand out, the music and art style are pretty unique, and it would be a fantastic "pass the controller" type game to play with friends. Anyway, thanks for sharing, and watching.

I'm glad you made it, we couldn't start the party without you.

I have not, though I think I've seen videos about it from other youtubers I watch. It's on the list, but the list is so... depressingly long for the amount of time I have left.

@@KalTheSkeleton Just keep sticking to what interests you and I’m sure the videos will keep being awesome!

They'll never take me alive!

That thing was miserable, I don't understand how it got through any kind of playtest. It's gotta be on top of the list of things to fix for the remaster though, right? I hope they can do it justice. I read that after this game was so popular, Computer Artworks took on like 5 contracts to make other games at the same time but didn't hire anymore staff, so when they couldn't get anything done, everyone stopped paying them and they collapsed. Poor management kill another golden goose. If they could have kept this going on later consoles, it could have been the next Resident Evil, but we'll never know. I spent so, so much time as a kid tazing dudes in the nuts until they caught on fire and just laughing... and laughing... I played through the first one again last year and it definitely holds up. I've never played it, but it looks pretty good. It's on the list to try one day in the future, thanks for the recommendation.

The only 100% effective forms of birth control are abstinence and my face. We'll throw out a prayer and hope youtube lets this one slide down her thigh.

I'm not in their league, but I hope to get a little closer with every video. Thanks for checking it out.

You're in good company with that wish. I thought no one cared about this game, but it seems more like I'm the only person who didn't grow up on it.