it was such a small, fleeting moment, but what made Keitaro my favorite character was him talking about how learning about history is what allows us to understand the present; it's so rare to see any piece of media--at all--take this idea and actually do anything with it. While I wouldn't call that the main theme of 13 Sentinels, or even one of the biggest ones, the fact that it's still present at all just made my little history-loving heart sing. Great game, for sure.
I think the moment where 2188 Keitaro talks about how the Pacific War was the most fascinating point in history and how he'd love to live in it is the moment that got me *really* invested in 13 Sentinels, he is now one of my favourite characters in all of fiction, I absolutely adore him, he has a fantastic story, he's just so fucking good.
I find it entertaining how you find destruction complicated, cuz for me it was a very much needed break from all the brain melt happening in remembrance, which is why for me its so comfortable to just click demolition blade and seeing big numbers pop up after all the brain overload i accumulated in remembrance.
Same, lol. It really helps to break up from the potential story overload you can get from the ulra dense Remembrance section. In general, the way you switch between sections of the game does wonders to help freshen up your experience every time you jump back into something.
I still struggle to form coherent sentences to explain why I love 13 Sentinels so much. This video might be the closest to how I felt put into words. Great job Cullen ♥
Great way to word this game. This game was one of the best expierences I've had with a video game in a long time. So much nuance and attention to detail with themeing and characters. I was invested and felt thouroghly paid off for that investment
Few games have stories that are so well written as 13 Sentinels, its actually insanely impressive and you can tell years were spent carefully writing the whole thing. I really hope they keep it up with their future games, this is a new high for Vanillaware.
A late reaction but Vanillaware has always been about the super detailed, super tasty looking food. I'd like to think that they did that for their other games too to do exactly what you said. The Pooka village in Odin Sphere is always so cozy and welcoming and the travelling chef's restaurant will always be a great respite mid-dungeon because the food Always. Looks. So. Good. I've been a fan of Vanillaware forever but I never really thought about their emphasis on food until you brought it up here! Good insight.
amazing video so happy to see more people talk about this game. I really liked how you talked about the theme on "Passing the torch" since that was my favorite theme in the game. I really liked how you pointed out that the character who failed are adults obsessed with the past.
I loved that theme a lot, and I wish more fiction was willing to execute it in such a subtle fashion. So many stories just default to "well you have to love bad people if they're your family!" and I hate it
@@culIen yeah I think my favorite part of the The Passing Torch theme is how it ties into a much of smaller themes on the game like Reincarnation, legacy, and redeeming sins of the past. Also one of my favorite characters who ties into the theme is 426 since he’s the first adult character to realize the importance of having faith in the next generation and does all he can to help them grasp their future
I agree with this is an RTS mode for people that don't like RTS. I love turn based strategy and that's what the combat is due to time pausing. I thought the combat mode from trailers looks horrible, but it grew on my VERY fast, and I loved it honestly. After getting all the trophies, I bought the other 2 Vanillaware games on PS4, and plan to purchase all future. Great dev team.
I've had this in my Watch Later list since the day it was uploaded, and have finally played enough of the game that I felt comfortable viewing it without spoiler-fear. Turns out I really shouldn't have waited! Anyway, good job king. And to all my fellow Watch Later slackers: You are seen, and you are loved.
Another banger my dude. I honestly knew nothing about this game, but you telling me it's an rts/visual novel with them deep vibes? May my bank account forgive me for what I am about to do. Nah but for reals your vids have just been getting better and better man. Keep up the good work!
This also made me more interested in the game. I was already interested from the bits I saw on my Twitter feed occasionally, but now I definitely want to get it.
Thank you very much! I was really nervous about how this one would turn out and am overwhelmed by the positive response to it so far :V I hope you enjoy it when you get around to it
I’m about 75% thru this game atm and Iam absolutely obsessed. As an RTS player I needed to put the battles on “intense” mode to really enjoy them, but the story itself and the way it is told is wonderfully refreshing
Great video about a great game. It's hard to just talk about it without diving too deep into spoilers and I think this format did a good job doing that.
I think the cool thing about this game is the freedom to choose (to some extent, at least) what order you experience the story in. When I first started playing the game, I started with a character Iiked, and then picked paths based on what currently had me interested. I'd complete a chapter of someone's story and I'd either feel like I had to know what would happen next with them, OR I'd be super interested in the story of one of the characters involved in the story I had just seen and I'd switch to them. I feel like there's no "right order" to play through the story in and tell my friends that I've gotten to buy the game to just follow what they find interesting. I immediately replayed this game with my boyfriend after finishing it the first time because I was so excited to show him the characters and plot, but the order we did it in was different and it gave us a very different experience to what I had when I played it myself. Also, Keitaro Miura has my whole heart (and Nenji is a good boy) Also also: Hello fellow sentry gun spammer, that carried me through destruction and I love that the sentry gun character always had way more damage than anyone else on the squad. Sentry gun is life.
Great video! I made a video about this game on my channel and it was such a struggle to discuss without spoiling. I liked the approach you went for here!
I'm still desperately waiting for that PC port (although there probably won't be one at this point)! I swear if I just had a PS4 or PS5 I'd have picked up this game in a heart beat 😖
I'm a huge ATLUS fan, but I'm on a budget and I can only buy one game for the month. I'm torn between this game of Shin Megami Tensei V. Which one should I get?
You want a cool story or some fun gameplay? 13S is all about the story, the gameplay is solid. SMTV has some of the best turn based combat in a hot minute, and the story is just okay.
Not a visual novel? Of *course* this game is a visual novel! It's called "13Sentinels". All the best VNs have titles formatted like that. ... I know there's a space in there normally, but, shh--
Sorry, unpopular opinion here :), but this games feels complex and convoluted just for the sake of being complex and convoluted. Sure, the pay-off at the end is great and it the plot-twists are 100% hit. The hand-drawn graphics (so far, the impression is that everybody claim they are hand drawn, but ot confirmed anywhere?) are nice, as well as the English voice actors. I just think that story is being too much farfetched because it was intended to be complicated, as its main driver. Nowadays, this is a tendency we find often in video games that are narrative driven; if the story is not convoluted nor overarched, it is labelled as cliché or building on existing generic stereotypes (save the world). Developers and scenarist have to bring more complex stories to differentiate themselves from existing baselines. I still feel that AR13S uses one-dimensional characters, and the plot tries to tie them altogether in the best way it could? Whether that was necessary? It was the intention since the start of the developers.
I apologize for annoying you then, I just went off what the game and Google told me without much of a second thought. Pan is just another word for bread, so I personally don't find it to be too big of a deal. Oh well!
it was such a small, fleeting moment, but what made Keitaro my favorite character was him talking about how learning about history is what allows us to understand the present; it's so rare to see any piece of media--at all--take this idea and actually do anything with it. While I wouldn't call that the main theme of 13 Sentinels, or even one of the biggest ones, the fact that it's still present at all just made my little history-loving heart sing. Great game, for sure.
I think the moment where 2188 Keitaro talks about how the Pacific War was the most fascinating point in history and how he'd love to live in it is the moment that got me *really* invested in 13 Sentinels, he is now one of my favourite characters in all of fiction, I absolutely adore him, he has a fantastic story, he's just so fucking good.
...nerd /lh
I find it entertaining how you find destruction complicated, cuz for me it was a very much needed break from all the brain melt happening in remembrance, which is why for me its so comfortable to just click demolition blade and seeing big numbers pop up after all the brain overload i accumulated in remembrance.
Haha demolition blade go brrr
Same, lol. It really helps to break up from the potential story overload you can get from the ulra dense Remembrance section. In general, the way you switch between sections of the game does wonders to help freshen up your experience every time you jump back into something.
I'm with you about the story: I wasn't particularly *emotionally* involved, but I *HAD TO KNOW* where it was going once I got started.
Its not about humans vs aliens
Or good vs evil
The only conflict that really matters...
Is hemboiger vs yakisoba pan
Great video! put a lot of what I was thinking while playing into words. truly immaculate vibes
Thank you very much!! I'm happy that people are so positive on it since I felt like I had NO IDEA what I was doing haha
I still struggle to form coherent sentences to explain why I love 13 Sentinels so much. This video might be the closest to how I felt put into words. Great job Cullen ♥
Great way to word this game.
This game was one of the best expierences I've had with a video game in a long time. So much nuance and attention to detail with themeing and characters. I was invested and felt thouroghly paid off for that investment
Few games have stories that are so well written as 13 Sentinels, its actually insanely impressive and you can tell years were spent carefully writing the whole thing. I really hope they keep it up with their future games, this is a new high for Vanillaware.
A late reaction but Vanillaware has always been about the super detailed, super tasty looking food. I'd like to think that they did that for their other games too to do exactly what you said. The Pooka village in Odin Sphere is always so cozy and welcoming and the travelling chef's restaurant will always be a great respite mid-dungeon because the food Always. Looks. So. Good. I've been a fan of Vanillaware forever but I never really thought about their emphasis on food until you brought it up here! Good insight.
I freakin love this game so much. Good vibes. Great job.
amazing video so happy to see more people talk about this game. I really liked how you talked about the theme on "Passing the torch" since that was my favorite theme in the game. I really liked how you pointed out that the character who failed are adults obsessed with the past.
I loved that theme a lot, and I wish more fiction was willing to execute it in such a subtle fashion. So many stories just default to "well you have to love bad people if they're your family!" and I hate it
@@culIen yeah I think my favorite part of the The Passing Torch theme is how it ties into a much of smaller themes on the game like Reincarnation, legacy, and redeeming sins of the past. Also one of my favorite characters who ties into the theme is 426 since he’s the first adult character to realize the importance of having faith in the next generation and does all he can to help them grasp their future
@@thebluePrincess5904 god, yeah. The scenes where my understanding of 426’s motivation came together were the closest this game got me to crying.
I agree with this is an RTS mode for people that don't like RTS. I love turn based strategy and that's what the combat is due to time pausing. I thought the combat mode from trailers looks horrible, but it grew on my VERY fast, and I loved it honestly. After getting all the trophies, I bought the other 2 Vanillaware games on PS4, and plan to purchase all future. Great dev team.
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Ah, nice touch in the beginning with the Silver Case music too! You have very good taste. 🤌
I've had this in my Watch Later list since the day it was uploaded, and have finally played enough of the game that I felt comfortable viewing it without spoiler-fear. Turns out I really shouldn't have waited! Anyway, good job king. And to all my fellow Watch Later slackers: You are seen, and you are loved.
Another banger my dude. I honestly knew nothing about this game, but you telling me it's an rts/visual novel with them deep vibes? May my bank account forgive me for what I am about to do. Nah but for reals your vids have just been getting better and better man. Keep up the good work!
This also made me more interested in the game. I was already interested from the bits I saw on my Twitter feed occasionally, but now I definitely want to get it.
Thank you very much! I was really nervous about how this one would turn out and am overwhelmed by the positive response to it so far :V
I hope you enjoy it when you get around to it
I’m about 75% thru this game atm and Iam absolutely obsessed. As an RTS player I needed to put the battles on “intense” mode to really enjoy them, but the story itself and the way it is told is wonderfully refreshing
Damn this was a fantastic video. Probably the best examination of 13 Sentinels I've seen on UA-cam to date. Great work.
Thank you so much!!! That means so much to me ;-;
Awesome video man. Definitely gonna pick this up when I get a chance
Oh yeah dude, you'd definitely love it!
Hey Cullen, congrats on your first video essay. For someone who has no familiarity with Real time Strategy, seems very interesting. I'll give it a try
Thank you gamer!!! I hope you enjoy it at least as much as I did
Wow, I need to play this game, the animation is amazing
Banger of a video!
Great video about a great game. It's hard to just talk about it without diving too deep into spoilers and I think this format did a good job doing that.
I remember playing this game. Too bad not a lot of people know this game.
Edit: Gotta agree with the "One in a million experience"
LET'S GO
Got this for Christmas. I haven't beaten it yet but I'm loving it so far even though it's making me hard to go to sleep with all the twists & turns.
Ahhhh yes. The 13S experience. So many hours of sleep lost just because the game made me crave more constantly
Pretty much XD. Just finished the game now and yeah I love it though I'm kinda conflicted on the end.
I beat the game so I'm finally checking out this video!!!
Great freaking video
I think the cool thing about this game is the freedom to choose (to some extent, at least) what order you experience the story in. When I first started playing the game, I started with a character Iiked, and then picked paths based on what currently had me interested. I'd complete a chapter of someone's story and I'd either feel like I had to know what would happen next with them, OR I'd be super interested in the story of one of the characters involved in the story I had just seen and I'd switch to them. I feel like there's no "right order" to play through the story in and tell my friends that I've gotten to buy the game to just follow what they find interesting. I immediately replayed this game with my boyfriend after finishing it the first time because I was so excited to show him the characters and plot, but the order we did it in was different and it gave us a very different experience to what I had when I played it myself.
Also, Keitaro Miura has my whole heart (and Nenji is a good boy)
Also also: Hello fellow sentry gun spammer, that carried me through destruction and I love that the sentry gun character always had way more damage than anyone else on the squad. Sentry gun is life.
I really hope we can have a switch port of this game one day! I am just so taken with this game!
game of the year, maybe one of the decade
Great video! I made a video about this game on my channel and it was such a struggle to discuss without spoiling. I liked the approach you went for here!
so true king!
👏👏👏👏👏
New cullen vid lets fuckin go bb
Definitely must play if it got ported to other system :v
I hope it gets ported in 2021! Would love to see it on Switch and PC :V
@@culIen so truee!!
I'm still desperately waiting for that PC port (although there probably won't be one at this point)! I swear if I just had a PS4 or PS5 I'd have picked up this game in a heart beat 😖
This is the first time I see anyone calling destruction anything but piss-easy.
Put down Sentries. Congrats you won.
I'm a huge ATLUS fan, but I'm on a budget and I can only buy one game for the month. I'm torn between this game of Shin Megami Tensei V. Which one should I get?
You want a cool story or some fun gameplay? 13S is all about the story, the gameplay is solid. SMTV has some of the best turn based combat in a hot minute, and the story is just okay.
God i heard great things about this game but I think its a ps4 exclusive and i aint got one ,:/
That's the biggest bummer atm! I really wish they port it to other platforms next year and hope it made enough back worldwide to greenlight ports :V
Old comment but it's on switch now!
Of all our unique foods why did you have to call out our clearly superior hot dogs?
What, hot-dogs don't have to be red?
Not a visual novel? Of *course* this game is a visual novel! It's called "13Sentinels". All the best VNs have titles formatted like that.
... I know there's a space in there normally, but, shh--
Oh my god
That joke was so me and I didn't even go for it
I have failed being the best person I could be
Sorry, unpopular opinion here :), but this games feels complex and convoluted just for the sake of being complex and convoluted. Sure, the pay-off at the end is great and it the plot-twists are 100% hit. The hand-drawn graphics (so far, the impression is that everybody claim they are hand drawn, but ot confirmed anywhere?) are nice, as well as the English voice actors. I just think that story is being too much farfetched because it was intended to be complicated, as its main driver. Nowadays, this is a tendency we find often in video games that are narrative driven; if the story is not convoluted nor overarched, it is labelled as cliché or building on existing generic stereotypes (save the world). Developers and scenarist have to bring more complex stories to differentiate themselves from existing baselines. I still feel that AR13S uses one-dimensional characters, and the plot tries to tie them altogether in the best way it could? Whether that was necessary? It was the intention since the start of the developers.
it annoys me when people call yakisoba bread yakisoba pan. Pan is literally bread in japanese
I apologize for annoying you then, I just went off what the game and Google told me without much of a second thought. Pan is just another word for bread, so I personally don't find it to be too big of a deal. Oh well!