11:17 And the worst part is, Max0r isn't joking. To actually experience the full game and understand the story you have to: - Play the mobile game (King's Tale) - Play the Platinum demo. - Watch the Kingsglaive movie (50% of the plot happened here) - Watch the 5 episodes of the exclusive UA-cam anime series. - Buy 6 DLC (Some of the DLC were cancelled leaving the story incomplete) *Edit* According to the comments below, apparently you have to buy a book to get the canon ending... I am speechless.
@@potatochobit I got every achievement on steam and have played all of the dlc. The dlc are just nice additions to the story, I don't think they are mandatory, Prompto's is the best imo.
I love how the Cup Noodles thing isn't even forced product placement bt a shout out to the stuff that kept the square bois alive while making this game on 28h shifts.
if that is true it proofes the saying: sometimes you gotta know when to hold'em and when to Fold'em and damn the ff15 univers . . .it's just bad game development 101: if you expect the player to visit an outside medium for the ingame story to make sense . . . that is just a bad game in the making
@@squallofthedai it wasn't paid for by Nissin meaning it is definitionaly not product placement product placement noun a practice in which manufacturers of goods or providers of a service gain exposure for their products by paying for them to be featured in movies and television programs.
so as far as I can understand, the only way to beat this game is talk to a dog to get sent back in time to Venice and enjoy a nice lasagna, then you ask the same dog to send you to new vegas to compress a mountain sized turtle into a black hole then taking a nap back in the future
@@qiang2884 True, but they implemented a new Insomnia after the first release, installing the Kings of Yore, three kings you have to fight and are twenty times harder than Ardyn. Which is normal for FF honestly. They also put Omega Weapon in as an optional boss. But still, there are people who complete the game without ever going past Level 1. I can't, but there are people who have--then go on to complain that a game never designed for Level 1 runs isn't built for Level 1 runs.
btw he didn't mention the black hole trick doesn't work every time. You'd do better sapping it progressively with the same ring, just a different skill. That takes longer but works every time.
@@sudanemamimikiki1527 I do absolutely think Comrades was the intended combat, but because the new creative director was given only 3 years to fix the mess Nomura left behind after 7 years, they had to water down the main game's combat. It got much better with free updates and the royal edition, but Comrades is still a lot more fun. There are just random installations through the world that makes me think Cid being the upgrading method by just handing him the weapons and materials and waiting a while wasn't the original plan.
I remember when I was watching my friend play this on their birthday, we actually did the math on how much the Cup Noodle costs in-game compared to real life and with how much fuel costs in-game and in real life and do a comparison with each other. From what I remember, gas is very abundant in the world of Final Fantasy XV that it costs basically 50 cents to fill up your car's tank full while a single Cup Noodle costs about the same as gas prices were back in 2017 per gallon. Cup Noodle is treated more of a luxury than gas is in Final Fantasy XV.
There's monsters everywhere so travel (even by car) is VERY rare. Not to mention to sudden drop in population. Food would be more in demand, enabling food retailers to hike their prices up exponentially.
Imagine marrying the king with god powers, only for him to show you a picture of a giant turtle at the wedding and being like „this is my most memorable moment in my entire life“
I mean to be fair, the moment of your ascension to godhood definitely trumps all that cheesy romantic stuff like "first seeing you" or "me and my fwiends camping :3"
My friend (who has already played it and knew what was coming) chose a nice picture of Ignus. I wanted to go with the one of the behemoth looking like it was orgasming but the ignus one was way funnier
Other games: For infinite xp, you must use this specific item while pressing your controller against the wall, duplicating it and giving you the experience. FFXV: Travel back in time, murder a Turtle Demigod by throwing a black hole at it, travel back to the future, eat Lasagna and sleep in a hotel.
He doesn't even realize it can be better than that. Enter: Moogle Charms. I think you get one per playthrough, but pretend you're me and played this on NG+ too much: 1. Equip three Moogle Charms for XP boost 2. Eat Lasagna 3. Craft magic that both damages and gives an XP boost. 4. Kill the giant turtle and other super bosses repeatedly 5. Return to Altissia and find the SPECIFIC CLERK that offers a 3.0 boost (because there are two, and only one offers it) 6. Jump to level 119 because life sucks and you'll need to work harder than ever before to max at 120
Fun fact: the motion capture actor for King Regis at 1:16 is literally my next door neighbour Jon Campling. He also acted as one of the Death Eaters in Harry Potter. Living next to him is surreal, but he’s a really awesome guy, very grounded and down to earth.
@@idontknowyet2875 Hahaha - the funny thing is he couldn’t be further from the characters he plays. He’s the most grounded, down to earth, friendly guy I’ve lived next to. He’s played quite a few big roles, but the ones he’s always excited about are the smaller local projects he gets to be a part of, and every weekend without fail he’s rehearsing and performing at local venues as a musician. Now I can’t see his characters as anything more than suppressed hippies 🤷🏻♀️
12:54 Actually, fun fact about that. On release, it did NOT work on the turtle. The devs UPDATED THE GAME to MAKE IT work on the turtle. But the thing is, Max0r didn't actually cover this properly, because it doesn't ALWAYS work on the turtle. It has a very small chance to. So the most efficient leveling method is to eat Lasagne, buy like 50 Hi-Elixirs, Try the ring, if it fails, take a Hi-Elixir and try again, rinse and repeat until it works, and then sleep at a specific room in the hotel in *Venezuela*
Precisely what I did on my second play through because I wasn’t having this games bs any longer. I was tired of being spin to win’d by a robot. 6 times in a row without any window to leave
The thing that not alot of people know is that the ring's life drain thing does eventually insta kill the turtle once enough of the mass has been stripped off his body and pops like a balloon, it takes about...30 minutes? but doing the blackhole can also take 30 minutes or longer due to the chances or it could happen first try.
LMAO 😭💀 I know this comment is six months old but when Noctis showed Luna the photo prompto snapped of Ignis slamming his head into the car seat because I stopped on the breaks I laughed so hard and long that I threw up
I must thank Cup Noodles, Square Enix, and the Korean governments for funding the creation of this masterclass in visual storytelling and entertainment. Their generosity truly knows no bounds.
For the final picture I made Noctis take to the eternal afterlife, I chose a picture where Noctis was warp striking a Rhino's ass and it was one hell of an experience. 10/10
He knows that his audience is largely American and we’re taught approximately jack shit about world politics. This video is basically our education on the subject
Ace Combat and Project Wingman's insanity is just one of the running jokes of this channel now. ...is what I would say, but this game makes Ace Combat 7's tone look like Ace Combat 3's. Project Aces seems kinda quaint now in comparison to the mighty ADHD of modern Square.
13:05 if you talk to the other receptionist to sleep at the hotel, the exp multiplier is 3x instead of 1.5 So you could have gotten the exp of 6 turtles if you really really wanted
And i had once 9.999 mio or 0.99 mio exp gained so that it cant even show more and i also beated to the monszer that is lvl 140 that u can only find in timed quest holy moly ive the limit breaker magics in ice fire lightning all like 50 ive nearly filled all the place of magics with incredible magics ive place like 14 or 15 mage flakons bc i played the game 2 or 3 times through lmao and have 300 hours
@@augustuslunasol10thapostle In reference to your comment and not the video in particular: Talent is when someone does something amazing but that person never had to actually practice the skill to be amazing at whatever they're doing, whilst skill is simply something you learn by doing and improve upon it through repetition. Skill builds upon Talent. Someone with a talent for playing piano will be able to play piano without having ever practiced playing a piano, and in addition will always play much better than someone who has no talent yet also practices doing the same thing. TLDR: Talent > "Skill" cuz talent is a natural gift you are born with that allows you to do something that others first have to obtain a skill for. edit: rephrased/streamlined TLDR.
@@riseandshinemrfriman5925 no talent is not that no one is a master savant at the piano no matter how talented they are they still have to practice talent only makes it easier to learn things making it easier to master skills also how do you know max0r didn't practice? Or has had experience that makes it easy for him to do ten jokes every half a minute
It's less that there's no fuel but rather that there's a shortage of drivers to deliver the fuel. Naebody wants to work 14 hours a day for only 12 quid an hour, when there's hundred of other driving jobs that pay more for fewer hours.
My photo at the end of the game was one of the like 40 Prompto took of blind Ignis fallen over mid battle. Noctis showing that to Lunafreya and them both smiling and laughing was one of the most surreal and unexpected gaming moments I've ever had.
I often call this game "the worst game I've ever loved" and I always find it hard to explain what exactly I mean by that. This video sums up my feelings perfectly Also yeah, they do have a reason as to why there are 114 kings (including Noctis) dispite there kingdom only being 2000 years old. Basically using the rings power literally takes years off of your life, so they have to breed like fucking rabbits to make sure their kingdom has a ruler. As far as I know this isn't stated in the actual game because fuck telling a simple story
FFXV is baffling because it can be really emotional and engaging, or become an insane batshit experience depending on the playthrough. The fact that they let you put ANY photo for the final scene is baffling especially since the game itself likes taking goofy photos, but that kind of thing is what makes it endearing to me (Plus the DLC is actually pretty good).
I think they were relying on the aura of the moment having you go with a sentimental picture, but also probably recognized there would be people who chose the Cup Noodle picture. They clearly understood part of the draw for this game would be the goofy parts, like having Noctis fight Ardyn, dressed as Altair Ibn-La'ahad, or in a sombrero.
I literally had my final photo be the one where noctis and Gladius's sister are laying on a bed together...the second luna pulled it out and looked at it with noctis was the funniest stuff that ever happened...only followed by figuring out at the end of the day...my final level was 69 over that photo... Frankly this game is legendary to me for how ridiculous it unintentionally is...
Tbf, a goofy photo can be nostalgic or whatever. Unless you mean like in general I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and they put it in so people could have a laugh. Granted the whole scene is supposed to be kinda emotional so yet another instance of being inconsistent.
6:51 my absolute favourite segment. King of the planet runs errands post his father dying and him needing to get to his own arranged marriage to save his people
The best part of this game is when during the Cup Noodle quest, depending on your choice, they each lead you to a different Royal Weapon… They linked the fuckin’ super move to a Cup Noodles quest
You know, when you translate their names out of Latin and sum up the story as a journey of friendship and love overcoming all it sounds like a My Little Pony fanfiction.
Noctis: *On a trek around the country side to reunite with his Fiancé after his Kingdom is burned to the ground and is being hunted by an Empire that wants him dead* Gladiolus: “You know what I’m in the mood for? *Cup Noodles!* How could we improve on the perfection that is *Cup Noodles?* Let’s go get ingredients for *Cup Noodles* and enjoy a meal of *Cup Noodles!”*
look if they wanted us to care abotu Lunafreya maybe thy could've had her DO SOMETHING. Even fucking PRINCESS PEACH in PAPER MARIO did SOMETHING. Congrats Square Enix. Your damsel in distres is more useless than PRINCESS FUCKING PEACH.
So garfield was XP farming by eating lasagna and then killing in a calculated path all the secondary characters. Then he goes to sleep to max out his level, he hates mondays because thats when the server rollback happens
Aww, no mention of the 3 hour nightmare parkour dungeon only accessible by the flying car that instantly kills you if you don't have surgeon level precision? That was one of the most memorable parts of the game for me, and it was only surpassed when I realized that the item you get from it is absolutely useless.
The worst part about that reward is that the only thing between you and just yeeting it is a head-high wall that you, for some reason, can't just climb, jump or warp over.
Well, he also thinks there are zero side quests in Altissia, so he clearly didn't play a lot of aspects of the game. The item's actually pretty cool for someone like me tho. I have a condition that makes gaming painful (which is real fun given I love the likes of Devil May Cry, and occasionally play Bloodborne), so being able to have Noctis auto-dodge things is great, even if it's only 50% of the time.
You know what I did when I completed it? I walked off the fucking ledge accidentally without picking up the fucking item, due in part to how fucking unceremoniously it was sitting there. What dogshit design to just plop it on the fucking ground without even a chest or something, as well as at a ledge you can not easily get back up to. Fuck that place. Fuck
Funnily enough I don’t remember it been that bad and well I can’t tell if that’s because it was fine for me or if I’ve repressed the memories and frankly it could go either way
the funniest part is how from an story design stand point, that shit is by far the most enviromental story telling dungeon in the whole fucking game. try to see some videos dissecting it the amount of info that shit really has is something only people which dig throught a lot of info really can get its insane.
For those curious, the ending song is called "Paper Boats" from the game "Transistor" made by Supergiant, the same company that made Hades. Its a linear storyline and isn't a rougelite and is very emotional
Play it instead of FF 15. You will have a much better time with genuinely tight combat and a story that is also kinda batshit but is also comprehensive and .. you know. Good.
Yeah, kinda surprised me when I first heard that familiar melody. Max0r's got some good ass taste in music imo. He's used music from GGST, Arknights, Genshin, MGR, PGR, and other stuff too. I wonder if he's into the Hotline Miami soundtrack at all, because then our music taste will actually 100% line up
My personal Break The Game experience actually involved going into a high-level dungeon after getting the ability to claim regalia and fighting a samurai monster that could annihilate the entire party instantly. Except me, because I knew how to dodge, parry, and riposte. So, the fight was basically me dropping three magic grenades on him, then parrying and avoiding the occasional AOE attack until I killed him, then complete the quest. It's a level 50+ quest with a level 50+ boss you can clear at level 5-10 if you master the mechanics. You make enough experience off of it to elevate Noctis to godhood for the early game. You: "What about the rest of the party?" Me: "What *about* the rest of the party? I've just finished establishing that they're all kinda useless and I'm the only one who matters. They can wait until I can cheese the mountain turtle for their turn to ascend to godhood."
Bruh I remember this quest, the funny/awesome part for me was that in fighting so hard...I kept on having carbuncle (which was back when it popped up more if you played the demo) pop in and rez everyone. Out of all the ff15 summons carbuncle became my God in that moment as I basically level skipped to like 40-50 something from like 12-15 (Edit: I do stress how hilarious this was...I went down like 4-7 times, literally fighting knowing I was suposd to die...but literally the cute crystal dog REFUSED to let me die. In that moment carbuncle established itself as MORE useful, and more canonically helpful than ANY of the summons.)
@@reedman0780 seriously, I would praise carbuncle as the one true God of ff15, for they are the one who controls life and death...the other summons maybe more showey, but none of them came to aid me against the bullshit this game sometimes throws at you...carbuncle though always seemed to answer my prayers of aid.
@@thechangeling3851 Lol, it took me multiple tries to get this guy, but by the time I finally beat him, I did so without Carbuncle having to come out once. What always got me about the entire experience was that the enemies in the dungeon were level 5-10 goblins. But the boss was a level 50+ samurai murder machine. Max0r was right, this game's enemy and boss placement makes absolutely zero sense.
I love that, since max0r's editing and script force a constant physical, mental, emotional, and metaphysical assault on my quasi-present sentience, you can watch his videos over again and see something you missed the last time, every time. So despite his videos being 15 minutes, it's really like 45 minutes to an hour worth of content.
I felt like the dungeons were the hidden gems of the game, except Castlemark (bad game design), and the 4 usually made good dialogue for each specific dungeon. Layout and visuals were really good, even scary at times, wish it was all dungeon crawling.
"this product is not worth any of your money, it will NEVER be; but holy shit, maybe it was worth my time." every once in a while your videos have these shockingly touching and deep lines such as this, and they blindside me every single time.
@@liansmith4038 I mean my problem was I looked into what was happening in the mobile game and I realized none of this arc even matters before KH3 even came out. Getting proven right definitely sucked
*Noctis passing Luna Freya a picture of particulary interesting fish he caught once years ago.* Luna: Thank you Noct I will cherish this memory forever.
Considering they have both been separated for far too long, even just letting Lunafreya know about a particular fishing session would be a thing she cherishes simply because she knows Noctis did so.
I’m going to be completely honest with you. I’ve completed this game, beginning to end, seven different times, because it’s my personal number one. I’ve also bought and finished every DLC besides Ardyn’s. I have absolutely no fucking idea what it’s about.
@@erismason3441 no it's warranted. You can't bitch about how shitty AAA games are but still give the devs shittons on money. I'd post the Eric Andre meme but....you know
@@Breakaway-ic5gj It's not about money it's about talent and time. You could give a dumbass tons of money to make a game and it would be bad. It's about hte creative director
Honestly, I liked playing the game. My last photo that summed up my experience was a picture I took of Noctis and the gang crowding around a baby chocobo, and I must admit that it made the last moments pretty special for me. It was one of the photos I took after talking to that teleporting dog with the letters for the first time, and it made the scene a lot more wholesome because the baby was so cute.
Same hear 15 means alot to me for reasons so he is right on the outlook maybe the dlc's that got cut would have done it but its so true no matter if you like 15 or not it was far from strait fowerd or done
5:40 was the biggest problem with the game for me. We get this depressing ass first couple chapters finding out our dad is dead and. Everything we have ever known is gone and then we go on a cross country road trip with the boys having all sort of fun and happiness only to then get hit with depression in the last 20%.
I found XV to be a relaxing little puff of nothing exactly when I needed it. Covid turned my work into a total hellscape for about four months. I needed a game I didn't have to take seriously. This gorgeous but obviously broken Hot Topic bromance road trip was perfect. I don't think I've ever played anything that seemed so polished in some areas but such an incomprehensible hackjob in others.
i honestly loved everything about this game. its definitely not the best but its fun enjoying has a great story and characters ignoring the person who noctis is supposed marry but this game was a fantastic experience for the most part
Sometimes it just comes down to, "can I dive into this and disappear from the world", and the experience feeling great. If it feels good to me in the moment, I don't care that it doesn't work other times. If it feels good to me in the moment, I'm not focused on the overall plot I'm just enjoying seeing shit happen, etc. All the things described as bad are true, but also, they're not what I"m there to have fun with in the first place.
@@MythicAce218 yea not everything has to be told or implied but it was told never shown in any way other form until the dlcs Like Ravus was robbed Luna freya Was robbed And the other party members were robbed Of any story that would of made the game much better I got the game at launch and have been a series veteran since ffx came out and played every existing square game before that None of the other games felt the same type of empty that 15 felt it’s 20 hours of pretty much side missions until you time skip non of the plot matters until Ardyn make ignis blind when he uses the ring And even then we aren’t filled in until a dlc The story was trash in its vanilla form even with the dlcs it doesn’t fix that Yea Ardyns motivations make more sense in his dlc but we shouldn’t have to look to other media to fill in those details ff1-12 didn’t have those issues you got your complete stories even if not all of it made sense or was good Ff13 and 15 have you watching anime movies and reading web pages to justify a good plot
The Latin names are easier to tolerate when you consider other FF games have people named: Lightning Snow Cloud Squall Tidus But I’ll give this game credit, it made me appreciate my friends
@@JMonty0100 don't forget that his name is actually a surname and his surname...a name (Barret Wallace actual name, but sounds way better Wallace Barret)
The summons work on how bad you're doing. The lower that Noctis'susses health goes, the higher the chance of summons. This raises a real question: why does random wildlife electrocute me to summons while the Empire is free levels?
The whole Empire was a joke anyway regarding gameplay. What are they doing? They send these transporters after, which per se you can also just ignore and when you get there, everone is already dead anyway. But Squares loves to do this, same in FF14, biggest antagonits is a continent sized high tech empire, while your side does not even have god powers or whatever, but they do shit all the time and just fall apart off screen. Obviously Square is simply too lazy...
@@miriamweller812 That's the tragedy of Garlamald, that it once was a nation created to defend itself then got corrupted by Ascian meddling into an invasive nation that despite all it's gloating and pride, they ultimately fell under their own weight.
Can't believe I completely skipped the part where I can return to the past at the end and fought all of the remaining enemies, including the final boss while doing BARELY. ANY. FUCKING. DAMAGE!
The reason the game is so unfinished is because of Nomura, due to the fact that he spent ten years designing how many zippers the boys were going to have in their outfits and nothing else. The second director got two years to do literally everything else except character design. And then got fired (pardon me, "resigned") after doing DLC's.
(the actual reason is that staff got pulled off this game to work on like a million other things because it was supposed to be a side game, and then out of nowhere they decided it would be FF15 and tossed Nomura out. He's clearly still bitter given he decided to make VS 13 a thing in Kingdom Hearts as revenge)
Just Spite? How about Sprite, Ardyn can't have his favorite brand of soda for the final time without getting shaken up in combat with Noctis worse than a paint shaker shaking up a soda can by a son doing a little trolling upon his unsuspecting suburban nuclear power plant working father who consistently returns home after work to have a little drink of his favorite beverage Duff Beer unaware that this seemingly normal Duff Bear soda can shaken up is soon is to be unleashed upon the entire household and family consisting of 1 wife, 3 kids (one named Bart who is initiating this little trolling incident on neck strangling father Homer), and a dog with said soda can now unleashing this unspeakable force consisting of an atomic bomb-
Ardyn is an example of a trope I hate _soooo_ much, where a mortal does something that pisses off a god so the god curses them with immortality... but somehow doesn't expect the now immortal to spend their now infinite time trying to get back at the god and/or wreck everything that god made?
@@coca_0146 I mean, in episode Ardyn he was literally locked inside a rock or sth for eternity until the evil empire busted him out. He got cucked by his brother who also stole his throne because the gods said so. He had the audacity to get angry about this so he attacks his brother and thus was imprisoned by the gods. His entire plan was to get back at Bahamut because Bahamut is a piece of shit and the reason why Noctis had to kill himself at the end of the game. The cancelled DLC was supposed to be about Noctis and everyone else banding together to kick Bahamut's ass. Atleast that is how I assume things were supposed to go, I never bothered to buy the book.
@Otto Lilja ardyn was also set up to be the bad guy as he could absorb others starscourge without any noticeable changes to himself. Thus believing he was doing what the gods wanted. When in actuality it was slowly corrupting him making him unworthy of the crystal. Which was all part of the plan.
FFXV was honestly one of the best games I've played this year. Combat was fun, story was enjoyable, characters were lovable. Worth every penny I spent but it needs the DLC to get the most out of it.
@@mystic_arts90 The game now is a much better experience than when it came out. it went from like a 5/10 to a 7/10 for me after all the patches and changes, but it's still kinda scuffed. The ending still makes me cry tho.
@@somegalicianguy8416 I also read the book and watched the anime when I combine ff15 as a whole with everything it is a solid 8.5/10 for me. With yoshi-p directing ff16 the next installment is in good hands
I feel depressed knowing FFXV could’ve been a musical and it probably would’ve been way better than if they actually incorporated all the supplementary material and cut content into the game
Nomura gets a lot of shit, but most the reasom bis games never get finished has nothing to do with him, and his games would probably be significantly better if they stopped fucking him over and forcing him to work with the mouse.
I unironically love this game. It's incredibly stupid and jank, but it has an undeniable charm to it and some points of the game make me cry like a little bitch. I love it.
when i first booted the game up i let the opening menu song play completely and i cried. great music. then when u beat the game and the title artwork changes to noctis and luna holding each other. aw man i cried.
As someone that has spent way too much time on this game and it's related media, this video is incredibly accurate all the way through to the end. It's also absolutely fucking hilarious, it's been awhile since I've laughed like this, the editing in particular just absolutely elevates this review
I remember playing this game, having the illusion of choice, and then getting upset when my wife died and I could do nothing to stop it. And then got upset when I had to kill myself to win. This is an accurate description of the game.
the oppressive feeling of lacking control gives this tragedy a lot more weight. noctis just could not catch a break. one of the few things the game did really well imo
@@hazelcrisp There is a difference between using fatalism as a storytelling medium. And relying so heavily on tropes and clichés to a point where the story feels fatalistic despite not intending to.
Don't worry about the community. We're assholes if you disagree with us LMAO we're assholes to each other too. It's not like the unity of the DMC community. But 100% play the games. Play at least 10 and forward. Even the one that looks girly, 10-2 or X-2. A lot of guys enjoy the mechanics of that one. FF games are not connected by story, just elements. Games like FFVII and FFX are in the same world, but they happen so far apart, they might as well be unconnected.
Pretty late to the FF party, aren't you? That's cool. If you're not one to mind the old graphics and willing to use emulators, Ace Combat 5, Ace Combat Zero, FF6 & FF9 are great games to get into.
HAVE YOU HEARD OF THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED MMORPG FINAL FANTASY 14 A REALM REBORN WITH ITS FREE TRIAL INCLUDING THE FIRST EXPANSION HEAVENSWARD WITH NO RESTRICTIONS ON PLAYTIME WHATSOEVER???????
@@haha-on5fd Yes I do heard of the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy 14 A Realm Reborn with it's free trial that includes the first expansion Heavensward with no restrictions what so ever, but living in the SEA region means I cannot take advantage of it.
Honestly, you are just one of the best content creators I've seen on youtube. Every single second in the video is an experience, and I find myself rewatching them and noticing more jokes the second or third time around.
I love how I can come back to watch this video, and actively notice red sun playing in the background and its beautiful edit: I hear a lot of MGRR music and its getting beautifulerer
12:48 I actually love how the ring of lucii is capable of doing that. Video games always go on and on about how "this weapon/artifact is capable of slaying a god, destroying a planet, obliterating the universe Et cetera. But when you actually get to use it in gameplay its practically always useless garbage that's inferior to what you already have. But in ffxv the ring of lucii actually lives up to its hype, and can completely annihilate most foes. (Granted that was after a patch that buffed it but still kickass)
I'd say my favourite part of the game is the final cutscene where BTS is just chilling around the fire and noctis goes all appreciative for his boys. Seeing how at the beginning of the game he was super arrogant and didn't care about anyone really really shows a final bit of change.
The most impressive part of your videos is how at the end you say something serious, smart or profound. “This game is not worth your money but maybe it was worth my time,” is a term that not many pieces of media can fit.
The reason it took ten years is cuz Crystal Tools was a fucky engine, they wanted all hands on FFXIII, FF14 1.0 was a disaster, and they kept having Nomura work on other stuff that kept him from working on Versus XIII. They legit took members of his crew so they could work on FFXIII and fix FF14 while he was busy directing three to four KH games and doing whatever Square dragged him into doing, and then they kicked him off the project. And then Tabata quit Square causing the final DLCs and all mod tools to be cancelled. Did you know that the attack on Insomnia was originally in the game when Nomura was at the helm? Y'know, the part of the plot they turned into a movie? Did you know that character switching was in the base game when Nomura was at the helm? Did you know that Armiger Unleashed aka the DLC EXCLUSIVE UPGRADE is basically made of cut moves from Versus? Oh btw you can skip the gondola.
As someone who took four years of Latin in high school, yes, the names were infuriating but equally hilarious for their redundant grimdarkness. Won’t lie though, I actually really did like the movie adaptation.
X/X2 were already kinda painful if you wanted the full story, XIII made me want to hurt someone at Square and XV is basically just one big middle finger if you actually wanna understand what's going on. I feel nothing but disdain for big budget studios that demand you consume supplementary material for stuff that should've been in the goddamn game in the first place.
Or the same as being a KH fan literally everything about the story is all over the place but its funny how mindnumbingly complex and stupid but also simple some how it is and 15 kinda made me feel that in a way
I never expected to see Videla, a military dictator from my country in a video about Final Fantasy 15. Suscribed, liked, and I will share this video with all my friends
Can we take a moment and apreciate how good this is as a review? its easy to remember the funny bits, but this guy pointed the flaws of the game perfectly and summed up the entire experience in 16 minutes Congrats man
eternally grateful to max0r for condensing most, if not all, the batshit insane development and production notes that went on in this game i'm never gonna play, because I sure wouldn't have bothered to look it up myself.
11:17 And the worst part is, Max0r isn't joking.
To actually experience the full game and understand the story you have to:
- Play the mobile game (King's Tale)
- Play the Platinum demo.
- Watch the Kingsglaive movie (50% of the plot happened here)
- Watch the 5 episodes of the exclusive UA-cam anime series.
- Buy 6 DLC (Some of the DLC were cancelled leaving the story incomplete)
*Edit*
According to the comments below, apparently you have to buy a book to get the canon ending... I am speechless.
Eh, I would argue the story is complete. Whether or not you think the story is good is a different deal.
It's Rong rong! never played the game but the movie is just such an eyecandy
Platinum the original game and turtle should I go back and play more dlc?
@@potatochobit I got every achievement on steam and have played all of the dlc. The dlc are just nice additions to the story, I don't think they are mandatory, Prompto's is the best imo.
Lmao RONG RONG!! aaaa
I love how the Cup Noodles thing isn't even forced product placement bt a shout out to the stuff that kept the square bois alive while making this game on 28h shifts.
It's beyond shout out, it's literally cannon that Cup Noodle exports to whatever country Noctis is in
Wait, it wasn’t an advertisement?!
Nah it was a blatant product placement, like Coleman and everything else in the game.
if that is true it proofes the saying: sometimes you gotta know when to hold'em and when to Fold'em
and damn the ff15 univers . . .it's just bad
game development 101: if you expect the player to visit an outside medium for the ingame story to make sense . . . that is just a bad game in the making
@@squallofthedai it wasn't paid for by Nissin meaning it is definitionaly not product placement
product placement
noun
a practice in which manufacturers of goods or providers of a service gain exposure for their products by paying for them to be featured in movies and television programs.
so as far as I can understand, the only way to beat this game is talk to a dog to get sent back in time to Venice and enjoy a nice lasagna, then you ask the same dog to send you to new vegas to compress a mountain sized turtle into a black hole then taking a nap back in the future
Not really, I just played the open world for a while, not even completing half of the quests, and already has enough stats to beat the game.
@@qiang2884 True, but they implemented a new Insomnia after the first release, installing the Kings of Yore, three kings you have to fight and are twenty times harder than Ardyn. Which is normal for FF honestly. They also put Omega Weapon in as an optional boss.
But still, there are people who complete the game without ever going past Level 1. I can't, but there are people who have--then go on to complain that a game never designed for Level 1 runs isn't built for Level 1 runs.
btw he didn't mention the black hole trick doesn't work every time. You'd do better sapping it progressively with the same ring, just a different skill. That takes longer but works every time.
@@sudanemamimikiki1527 I do absolutely think Comrades was the intended combat, but because the new creative director was given only 3 years to fix the mess Nomura left behind after 7 years, they had to water down the main game's combat. It got much better with free updates and the royal edition, but Comrades is still a lot more fun. There are just random installations through the world that makes me think Cid being the upgrading method by just handing him the weapons and materials and waiting a while wasn't the original plan.
@@nachgebenthe ring success rate seems tied to your level compared to enemy level, from what I briefly gathered in the last area
I remember when I was watching my friend play this on their birthday, we actually did the math on how much the Cup Noodle costs in-game compared to real life and with how much fuel costs in-game and in real life and do a comparison with each other. From what I remember, gas is very abundant in the world of Final Fantasy XV that it costs basically 50 cents to fill up your car's tank full while a single Cup Noodle costs about the same as gas prices were back in 2017 per gallon. Cup Noodle is treated more of a luxury than gas is in Final Fantasy XV.
There's monsters everywhere so travel (even by car) is VERY rare. Not to mention to sudden drop in population. Food would be more in demand, enabling food retailers to hike their prices up exponentially.
@@sweeety969 “Hey! We can triple our revenue with the influx of refugees from Insomnia! Come oooon, they’re good for it!” -random Lucian capitalist
wouldn't expect anything less of my ultimate flavor experience
"their"
Imagine marrying the king with god powers, only for him to show you a picture of a giant turtle at the wedding and being like „this is my most memorable moment in my entire life“
"I shoved this stupid reptile into a big ball of hyper-condensed mass. Greatest time of my life."
I didn't play the game, but the giant turtle was very cool indeed. I'd be proud to have a photo like that.
I mean to be fair, the moment of your ascension to godhood definitely trumps all that cheesy romantic stuff like "first seeing you" or "me and my fwiends camping :3"
My friend (who has already played it and knew what was coming) chose a nice picture of Ignus. I wanted to go with the one of the behemoth looking like it was orgasming but the ignus one was way funnier
I kept a picture of Prompto getting hit by a crab
Other games: For infinite xp, you must use this specific item while pressing your controller against the wall, duplicating it and giving you the experience.
FFXV: Travel back in time, murder a Turtle Demigod by throwing a black hole at it, travel back to the future, eat Lasagna and sleep in a hotel.
He doesn't even realize it can be better than that. Enter: Moogle Charms. I think you get one per playthrough, but pretend you're me and played this on NG+ too much:
1. Equip three Moogle Charms for XP boost
2. Eat Lasagna
3. Craft magic that both damages and gives an XP boost.
4. Kill the giant turtle and other super bosses repeatedly
5. Return to Altissia and find the SPECIFIC CLERK that offers a 3.0 boost (because there are two, and only one offers it)
6. Jump to level 119 because life sucks and you'll need to work harder than ever before to max at 120
@Marco Zepeda Then watch as your EXP increase for a seemingly endless amount of time when you get to a resting spot.
FFXV is actually a Disgaea game change my mind.
@@m.huseinaqilah1717 nah, there would be five quintillion times more levels to grind
"Then have a nice cold pint, and wait for all this to blow over." -Noctis
"Hey, hun."
"Yes sweetie?"
"Lookit my turtle."
aaaahahahahahahhh🤣
haha tortle go brrr
🤣🤣🤣
This blastoise is my work
Hate me Job
Hate me wife
Hate me mates
Love me turtle
Fun fact: the motion capture actor for King Regis at 1:16 is literally my next door neighbour Jon Campling. He also acted as one of the Death Eaters in Harry Potter. Living next to him is surreal, but he’s a really awesome guy, very grounded and down to earth.
Also Jesus Duck this is one of the funniest videos I’ve ever seen. It appeals to my humour in every way possible. Easy subscription, fantastic work!
Dang, how is it living next to King King Light Heaven
Man I love the internet
@@idontknowyet2875 Hahaha - the funny thing is he couldn’t be further from the characters he plays. He’s the most grounded, down to earth, friendly guy I’ve lived next to. He’s played quite a few big roles, but the ones he’s always excited about are the smaller local projects he gets to be a part of, and every weekend without fail he’s rehearsing and performing at local venues as a musician. Now I can’t see his characters as anything more than suppressed hippies 🤷🏻♀️
That's pretty cool
I am a firm believer that one day we will be able to finally see the epic collab between the cracked editor maxor and tsunomaki watame
PLEASE
We. Must. Believe. One day😤😭
if we dont believe, no one else will, so WE MUST CONTINUE WITH STRONG FAITH!!!
WE MUST KEEP GOING. FOR ONE DAY IT WILL HAPPEN
Yes~ may the best girl let them collab~
12:54 Actually, fun fact about that. On release, it did NOT work on the turtle. The devs UPDATED THE GAME to MAKE IT work on the turtle. But the thing is, Max0r didn't actually cover this properly, because it doesn't ALWAYS work on the turtle. It has a very small chance to. So the most efficient leveling method is to eat Lasagne, buy like 50 Hi-Elixirs, Try the ring, if it fails, take a Hi-Elixir and try again, rinse and repeat until it works, and then sleep at a specific room in the hotel in *Venezuela*
Most efficient leveling method is Cactaur timed quest. Adamantoise is far too inconsistent, and slower nonetheless.
@@munchvtec978 cactussy
do we have to eat the lazagner?
Precisely what I did on my second play through because I wasn’t having this games bs any longer. I was tired of being spin to win’d by a robot. 6 times in a row without any window to leave
The thing that not alot of people know is that the ring's life drain thing does eventually insta kill the turtle once enough of the mass has been stripped off his body and pops like a balloon, it takes about...30 minutes? but doing the blackhole can also take 30 minutes or longer due to the chances or it could happen first try.
Nearly passed out laughing when noctis showed his dead wife the cat pic I chose at the end
LMAO 😭💀 I know this comment is six months old but when Noctis showed Luna the photo prompto snapped of Ignis slamming his head into the car seat because I stopped on the breaks I laughed so hard and long that I threw up
@@allisonfields3108 bruh
@@allisonfields3108 I picked a photo with that woman you fight. Lets just say the marriage got awkward after that.
That's what I would've done
@@allisonfields3108 thats fucking awesome lmao
"If you know any latin, this game is fucking insulting"
Oh my god, each time I heard my friends say the names of the characters I was dying laughing.
I don't know any Latin but man the names are fuckin funny
Gladiolus is very close to a flower (for Spanish speakers)
Gladiola
XD
@Ramsey276one also known as sword lily.
I must thank Cup Noodles, Square Enix, and the Korean governments for funding the creation of this masterclass in visual storytelling and entertainment. Their generosity truly knows no bounds.
Indeed... Cup Noodles
The Sseth vibes are strong with this one
cup noodle
1kth like
By Cup Noodles
You’re the reason why I had to explain to my grandfather why I giggled when a Taco Bell ad came on the radio in the car
A thousand and a half likes but no reply’s? Is the simulation glitched
yes
@@the_king_of_kings_3413 simulation is most certainly glitched. you didt even reply to my comment
@@imrunningoutofnames2413 bro trying to reply to a UA-cam comment on a phone is a NIGHTMARE!!!!!
@@the_king_of_kings_3413 my brother in Christ it’s two button clicks
For the final picture I made Noctis take to the eternal afterlife, I chose a picture where Noctis was warp striking a Rhino's ass and it was one hell of an experience. 10/10
My siblings and I always gave Luna photos of Ravus LMAO
i want to see that image
Please tell me you still have that photo, or at least a screenshot
i love this feature everyone had such a funny unique experience
@@colleennewholy9026 I picked a photo of Aranea, not awkward at all.
As a Korean, I am confused of how much he is needlessly detailed and precise about Korean politics
He knows that his audience is largely American and we’re taught approximately jack shit about world politics. This video is basically our education on the subject
is easy to know and understand other countries politics , for example most people know about the politics of China and Russia
It was the strangest part about this video for sure, and that's saying something.
Is your name literally "Name" or am I dumb
@@chazzreinhold5008 juche gang juche gang juche gang juche gang
"He might try to steal the platinum chip."
I fucking died.
I almost did but then this securitron showed up...
And so did the courier.
I liked this quote- because he played Fallout New Vegas before to put that quote in.
@@Justifier925 Except he didn't.
I'd love to see a Maxor's video about FNV honestly, I can't even imagine the insanity he can pull out of that game
"Presumably with enough nukes to make Belka look like clown college."
As a fan of Ace Combat, I really appreciated that.
Ace Combat and Project Wingman's insanity is just one of the running jokes of this channel now.
...is what I would say, but this game makes Ace Combat 7's tone look like Ace Combat 3's. Project Aces seems kinda quaint now in comparison to the mighty ADHD of modern Square.
Ace Combat is just part of Max0r's lore now.
everything is Ace Combat
we are in Ace Combat
But Belka *is* Clown College
Some submarine Captain wants to talk to you
13:05 if you talk to the other receptionist to sleep at the hotel, the exp multiplier is 3x instead of 1.5
So you could have gotten the exp of 6 turtles if you really really wanted
Yeah he is noob he had to go to the guy next to him do u also achieved lvl 120? Maxxx
And i had once 9.999 mio or 0.99 mio exp gained so that it cant even show more and i also beated to the monszer that is lvl 140 that u can only find in timed quest holy moly ive the limit breaker magics in ice fire lightning all like 50 ive nearly filled all the place of magics with incredible magics ive place like 14 or 15 mage flakons bc i played the game 2 or 3 times through lmao and have 300 hours
Why would you make a game that's already easy easier
@@djw_tekken8490 Jesus Christ no wonder you liked this game. Your speech is about as comprehensible as the game itself
@@perryborn2777 exactly!!!!
The ending song is "Paper Boats" from the Transistor OST for anyone interested.
I love you
my man
its wild that people love the ost to this day
@@Michael-yy2vl Darren Korb is fucking legend.
Oh hell yes. I love Transistor
i don't understand how it's possible to write 10 jokes into every 30 seconds of your video but you always do it and it never ceases to amaze.
Talent.
@@riseandshinemrfriman5925 talent is a insult this is all skill
@@augustuslunasol10thapostle In reference to your comment and not the video in particular: Talent is when someone does something amazing but that person never had to actually practice the skill to be amazing at whatever they're doing, whilst skill is simply something you learn by doing and improve upon it through repetition. Skill builds upon Talent. Someone with a talent for playing piano will be able to play piano without having ever practiced playing a piano, and in addition will always play much better than someone who has no talent yet also practices doing the same thing.
TLDR: Talent > "Skill" cuz talent is a natural gift you are born with that allows you to do something that others first have to obtain a skill for.
edit: rephrased/streamlined TLDR.
@@riseandshinemrfriman5925 no talent is not that no one is a master savant at the piano no matter how talented they are they still have to practice talent only makes it easier to learn things making it easier to master skills also how do you know max0r didn't practice? Or has had experience that makes it easy for him to do ten jokes every half a minute
Adhd and aderall are the only rational answers.
1:57 Bri'Ish Simulator September 2021
(For context there is UK fuel shortage for like the last 5 days)
And knife crime?
M163 VADS video when
expectable , regrating brexit yet ? (hi from your neighbour france)
also this is alf a joke , dont take it to seriously
It's less that there's no fuel but rather that there's a shortage of drivers to deliver the fuel. Naebody wants to work 14 hours a day for only 12 quid an hour, when there's hundred of other driving jobs that pay more for fewer hours.
Can confirm
My photo at the end of the game was one of the like 40 Prompto took of blind Ignis fallen over mid battle.
Noctis showing that to Lunafreya and them both smiling and laughing was one of the most surreal and unexpected gaming moments I've ever had.
"ah yeah, this is when my best friend was blinded and fell over while trying to fight and prove he was still useful."
@@sidneyrobinson18 I'm pretty sure he was also blackened from standing in water I hit with thundaga
Better than mine. It was a cute picture of Noctis and Iris on their date. I don't imagine Luna was very happy.
Mine was when we were all miarachi my chemical romance.
"It took us awhile to find our genre"
I spent like 30 minutes trying to hear all the voicelines
I often call this game "the worst game I've ever loved" and I always find it hard to explain what exactly I mean by that. This video sums up my feelings perfectly
Also yeah, they do have a reason as to why there are 114 kings (including Noctis) dispite there kingdom only being 2000 years old. Basically using the rings power literally takes years off of your life, so they have to breed like fucking rabbits to make sure their kingdom has a ruler. As far as I know this isn't stated in the actual game because fuck telling a simple story
Also, fuck tellimg the story in the game. We gotta put that in a separate movie and UA-cam anime specials
@@ShatteredGlass916 Kingdom Hearts fans: first time?
@@CidGuerreiro1234 Kingdom Hearts be like: "oh, you wanna know what happen? Pls play the mobile game, thank you"
@@ShatteredGlass916 "Check out this key plot point that refers back to something that happened in a previous game that is still locked on the PSP".
It boggles my mind that square enix, the company that spearheaded storytelling in games, now cannot tell a story to save their life.
One day he's going to destroy his computer because of these edits. Either that or his computer was made to fight god and win.
Or his computer is God
It already fought 6 Gods, what's one more?
His computer is fully prepared to kill god
Or become him
max0r's computer was created to fight god, win, replace him, and enter an eternal paradox timeloop that kills itself and repeats the cycle.
this implies that his computer is actively fighting god every time.
I love this game even if it's an actual house fire. Because it's my house fire damn it, and it's keeping me warm.
My opinion of spore
@@zegreatpumpkinani9161 based
honestly, i feel the same way dude. im glad you put it into words lmao
I concur
Exactly
Ardyn: “Hello there. I’m actually the chancellor of an evil empire. You can trust me.”
Noctis: “Okay I believe you.”
I see that you have *also* seen the Kingdom Hearts videos 😂
I understood this reference!!!!
Man of culture indeed
*son, take my luxurious cars*
*SUPERSAYIANBLUEGODSUPERSAYIANTHIRTHEENPATHSSAGEMODE*
Can't wait to see what wacky adventures John gets into this time
John kazuma
John kazuma
John Yakuza
john hitman
FFXV is baffling because it can be really emotional and engaging, or become an insane batshit experience depending on the playthrough. The fact that they let you put ANY photo for the final scene is baffling especially since the game itself likes taking goofy photos, but that kind of thing is what makes it endearing to me (Plus the DLC is actually pretty good).
See that right there is why it's one of my favourite games
I think they were relying on the aura of the moment having you go with a sentimental picture, but also probably recognized there would be people who chose the Cup Noodle picture.
They clearly understood part of the draw for this game would be the goofy parts, like having Noctis fight Ardyn, dressed as Altair Ibn-La'ahad, or in a sombrero.
I literally had my final photo be the one where noctis and Gladius's sister are laying on a bed together...the second luna pulled it out and looked at it with noctis was the funniest stuff that ever happened...only followed by figuring out at the end of the day...my final level was 69 over that photo...
Frankly this game is legendary to me for how ridiculous it unintentionally is...
I just wish they didn't cancel the added mod tools and other doc's but the people working on it left IIRC
Tbf, a goofy photo can be nostalgic or whatever. Unless you mean like in general I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and they put it in so people could have a laugh. Granted the whole scene is supposed to be kinda emotional so yet another instance of being inconsistent.
6:51 my absolute favourite segment. King of the planet runs errands post his father dying and him needing to get to his own arranged marriage to save his people
Hey i need you to go find my mangoes
@@kfchero2 Your fucking WHAT?
@@michaelm3461 i left them in the truck when i killed my wife in a car crash
@@kfchero2 Idontthinkyourproblemismangoes!
@@michaelm3461 can you find my mangoes
The best part of this game is when during the Cup Noodle quest, depending on your choice, they each lead you to a different Royal Weapon…
They linked the fuckin’ super move to a Cup Noodles quest
I didn't see one on my quest for steak were is it
But... You did get the ultimate flavor experience...
And then there's the free cup noodle dlc that give you a cup noodle hat that is literally a cup noodle.
It gives passive hp regen.
@@DamnDaimen ...truly a result of the squared workdaxs at the square enix insane asylum i see
You know, when you translate their names out of Latin and sum up the story as a journey of friendship and love overcoming all it sounds like a My Little Pony fanfiction.
Goddammit, I want a FFXV/MLP fanfic and I haven't watched anything MLP since I was a little girl, far too long ago
This just me me burst out laughing 😂
We figured out what V was reading in the DMC5 review!
@@nachgeben MLP r34 is also a valid option
@@aimilize3518 Stop! You violated the law.
Im glad to see the Watame simping is taking back the control over Max0r from Genshin impact
Gacha is temporary but Watame is eternal. Also there's a image of Watame wearing Ganyu's outfit.
Gacha games sunk cost fallacy is temporary. Parasocial relationship with Virtual UA-camr Tsunomaki Watame is eternal.
I dunno, my boy Tartaglia is really rocking that keyboard...
All is right in the world
Nature is healing.
Noctis: *On a trek around the country side to reunite with his Fiancé after his Kingdom is burned to the ground and is being hunted by an Empire that wants him dead*
Gladiolus: “You know what I’m in the mood for? *Cup Noodles!* How could we improve on the perfection that is *Cup Noodles?* Let’s go get ingredients for *Cup Noodles* and enjoy a meal of *Cup Noodles!”*
specifically a giant monster only told in legends and hunted to near extinction for our main ingredients
Ironically, Noctis has better chemistry with the girls of the mobile crossovers than his actual wife you're supposed to care.
Motherfuck was better character in alchemist code
A mobile game
Wait, who?
@@ShatteredGlass916 I think he's talking about that Mistwalker mobile game, it had a crossover DLC in FFXV.
Can confirm. He's instantly besties with the Warrior of Light in FFXIV.
look if they wanted us to care abotu Lunafreya maybe thy could've had her DO SOMETHING. Even fucking PRINCESS PEACH in PAPER MARIO did SOMETHING.
Congrats Square Enix. Your damsel in distres is more useless than PRINCESS FUCKING PEACH.
So garfield was XP farming by eating lasagna and then killing in a calculated path all the secondary characters.
Then he goes to sleep to max out his level, he hates mondays because thats when the server rollback happens
Deep lore
It all makes sense now...
Today I learned that Garfield is a secret xianxia protagonist
>final fantasy 15 gets the least votes in both polls
>makes a final fantasy 15 video anyway
Yeah, I'm thinking based.
Based on what?
@@petshop5941 on this
@@petshop5941 The will of Lygma.
@@CheeseOfMasters what’s lygma
@@superizillian957 LyGmA nUtz
Aww, no mention of the 3 hour nightmare parkour dungeon only accessible by the flying car that instantly kills you if you don't have surgeon level precision? That was one of the most memorable parts of the game for me, and it was only surpassed when I realized that the item you get from it is absolutely useless.
The worst part about that reward is that the only thing between you and just yeeting it is a head-high wall that you, for some reason, can't just climb, jump or warp over.
Well, he also thinks there are zero side quests in Altissia, so he clearly didn't play a lot of aspects of the game.
The item's actually pretty cool for someone like me tho. I have a condition that makes gaming painful (which is real fun given I love the likes of Devil May Cry, and occasionally play Bloodborne), so being able to have Noctis auto-dodge things is great, even if it's only 50% of the time.
You know what I did when I completed it? I walked off the fucking ledge accidentally without picking up the fucking item, due in part to how fucking unceremoniously it was sitting there. What dogshit design to just plop it on the fucking ground without even a chest or something, as well as at a ledge you can not easily get back up to. Fuck that place. Fuck
Funnily enough I don’t remember it been that bad and well I can’t tell if that’s because it was fine for me or if I’ve repressed the memories and frankly it could go either way
the funniest part is how from an story design stand point, that shit is by far the most enviromental story telling dungeon in the whole fucking game.
try to see some videos dissecting it the amount of info that shit really has is something only people which dig throught a lot of info really can get its insane.
For those curious, the ending song is called "Paper Boats" from the game "Transistor" made by Supergiant, the same company that made Hades. Its a linear storyline and isn't a rougelite and is very emotional
Play it instead of FF 15. You will have a much better time with genuinely tight combat and a story that is also kinda batshit but is also comprehensive and .. you know. Good.
Thank you my guy, been scouring around since earlier trying to find the song 🙏🙏🙏
Yeah, kinda surprised me when I first heard that familiar melody. Max0r's got some good ass taste in music imo. He's used music from GGST, Arknights, Genshin, MGR, PGR, and other stuff too. I wonder if he's into the Hotline Miami soundtrack at all, because then our music taste will actually 100% line up
My personal Break The Game experience actually involved going into a high-level dungeon after getting the ability to claim regalia and fighting a samurai monster that could annihilate the entire party instantly. Except me, because I knew how to dodge, parry, and riposte. So, the fight was basically me dropping three magic grenades on him, then parrying and avoiding the occasional AOE attack until I killed him, then complete the quest.
It's a level 50+ quest with a level 50+ boss you can clear at level 5-10 if you master the mechanics. You make enough experience off of it to elevate Noctis to godhood for the early game.
You: "What about the rest of the party?"
Me: "What *about* the rest of the party? I've just finished establishing that they're all kinda useless and I'm the only one who matters. They can wait until I can cheese the mountain turtle for their turn to ascend to godhood."
Bruh I remember this quest, the funny/awesome part for me was that in fighting so hard...I kept on having carbuncle (which was back when it popped up more if you played the demo) pop in and rez everyone. Out of all the ff15 summons carbuncle became my God in that moment as I basically level skipped to like 40-50 something from like 12-15
(Edit: I do stress how hilarious this was...I went down like 4-7 times, literally fighting knowing I was suposd to die...but literally the cute crystal dog REFUSED to let me die. In that moment carbuncle established itself as MORE useful, and more canonically helpful than ANY of the summons.)
@@thechangeling3851 tfw going against literal game design and refusing to die
@@reedman0780 seriously, I would praise carbuncle as the one true God of ff15, for they are the one who controls life and death...the other summons maybe more showey, but none of them came to aid me against the bullshit this game sometimes throws at you...carbuncle though always seemed to answer my prayers of aid.
@@thechangeling3851 wish I had that shit on mgrr too. I had to finish the two last boss on hard without any healing items.
@@thechangeling3851 Lol, it took me multiple tries to get this guy, but by the time I finally beat him, I did so without Carbuncle having to come out once. What always got me about the entire experience was that the enemies in the dungeon were level 5-10 goblins. But the boss was a level 50+ samurai murder machine. Max0r was right, this game's enemy and boss placement makes absolutely zero sense.
I love that, since max0r's editing and script force a constant physical, mental, emotional, and metaphysical assault on my quasi-present sentience, you can watch his videos over again and see something you missed the last time, every time. So despite his videos being 15 minutes, it's really like 45 minutes to an hour worth of content.
I've watched his Metal Gear Rising duology half a dozen times and am still finding jokes I totally missed the other 5 times
Hell, the videos are such goddamn fever dreams that they still feel fresh after watching since my brain is unable to comprehend the *Sony VFX.*
This game has some of the most baffling decisions I’ve even seen and is broken beyond belief. It’s still one of my favorite games.
I feel that, and honestly I feel the relationship between the 4 carries the game, it felt like an 80's boy group adventure than a fantasy RPG lol
I felt like the dungeons were the hidden gems of the game, except Castlemark (bad game design), and the 4 usually made good dialogue for each specific dungeon. Layout and visuals were really good, even scary at times, wish it was all dungeon crawling.
same
Literally. Like I know there’s a ton of problems with it but it’s still one of my favorite games
Imagine how good it will be if Kingdom Hearts Verum Rex becomes a thing.
"this product is not worth any of your money, it will NEVER be; but holy shit, maybe it was worth my time."
every once in a while your videos have these shockingly touching and deep lines such as this, and they blindside me every single time.
hopefully nobody did a triple backflip on you
Max0r’s style of ADHD, violent colours and sounds assaulting me mentally, visually, audibly and somehow physically suits me immensely as a fan of bdsm
Reminds me of Sseth, but I love Max0r's editing too
his style is sseth, except nonobscure games
Couple of days ago I rewatched ac7 review and his style only got more intense since then
that went from 0 to 69 real quick
this comment wins
"Break the entire games leveling system with lasagna."
Garfield approves.
And V
I would _kill_ to have this man cover Kingdom Hearts 3 with how the fandom received that game.
did the fandom think it was good or bad?
@@fumeister0992 Some liked it, but the rest… Let’s just say that after years of build up, it didn’t pay off for them.
@@liansmith4038 because they're morons expecting a full on ending when there wasn't and Nomura himself said it's the end of an arc
@@fumeister0992 mixed reception
@@liansmith4038 I mean my problem was I looked into what was happening in the mobile game and I realized none of this arc even matters before KH3 even came out. Getting proven right definitely sucked
*Noctis passing Luna Freya a picture of particulary interesting fish he caught once years ago.*
Luna: Thank you Noct I will cherish this memory forever.
Considering they have both been separated for far too long, even just letting Lunafreya know about a particular fishing session would be a thing she cherishes simply because she knows Noctis did so.
Back when me and my dad played it, on our 1st play throughs, we chose a picture of Cindy bending over. Made the cutscene SO much better.
I need a video of that xD
Your dad is so cultured
I’m going to be completely honest with you. I’ve completed this game, beginning to end, seven different times, because it’s my personal number one. I’ve also bought and finished every DLC besides Ardyn’s. I have absolutely no fucking idea what it’s about.
way to support garbage devs selling unfinished product. You are the reason AAA dirty devs exist
@@cropathfinder wow, what an unwarranted, aggressively bitchy response.
@@cropathfinder The Game is a hot mess but people can still enjoy a hot mess
@@erismason3441 no it's warranted. You can't bitch about how shitty AAA games are but still give the devs shittons on money. I'd post the Eric Andre meme but....you know
@@Kai555100 just don't call it good, because then we'll have words
“Its as if the game has too much money” literally the perfect sentence to describe this game
Why is it so hard for them to make a stable game even with all this money
@@Breakaway-ic5gj Can't buy good management and creative lead
@@arison9876 ah classic Shrodinger's Game Studio, where the studio has both Too Much Money and Not enough money
Nomura is a hack and should have been taken off of this series long ago.
@@Breakaway-ic5gj It's not about money it's about talent and time. You could give a dumbass tons of money to make a game and it would be bad. It's about hte creative director
Honestly, I liked playing the game.
My last photo that summed up my experience was a picture I took of Noctis and the gang crowding around a baby chocobo, and I must admit that it made the last moments pretty special for me. It was one of the photos I took after talking to that teleporting dog with the letters for the first time, and it made the scene a lot more wholesome because the baby was so cute.
As someone who loves Final Fantasy XV, I can attest to everything this man says. This game is 3 episodic DLC from being complete.
Same hear 15 means alot to me for reasons so he is right on the outlook maybe the dlc's that got cut would have done it but its so true no matter if you like 15 or not it was far from strait fowerd or done
the game would have more dlcs, but they cut that out and compressed it into a book
it was
supposed to have a dlc to explain each forgotten character, like lunafreya
is it as bad as MGS5's missing an entire third?
if the true ending and the explanation on what happened while noctis was sleeping count as a third of the game...
5:40 was the biggest problem with the game for me. We get this depressing ass first couple chapters finding out our dad is dead and. Everything we have ever known is gone and then we go on a cross country road trip with the boys having all sort of fun and happiness only to then get hit with depression in the last 20%.
Pretty much everything seem forced or is it another word I’m looking for
@@mistahj4144
The Tone is whack
@@kjj26k nahhh something else ur close tho
@@mistahj4144 The term to use here is 'Tonal Whiplash'
Tbh it's not like you will always be in grief after some grim shit.
Best you've done by the moment. Take a break, Max - ya can burn out with such a temper
i'd sat Genshin is the best so far, but this one strikes close
I found XV to be a relaxing little puff of nothing exactly when I needed it. Covid turned my work into a total hellscape for about four months. I needed a game I didn't have to take seriously. This gorgeous but obviously broken Hot Topic bromance road trip was perfect. I don't think I've ever played anything that seemed so polished in some areas but such an incomprehensible hackjob in others.
i honestly loved everything about this game. its definitely not the best but its fun enjoying has a great story and characters ignoring the person who noctis is supposed marry but this game was a fantastic experience for the most part
Sometimes it just comes down to, "can I dive into this and disappear from the world", and the experience feeling great. If it feels good to me in the moment, I don't care that it doesn't work other times. If it feels good to me in the moment, I'm not focused on the overall plot I'm just enjoying seeing shit happen, etc. All the things described as bad are true, but also, they're not what I"m there to have fun with in the first place.
@@MythicAce218 what great story it all happens off screen
@@OfficialDjTalksick not everything has to directly be told,a great story can tell things off screen as well as on screen
@@MythicAce218 yea not everything has to be told or implied but it was told never shown in any way other form until the dlcs
Like Ravus was robbed
Luna freya Was robbed
And the other party members were robbed
Of any story that would of made the game much better
I got the game at launch and have been a series veteran since ffx came out and played every existing square game before that
None of the other games felt the same type of empty that 15 felt it’s 20 hours of pretty much side missions until you time skip non of the plot matters until Ardyn make ignis blind when he uses the ring
And even then we aren’t filled in until a dlc
The story was trash in its vanilla form even with the dlcs it doesn’t fix that
Yea Ardyns motivations make more sense in his dlc but we shouldn’t have to look to other media to fill in those details ff1-12 didn’t have those issues you got your complete stories even if not all of it made sense or was good
Ff13 and 15 have you watching anime movies and reading web pages to justify a good plot
Another entry into the saga of "Maxor's Descent Into Madness As Watame Refuses to Collab"
This game is like pouring Bud Light in a $200,000 diamond glass
holy shit XD
The Latin names are easier to tolerate when you consider other FF games have people named:
Lightning
Snow
Cloud
Squall
Tidus
But I’ll give this game credit, it made me appreciate my friends
I thought of another:
A man with a gun for a hand named Barrett
and Zack like wtf who names their kid Zack
In my current playthough, tidus is called shitboot. I'm 30 hours in and do not regret it.
@@JMonty0100 don't forget that his name is actually a surname and his surname...a name (Barret Wallace actual name, but sounds way better Wallace Barret)
How about in IX where Garnet wanted her incognito name to be Dagger
The summons work on how bad you're doing. The lower that Noctis'susses health goes, the higher the chance of summons.
This raises a real question: why does random wildlife electrocute me to summons while the Empire is free levels?
The whole Empire was a joke anyway regarding gameplay.
What are they doing? They send these transporters after, which per se you can also just ignore and when you get there, everone is already dead anyway.
But Squares loves to do this, same in FF14, biggest antagonits is a continent sized high tech empire, while your side does not even have god powers or whatever, but they do shit all the time and just fall apart off screen.
Obviously Square is simply too lazy...
noctis susses🈷️
@@miriamweller812 That's the tragedy of Garlamald, that it once was a nation created to defend itself then got corrupted by Ascian meddling into an invasive nation that despite all it's gloating and pride, they ultimately fell under their own weight.
As much as I personally adore this game, this is most accurate review of it I have every seen.
"Noctis showed the massive turtle to his wife". I lost it when you put it like that.
You can tell what game he’s reviewing based off of what soundtracks he puts in his videos.
Or the fact that MGRR music really is just that good, that it fits any game
@@reedman0780 Same for the Persona tracks
@@TheUrizen haven't heard them yet, games look good tho
Can't believe I completely skipped the part where I can return to the past at the end and fought all of the remaining enemies, including the final boss while doing BARELY. ANY. FUCKING. DAMAGE!
Beat it in 2018 and started replaying for the past month and I love.
I did that once
WHICH game
Can't tell.
Must be repressing it real hard...
Xd
Sounds like you need to conpress more turtles
SE was really five steps ahead here: can't have an incorrect summary if NO summary can be correct!
SE?
@@aidanbeesley3221 Square Enix
5:57 "Thanks granpa, your ashes were delicious"
oh my god...
Max0r back at it again with the high quality content on the same tier as virtual youtuber watame
Also, Cindy being the on the final photo will always be hilarious to me.
The reason the game is so unfinished is because of Nomura, due to the fact that he spent ten years designing how many zippers the boys were going to have in their outfits and nothing else.
The second director got two years to do literally everything else except character design. And then got fired (pardon me, "resigned") after doing DLC's.
Actually the only part of the character designs Nomura did was the heads. Neck down was a fashion designer.
(the actual reason is that staff got pulled off this game to work on like a million other things because it was supposed to be a side game, and then out of nowhere they decided it would be FF15 and tossed Nomura out. He's clearly still bitter given he decided to make VS 13 a thing in Kingdom Hearts as revenge)
Max0r: “And of course, you have 9 days to live.”
Me: “Oh…”
Final fantasy 15 was the best fishing simulator I ever played. It even had a rpg minigame which was nice too.
4:01 the day Maxor and Watame collab is the day my soul leaves my body
As an argentinian I can really appreciate the jokes, great job
Just Spite? How about Sprite, Ardyn can't have his favorite brand of soda for the final time without getting shaken up in combat with Noctis worse than a paint shaker shaking up a soda can by a son doing a little trolling upon his unsuspecting suburban nuclear power plant working father who consistently returns home after work to have a little drink of his favorite beverage Duff Beer unaware that this seemingly normal Duff Bear soda can shaken up is soon is to be unleashed upon the entire household and family consisting of 1 wife, 3 kids (one named Bart who is initiating this little trolling incident on neck strangling father Homer), and a dog with said soda can now unleashing this unspeakable force consisting of an atomic bomb-
This went from sprite to the simpsons real quick
Max0r the god of editing has blessed us with yet another banger
Ardyn is an example of a trope I hate _soooo_ much, where a mortal does something that pisses off a god so the god curses them with immortality... but somehow doesn't expect the now immortal to spend their now infinite time trying to get back at the god and/or wreck everything that god made?
true, the trope generally only works if there is a secondary punishment that is enhanced by immortality, like exile
@@coca_0146 I mean, in episode Ardyn he was literally locked inside a rock or sth for eternity until the evil empire busted him out. He got cucked by his brother who also stole his throne because the gods said so. He had the audacity to get angry about this so he attacks his brother and thus was imprisoned by the gods. His entire plan was to get back at Bahamut because Bahamut is a piece of shit and the reason why Noctis had to kill himself at the end of the game. The cancelled DLC was supposed to be about Noctis and everyone else banding together to kick Bahamut's ass. Atleast that is how I assume things were supposed to go, I never bothered to buy the book.
@Otto Lilja ardyn was also set up to be the bad guy as he could absorb others starscourge without any noticeable changes to himself. Thus believing he was doing what the gods wanted.
When in actuality it was slowly corrupting him making him unworthy of the crystal.
Which was all part of the plan.
That's the whole fucking plot for Rwby...
@@thesymbiotenation.4552 YEP. And it was even WORSE there given the circumstances of the immortality curse.
7:37 In Square Enix's defense, Cup Noodles are actually pretty good.
that would be true if I had Gladiolus's noodles. how come the ones I get have ant-sized shrimps?!
Actually really liked the combat as someone who combos in DMCV
Air stepping is fun
FFXV was honestly one of the best games I've played this year. Combat was fun, story was enjoyable, characters were lovable. Worth every penny I spent but it needs the DLC to get the most out of it.
@@mystic_arts90 Ardyn and Ignis DLC have the best story and gameplay features
@@mystic_arts90 The game now is a much better experience than when it came out. it went from like a 5/10 to a 7/10 for me after all the patches and changes, but it's still kinda scuffed. The ending still makes me cry tho.
@@somegalicianguy8416 I also read the book and watched the anime when I combine ff15 as a whole with everything it is a solid 8.5/10 for me. With yoshi-p directing ff16 the next installment is in good hands
I feel depressed knowing FFXV could’ve been a musical and it probably would’ve been way better than if they actually incorporated all the supplementary material and cut content into the game
Nomura gets a lot of shit, but most the reasom bis games never get finished has nothing to do with him, and his games would probably be significantly better if they stopped fucking him over and forcing him to work with the mouse.
@@fearedjames Nomura is sucks I'm glad that removed his before he further tanked this game.
@@wiseguy240Winston All he does is work with Disney. Of course he turns out shit.
@@fearedjames Tbh they kinda force him to
@@akesan2374 No duh. He clearly wants to make his own non-Disney stuff.
I unironically love this game. It's incredibly stupid and jank, but it has an undeniable charm to it and some points of the game make me cry like a little bitch.
I love it.
also it's just funny getting to the point where you can eat a steak and roll up to a demi god and flick it in the eye and almost instantly kill it
Same, absolutely loved the game.
Besides 14 this is the only ff i played and enjoyed
when i first booted the game up i let the opening menu song play completely and i cried. great music. then when u beat the game and the title artwork changes to noctis and luna holding each other. aw man i cried.
Yes, it just has something. But it could've been SO much more 😭
As someone that has spent way too much time on this game and it's related media, this video is incredibly accurate all the way through to the end. It's also absolutely fucking hilarious, it's been awhile since I've laughed like this, the editing in particular just absolutely elevates this review
This UA-camr in particular has this style for making videos, you can watch the rest of them and find them equally interesting, funny and engaging
Absolutely true
I remember playing this game, having the illusion of choice, and then getting upset when my wife died and I could do nothing to stop it. And then got upset when I had to kill myself to win. This is an accurate description of the game.
the oppressive feeling of lacking control gives this tragedy a lot more weight. noctis just could not catch a break. one of the few things the game did really well imo
And then you started playing ffxv
The gamee is about fate and destiny. No matter what Noctis does he knew he had to sacrifice himself in the end
@@hazelcrisp There is a difference between using fatalism as a storytelling medium.
And relying so heavily on tropes and clichés to a point where the story feels fatalistic despite not intending to.
I cared nothing for lunafreya, she had like what.. 5 mins of screen time? Game was a hot ass mess with no emotional weight to it at all, imo.
As technically terrible as it may be, I still love this game
Ive 300 hours on it
@@djw_tekken8490 me to 🙂💔
@@Z_q0j5 are u on ps4?
@@djw_tekken8490 yes royal edition 💕
@@Z_q0j5 i wanna watch ur gameplay but yeah everything dead but we could go to dungeons and some one watch over shareplay
'We scratch his arm into respecting us and he McFuckin kills everyone' my God, this had me howling
4:25 As an argentinian myself i approve every second of this
boludo casi escupo el mate jajaj
Creo que lo que menos esperaba era una referencia argentina en un video de Max0r
@@zerobandicoot posta boludooooo
Me ahogue con la pizza cuando lo vi, no me esperaba una referencia
I must thank Maxor and his videos for introducing me to the Ace Combat community, I hope this video will do the same for me for the FF community.
"That make Belka look like a clown collage" one phrese to start a second Belkan War
Don't worry about the community. We're assholes if you disagree with us LMAO we're assholes to each other too. It's not like the unity of the DMC community. But 100% play the games. Play at least 10 and forward. Even the one that looks girly, 10-2 or X-2. A lot of guys enjoy the mechanics of that one.
FF games are not connected by story, just elements. Games like FFVII and FFX are in the same world, but they happen so far apart, they might as well be unconnected.
Pretty late to the FF party, aren't you? That's cool. If you're not one to mind the old graphics and willing to use emulators, Ace Combat 5, Ace Combat Zero, FF6 & FF9 are great games to get into.
HAVE YOU HEARD OF THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED MMORPG FINAL FANTASY 14 A REALM REBORN WITH ITS FREE TRIAL INCLUDING THE FIRST EXPANSION HEAVENSWARD WITH NO RESTRICTIONS ON PLAYTIME WHATSOEVER???????
@@haha-on5fd Yes I do heard of the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy 14 A Realm Reborn with it's free trial that includes the first expansion Heavensward with no restrictions what so ever, but living in the SEA region means I cannot take advantage of it.
Honestly, you are just one of the best content creators I've seen on youtube. Every single second in the video is an experience, and I find myself rewatching them and noticing more jokes the second or third time around.
I love how I can come back to watch this video, and actively notice red sun playing in the background and its beautiful
edit: I hear a lot of MGRR music and its getting beautifulerer
He then did two videos about MGRR later
Also yes mgrr goat ost
12:48 I actually love how the ring of lucii is capable of doing that.
Video games always go on and on about how "this weapon/artifact is capable of slaying a god, destroying a planet, obliterating the universe Et cetera. But when you actually get to use it in gameplay its practically always useless garbage that's inferior to what you already have.
But in ffxv the ring of lucii actually lives up to its hype, and can completely annihilate most foes.
(Granted that was after a patch that buffed it but still kickass)
I deeply appreciate a little love thrown at the Transistor sound track at the end. God Bless
And he was like:
"Look at this photograph,
Every time it makes me laugh."
I'd say my favourite part of the game is the final cutscene where BTS is just chilling around the fire and noctis goes all appreciative for his boys. Seeing how at the beginning of the game he was super arrogant and didn't care about anyone really really shows a final bit of change.
The most impressive part of your videos is how at the end you say something serious, smart or profound. “This game is not worth your money but maybe it was worth my time,” is a term that not many pieces of media can fit.
Eh, if you get the Royal Edition for around $25 I’d say it’s worth your money.
The reason it took ten years is cuz Crystal Tools was a fucky engine, they wanted all hands on FFXIII, FF14 1.0 was a disaster, and they kept having Nomura work on other stuff that kept him from working on Versus XIII.
They legit took members of his crew so they could work on FFXIII and fix FF14 while he was busy directing three to four KH games and doing whatever Square dragged him into doing, and then they kicked him off the project.
And then Tabata quit Square causing the final DLCs and all mod tools to be cancelled.
Did you know that the attack on Insomnia was originally in the game when Nomura was at the helm?
Y'know, the part of the plot they turned into a movie?
Did you know that character switching was in the base game when Nomura was at the helm?
Did you know that Armiger Unleashed aka the DLC EXCLUSIVE UPGRADE is basically made of cut moves from Versus?
Oh btw you can skip the gondola.
@Code Turtle and now there‘s using it for Forspoken...Forsaken whatever tf its called
To this day I am still impressed by how much sensory overload this man can fit in one second of video editing
The Onion again predicts the future, where we endeavor to activate all of our neurons simultaneously to unlock our brains' true potential
As someone who took four years of Latin in high school, yes, the names were infuriating but equally hilarious for their redundant grimdarkness. Won’t lie though, I actually really did like the movie adaptation.
So essentially... Being a Final Fantasy fan that wants to experience and understand the entire story is equivalent of being a cock n ball torture fan?
Not exacly but for 15 yes
Yes
X/X2 were already kinda painful if you wanted the full story, XIII made me want to hurt someone at Square and XV is basically just one big middle finger if you actually wanna understand what's going on. I feel nothing but disdain for big budget studios that demand you consume supplementary material for stuff that should've been in the goddamn game in the first place.
Or the same as being a KH fan literally everything about the story is all over the place but its funny how mindnumbingly complex and stupid but also simple some how it is and 15 kinda made me feel that in a way
@@jerokalko8653 honestly im just gonna say it, nomura is not a good story teller
I feel like your editing becomes more and more deranged and incomprehensible each video you upload and I love it
I never expected to see Videla, a military dictator from my country in a video about Final Fantasy 15.
Suscribed, liked, and I will share this video with all my friends
MI TENIENTE CORONEL. EL TIEMPO LE DIO LA RAZON
Seeing the powerful king show his wife the queen a picture of a giant turtle has me in *TEARS.* 😂🤣😂
Can we take a moment and apreciate how good this is as a review? its easy to remember the funny bits, but this guy pointed the flaws of the game perfectly and summed up the entire experience in 16 minutes
Congrats man
eternally grateful to max0r for condensing most, if not all, the batshit insane development and production notes that went on in this game i'm never gonna play, because I sure wouldn't have bothered to look it up myself.