Believe or not, Koei Tecmo was like "If Capcom ain't gonna release a Monster Hunter game for the Vita, we'll make one" and then Toukiden Age of Demons came out. The Vita's own Monster Hunter game.
@@jcc4543 Monster Hunter Frontier G came out a year after The Age of Demons, two months after Freedom Wars. You couldn't play it though because it was exclusive to Japan and even if you somehow downloaded it, you needed to pay a service to play the game. But I heard you can play it completely for free now, thanks to custom servers.
One thing im surprised about its Sony not even promoting the game in their store. Its buried under all their other games and pre order tittles even though this game was originally one of their exclusive games.
That's because Sony didn't publish it. Dimps (one of the original devs) licensed it from Sony and got Namco to publish it. Blame Namco for the poor marketing.
Because its published by bandai and has a small marketing budget only the absurdly massive first party games or call of duty get the playstation store advertising now
I bought the original day one, and I liked it. The only downside is that there was no English dub. Being visually impaired, I could not keep up with subtitles in the cutscenes. So, most of the time, I did not know what was happening. I made it to the 20th op, then I grinded for a while. Then, I stopped playing altogether. Fast forward a few months ago. I saw the remastered trailer, and it was dubbed. I yelled, YESS! I am a few hours into the remaster.
I don't know why Bandai chose to bring back this gem to life but I'm *GLAD* they did. Freedom Wars was one of my all time favourites back on PS Vita along with Toukiden Kiwami, Toukiden 2 and the God Eater Bundles of God Eater: Resurrection and God Eater 2: Rage Burst. I wish Remasters of Toukiden 2 and the God Eater Bundles would make their way to the Nintendo Switch as well! Going to enjoy getting back into Freedom Wars once again though! Thanks Bandai! Hoping for its success so we can get a sequel.
Wish it got even more breathing room before Monster Hunter Wilds. But glad it’s got a remaster. Hopefully Soul Sacrifice will be next. Then both can get sequels. Crazy Sony allowed it to be made, i beg for soul sacrifice then we will have god eater 1-3, toukiden 1&2, monster hunter, soul sacrifice. Hoping square enix brings back Final Fantasy Explorers too
Freedom Wars has that eerie, wake up at Christmas morning and play Vita in bed, type feeling. And I love it. It's pure childhood for me. I do think 40 bucks is a bit much though, so I'll have to wait until its 20-30 bucks and pick it up then.
So cool seeing games like this on Steam. Look forward to playing on my OLED Steam Deck, these handheld PC gaming devices are just awesome. Best thing to have happened to gaming in years.
I just got the game myself. I felt like this was tailored for me, and not just because it came out the day after my birthday. It just has that grab for me for a fun gameplay loop the same way Earth Defense Force did. Sure, it has its flaws, but a fun game is a fun game.
PSP had a number monster hunter titles and it was quite popular in Japan. It follows that a number of monster hunting type titles came afterwards to fill the void since MH became exclusive to 3DS.
Freedom Wars was one of THEE Best PS Vita Games to own & been having a blast playing The Remaster on Steam Deck! Glad that more folks can check out the game outside of The PS Vita! ✨ Hearing that it runs flawlessly on PS5 & Switch but The PC Version has some Day 1 Hiccups with Online & Crashing (Mostly on Windows not Steam Deck) however Bamco already made a Steam News Update about looking into fixing those issues ASAP 👍
Spent 100 of hours on the original on the vita now I’m going to spend 100 of hours on it on the switch. So happy they brought this game back. Really hoping we get a sequel and maybe some ports of Toukiden 2 and soul sacrifice
Im absolutely with you this is a buy to support for me I have 500+ hours in the original game and I remember reading on vita news every week just waiting to hear something, anything about freedom wars 2 and if buying the game will help that be a possibility no matter how low I'll take it
Loved it in the Vita. It was a comfort in a time when I was a person living in a foreign land and it gave that sense of familiarity when some things get overwhelming for me. I also remember getting stun locked a lot in the end game content lol.
I bought this remaster day 1 I loved freedom wars back in day playing it during breaks at work and teaming up with my friend who also had a vita been enjoying this remaster on the switch so far and like some of the small balance changes they made
It's so much fun regardless if it's only a Remaster. Would love a remake instead but I'd hope for the Soul Sacrifice team and this team to both team up and remake both Freedom Wars and Soul Sacrifice.
Soul sacrifice was my jam. I was stationed in Spain and whenever I was on duty and had down time, I’d play. Got close to beating the game but someone stole my vita 😢
I just bought a vita a month or so ago and have been LOVING MHFU, Soul Sacrifice Delta, PS1 classics like Parasite Eve. Even as is, it is a phenomenal handheld for PS1 classics, monster hunters, and RPGs. I got the biggest memory card so now I have an amazing library of games that can go with me anywhere.
I bought vita 3 weeks ago to play their exclusives like uncharted golden abyss, killzone mercenary, resistance burning skies, soul sacrifice and more. I even bought a physical version of every one of them. Freedom wars vita might be next for collection even though i can just buy the game on pc but i prefer to play it anywhere. Even though the server for vita is already shut down, I don't mind
Great vid I agree wholeheartedly on everything he said hopefully we will get a sequel love this game even if by today standards it lacks due to it being a handheld port.
FW's could be another God Eater, never forget that God Eater Burst was a PSP exclusive that wound up having a remaster of the 1st and 2 sequels on the PS4. 👍🏿👍🏿
3:55 I'm still keeping my Vita alive for Lumines Electronic Symphony. Might pick up the remaster on a sale, I had fun with the Vita version back in the day
I remember putting into this game around 200 to 300 hours on my PSV, just like with Soul Sacrifice. These 2 were my favorite Monster Hunter-likes, since I never could really enjoy the MH series itself, even though tried almost every game from every generation from PS2 and PSP to
I wish these kinds of games were more fun in single player, since I don't have anyone to play with. God Eater got closest to being engaging for me as a solo player but even that got really tedious without other people playing.
I wish Sony would even work out a Vita emulator for Ps5, the Ps2 and Psp emulation has been pretty solid so far and it would maybe be a good middle ground for a lot of games stuck there
Especially on pc I'd recommend everyone wait for patches, refund under 2 hours, or wait. It's horribly unoptimized. Oddly worked really well on the steam deck in comparison. Theory is it's a Windows problem. Mostly windows 11
This would have been a good release. Unfortunately they placed a Kernel Level Anti-Cheat to roomba around for those strict security fellas. Also there's a lot of hiccups like performance issues, connectivity issues, and such that those folks that are willing to go back to the ol Panopticon race are head scratching right now. And yes, it's not nation vs nation anymore but Japanese prefecture vs prefecture which is a bit sad.
If they are worried about the game selling, it should have a physical copy in the US b/c the cross section of people who like these games & those that want physical copies is the same. I bought the Asian English version of this & the PEGI XBox copy of Tales of Graces f from VGP, but I’m in the extreme minority.
Freedom Wars was one of my favorite games ever! But I think they did not make much promotion. I don't see anithing of this in the Switch or in the PS4/5 I literally found out because of a friend who is in a fb fan page. And they did a great mistake by not making it cross-plataform thats going to hurt the game a lot.
For the people who are waiting for it to be on sale i understand but if you really liek the how about support it and buy it now they can make a 2nd one who knows. 40 dollars isnt alot conpared to alot of games these days. Im enjoying it now on steam on my time off .
Love the content Matty! I know you’ve said in the past you aren’t a huge fan of showing your face in thumbnails but I really do miss the old thumbnails.
On PC this remaster require to install a kernel level anti cheat. It's big no no for me. Imagine putting this kind of stuff on a 10+ years vita remaster, it's absurd !
If you don't want more ESG-DEI incorporation into games, you'll likely not want to support this game. If you still want the game despite that, it's an okay PC port if you mod it to have the JPN dubs over English text. As well as if you can run it without technical issues some folks are having, obviously. I know some folks don't like Japanese dub. But for some weird reason the devs added some weird AI text-to-speech feature in the game and the English dub is filled with garbage pronunciation of even simple English words. The context of the dialogue in the English dub is also different from the original Japanese dialogue. Based on what I've been seeing/hearing so far while testing, the Japanese dub is completely accurate to the original so far despite the use of said AI voice program, and it doesn't have bad/wrong pronunciation at all. Oh, and for people that want to use KB+M, you'll need to get used to the emulated analog implementation they used. I suggest turning Auto-Aim into Manual Mode, then setting all camera sensitivity to 6~7 based on your taste, but keep Mouse Sensitivity to 1 and the multiplier to 0.1 or 0.2. Be warned that they didn't smooth out the pace of melee combat so the jank of the original is still there.
Yes. It is legit just ported and not much else. It still has all the flaws it had on the vita. I hope this does well so more games from Vita come back. Soul sacrifice Delta anyone??
Where is the GameStop roulette video where you get the halo reach with bullet holes? I’ve watched every single one and can’t find it and I know I watched the original video before.
I didn't like this game. I replayed it a year ago and saw that I still didn't like it. Toukiden kiwami was my vita MH game of choice. I do hope others can like freedom wars but but it just didn't stick for me. Maybe cuz I was already tainted with the expectations from MH3U and later 4U. Toukiden was the only one that came close enough. That I played. Never played soul sacrifice.
Believe or not, Koei Tecmo was like "If Capcom ain't gonna release a Monster Hunter game for the Vita, we'll make one" and then Toukiden Age of Demons came out. The Vita's own Monster Hunter game.
Toukiden was the Vita's answer to a monster hunting game, Koei Tecmo made Toukiden because Capcom moved Monster Hunter to the 3DS.
But still we got frontier Z better than the 3ds monster hunter.
@@jcc4543 Monster Hunter Frontier G came out a year after The Age of Demons, two months after Freedom Wars. You couldn't play it though because it was exclusive to Japan and even if you somehow downloaded it, you needed to pay a service to play the game. But I heard you can play it completely for free now, thanks to custom servers.
@@curiousfox4463 yeah
2012 was the year of the monster hunter style game. Toukiden, soul sacrifice, freedom wars.
Soul Sacrifice Delta for the next remaster please!
I’m glad this game made its way away from the Vita
Yes please
Lord please. The only good that the megaman guy did after leaving Capcom.
Yess I been asking for that for years it was my favorite vita game aside from p4g and this
Man imagine a new Soul Sacrifice for PS5.
I want a full remake for that one. It would look so good with todays graphics and some nice QoL changes.
One thing im surprised about its Sony not even promoting the game in their store. Its buried under all their other games and pre order tittles even though this game was originally one of their exclusive games.
You couldn't even pre-order it like you could on switch. You could only wishlist it. So I had to go in after it came out to grab the game.
That's because Sony didn't publish it. Dimps (one of the original devs) licensed it from Sony and got Namco to publish it. Blame Namco for the poor marketing.
Sony sold the rights to Bandai
Because its published by bandai and has a small marketing budget only the absurdly massive first party games or call of duty get the playstation store advertising now
@@USMChingthey still own the ip it's been licensed out
I bought the original day one, and I liked it. The only downside is that there was no English dub. Being visually impaired, I could not keep up with subtitles in the cutscenes. So, most of the time, I did not know what was happening. I made it to the 20th op, then I grinded for a while. Then, I stopped playing altogether.
Fast forward a few months ago. I saw the remastered trailer, and it was dubbed. I yelled, YESS! I am a few hours into the remaster.
I don't know why Bandai chose to bring back this gem to life but I'm *GLAD* they did. Freedom Wars was one of my all time favourites back on PS Vita along with Toukiden Kiwami, Toukiden 2 and the God Eater Bundles of God Eater: Resurrection and God Eater 2: Rage Burst. I wish Remasters of Toukiden 2 and the God Eater Bundles would make their way to the Nintendo Switch as well! Going to enjoy getting back into Freedom Wars once again though! Thanks Bandai! Hoping for its success so we can get a sequel.
"coming from school and playing" dude, I played this game on release during my wedding :)
I am so old :D
Wish it got even more breathing room before Monster Hunter Wilds. But glad it’s got a remaster. Hopefully Soul Sacrifice will be next. Then both can get sequels. Crazy Sony allowed it to be made, i beg for soul sacrifice then we will have god eater 1-3, toukiden 1&2, monster hunter, soul sacrifice. Hoping square enix brings back Final Fantasy Explorers too
I'm stoked for this. My R1 button on my Vita died. Freedom Wars got the most play on it and is one of the few physical games that I have for it.
Freedom Wars has that eerie, wake up at Christmas morning and play Vita in bed, type feeling. And I love it. It's pure childhood for me. I do think 40 bucks is a bit much though, so I'll have to wait until its 20-30 bucks and pick it up then.
Freedom Wars was one of my favorite Vita games back when I played it. I will definitely be playing it again especially on my ROG Ally X.
So cool seeing games like this on Steam. Look forward to playing on my OLED Steam Deck, these handheld PC gaming devices are just awesome. Best thing to have happened to gaming in years.
same got it on my rig ally x could've gotten it on switch but heard the fps is bad but you get local play though
I just got the game myself. I felt like this was tailored for me, and not just because it came out the day after my birthday. It just has that grab for me for a fun gameplay loop the same way Earth Defense Force did. Sure, it has its flaws, but a fun game is a fun game.
Freedom Wars is so fun to play! I'm over 3 hours in and in love with it. The coop operations can get wildy chaotic!
PSP had a number monster hunter titles and it was quite popular in Japan. It follows that a number of monster hunting type titles came afterwards to fill the void since MH became exclusive to 3DS.
Freedom Wars was one of THEE Best PS Vita Games to own & been having a blast playing The Remaster on Steam Deck! Glad that more folks can check out the game outside of The PS Vita! ✨
Hearing that it runs flawlessly on PS5 & Switch but The PC Version has some Day 1 Hiccups with Online & Crashing (Mostly on Windows not Steam Deck) however Bamco already made a Steam News Update about looking into fixing those issues ASAP 👍
I've been loving the remaster so far, I never played the original but it's a good time!
It's amazing and I hope Soul Sacrifice gets the same treatment! I love these games
Spent 100 of hours on the original on the vita now I’m going to spend 100 of hours on it on the switch. So happy they brought this game back. Really hoping we get a sequel and maybe some ports of Toukiden 2 and soul sacrifice
Im absolutely with you this is a buy to support for me I have 500+ hours in the original game and I remember reading on vita news every week just waiting to hear something, anything about freedom wars 2 and if buying the game will help that be a possibility no matter how low I'll take it
Sao fatal bullet was a sorta spiritual successor to freedom wars. It has the same guys work on it
Loved it in the Vita. It was a comfort in a time when I was a person living in a foreign land and it gave that sense of familiarity when some things get overwhelming for me.
I also remember getting stun locked a lot in the end game content lol.
Runs great on my Steam Deck OLED. I had no idea it was even coming out before today, but I'm loving it so far!
I bought this remaster day 1 I loved freedom wars back in day playing it during breaks at work and teaming up with my friend who also had a vita been enjoying this remaster on the switch so far and like some of the small balance changes they made
Yes, it really is!
Yes. Its great. Hoping for a sequel
This should happen with Soul Sacrifice as well!!
I remember playing this on my vita. Great times, so of course I picked it up on my switch.
It's so much fun regardless if it's only a Remaster. Would love a remake instead but I'd hope for the Soul Sacrifice team and this team to both team up and remake both Freedom Wars and Soul Sacrifice.
Not always a given Namco Bandai is willing to pay for a full dub; they refuse to dub Sword Art Online while the anime has a well regarded English dub.
I loved this way back on vita, it did what God Eater wasn't able to do for me which was to be actually fun.
Look forward to playing it on my Steam Deck. Got it on my Steam Wishlist, just waiting for a sale.
Soul sacrifice was my jam. I was stationed in Spain and whenever I was on duty and had down time, I’d play. Got close to beating the game but someone stole my vita 😢
I just bought a vita a month or so ago and have been LOVING MHFU, Soul Sacrifice Delta, PS1 classics like Parasite Eve. Even as is, it is a phenomenal handheld for PS1 classics, monster hunters, and RPGs. I got the biggest memory card so now I have an amazing library of games that can go with me anywhere.
I bought vita 3 weeks ago to play their exclusives like uncharted golden abyss, killzone mercenary, resistance burning skies, soul sacrifice and more. I even bought a physical version of every one of them. Freedom wars vita might be next for collection even though i can just buy the game on pc but i prefer to play it anywhere. Even though the server for vita is already shut down, I don't mind
@ I have freedom wars but haven’t played it much yet. Try e only physical copy I have is FFX/X2
A Freedom Wars 2 would be amazing, hope this gets the PC sales Bandai Namco needs to justify one
Great vid I agree wholeheartedly on everything he said hopefully we will get a sequel love this game even if by today standards it lacks due to it being a handheld port.
I remember grinding the Jakarta mission to lower my prision sentence down to zero
FW's could be another God Eater, never forget that God Eater Burst was a PSP exclusive that wound up having a remaster of the 1st and 2 sequels on the PS4. 👍🏿👍🏿
I'm curious about this one now. It has an interesting concept and I never got to play it when it released. I'll have to consider this.
50-60$ is quite steep for this I’ll look into it on sale for 20$ especially with Monster Hunter Wilds in a month
It's $40. Least in the US. That's very reasonably priced imo.
It's much cheaper than that. Unless you get the ultimate edition but that's 50 dollars
3:55 I'm still keeping my Vita alive for Lumines Electronic Symphony.
Might pick up the remaster on a sale, I had fun with the Vita version back in the day
I remember putting into this game around 200 to 300 hours on my PSV, just like with Soul Sacrifice. These 2 were my favorite Monster Hunter-likes, since I never could really enjoy the MH series itself, even though tried almost every game from every generation from PS2 and PSP to
I’d like for it to succeed but I imagine freedom wars is dead after this
I wish these kinds of games were more fun in single player, since I don't have anyone to play with. God Eater got closest to being engaging for me as a solo player but even that got really tedious without other people playing.
I wish Sony would even work out a Vita emulator for Ps5, the Ps2 and Psp emulation has been pretty solid so far and it would maybe be a good middle ground for a lot of games stuck there
I've never owned a Vita, but this game looks fun. I'm sold.
Especially on pc I'd recommend everyone wait for patches, refund under 2 hours, or wait. It's horribly unoptimized.
Oddly worked really well on the steam deck in comparison.
Theory is it's a Windows problem. Mostly windows 11
I think a recent Windows 11 update broke loads of games, so this wouldn't surprise me
Would love a soul sacrifice remake. Anyone else? I feel like the vita was the titanic of gaming.
12:00 Soul sacrifice 🙏
I just need to hope my physical copy arrives relatively soon. PlayAsia either gets it to me right on time or like 2 weeks late, no inbetween haha.
I'm hyped for it, but I will wait for the apparent bugs to be fixed.
Never played it but i ended up buying it and i'm enjoying it even though it has stability issues.
I loved freedom wars on my Vita.
Too bad my Vita got stolen on the subways of New York City so many years ago...
This would have been a good release. Unfortunately they placed a Kernel Level Anti-Cheat to roomba around for those strict security fellas. Also there's a lot of hiccups like performance issues, connectivity issues, and such that those folks that are willing to go back to the ol Panopticon race are head scratching right now. And yes, it's not nation vs nation anymore but Japanese prefecture vs prefecture which is a bit sad.
That thumbnail is not it
Cry
@@apretrogaming1041I did
Get over it
Yeah almost every thumbnail he has is really cursed
I miss old youtube
If they are worried about the game selling, it should have a physical copy in the US b/c the cross section of people who like these games & those that want physical copies is the same.
I bought the Asian English version of this & the PEGI XBox copy of Tales of Graces f from VGP, but I’m in the extreme minority.
Nah I have it digital on Vita and once I get paid ill have it digital on switch as well
I've been looking for a game like this
Loving the thumbnail 💯
I have 431 hours on FW vita it was too hard to put down especially online co-op remember to always have the facilities going XD
Freedom Wars was one of my favorite games ever! But I think they did not make much promotion. I don't see anithing of this in the Switch or in the PS4/5 I literally found out because of a friend who is in a fb fan page. And they did a great mistake by not making it cross-plataform thats going to hurt the game a lot.
For the people who are waiting for it to be on sale i understand but if you really liek the how about support it and buy it now they can make a 2nd one who knows. 40 dollars isnt alot conpared to alot of games these days. Im enjoying it now on steam on my time off .
10/10 game
I just want gravity rush 1 & 2 to come to PC
I would say it is worth $20 to $25 but no $40....
I still have my vita and the game. No point yet for me to get it on ps5.
Id pay full $70 for a soul sacrifice delta port tho
Unfortunately the PC port has been having some issues, so I can't support it right now, I'll have to wait for patches, or a generous modder.
Bought it for my switch and ps4 yesterday
They shut down psvita servers only to resale the game later...
Did they reopen the vita servers?
I want a physical copy.
I played a lot of Ragnarok Odyssey on the vita. I never played Freedom Wars. I shall fix that.
make a video about why there should be a soul sacrifice delta remake
Long live the Vita!
I need Muramasa Rebirth on PS5 Pro.
How do they have a New York Panopticon? When I started, all I get are Japan Panopticons...
I might be wrong but I think all the non-Japan Panopticons were stripped out of the remaster. They were in the Vita version
I might be wrong but I think all the non-Japan Panopticons were stripped out of the remaster. They were in the Vita version
straight up better than any Monster Hunter.
Love the content Matty! I know you’ve said in the past you aren’t a huge fan of showing your face in thumbnails but I really do miss the old thumbnails.
Pretty please let there be a Soul Sacrifice Delta remaster man. Plz plz plz lol
It doesn't even have a satisfying end
vita is more fun to play on. the remaster helps it draw attention to the best way to play games
I love this game
Where are my North American panopticons? I need to rep Anchorage again.
If Im gonna be honest Uncharted Golden abyss would be nice on ps4 This way, I can finally say I have all six games
I heard the port was a disaster on pc.
Sony needs to stop doing things halfway.
next we want toukiden kiwami remastered
It's out on steam not a remastered though it's just a port I thinj.
Its good but the pc release is an unoptimized mess. Its at mixed reviews due to that. Until they fix it, stick to console's
On a game like this, I would never play it on PC. This a playStation game.
To get a sequel absoltuely
On PC this remaster require to install a kernel level anti cheat. It's big no no for me.
Imagine putting this kind of stuff on a 10+ years vita remaster, it's absurd !
Does that effect the steam deck? I'm playing on steam deck
Rhetorical question Farley
It is not worth if you played it and satisfied at that time, as there is no new content.
Definitely worth it
For me depends on price
If you don't want more ESG-DEI incorporation into games, you'll likely not want to support this game. If you still want the game despite that, it's an okay PC port if you mod it to have the JPN dubs over English text. As well as if you can run it without technical issues some folks are having, obviously. I know some folks don't like Japanese dub. But for some weird reason the devs added some weird AI text-to-speech feature in the game and the English dub is filled with garbage pronunciation of even simple English words. The context of the dialogue in the English dub is also different from the original Japanese dialogue. Based on what I've been seeing/hearing so far while testing, the Japanese dub is completely accurate to the original so far despite the use of said AI voice program, and it doesn't have bad/wrong pronunciation at all. Oh, and for people that want to use KB+M, you'll need to get used to the emulated analog implementation they used. I suggest turning Auto-Aim into Manual Mode, then setting all camera sensitivity to 6~7 based on your taste, but keep Mouse Sensitivity to 1 and the multiplier to 0.1 or 0.2. Be warned that they didn't smooth out the pace of melee combat so the jank of the original is still there.
Loved the original trailer back in the day but the monster hunter gameplay turned me off. Nothing against it just not my bag
Yes plz buy this
Yes it is!
Can you get me the remaster ?
this is just god eater
Yes. It is legit just ported and not much else. It still has all the flaws it had on the vita. I hope this does well so more games from Vita come back. Soul sacrifice Delta anyone??
Yes.
Where is the GameStop roulette video where you get the halo reach with bullet holes? I’ve watched every single one and can’t find it and I know I watched the original video before.
Game is peak
Dumb choice releasing so close to wilds. Game will die when that comes out. Big shame
I didn't like this game. I replayed it a year ago and saw that I still didn't like it. Toukiden kiwami was my vita MH game of choice. I do hope others can like freedom wars but but it just didn't stick for me. Maybe cuz I was already tainted with the expectations from MH3U and later 4U. Toukiden was the only one that came close enough. That I played. Never played soul sacrifice.