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I really do enjoy this game but I have to admit it does suffer from some very glaring issues. Probably the most obvious is the very similar backgrounds and level layouts. I'm also not a fan of the fact let this game has no pits. I'm not saying that the pits should lead to instant death but there's a way you can do platforming where you can suffer fall damage while also hindering the player's progress while not killing them off with a one shot hit. I know there's a lot of people that don't like that type of gaming. Put in the case of this series I think it adds a bit of extra tension. After all the castle is a creature of chaos and it's supposed to be daunting and dangerous. After all this simile sentient and living force is trying to ward off Invaders to protect its master. Tension equals drama. A couple of the other things I don't care about is the double jump which should have been a wall jump as well as the whip grapple mechanic which looks very jank. Is Leon had a proper rope swing with that mechanic it would have looked so much better. Development time and budget what can you do. But with that said I enjoyed the combo system with the orbs and it never ceases to amaze me the ability of musicians to perfectly seamlessly match the music with the visuals. I don't know if Mitchiru yamane has ever scored films but if she has you would be interesting to see how she matches her music with those visuals. Shemales that just like any other great music composer and that stuff never ceases to blow my mind.

The rabbit hole of "Baram is Kefka" is deep and adds an immense degree of gravitas to Shadow's otherwise almost too far removed and ambiguous background. "Think what they'll do to me if I get caught." Baram says, quite possibly referring to the barbaric experiments that were likely suspected of being carried out on human test subjects in Vector in the pursuit of human-magic synthesis (or what would later be more officially referred to as Project Magitek). This early medical barbarism is actually alluded to in-game, as multiple characters during a playthrough will suggest that Kefka is "the way that he is" precisely because he was the first test subject to have survived a magic transfusion, and while it indeed grant him te ability to wield powerful magics, the process itself - being completely unrefined at that early stage of development - was actually what had rendered him insane. Could it be that it also rendered him amnesiac, like Terra at the start of the game, thus making him forget who was in those years when he robbed trains with his friend Clyde? Maybe the imprisoned Baram was, himself, also like Terra, subjected to wearing tge Slave Crown. Although this theory has never been confirmed by the devs and it's quite possible that the perceived connection between Baram and Kefka is just that, imagine for a moment that it is real, and how genuinely f--ked up it would be to be Shadow and to suddenly realize (probably mid-game) that Kefka could, in fact, that old friend of yours - the one who had begged you to end his life - and then having to be heavily burdened with the knowledge that if only you'd done as he asked, the world might never have been out on the path towards total destruction and ruination, and that tens of thousands will have died because of that one mistake. And even if Shadow never reveals any such suspicions, in or outside of the game, that doesn't mean the thought had not ever crossed his mind in the form of internal dialogue and constant nigntmares. In any case, I think, if nothing else, even just by entertaining the mere possibility that Baram is Kefka can, in and of itself, serve as a valuable thought experiment, as - if true - it would add lots of new depth to both Kefka and Shadow's backstories, and it would go a long to more fully explain and contextual both Shadow and Clyde's (otherwise highly opaque and largely unexplained) backstories. It would also potentially create several new wrinkles in Shadow's also largely unexplained motives for staying loyal to party (aside from Relm, of course). Perhaps he ultimately decides to throw in his lot with the Returners because he's driven to, once and for all, finish that which Baram had asked him to do all of those years prior. Do you yave any thoughts regarding this possibility, or on the ramifications of it on the entire narrative game if it's true? In any case, I love your videos quite a bit and it's honestly a crime that you don't get at least 20x the views. Despite this, I hope you keep diving into the lore of this and other classic RPGs. Also, sorry for the long comment 😅

The system never reached its potential. Most games feel half baked.

Enjoy this style of video relaxed calm and cool. Informative, could add more personal commentary too as your audience grows. Game on retro man

Was liking how the video was going until the Castlevania 64 slander.

I love the Lore of Lament o.I. I realy liked it back then, but Curse of Darkness beats it by far. I saw this as a 3D Classic Castlevania and Curse is more Symphony 3D😅.

It's Good, But unfortunately she's not Canon. (Due to the Ending)

You missed another thing you could buy for it. They had a joystick you could buy that had the 2 buttons on the left versus the gamepad having them on the right. The top of the joystick was pretty big making it easy to wrap your fingers around. It's what I mostly used when I played back then. I got the system my sophomore year in high school. All my friends had Nintendo. I played the demo systems at Federrated and kept going back to the Master System over the Nintendo because the graphics just looked so much better more like what the real arcade games looked and played like. So I asked for that instead of the NES. Christmas or my birthday, I don't recall which, I got the SMS. I got Transbot, Afterburner and Zillion with it. Transbot was a hit with my sisters and my parents. I got a bunch more games as time went on. I got the F16 Fighting Falcon simulator game because I wanted to join the Air Force, but alas I was medically disqualified from serving in any of the armed forces from a childhood accident. I got a couple different RPG type games that I played a lot of. Zillion was one my friends came over to play along with Double Dragon because it was more like the arcade. I had Cyborg Hunter which was alright I guess. It was neat but also kinda weird. Zillion II was another I got but the game play was significantly different than the original Zillion game so I didn't play II and much as I played the original. As I got older I got a Genesis on my own and didn't play much of my SMS. I always wanted to get the game adapter but never did get it. So the SMS sat idle. My Mom asked if my Niece could have it to play and I told her and my Niece both that she could but when she didn't want to play it anymore I wanted it back. Well apparently nobody cared because years down the road when I asked about it, I was informed my Niece sold it because she needed money for rent... It still pisses me off to this day and I keep looking at them on eBay thinking about getting one. But then I see the adapters for the Genesis as well and think I may just get one of those and buy the games I like again. Now I see a Mega Drive cartridge in your video that has most of the games already on it and I'm about to try to find one of those because if I can get it and use it in my Genesis? HELL YEA!

nah fan, I fucking hate FF 13 and 13-2 is just miles better, at least is fun. One of the best FF games? i wouldn't go that far but rather replay this than 13 or lightning returns or 15 or that pile of shit that was 16. What about ff 1 2 and 3? I mean yeah, but not 4 5 or 6, despite their age 4 5 and 6 are still far better games than 13 trilogy, it helps that the stories are so easy to follow and understand unlike the cluster fuck of Nomura Kitase and Nojima shitty writing.

I looked at a sprite sheet and you can actually face 32 different directions.

Playing this game for the first time tonight. Enjoying it, though it’s far from perfect.

Her. Shadow is a woman

Is there a proper translation without over correcting?

Legends is maybe better than Adventure, but at least that game had a basic grasp of game design despite being glitchy and requiring way too much pixel precision. Legends is almost objectively nowhere close to as good as Belmont's Revenge. The Level design is thoughtless, the enemy placement / hazards barely build on each other, the sprites are plugged up with poor dark/light balance and actually look worse on actual hardware because of screen bleed, and the music is grainy. Everything about this game screams "we don't know how to make good use the limitations we we're presented with." Belmont's Revenge excelled at taking these things into account.

I wouldn't mind seeing them do a remake of this game, like with better graphics, better level layout, better music, better sound quality, better enemies, better items, like how they did a remake of Metroid 2, but for this game.

it really is a shame this character never got another chance

The intro threw me off, ps4

i’m playing the game on my switch it’s my first coming into the series and i’m really enjoying it so far. :)

It's not even in the anniversary collection. 😢

I went to elementary school with the guy named Jason with a younger sister named Jennifer and he had one of these. I got to play it but never knew anyone else who had this system.

Loved the game. Never played Devil May Cry but I believe that was the real reason this wasn't appreciated more. If you like Castlevania this was awesome when it came out.

My first Konami shmup was Gradius 3, the PCE version graphical display looks so close to the snes entry of gradius 3, im gonna give that a try first

I cut my teeth on NES and Genesis, didn't even know master system existed until the mid 90s? I remember getting a random SMS cart from a tag sale or flea market or something, and I have a distinct memory of asking someone at FunCoLand what I needed to play it... looking back, they absolutely thought I meant Mega Drive because they said to just cut the tabs out of my genesis cartridge slot, and 12 year old me was confused because the board/pins were Clearly not the same as the genesis cartridge slot lol As a big Genesis and Saturn fan, the SMS and Dreamcast both disappoint me equally... the novelty is fun, and I guess I can appreciate the Sonic games because I'm a shameless fan, but I just didn't care about anything else in the library. None of it was as enticing as what I had already experienced on the Genesis and saturn by the time I could emulate the hardware, and later get physical devices and play roms. I wanna like it, but it just doesn't do much of anything for me.

Alex Kidd was my favorite game.

This guy almost sounds like Joe Biden. Which is not an insult by any means.

Also available on SNES.

This is some high level of narration ability!

Kind of a long story, but I bought this game used for my Genesis sometime in the mid 90's. I got the box and book, but when I plugged in the cart, the game would not fire up. Turns out, a previous owner (possibly frustrated by any of several aspects of this game lol) had mutilated the contacts with a fork or something. Not to be deterred, I cracked the cart open, and grabbed my soldering iron. Many tiny pieces of copper wire and carefully cut electrical tape 5-6 layers deep later, I managed to get the cart in a workable state. My persistence also went onto the game as I, over quite a long period of time, learned most of the game's secrets and mechanics, and finally beat it. Though I do now have the game from GOG along with all the others, I don't believe I would have the patience to run a a full playthrough nowadays. Great memories though.

I’ve never owned a NES but have owned a SNES, Megadrive, PlayStation 1 to 4 and a Switch. The Master System holds up really well, quite popular here in England at the time.

I would have liked your opinion on which one was best

This is one of the best DS Games. Top 3, I would say.

i bought a gameboy on the weekend, and this game just happen to be in my car. played the shit out of it. frustrating, but entertaining.

I got my first SMS this year and absolutely adore it. There is no nostalgia but actual feeling about console! I thought it would be pale NES clone but system has it's own face. In fact, Contra and TMNT is the only flaw of SMS - other titles often have their own unique answers: Final Fantasy - Phantasy Star, Castlevania - Vampire/Kenseiden, Zelda - Golden Axe Warrior, Road Fighter - Action Fighter, Duck Hunt - Safary Hunt, Adventure Island - Wonder Boy, etc.

My friends and I were big fans of Phantasy Star series in the 8 and 16 bit era. I never had PSIII but my friend did. He stayed over and we played the hell out of it. I really liked the generational storyline being different on who you marry and all that. I haven't played PSIII since the 90s and your video made me remember how much I hated the very limited animation in combat. Felt like a big step back compared to PSII or even the 8-bit PSI. I will agree with the dungeons for PSII were awful. I actually liked that game but the dungeons weren't pleasant. PSIV was peak Phantasy Star but PSI is quite strong in nostalgia for me. But PSI dungeons were kinda rough though. I needed grid paper for that one. Unfortunate that SEGA's flagship RPG series died, at least with the main line Phantasy Star RPGs. PSIV was it.

Wait....whey did cyan call shadow "her" 🧐

Great video! I just found your channel and subbed. Keep up the content!

DUDE MY FRIEND AND I WOULD STAY UP ON THE WEEKENDS TO FIND ALL THE SECRETS. I miss this game

It is worse than the N64 games and Vampire Killer.Better than Haunted Castle and on par with the original Adventure game. And the worst Castlevania game is the Amiga version.

4:20 seconds before that actual review starts. ridiculous. just make a "history of darius" video if you wanna talk about the damn history of darius.

Wow. Smb 2 is a HORRIBLE example of a sequel thats the black sheep because the developers wanted to "do something different".

The fact that you thought using buttons a variety of ways to increase your options for combat and movement was an issue blew me away. I’ll give you a thumbs up for giving exposure with an honest review to a game i love, but man do our opinions differ.

You forgot completely the best Sega Master System Phantasy Star a game that defined how RPG games are supposed to be. Still a great video.

Love "DON'T LOOK INTO THE DEATH STAR, OR YOU WILL DIE."

Joe Montana football was endless hours of fun as was California games, action fighter and Alex kidd was the selling point built in game console

I love Salamander in the PC engine, one of my favorite shooters.

Me when I when Aria

i wont play any castlevania games if they make you use a guy far too many popular titles lack femsle leads, like 98% of final fantasy games

int see health bars cuz my eyes are so bad

when I was a kid my mom got a game called Firepower 2000 for super Nintendo and I could never get past the 3rd level