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Also, the lower and mid levels were the only time in the entire game where you don’t get to play as Adol

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Aaahhhh I am so happy to see you finally finishing this game!!! And simultaneously so sad to see it go, but... you know. Being able to watch you play this game has honestly been the highlight of my year so I'm really glad you went with this one. It's such a fun time and seeing all your reactions has been great. Not sure exactly where the memories you missed are, but they should probably be searchable if you ever want to glance at them. Anyway here are some fun facts/trivia and some thoughts of mine ^_^ This comment got long as hell though, my bad. A couple of details so you can appreciate the Phantom Gruda fight even more: That scary attack that you knew to keep away from, where he tried to grab you and land a huge attack on you? That's basically like his extra skill. *Huge* melee combo that takes out a shit-ton of health from you. While he does it, he has a couple of unique voicelines where he either says that humans are insects in the face of the powers of the ancient gods, OR he says "It's not enough to take just your memories, I'll take your future too." (That's how I'd translate the Japanese voicelines; it's phrased a bit differently in the English voicelines but it's basically the same.) Not that important, but fun to me. Mostly, I just wanted to point out that he has an extra skill. And not only that, he has a flash guard, too. Not sure if you noticed, but there were a couple of moments where he held up his arms in a block. I don't think the guard actually happened during your fight, but if he guards an attack from you, it nullifies the damage and he gets to land some critical hits, just like a flash guard. So yeah, he has a very similar fighting style/playstyle to *you,* the player, AKA Adol. I dunno, I just like it 'cause it takes the whole foil thing to another level. (Enjoyed the Chester comparisons too lol, it definitely has a similar feeling, especially with Chester's melee combos, moving around so fast, and that part in Chester's 2nd phase where he's clipping through space or whatever is basically what Gruda does.) I also enjoy that his fight is, like... not super hard or anything, I feel like this whole sequence was more about the story and about closing off the game than having a new huge challenge or anything. I've seen people complain about it, but I don't think it's a problem either. The fight really isn't about its difficulty. And it's just a phantom, it's obviously not going to be nearly as strong as a false god created by fusing a divine artifact and a human. But anyway, some Ys trivia on that note: In The Dawn of Ys, the final boss has 3 phases, and during that last phase, the theme changes to, well, the same theme you heard during the Phantom Gruda fight (The Final Decisive Battle). It's a song exclusive to The Dawn of Ys in that it isn't in Mask of the Sun. That last phase is also very easy, especially compared to the first 2 phases, so I think Phantom Gruda's fight being pretty easy, especially compared to Akasha-Glyph's 2 phases, is kind of a nod to that lol. Especially with the common boss theme and everything. Not to mention, in the Celceta version of that boss theme, they incorporate the leitmotif that was used for the final boss of The Dawn of Ys, which wasn't in that theme before. (Speaking of leitmotifs, I dunno if you noticed, but the opening theme leitmotif is used in The False God of Causality theme!) Not sure if you've noticed by this point, but as far as I can tell, one way to trigger Akasha-Glyph into trying to attack you is by kinda getting all up in his face and staying there for a few seconds. He usually takes the bait and lowers himself when you do that. I think you did it by accident the first time, and a couple times after that? Yeah. He may be a false god but he's still overconfident, lol. Also, I definitely don't fault you for using Adol/Duren/Frieda for that fight because I think that's the best party makeup for a matchup against Gruda, too. I usually use the same party myself when I'm replaying that fight. When I first played the game I took the easy way out because I thought I'd have a hard time otherwise, but it's not too bad. You managed pretty well! I agree that Duren is easily the most well-written party member tbh, they put a lot into him. I don't think he's much like Dogi at all except that he was put in the same character role, and appearance/combat similarities, but he's pretty much his own character otherwise, and you can tell they put a lot of thought into his personality, motives, etc. which is great, especially with the reveal. My personal favorite party member is Ozma, his writing is great, too. I agree that the cast was super likable in general, and the party dynamics between characters are definitely a step up from Seven, as well as the character arcs. A shame that Calilica doesn't really get one, but... yeah. A lot of people were also pretty disappointed about the lack of closure on the other characters at the end of the game, so you wouldn't be alone there. Some say the ending was too rushed. I think the reasoning they give in-game makes sense with its themes, so I'm willing to accept it, but, yeah, I dunno, it wouldn't have been that hard to give us, like... crumbs, at least. I wasn't bothered by it when I played because I was crunched for time and wanted to finish the game, lol. My favorite character in the whole game (and the Ys franchise in general) is Gruda, so I was already pretty fed. As for the future of Ys on your channel, well... I of course would love to see you play more Ys games ASAP. Didn't your Sky playthrough take, like, over a year? I'll still be here either way whenever you get around to it, even if it takes some time, though! On whatever fateful day I get a notification that you started a new Ys game... I figure you're sticking to VIII next which is totally understandable. You talked about your general options (potentially after VIII?) in the last video, so I guess I can reiterate as one of the people who recommended Origin lol, yeah, it's not a game that you have to play a shit-ton of Ys games for. It's just a prequel to Ys I&II. Not sure if you ever finished Ys II? Origin spoils a twist from it, buuut based on something you said about spoiling yourself on Ys II in an earlier video, I'm gonna guess that you already know it, so... not an issue, I guess. I'd still recommend knocking II out of the way real quick, it's short anyway, but yeah. Regardless, Origin's really good and I'd highly recommend it. Actually, Memories of Celceta referenced a couple of things from Origin too! So when you get around to it, you'll get to be like, heyyy, I remember that from Celceta :D I'm also forced to plug VI again because there's lore from Celceta and Felghana that ties back to VI. Little retroactive references, if you will. They'll click when you play the game, trust. Also... Geis. But yeah. This might be further down the line for you.

I haven't thought about it quite as in-depth as you, but it always made sense to me that the final bad guy would be the irredeemable Gruda and not the sympathetic Eldeel, yeah. It just makes sense with the general format of Ys games; they don't usually end off with a particularly redeemable bad guy/final boss, they want you to go out with a bang and beat the "real" enemy. Even in Seven, where the main villain was sympathetic and redeemable, the final boss was still Rul-Ende. Funnily this is also just perfect for the narrative anyway since Gruda specifically goes on about how he's the only one capable of properly executing their agenda because he can be the more evil one of the two, sooo. It's a pretty on-the-nose analysis in that regard, lol. I don't think it's impossible to make it work the other way around, though? I can give some more input on this, but it technically would have some spoilers for one of the original versions of Ys IV, so I'll put it in replies and you can read it or don't :P Since I have no idea if you plan to play those games/would want to go into them blind. I'll always recommend them but I know your focus has been on the mainline games/games that are easily accessible and purchasable so...

Oh yeah, I have no clue if you're still stuck on this, but for the record, the other ~mystery people~ (Frieda's ex-fiance and his brother) who ran away from Danan aren't really going to be a concern in this game. Just in case you're expecting anything. It's a reference to another game, which is why they slip in Frieda's line that's like, "Even if he doesn't show up this time, I'm sure he'll be judged for his mistakes someday." So yeah, I guess for future games keep in mind a pair of brothers where one of them stole something called the "Black Key" for nefarious reasons and ran away and the other one is chasing after his brother lol

It's been soo fun watching your journey through the Gadis/Bami stuff! Glad you've gotten past most of the Karna/Remnos plotline as well. ...Anyway, my bad if this is stuff you end up talking about in future episodes lmao (I will continue to catch up!), but now that you kinda know what's going on, I was wondering if you ever thought back to any of the hints they dropped about Remnos' true motives, since I feel like you might've missed them the first time. There was that memory where Gruda tells Remnos to get rid of Leo, so Remnos delivers some poisoned fruits to Leo... only for Leo to confront him and tell him that he knew they were poisonous, but the poison would've been way too weak to actually kill him anyway. AKA Remnos intentionally bungled Gruda's orders so he could pretend to be loyal but not have to actually kill Leo. Stuff like that. & When Remnos revealed himself to be "evil" (in Highland) and Karna confronted him about hiding his strength, he denied that he was hiding anything because he was still trying to protect her from the truth. On the topic of foreshadowing, I thought I'd also share some Duren/Gruda hints too :D Mostly because I know you were talking about reviewing old footage for yourself though, so if you don't want to read this part and want to check the footage yourself then you don't have to look at this lol. But, here's some blink-and-you-miss-it stuff from Casnan: - When Gruda introduces himself to both Adol and Duren, Duren seems to be kind of on guard and the first (and only) thing he asks is "are you with the Romun army?" which seems pretty normal at the time, but... well, it feels a little different in hindsight - It's also right after this scene that the Adol/Duren interaction in the bar happens where he says he's gonna split up with you for a bit, but you kinda caught on to this one already. But yeah! This was when he contacted Nina to let her know that Gruda was here. - Later on when you were doing the scavenger hunt quest, got in trouble with a soldier, and Gruda came to help you out, he comments that he "can't help but notice that your usual companion is not with you today, where is he?" to which one of the responses you can choose is "do you have business with Duren?" and he just innocently replies "oh, so his name is Duren?" even though he should probably have known that lol

Catching up on your LP, and I'm SO glad you got this far because I was waiting so long to see your reaction to these areas after that one comment you made, lmao. The moment you said word for word "it's not like there's a SNOW area and a VOLCANO area," I was just sitting there like... um... who's gonna tell him... I still love the consistency of most settings in Celceta--I guess they just wanted something bigger for these important, climactic areas, since it's closer to the end of the game and whatnot? Still made me laugh when I heard those comments you made though

7:35 I like it at least

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This game is super good but i am used to grinding and there is no use of grinsing in this one. But still the story is really good. I love a lil bit dark stories and there are not that many good ones. Keep it up bro you are doing a nice job

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Oh, not sure if you can really tell in-game, but Leeza is 16! So that's why they call her a girl :P You probably shouldn't look up characters for their ages in case of spoilers, so that's why I'm just dropping that tidbit here. Anyway oh man was I glad that you'd played Felghana before this and understood the references. They're really such a delight to understand here. You're right in that this game takes place a year before Felghana, so it's before the Galbalan fight, yeah! Although either way, conventional weapons weren't enough against Galbalan in Felghana either if you remember, so yeah, Sol-Galba sure is one tough beast. Anyway, "you can park the demon outside my house" killed me lmaooo, and the implication later that Sol-Galba was just... there... sitting at the shrine while everyone was at Vanjo's house... never thought about that lol

Yay! I was super excited about the last part you uploaded because Krell-Emecia is possibly one of my favorite if not my top favorite bosses in the whole game. Just that whole chunk of the dungeon. So many curveballs... and then even more after you're done. I was glad you enjoyed that too :D I remember being kind of surprised that you didn't have much to say about Gruda when you first met him haha. I don't mean that in a bad way because I'm glad you got to be surprised by all those twists, but hearing you reflect on it was so funny. He was so fishy... and he had that creepy smile when he greeted you too lmaooo

Not gonna lie. Marian kicked my ass a whole lot when I played this game. But I suppose it's the price I must pay to play as one of the more fun fighters to play.

Yayyy I'm finally caught up! Will be super excited to keep up with the rest of this LP and see how things go for you. ^-^ I'm glad you're enjoying Calilica so far, she's easily one of my faves in the party and her dynamic with them is so funny

I'm not sure if you've remembered by this point, but the Romun-Altaginian war was something you learned about in Ys Seven! It's why some characters in that game were wary about Romuns and Raud accused Adol and Dogi of being Romun spies or whatever it was. It's also how Scias earned the title of the Altaginian Falcon, since he's the one who defeated the Romun forces and how Altago ultimately won the war. So yeah, Memories of Celceta is years before Seven, so the war is still ongoing right now. Thought it might be worth refreshing your memory(?) since it has been referenced a couple of times in this game. ;P Also yeah you're correct about Altago being an analogue for Carthage!

I agree with you about Ys Seven tbh. Maybe it's because it was both of our first Ys games, but I never noticed how long the boss fights were in those at all because of how engaging and fun they were, and how the length incentivized you to actually learn how to fight rather than just brute force your way through. I honestly had to bump my Memories of Celceta playthrough up to Hard after the 1st boss because it felt way too short compared to the Seven bosses lmao, Hard mode made the fight drag on a little longer and I was like "ahh that's much better..." I never even noticed the Flash Move gimmick for Glucarius (the shrimp) until watching your videos because he has little enough HP that you can just cruise through the fight without using it. Would've been cool if they used more HP to incentivize players to actually use that gimmick lol. I'm glad you've enjoyed the bosses in both games though, I'm not caught up on this playlist yet but based on the last vids you uploaded I remember there are even more fun fights waiting in store for you, in my opinion as a fellow Seven fan :D Can't wait for you to get to them!

thanks for upload!

Love your energy! looking forward for more :)

never heard of this game! cool video!!

the algorithm must be working wonders, seems like a chill time here! never heard of this game before either, bit of a slow start so far but digging the look :)

Oh my God I just wanted you to know I'd been waiting to see which Ys game you were gonna do an LP of next and I totally wasn't keeping up to see you had started this game. This one's my personal favorite and I'm so excited!! (<- Getting ready to binge this playthrough lol) I also hope you know I'm actually super excited that you went with this game instead. So don't worry about disappointing anyone over not playing VIII (which isn't really a favorite of mine personally), there are a lot of people who don't necessarily have it on the same pedestal lol. Your videos *are* an amazing service to niche viewers like me who love those specific Ys games that don't have a lot of LPs on TH-cam and I appreciate that a lot!!

7:17 overheat/red is bad while overdrive/green is good silly, did you forget that since the last part

keep grinding

Dishonest and annoying video. Total waste of time.

I can't believe you've voiced those Alcock lines on your own! I legitimately thought that it was a professional voice actor speaking, before you messed up some words and had to repeat them. Wow. And btw, I'm sure you already know, but if anyone else happens to ever be searching for videos of this game just to understand the grading system, the 3 star evaluation score is the best, as far as I understand. What the game really cares for is not strictly the evaluation score, but how much overall assignment stars you've got before (out of 10). I hope that makes sense. 10 is plenty, but I think 8 assignment stars would already net you 3 max evaluation stars. It's still best to get as many stars as possible, because the true ending needs them (how many depends on the game version). I wish the game explained this better, as a perfectionist I'd felt so confused over which score was actually the best.

Love them magic birds lol

13:33 Algae bloom, red tide, big trouble

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Good playthrough!

The title makes me want SRW but with proper Magical Girls (not counting that one tho!)

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Good to see this Ys getting love. This is by far my favorite in the series.

Chronologically it is Origins, 1/2, 4 ( Celceta ), 3 ( Felghana ), 5 ( Kefin ), 6 ( Ark of Napishtim ), 8 ( Lacrimosa of Dana ), Ys SEVEN, 9 ( Monstrum Nox ) 10 ( Nordis )

0:09 what was this about? Some cheat code or something

Ys Origin Hugo/Yunica would be nice in between this and Dana

i was stuck there int the two gold nuggets. What a silly situation. Thanks

From Twitgamer's playthrough for Trails 2nd, 3rd, Zero/Azure, Cold Steel 1-4 and Reverie if you did 2 videos a week every week without fail, 104 per year it would take you 20 years to finish them all. Even 2 per day, 7 hours per week it would take 200~ weeks to finish them all that's how extensive the entire interconnected story is and there is still the Calvard Arc left to go so it's a reliable fall back if nothing else

If you haven't already could you play both routes of Ys: Origin? I would like to see your take on it over the others I've seen covering it

16:50 - I love how you do the Hymn of the Fayth while Mishera was performing "The Sending" on the boss <3 Definitely gets my summoner blood going!

Mishera is my favorite character in this game, and this area, the Precincts of Wind, is one of the most iconic songs in Ys 7. Why? Well try playing this OST during Yuna's Sending in Final Fantasy X and you'll see <3 - I made it my video on my channel :)

definitely recommend Atelier Riza - that was one of the best.

One of my favourite Action JRPGs series of all time ❤️❤️❤️

The judge was reading aloud the bumps/BRAIL(blind)- see no evil. The lawyer had to read lips to understand because he was DEAF- Hear no evil and the mother had to write her words because she was MUTE- speak no evil.

6:06 scripted loss, cannot drop Lawrence's HP below 1

48:33 seems a bit similar to FF13-2's timeline shenanigans