Thank you Brando , you made me spend way to much , for a game that had ... questionable review ... yet again. (My wallet hates you) But what can i say except...CHAOS
What's with that scene though? It feels like the inn keeper has a thing for Jack and Jack doesn't want to admit that he has a thing with the inn keeper. lol
Your penalty for dying is losing your Max MP and getting it reset to 200 (Two bars) from whatever it was. You can get it back though (Before possibly dying again) by finding an orb of red smoke usually right where you died.
In Nioh you could transfer the random bonuses from one item to another, so there were uses for them. Here, all the gear's abilities are basically set. It's just keeping the Nioh drop system even though equipment is way different and simpler now, so that's weird.
yall forgot that there will be (they are out already atm) 3 dlcs like TN does for all their games, with new mechanics, difficulties etc. first playthrough is basically a tutorial with the majority of the options locked.
@@tristanward9937 I liked this more. Because the parrying system is also a resource so you are rewarded more for good timing, but aren't punished completely by bad timing. It feels like you get to learn better. Also a lot of the abilities and spells in Wo Long felt tacked on and useless. Jobs in this game are simple, but each of their abilities feels like it has a purpose.
THANK YOU for highlighting Tsuda as Jack. I honestly don't think SOPFFO would work as well as it does without his inimitable gravel. I was iffy on the demo but then I heard his voice and whoomp pre-order done. Great video.
Man Japan didn't have to give the protag the coolest voice actor in the history of humanity! This guy is a God and imma have to play this on Japanese if I ever buy this game 🤣
@@Rohgamu story, characters, world and gameplay are all awesome. The ending was especially interesting The loot system can’t be enjoyed until max level, since you keep levelling up SO fast. Don’t get to strategise your gear.
On high level, you can recovery mp by using the special ability on specific jobs. You can build unlimited mp with only 1 s casting is also possible. The fact that you can’t really cheat through bosses aren’t something Soul games tend to have since they don’t use other systems that work to encounter it and you can just break the game for ppl with your build (which will eventually get down to the hill if ppl start to just following one formula of build)
I've been busy with work but the small time i spent with the latest demo really pushed me into wanting to buy it once i finish triangle strategy. I'm still surprised it's already out it feels like they just announced it the other day but maybe i just don't follow the right people and news stuff so i missed it's other trailers. Hopefully there is some dlc or they update the game once or twice maybe some non canon boss fights of villians/protags of other ff games
This is the first I heard that a main dev from PS5 Strikers worked on this and that makes so much sense. Very little of the gameplay reminds me of DS games. And it's not as frantic as DMC/Bayonetta, but there's definitely a quick flow to combat.
My husband and I play this coop together and I legit cannot imagine playing this solo only. It feels like a COMPLETELY different game. We also realized I can stay whatever character that I want the entire time (Neon obvi) but my husband HAS to be Jack the whole time and host the room. AND I get to basically use his Neon as my "glam"/"transmog" as it's what HIS Neon is wearing, despite me playing as her because TECHNICALLY it's using MY Jack's gear. Unnecessarily clunky but doable I guess. We both like it a lot but wow it has so many things to nitpick.
I was wondering how multiplayer worked, but man is that clunky. IDK why they made it so that you can only play Jack in the main campaign when all of those characters were pretty fleshed out moveset wise.
I bought this game at release and I was so upset how much I unironically loved it but now I just love how stupid and fun it is. I also appreciate how you can completely remap the controls so I adjusted it so it’s more similar to Kingdom Hearts “press X to win” and pushing the big damage stamina button in between. I play with a friend and its a lot better to be honest, even if I have to explain every FF reference to him its so much fun. If you just dont take it too seriously and have fun its so good. Still havent actually finished it but looking forward to it!
I remember when "Give Me Chaos" song kicked in on TH-cam when I was playing this game and I've burst out laughing for how it reminded me of Jack's attitude. X3
Am I the only person that watched this whole thing and patiently waited for a thorough take on how the multiplayer influences this games experience playing the story start to finish? Only to be met with, eh I'm not gonna explain it. Kinda disappointed on that front. Edit: if anyone carees I could explain how the multiplayer works and effects the game.
My guess is their fix for that first demo was to actually just release a previous, working build, instead of the prepared demo build. Just a big guess tho.
This game needs its flowers. I picked it up and it was new but then got distracted with other things like Elden Ring finally went back to it and finished it and this is easily one of my favorite ninja games maybe better than nioh 2. Had more fun with it in the end.
I’m happy you mentioned how Jack being excessively obsessed with Chaos was somehow intended. I think they didn’t expect memes to take off like that, but Jack‘s longing to meet Chaos ties pretty nicely to the revelations towards the end of the game in my opinion.
I love this game? like I played the demo and I was like "Okay! this game is actually dope!" it's the first time I didn't just listen to public perception of people saying "it's just final fantasy angry man LMAO!" and gave it a shot and I'm actually waiting for the last dlc to drop this weekend and I'm actually excited! it's challenging without being impossibly hard for me personally. I couldn't beat nioh 2 or bloodborne, but I can play this on normal difficulty and I'm enjoying my time with it! it was the fast paced action game I needed for when I needed that type of stimulation! also I love jack tho?! like I didn't think I would but his dialogue and personality, he's so blunt and straight forward but he's not mean either. edit: side-note, I played nioh 2 as well and I can't even beat the first area in that, but I can play this no problem. so I dunno what that says about this game over that game, or about me as a player~
Also your point about Doom Eternal doesn’t really line up because “Doomguy” never interrupts gameplay to talk about how much he hates demons. Like yeah he’s one dimensional but HE isn’t really intrusive or the focus of the game itself.
I think Jack stopped became "cringe" to me the moment they tell you that something's messing with his head (and all the other party members) especially after seeing all the flashback/forward. There's a reason why he's like this, and the desire to know is one of the main motivation why you want to keep playing. It's still hilarious mind you when he spouts CHAOS, but I was also curious what makes him like this, the whole black crystal memory shenanigans, etc. Also I'd take "cringe" that's completely honest over the quippy irony dialogues that's been around in all kinds of media recently.
I don't understand Team Ninja's obsession with loot penatas. By the time I finished Nioh I was just so done with the game. I thought it was because the game overstayed it's welcome but now I know is that I was just exhausted by the constant barrage of useless loot and the endless inventory navigation. That loot system is literally the only thing that holds me back from trying this and Nioh 2.
In terms of the loot issue, the game added an auto-dismantle option that lets you sell equipment below a certain level after missions. You do have to go into settings every new mission to update the level of equipment you want to get rid of, but overall, it greatly reduces stress over inventory management.
I agree that the opening is just odd, also, I noticed they mentions that their was supposed to by *4* warriors of light, which makes me think that Jack, Ash, and Jed aren’t the true warriors of light, and that something else is going on, ESPECIALLY with Jack, he just seems odd.
Man I tried the performance mode on my PS4 and oooh Boi that resolution was killer. Mind you I played nioh 2 to death and it wasn't that bad! So I don't know what happened since this is basically nioh with a FF skin on it.
We don't know how long it was in development but someone pointed out that as a new game they probably had to use mostly new assets compared to what they had with Nioh 2. But even then this probably needed another couple months to work on visuals since the gameplay is good.
Nioh never punished us for dying. I have 500 hours in Nioh and never lost my Amrita points once. Why? Because I always carried a bunch of Summoner's Candle. You can use this item to recover your lost points from anywhere. Not to mention that you can buy these candles for pretty cheap using Glory points from the hub area. Kill like 3-4 low level phantoms and you will have enough glory points to buy a couple candles. Even better, join a popular clan and rake in thousands of glory points without doing anything. You also find these candles in every mission. You will always have 7-8 of these candles on you before you start any mission. That's more than enough to make sure you never lose your hard earned xp points.
The Nioh type of inventory drops I think came from games like Diablo 2 but there's a couple of reasons it worked there better than it does now. First: monsters also dropped gold so you didn't feel bad about leaving a bunch of shitty equipment on the ground because you could just buy what you wanted later. Second: your inventory space was much more limited so deciding what you wanted and what you didn't was easy and quick to do at a glance rather than sifting through multiple different scrolling pages of hundreds of similar items each.
I love and hate this game for being simpler than Nioh but still have a good time. This story is so cringe and its been so fun to watch and have a good laugh with a couple drinks in hand lol At the end of the day I look at this as the game to hold me over for a little bit till the next true Nioh style experience. Team Ninja need to step it up.
im suprised you did not really talk about the multiplayer of this game which is in my opinion one of the best features of this game just me and the boys going on a final fantasy adventure and laughing our asses off at the story
If you see starting scene you will root for Jack.. Chaos came took princess, killed everyone and ruined everything but him.. He needs an answer.. Why he is alive! Like : i wasn't good enough for you to kill?? so im gonna F you up
I picked this up out of curiosity and because of the meme and I honestly enjoyed it despite the flaws. Also funny how people clowned on Jack at first but now call him based.
This game seems like a cross of Nioh, FFI, FFIII, Dissidia. Nioh in combat, FFI in plot, FFIII in the job system and it seeming like certain jobs aren't options but answers, and Dissidia in the team based RPG combat happening in real time.
I like this game for what it is. I can also understand why Final Fantasy fans wouldn’t like this game. I also enjoyed Nioh, so there’s that. Edit to add: the loot system is rough in this game and in Nioh. In both I found myself spending unreasonable amounts of time fiddling with my inventory between missions. I hate the idea that I may dismantle or sell a piece of equipment that is better than what I have or may be useful for a different job soon. Also hate the idea that I may be carrying around something that I should have equipped so my playtime gets heavily bogged down by my own mental barriers
As someone who has played Nioh and Nioh 2 an unhealthy amount, I can say from experience that, yes, the equipment only starts becoming useful in the endgame, by which I mean the hardest difficulty and the Abyss. In Nioh you eventually start unlocking a new tier of equipment that has new and crazy set bonuses, along with brand new armor and weapon effects. You can then start configuring your armor to offer you complete negation of ranged attack damage. Or you can reconfigure your character to be a complete unarmed beast. Or you can supercharge your own ranged weapons or magic. You even get access to gimmick builds that use the consumable items that basically become useless after the first New Game cycle, like a +5000% damage bonus to Rocks. All the mechanics at the blacksmith the game throws at you in New Game start actually getting used, and they are all pretty useful. There's definite criticisms to be had about locking all this cool shit behind 3 or 4 playthroughs of the game, but if you like the combat of Nioh as much as I did, its not really something you hold against the game.
The game does kind of feel like Square Enix kind of lost faith in it. It's technically finished, but definitely feels like it lacks some polish. It feels like they kind of dumped it in the wake of Elden Ring with little fanfare and just decided to wait and see how it did.
Love Team Ninja. Especially the Nioh games. I'd already supported the game so I'm going to get to it eventually but....normally I don't care about graphics at all. But the blur and washed out effect at least on ps4 pro....I just can't. Waiting a bit in hopes a patch at least minimizes some of that blur. Lord knows I tried every setting on my tv before going "nah, it's the fuckin game goddammit!" But it's kinda nice to hear they at least attempt a story towards the end. It's never been Team Ninjas strong suit. Though nioh 2 story was cute and cringey and I enjoyed that. (Phenomenal gameplay though, best pure combat going I reckon)
I love ARPGs like Diablo 2 and Path of Exile, so the loot system in Nioh is one of my favorite things about it. However I do acknowledge that just like in PoE, most of the loot is just noise until you complete the campaign.
Man I absolutely DESPISE the way your side teammates comment on the battles. Feels like if I don't do it perfectly they bemoan how absolutely horrible we were at that fight and how we barely survived.
You know, I absolutely LOATHE anything soulslike, including nioh - but when you talked about Jack and his brand of brain damage I immediately knew I have to play this. That level of cringe and idiocy is my vibe :D
I think jacks uncaring one track mind works really well considering hes Garland, the main villain of FF1 and these traits kind of foreshadow that development into said villain
The game get hate and memes, and I like it, like you said that close we get to nioh3 for now, and the game is fun, the story is like junk food for me it so not healthy but you enjoyed. Thanks for the review, can't wait for the ff type 0
If you do a video on the story, it would be interesting to compare it to Mobius Final Fantasy, which has a similar concept of taking place in the world of FFI and about someone who may or may not be a Warrior of Light.
To me, Stranger of Paradise is the best modern Final Fantasy game. The cringe with it's story and presentation is not a bug but a feature, Jack's simplemindedness helps with both the game's story and pacing in just getting straight to the point and not bothering with any of the trivialities like many other FF games tend to do. It also remembers to be a video game as well and not what I would personally call an interactive anime like other JRPGs (I mean, they're still video games, but they're often paced like an anime with how heavily story-based they tend to be). What I think is also forgotten about the first FF was that it wasn't necessarily a story-driven game, but more of an adventure/journey driven one, exploring an unknown yet hostile world that your party found themselves in and they don't know why. On top of your characters being created entirely by you, it was basically Dungeons and Dragons, The Game, not counting that the concept of Bahamut being a dragon king and not a giant fish IRL mythology was something taken from D&D.
Ngl, I thought this game was just gonna be another ff spin-off with a combat system similar to FFXV or FF7 Remake. Seeing how it was developed by the same team who’ve made Nioh and its gameplay is similar it’s made me re-think about buying this game. I love Nioh 2 btw, out of all souls-like games out there (even though it plays out more like a rpg ninja gaiden) I’ve found it to have the most entertaining combat so far.
Great video! I really like the feel of this game, and I wish Square Enix would humble themselves enough to stop doing cash grab tactics. They seem like a juggernaut, but I always hear how they have financial struggles. Stop hyping everyone up with some new release, only to take several years to actually release it. One of my favorite franchises takes advantage of its customers and it's not cool. I'll probably get this game when it's under 25 bucks. hey, they make me wait all the time. lol Peep thiS: If they could have added the world map like you mentioned in type zero...
I loved this game! I loved NioH too so I was part of the problem audience Square went after, unashamedly lol. I loved how on Hard and Chaos difficulty you had to actually use the right job for bosses instead of normal where it didn't really matter as long as you were decent at the combat. But man I hate NioH gear system in all games, I feel like I'm doing a chore just breaking shit down to upgrade a gear or weapon I'm probably going to ditch in two levels anyway. I knew it was coming in SoP so I saved up everything until I got the warrior of light gear set and just dumped everything into that. Still have that build and don't need to change anything for late game Chaos difficulty levels 😎. Yeah I broke it but who gaf it's their fault for forcing me to bogart everything in the game over multiple playthroughs lol. I did use it though, the disassemble and upgrade system, just not as much as I think the game wanted me to; idk it could be a me thing.
I had to unfollow the SE instagram bc they were spoiling the game A LOT, like showing things that weren't even in trailers, and revealing plot twists. Like, what the fuck?
Chaos
Are you going to make a review for Final Fantasy 14???? Nier is in there.
Thank you Brando , you made me spend way to much , for a game that had ... questionable review ... yet again. (My wallet hates you) But what can i say except...CHAOS
Wish you covered the multiplayer experience.
Chaos
Chaos…. Good game but a bunch of nonsense imo . Would be better without the one shot enemies.
Just started. My favorite interaction so far:
Innkeeper: Will you stay the night?
Jack: *grunts*
Innkeeper: I hoped you'd say that!
What's with that scene though? It feels like the inn keeper has a thing for Jack and Jack doesn't want to admit that he has a thing with the inn keeper. lol
The scene with the Elf king.
Ek: Astos
Jk: Astos?
Ek: Friend of yours?
Jk: Never heard of him
😅
Angry based man in a cringe world wants to kill Chaos... He's the hero we need
Sounds like real life
No cap
Square Enix: We have the Doom Slayer at home!
The Doom Slayer at home.
Jack: ...chaos...
Seeing the Lore retcons of Doom Eternal regarding Doom Slayer, I much prefer Jack
Slap some sunglasses on him, and he'd be the Duke Nukem of Final Fantasy.
All it's missing is for him to unironically start playing The only thing they fear is you, on his walkman.
Jack is like the dude from Goblin Slayer except he's obssessed with Chaos instead of goblins
Absolutely, and the voice actor for Goblin Slayer (Umehara Yuuichirou) has very similar fucks-given-zero energy to Tsuda.
Chaos ?
DId some one say "Chaos"!?
Sounds like he'd be way more effective, considering how many things are linked to Chaos.
🤣🤣🤣
A shirtless Jack walking up to the King with all the swag in the world. ART!
As a goblin brain, this excessive amount of loot appeals to me
My kobold brain agrees. GIVE SHINIES!
Your penalty for dying is losing your Max MP and getting it reset to 200 (Two bars) from whatever it was. You can get it back though (Before possibly dying again) by finding an orb of red smoke usually right where you died.
Nice to see that Luxord Forma De CHAOS is voiced by Kaiba, not much of a change from dragon autism to chaos autism, and I love it.
In Nioh you could transfer the random bonuses from one item to another, so there were uses for them. Here, all the gear's abilities are basically set. It's just keeping the Nioh drop system even though equipment is way different and simpler now, so that's weird.
yall forgot that there will be (they are out already atm) 3 dlcs like TN does for all their games, with new mechanics, difficulties etc. first playthrough is basically a tutorial with the majority of the options locked.
@@vault29a I didn't forget anything. It's still a better game than Wo Long at least.
@@Kasaazis that true? Played wo long but not this but wasn’t feeling wo long.
@@tristanward9937 I liked this more. Because the parrying system is also a resource so you are rewarded more for good timing, but aren't punished completely by bad timing. It feels like you get to learn better. Also a lot of the abilities and spells in Wo Long felt tacked on and useless. Jobs in this game are simple, but each of their abilities feels like it has a purpose.
THANK YOU for highlighting Tsuda as Jack. I honestly don't think SOPFFO would work as well as it does without his inimitable gravel. I was iffy on the demo but then I heard his voice and whoomp pre-order done. Great video.
Not playing with the dub of this game should be a crime
Dub is better.
Man Japan didn't have to give the protag the coolest voice actor in the history of humanity! This guy is a God and imma have to play this on Japanese if I ever buy this game 🤣
This was a great review. No bitching and whining, but still telling us what to expect.
Jack seems like he'll be lots of fun to watch 🤣
More like defending everything about the game
@@vicentegeonix I just bought it today, let you know how it goes
@@cinamynj obviously you are gonna enjoy it
@cinamynj it's been 2 months
@@Rohgamu story, characters, world and gameplay are all awesome. The ending was especially interesting
The loot system can’t be enjoyed until max level, since you keep levelling up SO fast. Don’t get to strategise your gear.
On high level, you can recovery mp by using the special ability on specific jobs. You can build unlimited mp with only 1 s casting is also possible. The fact that you can’t really cheat through bosses aren’t something Soul games tend to have since they don’t use other systems that work to encounter it and you can just break the game for ppl with your build (which will eventually get down to the hill if ppl start to just following one formula of build)
No escape is a reference to cactuars immediately running from battle on their first turn in games like FF8
I’ve never played Nioh so I loved the comparison! It all makes so much more sense with that context. I absolutely can’t wait to try this out.
I've been busy with work but the small time i spent with the latest demo really pushed me into wanting to buy it once i finish triangle strategy. I'm still surprised it's already out it feels like they just announced it the other day but maybe i just don't follow the right people and news stuff so i missed it's other trailers. Hopefully there is some dlc or they update the game once or twice maybe some non canon boss fights of villians/protags of other ff games
This is the first I heard that a main dev from PS5 Strikers worked on this and that makes so much sense. Very little of the gameplay reminds me of DS games. And it's not as frantic as DMC/Bayonetta, but there's definitely a quick flow to combat.
My husband and I play this coop together and I legit cannot imagine playing this solo only. It feels like a COMPLETELY different game. We also realized I can stay whatever character that I want the entire time (Neon obvi) but my husband HAS to be Jack the whole time and host the room. AND I get to basically use his Neon as my "glam"/"transmog" as it's what HIS Neon is wearing, despite me playing as her because TECHNICALLY it's using MY Jack's gear. Unnecessarily clunky but doable I guess. We both like it a lot but wow it has so many things to nitpick.
I was wondering how multiplayer worked, but man is that clunky. IDK why they made it so that you can only play Jack in the main campaign when all of those characters were pretty fleshed out moveset wise.
It’s so bizarre seeing an M rated final fantasy game
16 sounds like it’ll be damn near mature
Final fantasy Type 0 was M Rated as well!
@@dev8582 It will be Mature.
Great video, loving the loot system.
I bought this game at release and I was so upset how much I unironically loved it but now I just love how stupid and fun it is. I also appreciate how you can completely remap the controls so I adjusted it so it’s more similar to Kingdom Hearts “press X to win” and pushing the big damage stamina button in between. I play with a friend and its a lot better to be honest, even if I have to explain every FF reference to him its so much fun. If you just dont take it too seriously and have fun its so good. Still havent actually finished it but looking forward to it!
I did not know that my equipped stuff wouldn't be broken down and have been removed checkmarks. Well until now. Great video!
I love the fact that the first non-FF1 dungeon you go through is the first dungeon in FF14, it feels kinda proper
I remember when "Give Me Chaos" song kicked in on TH-cam when I was playing this game and I've burst out laughing for how it reminded me of Jack's attitude. X3
Am I the only person that watched this whole thing and patiently waited for a thorough take on
how the multiplayer influences this games experience playing the story start to finish? Only to be met
with, eh I'm not gonna explain it. Kinda disappointed on that front.
Edit: if anyone carees I could explain how the multiplayer works and effects the game.
Tell me. Please.
Me: *Isn't interested in playing Stranger of Paradise*
brando: *Shows me Jack's muscles*
me: mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
My guess is their fix for that first demo was to actually just release a previous, working build, instead of the prepared demo build. Just a big guess tho.
This game needs its flowers. I picked it up and it was new but then got distracted with other things like Elden Ring finally went back to it and finished it and this is easily one of my favorite ninja games maybe better than nioh 2. Had more fun with it in the end.
I’m happy you mentioned how Jack being excessively obsessed with Chaos was somehow intended.
I think they didn’t expect memes to take off like that, but Jack‘s longing to meet Chaos ties pretty nicely to the revelations towards the end of the game in my opinion.
I love this game?
like I played the demo and I was like "Okay! this game is actually dope!"
it's the first time I didn't just listen to public perception of people saying "it's just final fantasy angry man LMAO!" and gave it a shot and I'm actually waiting for the last dlc to drop this weekend and I'm actually excited!
it's challenging without being impossibly hard for me personally.
I couldn't beat nioh 2 or bloodborne, but I can play this on normal difficulty and I'm enjoying my time with it!
it was the fast paced action game I needed for when I needed that type of stimulation!
also I love jack tho?! like I didn't think I would but his dialogue and personality, he's so blunt and straight forward but he's not mean either.
edit: side-note, I played nioh 2 as well and I can't even beat the first area in that, but I can play this no problem. so I dunno what that says about this game over that game, or about me as a player~
Jack is basically me as a player. Skip every cutscene, skip story, no need to listen to what the Boss said, shut up I'm here to kill Chaos.
Also your point about Doom Eternal doesn’t really line up because “Doomguy” never interrupts gameplay to talk about how much he hates demons.
Like yeah he’s one dimensional but HE isn’t really intrusive or the focus of the game itself.
I think Jack stopped became "cringe" to me the moment they tell you that something's messing with his head (and all the other party members) especially after seeing all the flashback/forward. There's a reason why he's like this, and the desire to know is one of the main motivation why you want to keep playing. It's still hilarious mind you when he spouts CHAOS, but I was also curious what makes him like this, the whole black crystal memory shenanigans, etc.
Also I'd take "cringe" that's completely honest over the quippy irony dialogues that's been around in all kinds of media recently.
THIS IS A NIOH LIKE!? I'm getting this shit right now! Nioh 1 and 2 are one of my favorite games ever.
banger video king
This is my first time watching one of your vids and I love the same games you do. Subscribed!
This games pc optimization is utter CHAOS !!
24:50
Poor rebuttal, people don't play DOOM to understand DoomGuy as a character.
27:40 Jack looks lowkey like Johnny Lawrence here 😂🥋
I don't understand Team Ninja's obsession with loot penatas. By the time I finished Nioh I was just so done with the game. I thought it was because the game overstayed it's welcome but now I know is that I was just exhausted by the constant barrage of useless loot and the endless inventory navigation. That loot system is literally the only thing that holds me back from trying this and Nioh 2.
"I'm not going to spoil amything"
Already told us jack is garland
Nioh 2 is my favorite game ever, so stranger of paradise is a fever dream, and I adore it.
In terms of the loot issue, the game added an auto-dismantle option that lets you sell equipment below a certain level after missions. You do have to go into settings every new mission to update the level of equipment you want to get rid of, but overall, it greatly reduces stress over inventory management.
If only Nioh 2 had this 😭😭😭
I love Chaos guy
I agree that the opening is just odd, also, I noticed they mentions that their was supposed to by *4* warriors of light, which makes me think that Jack, Ash, and Jed aren’t the true warriors of light, and that something else is going on, ESPECIALLY with Jack, he just seems odd.
I mean... I ain't gonna spoil nothing 👀
I Hope They Are The Warriors of DARKNESS & Were Chaos the whole time. I am getting this ASAP
I would be on board for a game like this for every FF entry
If ''SKIPP'' button was a videogame character the Game.
Bro... i bet the red haired party member is gonna be the warrior of light in the sequel if there is one.
The graphics look great honestly.
Man I tried the performance mode on my PS4 and oooh Boi that resolution was killer.
Mind you I played nioh 2 to death and it wasn't that bad! So I don't know what happened since this is basically nioh with a FF skin on it.
We don't know how long it was in development but someone pointed out that as a new game they probably had to use mostly new assets compared to what they had with Nioh 2. But even then this probably needed another couple months to work on visuals since the gameplay is good.
I’ll probably pick this up for 20 dollars next year and then put it in my backlog never to be seen again.
Nioh never punished us for dying. I have 500 hours in Nioh and never lost my Amrita points once. Why? Because I always carried a bunch of Summoner's Candle. You can use this item to recover your lost points from anywhere. Not to mention that you can buy these candles for pretty cheap using Glory points from the hub area. Kill like 3-4 low level phantoms and you will have enough glory points to buy a couple candles. Even better, join a popular clan and rake in thousands of glory points without doing anything. You also find these candles in every mission. You will always have 7-8 of these candles on you before you start any mission. That's more than enough to make sure you never lose your hard earned xp points.
The game has really good strong points and really annoying problems. I enjoyed it a lot, and will most likely play it again eventually.
The Nioh type of inventory drops I think came from games like Diablo 2 but there's a couple of reasons it worked there better than it does now.
First: monsters also dropped gold so you didn't feel bad about leaving a bunch of shitty equipment on the ground because you could just buy what you wanted later.
Second: your inventory space was much more limited so deciding what you wanted and what you didn't was easy and quick to do at a glance rather than sifting through multiple different scrolling pages of hundreds of similar items each.
I love and hate this game for being simpler than Nioh but still have a good time. This story is so cringe and its been so fun to watch and have a good laugh with a couple drinks in hand lol
At the end of the day I look at this as the game to hold me over for a little bit till the next true Nioh style experience. Team Ninja need to step it up.
Pretty chaotic development team and game.
Guess I understand why Jack wants to kill chaos.
Great game. Great review.
Chaos, btw.
im suprised you did not really talk about the multiplayer of this game which is in my opinion one of the best features of this game just me and the boys going on a final fantasy adventure and laughing our asses off at the story
If you see starting scene you will root for Jack..
Chaos came took princess, killed everyone and ruined everything but him..
He needs an answer..
Why he is alive!
Like : i wasn't good enough for you to kill??
so im gonna F you up
4500?! LMAO I'd be playing inventory management sim
I picked this up out of curiosity and because of the meme and I honestly enjoyed it despite the flaws. Also funny how people clowned on Jack at first but now call him based.
youre vids rule. subbed for the fantasy zero, stayed for the paradise :)
This game seems like a cross of Nioh, FFI, FFIII, Dissidia. Nioh in combat, FFI in plot, FFIII in the job system and it seeming like certain jobs aren't options but answers, and Dissidia in the team based RPG combat happening in real time.
I like this game for what it is. I can also understand why Final Fantasy fans wouldn’t like this game. I also enjoyed Nioh, so there’s that.
Edit to add: the loot system is rough in this game and in Nioh. In both I found myself spending unreasonable amounts of time fiddling with my inventory between missions. I hate the idea that I may dismantle or sell a piece of equipment that is better than what I have or may be useful for a different job soon. Also hate the idea that I may be carrying around something that I should have equipped so my playtime gets heavily bogged down by my own mental barriers
I'll wait till it comes to steam with a sale.
Thanks for a good review.
As someone who has played Nioh and Nioh 2 an unhealthy amount, I can say from experience that, yes, the equipment only starts becoming useful in the endgame, by which I mean the hardest difficulty and the Abyss. In Nioh you eventually start unlocking a new tier of equipment that has new and crazy set bonuses, along with brand new armor and weapon effects.
You can then start configuring your armor to offer you complete negation of ranged attack damage. Or you can reconfigure your character to be a complete unarmed beast. Or you can supercharge your own ranged weapons or magic. You even get access to gimmick builds that use the consumable items that basically become useless after the first New Game cycle, like a +5000% damage bonus to Rocks. All the mechanics at the blacksmith the game throws at you in New Game start actually getting used, and they are all pretty useful.
There's definite criticisms to be had about locking all this cool shit behind 3 or 4 playthroughs of the game, but if you like the combat of Nioh as much as I did, its not really something you hold against the game.
The game does kind of feel like Square Enix kind of lost faith in it. It's technically finished, but definitely feels like it lacks some polish. It feels like they kind of dumped it in the wake of Elden Ring with little fanfare and just decided to wait and see how it did.
You lose mp on death which you can regain from where you previously died. You can’t do this for bosses though.
You can't? Whenever I played with a buddy of mine and we died at a boss, we got our mp back once we enter the boss arena
Way of the househusband jack. thats all I can think of hearing him talk. XD
Word
I don't know if you ever played Mobius Final Fantasy, but in a way it felt like the prototype for the narrative of Stranger.
(Sees mini intro) (instant like)
Love Team Ninja. Especially the Nioh games. I'd already supported the game so I'm going to get to it eventually but....normally I don't care about graphics at all. But the blur and washed out effect at least on ps4 pro....I just can't.
Waiting a bit in hopes a patch at least minimizes some of that blur. Lord knows I tried every setting on my tv before going "nah, it's the fuckin game goddammit!"
But it's kinda nice to hear they at least attempt a story towards the end. It's never been Team Ninjas strong suit. Though nioh 2 story was cute and cringey and I enjoyed that. (Phenomenal gameplay though, best pure combat going I reckon)
Team ninja didnt write the story it was square enix lol
This game is as much "Nioh 3" as "The Surge" is "Lords of the Fallen 2".
I love ARPGs like Diablo 2 and Path of Exile, so the loot system in Nioh is one of my favorite things about it. However I do acknowledge that just like in PoE, most of the loot is just noise until you complete the campaign.
Hi, i am one of those players that fucking LOVES loot drops. Gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme
Man I absolutely DESPISE the way your side teammates comment on the battles. Feels like if I don't do it perfectly they bemoan how absolutely horrible we were at that fight and how we barely survived.
So Nanami gets killed in Shibuya in JJK, then revived in Ashina, dies again, and now he's on a mission to kill Chaos?
You know, I absolutely LOATHE anything soulslike, including nioh - but when you talked about Jack and his brand of brain damage I immediately knew I have to play this. That level of cringe and idiocy is my vibe :D
You have bad tastes
I really enjoyed Nioh 1&2 and the combat is pretty great, and I love Final Fantasy so one day I'll play it.
Great video as always!
Thanks man!
8:05 looks like great sword from monster hunter
Been playing it loving the gameplay. Do we unlock transmog later on?
I do not believe we do
@@ThBrando what do you mean?
@@shaminabalamo525 There's no Transmog system.
Jack is a gigachad.
I think jacks uncaring one track mind works really well considering hes Garland, the main villain of FF1 and these traits kind of foreshadow that development into said villain
The game get hate and memes, and I like it, like you said that close we get to nioh3 for now, and the game is fun, the story is like junk food for me it so not healthy but you enjoyed. Thanks for the review, can't wait for the ff type 0
Japanese Va from jack is also seto kaiba from yugioh.
If you do a video on the story, it would be interesting to compare it to Mobius Final Fantasy, which has a similar concept of taking place in the world of FFI and about someone who may or may not be a Warrior of Light.
I think you mean "THE BOUNCEEERRRRRRRRRRR"
To me, Stranger of Paradise is the best modern Final Fantasy game. The cringe with it's story and presentation is not a bug but a feature, Jack's simplemindedness helps with both the game's story and pacing in just getting straight to the point and not bothering with any of the trivialities like many other FF games tend to do. It also remembers to be a video game as well and not what I would personally call an interactive anime like other JRPGs (I mean, they're still video games, but they're often paced like an anime with how heavily story-based they tend to be).
What I think is also forgotten about the first FF was that it wasn't necessarily a story-driven game, but more of an adventure/journey driven one, exploring an unknown yet hostile world that your party found themselves in and they don't know why. On top of your characters being created entirely by you, it was basically Dungeons and Dragons, The Game, not counting that the concept of Bahamut being a dragon king and not a giant fish IRL mythology was something taken from D&D.
The fact that this feels like a remake/reimagining of the original final fantasy got me hooked. The rest ehhh, it could've done better than Nioh
Nioh 2 is BETTER than Final Fantasy so a Final Fantasy with Nioh Gameplay is Smart
Ngl, I thought this game was just gonna be another ff spin-off with a combat system similar to FFXV or FF7 Remake. Seeing how it was developed by the same team who’ve made Nioh and its gameplay is similar it’s made me re-think about buying this game. I love Nioh 2 btw, out of all souls-like games out there (even though it plays out more like a rpg ninja gaiden) I’ve found it to have the most entertaining combat so far.
I'm waiting for this to hit ps plus I'm sure it will anytime now
This game is like Michael bays god hand
First, it was The Doom Slayer. Then, it was The Goblin Slayer. Now, we have The Chaos Slayer.
Great video! I really like the feel of this game, and I wish Square Enix would humble themselves enough to stop doing cash grab tactics. They seem like a juggernaut, but I always hear how they have financial struggles. Stop hyping everyone up with some new release, only to take several years to actually release it. One of my favorite franchises takes advantage of its customers and it's not cool. I'll probably get this game when it's under 25 bucks. hey, they make me wait all the time. lol
Peep thiS: If they could have added the world map like you mentioned in type zero...
I'm sorry to ask that on a video that is absolutely not related but are you going to do a Nier Reincarnation story summary of the season 2 ?
I loved this game! I loved NioH too so I was part of the problem audience Square went after, unashamedly lol. I loved how on Hard and Chaos difficulty you had to actually use the right job for bosses instead of normal where it didn't really matter as long as you were decent at the combat. But man I hate NioH gear system in all games, I feel like I'm doing a chore just breaking shit down to upgrade a gear or weapon I'm probably going to ditch in two levels anyway. I knew it was coming in SoP so I saved up everything until I got the warrior of light gear set and just dumped everything into that. Still have that build and don't need to change anything for late game Chaos difficulty levels 😎. Yeah I broke it but who gaf it's their fault for forcing me to bogart everything in the game over multiple playthroughs lol. I did use it though, the disassemble and upgrade system, just not as much as I think the game wanted me to; idk it could be a me thing.
I had to unfollow the SE instagram bc they were spoiling the game A LOT, like showing things that weren't even in trailers, and revealing plot twists. Like, what the fuck?