I remember playing this game due to a friend's recommendation many moons ago. He said, and I quote, "There's a girl in this game with her cheeks out and the RPG stuff is kinda cool I guess". Did not regret playing this one.
Glad to see some Sudeki love, very underrated gem. Also shoutout to the person who wrote the dialogues/interactions in this game. In the port town cemetery there is grave that reads: “Here lies Maomao (iirc), our cat. He wasn’t as elastic as we thought.” Or something along those lines. It always made child me laugh lol
OH MY GOD. This game is my childhood. I've always wanted someone to fully appraise this game. Yes, the game is chock-full of tonal whiplash but quite honestly it gives it such a surreal charm... The Developers, Climax Studios, are still around and their most recent big release was Returnal - So they have the resources they can throw around if they really wanted to make the game they wanted to make all the way back when... I'm part of the audience that yearns for the aesthetic of this game fifty times over and I'd buy a copy of a Sudeki Remaster or Sudeki "Remake" (a la something Fable Anniversary) for myself and all my friends. This is a secret gem that way more people need to know about, I want more games that play like Sudeki but with more fleshed out systems... ones that mean you don't have to funnel all the best statboosting items to Tal just to make the final boss go smoother, to start with.
I did that whole thing where you have 400 games in your Steam Library but "nothing" to play, just endlessly scrolling the list till I came across Sudeki. I must have gotten it in a bundle over on fanatical or humble so I decided to give it s try. I played it for 4 hours straight, I really, really enjoyed it. I was playong all characters rotationally every fight, it kept things fresh. I haven't played it since (2019 I think) but I still have fond memories of it. I took an exact screenshot like the one you showed. It really is a beautiful game.
Well this is a blast of nostalgia. I vaguely remember this game, mostly the character designs but the story as a whole escapes me. Thank you for reminding me of this game!
Jurgen and Hambos arguing if furries are better than scalies, or vice versa. Still relevant to this very day! Seriously though, thanks for the nostalgia trip.
Sudeki was certainly unique. I would love a remaster of this. And Shadow Hearts series. (I bought Covenant just from the resplendent redhead on the cover, so our younger selves were definitely similar.)
@@gregoryclutter5990 Shadow Hearts is never coming back. Universal Entertainment Corp (former Azure) is a bank/casino now. They also don't seem interested in selling the Shadow Hearts IP either. So unless another corporation like Microsoft decides to buy them, that is one franchise we will never see again.
I couldn't afford a Gameboy "something" and Kingdom Hearts "whatever it was on there" with my Christmas money so I ended up buying SH Covenant instead. Absolutely no regrets. Definitely would love a remaster of a lot of old early 2000s games.
I love this game, honestly I haven't seen a game quite like this ever since. The ambience, the vibe, the switching between the characters and the real-time fighting. Had this not been rushed I know it would have been stacking up well compared to the other big RPGs.
This game has a neat place in my mind in that even though it's mid, you can tell it's a developer's pet project. One of the guys that worked on the game even posted the cut additional 5 seconds of the ending for some actual satisfaction.
The one thing that I will always come to mind when I remember the game is the butchered cat that was cut into 3 different parts by the bad guys when they invaded. I kinda found it strange how detailed all the murdered villagers were in that part, but the cat really took the cake.
I remember Sudeki well. Playing it on my Xbox back then without a care in the world. Sudeki was a great game for the time. But falls short in comparison to FFX.
Sudeki was one of my many first JRPGs I played and I remember as a Kid I had NIGHTMARES with the games story and difficulty, The first boss and its music fucking scared I had to literally pause the game every time, and whenever I got back to it and tried to replay the game I would always get scared. Thank you for covering such a amazing classic
I still remember getting rekt by the difficulty spike of the shadow realm, both my melee characters downed with no healing supplies, and for the first time other than the tutorial swapped to Ailish in desperation, and absolutely decimated everyone with the magic rail-gun of absolute destruction. I always kept her and Buki equipped with the best ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
This game reminds me of a mid 2007 summers day, its a game im kinda mad i didnt have as a kid because I wouldve absolutely loved it with all my heart, but im glad im playing it now because it brings back the 8 year old in me that was all about these types of games
The main memory i have of this is losing my absolute mind about the color coded puzzles! Being colorblind in a time when the internet was a luxury I would take me hours to brute force those damn puzzles!
Maaan I remember playing the demo for this on one of the old official Xbox magazines demo discs and picking it up the week it came out. Beat it in a single weekend and loved it back then. When it popped on steam one day many years later I picked it up and replayed through it for nostalgia sake. It definitely was a very much of it's time in the feeling of it but in a good way. Still one of my favorite rpgs of that era.
Honestly Sudeki was and still is one of my favorite games of all times and well Buki was one of these characters that influenced my taste in the fairer gender a lot as a teenager. Also my favorite track of the game is the Akloria theme and Brightwater is the second place, great to sleep to honestly :)
I remember playing this on Xbox when it came out. It's not a bad game and it is woefully overlooked. I had no idea that Tom Baker was the voice of the narrator.
I wish they made a remake the way the game was intended to be, without rushed ending and with finished plotlines. Also, New Brightwater and Crystal Reef themes slap. I still listen to them on occasion.
I'm quite fond of Sudeki. Thought it was just me being as dumb kid but when it released on GOG i found myself really enjoying it for what it is. Combat is varied and unique. Art style is pleasant and holds up surprisingly well. Even the story as goofy and inconsistent as it is i still found interesting for the most part. Shame the last 2 hours are rushed to hell with an awful ending otherwise I'd call it a forgotten classic. Instead its a very unpolished gem especially for the PC port as you pointed out. Still nice to someone else enjoying it for what it is. A mostly mid, fun time that had potential to be something really great.
I don't remember any of those grisly details from the start of the game. Maybe they did remove some stuff for the German 12+ version. Everything still exploded into blood and fleshy giblets, though.
I had this back in my teens days and it was heavily played in the same time era as Metroid Prime 2: Echoes where both games had the light world/dark world concept and I loved it. Sudeki felt like it was one of those underrated gems cos back in the day it was never brought up in conversation. Also I'd walk with Ailish as often as possible 🤭 Advancing her armor was always bittersweet - more defensive possibilities but less skin. Mind you I was a teenager then. Still like the skin though. 😏
I didn’t even know it existed and yet it’s everything I thought it be. Completely out there anime game when anime could be absolute anything no tropes/down to tie it down.
Dang, i was just revisiting this game off steam. still hoping to find an xbox copy again, after renting it as a kid from the local Video Exchange. Thanks for the video!
This was the last game I played on the Xbox before I sold it to get 360. I was playing all sorts of games before upgrading to it, it was left in the disc tray so they got a free game.
I remember my dad bringing this home at one point the intro cutscene's visuals seared into my mind almost immediately but in a good way but neither he nor I really played it much at all he basically started the tutorial and that was it. Is it worth tracking down? I do have a certain curiousity that demands satisfaction.
i remember back then when i first seen this game on a Gaming TV Show and was so eager to play it until it was revealed it was only on OG Xbox and PC and got so disappointed since i only have a ps2 at that time, then i saw the graphics and learned why it isn't on the ps2
I remember hating it because i was playing at PC and haven't got a gamepad yet, on PC you could get it for super cheap $5 by buying Cd-action magazine 9/2005 (same as Bad Day LA). Maybe i should revisit it now.
This is one of those games where the developers were overly confident in their vision only to fall blindly fall for not seeing the big picture. The early 2000's were an era of high fantasy and stylized cartoon aesthetic, and I only recall most of them being a failure and some being actually bad- like Vex. Not everything could be Jak and Daxter
Oh man, I have a Steam cloud save somewhere in the middle of this game, I got to some city of smiths or mechanics or whatever and lost interest while exploring it. I need to get back to it someday, but I don't remember the interface/controls, or the story... Even when I was playing it I never got a hang of the melee controls, the AI NPCs were much better than me at that, so i just stuck with the ranged attack guy, doing pew pews while my nakamas were throwing combos all over the place.
One of the saddest parts about humanity is the lack of value for human life, but the high value for animal life. When you show a picture of a human cut in half and mauled people, but have to blur the animal one is really sad about our world.
The most baffling thing I got from this is that Baten Kaitos got a remaster, like what?? Also, this was my first Xbox game, pretty fun, kinda janky, but still fun.
I remember playing this game due to a friend's recommendation many moons ago. He said, and I quote, "There's a girl in this game with her cheeks out and the RPG stuff is kinda cool I guess". Did not regret playing this one.
Glad to see some Sudeki love, very underrated gem.
Also shoutout to the person who wrote the dialogues/interactions in this game. In the port town cemetery there is grave that reads: “Here lies Maomao (iirc), our cat. He wasn’t as elastic as we thought.” Or something along those lines. It always made child me laugh lol
That's... that's not funny. :(
or the one that sayd "I told you. I was sick" hahah thats my favorite
I remember Sudeki being recommended on the Xbox because there were so few RPG's on the console. I had an Xbox at the time and remember liking it.
OH MY GOD. This game is my childhood. I've always wanted someone to fully appraise this game.
Yes, the game is chock-full of tonal whiplash but quite honestly it gives it such a surreal charm... The Developers, Climax Studios, are still around and their most recent big release was Returnal - So they have the resources they can throw around if they really wanted to make the game they wanted to make all the way back when... I'm part of the audience that yearns for the aesthetic of this game fifty times over and I'd buy a copy of a Sudeki Remaster or Sudeki "Remake" (a la something Fable Anniversary) for myself and all my friends. This is a secret gem that way more people need to know about, I want more games that play like Sudeki but with more fleshed out systems... ones that mean you don't have to funnel all the best statboosting items to Tal just to make the final boss go smoother, to start with.
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"Im sure the next video will be shorter than 30 minutes" He said in ignorance like the silly rat he is
You silly rat! You only blew it by one minute fifty nine seconds!
What kind of review do you think this, DQ? 😂
PS: Love you, glad I rung the bell ❤
Double it and pass it on
PLEASE STOP MAKING LAME JOKES AND JUST TALK ABOUT THE DAMN GAME!!! AND TOP CENSORING
Don't you know? You need to put out an 8 hour retrospective on morrowind.
As the head of a tiny studio, I love watching these types of videos. Helps give me perspective.
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Indie devs are the ones keeping gaming alive.
What studio, I’d love to take a look at your products.
@@planexshifter We’re still working on our current title’s Steam page. Once it’s done I can comment again and let you know.
You know what the real gamer wants then..good luck with your games in the future
I did that whole thing where you have 400 games in your Steam Library but "nothing" to play, just endlessly scrolling the list till I came across Sudeki. I must have gotten it in a bundle over on fanatical or humble so I decided to give it s try. I played it for 4 hours straight, I really, really enjoyed it. I was playong all characters rotationally every fight, it kept things fresh.
I haven't played it since (2019 I think) but I still have fond memories of it.
I took an exact screenshot like the one you showed. It really is a beautiful game.
Watching this video was like unlocking memories that I had totally forgotten.
"Hey, I... remember that... why do I remember that?!"
Well this is a blast of nostalgia. I vaguely remember this game, mostly the character designs but the story as a whole escapes me. Thank you for reminding me of this game!
I'm actually happy someone finally reviewed this game. i really, really loved it.
Jurgen and Hambos arguing if furries are better than scalies, or vice versa. Still relevant to this very day! Seriously though, thanks for the nostalgia trip.
Sudeki was certainly unique. I would love a remaster of this. And Shadow Hearts series. (I bought Covenant just from the resplendent redhead on the cover, so our younger selves were definitely similar.)
Shadow hearts needs a remaster
@@gregoryclutter5990 Shadow Hearts is never coming back. Universal Entertainment Corp (former Azure) is a bank/casino now. They also don't seem interested in selling the Shadow Hearts IP either. So unless another corporation like Microsoft decides to buy them, that is one franchise we will never see again.
I couldn't afford a Gameboy "something" and Kingdom Hearts "whatever it was on there" with my Christmas money so I ended up buying SH Covenant instead. Absolutely no regrets. Definitely would love a remaster of a lot of old early 2000s games.
I love this game, honestly I haven't seen a game quite like this ever since. The ambience, the vibe, the switching between the characters and the real-time fighting. Had this not been rushed I know it would have been stacking up well compared to the other big RPGs.
Hope this makes dealing with the thumbnail worth it.
Thankyou for reminding me of this game, one of my favorite rpg.
BRO sudeki is a crazy recommendation in 2024. I been thinking about that game since it introduced me to that fcknn dark level that I couldn't pass it
Now that does look pretty interesting. I have zero experience with RPGs on the og Xbox so this was very informative!
Sudeki was a game I saw so much of when I was a kid but no one I knew actually played it. Great video!
You know it's a good video when Legend of Mana music is playing in the background. This was a neat dive into a game I've never heard of. Nice work!
This and secret of mana were among the few real time combat JRPG games that I like.
That Spellforce art though… daaaaaaammmmmmmmn
This game has a neat place in my mind in that even though it's mid, you can tell it's a developer's pet project. One of the guys that worked on the game even posted the cut additional 5 seconds of the ending for some actual satisfaction.
This game looks gorgeous for the OG Xbox. Great framerate, beautiful and rich colors, and solid art direction.
I’m entirely convinced this game never got to finish a proper production, but what we got…
Perfection.
It looks like the kind of game you'd see in the background of a TV show.
So true 😂
The one thing that I will always come to mind when I remember the game is the butchered cat that was cut into 3 different parts by the bad guys when they invaded.
I kinda found it strange how detailed all the murdered villagers were in that part, but the cat really took the cake.
Your comedic timing is improving loads with each video
My fav game of all time, thank you for the review friendo! Nassarias grotto is my favourite track in the game, so glad it's one of your favs too!
I find amusing that "Kamo" 鴨 in Japanese just means "Duck". They didn't try too hard coming up with the names :D
This was preemptive revenge for Japan giving everything bad German names in their pop media.
I remember Sudeki well. Playing it on my Xbox back then without a care in the world. Sudeki was a great game for the time. But falls short in comparison to FFX.
Wow, that music section was great. I sometimes glaze over that bit in video essays on games, but it was really striking
Sudeki was one of my many first JRPGs I played and I remember as a Kid I had NIGHTMARES with the games story and difficulty, The first boss and its music fucking scared I had to literally pause the game every time, and whenever I got back to it and tried to replay the game I would always get scared.
Thank you for covering such a amazing classic
I still remember getting rekt by the difficulty spike of the shadow realm, both my melee characters downed with no healing supplies, and for the first time other than the tutorial swapped to Ailish in desperation, and absolutely decimated everyone with the magic rail-gun of absolute destruction. I always kept her and Buki equipped with the best ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Under 3k subs with this level of quality content? Respect bro, liked and subscribed 🕶️
Oh, I had no idea the sequel for Sudoku ever existed!
Woah... people still remember this game in 2024.
This game reminds me of a mid 2007 summers day, its a game im kinda mad i didnt have as a kid because I wouldve absolutely loved it with all my heart, but im glad im playing it now because it brings back the 8 year old in me that was all about these types of games
I'm so glad I clicked on this review just for the fact that you informed me of a Bate. Kaitos remaster!!! I never finished it back in the day
This animation cutscene are hilarious like wtf
This game sure deserves a remake or remaster with more finished content
The main memory i have of this is losing my absolute mind about the color coded puzzles! Being colorblind in a time when the internet was a luxury I would take me hours to brute force those damn puzzles!
Maaan I remember playing the demo for this on one of the old official Xbox magazines demo discs and picking it up the week it came out. Beat it in a single weekend and loved it back then. When it popped on steam one day many years later I picked it up and replayed through it for nostalgia sake. It definitely was a very much of it's time in the feeling of it but in a good way. Still one of my favorite rpgs of that era.
Honestly Sudeki was and still is one of my favorite games of all times and well Buki was one of these characters that influenced my taste in the fairer gender a lot as a teenager.
Also my favorite track of the game is the Akloria theme and Brightwater is the second place, great to sleep to honestly :)
SOMETHING WORTH MENTIONING IS THE INTRO ON MENU TO RISEN 3 IS POP OUTS BUT NOT SHADOW PUPPETS BUT IT'S STILL VERY UNIQUE.
I remember playing this on Xbox when it came out. It's not a bad game and it is woefully overlooked. I had no idea that Tom Baker was the voice of the narrator.
I wish they made a remake the way the game was intended to be, without rushed ending and with finished plotlines.
Also, New Brightwater and Crystal Reef themes slap. I still listen to them on occasion.
26:13 Love the Music Choice 😂 good ol' DW never misses.
I'm quite fond of Sudeki. Thought it was just me being as dumb kid but when it released on GOG i found myself really enjoying it for what it is. Combat is varied and unique. Art style is pleasant and holds up surprisingly well. Even the story as goofy and inconsistent as it is i still found interesting for the most part. Shame the last 2 hours are rushed to hell with an awful ending otherwise I'd call it a forgotten classic. Instead its a very unpolished gem especially for the PC port as you pointed out.
Still nice to someone else enjoying it for what it is. A mostly mid, fun time that had potential to be something really great.
I don't remember any of those grisly details from the start of the game. Maybe they did remove some stuff for the German 12+ version. Everything still exploded into blood and fleshy giblets, though.
I played the German version I do remember the dead cat.
Dang this game looks incredible!
I had this back in my teens days and it was heavily played in the same time era as Metroid Prime 2: Echoes where both games had the light world/dark world concept and I loved it. Sudeki felt like it was one of those underrated gems cos back in the day it was never brought up in conversation. Also I'd walk with Ailish as often as possible 🤭 Advancing her armor was always bittersweet - more defensive possibilities but less skin. Mind you I was a teenager then. Still like the skin though. 😏
Maaan the nostalgia hits like a truck with this one ❤
Monster Sanctuary was mentioned! Great taste!
As this was my very first M for Mature game i love it to this day
I remember the wolverine claw girl and especially her shadow counterpart awakening something in me.
Wow a new Mandolore Gaming video!
Wow. Thats a trip down memory lane.
God I remember playing this on my windows xp pc that's hardly suited for gaming back in hs. good times!
I didn’t even know it existed and yet it’s everything I thought it be. Completely out there anime game when anime could be absolute anything no tropes/down to tie it down.
I loved this game. I wish this game could have gotten more love
its nice to see forgotten sudeki
Just bought it for the asses and
The combat is surprisingly fun
Looking forward to some new nightmares! (the old ones have gotten stale) 😋
Dang, i was just revisiting this game off steam. still hoping to find an xbox copy again, after renting it as a kid from the local Video Exchange.
Thanks for the video!
This was the last game I played on the Xbox before I sold it to get 360. I was playing all sorts of games before upgrading to it, it was left in the disc tray so they got a free game.
I love this game. I hope they remake it. We keep getting remakes of games that are less than 10 years old.
Dude SpellForce is hot stuff from all aspects 😏
I remember my dad bringing this home at one point the intro cutscene's visuals seared into my mind almost immediately but in a good way but neither he nor I really played it much at all he basically started the tutorial and that was it. Is it worth tracking down? I do have a certain curiousity that demands satisfaction.
I remember getting stuck in the later levels because they didn't give you enough experience and things would kill you very easily.
Now thats a blast from a past. 14 years old me played the shit out of this.
i remember back then when i first seen this game on a Gaming TV Show and was so eager to play it until it was revealed it was only on OG Xbox and PC and got so disappointed since i only have a ps2 at that time, then i saw the graphics and learned why it isn't on the ps2
this game looks like its made by the author of those how to draw manga books
I remember hating it because i was playing at PC and haven't got a gamepad yet, on PC you could get it for super cheap $5 by buying Cd-action magazine 9/2005 (same as Bad Day LA). Maybe i should revisit it now.
This is one of those odd games that you forget... But remember when you see it.
Though for some it is for better or for worse.
Love this video.
This is one of those games where the developers were overly confident in their vision only to fall blindly fall for not seeing the big picture. The early 2000's were an era of high fantasy and stylized cartoon aesthetic, and I only recall most of them being a failure and some being actually bad- like Vex.
Not everything could be Jak and Daxter
I play it 15 years ago and i love it, 1 month ago i trait to play it and buy it on Steam but the game have problems with modern systems :(
Points for BOF3 music!!
I feel like I saw this in passing once when I was younger, and you scratched a very fuzzy but somewhat familiar memory.
Did they make any other games?
"Prizes & Surprises!" - still hear it, dood...... still love it, Dood! ⁉🐒
Oh man, I have a Steam cloud save somewhere in the middle of this game, I got to some city of smiths or mechanics or whatever and lost interest while exploring it. I need to get back to it someday, but I don't remember the interface/controls, or the story... Even when I was playing it I never got a hang of the melee controls, the AI NPCs were much better than me at that, so i just stuck with the ranged attack guy, doing pew pews while my nakamas were throwing combos all over the place.
Loved this game
Well, I wish this was made backwards compatible on Xbox!
SUDEKI MENTIONED
Pls does someone know who voiced Buki?❤❤❤
what is the sound effect from the softlock song? been looking for it forever!
It is kinda of funny how you can switch between a hack-and-slash and an FPS, that's like what if Devil May Cry had a Doom mode.
Crash of the Titans had Shadow puppets. Or maybe it was mind over mutant, but probably the former.
I got this on PC and it worked fine!
15:56 what the hell is that game? A trading game in first person?
Wow actually I managed to find it: Space Trader: Merchant Marine
One of those tracks you presented for the soundtrack sounded very much like Would by Alice in Chains 😊
When you speak of the combat with Elco and Ailish... is that T.R.A.G/Hard Edge soundtrack music i'm hearing?
One of the saddest parts about humanity is the lack of value for human life, but the high value for animal life. When you show a picture of a human cut in half and mauled people, but have to blur the animal one is really sad about our world.
rat ❤️🐀
The most baffling thing I got from this is that Baten Kaitos got a remaster, like what??
Also, this was my first Xbox game, pretty fun, kinda janky, but still fun.
I would like to see this game in one of those ai vid2vid thingies, and not just because of the scantily clad women, just mostly
The cheeks pulls men of culture lol
What is the name of the song played around 11:55-12:15?
Knowing fuzzy it could be something from alundra or a level 5 game. I'm not sure though
Ya I used to play this on the original Xbox
Maaaan... I had this on demo disk. Played tf out of it.
Sudeki would have been a great game if it wasnt rushed as fuck at the end.
So sad.