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Corrections: Not all Titans are Deathless. The reason you can fight multiple of the same Titan in a walkthrough is because there are more of their species. Also, every time the characters "teleport," it's them disintegrating, "self-immolating to free their QIP up for rebirth" (courtesy of the Archivist, thank you big guy).
Infinity Blade, Infinity Blade 2, and Infinity Blade 3 are incredible games that've been lost in obscurity. Now, the Infinity Blade is only found in Fortnite, which means that Infinity Blade gameplay and Infinity Blade lore are getting less and less popular. It's a tragedy. This is essentially the Infinity Blade movie. And finally, it's one of the best mobile games of all time, if not the best mobile you can't play.
The paragraph above is cringe, but it has to be done lol
If you have any questions about the music or visuals, or just directed at me personally, feel free to ask away!
[Chapters]
0:00 Intro
1:45 Infinity Blade I
13:16 Novella I (Awakening)
15:10 Infinity Blade II
22:32 Novella II (Redemption)
30:56 Infinity Blade III - บันเทิง
I played all 3 infinity Blade games for hundreds of hours each as a kid. Game was legendary.
yeah dude, its too good, sad that it was removed
you know you can still get the game right?
Edit: this is the most likes I have ever gotten thank you all!
loved that game.
@@EbuggeyGaming where?
Same the Second was my favorite
I absolutely love medieval settings that are secretly sci-fi, especially when you can already kinda tell with the armor designs, that tends to be a good tell.
All I'm going to say is you should look into the Spellmonger book Series.
@@phantomviper211 thanks for the recommend my man!
Upcoming soulframe
Bionicle was a cool remix of that, being a combo of fantasy and sci-fi
Like heroes of might and magic lore
Imagine playing at a game with unbelievable graphics, story, animations, secrets, with no ads, and a good gameplay,
Yes, that was the peak of mobile games, and it doesn’t exists anymore…
Yeah , sad mobile games nowadays are just ripoffs. I remember playing infinity blade 1 2 and 3 for countless hours as a kid. If my dad didn't buy me an ipad 1 back then then I wouldn't have experienced this masterpiece of a game. Really sad how they deleted infinity blade , and the only remnant of it was in Fortnite as a really op sword. Forgot which season it was though.
Punishing Gray Raven exists... it doesn't have ads, it has wonderful graphics, compelling story, great characters and it has a non predatory gacha system... but guess what? It is underrated and never appears in game awards or anything... I always expect it to be forgotten into oblivion like Infinity Blade but hasn't happened, which surprises me haha, I wish there were more Infinity Blade games, they were so cool!
@@ToiletDestroyer437more than rip offs, what really turns me off with nowadays mobile games is that every single one of them needs wi fi, I frikin hate that... including the one I mentioned (Punishing Gray Raven), I love the game, but I hate I have to be logged in
@@GrayPenumbra yeah man almost every single one of them needs wifi which is really annoying if your in the car and wanna play some mobile games , but you don't have wifi
@@GrayPenumbra gachas aren't real games lol, it's literally just a lootbox simulator with a pretty skin
The mechanic of time actually passing was mind blowing to me as a kid, seeing that one tree grow larger every life, its a shame I never got around to beating it
ayo same
tree?
@@concept.byfran the tree in the colloseum with the big bird
IB1 has been ported to PC
Not only that, any gem forging or anything of the sort that was under a timer would also be affected by time skips making each run worth it
This game series honestly introduced me to gaming as a child. I struggled to comprehend how a phone game could have this level of worldbuilding, and was hooked instantly
To be fair in the earlier days of phone gaming, before the iPhone when there was the Vodophone and those great Korean phones you had legit exclusive full games on phones in the Japanese and Korean market. War Of the Genesis got a side story game on Korean phones for crying out loud and Final Fantasy Agito was a phone game first. Megaman Legends 3 was planned to be a phone game.
@@XVa-uj8mGames like those and the Infinity Blade series make me wish that the mobile game market was tapped into more efficiently. I hate MTX-riddled shitter games that are designed to keep you addicted and buying more premium currency, and Infinity Blade was one of the remaining fragments of an age where phone gaming had hope to grow into its own viable market.
@@decal4707 I'm still salty about the Indrema not being released, I thought it was a smart model but they delayed it to update the hardware specs. when they needed to get it to the market to start making money.
It was going to be the best of both worlds: console and PC. The cost for a license for a commercial game was set to be $1K while the non-commercial was $500. The cost of beta machines were set to be $500 or maybe $400, it was only $100 more and everyone could buy one. You were going to get the beta's a week or even a MONTH before launch. I assume if they started mass manufacturing they would have been even earlier.
It was definitely a bit more expensive to develop on than the PC but the attention you would have gotten for having a fixed set of specifications you could really optimize on would have more than made up for it. Like I said best of both worlds...closed specs. to optimize yet still very affordable like the PC.
Is it still worth playing
The God King, I must say, is a joke the moment you get the blade. Also he’s one charming villain that literally doesn’t care how many times you die: he sits at his throne waiting for you to finish grinding.
"Her Nostrils, both of them, were perpetually unclogged"
The main reason why everyone there wants to be a deathless
allergies fuckin suck man
honestly yhea
I’d fucking kill a child for that feeling
Especially when you’re asleep.😂
was about to comment this lmao
I remember playing this game in a Verizon store, waiting for my mom to finish swapping phones or something. I was about 11 years old or so at the time. Ever since then, I tried looking through the appstore for this game, convinced I must've dreamt the scenario. Today I learned that I in fact did not fabricate an entire mobile game in my imagination. Thank you
I thought I'd dreamt it too 😭
everyday i realize i’ve never had a unique experience in my life
That's tuff, i had moments i am sure off that i download something but can't find it again
same i saw my friend playing it a lot but could never find it
I remember playing it in my uncle’s phone but then never seeing it again. Never found the game either, so I really thought I imagined it lmao
My heart skipped when i saw that armour in the thumbnail, can't believe i forgot about this game. It genuinely was the best mobile game I've ever played to this day
Same...
Same! So nostalgic
To this day the Infinity Blade series are the only games I’ve actually paid money for on my mobile. Criminally underrated and a travesty more people never got to play them. Epic really dropped the ball not making a console version of all 3 stories into one game and releasing it on console/pc.
Great video covering the games/books and bringing this absolute gem back into light.
saaaaaaame not one mobile game was worth the money like infinity, holy duck i remember contests with my big sis years ago trying to beat the game, some hidden battle or any other stuff we came up with. almost sends a tear down my cheek. absolute gem 10/10 would spend 39826473645345h in it again
yess I loved the old games I watched a YT video on how to do a infinite gold glitch and I did that so many times to get the best armor and kill all the bosses haha
Wait you pay for infinity blade?
Yes. Was pissed
@@Crispy656forever
No, Infinity Blade is for IOS only.
All of the APKs you saw and download are viruses.
The fact that they got Brandon Sanderson to write books for the games is legitimately insane. He is widely considered to be the current king of fantasy. Any fantasy forum you go to will note him as their favorite author. Whether that is r/fantasy or otherwise.
Yep, I got both of them as audiobooks and its a shame there's no physical versions of it in my language. I'd buy them immediately.
The books are absolutely fantastic.
scott lynch is my fave tho
Dang, at this point, who event don't know about Brandon Sanderson
And my dude is really still going to shit on the novellas for not having florid prose and instead effectively delivering story points in a very limited number of words lol, anti-Sanderson sentiment in fiction at the moment is so ridiculous. Talk about can't see the forest for the trees!
So your favorite fantasy author's favoritejfangasy author?
I'm about to blow your minds
Does Isa's voice sound familiar to you? Her VA is none other than Laura Bailey, the voice behind Jaina Proudmore from WoW (since WOTLK), Helena Harper from RE6, Serana from Skyrim, Akali from LoL, Catherine and many other roles
The studios went absolutely ham for this franchise when it came to the production. These were actual mobile GAMES, not just mediocre excuses for an ingame store
Also in Infinity Blade 2 and 3, Siris was voiced by Troy Baker (Joel in TLoU, Higgs in Death Stranding, etc) and Raidriar was voiced by Alastair Duncan (Mimir in GoW, Senator Armstrong in MGR:R, etc)
@@YayaFeiLong the cast is amazing
And I have great news: some madlad released a fully functional PC port of the original Infinity Blade
Huh?
@@YourOnlyHero Huh?
@@kokorochacarero8003 Huh?
Don't forget that the song "Monster" by Imagine Dragons lives on as well as a legacy of the game. It was the song you got for beating IB3. Great song and great series of games I will miss.
I played the hell out of Infinity Blade and its sequels. It's story telling, from the perspective of a little kid, was the most intriguing thing ever. My jaw dropped in the second game when the Worker betrayed us and I got all teary when Raidriar in the third game died permanently. This was truly the best Mobile Game ever made.
On a side note; Mobile games back then use to have a lot more depth and originality compared to now, with arguably better graphics too
Back then, people didn't know they don't need to put effort in the mobile market to succeed
Actually there is still alot of mobile games with great story still get produced until now. The problem is I don't think they make those games with an ending in their mind.
Durango Wild Lands dude, Durango was ahead of it's as well
Oceanhorn and this game were some of the best
Sega is about to bring this story-telling thing back, my dude, a new Sonic mobile game is in development and is Story-based as well, the team working on it seems to be Hardlight studios, so it could be a 10!
Imagine a remake of this now. I would love to play this game again.
IN VR!
@@aluminaathome5448 very good idea it's totally achievable and the concept of the game will fits in vr perfectly , not much movement needed just swinging your arm and move slightly to dodge the attack imagine you fight with a huge real scale monster in VR damn man I got excited for just thinking about it!
@@hhw4476 thats what IM sayyyying!!
I feel that with how more 'powerful' modern phones are they could easily remake or remaster this
@@aluminaathome5448i downloaded an infinity blade vr mod for blade and sorcery, it’s not much but it’s something
Dude wtf is that at 20:50 and why is no one talking about it?
right?
Fr no one even mentions it. Did anyone even watch this video?? Or just NPCs whi comment here?
Thought I was alone and going insane, thank god
Word wtf was that
Fr I’m wondering
This should be remade as a Souls game honestly. Haven't played it but it looks and feels really epic. Awesome video. Hope it gets remade
Nah Soul-like games are overrated if the remade don't do anything unique best not do it at all
infinity blade finally getting its well deserved attention. this game was ahead of its time
And with the state of mobile games now, it will infinitely be ahead of its time, all the time lol.
@@emekaasiegbu3697 i agree, its hard to find a mobile game nowadays that isnt just another copy of something just slightly changed.
Is it still playable
@@Dovahkiin70 no sadly
@@onninti2685it is if you get an apk
Man I miss Infinity Blade, I probably put in hundreds of hours in all three games when I was younger so I felt really burned to see it reduced to nothing more than an OP weapon in fortnite that was removed in such a short time because they couldn't balance it out.
i mean it was quite accurate considering lorewise how busted the infinity blade was but yeah really miss this game very much
Fr the infinity blade was fun as shit to mess around with lol
I remember playing that season and hoped beyond hope that the secret skin was radriar
It also exists as a free Unreal engine asset, but that is about it
This game series had so many mysteries.
its made very clear Sirus/Ausar, Galath and Ryth (a special side boss in the games) where deathless prior to galath giving immortality to various people in his company (thane was likely the first of these). How did they gain their immortality?
One of the major plot points is Raidriar defeating Ausar at the plains of koroth then stabbing him with the redeemer which turned him into Siris, the problem is Ausar is consistently shown to be miles ahead of Raidriar in terms of skill, Sirus is literally just a worse Ausar skill-wise (until the end of IB3 where its implied he fully regained his memories) and repeatedly beat raidriar, this heavily implies Ausar may have deliberately lost.
What is heaven? the place the worker was leaving earth for, it appears to be a lunar colony but is it really that simple? and what shattered the moon?
one of the most goofy but important bits of lore is that the deathless all use conventional swords, shields, maces, etc as they've all agreed to a standard form of ritual combat. guns exist, nukes exist, a huge amount of futuristic weaponry exists, but they all keep to swords and shields for some reason (some melee weapons like the solar trans are futuristic though). its not like dune where melee weapons are explained with futuristic shields that only allow low-velocity objects in or whatever, sirus could have canonically just cheated by pulling out a gun on the worker and I genuinely question why he didn't.
I got you bro.
1. They gain immortality by using devices and and tech that Galath make when the world was still normal. Which is just making souls into particles of data and they will reassemble thru time (rebirth) or thru a body construction chamber or a new body. Basically just need a body for the "soul" to goes into. And they Galath turns them into deathless using that tech
2. There was no mentioned that Ausar was better than Radriar in terms of skill nor IQ. He was just more cruel. So yeah he lost lmao. Sirius eventually beat Radriar because... drumsticks please... he died to The God King hundreds of time before finally won against him once in IB 1? So yeah it would make senses.
3. I actually dont know lmao
4. In the book, Galath have stated they have destroyed and rebuild the world so many times that the deathless shaped it as they please. Their choice was to stick to Aegus form which is tradtional medieval weapon despite having everything else high tech (teleport, mech, plane, light saber,...). No one pulled out a gun because no one had it, not even the mighty Worker of Secret didnt even make it.
@@zachoshark Ausar and Galath predate the other deathless, thats a well established fact.
the books make it very clear Sirus has less skill compared to Ausar (at least until IB3), I find it unbelievable for Ausar to loose to Raidriar if Raidriar lost to an inferior version of the same skill set several times. thats more a theory on my part but still feels dumb he lost.
they can easily make guns, they absolutely have the tech to do so. I just kinda think cheating against the worker would have been warranted. I can believe them not using them before because the deathless have some agreement about it but at the end of the story it felt dumb.
@@ph-1012 Likely the reason he didnt make guns is there is no point. If you remember the infinity blade a weapon designed to kill deathless couldnt even hurt the worker. Like his head regenerated faster than it chopped it off. So pair that with the fact that they needed to stop the worker permanently there was no reason to use a gun. Like best case scenario is they kill him with guns in the ark then he revives elsewhere and they lose his location as he does shenanigans. Realistic case is that the guns dont even do anything
@@secretlemon5008 the worker only claims he can do that, he's never actually shown doing it. also that dialog is debatably non-canon (assuming you take games over books) and makes little realistic sense since his boss fight still has him loosing health and all that. id assume he was just gloating to raidriar for the fun of it. but even if you do consider it canon a gun was a loose example. im saying that the honour code the deathless follow (Aegis) is no longer something Sirus should feel the need to follow when going against the worker. the technology the deathless (and sirus) have access to is immense, there really wasn't a reason to just stick with Aegis-limited weaponry
@@zachoshark It was outright confirmed by the game director Donald Mustard that Raidriar at full power stands no chance against pre-redemption Ausar
Those games and the story were simply amazing. Cannot thank you enough for the nostalgia this video gave me. I hope in the future we get a revival or remaster of the series!
I remember 100% all 3 games. Literally spent hundreds of hours on these games finding every little secret. I hate that they don’t get the love they deserve anymore.
The sands of time bury all things.
Not that we can even try without emulation....if anyone even backed up the files online
Im pretty sure theres an infinity blade subreddit that provides the game files and tutorials for downloading them. However, i have an android so I dont know if they work, but its definitely worth a shot if you want to get back into the games. Hope this helps.
I really hope someone did@@rinnnnnnnnnnrin
@@sumdud2129 humanity being forgotten with all its work is interesting to me
A sad fact of most game creations; they’re bound to the hardware platforms in the era of their creation and then lost. Music, film, literature can all survive the ages, but most games become largely unavailable within a matter of years. Especially sad when you consider the insane amount of work put into most.
Well, that's true, though it is much more applicable to mobile and console markets. Like, literally yesterday I've played an over two decades old game on my PC. It required a bit of voodoo dances but still. Such a shame such gems as IB are basically lost to time
@@VasiliyOgniov like dgvoodoo to get those awesome Glide-only games running on modern systems?
But yeah, there is little that limits games, my original versions of Unreal, Half Life and Roller Coaster Tycoon still work perfectly fine on a modern system.
But trying to play something like Doom RPG, Earthbound or Goldeneye today without going the piracy road is neither easy nor cheap.
@@HappyBeezerStudios at the very least it's still possible most of the time, thanks to GOG
If you have the files (a jailbroken iPhone would help) then you can still play them today.
Sadly since Epic was thrown off the app store, you couldn’t download any of their games legally anymore even if you did purchase them before they ended sales of it.
A jailbroken iOS device will still play them all if you can acquire them.
If you own a pc you can very easily download emulators for basically any old system and play almost every game released on it, for free.
I played infinity blade for hours as a really young kid I couldn’t have been older then 8 but that game started a life long passion for gaming and I almost completely forgot about it until I found this video thank you for bringing back so many incredible memory’s
This was pure nostalgia :'c when I was a kid I remember playing for hundreds of hours (the fist one especially, and the 3rd I only saw credits once), but thank you bc I never understood what was really going on, and now I really want to replay all of the games and read the books, Sanderson is serious buisness, great video.
Really great video! I love seeing people give an outside-looking-in perspective on the franchise for the uninitiated. The Infinity Blade community is still kicking and we won't let this franchise be forgotten.
Can I play this game by sailing the 7 seas or emulating it?
been a while, archivist
Can u still play it by emulating it?
@@Hecticatia been a while Ryth, you like my new solar trans?
Heck look at my name it’s based on the big badie
Man, this game series was lost in time. I remember playing all 3 games for so many hours and enjoying it thoroughly; especially the really hard levels that were really satisfying to progress through. I think this inspired a lotta people to play the original souls series
It seems so crazy that at one point in time “high quality,” “fun” and “mobile game” were not mutually exclusive. It’s pretty clear now that monetisation and micro-transactions are the sole reason we don’t have good mobile games anymore.
These games weren’t free, if I remember correctly the original was $4.99 in the App Store when it was released, but that’s all you would pay. It incentivised the devs to make good games that people would be happy to spend their money on. Before Clash of Clans released infinity blade was always the #1 highest grossing app. When Clash released the amount of money it made was absolutely insane, Clash revolutionised how to monetise a games. From that point on, all the mobile games became that same grindy, buy my gems, waiting simulators we have today. It totally destroyed the experience as a player. I’d love to see a return of paying for your game and getting the whole game.
i played this game when i was 9 or something and now im souls enjoyer
@@SemenTheSailor The other day I was in an arcade and found an infinity blade cabinet.
"Be king son"
the best quote a father could give before going to buy milk
I only ever played the first one as a kid, and that was like a decade ago, almost felt like a fever dream that I made up. Thank you for this video. It was a wild ride.
If any game deserves a console port/modern day revive/reboot, it's THIS one... It deeply impacted me every release and stands to this day as one of the best video game franchises I've ever played. It truly needs to be kept alive. Don't let this series die, it's DESPERATELY appreciated
🧢
Honestly wouldn't mind a Souls-like in that series.
@@daedalus6433 Infinity Blade 4: Siris Dies Twice
@@daedalus6433do you mean an action rpg or a game where you lose currency on death and you have checkpoints?
because neither of those things would do the game justice, the best case would be for the game to be in vr like "Until You Fall"
an action rpg would be alright but it would be unique for it's story rather for its gameplay
if it was a real soulslike then it just wouldn't be fun and wouldn't follow the same flow of the games, bc on death you always go back to the start, closest comparison is NG+
@@cinereus4670 Well... what about a rougelike soulslite combo?
Infinity blade 2 was the bomb. Beat it several times and found all the secrets. I remember spending so much time crafting these ultimate gems and even watching TH-cam tutorials for entering the negative(?) bloodline. I have a faint but fond memory of this game. I tried to unlock everything.
Man uncovering the secrets and getting the special ring in the room when your caracter gets some bad memories back. I love that game.
I literally got all three games downloaded on my iPad recently by looking at tutorial videos on TH-cam on how to download it on other platforms and it actually worked just reply and I’ll see if I can send you the video and if you need help I’ll most definitely reply!
@@Julian-wk4rb i'd like to know how you did all that, planning to replay the trilogy too
@@airconditionerfan5427 look up the sideloadly tutorial by Infinity Blade Studios
I entered the negative bloodline on accident, I had literally no clue what was going on (I was like 10) so I just kinda fucked around. Never got to play the whole infinity blade 3 bc it was too expensive for me at the time but the first two were my shit
Great scott, I DO remember these games, not because i played them but because i remember a song made for the third one
Amazing. When I was in university a decade ago I saw a friend playing this game and went "whoa, I'd play this if my phone could handle it!" and I never saw anything about it again until this video. Seems to me you've done it some justice. (imagine mobile games pre microtransactions - how scandalous hehe)
You killed a long lasting curiosity of mine, thanks a lot for that dude.
I played all 3 games for so many hours, and my sadness was immeasurable when i found out they were no longer playable
Apparently the author of the novellas (Brandon Sanderson) is personal friends with one of the higher-ups at Epic, which is why he was chosed to write the novellas pretty early in his career. It's also why some of the characters from his series Mistborn are in Fortnite.
I hate fortnite for turning the infinity blade the slayer of the unslayable into "that crappy fortnite sword"
I haven't actually read any of Sandersons works yet, but I was still surprised at how Yiisu described the books because of all the good things I've heard about his other work
@@T0NI_ It's true that Sanderson's prose isn't really his strength, especially in his early work. People like me who really love it appreciate the characters and plots in spite of the lack of poetry, especially compared to writers like Rothfuss. Definitely worth checking out to see if it clicks for you, though.
Is anyone going talk about what is going on with 21:05?? I was falling asleep watching this and it scared the fuck out of me
Same.
Yo no actually straight up what the fuck? I’m in the same boat and I was like what in the ARG is this??
Scared the fuck outta me
No one know wtf that was???
Fr I’m wondering
Absolutely loved these games as a kid. I sunk countless hours into Infinity Blade. It was basically my childhood.
I was determined to 100% the first game before moving onto the second, even though I purchased all three. I remember being infuriated realizing it was shut down before I could keep going, and I'm so glad someone shed light on this. Subscribed
I just downloaded it via the internet and it seems great.
@@DigitalPhoenix. link please, iam afraid of virus
@@DigitalPhoenix. bro i've been looking for a place to download it without getting phone aids, no luck
there’s a pinned post on the infinity blade subreddit with an installation guide
This was my goal over the years too, I wanted to 100% each game to move on to the next. I got past 1 and did almost everything in 2, but I never got lucky enough to craft the max dark/light gem, my final goal. Moved onto a new phone since app store removal, so all that remains is the icons with an icloud symbol. A shame neither of us got to finish what we started
They're not really "teleporting" so much as incinerating themselves and using the cloning process to build a new body back home. This is why the process only works to return home, not to reach a new location.
Ah, so they're deathwarping.
@@ice_cre4m_man261 Precisely
oh shit i never realized this lol
@@ice_cre4m_man261 deathwarp?
Very metal
Great video! I played the fuck out of these games when they came out, and there are SO many secrets in these games, like special negative bloodline challenges, hidden bosses, special gem effects, etc. There's even a weapon in IB3 called Torren's Mace (or something like that) which references another Infinity Blade game that never actually got finished. I miss how incredible these games were, and really wish mobile devs would learn something from them.
Another note - Brandon Sanderson, the author of the novellas, is genuinely my favorite fantasy author ever. The novellas are definitely not his greatest works, but it's cool that he wrote them. His books are definitely very plot-driven in general, so while he doesn't have the most poetic prose, the narratives that he creates are unforgettable imo.
I remember playing this as a kid. I was hooked/shocked by the complexity, yet simple gameplay that this Mobile game had❤😂
Something worth mentioning is that in the second book Sirus and Radriar fight in the prison with their souls trapped inside. Their souls always return to the trapped bodies. They eventually fought to the point of using scraps of their armor to kill each other. At least until they got tired of it. It was one of my favorite parts of the book.
And Siris also betrayed Raidriar in the book. I remember the book describes the final fight of Raidriar that Siris teleported the Infinity Blade away when Raidriar is fighting against Worker, but instead of being angry, Raidriar admires Siris for making such a plan like that, and the rest goes exactly like in the game.
I changed my mind about Siris a lot after reading the book, ngl
@@chuongvulenguyen290Why did he do that?
@@marthvader14 I don't know, tbh. But Raidriar also discovered the teleporting chip attached inside his helm or somewhere else, then he threw that chip and still fights Ashimar with the Infinity Blade not being teleported away.
“I never believed it could kill you, but I do believe in redemption”
What a bad ass line. Unironically
Quick note because I’m a stickler for these games. In Infinity Blade 3, to say that characters can teleport away is largely true but technically inaccurate. In reality, it’s a kill switch that destroys their current body so they can be reborn again into a new body. This is how the Soulless God King escaped back to the Worker, and this is how Siris and Isa would return to the hideout after a successful mission because they were short on time and this method was much faster.
Again, thank you so much for making this video. I played all 3 games to hell and back, but I never read the books, so I got to learn a lot from your story analysis here.
Damn man, I completely forgot how insanely epic these games were.
As a kid, a lot of this stuff flew over my head, but I knew that this was way different than anything else on the market. The polarization between infinity blade and literally every mobile game free or otherwise couldn't have been more visible.
This game series was absolutely awesome. Even though it may have been removed, I’ll make it live on in DnD campaigns.
Hell yeah! I was thinking through same thing! I remember playing this series as a kid and loved it.
Best mobile game ever, don’t forget to mention the ng+ available that’s extends a lot the life of the game ! Played the three of us on iPad that was incredible !
This might be the game that planted the seed that grew into my love for grind + repeat types of games where you make gradual progression.
What a series.
thank you so much.. i remember playing this as a kid and have been looking for it and what it was called for years like YEARS and just couldn't convey enough information to find it, i'm so glad i clicked this video it just sparked so many memories
I remember there was an arcade game of infinity blade at a dave & busters and I went there with my friend and played it surviving up to 58 rounds before the literal skin of my index finger peeled off
Sadly I didnt even know it was a mobile game at the time, if I did I would've totally play it
LOL going in hard.
Same here I saw infinity blade at dave and busters.
There was also a arcade samurai sword game
@@RandyReeTV I dont remember the samurai game but yeah back then was fun we even had the time crisis games
@@oof5600 Time Crisis Ghost Squad Police academy 🤤 more please.
I gotta visit round 1 soon
nice also wdym by round 1?
@@oof5600 oh yea round 1 is my local Arcade entertainment sort of place.
There's usually karaoke and bowling and pool. Very asian
Bay Area we have some
And so cal has some like L.A.
Though I don't know what happened after covid
Infinity Blade 2 was I believe the most well crafted. I did everything you could possibly do in it. I got me a lightsaber with the best gem possible. The castle itself just seemed endless with secrets. I did the same with IB1, but it obviously wasn’t as expansive as IB2. I beat IB3 a few times, but for whatever reason it always failed to hold my attention for long enough to discover all of the secrets and kill every boss. Funnily enough, I still have all 3 games downloaded on my iPhone, even though they cannot currently be played. Something just cannot bring me to delete them off my phone.
3 was definitely the weakest gameplay-wise, just didn't have that loop of replaying the same big area over and over again and slowly discovering the little secrets hidden within. I'd argue you haven't really beaten Infinity Blade 2 until you've figured out how to get the entire Vile set and gotten the secret cutscene with the ring (or fought Ryth for that matter, damn what a cool secret boss)
@@lupin2589Nah. Negative Game Plus against Raidriar the God King in Infinity Blade 2. You had to be absolutely stacked in gems, since the negative armor set + weapons had 0 stats. And it punished you if you lost. You’d lose any gems equipped to those sets.
Doing everything else like finding all the maps secrets was difficult, mostly because of the gold grind. But when you grinded for the rainbow gems and the 400+ attack/defense/health gems, it got difficult. Then you needed to take those gems into the Negative Game Plus to redo the story without switching from the Negative armor set. And DAMN, were those play through a brutal…
I got to Playthrough 300+ before I got BEEFED up with all the gems I needed for the Negative playthroughs. At that point you still got slightly punished if you didn’t have the rainbow element defense gem in the normal playthroughs, but the speed was easier to adapt to, even with Ryth.
But doing the negative playthroughs… I remember switching to those, and losing some of my high defense + attack + health gems. It was brutal, and I had to start over.
I resonated with every word in this comment
These games truly shaped my childhood. I've played each of them for hundreds of hours. It may be gone, but I am glad to see it get the recognition it deserves. I pray for the day we may get it back 🙏
I remember playing this game as a kid well before I could pronounce “yellow” properly (not because I was very young, but because I just picked up on speaking worryingly later then caught up). I was too dumb to ever play infinity blade at its fullest and enjoy the process, but watching the gameplay does bring me nostalgia
I loved this game as a kid. Constantly played it, unlocked EVERYTHING. I loved it to bits, I’d still play it now. I found the third the hardest by far.
I remember unlocking all the legendary gems and swords in 2 and 3. 3 definitely had a dark souls feel to it lol, overall 10/10 games rs
i played 1 and 2 and said to myself i will buy and play 3 when I grew up, sadly fucking epic removed
Oh boy, I remember starting with 3. It was tough indeed, especially since I didn't understand english at the time. Whenever I ran into a dragon or a big mob it was pain.
Nothing but fond memories
@@LunarFTW The hidden bosses in 2 (remember the swamp ogre thing that turns into some root dog monster, the giant bird or the imprisoned guys I think one of his name was xyloto or something) or the ones that came in the updates in 3 like dragoor and ryth who appeared on both games with the laser sword where extremely hard as a kid. I'm glad I played those games so much I beat everything at least 3 times
Just came to my mind. Hidetaka Miyazaki and FromSoft would be a great team to bring in the remaining members of Chair to do a Infinity Blade reboot. IB has similar death mechanics to the Souls series as well as its focus on lore and world building. Plus, its mix of fantasy and sci fi is just too cool!
I agree!
Infinity blade always gave me darksouls vibes
Stagnant kingdoms ruled by oftentimes delusional immortals, amazing art direction, and a combat style focused around dodging, blocking, parrying, and magic.
Chair straight up made mobile Dark Souls, then got thrown out by Epic for Disney-Minecraft-COD. Granted Fortnite isn’t as bad as people say, but that choice’s still just absurd.
@@e.v4892 it isnt that absurd when you consider the profits something like that could bring
I'm sorry but no, there is such thing as over saturation and atp the souls like genre IS getting there.. Let this be as it was or let another smaller team flesh it out and make it a RPG or something.. Every game doesn't need to be a souls as all games don't need MP...
For those who did not get a chance to play these games I *highly* suggest checking out the game’s soundtrack by Josh Aker.
Epic Games removed the soundtrack years ago when Infinity Blade was discontinued and removed, but Josh managed to release all the tracks in one complete score a while later.
I cannot stress enough how stellar the score for this game is . If you thought even one of the tracks played in this video sounded interesting I implore you go and give this soundtrack a listen.
Agreed! I still keep the 2 OST albums, they are full of hype! I also love how the beats have somewhat of a tribal feel to them, for a lack of better words. When I let my friend back in college listen to them, he later told me, "some of the best music in my life." I hope Josh Aker will get a chance to compose for another great series in the future, he has the talent for sure!
I don't game anymore but miss this series. Was a great simple time killer for a phone game. I remember the time when infinity blade 3 was active and community events were prominent. Good times, cheers to all the legends whom played this
Would love a full-fledged remake or continuation of this series on Console/PC. Or at least have the 3 games on Switch.
... and other jokes you can tell yourself
@@dylanroemmele906 🤓🤡
A man can dream…
Could you imagine joycon controls for this tho👀👀
@@neryleal5265damnnnn great idea
As *soon* as I aw the title of the video, I KNEW you would be talking about Infinity Blade. I played the original for such a long time, and the second a lot, and the last, a little (my pops, who bought the games, had less interest as time went on and as did I). It's shocking to me that they're just... Unplayable now. They're *gone.* Tragic doesn't even begin to describe it.
I can say, if the Infinity blade is being revived again and can be played on Android? Bro, it's going to be marked as one of the best mobile games in history, again. With these mechanics it's like reviving a Roman or Renaissance technology lost in time and getting the technology in the modern era. With complex gameplay, a good story, fascinating lore and mystery itself.
There’s some workarounds where you can still play it.
@@ZhangK71just give the solution man stop replying it's possible and saying nothing
@@xuyukun123 emulators
I have been looking for this game for a very long time - this was one of the best experiences I have in my childhood in the aspect of mobile gaming.
Dude this unlocked a core memory holy shit 😂 I would go to the Apple Store in my mall and just play this game until my mom was done shopping.
God, the infinity blades were my GAMESwhen I was younger. It was so good, with a fascinating (though in hindsight pretty convoluted) story and super cool designs. They were probably what got me so hooked on fantasy like this, eventually leading me to my all-time favorites of Dark souls. I’m sad it’s most recent legacy was just the infinity blade being ripped and lazily slapped into Fortnite without any real homage to these awesome games :(
Honestly, I feel that this series could be a fun little port brought to Console & PC. I can imagine a $15-$30 bundle including all the games. Give native controller support and it could be a fun little game to go through. A basic game with basic mechanics. But could be fun to just play.
The one of the greatest strengths of IB was how it used its platform. It just wouldn't work as well on console and computer, because it's not going to flow as easily and seamlessly without the benefits of touch screen for directional parrying and slashing, and compact button placement with one controller, your fingers.
@@Derploop one platform I think it’d ironically work on would be the wii (& Wii U), because the wii motes are probably perfect for imitating the sword movements.
Would be tiresome as hell though, I’d expect to be exhausted after a couple battles.
If they’d ever port it to other platforms, they’d have to have wii motes or something like it (such as the ps move), otherwise they’d have to change up gameplay a lot to accommodate standard controllers and/or keyboard & mouse.
Think a reboot/reimagining may be best for it if not on mobile devices.
The mechanics clearly derived from thinking about touch input, on console it wouldn't be nearly as powerful
@@Derploop Directional cutting could work the same as Metal Gear Rising
It wouldn’t work, how would you attack with the controllers? Or the keyboards
Dude I remember playing Infinity Blade 2 I think on my iPod touch back in the day. I barely remember it and found it really difficult. I still found it to be super cool though and even if I never made it too far I still had a blast. I remember also checking out an LP series from KoopaKungFu and I never finished watching his playthrough of the 3rd game but it was still really nostalgic for me.
Thanks for helping me find out what happened at the end of the 3rd game, even if I still may go and watch that 3rd LP. I really hope mobile games one day lean back towards this kind of game design where it's more about the experience and actually developing players' skill sets rather than just trying to make some money from a game that's hardly fun to play.
i immediately knew what this was about as soon as i saw the thumbnail. such great memories
I played this when I was around 12, my strongest memory of the game was finally getting my hands on the infinity blade and realizing my current weapon was already stronger than it, so there was no point in using it
As a long time fan I can surely say that Infinity blade series is my first ever favorite game. And it still is so, after many years, many other games. Moreover, only this game made me learn English language (it's not my native) to read both books in my childhood. So, this was legendary for me
it was such an amazing game, I used to play it with my dad and brother as a way to bond with them when it first came out. and back then it was nothing more than a medieval swordfighting game. but as I've gotten older and played the second and third games, I fell in love with the story, it's honestly such a good mix between sci fi and fantasy
Oh my God I loved these as a kid. You just dragged up a deeply dormant memory
I was an early 20 something in my first apartment when Infinity blade came out, I cannot tell you how many hours I played and how many friends I got hooked.
That first completion of the first game, realising you’ve been in a sci-fi and not a fantasy all this time, awesome!
It was all downhill since the end of the Infinity Blade series…
I'm lucky enough to still have the game installed on my old apple devices and it is almost as fun as I remember. A real pity that this game is no longer on the app store. Also i gotta say that the vhs part got me good at 20:57
I am glad to see another comment talking about that, thought I was just going crazy
@@afoolishmortal5265 same
I have to say, that part is weird. Is it apart of some ARG or something?
@@unoriginalumbrella8111 i think so, but i checked out some more recent videos and i don't see anything.
Subbed 35 seconds into the video because you unlocked 2 memories. Infinity blade from the thumbnail and that wack ass Harry Potter game😭
i completely forgot about this game but i probably spent a couple hundred hours on it!!! i tried remembering what it was called sometime last year and just saw this in my recommended today. thank you
Thank you for making this video. I am among the few people I know that remember this gem. I keep the memory alive by making various 3D models of all the infinity weapons for fun.
Have you made the baloon sword yet?
I remembered this game through the cool magazine that displayed popular apps for the early iOS unfortunately I never got to play it because I didn’t have an iPad
I absolutely adored infinity blade, the combat system was so fun and parrying always felt super satisfying.
Sad epic just messed it up and got it removed
I'll admit, whenever you fight the Godking in IB1 its just straight up badass. The music, the worldbuilding and the dialogue from Raidriar. Got chills when you showed that scene.
Every year that passes, i hope that some sort of secret Epic Games project is leaked; and it turns out to be an open world version of infinity blade on PC like Elden Ring with extra lore. It deserves that - for holding such a integral part in people's memories of what a good game is. The dark souls of my childhood, ill be waiting. Awesome video btw
Just to let you know:
About a month ago a modder made a PC port of the original Infinity Blade. It has upscaled graphics, uncapped FPS, and its free and incredibly easy to download. Infinity Blade Studios made a vid on it.
I found Infinity Blade and Implosion: Never Lose Hope to be what mobile games were about to become when i was a teen. Now seeing the state of gaming entertainment being reminded of such masterpieces only makes me sadder for how things have become. Great video btw, reminded me of the good times
Thank god people havent forgotten this game i felt like i was the only person who even knew it existed. The whole medieval sci fi mix was so unique and the whole atmosphere and armor aesthetics in general was great its actually criminal how it got removed. 2 was always my favourite
so many memories of playing this from when i was younger
I remember getting ungodly getting good at these games as a kid, (mainly game 2) it’s crazy how much content it had for a mobile game. I even saved videos for gem crafting lol
Same, do you remember the infinite money glitch?
Ahhh yes the scroll tatic, good old time
Saw the thumbnail and immediately knew it has to be infinity blade.
Those were my favorite games back in the days. Good thing about them is, they aren't serverdependant games like zombie farm f.e. Hence, they run on one system and that's it. You are still able to play all 3 infinity blade games via a signing service that still provides the apps. Signulous does this and is 20$ a year per device.
I am still playing it on iPhone 12 pro max.
I remember there was a cool fighting game on mobile I loved a lot. But I forgot what it was called. But then I remembered. So I looked it up, and I was depressed to find out it was discontinued
i can't imagine a game like this actually existing so long ago and with such good lore too, dang
this game was the shit
i even could play it -- Unreal Engine 3 -- on my iPod touch
This is an awesome video!
Showing this to as many people as possible!
I came here after your post
was wondering if you were gonna be here
I was such a young kid during these that I didn’t even know the name. This first game has plagued my mind forever!!!! Thank you so much for this video!!!!!!!
I FREAKING KNEW IT!!!,! i knew i played this game when i was younger. I just couldn’t remember the name the only thing i remember was the image of the game. I was starting to believe I was just imagining it. Thank u sooo much broo
I played these games on my pass time during high school. Managed to get the Infinity Blade itself on all three games. Third one took me off guard on how to get the true Infinity Blade. Went to those vaults and discovered that secret by accident. That sword was always my main weapon once achieved in each game.
Edit: Plus, I'm aware of better weapons in game. Not sure why but... I just like feeling the challenge. Infinity Blade may not be available on the app store anymore, but at least this game eventually led me to Dark Souls. No, its not the same, but it still gives that challenge to face the next boss.
One more thing, and this is a dumb question... How many else out there wish this game along with IB2 and IB3 are available to play again?
Everyone aimed to get the ib, I was surprised when it was only 800k not a mil, those lightsabers were cool tho
@@sul_9999 dark lightsaber was my love
Did you ever kill that dragon for the armor set? I did, I had way too much time on my hands
@@JargonMadjin First Dragon on Infinity Blade 3. Unfortunately, I never found the Dragon on that map I found. Just remember Siris' quote when I found it. Bursted out laughing. "Seriously?" 🤣
I just remember that first Dragon catching me off guard. So many restarts... 😖
@@TheNZbros. It takes so long to beat the dragons, haha
OMG THATS WHAT HAPPENED TO THESE GAMES. I played them so much as a kid, left them for a while then when tried to find them again they'd disappeared. Id genuinely thought I'd dreamt them or something. Thank you so much for making this video and bringing back all my memories of this wonderful series.
A mobile game having a good story is insane- it being the most fascinating I've ever heard is incredible! You can tell the developers had so much fun making this.
This monster of a recap uncovered so many memories from when I was little. Back when I was an itty tiny boy, I never understood the lore, but your explanation actually gave me so many revelations and now I remember those times again so vividly.
You deserve so many viewers and subs, I wish for your success on this sometimes god-awful platform because your editing is so humorous and very gen-z, very much my kind of humor. Thank you for the trip down memory lane!
I remember playing this game for hours at school when I should be paying attention to class instead 😂. I played mainly the first one but also played a bit of the second one as well. Ty for reminding me of this game! I can’t believe I had forgotten about this masterpiece.
i was absolutely ADDICTED to a game called blood and glory. it had the same combat system as infinity blade, but was a gladiator arena themed game focused on single fights and upgrading your gear. miss it so much.
BROOO THAT GAMEEE I REMEMBERED, damn that felt so nice, thanks bro
I feel happy knowing I played these games to the fullest. I unlocked absolutely everything. In the end there was nothing left to do. And yet I would play this whole series again in the speed of light. I genuinely feel terrible for those who can’t play this godamn masterpiece
how do you play it?
So angry that this series got canned. My sense of wonder at first discovering/playing this game has been unmatched.
It's still alive
@@lukedanielgalon1596 how??? and where??? Game cant be bought last i checked
@@eskeladder7751 There's an unofficial PC port of the 1st game
Another important aspect of the game was the the worker became so intelligent that he was able to predict the thoughts and behaviors of every single person except siris, who he considered an anomaly. This was one of the reasons the worker was afraid of Siris
not me suddenly remembering these games at 11:00pm in march 2024, and then suddenly being really depressed that i can't play this anymore
You can download a port for infinity blade 1 on pc as of a few weeks ago. If you have a windows computer you can play it.
I have very fond memories of playing this game with my cousins while at a 4th of july party. When I was finally able to make a run all the way to the final boss and defeat them we all started screaming and popping off in excitement. Thank you for covering this gem of a game and bringing back old memories :)
Oh wow this was a great trip down memory lane! I was a QA tester on the first two IB games with the first IB game being my first completed games credit! I can't tell you how many times I ran through the game testing on various iPhone/iPad devices. I vividly remember the made up language from the first game as we would often recite it back to one another as we went through our testing. Thank you for making this!
That's really cool! It's great to see the people who helped make these games talk about them.
The IB3 ending scene with the child with the imagine dragons theme was genuinely the first time i had felt emotional for a game ending as a kid.
Oh wow someone actually covered the game i thought was forgotten, burried in time (and my ipad air)
I remember taking my father's ipad every day to play this after school and would do piterally anything to find secrets and would even find the easiest paths to get to each boss. It was the first and one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had.
I can relate. I started playing this on my dad's iPad in 2010. I'm now trying to figure out if I can download Infinity Blade 1, 2, and 3 on android. 😔
@@-ClerzZ-bro plz let me know if you find the way. I'll let you know when I find as well
@@Mclaughster592 There is an Infinity Blade server where there are tutorials to get the games. Sadly, you can't get them on Android (as the game was never cross-platform to Android), but if you have like an old IOS device, or something (you can seek/ask help), you could get the franchise. I have IB1 on an iPod, but it isn't the best experience (the screen is way too small), and I have IB3 on an iPad (I am unsure of why my devices don't have IB2 on them, so yeah, I can't play that). Thing is, some devices can't download them due to crashing and many other issues old devices face, so that in and of itself is a difficult procudure. Also, the reason why I can't do further downloads on the iPad, is due to not knowing the password; can't be reset as it is connected up to an email from my dad's job that he is no longer a part of. It will be an easy google search to find the discord server, so once you get there, try to figure some things out and let me know of how it went; keep me updated.
Infinity Blade was such an astounding game that really showed the worth of games on mobile, which is why it would be hard to port to consoles/pc while keeping the vibe of the gameplay intact. So i was thinking, maybe they could do a VR remake?