It's the final part - we made it! I really hope you find this one of particular interest. I have gone into some detail & discussion with the titles, I think there are some interesting points. I need to apologise for 2 things: 1. The Lighting. Bwah. I thought it was plenty bright in the room - but no, it looks rather dim - I finally switch the lights on about halfway through! 2. I decided not to do a full music background track. The video is pretty long at about an hour and it is getting increasingly difficult for me (due to my hearing) to edit the audio, especially soundtracks calibrated for background. I just added a few sound highlights for special spots.
Haha, I probably wouldn't have noticed the lighting. It was actually quite nice, very soft colors when the lights are slightly dimmed. Turned out well, regardless.
@@Lilly_Belle Oh good, thanks for feedback. It can be hard to judge for me, since I have the brightness on my laptop way down (to protect eyes) and everything looks pretty dark that way! 😁
thank you so much for all the effort you put on this video series! i love the ps3 and its always good to hear about some games that i havent played before.
@@someguy5319 did you try entering the codes? When I’ve entered codes for various items even 5 years old or more, if the site is still up sometimes it still procs the download.
Woooo, we made it! Absolutely loved this series Britta, havent been able to comment in awhile, but I love seeing new videos from you even if I dont get to leave a comment! It would be great to see you cover another consoles exclusives like the PS2, or favorites on the 3DS. Though I imagine that would take quite a few parts haha. All that said, thanks for making this series, have a feeling Ill be referencing these videos a few more times down the line. Keep up the grwat work as always! Also man I need that Disgaea shirt haha.
Thanks, Ian. I'll be looking at the Vita situation in the near future. I'm not really knowledgeable enough about PS2 games to tackle that subject, I'm afraid. The 3DS I have covered *a lot* on Twitter; but it is close to my heart and I'm sure one day I'll do something around that platform.
Heavenly sword and tears to tiara were such huge blasts from the past. Thank you for making these multi part videos, they were very pleasant and informative. Also, great advice on doing the ps3 updates sooner rather than later, i definitely need to do that
Congratulations on finishing your marathon Britta - it's been quite the Odyssey! It's been interesting for me as the PS3 era was my "wilderness years" away from gaming so it's good to see some of what I missed.
This was a great series and very well researched, I thoroughly enjoyed each episode and I'm pretty sure I learned something new in each. Thanks for putting this together.
Hello Britta! Lovely video, as always, and I hardly noticed the lack of background music. If anything, it allowed me to focus on what you were saying more clearly, so please don't feel the need to continue using music in future videos if you don't have the opportunity. :) It was interesting to hear your thoughts on JK Rowling's fall from grace, as it were. As I see it, she clearly was a product of her time, and while society has evolved in the past 20 years, her views clearly have not. It's ironic that some of her characters (like Dumbledore) show a compassion and tolerance that she seems currently incapable of exhibiting. I still adore the Harry Potter world, and feel that despite some of its outdated themes, the books nevertheless contain important and topical messages (I read an interesting article, for example, about how Harry Potter essentially taught an entire generation about what a fascist society would look like). I also can't wait to start playing Hogwarts Legacy once it goes on sale. :-)
Thanks for the feedback on the BG music issue. 👍 Haha, that's a very keen observation about Dumbledore vs JKR. 😄 As to what exactly the Harry Potter world reflects and teaches youngsters .. I would say it's a divided heritage. There is the other, ultra-conservative and stifling side to her novels as well. I imagine the HP world creation is as conflicted as its author.
As a PS3 enthusiast, I thoroughly enjoyed this PS3 series....well done.👍 Very good advice on the updates.....I'm currently going through some older PS3 games and downloading updates before they go away forever. 😎👍
This has been an utterly delightful journey and I've learned about SO many games I need to keep my eye out for! Thank you, as always for being equally entertaining and educational
I liked Heavenly Sword a lot for the characters (specially the catlike girl) and the cinematic look, it was written by Terry Pratchett's daughter Rihanna Pratchett, the writer for the tomb raider reboot and mirror's edge. The combat used sixaxis and I remember it was actually interesting if you played with it but the game rarely required you to do so, so it was easy to miss.
Aw yes - Rihanna Pratchett. She's a wonderful writer (I recently covered her game Lost Words). The cat girl is Kai, who uses that bow or cross-bow, and I think you're right, I must've missed (or they didn't show it properly!) some instruction for sixaxis motion, and was wondering why it wasn't working as expected.
Thank you for this entertaining and informative series, and thank you for helping me figure out my video capture situation for PS3 games. I have a bit of a backlog of content to make having recently committed myself the "Summer Backlog Challenge" this year but I will make sure to make something PS3 related fairly soon now that I know I can again. Maybe I'll look at the Motorstorm games on the PS3, as you don't cover racing games it may be a nice counterpoint to your videos. I was shocked to see just how much that Resistance Trilogy pack goes for just because they are all together in a special box - the three games loose aren't worth much at al!
Great to hear you have your PS3 video capture sorted! I think focusing a video on motor games is a great idea. Not many people cover PS3 any more, and racing games are always popular and should attract interested viewers.
These were such a joy to watch, I started collecting for PS3 last year and I'm already at 221 titles, have been getting the higher value titles and stuff I wanted to replay first. Not sure if you were still looking for Magus, but there seemed to be a few copies available on Ebay, ordering mine this week and hopefully the Saws. Will fully admit I didn't even know Invizimals and Class of Heroes 2G even existed lol
Hi Emily, thanks for feedback! Magus copies on eBay ...? Hmm, they're prolly gone by now, but I'll check, as I would still like a copy. PS3 is great for collect for, especially now. 👍🏻 Btw, Class of Heroes (2 games) is getting a remake/remaster. coming to Switch, PS5 and Steam. th-cam.com/video/nJZ9oKqogGc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=mJg-kV3b92EGyQzc
Thank you - I enjoyed seeing some games that I skipped on PS3 while I was playing the heck out of my XB 360 though I did get a PS3 at launch and definitely did play some great games on PS3. For me the PS3 never quite lived up to the PS2 for me. My favorite home consoles were the PS2, Xbox 360, Gamecube and PS4.
Yea .. not totally convincing, is it? 😄 I cut the footage at that point, but she goes on to explain at great length how she was hurtled down there and her leg awkwardly slipped under. Still .. as I said: maybe convenient to request help from a white knight passing by? 😎😄
Tears to tiara II is among my first few platinums on ps3. Definitely underrated game, excellent visuals, scenario, music, character and fun srpg battle and good QoL controls bug free as always Aquaplus quality!
We both love ourselves some religious themes in media thanks for sharing the unknown. Im going to miss this series though, its kept me company through some long and lonely shifts at work. Ps4 next? 😅 - Tom
On installing the updates, I think my issue with that is both of my PSN-linked PS3's are completely full of downloaded PSN games, even though both of them have the largest internal hard drive they support. I do have a 3rd PS3, but it's not linked to my account. Maybe I could use that one to download all the disc-based updates. When my kid was doing school from home, I actually hooked a Playstation Eye camera with the stand used for the card game to a second laptop, and I used that so that the teachers could see what he was writing. It was really useful. I enjoyed Heavenly Sword, but yeah it was disappointing they didn't make a sequel. I've heard of Tears to Tiara, but didn't know about this installment in the series.
Yes, I'm constantly shuffling games around on my PS3 hard drives; one of them is quite small by today's standards. It's gonna be one huge job to get all that sorted once we know the servers are going down for good. 😣 Oh - you have that camera stand that came with The Eye of Judgment card game??? That's the one accessory that's always missing when you look at pre-owned copies. And apparently it keeps the camera at just the right height and angle to play the game properly.
@@Food4Dogs Yeah, I actually bought Eye of Judgement new, so I had the camera and stand from it. Never did play the game though. I have a spreadsheet listing which system each of my downloaded games is on... I actually have two of the PS3's still hooked up to different TVs.
I was hoping to comment on the vita video to make this request, because I'm returning to the console scene. I'd like to watch this series but I just can't keep up. I'm not nearly fluent enough with the ps3's library. Are you familiar enough with the various models of the ps3 to make a video teaching about that, similar to your video on Vita models? The ceiling of my knowledge is that the backwards compatible ps3's are the "fat" models with either 20 or 60 GB of storage and 4 USB ports on the front. I'm not even sure if this is true to be honest, as I haven't pulled the trigger on a purchase yet. Do you have any insight on this subject? *rewrote the first paragraph a couple of times.
Hi, you want to learn more about the different PS3 models and which games they play? I'm honestly not a specialist in PS3 hardware. There are heaps of good videos on TH-cam explaining everything you need or want to know. I have actually never had a Phat model and don't have much use for it. It's very bulky (!), it has a very small hard disk and its perceived advantage is that it's completely back compatible with PS2 and PS1. I *much* prefer keeping a PS2 for playing PS2 games. The PS2 is very small, mine have all been reliable, and it's the home platform for PS2 games. Remember: back compatibility always comes at a price, some form of emulation has to run on the PS3 to achieve this. However, I don't have a PS1. While I have most PS1 games digitally, I do appreciate that I can play those games physically also on the PS3 - basically on all 3 models. (There are some exceptions depending on region and model number.) So: if you're interested *mainly* in playing PS3 games, I would always recommend going with one of the two later models: Slim or SuperSlim.
Tears to tiala II is very rare game.I frequently go to game shops in Japan, But I saw this only 1 time. I bought this by 300 yen, But I've not played this because no enough time :) I'm drowned in too many games... "Agarest Senki" series are not famous JRPG games, But I recommend this too.
The PC release of Tears to tiara 1 was in 2005, predating the anime by about 5 years, it had a ps3/psp remake in 2008 followed by the anime in 2009. Haven't touched any of those so can't really comment on content. To my knowledge there aren't any other releases of tears 2, I played tears 2 a while back and you're not wrong, it is very slowly paced, personally I like the pacing but it is a common complaint people have, I'd say it's pretty in line with the pacing of the Utawarerumono games. If you're familiar with the PS4 Uta games then tears 2 is clearly using an early version of that engine and the combat is somewhat similar, tears 2 combat is rougher in a lot of ways but ends up being much more complex. As for the difficulty I don't remember it being that hard or there being any difficulty walls in the main story at least, if you play a lot of rpgs I'm sure you'd be fine. As for the dlc it's very underwhelming, I wouldn't worry about not having them for the purposes of playing, it's just cameo characters with no story or context. As for the chibi models, yeah I agree they look bad, they're likely used due to a combination of low budget and the studio's lack of experience making 3D games, the later Uta games have a similar issue but by then they've at least gotten better at stylising the models so it's not quite as bad. Visually the designs are fairly generic but I remember liking the characters well enough, that said I do remember thinking some characters ended up really well realised while others were noticeably underdeveloped. As for the story the setting is pretty underused in jrpgs and it does a really good job of working historical events into plot points without it feeling overly forced. It definitely didn't feel like it was strongly connected to the first game outside of some postgame stuff but again I haven't touched tears 1 so I don't know for sure. The Utawarerumono comparison you made is pretty on point, both series started as adult pc visual novel strategy rpgs, went on to have anime adaptions and console remakes with the adult stuff taken out and found more widespread success in Japan as a result, before going on to get sequels on, at the time, modern consoles with English releases. That said nowadays it's pretty obvious that Uta found long term success where tears didn't, it stands out that tears 2 didn't even get a psp or vita port later on which is pretty out of line with aquaplus's practices at the time. There's pretty obviously a lot of overlap between the 2 series in terms of art, design, and writing, and given that it's a smaller company it's likely that the 2 series shared a lot of staff. Apologies for the essay, love your videos
Hi Corro, you raise lots of interesting points - thank you! As to the anime, I have now ordered a copy and look forward to experiencing that. You say that the Tears2 combat gets more complex as you progress; that's great to hear, that's the sort of thing that'll keep me going. Thanks for the lowdown on the DLC, I feel relieved I don't need to worry about that. 😃 I also thought the whole historical setting was rather interesting and cool. I wish games would do that more often. As to the shared development environment: it is intriguing that Uta went on to success and Tears didn't. I note that development for Uta was by Leaf and Sting; whereas Tears only had Leaf and Aquaplus. I dunno, might be just me, but I always think Sting adds something extra in terms of ideas and quality.
I will be very interested to see what happens with the updates, patches and the like for PS3 games once those servers go down entirely. I've been worried about how games are released now isn't retro friendly and the PS3 might be the first console where that will be felt as it was the first generation that relied on online updates for its games. I assume there's a whole slew of games on PS3 where you really want the updates in order for the games to run well and some might even have game breaking bugs and crashes that were fixed in patches.
@@teckt0ken I do - but I always point out that shooters (and FPS in particular) are very difficult for me and I very seldom attempt them. Additionally I hardly ever play online multiplayer.
It's the final part - we made it!
I really hope you find this one of particular interest. I have gone into some detail & discussion with the titles, I think there are some interesting points.
I need to apologise for 2 things:
1. The Lighting. Bwah. I thought it was plenty bright in the room - but no, it looks rather dim - I finally switch the lights on about halfway through!
2. I decided not to do a full music background track. The video is pretty long at about an hour and it is getting increasingly difficult for me (due to my hearing) to edit the audio, especially soundtracks calibrated for background. I just added a few sound highlights for special spots.
Haha, I probably wouldn't have noticed the lighting. It was actually quite nice, very soft colors when the lights are slightly dimmed. Turned out well, regardless.
@@Lilly_Belle Oh good, thanks for feedback. It can be hard to judge for me, since I have the brightness on my laptop way down (to protect eyes) and everything looks pretty dark that way! 😁
thank you so much for all the effort you put on this video series! i love the ps3 and its always good to hear about some games that i havent played before.
@@someguy5319 did you try entering the codes? When I’ve entered codes for various items even 5 years old or more, if the site is still up sometimes it still procs the download.
We made it!! This is such a milestone. But now we have a real usable list in a very neat playlist. It was all worth it, I think. 🎉❤
Woooo, we made it! Absolutely loved this series Britta, havent been able to comment in awhile, but I love seeing new videos from you even if I dont get to leave a comment! It would be great to see you cover another consoles exclusives like the PS2, or favorites on the 3DS. Though I imagine that would take quite a few parts haha. All that said, thanks for making this series, have a feeling Ill be referencing these videos a few more times down the line. Keep up the grwat work as always! Also man I need that Disgaea shirt haha.
Thanks, Ian. I'll be looking at the Vita situation in the near future. I'm not really knowledgeable enough about PS2 games to tackle that subject, I'm afraid.
The 3DS I have covered *a lot* on Twitter; but it is close to my heart and I'm sure one day I'll do something around that platform.
Heavenly sword and tears to tiara were such huge blasts from the past. Thank you for making these multi part videos, they were very pleasant and informative. Also, great advice on doing the ps3 updates sooner rather than later, i definitely need to do that
Thanks for making this series so especial ❤😊
Thank you for doing this series! You highlighting a lot of rare and really good games.
Yay another video so soon❤ thank you so much and i hope you are doing well💜
Congratulations on finishing your marathon Britta - it's been quite the Odyssey!
It's been interesting for me as the PS3 era was my "wilderness years" away from gaming so it's good to see some of what I missed.
This was a great series and very well researched, I thoroughly enjoyed each episode and I'm pretty sure I learned something new in each. Thanks for putting this together.
Hello Britta! Lovely video, as always, and I hardly noticed the lack of background music. If anything, it allowed me to focus on what you were saying more clearly, so please don't feel the need to continue using music in future videos if you don't have the opportunity. :)
It was interesting to hear your thoughts on JK Rowling's fall from grace, as it were. As I see it, she clearly was a product of her time, and while society has evolved in the past 20 years, her views clearly have not. It's ironic that some of her characters (like Dumbledore) show a compassion and tolerance that she seems currently incapable of exhibiting. I still adore the Harry Potter world, and feel that despite some of its outdated themes, the books nevertheless contain important and topical messages (I read an interesting article, for example, about how Harry Potter essentially taught an entire generation about what a fascist society would look like). I also can't wait to start playing Hogwarts Legacy once it goes on sale. :-)
Thanks for the feedback on the BG music issue. 👍
Haha, that's a very keen observation about Dumbledore vs JKR. 😄
As to what exactly the Harry Potter world reflects and teaches youngsters .. I would say it's a divided heritage. There is the other, ultra-conservative and stifling side to her novels as well. I imagine the HP world creation is as conflicted as its author.
As a PS3 enthusiast, I thoroughly enjoyed this PS3 series....well done.👍
Very good advice on the updates.....I'm currently going through some older PS3 games and downloading updates before they go away forever. 😎👍
This has been an utterly delightful journey and I've learned about SO many games I need to keep my eye out for! Thank you, as always for being equally entertaining and educational
I've greatly enjoyed this series and have found some things to put on finders list! Thankyou so much for putting these videos together!
I liked Heavenly Sword a lot for the characters (specially the catlike girl) and the cinematic look, it was written by Terry Pratchett's daughter Rihanna Pratchett, the writer for the tomb raider reboot and mirror's edge. The combat used sixaxis and I remember it was actually interesting if you played with it but the game rarely required you to do so, so it was easy to miss.
Aw yes - Rihanna Pratchett. She's a wonderful writer (I recently covered her game Lost Words).
The cat girl is Kai, who uses that bow or cross-bow, and I think you're right, I must've missed (or they didn't show it properly!) some instruction for sixaxis motion, and was wondering why it wasn't working as expected.
Thank you for this entertaining and informative series, and thank you for helping me figure out my video capture situation for PS3 games. I have a bit of a backlog of content to make having recently committed myself the "Summer Backlog Challenge" this year but I will make sure to make something PS3 related fairly soon now that I know I can again. Maybe I'll look at the Motorstorm games on the PS3, as you don't cover racing games it may be a nice counterpoint to your videos.
I was shocked to see just how much that Resistance Trilogy pack goes for just because they are all together in a special box - the three games loose aren't worth much at al!
Great to hear you have your PS3 video capture sorted!
I think focusing a video on motor games is a great idea. Not many people cover PS3 any more, and racing games are always popular and should attract interested viewers.
I'm not good at english but last video before bed, thank you so much, you made my night ^u^
Love your videos, greetings from Argentina
Thank you very much! And your English is absolutely fine.👍🏻
These were such a joy to watch, I started collecting for PS3 last year and I'm already at 221 titles, have been getting the higher value titles and stuff I wanted to replay first. Not sure if you were still looking for Magus, but there seemed to be a few copies available on Ebay, ordering mine this week and hopefully the Saws.
Will fully admit I didn't even know Invizimals and Class of Heroes 2G even existed lol
Hi Emily, thanks for feedback! Magus copies on eBay ...? Hmm, they're prolly gone by now, but I'll check, as I would still like a copy.
PS3 is great for collect for, especially now. 👍🏻
Btw, Class of Heroes (2 games) is getting a remake/remaster. coming to Switch, PS5 and Steam.
th-cam.com/video/nJZ9oKqogGc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=mJg-kV3b92EGyQzc
i love watching your videos. so calming and interesting! keep up the good work
Thabk, Britta! I didn't know Hakuna Matuta was so rare! Maybe I should preserve my copy better...
You should definitely look after it!
Thank you for these incredible videos and insights!
woo part 6 lets go. thanks so much for this series. really enjoyed it.
Thank you for your interest!
So informative, i really appreciate you taking the time. My son (7yrs) is so big into collecting he really enjoyed your video aswell
Wow, he's 7 and already into collecting? What a champ 😃 - I'm happy to see the future of collecting is assured!
Thank you - I enjoyed seeing some games that I skipped on PS3 while I was playing the heck out of my XB 360 though I did get a PS3 at launch and definitely did play some great games on PS3. For me the PS3 never quite lived up to the PS2 for me. My favorite home consoles were the PS2, Xbox 360, Gamecube and PS4.
Oh the PS2 was just phenomenal! I love playing mine to this day.
Which gives me an idea for another video project 😄
This was a very interesting series - really enjoyed seeing those games again. Didn't own all of them and some are new to me
Just seeing this while heading to bed, but I can’t wait to watch this after work tomorrow!
I'm sorry about the timing - was meant to go out earlier but TH-cam threw me a curveball with copyright notice from some of the gameplay footage.
Don’t apologize; you gave me an afternoon event that I got to look forward to all day! Thank you as always for your wonderful videos :)
Around 52:10 ... I wonder how her leg became stuck UNDER a tree root... 🤔
Yea .. not totally convincing, is it? 😄
I cut the footage at that point, but she goes on to explain at great length how she was hurtled down there and her leg awkwardly slipped under. Still .. as I said: maybe convenient to request help from a white knight passing by? 😎😄
Siren, one of my favorite PS3 games!
Tears to tiara II is among my first few platinums on ps3. Definitely underrated game, excellent visuals, scenario, music, character and fun srpg battle and good QoL controls bug free as always Aquaplus quality!
Good job getting the Plat!
I do agree about the Aquaplus quality.
I've never heard of the Wonderbook before but it sounds like something little me would have been obsessed with for all of two hours. 😅
I love playstation 3. Where i live there are different modders who modd and sale modded PS3s. Just like Vita they are awesome modded
Oh yea ... I bet there are some extraordinary modded models, would be fun to browse!
Great series! Thank You!
We both love ourselves some religious themes in media thanks for sharing the unknown.
Im going to miss this series though, its kept me company through some long and lonely shifts at work. Ps4 next? 😅 - Tom
Oh crikey - PS4 would be a sheer nightmare to do! 😵💫😬😄
@@Food4Dogs We believe in you! 😆😆
On installing the updates, I think my issue with that is both of my PSN-linked PS3's are completely full of downloaded PSN games, even though both of them have the largest internal hard drive they support. I do have a 3rd PS3, but it's not linked to my account. Maybe I could use that one to download all the disc-based updates.
When my kid was doing school from home, I actually hooked a Playstation Eye camera with the stand used for the card game to a second laptop, and I used that so that the teachers could see what he was writing. It was really useful.
I enjoyed Heavenly Sword, but yeah it was disappointing they didn't make a sequel. I've heard of Tears to Tiara, but didn't know about this installment in the series.
Yes, I'm constantly shuffling games around on my PS3 hard drives; one of them is quite small by today's standards. It's gonna be one huge job to get all that sorted once we know the servers are going down for good. 😣
Oh - you have that camera stand that came with The Eye of Judgment card game???
That's the one accessory that's always missing when you look at pre-owned copies. And apparently it keeps the camera at just the right height and angle to play the game properly.
@@Food4Dogs Yeah, I actually bought Eye of Judgement new, so I had the camera and stand from it. Never did play the game though. I have a spreadsheet listing which system each of my downloaded games is on... I actually have two of the PS3's still hooked up to different TVs.
@@kazriko Eye of J is actually supposed to be a rather neat game.
I was hoping to comment on the vita video to make this request, because I'm returning to the console scene. I'd like to watch this series but I just can't keep up. I'm not nearly fluent enough with the ps3's library. Are you familiar enough with the various models of the ps3 to make a video teaching about that, similar to your video on Vita models?
The ceiling of my knowledge is that the backwards compatible ps3's are the "fat" models with either 20 or 60 GB of storage and 4 USB ports on the front. I'm not even sure if this is true to be honest, as I haven't pulled the trigger on a purchase yet.
Do you have any insight on this subject?
*rewrote the first paragraph a couple of times.
Hi, you want to learn more about the different PS3 models and which games they play?
I'm honestly not a specialist in PS3 hardware. There are heaps of good videos on TH-cam explaining everything you need or want to know.
I have actually never had a Phat model and don't have much use for it. It's very bulky (!), it has a very small hard disk and its perceived advantage is that it's completely back compatible with PS2 and PS1. I *much* prefer keeping a PS2 for playing PS2 games. The PS2 is very small, mine have all been reliable, and it's the home platform for PS2 games. Remember: back compatibility always comes at a price, some form of emulation has to run on the PS3 to achieve this.
However, I don't have a PS1. While I have most PS1 games digitally, I do appreciate that I can play those games physically also on the PS3 - basically on all 3 models. (There are some exceptions depending on region and model number.)
So: if you're interested *mainly* in playing PS3 games, I would always recommend going with one of the two later models: Slim or SuperSlim.
Tears to tiala II is very rare game.I frequently go to game shops in Japan, But I saw this only 1 time.
I bought this by 300 yen, But I've not played this because no enough time :)
I'm drowned in too many games...
"Agarest Senki" series are not famous JRPG games, But I recommend this too.
Yes, I think I mentioned in another video that I was playing Agarest Zero.
This PS3 series has been excellent.
The PC release of Tears to tiara 1 was in 2005, predating the anime by about 5 years, it had a ps3/psp remake in 2008 followed by the anime in 2009. Haven't touched any of those so can't really comment on content. To my knowledge there aren't any other releases of tears 2, I played tears 2 a while back and you're not wrong, it is very slowly paced, personally I like the pacing but it is a common complaint people have, I'd say it's pretty in line with the pacing of the Utawarerumono games.
If you're familiar with the PS4 Uta games then tears 2 is clearly using an early version of that engine and the combat is somewhat similar, tears 2 combat is rougher in a lot of ways but ends up being much more complex. As for the difficulty I don't remember it being that hard or there being any difficulty walls in the main story at least, if you play a lot of rpgs I'm sure you'd be fine. As for the dlc it's very underwhelming, I wouldn't worry about not having them for the purposes of playing, it's just cameo characters with no story or context. As for the chibi models, yeah I agree they look bad, they're likely used due to a combination of low budget and the studio's lack of experience making 3D games, the later Uta games have a similar issue but by then they've at least gotten better at stylising the models so it's not quite as bad. Visually the designs are fairly generic but I remember liking the characters well enough, that said I do remember thinking some characters ended up really well realised while others were noticeably underdeveloped. As for the story the setting is pretty underused in jrpgs and it does a really good job of working historical events into plot points without it feeling overly forced. It definitely didn't feel like it was strongly connected to the first game outside of some postgame stuff but again I haven't touched tears 1 so I don't know for sure.
The Utawarerumono comparison you made is pretty on point, both series started as adult pc visual novel strategy rpgs, went on to have anime adaptions and console remakes with the adult stuff taken out and found more widespread success in Japan as a result, before going on to get sequels on, at the time, modern consoles with English releases. That said nowadays it's pretty obvious that Uta found long term success where tears didn't, it stands out that tears 2 didn't even get a psp or vita port later on which is pretty out of line with aquaplus's practices at the time. There's pretty obviously a lot of overlap between the 2 series in terms of art, design, and writing, and given that it's a smaller company it's likely that the 2 series shared a lot of staff.
Apologies for the essay, love your videos
Hi Corro, you raise lots of interesting points - thank you!
As to the anime, I have now ordered a copy and look forward to experiencing that.
You say that the Tears2 combat gets more complex as you progress; that's great to hear, that's the sort of thing that'll keep me going.
Thanks for the lowdown on the DLC, I feel relieved I don't need to worry about that. 😃
I also thought the whole historical setting was rather interesting and cool. I wish games would do that more often.
As to the shared development environment: it is intriguing that Uta went on to success and Tears didn't. I note that development for Uta was by Leaf and Sting; whereas Tears only had Leaf and Aquaplus. I dunno, might be just me, but I always think Sting adds something extra in terms of ideas and quality.
50:36 Dang, that's way too big for a chapter 1 map, and that's coming from a Fire Emblem 4 fan lol.
Haha - Yagato, there ain't no comparison between the maps in Tiara and those in FE! 😁
I will be very interested to see what happens with the updates, patches and the like for PS3 games once those servers go down entirely. I've been worried about how games are released now isn't retro friendly and the PS3 might be the first console where that will be felt as it was the first generation that relied on online updates for its games. I assume there's a whole slew of games on PS3 where you really want the updates in order for the games to run well and some might even have game breaking bugs and crashes that were fixed in patches.
absolutely right.
Awesome Video Britta
That's very kind, Figsy, thank you. How's your collection?
I have been downsizing things lately
@@FigsyGames oh my, you're braver than me!
Something you showed on the video I'm selling, those wonderbook boxes, I have all 5 in box
5? I only know of 4 - the ones I listed in the video. Did they make a 5th one?
Your truly awesome!!!!😊
Have you played the new season of destiny two 😊
Have you ever - ever - seen me mentioning playing Destiny???
@@Food4Dogs sorry i didn’t know if it was something you were interested or not because you play such a wide variety of games!
@@teckt0ken I do - but I always point out that shooters (and FPS in particular) are very difficult for me and I very seldom attempt them. Additionally I hardly ever play online multiplayer.
@@Food4Dogs oh okay I understand!
@@teckt0ken Thank you, Emma.
Britta, did you request your TH-cam plaque for 100k subs?
Oh, ages ago. It's visible in one of my older videos I shot in my gaming room, I think
I am so proud to say I not only played Heaven’s Sword, I 100% COMPLETED IT! But the prize for doing that is not worth it lol
What prize? You mean: no trophies?
you are great