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Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana

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It will once again star Adol Christian who seems to be followed by two new characters and will continue to use Ys Seven and Ys: Memories of Celceta’s gameplay style with the 3rd person perspective and not the top down perspective of previous titles.

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It will once again star Adol Christian who seems to be followed by two new characters and will continue to use Ys Seven and Ys: Memories of Celceta’s gameplay style with the 3rd person perspective and not the top down perspective of previous titles.

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Video _j-2RPQN3Bg Drive Thru Games Analysis at 33:25 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Often referred to as the best in the series
  • Changed the host's mind on difficulty
  • Perfect sweet spot of difficulty
  • Feels modern
  • Easy recommend
Cons
  • A little on the easy side at normal difficulty
Thematic elements
Comparison games
  • Ys VII
  • Elden Ring
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Difficulty scaling — This one's a little on the easy side at normal. Like I didn't really have too much trouble with bosses and stuff. Like a little bit, you know. You have to do them a couple times and be like, 'Okay, I got this thing.' And then I mean even the final boss, it was like, 'This is not a challenge.' You know, and there's something to be said there.
  • exploration — It has so many cool things going on. It still feels pretty modern.
  • Party System — And then you got the other ones where it's like, 'Oh, if I train myself on it, use all the techniques that I've developed, and then fight the final boss, you know, handful dozen times, then I'll figure it out.'
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Quotes (from this video)
  • I tried playing Xenoblade Chronicles 1 the Definitive Edition. I may try to go back to that one, but it is too much like playing World of Warcraft, which I don't I like World of Warcraft. Like it's but I when I play a JRPG I don't want to play World of Warcraft. I want to play a JRPG. And it's just too much like that.
  • I played that and I beat it three times. Yes. And then it said that's not the real ending. This is another ending. And I was like, then I started playing it and I'm like, well, I'm playing the exact same thing I played the first time through.
  • Um boy, I really wanted to like this one and I didn't. But apparently Octopath Traveler 2 uh fixes all the problems.
  • And I just don't I'm not that interested. This is not engaging me. You know, I'm not saying objectively that's good or bad. It's just for me wasn't doing the trick.
  • Like the game those games are like really really fun. Obviously I played 50 and 60 hours all the way through them. They're really fun. But like that that's a bad game to me. Like that's not worth an 8.0 on whatever website. It's like oh when I had to go and like read this because it didn't make any sense and it's like no, you they've ruined the game. Sorry.
  • there's not really been a good JRPG board game. There just hasn't.
  • And to me that's what's that's what's the most fun about most of these games. And then also telling in some cases, especially like Trails and some of the Ys games for sure, and the Eden Chronicles games, even the Dragon Quest games, telling like a you know, mildly interesting story that has some moving moments and some some loss and some gain and some happy moments and some you know, personal relationships and stuff.
  • The relationship part of the game was like, well which which one did you have sex with? You know, okay, that's the relationship. But in some of these other ones it's like, oh no, this is actually interesting, you know, platonic relationship that has nothing to do with sex or being, you know, intimate in any way. It's just um you know, this person was your friend.
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Video _XTwLtVsYUk Drive Thru Games Review at 27:44 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Runs beautifully on the device.
  • Visually stunning with fast-paced action.
Cons
  • Difficult to control on the handheld.
  • A bar across the top of the screen is present and cannot be removed.
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
Mechanics unknown.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • Here we've also got the good old games Doom 1 Doom 2.
  • Yeah, so you know, it's Doom.
  • It works.
  • And while we're talking about it, same idea here with Heretic and Hexen.
  • this is just Doom fantasy.
  • And then here we have System Shock 2.
  • But, it's it's a remaster of System Shock 2, so it's a little bit updated.
  • But it runs good just like basically right out of the box there.
  • And this is last one this Pico-8.
  • So, what Pico-8 is, it's almost like it's own little console.
  • But then, you get like hundreds and hundreds of games for free.
  • these little like Gameboy S games.
  • This top screen runs at 120 Hz.
  • So, if I'm just playing like, you know, retro games or something, I don't worry about it.
  • And if I'm especially if I'm playing the dual screen games here, then if you set this to 120, this bottom screen is like a little bit weird cuz the screen technically can't go to 120, but it kind of fakes it out.
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Video yJTEsQi0G98 The Dungeon Dive Top List at 23:03 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
Strongly Positive
Pros
  • Awesome, awesome game
Cons
none
Thematic elements
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Old-style Japanese action RPG — Discussed as part of the Ys series, known for this style.
Video topics + discussion points
No key topics recorded for this video.
Quotes (from this video)
  • Nintendo fans, here it is. My number two favorite system of all time is the Nintendo Gamecube.
  • Oh my god. God, the Gamecube is so good.
  • Eternal Darkness, the best Lovecraftian horror game ever made.
  • Zelda, Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. By far my favorite Zelda game.
  • Metroid Prime, my favorite Metroid game. So good. love that game. The atmosphere is great.
  • I love the Gamecube. I wish Nintendo would have followed down that path, but I have a feeling if they would have, they probably wouldn't be around anymore.
  • And finally, my number one system of all time, and that is the original Sony PlayStation.
  • And uh that game reignited my passion for or that console reignited my passion for video games. And it's been ignited ever since.
  • And the best thing about the Sony PlayStation 1 era was like this was a time before we had so much news coverage online about video games.
  • And so I could go to a video game store and we had quite a few where I was from in Fresno, California, a local kind of chain called BR and then we had Software etc.
  • you could go into a video game store and just look at the shelves and the shelves of the stores were huge and they had so many shelves and there were so many games for the PS1 and you could stumble upon games that you had no idea what they were because they weren't getting covered.
  • These totally bizarre almost non games.
  • They had refund and exchange policies at their store, so you could go in and buy a game with a full guarantee that you would like it.
  • And it just it gave us the chance to try things out at home and, you know, decide whether or not we like the game.
  • And so that, you know, kind of gave me the freedom to experiment with a whole bunch of different kinds of games.
  • And I think that's a I think that's a huge uh miss. I think not allowing gamers to exchange games and not allowing for, you know, that's why I like Steam so much because you can buy a game, you can play it for a couple hours, and if you don't like it, you can refund it.
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