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FFE was such a special time playing online with my friends around the world...I've tried to replay it a few times and it's just not the same solo. I hope you enjoy it still, though!

I don't! :)

Better every day...this heat/humidity has been killer on my sensitive skin, but otherwise I feel like 90% normal these days

I hope you are as well! I miss chatting <3

I like that! Lets make it happen

@@ZeroScore Thanks! Came up with it myself, mixing Rougelite with the Mega man name; been trying to spread news of it, and create an impact that hopefully gets new games made for it! (Similar to the explosion in Boomer shooter games in the past few years)

I didn't technically miss them cause they weren't out when I made this, but I DO want to do a follow up video, mostly because I love gravity circuit, so I'll make note of the others too

@@ZeroScore okay, sounds good to me!😊👍

I have heard they're pretty solid (not played them myself) but they're mobile games so I didn't actually cover them, per my rules for the video. Maybe someday I'll do a video just on mobile games, cause there's just so many, but unfortunately a lot are no longer playable.

​@ZeroScore They're indeed mobile games, but luckily these games are full titles and not gacha games tied to online servers. They're basically like the Pixel Remaster and 3D remakes on mobile.

It's not really, since they're just licensed guest characters and it's not actually developed by square, but I did specify later with Dissidia that I'm not covering Ehrgeiz or Smash

@@ZeroScore But Ehrgeiz is a Square game too and Nobuo made songs for Smash. Nah Mario spinoffs aren't Final Fantasy spinoffs.

Enjoy! It's come a long way since I made this too... My friend and I wanna do a follow up gameplay video to show how far it's come.

This is actually my brother's game and it's been done for quite a few years so he hasn't gone back to it lately, but I checked with him and he said he's not aware of any community walkthroughs. He had a solid testing group while it was in development but they've all moved on too. Sorry I can't be more help, but I'm glad you're enjoying the game!

It's cause they're great, and different. They dared to take risks with the formula and set their own standard for the hardware in really impressive ways. I honestly wanna go straight to the oracle games, while we're in Gameboy land, but I feel like I have to do the n64 games first cause the Oracles pull a lot from the lore introduced in the 3d games...

I agree! Some people have said they don't like the art style of the remake but I think it's charming and would love the same team and engine for Oracle remakes

It's not too late to check it out! Also #RemakeSML2

Hey! Long time no chat! How you been? And yeah I'm still around. Not taking it too seriously, just throw out a video whenever motivation strikes, but with social media being a cesspool these days it's harder to promote so I just kinda let the algorithm decide if my videos are worth seeing, I don't stress over views or anything. Just a fun hobby :)

@ZeroScore man I'm happy to see some of my friends from pre x / Twitter going good. I went through my subscriptions and most are 5 to 7 years old. I'm happy to see those still going to still find joy in it. Sadly I went through some things to stop me even though it was fun lol

Right?! I actually need to do a follow up to this video cause there's been some great MM style games lately like Gravity Circuit last year and Berserk Boy that just came out (kind of more metroidvania, but it's clearly inspired by Capcom plafformers too)

100% agree! I recently recpmpleted Seasons so that ones pretty fresh in my mind but I'm excited to replay ages when the time comes for those retrospectives

I appreciate your thoughtful insight, but with all due respect, retrospective literally means looking back... To me the point is to re-analyze it through a modern lens to see how a view has changed over time. And this is how I've done the whole series so far (I'm hardly trying to cash in on lttp attention... If I was I would have been more positive because angering the super fans certainly hasn't done me any favors). I agree that putting yourself in the time IS a way to do videos like this, but I'd argue that's not the point of a retrospective. This video did feel like work though... I debated skipping it but had promised a full series retrospective so instead I just decided to share my honest, scattered thoughts as someone who ISN'T the biggest fan of it. There's countless retrospectives praising the game, after all, so at least I could provide a unique perspective, even if people very vocally disagree (even my bro said he was mad at me, and we both grew up with the game :p)

Haha my man! Hope to see you back next time. I will ALWAYS share my positive and negative thoughts on games I cover, that's the point of a critique (too many people get lost in their nostalgia and forget to actually analyze objectively) but LA is one of my favorites so it'll be a much more positive video. Which means it probably won't do nearly as well cause the fanboys won't come blast me in the comments like they are this time...but hey, I'll take the engagement, I don't care if they're haters.

My wife says I'm a great cook

I do actually... I don't know if you actually watched the whole video or just noticed I didn't immediately praise everything about this game and then came to the comments, but I specifically called out how impressive and important it was to gaming at the time. Just because I don't actually like it that much doesn't mean I can't still respect what it accomplished. Everything is so black and white now... Like it's not as simple as "this game is a masterpiece so you're not allowed to say anything negative about it" I can respect it and still acknowledge that it has flaws. But it also achieved things that to this day haven't been done better, so that deserves recognition too. ACTUAL critical thought requires an analysis from all sides, not just nostalgia fueled praise for half an hour.

Let's try to keep the comments related to the video. I don't appreciate hate and disrespect on my channel.

@ZeroScore In what way shape or form is my comment hate? Your beard is a part of the video, so my comment about your beard is related to the video. If you don't like my comment then you don't have to. It would probably be very hygienic if you took care of yourself a little better though.

I'm sorry facial hair triggers you but it's unrelated to the content of the video. If you have legitimate criticisms about my views on this game, I welcome them. Otherwise please leave because my beard isn't going anywhere.

@@ZeroScore Your facial hair doesn't trigger me. I'm sorry that my criticism triggers you. I feel free to stop uploading if you don't want to hear people's opinions.

Oh I love the soundtrack, I just don't usually talk music in my retrospectives. And I really do respect the games legacy, I tried to make that clear... I mean no ill will toward the game and its clearly rabid fanbase. These are MY issues with it. There's tons of videos praising the game with no critiques. It's only fair someone with less love for it speak up too

Yeah my mans is high as shit. This is one of the best Zelda games ever made.

Speaking of being high, nostalgia is a hell of a drug...

It's a great game and it's loved for a reason. I feel like I still acknowledged that while also explaining why it's not MY favorite. And that's okay, everyone has their preferences. I didn't call anyone crazy for loving the game, so it's wild that the comments are feeling personally attacked because I don't think it's perfect (not you, you're fine)

I can acknowledge there's benefit to straight forward back and slash dungeons... I mean it's what the genre was founded on and a lot of people love those classic dungeon crawl games. I just prefer the creativity and gimmicks of later Zelda dungeons and these especially feel unnecessarily convoluted but also way too simple. Like when the required path is just wrapping around the same generic rooms multiple times because of one way blocks, it feels like padding. But like you said, to each their own! I know this is one of your favorites and I'm glad we can agree to disagree :)

I figure no one watches a retrospective for a series they know nothing about... So why waste everyone's time diving into the little details? I provide the context needed for what I'm talking about, in case they need a refresher but yeah, I'm glad you like my approach. I WILL do step by step reviews if my thoughts require it, but it's still more of a linear overview, not a WALKTHROUGH

*shrug* it's just an optional Easter egg joke, it's not meant to be true to her character.

Exactly! It's no wonder so many modders give up since the community is so harsh and ungrateful...like it's a TON of work and it's OPTIONAL just for the people that like it and want to use it. The haters act like it's some ultimate sin that any of it even exists. I'm just trying to raise awareness, not force people to use it :p

Okay listen...to each their own if you think it still looks great, but all I'll say is that nostalgia is a powerful bias. I think I argued my point pretty well comparing it to the other entries on the same console that DO hold up better. FF7 just has a weird art style that doesn't match anything else. I can get not liking how THESE remastered characters look, but I like them because they're fairly similar shaped, just more detail (just like the ff8 and ff9 models)

@@ZeroScore To each their own, I guess. I can’t stand the added detail to clouds hair, for example. Looks like it’s greased and slicked back, in the mod. Completely changes his personality, in my opinion. I like the charm of the original graphics. Maybe if they just sharpened everything, yeah. But they added detail where there was no sense adding detail.

@@fritospie7982 I agree, but in the defense of the mod...what is his hair SUPPOSED to look like in the back? They kept all the same polygons, so it's just kind of a round blob back there otherwise. His in-game hair is frankly just inaccurate compared to renders, cutscenes, etc.

Thats what I'm saying!

Eh, to each their own

I'll admit, the reason I never did a story play on ff7 is because those characters have established voices and I knew that my non-professional friends trying to mimic them would just sound off so I focused on games that didn't have known voices for the characters...but I still applaud this team for putting in the effort, even if I agree the voices could be better. I've mostly just gotten so used to voiced dialogue these days that I think I prefer it over reading, regardless >.<

To be fair, that's one of the only sections I've played so far with added cursing and it's an optional Easter egg from missing the mini game too much (I think it literally took like a minute and a half of other tame responses first) but I agree it's unnecessary. I will say it's tough to adapt the original script which had a bunch of implied cursing with the censoring in the text boxes... Clearly these characters, mainly Barret, ARE vulgar... But it's still a little out of place. Just know that's a very specific (and again optional) example I just found kinda funny