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THE BOUNCER!
Ok we all have great memories of this game, we all remember it being awesome, but we were also all kids, so let’s replay it with the benefits of age and wisdom…
oh no…oh NO.
The bouncer was an unholy mix of beat-em-up and RPG which succeeded at being neither, it’s a 1 hour long mess of a game which really wants you to replay it but offeres no real reason to play it in the first place.
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It's a damn shame this game got rushed.
I have vague memories of the forest/dome scenes. Some of my earliest gaming memories. I never could remember what the game was actually called. One of my older friends at the time had rented it from Hastings for the weekend. Man. Almost thought it wasn’t real lmao.
Credit to: @alzyalz7733
"The enemies you fight in the game get stronger as the average rank of your team goes up, so when your whole team is S-rank, you fight Dauragon at his max stats."
……….
So yeah, ranks ACTUALLY do mean something in this game. This also explains why your playthroughs were complete cake walks.
And it was wild for me watching this vid, because I was racking my head "I remember this game being way WAY harder". And then when you fight the final boss Dragon C. Makado… I was like "lmao there is no way this is the same boss I fought".
Nostalgia aside, this game was a GEM back when it released, graphics were too tier for it's release. The main gripe was that the studio didn't have enough time developing the game. If you see the initial trailer for the game, you will see that they cut A TON of features from the game. Interactive environments, and much better level enemy engagement.
As a kid, Dauragon changing clothes/phases was the coolest thing.
Combat is nostalgic but I loved the team attacks.
22:30 I'm pretty sure Namco made Tekken 3 and not Square. 😉
Hey ttt and doa2 are great games
Wasn't this like a Fighting Force spinoff or successor?
It's a little painful seeing how many assets were reused in FF 10.
this and winback64 were gems
Fighting force on ps1 was better
Douragon C Mikato xD he is all i remember
Ragdolls was not worth the amount of potential that was given up.
This is a love it or hate it game. I liked it, but the controls were Jank, and the plot was awful. I think They (Square) also promised multiplayer story mode which when released was scrapped. This was supposed to be a test game for a new style of game/IP that needed more time to develop honestly.
Sora
The combat looks very similar to Batman Dark tomorrow. Clunky and awful!
31:04
Lmao
I remember seeing the trailer for this game and thought to myself…
"wow, graphics can NOT get better than this!!!"…😅😅😅😅
Oh also its mentioned in KH 2-3 as an easter egg. An npc in twilight town is wearing a t shirt that reads dogstreet in kh2 and in 3 he wears one saying dogstreet 3. You can find posters as well it seems to actualy BE a moive in universe.. actualy on the topic of Kingdom harts. Its intersting that the multi perspectives thing was done better 20 or so years later. With Kingdom harts birth by sleep.
"Echidna is a rip off of eddy Gordo". Um sir…. Capoeria exists
Love your videos mate, they're the only retrospectives I actually enjoy. Can you please do ocarina of time, and any/all three of the classic resident evil games
Ah yes I remember this, the day that Squall and Cloud, Tifa, Quistis and whatever got tired of waiting for their turn and went to some bar to beat up a King of Fighter's boss instead, by the way you gotta love SNK Boss logic:
"Muahahaha, I am the evil boss of this luxury cruiser, I can take any SINGLE MAN or SINGLE WOMAN out with no problems… Even the three of you!"
(Fight ensues)
"What? Me? Defeated? Humpf… All three of you are perhaps the only single opponent to give me a challenge, almost like taking on several people at once… Huh… Weird that…Oh but now I remember! I fight much better without my coat on (duh!) Throws away coat and gains cheap overpowered moves, at least one named Shippuken and something with "Genocide" but still loses
"What… I… Impossible! How can I be beaten by… By a single human being… The three of you… Must be… The Legendary warrior… Ugh…
Your team: Haha! You can't even defeat the three of us by yourself! What weakling yeah! Ahahaha! Next time let's bring eight guys just to make it even easier on him!
"If I have become so weak… That I cannot even defeat you… ONE SINGLE OPPONENT! Then you must all die! AS I PRESS THIS BUTTON!"
Detonation sequence, in exactly enough time for the heroes to escape: "Five, four, three, two… One and a half, one and three quarters, one and…
Epilogue: Final Ultimate Omega Nightmare True Form Shin Gural's corpse was never fou… Oh wait there it is, never mind
THE END
I bought this game for cheap at the Gamestop in the mall. I played for about 15minutes, and was done. A friend took it and said it was great. I never understood it. I think the game is trash .
I remember renting this back in the day (like you said, there wasn't much good stuff on PS2 at launch) and played through it multiple times as well. Josh's review was pretty accurate to what I remembered, but dialed up to 11. XD
Man they should remake and revamp the combat and story this game was really fun
4:58 always thought exactly that, great regard ew. Loved this game as a kid
The thing that stuck out to me when I played this game back in 2002 was the narrator saying "DOURAGON C. MIKADO!"
Never heard of this game. Love this series and the cactuar jacket is great.
you should do,
Way Of The Samurai ps1
I can see this being acceptable on ps1, but ps2? Far behind its time. With few exceptions… Some of the graphics in the cutscenes are actually great for the time. The voice acting has a killer line-up but….. it's surprising how this ended up so crap.
When I was young I actually loved playing this game. It gives me a lot of nostalgia even with how flawed it was. Great playthrough haha.
i like this kind of graphics ! it's look good enough and not too blocky as ps1 games! hope one day we'll see more and more games with this kind of graphics !
I loved it, but it definitely needs the “FF7 Remake” treatment.
Please do The Order 1886
The cutscene-gameplay ratio being so lopsided was why I put down Kingdom Hearts 3