A little analytical, and obsessively observational
Hello everyone and everything! And welcome to the critiques, ramblings, and observations of Game BreakDown, a series built around all those tiny details the typical player would miss on a casual playthrough. From text hidden in the environments to narrative through-lines woven into the plot, my series’ aim is to bring you as many of those “I can’t believe I never noticed that” moments as I can.
44:43 My wife is goated then cause she beat this race first try. I was so dumbfounded cause I've been playing this game since i was in diapers and STILL struggle with this dumb race
I found you through your kingdom hearts videos, love how much work you put into these videos too! Love to hear someone knowledgeable talking about a game they're passionate about!
"Chromosome number: unknown" Nice, leaving the door open for the representation of genetic conditions. Or Mario is a mutant... I'm not sure what to make of that information.
So by far the easiest way I've found to just absolutely cheese Yoshi's Fruit Adventure is to use the big brother's throw over to the coconut cliff and spin jump up and over to the Shine cage.
Theres a demo of sly 2 built into ratchet and clank 3. Has a few missions and the dialog is different in a few places to what was in the finished copy :3
20:53 I have a theory of a Yuffie conspiracy. Jun Akiyama was one of the Scenario Writers on KH1 but he was also an Event Planner (essentially an assistant director) on FFVII and he was the one responsible for planning all the events with Yuffie in the game which was almost entirely removed form the game for time until Jun apparently reworked the whole Yuffie story section by himself to keep her in the game as an optional character and came up with the idea of Yuffie being found in a random encounter. Now I'm not saying that Jun forced the production to put her in the game but I would like to think they added her as a nod to his work. Also, I was very confused as a kid when I played this game in 2002 when I first saw Riku my reaction was "Isn't that a girl's name?"
I'm so ecstatic that I stumbled across this, KH trivia and world design (KH1 especially) are like catnip to me, and now get a whole hour long video? Thank you so much for making this!
I also didn’t like Noki Bay as a kid. I thought it just looked weird compared to every other level. It felt too linear and I hated how it changed drastically from episode to episode. It’s hard to say if they just wanted to throw a challenge in the third act of the game or just ran out of time but I think it’s both. I think the vision was always to be a hard level considering it’s the poison water level but it comes across as unfinished when you’re actually jumping around.
Seeing someone playing steel soul but also treating their playthough as a first time tutorial (explaining charms, benching, etc.) is incredibly funny to me, love it
Guessing someone probably already mentioned it, but the kanji 屋 (ya) can be thought of as a suffix meaning "a shop for [the thing it is after]". For example, leaving it romanized, a "sushi-ya" is a sushi restaurant: a "ramen-ya" is a ramen restaurant; a "fuku-ya" is a clothes store. So that restaurant is literally a store that sells French (things), food in this case.
This is looking to be a great series. Very great attention to detail like Novayon KH's videos. I only wish there was this much put into the actual world designs of the future games.
i liked the clue bottles in the first game, but i don't like them as much here, mostly because instead of collecting them along the path of a linear level they scattered them around a large open hub, it's all good fun until theirs like, one clue bottle left and you're searching the entire map multiple times to find it
This is my favorite chapter, by far. I love playing as the weakest character and him having to summon the courage to save Sly and Murray, in addition to playing in the scariest and most threatening map throughout the game. This chapter really amps the game up and makes the stakes feel real, this is the reason why Sly 2 is in my Top 3 games of all time.
