Destiny of an Emperor - The Most Underrated NES RPG? 

This game is criminally underrated. It's still my favorite RPG on the nes. I think it just never struck the popularity it deserved.

This game is in my top 10 of ALL time. Supremely underrated.

It's my favorite NES RPG, and I think a remake would be amazing. I think a RPG set in Three Kingdoms China would be really unique today. The only genres that really use that setting nowadays are strategy games, and Musou (Warriors) games.

This was one of my favorite games growing up and it's good to see it get some love. Insanely underrated game from the NES, and one of the best RPGs on the NES, beaten only by Dragon Warrior 3, and maybe Final Fantasy in my opinion. The most memorable things in this game were finally being able to recruit Pang Tong at a time when the rest of your armies were around 1500 troops and he had almost 4000. It felt good having such a beefcake in the party for a while, even though he never leveled up. I also remember one of the highlights being the An Sha tactic to assassinate enemy generals. If there was some big army and you checked your report and saw a dumb general, ezpz just assassinate that noob and let's turn this battle around real quick.

This game was legit my childhood.

these series games are well known and every child will play in china .

My love for this game brought me to your video. On 2:43 the "all-out" part, I believe they use tactics (at least the enemy generals I'm pretty sure) and you can hear it when they do. I remember some fights where my entire army got An Sha'd and I laughed it off. Please correct me if I'm wrong with this. Overall, awesome review and I learned more about this game. Thank you for sharing!

Underrated is right. I loved this game as a kid. Also thank you for pronouncing the names correctly. I'm not Chinese or anything, but I have a lot of respect and reverence for basically everything Chinese except their government, and it grinds my gears when people can't be bothered to learn the proper pronunciation. And Jesus Christ man the fight you show at 1:45 sent me right back like 'Nam, have some decency.

IMO the greatest jrpg on the nes hands down. It is also one of the hardest jrpg of all time. Im playing though the second one right now, and it is on par with the original. Capcom was definitely on to something, but for whatever reason, dropped it. Fun fact: you can actually get to lvl 51 which makes the end game a shade easier.

My favorite Nes game ever. i thought i was the only one.

I love Destiny of an emperor on the Nes. I've been playing it for years. I've played the sequel Destiny of an Emperor 2 on my Nes emulator disc on my Sega Dreamcast. Since it was never released outside of Japan, I had to play the translated Rom. I just recently just bought an English translated copy of Desinty of an Emperor 2 for the famicom. It's awesome to finally have a physical copy of the 2nd game that I can play on my Nes, thanks to my famicom adapter. Great review. I definitely recommend playing the second one if you get a chance to.

Loved this game. I beat the max lev of 50 and made it to 51 lol. It' had a second but it was Japan only

I just completed Destiny of an Emperor this morning I really like this game. I like the DQ style graphics, the dialog, the ancient Chinese setting, the Music, And I really like how straight forward it is to get to the next area since this game is very linear. Though there are a few issues that I have with this game such as the random encounters since they are either non-existent or I would get into 5 battles after taking a single step. Having to constantly switch inventory when getting new items or generals. and some of the final fights lasted for over 20 minutes. But overall I am glad that I played this, and I wouldn't say it's that difficult but that it's very time consuming and the game did take me over 30 hours in-game time. But now I'm going to play other niche 8-Bit games such as Lagrange Point, Tao the way and maybe Shell Beast Story.

This is one of my favourite games growing up. Great review!

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One thing I want to add to this, is that it seriously helps to look up a scanned copy of the instruction manual, or at least just look at the segment of a guide that explains what each tactic does. That will save a LOT of confusion for first-time players.

Very nicely made, well-paced and well-spoken review. Love to see content on one of my favorite RPGs still being made in 2018. I've played it so many times over the years, from childhood when I was fascinated by the concept of recruiting generals to adulthood when I was good enough to complete multiple challenge runs through the game. I posted a bunch for a stretch of time in college at the Kongming.net forums and have considered playing some of the mods of this game. I even wrote a so-so FAQ on GameFAQs for it, though I never did finish the overhaul draft of it that would've made me proud enough to actually recommend someone follow the guide, alas.

Awesome review! It’s from people willing to keep creating and having patience is the best way to operate a channel. Love your review style.

My best friend and I played and beat this game as teens in the early 90’s. An incredible game! You become so attached to the characters as you are with them throughout their lives. Truly a masterpiece!

My favorite NES game and definitely the one I have the most nostalgia for. The music is forever imprinted on my brain. Great video!

Really appreciate your knowledge in the chinese history story you've obviously done some research and also appreciate your pronunciations of these chinese characters names, it shows that you definitely do try your best. Been a subscriber here for awhile now and always have loved your work here, love all your reviews and this one is no exception, it is immensely enjoyable and greatly appreciated, keep up the good work. 👍👍

!!As a child of the time this is hands down the best rpg of it's era. This game was so ridiculously amazing!

Thanks for the video. I grew up on this game. Loved it.

They need to remake this game with today's graphics. Preserve the storyline but have a 3D all out battlefield version.

I never acquired Zhu Ge Liang until after the internet told me how

played this as a kid, and replayed it decades later as an adult, and yes, this still holds up as one heck of a good meaningful game.

that honor goes to the 1 nes game no one even talks about, THE MAGIC OF CHEHERRAZAD , now that one is a criminaly underrated game.

This was my first introduction to the Three Kingdoms and lead me to then being interested in the Strategy Games and Warriors later. I never was able to beat this though as the Last Boss was to much for me to ever beat. Thanks for covering a game that almost never gets talked about.

I think they should remake Destiny of an emperor for Nintendo switch

Thank you for the review, i love this game

Tip I figured outback back then. There is a monk up north that will automatically raise you up a level. Wait into you max out your level and then return to him. He will be able to move you up one higher level

The guardian legend, crystalis and destiny of an emperor are the three best Nes games.

If you have not played the Famicom/NES sequel, you really, really should.

This game is so massively unappreciated. I shout it out whenever I can with other old school NES enthusiasts. I might have some rose coloured glasses with nostalgia for this game but I still think people are missing out if they love the NES and have not played it.

This one was my favorite rpgs and your channel is #LEGENDARY AND #EPIC I will now #SUBSCRIBE #TEAMXYGORGAMING

The characters design base on manga called Tenchi wo Karau

One of the best games Capcom ever created that didn't result in a series. This is as underrated as Weird Al was in the 90s

love your channel, man, and great review. I loved this game when I discovered it during middle school. I was surprised to learn that the generals were based on actual historical figures (mostly), and was prompted to read RoTK. I used to grind around the last castle until I maxed my soldiers, and had found all of the special swords. Loved the major boss music for Si Ma Yi (became the ringtone for my wife, lol)! Glad to see you loved this game as much as I did!

Thank you very much for doing this. I love this game so very much, playing it now and then ^^ Oh. I remember one time recently I just fought Lu Bu instead of giving him the gem sword AFTER obtaining the gem sword... one character always had one less item space... d-don't do what i did

My favorite game from Nintendo for sure LuBu switching sides was the best

I still think of this game sometimes. I love the music. game genie food cheat makes runs funner to me. 1 less thing for speeds sake.

this game was hard asf.

I listened/watched your video, I read about Destiny of an Emperor, when I was a kid another great one! Great job!😀😃

Absolutely love this game. Nice video!

Interesting approach to an army combat mechanic there. FWIW, "brigand" uses a "short i" vowel sound, so the "brig" syllable rhymes with pig. Brig-and, not bry-gand. Pretty much synonymous with bandit.

Forgot to mention in my last comment, that if you notice the mention of "Shueisha" on the title screen, this game was actually an adaptation of a manga and anime in Japan called "Tenchi Wo Kurau", or "The Devouring of Heaven and Earth". Itself being an adaptation of RotTK.

Only one thing im interested in... WHERE IS LU BU'S HORSE?!

Hey friend, I love your game reveal so much. I strongly recommend you to play the original Japanese version of this game. There are tons of secrets behind... You can face some terrible troop forces nearby LuoFengPo (Fallen Phoenix Slide) somewhere around cathedral where Zhang Ren stipulates. You can gain many EXP points and Food ratio rapidly in LuoFenfPo after defeating those terrible bandit forces...

"all out" mode is NOT compeltely unique to Destiny of an Emperor, there are a few other NES RPG's that have a similar auto fight feature

Always wished this battle format was used more often. Loved this game. Beat it in a 20 hour marathon when I was a kid. Definitely couldn't do that again!

Great game, one of the beat on the nes.

Love this game! I went from this to the game series (I started at ROT3K II), and then the various TV series, movies and the novel.

It’s so nice to see fellow lovers of this game. I bought it on a whim around $50 in the early 90’s. I’d had so much fun playing this. I got so excited when Lu Bu joined my army once lol

Anyone other then me find the secret weapon in Nan Yang called the Trident? Great when you get it

Loved this game as a kid

Thanks!

Game looks cool might play it one day

Saw an ad for it in one my old comic books

I got this randomly at a swap meet when it was new. Then found out about ROTK games, then the original 90's show... and then the actual history. Even went to China 20 years ago. I wouldn't know how anybody these days would get into the story unless they followed Dynasty Warriors.

Love this game....

Loved this game so much. Found online customized versions made by other ppl and have played those versions.

i played this game on a VCD player when i was like 8 or 9 yo , and since the vcd didnt have a saving system i just replay the game from the start but i enjoyed it ... Nostalgia

This is still the game I consider my favorite of all time. Good lord have I ever played the HELL out of it. The modding scene is fantastic too!

Well done! I grew up loving this game. Thank you for your review.

Really wanted to hear your review, but had to stop because of the loud background music.

Oh really lemme look and ohh what an surprise.... An soulless rpg game like there toushand of game before... It even have inn and weapon shop... Like in any rpg game...and if you call your live point soldier... At least make it look like real..... And honestly an rpg game about the three kingdoms wars....