It’s not. the lead writer had an interview after the demo came out where he was incredibly disappointed by the reactions the game was getting. It’s not even a little bit self aware. But that makes it funnier so
Okay, let me explain for anyone confused: Jack, Ash, and Jed all arrive in the world of Cornelia with no memory. All they know is that they need to kill Chaos. Neon and Sophia also have a desire to kill Chaos, so they team up. Jack, Ash, Jed, and Neon all have crystals, much like the prophesied Warriors of Light, but these crystals are dark. It's later revealed that Jack, Ash, and Jed are from another dimension controlled by the Lufenians. They've been sent to Cornelia before, and attempted to destroy the darkness, which was banished to Cornelia by the Lufenians. They failed, so the Lufenians erased their memories and reset the world. The scenes where Jack is wearing white are memories from that previous attempt. He used to be friends with Astos, and was in love with Princess Sarah. The darkness once again spreads and becomes uncontrollable. In order to break free of the Lufenians' influence, Jack's allies force him to kill them, causing him to absorb all of their darkness and become Chaos. He then severs the connection between Lufenia and Cornelia. It's also revealed that Jack is Garland, the first boss you fight in the first Final Fantasy and the true identity of Chaos. Ash, Jed, Neon, and Sophia are the Four Fiends. They then go 2000 years into the past, just like Chaos/Garland did in the original Final Fantasy, and wait for the Warriors of Light. The Warriors of Light are easily defeated, so Jack goes back in time and fights them again. In every loop, the Warriors of Light become stronger, until eventually they're able to easily defeat Garland. The Warriors of Light then go back in time and defeat Chaos, breaking the time loop and destroying the darkness once and for all. What the fuck.
@@Casshio I think it has fun with itself, but also if you follow the lore the sheer focus on "Chaos" this and "chaos" that, tot he point where Jack has like no emotions makes a lot of sense
To be fair, the game is just about the villain backstory of Final Fantasy 1 which came out in 1987. You might also have picked up the very subtle comedic approach the developers took to the concept.
I love how they were "scheming" to turn him into chaos but all they had to do was walk up and be like "we want to kill chaos too" and MF ran miles with it ahahhaah
it's really refreshing to see a protagonist who wants to skip all the cutscenes mfs down in the replies like: "hey have you heard of small underground underrated game franchise DOOM for the PC it's got a thing kinda like that I wonder if you heard of it"
As a foreigner, I really love this linguistic humor in english (play-with-words kinda thing, can't find right term for it), and this joke is comedy gold for me🔥 Thanks✨
At least Garland get's better towards the end of the game. An their little moments in-between, where he's show to be (bit) self-aware of himself (which is a good thing I guess)
It's the refreshing simplicity of it. Like, no greater purpose, no deep backstory, he just woke up one day and decided to kill a concept that didnt event exist yet. And by god he stuck with it until his grave. He is a giga chad.
That scene where he goes "Bullshit." then walks away and plays some early 2000s rap metal on his earbuds is so campy and hilariously edgy that it actually makes me want to play the game.
Imagine if jack went: I DON"T GIVE A DAMN WHO YOU ARE! and defeated Chaos without even knowing it. His life would be an endless cycle of searching for Chaos.
JESUS KNOCKS ON YOUR HEART AND LONGS FOR YOU TO ANSWER! HE DOESN'T WANT TO SEE ANYONE PERISH INTO HELL. GOD LOVES YOU SO HE GIVES YOU FREE WILL AND A CHOICE TO ACCEPT HIM OR REJECT HIM. TO LOVE HIM OR TO LOVE SIN/THIS WORLD. CALL UPON JESUS & ASK HIM TO FORGIVE YOUR SINS! SURRENDER YOUR WILL & YOUR LIFE TO HIM AND HE WILL GIVE YOU ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN! PICTURE YOUR BEST DAY ON EARTH TIMES A BILLION FOR ETERNITY, THAT'S HEAVEN! NOW PICTURE YOUR WORST DAY ON EARTH TIMES A BILLION FOR ETERNITY, THAT'S HELL! HE WILL GIVE YOU WHAT YOU WANT SO IF YOU REJECT HIM YOU WILL BE SEPARATED FROM HIM & HIS BLESSINGS (LOVE, PEACE, JOY, HOPE, REST, ETC). IN HELL YOU WILL BE ALONE WITHOUT GOD OR PEOPLE, YOU WILL BE HOPELESS, YOU WILL BE IN DESPAIR & AGONY FOREVER! GOD'S STANDARD FOR HEAVEN IS PERFECTION AND ONLY JESUS (THE SON OF GOD/GOD IN THE FLESH) LIVED THAT PERFECT LIFE! HE LAID DOWN HIS LIFE & TOOK THE WRATH OF THE FATHER ON THE CROSS FOR YOUR SINS! GOD IS JUST SO HE MUST PUNISH SIN & HE IS HOLY SO NO SIN CAN ENTER HIS KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. IF YOU ARE IN CHRIST ON JUDGEMENT DAY GOD WILL SEE YOU AS HIS PERFECT SON (SINLESS SINCE YOUR SINS ARE COVERED BY JESUS' OFFERING). YOU CAN ALSO CHOOSE TO REJECT JESUS' GIFT/SACRIFICE & PAY FOR YOUR OWN SIN WITH DEATH (HELL) BUT THAT SEEMS PRETTY FOOLISH! GOD SEES & HEARS EVERYTHING YOU HAVE SAID & DONE. YOU WONT WIN AN ARGUMENT WITH HIM & YOU CANT DEFEND ANY OF YOUR SINS TO HIM. WE'RE ALL GUILTY WITHOUT ACCEPTING JESUS' SACRIFICE FOR OUR SINS! MUHAMMAD DIDN'T DIE FOR YOUR SINS, BUDDHA DIDN'T DIE FOR YOUR SINS, NO PASTOR/PRIEST/MARY OR SAINT DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO IDOLS OR FALSE GODS DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO ACTOR OR CELEBRITY DIED FOR YOUR SINS, NO ATHLETE OR POLITICIAN DIED FOR YOUR SINS! JESUS CHRIST ALONE DIED FOR YOUR SINS & WAS RESURRECTED FROM THE GRAVE! HE IS ALIVE & COMING BACK VERY SOON (THESE ARE END TIMES) WITH JUDGEMENT! PREPARE YOURSELVES, TURN FROM SIN & RUN TO JESUS! IT STARTS WITH ASKING HIM TO FORGIVE YOUR SINS & INVITING HIM INTO YOUR HEART/LIFE, SURRENDER ALL TO HIM! IT'S ABOUT A RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR CREATOR. HE KNOWS YOUR PAIN & TROUBLES, TALK TO HIM LIKE A BEST FRIEND! ASK HIM TO REVEAL HIMSELF TO YOU & HELP YOU TO BELIEVE IF YOU DOUBT! DON'T WAIT TO CRY OUT! NO ONE IS PROMISED TOMORROW! HE LONGS FOR YOU TO INVITE HIM IN, HE LOVES YOU MORE THAN ANY PERSON EVER COULD, HE CREATED YOU! Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."-John 14:6 "But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven."-Matthew 10:33 “For the wages of sin is death (hell), but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord”-Romans 6:23
In that case, don't play forspoken cuz it's got the biggest piece of shit protagonist in recent years. Not to mention the dialogue and motivations are God awful
This is like some 2000s-JRPG-level poorly translated dialogue with melodramatic, haphazard voice acting performances, and it warms my heart with nostalgia! :D
It’s like they took a 40k space marine and just plonked him in some anime fantasy setting. Constantly talks about destroying chaos Has no social skills Eventually becomes chaos
It's kind of more like Archaon's backstory from Warhammer Fantasy. Guy sets out to stop the herald of the apocalypse, only knowing that said heralds name is Archaon. Finds out that prophecy dictates that the one searching for Archaon will end up becoming Archaon. Becomes Archaon, the herald of Chaos and the end times.
1:57 this scene is just... >Jack's complete disregard for story exposition >His emotionless stare >His absolute gigachad pose, a simple hand outstretched dangerously close to the camera >The camera's movement, slowly circling around Jack Simply a mastapeece, 10/5
This game is written like if you had 10 people who wanted to write a dark, serious, edgy story, but then you also gave a shitposter the ability to overrule all of them and add in whatever he wanted to as well.
My favorite line of dialogue was the reply "No, it's ok, I memorized it" in response to being offered a music player. You're not studying for an exam, it's meant to be listened to.
In love with Jack. Emotionally unintelligent angry swordsman who borders on conspiracy theorist goes on a crusade to kill chaos, despite chaos being a concept and not a being you can fight, who also seemingly hates interacting with his girlfriend who loves him unconditionally
Except Chaos literally is a being that you fight, as anyone who had played a Final Fantasy game would be aware of. But yes, Jack is a legitimately tragic figure.
I don't know why, but the moment at 2:10 where he stars singing the victory fanfare and falls off midway through, inserting a "fuck" in the middle of it, before continuing on with the rest of the jingle kills me
By far my favorite part of this is listening to Jack ask or just talk about Chaos in general like 12-13 times throughout the video, only to yell out "I don't give a fuck who you are!" As a being who genuinely looks like it could be Chaos is introducing itself. Lol. 10/10.
This is one of those Dunkey videos where I can't tell when the parody ends and the legit game is being shown. If even half the dialogue he showed is legit, this game is a fricken fever dream.
The editing is key here. It adds timing. If you play the game the individual scenes wouldn't be that funny I think. Or at least less. Dunkey is great at this, he has many videos in that style, sometimes without any commentary. Still just as funny. That takes some real skill.
Well he goes to school, learning had a heartbreak in collage had to find work, accepted as stragers had training and goes to other world, the way his native dimension human address him and his party in a tone of employer to employee indicating jack was a regular work force who went rogue. So he could had aboring employee life
@@adams3560 Ah yes, because Jack is gonna quote Patrick Star and the Spongebob joke is meant to be taken seriously. So inaccurate. Cant enjoy the comment
They did cut down! Apparently there is a lot more "I must kill chaos" lines in the original Japanese, but it became such a fucking meme that they changed many lines in English.
I love how his friends just watched him get obsessed over killing chaos, when they knew he was going to be chaos all along. It's the most epic prank ever broski
To be fair they lost their memories but regained it over time as he defeated more and more stuff. Then they plotted to turn him to Chaos which was his plan as well. Only he didn't know it.
@@M3cronom It's not that complex to understand They are essentially a bunch of time traveling janitors who are really angry at their bosses, so instead of cleaning garbage they become the garbage
you're not wrong, they actively are poking fun at stuff from earlier games. like how every NPC is just the same 5 people recycled over and over again, because of how limited NPC designs were in the original FF1
@@Icetea-2000 they also made Jack's group's crystals all spherical because they were mistranslated as orbs in FF1. The list of tongue in cheek details goes on.
The ending is really nice. Overall the last stretch of the game left me with a very positive impression. I played with Japanese dub though, the English dub sounds stupid.
@@meyr1992 That one dimension served the story well and made it a lot more enjoyable. If the main character is even slightly more complex, the story would be worse off.
“I Am-“ “I DONT GIVE A FUCK WHO YOU ARE” There he is boys, the first anime character that doesn’t let the villain fully explain his backstory before the fight
Jack refusing to speak unless it's chaos related reminds of the one meme where he says that he thinks chaos is actually pretty cool but doesn't want to admit it
1:57 is hysterical. The way he stops him gently like he's trying to de-escalate the situation, as if the elf spouting exposition is equivalent to a lunatic making a bomb threat.
This game accidentally perfectly captures the voice of a generation and sings with it completely out of pitch and I want it more and more every time I see footage of it.
Ngl i think thats exactly how things are + it's a experimental dive into the souls genre So it's destined to be just a weird something that makes extrem fun
Out of all the crazy stuff that happens in this game, I think the weirdest part is that the princess has memorized her favorite song, and therefore never needs or wants to hear it again.
@@Irisverse That wasn't my point of contention. There is nothing weird with memorizing music just as if you were listening to it right now. I can play an entire playlist in my head. It's normal.
@@cooldud7071 Wtf, this dudes like Sheldon from Big Bang. Hey dud, what time of day did you first hear your favorite song and what was the ambient temperature?
I think Nomura as ascended into that realm of Lucas-like mythos where anything that's a 'flaw' in his storytelling is just "satire" or "misinterpreted genius", and anything that's genuinely good was definitely not put there by Nomura. I think people at Square are too afraid to challenge him on things. Final Fantasy has never made a whole lot of sense, even before Nomura joined Square, but holy hell if they ever got real writers they could absolutely dominate the RPG market.
No that's the beautiful part. This game is flopping hard in Japan, the Japanese fucking haaaaaate it because it's intended to be 100% serious. All the dumb bullshit that is jacks character is played completely straight and flat in the Japanese version and the devs have gone of record saying they were upset at the reaction to the trailers. The western translation literally saved this game from being a complete failure instead of a The Room tier experience
You just smacked me across the face with a wave of nostalgia by mentioning Godsmack. So much enjoyment playing Warrior Within. I bet the Prince would have been Jack’s role model.
@@Ancor_Vantian Man those Dahaka chases were anxiety inducing. I remember being absolutely scared and dropping the game for weeks when stuck at a Dahaka chase
I was so happy when Orange Tesla came on, "I love this song!" yeah me too! and then she got punched and her name was also Sarah, 10/10 relateable character for me
i think this is my favorite dunkey video, it’s so completely ridiculous and i genuinely don’t know if it’s cause this is how dunkey edits his videos or if the game is just really like this
It’s a bit of both. Dunkey’s had some fun with mashing random bits of the story together for maximum confusion, but the game itself is actually a lot of fun and gets pretty wild at times.