PATRONE: bit.ly/3LIDh9C a album i made: t.co/84Blk7PDbY sorry for this taking a while lol. as stated in the video, i ended up working on 2 videos at once, hence why. but that also means that next one will be out v soon!
@@funkrobot9762you keep telling that to yourself and follow rest of the sheep. Yes it's unfinished but I rather play FFXV again than most triple A games out recently
Hm, imagine if at launch you played FF15 right up to the point where we time skip. But instead of the usual way things go, suddenly a character creation menu appeared and you had to spend the next 20 hours or whatever playing through the Comrades game mode. Like, it's just part of the base game. I wonder how the reception to that would have gone.
People already hated the transition from the open world to the linear last third. I don’t think people would’ve enjoyed a switch to a mission-based monster hunter grind before the end of the story.
@@lordofchaosiori Probably. But I also hated the time skip and having something unexpected that contextualizes the skip might've been pretty interesting. Hard to say looking backwards though.
@rainbowkrampus compareds should have beem a single player dlc imo would have worked better and Royal edition could have just suggests you to play it before
@@1chibanKasuga I only played the launch version of the game. I keep thinking about picking up the Royal edition when it's on sale. I didn't hate the game by any stretch. But whenever I think about that ending I just get completely turned off by the idea. It'd just be nice if there were some way to redeem it.
Even tho Comrades is grindy, has a confusing crafting system, spongy enemies and less exploration, I still really enjoyed it. I had fun with the combat and the different sigils and weapons to basically be able to assign yourself a combat role (warrior, mage, support, etc). The character creation was great; I loved seeing pictures of my character after every mission and being able to dress them up. The music is actually pretty good too (they didn't have to go that hard on the Deathgaze boss theme). And playing with others makes the game 200% more fun. It's an unfinished, sometimes frustrating mess of a game, but it's also got a lot of charm imo.
Great video. I'm a big FFXV fan, I've been writing my own thing about it for a bit (I write really slowly!), and I'm stoked to see someone else talk about Pocket Edition. XV is a game made out of the skeletons of a dozen other games, and Pocket Edition looked at the final product and rebuilt it from the ground up to hit the same notes and themes. I really do think that, if it had had the visual splendor and combat of the base game, it'd be a straight-up better way to play it. I'd miss the open world, but what it gains in focus is super important.
@@chaosdestructionlove Not really. It has extra voice lines (they were all recorded for the base game and unused there), and it expands a lot of inexplicably short areas into full dungeons (like the Shiva stop), but it doesn't add whole new story beats. It mostly just makes what was already there make more sense.
FF15 honestly has my favorite vibe of any FF. It's also only fantasy game to blend high fantasy with 1960s americana. That world's so goddamn pretty and photogenic.
I also think the truly bloated FFXV baroque-multi-media universe is why I like it so much. There was so much effort and triage put into translating an FFXIII story into its own setting and I think that passion really comes through. It is not the best FF game, but it is my favorite FF game.
Usually these transmedia/multimedia projects go terrible. FFXV is the first time that the transmedia is all better than the actual main game its centered around.
weirdly enough, I actually love FFXV Pocket Edition, I purchased it on switch and honestly I felt like I was playing an older FF game despite its hand holding. I remember people complaining about pocket edition when it was announced as a "useless edition to nickel and time us" but in honesty, I think it was a blessing in disguise.
It's so nice seeing someone talk about Comrades... I haven't dusted off my ps4 in ages but I spent a long time playing Comrades with friends when we were all deep into FFXV and I really loved it. The vibes are really cool- I love the expanded worldbuilding showing how people were getting by in the apocalypse while Noctis slept- and I stand by the fact that even though it's kinda grindy, it's genuinely a fun game to play with friends!
Maaan, I had been considering Pocket for so long thinking that it would be cool to check out and you absolutely sold me on it. And maybe even giving FF XV another try. Need to get that final DLC tho, to check out the big capital city. I remember being absolutelly bummed that we got next to nothing to explore there in the base game, besides the few destroyed streets in the ending. That's the one thing I miss most from the Versus XIII concepts. Can't wait for the XIV vid!
I remember seeing the strangers of paradise trailer in a group call at E3 or sth and shouting "shit is that my guy: Cor Leonis the immortal?" sending my friend into a laughing fit only getting worse with every "Chaos". They also always laugh when they learn he has maybe 8 minutes of screen time in the base game, even less in the base base game where Insomnia is just a goal, not a place. "Why are you so obsessed with this guy", I have no idea, somewhere along playing it myself, then fermenting in the fandom for 6 years. But I didn't know that Pocket Edition actually has merit, I thought it's the exact same with a bit weird looking models. Finding out they actually turned it into a roadtrip and enhancing this whole team has me interested.
It’s wild how a thing can kind of be better when you do not have to “do” as much or hit a run time. FFXV is genuinely a good story behind too much stuff to do. I will take a 300 page book with a good story over a 600 page tome that vomits world building and lore any day. Then again I am not the boss, I don’t make the rules. People be happy with what they got and who am I to say what is better. FFXV pocket edition just knew what it wanted to give us and I liked more because of that.
Man I just know you’d LOVE Fantasian. Super cozy PS1 Final Fantasy feel with incredibly charming visuals. Shame it’s an Apple Arcade exclusive but Sakaguchi wants it on other platforms so there’s still hope🙏
Also, huge chunks of the story happening off-screen or in forgotten chunks of missing thread is a big Tabata thing, see also: Type-0. Kingsglaive is really good, though, and arguably way more cohesive, so I'd love to see your review on it.
Thor da 🐐 no 🧢 Coincidentally there was also Dragon Quest XI which everyone knows was the big return of DQ to the JRPG mainstream, but not so much as the 3DS demake thing they did exclusive only to Japan and years later fantranslated to English. They both might be the last examples of this simultaneous GBA/DS/PSP/Vita/3DS demake thing.
the sidequests in ffxv are the best part for me. the fact that you can stumble onto something very insanely cool and fleshed out gave the game a sense of wonder and really added to the emo boy road trip vibe. i spent a lot of time digging around the world for sidequests and it felt very fulfilling to me, and i guess consequently it didn't feel like i was getting jerked around by the main story
Man, I really loved 15. I didnt play it when it came out, so by the time I got to it, I had all the patches and DLC and junk. There was just a really solid vibe to the game that came across despite the haphazard way it was glued together. I also seriously mourn for all of the content that never got finished, the areas you only get glimpses of while you're on the train, the second season of DLC that was cancelled slightly after Episode Ardyn, the various dungeons and stuff in the game. I also played Companions solo. It also had a solid vibe, and more story than I expected. Pocket Edition actually looks like a real treat, and I might have to hunt grab a copy now.
It was a trip going back to your "So I've been playing FFXV". Your essence was there but you have really come into your own style in the past 6 years. Great stuff, I really appreciate your videos.
Hey Thor, this one was so good. You have such a unique voice, and it comes through in your editing style for sure. This episode slaps, thank you for your hard work bud
completely unrelated but that Terra Wars mission is one of the fondest memories I have of FFXV, which is funny bc it's completely off the main game, and it feels like a dream Noctis forgot about the second he left the portal. Maybe thats part of it's charm for me. In anyway, I can't forget it
I love FFXV despite it being sort of a train wreck in ways. The road trip vibe of "I'm just gonna pull over cause that place looks neat" to the very jarring tones the story switches between it hit me in a way a lot of memorable jank titles do, something I hope to revisit eventually despite knowing it's not the pinnacle of an experience. I've always found the hate severely overblown but suppose that's true of every divisive game. Meanwhile I'm at the tail end of FFXVI (went hard at release only to run out of steam at the final section) and while I definitely dig what it's done in a way it makes me miss stuff from XV if only for the less somber story.
Apparently some of the later boss fights in Comrades like Bahamut were designed by people from Platinum Games, so supposedly they're pretty good, but I've never played them.
The bahamut(hardest version) fight was imo one of the best ff boss encounter, it was nearly impossible for me to beat solo and waited a week before I could other players to help, the classes were very unbalanced however as dragoon just did substantially more damage than any other class with warp and jumps
me: oh boy, new thorhighheels vid!!! I am EXCITE!!! THH: *plays a bit of DoC* me: *backflips around the room, screaming, worshipping the polygon tomato* I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO NOTICED THE POLYGON TOMATO APPLE THING!!!!!! I have been blessed, I am renewed, the edgey ps2 beast has awoken in me, the box case of DoC on my desk at home calls to me.... I will watch the rest of the vdieo but dang, nothing makes me feel so creatively alive then the feel and vibes of a THH video. Thanks for everything 👏
Holy shit the way you describe ff XV gives me the words to describe my thoughts on Xenoblade Chronicles X I'm pretty sure you can just waltz right into an endgame area, or find pieces of the life hold, right after you do the tutorial., and though gamplay-ly the devs accounted for you doing that have lover lvl collectibles/mobs there, it t makes literally no sense plot wise. But I think it handles its unfinished-ness better. Making the line between main quest and side blurred.Thus naturally you're just doing them anyway while in the process of doing the main quest. Fixing a problem in the XC where getting knee deep the town/NPC social link stuff kinda shits all over the pacing of the main story since the side townies literally are the story .Kinda Deadly premonition Vibes with many even having their own routines depending on the day and unique dialogue that can happen outside of any side or main quest.But less intentional and feels more like either the Devs lacked focus or the didn't have enough time to make a main story. Like you can not know what's going with the main cast, yet you can stumble on a whole mini arc with a woman being bored in her house only to then mid-end game when the cat ppl immigrate, have a cat girl pool party.
XV pocket edition is such a special game to me because I wanted so badly to play through FFXV but it was the only way I could and I ended up falling inlove with it. did all the find the cactuar and scavenger hunt sidequests and everything
After playing Dirge of Skerbussy last week for the first time w/ the EDGE CAR and funny cloud posters fresh in mind, and putting an ungodly amount of hours into ffxv proper, this vid hit the spot
So I was too little to ‘understand’ or beat ff4 (2) on snes. My first real play through was on the ds with that same cute ass chibi art style. I adored those games (ff3, 4, Crystal chronicles, all the handhelds ones really) I didn’t even know ff15 pocket existed, but I bet I would like it more then regular. I like stories told with intent, and intent gets lost in open world sandboxes imho. So thanks for the great video, I found something cool and new that I didn’t know existed.
Definitely gonna try out Pocket Edition. I tried to play FFXV on PS4 at a friends recommendation and absolutely loved the setting, I love car riding with bros and chocoboing, but man that sandbox design was not my jam. This? This might be what gets me to finish the story. :)
I've been curious about Pocket Edition for a while. It honestly sounds like a better experience for my tastes. The open world in FF15 wound up distracting me a lot. But it never actually is that important or rewarding. So I wound up spending many, many hours, getting totally overleveled, and ultimately feeling very unsatisfied because it wasn't worth the time. I will have to give Pocket Edition a try.
I truly love FFXV. So much so, that I was not angry about the rushed last few chapters but saddened by the fact that I could not experience the story as it was supposed to play out. Idk why...I just really love the guys...minus noctis. I loved hanging out with them. there was something so special about that. at least to me :3c
XV was such a vibe! My partner and I played it on launch and really loved it. After XVI I've been thinking of revisiting it to see how different it is now.
I’ve considered trying Comrades lately since I’ve been working my way through XV again anyway but assumed the player base was likely non-existent and the game was essentially dead but I could definitely see this video acting like a defibrillator to give it a little extra life.
I know the song that plays at 4:16 but I'm having a blank day and cannot for the life of me recall its name or where it's from, can anyone help a guy out?
Comrades just made me wish I could go out to the dying, thoroughly fucked up world and promptly get lost in there. Let me out, Square Enix! LET ME OOOOOUT!
As someone who used to believe in Creative Business III, the fact that Thor played XVI and then made a video about XV - saying "well, it wasn't THAT bad" - speaks volumes about the state of FF.
To be Fair I keep forgetting that this game had a multiplayer mode because none of my friends ever played it and I forgot about pocket edition because no one ever talked about it. I think I heard about it once and then never again. At least it fixes some of the issues but that may as well be the tag line for 15 as a whole: final fantasy 15 some of the issues are fixed.
I liked 15 back when I played it but it does give me something to think about when the story pacing has kept me from replaying it as much as I do other RPGs
