GAME SINS | Everything Wrong With Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin 

"Summarize the game's plot in one sentence" Simple: People, Jack in particular, want to kill Chaos.

Man. SOOOOO many people thought the Bullshit scene was an edit. It was always funny seeing their reactions to it.

Jack interrupting monologues is hilarious

"After playing most of From Software's Dark Souls games, I've grown accustomed to the plot being none of my damn business." 🤣🤣🤣🤣 this right here needs to be on a shirt or something

Jack better be in kh4. He can teach Sora a thing or 2, like "F*** you darkness"

The spaceship thing and robots isn't a sin. In the original Final Fantasy on the NES, flying fortress was an actual space station and you did have robots as enemies there, but in the subsequent remasters of FF1, they changed flying fortress to be just that, a medieval fortress that hovered in the sky with waterfalls, even though that wasn't the original design.

Guys, call me crazy but I think the main goal of this game is to kill Chaos. Because Jack can't stop expressing himself with how much he wants to kill Chaos.

Jack wants to kill Chaos so bad you mine as well call him the God-Emperor of Mankind.

I like that you've been using the first sins in these videos to basically deliver a review of the game before going ahead with the rigmarole; the format would get kinda stale without your actual perspectives accompanying it

I really wish this came with a bonus round adding a sin for the number of times the word Chaos is said in the game, but that feels like it would be longer than the video itself.

I never thought I’d see the day Dartigan became a video game journalist with how much he had to compare this game to Dark Souls.

12:20 - fun fact: your crazy theory for the NPC Dialogue is actually correct! That wanted it to feel as bland and sometimes bizarre as the old 8 or 16-BIT titles. I loved how Biggs and Wedge just repeat the same generic line in every chapter you can speak to people in Cordelia too, despite them showing up as new lines.

While providing basic concepts and character designs, Nomura actually didn't write the story in this one, nor was he director. Kazushige Nojima did, and he's also responsible for the changes in FFVII Remake.

The opening line, the one about Susie and her apples, that one, my man, was absolute genius and I laughed my whole ass off, lol

"Angry post-nut clarity" is a state of life I aspire to live in.

I think it's less Square being suicidal and more Square being really stubborn in insisting they can do no wrong. Just look at how they treated Eidos during the entirety of their ownership versus their own track record with releases like the original version of Final Fantasy XIV, Final Fantasy XV (which was originally slated to be Versus XIII), and all the FF XIII related titles.

Me playing game: "this is fun" Me after wathching this video: "I MISSED ALL THAT?!"

The reason Jack doesn’t remember his last name and Sarah does is because of the crystals. He gave her his in a previous loop, which contained his memories and gave her some protection from the world reset the next time Jack showed up in Cornelia.

"Chaos was the demifriends we made along OUR WAY" and this game is the phantom pain that explains ff1 powerpoint explain in the ending of timeloop that got garland rebooted and not angry and evil

1 sentence " angry man with alzhiemers suffers PTSD so strong it breaks continuity across multiple timeliness"

This is not FF Origins this how the darkness from Kingdom Hearts was born and this is a prelude before KH4.

Im surprised there wasnt a bonus round: chaos counter. There would have been more sins on every time the word chaos was said than there was total in all the sins on this game.

the face animations, expressions, and that drop in framerate... my god this is pure chaos!

To be honest the stupidity of the plot and Jack's character makes it endearing, like an high budget b movie

15:15 To be fair, Final Fantasy 1 did have War Mech, the high level rare random encounter near the end of the game. This game looks to overdo it with the references to that one-off enemy type.

The way Jack dismiss everyone who are about to talk is the embodiment of players mashing skip button to get to the action.

I know chocobos aren't in Final Fantasy 1, but I sort of wish there was a nu-metal chocobo theme to go with 13-2's death metal one.

Actually the song that princess Shara was hearing on jack I-Pod is most likely the FF1 tune

It's so weird seeing a game as phoned in as this one while Triangle Strategy was also released by SE and is a solid game.

Sophia speaks and I’m confused because Thunder Catherine from Fire Emblem: Three Houses is speaking to me, seriously Laura Post is in everything. Also is Astos wearing the Black Panther neclace? Secret Wakandan confirmed.

In 9:55 when the king started the line about chosen heros it started to sound like the script for a new super sentai got mixed in there.

Jack would get along real well with Chris Redfield from RE5 and 6

2:55 those black things in their hands looks like the suppository Anti-Pressure Pills created by Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth from Futurama season 2 episode 12 XD

Numetal Trivia: in your subtitles, you spelled Linkin Park as 'Lincoln Park'. That was the name the band originally wanted but couldn't use because of copyright.

This has already been said enough, but main writter was definitely not Nomura for this one (though he is listed as producer). If you wanna dwelve into crazy plot territory, then you're looking at no other than Kazushige Nojima, who was also infamous for writting the FF X-2.5 ~Eien no Daishō. AKA: Titus dies from a Blitzball looking Bomb, get's a "Golden Experience" revive, and Yuna in a crisis whether this Titus is her Titus (hence the whole vague "boyfriend" stuff that was in the extended scenario game for X-2 in the HD release). Point being...Nojima has a knack for making convoluted shit in half the stories he's helped written & made scripts for lately (VII Remake being a notorious example ala Fate Ghosts), so this is just another example. Not to mention, awhile back, Nojima got harassed by fans for how he handled VII Remake's story, so let that sink in. Nevertheless fun as hell video as always

nomura just did the character design, the plot was done by the advent children team, good stuff tho

Damn, 2 and a half minutes on the first sin. Might this be the longest one we've had so far?

One sentence plot summary: The most JRPG story in any non Kingdom hearts game, EVER. Also I vote for guardians of the galaxy.

The plot is basically "Nobody watched The Eternals, right?"

I feel there’s gonna be story DLC (like Nioh ) or a sequel to explain the more vague elements. The Lufenians keep talking about a collaborator in their reports, but who this is never revealed, even though they were the one who convinced them to flood Cornelia with darkness once the crystals were restored. I'd like to think Square will show what Jack wanted the warriors of light to do against the Lufenians too and give us a view of their society and overarching plan. It's really hard imagining Lufenian society when the Strangers look and act so different compared to the people giving them orders. You don't hide that from players unless you're planning a follow up.

I am only half convinced the creation of this game is a byproduct of an HR therapy experiment, and I refuse to contemplate what the other half being not convinced is possibly aware of.

You keep blaming Tetsuya Nomura for all the writing, but this game was actually written by Kazushige Nojima - writer of FF7 Remake - and Tomoco Kanemaki, who as far as I can tell has only written novels and manga for the Kingdom Hearts series. Nomura is credited as an Artist and Producer, but not a writier.

I'd love for Gamesins to tackle "American McGee's Alice" and Alice: Madness Returns". Those are interesting games, but I imagine it would be really funny to rake them over the coals.

Why no "Kill Chaos" counter?

Tbf, about SE's recent failures. Guardians of the Galaxy was really good

0:46 yep perfect description I didn't know this game exist, & have my mind only on Elden Ring lately.

Every sin for the word Chaos

Summarize in one sentence? I can do both this game and the original: "the main villian in the first FF game became evil so he could be beaten and restore hope, not knowing that the way he did so made it so that the heroes that beat him erase their own heroics from history"

I was hoping for you making this video. I'll finish the game just to see it. Can't wait

"We must defeat Chaos!" "No Jack, you are Chaos." two sentences, I know.

Excellent video! Your humor is what makes these videos so fun. My vote for next game to be sinned is House of Ashes!

I enjoyed not understanding what I tried to understand about this in my misunderstanding. Great job!

Dunkey's reaction to the ending was priceless

First video that I was at the stream for! So fun

LOL so like I thought from my first impressions, this really is a Nomura-like KH game X°°°D Awesome work as always Dart! :D

You cannot say "I DON'T GIVE A FUCK WHO YOU ARE" when you literally ask everything that breathes if they are chaos. That should be a sin

They should have just created a Chaos Legion remake. House of Ashes is my vote.

I almost like died for real coughing with the Susie and John analogy. So freaking accurate!

Even after all this time, are we REALLY still just going to ignore the fact that in the cutscene where Sophia is first introduced, the subtitles CLEARLY read "Mysterious *Girl*", when she's OBVIOUSLY a SENIOR CITIZEN?

The opening being a rant almost 3 minutes long and a jab at Nomura's needlessly convoluted storytelling process floored me.

I was waiting for this Chaos of a video!

You on fire these days... fire releases, fire intros, fire sins 🔥🔥

Pour up (chaos), head shot (chaos) Sit down (chaos), stand up (chaos) Pass out (chaos), wake up (chaos) Faded (chaos), faded (chaos)

Favorite time of the month. New Dart video

Please do Guardians of the Galaxy. I would like what types of sins you find in that game. Plus I feel that you will have a really good time playing. Love you Dartigan, keep up the good work man!

Another video with the 1st Sin count that goes over 2 minutes, I wonder how long we can keep up this trend…?

Besides the graphics and price, (okay and a whole lot of jank!) I think “SOP” is a blast! Most fun I’ve had with one of Square Enix’s action-RPG/turn-based RPG hybrid combat systems! The story actually gets pretty good about halfway through and great by the end. Probably my favorite Souls-like title outside of the actual FromSoftware’s “Soul’s” series.

The sins around the King talking about Chaos is likely that he's referring to it as a force (emotion-infected darkness), not a monster. It's kind of the same problem with KH now that I think about it, especially since they've added a character that is literally called Darkness.

Jack is so fucking based, I love him

As usual, I am astounded by the sheer length of the first sin. I swear it gets longer every video.

One day soon, Dartigan's video will be made up of only one long first sin!

"I dare you to summarize this in one sentence." Me: Can summarize this in one word: Chaos.

26:06 I’m going to have to call you out on this one, as well as the very next sin. The song she’s listening to isn’t the nuMetal Linkin Park clone, and it’s certainly not what she plays on her lute. You missed out on a lot of context clues there, because note what she’s playing on her lute when Jack and the others see her at the beginning. It’s the FF1 theme song, and you apparently memory-holed a scene where Jack is humming that song with Jed asking when Jack taught her the song. He can’t answer since he obviously doesn’t remember teaching her, so just dodges the question by just “It’s a classic. Everyone knows it.” As hilarious as it might be that Sarah would attempt to play nuMetal on her lute, that’s not at all what’s happening in that flashback. In other words this is just a long-winded way of saying you were being deliberately obtuse and purposely inflating your sin count.

:O I forgot this came out. Thanks for reminding me. I still want to give it a shot.

I laughed so hard at the intro I almost fell over

The John & Susie joke was fucking hilarious

Why is my tea not boiling fast enough? Darkness. These videos kill me 😂

You mention not many publishers making a good Dark Souls-esque game. Have you not heard of Gunfire and Remnant: From the Ashes? Also known as "Dark Souls with guns". It's honestly a pretty fun game if you have 1-2 friends to go through the campaign with, and a lot of people have noted it's difficult, but somewhat more fare than Dark Souls since you CAN conceivably figure out the bosses and beat them quickly if you're skilled and observant, whereas Dark Souls games tend to...require you to die a few times to figure out mechanics (though the endless minions in boss fights for "challenge" in multiplayer can be a smidge annoying...it also ensures you never run out of ammo, which is a plus)

It feels like SE wanted to take a shot at souls like game based on the job system so they got kei tecmo to do it, and then, completely unrelated to it, they also wanted to make an anniversary game about FF1 with a bunch of references to the main series, time loops and alternate dimensions, at some point both ideas were merged without the necessary budget to realize any one them and we got this game where none of the original concepts were realized to it's proper extent. I still had fun with it tho.

25:46 I laughed before you actually said that because yep that’s basically it lol

Oh, nice, a game I’m not playing/going to play, so I can watch this this week. Score.

How to describe the game in one sentence: Nomura style retcons.

This game is so amazing. Easily my game of the year for 2022, which isn't saying much considering it's been such a dull and dry year for gaming, but still a really good game

This video and Dunkey's are fantastic.

I came to see if CHAOS exists in this video... Has anyone seen Chaos

you have some of the best metaphors i’ve ever heard

Yes, another Dartigan video. Life is good. Do Sleeping Dog's. ☺️

I'm surprised there wasn't a grunt counter bonus round😅

26:43 you realize that’s how Princesses are in old stories

"What kind of person wants to get their ass kicked instead of a conversation?" Video game NPCs. It happens all the time.

Take a shot every time CHAOS is said! 💀😂

I would love to see you tackle the bravely default games.

In regards to the gear system, there is a fair bit of depth to it. The game will throw a lot of gear at you yes, but the affinity it has to jobs is why you hold on to it, as the higher affinity, the better bonuses that you’ll receive when playing said job. Bonuses like WHM having an auto raise for anyone 1 time, Cyclic Warriors added Chaosbringer buff, those come in handy for fights. And for the combat, there’s stuff there to be had, as there are quite a bit of inputs for abilities, and mid combat job switching can be beneficial in some situations. I don’t think you really have it enough credit, I wouldn’t call it a Nioh clone, rather something that strays from the traditional Darksouls formula, and actually works in some regard, as you can easily chain together casting say Diaja then quick switch to MNK and execute the Twin Dragon combo. Or stacking up on WHM buffs with Knights Blessing of Light buff and be an unkillable tank. There are a lot of different combos to experiment with in this game, and as stated previously, makes it far from a Nioh or Dark souls clone.

Out of curiosity, do you plan to do Elden Ring? its quickly become my favorite game, so I'm interested in seeing that.

Great video as always! One vote for House of Ashes please!

It could have been a good game if the protagonist added "cares" to his sentence at 16:27

This was is a classic video, "Everything you ever need to know also".

Guardians of the Galaxy is one of the best linear single player action adventures made in the last decade..

Two and a half minutes just to explain the first sin. Glorious

Dfl the among us sound effects tho 😂