GAMES I DROPPED - FEMTROOPER 

I feel you on not completing games. I play on easy a lot also, as a busy parent who doesn't like getting stuck in games anymore. I've also embraced "watching the ending on RU-vid" though my kid will rub it in, saying mom, u didn't really beat the game... ugh..

I ALMOST dropped Bravely Default! But I endured through the last portion of the game and overall really enjoyed the experience. Same thing with Sea of Stars… my interest in the game dropped around the second third of the game but I managed to keep going and ended up enjoying the experience despiste the low moments. Nice video!

This is not really relevant to the video, but I just wanted to say that you've become one of my new favourite comfort gaming RU-vidrs! I'm always in for a treat when you come out with a new video, and I just wanted to thank you for all the hard work you put into your content!

Every Assassin's Creed game . I don't think I've ever completed one as they start out super cool and interesting then lose their luster after 30 hours.

I think, in hindsight, the only game I've ever truly dropped was the original GameCube release of 'Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean'. I was in my teens back then and I just *could not* wrap my head around it. The card battling was slow, exploration was unexciting and, story wise, I think I even got lost and had no idea what I needed to do to advance. Fast forward to the present day: I bought the 'Baten Kaitos I & II HD Remaster' after much hesitation. This time 'round - I absolutely *loved* it! Everything made more sense (the UI is prettier) and I generally found it to be a fun and enthralling adventure from beginning to end. ✌😁

Hmm, interesting you dropped Tokyo Mirage. I absolutely loved it and the combat system was one of the most fun turn based systems I've ever played. It still is cool to me to see how different we all are as humans and how we think. I dropped Tales of Berseria and posted about it on Facebook about how boring it was and so many people came at me for that lol. Bold of you to do this video despite the hate I'm sure you're going to get. Great video as always, Femtrooper!

BD1 is amazing, and personally didn’t find it that hard. It was just fun finding interesting job combo and enjoying the story, towns, side quest and the SUBLIME music (specially the final boss). Maybe give it another shot. Truly a gem (it is on my top 5 rpg ever)

Golden Sun for me...everytime i try and play it, i hit a brick wall. Not that the game is hard or im not enjoying it. Just something else comes along that i want to play or i get into that gaming funk where i get burned out or sometimes life happens. Poor Golden Sun, a victim of circumstance. One day.....one day.

I love your honesty and respectful candor when referring to these games that you didn't finish! Definitely looking forward to hearing additional games that you didn't finish, as I've had to do this a number of times as well. Great video again!

Thanks for doing this, there's no shame in dropping a game and we should do our best to make sure there's no stigma around that. For me, a recent one I dropped was Astria Ascending. Wasn't feeling the story, and it was SO grindy. I just had to abandon ship, I was miserable!

Yes!! Dude, I’ve always felt like I play Sonic the wrong way or something. I would dash through until I either got a bunch of rings or hit something and lost all my rings. I went back recently and tried to play without rushing through, and that was kinda fun, but it def felt like I was playing it wrong by not running around the whole time.

Hey! Great video! Was looking forward to this topic!

I love bravely default and end second layer. End second layer is very much a direct sequel so your better off not getting unless u can beat the first. I rarely drop games myself because I hate having an incomplete story

I wanted so much to get into Sonic Mania because I actually did like the gameplay but, I absolutely hate the underwater sections and as someone who didn't grow up with Sonic either I wasn't very good at it and was not gonna restart the whole game after getting a game over.

I've been watching you since 2014 or so, and I think it's awesome that you're still tagging people or encouraging other creators to join in and do their own response. I'm thinking about doing my own but I have maybe 70000 games I've dropped over time--especially as a kid thinking I had to play everything on hard 😂

Great video! Thank you so much for sharing! I just discovered your content and it's great quality and you have a great personality! On my end: Twilight Princess, any MegaMan, any Ghost & Gobblins/Gouls & Ghost, Mario Sunshine, Super Mario Galaxy 2, any RPG, any Gran Turismo (maybe due to the license exams), Revenge of Shinobi, Shinobi III, Sonic Mania, Sonic 2, and any game with art direction that don't resonate with me, haha! Cheers

I remember playing the demo for Bravely Default 2 as it seemed like my kind of game. Can't remember how far I got but I know the difficulty put me completely off it. Thank goodness for demos.

Regarding Bravely Default. It's a great game. It looks so beautiful. It's like peering into a diorama, or a doll house. The 3d effect really enhances the aesthetic too. I managed to get all the way to the final boss and then that was it for me. It was so soul crushingly difficult, and I normally like challenging games. I just couldn't do it. It really sucks getting 99% through a game, only to have that happen. I'm a lot better at games now than I was back then, so maybe I'll try again one day. That being said, the final boss theme in that game is a fricken masterpiece. Also you're right about the difficulty setting making zero difference.

Xenogears for me. I got to that dang sewer level and got to the boss creature and didn't buy enough healing items and couldn't beat the tough boss.

That shirt!! I love it! I'm currently playing Like a Dragon for the first time. There have been very few games that I have put down because I didn't like. Most of them I either got burnt out on the game because I'd been playing nonstop. Or a new game came out that I couldn't help from starting to play. Or life got in the way.

Bravely default 2 has some tough difficulty spikes. The bosses are insane

What a great idea for a video! I'm doing a classic old school RU-vid video response on this one!

I dropped the first Yo-Kai watch for a similar reason. Lovvveeedd the town and the music and the characters. Was such a cozy world to explore, but I seriously didn’t understand the combat. It felt completely automatic and even when I could have some input I had no idea what I was doing lol

oh man I had a similar experience w/ Bravely Second, I kept powering through it for about 20-ish hours until I got to an area where I kept getting decimated by the enemies, and it's like am I missing something? I also just did not feeling like powering through it any more so screw it, I dropped it and sold it

Thank you for your experience with these games. I appreciate you being honest with some of these games. Ironically the thing that put me off playing yokai watch was me hearing reviews saying it was too easy. Im on the other side of your tastes, I love hard strategy games. Your review made me want to start playing yokai watch and Bravely.

ive dropped so many games, thats why i started that resolution to complete games, my next target is alone in the dark

I have dropped many games some at the final dungeon (and sometimes boss), every game where the 'true end' is after the credits roll and some where I have 'had enough' (I dropped the first Xenoblade after about 80 hours when I discovered I was barely halfway through the game as i'd spent so long doing sidequests and exploring) The game I have dropped the hardest though was Unlimited Saga on the PS2 a game I hated so much I had to get someone else to return it for me as I never wanted to see it again I am much further into my first play through of Bravely Default right now and can see what you are saying but, luckily, I've found grinding to be so easy and so much fun I haven't minded. There are some spots where I can just set up your attacks turn on auto attack then just put on a movie or get on the exercise bike and by the time I have finished whatever hump I have come upto has been well and truly flattened

I’ve dropped quite a few games (especially back in the day when I’d just hop from game to game with no real drive to complete them) but the first to come to mind was *The Thing* for PS2. I was already not having a good time with how poorly the game’s controls have aged and how the “Trust/Fear” system was easily exploitable (give your teammates an empty gun and they’ll trust you 100% without question) but wanted to stick with it because I was interested in the “Infection” system, where any of your teammates that were out of sight from you during a fight had the potential of being a transformed “Thing” in disguise. The only way to know for sure is to use limited blood tests you find throughout the game. Finally, after a big fight that had me cut off from the rest of the team for a brief moment, I decided now would be the perfect time to see the infection system in action. I tested my teammates and they all passed with flying colors. I then made my way to the stairs that lead to the rest of the game but, before I could go down them, all of my teammates transformed into Things and started attacking me… mere SECONDS after I proved they weren’t monsters. What?! Turns out the game has set moments where your teammates transform so you can do the next section alone. I think I cleared the monsters in the next room before going “actually, screw this game. I’m out.” Haven’t played it since and I don’t plan to.

The life is to short and I’m not in school anymore is why I’ll use a guide.

I can relate to the completionist thing. I hated Lost Words but had to finish it!

I dropped Final Fantasy 8 because I hit a brick wall on a boss fight and hated the junction system. I didn't care much for the story either, so it felt like I was just playing it because it was a Final Fantasy game and not because I was actually having any fun.

Same thing happened to me with first bravely default too. And I was having some fun too but just moved on. Someday I’ll try again

Over the last couple of years, I've started more and more to drop games that did not mesh with me after I've given them a fair go. There's so many games out there now, I don't want to waste my time on something that I'm hating. I think the game that hurts the most that I have dropped is The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel (the first one). I clocked in 54 HOURS!! I just was not liking it. And each time I kept on trying to get back to it, I just found an excuse not too. I'm thinking of restarting it on the PS4 as I don't remember anything (think it's been 4 years now since I started it), but I'm not sure if I want to invest that many hours again for a game that I just didn't care for... Bravely Default I started over SO many times, to the point where I restarted it 4 or so times as I kept on dropping it. Last year was the year I finally gave it a fair go and I was not liking it still BUT what kept me going, is something that normally makes me hate a game even more, I got spoiled by accident as I accidentally went to my partners completed save. Once I got spoiled, I got really excited because I guessed what was going to happen and I was so excited it was happening. If I didn't get spoiled, I probably would of dropped it completely and never returned.

Seeing Sonic Mania on here hurts, but I understand it. 😭

Hey FemTrooper, this was a great video, can't wait for the next part. Regarding Bravely Default, the way to make it easy it to grind and grind and grind. When I played it, I decided to max out every job (which is overkill I know) but it made the game very easy. If you can stomach the grind, then the game is worth playing. Anyway have a great day and thanks again for the video.

From what I have heard, the thing with Bravely Default is that you have to figure out the job system. Not trying to come across as any kind of expert, just trying to possibly point you in the right direction.

Cross Edge - I got stuck, so I grinded for 2 hours. Then I could progress for 5 minutes, then had to grind for another 2 hours, progressed, got stuck again. At some point I gave up. Apparently you're not supposed to use the party members that you like, but the ones that have synergy. That went over my head. Ys Origin, Ys Oath in Felghana and Ys Ark of Napishtim - I suck. Got stuck on a boss, and gave up. I did finish Ys 8 though and I loved it. But it does make me hesitant to buy more Ys games. I got Celceta because it was cheap, and I'm interested in Ys 7 and 9 since they also use the party system which might make it a bit easier for me. But I'm not sure Ys 10 is going to be for me. I'm hesitant about Nayuta as well. Folklore - I really really wanted to like this game. I played it in late 2022, so more or less a decade after it released. I think this game would be great with some quality of life updates. I felt like I was fighting the camera and controls more than the actual enemies. I've had times where I got stuck in a narrow passageway because a big monster blocked my way out, I couldn't dodge because there was not enough space and I couldn't move past the monster because it was body blocking me, all the time the monster was attacking me and there was nothing I could do. The more frustrating part about this, is that the boundaries of what is walkable and what not are not very clear. So everything is green grass, and there's only a small bump in the grass indicating the walkable edge. So if you're busy dodging monsters, you might not see that you're walking into a death trap untill it's too late. I also got turned around many times, since the map is sort of a dungeon crawler like thing, so everything looks kind of the same and the map only shows you which room you're in and not which way you're facing. With all the dodging around I would frequently backtrack instead of moving forward, and going back respawns the enemies. The game has dual protagonists and they go through the same areas for each chapter. You can play all chapters for one of them and then go back for the other, or play a certain chapter for both of them back to back. I did them back to back, because I read there was a point halfway through the game where both protagonists need to be caught up anyway. Well, that makes for extremely boring gameplay, since the environments/maps are the same and if you want to do sidequests, those only get unlocked after you beat the chapter and send you right back into the same dungeon you just came out of. So if you do both protagonists including sidequests, you're going to be in the same dungeon 4 times in a row. This is everything that was wrong with the Soul Hackers 2 dungeons, but then twice as frustrating. You can tame enemy monsters to add them to your party. It uses a very underused ability of the PS3 controller and the monsters are fun and varied. With a celtic theme, which you don't see that often. You're kind of encouraged to swap monsters as you go, kind of like Persona and SMT. Monsters aren't fused, but the ones in a new chapter are stronger than your old monsters. You can also strengthen your monsters, but for that you need to grind materials. With all of the frustrations that I had with the camera, controls, maps etc, the grind for materials was just too much. I gave up. I'd really like a remake of Folklore though. I think it's a very unique game and if the camera, control and map issues get solved, I think it would be a fun game.

Great video! I drop games a lot now that I am older. Years ago working at Funcoland I dropped FF7 since a customer came in and ruined the “big twist”. Now years later I am trying FF7 remake. Elden Ring was another where I loved it, but just too hard for me. I am a parent too, finishing up school, and taking on new responsibilities at work all the time. I really just want to enjoy the games I play. If I don’t enjoy them what is the point. Keep up the great content.

Final Fantasy X was the first game I ever bought and then sold, not too long later. The direction it and seeming to me all modern games were heading put me off of gaming from 2002-2007. That's how much I hated it 😂 From your list, I felt the same about Tokyo Mirage Sessions. I love SMT & FE, and owned TMS on Wii U where it became a backlog game. I recently hopped back in for a second shot and decided never again, I don't have the time in the rest of my life for this.

I’m in denial that I’ll go back and finish everything, just “later”. I’ve got the weird habit of playing a game for 10-20 hours then dropping it for a long time before returning and beating it all. I’m not the best at jrpgs even though I love them. There’s times where I know I should probably drop them at the final boss and watch a video but instead I’ll grind 20-30 levels to beat them through brute force. 😅 It kills me so much but it’s so nice to finish. FF7 broke my heart cause I thought I’d grinded enough but I overdid it and made the final boss harder, so I just grinded again. 😭

Happens to me less now that I generally pick games I *know* I will like, but a few of your choices I've had on my list, most notably bravely default 1 & 2. I just could not get into them. And it's a shame because I am the target market for these games but they just never clicked! Side note - I absolutely NEED your shirt!!!!!! 😂

Fair enough list, and I can see why you would drop these.

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Bravely Second has a system where if you're able to chain a few battles exp and job points skyrocket, but depending on your jobs and skills it can still have some hard battles.

I think for me, Sonic games (Sonic 2 and the two Adventure games) are mostly about vibing with the music. Then memorizing the stages and enjoying how it looks to fly through them, similar to the F-Zero games. If you don't love listening to the music then I'd imagine Sonic games become a slog as you are going to die a lot learning the levels.

I don't mind dropping games I don't like but a few games I tried liking and dropped 20 hours in are : Monster Hunter 4 (The gameplay just didn't click for me), Dragon Quest 8 (Weirdly enough, I thought it was too big), Tales of Zestiria (It lacked polish and I hated the equipment system) and Project X Zone 1 (It's fun as long as you get new characters but the late game battles are way too tedious)

I've quit on a last boss a few times and regret nothing. The endings are on RU-vid and I enjoyed the journey. It's better to derive your accomplishment from real life endeavors and rely on games for some relaxing fun.

That is exactly how I feel with Sonic. Exactly.

That's surprising because I actually love Sonic's gameplay style over Mario. The sense of flow and speed running as you're learning the level layout and getting rewarded for performance. People often mistake the game as going fast, when the reward is maintaining that speed. There are many indie titles that adopted it's formula. Maybe you'll like those.

Final Fantasy V is my favorite of that series, and so I love Bravely Default, but I can confirm that they're difficult. And it doesn't get any easier as the series goes on. Bravely Second is related to the first and you wouldn't want to play it on its own anyway, and Bravely Default II is probably the most difficult of the bunch. At some point they all expect you to understand what combinations of abilities from different jobs will essentially break the game in your favor, and if you don't the final bosses are impossible. You could look up a guide on how to create the good combinations if you really wanted to play it, but that doesn't sound as fun to me. I think the topic of what games don't really click for people is really interesting, especially when difficulty or controls are involved. I'm a bit embarrassed to list specifics, but there are some "not difficult" games I've basically rage quit because I couldn't play them at all, despite being fine with some games that are considered difficult. Like there's taste obviously, but there's also something personal about jiving with controls that doesn't get as much attention.

I drop games faster than poorly optimized games drop frames. I rarely finish games (which I've mentioned here before) so it's easy for me to drop them. My most recent game I dropped was Unicorn Overlord. I love most of what Vanillaware develops but I this one just didn't click for me, mostly because I don't like most SRPGs so I can't be too surprised. Both difficulty and genre mostly play into my decision to drop games. Bottom line is that I need to have fun. Take care!

Reflecting on Bravely Default now, the only reason that I was able to get through the early chapters of the game was because my brother beat the game years before me so I was able to take advantage of the Streetpass of the game and utilize his stronger moves. I think without that, I wouldn't have been able to get through the game without some major grinding first.

For me, the first game I ever dropped by choice was Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World for Wii. I disliked it from the beginning, but back then I always had the mentality of "if you play it, you need to finish it." So, I pushed my way almost to the final boss. I was in the last dungeon, and I died. And I was about to restart without a second thought, but then I stopped myself. I said "why am I doing this? I only have one life, why am I wasting it on something I don't like?" So, I quit. Left the game unfinished and never looked back. Now I drop games routinely. If I'm not enjoying my time, I won't think twice about moving on to something else.

BD II is definitely difficult but it's fairly workable - in fact there are one or two moves that you will eventually unlock that are completely broken and you wipe out enemies pretty easily. But yes some big difficulty spikes in BD II for sure!

I enjoyed my time with Bee Simulator. I found it quite relaxing 😂 Sonic is God Tier, but we were Sega and not Nintendo over here in Scotland. You should try Bravely Default 2, it's really worth the play and I didn't think it was overly difficult 👌 Love the shirt 👍 I'm playing through Infinite Wealth atm, and it's great 😁

Thanks for sharing Paige! The Bravely games are fantastic, all three of them. The ending of Bravely Default was incredible playing on original hardware (a lot of people seem to emulate it, and it loses a LOT of the magic without the 3DS features). I dropped Breath of the Wild, just couldn't gel with it.

I absolutely agree with you on Bravely Default. I reached near the end of the game, and for the life of me, I could not defeat the final boss.

Forgot to answer the question 😅 I drop games all the time, because if I feel meh about them I usually end up thinking about things I want to play instead and I feel like I'm wasting my time. So if I still don't feel it after a couple of hours, it's gone! Here are some notable ones I binned: .Hack//GU - Too much showing, not enough playing. I don't mind cutscenes but .Hack's attitude is "why have the player do something when you can show someone else doing it instead?" Cool boss appears? You can guarantee you won't fight it, it'll be done in a cutscene. Bleh. Monster Hunter Stories 2 - It's a JRPG and I liked it but it was too long for me. I played for 44 hours and I was maybe halfway through. I struggle with long games, I tend to lose steam after a while, and this one has very little story. I want to go back to it eventually but I don't know if I could do another 50 hours. Ys II - I've liked every other Ys game I've played but the last dungeon of Ys II suuuuuuuucks 😂 so even though I was probably only a couple of hours from the end, I just couldn't bear playing it any longer.

Chained echoes is mine and I think i got story locked because I couldn't do anything except fight the boss. I couldn't grind my way out or do side missions because of how the game is structured and where i was at. Their is a demo bravely default 2 on the switch.

wow, I've never seen someone miss the point this hard before

Bravely Default I gave up as it got too tough on the refight every boss section. Still going to play BD2. Eventually.

I remember buying Nioh, attempting to beat the first boss and getting so stressed and furious and anxious that I took it back and got my money back. Then I kept thinking about it and feeling irritated by my decision. I actually bought it back and forced myself to learn how to play it and eventually beat it. Out of pure stubbornness 😂 I found it really stressful and pretty much never played another souls like again

I can totally relate with Bravely Default. I have tried to play it through twice and both times I put it down part way through, despite loving the music and graphical style. It just burned me out, I guess? Anyway, great video!

I'm a Sega kid, I grew up with the Master System, the Genesis, Sonic etc and same as you : I dropped SonicMania pretty hard lol. I like platformers too but yeah, I don't really know if the game actually was meh and overhyped or if I grew out of Sonic games (I still like playing Genesis Sonic 1 from time to time but I think a big part of it is nostalgia)... I don't know. It doesn't help either that they're very simple games with no RPG elements or something to keep your interest. If at least you could, I don't know, use rings as money to buy better shoes or something? I think once Metroidvanias or games with gripping stories came in full force, my interest for these simple 2D "get-to-the-end-without-dying" platformers kinda went away. Even 3D ones (I recently tried the latest Crash Bandicoot) can't hold my interest for long.

First off, I love the sweat shirt! As for dropped games, like yourself, I typically finish the game whether I thought it was great or meh. My problem is getting distracted. I'll be enjoying a game for 20+ hours, and than a must play pulls me away. Didn't like Sonic Mania eh? I thought it was a great platformer, the speed is a big point to its uniqueness. But I can see folks not enjoying it. So, I kind of feel ya on Bravely Default. Loved the game, one of the best combat systems in all RPGs. Until I had to play the entire game again... You didn't get far enough to enjoy that part. As far as it being easy, I can't speak to it because I played it on hard (same for BD2). Maybe must be not grasping the combat entirely? This was a great video Paige! I can see why everyone is doing responses!

My Time at Sandrock. I couldn’t play more than 3 hours before packing it up and trading it in.

I always got confused in Sonic Mania. Even after I beat the game, I didn't feel like going back to it. It.

You need to stream these games you dropped i think it would be fun

Haha i loved bee simulator! I wanted it to be longer!

My heart lol…you know with the default games, you really (and this is me talking about my experience) you need to be ok with breaking the battle system because if you don’t it gets really REALLY hard. I mean BD 2 was a cake walk until the end fight and I had to redo my whole party just to make it to phase 3…then there was another phase, so I had to do it ALL over again with some tweaks. So while I love the series (and these sorta battle systems are my jam), I wouldn’t say they are the easiest to get into/finish because it’s more of a mindset cap then a skill cap, which is fun, but can also put a damper on an experience. Again while I love 2, that last boss was a load of nonsense…ff5 has the same problem with the last boss too, you need all ninjas to even live. Octopath I think is way more forgiving with preferred setups vs min/max and star ocean is just star ocean, it literally just tells you to do your thing lol

I binged Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE so hard. It’s just so weird and dumb that it seems cool to me. Dropped Mighty No. 9 (easy to see why). I also thought I would like Pokken Tournament, I enjoyed the demo once. I can’t get into the game Sonic Mania was great to me but I played the originals up until Adventure and a little of the gba games. Aside from that I think the games are hit or miss (mostly miss) til this day so its not really a big deal. i welcome the difficulty for games like Bravely Default. i used to start these types of games on hard but i switched to normal. think my file in Bravely Default is still on hard. i just like the idea of something cute and or silly being brutally challenging

Bravely default 2. I liked the story and I wanted to finish but I found the grinding tedious . I don’t know … maybe I was doing something wrong but I didn’t care to stick around any longer and figure it out

I have played Bravely Default games and I agree. I like them, but you have to grind heavily to get anywhere. I own three of them two for my DS and one for my Switch but I have never beat one - the two on DS I got all the way to end boss. The end boss regenerates several times and I just couldn't finish the game. I don't know why they had to be that hard.

I dropped baldurs gate 3 halfway through. I really like the game but just don't have the time or motivation to finish.

I also really rarely drop games (maybe 1-2 a year max). Last year I dropped Hi-Fi Rush just because it was feeling really repetitive but I think I could return to it. I also dropped Sonic Unleashed because it felt terrible to play and it’s super long. Won’t go back to that. Was also playing Baldur’s Gate 3 with my wife and it was incredibly slow. Could return to that over the summer 😅

Bravely default honestly would be so replay-able if it wasn’t for the later chapters just repeating itself. Maybe if it only did it once and then the plot twist happened. But not 5 times :/ A game I’ve dropped recently was demon turf. A 3D platformer with flat 2D characters. If you master the controls, you could zip and flip your way across the area. It felt too precise for me and I wasn’t having fun. For Tokyo mirage session, it’s been a while since I’ve beaten it. But I remember there were shops and character slice of life episodes. Heck the shop is a combination of Anna and Jack Frost (there’s a hidden black frost Anna later on). But I understand if you didn’t enjoy it! That’s what makes us all different

Gonna have to say I try not to drop anything.... It just goes back on the shelf for a really long time.

So I'm still confident that I'll finish it since I actually do love the game, but Xenoblade Chronicles 3 for me. I think it's just that I will be playing it and then another game comes out that I am super interested in and then I switch games. Pretty sure I'll get around to finishing XC3 though.

Heh. I still have a sealed copy of Bravely Default that I bought on discount from a store that was going out of business like 9 years ago. I also have sealed copies of Bravely Second and Default 2 because I'm just like that I guess. I have a very recent dropped game: The Tomb Raider Classic Collection that came out last month. I had never played the original games in the series - my only connection was TR Legend on Xbox 360 which I liked - so I was interested in trying where the series started. The problem I ran into is those games use a type of control setup that I have never gotten used to - tank controls - and I was struggling super quickly and dying multiple times on the second level. I talked to someone who was very into the games and they told me "Yeah, the controls are very Had To Be There and I can't imagine trying to play them now." So I gave up. Maybe I'll try again later. In the meantime I decided to see if the later games would be more my style, and the Reboot trilogy was on sale all 3 for like $20 total to probably tie-pronote to the Classic Collection release. So I bought them, started the first game, found it much more workable for me, and beat it a week.

i dropped bd1, not because it was too hard but because i kept running out of mana before one of the first boss fights and had no way of replenishing my mana, loved everything else about it though. still tempted to go back and give it another shot played bd2 and loved it. put over 100 hours in it and didn’t have any issues with mana or difficulty. i think it’s way better than the first in almost every way and worth at least playing the demo

Lowkey, I've always thought Sonic was better as a character than he is as a video game character, if that makes sense.

I got right up to the last boss on Bravely Default and then suddenly they made it so my specific team was useless and you are locked in to an airship with only 1 really bad place to fight enemies so lvling up a different set of classes that stand a chance will just be so tedious 😢. Besides that the only time I can remember quitting a game with no intention of returning was Oblivion. Just found it such a disappointment.

I know it's deeply loved by I dropped Xenoblade 3. I was 15 hours in still doing tutorials and hour long cut scenes. It got tedious. But I actually really enjoyed Xenoblade 1!

This video was really cool. I'm also a nintendo kid and I just don't like playing Sonic games much either, though I've tried a few times.

My list of dropped games are kinda older, but the ones that I just couldn’t continue to play: 1. Saga Frontier 2 (unnecessarily difficult, made it to the last dungeon and quit) 2. Final Fantasy Type 0 (just wasn’t my vibe) 3. The Last Remnant (too hard and the battle system was horrendous!) Maybe it wasn’t the games, maybe it was just me lol. But like you, normally I beat the games I purchase, but these three I just could not continue playing.

Yeah gotta echo the big difficulty spike at the end of Yo Kai Watch 2, it’s not just you

Bravely default is so good but there is so much to do over and over just to completely finish is.

The one that hurts me is I dropped Dragon Quest XI. I was 100 hours in and was working towards the true ending (got the basic ending...but that's not the real ending...I know, spoilers). I played that game at the tail end of a long run of very lengthy RPGs which included Persona 5 (86 hours) and Pathfinder: Kingmaker (170 hours). I just ran out of steam with long RPGs and needed a break...and then the Definitive edition came out. I intend to try again, but I'm waiting for a good time to try again.

I absolutely love bravely default but it's not for everyone. Good list, we all have games we just didn't click with. Bravely 2 i felt was much easier.

Wow no since of control. I got sonic and played it for a while and gave it to my daughter. But I never thought about why I didn't like it. But you summed it up. A true ah hah moment.

I really like your vibe, so definitely a like and a sub from me ❤ the one I dropped was Xenoblade Chronicles Torna, cuz I couldn’t take it making fifty side quests just so that the game would let me go to the final chapter. I just watched streams of the finale. It was a pity cuz I really fell in love with the Xenoblade universe. Other games felt amazing and satisfying.

2D Sonic takes a bit to get used to. I’d give it another go and it’ll feel like you have more control

These are games I dropped, keep in mind I love 100%ing games - Xenoblade Chronicles Wii (I respect it but the game is extremely completion unfriendly) and dropped it out of frustration - FF IX (…. Jump Rope side quest, too brutal, even worse than the FF X Lightning challenge) - Tales of Graces f (10/10 combat, 7.5/10 graphics/art, story was leading to being a 8 or 9/10 however, two things crushed it, just like Xenoblade, very completion unfriendly and i feel like they blue ballz the viewer with the relationship between Cheria and Asbel, after everything they don’t end up together!! felt cheated a bit) - FF VIII (On paper this should be my favourite FF of all time, Orphanage Scene…. dropped) - Eternal Sonata (This is a game I try and force myself to love so badly every 2 years 😂, 10/10 graphics, 10/10 OST, 10/10 gameplay but man….. that story, ambitious but poorly executed, Cleves scene didn’t help) - FF VII PS1 (The entire story was already spoiled for me way before I played it for the first time in 2017, I play the game, not really getting captivated, get to the honey bee inn section….. was un-impressed, granted I know the honey bee inn section is supposed to be light hearted but everything till then I was like…. thats the hype, might of been amazing at the time and I’m sure the remake’s are fantastic but I don’t feel like FF VII PS1 holds up anymore nowadays) - Majoras Mask (Purely didn’t like the time mechanic, love literally everything else it has going for it but the time mechanic ruined the game for me) - Tales of Symphonia (Huge Tales fan and a massive fan of Tales of the Abyss, everyone says in the fandom the Holy Trinity is Abyss, Vesperia and Symphonia, I play Symphonia….. like FF VII i was unimpressed, story didn’t feel original either using a lot of narrative from FF X, combat just isn’t as good as Abyss or games before or after… dropped)

Final fantasy 16..... I just couldn't take it anymore. It started of amazing and then I got tired of the boring side missions and the fact you could only level up armor and weapons if you prosper thru the story.

Zelda twilight Princess ... i remember was not a game that you can stop playing for a while and then continue because you just lost yourself , and i love other Zelda games And souls game they're just to hard for me 😅

Yeah bravely default 2 is pretty hard. I beat it but it took me a lot of deaths

I can understand your feelings on the games you mentioned... BUT Tokyo Mirage?? I really liked that game, it has some very cool fights. I've finished these games except for Yokai Watch and liked them a lot. I tend to finish all of the games I start (I even finish games I hate), I can only recall 2 games I started and just abandoned: Minecraft Legends and Divinity Original Sin 2. I found them complicated, boring and just didn't understand many mechanics.

As a sonic fan i also dropped sonic mania i do LOVE sonic 1 and sonic 2 but that's it honestly

Bee Simulator! I did the same thing. Bought it thinking it could just be weird enough to be interesting. It wasn't and it is just taking up space on a SD card.

Haha. This reminded me that I never finished the last level of… Super Mario Odyssey. Like, why would I want to redo every awful thing about the worst levels all at once!? (At least that’s my memory). Also, loved Bravely Default II - I admit I almost always play on easy and I did it no problem. *but* I love to grind… so… for you? Maybe not. ;)