Just Breed - A Game Out Of Its Time 

You're right, not sure why I said that. I must have been thinking of Shining Force II, which goes a lot harder on the town elements, but that came out in '93, so I still flubbed it. I got the dates right earlier in the video though!

LMAO

You got this, king

Crazy how it does what Shining Force did, except on the NES

Most of it is due to expansion chips that would be fitted into the cardridge.

Hahah true!

Well, just two of them, thankfully the newer ones aren't like that xD

If you're looking for more old games, try Minato no Traysia for Sega Genesis. Or just Traysia (western name). It has a lot of shortcomings and you'll probably need a walkthrough for chapter 4, but it's nice.

@@brunomorais9526 All these amazing games I've never heard of. and I consider myself a pretty avid retrogamer. thanks.

I don't think it's engrish, per se, just awkward. Imagine if you saw a paladin or whoever called a "just man," or a prince being described as "of noble breed." Then combine them and I think you find the sense that the name was supposed to invoke.

@@aducharme01 It's still a form of Engrish, since it hinges on the reader NOT interpreting 'just breed' as a command to reproduce - which a natively English-speaking audience absolutely world. It's grammatically correct, but absolutely fails to understand common usage.

I think it is saying like Just(Good) Breed(Bloodline) but yeah it seems like engrish as I tried to explain it

What game wants to say:"The heir of justice!" What the player understands:"Yo man, Fuk?"

It works just fine in context ("He is of a just breed"). It's just, if you don't have context that forces it to be a noun, it's easier to see it as a verb.

Hah! I'm on the same quest and recently played both Chaos World and Radia Senki. Chaos World was meh, I loved Radia Senki though. Expect a video on it at some point

And Scary Larry rubs his hands together and laughs.

The gods of Dark Hero Party be like:

@@maltheopia Fancy seeing you here

@@revivalfromruins I was tricked by the title.

I agree

I love FFII :]

Thank you!

I've heard of this game before and never once did it cross my mind that Breed could be a noun.

@@ErdrickHero Yeah it's like when I was a teenager and I thought the "Just Cause" games' titles were referring to the open world gameplay and you're doing all this crazy shit "just cause". I don't think I even knew the term *A* just cause, like a cause worth fighting for lol

I've never heard of it. What's Hanjuku Hero?

A Series Of Comedic Real Time Strategy Games Made By Square Debuting On The Famicom On Dec, 2, 1988 And The Latest Released For The PS2 (Called Hanjuku Hero 4: 7-nin No Hanjuku Hero) In April, 26, 2005

I've heard of Der Langrisser, didn't know it was similar. Cool

It was quite cool. I had never seen such an RPG before. And it had a function, where you move your commander and you could tell the soldiers to follow him to the new position automatically.

The title is in English, not katakana or Kanji. Just Breed isn't a poor translation by whoever made the patch, Square used the English words on the title and cover art of the Japanese cartridge. This was fairly common on famicom and superfamicom RPGs, the majority of the ones I own on those systems have English or partially english titles (in the case of the dragon quest series, "Dragon Quest" is in English but the subtitle is Japanese).

@@coopercummings8370 The title is in English yes, but if you look at the box art, it has the katakana spelling (ジャストブリード) bellow the english one. No kanji anywhere though, which makes it harder to infer meaning. I'm just guessing that "breed" is a mistranslation of "bleed" (L & R have the same spelling in kana and Japanese people often switch them around when trying to write something in English, specially when they're not that fluent in the language, that's called "engrishu", another way of saying broken English) and "just" is supposed to be "noble" or "righteous", as in "a just cause". I'm not saying the people that made the patch mistranslated the title, I'm saying Enix tried to write the title in English and ended up making something very awkward sounding instead.

Thanks for the rec, I'll check it out

@@rpg_haven it’s sequel Queen’s gate spiral chaos hasn’t been fan translated yet but it has fighting game. and anime characters in it.

Vehicle combat RPGs? Sounds interesting

Never got around to finding a properly translated NES version but Metal Max Returns on SNES is a one of a kind game.

@@rpg_haven Please do a video on it! It's crazy how little they're covered online. To be clear I'm not saying it's flawless, just that it doesn't play/feel like anything else. it's a weird series because rather than a JRPG, they're technically all WRPGs (i.e. very open-ended) that were made in Japan. It kinda plays like you start in the post-game if that makes sense. There's not really a big bad to defeat and the apocalypse is already over. You just explore the world map hunting bounties and doing side quests as you acquire more vehicles for your party. Watch out though because the lack of direction and somewhat experimental nature of the game design led to me getting stuck a lot, either from not knowing what to do or being wayyy too underleveled for the area I was exploring. As much as I love this series, I understand why it's not more popular.

@@0utrunner237 do you know if Metal Max Xeno for PS4 is worth playing? I totally missed it cause it came out at the height of the pandemic.

Hahah

Lol could be

"Just" as in righteous, "breed" as in clan, kin, or generation. Another commenter suggested Righteous Blood, which I like

@@rpg_haven Ah okay. That does makes sense.

That one looks pretty cool, I plan to play it soon

Davidvinc has a full playthrough up if you're interested: ru-vid.com/group/PLKGm2kYlvxiikwzJBVtNSOfADYSB9OLEc

A better translation might be "Righteous Brethren" or "Righteous Blood"

@@rpg_haven That makes way more sense then lol

Hahah me too

That's true. I think most of the well-regarded ones have been, though

Eh, I feel like the amount of snes rpgs wish eng patch are muuuuch bigger than we ever seen, still not even half of the untranslated ones but nowher6near bad as it used to be

Unfortunatly these are mostly community passion projects. The amount of people who are: English/Japanese fluent, can patch 35 year old tech, interested enough to go through and find the untranslated games, and has the free time to do it are probably a very small group. These days it might be easier to simply play the original Japanese game and use a modern translation tool…or learn Japanese

Wait, what? The "vast majority" of Super Famicom JRPGs haven't been (officially or unofficially) translated to English? Where can I go to see a list of these untranslated games? Is the same also true for the NES or Genesis / Megadrive?

@@blast_processing6577 This is the best list I've found, and it's over 10 years old: racketboy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=42708 It doesn't look like there's "hundreds" of SFC RPGs that haven't been translated. Probably well under 50, most of which aren't very good. As far as I know, pretty much all the good ones have already got fan translations.

I'd like to learn! Gotta find the time tho

@@rpg_haven But that is the time. You learn by playing RPGs in Japanese and trying to understand it. You've probably put thousands of hours into that in English. If you played every single JRPG you played in English, but instead played in Japanese and forced yourself to try to understand as much as you possibly can, you would be fluent by now.