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I thought I was ready. But even 15 years later, it still hit me like a truck. Hanna's Departure turned me into a blubbering mess back when I first played Lost Odyssey, and hearing it again, it still made me cry. Not tear up, but actually having to hold back from turning into sobbing mess. God I need to replay this game.
this is my first experience with this game, but the way clemps told us Hanna's Departure, im ngl, i sat here literally sobbing, that shit hit like a FREIGHT TRAIN
The 1000 Years of Dreams is just so great of an idea, and each is well told. My favorite has to be the one where Kaim gets captured and spends years in prison with a fellow soldier, locked in seemingly eternal darkness. Eventually, the war against the Kingdom Kaim's allies were fighting against concludes, with the Kingdom being overthrown. The rebel forces gleefully throw open the cells. The prisoner, made manic at the possibility of seeing the world once again, throws himself into the light. Kaim tries to stop him, but it's too late. It has been too long. They had been in that cell for several decades. Their eyes belong to the darkness now.. They would need time to adapt back to the surface. Unaware of this, the man's eyes reject the bright light, searing his retinas and permanently blinding him. The man, now old and wrinkled with time, cries, realizing that he would never see the outside ever again. He asks Kaim, his closest and perhaps only friend left alive, to be his eyes for him, just this once. Kaim describes the world, the beauty of which bring a tear of joy to the old man's eyes. The soldiers talk to the old man, ask him his story, to which he says that he had been stuck in that cell with Kaim for what felt like forever. The soldier look at Kaim, and remark quietly that he looks pretty young for a man that's supposed to be in his 60s. Knowing the man will be well taken care, Kaim leaves without saying goodbye, knowing full well that he could never be with him again. (I probably got a few details wrong, but each one is such a gut punch of emotions. Damn Lost Odyssey is excellent.
Lost Odyssey seems to revel in the exploration of the human condition. The point of having immortals with mortals is to show the difference in perspectives. Mortals lament at how little time they have. Immortals lament at the purgatory they are trapped in. It's a trope that's been done before, but Lost Odyssey's demonstration of cause and effect makes the stories feel relatable.
I cried after almost every single story from "1000 years of Dreams". I couldn't believe someone could make me cry with short stories. I want to recommend everyone go and read, but I have to warn you, they can also get extremely dark. Still if you are up for it they are somewhat standalone stories (if I remember correctly) and should be easy to find them on the internet if you are unable to play the game.
@@smithwillnot They're good short stories, but... didn't really get me close to crying. Anyhow, I'd say the worst story aspect of this game is the main villain. He's just bad and bland and that results in a rather weak conclusion of the main story. If there was good villain I'd say the game would've been a good nomination for best story of any RPG, but he drags it down quite a bit.
Hanna's Departure was was one of the few and probably the first instance where a game made me cry, and it was no small amount. The "1000 years of Dreams" is a marvelous addition of flavor to the immortals long lived lives in the game.
I've actually never played Lost Odyssey. But I have watched multiple playthroughs of it and I've been in love with it, even if passively. It might not be perfect - nothing ever is - but it's one of those games that I will literally scream into existence again and again if I could.
The Thousand Years of Dreams segments are some of the most powerful stories in any JRPG, period. It definitely felt like an inspiration on the Text adventure segments of Nier (And Nier Automata to a lesser extent)
When I read the weapon stories in Nier and Automata, I immediately felt the inspiration. If 1000 years of dreams were books, then the weapon stories would be poems.
Reading that story at the end with the Nier music and the illustrations is the best reason I can find to play any game ever. I knew nothing about this game but now I know I need to play it one day, I have no clue how I’ll do that but that’s a story I REALLY want to experience
My HEART. This game was so much of my teenage years, one of the most visually impressive and exciting settings I'd ever seen at 16, and one of the most isolated, alone, silent. There's few streams of people playing it, few people even know about it, and I'm the only one out of 4 people I know that have all 4 discs intact. Thank you for doing this video! Thank you so much for covering this lost gem!
Dear god, I haven't cried like this at one of your videos since your Drakengard 3 and Bravely Default retrospectives. Honestly, Clemps? You have an absolute talent for your work. You can crack some of the funniest jokes I have ever heard, but at the same time, you can retell stories with such a captivating energy, that the listener can't help but be enthralled. Your retelling of Lester's story in Bravely Default is something I look forward to every time I watch that video, and Sylphy's artwork is just the cherry on top. You two are able to craft some of the best story retellings I have ever had the honor of seeing and hearing. Thank you for this, Mr. Clemps, and I can't wait to see what you come up with next. I'm so glad I found your Drakengard 1 retrospective and story analysis videos in 2019. 😄🌸
Glad I stumbled across your channel with this. You have done Lost Odyssey an absolute service here. It's one of the most beautifully written and well crafted JRPGs I have ever played, and by far one of my all time favourite games. I wish it was given the care and attention it deserves in recent times. Most of all, I would love a sequel in the same way that the Final Fantasy games are "sequels".
The Final Fantasy 13 we truly deserved. One of my favorite RPGs of all time. Great video Clempsy. Hannah's departure always makes me cry, and with the animation, this version hit me right in the feels, and "His last lie to her" broke me.
Got me crying in the club right now, thank you for that rendition of Hanna's story with the drawings. It was beautiful. I own this game, haven't had the chance to play it myself but this video will make me take the jump. Thank you.
This game made me cry so many times when playing it. Kaim losing his daughter, multiple entries in the 1000 Years of Dreams. This was one of Hironobu's best and i wish he'd get to make more like it, games that make you feel.
Aww man, I forgot how good the Thousand Years of Dreams were. Completely blindsided me when I first played. I really hope you get to do a part 2! It's such a cool, unique game - I wish it'd be re-released somewhere, but I guess Mistwalker isn't interested!
A friend of mine told me about the twist with Cooke and Mack's mum and, even without the full context, what a raw and tragic moment that is even if you've never played the game yourself.
This is one of my all time favorite games, and your abridged enactment of Hanna's story made me cry just the same as I did back when I originally played Lost Odyssey and read that entry in the 1000 Years of Dreams. Thank you.
Not going to watch this yet... I still need to play through ALL off this game just gotta get an emulator for it... In the mean time i've been playing all the yakuza games and they are so good. I think you should make a video about yakuza 0. Any ways ill be watching this in the next coming months thanks for making awesome stuff :)
Have fond memories watching roommates in college go through this game, though they never finished it as they got stuck at....like a part where you basically have to go around fighting a bunch of kaiju? I can barely remember it. I mostly remember Jansen being funny and the 1000 years of dreams being really interesting.
I can't believe I was 15 when I played this game and now I'm about to turn 30. Aside from the characters design, which I've never been too fond of, the game seems to have aged quite well, too! Fun fact I hold dear about this game: it is the only JRPG entirely dubbed in Italian I can think of (the other one being Legend of Dragoon's occasional VOs). To this day, I find it really weird they decided to further invest in a full, localised dubbing for this game. I gotta love Gongora dubbed by our Doraemon's VA. :,)
Man, it's been a long time since I played Lost Odyssey. I totally forgot about Sed, the guy with the rifle at 1:27 , was a recruitable character despite me using him all the time! Probably because IIRC you get him and Tolten pretty late into the game, and I just wasn't expecting anymore party members at that point. Quite a nice surprise. I played Lost Odyssey and Resonance of Fate around the same time and loved both games, quite surprised to see two classic JRPG's come so late and out of nowhere. And I personally loved Jansen. I usually don't like such seemingly one-dimensional characters, but the game does a really good job of making him grow over the course of it that I don't know how anyone could not like him. Mack was probably my least favorite, as he was just kinda forgettable. Cooke was awesome though, and I also usually dislike the token little girl in jrpg's too. Also, Howl of The Departed is up there as one of my favorite final boss themes.
Clemps! I've been hoping you'd cover lost odyssey since I first listened to your drakengard videos. There's no one else I trust to cover these depression simulators besides you.
I saw your recent videos explaining your burnout, and while I'm sad that Part 2 will be a whiles yet, I'll patiently wait for it when you're ready. I played Lost Odyssey 15 years ago, it has stuck with me for over a decade and I've recently been watching new and old fans a like giving their retrospectives and playthroughs of it in recent months. I love yours particularly because I really appreciate the editing and great balance of candidness and insight in what you feel from the characters and the game itself. What sets your video especially apart, is that surprise illustrated narration of Hanna's Departure. Thank you for putting such effort and such care into presenting just one of the integral stories of the 1000 Years of Dreams, beyond just showing how it's presented in the game itself. I hope to see the follow-up to this one day, because I admit, I am curious about your reaction to not only more story revelations, but also about how the game treated Sarah as a character. I'm really curious if you came to the same questions and conclusions I did when I finished the game, and she turned out to have no Dreams of any of the Immortals, and still had amnesia at the end, although she seemed absolutely cool with being married to Kaim and raising the grandkids (I mean, look at Kaim, he's definitely a catch and she got him forever!); but like there's still so many questions there...
if you're planning to play this game, like a decade after release, a year after this video's release, AND happen to find this, got a tip for ya. Around 2 hours in, before the big, magic eating snake boss he points out uses paralyze - you can fight the bugs. They'll drop an item used to make mp absorb rings. Make two, put them on kaim and seth, for oh, i dunno, till disc 3 or so? Healing can be hard to sustain, and frequent for the first 3\4ths. With them having mp absorb level 1, they'll heal 1-5% of their damage as mp. This in turn, means you can basically heal as much as you want in between battles with the main 'not mages', and refill mp the next battle with basic attacks. If you save, quit to the menu, and load the save, you'll also fully restore the team. And later, matters less - you'll need stronger healing than kaim's meager magic and mp stats want, swap to hp steal rings as the frontline takes a lot of punishment and the back needs healed less, and by now your damage is better for the hp. Also, you've got 4 immortals and 3 mortals by now, 5 fighters, so the 2 mortals NOT fighting, and also being mages, can spend like 400 mp on heals at this point in between heals. Also, like 500 mp healing items are like, 120 gold. You'll have thousands. Speaking of cash, buy swords, that's mostly it. Staffs boost melee damage, not spells. The other two weapons, low priority and you'll find them anyway. Buy the odd missing acc (especially a few black/white level 2+ acc so mortals can use them). Buy ring ingredients when you're going to make the rings - you can make a mp absorb ring, then a damage up ring, and combine them early disc 2 (before that boss if you backtrack), but if you're not making rings they don't have a use. Buy some healing items, don't go overboard yet. In the city of saman, there's a possessed crow selling stuff randomly for 50 gold. Do it, do it a lot. Not only is it an early +3 slots ability for immortals, basically like finding 8 slot seeds, but you'll get mp heals and cure alls for cheaper than normal. But, also hp heals for slightly more than normal - no biggie, heres where you'll stockpile some heals. By the time you're at 99 medicines, you've probably got 50 mp heals. First house upon entering has a pipot. Turm meds into tanks, second mp healing item is fine. For reference, making healing tanks with store bought herbs is cheaper, but even using 7 50 gold ones, it's still cheaper to make than buy (buy like 30 healing herbs for making 30 tanks, rather than 4 meds to a heal, 3 meds and heal to tank, as it'll be tedious but also less tanks than supplying herbs from the store). Mana capsules are 180, we made 20 plus for 100 each. Cure alls can't even be made yet. You could also make like 5 healing potions - small hp and mp heal - which aren't that great, but could make do in a pinch. Having a bit of a stockpile of tanks (1000 hp restore) and the tier 2 mp recovery (250, don't waste on kaim and seth lol) will come in clutch for a big bit of disc 3 where the party's split.
Oh my god I have been waiting so hardcore for this, it pains me so much how little attention this masterpiece of a game gets, when you said you were going to do a video on it I was so freaking happy. Today is a good day. Thank you, gloves man. I will now stop hyperventilating and watch the video. 🤜🤛
I remember playing this game when i was 12 and giving up because i was horrible at turn based games. being 28 now with a few years under my belt i'm sincerely a like and subscriber in hopes that theres going to be a PC release.
On a completely different note... something in this video triggered my childhood memories and it took me f* forever to remember. You cheeky bugger used a song from the obscure gem "Legend of Legaia" as the background music 😂😂😂. 10/10. Best video I've on RU-vid. Hahahaha
When I was younger, whenever I was asked what my favourite Final Fantasy was, I would smugly reply “Lost Odyssey”. Thankfully, I’m not such a little twat any more. Still, I think young-Me had a point. I still consider this game the true follow up to FF12, and the final entry in the elite run of games that starts with FF6. Legendary stuff. I understand Mistwalker not wanting to use resources for a remaster, but why not outsource the job like FromSoft did with Demons Souls? Persona 5 proved that there’s very much still a demand for turn-based RPGs in the mainstream, and there’s an awful lot of people who didn’t get chance to play this classic
“His final lie to her.” GRAAAAAAAAAH GOD D,:< I never played this game and it has already both interested the hell outta me as well as shattered me to fucking pieces GOOD SHIT
Either my all time favorite game or close second, I still remember the day I bought Lost Odyssey. My chess team coach had us stop at a mall on the way home from a weekend tournament to unwind a bit, and I saw Lost Odyssey sitting on the shelf, and I remembered the TV ad back in the day that had Jefferson Airplane's White Rabbit playing. I didn't know what the game would be like, but I felt there was magic on the box, so instead of spending the money my parents gave me on food like they told me to, I bought the game instead, knowing full well my parents would be pissed. They totally were, but the love I've developed for this game is worth the money many times over.
Lost Odyssey is a certified classic. Perfect? No. But it doesn't need to be. I think the video puts it best- it's polished to an absolute sheen. The music, the art, the animations, and by all things sweet and holy the writing, were all cranked up to the absolute best quality the 360 could muster and then some. The game was hard enough to kick your teeth in, but fair enough that a loss still felt approachable. Very, very glad to see this game getting attention. I'll gladly contribute some spirit energy to the aether so it can get a remake someday.
You the third youtuber I watch who mentioned Lost Odyssey this year you made me feel like something will happen for this game and it's a good one I really hope that, I really love your video so thank you for making it and thank you for making me cry TT vTT)b
I literally bought a 360 again just for this game cause its that good. I had it in highschool and had a deep desire at the beginning of covid to play it again.
Giving this a click like and comment to help. But letting it play with sound off in the background because this game is already next on my back catalog.
Another great video -- Clemps, you never disappoint, even though I hold your videos to a higher standard because of some of the wait times.😅 Nitpick time: I think if you are discussing the creative talent behind a particular property, it is good (great even!) that you #NameTheTranslator-ed, but it would be better to make clear that he was a translator on the English version of the game, or if he was involved in the development of the Japanese version, I would have preferred if you said so. Naming the translator is important for folks like me (professional translators who also enjoy Japanese literature) but we are also disproportionately likely to play a game like this in Japanese and ignore the English. Also, I do wish there was more stock footage out there of Japanese writers writing vertically on Japanese genkō-yōshi 😂
Looking forward to watching this! I know you've been working on it for awhile and I can't wait to learn about Lost Odyssey, a title I have only seen mentioned a few times around the web
you can emulate them on pc through xenia as well if you don't have a pc or a new xbox console. They both wok pretty well with the latest version of the emulator
Great video Clemps. I forget why I picked this game up all those years ago. Probably because I was a 360 owning jrpg lover. It was one of the first games to really make me think about things though.
Lost Odyssey was the first JRPG I ever bought and it instantly got me hooked on the genre, and is still to this day 13 years later one of my favourite games ever made. I cry great big manly tears every single day that goes by without the game being ported to PC.
Well this video was a trip down nostalgia lane. I never imagined I'd be shedding another tear over Hanna's departure, or looking fondly over the time I got lost in the optional dungeon until I was level 99 and steamrolled the rest of the plot with ease.
I only started replaying this last week as I never finished it. I became an adult and indulged in a games room in order to play all the games I missed as a youth. My last achievement in Lost Odyssey was 10 years ago. Time makes a mockery of us all
I feel like this game is truly a lost odyssey. No one I know has played it, and therefore I slowly forgot just how marvelous and beautiful it was. Thank you for sharing this tale with me, sir. Even if only over a video, it has reignited my appreciation for Kaim and his dreams.
I loved this game. The opening intro song and the battle theme are amazing in my opinion. I know the game is flawed but I had a good time. I do wish I could play it again without dragging out my 360.
What an incredible ending. I hope you and Sylphy give this treatment to more of the 1000 years of dreams. Here's hoping Lost Odessey sees a PC release in the future.
At this point I've given up for an official version. Best case scenario would be through cloud gaming, which isn't an ideal way to play it. Seems to work on an Xbox 360 emulator if you have a powerful PC, but the emulation isn't quite perfect... especially not if you're trying to run at 60 fps.
That story towards the end was incredibly beautiful! Tragic, but beautiful in that tragedy. I've always found stories involving immortality fascinating. One of my favorite movies of all time is the first Highlander film, or as I like to call it: The ONLY Highlander movie that was ever made, which is what I wish everyone called it. Joking aside, I feel like there's so many different things you can do with a story focused on immortality as a prominent feature. In fact, I'm currently working on a book based around an immortal character and his life experiences as well, but I'm taking a different spin on both the conditions of immortality as well as the overall tone.
I remeber playing lost Odyssey on my 360 back in the day, I never beat it or really got that far but I remeber the special stories, one in particular really got to me and tho i can't remeber alot of details of it nowadays I always remeber it and the game in general because of them. Usualy in games I'll skip those types of text only story dumps but I never did in lost Odyssey because they'd always punch me in my gut and make me feel and I do love to cry XD
This game is such a rare gem where thr awesome gameplay and possibilities of the skill system were matched by the depth and quality of the stories. 1000 years if dreams is still some of the best storytelling in games
One of my most favorite games ever and stuck to me since i first played it in high school almost a decade ago. I hope someday it will get ported for many others to find and treasure it like a few of us do. 😌
I have been totally fascinated by Lost Odyssey but have never played it. Its just ripe for a remaster, like c'mon! Its so oldschool and yet, somehow, alluring. The music is great too. "What you are" guitar version, just... >.
God damnit! Hana's departure still hits like a fucking truck. Even 15 years later. ESPECIALLY with the Nier(?) music accompanying it. More people need to give this game a chance and read the stories. Lost Odyssey isn't just peak video game, it is also peak literature. (Which is actually, btw, the only reason the fancy translator guy agreed to translate the game.) Lost Odyssey gave me SO MUCH. It was the very first jrpg I had played outside of the final fantasy series. It's PERFECT. I am so looking forward to part 2 of this video!
YESSSSS!!! I've been burning for a video like this because although I played Lost Odyssey and liked it enough I guess - I don't have 100+ hours to send into games atm 😂
