Ninja Gaiden Shadow - Another Ninja in New York 

Well, if the first stage of the Xbox Ninja Gaiden is anything to go by, they tend to kill of 70% of their trainees by sending them against one already good ninja, so not many of them get the chance to improve.

You can't find them, but you can contact them. Problem is the good ones cost a lot.

They find YOU.

I mean... unless you're talking about ninjas given the arbitrary label of "good," like in Senran Kagura... Or are we not counting them since their game calls them shinobi? :P

... Oh, I get it.

Yeah? Well, Riddle me this, Batman: Why's Ryu have the Dragon Sword, *In New York - Which is in America - BEFORE* Ninja Gaiden 1 when he finds the note from his father saying to go there with the Sword??

Ironically its good to play

Who could forget some Spanky's?

Is... Is that a reference to the birds in Ninja Gaiden 1 for NES that attack him?? And for that matter *_WHAT ARE_* those birds doing *_INSIDE A CAVERNOUS MOUNTAIN, AWAY FROM SUNLIGHT AND FOLIAGE,_* in stages like 5-1 anyway?!?!?!?

Yes

There's another series I can think of that relates to Jon's origins but he's also said repeatedly that the series isn't going to be coming back. Maybe though some act of (lunar) magic, perhaps the modern, casual reincarnation will take it's place. (AKA: Mario World Rom hacks, but that's not happening. Possible Mario Maker, though?)

@@I0NE007 man it would be great if they came back

@@I0NE007 I mean, Invictus is a really good Mario World Rom Hack that doesn't have invisible coin blocks. But yes, Mario Maker would be the obvious choice. But eh, if Jon doesn't wanna do them he doesn't wanna do them.

@@krullachief669 I know he was burnt out on true romhacks and he has been KILLING it will the effort/quality with the recent releases. I probably would be fine with a "Color a Dinosaur" LP if he wanted with how good he's been. If Jon is enjoying working on it, then it's going worth the wait and definitely worth seeing.

The language teacher I had described the pronunciation as "blowing out a candle".

Yeah, hes been uploading like a real LPer for a while now. Its been nice

And then there's は which for some reason usually got translated to sound like わ

@@ZenoDLC that one messes up so many people. One of the first Japanese words most people learn first, Konnichiha, has that wa pronunciation at the end, so most immediately spell it with wa.

Galuf still dies in a cutscene. He's alive throughout that entire battle with Exdeath, only finally biting the dust after repelling him. Still awesome how we get to control him during his final stand, however.

@@wannabecinnabon Yeah, true. I just can't of any other RPG--at least that I know--where even _that_ much control before deadly cutscene is allowed. Everyone else from Aerith to Crono to even Tellah I think--haven't play _FFIV_ still--just kinda get handed a death flag in the appropriate cutscene and are forced to go "well, shi--" before getting murdered. The closest exception I know of is being able to let Frog fight Magus to the death one-on-one (IIRC) in actual battle if you both don't want Magus to join you and don't want Glenn to remain cursed. Funnily enough that's also mostly true even of the characters you *want* to die in RPGs (not named _Fire Emblem_ I guess). Here's looking at you, Kid from _Chrono Cross_ and your tenacity that would make even cockroaches envious.

@@MusicoftheDamned Tellah's death is very similar to Galuf's, just his final battle is fought entirely by the ai instead of being player controlled but scripted. That being said I still think that is by *far* the best of FF4's innumerable cutscene deaths, because it feels like a legitimate, albeit depressing, ending to his character arc, as opposed to just sort of....happening. (also it's not a fakeout like the rest lmao) Plus it lets you actually see what the enormous power of Meteor looks like in-game.

@@wannabecinnabon Ah. I see. Thanks. Yeah, despite the fact that I haven't played it still, I remember already finding how almost everyone else's death in _FFIV_ is basically a fake one besides Tellah's, which is darkly hilarious when there seem to be like half a dozen of them. At least _Final Fantasy_ games after _FFIV_ generally got *a lot* better about removing party members for a while without needing to fake their deaths, to the point where Shadow would just up and leave whenever he wants randomly before the world gets ruined. That said, at least _FFXV_ hilariously backslid on this front among its many other problems, and there's a huge amount of irony that Shadow ends up being the only "permanent" party member in _FFVI_ to die *regardless* of what you do by time that game ends.

@@MusicoftheDamned damn why you gotta remind me of shadow's ending in FFVI ;~;

I had to rewatch the scene 3 times to figure out what you were even referring to, so... no.

There were surprisingly some Medarot (the original Japanese title) games for 3DS. Dunno how well they did, but the series appear to be still alive..!

@@TeruteruBozusama Yeah, I believe they're on the 13th game from the last I saw. Too bad the series only got one set of international releases, and that's only on the GBA. The games were fantastic!

@@hv433 There was also the one on the Gamecube, that one also got an international release but that one has a completely different gameplay style to the GBA ones.

@@Ashurman666 Actually, there are four on GBA, one on GC, while I'm not familiar with the GC, the Medabots Metabee/Rokusho ver. ones are based on Medarot 2 Core where it's probably the more famous and standard "Control up to three bots, choose parts to attack, watch them go" gameplay While the other one is Medabots AX Metabee/Rokusho ver., which is an originally western release despite apparently being developed in Japan, featuring Ikki and Metabee/Rokusho at the start, plus one more medabot, you control one of them in a platform fighter ala smash bros, but with parts HP instead of insane knockbacks, while your partner is AI-controlled with selectable tactics. Later the game got reskinned to feature a new character named Koishimaru and his main medabot being either Dichotom or Adolphin, a completely different story, and even several cameo appearances from other games, this got released in Japan as Medarot G. The Medarot Brave/Medabots Infinity on GC is pretty similar to AX/G, but in 3D afaik. Right now, the main series seems to be mostly on hiatus while the mobile gacha game, Medarot S is still ongoing

@@ZenoDLC I always forget about AX because I hated AX. And yes Infinity is like that, a top down view almost run and gun style. It's not bad really but the top down view camera can be a big hindrance at times.

100%ed it myself. Definitely feels harder, no overpowered weapons this time, weapons degrade a lot more. Still really fun. Edit: Jason combat became so much easier once I realized that the melee counterattack refunds the health lost in taking the required contact damage. Unfortunately for me, this was discovered in the last Jason boss in the game. :/

Protonjohn is part of the Blaster Master Zero 3 commentary on Brainscratchcomms cause BSC started BMZero 2 as John started playing BMZ 1 on his channel and they agreed to collaborate for BMZ 3

Yeah, gotta agree with you on that after having played Shadow of the Ninja. Definitely feels more like than than NG.

You usually can't find good Ninjas

Yeah I can hear it. Galf sounds close to gulf to me