Skies of Arcadia - Part 19 - The Dark Rift 

I work 2 days a week as a dishwasher at a hotel. Every week I anxiously await John's release of Skies of Arcadia. During my down time at work, I watch these episodes. Only my boyfriend fills me with comparable joy. ❤

Yafutoma spent its centuries of isolation planning to make the most badass first impression they could on whoever came through the Dark Rift

Love that the first thing you do after finding the long shipwrecked man was to steal his remaining food and read his diary in front of him, before even talking to him!

Robinson Crusoe Crusoe is the only survivor, washed up onto a desolate shore. They weren't subtle with that reference, haha

Anyone else get the 2005-10 Doctor Who theme in their heads when the ship's going through the tunnels?

I like to think that the inherent nonsense of The Dark Rift made all the pirate ships massive. That or the cocking moon did it!

Don't know if that was the developers intent, but to me the vagueness of rhe Dark Rift and the tbrown detail of a lost black moon souns like concepts for a possible sequel that never happened

Missed opportunity not to say missing the blue Looper was a blooper

The tunnels of the dark rift look like a Windows 95 screensaver

Moseying Jon would be perfect name for a traveling bluesman.

This game really has it’s own Dark Bramble huh

My friend was in Esperanza, going through the Dark Rift to Yafutoma when i learned about this game. Middle school me had to play this game. Almoat 25 years later, this game is still one of my favorites.

A shame the Dark Rift is such an overall small area, I always found it so fascinating. The pulsating plant like growths inside bring to mind certain species of slime mold.

when i was young i always thought the black moon stoon stone being there implicated that the black moon at some point crashed and the black rift was the remnants of that event

I love how massive these shipwrecks are, compared to our ship and crew

"Zivilyn Bane Protocol" sent me

Jon it is quite easy how the torpedos work. Moonstone magic. It is how everything works.

Its rather fortunate the people from Yafutoma speak the same language as Vyse and crew, despite no contact because of the dark rift.

I love the idea that the Yafutomans can literally win any ship battle if they want but because of gameplay reasons you have to be able to win too.

From here onwards is new Skies for me. My GameCube gave up the ghost around this point. 😢

29:35 .... Jao: Surrender now- Mao: -or prepare to fight! Me: Meowth that's ri- oop wrong RPG franchise.... ^-^

Maybe the void IS the black moon? I mean, weird stuff is the different moons' fault!

Let's keep hold of that black moon stone... just in case... you know... it can flip things the other way...

Hold on, we’re sailing through a James Bond intro!

I bet the TvTropes page for this game was awesome

The largest danger in the dark rift is your eyes separating, due to trying to look at multiple textures scrolling & spinning in different directions at the same time!

Ziby B really gets around

I know it's probably just using the same real ships as reference but the Yafutoma ships have massive Kuja energy showing just how much this and One Piece share.

DUUUVAL! Wait, wrong channel. Let's go Fina and those pirates you pal around with!

Ah yes the classic powerful twin trope. It always makes me think of those twins from the first season of Yu-Gi-Oh. I wonder if that's actually based on any folklore. Seeing their ship though I was hoping for a unique fight with a ship that could maybe split apart so at one point it would look like it was going to ram head on until catching you in a pincer trap. Oh well, fighting those two guys is cool too.

Bain is one heck of an explorer. He is definitely beating you to every crazy location in the game

I'm loving this series and this game, it just goes from hit to hit.

Wow thats a nice wall they got there would be a shame if someone flys over it

Also my favourite dungeon in the game.

Pretty sure this section inspired a large part of Outer Wilds

As the first ship dungeon in this game. It was pretty neat. If there's more they can't do the same thing.

Jon (or editor), you are peaking your mic a lot. You can do a lot of stuff to mitigate that, but the easiest is just to back off a few inches. You are too close to your mic.

20:00 that’s what she said

This is what going through the Omega Relay in Mass Effect should have been like to be honest. Would have been cooler than a simple cutscene.

Gosh dang that dark rift is very cool indeed the music is great and the visuals are astounding, very much a "what if half life's xen was good" sort of deal

i wonder if robinson is a reference to robinson crusoe? it's a novel about a shipwrecked man from the early 18th century

I continue to love this series ^_^ The Dark Rift is so cool, I love the style of the tunnels!

it really is nice to see older games still being loved on youtube these days. been loving this series

YEEEEES I've been waiting for this!!

Zivilyn Bane needs to explain how the hell he got in there

I've fallen in love with a game I've never olayed

Thank you.

18:08 The torpedo knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the torpedo from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't. In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the torpedo is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the torpedo must also know where it was. The torpedo guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the torpedo has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.

INTO THE BREACH!

I still think FFVII is better, but I'm really enjoying this series. Mainly because Jon is playing it, but I like it none the less.

Day 128 of requesting Age of Mythology - a full playthrough if possible. Things are looking up, between a horrific tunnel realm to visit with Jon and actually feeling well enough for Dairy Night in town tonight. Personally, I'm more willing to go to the latter then visit the former in person. The latter has pie

Pls play rome total war 2 again

Day 54 of requesting Jon play Okami HD

First!

Day 152/1230 of requesting Jon play a game nobody will remember, like Majesty: A Fantasy Kingdom Sim.