Which Version of Live A Live Should You Play? - The Original + Switch Remake Reviewed & Compared 

I’m so pumped to see the dragon quest three version of this.

Nah, they messed with the script and sanitized it. No thanks.

Care to explain how they"sanitized it"?

@@sjajsjsja4523 i also would like to know that’s not something many people have said

@@TheFloodFourm They censored some content in the English version

Absolutely. I remember playing the fantrans back in the mid 00s and loving it. Never expected a remake, looks like I'm picking it up.

I just wish the original version was also included. It would have been fun to play both.

Indeed. I had never even heard of this game, now I can't wait to play it! (Gonna get it next month or so.)

Aside from the localization

It's honestly crazy just how unique they were able to make each chapter within the same mechanics back on the Super Famicom. It also made me appreciate Octopath even more for how it's clear it was trying to do its own take on the formula instead of just being a Live A Live 2.

Chrono Trigger so overvalued.

I would perfer if Chrono Trigger used hand drawn sprites

@@SeventhheavenDK Stop coping. That game is *casually* one of the best RPGs, ever, and one of the most influential.

@@memesarekeem only problem is that, apparently, it’s pretty easy. An HD-2D remake should really bump up the difficulty, but make it an optional choice.

Just played that chapter today and beat it about 10 minutes ago. That f***er actually jumpscared me a few times.

@@paperluigi6132Me too

OH AND WE FINALLY GOT GO! GO! BURIKI DAIOH! SANG IN GAME It literally can't get any better than that lmao

@@NeviTheLettyFan one of the best parts is that english speakers got the same singer for Buriki Daioh, when they easily could’ve just been “it’s an anime theme, they don’t care if it’s just in Japanese.” or given us a half baked dub by some random guy. No, it’s the same dude, and I love that.

*Akira no longer sucking* Point of emphasis, that - Akira has some insane utility in the finale.

Idk about Akira, Megalomania arrange sucks very hard.

To be fair, it's also used in Australia and New Zealand as well. It isn't a "people" thing as much as it is a federal one. Something to do with hertz or whatnot. Same reason why Europe is PAL and so forth.

I always laugh when even today people still refer to euro / aus/nz releases as PAL versions. Same with the NTSC, NTSC and PAL are old analog TV standards. No such thing as NTSC and PAL versions anymore.

Me too. That's my favourite SNES game.

Phone go brrr. Or capture card I guess.

@@asra-5180 Nah, Square Enix doesn't want anyone spoiling the final chapter so they've blocked the ability to record or screenshot it from the Switch and have been calling copyright strikes on RU-vid LPs of that section. That's why AustinSV said he can't show anything from that chapter early on in this video.

well, just wait when the timed-exclusive or... it exists. I don't know. will go all out on multplatform in the future that it allows for huge improvements on graphics department and other things. and if it still persists from the original release, you can always count on the modders.

@@arhturcosta4066 I own a Switch, but was hoping for PC ports of Triangle Strategy and Live A Live. It's good news that it sounds like it turned out better than Octopath Traveler, but playing that on Switch really made me wish for an options menu or being able to mods things to my liking. If they don't come after a year or so I'll just buy them on Switch, but I really hope other versions are announced. (When Nintendo brings the next console it would be nice if we could get updates for things like resolution boosts and higher framerates though too. Because I'd be shocked if it's not backwards compatible with Switch.)

@@infasis I heard from a discord channel that they managed to dataopen secretly on the game's files suggesting that there is controle inputs of PS4/5 and PCs. Meaning that a port to other devices is tecnicallly possible. so, the question is... when?

CERO definitely wouldn’t have been a problem seeing as how the original was put on the New 3DS virtual console with a B rating.

"waaaaaa I wanna steal ladies underwear waaaaaaaa" grow up dude, I grew up on Live-a-Live and can't say my love for it had anything to do with pervy lingerie theft.

@@jamesn3122 No-one said anything close to that, dude. Relax.

@@jamesn3122 Found the actual child. If you can't handle videogames and their content don't play them.

@@hassanico9999 . Actually it seems more like can handle it. Instead if people like you get bothered so much because the option to be a pervert is not there anymore, well joke's on you.

Yeah, it already pads out the finale with several extra hours that some feel don't need to be there (as it kills the pacing a bit), so to each his own, I guess. I just wish the original ROM had been included with a translation patch, either official or the fan version. (Honestly, I would have preferred the fan version.)

Typical censorship, never gets old for them.

Maybe soon

Yeah I believe they changed it in the remake, but this is just an observance. The encounter rate doesn't seem to have changed much, but it definitely feels like they slightly lowered it, and the enemy formations change as your party levels. I hope this helps!

@@fieryrebirth The formations do change in the original as well, it's just that when your levels start to peak, you end up fighting the same handful of formations over and over. One in particular features enemies with extremely high defence that counter attacks by inflicting all manner of debuffs and stat aliments to the entire party.

@@thatoneguy4452 I know the enemy you're describing. It's an "anti-aoe" enemy that usually requires a good multi-hit attack to bring it and it's nasty "bad breath" attack out of the fray.

I just ran away, bearing in mind running from fights aktivates a hidden Boss, so i guess in that sense it helps

Haha, I just wrote the same thing above. I'm amazed how many of these remakes don't bother including the original version. Even the Spyro and Crash remakes left out the originals. Again, why? Why not just throw the original ISOs on the disc for preservationist and comparison's sake?

@@pacario9625 That's a lot of extra work. These old games would need some form of emulation to get them running on modern hardware. Honestly, it's a very niche request and not worth doing so.

@@RicochetForce Nah, it would actually be incredibly easy to, say, emulate SNES Live a Live on the Switch. And that goes for most games from the '90s. Any modern system can emulate them with ease, and the emulators are everywhere.

@@pacario9625 You're asking them to add an emulator to a remake project. It doesn't matter how easy you may think it is, it's still a little unreasonable. Most remakes don't include the original versions because that's a step too far, and the budgets likely don't cover the work and QA needed to make sure these emulation efforts are good and stable.

@@RicochetForce There's no reason for it to be "a step too far." It'd be easy to do, cheap, and, frankly, it makes a lot of sense to have the original attached to the remake. And some titles, like Monster World 4, do just that.

I don't know off the top of my head, but yes it's sharper than octopath was. I'll measure it and get back to you with a pinned addendum comment

@@AustinSV thanks mate. always love your vids

It's live.

Live like “five”

I can see why, honestly: - Lacks most of the remake's UI addons, which would definitely stop non-ogs from playing it. - Censorship. - Most people would prefer to play it once, and use the remake for that. It's honestly filling memory space for something that's not that important and most people would ignore me.

People is NEVER happy, right? Always something to complain about.

@@penitente3337 It would have been nice from a preservationist's perspective, especially since we never got the original. And since the new version does change the original script a bit, including the original game would respect the original team's work and contribution. Now, sadly, the original is destined to be replaced by this one; let them live (no pun intended) side by side, I say.

@@SeventhheavenDK Um, are you saying it would not have been nice to also receive the original?

@@pacario9625 Well, I'd say that's already taken care of actually, with the original rom dump (which people can learn Japanese to read and have it unfiltered/uncensored), and the original fan translation (which may have ha some translation things fall through the cracks, due to not having a direct english variant for some things). Personally, I agree with the OP in the sense that, if I'm gonna play a game, I usually try to go straight to the best possible version of it, so that I can get the most complete experience in one playthrough. For instance, Final Fantasy 1. The original, broken as hell NES release is romdumped and easily obtained if anyone wants to play that thing, but why would I, when I can just go straight to the PSP version. It has ALL the content the previous iterative remakes have, and more, the best graphics of all the versions, and the most polish (few glitches, aside from the one glitch that persisted in all versions: The critical hit bug). I can just play the PSP version, and experience everything the game has to offer in one playthrough. To me, that defines a good remake: The quality, quality of life and polish are ramped up, all possible content from previous versions, and new content, all in one complete package. Other well done remake examples include, but are not limited to: Final Fantasy 2 PSP, Final Fantasy 4 PSP, Pokemon Fire Red, Pokemon HeartGold, Crash N Sane Trilogy, etc. No matter how much nostalgia I may have for the original versions (which are easily accessed through emulation), why would I tell someone to play Pokemon Red as their first experience with Kanto, when FireRed exists, and does everything Red does but better and more polished?

And why Square would spend money on FF6,when they have the ultimate cash cow:Final Fantasy 7?

Sadly no

Hahaha

That and Illusion of Gaia

@@eamonndeane587 Well Actraiser (by the same developer as Illusion of Gaia) got a remake last year so maybe there's hope to see the whole Resurrection Trilogy and Robotrek get some love in the future too.

oh no, the panties are gone, 0/10

Riiight

No, thanks.

@kollie79 not knowing any better must be a bliss.

@kollie79 well good for you, but for me the changes were drastic enough that I can't in good faith recommend the localization.

Wishing for what it was in the original is to wish for a higher CERO rating. If the Live-A-Live Dev team want to sell their product to their target audience, they have to comply to these ratings.

Being a gamer from the early 1990's is weird for this very reason. In the US we used to have a lot of censorship from Japanese games due to religious/'child-protecting' reasons. Then between the late 90's and 2000's we pretty much didn't have any, and it was great. Now circle back to today, we have it yet again for poIitical/'moral' reasons... ultimately the same thing all over again. Sad how all these unfortunate trends always repeat themselves... 😓

@@Hausbrauen is it sad that you can't steal panties? Yall are fucking weird, I grew up playing this game and can't say I loved it due to a couple small scenes and some beer. I loved it for the story, music, strategy and characters. Stop, being, weird.

@@mcihay246 it wasn't Cero's fault. It was their ethics dept

@@VillainViran Ah yes. You're correct. It's not CERO's fault... Alone. The Square Enix Ethics Department also has to consider ESRB, PEGI, etc when censoring aspects in their games. ESRB is apparently notorious for not providing clarity on what provides a T rating.

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Considering how much Censorship has changed in many years, they don't really have much choice considering More Mature Rated Game Might Appeal less too some people, Especially with how many teenager at the time

@@dynamitoriel9056 Higher age-rated games have never deterred gamers. I'm not sure how old you are, but all you needed to do was get parents to buy the game for you. They hardly ever knew or didn't care. It's more a traditional practice to keep ratings low. Square-Enix is doing it more to appeal to DEI policies and funding they are gaining at this point and evident from what their Ethics Department has said.

@@blumiu2426 unfortunately or fortunately not in my State I live in, I still remember when I was younger a lot of child wanted too ask their parents too buy Mature Game only too refuse because of age rating, atleast, in place i live in even today people seems too actually care about age rating

square soft is dead they are no longer the company with heart anymore.

Square soft is long gone. Square soft and enix combined over 20 years ago

spoilers for a 20+ year old game 😱

@@lolcat 4:53 lol I miss the Hulk Hogan moustache on Max Morgan 😢 12:40 original. 13:00 fonts make a game a lot more original than mobile dragon quest/final fantasy pixel remasters where they're all the same boring stuff.

..."the agenda"?

@@uninspiredname2974 I'm not even one of those who go crazy making a career of anti-woke vids, but it gets ridiculous in a lot of aspects (and don't get me started on she-hulk twerking/hating the derivative name despite her gift powerset from hulk lol). For agenda, TL:DR it's the whole woke thing to get a free pass based on where you check off in society, and get on that self-owning soapbox in every possible place/medium to shame/distract those who simply want escapism in hobbies. Agenda being how we are having education become a cult to demand (without parental consent) children be known first for sexuality, get confused at what a woman is (character customization being appearance or style nowadays) to the point we are told to ignore the sexual dimorphism that plays a role in how much stronger a man in his prime generally is, or give black kids (I'm evil for not saying of color or brown) extra points for grit because the previous system is racist yet you're not allowed to challenge this way of thinking (for example, a lot of asians, who paid tutors to win, felt extremely ripped off at this free racial credit and losing to lower college scores). We're also not allowed to compare to a broken new system like bail reform, or how capitalism needs diversity hires to distract from its wage theft, and overwork to sickness with removing a remote option in a pandemic, to make people quit their jobs. It betrays itself at every aspect, like women's equality day ads complaining they get to "only" be one-third of the board of directors despite being half the population (which is a lot anyway let alone if we're contradicting ourselves by telling kids a woman is a feeling, it becomes irrelevant).

@@uninspiredname2974 to extend a branch to him, a lot of localizations lately have completely removed gendered language, changed lines to not portray women weakly or negatively, or have changed scenes to tone things down. While you can argue it's never individually major, it's been adding up

And the censorship is a pretty big bummer