Your friendly neighbourhood Canuck diving deep into games on a (mostly) monthly basis!
Used to mainly do let's plays, back in the caveman era of youtube, but starting in 2017, I decided to start scripting stuff. I used to be terrible at it, but now I just suck!
If you're looking for those let's plays, they haven't gone anywhere! I'm just in the process of moving them all to playlists instead of having them all on the main channel layout.
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For the first half of the game, I didn’t even realize that you could choose other stats to level with that spinning wheel thing. So it leveled exclusively health until I realized the error of my ways once I accidentally pressed down on the d pad… this explained why it felt like my damage output was horrific lol But after I realized I set about grinding this game senselessly. Add on the fact that it took about two hours of straight grinding to try and get that top-tier overall equipment form the last dungeon, and I was completely overpowered for the end unintentionally. And for the record, this was my first M+L game lol. It was in my backlog and I used a roulette spinner and it gave me this one, so I played it. Fine enough game. But at least I know that there’s greater titles ahead in this series!
Personally, some of the things here I don't fully agree with and stuff I feel was glossed over. You can read the first big paragraph regarding the battling system, specifically the Bros Items and Grinding. Second paragraph is about story stuff I just felt like talking about. You can skip either paragraph or read both. No hard feelings, just my opinions. So, to start off I wanna say that the implementation of Bros Items is definitely not the same as say Stickers and Cards from the Paper Mario series because in those games that is the only way to attack. While in this game you can still attack with your basic jumps and hammers. I understand where you're coming from, and I can see the similarities, but I feel like that small difference can make all the difference. But let's say that they did have Bros Attacks with BP in this game instead, you'd have to keep track of all 4 of the BP stats from the Big Bros and the Baby Bros. Not to mention some of the attacks get stronger when all Bros are together, so would those attacks cost more BP? Since the Babies generally have lower stats than the Big Bros does that mean their BP would suffer as well? Or how about which attacks belong to which Bros or PAIR of Bros? Having the Babies use BP stats would make their solo fights less bearable since you wouldn't be able to use as many of your Bros Attacks to get through the fight a little faster. Overall, I definitely prefer the idea of Superstar Saga Bros Attacks in general compared to what the rest of the games end up doing. But in this game, I think this was probably the best thing they could do for simplicity's sake. As for the consumable part of the items and grinding, I personally never found any problem with it. Even at the final boss I had like 25-40 of each item, and that was with me not spending as much as I would've liked to and also using those Bros Items in normal battles. I also feel like with how common Bros Items are and how easy they are able to be obtained, that I found myself having more fun with this game because I actually got to use the Bros Attacks that make battles more engaging more often than the other games. Speaking of normal battles, I am one who will often battle every enemy I see in an area just because battling is so fun. But I never actually had to grind my level up, matter of fact I was a bit over-leveled heading into the Final Boss. The games are designed that if you take everything that they give you, you should be fine. But if you skip a lot of the enemies in favor of moving along the story, then I could see why you'd have to grind a lot near the end. After all the game rewards you for exploring and for not skipping the enemies early on. Of course, a lot of that is my experience and opinion, but I have only ever played Partners in Time once and so what I have said is regarding my first experience of the game. As for the story, I feel like some things were talking about briefly but not in its entirety. Like I know you talk about the music giving some of the best tones for the area you're in, and that you can see the devastation of the world around you that the Shroobs have caused sticks with you throughout the game. But I feel like the biggest thing about the story, particularly at the end isn't really talked about all that much. For one the music that plays over Elder Princess Shroob's second phase is called "Another's Requiem". In laymen's terms (how I understand the meaning) a Requiem is a song played at a funeral. The meaning behind the song's name and the game as a whole is two races fighting for their lives for the right to survive. Yea we see the Shroobs do some evil stuff and take pleasure in doing so but imagine seeing your beloved leader defeated by one of the residents of the Mushroom Kingdom, of course it makes sense that these twisted creatures would take pleasure in seeing the Mushroom Kingdom fall. They love their leader so much that in the final battle THEY WILL LITERALLY KAMIKAZE just to try and stop you from beating Elder Princess Shroob. They are sacrificing their lives for any chance to have their whole race live on. Probably the deepest part is that Elder Princess Shroob is with you on your entire journey, we see the devastation that the Shroobs caused but she is also forced to see us eliminating her people one by one, see a future where they canonically failed and their race is dead, WATCH AS WE KILL HER SISTER while she can't do ANYTHING about it. While Elder Princess Shroob is definitely not in the right, her feelings are kind of warranted and you can really almost understand the kind of pain she's going through. Well, as we defeat the Final Boss with "Another's Requiem" playing, the game's ultimate meaning is about a climactic battle that decides of fate of two races. One will survive, and the other will fall. This game sure is dark, but I feel like this video doesn't really go into HOW dark it actually is. And there's so much more to talk about like the fate of the Toads that had their Vim absorbed fully, you can literally see the souls of toads in the Vim Factory itself. Were they dead? I mean the end of the game seems happy and all, but that only really cleaned up the Shroob Shrooms around the place, they didn't really say if they managed to take the Vim out of the ships (that we helped destroy by the way) and revive all the Toads. It seems ironic as we literally traverse the present-day Peach's castle, but the fate of these individual people isn't really clear. Well at the moment I can't think of anything, so I'll stop before I remember something to not make this comment EVEN bigger than it already is. But yea, those are some of my thoughts regarding this game. Some things I agree with, other things I don't, and some others are a little complicated than just "agree" and "disagree".
My favorite music track is the battle theme on the moon. It sounds like a eruobeat song straight out of Initial D
Hi, I searched "cris tales review" on yt and found a bunch of slick. professionally made nothingburger reviews that said nothing of the game outside of the superficial stuff, so I had to dig up for a while until I found a video that actually went in-depth. Really well made review, congrats
Reasons I, at least at the time (I haven't played it in years) considered it inferior to Superstar Saga: The Bosses - Superstar Saga are almost all completely unique (Tolstar, Ho-oh Dragon, Queenbean, Chukolamater, Cackletta, Fawful, Piranha Egg thing, Trunk, Hermie (The Christmas Tree Hermit Crab), Poppel & 'Rookie', etc etc) Meanwhile, though PiT has some unique bosses, due to focusing on an alien race, they fall into the trap where at least 3 of the bosses are basically recolours with minor differences (Shrooboid, Junior Shrooboid, Elder Shrooboid), there's some unique moments, such as the Bowser + Jr tag battle. Yoob is pretty memorable, but most of the bosses are there as an excuse to be 'another alien enemy' with an excuse to use the flying saucers for the dual screen DS capabilities. Abilities - I know they had to split the abilities to Mario & Luigi, AND, Baby Mario & Baby Luigi I just wish they gave the babies NEW moves, and let the brothers hold the old moves Removal of the Firebrand/Thunderhand style abilities is also an unfortunate miss and feels bad to anyone coming to this sequel from Superstar Saga. The Bros Abilities in Superstar Saga are therefore incredibly well executed, having both the customisable BP cost (based on the difficulty of execution, altering the number of frames you get to push the correct button, as well as removing the prompts) on TOP of the fact that if you perfect the Bros Move, you unlock an alternate version of the attack if you use a different button combination, that has different effects. PiT just replaces this genius with... items... just repetitive items... that you have to buy... or find... yay... fun! Everything else is pretty much the same but it just feels more repetitive compared to Saga.
If you still didn't know I'm sorry to be the guy to tell you but AlphaDream no longer exists
39:54 Mate, when something isn't consistent, it's called *_variety._*
Honestly my favorite Mario & Luigi
Hey you forgot to mention the chompy although she is in gameplay footage
Final remix is a really good co-op rpg
@1:10:36 - This is where I lost it back in the day... and remains one of the main reasons why Baten Kaitos remains in my top 3 favorite RPGs of all time. None of us saw this coming, and to be blind-sided so hard like this... it was such an emotional moment. I was literally sobbing. (I never played the English release, but played a Japanese import shortly after it was released)
...I really think that the English localization might have greatly affected the impact of Kalas's character... because when I was playing the original on the GameCube... I never got that feeling that he was "an ass". He was a little naive here and there, but I never felt that he was being a dick for no reason. I really need to play through the remaster to see if my opinion has changed since my Japanese ability has greatly advanced in these past 20 years... lol
@1:14:15 I entirely agree with you here. I had my own fair share of struggles with MANY of these boss fights, and even some of the mazes gave me trouble... I still remember being pissed about it back then, so you've gotta know it was REAL anger... lol But from a narrative and creative perspective, the game did SO MANY THINGS right--and new for the time--that I was absolutely enamored with it.
Mate I just found your channel a couple weeks back! Decided to finally play the non-Paper Jam Mario & Luigi games for the first time following the Brothership announcement, and was looking for discussion about them afterwards. Have blitzed through all the Mario & Luigi and Paper Mario videos now, and I’ll be jumping into your others soon. Hoping that Brothership helps kick your channel up to that next gear in terms of subscribers and support, because you’ve got the same high production levels and insights of channels way bigger, and deserve similar success. Your style in particular reminds me of The Geek Critique, which I’m also a big fan of. Keep up the good work, excited to see your future videos and especially excited for your Brothership impressions when that rolls around! Would love to see you cover Super Mario RPG at some point as well, as I just finished it for the first time and it’s kinda fascinating as the origin point for the two branching Mario RPG series that splintered off from it. Will echo others when I say that you can never have enough Metroid retrospective series as well, even if that’s something that’s covered a bit more often elsewhere. Gonna jump on the patreon for a couple months for access to those M&L remake videos. If the audio of your Brothership/Direct reaction is awful but technically understandable, I’d recommend chucking that up on the Patreon as well - I’d happily hear your reaction even if it’s not good enough for normal KZread. A Ring Fit Adventure review would be cool if you do end up “finishing” it. Kind of fascinating as an exercise JRPG. Oh, and you interested in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 at all? The connection is nebulous but as what looks like a big budget title with Mario RPG-style combat, it seems really interesting. Keep up the great work!
I wonder if Miyamoto was jealous of the success of the paper series
I attempted a 100% run of Biting Kratos. I missed one thing that no one ever mentions. ....Never again. Its not like theres some cool hidden reward for a 100% Gathering. But still.
It's genuinely rare to find a person who has a (relatively) small channel with so much discipline for content. Binged all of your paper mario and Mario & Luigi retrospectives and truely enjoyed them. It's also super refreshing to see a guy not overdelivering what he's tryna say. Keep this up man, truely good stuff here 💪
This review convinced me to buy it. 👍
What I really don't like about this game is that it lures you in with colorful visuals and its great soundtrack, and then it tricks you into thinking your going to have a good time.This isn't just a pale imitation of Paper Mario, some director literally removed the heart of the series, and tossed it in the trash. How did this game get a Super Smash Bros stage again?
40:00-40:44 remember this when getting to Dream Team 💀. Can’t fully speak about my thoughts on Dream Team as I’m still playing through it, but I would rank Partners in Time higher than Dream Team 😅.
I disagree that the ending is just a retread. Ttyd adds the entire world into the ending, while paper Mario just uses peach. 64 essentially used the power of romantic love. Ttyd used the power of community. I think that's a stronger message.
I love the remake and have played the orginal every summer since 2009. And now ill be playing the remake going forward and occasionally going back to the gamecube
Explicitly Trans Vivian is one of the best changes; and from what I've heard of how the original script handles things, it's been better handled now too! c:
When the review of xenoblade games ??
My cart doesn’t save so had to rip it in 1 sitting lmao
People Who Watched The June Direct 👇
You should check out Mario Party Advance. Considered one of the worst Mario games of all time but that is only because it is not really a Mario Party game at all. Mechanically it’s not great but it has some awesome storytelling Also would love to see you cover some of the DragonQuest games. Particularly Dragon Quest IX on the DS
I’ve been watching since you only had a couple hundred subscribers and I’m so happy that your retrospectives are gaining traction and the attention that they truly deserve
I would enjoy hearing you review another series. I'd love if you did Metroid.
If you read the text right, Vivian literally says the bullying was there even before the transition, and it just felt heavier after, which further implies being trans had nothing to do with the bullying, she just felt worse about the bullying
19:30 Love the irony of a game about Luigi, in his own year, punishing someone for being lefthanded!
Great video!!!
I never even knew you could use the Taunt Ball in the final boss, and I've beaten this game twice already. I'm replaying the game right now and this is VERY useful info for the final fight. Especially since I'm playing hard mode.
Personally, I know I would love to hear you talk about all the Metroid games, I watched your dread speed run, and it was awesome! Would definitely love to hear your thoughts on all those games!
100% agreed.
This is a comment to notify you that you haven’t added your review of the Switch remake of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door to your Paper Mario retrospectives playlist. Subscribed a month or two ago because of your Mario Rpg videos. They’re the most in-depth reviews of the games on KZread. Excellent Job
I legit can't wait for your review on Brothership once it comes out
Love your videos, man! Thanks for awakening my dormant Mario & Luigi nerd bias! 🙃
I know it’s a huge game but I would love to see your full opinions on the xenoblade games even just doing x seeing as how you brought up how much you love it and you wouldn’t feel as required to do all of the xenoblade games if you just tackle x but whatever you do I’m still ecstatic to see what you do soon!
Watched your Mario and Luigi videos for quite a while, and i really hope your channel grows more in the future.
I love your Mario and Luigi videos! Mad underrated. Shame that your other videos haven’t been getting the attention that you deserve!
Subbed after watching all the mario and luigi videos. Awesome content, keep up the great work 10k is not far away!
I both hate and love Sticker Star
I both hate and love Sticker Star😊
Just having finished the remake on Switch, it’s definitely an overrated game. A great game, solid 8/10 imo but very overrated as everyone online hyped it up to be this 10/10 experience
Still better than most of the modern trilogy
I just realized that Kersti is Sti-ker backwards. I think I hate the game more now. Edit: The music was the only good thing about the game. /opinion
I'm playing the remake, and I'm pleased to point out that they made skipable tutorials, fixed the swimming and the train boss.
You know that stereotypical "wet fart" sound that is used on tik tok's/shorts these days? Well during the big bowser fights I made that sound with my mouth into the DS microphone and got "excellent" every single time. Don't ask how it worked, but it did.
Excited for the new one?
The reason Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi fell so far is because of Miyamoto. He's said many times over the years he hates story in games and doesn't think games should have complicated stories. I don't know how/why he finally got his way with these two series, but I'm pretty damn sure that's what it is - he finally got his way and butchered these two franchises because of his bias against story in games.
50:06 Why is that an issue though? In other M&L games, you can totally run out of special points for attacks as well and have no items to replenish them in order to use special moves… Having them as items just makes it less complicated than managing attack points for 4 different playable characters. You can always go to the shop in Peach’s Castle to get more items! The same way you’d get syrups to replenish your Bros. Points in other games…
It wasn't announced in 2012. Paper Mario Sticker Star was revealed during 2010 after the 3DS was revealed. I don't mean to sound rude but why does everyone get the pre-release info of this game extremely incorrectly?
Literally forgot that it was supposed to be 60 fps. They adjusted the gameplay to fit the new frame rate, and it played amazingly. It blows my mind that people were/are complaining about such a trivial thing 🤦🏽♂️