Loved this video! No hyperbole about how terrible the game is, just genuine criticisms and also a fair balance of what you did like about each one. Ill be checking out the rest of your channel after this!

Unrelated to the video but i've had an obssesive episode with rpgs this past few months, and searching through youtube for videos about said genre led me to find LOTS of videos clearly made with AI. From the script, art shown in the video and thumbnails to the narration, you could just smell the artificial intelligence.
So i'm really glad there's channels like yours out there who have a clearly passionate person behind them, someone making genuine content. And maybe it sounds silly but i really enjoy how human it is, from the small slip-ups when reading the script to the unscripted comments and jokes, it just feels entirely human and wholesome in a way.
So yeah, that's my ramble about rpg youtube content. Love the videos!!! Keep it up!! ❤❤

Sonic Chronicles was one of my favorite games as a kid.

I was a very stupid child.

Oh good GOD Sudeki... I have... such a love hate relationship with this game.  Because, it's not good... oh it's not.  But It's almost, enjoyably not good. It's not a game I run to, but seeing it set in my steam library, unfinished, every now and again gets me to try it again and I just get the joy of rembering why I never played it... it's bad in a way that's almost hilarious.  There is something in there that keeps drawing me in though... I think those little sparks of what they wanted the game to be.

Also, as an edit, on the art.  I agree, it's not a bad looking game for it's time. But for me, while the world design is pretty damn great, the character designs read as very... Deviantart, is the best way I know how to say it.  As an artist, with a love for character design, when you are relying on the word "Anime" to make your characters stand out, and not their designs themselves, you're in trouble.

I have quite a few fond memories of The 7th Saga, loved that game when I was a kid

Hoshigami has a couple of other problems (like the repetitive tower grinds you'll go through throughout the game, the impenetrable/tedious magic upgrade system, and most curious of all: the puzzle stages you access through the options menu). Those things make the game bad, but the game balance comes down to the way stats work and how exaggerated the stat differences get in every possible way as the game progresses. Inaccurate characters get less and less accurate, tanky characters get more and more tanky, squishy characters become more and more liable, and high damage characters/skills get more and more out of hand. Every imbalance you can feel early in the game will simply exaggerate with very, very few exceptions. Money is plentiful (you will almost always have more money than you can reasonably spend), consumables virtually never get used (ie: potions and antidotes) but are always available, weapon/armor shops are ALWAYS outdated as soon as they update to the next set of gear so you almost never have equipment that even remotely matches your enemies unless you get lucky or tediously acquire gear via save scumming, the magic system would be alright but spells are either completely useless or overpowered due to an imbalanced stat system, and acquiring new spells once you figure it out seems and incentivizes nothing but saving and reloading if you don't get what you want.

Anyway for anyone reading this, I want them to know that I'm a big SRPG/TRPG fan, so I've played and am very familiar with probably any of the ones you can name off the top of your head. When I sat down to play this one I had heard some horror stories about it, but a few people I respect said some good things about it, too. So I did my best to go in 100% blind and complete the game without any guide or even instruction manual, and honestly felt like I figured out most of the systems with some copious notes I took the same way you might go about solving a moderately easy, yet tedious puzzle. In the end I don't think anything in the game is particularly hidden or obtuse enough to require a guide, so it is 100% playable even today if you aren't a stranger to these types of games, and the spritework for SOME of the characters/npcs is top-notch. Like among the best in the genre; chefs kiss. So I enjoyed the game to some extent but a lot of it was making my own fun by taking it extremely seriously and refusing to look up a single thing.

So that being said, I just want to say that I played for like 30 hours or something and then discovered Sajiri's puzzle tower thing in the menu somewhere, and ended up taking like 40 real-time hours completing the whole thing (including some afk and contemplation time). This is not what I'd recommend to a normal human being. Two of the puzzles had me stumped for much longer than I think it'd normally take if you just brute forced every solution, but I tried my best and at that point I just wanted to be stubborn trying to get through this ridiculous, cheap series of puzzles. Honestly, I ended up having more fun doing that and by the time I was finished with it, the sense of satisfaction is paramount to nothing other than completing a roguelike for the the first time, at least in terms of gaming (for me). For a normal person who respects their time and sanity, maybe just check a solution or don't bother with the puzzle floors at all since they aren't really part of the game. But for me, it really enhanced my enjoyment of the system and the characters, and the spritework, and even the music. So it was a good experience even though what I was playing may well be considered the absolute bottom of cheap game design. After that, the game chugged on and I ended up just using max level spells to clear virtually the rest of the game, and every character was wildly disproportionate in their power levels so nothing felt balanced even among my own team, but honestly the game still felt "okay" to play through.

If you asked me on the right day, I would say that this is the worst game I've ever played in my life (and mean it).
However, I would also have to admit that I had a good time playing it and the crappy moments were solved with stubborn perseverance and 30+ years of game knowledge.
In the event my memory is mostly wiped, I'd certainly play it again and be amazed and perplexed by the questionable design choices mixed with the gorgeous pixel art animation and fantastic battle system foundation.

Nooooo not Monster Seed :D One of my childhood memories, I beat that game a couple of years ago which was a huge accomplishment because that game was so tedious, the length of the dungeons later + the slow battles were so tedious.

3:20 I don't know what temperature does as pertaining to eggs in "Monster Seed" but in real life it does play a role for the eggs of the tuatara! Some lizard and turtle species too. Temperature affects the odds an egg hatches as female or male(or something in between for some species). Lower usually means more female, medium usually means more male, and higher goes back to female. But it varies per species.

7th saga is a good game but the US version have a lot of problems with the translation and for some reason they made it more difficult.
Record of Lodosa War for the Dreamcast is like a Diablo game but most of the boss battles are impossible, you don't have the enough life point and potions no matter how many hours you waste grinding for exp, you just win because the AI decides to miss one attack and now you have a little more life to resist the next attack. The other way to win those battles is trying to move around the battle zone when you charge the memory before the boss kill you without trigger the event for the fight and talk with the boss when you are in his back.

Been binging your videos the last couple of days! Looking forward to where you go next year.

2025, December 21st. Let it be known this was the date that Pixel Bro Lee went into detail about Monster Seed. He was not under duress or being forced against his will in any way to talk about Monster Seed. He spoke at great lengths about Monster Seed knowingly and willingly.

No more relatable RPG dude on YouTube, renewed my subscription just because of this massive undertaking. Great video Bro.

I feel like Monster Seed is the low rent version of Jade Cocoon.

Many moons ago, Wikipedia suddenly had 'Unknown Sonic RPG' show up under their listing for Bioware. That was it, that was the REASON I wanted a DS. It was the perfect storm of every interest I had at the time rolled into one, and I was hyped over the moon, it was why my first paycheck went to a DS in the first place.

It wounded me greatly once it released. To make matters worse, the concept CAN work and I think what Bioware was trying to do could've been clever, but the entire half baked nature of the thing means the well has been poisoned and it's going to be an uphill climb if anyone ever tries it again.

Might and Magic wasn't a bad game.  It was actually pretty good.  I think the issue is that not everyone is really prepared for what goes into playing these kinds of RPGs.

I love Might and Magic 1 on nes. It's one of not many game that I actyally complited

Aidyn Chronicles is one of my favorite RPG'S ever! I get it, though! The bugs, slow combat, and framerate issues in certain areas really bog it down for some people. But I loved being able to pick my own party members and allocate XP points wherever I wanted (barring character restrictions), and I loved the "Sword and Sorcery" feel. The character dialogue was great, too. And there was a lot of hidden lore if you leveled up Loremaster and read through some of the libraries. It's really too bad that it came out so undercooked.

Oh man. I loved 7th Saga growing up. I beat it with every character on the U.S. SNES. It was brutal! To those of you who know how to patch, there is one that nerfs it to the original Japanese version (but in English) which is much easier and a very solid play. Have fun! A great story and incredibly rewarding game.

I will not claim that 7th Saga isn't harder than nails, but it is incredibly deep and fun and allows versatile playstyles. Each if the 7 characters has their own path through the same general story, so like 7 unique games in 1! The random nature of who is your friend and who wants you dead also makes repeat playthroughs all feel unique and different. I beaten it with each character except the healer guy, but my favorite was either the Robot or the Dwarf.

RE:7th Saga: Sure there's grinding, but if you know a couple key facts about the game, you can literally cut your grinding IN HALF. How?
Step 1: Let your helper die.
Step 2: Grind (having a helper alive cuts XP gains in half!)
Step 3: Revive your helper (it's impossible to recruit someone else if your current helper is dead)
Step 4: Recruit someone else
Step 5: RE-Recruit the helper you want
Said helper will automatically be your level with updated equipment appropriate for the level (regardless if you have access to said equipment!). Always save before talking to an apprentice, if they wanna fight, reset and reload your game and kill a few more enemies then find them again until they offer to join. Apprentices holding a rune will give you the rune when they join you. The ONLY apprentice you ever have to fight in the game is the Star Rune holder, and that one is hard-coded as to who it is (depending on who you are). If this is someone you want as a helper (for example, Kamil gets Olvaan as the Star Rune holder), recruit this person before reaching Melenam and the game will pick Option #2 (for Kamil, this is Lejes) to get the Star Rune instead. Never fight an apprentice, even a friendly duel because they will remain hostile for the rest of the game.

Also, remember that XP/hr is more important than XP/kill. Silver Brains give awesome XP. But they also run away before you can kill them, 90% of the time and the rest of the battles that come out where they are suck. Same goes for normal brains. Instead of fighting them, pick something else you can kill fast and easy, to rack up more kills more quickly and with a single person, you get the XP listed on the screen, not half of it if you have a helper alive. You will level up MUCH faster this way.