Let's Play Radiant Historia #82 - Memories of the World

[Macuelos]

The whole "your soul will protect the earth" thing reminds me of His Dark Materials, when the dead leave the Land of the Dead and their souls fall apart and they become part of everything. Good series, that.

[RiiidgeRaacer]

Man the way they used Affectionate Moment in that flashback cutscene randomly made me cry a bit.

[junnyb0ii]

Omg 2:00 am, I have school tomorrow and this series is to fucking good, I can not stop watching, damn u radiant historia... No damn u hcbailly!

[KuroroSama42]

6:05 ... this part was obvious to me, cause I noticed that node had a branch off and I could never figure out where it was branching out to lol so when they mentioned it, I was just like "OH! that's what that leads to!"

[ALittleSipOfWine]

I think, this game really shares several similarities with FF10: You need to sacrifice some friends in order to save the world, but, though they aren't willing to kill one out of their row, they're searching for a more economic way to save the world...

[Wes2823]

Please play Golden Sun !

[KentoKaima]

Saying this after watching this episode I think the title fits this part rather poeticly ^_^

[KentoKaima]

I love how this part of the story plays out,from knowing pretty much nothing when first getting the white chronicle to knowing the entire truth,making the choice to still go along with the ritual not because its the right thin to do but that its his choice he has come to peace with,to protect others for his own reasons,I probably didn't sum that up right but its a very admirable act,this part makes it feel more so than other RPGs,I really like Stockes character

[LockeStockeAndBaryl]

I think the Looney Tunes quote "Which way did he go, George?" is a reference to the character Lennie from "Of Mice and Men".

[Dabomb0789]

2:07 nice little touch the game did there making Aht's eyes look teary, at least I think that's what the developers were aiming for in that scene.

[chuchu2019]

What? Why am i tearing up??? This has never happened before over a video game cutscene...

[SilentWeaponsIII]

Man, the plot to this game is pretty deep. Almost novel worthy.

[myohel0]

There's something so touching about the Princess telling her uncle, the Sacrifice, to be careful with "the most important job" in his life.

[ThebYt3M3]

Man this is a good game, I just ordered it because it has a great story :) Cant wait to get my own copy.... Thanks for showing it to me Hc!

[Redsoxboy77]

i feel like your so overpowered that people cant truly tell the games difficulty.... I beat the game with the true ending with lower levels than youre at right now. Of course the final boss, and Another particular boss that shall not be Mentioned ( you know who im talking about.) gave me a very difficult time. THIS GAME ISNT AS ASY AS HCBAILLY MAKES IT LOOK. ik easy games can be a putoff to some people.

[LadyAryun]

I have to say, it's been a long time since a game has made me all weepy. I must say, this one has done a great job in tugging heart-strings.

[JmdMagic]

If you ask me, this game should be renamed "Radiant But Thou Must".

[TBOctavann]

I feel very satisfied with how this game is wrapping up

[Ninjathehedgehog800]

HCBaily are you talking about se-eeer... wait strawberry?... ooookaaaay, awkward

[Keyeb]

435 Views thats a new one.........

[Skavoc]

So wait... Stocke was Eruca's brother, but he didn't remember?

[JeffroTheMan1]

@Skavoc King Victor originally killed Ernst for defying him. Heiss used the Black Chronicle to take him away from Granorg at birth or something, and renamed him Stocke. 19 years later, you get the beginning of this game.

[HardToFindGoodNames]

@JeffroTheMan1 He didn't take him away at birth, he just kidnapped him after he was ressurected and then erased his memories.

[shindudegoodhaha]

I just watched your new years blog video...

and for some odd reason I always pictured you to have brown hair...

[mites7]

I can't believe how well this game conveys emotion, even with the 2d graphics. The soundtrack gets me everytime. When Stocke's ancestor told his niece he would make a future for her I got a little choked up.

[ShadowWolfRising]

i can imagine this conversation when Eruca and Stocke are talking about the ritual right after the Heiss battle.

Raynie: 'whispers to Marco' what the fuck is going on?

Marco: 'whispers back' i don't know, just go with it.

[philmarc35]

HC nice street car named desire reference

[StillAtMyMoms]

Damn, how long is this game?

[TheXehanorto]

So Stocke made a time paradox...isn't their some form of consequence for it.

[visoid]

@TheXehanorto yeah,the lord of timekicks you in the ballsfora time paradox.

[Shadohime]

"Stocke, go do something you hate! It builds character!"

Did NOT see that line coming! You have made my week, HCBailly. I love Calvin and Hobbes, and I love that strip in particular.

"Okay, the voice was a little funny, but that's still one darn sarcastic Sacrifice we're raising."

[Jgor215]

Stellaaaa a Tales of Legendia reference huh?

[Zarggg]

@Jgor215 It's originally from A Streetcar Named Desire. The Simpsons also referenced it.

[Demongunner7]

HC Bailey, you keep saying this game is hard, but with you are able to beat bosses in 5 or so turns while at least in games like DQ and FF it takes much longer than that.

Also the fact there are no real enemies that focus in magic or magic defense, doesn't that show that the game can be easily beaten using only magic and assaults to move them around?

Also shouldn't the enemies be able to do the same to you? Move you to the back row so you deal less damage or move you to trigger a trap?

[TehFlyingJam]

@Demongunner7 If you know what you're doing then it's easy, but the first time through for me I got my ass kicked quite a few times. I didn't even know traps existed.

[ZealSeraph]

@Demongunner7 This game is MUCH harder than he makes it out to be. I was almost in tears with Viola, not to mention the Thaumachine boss back when Stocke and the others fought against Alistel with beastkind. That one's a beast. Hell, I even got my ass handed to me by that first big bear.

The reason he keeps destroying everything is that he's way too overpowered for anything to hurt him, and has the best equipment. I was over 10 levels lower than him when I beat the game.

[ZealSeraph]

Now granted it's not as hard as DQ, but I'd put it side by side with some of the Final Fantasies at least.

[CastlePokemetroid]

@ZealSeraph I've found that some of the final fantasies, especially the GBA ones, where really easy.

[JanusHoW]

Well, there goes my theory about Lipti and Teo actually being the conut scientist's two kids.

[Mastamynd02]

@JanusHoW actually its kinda funny, but I think there is some relation to those two kids and Lipti and Teo. The two kids were working with their father to clear the land of the desertification, and the two sages are helping their father (creator) to clear the land of the desertification. I like to think of the two kids as Reincarnations of Lipti and Teo honestly

[ZergofImportance]

He doesn't need them to tell him where Heiss went. Just wait around to hear she died and find out when.

[CastlePokemetroid]

@ZergofImportance But if Eruca died, so would Stocke. The reason why he is alive is because he has half of her soul.

Remember that Stocke is technically a zombie. He's just a living corpse. The real Ernst is dead, and Stocke is currently using Ernst's body to mature his soul to increase the power of flux within himself so that the day he gives his soul back to Eruca, she'll have the power to perform the ritual.

[Waterwish545]

I wanted to make a Terranigma joke about Stocke's soul but I see that its here in the comments. There's also a potential bad ending involving the future refusing to change but I'm very satisfied with how they are handling the rest of the game :)

[CastlePokemetroid]

@Waterwish545 HC didn't lie to us. There's really no more bad endings left.

Honest, it's true.

[ExorArgus]

YEAH, Calvin and Hobbes reference

[antiboyscout]

Yes Stock, you are an irreplaceable sacrifice... until we need to perform the ritual again with a new sacrifice, but you are irreplaceable, Stock.

[infernoriser123]

the sign that you are truly enlightened is to know you will never reach enlightenment.

[SevenSwordedRio]

HCBailly, do you have your own website?

[HardToFindGoodNames]

@SevenSwordedRio He has a forum, yes. The link to it is in his channel.

[TheFinAlchemist]

"sometimes you gotta have vanilla ice cream, sometimes you gotta have chocolate ice cream."

Wise words of a true ladies' man.

[SionArtwork]

Interesting how the final chapter is named " Ernst", which is a german first name but also means " serious" translated into english

[chapacoka]

I'm still wondering what's wrong with Marie's sprite. She's always like broken/fragmented or something. Or is it some kind of movement animation or something?

[whattheblox]

Heiss is going to lead us on a merry jaunt across time, isn't he?

[SongoftheLute]

You'd need so much motivation to have the guts to give up your life. I guess if you lay down your life you have to have a really good reason in order to go through with it.

[CastlePokemetroid]

@SongoftheLute That's the reason why Heiss was throwing a hissy fit about it. He don't wants sta be's a sacrifice.

[sbcmarine81]

This has been a great LP, however I haven't been lucky in finding this game, I've been to Game Stop, Best Buy and Wal-Marts so far nothing. Still this is an interesting game.

[FreakinWriter]

@sbcmarine81 I had to resort to buying it off Amazon. =\

[sbcmarine81]

@FreakinWriter

I might have to end up doing that, however I did find it for sale online at Game Stop's online store for $30.00.

[FreakinWriter]

@sbcmarine81 That's the price I paid for mine on Amazon, except I got free shipping because it was over 25 dollars.

[Loffter]

The part with the little girl and her uncle made me cry the first time I saw it when I played it, and this time too =(

[AuraComedy]

I thought chronicle wielders could only warp to points in history that they experienced? Heiss was never there when we saw Eruca. Why was he able to travel to the past in that point in time?

[314Marvin]

@AuraComedy You never know, maybe Heiss was at granorg or alistel and simply traveled to Eruca, before stocke caught up with him.

[CastlePokemetroid]

@AuraComedy You don't know how far back he went. He could of went to a node, then walked the rest of the way.

[AirPirateCid]

Was that "Stella!" a reference to Tales of Legendia? I may be wrong, but it reminded me of that game.

[deathmaster168]

amazing how a small ds game can manage to have a plot that writes circles around multi-million dollar final fantasy games.

[Klefth]

4:07 Uh, Tales of Legendia? :o

[3ajku]

he never asked for this.

[ShadowOfTheDusk]

I gotta say... this game seems obscenely easy. I like my battles to take at least minutes each... not seconds...

[HardToFindGoodNames]

@ShadowOfTheDusk It really, really isn't. HC just knows exactly how to tackle every encounter, is incredibly overleveled, has all the ridiculous abilities, and has the best gear available. First time through, I didn't know about the Master and his abilities, so I didn't have Burst Light, or Will o Wisp, or the Star traps, and the encounters were all a lot tougher.

[ShadowOfTheDusk]

@HardToFindGoodNames If thats the case then awesome. Because I wanted to play this game, but it seemed too easy so I wasnt going to bother. But I might just try it out now. Of course I wont follow this LP when I play because then it WOULD be too easy haha. Thanks :D

[CastlePokemetroid]

@ShadowOfTheDusk If you want at least some amount of challenge, don't get the abilities you get from the master or from side quests. Those abilities are just obscene.

Not only that, but HC knows how to efficiently use them to make them even more obscene.

[JanusHoW]

@ShadowOfTheDusk HCBailly just knows how to win easily, plus he's quite a high level. The game probably doesn't expect you to be at his level.

[ShadowOfTheDusk]

@JanusHoW Yeah, he does master every game.

[dpbj602]

@ShadowOfTheDusk HCBailly usually makes game look a lot easier than they actually are, essentially min/maxing in a way.

[Jimbobob5536]

I can't wait to see how they resolve the split timelines.

[kingk1132]

WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO KIEL?!?!???!?!

[ValisHD]

i was laughing so hard when you made the Sorry Quotes Speech. I havnt laugh this hard in your LP's in ages Thanks.

[Thimon88]

Stocke is a carri.. I mean enlightened soul!

[RagingRabite]

Strange, I can't hear any audio from 6:52 - 6:58 I wonder why...

[rsguardian81]

I think they should just let the world end. People arent worth it cause deep down everyone is evil.

[jordanliow]

@rsguardian81 I disagree. What do ya say to that?

[Begaria]

"You can't go through your life sitting on your ass playing video games and expect becoming an enlightened soul."

HCBailly is an enlightened soul.

[Digiairship]

Wow, what an emotional episode! I'm kinda confused though. Can someone explain some things for me? Like, why does Stocke's soul belong to Eruca? Also, wasn't Ernst killed by Victor? It was probably explained some time ago, but I didn't quite follow... Finally, what determines what chronicle a user gets? I mean, why did Heiss get the Black Chronicle, whilst Stocke got the white?

[HardToFindGoodNames]

@Digiairship Sacrifices are killed, then brought back to life with the spirit of the caster. Essentially, Stocke is a zombie kept alive by Eruca's spirit.

[Digiairship]

@HardToFindGoodNames Sorry, didn't see your reply at first. That explains it. I just assumed Heiss went back in time and Saved Stocke before he was sacrificed. But why are sacrifices killed before the ritual? Wouldn't it be just as well to kill them during the ritual?

[HardToFindGoodNames]

@Digiairship The Sacrifice has to share soul with the caster, and they can't do that when they're alive.

[JeffroTheMan1]

@Digiairship Victor killed Ernst, Heiss used the Black Chronicle to save him and rechristen him as 'Stocke.' Victor was the previous holder of the Black Chronicle, (see ep.79 or 80, Eruca says so) so we can assume that Heiss killed Victor so that he wouldn't become a sacrifice and took the Black Chronicle. I don't know how he got it, but Heiss gave Stocke the White Chronicle at the beginning of the game.

Hope that answers your questions.

[Digiairship]

@JeffroTheMan1 Thanks, that explains some, but I still don't get why Ernst's/Stocke's soul belongs to Eruca :)

[CastlePokemetroid]

@Digiairship Remember that Stocke is technically a zombie. He's just a living corpse. The real Ernst is dead, and Stocke is currently using Ernst's body to mature his half of Eruca's soul to increase the power of flux within himself so that the day he gives his soul back to Eruca, she'll have the power to perform the ritual.

[N0rm26]

Heiss still has a good point. Why isn't anyone trying to stop the desertification altogether instead of sacrificing innocent people just to slow it down. Surely there must be more to this H C Bailey, or the future Lippti and Teo saw would come true even if Heiss was defeated and the ritual performed.

[fff9699]

Ah man...I can't believe it's almost over :s

[JeffroTheMan1]

What if the end of the game is just a bunch of petty Heiss gets there, Stocke goes in time just a minute before Heiss arrives, saves the world, Heiss arrives a minute before Stocke arrives, destroys, Stocke arrives a minute, rinse, repeat, rinse, repeat, rinse, repeat...

Well, the world's on the brink of destruction anyway, so we all know what that means.

[Fantasizek]

HCBailly, has this game possibly influenced your list of 'best final boss themes'? It sure did for me at least, not the best, but a step in the right direction.

[Nevahwins]

.... Months to beat the game? I beat it in a week...

[ZeryusAgain]

xD Not sure if the "STELLAAAA" was a reference to Gundam or if Stella's just THAT common a name for a character.

[BatDanNight]

@ZeryusAgain It's a reference to the play/movie "A Streetcar Named Desire". Way older than Gundam.

[Mustafa3171995]

this game does the whole sacrifices thing so much better than FFX.here they actually say that one life for the entire world is a fair price and it is not a duty for them to sacrifices themselves but they do it willingly to protect the future of their beloved ones unlike FFX.There they just whine about it the whole game:"No,Yuna cant die!She deserves to live."and so on.

[JeffroTheMan1]

@Mustafa3171995 I don't know, I can understand keeping a ritual or Final Summoning going as a temporary way to stave off Sin or desertification or what-have-you, but in the long run, wouldn't it be preferable to at least TRY to find a way to stop sacrificing people? I personally prefer the way that FFX brings the temporary solutions to a halt and makes permanently saving the world (from Sin, anyway) its priority.

[HCBailly]

@JeffroTheMan1 It's also quite ludicrous for me to believe that a problem has been going on for hundreds or thousands of years, only to be solved in five minutes and in such a trivial manner like, "Sing a song and hit its weak point with your sword enough times."

[JeffroTheMan1]

@HCBailly Fair enough, that aspect was pretty silly (understatement of the century, I know)- I was only defending FFX's approach to 'sacrificing chosen people to temporarily save the world' as compared to Radiant Historia's. 

[CastlePokemetroid]

@JeffroTheMan1 What I don't understand is if it was THAT easy just to destroy sin outright like that, why wasn't that done hundreds of years prior?

Where the previous guardians too weak, or something?

RH does it right and shows that there's no permanent solution to desertification. They can delay for a number years, but shows that it can't be stopped.

If it was that easy to stop it, it would of been stopped far sooner than that.

[JeffroTheMan1]

@CastlePokemetroid I already answered HC pointing this out- the way they handle going about destroying Sin is absurd- all I'm defending is FFX's attitude towards saving the world temporarily at the cost of a life, or finding a way around sacrificing people. Also, what in RH has said there's no way to permanently stop the desertification? The game hasn't suggested any way to do so, but that doesn't mean it's not there in the folklore of the game, so to speak. Sequel, perhaps?

[HCBailly]

@JeffroTheMan1 Actually, they did suggest a way with the conuts sidequest, though it's never followed up on. Still, it would be an interesting idea for a sequel.

[JeffroTheMan1]

@HCBailly Oh yeah, I'd completely forgotten about that. Thanks!

[ShadowBlade4d4]

@CastlePokemetroid I love how you completely ignore the fact that the powers that be kept the populace ignorant to the true nature of Sin and made it so that by the end of their journey Summoners didn't have time to consider alternate options. Yuna, Tidus and the rest were the first in a thousand so years to actually figure out that there was in fact an alternative.

[semicorrect]

Thank you for for fulfilling the FDA's required daily value of A Streetcar Named Desire references.

[ssbmfreak36]

Mr. Bailly, why do you cliffhang us?!?! Is it for your sick enjoyment?! Jkjk. Moving along though, great video. Can't wait for the ending.  Let's just hope you weren't kidding about their being no more bad endings.

[CastlePokemetroid]

@ssbmfreak36 Don't worry, HC didn't lie to us. There's really no more bad endings, honest.

[RoadlessEnt]

At first I thought Heiss might have been a future version of stock. One that failed. But for him to be stocks uncle isnt too far off. What really surprised me is he held the black chronicle and was the antagonist the whole time. I like that.

[CastlePokemetroid]

@RoadlessEnt I still wonder what happened to Victor's corpse. I can't remember if it shows up again.

[DevineEmperorMeiji]

Argh! You, sir, Make the most evil of evil cliffhangers in the world!

[skyknightdragon]

Oh. Some of the dialogue for Marco/Raynie is different if you miss their sidequest. "I'll trust in you and fight! Wait...when did I decide that?" Marco says something like that.

[jordanliow]

@skyknightdragon He says that next chapter.

[skyknightdragon]

@jordanliow Does he? I've been time traveling too much, apparently.

[caterpieofdoom]

You know that the song is badass if HCBailly used its name as a title for a part of his LP.

[EvileLlamaThingeh]

And... banging Raynie until the world ended...

I somehow doubt she minded that too much.

[NeoMegaMan]

4:00 Giggity! xD Oh man, HC Bailly, you always crack me up xD

[RUdigitized]

Bailey, go do something you hate. Being unhappy builds character.

[TheSprello]

wow! AWESOME VIDEO HCBailly!

[smalltownhik]

I like how they made Aht's Eyes flash during the scene after you fight Heiss. Makes it look like she's crying

[politimat]

Fantastic playthrough as always HCBailly!

[faltzar2]

i love this game