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Oh, the Antlion's Den..I remember grinding there for quite a while in the DS version for a particular item from those flans just to keep a particular sidequest going..I'm half convinced a sadist designed that game.

And also, I didn't know it was just off-screen and back to get the 3rd level sword..I remember running around for a while swordless and using everything else I had to kill enemies..kind of fun, but yeah, you're not going to make much overall progress in any Zelda game I know of without a blade of...

I take it that even though everything is hidden behind question marks for this boss that he does have a fixed HP/MP/level and he doesn't scale with your levels or anything like that similar to a ?? boss from WoW..?

I happened to see a gentleman playing FF Tactics on Chicago mass transit today on an iPhone..I never would have recognized it without this LP.

This is another "Why didn't I play this when it came out?!" game for me.

Yes, I've been waiting for this for a long while..for those who possibly haven't been following HC for all that long, he has been talking about this for years..and it's like, wow, it's finally here..and should be awesome, especially for someone like me who knows very little about this game.

@MegaKidicarus *brohoof*

Smurf = Socialist Men Under Red Father

Somehow, the few little webpages that came out in the 90s about this are still around..and look like they haven't changed since the 90s.

Foomy was a kitsune all along? I...totally didn't expect that. But it is the sort of thing a kitsune would do. Seriously, I was expecting something that looked like the Michelin Man..made of bubbles. But perhaps finishing the journey will allow Foomy to gain his ninth tail and reach the peak ...

Wow, they expect you to be familiar with the C major scale to solve that puzzle..I know that's common knowledge to folks with musical backgrounds, but I had no idea about it until I started studying music..then facepalmed after that scene in "The Sound of Music."

I'd make a joke about Fluttershy...

Yojimbo came out in 1961, to be excessively nitpicky. It's interesting that Yojimbo had a lot of influences from Westerns in its characterization and cinematography..and then Sergio Leone remade it into A Fistful of Dollars a few years later. (Pretty much the same thing happened with The Seven...

That talkthrough was..amazing..seems like it just started yesterday. It definitely makes me want to play games in this genre/series..I tried Ogre Battle once but these guys have a lot more character/personality..both the heroes and the villains.

Gilliam taking no damage from a critical is still...

In Tales of Phantasia, there's a lot going on concerning elven/human relations and such..more than most games I know.

Yes, Locke would be proud..she was just treasure hunting, that's all.

The princess likely has NPC immunity to all monsters and puzzles..it's how every time you save any NPCs in a deep dungeon, they get back out and back to their castle or town with little to no issues while you might have to slog your way all the way back to the surface..especially if there's a plo...

That storm was nasty..very high winds, nearly horizontal torrential rain..I nearly got caught in it but managed to get on the L train just in time.

Yeah, that boss reminded me of Onyxia in WoW and how melee DPS can't hit her at all in her second phase when she's flying around and periodically at...

Congratulations, HCBailly, on 2,000 awesome videos..and I'd better get back to playing Radiant Historia if I want to beat it by the time the LP begins..I bought it solely on HC's recommendation and he is exactly right about it. That LP is going to be even more awesome because it's going to be ab...

@TheUrgleBurgle Unfortunately for Maxim and Selan, these ponies don't believe that friendship is magic.

Hmm..someone got left out of that whole "It is your destiny.." thing..

This episode reminded me of Zozo..and the Tower of Zot. You can trust me! It's not 9:00 or 12:00!

It's been a long time since I've seen Blade Runner (in one of its many versions) but it definitely left an impression..well ahead of its time.

The Princess Bride, though..timeless.

It wouldn't be a Seiken Densetsu game without the store keepers all looking alike and doing that bizarre dance.

It is the 2010s and there is time for..HCBailly!

That almost seems like a lampshade hanging at the end of the video..maybe Maxim is a bit genre-savvy.

02:40 Die, mosquito! You don't belong in this world!

..you guys know the rest.

This game and the first Pokemon game both came out in 1996, interestingly enough.

I don't know if it's quite Illusion of Gaia territory just yet..unless that Catfish is actually an Eldritch abomination returning to R'lyeh to inform Cthulhu of Maxim's awakening..then..yeah, we're back in Illusion of Gaia.

I don't remember much about playing this game, but definitely the last area/boss..not really a nostalgic favorite of mine, but still fun to see again, HCBailly style.

Good ol' integer overflow glitches..also used to great effect in a tool-assisted speedrun of Chrono Trigger that beats the game i...

@Zarggg That it was..but after wandering around there in the DS version for what seemed like hours, cursing Red Dragons and all of the other nasty encounters vehemently..it was starting to wear on me.

This boss really reminded me of a WoW raid boss..the high HP (comparatively), phases at different HP% levels, more damage as the fight goes on, needing to coordinate your response(s) very quickly to actions the boss takes, the fight taking a long time (also comparatively)..it's not a super compli...

Ah, so that's what triple Sentinel is called..reminds me of what you have to do in some fights in FF IV DS..finally took care of that one..

Somehow, I have the mental image of these units literally combing the desert like in Spaceballs looking for these items..

While it can be very windy here in Chicago due to its proximity to Lake Michigan (especially downtown as the tall buildings create a wind tunnel effect), the nickname could also have come from Cincinnati papers in the 1870s as the two cities were very bitter rivals at the time, implying that Chic...

I came into this LP expecting to dislike this game..but I like it a lot more than I thought I would..I like the characters and most of their dialog and the battle mechanics look quite interesting..but if this kind of style of plot/pacing/framework is what RPGs are going to be going towards even ...

HC frickin' NAILED the timing on the end theme from FF4..that music is emotional enough, but to see it match the visuals like that..stunning.

I guess I'll save my overall impressions for the next video..though I wonder if Square-Enix borrowed some writers from Gainax for that finale..

Lightning was the only one who seemed to recognize "Hey, we're in an RPG..the seemingly final boss is NEVER the real final boss."

Mr. Owl, how many plot twists does it take to get to the center of Final Fantasy XIII?

Orphan kind of looked like a melding together of a lot of other FF final bosse...

The example that first comes to mind is from the Iron Maiden song "Number of the Beast", which has the following quote from the book of Revelations:

"Woe to you, Oh Earth and Sea, for the Devil sends the

beast with wrath, because he knows the time is short...

Let him who hath understanding recko...

Holy crap, that Adamantoise must have a lot of HP..several million, looks like, though at the end HC's DPS was through the roof and was utterly destroying even that large of a health bar.