The History of RPGs Ep. 5 | Early Japanese Action RPGs (1984-1989)
"This will be a short project," I said. "It'll be done in about two weeks," I said. "it will only be about 20 minutes," I said. Welcome to what ended up being my most difficult project. Aside from how tough it was, it was filled with technical issues and mishaps, some of which couldn't even be fixed in the final product. On a good note, I will be purchasing a new microphone before the next part.
A special thanks to anyone who I borrowed footage from. Especially special thanks to the defunct page belonging to Lord Karnov who left behind a plethora of excellent footage.
After a year of quite a few RPGs, I decided to take a look back at the ones I played (and even wants I want to play and haven't gotten a chance to) and give a kind of evaluation. Was it a bad year? A good year?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jco-3lzoPw
All of the attacks of the Kshatriya from Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn. The Kshatriya is one of my favorite Mobile Suits. Its unfortunate that its stay is so temporary when it's animations are so pretty.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elvJNBGJO10
A preview video for the upcoming Episode 17 of The History of RPGs on Final Fantasy IV for the Super Famicom/SNES.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr3oh3hdD6s
All of the attacks of Gurren Lagann from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. This one features the map attack Giga Drill Maximum, Simon in his late-game clothing, and the second Gurren Lagann song you receive for the final attack.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyHmbbz_HAo
Gadright, the leader of the Geminis from the planet Gemini has done nothing but cause you massive trouble the entire game. His sphere has the power to change one's feelings to the opposite/awaken sleeping feelings (I keep hearing both) within people. He has turned earthnoids and spacenoids who wanted to make peace fight each other, helped escalate war by creating feelings of hatred in human being's hearts, made Roger feel more depressed while he believed himself to be a hobo, caused Angel to become Big Venus, made hot blooded people such as the D-Team more complacent which caused them to lose Beast Mode for awhile, attempted to make Shinn hate Orb again (and I believe made him lose his Seed Mode for awhile), tried to make Amuro hate Char while it was still unclear what Char's motices were, and more all by the power of his sphere. On top of that, he's also responsible for attempting to drop Axis on earth. All in all, this man is a monster.
And did I mention because he is associated with Ba'al that he can summon Invaders? Because that's what he does. Fortunately, the Dai-Gurren Dan shows up with Chou Ginga Dai-Gurren. Simon attempts to combine with it in order to form Chou Ginga Gurren Lagann, but Gadright and those Invaders are not about to let it happen, not to mention the transformation takes time like it did in the TV series.
Ryoma, however, has a brilliant idea: he's going to blast Chou Ginga Dai-Gurren with a Getter Beam that's potent with Getter Rays. The best part? The entire idea works and Simon is able to form Chou Ginga Gurren Lagann!
Upon depleting Gadright's HP, he begins to use his sphere against Z-BLUE. Everyone knows the sheer power of that sphere and wonder if they could only get it away from him. Advent sacrifices himself against Gadright, in hope that it would throw him off balance so that Hibiki can make his move.
Hibiki is surprised and angered by the entire thing as Advent had become a good friend. His Genion in GAI form is actually a copy of Gadright's mecha which is why Gadright refers to him as "copy boy". It doesn't help that Genion GAI doesn't have enough power on its own to sustain itself for very long. However, with Gadright thrown off balance, Hibiki makes his move and steals the sphere away from Gadright.
Gadright: ORE NO SPHERE!
Hibiki: GAAADRIIIIIIGHTO!
Using the sphere to empower Genion GAI, he proceeds to smash Gadright into itty bitty pieces.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRKLk-lcnYQ
All of the attacks of the Lancelot Albion from Code Geass; Lelouch of the Rebellion R2. I really wish they would allow us to control this wonderful mecha early in a SRW one day.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdUFB8KgLv0
All of the attacks of the Tallgeeese III from Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz. As bad as so many of the other EW units look, Tallgeese actually looks pretty good. His post-movement Heat Rod is a solid attack.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ViG1uzGfuc
All of the attacks of Gamlin's custom VF-22S Sturmvogel II from Macross 7: Dynamite 7. Gamlin is my favorite Macross character, so it is always good to have him back and it's great to see the Dynamite Explosion combo attack back (which I did include in the video of course). I just wonder why they removed his full fire attack. That would have made a great ALL attack.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_-BuKCinQk