Majuular - RPG And Old Odd/Forgotten Game Reviewer

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The Kings Field video is pretty good. It's eye opening that FromSoft pretty much just made the same game from the start, they just iterated on it.
 
Chin of Campbell said:
A bit hesitant to watch this one on account of Lunacid. I don't need to hear the big guy mention anything about trannies.
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There's no mention of faggotry or trannies in the section about Lunacid. Its funny I didn't realize there was any of that but when I saw the cutesy female characters I immediately had a feeling that the dev stuck some bullshit into it. Just got an immediate itch. Devs cannot contain themselves.

Edit: Did not realize Tears of the Moon was from the same dev. There is no mention of trannies in Tears of the Moon's section either.
 
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Agarathium1066 said:
There's no mention of faggotry or trannies in the section about Lunacid. Its funny I didn't realize there was any of that but when I saw the cutesy female characters I immediately had a feeling that the dev stuck some bullshit into it. Just got an immediate itch. Devs cannot contain themselves.
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I was kinda surprised that he called the gay anime npcs out, even if he pulled his punches. As for the dev, he mentioned him what, twice, and never brought up anything beyond his online handle.
 
Out of all the games mentioned I only played Labyrinth of the Demon King and it is absolutely shit that's built more for YouTuber essayists than actual gamers:
* Graphics so bad you don't know what you look at. And not even in the amplifying horror kind of way.
* Janky ass combat where it takes half a minute to recover from every swing and you get stopped dead by the slightest bit of rubble.
* Boring environments that look the same.
* Not scary since you revive for no cost.
* Very predictable plot if you know anything about eastern culture, since starting a game with being in a dark cave and climbing a rope upwards is the literary equivalent of entering a gate emblazoned with "Abandon hope ye who enter".

This is my big issue with the video in general. King's Field is dead because it was bad games that at most kept an atmosphere by their limitations. People don't make that genre out of nostalgia, but to appeal to zoomers who never played those games and want to relive someone else's childhood.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Out of all the games mentioned I only played Labyrinth of the Demon King and it is absolutely shit that's built more for YouTuber essayists than actual gamers:
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Or, maybe someone played King's Quest as a kid and wanted to make a game like that when they were older. There is no such thing as "games for youtubers" unless it's something that only exists to be played by streamers(ie all these shitty online party games with integrated twitch support, nobody plays these but streamers).
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Out of all the games mentioned I only played Labyrinth of the Demon King and it is absolutely shit that's built more for YouTuber essayists than actual gamers:
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I haven't gotten far in it but my biggest issue so far is the combat. I really wish it just played like King's Field, instead of trying to have some sort of parry/timing based system. For me that ruins the game.

30+GameOvers said:
The Kings Field video is pretty good. It's eye opening that FromSoft pretty much just made the same game from the start, they just iterated on it.
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I've honestly never agreed with this take. King's Field plays nothing like Dark Souls.

@topic

Thanks, Majuular, for showing me some free Steam KF-likes I need to try, and reminding me there's a community around Sword of Moonlight.
 
skykiii said:
I've honestly never agreed with this take. King's Field plays nothing like Dark Souls.
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I never said they did, combat is one major part that was improved by FromSoft over the years. Still, the general gameplay loop, even the setting of the games, is similar. I guess King's Field crawled so that souls like as a genre could exist.
 
30+GameOvers said:
Or, maybe someone played King's Quest as a kid and wanted to make a game like that when they were older. There is no such thing as "games for youtubers" unless it's something that only exists to be played by streamers(ie all these shitty online party games with integrated twitch support, nobody plays these but streamers).
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King's Field, not Quest, which illustrates how forgettable that series was. Especially as it can be summarized as Ultima Underworld at 10% speed. So even if a dev actually played it, he would try to improve on the formula rather than stick to slow as fuck gameplay.

And Games for YouTubers is 100% a thing. They are mainly based on reaction/lore and autistic waste of time, it's not that normal people can't play them but they are handmade to appeal to YouTubers over regular players.
 
Asian tech support said:
I was kinda surprised that he called the gay anime npcs out, even if he pulled his punches. As for the dev, he mentioned him what, twice, and never brought up anything beyond his online handle.
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Seems like any topic that might be "hot button" he approaches like a bomb disposal technician: carefully, and only if he's got to. About halfway through the Worlds of Ultima video, he touched on Savage Empire and how its portrayal of the tribes (and the name of the game in general) was more respectful than the modern viewer might be lead to believe.
I'm willing to believe that, even if Maj isn't based, he's at least coming at the subject of his videos in genuine good faith. These things catch his interest and he wants to like them, and barring that he wants to find something positive about the experience.
 
I can't get it right now but you can see Majuular left a comment on Running Shine's Ocarina of Time review saying that that review became the reason he started making videos. It's actually how I found out about him. I don't know if anybody inspired enough by Running Shine to make a youtube career out of it would care all that much about any politics.
 
CrazyKahoots said:
I can't get it right now but you can see Majuular left a comment on Running Shine's Ocarina of Time review saying that that review became the reason he started making videos. It's actually how I found out about him. I don't know if anybody inspired enough by Running Shine to make a youtube career out of it would care all that much about any politics.
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The two have a very different way of reviewing games, so I am surprised. They both release very high quality of reviews, so that checks out.
Speaking of RS, last review he made was over 2 years ago. Fuck my life, why do all the best reviewers never upload content regularly?
 
The Un-Clit said:
This should be a great watch. I loved Serpent Isle and the call-backs to Ultima III which was my first CRPG and first true video game love.
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At some point I'm going to have to take the plunge and try some of the older titles. I've played VII though I didn't finish it and from what he said in the video, Serpent Isle is a SLOG in the second half.
 
Asian tech support said:
At some point I'm going to have to take the plunge and try some of the older titles. I've played VII though I didn't finish it and from what he said in the video, Serpent Isle is a SLOG in the second half.
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The first 3 were really quite primitive but you HAVE to play Ultima IV, it was the game that changed CRPGs forever, from "build up your character/party until strong enough to kill the evil Foozle" to story-driven multiple goal adventures with plenty of character power building and growth. in IV your goal was to become the Avatar of Virtue, the character you play as for the rest of the series. You have to uncover how to, and then become the embodiment of 8 virtues (compassion by giving money to beggars and letting wounded enemies flee instead of chasing down to kill them, Honor by never lying when talking to NPCs, Valor by killing evil monsters, etc.) and there are a bunch of optional things like finding the locations of rare herbs needed to mix components for the strongest spells, other things I am forgetting atm) and more before you take on the ultimate dungeon, the Great Stygian Abyss to find the Codex of Wisdom.

The moral conundrums the game throws at you are something new and unexpected, and have actual consequences. If you use the Skull of Mondain (the Foozle from Ultima 1) anywhere but to destroy it, you will instantly kill everyone on the screen be they monsters or town citizens, but instantly lose all Avatarhood portions you may have gained up to that point and essentially have to start over from such an evil act. In the not-quite final dungeon, you encounter a room full of feral children trying to kill you. The only way doors unlock in dungeons is to kill all the monsters inside the room. But killing children is an evil act, and you won't be able to win the game if you do this as you will lose your avatarhood. What do you do? Shit like that. It's awesome.

Hell, Majuular's video on U4 explains most of this and more already. Just watch that one if you havent yet. But play Ultima 4. You won't regret it.
 
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