Bizkit047Sorry for the late review. Covid this year has destroyed my free time at work and such to get this out when I wanted to. Either way, hope you enjoy the review. There's more I wish I could say and give better examples, but didn't want to put spoilers in to do that. If I have time, I can do a chapter review video where I fully spoil review things with my full thoughts on specific parts of the game.
As for spoilers being avoided, I only really showed in the review what was either in the trailers, demo, and a few outside cutscenes & areas, as well as some early chapter content and a small handful of earlyish bosses. No major plot is revealed in this.
Big thanks to SquareEnix for the free copy they provided me before the games release!
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Final Fantasy 7 Remake - In-Depth Review (No Major Spoilers)Bizkit0472020-08-01 | Sorry for the late review. Covid this year has destroyed my free time at work and such to get this out when I wanted to. Either way, hope you enjoy the review. There's more I wish I could say and give better examples, but didn't want to put spoilers in to do that. If I have time, I can do a chapter review video where I fully spoil review things with my full thoughts on specific parts of the game.
As for spoilers being avoided, I only really showed in the review what was either in the trailers, demo, and a few outside cutscenes & areas, as well as some early chapter content and a small handful of earlyish bosses. No major plot is revealed in this.
Big thanks to SquareEnix for the free copy they provided me before the games release!
Use the link below if you wish to buy a Gaming Chair from Opseat. They will give you a discount using my link and I get a percentage of it: opseat.com/ref/Bizkit047Ranking Every Final Fantasy Game Ive PlayedBizkit0472024-02-13 | After having recently finished FFXII for the first time, I've completed all the mainline FFs aside from the two MMO ones (XI & XIV), so I wanted to have fun making a tier list. It was supposed to be mainline only, but I couldn't resist ranking some side games. Before anyone embarrasses themselves in the comments, disclaimer that this is my opinion, so take it as fact at your own peril.
Also, this was recording after a normal stream, which is why the layout and such is like this.
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/bizkit047 Twitter: twitter.com/bizkit047Final Fantasy XVI - Review (Spoiler Free)Bizkit0472024-01-27 | Spoiler free review of FFXVI. Clips from the game in the review are almost entirely from the demo, leaving out the ending of the demo and some of the twists. Any scenes shown after the demo are just scenery for the graphics sequence, some misc gameplay examples, a couple tiny post demo scenes for story discussion, and training mode. Although, if your spoiler definition is anything in the game being shown then this isn't the review for you. Fortunately, that's almost always not the case.
I intend to try to make a full spoiler review of stories & fights if I have time enough before FF7 Rebirth is out, so I can deep dive better. But this should cover my overall thoughts of the game. I scripted and voiced this before the first DLC came out. After playing the DLC, it did improve a couple things exclusive to the DLC area, but this review still ages fine at the moment until possibly the final DLC comes out, since main game is pretty much unchanged by DLC1.
0:00 Intro 0:46 Intro: My History with Final Fantasy 3:35 Intro: Development 5:10 Graphics 7:55 Performance 11:07 Story 12:14 Story - Overview 13:11 Story - Characters 16:20 Story - Comprehension 18:02 Story - How the Story Stacks 19:22 Story - Pacing 20:16 Story - Game of Thrones the Game? 21:21 Story - Adult Themes 22:09 Story - Kingdom Hearts??? 22:55 Story - Villains 23:26 Story - Summary 23:44 Gameplay - Exploration 29:06 Gameplay - Combat 44:54 Gameplay - Misc - Object Interaction 45:49 Gameplay - Misc - World Map 46:10 Gameplay - Misc - Equipment/Upgrades 47:38 Gameplay - Misc - Sidequests 48:43 Music 51:35 Sounds 52:32 Music & Sound - Summary 52:55 Conclusion
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/bizkit047 Twitter: twitter.com/bizkit047Elden Ring - Fighting Malenia for the First TimeBizkit0472023-12-29 | Since people seemed to like my Yozora learning process video, I figured I could upload the same thing for arguably Soulsborne's hardest optional boss, now that I've finished all Soulsborne games. Enjoy (also still working on finishing up FFXVI review).
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/bizkit047 Twitter: twitter.com/bizkit047Kingdom Hearts Series - Responding to 99 Hot TakesBizkit0472023-10-17 | This ended up being surprisingly fun to do, and since reaction content is simple to do, why not. Twitter thread was a little over a month old, but wanted to space it out between my previous video. Here, I review this guy's 99 hot takes on the KH series.
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/bizkit047 Twitter: twitter.com/bizkit047Watching my old KH3 Reviews/Analysis vidsBizkit0472023-09-10 | Vod of going over my old KH3 review/analysis vids on stream. Was interesting to review if my concerns were avoided or justified, or what fixes were done after my review vids.
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/bizkit047 Twitter: twitter.com/bizkit047KH2FM - Is Lingering Will as Good as we Remember?Bizkit0472023-02-26 | I've been wanting to do this video for at least over a year now, if not more. Here we revisit one of the hardest superbosses of the early KH days. How does this fight hold up to today's superbosses? I go in depth on what I feel about the fight from back in the past all the way until today.
Somewhat video spoiler: Originally, this video was supposed to be Lingering Will Vs Yozora. I had a very hard time trying to script that, since it was pretty obvious that Yozora is an overall easily better designed fight. Trying to write anything that LW has over Yozora was very tough and stalled this video until I caved and did a LW only review. I like the way it came out in the end.
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/bizkit047 Twitter: twitter.com/bizkit047Stranger of Paradise - Floor 99 Boss GauntletBizkit0472023-02-05 | I'm back. Managed to complete this last week on stream a few days before final DLC came out. For DLC2, this is the hardest accomplishment (aside from self handicapping yourself with dragon trials). Beating the Floor 99 challenge gets you to Floor 100, which was the max before final DLC came out. The final portal consistent of a 10 boss gauntlet that is randomized each time you enter the portal. When in the portal, though, you can retry the same consistent list of bosses until you back out or close the game. So if you get a rough set of bosses, you can try backing out. Here were the list of bosses: 0:00 The Possessed 2:22 Astos 5:17 Chimera 7:27 Chaos Maralith 9:30 Iron Giant 13:40 Bikke 16:40 Behemoth 18:48 Element 20:10 Chaos Tiamat 23:06 Cray Claw
Fairly generous list for my playstyle/build. I just needed to avoid Death Machine/Warrior of Light/Gilgamesh, my build is rough against them. If curious, I tweeted out my build after doing this: twitter.com/Bizkit047/status/1617662185030971392
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/bizkit047 Twitter: twitter.com/bizkit047Xenoblade 3 Direct & FFXVI Interview InfoBizkit0472022-06-24 | Vod from Twitch of me watching the Xenoblade 3 Direct and afterwards reviewing some info from the FFXVI interviews released.
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/bizkit047 Twitter: twitter.com/bizkit047Kingdom Hearts 1.5 - The 2 Player 1 Controller Experience... On Proud Mode... On the Switch VersionBizkit0472022-04-17 | My fiancé and I did a really stupid challenge of trying to beat KH 1.5 on proud mode doing the 2 person 1 controller challenge... on the really sketchy Nintendo Switch Cloud version...
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/bizkit047 Twitter: twitter.com/bizkit047Kingdom Hearts III (PC) - Coliseum Mod Beta (Created by Aproydtix)Bizkit0472022-02-24 | Vod from my Twitch stream testing this out a few weeks ago. Fun time overall, quite a few wacky fights.
Fyi, if you have a good internet, it's not that they're 100% unplayable. But they're still not constantly stable or high quality, which is what makes it essentially feel like a scam, among other things, such as not actually owning the game, etc.
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/bizkit047 Twitter: twitter.com/bizkit047Kingdom Hearts III - Learning Yozora For First TimeBizkit0472022-01-06 | A recent comment reminded me I was thinking of uploading this a while ago. It's my learning process of my first time fighting Yozora when ReMind released. As you can see, took 4 hours to beat him the first time without any help whatsoever. So you get to see how I approached it. There were a few of my actual first attempts at the end of my vod on Twitch where I beat all of Data Org in one sitting, but those few attempts I didn't try to learn anything, but if you care to see my initial reaction that's on Twitch highlighted here: twitch.tv/videos/561598044
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/bizkit047 Twitter: twitter.com/bizkit047Final Fantasy I (Pixel Perfect Remaster) - HighlightsBizkit0472021-09-14 | Big thanks to Kiwi for editing these highlights for me. Some highlights from my FF1 (PPR) Playthrough on Twitch. Big thanks to SquareEnix for providing me a free copy of this to play.
Kiwi's YT: youtube.com/c/KiwiBurdie Kiwi's Twitter: twitter.com/KiwiBurdieKingdom Hearts HD 2.5 (PC) - Music Rando Run (Better ABN)Bizkit0472021-09-08 | With patching, we can now make the music randomized as well on the PC version. Not only that, but we can patch in KH1/ReCoM/BBS/DDD music as well. It leads to...quite amusing scenarios.
What's Better ABN? It's a type or Rando run. All the numbers on the tracker to the left music be blue for the run to end. For example, if it's a yellow number, it means there are important checks left there. If it turns blue, it means no Important Checks are left.
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/bizkit047 Twitter: twitter.com/bizkit047Can I Guess These Kingdom Hearts Characters By Voice?Bizkit0472021-09-01 | Huge thanks to Kiwi for putting this all together. We're trying something different than what I normally do here, so if it goes over well we can do more of these in the future. It was pretty fun, yet challenging overall to do this.
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/bizkit047 Twitter: twitter.com/bizkit047Final Fantasy 7 Remake (PS5) - Fort Condor Grandmaster Match (Hard Mode)Bizkit0472021-07-21 | Final match vs the Chadster in Fort Condor on Hard Mode. This is a good speed strat if you don't want to pain yourself with long attempts of failing. I don't think it's consistent, but if you retry a few you should be good. All this strat really requires is Sorcerer II Board, Guard Dog, and a fast low cost unit, which I used Shock Trooper, along with another low cost unit. Rest don't matter.
Sorcerer Board II is because you get 3 magic Materia attacks. The overall strat is pelt the main base with all 3 Materia, then, when you have around 8 ATB, you Summon your fast low cost unit, then a Guard Dog right next to middle base when the low cost fast unit gets up there, then another low cost unit to cycle back to yet another Guard Dog for the killing blow. You have to wait for the ATB to be around 8 before deploying anything or they'll die before you can get the Guard Dogs out fast enough.
For this to work, Chadley can't put a Barracks down in front at the beginning or Fire/Blizzard won't hit the main base (couldn't figure out a way around it that works well). It seems he only opens with that or Helitrooper anyway. That's really the only thing that should go wrong I believe. Ignore him going to town on your base early on, you won't lose that way if this strat works.
If you don't want to use this strat, it's an extremely hard match. He has max speed, and while you can try to contest him with your own Grandmaster Board, it's still not as even as you'd think, since on Hard you may easily go into Sudden Death and lose if you can't take out another base before SD ends. There's other Guard Dog strats of spawning Barracks on his turf, but this seems way easier imo.
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Restrictions: Hard Mode No Damage No Equipment & Must use starting weapon Swordmaster Class only No Combo/Command/Instant Abilities No NG+ No Job Class Progression
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/bizkit047 Twitter: twitter.com/bizkit047Stranger of Paradise - Final Fantasy Origin (Demo) - Hard ModeBizkit0472021-06-22 | Two playthroughs. One NG+ and one with a fresh file. Overall, fairly fun time. I have 0 idea how they want you to handle mobs without getting sometimes wrecked from behind. Quite a few stuff I underutilized as well, such as Lightbringer. Full button customization is sick and Garland fight is pretty awesome too. Pretty sure this games story and dialog will 100% be a meme, but it has my interest to play the whole game when it's out. It looks like you'll have a fair amount of classes to choose from. If it doesn't end up being too spammy, could be lots of fun. Assuming they will fix the horrific bad framerate problems.
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/bizkit047 Twitter: twitter.com/bizkit047Final Fantasy 7 Remake (PS5) - Episode Intermission (Hard Mode)Bizkit0472021-06-18 | Hard Mode playthrough of the DLC. The beginning is missing, becuase it was part of the previous stream. Not much is missed, just a few small mobs. Would have butchered the quality to DL and put together the vods. Anyway, Hard Mode is pretty fun and although it's not super hard, it's still a good time to me. To prepare to play this, I did another Normal Mode playthrough offstream where I experimented with Yuffie's moves a bit more, which helped a lot for what I missed on stream. I'm sure there's better ways to play her, but this felt fine for me.
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/bizkit047 Twitter: twitter.com/bizkit047Final Fantasy 7 Remake (PS5) - Weiss (Hard Mode)Bizkit0472021-06-14 | First time beating him. Figured out most of the fight in about 3 hours without looking things up. He's pretty tough. From what I understand, you need to always punish and overwhelm him to avoid Immaculate One from going off. Hard Mode is redundant to mention fyi, the fight is auto put on Hard Mode. Was considering marking this as spoilers, but honestly they fully revealed him in a trailer.
Overall, was a fun superboss to learn. Only thing that concerned me is the red attack phase felt impossible without Parry on, not sure if there are better ways to deal with it. I think they did some good design choices here though, such as making Cloud's Counterstance not as ridiculous as normal. Could help in Part 2 balancing. Also pretty sure Tifa would be way better here than Barret, but I baited myself into Aerith for magic phase regular hits and Barret for tanking.
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/bizkit047 Twitter: twitter.com/bizkit047Final Fantasy 7 Remake (PS5) - Episode Intermission PlaythroughBizkit0472021-06-12 | Blind playthrough of the Yuffie DLC. I rushed a bit through it, so it's definitely over 5 hours if you try to do everything, even more if you replay it on Hard. Didn't spend enough time learning the different mechanics of Yuffie to make it smoother, such as using Sonon abilities more, putting healing on him, using more Windstorm, etc. I offer basic kneejerk thoughts about the DLC at the very end.
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/bizkit047 Twitter: twitter.com/bizkit047Kingdom Hearts III (PC) - Hacked HighlightsBizkit0472021-04-19 | Messing around with the Tres Menu Mod. Brought back lots of 2007 memories with 2FM hacked fights lmao. This game can seem to handle a lot of abuse.
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/bizkit047 Twitter: twitter.com/bizkit047Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory - An Adventure in Atlantica (Proud/Performer Mode/All Excellent)Bizkit0472021-03-10 | Mostly a tame song, just a bit rough at the end. You could probably hear me almost missing some of the Square inputs towards the end.
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/bizkit047 Twitter: twitter.com/bizkit047Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix - LV1 Randomizer Race Vs iiSalad (Semifinals Match)Bizkit0472021-02-26 | Semifinals match from Ninten's LV1 Rando Tourney Vs iiSalad. This time I didn't drop frames at final bosses lmao.
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/bizkit047 Twitter: twitter.com/bizkit047Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory - A Very Small Wish (Proud/Performer Mode/All Excellent)Bizkit0472021-02-21 | This was honestly a pretty fun one to do on Performer Mode, and also fairly challenging.
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/bizkit047 Twitter: twitter.com/bizkit047Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix - LV1 Randomizer Race w/Salad and ColequilBizkit0472021-02-06 | Since people wanted to see more Rando runs on my YT, here's a recent race against who I'd consider the best two Rando runners currently for 2FM.
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/bizkit047 Twitter: twitter.com/bizkit047Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory - Arabian Dream (Proud/Performer Mode/All Excellent)Bizkit0472021-02-02 | Surprisingly, this song is pretty fun to do on Performer Mode. Feels pretty well mapped. It has a couple tricky parts, like a lot of other songs, but otherwise is not too tough.
Thanks to SquareEnix for giving me early access to the Demo! I play through the whole demo in the vid and give my thoughts while playing. Had to cut out the part after selecting New Game to fix my controls from KHMoM lmao.
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/bizkit047 Twitter: twitter.com/bizkit047Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory - A Day in Agrabah (Proud/Performer Mode/All Excellent)Bizkit0472021-01-26 | Another song I had to re-do because of saving the wrong video file. Fortunately this is a pretty easy song to do on Performer Mode, and even easier getting all Excellents, so it only took me two tries to re-do. Also, not to say this song is bad or anything, just yet another song that I don't think I really cared to hear in this game over some of the other snubbed ones that could have been in.
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/bizkit047 Twitter: twitter.com/bizkit047Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory - Hand in Hand (Proud/Performer Mode/All Excellent)Bizkit0472021-01-22 | This is like 90% an incredibly easy song to Performer Mode, but the sequence at 0:54 and especially the ending are pretty tough to land consistently, at least for me, and bump up the difficulty a lot. The song is also a bit lengthy just to get to that hard end. Mostly a fun song to do though, regardless.
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/bizkit047 Twitter: twitter.com/bizkit047Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory - Go for It! (Proud/Performer Mode/All Excellent)Bizkit0472021-01-15 | I found this one very difficult, especially up until this point. Landing the fast notes without missing an Excellent is pretty rough. The only other challenging part is where you nearly mash R2 & Square, where R2 is a button that should never be pressed fast like that imo. If you're wondering how to handle the fast attack notes (don't know the musical term), try using L1/R1 as well. You're not meant to mash one button for them.
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/bizkit047 Twitter: twitter.com/bizkit047Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory - Olympus Coliseum (Proud/Performer Mode/All Excellent)Bizkit0472021-01-13 | This is another one of those songs I could have done without in this game. Pretty boring song, not too hard to do on Performer Mode.
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/bizkit047 Twitter: twitter.com/bizkit047Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory - Welcome to Wonderland (Proud/Performer Mode/All Excellent)Bizkit0472021-01-08 | Fairly easy Performer Mode track. Not nearly as insane as To Our Surprise. I'd say this is a good intro to the mode. Arrows are the only somewhat tricky part and learning how to hit L2/R2/attack during glides together. Had to re-do this one, because original one was lost by accident.
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/bizkit047 Twitter: twitter.com/bizkit047Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory - To Our Surprise (Proud/Performer Mode/All Excellent)Bizkit0472021-01-05 | Had to skip Welcome to Wonderland, apparently I didn't save the correct recording. It's at least far easier to do than this song at least, so shouldn't be hard to re-record. For this song, I had to come back to it, this is a pretty challenging track to do on PM. The part at 0:40 I still never really figured out the timing, so I pretty much just mashed Square & Up to get it. 1:25 is also a pretty tough part to land, had to slow down that part to figure out what to hit first. Definitely the hardest on the list up to this point to do on PM, skipping Memory Dives.
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/bizkit047 Twitter: twitter.com/bizkit047Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory - Traverse Town (Proud/Performer Mode/All Excellent)Bizkit0472020-12-31 | One of those songs that, while good, probably not great fit for a rhythm game. Though, I do know it would be weird not to include such an iconic song into a game based on the series music. Anyway, not a hard song to beat in Performer Mode, just a couple somewhat tricky segments. I didn't do too well, though, lots of non-rainbow Excellents. A slow song like this is tougher for me than faster paced ones.
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/bizkit047 Twitter: twitter.com/bizkit047Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory - Bustin up on the Beach (Proud/Performer Mode/All Excellent)Bizkit0472020-12-27 | A naturally harder song than Destiny Islands, and the Performer Mode ramps it up a bit more too. Still a fairly fun song, though.
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/bizkit047 Twitter: twitter.com/bizkit047Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory - Destiny Islands (Proud/Performer Mode/All Excellent)Bizkit0472020-12-25 | Been recording these over the last month. Unsure if people care to see them, but they're fairly fun to do. If you wanted a harder challenge than Proud, turn on Performer Mode. Started on this track because I can't do DMCA songs.
As for the track itself, it's okay. Definitely not hype to me in terms of being in a rhythm game, but it's a chill song. Challenge wise, it only gets tricky at the end, otherwise it's a good intro into Performer Mode.
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/bizkit047 Twitter: twitter.com/bizkit047Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory - Dark Domination (Proud/All Excellent/Field)Bizkit0472020-11-24 | Most fun song to me so far. Feels satisfying to learn and complete. Getting All Excellent is definitely harder than just Full Chaining, due to that part at 1:10. Rest of the song isn't too bad to hit them all though. Might try Performer Mode next for this, though I may only go for a Full Chain with that first. Also used this track to clear the 100k trophy requirement, in case you want to speed things up.
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/bizkit047 Twitter: twitter.com/bizkit047Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory - Blind Playthrough (Part 2 - Spoilers)Bizkit0472020-11-17 | This part contains the final boss and ending, so don't watch if you don't want to be spoiled. As for the final boss, in the interest of time, I bumped it to Standard. Next VOD if I can upload without Twitch muting it will have the Proud version and rest of the World Tour tracks.
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/bizkit047 Twitter: twitter.com/bizkit047Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory - Blind Playthrough (Part 1)Bizkit0472020-11-14 | Part 1 of my KHMoM playthrough on Twitch. First time playing a Rhythm game, and had a great time so far. Due to DMCA, I had to skip songs that SquareEnix themselves recommended not capturing, to avoid possible copyright issues. Nothing I can do about that. Forced myself to do Proud Mode. Glad I did lmao.
Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/bizkit047 Twitter: twitter.com/bizkit047Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memories (Demo) - The Rustling Forest (Proud Mode)Bizkit0472020-10-14 | Last one for now, haven't had time to try a Full Chain on Wave of Darkness. It's hard. Update: Apparently I deleted the wrong vid, this isn't a Full Chain lmao.
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