Withing a deep forest & Knytt Stories. These were amazing games 1 guy made I played as a kid. Try Knytt Underground so see how it evolves when he got a budget
My favorite part of this game is when Stan gets a human form. This is because I’m so used to characters like Stan being portrayed as lanky tumblr sexy man twink types that seeing that he’s actually a buff dude made me laugh cause it caught me off guard 😂
Two interesting details about the game: The artist Tsutomu Sekimoto is kind of an anomaly. He has very few credits to his name considering how interesting the designs are for Okage. Credits to Hoodie for uncovering them It was originally designed for the Panasonic M2, but later Sony contacted them to develop for the PS1. However, due to being late in the cycle it became one of the early PS2 games. Maybe due to this the actual size on the disk is pretty small for a PS2 game
CZcams must have brought this video up for me after I was talking about Okage, I love this game. Now you get to be part of the dozens of us fans who have played it.
Ohhh man, I had to click on this as soon as I saw evil king stan. In the early-mid 2000s I kinda fell in with with an odd bunch who were into importing games just the most obscure RPGs. I remember I was introduced to this game, dark cloud, galerians, persona 2, martian gothic, and some action RPG that literally all I can remember was that there was a fairly who took one look at you and said you must be from another dimension, and that it was by fromsoft. Kinda shaped my taste in games from then on.
What a fun story! These weird games are a great way to connect with people. Fromsoft had a lot of really neat games on the Playstation 2. I still have to check a lot of them out. I think the one you're talking about is Evergrace?
God I've been trying to figure out this feeling for a while. It's the reason I'm able to look into the janky movie tie-in games that I bought as a kid instead of your big releases and still see a bit of charm coming through. Not every title has it, but even if the game was just another paycheck for the developers, there were still artists who had to recreate these worlds, designers who might have put more thought into a mechanic than you'd initially expect. It reminds me that at the end of the day, the most subpar games were still made by people. Makes seeing that little bit of passion slip through all the better.
I still remember having an old ... I want to say prima strategy guide for Okage. I used to pour over it for hours, reading up the tiny gear locations, the little tips, the goofy humor of the writers playing the game, all the secret weapons you had to pick specific dialogue options to get. I'm sad I never got a chance to beat the game, because my memory card got stolen just outside the final dungeon. Might be time to fire up the emulator and get right back to it. I still remember the intro music. Thanks for the reminder and thanks for showing a game I loved growing up some love.
AAAA, huge part of my childhood. My mom and I used to go bargain bin shopping for Ps2 games all the time. Okage, Rule of Rose, and Shephard's Crossing were massively important to me growing up.
Those are all bargain bin classics! I love Rule of Rose. Interesting that you got it from a bin for cheap at the time and now it's famously one of the most expensive PS2 games. Weird how those things go.
@@Rubyfallz Right??... and then I traded it back in to GameStop for like $2 in store credit. Literally my life's biggest regret. I want to go back in time and slap my child self. 😭
I have NEVER heard of anyone talking about Okage outside of me and my younger sibling, this is AWESOME for me. The artstyle is SO charming in its lil way. Every single character is great and everyone is SO mean all the time. I need more people to play it.
Dude I was reading through a bunch of my brother's old gaming magazines and I saw this game, and when I looked it up on google there was NOTHING, I thought I'd stumbled upon a cancelled game or even lost media and I was honestly kinda sad. But...even after all those years, the game always stayed on the back of my mind, so finally seeing this game actually be played is like seeing a painting move, and I love every second of it.
I rented this game as a kid I think. I don't remember much, but at the time, this didnt seem jank or low budget, a lot of stuff was like this at that time. Playing games in 2001, these were all expected qualities for games to have. Other than the style of portraits, everything else is genuinely not to far out of scope for the era. It looks low budget now, but it probably wasn't at the time.
YOOO. i've always been curious about this game but never got around to playing it. adding this to the list of PS2 games i need to play. also, i've been enjoying all your videos. keep it up, man.
Honestly, 6th Gen console (and the Wii) era was probably the last generation where low-budget games and AAA games are not too far from each other in terms of quality or visuals. A kid can play any game and would likely have trouble differentiating which ones are made by big studios or not without prior knowledge of who worked on the games. With 7th Gen onwards, it's extremely easy to see a huge gap between qualities.
I watched this solely because I saw Stan on the thumbnail! I fucking adored Okage. Such a great and bizarre game. Shame so few people ever played it. Also the line on games not needing to be perfect sums up some of my favorite games from the PS2 era like Shadow Hearts Covenant or Silent Bomb. Both have their flaws but the amount of awesome shit in them outweighs the issues.
Ran across it at a Hollywood Video years ago. Fell in love with it and all of its strange charm. Every town is so distinct visually and I'd spend ages just wandering around admiring it all. My only real gripes were how every dungeon felt too similar and the load times between areas felt absurdly long, even in your own house. Luckaly, anyone discovering it through the downloadable version won't have to deal with the latter problem.
I cannot adequately express my surprise and delight when I saw this video pop up on my suggested content. I think about this game often, even this many years since I first played it, and no one I've ever spoken to has ever known what I was talking about when I brought it up. I'll admit I developed a bit of a minor fixation on this game at the time - I remember hunting through Ebay to purchase the strategy guide for it (which I still have lovingly tucked away with my many others) simply because I wanted more of anything I could get my hands on after I was through with it. I found it far more interesting than any of the Final Fantasy games I had previously played and I am confident it was the deadpan humour and delightful characters in Okage that made me love it so. There's just something so... stilted about the Final Fantasy games that has never allowed any of them to stick with me like this game has, despite me recognising that they are on vastly different levels of scale and quality when it comes to gameplay and story. Thank you for letting me know I'm not alone in liking this game!
Man, Okage whips I got it back on PS2 when my older brother's friend gave it to him and he gave it to me. I'd later go on to gift it to a friend who then re-gifted it back to me. I will never forget Rosalyn with the belt on her head and her pink shadow.
I loved the pink shadow. So simple but completely unique. It also wasn't something that required a ton of resources, just creativity and a sense of humor.
I fucking love Okage: Shadow King. I still have a sealed copy of it. It's sense of aesthetics is so good. A nightmarishly cute Tim Burton-esque style fever dream.
Omg the whole explanation and the whole video is so good and so pure and so cute It kinda breaks my heart that I see you being so grateful for every effort that puted in the game, so many kids these days just don't care how it's made and how hard it was, they just watch play and forget idk i feel like these days kids won't understand the true meaning of these, the sad part is i don't even think they would truly enjoy they just got distracted everything is a let's-time-get-past to them, it's sad to think about it but but- but when I saw you actually caring about this stuff, it really rise my hopes in people I think there might still be people who experience and enjoy the things in the world the different way In the end I AM I'm glad to be a game dev and I'm glad that there are people who will enjoy the things I will be making in later on I'm making my game not just for myself, but for you and your happiness
I miss old AA games, nowadays they just try to be as AAA as possible without having the budget and expertise. 4:42 I actually love this, if you don't have the budget to make an interesting dungeon, it's better just not to pretend you do.
i'm so glad the algorithm showed me your videos, i just love the format and the topics on games i barley know about, it's very relaxing cause life's been stressful for me recently thank you
I’m so happy you’re talking about this cause this game has been such an enigma in my life. No one in my family remembers where it came from, my brother and I never played it far but it’s been the strange jewel to my collection ever since lol
It may have been less about the budget and more because it was developed on early versions of ps2 hardware since it was originally intended for a different system that was cancelled. They had to completely redesign the game for the ps2, so new system and time constraints may be the main contributing factors.
I am yet to finish this game, and put way too many hours into it (especially due to my main save getting corrupted at one point 💀) Despite my frustrations with the gameplay, it was the charm of the story and visuals that kept me going. Each character is so goofy I love their interactions lol
Things like this is what makes me roll my eyes when folks act like it's a dire necessity that we get AI-generated voices and AI-made textures and supercomputers that can load quadrillion mile long worlds and ensure every aspiring dev starts using Unreal Engine 11.
I loved this game back in the day. What a shame it went under the rada but I get why. The difficulty is just all over the place I liked to imagine that Stan's voice would've sounded like Chili Con carne's brain character
Weird enough I was somewhat interested in revisiting Okage Shadow King for sometime. I think its really fortunate that a game like this can still be acquired via the PS4 and at first I was a little off put by its presentation. Mainly cause I was going into it expecting a higher budget game, but I like the points you bring up what makes it somewhat appealing. With limitations in budget there's a bigger emphasis on artists to come up with clever ways of executing ideas. I still have yet to recruit the second party member but Im hopeful to eventually return to this odd, yet cute game! Great vid!
A video that talks about Okage: Shadow King? In this day and age? Color me surprised. (I played it when I was a teen. I have very fond memories of Okage despite how imperfect it is)
Makes me think of Tim Burton from what little of his stuff I'm aware of. Basically I've walked through a room when Coraline was on and I've played KH1 and a bit of 2.
I never heard of this game but I absolutly love how it looks, and it seems the exact type of game I'd love to play. I'll definitly try to find a way to play it someday !
absolutely loving the amusement in your voice. this game obviously brought pure delight and it made for a fun to watch video in turn. the dungeon at the end was very unexpected lol also the mc kinda reminds me of michael/ryuto from pokemon colosseum...
love the fucking 2d plane of what I assume the demon king briefly popping out of existence due to being a 2d plane when entering battles... fucking love that
Finally! Someone else who played Okage Shadow King. That and Shadow Hearts are my favourite non mainline series. Shadow Hearts is almost as iconic as Final Fantasy for me.
One thing that seperates a bad high budget game from a low budget game is that the cheap and timesaving decisions are more consistent. In a cheap corporate game it will be obvious they just spent the money badly and had no vision
As someone who started on flash games and to this day is an extreme cheapskate to whom £20 is a high price for a game this looks like a polished AAA game to me, I don't know what you mean by low-budget.🙃
I once rented this game for the PlayStation 2 back in the day, it was a stealth game similar in style to the Metal Gear series, but different enough to make it stand out on its own. You could choose between a man and a woman for each of the game's stage missions, and what made it stand out (appart from the gameplay itself) was that one way to sneak around was to use a special camera to take pictures of the people around you, and it would then generate a disguise. If the picture was taken from the front, you could turn yourself into an exact copy of that person, face and clothes. However, if the picture was taken from the back or the side, then the camera would only be able to replicate the clothes. And the camera worked with EVERY SINGLE PERSON in the game, every NPC, every enemy, every ally, every single one the game would allow you to copy. The game built around this mechanic, making it the main focus on how to clear each mission, forcing you to get creative sometimes, for example on one stage you have to infiltrate an exclusive entry auction, as you enter the restricted area through a vent you realize that the vents do not go all the way into the auction room, so you need to disguise yourself as one of the invited people, but they all have their backs turned, it took me a moment to realize I could wait in the bathroom vent and wait until someone comes in and looks in the mirror, which I could see perfectly, and BAM now I have my front picture and I can disguise myself. It was a fantastic game a little short, but very fun to play, I enjoyed it a lot, and today I'm looking for it with the problem that I DO NOT REMEMBER THE TITLE of the game! And since nobody seems to have ever heard about it, nobody can point me in the right direction. That game was amazing, like if someone took the best parts of Metal Gear and Hitman and used it to make one of the best stealth based games I've ever played, and all I have left of it is the memories of this one weekend years ago when I rented it.
That's Spy Fiction! I haven't played the game myself but I really want to. It looks super cool. Directed by Hidetaka Suehiro (Swery65) of Deadly Premonition fame.
A limited budget means the game companies focus on story and gameplay... or just being crazy. So instead of a pretty but vapid game... Like final fantasy X... Wow. I did NOT expect to be that much on the same wavelength.
Thank you! I've made it a rule to make all my videos between 5 and 6 minutes long. This way I compress a huge load of thoughts into a small amount of time. Keeps up the pace.
@@Rubyfallz Are you sure it is not a meta representation of how you appreciate that limitation forces one to make the most of the space within the limits while trying one's best to make as much of the space you have, as you explain within the video?
Haha good theory! That is sort of the reason I only use one game OST per video. It's fun to choose a track list and try to make it work for a video like this.
@@Rubyfallz I like your music rule. I also notice that you’ll use the music music from a game that’s almost equally as obscure, almost as a subtle suggestion to the viewer to go and check that game out. I tend to think of Sakaguchi’s direction for FF7 with my projects: if I’m going to use a song, I’ll try to only use it once if I can help it. This makes the video sound more cinematic. Of course I’ll break this rule if I need to for emotional depth. I also tend to use music from the game that I’m talking about.
Yeah you gotta use what works obviously. My music rule works for me because my videos are short. I like lesser-used soundtracks because they don't distract in the way that music you already know does.
Okage has a lot of problems, but I love it to bits. The humor, the artstyle, the characters, and the second half that hits a bit too close to home. I hope more people will discover it, if only to comfront that feeling of being an insgnificant nobody that feels like he should just dissapear.
man i fuckin love okage shadow king, glad to see more people talk about it! its just good to hear people talk about obscure shit i know about or hell don't know about, if i could reccomend a game or game franchise that'd be worth checking out.. The Denpa Men series, its an RPG about little humanoid creatures you catch, you form teams with them and get the heroes Gal back. its simple but it has its charm.
I LOVED Okage Shadow King. It was one of my favorite games growing up!! I’m so happy more people know of it! I wish it would get a remake with next gen graphics.
I was thinking if you can do analysis of cheap-budgeted games that somehow manage to make a unique experience that has been forgotten as generations go by. Grasshopper Manufacture and Suda51 as an example.
I'm so glad someone mentioned this game. I always mention how great it is. I agree with you the game is perfect. The humour is great. You forgot the humour. I have never found such a quirky fun game since.
This has absolutely nothing to do with having a low budget but since we're talking about lesser known games, everybody please go play Puppeteer. Thank you.
A billion years ago, I was reading my favorite gaming magazine, GameFan. In it, there was a review of this, but the Japanese version which was called "Me and Satan King", if I recall. The reviewer said he loved the game, but if it ever came to the states, they'd never have the balls to use "Satan" in the title, and would instead call it "Me and Mr. Cuddlybumps". I never forgot that.
When most people weren't weeb enough so 70% of the people who had played this game back in the day pronounced it "Oak-ij" lol Also the first time I played it I got 1/3rd of the way through and my memory card wasn't entirely plugged in (since my friend and I were sharing my ps2 in college) and it wouldn't let me save so I had to start all the way over, haha. If I were an animator, a Stanley Parable narrator and Okage crossover bit would be so fun.
Had a n64 first, and at our rental store they always had Okage on the shelf. I loved the look of the cover. Few years later, my now husband got it for my bday, I 100% it, still hate the water dungeon though. Got lost in it for 2 days
Okage was one of the few games I rented, because I could never find it in stores at the time. I love it to death, and regret not finishing it. Shoulda just kept the disc from Blockbuster...
as a game dev I can confirm That I have very little patience for my game and I want to make it as fast and as laziest as possible but I'm not gonna get ai assistance or someshit. I'm gonna make low poly model instead of high poly one and trying to make a new art style out of it. btw my game is racing and with zero budget I want to compete with EA Games and crush their nfs games make something 100x better
Click on for the Okage thumbnail. Subscribe for the someone making a video about Okage. Only change I wish for this game would be some tweaks to combat or faster XP leveling.
DUDE YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE HOW LONG I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO REMEBER THE FUGGIN NAME OF THAT GAME WITH MY ONLY MEMORY BEING SHADOW BRO! rented it from a local rental place WAAAY back in the day when blockbuster was a thing lol. but never managed to find a copy anywhere outside that rental place. time to boot up pcsx2 :D
First rozlin is bae but yeah I enjoyed this game the only issues were the bull boss fight and you just couldn't tell what was an actual threat. You be like aww that's a cute monster then it hits you for 2/3rds of your health 😂
@@Rubyfallz yeah I can see that him and guilewinquote greatly influenced my love of all kinds of media no matter the size or quality and you seem to be on the same boat can't wait to see where this channel goes
I mean, you can make a game with literally ZERO budget if you have a PC and enough free time
Withing a deep forest & Knytt Stories. These were amazing games 1 guy made I played as a kid. Try Knytt Underground so see how it evolves when he got a budget
Hey, that's what I'm doing!
@@mattwcook9127 Same!
nah, we kind of die of starvation with zero budget
@@x0men0x don't refer to yourself as "we"
You aren't everyone
My favorite part of this game is when Stan gets a human form. This is because I’m so used to characters like Stan being portrayed as lanky tumblr sexy man twink types that seeing that he’s actually a buff dude made me laugh cause it caught me off guard 😂
He's not even just buff he has an All Might type face like he's ready to sock someone into next week.
Two interesting details about the game:
The artist Tsutomu Sekimoto is kind of an anomaly. He has very few credits to his name considering how interesting the designs are for Okage. Credits to Hoodie for uncovering them
It was originally designed for the Panasonic M2, but later Sony contacted them to develop for the PS1. However, due to being late in the cycle it became one of the early PS2 games. Maybe due to this the actual size on the disk is pretty small for a PS2 game
interesting... sucks there isn't enough of his art that exists.
Okage is so funny. "I dont wanna become a comic relief girl!" In pig latin, immediately set the stage for one of the funniest rpgs
CZcams must have brought this video up for me after I was talking about Okage, I love this game. Now you get to be part of the dozens of us fans who have played it.
Always great to see another Okage fan in the world
Ohhh man, I had to click on this as soon as I saw evil king stan. In the early-mid 2000s I kinda fell in with with an odd bunch who were into importing games just the most obscure RPGs. I remember I was introduced to this game, dark cloud, galerians, persona 2, martian gothic, and some action RPG that literally all I can remember was that there was a fairly who took one look at you and said you must be from another dimension, and that it was by fromsoft. Kinda shaped my taste in games from then on.
What a fun story! These weird games are a great way to connect with people. Fromsoft had a lot of really neat games on the Playstation 2. I still have to check a lot of them out. I think the one you're talking about is Evergrace?
I hope that weird fromsoft game was evergrace. Cuz that game is insane
I think you are correct, I looked and it was Evergrace
God I've been trying to figure out this feeling for a while. It's the reason I'm able to look into the janky movie tie-in games that I bought as a kid instead of your big releases and still see a bit of charm coming through. Not every title has it, but even if the game was just another paycheck for the developers, there were still artists who had to recreate these worlds, designers who might have put more thought into a mechanic than you'd initially expect. It reminds me that at the end of the day, the most subpar games were still made by people. Makes seeing that little bit of passion slip through all the better.
Great sentiment! Great way of looking at games!
I still remember having an old ... I want to say prima strategy guide for Okage. I used to pour over it for hours, reading up the tiny gear locations, the little tips, the goofy humor of the writers playing the game, all the secret weapons you had to pick specific dialogue options to get.
I'm sad I never got a chance to beat the game, because my memory card got stolen just outside the final dungeon. Might be time to fire up the emulator and get right back to it. I still remember the intro music. Thanks for the reminder and thanks for showing a game I loved growing up some love.
AAAA, huge part of my childhood. My mom and I used to go bargain bin shopping for Ps2 games all the time. Okage, Rule of Rose, and Shephard's Crossing were massively important to me growing up.
Those are all bargain bin classics! I love Rule of Rose. Interesting that you got it from a bin for cheap at the time and now it's famously one of the most expensive PS2 games. Weird how those things go.
@@Rubyfallz Right??... and then I traded it back in to GameStop for like $2 in store credit. Literally my life's biggest regret. I want to go back in time and slap my child self. 😭
Two bucks?! Noooooooo that sucks so much lmao.
YOUR EDITING AND HUMOR IS PERFECTION. I LOVE YOU.
I have NEVER heard of anyone talking about Okage outside of me and my younger sibling, this is AWESOME for me. The artstyle is SO charming in its lil way. Every single character is great and everyone is SO mean all the time. I need more people to play it.
Ah, yes, another appreciator of things low of budget but big of heart.
What a sweet surprise recommend from the algo! I love your barely-contained fits of laughter! Awesome video~ ✨
Dude I was reading through a bunch of my brother's old gaming magazines and I saw this game, and when I looked it up on google there was NOTHING, I thought I'd stumbled upon a cancelled game or even lost media and I was honestly kinda sad. But...even after all those years, the game always stayed on the back of my mind, so finally seeing this game actually be played is like seeing a painting move, and I love every second of it.
Limits give determined to seek for a breakthrough.
I rented this game as a kid I think. I don't remember much, but at the time, this didnt seem jank or low budget, a lot of stuff was like this at that time. Playing games in 2001, these were all expected qualities for games to have. Other than the style of portraits, everything else is genuinely not to far out of scope for the era. It looks low budget now, but it probably wasn't at the time.
YOOO. i've always been curious about this game but never got around to playing it. adding this to the list of PS2 games i need to play. also, i've been enjoying all your videos. keep it up, man.
Thank you! And same for me, I have wondered about this game for a long time. Happy I can finally cross it off the list.
Honestly, 6th Gen console (and the Wii) era was probably the last generation where low-budget games and AAA games are not too far from each other in terms of quality or visuals. A kid can play any game and would likely have trouble differentiating which ones are made by big studios or not without prior knowledge of who worked on the games. With 7th Gen onwards, it's extremely easy to see a huge gap between qualities.
My all-time favorite video game! I first played it when I was 8 and I immediately fell in love with it. I've 100% completed the game dozens of times
I watched this solely because I saw Stan on the thumbnail! I fucking adored Okage. Such a great and bizarre game. Shame so few people ever played it. Also the line on games not needing to be perfect sums up some of my favorite games from the PS2 era like Shadow Hearts Covenant or Silent Bomb. Both have their flaws but the amount of awesome shit in them outweighs the issues.
I love stan. One of the best ever party members tbh.
Ran across it at a Hollywood Video years ago. Fell in love with it and all of its strange charm. Every town is so distinct visually and I'd spend ages just wandering around admiring it all.
My only real gripes were how every dungeon felt too similar and the load times between areas felt absurdly long, even in your own house.
Luckaly, anyone discovering it through the downloadable version won't have to deal with the latter problem.
I cannot adequately express my surprise and delight when I saw this video pop up on my suggested content. I think about this game often, even this many years since I first played it, and no one I've ever spoken to has ever known what I was talking about when I brought it up.
I'll admit I developed a bit of a minor fixation on this game at the time - I remember hunting through Ebay to purchase the strategy guide for it (which I still have lovingly tucked away with my many others) simply because I wanted more of anything I could get my hands on after I was through with it. I found it far more interesting than any of the Final Fantasy games I had previously played and I am confident it was the deadpan humour and delightful characters in Okage that made me love it so. There's just something so... stilted about the Final Fantasy games that has never allowed any of them to stick with me like this game has, despite me recognising that they are on vastly different levels of scale and quality when it comes to gameplay and story.
Thank you for letting me know I'm not alone in liking this game!
Thank you for sharing this wonderful story!
Man, Okage whips
I got it back on PS2 when my older brother's friend gave it to him and he gave it to me.
I'd later go on to gift it to a friend who then re-gifted it back to me.
I will never forget Rosalyn with the belt on her head and her pink shadow.
I loved the pink shadow. So simple but completely unique. It also wasn't something that required a ton of resources, just creativity and a sense of humor.
I fucking love Okage: Shadow King. I still have a sealed copy of it. It's sense of aesthetics is so good. A nightmarishly cute Tim Burton-esque style fever dream.
Love Okage’s style, great video!
So glad Okagi got a PS4/5 port, absolutely loved that game.
Omg the whole explanation and the whole video is so good and so pure and so cute It kinda breaks my heart that I see you being so grateful for every effort that puted in the game, so many kids these days just don't care how it's made and how hard it was, they just watch play and forget idk i feel like these days kids won't understand the true meaning of these, the sad part is i don't even think they would truly enjoy they just got distracted everything is a let's-time-get-past to them, it's sad to think about it but
but-
but when I saw you actually caring about this stuff, it really rise my hopes in people I think there might still be people who experience and enjoy the things in the world the different way
In the end
I AM
I'm glad to be a game dev
and I'm glad that there are people who will enjoy the things I will be making in later on
I'm making my game not just for myself, but for you and your happiness
I miss old AA games, nowadays they just try to be as AAA as possible without having the budget and expertise.
4:42 I actually love this, if you don't have the budget to make an interesting dungeon, it's better just not to pretend you do.
underrated channel alert
cosigned!
i'm so glad the algorithm showed me your videos, i just love the format and the topics on games i barley know about, it's very relaxing cause life's been stressful for me recently thank you
Glad to be of service!
Super underrated. Keep up the great content!
I’m so happy you’re talking about this cause this game has been such an enigma in my life. No one in my family remembers where it came from, my brother and I never played it far but it’s been the strange jewel to my collection ever since lol
It may have been less about the budget and more because it was developed on early versions of ps2 hardware since it was originally intended for a different system that was cancelled. They had to completely redesign the game for the ps2, so new system and time constraints may be the main contributing factors.
The tone in your voice is so full of love for this game
I am yet to finish this game, and put way too many hours into it (especially due to my main save getting corrupted at one point 💀) Despite my frustrations with the gameplay, it was the charm of the story and visuals that kept me going. Each character is so goofy I love their interactions lol
I never beat this because my save corrupted. Twice.
Twice?! That's so bad. I somehow lost my Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time data as a kid and it made me so mad I still remember it today.
Just discovered your channel and it's one of my new favorite things now.
Really appericiate that! Thank you!
Okage was my childhood! The concept art is so awesome!
I am almost certain this game had an effect on A Hat in Time. Snatcher looks so much like Stan that it I think it MUST be an homage.
Things like this is what makes me roll my eyes when folks act like it's a dire necessity that we get AI-generated voices and AI-made textures and supercomputers that can load quadrillion mile long worlds and ensure every aspiring dev starts using Unreal Engine 11.
I loved this game back in the day. What a shame it went under the rada but I get why. The difficulty is just all over the place
I liked to imagine that Stan's voice would've sounded like Chili Con carne's brain character
Weird enough I was somewhat interested in revisiting Okage Shadow King for sometime. I think its really fortunate that a game like this can still be acquired via the PS4 and at first I was a little off put by its presentation. Mainly cause I was going into it expecting a higher budget game, but I like the points you bring up what makes it somewhat appealing. With limitations in budget there's a bigger emphasis on artists to come up with clever ways of executing ideas. I still have yet to recruit the second party member but Im hopeful to eventually return to this odd, yet cute game! Great vid!
Everything here apply to my feeling about p3 vs reload. I think the simplified realization leave more space for imagination.
A video that talks about Okage: Shadow King? In this day and age? Color me surprised.
(I played it when I was a teen. I have very fond memories of Okage despite how imperfect it is)
Makes me think of Tim Burton from what little of his stuff I'm aware of. Basically I've walked through a room when Coraline was on and I've played KH1 and a bit of 2.
this video is so cute. i can hear the delight in your voice while you talk about this game
Yeah I love it! Thank you so much!
I never heard of this game but I absolutly love how it looks, and it seems the exact type of game I'd love to play. I'll definitly try to find a way to play it someday !
absolutely loving the amusement in your voice. this game obviously brought pure delight and it made for a fun to watch video in turn. the dungeon at the end was very unexpected lol
also the mc kinda reminds me of michael/ryuto from pokemon colosseum...
I'm happy to hear all that came trough in the video! And you're right! He does look like him a little bit!
Yooooo! Okage!
My buddy Quilin loves this game, they called it Nut instead tho cause the healing items were just nuts if I recall
love the fucking 2d plane of what I assume the demon king briefly popping out of existence due to being a 2d plane when entering battles... fucking love that
Finally! Someone else who played Okage Shadow King. That and Shadow Hearts are my favourite non mainline series. Shadow Hearts is almost as iconic as Final Fantasy for me.
I mean... if I was to polish ONE thing, it would be the dungeon design.
One thing that seperates a bad high budget game from a low budget game is that the cheap and timesaving decisions are more consistent. In a cheap corporate game it will be obvious they just spent the money badly and had no vision
As someone who started on flash games and to this day is an extreme cheapskate to whom £20 is a high price for a game this looks like a polished AAA game to me, I don't know what you mean by low-budget.🙃
I once rented this game for the PlayStation 2 back in the day, it was a stealth game similar in style to the Metal Gear series, but different enough to make it stand out on its own. You could choose between a man and a woman for each of the game's stage missions, and what made it stand out (appart from the gameplay itself) was that one way to sneak around was to use a special camera to take pictures of the people around you, and it would then generate a disguise. If the picture was taken from the front, you could turn yourself into an exact copy of that person, face and clothes. However, if the picture was taken from the back or the side, then the camera would only be able to replicate the clothes. And the camera worked with EVERY SINGLE PERSON in the game, every NPC, every enemy, every ally, every single one the game would allow you to copy. The game built around this mechanic, making it the main focus on how to clear each mission, forcing you to get creative sometimes, for example on one stage you have to infiltrate an exclusive entry auction, as you enter the restricted area through a vent you realize that the vents do not go all the way into the auction room, so you need to disguise yourself as one of the invited people, but they all have their backs turned, it took me a moment to realize I could wait in the bathroom vent and wait until someone comes in and looks in the mirror, which I could see perfectly, and BAM now I have my front picture and I can disguise myself. It was a fantastic game a little short, but very fun to play, I enjoyed it a lot, and today I'm looking for it with the problem that I DO NOT REMEMBER THE TITLE of the game! And since nobody seems to have ever heard about it, nobody can point me in the right direction. That game was amazing, like if someone took the best parts of Metal Gear and Hitman and used it to make one of the best stealth based games I've ever played, and all I have left of it is the memories of this one weekend years ago when I rented it.
That's Spy Fiction! I haven't played the game myself but I really want to. It looks super cool. Directed by Hidetaka Suehiro (Swery65) of Deadly Premonition fame.
A limited budget means the game companies focus on story and gameplay... or just being crazy.
So instead of a pretty but vapid game... Like final fantasy X... Wow.
I did NOT expect to be that much on the same wavelength.
Underrated video. My only complaint is that it wasn't longer. Good stuff dude!
Thank you! I've made it a rule to make all my videos between 5 and 6 minutes long. This way I compress a huge load of thoughts into a small amount of time. Keeps up the pace.
@@Rubyfallz Are you sure it is not a meta representation of how you appreciate that limitation forces one to make the most of the space within the limits while trying one's best to make as much of the space you have, as you explain within the video?
Haha good theory! That is sort of the reason I only use one game OST per video. It's fun to choose a track list and try to make it work for a video like this.
@@Rubyfallz I like your music rule. I also notice that you’ll use the music music from a game that’s almost equally as obscure, almost as a subtle suggestion to the viewer to go and check that game out. I tend to think of Sakaguchi’s direction for FF7 with my projects: if I’m going to use a song, I’ll try to only use it once if I can help it. This makes the video sound more cinematic. Of course I’ll break this rule if I need to for emotional depth. I also tend to use music from the game that I’m talking about.
Yeah you gotta use what works obviously. My music rule works for me because my videos are short. I like lesser-used soundtracks because they don't distract in the way that music you already know does.
Okage is my all time favorite game, I'm glad for any recognition it receives.
Okage has a lot of problems, but I love it to bits.
The humor, the artstyle, the characters, and the second half that hits a bit too close to home.
I hope more people will discover it, if only to comfront that feeling of being an insgnificant nobody that feels like he should just dissapear.
man i fuckin love okage shadow king, glad to see more people talk about it! its just good to hear people talk about obscure shit i know about or hell don't know about, if i could reccomend a game or game franchise that'd be worth checking out.. The Denpa Men series, its an RPG about little humanoid creatures you catch, you form teams with them and get the heroes Gal back. its simple but it has its charm.
I LOVED Okage Shadow King. It was one of my favorite games growing up!! I’m so happy more people know of it! I wish it would get a remake with next gen graphics.
This is one of the games I wish had steam port. Used to play this and Phantom Brave all the time on the PS2.
OKAGE MENTIONED RAAAAHHHHHH!!❤❤❤
I was thinking if you can do analysis of cheap-budgeted games that somehow manage to make a unique experience that has been forgotten as generations go by. Grasshopper Manufacture and Suda51 as an example.
I'm so glad someone mentioned this game. I always mention how great it is. I agree with you the game is perfect. The humour is great. You forgot the humour. I have never found such a quirky fun game since.
This has absolutely nothing to do with having a low budget but since we're talking about lesser known games, everybody please go play Puppeteer. Thank you.
Another BANGER
"Why do you have a belt on your head?"
A billion years ago, I was reading my favorite gaming magazine, GameFan. In it, there was a review of this, but the Japanese version which was called "Me and Satan King", if I recall. The reviewer said he loved the game, but if it ever came to the states, they'd never have the balls to use "Satan" in the title, and would instead call it "Me and Mr. Cuddlybumps". I never forgot that.
Okage is my favorite game of all time i am so soooo happy to see it get acknowledged.
I never got around to play this game. I saw some gameplay of it, and it looked really neat. Completely oddball game.
Brave Fencer Musashi is the game I fell in love with first, you should check it out too!
I recently got a copy of okage, loving it so far
When most people weren't weeb enough so 70% of the people who had played this game back in the day pronounced it "Oak-ij" lol
Also the first time I played it I got 1/3rd of the way through and my memory card wasn't entirely plugged in (since my friend and I were sharing my ps2 in college) and it wouldn't let me save so I had to start all the way over, haha.
If I were an animator, a Stanley Parable narrator and Okage crossover bit would be so fun.
Had a n64 first, and at our rental store they always had Okage on the shelf. I loved the look of the cover. Few years later, my now husband got it for my bday, I 100% it, still hate the water dungeon though. Got lost in it for 2 days
That's so cute! My girlfriend got me Persona 5. Always great when someone you love gives you a game you love.
There was a Vampire Hunter D game on the PS1 that’s artistically pretty cool. I would love a modern game for that series.
I actually played a bit of that for the intro but talking abouth a fourth game bogged down the pacing too much. Neat game tho!
nice little video about goofy game I like it
I'm glad you like it!!
We need more games with SAUCE again man
RPGs need to start cooking again.
More people deserve to know about this!
Okage was one of the few games I rented, because I could never find it in stores at the time. I love it to death, and regret not finishing it. Shoulda just kept the disc from Blockbuster...
I loved this game but somehow I forgot that it even existed.
OKAGE MENTIONED! I LOVE THIS GAME SM
🚨🚨🚨Okage mentioned🚨🚨🚨
as a game dev I can confirm That I have very little patience for my game and I want to make it as fast and as laziest as possible but I'm not gonna get ai assistance or someshit. I'm gonna make low poly model instead of high poly one and trying to make a new art style out of it. btw my game is racing and with zero budget I want to compete with EA Games and crush their nfs games make something 100x better
Click on for the Okage thumbnail. Subscribe for the someone making a video about Okage. Only change I wish for this game would be some tweaks to combat or faster XP leveling.
I think I may have saw an ad for this game are shonen jump magazine, semms familiar in a way I can't put my finger on
Where have you been for the last 10 years? It's been evidence the triple A industry has been trash for a while despite their huge budgets
The less you have then more you do.
okage is one of my favorite games
DUDE YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE HOW LONG I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO REMEBER THE FUGGIN NAME OF THAT GAME WITH MY ONLY MEMORY BEING SHADOW BRO! rented it from a local rental place WAAAY back in the day when blockbuster was a thing lol. but never managed to find a copy anywhere outside that rental place. time to boot up pcsx2 :D
Okage is the GOAT and I've been playing it since it came out. If there is one true hidden gem jrpg, it isn't earthbound, it's Okage!
First rozlin is bae but yeah I enjoyed this game the only issues were the bull boss fight and you just couldn't tell what was an actual threat. You be like aww that's a cute monster then it hits you for 2/3rds of your health 😂
I see someone is a huge fan of high heel Thor
You're the first to pick up on it but yes, absolutely!
@@Rubyfallz I can just tell you like culture
Ooh was the Shadow King an insiparion for Hat in Time devs when creating Snatcher? They both look VERY alike...
Now that you mention it! Must be right?
Wth this game has snatcher from a hat in time
Okage and GHM in the same video? :D
Yeah I like low effort but wonderfully presented game!
The characters are low effort but the gameplay is awesome!
I loved this game when i was little. Tried playing it with my wife but it kept putting her to sleep cuz the grind is real sometimes.
Yeah I noticed that too. The charm kept me playing but the pacing is a bit off here and there.
hidden gem of a channel somewhat reminds me of thorhighheels (not a bwd thing its a good thing actually love thor) its prolly the font that does that
I'm a huge Thorhighheels fan! I mention him as inspiration in my first video.
@@Rubyfallz yeah I can see that him and guilewinquote greatly influenced my love of all kinds of media no matter the size or quality and you seem to be on the same boat can't wait to see where this channel goes
EA is pissing itself in rage. They might put a hit out on you for saying something so damning to their business.