Vagrant Story Retrospective | An Extremely Comprehensive Critique and History

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In 1999, two men wait outside of a cinema, one is responsible for Metal Gear Solid and the other for Final Fantasy. They quickly strike up a friendship and believe that together they will conquer the video game industry and take the medium to new heights

Within five years - one had cemented himself as a legend and the other had disappeared entirely

Today we'll be exploring the mystery of Yasumi Matsuno and his final video game, Vagrant Story. It's a tragedy that will take us through the history of Square and the RPG genre, telling a tale of a man who rose to the top and came crashing back down again

It's part critique, part retrospective, part review and part history lesson - obviously full of spoilers and obviously full of my opinions

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=== Chapters === 00:00:00 – The Wanderer (Introduction) 00:03:26 – Matsuno at Quest 00:18:19 – Matsuno at Square 00:27:36 – Vagrant Story Development 00:38:57 – Dawn over Lea Monde (Openings) 00:57:25 – Risk and Reward (Gameplay) 01:10:12 – The Duane Incident Report 01:20:12 – Into the Catacombs (Complexity) 01:32:27 – Silver, Steel and Fire (Crafting) 01:42:59 – Sunset over Lea Monde (Ambiguity) 02:03:59 – Legends of Localisation (Translation) 02:13:58 – The Grand Cathedral (Revelations) 02:28:56 – Come Home, Agent Riot (Endings) 02:39:43 – Eternal Recurrence (Repeating) 02:48:04 – Matsuno after Square 02:58:44 – The Vagrant (Conclusion)

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