I'm pretty sure by the fact that you made your video AVGN/nostalgia critic styled that you're mentioning a lot of these things in jest, but I still feel obligated to explain that Ehgeiz is actually a pretty fun game at higher levels of play, and a lot of the things that you've mentioned (including cloud's "fuck move") aren't really as bad as you make them out to be.

The gameplay is actually rather deep, with things like stuns, interrupts, COUNTER THROWS, and the like. there is also a whole other level of the system, called in-fighting that you didn't seem to explore in your review, which fixes a lot of those "not facing the right direction" problems that you were having. You were rolling so much because you were mashing the D-Pad while you were trying t ostand up, which was actually preventing you from standing. if you had only mashed the face buttons, you would have gotten up quicker. check out some gameplay on a higher level to see what I mean:



The thing with the endings and the marketing and whatnot is kinda funny too. Ehrgeiz was originally an arcade game that just happened to have cloud and tifa in it as a bonus, and none of the characters had endings. when it was brought to PSX, sepiroth was added, as well as some endings and I believe that whole thing at the end with the monster and the crates and stuff.

my guess is that they got so busy adding stupid things like the beach mode and the RPG mode and stuff that they ended up being pressed for time towards the end. This is probably why none of the final fantasy people (or the two people from the RPG mode who are unlockable in the main game) have endings. This also may be why sepiroth just has final fantasy clips as his ending, and why vincent, zack, and yuffie play just like characters who are already in the game (godhand, cloud, and sasuke respectively). The endings ARE rather stupid though, but no stupider or nonsensical than most o the endings in the tekken or DOA series.

you can see that more things were planned in game actually. if you highlight the character before vincent, hold up, then move over to vincent, he has a turks portrait instead of his regular one. it's entirely possible that things like alternate costumes and other things were planned, but scrapped due to time.

as far as final fantasy's inclusion being an afterthough, I must point out that a lot of the levels and whatnot are final fantasy influenced. there is a moogle in sasuke's stage, han's stage is eerily like the temple of the ancients, you fight godhand on what could be an airship, django's stage (the final boss before that big retarded crate monster) looks alot like a shinra lab, and even django himself could pass as one of red XIII's tribe (especially in his red P2 outfit). all of this is speculation on my part, however, so take it with a grain of salt.

I just felt that I had to defend the game a bit, as I am an avid fan and above average player. With that said, I did enjoy the video though, and hope to see more in the future.

I absolutely HATED the quest mode.

In fact, I don't know anyone that actually played it for more than twenty minutes.

you must tell me the end of it, or even if there was an end.

i think the entire point of the AVGN character is to be forcefully angry about stupid things that aren't even that big of a deal.

i think id he did that, it wouldnt be the AVGN.

it's like saying a godzilla movie shouldn't use people in costumes.

I think I get it better than you, actually. If he goes one step further, it will feel forced and unnecessary.