VIDEO INFO
Game: Battle Arena Toshinden (From Takara 1995)
Main Character: Ellis
Difficulty: Normal
Rounds to Win: 3 (wouldn't be a fighting game video from me without this little change)
Round Time: 99
Continues: 1 (guess against who, but what are you gonna do when you haven't played a certain game in years?)
UPDATED: 1/18/16: This is coming off late as all sin (6 YEARS LATER)... but this FINALLY has the annotation commentary I meant to put in back when this playthrough was fresh for ALL parts of the run. Considering it's gotten so many views and I just remembered it... I felt it was time to finish the job I started.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the very first game that I owned when my stepdad bought me a Playstation 1 way back in 1995, literally 15 years ago [LOL 21 YEARS as of the editing fixing]; Battle Arena Toshinden. Toshinden 1 will forever go down as one of my alltime favorite fighting games that I ever had the pleasure of playing, and for good reason. It was one of the first of its kind; one of the first 3D fighters ever made and the very first fighting game for said system. It had a memorable cast and for a time the game was one of the PS1's choice games. That is until the likes of Tekken and Soul Blade came around...
Nevertheless Toshinden had a great run, although I personally say the very first game was the best out of all 4 games (yeah, I personally played all 4 games of the series, even the 4th, which was Japan exclusive). The game played so much smoother in the 1 game, despite the very small graphical and gameplay tweaks the later games had. It just screams retro all over it, and I always wanted to do a visual run of the game, and so here it is.
This is not a ROM of the game, either. Oh, no, this is THE same CD disc in which I owned from way back in 95; that alone says a LOT to how much I cherish this relic in my collection. I'm playing it through my PS2, and surprisingly, I find it funny the recording software seemed to record it at 60 FPS while the game itself could only do 30 tops (significant, because way back in 95, Takara said the game ran in 60 period, but the console could only kick out 30). That being said, it's time for De to take a HUGE trip back in time back to when he was in elementary school...
...oh, and way before I had Street Fighter's Sakura Kasugano as my favorite 16yearold fighting girl, there was Ellis. 'Nuff said.
"I'll never give up!"
Toshinden; I'll always remember you... is totally forgetting the existence of a certain Wii revival game of said name on purpose