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12:13 Dat feeling when you finished hrot multiple times and didn't know you can kick back grenades.

i keep getting reccomended cruelty squad vids and i keep watching them all

great video :)

I liked doom 3 when it was new though I was also underwhelmed as it was nowhere near as good as the older games. Same goes for the new dooms. They're better than 3 but lack any tactical depth because you can just instaheal whenever you want. Classic doom is a real combat puzzle game

honestly, found this video late one night, and as the video unfolded i bought it. no matter what you say i need to experience this for myself.

Great video that you clearly put a ton of effort and passion into. Subbed!

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Under 1k views shocked me when I saw it after finishing the vid. The flow is very natural. Good stuff

HROT genuinely made me want to learn more about Czechia, someone from there even made a guide called Lost in Translation explaining all the details found in the game, mad props to that person.

Great video, I'll have to watch the other ones you've made ! I had a similar reaction to HROT : no other game made me read Wikipedia articles or hyped me to read a novel (War with the newts looks great) ! Love from France ! edit: You've got a new subscriber

Good vid

I just stood upon your channel and what a great video, BUT most important IS THE GAME LIST at the end. My wallet is going to hate you for this HAHA

Dwarf fortress 2022. 2022 TT

I love finding really well-made and passionately-made video essays and then realizing it's from an up-and-coming TH-camr with relatively few subscribers. The next generation of TH-cam videogame essayists is gonna be good. Subscribed!

MODEST MOUSE MENTIONED RAHHHH

Great video, House is a fantastic movie :3

Youre a fucking badass. Dont deny me when youre a big shit with big shit munny. I dont want your munny. Youre just a badass.

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You hooked me at House.

the quality of the camera, the non-existent lighting and the half-life shirt at 18:15 make me think that this video was made in 1996 (even though Half life wouldn't come out till '98) Very well played. Very well played indeed :D

just dont watch it high or you gonna have the worst trip ever

I must say, thanks to this video, this was one of the best games I've ever played.

Cat mentioned!!!!😊

Really cool video ! I remember having the same desire to discover a new culture with the Kingdom Come game. After playing it I went to visit Czech Republic and I really enjoyed discovering this country after having played the game !

Definitely a big colour shift from Hrot! Now i need to find a copy of this. Looks wild.

Where’s the fnaf vid?

You ran over my cat don’t think I forgot….

never go to Czechoslovak Socialist Republic bruh 😭😭😭😭

Loved your channel hopefully you can continue creating more content and not getting stuck in your head. you can only go up from here man such solid content.

0:24 fuck all that shit they had Life is Peachy

The plot of the game is based on legend which says that if the Orloj stop working, a disaster or a war will come for the nation, which in Hrots case is a horde of mutans invading Czechoslovakia, that is why we must we must repair it at the end of the game to stop it

Socialism, like fascism (and all other forms of collectivism), can only be implemented and enforced through authoritarian oppression and coercion. Ayn Rand and Robert Heinlein would both back me up on that. 7:56 "Interloper." I see what you did there. That was a Half-Life reference, wasn't it? 8:01 Notice how the shotgun is reverse pump-action in the style of the RMB-93. The RMB-93, apart from being reverse pump-action, is also top-fed and inverted. 9:19 Why do you throw 'nades right-handed if you're already using your right hand to wield weapons? This is something S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Borderlands get right. In S.T.A.L.K.E.R., you wield weapons and toss 'nades right-handed, but you select a 'nade the same way you'd select a weapon. In Borderlands, you toss 'nades using your left hand while wielding weapons with your right hand. Those methods both work and make sense. Doing it the way HROT does it (lots of other games do it this way too) makes it seem like your character forgot that they have a left hand. Left-handedness was verboten in the Soviet Union, but we're talking weapon-wielding practicality here. Screw the so-called "rules!" And screw the rulers too! 17:43 / 23:18 The Czechs and Slovaks are also known for their excellent beer. 23:18 Czech and Slovak beercraft is as reputable as Germany's beercraft. The original pilsner (a word that means "citizen of Pils"), the style most associated with Czech and Slovak beer culture, was invented by a German brewer in Pils when the Czech Republic was known as Bohemia (hence "Bohemian-style beer"). 25:48 Ezekiel 38,2: "Behold! I am against you, Gog of the land of Magog, chief prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal." 28:09 That's a nationalist ideal, not socialist. From a nationalist's perspective, nationalism IS Resistance, especially against imperialism (or globalism which is the same thing). Also, I should point out that I mean CIVIC nationalism. 28:17 A socialist country CAN'T be "autonomous." Autonomy, also known as "autarky," is a nationalist ideal incompatible with socialist internationalism, fascist imperialism, or corporate globalism.

Finally, someone talking about this!!! Go slav!

This was a fantastic review. It reminded me just how much I love video games. And that's one of the highest praises I can give because I love video games insanely much. And the only other thing that reminds me so well of how much I like video games is playing video games. I like how you tried to capture the feel of what the game wants to showcase. Its love for its inspirations and culture. Which in turn inspires me to continue making games and showing off the things that I love. What I put into games is certainly very different than HROT. I like bright fantastical things a lot more. But what you showed of HROT here does remind me of the love for inspirations and makes me strive to look more into things that I like. Those playfull secrets like the model.train are glorious (and I'll probably steal the recipes as rewards thing). I think I'll end it like this: There's a few books I feel I would REALLY like. So I should get to reading them sometime to find more inspiration on what I do.

I grew up with many of the great first person shooters of the 90s, still love the graphics despite the evolution of it in more modern shooters. Many old shooters are "remade" or "repacked" with new engines, you know, 'ports' or so it's called... Wolfenstein 3D, Hexen (or was it Heretic?), BLOOD and many more were packaged/ported often if not only by fans communities to be platform-independent + removing bugs and making the graphics a little bit smoother but without removing the "crunchy" aspect as the author calls it. Never played "Minecraft" but maybe the aesthetics of that game is the only hope that younger people have the chance to stumble over those good old games despite being spoiled by nowadays HD graphics, like we all are, of course :)

I'd imagine there's probably metaphors and symbolism to HROT's "narrative". Think of it like certain stories that don't seem to be about anything specifically, but hide things to say underneath a simple surface. You've gotten to a great place with analyzing it already, though I'd add that the elements of absurdity, mundanity and bleakness all clashing together probably hold some commentary on their own. Even if something doesn't intend to have many themes or any at all, it still has hidden meanings because we as humans accidentally communicate many things all the time. Hopefully someone actually from the Czech Republic and with knowledge of the history and culture can make a proper analysis of the game's themes and potential social commentary. I heard from certain Czech people who look at the art direction itself as having commentary on Czech culture.

how do you make these models?

Holy shit man your underrated as hell and I watched your HROT review and dude your a gem

28:20 An outsider with no memory of their own, much like you, the player, set on a path of destruction by one motivational poster, no one else believed in. Why did you fix the Orloj? Why were you envigorated by Czech food? Why did you play this game? That is why.

trainspotting, swans, fishmans, and modest mouse? i know what you are (in a good way).

Just note that BIOS files are just as illegal to download as roms

This game is so awesome, Dennaton Games and El Huervo hopped on board. Söderstrom even managed to make a new grain shader, that's awesome of Gothenburg indie!

It's saddening Chasm got snatched by russian publishers obfuscating it's origins with naming it an "eastern european" shooter. I wish former AF staff or GSC had rights on Chasm. As for HROT, I was IMPRESSED when HROT ran on 100 FPS on my awful PC.

28:05 Yes, it is a complete repulsion of socialist ideals, we don't like the ideas of collectivist ideologies in Czechia. At 28:45 there is even more intentional and ideologically motivated misinterpretation. The gritty aesthetics and the over the top Soviet symbolics are a caricature of how it feels to live in a socialist dystopia. And most importantly, the author of the game himself is anti-communist.

Hrot is a boomer shooter but actually good

UNDER GROUND KANGS

I am assuming you dont remember the events in the intro.. I remember those events in 1996 like they just happened.

-Why should I even be interested in this game? -You fight Putin mounted on bear -Say no more, I'm in. They know my secret desires