Ikr! At first I thought is was another sirenhead game... Lol the name is totally different but my brain saw head and the s and word head and went oh another siren head game lol
To be fair, I think the spirit jumping slowed down the impact with the ground. The guy didn’t die, as we could see his legs twitching, but he’s definitely going to be feeling that for a while. 😅
This lmao. Immersion SHATTERING. "They must be stopped before they attack more people, but I just made someone jump off the building because I couldn't be bothered with stairs"
@@holls3439 I like to think Night Owl initially (he changes to be more compassionate later due to Julee's influence) as if he's a Space Marine. He's out to kill Slitterheads and any cost to get there is acceptable price. Not saying making a guy jump off a 5 story building is good, however.
My family is from Hong Kong, so i'm always happy to see games that take place there! Kowlong isn't a real place (but it's spelled phonetically how you'd pronounce Kowloon in cantonese), but heavily inspired by the look of HK and the high density-high crime rate history of the Kowloon Walled City before it was demolished (if you like martial arts movie based on this history, Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In is a must see if you can find it). Even if you can't do a full playthru thank you for introducing it to people, like myself, who would have never known about it otherwise. Really interesting concept to get around via possession, and the art direction is really nice. I do find it a rather weird decision to have voice acting sporadically around the game, or only for certain NPCs, but not always in cantonese LOL Lots of people do speak English in HK but i still find it weird that Julee doesn't speak any canto here. I cannot wrap my head around the soundtrack that plays in the map screen.
@@mychatpalace Where the *walled city used to be, Kowloon is an island in Hong Kong and still very much exists. But yes there's a lovely park there now, not really creepy, they have quite a nice information tablet with a mini replica of the walled city, there are remnants of the original 'city' but last time I was there it was quite neatly laid out lol.
@@Momofan69 ah they fixed the piles of random entry way stone markers then. Edit: i went to watch a recent documentary on it. they have fenced them off and are displayed to the public with historical notes. so that is cool. they must have fixed the park up since 1995 from the news articles i was seeing. the documentary is neat they show the museums and the model you showed too.
That entire first conversation between Julee and Nightowl had me in stitches, half because it was goofy and half because of John's cackling and commentary on it 😭😭 I would've preferred a more serious horror game as well tbh, but the weirdness and goofiness is still very entertaining!
Wow John managed to find a game with even more overwhelming tutorializing in the prologue than RDR2 😂 Your doofus voice for Night Owl is perfect. The character voices you've been doing in videos lately really enhanced the experience. Gonna be fun watching you play this ridiculous game.
45:41 basic info for game title: “野狗子 (Yakushi/Yě Gǒu Zi) are a type of monster that appear in Strange Stories From A Chinese Studio (聊斋志异 in simplified Mandarin), a collection of Classical Chinese stories formally published in 1766. Yakushi have a human’s body and a beast’s head (the 野狗 in 野狗子 means “stray dog,” so perhaps a dog’s head) and they appear in battlefields or areas strewn with corpses, where they suck the brains of the dead out of their skulls.“
@@elyurias7201 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Tales_from_a_Chinese_Studio Most if not all the Chinese classics have English translations. You can browse around for books on Chinese folklore quite easily. Stuff like Journey to the West, Investiture of the Gods for instance. There are also more modern books that also have folklore elements, but less likely to be translated.
That opening music slaps so hard. I love Akira Yamaoka's work so much. EDIT: This game is interesting. Something about it feels like a cross between a horror game and a superhero game. I like how a lot of the monsters so far look like freaky sea creatures.
Siren's monster design also heavily leans onto sea creatures. They definetily loved the idea too much to let go of it. I recommend playing or watching Siren if you can.
I do hope you actually complete this play through. It’s very interesting and I love the atmosphere and graphics. I’m one of the few who liked Ghostwire, but I’d truly love to see more of this. I need entertainment to take my mind of the shit that’s going to happen to this country
This is reminding me a lot of parasyte which is one of my favourite mangas. The monsters that just so happen to look like regular people but unleash their true form once they attack, the communication/developing bond between the spirit and the protagonist and the idea of them becoming somehow mixed together are some of the similarities I picked up on. Also that super saiyan made me laugh out loud.
First jumpscare in the game for me is the fact that there was Cantonese lol (especially since it's a game by Japanese developers). My family is from Hong Kong and it's so rare to hear Cantonese in video games so it's always shocking when I hear it (pleasantly shocking!)
48:56: "There's a lot going here...that unfortunately I can't show on TH-cam" Dude getting his brain sucked out by the proboscis of a lady whose head is made of maggots ✅ Boobs ❌ TH-cam makes perfect sense and I understand it completely. I would've been scarred for life if I'd been forced to see some tiddies.
You're disgusting. You don't speak for everyone. Not everyone is obsessed with p0rn, objectification, extreme beauty standards, or degradation or wants to see it. I prefer there be no gore in entertainment either but I can't control everyone. Would you prefer people report and censor gore too? I don't think those two are comparable for a lot of reasons that is too much to get into. Comments like yours make me glad for the 4B movement, antinatalism, and the childfree movement.
@@Case_ Not really fringe, a lot of big streamers got shadow-banned for content of people hanging and regular tropes in horror games...also I never see nudity on YT so I am guessing it's actually banned or they do everything possible to make it invisible...
@@keysaysassah I've never seen anyone actually suffer any consequence for showing unintentional nudity like in games, or show reliable proof that's what actually happened to them. Also, how do streamers get "shadow banned"? I know what shadow banning commenters from a channel looks like (and it's the channel owner doing it, not YT), but how does a streamer being "shadow banned" look like? They're streaming but nobody can see their stream? I'll press X on that. People love to talk about shadow banning like this mythical, borderline conspiracy theory kind of thing, but the actual reasons for someone not seeing something on YT usually turn out to be much simpler, as in something temporarily not working correctly.
So far I think this is reminding me a lot of Tokyo ghoul, a heavily stylized setting with horror visuals but that doesn’t turn into an outright horror story
@@Estrio21 same here, as soon as we were introduced to the concept of something possessing others without, at least this far into the story, a care as to what happens to its hosts, and the design of the monsters and how you fight them, i was immediately reminded of migi
I've seen other people mention that this games feels as if a 17 year old boy made a game with everything their heart could desire (but they were trying to make a serious, dark, and deep game). I'd have to agree with that sentiment. It also find it so weird how shiny (or even wet) the skin of the characters looks at all times. I don't think it was made with that intent but looking at them makes me feel like the world is swampy or humid.
The monster design is super cool and the premise is really interesting! Love your Night Owl voice too, John. Haven't finished the video yet but wondering about Doctor Motorcycle's identity and purpose in the grand scheme of things!
The way the game is set up and the excessive tutorials take me out of it a bit, but absolutely enjoying the voices you've given each character! Night Owl becoming progressively dopier, Julee taking on the ✨determined anime protagonist✨ and the boss being the typical nefarious boss, haha xD Keep up the good work!
this is strangely interesting and funny (because of your commentaries and the voice you give night owl haha), i would love to see you continue it if you want to do it! and as always, thank you for the video, john! :D
Love the praying mantis-like design for the monsters. Seems especially inspired by the insect given that intimate scene you had to blur 😂 Edit: i know the civilians need to be around for the game mechanics but it is a little weird that they just stand there, or even walk right in front of the player. It would make more sense if they cowered in the corners of the arena.
Damn, I thought that it's going to be more creepy and atmospheric like Siren. Fighting oversized angry seafood seems a bit goofy, but we shall see how the story unwinds, I guess.
@@Lionhart22 , it does, unfortunately. That dorky ass dialogue is killing me. If it wasn't for John's spirited performance as Night Owl, I wouldn'tve lasted till the end.
@wumologia Ah man that's such a disappointment. It makes me wonder if it's kinda like a Back 4 Blood situation where it was being hyped as being from the creators of L4D but in actuality all the people who made L4D great were all from Valve and these people were riding on the coat tails to try and promote a game they knew would underdeliver. Makes me wonder if that's the same situation here where Toyama and Yamaoka's names are attached to drive up hype but in reality they aren't really involved minus Yamaoka cause that OP def was his work.
I’d say this game is atmospheric and creepy. It’s just also an action game. Why not both!! At least it’s something different. As a horror fan I get y’all’s disappointment but as someone that’s been having a lot of fun. Check your expectations yk
@Sm0k3turt Nah fam you don't just casually drop Keiichiro Toyama and Akira Yamaoka's names on a game and not expect something like Silent Hill and Siren not some uninspired janky lazily thrown together game. If either of their names weren't attached to this, would it still have the same expectations?
So many HK cinema references thrown in willy-nilly! It's frankly as fun to play 'spot the movie that came from' as it is to pay attention to the game. [Edit: Retract the "so many" part (see comments below) but not the "as fun" part -- apologies.]
ooh, could you tell some? maybe your favorites? i love movie trivia passionately, but live on the other side of the world from HK and wouldn't know what to google lol.
@@LunarShimmer Actually, I'm going to withdraw that claim of mine. Like @palchristianandersen9086 replied, there's a really clear "Fallen Angels" (Wong Kar-Wai, ~1994?) homage right down to camera angles; and there's a scene on the steps that really reminds me of a scene in this one gang-war flick from the early 2000s with Leon Lai that I can't remember the name of. But TBH I only watched the first hour of John's LP and I'm not up for any more -- so I was being totally unfair at best, and more than likely just talking out my butt; I apologise. I think the HK vibes I got come mostly through "Stray" and not cinema, really. And I don't think those are bad vibes :) But as reccos go, the companion film to "Fallen Angels" was of course "Chungking Express", which may still be the _non plus ultra_ of moody, quirky, ultra-stylish films about isolation and love, all at Kowloon/Central street-level. Still very watchable, IMO :)
The music is great but feels like such a tonal shift? Still glad to see your play through! When I saw the trailers forever ago, I expected something more in the line of creepy and such?
Ive been sorta following this since the first trailer dropped and i was hoping it'd be more of an atmospheric mystery game but I'm not mad at what it is so far? I watched gameplay clips that came outta game shows in japan earlier this year so i wasn't surprised. just hoping the game isn't so long that the fighting gets suoer repetitive the idea of multiple super special guys to form a weird anime protag party seems cool tho. i hope you meet the next one soon
I totally forgot this game was coming out. I remember watching a trailer for it maybe a year ago. Still, youtube remembered I watched it and recommended me this so here I am.
New sub and can’t wait for more Asian horror! Since those are the ones that scare you like crazy. The Grudge was the only horror movie where I literally left the theater trying to catch my breath. Also love your commentary during the game. It’s like we’re all friends gaming together.
Great video! Just in case you didn't know, there was a prompt during the fight starting at 29:32 that let you know that if you hold RB near a pool of blood, you can heal. Not sure why the game didn't put it in one of those tutorials, but it was definitely easy to miss.
No it doesn't? That's a spirit, not an alien. There were also no demons in Parasyte. Except if the anime changed the story compared to the original manga.
Awesome thanks John! I misread as slither like as in a snake. Hopefully it's fun and totally get not wanting to do full lp if it's all action no story 😊or if the story sucks.
I will say that the action/combat focus does look like it will be less tedious than the stealth focus in Siren. Using the sightjacking mechanic to track down a disguised enemy makes a change from having to use it to make sure you stayed out of sight so you wouldn't get sniped from across the map or whatever XD I wonder if this game will have the weird "go back and play an old mission a certain way, otherwise you can't continue the plot" thing that Siren had... but with how linear it seems so far, maybe not.
This was nothing like I was expecting! But it's very cool - and I loved watching you play is specifically; the voice you've used for the protagonist is VERY funny to me haha. I get Swery52 vibes from this game, weirdly - especially with the mood swings and the music in the in-between-scenarios scene.... I'd love to see you play more of this! (especially as my own gaming skills would definitely prohibit me from progressing - this looks hard!)
Little gameplay tip: You can heal and consume blood in combat by pressing R1/RB while standing near a puddle of blood from wounded enemies. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Alright Alright Alright ....Let's see how those reviews shake out, lmao! [edit] Good idea setting out that caveat in the beginning, so you won't get all the "where's the rest, bro!?" comments (like you get whenever you leave it til the end). Ehhh, who are we kidding, they'll do it anyway.
This reminds me a little of The Darkness series, protagonist being the host of something "else" that gives them special powers, action filled and a little silly
Some of the mechanics of this remind me of Geist. It was a game by NSpace from like… 2005? My friend Tim Shwalk was on the team working on it… you could possess people, animals, objects… even a can of Shwalk Soda named after Tim 🤣. There was a danger of being caught when possessing someone, the enemies had spirit-detecting dogs, you had to usually frighten someone to weaken them for possession. It was on GameCube.
Slitter head reminds me of deadly premonition a bit of a janky game but very different and that makes you want to keep going to find out what happens next.
This is giving like gore and detective Im liking it Its not scary but the plot of the game brings me curiosity to find out the ending I can't purchase the game but hopefully john plays it and enjoys it.
It would be nice to have Julee voice acted, it's so weird with the civilians able to speak cantonese(hell, the intro song was sung in it too) but Julee just grunts etc.
This game might be the type of silly fun horror I have been looking for. Literally reminds me of prototype with the whole possession and blood weapons but in china and everyone is speaking chinese! I genuinely like this game so far!
The Alley Monster reminds me so much of the Mimic Octupus(?). I love that they got inspired, but at the same time it's very obvious and as if they only added legs and a silly face Lol No hate at the end tho! Looks and moves hella cool!
I am not really invested in this game, just because it was developed by silent hill director does not mean it's going to be good. It seems like the director isn't sure whether to make the game scary, or if he just want it to turn it into the bethesda style, action packed horror like ghostwire tokyo that isn't even remotely scary. The intro looks very mundane. First 20 min in and it feels like the gameplay is extremely repetitive, only linear progression, basically the game says to do this do that, go here go there, make sure to follow the quest marker and you can't be doing anything else. Can only play the game as the game wants you to, not much freedom of choice. Too many games nowadays are exactly like that which is a bit disappointing. Most people go through the storyline one time and never touch it again. Close to zero replayability.
Isn’t this a HK game and not Japanese? Just asking cause I’m learning a bit of Cantonese and Japanese myself on the side so I’m wondering 😮(feel free to correct since I’m still learning❤) Though good work in the video I’m enjoying it and just found ur channel cause of this videos recommendation and I subbed immediately 🎉
While the gameplay doesn’t seem that scary it does seem fun, the setting, characters and story is what intrigues me. Looking forward to what this game has to offer. Whats up with Anita and so on
I do find this game interesting and would like to see you play more of it. However, I do wonder how long it is. It might be a bit too much if it were to end up being a seven part series or something. Three or four parts sounds about right.
Good morning John! I always looking forward to see you uploading at my time zone which is always morning time! It's probably night there, but yeah have a good day John!
Huge, Parasyte: The Maxim, vibes with this game. Monsters remind me alot of them. Especially just waiting for their prey and the their head explodes and attacks.
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Slitterhead sounds like the name of a creepypasta character from the 2000s
Or a horror movie from the late 70s
For a time I kept confusing this game with Flathead
collect the 8 pages before slitterhead gets you
Ikr! At first I thought is was another sirenhead game... Lol the name is totally different but my brain saw head and the s and word head and went oh another siren head game lol
@@basshunter1 Slenderhead
Spirit: I'm the good one of this game.
Also Spirit: *makes a man jump to his death and beats the shit out of bystanders*
YEAH i wanted to say night owl could've easily switched between humans to go down the way it did when it had to go up instead of making the guy jump
To be fair, I think the spirit jumping slowed down the impact with the ground. The guy didn’t die, as we could see his legs twitching, but he’s definitely going to be feeling that for a while. 😅
This lmao. Immersion SHATTERING. "They must be stopped before they attack more people, but I just made someone jump off the building because I couldn't be bothered with stairs"
@@holls3439 I like to think Night Owl initially (he changes to be more compassionate later due to Julee's influence) as if he's a Space Marine. He's out to kill Slitterheads and any cost to get there is acceptable price. Not saying making a guy jump off a 5 story building is good, however.
My family is from Hong Kong, so i'm always happy to see games that take place there! Kowlong isn't a real place (but it's spelled phonetically how you'd pronounce Kowloon in cantonese), but heavily inspired by the look of HK and the high density-high crime rate history of the Kowloon Walled City before it was demolished (if you like martial arts movie based on this history, Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In is a must see if you can find it). Even if you can't do a full playthru thank you for introducing it to people, like myself, who would have never known about it otherwise. Really interesting concept to get around via possession, and the art direction is really nice. I do find it a rather weird decision to have voice acting sporadically around the game, or only for certain NPCs, but not always in cantonese LOL Lots of people do speak English in HK but i still find it weird that Julee doesn't speak any canto here. I cannot wrap my head around the soundtrack that plays in the map screen.
isn't the location where Kowloon used to be, a park or something now. One where creepy remains of some entrance statues remain in random piles?
@@mychatpalace Where the *walled city used to be, Kowloon is an island in Hong Kong and still very much exists.
But yes there's a lovely park there now, not really creepy, they have quite a nice information tablet with a mini replica of the walled city, there are remnants of the original 'city' but last time I was there it was quite neatly laid out lol.
@@Momofan69 ah they fixed the piles of random entry way stone markers then. Edit: i went to watch a recent documentary on it. they have fenced them off and are displayed to the public with historical notes. so that is cool. they must have fixed the park up since 1995 from the news articles i was seeing. the documentary is neat they show the museums and the model you showed too.
@@Momofan69 kowloon, an island? kowloon's a peninsula~ bruhh
That entire first conversation between Julee and Nightowl had me in stitches, half because it was goofy and half because of John's cackling and commentary on it 😭😭 I would've preferred a more serious horror game as well tbh, but the weirdness and goofiness is still very entertaining!
Same lol 😆
I love the silliness tbh it’s fun
Wow John managed to find a game with even more overwhelming tutorializing in the prologue than RDR2 😂
Your doofus voice for Night Owl is perfect. The character voices you've been doing in videos lately really enhanced the experience. Gonna be fun watching you play this ridiculous game.
45:41 basic info for game title:
“野狗子 (Yakushi/Yě Gǒu Zi) are a type of monster that appear in Strange Stories From A Chinese Studio (聊斋志异 in simplified Mandarin), a collection of Classical Chinese stories formally published in 1766.
Yakushi have a human’s body and a beast’s head (the 野狗 in 野狗子 means “stray dog,” so perhaps a dog’s head) and they appear in battlefields or areas strewn with corpses, where they suck the brains of the dead out of their skulls.“
Do you have a book to recommend for those types of chinese fairy tales? In English, I would love in Chinese but I'm far from finishing hsk1 xD
"The More You Know" 🌠
Thank You!
@@elyurias7201 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Tales_from_a_Chinese_Studio
Most if not all the Chinese classics have English translations. You can browse around for books on Chinese folklore quite easily. Stuff like Journey to the West, Investiture of the Gods for instance. There are also more modern books that also have folklore elements, but less likely to be translated.
47:30 "You can change masks and costumes for Rarities..."
FASHION OBTAINED!
That opening music slaps so hard. I love Akira Yamaoka's work so much.
EDIT: This game is interesting. Something about it feels like a cross between a horror game and a superhero game. I like how a lot of the monsters so far look like freaky sea creatures.
same kinda vibes I was getting when I first played parasite eve way way way back in the day lol
Siren's monster design also heavily leans onto sea creatures. They definetily loved the idea too much to let go of it. I recommend playing or watching Siren if you can.
I do hope you actually complete this play through. It’s very interesting and I love the atmosphere and graphics. I’m one of the few who liked Ghostwire, but I’d truly love to see more of this. I need entertainment to take my mind of the shit that’s going to happen to this country
This is reminding me a lot of parasyte which is one of my favourite mangas. The monsters that just so happen to look like regular people but unleash their true form once they attack, the communication/developing bond between the spirit and the protagonist and the idea of them becoming somehow mixed together are some of the similarities I picked up on. Also that super saiyan made me laugh out loud.
That was my first thought when I saw the monsters. Such a good series!
First jumpscare in the game for me is the fact that there was Cantonese lol (especially since it's a game by Japanese developers). My family is from Hong Kong and it's so rare to hear Cantonese in video games so it's always shocking when I hear it (pleasantly shocking!)
They are actually speaking Cantonese in the opening scene!
Literally threw me off when the opening song was in Cantonese and I expected Japanese lmao
@@kweenac833 yeah same
Your special powers use blood which is also your health bar. So spamming blood ripper is killing yourself.
"Impailed by a tentacle and not in a fun way either." My thoughts exactly
48:56: "There's a lot going here...that unfortunately I can't show on TH-cam"
Dude getting his brain sucked out by the proboscis of a lady whose head is made of maggots ✅
Boobs ❌
TH-cam makes perfect sense and I understand it completely. I would've been scarred for life if I'd been forced to see some tiddies.
You can show it on YT just fine, it's just that streamers and content creators have become overly careful due to some fringe cases.
Western censorship be weird, man
You're disgusting. You don't speak for everyone. Not everyone is obsessed with p0rn, objectification, extreme beauty standards, or degradation or wants to see it.
I prefer there be no gore in entertainment either but I can't control everyone.
Would you prefer people report and censor gore too?
I don't think those two are comparable for a lot of reasons that is too much to get into.
Comments like yours make me glad for the 4B movement, antinatalism, and the childfree movement.
@@Case_ Not really fringe, a lot of big streamers got shadow-banned for content of people hanging and regular tropes in horror games...also I never see nudity on YT so I am guessing it's actually banned or they do everything possible to make it invisible...
@@keysaysassah I've never seen anyone actually suffer any consequence for showing unintentional nudity like in games, or show reliable proof that's what actually happened to them.
Also, how do streamers get "shadow banned"? I know what shadow banning commenters from a channel looks like (and it's the channel owner doing it, not YT), but how does a streamer being "shadow banned" look like? They're streaming but nobody can see their stream? I'll press X on that. People love to talk about shadow banning like this mythical, borderline conspiracy theory kind of thing, but the actual reasons for someone not seeing something on YT usually turn out to be much simpler, as in something temporarily not working correctly.
Felt a spark of joy when seeing the blue highlights for targets, such a callback to Siren
“Anita more information”
Oh, John. I love you.
Cat parody: litter head
Thank you very much
With complete sincerity, I _do_ thank you for this!
😂😂😂😂 hilarious I love it
Raccoon parody: critter head
Thank you very much
im only 10 minutes in but the music constantly doing a high suspense crescendo every 5 seconds is driving me crazy
Gameplay stopping popup tutorial for everything else except for the healing mechanic is kinda crazy
Lmao I laughed out loud when I saw the little girl went super saiyan. Please play more of this game, it looks funny!
Dr. Motorcycle is killing me. Gives me a chuckle every time he says it
So far I think this is reminding me a lot of Tokyo ghoul, a heavily stylized setting with horror visuals but that doesn’t turn into an outright horror story
I was thinking more Parasyte then Tokyo ghoul but both are very very similar lol.
Oshiete, oshiete yo sono shikumi wo
I would love a tokyo ghoul game like this
@@Estrio21 same here, as soon as we were introduced to the concept of something possessing others without, at least this far into the story, a care as to what happens to its hosts, and the design of the monsters and how you fight them, i was immediately reminded of migi
38:50 those anime grunts were getting to me and this is coming from someone who likes anime.
😂
Our hero went to the Link school of communication.
Hah! Hyaaagh!
I've seen other people mention that this games feels as if a 17 year old boy made a game with everything their heart could desire (but they were trying to make a serious, dark, and deep game).
I'd have to agree with that sentiment.
It also find it so weird how shiny (or even wet) the skin of the characters looks at all times. I don't think it was made with that intent but looking at them makes me feel like the world is swampy or humid.
I love how they just randomly have huge trash dumpsters on the roofs of buildings with no means of reasonable access for emptying them.
This is like a less messed up version of Prototype. Anyone else remember that game? I don't know why but I just got that vibe from this.
The monster design is super cool and the premise is really interesting! Love your Night Owl voice too, John. Haven't finished the video yet but wondering about Doctor Motorcycle's identity and purpose in the grand scheme of things!
The way the game is set up and the excessive tutorials take me out of it a bit, but absolutely enjoying the voices you've given each character! Night Owl becoming progressively dopier, Julee taking on the ✨determined anime protagonist✨ and the boss being the typical nefarious boss, haha xD Keep up the good work!
this is strangely interesting and funny (because of your commentaries and the voice you give night owl haha), i would love to see you continue it if you want to do it! and as always, thank you for the video, john! :D
Love the praying mantis-like design for the monsters. Seems especially inspired by the insect given that intimate scene you had to blur 😂
Edit: i know the civilians need to be around for the game mechanics but it is a little weird that they just stand there, or even walk right in front of the player. It would make more sense if they cowered in the corners of the arena.
Damn, I thought that it's going to be more creepy and atmospheric like Siren. Fighting oversized angry seafood seems a bit goofy, but we shall see how the story unwinds, I guess.
Im 23 minutes into this video and I've checked out twice. This game seems absolutely janky and boring
@@Lionhart22 , it does, unfortunately. That dorky ass dialogue is killing me. If it wasn't for John's spirited performance as Night Owl, I wouldn'tve lasted till the end.
@wumologia Ah man that's such a disappointment. It makes me wonder if it's kinda like a Back 4 Blood situation where it was being hyped as being from the creators of L4D but in actuality all the people who made L4D great were all from Valve and these people were riding on the coat tails to try and promote a game they knew would underdeliver. Makes me wonder if that's the same situation here where Toyama and Yamaoka's names are attached to drive up hype but in reality they aren't really involved minus Yamaoka cause that OP def was his work.
I’d say this game is atmospheric and creepy. It’s just also an action game. Why not both!!
At least it’s something different. As a horror fan I get y’all’s disappointment but as someone that’s been having a lot of fun. Check your expectations yk
@Sm0k3turt Nah fam you don't just casually drop Keiichiro Toyama and Akira Yamaoka's names on a game and not expect something like Silent Hill and Siren not some uninspired janky lazily thrown together game. If either of their names weren't attached to this, would it still have the same expectations?
this game is a little goofy but i dig it!!!!!
Love the name of the monster in the alley ... "Alley Monster." 35:00 😂😆
Me in my head “it’s Stray 2!”
John: “anyone feel like we’re playing Stray right now?”
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So many HK cinema references thrown in willy-nilly! It's frankly as fun to play 'spot the movie that came from' as it is to pay attention to the game. [Edit: Retract the "so many" part (see comments below) but not the "as fun" part -- apologies.]
ooh, could you tell some? maybe your favorites? i love movie trivia passionately, but live on the other side of the world from HK and wouldn't know what to google lol.
The scene with the motorcycle going through the tunnel at night is definitely a homage to Fallen Angels.
@@LunarShimmer Actually, I'm going to withdraw that claim of mine. Like @palchristianandersen9086 replied, there's a really clear "Fallen Angels" (Wong Kar-Wai, ~1994?) homage right down to camera angles; and there's a scene on the steps that really reminds me of a scene in this one gang-war flick from the early 2000s with Leon Lai that I can't remember the name of. But TBH I only watched the first hour of John's LP and I'm not up for any more -- so I was being totally unfair at best, and more than likely just talking out my butt; I apologise.
I think the HK vibes I got come mostly through "Stray" and not cinema, really. And I don't think those are bad vibes :)
But as reccos go, the companion film to "Fallen Angels" was of course "Chungking Express", which may still be the _non plus ultra_ of moody, quirky, ultra-stylish films about isolation and love, all at Kowloon/Central street-level. Still very watchable, IMO :)
@@palchristianandersen9086 Yeah, that's what caught my eye -- "That looks like... you can't really be copying -- oh, no, you really, really are."
Body shaming simulator, lol the spirit has no chill
Slitterhead? I hardly knew her!
Lol i also was happy when i was right it was akira yamaoka! I so thought it sounded like silent hill :) makes me happy love his work!
glad to see you play John, so far. totally fine if you dont continue it but i always enjoy the content!
That was really fun! Thank you for playing, John!
Please continue this series, John! I HAVE to know the real identity of Dr. Motorcycle!!
8:10 that part with the dog, following a scent throw me back to the 102 dalmatians game for PS1, second time in my life I see a mechanic like that
The music is great but feels like such a tonal shift? Still glad to see your play through! When I saw the trailers forever ago, I expected something more in the line of creepy and such?
Brrrrruhhrrrrrr Rah!
Brrrrruhhrrrrrr Rah!
Brrrrruhhrrrrrr Rah!
Was not expecting lady Deathstrike
31:20 "She got impaled by a tentacle…. and not in the fun way either." 😂 I see you John 😏🦑
I love how dopey you made night owl sound
Ive been sorta following this since the first trailer dropped and i was hoping it'd be more of an atmospheric mystery game
but I'm not mad at what it is so far? I watched gameplay clips that came outta game shows in japan earlier this year so i wasn't surprised. just hoping the game isn't so long that the fighting gets suoer repetitive
the idea of multiple super special guys to form a weird anime protag party seems cool tho. i hope you meet the next one soon
I'm halfway through the video and this game is already a blatant hybrid of Siren and Ghostwire: Tokyo.
I've played neither so maybe this will be the perfect game for me lol.
That’s exactly what I thought
Insect parody: critterhead
i didnt realize how much of a wild time this game was going to be, thats my fault though, it IS made by the siren guy
hey John! thanks for the video first thing after work today!
I totally forgot this game was coming out. I remember watching a trailer for it maybe a year ago. Still, youtube remembered I watched it and recommended me this so here I am.
New sub and can’t wait for more Asian horror! Since those are the ones that scare you like crazy. The Grudge was the only horror movie where I literally left the theater trying to catch my breath.
Also love your commentary during the game. It’s like we’re all friends gaming together.
Great video!
Just in case you didn't know, there was a prompt during the fight starting at 29:32 that let you know that if you hold RB near a pool of blood, you can heal. Not sure why the game didn't put it in one of those tutorials, but it was definitely easy to miss.
This has exactly the same plot as the Parasyte Anime
No it doesn't? That's a spirit, not an alien. There were also no demons in Parasyte. Except if the anime changed the story compared to the original manga.
Awesome thanks John!
I misread as slither like as in a snake. Hopefully it's fun and totally get not wanting to do full lp if it's all action no story 😊or if the story sucks.
A Japanese made HK based game...interesting
It's kinda like "Fallen (1998)" from the killers perspective, but creepier? But also you're the hero? I like. 👍
What a throw back reference. Yeah that movie was amazing.
Great movie.
I will say that the action/combat focus does look like it will be less tedious than the stealth focus in Siren. Using the sightjacking mechanic to track down a disguised enemy makes a change from having to use it to make sure you stayed out of sight so you wouldn't get sniped from across the map or whatever XD
I wonder if this game will have the weird "go back and play an old mission a certain way, otherwise you can't continue the plot" thing that Siren had... but with how linear it seems so far, maybe not.
This was nothing like I was expecting! But it's very cool - and I loved watching you play is specifically; the voice you've used for the protagonist is VERY funny to me haha.
I get Swery52 vibes from this game, weirdly - especially with the mood swings and the music in the in-between-scenarios scene....
I'd love to see you play more of this! (especially as my own gaming skills would definitely prohibit me from progressing - this looks hard!)
Unrelated but I would love to see you play Deadly Premonition
This game is weird but I love it. Been playing it the past couple days and it’s super unique!
Little gameplay tip: You can heal and consume blood in combat by pressing R1/RB while standing near a puddle of blood from wounded enemies.
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I’ve been so curious about this game!
Alright Alright Alright ....Let's see how those reviews shake out, lmao!
[edit] Good idea setting out that caveat in the beginning, so you won't get all the "where's the rest, bro!?" comments (like you get whenever you leave it til the end).
Ehhh, who are we kidding, they'll do it anyway.
This reminds me a little of The Darkness series, protagonist being the host of something "else" that gives them special powers, action filled and a little silly
Cool a 3D remaster of 1991's arcade Avenging Spirit
Some of the mechanics of this remind me of Geist. It was a game by NSpace from like… 2005? My friend Tim Shwalk was on the team working on it… you could possess people, animals, objects… even a can of Shwalk Soda named after Tim 🤣. There was a danger of being caught when possessing someone, the enemies had spirit-detecting dogs, you had to usually frighten someone to weaken them for possession. It was on GameCube.
Slitterhead sounds like how slytherine fans calls themselves
What if a horror game had Sekiro parries?
Slitter head reminds me of deadly premonition a bit of a janky game but very different and that makes you want to keep going to find out what happens next.
I was thinking the same thing, the goofy story with disturbing elements is also really reminiscent of deadly premonition
This is giving like gore and detective
Im liking it
Its not scary but the plot of the game brings me curiosity to find out the ending
I can't purchase the game but hopefully john plays it and enjoys it.
my favorite part is that julee is doing all this running, jumping, climbing, and fighting.... in slides lol
The noises the monster's make are pretty awesome
This game is fun (to watch), it feels like Ghostwire Tokyo ish. I do hope u are continuing this series.
It would be nice to have Julee voice acted, it's so weird with the civilians able to speak cantonese(hell, the intro song was sung in it too) but Julee just grunts etc.
Good day john! i hope you're doing okay ✨
Kind of different but I'm enjoying the playthrough. Hoping you play more!
blood weapon? its like deadman wonderland in here
Ah nice Sllitterhead play by john and cool game to play and can't wait to play it as well ye 🎉🎉🎉
This game might be the type of silly fun horror I have been looking for. Literally reminds me of prototype with the whole possession and blood weapons but in china and everyone is speaking chinese!
I genuinely like this game so far!
The Alley Monster reminds me so much of the Mimic Octupus(?). I love that they got inspired, but at the same time it's very obvious and as if they only added legs and a silly face Lol
No hate at the end tho! Looks and moves hella cool!
That 1 monster let looks like a Praying. Mantis, remind me of beetlejuice versus, Freddy Krueger.
Oh wow since its Japaense developers I did not expect to hear my mother tongue...interested to see how this game turns out!
i hope you continue! this is super entertaining. Thanks John 😊👐
I am not really invested in this game, just because it was developed by silent hill director does not mean it's going to be good. It seems like the director isn't sure whether to make the game scary, or if he just want it to turn it into the bethesda style, action packed horror like ghostwire tokyo that isn't even remotely scary. The intro looks very mundane. First 20 min in and it feels like the gameplay is extremely repetitive, only linear progression, basically the game says to do this do that, go here go there, make sure to follow the quest marker and you can't be doing anything else. Can only play the game as the game wants you to, not much freedom of choice. Too many games nowadays are exactly like that which is a bit disappointing. Most people go through the storyline one time and never touch it again. Close to zero replayability.
Isn’t this a HK game and not Japanese? Just asking cause I’m learning a bit of Cantonese and Japanese myself on the side so I’m wondering 😮(feel free to correct since I’m still learning❤)
Though good work in the video I’m enjoying it and just found ur channel cause of this videos recommendation and I subbed immediately 🎉
Funny, when I saw a character in a leather jacket on a motorcycle who had patients, I thought of Steve Martin's dentist from Little Shop of Horrors.
While the gameplay doesn’t seem that scary it does seem fun, the setting, characters and story is what intrigues me. Looking forward to what this game has to offer. Whats up with Anita and so on
This feels like an anime turned in to a game and I mean that in a good way. It's interesting and I hope we see more soon
I do find this game interesting and would like to see you play more of it. However, I do wonder how long it is. It might be a bit too much if it were to end up being a seven part series or something. Three or four parts sounds about right.
Akira's music makes everything next level!
Good morning John! I always looking forward to see you uploading at my time zone which is always morning time! It's probably night there, but yeah have a good day John!
Huge, Parasyte: The Maxim, vibes with this game. Monsters remind me alot of them. Especially just waiting for their prey and the their head explodes and attacks.
This messed with my tinnitus. It was very bad after I woke up.
Fascinated with and would love to see more of this. But so far it's definitely nowhere near as weirdly engaging as Siren and Siren 2
Those voices. All I can hear is: "Rangers!" 😂