For a game named "Turnip boy commits tax fraud", this game was more intellectual about its topic than most games. This is actually a cinematic masterpiece.
Yeah, it's like a metaphor, not for nuclear fallout, but for corruption. Sure, it was some of your fault, but did the last of humanity NEED to die? Did the world NEED to nearly end? Think about it, it was Mayor Onion's fault, wasn't it?
Ah, I get it, the cat has buttered bread strapped to its back. A cat always lands on its legs, but bread also always lands on its buttered side, so when it jumps it just keeps spinning infinitely without ever being able to touch the ground
the reason this joke exist is because THE most famous actual mob boss got taken down for tax fraud, also notice that this game is about mob bosses aswel it's genius actually
That actually makes perfect sense with them being Vegetables, Fruits and Berries. Wait that means the humans were likely only down there for no more than a few months. Damn that’s scary to imagine
Liz's story of surviving the bombs, living in a bunker for years, running from a radioactive telekinetic Turnip with a face that invaded her home only to approach it, get mutated by it and then killed minutes later wiping out the last of humanity but, hay that's taxes.
It's not the last of humanity. I think Liz's parents (the shadowy figures who you follow around the bunker) hid in a room that turnip boy couldn't get to.
@@meowdynyall9284 Damn that's creepy oh my god imagine if it was like a surveillance room that would be awful they would have seen their daughter mutate and get murdered.
i think its more about how taxation is the ultimate form of robbery/wealth accumulation that can be abused, with the atomic bomb showing how far people (governments) are willing to go to protect their enterprises, income streams, and taxation
Not ONLY the terror of the atomic bomb. If you've noticed, the subheader of the article talking about the bombs drop at 25:19 was "We're going to stop the virus!", and now this correlation is going to haunt my nightmares.
it's kind of sad how Liz was perfectly fine, living her life out in the bunker, when you just break in, mutate her with your radiation, and proceed to literally murder her
@@redking36 if I remember correctly they survive and aren't contaminated, but at the state of their bunker after the boss fight I doubt they survive for long. They also had a son who was drafted to the military before the world changing events, he just disappeared one day, so they've lost two children at this point.
This is truly the pinnacle of the “cute game with humorously adult themes” genre. I don’t think any other game in the genre could beat this level of ridiculousness.
@@jmiod2819 On the one hand, I agree, but I'd also be wary about stretching it out too far and having it outstay its welcome. Six hours is probably about the limit of what you could get away with here without really expanding the scope of the game and gameplay itself, or you're gonna need some *really* good and creative writing to carry it.
I just realized, the reason Crancran is old yet talks like a gen z is because she adapted our speaking mannerisms since gen z was most likely the last and therefore oldest available generation
The original: Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion The sequel: Turnip Boy Commits a Felony The trilogy’s end: Turnip Boy Commits a War Crime The Epilogue: Turnip Boy Breaks out of Prison
Wow. They actually did it. They took a cherry, put Kakyoin's face on it, named it Kakyoin, and even had it say rerorerorerorerorero. This game is WAY too meta
After learning Turnip boy was related to the mafia, it reminded me that one of the most infamous mafia bosses, Al Capone, was ultimately done in by tax evasion.
The funniest part is that it isn't so much that he didn't pay his taxes, it's that he didn't list his illegal income on his tax forms, which ironically you have to do.
This reminds me of adventure time It’s all cute and dumb at first, but then you realize it’s all set in a post-apocalyptic hellhole with terrifying amounts of lore and a musical number that’s way better than it deserves to be
@@shibadawn Dude you totally should- I had only watched a bit of it when I was little at first too but on rewatching it, after around season 3 the characters and plot lines get so fleshed out it’s awesome The first few seasons are definitely more kid-friendly though, but it’s still pretty fun to watch
@@doomclasher9287 Kirby has survived a galaxy exploding, Turnip boy technically dies of a point blank nuke, but can survive a nuke seperate by a basement's worth of ground. so, Kirby still beats turnip boy. also, Kirby might try to eat him,
@@doomclasher9287 also, those explosive tomatos wouldn't even scratch him, one time he ate an entire melon field worth of watermelons that were actually bombs.
Hearing "Oh shit, it's the mob!" from RT isn't unusual, nor is hearing him say it in a cutesy game. Hearing him say it unironically and completely in-context for a cutesy game like this? Delightfully unexpected.
That ain't an ordinary shitpost, this attempts to be dark with the lore and it is very good at NOT chucking lore text at your face the first 10 seconds you turn on the game. This is not a shitpost this is a goldpost.
the thing that gets me about this game isn't the "plot twist" since its pretty easy to spot early on, but rather how far they go with it. talking foods as the result of nukes? sure, whatever. actually seeing surviving humans in bomb shelters and *killing* one of them? thats pretty rad and then they just act like that didn't happen. 10/10
I was not ready for the rollercoaster of emotions this gave me. Humanity is dead, Veggies learned how to read and write, there was a Mafia, Onion nearly destroyed the world. Turnip Boy is wholesome.
probably ate her brother since there was a boy ghost in the secret room area and her parents were clearly alive as they were the people who were running from turnip boy and locked the door
@@chrispanganiban2087 the ghost was likely Matt, who was conscripted to the army and soon after declared missing. Liz speaks of missing Matt, but seemly having been told he only "went somewhere"
@@Hana1LuLu I wonder how matt reached the farmhouse and became a ghost.. maybe she did eat him afterall and that hasn't let him rest in peace so he became a ghost and left the bunker. Afterall Liz parents abandoned her after seeing danger, meaning that family did not care for their daughter no more since she ate their son lol
33:41 The original quote was: "Listen Simon... Don't forget. Believe in yourself. Not in the you who believes in me. Not the me who believes in you. Believe in the you who believes in yourself." - Kamina from Gurren Lagann
He actually uses two variations of the quote. The second one is the one you posted, but the first is: "Don't believe in yourself, believe in me! Believe in the Kamina who believes in you!"
Add to the fact that he _just_ acquired the hazmat suit. He could've worn it to prevent the human from being irradiated (unless you can't wear it in the game).
@@mckennaisaperson4058 it was always implied. If I remember correctly one of the first things you see each episode is undetonated nukes in the intro. Also the lich is like literally radiation incarnate and there’s an episode where Finn creates a world where the lich was never released... only for his alt reality self to find and accidentally set of a nuke and release the lich.
What separates this game from almost all other "cute funny game, but actually super dark" is that it never takes itself too seriously. The comedy and tone stay consistent throughout the whole game. There is no moment where it gets super dark. The heavy themes and lore are there from the start if you're looking. This isn't a dig at similar games, btw. I love indie games like this. I just noticed that this game has so much charm, it's writing isn't forced, and it understands the references deeper than just mindlessly throwing them in.
It just dawned on me… what if the reason why Turnip Boy doesn’t have any verbal dialogue… is because anything he says can and will be used against him in court…
okay tho, all the details in this game are incredible, at firts it just seems like this game that does meta humour too much, but then actually has a story that connects with everything. And when you realize that the musix has the sirens calls, I literally coundn't believe it
This has massive Adventure Time vibes to me, with the cutesy presentation and anthropomorphic critters contrasting with a background Nuclear war overtone and sinister tones.
On the topic of the hidden air sirens in the background music, you can also hear a drum being hit at the end, possibly to represent the sound of the bomb's actually hitting the ground and detonating
Never in all my days did i think i would ever come across an extremely family friendly game with relevant and genuinely funny memes about simps, tax evasion, drafting, running from the police, the mafia, twitch culture, internet weebs, reddit copypastas, tiktok, property tax, and more cursed stuff
I watched the stream and that's exactly what happened, you see her eyes hiding in the closet then when he got too close the closet stopped shaking and glowed green
*_"THERE WILL BE TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION THROUGHOUT THE GALAXIES"_* ...is not a phrase I thought I would ever hear, _but that is freaking epic_
@@TheEnecca hey! Matt most likely died in the war, his ghost is seen haunting the old farmhouse Liz was hiding in the closet when a radioactive turnip boy snuck in, stole her hazmat suit, and killed her through radiation poisoning The parents were seen fleeing and locked them selves in that back room of their bunker Overall really messed up lmao
RT playing this game is a fuckin fever dream, since I went to college with the developers, and I’ve played this game when it was really early in development
@@devin2254 Nope, the lead dev was the programmer, the guy who wrote the music went to the same school but I’m not too sure about the vocalist. I’m not the original commenter but I’m in the same boat lol, not surprised Yukon ended up making something successful though, he was high key the star student in the game design program.
12:00 A cat with buttered toast strapped on its back... *It's a perpetual motion machine!* I think it's the first time I recognize a meme in about 10 years.
I remember just seeing this game in the Steam store, coughing on air as I blink to confirm it was real, thinking *"I WANT THIS."* and then just dying of laughter
I needed this, the turnipchino gang literally tried to stop the second generation of earth rulers from dying from nuclear war, and a wonderful story of corruption with leaders of power, and a perfect metaphor for nuclear war, its a honestly meaningful game
Next you should play Dadish! It’s about a single Dad, who’s a radish, and loses all his little radish children, so he has to go searching for them like Mario searches for Peach, and he has to fight junk food monsters and bosses :D it’s ridiculously funny and cute
I feel like this is the only time I’ve felt bad about killing a human in a game. I don’t like this game for how it makes me feel, but at the same time, I love it. It’s so well made and the story is great.
plus we're the ones that gave her radiation since after the radtion goop everything turnip boy touches gets a bit of radiation lmao she was hiding in the closet trying to avoid the crazy sentient vegitable
its cause they dehumanize bad guys in most games, not this, it does not feel like you are destroying evil, it feels like you are killing an unfortunate child
I just realized that the cat apple had buttered toast on its back because cats always land on its feet and toast lands butter side down so it would keep spinning. I've watched this playthrough an ungodly amount of times and JUST now realized that 😂
12:02 Wait it's the one meme where bread always lands on its buttered side and cats always lands on their feet, so a guy taped them together and they just were constantly spinning, and he used it to power the city. 🤣
I love games like this. Small, indie games which advertise a light, comedic story, and end up completely subverting that by being way deeper than they have any right to be. A Short Hike is a personal favourite. I also really like your videos on these, because you manage to capture how special they are incredibly well.
Oh I love that one!! It was such a fun experience, probably one of the better collectathon games I've played in a while. I especially loved the movement and how good and freeing it felt. I played that stickball game for so long I ended up getting pretty high on the steam leaderboard for it. Just little touches like that really appeal to me in games.
@@greyscaleadaven yea it was so much fun when I was done I was just wishing it had more content cuz just exploring the whole island was so enjoyable, and catching all the fish and such
I love how someone just went fucking "Okay hear me out what about a turnip that *commits tax evasion his dad is in the Mafioso and he has to launch irs agent into god himself to save his home from getting destroyed* " and then the president just said "fuck it sure"
"also all of humanity has been destroyed in an attempt to get rid of the coronavirus, and vegetables are alive due to radiation" "take my job you are the man now"
"I need you to get me a four-pronged spear; in ancient times, it was known as a fork." Is this implying Turnip Boy's universe is a post apocalypse EDIT: It was indeed implying Turnip Boy's universe is a post apocalypse
Ya know I hate that it’s similar to the Splatoon series in that way. Basically in Splatoon, some kind of apocalypse happened then after a few thousand years octopus and squid evolved to go on land
Didn't really shock me as much, considering that Bug Fables is basically the same concept. What DID shock me was that we killed the humans ourselves, because Bug Fables just talked about them, but never actually showed one. This game took it a step further, and made you kill one yourself.
I was watching this using it as background noise while doing homework and then saw the Kakyoin cherry out of the corner of my eye and almost choked on my spiT
I love how at 26:17 they literally just used stock red glowing eyes. I know this because when I was younger and made shitty memes I relied on this one so much
the fact that the laser pointer u take was from a deceased cat that the owner didnt want around bc they didnt want to think about their cat being gone made me cry 😭
17:35 "A Potted Petalportal. Use this to spawn Petalportals" _The Unexpected, yet Long Awaited Crossover between Plants Vs Zombies and The Portal Franchise._
This game was semi serious for 5 seconds and I thought it would be “hah goofy game is now dark and serious” but no, it was just taxes, and with that final line I want to say that mayor onion was British
Also, if you pay attention to the doctor music after the air siren, there is a loud thump that sounds like an explosion and then silence for like a good 10 to 30 seconds
the IRS will never take me alive
This game was recommended to me through my suggestions box on my Discord server. It was very cute :)
It's the IRS, open up.
Should I say first?
...
IRS, IRA... what's the difference?
I thought it was gonna be something with animal crossing
The IRS will hack your ACNH island and your only residents will be Boone and you can't abuse him if you don't pay up
"I didn't think the IRS would be helping us defeat God."
- RTGame Daniel, April 2021
Onion greatest mistake is not realizing that God never paid taxes, thus natural enemy of his IRS henchman
You forgot to add the title „Driftking“
34:10
Yea it’s weird
"I don't care who the IRS sends, I'm not paying taxes"
Coincidentally that's a quote from a guy who is also called Dan
They need to reboot Dan vs. That show is pretty good
I've been seeing that show a lot recently, it needs an adult swim reboot
But this time the IRS is the International Radish Service.
And that's why Al Capone was finally taken down.
@@prexp9026 I think it's just Idiot RadisheS
‘I didn’t think the IRS would be helping us defeat god’ is one of the best lines I have ever heard
Yes
I'm just going to say God probably hasn't paid his taxes
nothing can stop the IRS
@@Ragazaloth yes nothing can me. not even god
the IRS will get THEIR TAXES EVEN IF I COSTS 90% OF THEIR WORKFORCE THEY WILL BUY MORE SL- I MEAN UNVOLUNTARY VOLUNTEERS
for any of you revisting this, yes there IS a sequel in the works, its called "turnip boy robs a bank" from what ive seen, turnip boy has a gun.
Wait actually?
@@Histerhull yes
It doesn't look that good
Wtf
Oh fuck.
For a game named "Turnip boy commits tax fraud", this game was more intellectual about its topic than most games. This is actually a cinematic masterpiece.
David cage must have written this one
agreed
@@Overflow066 DAVID CAGE YOU'VE DONE IT AGAIN!
I agree, it’s legitimately pretty good overall despite also being a big meme
Yeah, it's like a metaphor, not for nuclear fallout, but for corruption. Sure, it was some of your fault, but did the last of humanity NEED to die? Did the world NEED to nearly end? Think about it, it was Mayor Onion's fault, wasn't it?
Ah, I get it, the cat has buttered bread strapped to its back. A cat always lands on its legs, but bread also always lands on its buttered side, so when it jumps it just keeps spinning infinitely without ever being able to touch the ground
Buttered bread cat is the key to infinite energy
I thought it was also reference to nyan cat, but that makes so much more sense!!
So basically it's like covering yourself in oil and going outside while it's raining?
It’s a loaf.
ye I was thinking that. I think it was a meme on tumblr a few years ago
joker: "i may be crazy enough to take on batman, but the IRS? noooooo THANK you!"
turnip boy: *heavy breathing*
The IRS knows his true identity, afterall.
I grab my bitcoin, fighting IRS , goooooooo
Stole my joke, shame on you.
@@madisonbray95 It isn't *your* joke though.
the reason this joke exist is because THE most famous actual mob boss got taken down for tax fraud, also notice that this game is about mob bosses aswel it's genius actually
Fun Fact! Apparently Turnip Boy is 5 days old which somewhat implies this is all happening within say a week or so.
…really?
what’s old man lemon’s age, then?
@@kaphizmey6229 Probably a week old. They're all veggies and fruit so they expire quickly lol.
That actually makes perfect sense with them being Vegetables, Fruits and Berries. Wait that means the humans were likely only down there for no more than a few months. Damn that’s scary to imagine
@@americankid7782 But Liz writes day 1105 or smth
@@lyaneris could be that the veggies and fruits mutated recently
Liz's story of surviving the bombs, living in a bunker for years, running from a radioactive telekinetic Turnip with a face that invaded her home only to approach it, get mutated by it and then killed minutes later wiping out the last of humanity but, hay that's taxes.
It's not the last of humanity. I think Liz's parents (the shadowy figures who you follow around the bunker) hid in a room that turnip boy couldn't get to.
@@meowdynyall9284 oof. thats even darker in a sense.
they abandoned their kid
@@iceneko9170 Oof indeed that's messed up not to mention the ghost in the refrigerated rooms
@@meowdynyall9284 Damn that's creepy oh my god imagine if it was like a surveillance room that would be awful they would have seen their daughter mutate and get murdered.
Don't forget to mention the fact her brother died in the war and she never found out (unless she did after writing that one diary page)
Wasn't expecting something called ,,Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion'' to be a commentary on the terror of the atomic bomb
and the end of the human race, just to get a laser pointer.
@@Jupiter_Rumbii which helped create god
i think its more about how taxation is the ultimate form of robbery/wealth accumulation that can be abused, with the atomic bomb showing how far people (governments) are willing to go to protect their enterprises, income streams, and taxation
Im sorry what?
Not ONLY the terror of the atomic bomb.
If you've noticed, the subheader of the article talking about the bombs drop at 25:19 was "We're going to stop the virus!", and now this correlation is going to haunt my nightmares.
is nobody going to mention how strong turnip boy is to have ripped apart a whole hard-cover book
And he doesn't even have arms.
@@Dinoman972 That's the Mafia blood in him
thats extremely pure mafia blood
He is above the IRS, after all.
I mean, he killed the tax god, sooo...
it's kind of sad how Liz was perfectly fine, living her life out in the bunker, when you just break in, mutate her with your radiation, and proceed to literally murder her
Holy shit I didn't realize that's how she got mutated, I thought there was a leak in the bunker. God there's so many layers to this game
So, what happened to the parents who were also in the bunker? Did they also survive?
@@redking36 if I remember correctly they survive and aren't contaminated, but at the state of their bunker after the boss fight I doubt they survive for long. They also had a son who was drafted to the military before the world changing events, he just disappeared one day, so they've lost two children at this point.
@@_soothsayer_ as many as in an onion
Skill issue
If "they had us in the first half, not gonna lie" was a game, this would be it.
oh most definetly so
consider this a like from me, don't want to disturb the 420 likes
@@finnvost9349 well
It reminded me of the deceptive cutesy nature of Adventure Time
@@janpavel1441 A very solid comparison, all things considered
This is truly the pinnacle of the “cute game with humorously adult themes” genre. I don’t think any other game in the genre could beat this level of ridiculousness.
Yeah ngl shame its so short, id love to see a dlc that basically adds to the title turnip boy commits tax evasion ...and vehicular manslaughter
I mean bugsnax is pretty damn crazy
I think Celeste fits in that category
Kindergarten is another great game in the genre, not sure which I like better.
@@jmiod2819 On the one hand, I agree, but I'd also be wary about stretching it out too far and having it outstay its welcome. Six hours is probably about the limit of what you could get away with here without really expanding the scope of the game and gameplay itself, or you're gonna need some *really* good and creative writing to carry it.
I'M THE SINGER FROM THE CREDITS/half of the music guys for this game
I'M A HUGE FAN THANK YOU FOR HOSTING MY LARGEST CONCERT EVER LMAO
Honestly that song is a fucking bop dude nicely done!
It really boped, good job!
heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey! awesome song!
Great job kid :)
It's amazing, congratulations!
I just realized, the reason Crancran is old yet talks like a gen z is because she adapted our speaking mannerisms since gen z was most likely the last and therefore oldest available generation
Holy shit that’s genius
Back in my day...
she talks in weeb and owo to be more specific
The original: Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion
The sequel: Turnip Boy Commits a Felony
The trilogy’s end: Turnip Boy Commits a War Crime
The Epilogue: Turnip Boy Breaks out of Prison
Turnip Boy unleashes a bioweapon and sentences 10 million religious minorities to death camps while using child labor to make iPhones for the U.S.
Prequel: turnip boy remembers the war
Id buy
Prequel Turnip Boy Commits Mail Fraud
@@manictiger what is this, China?
Wow. They actually did it. They took a cherry, put Kakyoin's face on it, named it Kakyoin, and even had it say rerorerorerorerorero.
This game is WAY too meta
And they put the baby in a trash can near him. BABY. STAND.
@@ajojosreference3085 oh fuck oh shit, I actually forgot that part, I can't believe I did that.
That was the only old Joseph "Your next line is"
@@ラスカルーくん timestamp?
@@morenodeluxe4071 8:40
@@ラスカルーくん thx
"I don't care who the IRS sends, I'm not paying my taxes." - Turnip Boy
Is this a reference to that one Dan Vs. clip
@@deadlychicken1399 of course it is
Turnip boy vs. Taxes
Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice reference
Dan vs. taxes YES!
After learning Turnip boy was related to the mafia, it reminded me that one of the most infamous mafia bosses, Al Capone, was ultimately done in by tax evasion.
...Oh my god, that's brilliant.
Maybe Al Capone reincarnated as a turnip to commit more tax evasion
The funniest part is that it isn't so much that he didn't pay his taxes, it's that he didn't list his illegal income on his tax forms, which ironically you have to do.
@@darkiusmc979 just goes to show that taxes matter more than your 5th amendment rights
This reminds me of adventure time
It’s all cute and dumb at first, but then you realize it’s all set in a post-apocalyptic hellhole with terrifying amounts of lore and a musical number that’s way better than it deserves to be
I never fully watched adventure time and this comment made me look it up. Wtf
@@shibadawn Dude you totally should- I had only watched a bit of it when I was little at first too but on rewatching it, after around season 3 the characters and plot lines get so fleshed out it’s awesome
The first few seasons are definitely more kid-friendly though, but it’s still pretty fun to watch
@@nico-9805 I dont have easy access to it cause most services are US exclusive, otherwise I would
Post apocalyptic hell hole? Adventure time?
@@RegretfulBirdConsumer Yup the show got some awesomely dark undertones after the first few seasons
My favourite steam review of this game simply says "Waiting on the sequel where turnip boy commits war crimes"
Turnip Boy abolishes the Geneva Convention
turnip boy becomes the modern hitler and starts ww3
@@MichelleW870 considering the setting of this game, that ship has probably sailed
@@lawrencebermudez World War 4 it is then.
turnip boy recreates corona virus for vegetals
We have to remember even _The Joker_ pays his taxes, so this turnip is stronger than the Joker
Fun thing; He's not so stupid as to deal with the IRS, because you can't plead insanity on Tax Evasion.
"I'm crazy enough to take on Batman, but the IRS? *No* thank you!"
- The Joker
The Joker might be crazy, but he has standards. He won't fuck with the IRS, and he hates Nazis.
Damn right.
@@Grab_001 Those two things are why he is one of my favorite villains.
I’ll be honest, hearing the air horns in the over world music legit gave me chills.
SAME
It gave me hopeless vibes, like as if a family was playing happy music with a guitar while the air horns went off because they knew they would die.
It's so haunting
Turnip boy literally has the mindset and power scaling of Kirby.
replace food, with, getting their property back and you're correct
He went to struggling with snails to fighting GOD
I wonder who would win between the two... probably Kirby
@@doomclasher9287 Kirby has survived a galaxy exploding,
Turnip boy technically dies of a point blank nuke, but can survive a nuke seperate by a basement's worth of ground.
so, Kirby still beats turnip boy.
also, Kirby might try to eat him,
@@doomclasher9287 also, those explosive tomatos wouldn't even scratch him, one time he ate an entire melon field worth of watermelons that were actually bombs.
Hearing "Oh shit, it's the mob!" from RT isn't unusual, nor is hearing him say it in a cutesy game. Hearing him say it unironically and completely in-context for a cutesy game like this? Delightfully unexpected.
Coming back from the ace attorney stream it seems he is quite obssesed with the mafia
Timestamp?
@@papafrank2894 28:34
@@thomasliu5814 thanks
@@weeb_dweeb Daneshiro in his persona streams too lol
This game is done too well for a literal shitpost, that Turnip-Chan is gold
Shitposts have evolved to true art with the advent of SiIvagunner.
Now it's either just WALTER
Or an absolute, mind blowing, artistic masterpiece
That ain't an ordinary shitpost, this attempts to be dark with the lore and it is very good at NOT chucking lore text at your face the first 10 seconds you turn on the game. This is not a shitpost this is a goldpost.
the thing that gets me about this game isn't the "plot twist" since its pretty easy to spot early on, but rather how far they go with it. talking foods as the result of nukes? sure, whatever. actually seeing surviving humans in bomb shelters and *killing* one of them? thats pretty rad
and then they just act like that didn't happen. 10/10
I mean... The whole game is Rad, isn't it?
@@FabianSkorniayeah its pretty radish
@@notmocka I was gonna make a pun too, but I can't beet that.
@@XwX1001 i love when ppl turnip with puns so its fine
Looks like you guys have gotten yourself into a pickle
I was not ready for the rollercoaster of emotions this gave me.
Humanity is dead, Veggies learned how to read and write, there was a Mafia, Onion nearly destroyed the world.
Turnip Boy is wholesome.
correction there were 2 mafias! which means veggie gang wars
F to that 1 human that made it for thousands days and died to a turnip
@@gary7846 A radioactive turnip!
Dont forget the DEBT DIVINITY
Wise words Little helper.
The mutated human was hiding in the closet while RT irradiated them
Well it wouldn't be an RTGame video without a bit of child murder
I wonder if that goes differently if Turnip boy isn't radioactive
@@jackhazardous4008 I don't know if you can get to that point without being irradiated
@@shinysamurott613 You cant
Wasn’t there 2 humans in that one room not the ghost
Oh god, I realized the reason an arm came out of Liz’s stomach is because the radiation cause whatever she ate to come to life!
......oh god
probably ate her brother since there was a boy ghost in the secret room area and her parents were clearly alive as they were the people who were running from turnip boy and locked the door
@@chrispanganiban2087 Jesus...
@@chrispanganiban2087 the ghost was likely Matt, who was conscripted to the army and soon after declared missing. Liz speaks of missing Matt, but seemly having been told he only "went somewhere"
@@Hana1LuLu I wonder how matt reached the farmhouse and became a ghost.. maybe she did eat him afterall and that hasn't let him rest in peace so he became a ghost and left the bunker. Afterall Liz parents abandoned her after seeing danger, meaning that family did not care for their daughter no more since she ate their son lol
2 minutes in and I just realized that the “R” in IRS means radish instead of revenue. Oh the puns
The canonical full name is Idiot Radish Squad
Too many puns
33:41 The original quote was: "Listen Simon... Don't forget. Believe in yourself. Not in the you who believes in me. Not the me who believes in you. Believe in the you who believes in yourself." - Kamina from Gurren Lagann
He actually uses two variations of the quote. The second one is the one you posted, but the first is: "Don't believe in yourself, believe in me! Believe in the Kamina who believes in you!"
Yo I'm so happy to see a TTGL reference after so many years have passed.
THIS MADE MY HEART SO WARM TO READ
Stoked to see the reference of a masterpiece after all these years. It's released in 2007 as Chad said.
Such an iconic show. Hats off to Simon and everyone part of Gurren Lagann
I think he’s passing over the fact that she was irradiated because you came in with radioactive waste, so that’s 100% your fault lol
Yeah that bit is horrifying considering she was probably really young
Add to the fact that he _just_ acquired the hazmat suit. He could've worn it to prevent the human from being irradiated (unless you can't wear it in the game).
I assume the shadows that locked themselves away from the veggie were the parents?
@@DolphinsAreWeird he *just*
Upon moving, he immediately triggered the boss fight.
I'm pretty sure this was forced
@@DolphinsAreWeird no, boss fight is forced, the hazmat suit is an item that protects against fire damage, you cant wear it
Its like adventure time, all the cute people around Oooo are actually mutants birthed from nuclear holocaust
Ikr, killing the last human is peak dark comedy in this game
Okayyyy I haven’t watched that show in a looongg while and never saw the ending, but what the actual hell? What season was that?
@@mckennaisaperson4058 all of them? You've gotta watch all of them to get the whole story bc it's spread out
@@mckennaisaperson4058 it was always implied. If I remember correctly one of the first things you see each episode is undetonated nukes in the intro. Also the lich is like literally radiation incarnate and there’s an episode where Finn creates a world where the lich was never released... only for his alt reality self to find and accidentally set of a nuke and release the lich.
@@garrettbates9124 and that alt universe self became that universe’s lich if I remember correctly.
What separates this game from almost all other "cute funny game, but actually super dark" is that it never takes itself too seriously. The comedy and tone stay consistent throughout the whole game. There is no moment where it gets super dark. The heavy themes and lore are there from the start if you're looking.
This isn't a dig at similar games, btw. I love indie games like this. I just noticed that this game has so much charm, it's writing isn't forced, and it understands the references deeper than just mindlessly throwing them in.
This video title could’ve been Animal Crossing and no one would’ve bat an eye.
Animal crossing: Taxed Horizons
you're not wrong
I literally thought it was going to be an animal crossing video
When I saw the notification for this I thought it was actually Animal Crossing so you ain't wrong-
@@keeleyem4537 Same, this is even better though lmao
I love how long it took him to realize the mushroom giants where nuclear explosions
not the brightest turnip in the greenhouse
I picked it up immediately and was like how has RT not picked up on this like the radiation is right there
27:35
moxie main
.
Thank the mushroom clouds
"A game couldn't have THAT many references"
The game:
*the talos principle has entered the chat*
SUPER SMAAAAAAAAAAAAA-
*Cookie Clicker has entered the chat*
Reimagining: The Game
I’d be so happy if someone listed all the references
It just dawned on me… what if the reason why Turnip Boy doesn’t have any verbal dialogue… is because anything he says can and will be used against him in court…
except for “stop” which is his only dialog lmao
According to the sequel, that sent her to hell :)
"We won't pay our taxes, we've got rent and we've got bills" ~ Never thought i would get 'life lessons' from a turnip boy
song is such a bop
okay tho, all the details in this game are incredible, at firts it just seems like this game that does meta humour too much, but then actually has a story that connects with everything. And when you realize that the musix has the sirens calls, I literally coundn't believe it
My jaw dropped when I heard it
firts
This has massive Adventure Time vibes to me, with the cutesy presentation and anthropomorphic critters contrasting with a background Nuclear war overtone and sinister tones.
I never realised oh my god
Damn... you right
Me too
YæAeh
**Cries in i miss that show bc it was my childhood**
On the topic of the hidden air sirens in the background music, you can also hear a drum being hit at the end, possibly to represent the sound of the bomb's actually hitting the ground and detonating
All I can think of now is, “We won’t pay our taxes, we’ve got rent and we’ve got bills.”
There’s layers to the Onion, and his bureaucratic thrills!
all you flora all you fauna let us venture through the land
Let's take down Mayor Onion, and all his scheming plans.
(^ x2)
It's been some time, peeling back those skins
and you'll find out soon that there are seeds within
well sing our hearts out loud, world's spinning, cus
the worst part's past
Game: has tax evasion in it.
Rt: its like I was made for this.
Now this looks like the job for me
The pasta said a copy pasta. I have no words.
Indeed
Oh wow the copy pasta at 12:48 is so freaking hilarious. Haven’t heard it in a long time and man that got me so hard lol.
🤔
…shit, it’s a literal pasta noodle
dang, i was really hoping RT would react to turnip boys only word in the entire game... telling Crancran "stop."
Timestamp?
It also kills crancan
I discovered that when I played this and it was hilarious
He also does >:D when the girl you give back the phone asks if he changed the password.
@@lindylou538 his voice is apparently too powerful for mortals to hear or something. He said so himself, with a computer voice thing.
Never in all my days did i think i would ever come across an extremely family friendly game with relevant and genuinely funny memes about simps, tax evasion, drafting, running from the police, the mafia, twitch culture, internet weebs, reddit copypastas, tiktok, property tax, and more cursed stuff
It's not a reddit copypasta tho
@@KillinTime2792 it is
@@terrariaskeletonpre1.0.39 it's really not tho, just because you saw it on reddit doesn't mean it came from reddit.
@@KillinTime2792 if you know what I meant and got the point of the comment, then does a small technical mistake really matter?
@@KillinTime2792 its from reddit
26:08 wait, was the human actually perfectly fine, but turnip boy's radiation just mutate her, oh god
I watched the stream and that's exactly what happened, you see her eyes hiding in the closet then when he got too close the closet stopped shaking and glowed green
You fucking mutate and kill a innocent person
WAIT-
god damn it turnip boy
@@selenes1654 i wondered what was up with the closet but I didn't make the connection omg fucking turnip boy
24:15 even turnip boy’s face expression changes for a moment, Jesus christ
■ . ■
( ● _ ● )
o _ o
Yoshi: finally, a worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary
Yes
Yes
Why would yoshi want to fight a fellow tax evader
Yoshi fights the Turnip Mafia: Humanity is dead.
*jo jo music starts playing*
Can't wait for the sequel "turnip boy violates the Geneva convention"
I thought it was be turnip boy dodges the draft
Turnip boy violates the Geneva convention on the use of chemical weapons
Turnip boy : Back to Palestine
Geneva suggestions*
And who can forget the DLC, "Turnip boy at the Nuremberg trials"
*_"THERE WILL BE TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION THROUGHOUT THE GALAXIES"_*
...is not a phrase I thought I would ever hear, _but that is freaking epic_
King Onion III
stellaris be like
As an American, this stirs something in me... something about red coats.. and tea?
@@hossdelgado626 Ladies and gentlemen _we got 'em_
"Von carma NO!"
"Widdle Fwendly circle that discovers the horrific truths of the world but doesn't give a shit" can be applied to both Kirby and Turnip Boy
The background story of Matt and his family is actually so sad
Rip Liz, she was hiding in the closet
Can you explain it to me if u can thx
Liz was irradiated because turnip boy was covered in radioactive waste
@@bubbaloobub3592 OHHHHH. When I played it I didn't know what was inside the glowing closet. I now. God damn that's so fucking dark though.
what happend to Matt?
@@TheEnecca hey! Matt most likely died in the war, his ghost is seen haunting the old farmhouse
Liz was hiding in the closet when a radioactive turnip boy snuck in, stole her hazmat suit, and killed her through radiation poisoning
The parents were seen fleeing and locked them selves in that back room of their bunker
Overall really messed up lmao
The people who made this were absolute legends
*_rero rero_*
No matter where you go you cannot escape the Jojo references
Even living is a jojo reference
@@aryathebeastDX explains why everything in life is boring and predictable.
@@aryathebeastDX i disagree, as living was never a major plot point
@@corvidconsumer dead people forget to wear plot armor
Nothing funnier than a dead meme
People are talking about the sirens in the background at 27:46, but what about the drum beat right after that acts as a stand-in for an explosion?
How did I not notice that
I feel bad for all the people who didn’t stay till the end to hear such a bop
🎵✨🎶 We won’t pay our taxes🎶✨🎵
@@starlosa ✨✨We’ve got rent and we’ve got bills✨✨
@@pepperonipikachu5414 ✨there’s layers to the onion and his bureaucratic bills✨ I love this song :) ima see if I can add it to my playlist :)
It's a genuinely great song lmao
RT playing this game is a fuckin fever dream, since I went to college with the developers, and I’ve played this game when it was really early in development
Must have been an amazing ride all things considered. You must be proud of their art.
May I ask two questions?
1. Is the person singing the bop of a credits song the lead developer?
2. Did they pay taxes?
@@SophiaSanders61 it’s the most Impressive game I’ve seen from the students of that college, myself include :p
@@devin2254 1.nope, I think that was Jordan (I could be wrong tho)
2. Of course, pay your taxes or you’ll start WW3
@@devin2254 Nope, the lead dev was the programmer, the guy who wrote the music went to the same school but I’m not too sure about the vocalist. I’m not the original commenter but I’m in the same boat lol, not surprised Yukon ended up making something successful though, he was high key the star student in the game design program.
12:00 A cat with buttered toast strapped on its back... *It's a perpetual motion machine!*
I think it's the first time I recognize a meme in about 10 years.
Its also because one of the Dev's cat is named Toast
I remember just seeing this game in the Steam store, coughing on air as I blink to confirm it was real, thinking *"I WANT THIS."* and then just dying of laughter
Not only are there air raid sirens in the background, after they end for a second a drum beat hits that sounds like a bomb going off
This game is so dark under the surface
oh my god
Thats clever
the IRS in this game stands for Interrogating Radish Society.
I needed this, the turnipchino gang literally tried to stop the second generation of earth rulers from dying from nuclear war, and a wonderful story of corruption with leaders of power, and a perfect metaphor for nuclear war, its a honestly meaningful game
Hehe turnip go !!!
The Godfather family stops Third Impact
My dad played this game and all I remember from it is him laughing every five minutes or so
I love how this meme game turned out to be a dark story of how humanity destroyed itself to get rid of the corona virus
True, the virus was prolly Corona. It does say 2020
Fairly large overreaction to a spicy flu.
@@randgrithr7387 spicy flu that we didn’t have the fix to at the time
@@AAX11111 bruh
@@AAX11111 Dont mind the fact that people were pretty much turned away from hospitals because they were full
Next you should play Dadish! It’s about a single Dad, who’s a radish, and loses all his little radish children, so he has to go searching for them like Mario searches for Peach, and he has to fight junk food monsters and bosses :D it’s ridiculously funny and cute
but where is the tax evasion
@@thisisaterribleargument_but there is murder
Yes!! I have played through both games and i loved them so much. Such a great game.
@JIM KUANG Dadish canonically killed 7 people
@@jeano7684 Isn't it 6? Burgurglar the grey was reborn as burgurglar the white and turned good
I feel like this is the only time I’ve felt bad about killing a human in a game. I don’t like this game for how it makes me feel, but at the same time, I love it. It’s so well made and the story is great.
@SteveMatheus Haven’t seen anyone play Metro yet. I might if I’d seen someone play it.
Poor Liz man I wish I could have just left the area
There's humans in it?
plus we're the ones that gave her radiation since after the radtion goop everything turnip boy touches gets a bit of radiation lmao she was hiding in the closet trying to avoid the crazy sentient vegitable
its cause they dehumanize bad guys in most games, not this, it does not feel like you are destroying evil, it feels like you are killing an unfortunate child
I just realized that the cat apple had buttered toast on its back because cats always land on its feet and toast lands butter side down so it would keep spinning. I've watched this playthrough an ungodly amount of times and JUST now realized that 😂
Third installation to the series:
Turnip boy commits quadruple homicide
Turnip boy commits a accidental war crime
I think he is a bit past quadruple homicide at this point.
Quadruple homicide is rookie numbers. He is gonna need to bump up those numbers
@@trevortobias4827 True, true
@@trevortobias4827 turnip boy starts mass genocide?
Turnip Boy Runs over Pedestrians in his 2001 Honda Civic
I’m so sad that RT didn’t talk again to the cat lady, cus Turnip boy just says “stop” and it’s hilarious
The only word he ever says, and according to the lore his voice scares the souls out of mortal bodies.
@@unassignedvar212 I would be scared if a turnip starting talking
@@unassignedvar212 wait what
There's Lore?
WAIT REALLY LMAO
@@Tikachu Watch the video. If you don't know about the lore you should not be here.
"Turnip Boy Commits A Felony"
Well, RT wasnt wrong, that's pretty much the sequel
"I didn‘t think the IRS would help us defeat god“
If there's any superpower that will help us beat God it'll be the IRS
I was tripping balls and thought u said the ups ‘-‘
"that's the point, turnip"
"Nothing is certain but death and taxes. Ashes to ashes, nine to five."
12:02 Wait it's the one meme where bread always lands on its buttered side and cats always lands on their feet, so a guy taped them together and they just were constantly spinning, and he used it to power the city. 🤣
Neevr realized that
Oh my god. How tf did I not notice that until now. Now it actually makes sense.
Finally, someone saw it.
« There will be taxation without representation! ». Oh boi, these history classes are all coming back to me now.
I wanna like but it's at 69
@Elly van den Brink you monster
Man, Bethesda took the Fallout series on a wild turn.
Should have made this instead of 76.
Adventure Time lookin' a lot different since last I've seen it.
He was once known as Drift King, but now he is known as Turnip King
kingslayer32
slayking32*
I love games like this. Small, indie games which advertise a light, comedic story, and end up completely subverting that by being way deeper than they have any right to be. A Short Hike is a personal favourite. I also really like your videos on these, because you manage to capture how special they are incredibly well.
Oh I love that one!! It was such a fun experience, probably one of the better collectathon games I've played in a while. I especially loved the movement and how good and freeing it felt. I played that stickball game for so long I ended up getting pretty high on the steam leaderboard for it. Just little touches like that really appeal to me in games.
@@greyscaleadaven yea it was so much fun when I was done I was just wishing it had more content cuz just exploring the whole island was so enjoyable, and catching all the fish and such
This masterpiece honestly deserves the Game of the Year Award
Indie game of the year
nope, piece of media of the year!
The Whims Of Winter got nothing on this!
16:54 "Turnip Boy Commits a Felony"
I've come from the future to say that RT nailed it for the sequel, as robbing banks can be a felony
I love how someone just went fucking "Okay hear me out what about a turnip that *commits tax evasion his dad is in the Mafioso and he has to launch irs agent into god himself to save his home from getting destroyed* " and then the president just said "fuck it sure"
Ahhh this is just the average day in Florida mah boy
"also all of humanity has been destroyed in an attempt to get rid of the coronavirus, and vegetables are alive due to radiation"
"take my job you are the man now"
@@thedeliveryboy1123 wht is Aereal
Why the entire fuck was this of all things one of the best written games I’ve seen in a very long time???
"I need you to get me a four-pronged spear; in ancient times, it was known as a fork."
Is this implying Turnip Boy's universe is a post apocalypse
EDIT: It was indeed implying Turnip Boy's universe is a post apocalypse
Ya know I hate that it’s similar to the Splatoon series in that way.
Basically in Splatoon, some kind of apocalypse happened then after a few thousand years octopus and squid evolved to go on land
So was that a Jaiden Animation reference?
Oh man i had the same idea
@@deihuey6959 which video would that be from? Don't recall that one
@@jeffreyhoon Random Toughts Part 1, the very first thing in the video.
this is ironically one of the best game storylines i've ever seen
Didn't really shock me as much, considering that Bug Fables is basically the same concept.
What DID shock me was that we killed the humans ourselves, because Bug Fables just talked about them, but never actually showed one. This game took it a step further, and made you kill one yourself.
"iS tHaT a jOJo rEferEnCE" had this on in the background while i drew caesar zeppeli fanart, sent me into fuckin orbit
And eventually, you stopped thinking
Someone else who appreciates Caesar in these trying times?? Blessed
I was watching this using it as background noise while doing homework and then saw the Kakyoin cherry out of the corner of my eye and almost choked on my spiT
@@tychopanda Caesar deserved better :'(
That Gurren Laggan reference at the end was one of the greatest things that humanity will never see
What's the reference?
@@nebvbn4504 33:44
I'm sure Dan was greatly confused by it too, and why does a vegetable society know about any of this, we'll never know. PS it was the Devs all along.
Wise words spoken by a man who *spoilers for a show from 2007*
Because Dan killed the last one.
I actually choked when Kakyoin the cherry just randomly appeared.
I coughed for like five solid minutes.
I did too.
Are we choking soulmates??
Wait that sounds weird. Nvm
I didn’t like the reference I liked it I just didn’t like the style of the reference
I like how the game goes from "you need to pay your taxes" to "You need to kill a fucking tax god"
I love how at 26:17 they literally just used stock red glowing eyes. I know this because when I was younger and made shitty memes I relied on this one so much
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*"YO, IS THAT A FUCKIN' TURNIP-BOY???"*
- Liz
the fact that the laser pointer u take was from a deceased cat that the owner didnt want around bc they didnt want to think about their cat being gone made me cry 😭
nice profile pic
@@RichConnerGMN thanks bestie 😳
It’s the little things that hit the hardest sometimes
@@iwakeupandboomimarat no i just say that to everyone with a pride flag. i do it so much that yt actually thinks im a spam bot lol
Wait...is the cat boss you kill that same cat...
Ok but that Avocado explorer with the endocarp as a backpack is top tier character design.
ikr something about them is so appealing
All of these are top tier dude
And the backpack was alive he had a face
I thought the mesocarp was supposed to be the backpack. Either way, I wholeheartedly agree!
@@aselunar
I literally looked up avocado on google to make an anatomically correct comment and I STILL fucked up
17:35
"A Potted Petalportal. Use this to spawn Petalportals" _The Unexpected, yet Long Awaited Crossover between Plants Vs Zombies and The Portal Franchise._
This game was semi serious for 5 seconds and I thought it would be “hah goofy game is now dark and serious” but no, it was just taxes, and with that final line I want to say that mayor onion was British
@Jesse Baker the American revolution is a pathway to many abilities that some consider to be _tax evasion_
DUN DUN DUUUUUUN
I love how turnip boy aka slayKing32s only piece of dialog is just a small surprised gasp and a slightly confused gasp
There is one line. If you rip up crancrans (the uwu cat) drawing, then talk to her again turnip boy says "stop."
"Just" like that other game. The magic lines are "I have to tell you something." And "PIZZA DELIVERY!!!"
@@dumbleking5172 Everything is going to be okay.
@@adil0028
Omori
A physiological horror game + RPG elements with themes of depression and suicide.
Check it out.
@@dumbleking5172 oh no, I was tryna avoid any spoiler at all for omori, just waiting for it to go on sale soon
If I remember correctly the beginning of the end of Al Capone's criminal empire was getting caught evading taxes
It was
@SamTheSoviet42 even the joker won't mess with the irs
Also, if you pay attention to the doctor music after the air siren, there is a loud thump that sounds like an explosion and then silence for like a good 10 to 30 seconds