Huh, and I just played through Bright Island today cause I felt a bit nostalgic. Wish we got one more month with it to properly finish it, so we could have the cut level out and a proper testing period lasting more than a single week. Maybe even make everything mesh better as well. But deadlines are deadlines. Still consider it an unfinished campaign. But glad to see a somewhat positive video about it!
@@seriouslyquestionable It was that "temple" at the end of the swamp level, with the generators. Was originally meant to be a full level with a lot of crazy gravity parts, but it wasnt finished in time, so I whipped up the generator part a day before release. It's also why it is the most unbalanced part of the campaign, it was never really tested.
@@pura8898 That can also apply for the Temple area on that swamp level. For some reason, and it's probably on me, but again, for some reason, if there's a War track on that Swamp Temple, The Last Hope's third Arcadia track suits well.
You're one of the creators so this may be my only chance to ask this, so... 10:12 Please tell me how the HELL are you supposed to beat this arena on Serious without either savescumming or hiding behind the teleporters? I tried it for weeks. Memorized like every spawn, got the most optimal strategy down and it's still absolutely impossible, even with two serious bombs. I couldn't find a single playthrough where the players don't hide behind the gates. It just feels impossible and unbalanced. This is where I gave up, not wanting to resort to what I would consider cheating. 6:27 This fight after you get the ghostbuster gun gives off the same kinda feel but at least that one is much shorter, though it still feels mostly luck based as the area is way too small with way too many enemies to keep things under control. You're just spraying and praying. It sucks that there are moments like that which ruin the overall experience because there are legitimately great fights in this campaign. One of my favorites being the one at the beach level where you fend off like a thousand kleer skeletons, even though it kinda copies a section from BFE's final level.
I definitely think Bright Island is a very overlooked part of the series. It's not fantastic or anything, but it has some memorable visuals, solid gunplay and it's clear that a lot of thought was put into it. It's worth a playthrough for any Serious Sam fan at least.
6:37 When playing for the 1st time I missed most of the pills but in the end I realized you can just hop down from the platform that takes you to the regular exit as it's located directly above the secret exit. So that whole collecting pills thing is absolutely pointless. You can still just as easily go to the secret level. P.S. Bro, if you want something weird/funny and cool as hell - check out Rusutaku Assault, it's a HUGE single map for TSE made by a crazy japanese Serious Sam fan. Its super diverse and creative and will legitimately surprise you at least like 10-15 times I guarantee. It would make for a funny review as well. At least give it a shot. It starts of kinda meh but quickly picks up and never lets go. It's got that distinct "japanese" feel to it, when everything is a little crazy. Haven't seen anything like it, can't recommend it enough. It deserves more exposure.
I was wasting my time on youtube, watching different stuff until I saw your channel (QUICK DISCLAIMER, I've been watching: -A Seriously Questionable Summary of Serious Sam the First Encounter -A Seriously Questionable Summary of Serious Sam the Second Encounter -A Seriously Questionable Review Of The Worst DLC And now this) and honestly, I love how you covered every single topic and honestly I (as a serious sam fan myself) never even knew about the Dark Island campaign... And I am happy I never did. I won't even plan to play it because I think they removed the dark island for the greater good of how um.. let's say "mind blowing" experience you would have playing it. But yeah, I love your videos and keep it up!
Just got into Serious Sam myself. I ordered the limited edition physical Switch release of the Serious Sam Collection a while ago and recently got around to playing it. Really enjoyed First and Second Encounter and am about to start BFE. Glad I found your "Strictly Sam" channel. It's awesome ! Really like your editing style and all the goofy internet sh!t you splice in throughout. Noticed you haven't uploaded in a while but I'll be subbing either way.
i was looking for a chronological order of serious same games and stumbled into this peace of art, really liked this video G, keep goin i had decent laughs
Your videos are well-made! Also, thank you for bringing us more Serious Sam content! :) TH-cam needs more Serious Sam content creators like you! I have some feedback though, if you don't mind: I would suggest turning down the music volume so your voice pops out more. Only turn it up when you're not talking and want to show a particular gameplay clip. It does require more work to fade in and fade out parts of the audio, but it creates a more enjoyable viewing experience.
That boat in Dark Island, it's actually an unused entity from Serious Sam 1. It was supposed to be used on Pyramid Valley from the Alpha. It even has the same model from Alpha, but reskinned. As for the Plasmathrower and Minelayer, they are actually not scrapped weapons, but are used on Seriously Warped Deathmatch.
I have played Bright Island several times and I can say I enjoyed the Crystal Cove and The Steps of Despair the most and the worst part is Forlorn Ruins. Not the best campaign, but still at least decent nonetheless.
Crystal cove is the best map in Bright Island(and the most balanced) Step of despair seems too easy for me(since we have cannon-well except the lava bosses) but it is also good Forlorn ruins is not great(trees section and the last fight are the worst part) but other part are done well Tbh I prefer easy fight and balanced than hard fight that is unbalanced
Finally someone says that Dark Island is worse than Bright Island Dark Island is just so booring Bright Island is at least fun(not balanced on serious diff but doable) Every single level on Dark island I dislike On Bright Island I dislike Sunken Pyramid since 80% spawns are bs and I dont like the Final boss and that is it Bright Island is good campaign just unfinished
what difficulty did you play Bright Island on? can't be Serious. the campagin is notorious for being nigh impossible to complete without cheats or exploits when playing on the highest difficulties because so many enemies spawn near you it's impossible to kill them before you die
Huh, and I just played through Bright Island today cause I felt a bit nostalgic. Wish we got one more month with it to properly finish it, so we could have the cut level out and a proper testing period lasting more than a single week. Maybe even make everything mesh better as well. But deadlines are deadlines. Still consider it an unfinished campaign. But glad to see a somewhat positive video about it!
Ayo, I didn't know about a cut level. What was it about. I love hearing stuff like this. I'm glad to bring some light to your work.
@@seriouslyquestionable It was that "temple" at the end of the swamp level, with the generators. Was originally meant to be a full level with a lot of crazy gravity parts, but it wasnt finished in time, so I whipped up the generator part a day before release. It's also why it is the most unbalanced part of the campaign, it was never really tested.
Question
You know by any chance who composed the track for the third level
@@pura8898 That can also apply for the Temple area on that swamp level.
For some reason, and it's probably on me, but again, for some reason, if there's a War track on that Swamp Temple, The Last Hope's third Arcadia track suits well.
You're one of the creators so this may be my only chance to ask this, so...
10:12 Please tell me how the HELL are you supposed to beat this arena on Serious without either savescumming or hiding behind the teleporters? I tried it for weeks. Memorized like every spawn, got the most optimal strategy down and it's still absolutely impossible, even with two serious bombs. I couldn't find a single playthrough where the players don't hide behind the gates. It just feels impossible and unbalanced. This is where I gave up, not wanting to resort to what I would consider cheating.
6:27 This fight after you get the ghostbuster gun gives off the same kinda feel but at least that one is much shorter, though it still feels mostly luck based as the area is way too small with way too many enemies to keep things under control. You're just spraying and praying.
It sucks that there are moments like that which ruin the overall experience because there are legitimately great fights in this campaign. One of my favorites being the one at the beach level where you fend off like a thousand kleer skeletons, even though it kinda copies a section from BFE's final level.
Always good to see some people still giving love to serious sam, just discovered this channel and i'll see all the videos
I definitely think Bright Island is a very overlooked part of the series. It's not fantastic or anything, but it has some memorable visuals, solid gunplay and it's clear that a lot of thought was put into it. It's worth a playthrough for any Serious Sam fan at least.
15:56 Tfw there's so few good sailing games out there, Dark island gets to sit on "the good list" of all the less buggy ones.
6:37 When playing for the 1st time I missed most of the pills but in the end I realized you can just hop down from the platform that takes you to the regular exit as it's located directly above the secret exit. So that whole collecting pills thing is absolutely pointless. You can still just as easily go to the secret level.
P.S. Bro, if you want something weird/funny and cool as hell - check out Rusutaku Assault, it's a HUGE single map for TSE made by a crazy japanese Serious Sam fan. Its super diverse and creative and will legitimately surprise you at least like 10-15 times I guarantee. It would make for a funny review as well. At least give it a shot. It starts of kinda meh but quickly picks up and never lets go. It's got that distinct "japanese" feel to it, when everything is a little crazy. Haven't seen anything like it, can't recommend it enough. It deserves more exposure.
Love that kind of serious sam content.
Would be glad to see more of this.
bro this is no joke one of the best serious sam content i've seen in a long while, you definitely deserved more subscribers bro!
Glad to see more and more content on my fav game series! Thank you! Just finished Dark Island)
Bright island and by extension, Revolution, is one of those things that the fanbase universally hates for some reason and I never understood why, lol.
Bro the usage of music in this video is next lvl ^^ everything else is top-notch aswell :D Loved watching every second of this ^^
I was wasting my time on youtube, watching different stuff until I saw your channel (QUICK DISCLAIMER, I've been watching:
-A Seriously Questionable Summary of Serious Sam the First Encounter
-A Seriously Questionable Summary of Serious Sam the Second Encounter
-A Seriously Questionable Review Of The Worst DLC
And now this) and honestly, I love how you covered every single topic and honestly I (as a serious sam fan myself) never even knew about the Dark Island campaign... And I am happy I never did. I won't even plan to play it because I think they removed the dark island for the greater good of how um.. let's say "mind blowing" experience you would have playing it. But yeah, I love your videos and keep it up!
Just got into Serious Sam myself. I ordered the limited edition physical Switch release of the Serious Sam Collection a while ago and recently got around to playing it. Really enjoyed First and Second Encounter and am about to start BFE. Glad I found your "Strictly Sam" channel. It's awesome ! Really like your editing style and all the goofy internet sh!t you splice in throughout. Noticed you haven't uploaded in a while but I'll be subbing either way.
i was looking for a chronological order of serious same games and stumbled into this peace of art, really liked this video G, keep goin i had decent laughs
The U.S and friends have collected my data and recommended me this Serious Channel
YET ANOTHER VIDEO!????!!?!?!?!?!?! gentlemen, im happy
Seriously, how have I not known of your channels existence yet, I watch so much serious sam related content.
Your videos are well-made! Also, thank you for bringing us more Serious Sam content! :) TH-cam needs more Serious Sam content creators like you!
I have some feedback though, if you don't mind: I would suggest turning down the music volume so your voice pops out more. Only turn it up when you're not talking and want to show a particular gameplay clip. It does require more work to fade in and fade out parts of the audio, but it creates a more enjoyable viewing experience.
Keep doing your work, its great!
That boat in Dark Island, it's actually an unused entity from Serious Sam 1. It was supposed to be used on Pyramid Valley from the Alpha. It even has the same model from Alpha, but reskinned.
As for the Plasmathrower and Minelayer, they are actually not scrapped weapons, but are used on Seriously Warped Deathmatch.
I know, but they were intended for the main campaign and scrapped from that
My headcanon is that Bright Island takes place between South America and Persepolis (The Second Encounter)
I have played Bright Island several times and I can say I enjoyed the Crystal Cove and The Steps of Despair the most and the worst part is Forlorn Ruins. Not the best campaign, but still at least decent nonetheless.
Crystal cove is the best map in Bright Island(and the most balanced)
Step of despair seems too easy for me(since we have cannon-well except the lava bosses) but it is also good
Forlorn ruins is not great(trees section and the last fight are the worst part) but other part are done well
Tbh I prefer easy fight and balanced than hard fight that is unbalanced
that parkour part had me cracking up lol
18:28 is this a legit voice line? Wow, the humor is much ahead of its time. Based
Yup, it's a legit voice line
@@seriouslyquestionable Sam Stone really is from the future.
Finally someone says that Dark Island is worse than Bright Island
Dark Island is just so booring
Bright Island is at least fun(not balanced on serious diff but doable)
Every single level on Dark island I dislike
On Bright Island I dislike Sunken Pyramid since 80% spawns are bs and I dont like the Final boss and that is it
Bright Island is good campaign just unfinished
Someone legit said that dark island is equal to bright island? Bright Island is so much better.
looks like a weird mix of SS2 and SS TSE
I really wanted to play Bright Island but my fps are low as hell and it stutters like crazy
I keep crashing on the abyss after going up :/
I LOVE HOW YOU ADDED FURRY CRUSADE FOOTAGE IN BACKGROUND WHILE WATCHING FURRY POSTER XDXDXD
Another video for after Cringemas? You making up for something or what?
It's something to do while I'm on leave.
plus it'll expand my catalogue.
anything to make the channel look better.
some people really get scared by the most not scary shit ever.
It's only spooky when you don't expect it.
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what difficulty did you play Bright Island on? can't be Serious. the campagin is notorious for being nigh impossible to complete without cheats or exploits when playing on the highest difficulties because so many enemies spawn near you it's impossible to kill them before you die
What's the music at 19:44?
"Dance with shady girls"
Can this still be downloaded on steam?
You should be able to, yeah
Thanks for spoiling the secrets, you dolt :(
Seems a bit...undercooked.
bro that ghostbuster w/e crap weapon they give you misses 50% of the time. it's trash
i wanna behonest here i hate how you have 1000 cuts in your video aktually made me sick damm
I don't think I've ever heard that complaint before... you'd hate Max0r then...
@@seriouslyquestionable imo, its pretty entertaining.
Co’mon guys he need only 3 subs more