When you said your ears perked up at the mention of "The Four" thinking it was "The Phfor" from Marathon, it was literally like three seconds after Mandalore described the ramblings about the future war deep lore and stuff as "The Four at Tau Ceti" as in "The Phfor at Tau Ceti" from Marathon. The brain poison is at least shared, though I'm surprised you made the connection and didn't notice his joke at the same moment.
35:48 there are two ways that I can describe that feeling of the music building up to go nowhere. Either it is that sneeze that builds up but never actually happens, or it is constantly edging but you have to stop to do something like taxes without that release.
29:46 that's actually canon btw, the world of middle earth is a sphere to humans, but flat to elves, meaning they can see over the horizon. This is why Aragon asked Legolas "what do your elf-eyes see?". The reason for this is that long ago, humans tried to sail to the land of Valinor, which is only allowed to be entered by immortals like the elves, so the gods cursed them to have them loop around before reaching it, making the world spherical to them
Uhm not quite. In origin Arda, the planet Middle Earth is part of, was flat inside a spherical atmosphere. On its westernmost end was Valinor, the blessed lands, inhabited by the Valar, the demigods who helped crafting the world and ruled its aspects and elements. Illuvatar, the God from Tolkien's legendarium, allowed only the elves to live and sail to Valinor, and when the humans broke that rule and threatened Valinor itself with their fleets he literally pulled Valinor away from the world and re-shaped Arda into a sphere, with great changes and immense disasters. So from then on nobody could voyage on the so called "straight line" that brings from the world to Valinor in the sky, except the elves and few other people who received that blessing
Walsung. Erda now wants you to find a piece of the Norns' thread. You are already heading in the right direction. But take care. In their kingdom time is continually confused and rearranged.
So this is the story according to wikipedia... Set in the 40th century, the game begins with the introduction of ISH, one of the last surviving humans. Humanity has been enslaved by an alien race that destroyed Earth millennia ago, and took away all creativity and creative expression, meaning humanity slowly lost all sense of its cultural history. However, ISH is given the chance to save humanity by the aliens. They present to him the story of the Nibelungen, and have him embody each of the four main characters in the hopes that his experiences will lead him to lust for power, which is what led to the downfall of humanity in the first place. However, the goddess Erda believes she can help ISH by guiding him towards rejecting the desire for power. The four characters are Alberich (a cruel and sadistic dwarf king), Loge (a fire spirit), Siegmund (the son of the god Wotan), and Brünnhilde (a Valkyrie warrior). The story begins with Alberich arriving back in his kingdom to discover that he has very little left, nothing in the kingdom works, and his workers have formed a union and gone on strike. In order to break up the strike, Alberich must find something to satisfy the disgruntled workers, and with this aim in mind, he sets off to procure the gold of the Rhinemaidens. The second part has the player in control of Loge. His story intertwines somewhat with that of Alberich's - in the employ of the gods, he is charged by Wotan with retrieving the Nibelungen ring and the magic crown of Wotan from Alberich. The third section tells the story of Siegmund, son of Wotan, as he attempts to unravel the circumstances surrounding the death of his mother and sister. The fourth section tells the story of Brünnhilde, Siegmund's half-sister, who saves him at the end of the third chapter. Her act enrages Wotan, and she is forced to flee to Valhalla where she can obtain a magic artifact to bring back to the asteroid on which the story begins - thus completing the titular "ring". So basically everything we see is a simulation done by aliens to see if the last of humanity is worth saving or not. But it's also a trick to get the last of our kind to destroy himself (or perhaps give them a reason to destroy him via the instillment of an uncontrollable lust for power as with Alberich). That's probably why the child was there at the end and whatnot. She's likely a representation of the alien species as a whole communicating with ISH and by extension humanity.
55:41 i love this moment because it's peak mandalore halloween adventure game madness. Franricly moving things on his desk looking for his notes asking himself in shock how things went from Germany to Alabama faster than Alberich surfing the Rhine
@@sekarmaltum1695 It is actually "des Nibelungen". Which is the genetive singular form of "Der Nibelung". (I know it looks like it would be in plural form) The Nibelung refers to the name of a germanic tribe which is represented by the dwarves. So it's in singular tense because it is referring to Alberich specifically. Der Ring des Nibelungen (Alberich) as opposed to the Der Ring der Nibelungen (the entire tribe).
55:30 Fun Fire Emblem facts! In FE 8, the deuteragonist pair's iconic weapons are named after two Der Ring des Nibelungen characters, Siegmund for Ephraim and Sieglinde for Eirika. The main antagonist held feelings for Eirika and jealousy against Ephraim. Eirika and Ephraim are also siblings, like their sword's were in Der Ring. They are described numerous times as 'being very close'. The sword names use the German spelling of these Norse gods as seen in Der Ring, and not their Anglicized(English) spelling. All end game support endings of Ephraim are with woman... including Eirika. It is... a long standing tradition to joke that their relationship is like their sword and spear in the play. IN UNIVERSE there are rumors in Heroes about them. The English version Ephraim mentions them and dismissed the idea as 'disgusting' because of how widespread this joke had gotten in the west... In Japanese, he doesn't. (More specifically, he's more clueless as to what these rumors are insinuating, and his Sister has to be 'Don't add fuel to the fire, numbnuts' covering for his ignorance. On two separate occasions.) Doesn't help that Siegmund's son, is Sigurd, who is the name of a lord in FE4... which has actual bro-sis romance as a key part of the plot. Full stop. And that's your Fire Emblem fun facts!
I think someone on Mandy's original video posted a theory that the Alberic from the second game is just an intern- or body-double the OG Alberic hired, and then left to take all the blame while he surfed off to do better things.
Thx so much! I was wondering what I was gonna watch for my lunch break. But you aren’t gonna skip Anonymous Agony, right? That’s the last Mandy Halloween special that you haven’t seen yet. It came after Mystery of the Druids but before Ring. And it would be so awesome if you completed cycle before next Halloween comes!
Honestly, I LOVE that insane dwarf with the constant change in voice tone, I just like to imagine him as Mandalore's personal therapist whenever he experiences these mind boggling halloween games. So all that leaves now is 'Annoymous Agony', it is much less Moon logic puzzles and much more....Sighs.....All I can say is, take 'Darven' from Pathfinder: Kingmaker, then dial up his Edgyness into the Stratosphere, it's umm, going to be ALOT
Oh and by the way, ever since Mandalore's review of ring, a tidal wave of 'Alberich' memes swept the lands of the internet, I even go far as to say that players use his name whilst playing as the 'Chaos Dwarfs' in Total Warhammer 3 🔥
I love when reviews like this pull the "Actually the review isnt even close to ending" like Mandy did in this vid. Tehnsnakerer did something similar, and is another great channel thats like Mandalore, tending to review more obscure Eurojank titles.
Ah yes, parasyte and the distant past of the late 80s Also, the Nibelungenlied is originally a medieval german epic poem thats itself based on older germanic oral traditions (so it has a lot of parallels to other germanic stories)
1:45:42 is the The Last DeadEnd, I don't know if mandy will make a video about it, but much like Ring 1 and Mystery of the Droods it is a some weird game mandy found and played blind on his stream.
Watching this video before the bedtime was a terrible idea. Watching it in generally is really feeling like you get infected with a brain poison. So i did it on 3 separate occasions. Ring is fucking bizzare.
Here's the thing, you have to ask who enjoyed the first Ring. If you're trying to sell a sequel to that, why would you change all the aspects that might make someone want to buy a sequel. It's still a mostly point and click adventure game, it's not like you're pulling a Fallout and changing genre entirely. So you still have to deal with the same genre conventions, so completely changing things up does nothing to help you.
Personally I hated the anime of Parasite, and that has to do with the "creative decisions" they've made with it, like making the parasites garbage at hiding, making the main character into a Marvel-tier superhuman (he's way beyond where he was in the original story), amping up the art style to the point it loses the horror element it had thanks to a more realistic art style (and again the main character's superpowered now), making the main character utterly pathetic before a literal transformation (which unsurprisingly doesn't happen in the original, where all he did was change his hair and attitude), forgetting the fact that the parasites are supposed to be constrained by their physical mass (they are as big/small as the animation wants until they suddenly can't be later in the story where it's important), etc. I think it's a bad adaptation and the choice of setting it in a modern day means that the parasites should have been busted on day 1. It reeks of somebody going "let's keep adding more of this and it'll be better", like a chef who uses waaaaayyy too much of a good spice until it's all you can taste. If you just want something pretty with a good story, you'll probably like it, but I wouldn't hold it anywhere near the original work. I'll have a comment about the actual video later, but I did want to rant about Parasite.
You should check out Janovich. He does warhammer reviews of battles and events. A nice one to start out with is the hourous heresy and the siege of vraks.
You know specking of bungie if you want to see something funny I would suggest Tom Christie's Skeletor hates series its a really funny series that related to stuff in Destiny 2
Mime's voice is pretty fitting for his role in the opera, which is as a slimy midwit who is as malignant as Alberich but infinitely less competent.
You prince of slime! His name is Meme! You will address him as his true name.
-Gigachad Albrich.
@@Green-Raccoon777 Back to the cage of voice-changing with you.
@@OldIronJohnson I am convinced that was just his body double
When you said your ears perked up at the mention of "The Four" thinking it was "The Phfor" from Marathon, it was literally like three seconds after Mandalore described the ramblings about the future war deep lore and stuff as "The Four at Tau Ceti" as in "The Phfor at Tau Ceti" from Marathon.
The brain poison is at least shared, though I'm surprised you made the connection and didn't notice his joke at the same moment.
😂 There was a lot going on and I guess my ears glossed over that joke, but my subconscious didn't
35:48 there are two ways that I can describe that feeling of the music building up to go nowhere. Either it is that sneeze that builds up but never actually happens, or it is constantly edging but you have to stop to do something like taxes without that release.
Holding back a sneeze while doing taxes seems like a torture method.
29:46 that's actually canon btw, the world of middle earth is a sphere to humans, but flat to elves, meaning they can see over the horizon.
This is why Aragon asked Legolas "what do your elf-eyes see?".
The reason for this is that long ago, humans tried to sail to the land of Valinor, which is only allowed to be entered by immortals like the elves, so the gods cursed them to have them loop around before reaching it, making the world spherical to them
Uhm not quite. In origin Arda, the planet Middle Earth is part of, was flat inside a spherical atmosphere. On its westernmost end was Valinor, the blessed lands, inhabited by the Valar, the demigods who helped crafting the world and ruled its aspects and elements. Illuvatar, the God from Tolkien's legendarium, allowed only the elves to live and sail to Valinor, and when the humans broke that rule and threatened Valinor itself with their fleets he literally pulled Valinor away from the world and re-shaped Arda into a sphere, with great changes and immense disasters. So from then on nobody could voyage on the so called "straight line" that brings from the world to Valinor in the sky, except the elves and few other people who received that blessing
Walsung. Erda now wants you to find a piece of the Norns' thread. You are already heading in the right direction. But take care. In their kingdom time is continually confused and rearranged.
They could of made a one-to-one version of the story and have an okay fantasy adventure game.
But instead, they went with Maximum Aneurysm: The Game.
So this is the story according to wikipedia...
Set in the 40th century, the game begins with the introduction of ISH, one of the last surviving humans. Humanity has been enslaved by an alien race that destroyed Earth millennia ago, and took away all creativity and creative expression, meaning humanity slowly lost all sense of its cultural history. However, ISH is given the chance to save humanity by the aliens. They present to him the story of the Nibelungen, and have him embody each of the four main characters in the hopes that his experiences will lead him to lust for power, which is what led to the downfall of humanity in the first place. However, the goddess Erda believes she can help ISH by guiding him towards rejecting the desire for power. The four characters are Alberich (a cruel and sadistic dwarf king), Loge (a fire spirit), Siegmund (the son of the god Wotan), and Brünnhilde (a Valkyrie warrior).
The story begins with Alberich arriving back in his kingdom to discover that he has very little left, nothing in the kingdom works, and his workers have formed a union and gone on strike. In order to break up the strike, Alberich must find something to satisfy the disgruntled workers, and with this aim in mind, he sets off to procure the gold of the Rhinemaidens.
The second part has the player in control of Loge. His story intertwines somewhat with that of Alberich's - in the employ of the gods, he is charged by Wotan with retrieving the Nibelungen ring and the magic crown of Wotan from Alberich.
The third section tells the story of Siegmund, son of Wotan, as he attempts to unravel the circumstances surrounding the death of his mother and sister.
The fourth section tells the story of Brünnhilde, Siegmund's half-sister, who saves him at the end of the third chapter. Her act enrages Wotan, and she is forced to flee to Valhalla where she can obtain a magic artifact to bring back to the asteroid on which the story begins - thus completing the titular "ring".
So basically everything we see is a simulation done by aliens to see if the last of humanity is worth saving or not. But it's also a trick to get the last of our kind to destroy himself (or perhaps give them a reason to destroy him via the instillment of an uncontrollable lust for power as with Alberich).
That's probably why the child was there at the end and whatnot. She's likely a representation of the alien species as a whole communicating with ISH and by extension humanity.
Mushu : Dishonor! Dishonor on your whole family! Make a note of this: dishonor on you, dishonor on your cow...
Wotan is another name for Odin
55:41 i love this moment because it's peak mandalore halloween adventure game madness. Franricly moving things on his desk looking for his notes asking himself in shock how things went from Germany to Alabama faster than Alberich surfing the Rhine
No idea what mandalore said but its: Der Ring des Nibelungen
dont you mean "der ring der nibelungen" ?
@@sekarmaltum1695 no
@@sekarmaltum1695 no
@@sekarmaltum1695 It is actually "des Nibelungen". Which is the genetive singular form of "Der Nibelung". (I know it looks like it would be in plural form)
The Nibelung refers to the name of a germanic tribe which is represented by the dwarves. So it's in singular tense because it is referring to Alberich specifically. Der Ring des Nibelungen (Alberich) as opposed to the Der Ring der Nibelungen (the entire tribe).
*MINERALS FOR GLUG*
55:30 Fun Fire Emblem facts! In FE 8, the deuteragonist pair's iconic weapons are named after two Der Ring des Nibelungen characters, Siegmund for Ephraim and Sieglinde for Eirika. The main antagonist held feelings for Eirika and jealousy against Ephraim. Eirika and Ephraim are also siblings, like their sword's were in Der Ring. They are described numerous times as 'being very close'. The sword names use the German spelling of these Norse gods as seen in Der Ring, and not their Anglicized(English) spelling. All end game support endings of Ephraim are with woman... including Eirika.
It is... a long standing tradition to joke that their relationship is like their sword and spear in the play. IN UNIVERSE there are rumors in Heroes about them. The English version Ephraim mentions them and dismissed the idea as 'disgusting' because of how widespread this joke had gotten in the west... In Japanese, he doesn't. (More specifically, he's more clueless as to what these rumors are insinuating, and his Sister has to be 'Don't add fuel to the fire, numbnuts' covering for his ignorance. On two separate occasions.)
Doesn't help that Siegmund's son, is Sigurd, who is the name of a lord in FE4... which has actual bro-sis romance as a key part of the plot. Full stop.
And that's your Fire Emblem fun facts!
I think someone on Mandy's original video posted a theory that the Alberic from the second game is just an intern- or body-double the OG Alberic hired, and then left to take all the blame while he surfed off to do better things.
Thx so much! I was wondering what I was gonna watch for my lunch break. But you aren’t gonna skip Anonymous Agony, right? That’s the last Mandy Halloween special that you haven’t seen yet. It came after Mystery of the Druids but before Ring. And it would be so awesome if you completed cycle before next Halloween comes!
I'll have to do it before next Halloween then. Ended up reacting to Pathologic first, so I'll finish that series before checking it.
@@TheLegitWeebsOh wow. You are seeing so much insane content that your sanity may not survive to the end of the year XD
Let’s go! A certified classic mind melting journey!
Honestly, I LOVE that insane dwarf with the constant change in voice tone, I just like to imagine him as Mandalore's personal therapist whenever he experiences these mind boggling halloween games.
So all that leaves now is 'Annoymous Agony', it is much less Moon logic puzzles and much more....Sighs.....All I can say is, take 'Darven' from Pathfinder: Kingmaker, then dial up his Edgyness into the Stratosphere, it's umm, going to be ALOT
Oh and by the way, ever since Mandalore's review of ring, a tidal wave of 'Alberich' memes swept the lands of the internet, I even go far as to say that players use his name whilst playing as the 'Chaos Dwarfs' in Total Warhammer 3 🔥
I love when reviews like this pull the "Actually the review isnt even close to ending" like Mandy did in this vid. Tehnsnakerer did something similar, and is another great channel thats like Mandalore, tending to review more obscure Eurojank titles.
The live stream is absolutely unhinged.
Ah yes, parasyte and the distant past of the late 80s
Also, the Nibelungenlied is originally a medieval german epic poem thats itself based on older germanic oral traditions (so it has a lot of parallels to other germanic stories)
Now i think you only have left Pathologic 1 and 2 and Anonimous Agony videos for all the Mandalore lore.
I think the System Shock, Thief Trilogy, and then System Shock 2 videos are fairly lore important. If only for... The Raven.
@@crosscottonwood5984 Honestly I have avoided seeing them because I want to play them but I guess they are also part of the lore.
Oh yeah, Anonymous Agony for the ultimate cringe.
But seriously, Stasis reactions would be cool.
@@malkilthewizard oh yeah Stasis fair... fair
Divine cybermancy as well
1:45:42 is the The Last DeadEnd, I don't know if mandy will make a video about it, but much like Ring 1 and Mystery of the Droods it is a some weird game mandy found and played blind on his stream.
17:50 The Dwarves are not AI, but they do have AI "ancient spirits" that they pay respect to.
Oh man, I remember I was just as confused as you were when the review started. Can already tell this will be a good reaction!
The sound indicates it might not be a rat (unholy screams of the damned)… I think it’s a rat
Watching this video before the bedtime was a terrible idea. Watching it in generally is really feeling like you get infected with a brain poison. So i did it on 3 separate occasions. Ring is fucking bizzare.
i somehow missed "Gachimuchi Volus" when i first watched, and goddamn did it hit me like a brick this time
Oh boy, this is gonna be good.
Here's the thing, you have to ask who enjoyed the first Ring. If you're trying to sell a sequel to that, why would you change all the aspects that might make someone want to buy a sequel. It's still a mostly point and click adventure game, it's not like you're pulling a Fallout and changing genre entirely. So you still have to deal with the same genre conventions, so completely changing things up does nothing to help you.
Personally I hated the anime of Parasite, and that has to do with the "creative decisions" they've made with it, like making the parasites garbage at hiding, making the main character into a Marvel-tier superhuman (he's way beyond where he was in the original story), amping up the art style to the point it loses the horror element it had thanks to a more realistic art style (and again the main character's superpowered now), making the main character utterly pathetic before a literal transformation (which unsurprisingly doesn't happen in the original, where all he did was change his hair and attitude), forgetting the fact that the parasites are supposed to be constrained by their physical mass (they are as big/small as the animation wants until they suddenly can't be later in the story where it's important), etc.
I think it's a bad adaptation and the choice of setting it in a modern day means that the parasites should have been busted on day 1. It reeks of somebody going "let's keep adding more of this and it'll be better", like a chef who uses waaaaayyy too much of a good spice until it's all you can taste. If you just want something pretty with a good story, you'll probably like it, but I wouldn't hold it anywhere near the original work.
I'll have a comment about the actual video later, but I did want to rant about Parasite.
Interesting. I've never heard this kind of take before, but I can't add anything here as I only know of the anime version.
@@TheLegitWeebs I'd highly recommend reading the original, it's only 64 chapters and can easily be done in a single day.
@@lich109 Don't forget the best companion to the manga, the doujin by Rapidrabbit, cute and canon
I love just how viscerally younreact to the second game
If you wanna know about the master from fallout 1 you can watch Ghostcharm’s Villainpedia episode on him. It’s great.
You should check out Janovich. He does warhammer reviews of battles and events. A nice one to start out with is the hourous heresy and the siege of vraks.
This is no weirder than Starship Titanic which I played and was from the same time. They're just European.
New grim kleaper video out. It's skaven time
We're going for another gaming review bender!
1:24:30 that funky music Mandalore is playing? that was a giveaway to his next review. Ghost Master. One of my favorite strategy games.
Someone tell me if mandalore tormented himself with omicron
Pls play Sam and Max one of these day's
You know specking of bungie if you want to see something funny I would suggest Tom Christie's Skeletor hates series its a really funny series that related to stuff in Destiny 2
this is so much yes hahahaha
You like decepticon i see...then welcome to the club. Also yeah u right decepticon is much cooler
The original story was not nonsensical, I think Mandalore just played it up for the video. By original story I mean the exposition, not the gameplay.
1:06:36 impeccable delivery
Oh he doesn't know about 38:12 yet? I don't think he is ready for that one.
Your mind, truly melted haha