An Actual Review of Night in the Woods & Life is Strange
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- I wanted to call this video "a night in the strange" but I was worried it'd get demonetized. Good thing this replacement title really rolls of the tongue.
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#NightInTheWoods #LifeIsStrange #Review
I hope it was worth the wait.
I’d like to thank everyone who helped me out with this video, shout out to my mate CloudCuckooCountry for lending his cunty Aussie voice to this (in addition to helping with some behind the scenes stuff), please check his channel out, he makes really fantastic book reviews that are sorta similar to my videos and is super fuckin’ underrated (th-cam.com/users/CloudCuckooCountry).
Big thank you to Finn/finnxmusic for letting me use his song “in luv with you” at the end of this video, it was exactly what that bit needed. All of his music is amazing and you should give it a listen or 2 or 5,354 (soundcloud.com/finnxmusic), and as always thank you to my boi David for mixing and mastering the Voiceover.
I’m really sorry that this video took me so long to make, as you can hopefully tell by the final product it was a huge undertaking for me for a number of reasons and I learned a lot by working on it. I appreciate everyone being so patient and waiting for it so that I could take the time to make it as good as I could, y’all are rad.
If you want to follow me on social media you can check out my Twitter @ShammyTV (twitter.com/ShammyTV), and if you’d like to support me directly so I can keep making dumb shit like this you can head on over to my Patreon (patreon.com/shammy), all donations are greatly appreciated. There should be a big update coming soon, as well as an increase in Shamboy related content, so be on the lookout for that, and thanks again for watching :)
Shammy It's always worth the wait you wonderful owl person.
Shammy SEXXXXXXXY OWWWWWWWWWWLLLLLLLLLLLLL!
Worth every f*cking second ❤️
Shammy Please never leave us you beautiful bird
We tolerate you
I remember the "Don't stab people" PSA. It was approximately 30 seconds long and was a guy saying "Hey, let's go stab that guy," to which his friend responded with "This is why you're in a maximum security prison, David."
In 1982 ABC actually made an after school special about an inmate on alabama's death row (John Evans III) who was about to be executed for a murder he'd committed in 1977.
Evan's actually appeaered in the special talking directly to the audience about "good and bad choices" and the "results of such choices", he was electrocuted in yellow mama about two weeks after the special aired.
You can find it here on youtube, I think it's called "final choice" or something along those lines.
@@Hammerhead547 Necropost: something about showing that to children seems tone-deaf.
That sounds amazing
-Llamas With Hats, 201X
God damn that’s funny.
Watching this video made me realise that the reason I like Life is Strange so much more than other people is that the characters in it talk like teens who learnt English as a second language, trying to imitate the stuff they heard on TV... and I grew up attending an international school in a foreign country, surrounded by kids who learnt English as a second language, trying to imitate the stuff they saw on TV.
jack agjonraw as someone who speaks Spanish but speaks English as a second language I can completely agree on your theory.
Even all of my friends here speak English too.
So yeah, LiS will be better received by non-native English speakers.
luls, a game, in english, written by non-native speakers, for non-native speakers.
Truly, life is strange is the first of its kind :)
I liked it by the concept rather than the story
I speak english as second language but the dialogue still seems like absolute garbage to me.
I can understand that. What I'm talking about is this: the kids at my school, who all mostly learned English as a 2nd language, with lots of inspiration from American Tv, ended up talking like the kids in Life is Strange. So I don't mind the dialogue. If you went through the same experience and think differently, then I guess my experience was unique. And if you didn't, but just learnt English as a 2nd language, then I guess we don't actually disagree on anything.
When I first saw this review I wasn't that interested in Night in the Woods, but one year later, having dropped out of college at 20 due to anxiety, fear of failure, and complete lack of direction in my life, this game might be what I need if I'm spending my time in animal crossing and mario kart anyways...
I don't know how much it will help, but it is cathartic at the very least. Bea's story is amazing, but so is Gregg's so it's worth a second playthrough eventually, too. I always pick Angus after the library (to keep things real vague) as I think it contains the heart of the game.
Just do as the characters do and ignore the ending. The emotional ride and relationships are the meat of the story.
Hope it actually helped :) Been in that situation too.
I am in the exact same position right now. Felt weird seeing a character so relatable on screen ...
Was it?
Wow, I thought that the whole owl thing was just your avatar. I didn't realize you were actually an owl.
Well duh.
Freezing Dart no shit of course he's an owl
why the fuck would he be anything else *but* an owl, you idiot
Freezing Dart he's actually jacket from hotline miami
Gustavo Gonçalves Dude, he's the Rasmus
great video, bird boy
Pyrocynical Well now,what do we have here
felix defeatkiller Get a clue, cancer that's what
Pyrocynical DAD!? What are you doing here
Ma man Shammy a brave, brave, good, little bird boy
Pyrocynical papa pyro bless
That ending scene was gold, if only because I couldn't stop laughing at the owl mask and that you actually put so much effort into a silly gag.
I was laughing my ass off all the way trough from beggining to end hahahaha
What mask? That’s just his face
That ending got me into Finn's music
I lost it at the Target shopping cart
Wow, Catcher in the Rye? What kind of nerd reads books?
dont take my lunch money pls
books?
That Wizard re..ad?
Phonies, that's who. Those and perverts.
Your criticism falls apart when comparing it to catcher and The Rye because you fail to realize that many of Holden's characteristics are actually given to other characters. You are trying to have Max be a Holden clone because of her name, that's not good criticism.
This is the quality of indie music and instagram filtering I subscribed for.
10/10 would be emotionally manipulated by Shammy again.
Eslaf di Emanon nice
For a second there I thought to myself "how the fuck have I commented on this video already I've never even seen it" before looking at your profile picture closer and reading your name
I never read Catcher in the Rye so LiS came off to me like Teen Drama (tm). NiTW however hit home real quick for reasons similar to what you've experienced.
I read catcher in high school and came away from it wondering why people love it so much because it had no real effect on me while lord of the flies became one of my favorite novels because of the way it dissects human nature and examines the ugly side of us all which most of us manage to keep hidden.
There’s no real difference if you have read it, it’s not that similar to LiS at all.
@@Hammerhead547 some people love it because it makes them feel superior to their younger selves, which they should if they've grown past it. But some people faced hardship early on and never felt the entitlement that Holden has, so they just get confused when presented with an unrelatable protagonist.
That ending could easily be a Coldplay music video
At 16:22 you said "Maybe its because I also dropped out of college at 20 after having a mental breakdown as a last ditch effort to preserve my rapidly declining mental health, maybe its because I can relate to the feeling of returning to home to a disapproving but begrudgingly accepting family and constantly having to remind myself that their disappointment stems from wanting the best for me to keep it from eating me alive from the inside out" and honestly that is one of the best delivered truly relatable things i've ever heard spoke and made me feel like you are an actual person unlike a lot of fake youtube persona's, so even though your Shammy character is an act I feel I got to know a person for who they are.
Kill Me lol u got tricked by an owl.
Your so right
That line made me want to play this game
when 3 lines of speaking gives more character development to a youtube persona then in an entire game with the explicit purpose to make u feel attached to the characters in them
*D T* - ...and it wasn't even being helped by a basking shark.
or was it?
Well. I came here 3 years ago after finishing life is strange, and made me curious about night in the wood. Few months later, on a sale, I purchased it. Back when I saw this video, I had to stop it after 10 mins to don't spoil myself.
Indeed it took me few hrs to love night in the woods with all my guts.
I kept this little gem for 3 years.
I kept it playing just few hrs here and there, when I was feeling "grim".
Lately life kicked my face again so I slowly finished this little treasure, that I have kept in time as a tiny bliss.
So here I am, after 3 years, to watch the last part of the video. I don't think any game touched me deep as night in the woods. It's..... It's a game that speaks deeper than it seems. It takes you deep in that place inside of you that you don't always want to face. I think I will play it again with some differences, just to catch something more.
It is... Touching. I can't find better words.
Anyway thanks Shammy, thanks for making me playing this game. You were right.
Agreed. Stay strong man
We are slowly unlocking shammy's backstory
Headhunter 113 we need more reviews
Once there was a man, I mean there was an owl man, I mean there was just an owl.
But he was still SHAMMY!
(Trogdor riff)
I didnt know owls have feeling
Re-reviewing the No Man's Sky,
Re-reviewing the Titanfall
Re-reviewing all the DLC
And their indi dev early access!
Indi dev early access!
Whoa, this video has wicked hipster jokes
It's like Razorfist versus Angry Joe over here
Go Razorfist!
Go Razorfist!
Razorfist wins!
_______
When all the video games lie in ruins
And re-reviewing has forsaken the algorithms
Only one guy will remain
My money's on
Shammy!
Shammy!
And the Shammy comes in the night . . .
emphasis in "slowly"
Goddamn it, of course my fucking face pops up at sinister.
Brendaniel lol, I thought that was you...
Brendaniel lol of course man.
oh shit it's markiplier!
is that Le funne 4 Chen store mann? jk noise to see ya appearing on some channels I watch
Brendaniel ITS YA BOI MARKIPLIER
Damn that Catcher poster in LiS is the most tacky reference ever, imagine if Silent Hill 2 opened with James reading Crime and Punishment
Rheymet being honest, I would find that rlly funny
Oof
more like if james was watching the movie jacob's ladder
@@tzaneee why not both?
What if Silent hill 2 opened with James watching Jacob's ladder and he just shakes his head and says "That's not scary"
"I'd roll my eyes so hard that I could watch my brain losing its higher functions"
Absolute gold.
Only way to improve that ending would involve wearing an NRA t-shirt and skinny jeans
Yes, true!
Yo was shammy born in inola Oklahoma?
I would have fucking pissed myself.
Shammy is a gift from god.
Nick Xotter
You only figured that out now?
wrong, shammy is god
god is a gift from gabe
317 likes firetruck
accurate
Anyone else glad they found this gem of a TH-camr?
nah just you
Found you a few months ago and your attention to detail and the way you present each one of your videos is so great. Reminds me of the big gaming reviewer boom back in the early 10s but all those people (apart from ProJared) have kind of just faded for me. Very much glad that i found your channel keep up the great work!
I saw his videos pop up in my recommendeds back in maybe November or so. I didn't start watching until December, but once I did I was hooked. And the best part is that I think Shammy's writing and presentation skills are only getting better.
no
RyanideProductions me
16:05 it was the jacket. definitely the jacket
yeah i thought so too
John From Management it is a damn sweet jacket
Cameron Trivett hell yea
16:48*
I actually feel kind of sad that Night in the Woods didn’t get any awards just because it wasn’t overrated and ruined by tumblr like Cuphead. But on the other hand it won’t get ruined and toxic any further and kept as a hidden gem.
This. Awards aren't directly correlated to quality as a game, they correlate more with the popularity of them.
Dr. Masquerade shitty fanart and publicity
How did Tumblr ruin Cuphead? I kinda missed that headline...
C. M. NITW wasnt a good game, it was flawed and i wont go into much detail.
But a big thing i have to say about it is the story is boring, which is awful since thats 3/4ths of the enjoyment of the game, the other part being the visuals.
If you ask people who have played it, a lot of their responses are "its amazing but i havent played it all the way" and they never will. The writing is horribly flawed and since this is a youtube comment in an old video, i dont think anyone cares about what i have to say.
But yeah, thats the reason it fell into obscurity and won nothing, despite multiple popular youtubers playing it and all the hype it had. Its a bad game, simple as that.
qwerty uiop The game is more like a visual novel with a few mini games to break up the plot here and there. If you don't like the plot to a book chances are you'll hate the book. I happened to of beaten it and enjoyed it immensely but I really like story heavy games and am not turned off by a lack of gameplay like most people are.
Plenty of games can be amazing and never receive real recognition, like Lisa The Painful for instance, and it really doesnt say anything about the quality.
"Wear an NRA tshirt with skinny jeans because I reeeally like to keep people guessing"
Had to pause the video to get it together after that one.
I figured it out. He's Hunter Avalone.
Shammy ur a very fluffy bird thank u for making this.
That's an owl, sweety.
The fuck is an owl?
^^^ Had to edit this because I just realized that 90% of the internet is retarded and probably won't see this as sarcasm
I see what you did thereee
Can't bait me!
I knew it was sarcasm btw. :P
I was playing along ;D
Yeah life is strange was just kinda bleh. The only heavy impact was the story where her friend ends up in a wheel chair. That story was brutal and had impact.
And even then, that's a whole rip-off of The Butterfly Effect. A great movie that does time travelling right.
I don't agree with you there, I love LiS but I will agree with the wheelchair scene part. As soon as I saw Chloe in the wheelchair I was like "sorry William, you have to die"
Not really. Since chole in the og timeline was terrible the empathy I had for wheelchair chole didn't transfer to the other chole
The ending of the video hit me like a truck I havent cried like this in years... Just amazing direction and writing.
hahahahahahah
wuss
nvm i just cried
Stayed for the ending because of this comment. Did not regret lol.
What's the song that plays at the end?
16:19 Man, that turned real way too quick. I didn't need these feels all of a sudden.
What's interesting to me is that I didn't actually play the game myself, or rather I still have yet to. However, I did follow Commander Holly and Ross play through it. Their voices helped bring life to the world and make it a very enjoyable experience (to me at least; I can imagine that it'd be annoying as hell to a lot of people). And their usually minimal commentary on the game itself aside from narration actually allowed me to absorb the story and develop my own feelings toward the characters without being extremely influenced by Holly's and Ross's remarks (which I think is something I usually miss out on when watching somebody play a story-driven game).
And it was cathartic. I felt like Mae and (apparently) Shammy as well. I don't think I was as affected because, once again, it was a second-hand experience. But the portrayal of becoming a young adult who's unable to fit into the expected mold that's been presented to young people for the last few decades was incredibly accurate and satisfying.
Sorry for typing so much, btw
like my social studies teacher getting very philosophic out of the blue on the last day of school. going on about freedom and love.
Almost too relatable.. Maybe 'Night in the Woods' is a better game for people over 18. Y'know, once you're forced into real adulthood to the point where you start behaving more childish and selfish than ever in a last ditch effort to not grow up. I haven't played this game yet but I have a feeling it'll be sad, not in a 'this situation is meant to be sad' but more in a 'look at your life from an outside perspective' kinda sad. At least that's the kinda impression I got from the review.
No kidding, that's one mirror I was not prepared or expecting to look into when I started dicking around on TH-cam this afternoon. It's definitely solidified my desire to play NitW though, who knows if I'll be closing the game out a richer person than before I opened it.
Welp time to kms
Wow, that uhh... That hit close to home. Not enough TH-camrs truly go into their issues. I really respect that and am glad you mentioned them. Hope you're doing better man.
Bea talks about her miserable life, and I feel like saying "Aw man, I'm sorry Bea. I really hope things work out better for you." Chloe talks about her miserable life, and I feel like saying "Okay, that sucks, but tone down the bitch-o-meter a bit, you're not making it easy for me to sympathize with you." I rest my case
Admittedly, Bea doesn't talk about her miserable life until Mae actively starts ruining what little happiness she's cobbled together for herself; Bea tries to be an adult and accept that Mae is still way more immature than her for as long as possible, only snapping and telling Mae off when Mae turns the bitch-o-meter up all on her own.
Chloe sorta slams you with the 'my life sucks and I'm going to whine at you about it' almost as soon as she's introduced and doesn't stop whining until Max actively shuts her down... only to start whining again five minutes later.
@@bakuhakudraws5603 It's also a moment they start to properly reconnect, through the pain and miscommunication they start to understand each other again and get the unspoken out of the way
Third time rewatching this video and I realize that the atomic bomb has "Go fuck yourselfie" written on it. Shammy, you are a god.
This was legitimately one of the most well constructed, well written, and most effective gaming reviews I think I have ever seen. Your delivery stacked on top of the in depth writing really conveyed your thoughts on both subjects. I also appreciate the relation of your own real life problems because I too have been through a similar situation. Plus the ending bit was great (thanks for the song btw it's p good lol). Anyway for real, 10/10 video here.
For me, LiS is trying too hard to imitate teens personalities. I literally felt nothing for characters. On other hand, NitW, IMHO, does that job much better. After game ended I was really sad, because I realised, that I will never them again. Also, the ending, for me, is good. It ends really abruptly, but I think that it's for the best, and realistic build-up never goes for nothing.
I tried three seperate times to play through LiS and had to stop about 4 hours in because I just couldn't stand chloe's snotty entitled "I'm the one who is suffering" bs attitude, I actively came to hate her and think that she deserved the bad end that she came too.
After watching a playthrough of the prequel I realized that my hatred of her character was entirely justified because she really was a horrible human being who didn't deserve any sympathy empathy or compassion.
I felt the exact opposite way after playing the awesome adventures of captain spirit because the main character was a genuine innocent soul who was being subjected to cruelties of the world that he didn't understand.
@@Hammerhead547Wether you sympathize with Chloe or not... isn't that part of the point of LiS?
Chloe is presented as cool, charismatic and kind of like a "You HAVE to like her"-character. But when going through the game, you realize her behaviour is just... bad. Personally, I really liked that portrayal, as it is rather realistic. Many people are snotty and entitled with that same attitude.
@@TheSorrowfulAngel
Realistic isn't likable. It's very clear that the game wants you to like this character but does a very poor job at giving you a reason to.
If what the game was going for was "realistic" the writing wouldn't have been as shit as it was, and it wouldn't have been so hilariously out of touch with literally everything, so I'd imagine that it was more a coincidence that she came out as "realistic"
@@ouddaboks9131 A tad... beside my point. But~ I agree with all of your statements.
oh shit boys, TH-cams best game reviewer just uploaded.
EPIC TALAL Govong Crowbcat a run for his money
EPIC TALAL on par with joseph anderson
If you spoke Spanish you would say its DayoScript. But Shammy comes 2nd obviously :P
angry joe finally uploaded!!!!!!!
i just checked....
you liar
8:40 considering owls can’t actually roll their eyes that’s quite the accomplishment
I don't think i will ever forget Night in the Woods
That's all i think i need to say about it
TheTUGAfreak I don't think I will ever forget Life is Strange.
That's all I need to say about it.
I played LiS and it felt so empty...
night in the woods is the best
i like night in the woods and life is strange so much...
I watched Night In The Woods once and I have never stopped thinking about it and it is honestly such a great game
I know random person wondering why im still here you're judging me. Im still here because eff time. Bea is the best. Greg Rulez Ok.
This is my favorite video of yours. The ending is so strong, especially since you’re mocking life is strange‘s ending by imitating its ending but by doing it way better and with much more emotion. Man, I really love your work.
so you are telling me somewhere under a bridge you vandalized city property to make an outro for a video?
+1 sub for that you criminal!
Crimes? Crimes.
eff the cops
He actually used spray on chalk. It washes off in the rain.
Life Is Strange and Night In The Woods are two games I thoroughly enjoyed. With that being said, great job on this review.
Ending is solid fucking gold.
I can't believe I found this channel! I was listening to this video at my boyfriends but I was falling asleep so I never got to catch your channel name
I'm super happy you popped up on here, can't wait to watch more!
Glad you enjoy it :)
“The incessant references to Catcher In The Rye make it impossible to focus on the game’s other themes...” The other theme is references to Twin Peaks. Haha.
What a face reveal!
I love NITW'S ability to hit home with so many people in different ways. One thing that did it for me is it's ability to play along to the rust belt blues which really got me thinking about how shabby and delapidated the town that I live in is.
I love the metal bat reference. I'm not gonna say anything for those who haven't played these games. But Mae.
MaeDay MaeDay, we are going down
I don't know if you put that song at the end just to prove your point. But I've been playing that song non-stop since I heard it from this video and I love it. Great review fam.
I'm glad, it's a good ass song
yes
Shammy Im unsubbing from your trash music.
Layout8311 what is the song??
Please don't
Night in the woods is a story about failure to launch and living in the ruins of your childhood. I relate to it so much more now. I finished college and still ended up back home endless applying to jobs you never here back from the struggle is in fact real.
I'm a foreigner and understanding your reviews always fills me with pride of partially succeeding in the one subject I'm capable in
Simone Pistolesi Well, speaking is one thing. Apparently spelling is the difficult part. A lot of people can't seem to tell the difference between 'your' and 'You're' XD
Toxic Tomatoes I spelled it right
that fucking bird mask
perfect
He used Titanfall 2 as the benchmark for "particularly good".
I can die happy.
I love the attention to detail every time you have a section on youtube.
I think it's lost on like 95% of viewers but those contain some of my better jokes I feel lmao
Shammy seirously, stuff like that is why you're one of the best upcoming youtubers at the moment. keep it up, old sport
NotSpecialDude don't bring The Great Gatsby into this.
Life Is Strange (and its sequel series) tries so fucking hard to be "deep and thoughtful" when it's actually after school special the game as it pretentiously soliloquizes about the nature of time & space, the meaning of friendship and the concept of actions having consequences in a spectacularly masturbatory way.
Hammerhead547 Night in the woods does the same thing, but it does it better by making you feel for the characters first instead of making them deep for you to feel for them.
That's the key word: pretentious.
@@godsgreatestmistake8013 Exactly! Biggest difference is NitW made its characters relatable. The characters in both games had similar flaws, but NitW was self-aware and LiS wasn't.
@@godsgreatestmistake8013
The issue with LiS and its shitty prequel is specifically that the characters aren't even remotely deep, they're all tea tray shallow stereotypes that are given long boring bits of babble that are meant to sound "deep and intelligent" when it all cones across like listening to the obnoxious goth kids I went to high school with in the late 90's whining about how "no one understands" them or "their pain" while not realizing that no one around them actually cares about what they're talking about.
NITW was a masterpiece in the genre. It is a diamond in the rough.
Don't tell Luxembourg.
@@aidengray3998 It took me way too long to get this joke...
I enjoyed both NitW and LiS, but NitW is definitely the superior game by far
Gregg rulez Ok!!
NITW is amazing.. one of the few games that have managed to make me cry. Probably in my top 3 favorite games of all time.
Lol you are absolutely right, even though i love life is strange.
I didn't feel the awkwardness of the dialogue cuz im not a native speaker, so it sounded funny at most. You dont know what is cringe untill you hear Brazilian lúcio saying "vamo esculachá" in overwatch.
Although i admit the potential of the time travel mechanic was almost completely wasted by loopholes and inconsistencies, i think the puzzles and situations it created were fantastic.
Somehow i did not experience any bug while i was playing.
One thing that perturbed me was the weakness of the characters personalities, in the sense that any happenings would throw their mind completely off rails, like Chloe discovering that Rachel was fucking that drug dealer, or Warren having a fight with Nathan.
Maybe its just the emo hipster music, the fact that i have a thing for lesbians and my ignorance towards the references, but somehow the game hit me in the feels, i even added the soundtrack to my spotify list
Gabriel Dos Santos You perfectly summed up my experience.
meu deus um br
night in the woods vale MUITO mais a pena que life is strange mano, quase tive um ataque do coracao quando vi que o shammy postou um video sobre meu jogo favorito.
mas falando serio man vale muito a pena,amei a soundtrack e absolutamente tudo em NitW
still love watchin this once a year
while the time travel mechanic is cool and all it defeats the purpose of choosing a choice and having to live with it even if their the bad Choice but in here you can just rewind time and boom you Chose a better Choice
Watching this video made me do three things:
1. Buy a night in the woods
2. Write this comment
and
3. Wonder what the other piece of media that made Shammy cry extremely masculine tears was
I need the feels to happen so that I may cry extremely masculine tears.
What was it Shamwow?
Why do you hold back these feels from me, Shamu?
All I wish is to have the extremely masculine tears for once in my life so that people don't continue to assume I am a cold dead heartless robot, so please tell me Shampoo, what is it that made you and could possibly make me have the feels?
Please... :'(
I can't help myself from coming back to this video every couple months. I love your writing and your sense of humor, thank you shammy.
"Maybe it's because Greg has a pretty sick jacket." I love you, shammy.
oh boy a whole 22 minutes of shammy's sexy voice!!!
raypest You can also restart the video, so a unlimited amout of his sexy voice
oh my god th..thats brilliant!!!
raypest Yeah I know just figured it out I thought you can watch every video one time and after that give it back to trump
I repeat watch, a lot, a lot of videos. I always forget to skip this one because sometimes I’ll watch it and everything in reality will hit me and I just… it’s incredible how many people can relate to your pain that you will literally never know. With that is just the absolute idea that no one else knows what we are facing, and it isn’t true but man, it’s hard to open up and this video always makes me send messages to my friends to tell them I love them. I hope y’all are doing okay.
We're all in our little worlds, on a different journey but all heading toward the same destination. Might as well make the most of it rather than cursing it. Just gotta keep reminding myself of that fact as life goes on and whatever trials life throws at you.
AdumPlaze was my introduction to Life is Strange, and there was no way I could ever enjoy the game after I saw it through his eyes.
SaberRexZealot same with E;R
"Who says hella unironically?"
..👀.....I'll just see myself out
bea smiling.
that's it. just this. it is perfect
Shammy I have no idea what it is about your videos, whether it be the writing, your voice, or the cheezy indie music, but somethin about them just makes me feel almost at home man. That sounds weird but im not sure how else to put it, and despite being on youtube for almost 8 years now and being into game critics like Angry Joe, AVGN, Mathew Matosis and all them, I think you might just be my all time favorite. Always lookin forward to your next upload. Keep up the quality content you majestic Birdman.
The ending is so poetic. It shows him watching your own video, alone. He’s alone because nobody accepted him because of him having an owl head, but finding someone else like him (you) and finally deciding to run away from his disappointed parents and friends. He sprayed the message because he always told them he would leave and they never listened or cared, but now he knows there are better people in the world that he could connect to and would appreciate him. It’s so beautiful and I cried so much.
RIP Alec Holowka, it just isn't fair
We have lost an incredible artist...
Far too often do the talented and good depart this world far sooner than we'd like. Far too often.
Nitw 2 is unlikely.
@@Polychi1998 I don't think NITW even needs a sequel, maybe a prequel would work tho.
When I get the chance I'd to make an OC and give it the last Holowka.
Shammy, you're like the Eminem of games reviewers.
Whoa holy shit pump the brakes there fam I ain't that good
For good or bad, when it comes to games reviews, you don't need to be "that" good to be the best.
And that's what makes you it.
This video had a better ending than most of the games he reviews.
I only recently got and finished my first play through of Night in the Woods and I completely agree with your pain in not wanting to divert from Bea's play through but if you haven't already, I would highly recommend you do, I think all the characters are equally as lovable (she's still my favorite though).
You are a genuinely deep and intelligent person.
Torfi Þorgrímsson is it just me or did anyone cringe when they saw this comment?
a dickhead once said I saw the profile picture and I did
You guys obviously don't have a good taste when it comes to good original characters.
Then again, I don't have it as well.
9/10 face reveal, not as fat as i though.
Still, the fact that he wears a Henley and button-down at the same time is a bit disconcerting
RocketDogAnimation He said that he wanted to keep you guessing.
Oda Swifteye true, cant give it all away at once
Twelve20two going to give the benefit of the doubt and say he dressed like that to tie that scene in with the game
honestly i really enjoyed life is strange and a lot of the issues you talked about i didnt really have in my playthrough. i didnt notice the shitty references and the bad lip sync. i think its because as someone who is not native i'm really used to movies and series having outdated slang due to inaccurate translations and lip sync thats kind of in the uncanny valley. i guess native english speakers have their standars very high about this kind of stuff because they're used to dialog that is actually good lol, so idk. your thoughts?
Very interesting. Another non native comment said something very similar. Seems there’s something to that, I guess you guys wouldn’t notice things like cliche characters, dialogue, references, etc.
im not native and i enjoyed it. didnt know about the references, and the dialogue i honestly didnt mind... night in the woods is good too, but not as good as LiS
Yup I'm not native either so when I first played LiS I really didn't know much bad references or cringe and cliche dialogues until people pointed these out... honestly I was just enjoying the story... Both lis and nitw are still my favourites.
Same, thoroughly loved the game, I've clicked 60hrs on 3 playthroughs with full achievements lol
@@MatthewTraceur i haven’t played LIS again cause it’s too sad
Night in the Woods= emo in 1997; questionable musicianship, sometimes goofy lyrics, shoddy production but heartfelt and authentically working class
Life is Strange= emo in 2007; slickly played and produced but ultimately a forgettable Hot Topic commodity
Jod Gesus I'm not remotely familiar with the Emo genre, but Life is Strange is anything but slickly played and produced.
Night In The Woods = A heartfelt thoughtful coming of age drama in the vein of a good john hughes movie.
Life Is Strange and its prequel = a bad very special episode of a mediocre 80's sitcom that only exists so the writers show how "serious" they can be when they're not writing fart jokes one liners and pratfalls.
Night in the woods>Life Is Strange. LiS was pretty shit
I know im a year late. Do shit
"I'm ready for the mosh pit, shaka brah."
"get the hell out of me" oh my god it was there all along
This video had a better ending then Life is Strange...
DOAMA *worse*
DOAMA because it has chloe alive. Chloe shall not die
@DOAMA Yeah it was a cop-out ending either way but at least the sacrifice Chloe ending ties up more loose ends than just "oh well they drive away lol.. all those characters you just spent 5 episodes getting to know? yeah no idea if they're even alive" umm the fuck?
Than
shammy my dad is in the hospital could you give him a few words of encouragement, he doesnt know you well but i remember showing him your no mans sky review (LOOOOONG story) once and saying to him "i actually know this guy sorta", so it'd mean a lot that an "internet famous" person wishes him well
Famtomerc Hope you're dad gets better soon mate God bless.
I'm really sorry to hear that mate, tell your dad that if he doesn't get well soon I'm gonna write a *scathing* yelp review of that hospital.
Hope he gets well soon
Tbh, the fact that you decided to reply to this random viewer and give them not only a funny, but obviously heartfelt comforting comment was really touching.
Keep doing what you're doing mate, you are an inspiration to us for more than just your content - Even if that content is the best I've seen so far on youtube.
Thats so sweet
This is fantastic, owl man. I still like you
Thank you for your forgiveness, after all these years you're still Max Caulfield.
dude the way you write these reviews is so well put together. i love how truthful you are about your opinions.
i loved this
your writing is very well put together and your humor is excellent
and the ending made me actually laugh which never happens
good work shammy
I like both games but NITW left me fucked up emotionally for days after I played it because of how much it resonated with me whereas LiS left me fucked up in anger because of how bad the ending was, so I guess there's your answer to which is the better game lol
Felt the same, that ending made me so angry- choices? My ass.
But yeah, at the end of NitW I was left contemplating a lot. The only thing I contemplated during the credits of LiS is why did I spend money on it.
To be fair I have to defend the trendy words that were used in Life is Strange. It's set in 2013 and I graduated high school in 2012, I can confirm that words such as "wowser", "awesome-sauce", and "hella" were used by practically all teenagers and were very commonly used.
Technically it's accurate for the era.
The ending of this video elicited a strong, emotional response from me.
I love both games, and this video really accurately summarised why I love NiTW so much more. It really hit closer to home for me, too. It's harder to understand the struggle of characters in a world where consequence is essentially meaningless vs a world where consequences of the main character's (Mae's) actions literally made the story.
15:37 How am I just now noticing the owl sprite and computer sprite layering messed up as he's making fun of the buggy sprites in NITW? Subtle humor like this is why I'm subscribed.
Life is strange is for teenagers who are about to get mentally destroyed, and night in the woods is for twenty yr olds who got mentally destroyed.
ah shit i played them in the wrong order
@@christophervanerp1133 I’m so sorry
In regards to indie music over filters, I hate them as well. It all feels so fake and always draws me out of the experience. I almost always feel emotional though that emotion is frustration towards the creator.
If there are endings that always gets me emotional in a good way, it's when a creator doesn't really care if the ending is cool or not but rather enjoyable and fits within the narrative. Nacho libre's end fight is my prime example of this for me. Sure it's supposed to be comedy but it's very satisfying to watch and I still get teary eyed when nacho flies through the air. Something about it screams, "it's been an honor entertaining you." And somewhere deep inside me replies, "Thank you"
The comparison reminds me so much of Bojack horseman and 13 reasons why
Both games just have such a nostalgic vibe, and just give me an indescribable feeling. It’s depressing, yet it makes me think of better days ay the same time. I can sit and sob just listening to the LIS soundtrack.
Dang, probably the harshest remarks I've seen on LiS -- I'm actually a fan of the story overall (mainly the dynamic between Max and Chloe and the blending of genres), BUT I really enjoyed seeing someone call it out on its bullshit, ESPECIALLY the ending. I mean, I LOVE this game and even I agree its ending was just...bad, so very bad. =_=;;
And that said, I VERY much agree that NitW is the better story and the better game. I actually love both of them, but amen that NitW is just...better, overall.
Fun critique. It's way harsher (on both games, really) than I'd be but it wasn't just pointless hate, it was intentionally laid out, personal criticism, which is much more engaging and needed in the realm of video game reviews.
I played this game in 8th grade and liked it, I hadn’t read Catcher in the Rye, now I played it again in 10th grade shortly after I read Catcher in the Rye and ooh baby, it wasn’t nearly as good as I remembered
Still one of the best video game reviews I've ever seen. I miss you Shammy.
When comparing the two games, I'd say I wish NitW would've stayed focused on the characters and LiS would've elaborated on the time travel powers. As it was, NitW's eldritch conclusion overwhelmed the personal lives of its well-done characters, and LiS left me feeling like Max's powers were a universal tease.
holy shit it really has been FIVE YEARS since this video released, life is just slipping through my fingers.
Fuck yes this feels like something coming straight from the birds brain. Finally feels like genuine opinion without being filtered through crass jokes, topics you actually give a shit about and can dig into. Way better then anything else you've made, not to say what you've made before is poorly done, quite the opposite nevertheless this is better. I look forward to the future of your channel.
Can we just accommodate this guy for actually talking about how he had a bad childhood and severe emotional problems growing up? You not only have my respect but I'm also happy that my favorite small, having-the-respectable-opinion-and-not-getting-enough-attention, puts-a-fuck-load-of-work-for-a-smaller-than-deserved-audience TH-camr is in a comfortable place to talk about his hardships
One thing life is strange really has going for it is the fact that I played it as a teenager, so the corny dialogue & two dimensional characters flew over my head to the point where all I remember about playing it now was being gay for Chloe & relating to the teen angst & whatnot. NITW on the other hand, I’ve only just started playing now as a college student back at home from covid & I’m already relating a lot to Mae, so I expect it’ll hit close to home similarly to this guy.
whats funny is that life is strange does capture teenage girl slang but it still makes me want to die
I miss Shammy
This is the video that convinced me to play NITW. Cleared it recently, worth the price of admission. I'm looking forward to doing Gregg's content (went all in on Bea the first time).