Honestly, this game tickled my neurons just right. There's no real objective, just some fluffy stories put together in a messed up, but cohesive world, all expressed in a nifty art style and with surprising depth and eloquence. It reminds me of late-90s to early 2000s freeware and internet digital art, it has that same artistic spirit.
The art style and writing reminds me a lot of the old zines amateur artists used to make and leave at comic stores and such (maybe they still do, I don't know). Considering the many references to zines in the game itself, I take it's not a coincidence.
I don't think this is a new take by any means, but I really enjoy the way Vinny gets into basically voice acting every character in games like this. He doesn't just read the dialogue but makes each character distinct and gives them different voices and inflections and goes along with their reactions. It's a small thing but it's seeing him getting invested in the characters and story that gets me invested too. It's one thing when we all know what Mario characters more or less sound like anyway, but doing it for weird little indie titles like this is always a lot of fun. I always get a kick out of it
like, he doesnt "make a voice" for them, but his cadences and intonations change, just the way he flows through sentences. he really knows how to get into character without much effort
I actually legit couldn't tell sometimes when it was vinny describing the game himself, or him reading the dialog. Its like it was written for him because it was all stuff that sounds like things he would say.
I was so happy seeing this win the Nuovo award at GDC this year. The fact that this rag-tag, cobbled-together passion project was up there with the likes of Venba and Rhythm Doctor really set the scene for what an award-winning game can be. As an indie dev, it’s inspiring.
I feel that the success of this culture product in the field of modern award distribution shibboleths legitimates the assertion of what we may call even something like a "New Wave" in underground culture products of the present era of ever-increasingly arcane subcultural remixes of extant masses of accumulated psuedo-mass-culture regurgitant mocking the nightmarish agglutination of meta-documents resonating with the proliferation of exponential informational and technological acceleration hazarding vast swaths of artificial byproducts of AI-self-similar commercial potential "gig economy" prospective hyperreality fantasy Web 1.0 nostalgia-fueld analog horror simulacrum-futuremarkets projecting prophetic warnings in the BEST WAY ... I'm chuffed to commiserate that you agree !?
If you play a game like this and even for a moment think "you know I could probably make something like this." You're right, you almost certainly could. Technically these games are like one step up from the tutorials in Unity. And this game is an excellent case for trying, because it shows how far you can take a very rudimentary game.
That's kinda the charm of this writing. It's coherent to the plot, but you don't see anything that you would think or want to in descriptions. Instead of questioning what this and that they immediately skip to opinion on the matter with no shock from situation that just happened. Because of this, reader is more in shock like someone who noticed something obvious, but everyone else act like nothing happened.
These games and this developer really understand what an indiviual's experience looks like, trying to understand the logic of modernized culture and its societal machinations while also accepting it as something you are inherently attached to and participating in. I never made any zines but I used to be quite connected to those kinds of circles...so many movies and gatherings where everyone was going to their dead end job the next day, every other person some sort of societal reject trying to make sense of their place amidst everything, myself included... These games in particular evoke memories of "vibes" that the cultural world in a miasmatic spiral of nonstop, chaotic, psychopathic horror as it carries forward in our human conception of time towards "progress". Human depravity knows only the bounds of one's ability to imagine and all that. Anyway I hope the developer can find their way out from where they are, if its anything like where I was. From what it seems like their view could look like given these games and their presence...it could be a labyrinthian intellectual exit to get to a better part of reality. Especially alone.
Honestly I'm just impressed you managed to get through such a long, pretentious speech without mentioning/blaming all society's problems on capitalism. Bravo!
@@bluemagician9724 does it hurt to be this dumb? you can just be dumb and live happy and peacefully instead of looking down on anyone that actually knows how to write something. Here's a tip to call something pretentious you have to be smart and above it not below it as you are.
hm... Voice of the Killer is 100% with zero exaggeration the crappy alienating call center I found soul-crushing work at while trying to maintain motivation to work on art (inc. zines), Hands of the Killer is a metaphor for resale of nostalgic aesthetics & concepts in online (and other) media in order to satiate the often impenetrable whims of the modern attention economy followed by a spot-on satire of arts college, Drool of the Killer seems to take the "poolrooms" / liminal space type concept as an example of a massively popular "thing" spreading its influence throughout the young person's attention-economy and the bizarre nature of modern advertising in an age of freaky novelty-horror concepts aimed at kids (etc) and the sometimes unsanitary-seeming nature of said concepts (Spiderman / Elsa videos are like an unchlorinated pool in some way, yeah?), Blood of the Killer reminds me of all the increasingly abandoned / withering, dying small town type places these days and the bizarre desperation of those tied to once-profitable but now dead industry, Ears of the Killer is a wild romp through the world of niche subgenres of media and the cyclical / arbitrary ebb & flow of subcultures / counterculture (which seem so important and meaningful at the time) etc. The whole thing as an extremely relatable nightmare, how it feels to grow up & come to grips with a world where technological acceleration has vastly outpaced social and cultural and humanistic capacities and barrels headlong into bizarre and unfamiliar economic systems primarily owned by a tiny circle of the ultra-mega-wealthy while the vast majority struggles and slaughters each other over scraps of niche attention/micro-gig money/micro-cultural status. "The Killer" metaphor seems rooted in the concept of criminality and creativity being intrinsically sourced from one in the same energy, the libidinal source by which inner forces come to reshape the outer world
Weird games like this are what got me into Vinesauce and they remain some of my favourite streams to watch to this day. Love when Vinny plays interesting games I would've never ever heard about otherwise.
@@casualbird7671 Hey, thank you, glad you like it ^-^ This game was a nice surprise. Weird stuff like that appeals to me. Music is great too. I might actually buy it and play the other chapters
I completely lost my shit over the “future murder victim” shirt, and the fact that she wanted to get it for her sister because she’s always being chased by murderers. I laughed way too long.
@@thewiseoldfox not sure if you didn't watch the video or are just willingly dumb, things were chasing him during most of those, meaning you're forced to move away, this game is pretty badly designed like that, unfortunately
@@thewiseoldfox I sound really stupid but lemme explain, I was really tired when writing these comments yesterday so they are really dumb. The reply I made at first was a joke on how he didn't say he was quoting Vinny so I thought "Yeah great joke opportunity!". Turns out not really a great joke opportunity. I'm sorry for the confusion my tired self created.
I went into this expecting another quirky but kinda pointless walking simulator from the QT dev (thought this was that developer judging from the artstyle until Vinny revealed it was the Goblet Grotto / Space Funeral dev) and was completely blown away by how unexpectedly GOOD the writing is. The way the game accustomizes you to the scene changing at the drop of a hat because of quirky shenanigans... before Drool Of The Killer does it again *but this time it's because you're being brainwashed by Tammy's chemicals and you're losing track of time* was genuinely freaky. The wording here makes it clear a LOT of time has passed between scene transitions ("the others tell me to lead her away since I'm the fastest", "I'm trying to find a vending machine that hasn't already been picked clean", knowledge about how the pipe system works, etc) And I might be reading too much into this but there seems to be a theme of like... connection between the economy and death? The first killing is at BB's new workplace, the college only studies murder, and Tammy became "dedicated to customer satisfaction" after being drowned. Surprisingly fitting metaphor.
BB's possessed dialogue at 1:59:19 reminds me of the Current 93 EP "I Have a Special Plan for this World." I read it in my head in David Tibet's voice and it has a similar cadence and verbage to the lyrics on that. Given the frequent references to experimental/industrial bands in thecatamites' games (such as Nurse With Wound in this same game), I wonder if that was a deliberate send-up on his part.
Goblet Grotto was probably one of my earliest introductions to Vinny outside corruptions and is still one of my favorite times. Seeing this dev on stream again, not just still kicking but having improved so much is awesome.
I am not the most righteous person but I can tell you this: “If God would have forgiven betrayal, then the Devil himself would have sat next to Him in His Kingdom.” Do not forgive betrayal, in any circumstance or situation; Even if you are not religious, this is still a mindset to live by. I hope my wisdom helps some of y’all in troubling times.
All of these games have a very dream-like quality: the visuals, the descriptions and the way BB reacts to insane or disturbing situations in a very matter-of-fact way. I feel like if I was able to translate any of my dreams into video games they would play out exactly like this
That's sorta been thecatamites' craft for a while. I think my favorite example is how an earlier work, Magic Wand, is sometimes described as evoking the memory of playing a jrpg when you're a really little kid who can't quite read yet, let alone really grasp how the game really is connected.
I had always seen this game in other channels and thought it was really cool but only with this stream did I find out it was made by the Space Funeral devs and that they had also made Goblet Grotto. I'm so used to RPGmaker devs making only one game then disappearing that it never occurred to me that dev kept making games
One of my earliest Vinesauce memories was when he played Magic Wand by the same creator. Really cool how wildly different their games have been over the almost decade
@@jackpumpoen i dont think i've ever heard that comparison iirc..? Other than it being by the same creator, the comparsions kind of fall short from there on imo. Maybe its just that when people think on thecatamites they think of space funeral? Which is sad, cause he's made many great games after and before SF, including the 'Of the Killer' games (and even though i do love space funeral, i do think the 'of the killer' games are probably my favorite of all his work), but Space Funeral is the most popular of everything he's done, so it does get brought up into topic a bit too much when people talk about their work sadly, kind of overshadowing everything else they've done. :(
Man, every once in a while a game comes around that fits this very particular vibe. Something weird and authentic with a touch of cynicism. I don’t know what this genre is but damn do I love it
Not surprised at all to learn this was from the same dev as Goblet Grotto and Space Funeral; this is like the two combined into one game with QT's artstyle as a bonding agent. Or heck, QT if it really _did_ turn out to be a comedy horror game. And honestly? That made for a pretty fun watch--I'd love to see Vinny play the rest of these games, seems like he could reasonably cover the last five (four and the bonus stuff, anyway) in a similar amount of time, too.
@@OdaSwifteye this is true Not to mention, he missed ZZ in Hand because no guidance arrows exist, and the window for reading some of these text boxes is way too small. But! All the more reason to appreciate the writing.
I played this whole thing earlier this month, very fun. The writing is great and I love how effective the games are at creating atmosphere despite the minimal artstyle. Also bb being cute is a bonus
I like just how fucking weird and un-horror this game is. The game pretending to be a horror game, especially with the episode posters, is one of the funnier aspects of this. It's really just a bizarre and surreal comedy game that has a vibe that reminds me of stuff in the early 90s comics anthology magazine 'RAW.'
they ARE horror games, just not the "makes you fear for your life at all times" kind of horror games. this is a more suspenseful and atmospheric horror game series, it just makes you come down from the tension with humor often. they do have their moments though, especially in the later games
@@yaphetgreen0222 You know, having played the full game and mulled over it's themes and ideas, it actually turns out to be the "makes you fear for your life" kind of horror. In a "holy shit, this world of constant threat of violence both legitimized and uncontrolled is something I've merely been insulated from" sort of way.
@@pareidolist The overlap between /v/ and Vinesauce watchers is noticeable, I just assume its the vitriol people incite in threads about this game on there carrying over to Twitch. Which again, completely unfounded.
Death around every corner, a Government that is aware of such yet never puts a stop to any of it, and citizens who are unusually laidback about the dangerously surreal setting they call home. All of the chapters covered by Vinny in this stream felt very reminiscent of 'Welcome to Night Vale'! What a delightful title this is. 😄👁️🗨️
Yesss me too! I love when vinny plays weird, dreamy games like this. Crypt worlds, strawberry fields, juice world, hypnogagia, etc. All vinny at his best.
I love how at around 50:30, the chat slows to a crawl, presumably because everyone is typing "bricked up" and "same" and waiting for him to get to that point in the monologue so they can hit Enter. And when he does, the chat explodes. Which I guess is what happens when you're bricked up.
Holy crap this series is a masterpiece! How did they make a surrealist horror so damn comfy? I love how nonsensical it is. It's both witty and silly. From lines like "Don't worry, I'm a murderer!" to ZZ rebranding the cult, this game transforms the macabre into a cute cartoon aesthetic
I mean... look at it! really, play through Voice and take note of what work went into it. It's not a particularly hard sort of thing to make. The finer details are where thecatamites' experience really makes these shine, but you probably could make stuff like it even as a hobby project.
Unironically this is the kind of content I've been following Vinny for for years; Seemingly nonsensical chaos through the lens of indie developers with socially contentious pseudonyms that provide odd, quirky, borderline sociopathic yet thought provoking narratives wrapped in the thin veneer of intentionally socially engineered psychosis. What a time to be alive and cognizant of the world we live in.
This has got to be one of the more amazing one off or hopefully Two Runs?? that Vinny has sunk his teeth into, hilariously couldn't stop himself from shrugging off the prolix of some parts and another amazing word that got Chat into a tizzy. Also hearing how this was awarded in some way during a game convention or something, I just skimmed other comments. But yeah, Blood of the Killer was definitely my favorite out of these, if these aren't just adaptations of books or short stories, hell, that would color me surprised, either way I see it this is one hell of a new wave in gaming/storytelling. Drinky duck merch when? 🦆
Adore this series, I can't tell if it's just goofy ideas or if my own strange interpretation is correct. [Spoilers/rant below] The Killer is an apotheosis, a thing that is discussed and elevated to a deific force that has in turn influenced the behavior of others. Those who witness the actual crimes they associate with The Killer. To give a historical example, the Axe man of New Orleans is a killer who was never caught, thing is, the reason why he was never caught might be because “he” was more than one person taking advantage of the local public transport. Drool presents a drowning death that leads to the spirit of the deceased…being inspired to open a water park? It’s the first instance of this idea of a building being roughly repurposed, all the desks and computers and paperwork of the insurance company are still there. In Voice there's a cult in a office building, it's unclear how the company makes money. Voice has a tongue in the ocean beaconing people into the sea, Ears features something coming from the sea to inspire a music movement that is short lived and ends with a wave swallowing up a revival festival. Then several instances of her finding a cult built around a explanation for a conspiracy, a musical act that came and went like a wave, and a resort town where they try to play matchmaker. Each time it’s an issue that’s trying create an explanation for a situation that goes off the rails. The cult of explaining how X thing happened. Then the last game chronologically released, there’s so many people trying to burrow down and find the truth. But all they find is older versions of the city stacked on top of each other. Each one, particularly, being like a museum or carnival ride version of itself. Not the real thing but the story that people tell themselves about it. This is the biggest thing that stood out to me the first time around, this throwaway joke that she pays rent by selling retro merch they literally find discarded in the hallways in their ancient and decrepit apartment complex, but, here's the thing, they keep finding them, there always seems to be more hallways than anyone remembers. The business is selling people an idea of the past, that's a commercialized post-facto product. People have an idea of what the past was, prefer it to the present, and are willing to pay for even the cheapest, most mass produced iconography that evokes it. In Eyes, BB runs from someone through a crowded room asking for help and people think it's part of theatre, the REAL thing is seen as fake because the expectations of the public are set by the THEATRICAL. Flesh explores the idea of art as a form of immortality, the artist creating the idealization of the present that will be referenced by the past, with the Killer setting the fire in Blood that replaces the material truth with the lore that serves it's interests. There's a lot of Bird and Mask iconography I still haven't integrated but there really seems to be a theme of the past only being remembered as pantomime that serves the present age. Really fascinating series.
I dont know if youll see this but ive been watching you for a long time now vinny. Time and time again your streams and your voice bring me comfort. Im currently feeling the most depressed ive ever been in my life due to some different things going on, but one thing that always calms me down and brings me joy is your streams. Youre like the best friend ive never met or talked to. Thank you for existing
I had to go to the chat replay to see if anyone knew, but all comments were about aliens and then Princess Diana 1:44:27 in green, photo of "ETA" ("Euskadi Ta Askatasuna" in Euskera, which means "Basque Country and Liberty"). They were active between 1958 and 2010, which disbanded for good in 2018.
The very last thing I would have expected was Dendygar to make a surprise return cameo after how many years. Man, that was a deep-cut, Crypt Worlds feels like a lifetime ago.
I was sleepy af the day i watched this, i was in and out seeing this, it was so surreal, seeing it a second time is slightly less anxiety inducing, now it's a more coherent fever dream rather than a coffee/alcohol/LSD cocktail from the 69th dimension when i first saw it half asleep
This game is just... lovely. Art style, sense of humour, murder mystery. Sometimes it's long winded, other times it's amusingly blunt. And usually I'm not the type of person to get attached to characters in an indie game, but weirdly enough these protagonists appealed to me in a way I can't explain. They're so endearing, it might be their personality and the attitude they bring to their surroundings. Such a great wild vibe, it sucked me right in like I wanted to be there with them in all the insanity. Hate to say it but this feels a bit fandom worthy.
I agree 100% but oh god _please_ don't let this actually garner a _fandom._ Fans, sure, a fanbase, sure, but no fandoms--so many great projects, indie or otherwise, have been washed into the internet gutter because of modern "fandom culture," this dev's work deserves a better community than that :[
@@MasterSquirrel993 And that's why I say it so reluctantly lol. Sadly it's inevitably part of becoming a quirky online phenomenon that turns on a few switches in people. Once bitten by the bug, it invades their bloodstream in no time to the point of strong possessiveness and obscene indulgence. _Mental._
@@Hammi4Real It really is a shame. On one hand, I'd _love_ to see more projects like this get attention from a broader, mainstream audience! But then... well, I think of what happened to The Amazing Digital Circus, and... *...pain* ^_^;
I have to applaude you, while very enjoyable, listening to and parsing all of the text and info from this game was actually mentally taxing, I can imagine that reading and voicing each character was an order of magnitude moreso.
TheCatamites and Samanthuel aka Splendidland formed a lot of what I like in games. I am very happy they are still making stuff and Bin is playing it. Space Funeral is a classic stream for me.
This game is so good! I really hope you play the other games in it, on stream or not. They are just as good as the ones you played through (though Ears might still be my favorite), and they tie the experience together super well. Either way, super glad to have seen you give attention to this one.
I hope he checks out the collection of 50 Short Games. I think it was for a jam, and a lot of em aren't games exactly, but the dev includes a diary explaining why he made what he did.
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"the power of culture is its ability to contain a multiplicity of readings." -Actual quote from developer after seeing fanart of BB with a huge ass
This becomes deeply relevant in at least one installment.
The series does seem like the type to actually do that
Was this on twitter or something? Could you link it?
Source?
thats great, link
Honestly, this game tickled my neurons just right. There's no real objective, just some fluffy stories put together in a messed up, but cohesive world, all expressed in a nifty art style and with surprising depth and eloquence. It reminds me of late-90s to early 2000s freeware and internet digital art, it has that same artistic spirit.
The art style and writing reminds me a lot of the old zines amateur artists used to make and leave at comic stores and such (maybe they still do, I don't know). Considering the many references to zines in the game itself, I take it's not a coincidence.
I don't think this is a new take by any means, but I really enjoy the way Vinny gets into basically voice acting every character in games like this. He doesn't just read the dialogue but makes each character distinct and gives them different voices and inflections and goes along with their reactions. It's a small thing but it's seeing him getting invested in the characters and story that gets me invested too. It's one thing when we all know what Mario characters more or less sound like anyway, but doing it for weird little indie titles like this is always a lot of fun. I always get a kick out of it
I wish he committed to the Mr frog voice on the last one or so it would have been so funny
like, he doesnt "make a voice" for them, but his cadences and intonations change, just the way he flows through sentences. he really knows how to get into character without much effort
I actually legit couldn't tell sometimes when it was vinny describing the game himself, or him reading the dialog. Its like it was written for him because it was all stuff that sounds like things he would say.
that's not even a take just you enjoying his streams man
As another guy said what you are experiencing is what I call "Liking a content creator"
I was so happy seeing this win the Nuovo award at GDC this year. The fact that this rag-tag, cobbled-together passion project was up there with the likes of Venba and Rhythm Doctor really set the scene for what an award-winning game can be. As an indie dev, it’s inspiring.
That's crazy to hear, but I looked into it, and sure enough it's true. Major props to the devs.
I feel that the success of this culture product in the field of modern award distribution shibboleths legitimates the assertion of what we may call even something like a "New Wave" in underground culture products of the present era of ever-increasingly arcane subcultural remixes of extant masses of accumulated psuedo-mass-culture regurgitant mocking the nightmarish agglutination of meta-documents resonating with the proliferation of exponential informational and technological acceleration hazarding vast swaths of artificial byproducts of AI-self-similar commercial potential "gig economy" prospective hyperreality fantasy Web 1.0 nostalgia-fueld analog horror simulacrum-futuremarkets projecting prophetic warnings in the BEST WAY ... I'm chuffed to commiserate that you agree !?
If you play a game like this and even for a moment think "you know I could probably make something like this."
You're right, you almost certainly could. Technically these games are like one step up from the tutorials in Unity. And this game is an excellent case for trying, because it shows how far you can take a very rudimentary game.
the idea of a character nonchalantly explaining a deadly situation there in like its the average Tuesday. Pretty good.
BB is also walking emote.
That's kinda the charm of this writing. It's coherent to the plot, but you don't see anything that you would think or want to in descriptions. Instead of questioning what this and that they immediately skip to opinion on the matter with no shock from situation that just happened. Because of this, reader is more in shock like someone who noticed something obvious, but everyone else act like nothing happened.
These games and this developer really understand what an indiviual's experience looks like, trying to understand the logic of modernized culture and its societal machinations while also accepting it as something you are inherently attached to and participating in. I never made any zines but I used to be quite connected to those kinds of circles...so many movies and gatherings where everyone was going to their dead end job the next day, every other person some sort of societal reject trying to make sense of their place amidst everything, myself included... These games in particular evoke memories of "vibes" that the cultural world in a miasmatic spiral of nonstop, chaotic, psychopathic horror as it carries forward in our human conception of time towards "progress". Human depravity knows only the bounds of one's ability to imagine and all that. Anyway I hope the developer can find their way out from where they are, if its anything like where I was. From what it seems like their view could look like given these games and their presence...it could be a labyrinthian intellectual exit to get to a better part of reality. Especially alone.
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Honestly I'm just impressed you managed to get through such a long, pretentious speech without mentioning/blaming all society's problems on capitalism. Bravo!
^ y'all see a good analysis of a game that's a paragraph long and just think "ohh what a pretentious nerd" like holy fuck grow up
@@bluemagician9724 does it hurt to be this dumb? you can just be dumb and live happy and peacefully instead of looking down on anyone that actually knows how to write something. Here's a tip to call something pretentious you have to be smart and above it not below it as you are.
hm... Voice of the Killer is 100% with zero exaggeration the crappy alienating call center I found soul-crushing work at while trying to maintain motivation to work on art (inc. zines), Hands of the Killer is a metaphor for resale of nostalgic aesthetics & concepts in online (and other) media in order to satiate the often impenetrable whims of the modern attention economy followed by a spot-on satire of arts college, Drool of the Killer seems to take the "poolrooms" / liminal space type concept as an example of a massively popular "thing" spreading its influence throughout the young person's attention-economy and the bizarre nature of modern advertising in an age of freaky novelty-horror concepts aimed at kids (etc) and the sometimes unsanitary-seeming nature of said concepts (Spiderman / Elsa videos are like an unchlorinated pool in some way, yeah?), Blood of the Killer reminds me of all the increasingly abandoned / withering, dying small town type places these days and the bizarre desperation of those tied to once-profitable but now dead industry, Ears of the Killer is a wild romp through the world of niche subgenres of media and the cyclical / arbitrary ebb & flow of subcultures / counterculture (which seem so important and meaningful at the time) etc.
The whole thing as an extremely relatable nightmare, how it feels to grow up & come to grips with a world where technological acceleration has vastly outpaced social and cultural and humanistic capacities and barrels headlong into bizarre and unfamiliar economic systems primarily owned by a tiny circle of the ultra-mega-wealthy while the vast majority struggles and slaughters each other over scraps of niche attention/micro-gig money/micro-cultural status.
"The Killer" metaphor seems rooted in the concept of criminality and creativity being intrinsically sourced from one in the same energy, the libidinal source by which inner forces come to reshape the outer world
Begging for part 2, all the games are so good.
I second this! More 'Of the Killer' games!!
Weird games like this are what got me into Vinesauce and they remain some of my favourite streams to watch to this day. Love when Vinny plays interesting games I would've never ever heard about otherwise.
I agree! Also, cute avatar
@@casualbird7671 Hey, thank you, glad you like it ^-^
This game was a nice surprise. Weird stuff like that appeals to me. Music is great too. I might actually buy it and play the other chapters
I completely lost my shit over the “future murder victim” shirt, and the fact that she wanted to get it for her sister because she’s always being chased by murderers. I laughed way too long.
I love this game's art style and its writing, the way characters describe their environment gives such vivid imagery
I would like to mention that the dev didn't go under thecatamites when the started releasing this series but rather under garmentdistrict
garmentdistrict is such a great name honestly
"That was a lot longer than a lot shorter" - in short, Vinny speaks these games now
Thats so amazing, Anthology of a Murderer GOT-Decade?😳😳
"Oops I missed that dialogue box because I was moving around while reading, let me keep doing it over and over again"
Why do you do that lol just stand still... Really strange to quote yourself btw.
@@GrtGuythe dude was paraphrasing Vinny, as this was something he did and complained about doing the entire video.
@@thewiseoldfox not sure if you didn't watch the video or are just willingly dumb, things were chasing him during most of those, meaning you're forced to move away, this game is pretty badly designed like that, unfortunately
@@chainsawz5618 you're pinging the wrong person, I'm just explaining what op was saying
@@thewiseoldfox I sound really stupid but lemme explain, I was really tired when writing these comments yesterday so they are really dumb. The reply I made at first was a joke on how he didn't say he was quoting Vinny so I thought "Yeah great joke opportunity!". Turns out not really a great joke opportunity. I'm sorry for the confusion my tired self created.
Chat's search history got OBLITERATED during this stream
These games have gotta be my favorite walking simulators. Just brimming with wit and crazy ideas. There's really nothing else like them
Every game that appears on a Vinny stream by Cata is an immediate classic
Type the whole name you coward
U sure? Cuz I think it has something to do with trans people...
This is a joke you need context for
What are some of their other games that Vinny has played? I love their style
@@iamafanofmanythings3973 Space Funeral and Goblet Grotto.
He might’ve played more, but they’re probably buried in some “Getting weird with it” video.
@@Mantis47 I know he played Magic Wand at some point as well.
I went into this expecting another quirky but kinda pointless walking simulator from the QT dev (thought this was that developer judging from the artstyle until Vinny revealed it was the Goblet Grotto / Space Funeral dev) and was completely blown away by how unexpectedly GOOD the writing is. The way the game accustomizes you to the scene changing at the drop of a hat because of quirky shenanigans... before Drool Of The Killer does it again *but this time it's because you're being brainwashed by Tammy's chemicals and you're losing track of time* was genuinely freaky. The wording here makes it clear a LOT of time has passed between scene transitions ("the others tell me to lead her away since I'm the fastest", "I'm trying to find a vending machine that hasn't already been picked clean", knowledge about how the pipe system works, etc)
And I might be reading too much into this but there seems to be a theme of like... connection between the economy and death? The first killing is at BB's new workplace, the college only studies murder, and Tammy became "dedicated to customer satisfaction" after being drowned. Surprisingly fitting metaphor.
More or less, this entire city is obsessed with murder so its definitely incorporated into their economy
These games feel like the world view of a child is mixed with the fever dream existence of adults.
I love it
BB's possessed dialogue at 1:59:19 reminds me of the Current 93 EP "I Have a Special Plan for this World." I read it in my head in David Tibet's voice and it has a similar cadence and verbage to the lyrics on that. Given the frequent references to experimental/industrial bands in thecatamites' games (such as Nurse With Wound in this same game), I wonder if that was a deliberate send-up on his part.
Goblet Grotto was probably one of my earliest introductions to Vinny outside corruptions and is still one of my favorite times. Seeing this dev on stream again, not just still kicking but having improved so much is awesome.
I am goblet. Fill me with your righteousness
I am not the most righteous person but I can tell you this: “If God would have forgiven betrayal, then the Devil himself would have sat next to Him in His Kingdom.” Do not forgive betrayal, in any circumstance or situation; Even if you are not religious, this is still a mindset to live by.
I hope my wisdom helps some of y’all in troubling times.
@@Niko-xu8qq Everyone betray me... I so fed up with this world!
All of these games have a very dream-like quality: the visuals, the descriptions and the way BB reacts to insane or disturbing situations in a very matter-of-fact way. I feel like if I was able to translate any of my dreams into video games they would play out exactly like this
That's sorta been thecatamites' craft for a while. I think my favorite example is how an earlier work, Magic Wand, is sometimes described as evoking the memory of playing a jrpg when you're a really little kid who can't quite read yet, let alone really grasp how the game really is connected.
I had always seen this game in other channels and thought it was really cool but only with this stream did I find out it was made by the Space Funeral devs and that they had also made Goblet Grotto.
I'm so used to RPGmaker devs making only one game then disappearing that it never occurred to me that dev kept making games
Oh yeah theCatamites is like crazy prolific
One of my earliest Vinesauce memories was when he played Magic Wand by the same creator. Really cool how wildly different their games have been over the almost decade
and still churns out poorly made garbage
@@chainsawz5618 Is this bait? If you dont like their work, then why are watching videos about them? There's no need to be a jerk about it though..
@@chainsawz5618This is high quality garbage, mibd you
@@chainsawz5618 kindly key why ess
Man, Space Funeral was so fucking sick.
helll yeahhhhhh
i really thought that people were joking when comparing this to space funeral. fun range from the dev
@@jackpumpoen i dont think i've ever heard that comparison iirc..? Other than it being by the same creator, the comparsions kind of fall short from there on imo. Maybe its just that when people think on thecatamites they think of space funeral? Which is sad, cause he's made many great games after and before SF, including the 'Of the Killer' games (and even though i do love space funeral, i do think the 'of the killer' games are probably my favorite of all his work), but Space Funeral is the most popular of everything he's done, so it does get brought up into topic a bit too much when people talk about their work sadly, kind of overshadowing everything else they've done. :(
I spent 3/4 of this stream thinking BB was a yellow rabbit with hair and not a yellow skin girl with a yellow hairtie
Man, every once in a while a game comes around that fits this very particular vibe. Something weird and authentic with a touch of cynicism. I don’t know what this genre is but damn do I love it
Requesting a 2nd stream of this. This owns. Feels like an episodic horror cartoon. I really dig the mix of silliness and poetry jam dialouge~
I had no idea what was happening but I kinda liked it.
What a beautiful creation, glad someone made this and shared it with us
I think Vinny’s narrations add so much to the experience, something about how he speaks and how he voices the different characters is just perfect.
He seriously nailed the voices for the games' villains, every voice he used fit the character like a glove.
Not surprised at all to learn this was from the same dev as Goblet Grotto and Space Funeral; this is like the two combined into one game with QT's artstyle as a bonding agent. Or heck, QT if it really _did_ turn out to be a comedy horror game.
And honestly? That made for a pretty fun watch--I'd love to see Vinny play the rest of these games, seems like he could reasonably cover the last five (four and the bonus stuff, anyway) in a similar amount of time, too.
Throwing my hat in the ring for a second stream. This is awesome and weird and my very favorite kind of thing played on thie channel.
This is one of my favorite series ever, hope Vinny enjoys it
I especially like the commentary on history
It's a hell of a lot of reading and nothing else. Not really good stream material.
@@OdaSwifteye this is true
Not to mention, he missed ZZ in Hand because no guidance arrows exist, and the window for reading some of these text boxes is way too small.
But! All the more reason to appreciate the writing.
Yessss this series is so amazing, I used to watch the channel Alpha Beta Gamer play through them as they released
ABG is goated.
This game/series owns. Been my favorite horror media since I found it four-ish years ago. I hope a part 2 covers the rest of the entries.
I love you, nurse twins in badly fitted clothings and shoes
yesss i'm so glad vinny played these, a little bummed he didn't play them in order but i'm glad he got to ears at least :)
I played this whole thing earlier this month, very fun. The writing is great and I love how effective the games are at creating atmosphere despite the minimal artstyle. Also bb being cute is a bonus
I like just how fucking weird and un-horror this game is. The game pretending to be a horror game, especially with the episode posters, is one of the funnier aspects of this. It's really just a bizarre and surreal comedy game that has a vibe that reminds me of stuff in the early 90s comics anthology magazine 'RAW.'
they ARE horror games, just not the "makes you fear for your life at all times" kind of horror games. this is a more suspenseful and atmospheric horror game series, it just makes you come down from the tension with humor often. they do have their moments though, especially in the later games
True horror is a lot closer and more mundane than you think
@@yaphetgreen0222 You know, having played the full game and mulled over it's themes and ideas, it actually turns out to be the "makes you fear for your life" kind of horror. In a "holy shit, this world of constant threat of violence both legitimized and uncontrolled is something I've merely been insulated from" sort of way.
@@Exarian ohh yeah it definitely gets the dread factor
This stream taught chat a new word, and half of chat really couldn't handle it.
The second they figured out the meaning they were all over the place...at least for about half an hour before they stopped caring
Shoutout to the chatters who-based on that one word-invented entire backstories for the developer (no pun intended)
@@pareidolist The overlap between /v/ and Vinesauce watchers is noticeable, I just assume its the vitriol people incite in threads about this game on there carrying over to Twitch. Which again, completely unfounded.
Why did I Google that?
@@freshglizzy3763you mean to say 4chan is autistic and makes up headcanons? sounds about right
I think I'd describe these games' style as Junji Fritos
Death around every corner, a Government that is aware of such yet never puts a stop to any of it, and citizens who are unusually laidback about the dangerously surreal setting they call home. All of the chapters covered by Vinny in this stream felt very reminiscent of 'Welcome to Night Vale'! What a delightful title this is. 😄👁️🗨️
idk what it is about these games but i really like the vibe they give off; idk if there's a word for it but i mentally refer to it as "wonkcore"
Yesss me too! I love when vinny plays weird, dreamy games like this. Crypt worlds, strawberry fields, juice world, hypnogagia, etc. All vinny at his best.
Reminds me of QT
you could call it frencore
Its games like this I vibe with a lot
cough syrup gaming
Surrealism?
Honestly, this series is a visual masterpiece. It's like nothing I've ever seen and it's unafraid of pushing boundaries.
the most sunday stream game that was not played on a sunday ienjoy very much
also the new wave being a tsunami was silly
imo this would not fit the vibe of Sunday streams. Also Vinny has played many one-off games just like this on weekdays
really liked the 90s poetry slam vibe. this was good.
I love how at around 50:30, the chat slows to a crawl, presumably because everyone is typing "bricked up" and "same" and waiting for him to get to that point in the monologue so they can hit Enter. And when he does, the chat explodes. Which I guess is what happens when you're bricked up.
oh I know all about that strategy to have the highest odds of vinny reading the chat when sending the message
i got heartburn for the first time in my life right as i started watching this video and i really felt like i was gonna die. great game!
it's so uncannily like what you imagine a heart attack is like.
Holy crap this series is a masterpiece! How did they make a surrealist horror so damn comfy? I love how nonsensical it is. It's both witty and silly. From lines like "Don't worry, I'm a murderer!" to ZZ rebranding the cult, this game transforms the macabre into a cute cartoon aesthetic
I think one of the best lines Vinny said was "Maybe I'm to stupid to understand this... or maybe to smart." I felt that, lol.
Really loving this anthology. Would love to see more.
I love this. This is the type of stuff i wish i could create
I mean... look at it! really, play through Voice and take note of what work went into it. It's not a particularly hard sort of thing to make. The finer details are where thecatamites' experience really makes these shine, but you probably could make stuff like it even as a hobby project.
Saw the librarian play this, so cool to see Vinny play it too
Unironically this is the kind of content I've been following Vinny for for years;
Seemingly nonsensical chaos through the lens of indie developers with socially contentious pseudonyms that provide odd, quirky, borderline sociopathic yet thought provoking narratives wrapped in the thin veneer of intentionally socially engineered psychosis.
What a time to be alive and cognizant of the world we live in.
That's the spirit :)
"Ears of the Killer is shorter."
Me: [sees it dwarfs a ll the other ones in runtime] ...x to doubt...
This has got to be one of the more amazing one off or hopefully Two Runs?? that Vinny has sunk his teeth into, hilariously couldn't stop himself from shrugging off the prolix of some parts and another amazing word that got Chat into a tizzy. Also hearing how this was awarded in some way during a game convention or something, I just skimmed other comments. But yeah, Blood of the Killer was definitely my favorite out of these, if these aren't just adaptations of books or short stories, hell, that would color me surprised, either way I see it this is one hell of a new wave in gaming/storytelling.
Drinky duck merch when? 🦆
Adore this series, I can't tell if it's just goofy ideas or if my own strange interpretation is correct. [Spoilers/rant below]
The Killer is an apotheosis, a thing that is discussed and elevated to a deific force that has in turn influenced the behavior of others. Those who witness the actual crimes they associate with The Killer. To give a historical example, the Axe man of New Orleans is a killer who was never caught, thing is, the reason why he was never caught might be because “he” was more than one person taking advantage of the local public transport.
Drool presents a drowning death that leads to the spirit of the deceased…being inspired to open a water park? It’s the first instance of this idea of a building being roughly repurposed, all the desks and computers and paperwork of the insurance company are still there. In Voice there's a cult in a office building, it's unclear how the company makes money. Voice has a tongue in the ocean beaconing people into the sea, Ears features something coming from the sea to inspire a music movement that is short lived and ends with a wave swallowing up a revival festival.
Then several instances of her finding a cult built around a explanation for a conspiracy, a musical act that came and went like a wave, and a resort town where they try to play matchmaker. Each time it’s an issue that’s trying create an explanation for a situation that goes off the rails. The cult of explaining how X thing happened.
Then the last game chronologically released, there’s so many people trying to burrow down and find the truth. But all they find is older versions of the city stacked on top of each other. Each one, particularly, being like a museum or carnival ride version of itself. Not the real thing but the story that people tell themselves about it.
This is the biggest thing that stood out to me the first time around, this throwaway joke that she pays rent by selling retro merch they literally find discarded in the hallways in their ancient and decrepit apartment complex, but, here's the thing, they keep finding them, there always seems to be more hallways than anyone remembers. The business is selling people an idea of the past, that's a commercialized post-facto product. People have an idea of what the past was, prefer it to the present, and are willing to pay for even the cheapest, most mass produced iconography that evokes it.
In Eyes, BB runs from someone through a crowded room asking for help and people think it's part of theatre, the REAL thing is seen as fake because the expectations of the public are set by the THEATRICAL. Flesh explores the idea of art as a form of immortality, the artist creating the idealization of the present that will be referenced by the past, with the Killer setting the fire in Blood that replaces the material truth with the lore that serves it's interests.
There's a lot of Bird and Mask iconography I still haven't integrated but there really seems to be a theme of the past only being remembered as pantomime that serves the present age. Really fascinating series.
1:18:32
Would
Real
Real
Clarice waifu.
Chat no
While I disapprove, real indeed
Space Funeral is my all time favourite stream so I'm chomping at the bits to watch this one.
I am enamored with this series
I dont know if youll see this but ive been watching you for a long time now vinny. Time and time again your streams and your voice bring me comfort. Im currently feeling the most depressed ive ever been in my life due to some different things going on, but one thing that always calms me down and brings me joy is your streams. Youre like the best friend ive never met or talked to.
Thank you for existing
I....kind of love these....like a lot. And I can't quite tell why.
I had to go to the chat replay to see if anyone knew, but all comments were about aliens and then Princess Diana
1:44:27 in green, photo of "ETA" ("Euskadi Ta Askatasuna" in Euskera, which means "Basque Country and Liberty"). They were active between 1958 and 2010, which disbanded for good in 2018.
shoutouts to tommy tone on the music for this one
The very last thing I would have expected was Dendygar to make a surprise return cameo after how many years. Man, that was a deep-cut, Crypt Worlds feels like a lifetime ago.
When does it appear?
@gran9968
During Ears of the Killer at the convention part before running into the Dog man. Chat points him out to Vinny and he walks up to him.
13:53 I heard that Amogus sound Vinny, you bastard.
Lmao I lost it the moment it stopped
Bb is so cute!
Oh HELL yeah. Hope vin plays the crypt worlds sequel too.
I was sleepy af the day i watched this, i was in and out seeing this, it was so surreal, seeing it a second time is slightly less anxiety inducing, now it's a more coherent fever dream rather than a coffee/alcohol/LSD cocktail from the 69th dimension when i first saw it half asleep
Gorgeous game; deserves as much love as it can get.
I love the Weepster.
Thank you for helping me find this game lol
the art style and music are perfect
oh, no way. i absolutely love this game series. glad i get to see vinny play it
0:10 Well that's certainly an interesting name for a developer.
This game is just... lovely. Art style, sense of humour, murder mystery. Sometimes it's long winded, other times it's amusingly blunt. And usually I'm not the type of person to get attached to characters in an indie game, but weirdly enough these protagonists appealed to me in a way I can't explain. They're so endearing, it might be their personality and the attitude they bring to their surroundings. Such a great wild vibe, it sucked me right in like I wanted to be there with them in all the insanity. Hate to say it but this feels a bit fandom worthy.
I agree 100% but oh god _please_ don't let this actually garner a _fandom._ Fans, sure, a fanbase, sure, but no fandoms--so many great projects, indie or otherwise, have been washed into the internet gutter because of modern "fandom culture," this dev's work deserves a better community than that :[
@@MasterSquirrel993 And that's why I say it so reluctantly lol. Sadly it's inevitably part of becoming a quirky online phenomenon that turns on a few switches in people. Once bitten by the bug, it invades their bloodstream in no time to the point of strong possessiveness and obscene indulgence. _Mental._
@@Hammi4Real It really is a shame. On one hand, I'd _love_ to see more projects like this get attention from a broader, mainstream audience! But then... well, I think of what happened to The Amazing Digital Circus, and...
*...pain* ^_^;
Ayy is this a new game by the Space Funeral dev? Cool.
This vid both brought this game to my attention and convinced me to buy it. Thanks Mr. Fullsauce o7
Vinny doesn't read slowly though.... I quite like listening to Vinny read this bizarre story to me
I have to applaude you, while very enjoyable, listening to and parsing all of the text and info from this game was actually mentally taxing, I can imagine that reading and voicing each character was an order of magnitude moreso.
This looks like lost media from 90s Nickelodeon. Like something that would have been on Kablam!
I loved watching the playthrough of this series I’m so glad Vinny is playing it too 🫣💕💕💕
I think you mean Alpha Beta Gamer, because as far as I know, Manly never played those
@@julianbesem7718 oh shit yeah ur right 😖, I love this series a lot
1:56:42 Amazing
2:09:00 Mr. Frog Yorke
TheCatamites and Samanthuel aka Splendidland formed a lot of what I like in games. I am very happy they are still making stuff and Bin is playing it. Space Funeral is a classic stream for me.
i love games that have this weird 2d/3d artstyle
This game is so good! I really hope you play the other games in it, on stream or not. They are just as good as the ones you played through (though Ears might still be my favorite), and they tie the experience together super well. Either way, super glad to have seen you give attention to this one.
Hell yeah this game rocks
i remember watching videos on this game!
Game gives me ENA vibes, I hope vinny will play ENA Dream BBQ once it comes out
bizarre game for vinny to pick up but this one is legitimetly very good
Glad Vinny is finally covering this modern classic.
I hope he checks out the collection of 50 Short Games. I think it was for a jam, and a lot of em aren't games exactly, but the dev includes a diary explaining why he made what he did.
He did though just search Vinny 50 short games its a gettin weird with it stream
I never thought i'd see you play this game Vinny. You really caught us off guard there.
This game was so oddly delightful
YES these games are beyond goated
Hell yeah, I don't understand half of what's being said, but the vibes are immaculate. Also, I like BB. BB is cute.
The music and visual style reminds me of 90s Nickelodeon cartoons.
these games are really well made but why do they make it so I no longer feel like I'm inside my own body
You are watching someone else play