I like how the powerups are detrimental. I think the game would be more fun if there was a true ending where if you beat the game without using the serum, not only are you, well, not a shark, but Greg is either furious that you refused to because he was hoping you would, or he realises that forcing people to grow into football powerhouses isn't the way to make a good team. Either way, I think some acknowledgement for not using the serum at all would be fun. Also, rest in peace to the weird shark guys who now have to figure out how to integrate back into society.
there's actually a very different game that plays on this idea a little! the lisa series does this with joy. just... make sure to look at content warnings before getting into it.
I'm surprised that sports mascots aren't more common in mascot horror, like those actually exist unlike mascots for ifk kindergartens or something that other games try to justify their setting with.😅 I also love how it's humourous and knows what it is.
I think one of the main problems is that sport/school mascots have real people inside, and as such give a "a real person is after me" vibe, which is quite contrarian to the feeling that the mascot horror genre wants to give (whether or not the monster actually turns out to be a real person in a costume or not). You could surely make a cool horror game around the concept (and there probably are plenty already), but it would work better as horror/thriller rather than a mascot horror specifically.
How I would imagine a pepsiman game is that it starts with you late at night, finishing off the last of your pepsi, and when you do you get a text from pepsiman saying "I'm coming for you, start running". So now you have to get more pepsi before pepsiman finds you and blasts you to death in pepsi.
@@kevinzdanowski1125 that feels kind of similar to that joke horror game about sprite cranberry, it was similar, though instead of getting the sprite you were grabbing Fanta (I think) around your home and then you'd throw it at the guy repeatedly so you can escape to a gas station
From the shadows you hear an eerie disembodied, feminine voice call out a name: PEPSIMAN. It sends a shiver down your back, like an icy serpent slithering down your spine.
I like the idea where Pepsi man is the main character since we always see Pepsi man tries to deliver Pepsi, however something was wrong where he went back to his company to come back from a commercial showing. He never knew what was about to see of a mutated version of said Pepsi man mix of a rat.(kinda reference that rumors of Pepsi company used rat eyes as a ingredient)
Fun thing with this, even though it's a conedy mascot horror it strikes on what makes mascto horror scary better than a lot of worse attempts. FNAF is scary brcause the Chuck E Cheese animatronics were uncanny. This is scary with the "serum" being a stand in for what is a real problem in sports, steroids and PED's. Like turning players into sharks is the only eay Greg could think to get the team to win. Also, congrats on 40k it feels like you've risen so fast!
Band geeks UNITE! * waves flute around * And a shark? Count me in! Love how we never actually get to see ourselves so we never know if we're automatically turned into a shark even if we didn't take any serum X3
I think the idea of a sports mascot being the symbol of a horror game is so much more interesting because it feels like it could be grounded in some reality. The person under the mask could be sick and twisted, and that alone is enough to distort an innocent mascot into something creepy. It's actually surprising to me this goes relatively underutilized in mascot horror to be honest.
Considering Bananaball now exists, in which every teammate is effectively a mascot for their team in one way or another, it's certainly rich for interpretations.
Mhm I personally love exploring real world topics through my own stories. A "mascot horror" game that is really just a story about a shattered soul clinging to what they know would be reallly interesting to see. There's no crazy lore about why they just... Are like the pupepts being alive in my friendly neighborhood.
One thing I would like to see would be it responding to that if you did or did not use the serum, as you said you didn't use the serum so it would have been funny to see him commenting on you and not having used it at all.
🎵I, AMMMMMM, The Great Mighty Cone! And I'm gonna block all within my zone! No rogue footballs, Shall pass between my walls. How about a bump, you wimpy chump?🎵
Unironically, Greg's Deadly Draft was probably one of the more intuitive mascot horrors because it was an actual sport's mascot. I'd play for the Sharks and I hate (American) football! XD
Mascot horror is fittingly the successor to mascot platformers of the ps1 and 2. Started as fun colourful characters to make entertainment for children in fun games. Then overtime it became corrupted into the horror games we see now.
I’m waiting to see a combination of the 2. I had an idea for one but idk if it would work, since I’d probably just have it be an allegory for how the gaming industry lost touch with consumers or something. It would kinda be like Gwimbly
this whole game, and "the mighty cone", sound like a parody of mascot horror games that you would see, specifically, on aqua teen hunger force, or sealab 2021.
I'm honestly thankful you covered this game, considering how much of a fun break it is from other bigger mascot titles. It's not trying to take itself seriously, and it's not trying to create a profitable franchise over the course of several chapters, its just simple fun and thats all you could ask for tbh.
I want to see a mascot horror game where the farther you go in the place the more broken and (something else horror related) while the mascot isn’t the monster, you are, your the mascot, one of the suits just came alive and doesn’t know where they are, and why their alone, their a fried of you the human, but until the end it’l seem like their the monster not you, your breaking into its home, it doesn’t know you and it’s confused, of course it’d try to hurt you, it thinks your out to hurt it
- the game is a basic first person shooter - main villain uses a mech - main villain wants to create the ultimate lifeform this is wolfenstein of banban we did it
For some reason the bit about mascot horror not typically having combat makes me want to make a mascot horror themed Doom 2 mod. I’ve always wanted to face my childhood fears of Bonny with a shotgun in hand. If I used the Doom base enemies and mascot-ified them, then I could probably make such a mod.
I never got to experience a wide range of sports mascots because no matter where I went to school, for some reason, my mascot was always a COUGAR HOW MANY COUGARS CAN THERE BE?? I changed school 10 freaking times! (counting moving up into a higher school level)
The game feels less like a horror game, but in a fun and cutesy way. I love how you perfectly described this, and I personally think there should be multiple endings depending on how much of the special blue powerups you took.
I don't even watched the rest of the video but seriously I cannot not talk about the quality. THE FLASHLIGHT IS IN THE ANCHOR'S MODEL! YOU THROW THE ANCHOR AND THE FLASH LIGHT FLIES WHIT IT!!
I’m going to say I agree with you on shoved in platforming sections. I love platforming games, but they need very good platforming controls and they need consistency. Platformers should be the genre, not a bonus thing.
You played a sports horror game and didn't know the correct way to pat us all on the head? You have us line up, and then you run by with your hand out at head level, that simple.
GG for your 41K you deserve it. Your videos are still nice and undertaining since the first one, with each time new fursona/robot expressions and improvement
I love that Greg seems to not use his hands at all. Just pushes that gurney along with his pelvis. 😂 Sits in the mech that has no visible controls. It’s silly but I like it.
Fun fact: The Stanford Tree is actually the mascot of the band, not the university. Also I'd be down for a Sammy the Banana Slug or a Speedy the Geoduck (pronounced gooey duck) mascot horror games.
I had no idea indie horror games on steam were still a thing after FNAF & its competitors oversaturated the market. Good to know. Also I had no idea why TH-cam reccomended this channel to me until now. Glad they did. I'll have to check this place out more.
Unpopular opinion: I think the game 'Generic Horror Game' (yes that's what it's actually called) is a really good mascot horror game. The animatronics have some charm, they make sense in the setting, and the game understood it's time period very well, absolutely nailing the mid-2000s aesthetic. Plus it's really funny for no reason. I love the dino chair that they just randomly stuck in the office.
Most if the internet: We hate Mascot horror! It's just stupid! Dusky: It's not that bad, guys Me who's loved Mascot horror since Fnaf 2: *Loads shotgun * who's insulting the genius of Banban?
ngl the first time i saw the stinger flynn cameo i laughed so hard for a minute (or maybe an hour i don't remember how long i laughed) it was the funniest shit in that part of the game for me
You should check out the games by Zed Technician. Not even as a video idea, just in general. Idk if their brand of horror would fit with the content you usually cover but those games and that dev are oddly endearing, despite the art
I like how the powerups are detrimental. I think the game would be more fun if there was a true ending where if you beat the game without using the serum, not only are you, well, not a shark, but Greg is either furious that you refused to because he was hoping you would, or he realises that forcing people to grow into football powerhouses isn't the way to make a good team. Either way, I think some acknowledgement for not using the serum at all would be fun. Also, rest in peace to the weird shark guys who now have to figure out how to integrate back into society.
@@COFFEEWSUGA Don’t lose hope, we still have furry to like them.
@@moodyblues4404 true, true. I forgot there are certain people who would be thrilled to have these guys.
XD the last bit lol
there's actually a very different game that plays on this idea a little! the lisa series does this with joy. just... make sure to look at content warnings before getting into it.
@@maligulant4396 I LOVE those games. I don't have the skill to play them myself, but I have seen people play them. They're really good
Greg is the furry oc of an middle aged dad
"Could've gone pro, ya know?"
@@tr1f1ght3r he played college ball you know
@@hsd6716 At some cushy Ivy League school!
@@eriktheos6022 try university of texas!
@@eriktheos6022if only he didn’t join THE NAVY
18:18 I appreciate the "What makes you stronger will kill you" being a twist of "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger"
I'm surprised that sports mascots aren't more common in mascot horror, like those actually exist unlike mascots for ifk kindergartens or something that other games try to justify their setting with.😅
I also love how it's humourous and knows what it is.
my one thought is that sports stadiums aren't interesting enough a setting, not unless you start stapling other, very different facilities onto it
i mean, school mascots exist? i get what you mean though
Japan famously has mascots for nearly everything, so I'm surprised no one used this fact to create mascot horror games set in wackier places
I think one of the main problems is that sport/school mascots have real people inside, and as such give a "a real person is after me" vibe, which is quite contrarian to the feeling that the mascot horror genre wants to give (whether or not the monster actually turns out to be a real person in a costume or not).
You could surely make a cool horror game around the concept (and there probably are plenty already), but it would work better as horror/thriller rather than a mascot horror specifically.
How I would imagine a pepsiman game is that it starts with you late at night, finishing off the last of your pepsi, and when you do you get a text from pepsiman saying "I'm coming for you, start running". So now you have to get more pepsi before pepsiman finds you and blasts you to death in pepsi.
@@kevinzdanowski1125 that feels kind of similar to that joke horror game about sprite cranberry, it was similar, though instead of getting the sprite you were grabbing Fanta (I think) around your home and then you'd throw it at the guy repeatedly so you can escape to a gas station
I can’t help but imagine it playing out like a reskin of the Pepsiman video game. The gameplay was an auto runner with a chase at the end.
I like to imagine that the Pepsi man theme starts playing louder and louder the closer he gets to you lol
And when you die the death screen says "Rest In Pepsi"
@@Heheboi1240 Now that's a genius idea! Simple but perfect
18:35 So that's why the Dusky likes the fish man from Pressure. Besides being a cool character design.
For real though, shark tail Dusky looks neat.
I imagined that Ed Edd and Eddy "Chimp screech" when Dusky finds she likes it.
Sebastian solace?
The shot with Dusky going partially shark (and loving it) just before the final confrontation was a great bit~
The picture of a football player tackling another actually has Sebastian from Pressure in it. Makes me want Dusky to cover pressure one day
who’s gonna tell em
woah wait. a pepsiman horror game sounds AWESOME!!
i might have to steal that idea...
DO IT, please
PEPSIMAN
From the shadows you hear an eerie disembodied, feminine voice call out a name: PEPSIMAN. It sends a shiver down your back, like an icy serpent slithering down your spine.
i agree
I like the idea where Pepsi man is the main character since we always see Pepsi man tries to deliver Pepsi, however something was wrong where he went back to his company to come back from a commercial showing. He never knew what was about to see of a mutated version of said Pepsi man mix of a rat.(kinda reference that rumors of Pepsi company used rat eyes as a ingredient)
Fun thing with this, even though it's a conedy mascot horror it strikes on what makes mascto horror scary better than a lot of worse attempts. FNAF is scary brcause the Chuck E Cheese animatronics were uncanny. This is scary with the "serum" being a stand in for what is a real problem in sports, steroids and PED's. Like turning players into sharks is the only eay Greg could think to get the team to win.
Also, congrats on 40k it feels like you've risen so fast!
Honestly, between the sports theme, focus on combat, and boss fights, this is kinda the jock version of a mascot horror game 😂
Band geeks UNITE! * waves flute around * And a shark? Count me in!
Love how we never actually get to see ourselves so we never know if we're automatically turned into a shark even if we didn't take any serum X3
YES! LET'S GO FLUTISTS!
@@eeveefan987 I CALL US FLUTISTS TOO NOT FLAUTISTS LET'S GOOOO
Oh my god I’ve found my people. Hello fellow flute players.
@@FerreTrip i may not be a flutist but I’m a band head too. I play clarinet
fellow flute people
This game seems less like mascot horror and more like mascot comedy
to be completely fair every mascot horror game aside from early fnaf and poppy could be considered mascot comedy
I think the idea of a sports mascot being the symbol of a horror game is so much more interesting because it feels like it could be grounded in some reality. The person under the mask could be sick and twisted, and that alone is enough to distort an innocent mascot into something creepy. It's actually surprising to me this goes relatively underutilized in mascot horror to be honest.
@@confuseddragonedits2294 Where's the Mystery Gang when you need them?
Considering Bananaball now exists, in which every teammate is effectively a mascot for their team in one way or another, it's certainly rich for interpretations.
Mhm I personally love exploring real world topics through my own stories. A "mascot horror" game that is really just a story about a shattered soul clinging to what they know would be reallly interesting to see. There's no crazy lore about why they just... Are like the pupepts being alive in my friendly neighborhood.
THE DANNY GONZALES JUMPSCARE AT THE END GOT ME
I love how the side effects essentially turns you into Ellen Joe from Zenless Zone Zero
One thing I would like to see would be it responding to that if you did or did not use the serum, as you said you didn't use the serum so it would have been funny to see him commenting on you and not having used it at all.
I love the Danny Gonzalez appearance. Greg was actually the #1 Danny Gonzalez fan the entire time
🎵I, AMMMMMM, The Great Mighty Cone! And I'm gonna block all within my zone! No rogue footballs, Shall pass between my walls. How about a bump, you wimpy chump?🎵
Don’t you dare talk about the Stanford tree in that light! He’s beautiful.
Unironically, Greg's Deadly Draft was probably one of the more intuitive mascot horrors because it was an actual sport's mascot. I'd play for the Sharks and I hate (American) football! XD
The epic battle between May from Guilty Gear and Senator Armstrong's fursona
Mascot horror is fittingly the successor to mascot platformers of the ps1 and 2.
Started as fun colourful characters to make entertainment for children in fun games. Then overtime it became corrupted into the horror games we see now.
I’m waiting to see a combination of the 2. I had an idea for one but idk if it would work, since I’d probably just have it be an allegory for how the gaming industry lost touch with consumers or something.
It would kinda be like Gwimbly
this whole game, and "the mighty cone", sound like a parody of mascot horror games that you would see, specifically, on aqua teen hunger force, or sealab 2021.
0:19 the fupa on that thing is crazy 😭
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Pepsi Man horror could be insane. Just some humanoid thing sprinting at you, smashing through walls, while screaming "PEPSIMAAAANNNN"
I'm honestly thankful you covered this game, considering how much of a fun break it is from other bigger mascot titles. It's not trying to take itself seriously, and it's not trying to create a profitable franchise over the course of several chapters, its just simple fun and thats all you could ask for tbh.
I want to see a mascot horror game where the farther you go in the place the more broken and (something else horror related) while the mascot isn’t the monster, you are, your the mascot, one of the suits just came alive and doesn’t know where they are, and why their alone, their a fried of you the human, but until the end it’l seem like their the monster not you, your breaking into its home, it doesn’t know you and it’s confused, of course it’d try to hurt you, it thinks your out to hurt it
15:07 did not expect Sebastian to be in this video
all ive learned is that there needs to be a chiitan mascot horror game
Oh I’d pay anything to see that
the bespoke Dusky art actually adds a lot, I like it
i would pay to see Greg shout 'soda' like the obamna soda meme
I think The Mighty Cone is the best character, and I’m glad they didn’t die in the end
A pepsi man horror game would slap so hard! Just think about the scene where he opened his mouth and it's kust the sound of sparkling soda.
I'm always so excited to see a new Glamrock Dusky video!
Also a Pepsiman horror game sounds amazing!!!!
- the game is a basic first person shooter
- main villain uses a mech
- main villain wants to create the ultimate lifeform
this is wolfenstein of banban we did it
Ah yes Greg the most perfect mascot "horror" Game for good reason
17:23 aaaaaaaand you just give me trauma💀
I'm making a mascot horror about hotel mascots based on great wolf lodge
Omg Great wolf lodge! I always wanted to go!
For some reason the bit about mascot horror not typically having combat makes me want to make a mascot horror themed Doom 2 mod. I’ve always wanted to face my childhood fears of Bonny with a shotgun in hand. If I used the Doom base enemies and mascot-ified them, then I could probably make such a mod.
The mascot horror vid I never knew I needed, we’ve seen bears, raccoons, ink demons, and now… sharks
0:49, he is my spirit animal
You need to make the shark tail a part of your regular design, it looks so good.
"what mascot horror should be" yes, obscure, AND SHARKS, never forget about the sharks, also don't forget about the Anti shark spray
I never got to experience a wide range of sports mascots because no matter where I went to school, for some reason, my mascot was always a COUGAR HOW MANY COUGARS CAN THERE BE?? I changed school 10 freaking times! (counting moving up into a higher school level)
It's always good to see a game that just wants to be funny or silly. Hell it makes me want to play it even more just because of that. Nice
Greg jailed Stinger Flynn? …maybe he’s not such a bad guy after all.
I actually queued up a Danny Gonzalez video after this so you can imagine my confusion when I heard him but realised the next video hadn't started yet
The game feels less like a horror game, but in a fun and cutesy way. I love how you perfectly described this, and I personally think there should be multiple endings depending on how much of the special blue powerups you took.
I really want a Pepsiman Horror Game lol
W being in the marching band, L being in the percussion pit >p
Congrats on over 40k numbers Dusky! This game was a lot of fun :D
I don't even watched the rest of the video but seriously I cannot not talk about the quality. THE FLASHLIGHT IS IN THE ANCHOR'S MODEL! YOU THROW THE ANCHOR AND THE FLASH LIGHT FLIES WHIT IT!!
In defense of indigo park rambley is more of the gimmick than the cuff
I’m going to say I agree with you on shoved in platforming sections. I love platforming games, but they need very good platforming controls and they need consistency. Platformers should be the genre, not a bonus thing.
You played a sports horror game and didn't know the correct way to pat us all on the head? You have us line up, and then you run by with your hand out at head level, that simple.
I choose to imagine the women's bathroom is subtle world building that Greg believes in equality.
The original Pepsiman game on the PS1 was sort of a horror game as it involved the Pepsi Apocalypse.
CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE DANNY GONZALES BIT AT THE END???? LOVE IT
GG for your 41K you deserve it.
Your videos are still nice and undertaining since the first one, with each time new fursona/robot expressions and improvement
I love how Greg literally commits WARCRIMES over his team placement in the football league😂
I love that Greg seems to not use his hands at all. Just pushes that gurney along with his pelvis. 😂 Sits in the mech that has no visible controls. It’s silly but I like it.
15:07
Sebastion got juked hard bro.
Glad to know I'm not alone in being a marching band nerd furry with no clue about how sports work.
15:06 Pressure mentioned
Front facing you looks so cursed, also LOVE THIS GAME!
Fun fact: The Stanford Tree is actually the mascot of the band, not the university. Also I'd be down for a Sammy the Banana Slug or a Speedy the Geoduck (pronounced gooey duck) mascot horror games.
"Serum" that enhances your abilities, but causes bodily changes and could be fatal.
15:07 PRESSURE REFERENCE??? SEBASTIAN SOLACE GETTING TACKLED WHAT THE-
I had no idea indie horror games on steam were still a thing after FNAF & its competitors oversaturated the market. Good to know.
Also I had no idea why TH-cam reccomended this channel to me until now. Glad they did. I'll have to check this place out more.
Yay, dusky is back fr fr :D.
Also, I was there, I was in the love you played the Greg man, I remember :3
You know this actually reminded of a cartoon I watched when I was younger. Anybody remember a certain show called "Street Sharks"?🦈
I mean a magical girl a shiba inu and an otter have been mascots (precure saki shibasaki and chiitan)
Is honestly really fleshed out and pretty, very impressive
I will never look at Unreal Tournament 2004 health vials the same way again
Love your Glamrock oc. The colors blend very nicely and it’s very cute 👌👍
Unpopular opinion: I think the game 'Generic Horror Game' (yes that's what it's actually called) is a really good mascot horror game. The animatronics have some charm, they make sense in the setting, and the game understood it's time period very well, absolutely nailing the mid-2000s aesthetic. Plus it's really funny for no reason. I love the dino chair that they just randomly stuck in the office.
Legit, this sounds like a plot for a Goosebumps book.
I LOVE MARCHING BAND, also no marching band king really watched or understood football, I think.
My goodness this is the future
Most if the internet: We hate Mascot horror! It's just stupid!
Dusky: It's not that bad, guys
Me who's loved Mascot horror since Fnaf 2: *Loads shotgun * who's insulting the genius of Banban?
Considering Poppy playtime chapter 4 is just doing what just seems like stealing a fanmade character, I’d Say Banban is better than Poppy.
@@Cubeytheawesome Thanks for complementing Banban. Now, where's this sheep from originally?
@@strangecolouredbird I’m just saying it looks like a stolen OC, I’m not sure if it actually is
@@Cubeytheawesome *Is* there a Poppy Playtime sheep oc?
I am in negative shock that Dusky was a band kid. XD
18:53
Slay the Princess as joke.
ngl the first time i saw the stinger flynn cameo i laughed so hard for a minute (or maybe an hour i don't remember how long i laughed) it was the funniest shit in that part of the game for me
0:52 *_🌲 Photosynthesise your worries into strength!!! 🌲_*
...dang he got ugly tho 😭
0:54 Dusky, what is with you and your obsession with trees? Lol.
So it’s a horror game, where you play as May guilty gear. Awesome!
4:16 Waitaminute...YOU'RE NOT A RABBIT! YOU LIED TO ME! AND AFTER EVERYTHING WE'VE BEEN THROUGH...
Oh heybu was also in pit, thats fun
was thinking of danny gonzales the whole video so the end clip was a pleasant surprise lol
your "Indie Horror Initiative" sounds....familiar, like the Luigi Kid Creepypasta Challenge, potential inspiration for this?
You should check out the games by Zed Technician. Not even as a video idea, just in general. Idk if their brand of horror would fit with the content you usually cover but those games and that dev are oddly endearing, despite the art
THE MIGHTY CONE SOUNDS SO SILLY HE SOUNDS LIKE A ROBOT PLANKTON :3
15:07
AM I INSANE OR IS THIS A GOD DAMN ROBLOX PRESSURE REFERENCE
OOOO SOLACE IS FEELIN' THE PRESSURE OUT ON THE GRIDIRON
I love your little fursona avatar character so much! Did you draw them? I need to see more. Where can I find more?
Finding Frankie is amazing
OMG U WERE IN FRONTLINE/FRONT ENSABLE?? EEE THATS SO COOL IM IN MY JUNIOR YEAR IN FRONTLINE!!
the only thing i know about this game is the time jd was given a free copy it was very wholesome
Danny Gonzalez cameo at 21:58
Mighty Cone my love!
Oh please, can we get a Pepsi Man horror game, that would be some absolute cheese that's I'd be down for.