Unfortunately the copyright overlords flagged the Stradcha intro montage that began at 1:20, it has been cut. To make up for it, I've uploaded it unlisted here: th-cam.com/video/vcddaWZCnYE/w-d-xo.html
It’s impressive how you deeply you dive to explain what Ukraine is means. It’s absurd that only because of war we become something unique and different. Wish you luck and stay well.
Ukraine is forever. I have fond memories of learning all about Ukraine during Euro 2012. While your country is in the spotlight now because of the war, I believe millions of people will visit to enjoy what really matters. There is a cultural renaissance in Ukraine going on: magical music, good quality products, world-class athletes, video game development, and so much more. This is what the world will love you for, this is what people will visit your country for, not just the bravery and strength of your people, but where that bravery comes from. Strength to you, Dmytro, thanks for watching.
I've been a fan of stalker since 2008. The game helped me to at least tepidly support ukraine during maidan and then the "separatist" invasion. It's to my discredit that it took the full scale invasion to realise scale of the struggle of Ukraine and other former soviet states such as Kazakhstan. Someone linked your stalker video on Twitter and I'm glad I found your channel. Keep up the good work!
I love this kind of "documentaries" about games. And this one, is by far the best that I'v seen. Yes, maybe it's because I'm Ukrainain and it's warms heart to see such videos about ukrainian games, but after watching hundreds of videos of this tipe, this gave the most emotions of all. Thank you!
This is amazing game - cultural context, symbolism, political allegory and very emotional personal story, everything is on point here! The only problem i have with this, is that i want more, game was too short:)
found your channel about 1-2 weeks ago and i have loved your videos! this one especially since Exodus is my favorite game. keep up the good work! i hope to see your channel grow :)
best thing imo abt metro is that they are literally the spawn of sdalger, well the games atleast, also also, guys, theyre making a metro 2033 movie, THE WRITER IS THE AUTHOR WOOOOOOOOOOO
Brazilian player here 🇧🇷. I first played Last Light and it was my first game of this genre, I liked it so much, then I played Exodus third game, and yet again it was even better, NPCs, Nature, non-lethal takedowns...and then I tried to play Last Light again, but felt brutally depressed, man the Metro was sad as hell.
I wonder if people, who haven't traveled on a soviet\post-soviet platzkart (couchette) trains, get the same emotions invoked, while they ride on the Aurora. It's such a nostalgic feeling for those who have.
The 80's song "a train on fire" by russian band Akvarium played by Stepan right after the revealing of Anna's condition was really the moment that hit the hardest for me. I had the VO set to ukranian and the Read the lyrics in the subtitles. I could'nt help but cry thinking about the war in Ukraine, and the wasted opportunity for the generatiopn who wrote that song about peace and rebuilding during the Glastnost era. The Author of the song was the typical russian dissident : educated, from St petersburg, full of the west's best music. He represents the generation for whom the iron curtain fell, and the soviet empire was dismantled, the generation that was supposed to take charge of a brighter future. But saddly this chance was taken from them, or they were not abble to seize it. Either way they are now either silenced or exiled. A quick search told me that he was now mostly retired, living in London, and recently made a collab with a brit and a ukranian for an anti-war song. The game was very transparent in it's critic of soviet and post-soviet failures. A ton of dire situations we encouter are due to mismanagement, greed and incompetence by those in power. The Oligarchic Hansa faction rather keep it's place as the dominant power in the shithole that is the metro than risk losing it's power once it is known there is an outside world, The chemical storage were Anna fell was the consequence of the authorities not willing to properly dispose or store chemical weapons, The Lamantaou complex devolved into a mess of cannibalistic savages because the officials responsible for providing enough rations were corrupt, The Caspian region military garrisons never tried to maitain a semblant of order, and rather shoot on sight any local, in the end they either died from gaz leaks in their poorly built comm bunker or joined the forming petrol slave empire's oligarchy... In novossibirsk, it's basically the Moscow Hansa + a shortage of a vital ressource. Said vital ressource that should have been delivered in the thousands to Moscow but never was... Every situation you encounter is the distant outcome of a pre-war fuck-up or the reproduction of a pre-war failure. The only part of the game that partly escapes this is the Taïga/children of the forest part. I'm not sure what to make of that, maybe it's to show how even with an "innocent" people, starting anew witohout the constraints of the old corrupt power structures, things can still go south and turn a group of peacefull recluse into raider warriors. That maintaining an ethic/moral society demands constant efforts for it not to drift toward somber practices.
'Twas a 30 gb upload 😫 I usually let them finish processing before they go live but I had this one go up as soon as it was done because I wouldn't be home until the evening.
Excellent video, but you missed the point with the cannibals in the governmental bunker. It is not your fault, of course, since you are not a native speaker. In Ukrainian language there is a common expression "людожерський режим", which means "a men-eating regime". This epithet is often used to descibe a tyranny, especially if it relies on repressions to preserve its power. A4 Games simply made it literal.
5:00 стоп.... Тодто на 1:50 не грала пiсня як "я спала на сенi" у виконаннi гурту Ватра?. Так я послухала пiсню про яку ви говорили, ви включили не те на тлi
Oh I never *really* made that montage hehe. TH-cam actually flagged this video for the song I played but not the H3VR one. I think their system only kicks in after like 5-7 seconds
Good video, still dislike Exodus though, to me it doesn't really work as a game, should have been a series or something, the original Metro 2033 remains my favorite.
@@cantgameright they were offered everything back except for crimea in 2022 but now they have lost those territories forever and will lose more the longer the war continues
@@deadrat7989 This is not true. This only shows that your enemies won't have to pay heavily and dearly to conquer your territory. How dearly? Figured of hundreds of thousands of men and materiel killed and destroyed. Had Ukraine given up Crimea russian leadership would not learn this lesson. Expansionist forces only stop when they are stopped, not when they choose to. So again, to call russia's terms for surrender "peace deals" is utterly uninformed at best and disinformation at worst.
Stradcha means "Sufferer" "Sufferling" Basically a suffering child, the root word is "Страждати" - which means "to suffer" also there is a village called "Страдч"(stradch) which has pretty dark history. It sounds very old and I'd assume it comes from old Slavonic language. The botchling(poroniec in PL) from Witcher 3 is probably the closest thing.
I talked about the Witcher III's Botchling in the original script, unfortunately the original would have resulted in a cut longer than an hour if I had gone with it, so I did some considerable trimming of the fat. Hope you liked this one in spite of being so long.
If you think about it, Stradcha is demon's spawn since you will never have a Childern's soul stuck here, in the overworld as it's guided to the gates of heaven by its own angel. The only thing that's ever going to address themselves as a child's soul is a demon.. So the soldier really did worked with the devil..
@@matejaradivojevic3473 Lots of beliefs and legends don't make much sense from christian point of view because they were adopted from the older pre-christian times. Think about Kupala Night, it's an ancient pagan ritual which has been adopted anyways just to appease the people who were doing it for centuries. Some of the orthodox saints are adopted pagan gods as well. By trying to rationalize all the beliefs and traditions you might end up being disappointed. But if you are truly religious person I can understand your point of view.
I'm Eastern European (not in the "Russosphere" tho) so a lot of the symbolism and ideas felt much more familiar to me than it does to your average Western player. Funnily enough as a result I never associated the Aurora with the northern lights or the dawn, but with the cruiser Aurora as the herald of the Revolution. And because my country was invaded and oppressed by the Russians after world war 2 those connotations weren't exactly positive for me. While I absolutely adore Stalker and Metro 2033. Exodus is sort of a mixed bag for me. The story and characters hit very hard emotionally, it's amazing. But I also think the strongest parts of the game gameplay wise and as far as the atmosphere goes is the prologue in the Metro and the Novosibirsk Metro. I think the mystery and horror of it is great and I felt much more tension in those areas than say in the Volga. The open areas are absolutely breathtaking in many ways but they lack a certain type of tension and interest that is present in Stalker.
As a Pole all i can say is that i believe there can be a better future, us and Ukraine were enemies as well but became friends when push came to shove.
Polska, w przeciwieństwie do Moskali, nigdy nie dążyła do zniszczenia nas jako narodu. Tak, były próby przejścia na katolicyzm, ale unia była jak kompromis. Moskale zawsze stawiali ultimatum - zostać katsapami lub zginąć. Nie chcemy ani pierwszego, ani drugiego. Mam nadzieję, że Rzeczpospolita Trzech Narodów stanie się wielką demokratyczną potęgą na świecie (pamiętamy i wierzymy w Międzymorza).
I played exodus last year, loved every minute of it. The part when you find out Anna is sick, created a pit on my stomach, and then i realized how much i cared for a character. Never feel that way before, even watching that scene here brought me to tears. What an awesome, human story they built.
In my honest opinion, Metro Exodus tells you what death is, to understand it. To make you question if you are even ready to die for something or for someone. In the whole game you will see death, rather it be those you caused, killing bandits or the locals there or be it the corpses of all these lost souls that are there.. A reminder if you are really ready to join them. Noone accepts death well, this game will always remind you of that. When the Miller falls you could feel like it's your own fault for chasing your dreams, Artyom chased them or he didn't have a different choice but Miller paid the price for the lies he was hiding for the truth that he was hiding rather it be for their safety or as he later said, out of fear. If you think about it, can you even blame Miller for lying to them? The truth could only bring death to the lies and to those who believed in them.
Thank you for taking the time to watch, Mykyta :D One of your countrywomen living in R. Dominicana introduced me to Kholodets a couple of years ago 🙈 I think that merely mentioning that to you would make you laugh! Strength to you!
@@cantgameright Kholodets is tasty, we usually make it during winter. That's ok to learn something new, so I hope you will like it :). Also I suggest to you to try Shuba salad (if you like herring). Thanks for wishes and telling important stuff. I'm looking forward to watch next video
Very interesting take on that game, however I noticed 2 little details that I think your interpretation might benefit from. First, "Aurora" is the name of the battleship that started the October Revolution. Moreover the whole train theme may be a nod to the anarchist Ukrainian Black Army with their famous armored trains, as the motive of anarchism/freedom is rather prevalent in culture (via Stalker's Freedom faction)
Cool video, by the way, I can advise you a game called “Cradle”, it is in Steam and also a split group of gsc developers. It is unique in its own way, especially stylistically.😊
I can definitely look into it. It's definitely made with some "out of the box" thinking from my first impression. The developer is Flying Cafe for Semianimals, right?
17:57 Although I played Exodus 3-4 times, only on this video I noticed an interesting detail - if you choose an angle, you can cut off the extra letters and it will be written in russian "Resident Evil" ("Обитель Зла").
9:02 ah yes the spartans who were blindly loyal to russia until they found out that the russian government is more would be a part of free russia. Lets be for real here the spartans would be more like the real life russian spetsnaz "sparta battalion". Especially the book ones. Edit: i just found out that the commander of the irl sparta battalion is called artyom💀
I've been a long time fan of Stalker and Metro series. I've been enjoying the redux versions for Metro lately and it was a blast. Exodus was indeed the better game from the series for my taste as well. Oh, and for Stalker fans, you have to check out Stalker Anomaly + some modpacks like EFP or GAMMA.
@@cantgameright so yeah the gift happened 2-3 years ago, i knew he was of wrong views before the full-scale invasion but when he decided to put russian svastika to his nickname i just deleted him, i learned on other people that talking can't help them, they cannot be saved unfortunately.
@@Dark_Brandon_2024 man, it sucks in some ways, but I'm glad you did the smart thing. It's the old "don't feed the wildlife" story, a lot of people get enjoyment from provoking other peoples' negative emotions for some reason.
Impressive de-construction of this fine piece of media. Despite being a long tim METRO fan, I never had the chance to go so much under its skin like you did. Good food for thought. Really like the amount of knowledge you share about ukrainian culture, thus that you're able to pour into videos like this. Let alone how clear your position is in relation to the ongoing invasion of the country. Will keep a close eye on your future videos! Also, since there's a noticeable "fil rouge" in the games your videos cover, have you ever considered speaking about CHERNOBYLITE? Although, of this I'm sure, it doesn't have much to share with Metro or Stalker in terms of narrative depth and links with ukrainian culture, I think that, with the destruction still happening in the country, and the overall decaying process of the Zone, it still offers a good example of videogames' history-preservation potential, due to the in-depth 3D scanning performed in Pripyat by the DevTeam....what, some may say, AC Unity did (or rather, offered to do) for Notre Dame after the fire that destroyed most of the Cathedral.
9:34 you should probably mention that Dmitri Gluhovsky is sane person and he was always against Putin before war and of course now, also supporting Ukraine
If Artyom is silent in the sequel again, then I can't exactly take his ambitions seriously if this is how he operates... buuuuut he did have a head and say something at the end of the game.
Ill explain why Stalker and Metro are similar. So when GSC Game World were making Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl the late versions of the game were a disaster so a guy named Dean Sharpe went for the help with the development as a temporary executive producer and if he wasnt there Stalker SoC would be way worse. So after the launch of Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl Dean Sharpe left GSC and went to 4A Games again as a role of the executive producer to make Metro 2033 and Last Light This is the story (btw fun fact the ak reload is 100% the same in both games. The reload animation is similar and the sound is the same)
I do agree Metro Exodus has an important message and deeper themes but I resent you calling it not fun. That was weird, it's not exactly obscure arthouse gameplay. More similar to, say, Far Cry than people are willing to admit.
I hope in the coming years we can see more titles and publishers like this reach mainstream popularity in the Western World. It's very... eye-opening. It's an accessible way of observing a slice of life outside of our own sphere of experience, but one we can still understand and empathize with. And it would be so refreshing compared to the unfinished copy pasted games we're getting out of Western publishers these days. I think we've kind of forced ourselves into a box of what games can be good or widely appealing, and it is truly a breath of fresh air to see games like this breaking those boundaries.
Whole Ukrainian Russo war can be explained in the level of Taiga. The bear as in the video, being the soviet union, Childern of the forest being independent states from such, having fear from it not because they will cause their doom, they lived with it for years but it's still taking them one by one, slowly but surely. And about intruders? They are taught to defend themselves, Yes and they don't know right from wrong, the intruder or an outsider is always going to be bad for them since they don't know their true intentions. And about the teacher.. His words were twisted and two versions of his words were created just like how Christianity or Islam was split in two by people driving their own interpretation of such words into their own way. Ukraine faces uncertainty although it being an independent country without being a puppet is a dream.. Either it be from the west or from the east it's the same poision.
1:45 and already like for cool music. That's kinda fun and cool when I(ukrainian) recive cool recomandation of ukrainian music from someone on the other part of the planet🙃
for me the caspian sea was a huge disconnect from the story as I failed to save Damir despite believing that I did good, I knocked out Saul only to never see him again and a huge breaking of immersion when I got ambushed in a bandit outpost that I just cleared and kept getting 1 shot by what sounded like a shotgun, while the guy was on the ground and I was peeking from 2 layers of cover in a tower. The frustration worsened when I opened up the wiki and saw that I lost moral points from killing BANDITS, not slaves (I'm still pissed about it, Damir was my favorite companion), I was supposed to sleep in this one (1) specific outpost to get ambushed by Saul to get an important part of the story that I completely missed. gameplaywise the level felt the weakest for me and I just don't have it in my to replay the whole chapter again strictly for Damir which is just more insult to injury edit: I simply found Ana annoying but I could ignore her in Last Light while in Exodus she was at the center most of the time which detracted from my enjoyment, skill issue on my part
Unfortunately the copyright overlords flagged the Stradcha intro montage that began at 1:20, it has been cut. To make up for it, I've uploaded it unlisted here: th-cam.com/video/vcddaWZCnYE/w-d-xo.html
It’s impressive how you deeply you dive to explain what Ukraine is means. It’s absurd that only because of war we become something unique and different. Wish you luck and stay well.
Ukraine is forever. I have fond memories of learning all about Ukraine during Euro 2012. While your country is in the spotlight now because of the war, I believe millions of people will visit to enjoy what really matters. There is a cultural renaissance in Ukraine going on: magical music, good quality products, world-class athletes, video game development, and so much more. This is what the world will love you for, this is what people will visit your country for, not just the bravery and strength of your people, but where that bravery comes from. Strength to you, Dmytro, thanks for watching.
@@cantgameright I'm afraid that Newton's 3rd law applies to social life - if we don't have enemies left, then we will become mediocrity.
I've been a fan of stalker since 2008. The game helped me to at least tepidly support ukraine during maidan and then the "separatist" invasion. It's to my discredit that it took the full scale invasion to realise scale of the struggle of Ukraine and other former soviet states such as Kazakhstan.
Someone linked your stalker video on Twitter and I'm glad I found your channel. Keep up the good work!
I love this kind of "documentaries" about games. And this one, is by far the best that I'v seen.
Yes, maybe it's because I'm Ukrainain and it's warms heart to see such videos about ukrainian games, but after watching hundreds of videos of this tipe, this gave the most emotions of all. Thank you!
This is amazing game - cultural context, symbolism, political allegory and very emotional personal story, everything is on point here! The only problem i have with this, is that i want more, game was too short:)
More guns too
Still cannot believe this channel even hasn’t reached 1k subs. Without checking it feels like well made video on big channel❤
Oi Denys, as long as I'm making videos I'll remember you as one of the first to have subscribed. Thank you for that!
found your channel about 1-2 weeks ago and i have loved your videos! this one especially since Exodus is my favorite game. keep up the good work! i hope to see your channel grow :)
Just started the video and the editing is so well done!
best thing imo abt metro is that they are literally the spawn of sdalger, well the games atleast, also also, guys, theyre making a metro 2033 movie, THE WRITER IS THE AUTHOR WOOOOOOOOOOO
LGBTR totally got me, man.
There's more LGBTR coming, I can promise you that.
@@cantgameright that's wonderful news lol, I can already imagine a hardbass song about it even
I never really picked up on the themes on my playthrough but now it is so obvious. Great vid well done.
Brazilian player here 🇧🇷. I first played Last Light and it was my first game of this genre, I liked it so much, then I played Exodus third game, and yet again it was even better, NPCs, Nature, non-lethal takedowns...and then I tried to play Last Light again, but felt brutally depressed, man the Metro was sad as hell.
Дякую тобі за файну працю
Man that ending was great
I wonder if people, who haven't traveled on a soviet\post-soviet platzkart (couchette) trains, get the same emotions invoked, while they ride on the Aurora. It's such a nostalgic feeling for those who have.
The 80's song "a train on fire" by russian band Akvarium played by Stepan right after the revealing of Anna's condition was really the moment that hit the hardest for me. I had the VO set to ukranian and the Read the lyrics in the subtitles.
I could'nt help but cry thinking about the war in Ukraine, and the wasted opportunity for the generatiopn who wrote that song about peace and rebuilding during the Glastnost era. The Author of the song was the typical russian dissident : educated, from St petersburg, full of the west's best music. He represents the generation for whom the iron curtain fell, and the soviet empire was dismantled, the generation that was supposed to take charge of a brighter future. But saddly this chance was taken from them, or they were not abble to seize it. Either way they are now either silenced or exiled.
A quick search told me that he was now mostly retired, living in London, and recently made a collab with a brit and a ukranian for an anti-war song.
The game was very transparent in it's critic of soviet and post-soviet failures. A ton of dire situations we encouter are due to mismanagement, greed and incompetence by those in power.
The Oligarchic Hansa faction rather keep it's place as the dominant power in the shithole that is the metro than risk losing it's power once it is known there is an outside world, The chemical storage were Anna fell was the consequence of the authorities not willing to properly dispose or store chemical weapons, The Lamantaou complex devolved into a mess of cannibalistic savages because the officials responsible for providing enough rations were corrupt, The Caspian region military garrisons never tried to maitain a semblant of order, and rather shoot on sight any local, in the end they either died from gaz leaks in their poorly built comm bunker or joined the forming petrol slave empire's oligarchy... In novossibirsk, it's basically the Moscow Hansa + a shortage of a vital ressource. Said vital ressource that should have been delivered in the thousands to Moscow but never was...
Every situation you encounter is the distant outcome of a pre-war fuck-up or the reproduction of a pre-war failure. The only part of the game that partly escapes this is the Taïga/children of the forest part. I'm not sure what to make of that, maybe it's to show how even with an "innocent" people, starting anew witohout the constraints of the old corrupt power structures, things can still go south and turn a group of peacefull recluse into raider warriors. That maintaining an ethic/moral society demands constant efforts for it not to drift toward somber practices.
Thx for your videos and keep doing it.
Both games are just fantastic
Thanks for the video
i arrived so early that the video isnt even at full res yet 💀
'Twas a 30 gb upload 😫 I usually let them finish processing before they go live but I had this one go up as soon as it was done because I wouldn't be home until the evening.
@@cantgameright Damnnn, meanwhile me tryna upload shit that's like 50gibs💀💀💀💀
Fantastic video!!!!
Excellent video, but you missed the point with the cannibals in the governmental bunker. It is not your fault, of course, since you are not a native speaker.
In Ukrainian language there is a common expression "людожерський режим", which means "a men-eating regime". This epithet is often used to descibe a tyranny, especially if it relies on repressions to preserve its power.
A4 Games simply made it literal.
5:00 стоп.... Тодто на 1:50 не грала пiсня як "я спала на сенi" у виконаннi гурту Ватра?. Так я послухала пiсню про яку ви говорили, ви включили не те на тлi
Цiкавинка: Страдча - не популярна назва, ми частiше кажемо "потерчата"
I'm from Kyiv and thanks for Ukrainian subtitles 😘
Hey author! Can you please tell me the name of the song that start to playing in the background at 13:33 and ends up on 15:08?
The music is by DivKid, the track in those timestamps is called "Dusk" :D
@@cantgameright Thank you very much for your reply :)
Cool video btw 👍🏻
Amazing video work. This comment just for youtube algoritms
Where is the H3VR montage?
Oh I never *really* made that montage hehe. TH-cam actually flagged this video for the song I played but not the H3VR one. I think their system only kicks in after like 5-7 seconds
Amazing video, Slava Ukraini
AGUANTE ARGENTINAAAA 🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷
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funny video heres your like
you know. Prefire like
I like both games but I love stalker more
Good video, still dislike Exodus though, to me it doesn't really work as a game, should have been a series or something, the original Metro 2033 remains my favorite.
yeaah... nice enough video but the game still does not compare to 2033 and Last Light.
its ukraine who wont negotiate peace
terms of surrender are not peace deals and if you think so you are not very smart.
@@cantgameright they were offered everything back except for crimea in 2022 but now they have lost those territories forever and will lose more the longer the war continues
@@deadrat7989 So they were given terms to surrender Crimea? Still terms of surrender.
@@cantgameright sometimes countries have to give up part of its territory if they dont want to be completly destroyed
@@deadrat7989 This is not true. This only shows that your enemies won't have to pay heavily and dearly to conquer your territory. How dearly? Figured of hundreds of thousands of men and materiel killed and destroyed.
Had Ukraine given up Crimea russian leadership would not learn this lesson. Expansionist forces only stop when they are stopped, not when they choose to. So again, to call russia's terms for surrender "peace deals" is utterly uninformed at best and disinformation at worst.
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People here are just going to point and laugh at you, fool 🤣
Z for Zero chance to win
@@unsuisseegare1291 I don't see Russia losing major cities
Putin already tried peace, Zelensky aays no
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Because trusting a Ex-KGB dictator is worth it shut up bot
putin: "give me half of your country"
Zelensky: "no"
You: "putin tried peace"
@@NFM417 how about Russia reclaims all of Ukraine instead
@@NFM417 Putin's peace offers were very generous to Ukraine but zelensky doesn't want peace
Stradcha means "Sufferer" "Sufferling" Basically a suffering child, the root word is "Страждати" - which means "to suffer" also there is a village called "Страдч"(stradch) which has pretty dark history. It sounds very old and I'd assume it comes from old Slavonic language. The botchling(poroniec in PL) from Witcher 3 is probably the closest thing.
I talked about the Witcher III's Botchling in the original script, unfortunately the original would have resulted in a cut longer than an hour if I had gone with it, so I did some considerable trimming of the fat. Hope you liked this one in spite of being so long.
@@cantgameright The video is marvelous. I am truly fascinated by your knowledge. Thanks for spreading the word in form of game content.
@@not_your_business666 that`s what I wanted to say
If you think about it, Stradcha is demon's spawn since you will never have a Childern's soul stuck here, in the overworld as it's guided to the gates of heaven by its own angel. The only thing that's ever going to address themselves as a child's soul is a demon.. So the soldier really did worked with the devil..
@@matejaradivojevic3473 Lots of beliefs and legends don't make much sense from christian point of view because they were adopted from the older pre-christian times. Think about Kupala Night, it's an ancient pagan ritual which has been adopted anyways just to appease the people who were doing it for centuries. Some of the orthodox saints are adopted pagan gods as well. By trying to rationalize all the beliefs and traditions you might end up being disappointed. But if you are truly religious person I can understand your point of view.
I'm Eastern European (not in the "Russosphere" tho) so a lot of the symbolism and ideas felt much more familiar to me than it does to your average Western player.
Funnily enough as a result I never associated the Aurora with the northern lights or the dawn, but with the cruiser Aurora as the herald of the Revolution. And because my country was invaded and oppressed by the Russians after world war 2 those connotations weren't exactly positive for me.
While I absolutely adore Stalker and Metro 2033. Exodus is sort of a mixed bag for me. The story and characters hit very hard emotionally, it's amazing. But I also think the strongest parts of the game gameplay wise and as far as the atmosphere goes is the prologue in the Metro and the Novosibirsk Metro. I think the mystery and horror of it is great and I felt much more tension in those areas than say in the Volga. The open areas are absolutely breathtaking in many ways but they lack a certain type of tension and interest that is present in Stalker.
USSR included Ukrainians aka Ukrainian SSR(2nd nation by population), but it's evil Russians who invaded, only them....
As a Pole all i can say is that i believe there can be a better future,
us and Ukraine were enemies as well but became friends when push came to shove.
Now we are the actual brothers' nations 🇵🇱❤️🇺🇦
Polska, w przeciwieństwie do Moskali, nigdy nie dążyła do zniszczenia nas jako narodu. Tak, były próby przejścia na katolicyzm, ale unia była jak kompromis. Moskale zawsze stawiali ultimatum - zostać katsapami lub zginąć. Nie chcemy ani pierwszego, ani drugiego.
Mam nadzieję, że Rzeczpospolita Trzech Narodów stanie się wielką demokratyczną potęgą na świecie (pamiętamy i wierzymy w Międzymorza).
High quality video as always bro, especially i love your music usage
Thanks for swinging by, brother! TH-cam is going to strike me with the copyright sword one of these days! 😂
@@cantgameright nah, i will fight YT if this happens)
I played exodus last year, loved every minute of it. The part when you find out Anna is sick, created a pit on my stomach, and then i realized how much i cared for a character. Never feel that way before, even watching that scene here brought me to tears. What an awesome, human story they built.
Honestly playing in Ranger Hardcore, I sometimes had difficulty telling enemies from normal folks specially from a distance.
That's part of what give the game its atmosphere and also why there's so much more tension in RH!
Wow, u r so based. Really deep and interesting analysis, I`m already in love with your channel
Mate, massive props to you for diving so deep into the culture! Lots of love!
Good stuff, super deep insight and understanding of the politics and culture. Thank you!
In my honest opinion, Metro Exodus tells you what death is, to understand it. To make you question if you are even ready to die for something or for someone. In the whole game you will see death, rather it be those you caused, killing bandits or the locals there or be it the corpses of all these lost souls that are there.. A reminder if you are really ready to join them. Noone accepts death well, this game will always remind you of that. When the Miller falls you could feel like it's your own fault for chasing your dreams, Artyom chased them or he didn't have a different choice but Miller paid the price for the lies he was hiding for the truth that he was hiding rather it be for their safety or as he later said, out of fear. If you think about it, can you even blame Miller for lying to them? The truth could only bring death to the lies and to those who believed in them.
Based use of Ukrainian music.
Most Ukrainian Dominican on TH-cam. Hello from Ukraine. Keep pushing, you doing great content!
Thank you for taking the time to watch, Mykyta :D
One of your countrywomen living in R. Dominicana introduced me to Kholodets a couple of years ago 🙈 I think that merely mentioning that to you would make you laugh! Strength to you!
@@cantgameright Kholodets is tasty, we usually make it during winter. That's ok to learn something new, so I hope you will like it :). Also I suggest to you to try Shuba salad (if you like herring). Thanks for wishes and telling important stuff. I'm looking forward to watch next video
@@cantgameright The main ukrainian dish is borscht (beetroot soup with meat and sour cream). You should try it 😋
To me, I love both metro and stalker, ALL OF THEM, they offer their own thing and both are awesome, to each their own and thats ok
Very interesting take on that game, however I noticed 2 little details that I think your interpretation might benefit from. First, "Aurora" is the name of the battleship that started the October Revolution. Moreover the whole train theme may be a nod to the anarchist Ukrainian Black Army with their famous armored trains, as the motive of anarchism/freedom is rather prevalent in culture (via Stalker's Freedom faction)
Cool video, by the way, I can advise you a game called “Cradle”, it is in Steam and also a split group of gsc developers. It is unique in its own way, especially stylistically.😊
I can definitely look into it. It's definitely made with some "out of the box" thinking from my first impression. The developer is Flying Cafe for Semianimals, right?
@@cantgameright yep
17:57 Although I played Exodus 3-4 times, only on this video I noticed an interesting detail - if you choose an angle, you can cut off the extra letters and it will be written in russian "Resident Evil" ("Обитель Зла").
9:02 ah yes the spartans who were blindly loyal to russia until they found out that the russian government is more would be a part of free russia. Lets be for real here the spartans would be more like the real life russian spetsnaz "sparta battalion". Especially the book ones.
Edit: i just found out that the commander of the irl sparta battalion is called artyom💀
I've been a long time fan of Stalker and Metro series. I've been enjoying the redux versions for Metro lately and it was a blast. Exodus was indeed the better game from the series for my taste as well. Oh, and for Stalker fans, you have to check out Stalker Anomaly + some modpacks like EFP or GAMMA.
ok, so for anyone wanting to listen to Страдча (music at 1:37)
th-cam.com/video/INAySPTvjLc/w-d-xo.html
Too bad they didn't make a tzar-crab instead of a tzar-fish. Would be a great ref.
Дякую тобі за ці відео!
Can you believe it guys, my proZ ex-friend sent me the full copy of the game, I see it as an achievement. 😏
oh! do tell more!
@@cantgameright so yeah the gift happened 2-3 years ago, i knew he was of wrong views before the full-scale invasion but when he decided to put russian svastika to his nickname i just deleted him, i learned on other people that talking can't help them, they cannot be saved unfortunately.
@@Dark_Brandon_2024 man, it sucks in some ways, but I'm glad you did the smart thing. It's the old "don't feed the wildlife" story, a lot of people get enjoyment from provoking other peoples' negative emotions for some reason.
Imagine breaking friendship because of political disagreements.
@@valder8423 imagine calling a war that has killed 200,000+ people (maybe beyond 300,000) a "political" issue. You're just a spectator.
Дякую за чудове відео, чекаю на нові)))
Impressive de-construction of this fine piece of media.
Despite being a long tim METRO fan, I never had the chance to go so much under its skin like you did. Good food for thought.
Really like the amount of knowledge you share about ukrainian culture, thus that you're able to pour into videos like this. Let alone how clear your position is in relation to the ongoing invasion of the country.
Will keep a close eye on your future videos!
Also, since there's a noticeable "fil rouge" in the games your videos cover, have you ever considered speaking about CHERNOBYLITE? Although, of this I'm sure, it doesn't have much to share with Metro or Stalker in terms of narrative depth and links with ukrainian culture, I think that, with the destruction still happening in the country, and the overall decaying process of the Zone, it still offers a good example of videogames' history-preservation potential, due to the in-depth 3D scanning performed in Pripyat by the DevTeam....what, some may say, AC Unity did (or rather, offered to do) for Notre Dame after the fire that destroyed most of the Cathedral.
9:34 you should probably mention that Dmitri Gluhovsky is sane person and he was always against Putin before war and of course now, also supporting Ukraine
If Artyom is silent in the sequel again, then I can't exactly take his ambitions seriously if this is how he operates... buuuuut he did have a head and say something at the end of the game.
Ill explain why Stalker and Metro are similar. So when GSC Game World were making Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl the late versions of the game were a disaster so a guy named Dean Sharpe went for the help with the development as a temporary executive producer and if he wasnt there Stalker SoC would be way worse.
So after the launch of Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl Dean Sharpe left GSC and went to 4A Games again as a role of the executive producer to make Metro 2033 and Last Light
This is the story (btw fun fact the ak reload is 100% the same in both games. The reload animation is similar and the sound is the same)
I do agree Metro Exodus has an important message and deeper themes but I resent you calling it not fun. That was weird, it's not exactly obscure arthouse gameplay. More similar to, say, Far Cry than people are willing to admit.
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I hope in the coming years we can see more titles and publishers like this reach mainstream popularity in the Western World. It's very... eye-opening. It's an accessible way of observing a slice of life outside of our own sphere of experience, but one we can still understand and empathize with. And it would be so refreshing compared to the unfinished copy pasted games we're getting out of Western publishers these days. I think we've kind of forced ourselves into a box of what games can be good or widely appealing, and it is truly a breath of fresh air to see games like this breaking those boundaries.
I believe your political connotations deserve more context and a push back here and there. Other then that great video.
sad for me I didn't finished the gamevso I can't watch the whole video
A more English name for a Strucha is Willow Wisp.
My man, thanks for the dive! Unbelievable. Cheers from Kyiv )
Always sucks when a channel I like, puts out a video I'm interested in, but can't watch because of possible spoilers
D: I'm sorry about that, hopefully you can experience the game before anyone spoils it for you, I'm glad the spoiler warning was well placed.
Thanks for your thoughts. People, believe in Ukraine, and you will do an incredible service, because thought is material.
Whole Ukrainian Russo war can be explained in the level of Taiga. The bear as in the video, being the soviet union, Childern of the forest being independent states from such, having fear from it not because they will cause their doom, they lived with it for years but it's still taking them one by one, slowly but surely. And about intruders? They are taught to defend themselves, Yes and they don't know right from wrong, the intruder or an outsider is always going to be bad for them since they don't know their true intentions. And about the teacher.. His words were twisted and two versions of his words were created just like how Christianity or Islam was split in two by people driving their own interpretation of such words into their own way. Ukraine faces uncertainty although it being an independent country without being a puppet is a dream.. Either it be from the west or from the east it's the same poision.
1:45 and already like for cool music. That's kinda fun and cool when I(ukrainian) recive cool recomandation of ukrainian music from someone on the other part of the planet🙃
What can I say? Great music finds its way around the world and back! 😂
What Stalker game is that at 8:05 and if any mods used, what mods?
Just my own little modpack I had made at the time. I never published it.
Congratulations on a thousand subscribers
I cant believe I'm number 1000 damn
I'll remember you, lolgh, I will remember you!
I only played Metro 2033 (non-redux) is Exodus any good?
Exodus is very good, But Imo the atmosphere isn't as powerful as OG metro 2033 (long dark damp tunnels yk) :D
amazing job I am so surprised
Nice vid!
Big hello from slidan
proud of you my friend
Do what martincitopants did and upload it and have it unlisted n link it in the description of the h3vr video
The wha? 🤣😅 Would you kindly specify what point you're commenting on?
@@cantgameright th-cam.com/video/cKAyEV2HpgE/w-d-xo.html at 7:27 he has a seperate video in the description
@@gasmaskalan1771 oooohhh that's clever🥸
great film
I sugges reading "Flight MH17, Ukraine and the New Cold War", so you learn the actual facts instead of the propaganda.
bruh, Kees Van Der Pijl alleged that Israel was behind the September 11 2001 attacks. You call him a reliable source?
for me the caspian sea was a huge disconnect from the story as I failed to save Damir despite believing that I did good, I knocked out Saul only to never see him again and a huge breaking of immersion when I got ambushed in a bandit outpost that I just cleared and kept getting 1 shot by what sounded like a shotgun, while the guy was on the ground and I was peeking from 2 layers of cover in a tower. The frustration worsened when I opened up the wiki and saw that I lost moral points from killing BANDITS, not slaves (I'm still pissed about it, Damir was my favorite companion), I was supposed to sleep in this one (1) specific outpost to get ambushed by Saul to get an important part of the story that I completely missed. gameplaywise the level felt the weakest for me and I just don't have it in my to replay the whole chapter again strictly for Damir which is just more insult to injury
edit: I simply found Ana annoying but I could ignore her in Last Light while in Exodus she was at the center most of the time which detracted from my enjoyment, skill issue on my part
and now 4a is getting reviewbombed lmao
Thanks