No I won't translate anything I said in the video. It is all English, I swear. Should be another video this month, so long as no wee lads smack me out of commission. (EDIT: Uh, not working out actually. Something different coming in September)
I think the son of Pasty petes premium mixture ”pie mixture think food extender”is dating the daughter “Florence” of the tiny toms tiny pies. I think it's that mop guy who delivers pie filling Colin. Number2 theres 2 refernces to sex happening. The mechanic and fish and chip lady marge. It goes “ooh” said Marge. “All right Marge, that’s your pipes all cleaned up. And i fixed your fryer.” Said the mechanic. think After the third time you go down the chimney you end up in someones backyard. The gardener is trying to open a fertiliser bag then you get of a clothesline then you fall down. Then 2 old people do the sex.
@captainsargas1606To explain, Go Compare and Compare the Market are insurance companies. The latter has meerkat mascots because the early joke was the meerkat Alexei (who is always accompanied by his male aide) telling people to not get Compare the Market and Compare the Meerkat mixed up. They adopted a child at some point. You can get meerkat plushies. It's a successful campaign to say the least.
As someone who lives Up North (more specifically North West), just looking at the gameplay on the screen actually made me want to cry, it’s like they lifted my small town and all the people in it and plonked it into a game. Will defo be picking up!
@@caramelldansen2204 I mean, they are wacky but in that dry and/or cheeky way. To your credit though while the joke definitely is that they're British, the joke also definitely isn't about the lack of American cultural signifiers.
About halfway through the game, you can go back to nick's bricks and slap the wall again- causing it to crumble. Revealing a pissed off home-owner watching TV. Nick's been selling the poor bastard's wall XD So like I gentlemen. He changes the sign to reveal he's now selling the home-owner's belongings.
@@MsCholmondley-Warner Absolutely! I would say play it with a friend or an audience of some kind, I streamed it, it's a great little hang out game. It's basically an hour long cartoon.
That advert is the only one that came back and forth for many years and that was baffling. I have to admit i loved how low-budget and low effort it was. Just some twonk in a studio pushing over props.
I think that as fans of Powerpak, we should refer to ourselves as Batteries. It would be really funny to shout “I’m a Battery!” And pretend to hold up the battery of your choice
Getting jumpscared by the Go Compare guy took me back SO far, well over a decade. In return, allow me to remind you of someone you may have forgotten about, though odds are that he probably lives rent-free in your head too. That's right, I'm talking about Monkeh, from the PG Tips and ITV Digital adverts. Also, Cornish pasties are absolutely lovely. Same goes for clotted cream and fudge. Sorry if my inner Southerner is peeking out, but honestly Cornwall has a roomy place in my heart, and its cuisine will always have room in my belly.
As a southerner who went north, pie barms are amazing and you have to try them! Get a cheap meat and potato pie, put it in a cheap white bun (spread optional), consume.
There’s something very fun about extremely british humor despite my not getting all the references and in jokes. I get that cozy vibe even though I’ve never been out of the states
I'm from "dahn saath" and played the game with dialect language on and subtitles off for the most authentic experience. Loved every minute of it. I had to look up what a ginnel is, though.
Can you translate what the "A tha from Tarn" means? I'm woefully estranged from this language. I tried looking it up, does it refer to a specific location?
7:18 Back aisle? Pffft, you're missing out, mate; my (formerly) local Wilko (rest in peace; the shopping centre it was in is being turned into a pricey block of flats) had a JML display at the opposite end from the door, but pointing _outwards_ towards the checkouts! I didn't even need to go to the back of the shop to see their comical nightmare-products! Though I guess it might be a regional thing.
Time for the *Go Compare LORE:* -The original loud ads -The "Saving The Nation" arc, where different people physically abused and humiliated the Go Compare Man, to stop him from doing the singing -The "Redemption" arc, where Go Compare Man returned, but was more toned down (people accepted him in the ad)
Years of watching YTPs have allowed me to possibly translate that part near the beginning; so let me give it a shot- it basically comes down to them being able to hit a ball against a wall multiple times with their head until it pops! Which is pretty impressive!
I watched a friend play this game not too long ago, and I was struck by its utter Britishness. I like to think that I have a high tolerance for surreal weirdness, but this game left me speechless several times (and I mean that in a fun way). Had a lot of fun with this game!
seeing different places that speak english feel like that i find, places that speak other languages im like "oh thats just a different place and culture" but then places that speak english im like "oh thats just like here... except... what??"
I somehow understood references and jargon left and right in this game despite growing up a swedish boy whose closest brush with England was a week east of Paris. Chalk that up to being friendless af in the summers of my youth and that being a period where the only thing on swedish TV between 0900 and 1715 was Emmerdale reruns.
I was born and bred in Yorkshire, and I wish I had heard about this game sooner. It’s so nice to see an aggressively Northern English game, or just a British game in general. PS. Because I live up north I pronounce it as scone (rhyming with cone).
The way you delivered "Racist Lorry Driver" and just left it hanging there for half a beat almost tricking me into thinking you were going to say something else made me laugh. Very good video.
Being a resident of NZ, I strangely get everything? Also cool to see that they made a successor to The Good Time Garden with a similar style and all, that game is great.
I'm literally not even British and I remember JML ads from when I was at Grandma's when watching gameshows in the morning, it's like a weird fever dream crossover of cultures
I enjoyed the demo so much, i am really looking forward to the full game. It is a litrle sad that its so short, but tbh i think its the type of game that benefits from a shorter length for the sake of not over-staying its welcome.
I discovered this game through Jacksepticeye's playthrough (who remarked it as one of the funniest games he's ever played). It just appeared in my recommended a few days ago. It kind of reminds me of the game, Blazing Dragons featuring some of the Monty Python crew (and it reminds me of Monty Python humor in general). I'm an American who's never left the country, but I'm at least somewhat familiar with British humor. I love watching Aardman productions, and a fair amount of Content Creators I watch are from the UK. That being said, I'm sure a lot of the jokes went over my head.
As a brit, the one thing I'll argue is that British Towns can be *visually* colourful. The dour atmosphere of the British Isles is more metaphysical than electromagnetic.
Just got the Platinum the other day (missed a few secret trophies on my initial playthrough) and have to say this is easily the most genuinely funny, delightful and rewarding little gems I’ve played in a long time. From the “live action” opening credits to the final trophy I was totally captivated by this little oddity and, of course, the fact that it was so unapologetically British. It reminded me a great deal of the old comics I bought as a kid like The Beano, The Dandy and Whizzer and Chips with a side helping of Viz not to mention Monty Python, Reeves and Mortimer and other such British surrealism. Granted it doesn’t revolutionise gaming and is basically just an interactive comic book that’ll have you spamming the slap button and violently tracking everyone aand everything around you to see if anything happens or you can help someone in a no doubt weirdly convoluted and bizarre way … … highlights for me would be Rog’s forehead flashback, the ongoing gag about the neighbours and their bins and the frequent innuendos regarding plumbing, gardening and pretty much anything. There are a few oddly dark moments such as the “hidden” F.A.S.T spoof and the Lady Di commemorative plate but even those didn’t come across as distasteful as they were so brief, so eloquently British and followed by talking animals, romantically doomed flowers and jokes about poo, wee and sex. Overall it’s a gem I’d recommend to anyone who just wants a bloody good laugh, an undemanding few hours and an easy Platinum. So yeh, it is reyt gud!
Oh god, I didn't fully get the JML joke when playing this myself, but boy did I suddenly get a vague vision of stands in Wilkos (RIP) just now. I feel like they had some sort of fancy sandwich bag? (And a hair braider? Was the "magic sand" them, too?)
I don't know why my childhood consisted of watching British slapstick and snappy wit comedies here in Canada but it sure led me to adore this game too.
One of my favorite parts of this game is from the devs' own behind-the-scenes vid, where they were talking about working with Matt Berry - he asked what kind of voice they wanted, and they ended up doing impressions OF Matt Berry TO Matt Berry, so he ends up sounding like a characature of himself. 😂
Had a great time playing this game and getting all the achievements! I too wish it was longer and had a chapter select but honestly it was worth all ten bobs
Sorry to hear the month's not been great for you, man. Yet i'm glad TGYH (sounds like a "get hit" onomatopoeia from punching Hoodlums in Rayman 3) has been a comfortable bright spot. Wish you good luck and fun in future endeavors, not just with videos. In a similar way, your review of the game has felt the most comfortable and enjoyable out of all TGYH reviews of seen. It's very nice. On the note of God Hand... have you heard of Clash: Artifacts of Chaos? It's a Zeno Clash prequel from 2023 and its combat system may remind one of GH. It's not as complex or outright hard, but well worth a look. Has awesome world, characters, atmosphere and levity alike. - Combat customization works by selecting two Martial Arts Stances to switch between and assigning three Special Attacks. All Stances have to be found from combat challenges of a user of said stance, and have completely unique animation movesets. - For many enemies there's a unique Finisher animation after entering a first-person mode. Can range from goomba stomping a bird man to leg sweeping a fat guy followed up by a double haymaker into their spine. The wildlife isn't safe either. (and neither are you safe from the wildlife). - A fun thing: there's a central group of regularly recurring enemies, the Mercenaries. Hardly anyone really dies in the game-- when you see the British, milky pale-blue horrible naked cat/bat lady with three lower arms teamed up with the prehistoric rhino man some hour or so after first encountering her with an arrogant pudgy bird fellow, that's the same character. And at set points, you can overhear a Mercenary talking about why they do what they do or how they think. Gives some fun extra personality and humor. - Finally (for now) there's a mechanic called The Ritual, tied to the One Law of the land. It works by challenging a sapient opponent to a game of dice. You place down a little mate divided in four quadrants, choose a titular Consequence Artifact, you take turns rolling the dice and placing dice value modifiers, and the winner gets to spend their artifact to enforce said consequence. It can range from fog covering the arena, to having to drink a poison that periodically staggers you, to placing sticks as a fence and the first to get knocked out has to take a free hit with a club, or luring a prehistoric flying predator into the comabt area, to even making it so you can summon an opponent as an ally in a later fight. Can *very* warmly recommend it. For now, thank you for this video, wish you well and have a good one.
I'm buying this game for my normal semi-american mom who'd still have a blast with this even if she presses the wrong button and has no idea what any of the text says.
As a Canadian, I can personally vouch for something about this game that's relatable for reasons that have nothing whatsoever to do with England: Being an artist who likes to walk around and observe people, but who also has a touch of the old OCD, which tends to cause me to sort of slowly, unconsciously slip into a pattern of randomly touching stuff (in spite of how dirty most of it probably is) anytime I'm downtown or in some kind of very busy environment, just to....I guess discharge a bit of mental info overload? Never really understood it, tbh, I just kinda....do it. I'm also reminded of a lot of my dreams, especially ones I've had over the last few years, wherein I'm often forced to fight my way through some kind of chaotic maze just to get home or to wherever I'm going, and the only way I can get my frustrations out of my system is by asserting a certain kind of low-key physical aggression that doesn't involve actually hurting anyone but invariably draws some strange looks....
I'm not watching this till I finish the game, but I just started it and holy moly, I know this will be something special. As soon as I saw the videos and heard the dialogue I just knew this is gonna be amazing. The only negative reviews are people complaining about a bugged achievment.... Who tf cares about achievments? Wtf is wrong with those people? It would be like watching a movie, and then playing a game where you have to spot the items and check them off or something. Just watch the movie holy sh!t. The same people who made this game made "The Good Time Garden" which is free on steam, that looks amazing to. People also complained about the price of the game, 15 dollars isn't that much for what you're getting. You spend more than that going to see a movie, and this is longer than a movie. We need more games like this, some games give you 100s or 1000s of hours, and that's great, but this is a different type of experience. Quality over quantity. This is the type of game you wait till nighttime to play, turn off all the lights, fire up a doob, and just go on an adventure and forget the world for a few hours. Bravo Coal Supper, i'll be following this dev from now on, i'm excited to see what else they come up with.
As an American, I've become obsessed with the nuances of British dialect and culture, particularly "oop north" thanks to this game. It feels like for us, we tend to think of England exclusively as "London" (and also Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, if that). I think it's neat to learn about various aspects of the United Kingdom.
No I won't translate anything I said in the video. It is all English, I swear.
Should be another video this month, so long as no wee lads smack me out of commission. (EDIT: Uh, not working out actually. Something different coming in September)
You however SHOULD put fake closed captions in. (They can say whatever you want, it'd only add to the comedy.)
theres no need its all completely comprehenseble
I mean, if you just put out one community post saying "No upload this month due to smacky bum bums" I'd be understanding, no questions asked.
Not all of us speak English, some of us speak American.
This WAS a joke, I feel like I need to specify that :D
Yeah right, everyone knows British English isn't real english.
This game truly captures the spirit of England.
By presenting my proud and noble homeland as a bit of a shithole.
Oi, "shitehole" poor favreau.
so pretty accurate then :D
Yep
So accurate!
A bit? Nah mate. It's focking awful.
I like how everything being sold costs 10 bob
except the scam watches lol. the only thing not 10 bob is fake
Aye, it's been an hard year what with leccy bills and that.
@@deeznoots6241 i have realised i am a lying liar who lies. the watches are 10 bob, not 70 bob, it's just a fancy 1.
Ten bob? That's a bloody rip-off that is
@@j_fenrir70 bob?! I could get, like, 7 things for that price!!
ngl "closed due to smacky bum bum" mightve sold me
I think the son of Pasty petes premium mixture ”pie mixture think food extender”is dating the daughter “Florence” of the tiny toms tiny pies.
I think it's that mop guy who delivers pie filling Colin.
Number2 theres 2 refernces to sex happening. The mechanic and fish and chip lady marge.
It goes “ooh” said Marge.
“All right Marge, that’s your pipes all cleaned up. And i fixed your fryer.” Said the mechanic.
think After the third time you go down the chimney you end up in someones backyard. The gardener is trying to open a fertiliser bag then you get of a clothesline then you fall down. Then 2 old people do the sex.
Thank you Peter Griffin, very cool
what got me was the automatic doors constantly closing on the protag’s head as the blank little guy just Accepts it
I love the go compare man, I ship him as the third in the gay russian meerkats's marriage
To anyone not from the UK, this sentence must be a fucking roller coaster.
@captainsargas1606To explain, Go Compare and Compare the Market are insurance companies. The latter has meerkat mascots because the early joke was the meerkat Alexei (who is always accompanied by his male aide) telling people to not get Compare the Market and Compare the Meerkat mixed up. They adopted a child at some point. You can get meerkat plushies. It's a successful campaign to say the least.
Insurance in the UK has gotten to be in a strange place the last decade.@captainsargas1606
@@benanderson89Should we tell the non-Brit about the Meerkat GoCompare lore?
Im just glad that im not the only one who knows the meerkats are gay!
Like come on!!!! Also Sergi is definitely a bottom.
"peans. not quite peas. not quite beans."
my god. as a horrified dutchman i don't want to know if this is real
dont worry we arent that bad (unless...)
"peans. not quite peas. not quite beans. but somethin' special in-betweens"
They're both legumes anyway
Consider it one of the deservingly-forgotten engineering projects of yesteryear
Pease pudding
As someone who lives Up North (more specifically North West), just looking at the gameplay on the screen actually made me want to cry, it’s like they lifted my small town and all the people in it and plonked it into a game. Will defo be picking up!
Honestly I have to agree I see so many of the characters in this game that resembles so many people who come into the club where I work
It's made me a little homesick for The North tbh
Souf Yorkshur ere
british representation without the "le funni not-americans, aren't they wacky?" poisoning that ruins 99% of brit representation in media
@@caramelldansen2204
I mean, they are wacky but in that dry and/or cheeky way. To your credit though while the joke definitely is that they're British, the joke also definitely isn't about the lack of American cultural signifiers.
"this is an incredibly British review..."
My binging of Taskmaster, Peep Show, and 8 out of 10 cats countdown have trained me for this
I watched all of Primeval, I think I'm ready.
Watch would I lie to you. The best
@@mattd8427 Bob Mortimer has made me question certain aspects of life lol
@@RJPsabong Rosalind is a fucking nightmare
They trained you for the South. Buckle up, cocker... Tha's in fer a reyt shek up.
“Nicks bricks” I just got the joke, he’s nicked them hasn’t he? Lol
About halfway through the game, you can go back to nick's bricks and slap the wall again- causing it to crumble. Revealing a pissed off home-owner watching TV. Nick's been selling the poor bastard's wall XD
So like I gentlemen. He changes the sign to reveal he's now selling the home-owner's belongings.
Britain, eh? I don't know anything about that.
"They even got Matt Berry"
Well, looks like I'm playing this game.
Did yoy enjoy it?
@@MsCholmondley-Warner Absolutely! I would say play it with a friend or an audience of some kind, I streamed it, it's a great little hang out game. It's basically an hour long cartoon.
As a fellow Midlander all I can say is thank goodness your here!
Your country is basically the birthplace of the english language, yet you STILL say "your" instead of "you're"?
@@jesuiscrespo dont be a bellend, mate
My favorite part is when the shopgirl and the nerd fall in love, and won't stop talking about it in front of you, so you walk into the oven.
As an Australian, I can translate some of this.
as a fellow australian, this is also simultaneously illegible
As a kiwi I can translate slightly more English
thats me too! ive noticed being australian is like being half british one quarter american and one quarter some secret third thing
@@bingusbongus9807 The secret third thing might be Australian
@@zeldaenby224 pure australian condensed down with its british and american-ness removed
As a Yorkshireman, this is the most comfy Power Pak video to date, and that's saying sommat
I've been to England once, and it's exactly like this
Raise the gamma on your display.
Fish and chips and slaps
Between this and Fallout London, it is a good time for British gaming
I hated that window advert growing up.
Thank goodness it isn’t about anymore.
That advert is the only one that came back and forth for many years and that was baffling. I have to admit i loved how low-budget and low effort it was. Just some twonk in a studio pushing over props.
But you gotta admit - that phone number is still in your head all those years later right?
I loved it
what do safestyle windows and doors have in common with a thai bride? you buy one you get one free
I love the autosave icon, the old British "Comercial break" thingy in the upper right corner.
That made me smile so hard!
I think that as fans of Powerpak, we should refer to ourselves as Batteries. It would be really funny to shout “I’m a Battery!” And pretend to hold up the battery of your choice
Blammer by lazerdim
I actually have an Anker power-bank on my little table-stool. That's my main battery.
BASED😂❤
Obligatory "Oh my puck cell"
IM A BATTERY
I had some kind of instant response to seeing the go compare man appear. I've never muted my audio so quickly
Getting jumpscared by the Go Compare guy took me back SO far, well over a decade.
In return, allow me to remind you of someone you may have forgotten about, though odds are that he probably lives rent-free in your head too. That's right, I'm talking about Monkeh, from the PG Tips and ITV Digital adverts.
Also, Cornish pasties are absolutely lovely. Same goes for clotted cream and fudge. Sorry if my inner Southerner is peeking out, but honestly Cornwall has a roomy place in my heart, and its cuisine will always have room in my belly.
As a southerner who went north, pie barms are amazing and you have to try them! Get a cheap meat and potato pie, put it in a cheap white bun (spread optional), consume.
As soon I read Monkeh in my head there, I instantly heard it in Johnny Vegas's voice
@@Ajax8237 I still remember "The Return", where Monkeh and Al reunited after the ITV Digital debacle. What a way to bring Monkeh back...
6:58 as someone from Ireland, I cried when I heard go compare, hearing that man brought back memories
Edit: not good ones
paused the video before the idiot started up
dont worry, edit wasnt necessary, we _knew_
@@j_fenrir just wanted to make sure, ye know
There’s something very fun about extremely british humor despite my not getting all the references and in jokes. I get that cozy vibe even though I’ve never been out of the states
Holy crap, as an American, I thought I got 60% of the jokes. Seeing the JML ads, I realize it's more like 30%!
I'm from "dahn saath" and played the game with dialect language on and subtitles off for the most authentic experience. Loved every minute of it.
I had to look up what a ginnel is, though.
Can you translate what the "A tha from Tarn" means? I'm woefully estranged from this language. I tried looking it up, does it refer to a specific location?
@@cerberusmutt4252 "Are you from town?" - basically enquiring if you're local
When I saw the “closed due to smacky bum bum” sign on my play through I actually managed to laugh hard enough to hurt myself.
7:18 Back aisle? Pffft, you're missing out, mate; my (formerly) local Wilko (rest in peace; the shopping centre it was in is being turned into a pricey block of flats) had a JML display at the opposite end from the door, but pointing _outwards_ towards the checkouts! I didn't even need to go to the back of the shop to see their comical nightmare-products! Though I guess it might be a regional thing.
i miss wilko too. 😢
Good news! They got rescued from bankruptcy and some are reopening!
Time for the *Go Compare LORE:*
-The original loud ads
-The "Saving The Nation" arc, where different people physically abused and humiliated the Go Compare Man, to stop him from doing the singing
-The "Redemption" arc, where Go Compare Man returned, but was more toned down (people accepted him in the ad)
Years of watching YTPs have allowed me to possibly translate that part near the beginning; so let me give it a shot- it basically comes down to them being able to hit a ball against a wall multiple times with their head until it pops! Which is pretty impressive!
This is enough to convince me.
I'm a huge Black Adder and the Young Ones fan, and this seems right up my alley!
Keep up the great videos!
Staffordshire, I should have known. Hardly any squirrels on the Chase these days. No idea why.
It’s cause the grey shot all the reds.
I watched a friend play this game not too long ago, and I was struck by its utter Britishness. I like to think that I have a high tolerance for surreal weirdness, but this game left me speechless several times (and I mean that in a fun way). Had a lot of fun with this game!
This feels like a video from another dimension
Interdimensional Cable, perhaps?
yes yes that is what we brits have intended
seeing different places that speak english feel like that i find, places that speak other languages im like "oh thats just a different place and culture" but then places that speak english im like "oh thats just like here... except... what??"
I somehow understood references and jargon left and right in this game despite growing up a swedish boy whose closest brush with England was a week east of Paris. Chalk that up to being friendless af in the summers of my youth and that being a period where the only thing on swedish TV between 0900 and 1715 was Emmerdale reruns.
Oraight Duck, 1:05, fellow child of the Six Towns are we?
I flipped a shit when I heard matt berry’s voice
Oh, i hear this every day at my incredibly high-turnover job. Thank goodness you're here!
I've never brittish'd a comedy ever.
Yet I saw like a good third of the things coming and it was absolutely hilarious the whole time.
3:21 okay you convinced me to buy this game
I was born and bred in Yorkshire, and I wish I had heard about this game sooner. It’s so nice to see an aggressively Northern English game, or just a British game in general.
PS. Because I live up north I pronounce it as scone (rhyming with cone).
I HAVE NOT THOUGHT ABOUT WONGA IN FUCKING YEARS BIG UP LAD
The gardener is Matt Berry THE GARDENER IS MATT BERRY
I can finally understand why David Bowie famously sang "I'm Afraid Of Americans".
i'd forgotten the buy-one-get-one-free advert. thanks for reminding me. i'll never forget again
The way you delivered "Racist Lorry Driver" and just left it hanging there for half a beat almost tricking me into thinking you were going to say something else made me laugh. Very good video.
Unless you're from Liverpool or Cockney rhyming, I'm sure we'll pick up what you're putting down just fine.
Being a resident of NZ, I strangely get everything? Also cool to see that they made a successor to The Good Time Garden with a similar style and all, that game is great.
I'm literally not even British and I remember JML ads from when I was at Grandma's when watching gameshows in the morning, it's like a weird fever dream crossover of cultures
I enjoyed the demo so much, i am really looking forward to the full game. It is a litrle sad that its so short, but tbh i think its the type of game that benefits from a shorter length for the sake of not over-staying its welcome.
You are one of my favorite creators right now please keep going, also don't take this in a weird way but your voice is amazing omggg
Oh I loved your review, thank you. Had to lough out loud a couple of times and purchased the game 🙂
I discovered this game through Jacksepticeye's playthrough (who remarked it as one of the funniest games he's ever played). It just appeared in my recommended a few days ago. It kind of reminds me of the game, Blazing Dragons featuring some of the Monty Python crew (and it reminds me of Monty Python humor in general).
I'm an American who's never left the country, but I'm at least somewhat familiar with British humor. I love watching Aardman productions, and a fair amount of Content Creators I watch are from the UK.
That being said, I'm sure a lot of the jokes went over my head.
3:47 Is that a prima sausage roll
As a brit, the one thing I'll argue is that British Towns can be *visually* colourful. The dour atmosphere of the British Isles is more metaphysical than electromagnetic.
I found myself with a growing yearning for pudding after watching this video
This video was incredible I watched it already very nice.
YORKSHIRE MENTIONED!!!!!11!!!1!!!!!
I love your game reviews they are really detailed and entertaining. So i craved for more. So Thank Goodness You're Here!
Just got the Platinum the other day (missed a few secret trophies on my initial playthrough) and have to say this is easily the most genuinely funny, delightful and rewarding little gems I’ve played in a long time. From the “live action” opening credits to the final trophy I was totally captivated by this little oddity and, of course, the fact that it was so unapologetically British. It reminded me a great deal of the old comics I bought as a kid like The Beano, The Dandy and Whizzer and Chips with a side helping of Viz not to mention Monty Python, Reeves and Mortimer and other such British surrealism.
Granted it doesn’t revolutionise gaming and is basically just an interactive comic book that’ll have you spamming the slap button and violently tracking everyone aand everything around you to see if anything happens or you can help someone in a no doubt weirdly convoluted and bizarre way …
… highlights for me would be Rog’s forehead flashback, the ongoing gag about the neighbours and their bins and the frequent innuendos regarding plumbing, gardening and pretty much anything. There are a few oddly dark moments such as the “hidden” F.A.S.T spoof and the Lady Di commemorative plate but even those didn’t come across as distasteful as they were so brief, so eloquently British and followed by talking animals, romantically doomed flowers and jokes about poo, wee and sex.
Overall it’s a gem I’d recommend to anyone who just wants a bloody good laugh, an undemanding few hours and an easy Platinum. So yeh, it is reyt gud!
First time my notifications have been instant, rather than a few days late XD
Loved this game so much. Also good to know that cheesy local commercials are universal.
When you're from Australia and you understand everything there saying while laughing your head off
I KNEW IT! I doubted it was Matt Berry at first. But now I knew it was his voice.
Thank goodness you’re here… I was looking for a British review
hearing you mention oatcakes healed me love from a staffordshire-ian
Thank goodness I'm here!
Oh god, I didn't fully get the JML joke when playing this myself, but boy did I suddenly get a vague vision of stands in Wilkos (RIP) just now. I feel like they had some sort of fancy sandwich bag? (And a hair braider? Was the "magic sand" them, too?)
This was a delightful review.
I don't know why my childhood consisted of watching British slapstick and snappy wit comedies here in Canada but it sure led me to adore this game too.
This review is almost as entertaining as the game it’s reviewing. Damn near close, even!
One of my favorite parts of this game is from the devs' own behind-the-scenes vid, where they were talking about working with Matt Berry - he asked what kind of voice they wanted, and they ended up doing impressions OF Matt Berry TO Matt Berry, so he ends up sounding like a characature of himself. 😂
This whole game felt like an interactive Monty Python episode, and i loved every second of it
"Colin, you're the most workshy fop I've ever had the misfortune to employ" Is my favourite quote. What's everyone's elses?
“You’re a right bitch, Kerrie!” -Florence
I am solely American and this entire thing was incomprehensible. Great video, thank you!
Added to my wishlist. This looks awesome.
I suddenly have an overwhelming need to watch The Fast Show.
Great review, mate. 'Ave'a banana.
"The length is something to keep in mind" said the Bishop to the actress.
The pasty slapped over the South West got me, also forgotten as London continue to eat 'The South'
Been to Central England twice, Wales once. I loved playing this.
Had a great time playing this game and getting all the achievements! I too wish it was longer and had a chapter select but honestly it was worth all ten bobs
Sorry to hear the month's not been great for you, man. Yet i'm glad TGYH (sounds like a "get hit" onomatopoeia from punching Hoodlums in Rayman 3) has been a comfortable bright spot. Wish you good luck and fun in future endeavors, not just with videos.
In a similar way, your review of the game has felt the most comfortable and enjoyable out of all TGYH reviews of seen. It's very nice.
On the note of God Hand... have you heard of Clash: Artifacts of Chaos? It's a Zeno Clash prequel from 2023 and its combat system may remind one of GH.
It's not as complex or outright hard, but well worth a look. Has awesome world, characters, atmosphere and levity alike.
- Combat customization works by selecting two Martial Arts Stances to switch between and assigning three Special Attacks. All Stances have to be found from combat challenges of a user of said stance, and have completely unique animation movesets.
- For many enemies there's a unique Finisher animation after entering a first-person mode. Can range from goomba stomping a bird man to leg sweeping a fat guy followed up by a double haymaker into their spine. The wildlife isn't safe either. (and neither are you safe from the wildlife).
- A fun thing: there's a central group of regularly recurring enemies, the Mercenaries. Hardly anyone really dies in the game-- when you see the British, milky pale-blue horrible naked cat/bat lady with three lower arms teamed up with the prehistoric rhino man some hour or so after first encountering her with an arrogant pudgy bird fellow, that's the same character.
And at set points, you can overhear a Mercenary talking about why they do what they do or how they think. Gives some fun extra personality and humor.
- Finally (for now) there's a mechanic called The Ritual, tied to the One Law of the land.
It works by challenging a sapient opponent to a game of dice. You place down a little mate divided in four quadrants, choose a titular Consequence Artifact, you take turns rolling the dice and placing dice value modifiers, and the winner gets to spend their artifact to enforce said consequence.
It can range from fog covering the arena, to having to drink a poison that periodically staggers you, to placing sticks as a fence and the first to get knocked out has to take a free hit with a club, or luring a prehistoric flying predator into the comabt area, to even making it so you can summon an opponent as an ally in a later fight.
Can *very* warmly recommend it.
For now, thank you for this video, wish you well and have a good one.
I feel horrible stopping a video halfway through, but I need to get on this asap
I'm buying this game for my normal semi-american mom who'd still have a blast with this even if she presses the wrong button and has no idea what any of the text says.
I ain't understanding half of it. But i love it
As a Canadian, I can personally vouch for something about this game that's relatable for reasons that have nothing whatsoever to do with England: Being an artist who likes to walk around and observe people, but who also has a touch of the old OCD, which tends to cause me to sort of slowly, unconsciously slip into a pattern of randomly touching stuff (in spite of how dirty most of it probably is) anytime I'm downtown or in some kind of very busy environment, just to....I guess discharge a bit of mental info overload? Never really understood it, tbh, I just kinda....do it. I'm also reminded of a lot of my dreams, especially ones I've had over the last few years, wherein I'm often forced to fight my way through some kind of chaotic maze just to get home or to wherever I'm going, and the only way I can get my frustrations out of my system is by asserting a certain kind of low-key physical aggression that doesn't involve actually hurting anyone but invariably draws some strange looks....
the amount of localizations in the end credits was staggering, can you imagine having to adapt this to even one other language????
I'm not watching this till I finish the game, but I just started it and holy moly, I know this will be something special. As soon as I saw the videos and heard the dialogue I just knew this is gonna be amazing. The only negative reviews are people complaining about a bugged achievment.... Who tf cares about achievments? Wtf is wrong with those people? It would be like watching a movie, and then playing a game where you have to spot the items and check them off or something. Just watch the movie holy sh!t.
The same people who made this game made "The Good Time Garden" which is free on steam, that looks amazing to. People also complained about the price of the game, 15 dollars isn't that much for what you're getting. You spend more than that going to see a movie, and this is longer than a movie. We need more games like this, some games give you 100s or 1000s of hours, and that's great, but this is a different type of experience. Quality over quantity. This is the type of game you wait till nighttime to play, turn off all the lights, fire up a doob, and just go on an adventure and forget the world for a few hours. Bravo Coal Supper, i'll be following this dev from now on, i'm excited to see what else they come up with.
As an American, I've become obsessed with the nuances of British dialect and culture, particularly "oop north" thanks to this game. It feels like for us, we tend to think of England exclusively as "London" (and also Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, if that). I think it's neat to learn about various aspects of the United Kingdom.
This review is as charming as this game looks
One of my new favorite channels, for sure. 😄
Okay, got it, so as someone who grew up with the Czech Dub of Red Dwarf I will get a giggle from this little gem.
0:48 as someone from missouri, I know your pain
@5:20 That must be why I loved this game so much 😅
Thank goodness your hear
Have you played Landlord's Super? That is also incredibly British
We ain’t makin it outa the dentist office wit this one 🗣️👏
7:30, I know because I own one. It sprays a fluid to clean microwaves you put it in.
Loved playing this. Rick and Morty and Vic and Bob
Hitting them with the midlander accent within the first two minutes!! Oh my god, I’m not done with the vid and I know I’m gonna die of laughter.
I literally was playing this game earlier and got this video reccomended, I think this is a sign for me to play it more