@19:53 Dan being cutely jumping up and down happily but quietly exclaiming "i win!" like it was an arcade fighting game makes me the viewer very happy.
The opening mentioned flashing lights so if anyone needs a little bit of help coping with that because while it may not be dangerous to them, they're still sensitive to it, highly recommend watching in a well lit area with either a blue filter on or your piece of tech's night mode on! Stay safe and treat your eyes well y'all!!! 🌻🌻
thank you so much for doing a let's play of this game! (it means we can just sit back and be confused by the trippy visuals without having to worry about dodging projectiles on the half of the screen not completely occupied by said trippy visuals)
This game seems like a weird mix of Undertale and Just Shapes and Beats, so I can see why it’s right up your alley, Dan. I’m looking forward to the rest of the playthrough, and I haven’t even finished the video yet!
I don't think I'd ever hear of a game having "strong Undertale vibes". This might be interesting... Edit: so the menu font is identical to Undertale’s menu font. That’s something. Also we play as a Geno lookalike, that is also a doll just like Geno. ...I don’t think I’ve ever seen a game try to assert dominance over the player as fast as this one.
Cool, yet another series on this channel that I'm pausing, picking up immediately, and will be back after finishing. Thanks for another fantastic recommendation!
I've watched people play this game and I know what's coming. So I can very confidently say I have exactly zero idea what's coming but it will be a trip.
Games like this hit my "difficulty descriptions" trigger. Assuming I had played rhythm games, I'd be very mad about now. I'm not "new to games", I've been playing for over 20yrs, but I could not deal with what Dan managed to. Also, the shift from "oh hey, you get regen" to "you will die". Pet peeves, but after Fallen Order, I've become more... irritable over them.
I just love how everytime Dan seems to start getting confident so far, the game just shows how wrong he was ^_^ Could be interesting to see how he would fair on a higher difficulty once he completed the game though.
PHOTOSENSITIVE/FLASH WARNING! I’m not sure what the settings change but here’s what I saw if you aren’t sure about watching this play through: -Optical illusions/tricks -Big flashes, not rapid -Rhythm section is guitar hero-esque with neon bars moving across the screen -Character will flash (old school arcade style) when injured -Text and screen occasionally shake -Lots of neon, including a neon changing dance floor -Screen rotates/swings Please correct me/add anything I missed!
Oh man, I knew this one was gonna be weird, but I didnt realise it came out swinging like this before the first HOUR. Might have to pick it up myself...
For some reason, I thought that Dan had already played this. Knowing this is all new to him now, it's going to be a fun ride. Just roll with the weirdness and you'll be okay
So glad you picked this up, I saw it a few months back and tried it. But when I got totally stomped by the zombie even on the easiest difficulty, I realized I just don’t have the right skill set for this game.
Having finally got around to watching a new series of yours..... this game's gameplay screams DDR + REZ/Child of EDEN with the story of Undertale. Can't wait to see what unfolds.
and to think he had image sensitivity ON the section in between 30:00 and 30:12 is normally much, MUCH, worse if you look literally anyone else's let's play, you'll see what I mean as someone whos seen it many times, it's so weird seeing it in 720p at 60fps
32:00 As far as I know those two are the devs' self insert characters Also interesting that gnomes get to cheat in a game by a studio called Foreign Gnomes
This is going to be the second playthrough of this I've seen. The first (Desert Pogona) had the accessibility feature turned off, so if you're curious what that's like... well, so far there's barely any difference and also the biggest difference I spotted just wrecked his bitrate so I couldn't see what was happening. 😐 Speaking as someone who remembers the wave of weird RPGs and pseudo-RPGs that came out in the years leading up to Undertale, this just kind of feels a little like all of them to me (aside from the main gimmick of having "fights" you can't fight back in with real-time dodging... and one other thing that I won't spoil, but even that reminded me of OFF as much as Undertale). In particular, the talking save points and "schmucks" as currency reminded me of Barkley: Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, which might be worth checking out if you either really liked or really hated the Space Jam sequel that came out recently.
The difficulty descriptors mostly mentioned that the speed of HP regeneration is what changed, at least in the ones that described anything explicitly, so I’m curious if that’s the only change in all 5 difficulties. Is the hardest difficulty zero regen, versus near infinite regen in the easiest difficulty, or do the patterns actually change? I’m also very curious over the choice of the death sequence being such a difficult challenge that you are apparently granted a skip over whatever battle killed you. And what happens if you, quite understandably, fail. And why it resembles, say, an end game boss rush? Also curious about the absolute truths, and how key they may or may not be to gameplay. And whether or not the easier difficulties make it near impossible to experience this early(?) death experience and how that affects the game/story... Basically, I’m saying that there’s a ton of questions and weirdness going on here, and in part I’m mostly curious if there will be answers at all or not, partly because there’s a chance that a single play through won’t answer any of them, considering some of the other comments vaguely suggesting that individual play throughs of the game are fairly unique. Looking forward to seeing more of this audio-visual craziness!
I am so grateful you make such an effort to warn and minimise sensitivity issues. It still appears to be too much for me, though, so I hope setting it to play w/o sound still counts as me watching all the way through.
Everhood was most certainly an interesting game. Not super popular, but has been making its rounds across Twitch streamers of the variety game type. I personally don't really see the Undertale in it though, maybe in its writing? But I do see Spin Rhythm vibes in its gameplay. I think, difficulty-wise, Everhood on Normal will grow in between Undertale's Mettaton fight to the first Genocide boss.
From what I notice this game seems to not be as hard as you originally say as it does a really good job of feeling overwhelming but in reality it gives new players all the tools and help they need to succeed it just feels like that is not true by creating a very controlled chaos for the player to face. At least this is what I have noticed with the normal difficulty. That hp gauge seems to be a big part of this. So even though it often feels hard you have only really died a couple of times. This game seems to do difficulty really well imo.
So... I spoiled myself watching a random all-songs-expert-no-hit video, and it doesn't appear the "battles" are any harder than Normal, so I would speculate that it's just degrees of health regen speed and quantity at least between Normal and Expert. I can also, without spoiling anything, tell you that things will get MUCH harder if my speculation is correct...
I'm not as much into rhythm games as dan but I've noticed a big difference from most rhythm games. be it guitar hero or melody of memory, the music is timed with the items hitting you, instead here it's synced with when they spawn and you react to it. to be honest i like the former most, it lets you play actually in rhythm and use it as guide, instead of a syncopated version of it
Hm. Dude weathered the Gnomes pretty well. I'm looking forward to seeing how you react to the rest. We're just getting warmed up. (Place your bets for purple, everyone! My money's on just about a dozen hits, total) (Remember, no spoilers!)
The true bet will be... SPOILERS AHEAD DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU DON'T WANT ANY SPOILERS. (YOU'VE BEEN WARNED). What will Dan choose to do on the seccond half... last thirdish of the game. People in the know, will understand what I mean. My bet is on him making a character very epicly angry
i generally watch someone play 30 mins of a game before i decide to buy, and this was a wild 30 mins. i cant imagine a less accessible mode, though, lol??
for the record ive never seen or heard of this game but i feel like 1 of 2 things are the case 1. the incinerator just doesn't end and it's a scripted thing you have to die to 2. if you last long enough in the incinerator you get a special scene or something (this is entirely a guess don't tell me if im right or not)
Yeah this game is something... My main problem with it is that it's story tries to be grand emotional and everything, but kind of ends up being pretty substanceless and the characters don't really do much for the whole game. Still definitely fun to play though. The main battle system is really cool. The accessibility mode makes them look less cool though since it basically removes all background effect. This game can go hard on flashing stuff
I haven't played the game or seen a playthrough, but from what I've seen in this video it seems like the game is trying too hard to be weird and creepy, I don't know feels like the devs wanted to specifically make a better undertale or tried to
@19:53 Dan being cutely jumping up and down happily but quietly exclaiming "i win!" like it was an arcade fighting game makes me the viewer very happy.
The second I saw Secret Sleepover Society playing this I knew this would appear on this channel. Excited for what you make of it.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who saw this from the same people!
I've been loving watching Jacob and Julia play it! With Miss Olive and Miss Joy of course
Yes! I know them from drawfee though I don’t really watch SSS channel.
I've always thought there would be some fun crossover potential between Playframe and Drawfee. Two great tastes that taste great together?
Can you imagine Dan being a drawfee guest and doing a 3 frame animation? Though I think he deals in 3d animation... It would still be awesome!
The opening mentioned flashing lights so if anyone needs a little bit of help coping with that because while it may not be dangerous to them, they're still sensitive to it, highly recommend watching in a well lit area with either a blue filter on or your piece of tech's night mode on! Stay safe and treat your eyes well y'all!!! 🌻🌻
That “oooookay” at 2:17 was such a strong start
21:00 Looks like there more Undertale in this game than it initially looked like
thank you so much for doing a let's play of this game!
(it means we can just sit back and be confused by the trippy visuals without having to worry about dodging projectiles on the half of the screen not completely occupied by said trippy visuals)
This game seems like a weird mix of Undertale and Just Shapes and Beats, so I can see why it’s right up your alley, Dan. I’m looking forward to the rest of the playthrough, and I haven’t even finished the video yet!
9:27 You saw that Flowey face on the ATM, Dan.
the animation on the enemies during combat is quite nice
I don't think I'd ever hear of a game having "strong Undertale vibes".
This might be interesting...
Edit: so the menu font is identical to Undertale’s menu font. That’s something.
Also we play as a Geno lookalike, that is also a doll just like Geno.
...I don’t think I’ve ever seen a game try to assert dominance over the player as fast as this one.
Thank you so much for reading all of the dialogue. It really helps since I can't see the game.
Cool, yet another series on this channel that I'm pausing, picking up immediately, and will be back after finishing. Thanks for another fantastic recommendation!
I've watched people play this game and I know what's coming.
So I can very confidently say I have exactly zero idea what's coming but it will be a trip.
Oh, hey, look, it's W.D.Gaster!
Dan surviving what was obviously the game trying to kill him was such a power move
you have to beat the gnome fight actually! i love how things get so insane but it makes sense for a death hallucination lol
This is gonna be the second time this channel convinces me to buy a rhythym game isn't it
ok I'm in love with the idea that the save point talk to you I will be adding this to my games whenever it fits the theme from now on
This is going to be a trip and a half isn't it? I can't wait!
Dude this game is *triiiiippppyyy*
Huh, I would not have thought psychedelia and guitar hero would work so well together.
Geno went on an undertale trip and met Gaster. Interesting :)
Games like this hit my "difficulty descriptions" trigger.
Assuming I had played rhythm games, I'd be very mad about now. I'm not "new to games", I've been playing for over 20yrs, but I could not deal with what Dan managed to. Also, the shift from "oh hey, you get regen" to "you will die". Pet peeves, but after Fallen Order, I've become more... irritable over them.
I just love how everytime Dan seems to start getting confident so far, the game just shows how wrong he was ^_^
Could be interesting to see how he would fair on a higher difficulty once he completed the game though.
Higher difficulties aren't that different. You just have less health and regen is slower, nothing more.
I don’t know why but this kind of gives me just shapes and beats vibes…
… AND I AM HERE FOR IT!!!!
I love that the ATM was just Flowey in a machine
Mysterious Gaster cameo
PHOTOSENSITIVE/FLASH WARNING!
I’m not sure what the settings change but here’s what I saw if you aren’t sure about watching this play through:
-Optical illusions/tricks
-Big flashes, not rapid
-Rhythm section is guitar hero-esque with neon bars moving across the screen
-Character will flash (old school arcade style) when injured
-Text and screen occasionally shake
-Lots of neon, including a neon changing dance floor
-Screen rotates/swings
Please correct me/add anything I missed!
Thank you, that was very helpful
@@Inlelendri you’re welcome!!
Oh man, I knew this one was gonna be weird, but I didnt realise it came out swinging like this before the first HOUR. Might have to pick it up myself...
that last room had yume nikki written all over it. wouldn't surprise me if that's an inspiration for this game too
Well, a game dev somewhere really liked the Muffet fight in Undertale.
Oh God you're playing THIS game?
... Well, hold on tight, this is gonna be a ride.
I remember I watched one specific part, and always said I'd get back to it.... now I can watch it here, all the better.
21:09.
What is Ghaster doing in Everhood!?
26:13 me: oh look pyreflies, we must be in Spira
Or a ps2 start screen I suppose as well
White Face gives you a magic 8-ball. There's definitely no undertale/homestuck here.
Oh man, another amazing game making me stop a PlayFrame playthrough in it's infancy because I gotta try this one myself. One day I'll be back!
For some reason, I thought that Dan had already played this. Knowing this is all new to him now, it's going to be a fun ride. Just roll with the weirdness and you'll be okay
This game looks like Undertale and Guitar Hero had a baby
*_WELL HELLO AND WELCOME BACK ME TO WATCHING THIS GLORIOUS AMAZING PERSON NAMED DAN PLAY VIDEO GAMES!_*
Well, my brain is thoroughly melted. So thanks for that.
So glad you picked this up, I saw it a few months back and tried it. But when I got totally stomped by the zombie even on the easiest difficulty, I realized I just don’t have the right skill set for this game.
Having finally got around to watching a new series of yours..... this game's gameplay screams DDR + REZ/Child of EDEN with the story of Undertale. Can't wait to see what unfolds.
i am playing this game as soon as i can, this first half hour sold me pretty hard
That was trippy to the level of making me anxious, and I'm not the one playing!
and to think he had image sensitivity ON
the section in between 30:00 and 30:12 is normally much, MUCH, worse
if you look literally anyone else's let's play, you'll see what I mean
as someone whos seen it many times, it's so weird seeing it in 720p at 60fps
@@ethanfrewing8136 Well, literally anyone else who didn't just have their bitrate ruined by it, which is what happened to DesertP.
it was supposed to be way more static-y if he didn't have image sensitivity on
really loved this!!! will love to keep seeing! thank you!
This is not really the playthrough to watch at 1.5x, but here I am anyways
The art in this game is awesome! Definitely might have to pick this up after watching this mind trip haha
8 minutes in. I can't watch anymore. I HAVE to play this for myself. See you when I finish!
I am digging the music. I'm going to have to look into this.
Dan: What's happening???
Me: That's a fantastic question! 😀
Dan: I'm scared...
Me: You should be! 😊
Oh wow, that was so much fun! I am really interested to see where this goes...
32:00 As far as I know those two are the devs' self insert characters
Also interesting that gnomes get to cheat in a game by a studio called Foreign Gnomes
So frigging rad. I love this already.
woooow i wonder if an acid trip looks anything like this. I bet it does.
Thank you for deciding to play this :)
30:18 I think maybe someone drugged me.
This is going to be the second playthrough of this I've seen. The first (Desert Pogona) had the accessibility feature turned off, so if you're curious what that's like... well, so far there's barely any difference and also the biggest difference I spotted just wrecked his bitrate so I couldn't see what was happening. 😐 Speaking as someone who remembers the wave of weird RPGs and pseudo-RPGs that came out in the years leading up to Undertale, this just kind of feels a little like all of them to me (aside from the main gimmick of having "fights" you can't fight back in with real-time dodging... and one other thing that I won't spoil, but even that reminded me of OFF as much as Undertale). In particular, the talking save points and "schmucks" as currency reminded me of Barkley: Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, which might be worth checking out if you either really liked or really hated the Space Jam sequel that came out recently.
8:18. So is the dwarf's name Slot? Since he's a one-arm bandit? :)
It's Guitar Hero crossed with *that* scene from Bambi.
I just realized the opening to this game reminds me a ton of Knuckles stealing the chaos emeralds from Sonic at the beginning of sonic 2 I believe?
The difficulty descriptors mostly mentioned that the speed of HP regeneration is what changed, at least in the ones that described anything explicitly, so I’m curious if that’s the only change in all 5 difficulties. Is the hardest difficulty zero regen, versus near infinite regen in the easiest difficulty, or do the patterns actually change?
I’m also very curious over the choice of the death sequence being such a difficult challenge that you are apparently granted a skip over whatever battle killed you. And what happens if you, quite understandably, fail. And why it resembles, say, an end game boss rush? Also curious about the absolute truths, and how key they may or may not be to gameplay. And whether or not the easier difficulties make it near impossible to experience this early(?) death experience and how that affects the game/story...
Basically, I’m saying that there’s a ton of questions and weirdness going on here, and in part I’m mostly curious if there will be answers at all or not, partly because there’s a chance that a single play through won’t answer any of them, considering some of the other comments vaguely suggesting that individual play throughs of the game are fairly unique.
Looking forward to seeing more of this audio-visual craziness!
You probably already know this since I’m a year late but there are actually 6 difficulties insane difficulty being that you only have 1 hp
I am so grateful you make such an effort to warn and minimise sensitivity issues. It still appears to be too much for me, though, so I hope setting it to play w/o sound still counts as me watching all the way through.
29:16 This is your game on Acid.
This game sort of reminds me of OFF with the pixel art and music and general sense of foreboding... i love it!
my headphones got a little messed up & i thought there was no commentary for a solid 4 minutes. i was confused because i could still hear the music
jesus fuck what did I just watch!? I don't even know what was going on, I just know that it felt like I took acid for a couple minutes there lol
Dan, you shouldn't be tripping while playing Undertale...
And then somehow recording your trip.
Ah yes the Guitar Hero Bullet Hell. Good choice.
Good game. Weird even by undertale standards, but good.
That epilepsy warning was no joke. It means it.
Everhood was most certainly an interesting game. Not super popular, but has been making its rounds across Twitch streamers of the variety game type. I personally don't really see the Undertale in it though, maybe in its writing? But I do see Spin Rhythm vibes in its gameplay. I think, difficulty-wise, Everhood on Normal will grow in between Undertale's Mettaton fight to the first Genocide boss.
With the writing, some of the art style, and the "avoid attacks until you win" style gameplay I can see the comparison
Did the ATM started saying "Die" in the srcond part of the battle?
I mean it was the terror machine that asked for the characters soul.
I think the "Die!" it was there the whole time.
That trip where an ATM has some very... Flowy vibes...
DAN YES
oh no, oh, oh no.
dan is not gonna be okay.
This is gonna be so damn good.
30:01 Wait till you turn off some safety
From what I notice this game seems to not be as hard as you originally say as it does a really good job of feeling overwhelming but in reality it gives new players all the tools and help they need to succeed it just feels like that is not true by creating a very controlled chaos for the player to face. At least this is what I have noticed with the normal difficulty. That hp gauge seems to be a big part of this. So even though it often feels hard you have only really died a couple of times. This game seems to do difficulty really well imo.
Oh my god I suggested this!!!
So did I! This is so cool!
Wow that intro was... a lot
I can't even imagine what's coming next if this is the *intro*
Watched u play the first fight immediately bought it thx for this
I want Dan to make a video of the animations in this game. Mainly because how trippy it gets.
So... I spoiled myself watching a random all-songs-expert-no-hit video, and it doesn't appear the "battles" are any harder than Normal, so I would speculate that it's just degrees of health regen speed and quantity at least between Normal and Expert. I can also, without spoiling anything, tell you that things will get MUCH harder if my speculation is correct...
Inject the gnome song into my veins
Welp, after I finished this video I immediately bought the game and started playing it.
I had to stop myself to not finish it in one sitting. ^^'
Watching this game is stressfull, but fun.
I'm not as much into rhythm games as dan but I've noticed a big difference from most rhythm games. be it guitar hero or melody of memory, the music is timed with the items hitting you, instead here it's synced with when they spawn and you react to it. to be honest i like the former most, it lets you play actually in rhythm and use it as guide, instead of a syncopated version of it
11:37: Hello W.A.S.T.E. I know it's supposed to just be a dollar sign, but look at the way the paper is folded. Intentional...?
21:03 GASTER!?!?!
6:51 isnt that how most rhythm games work?
I sure am glad you're playing this so I don't have to 😅
I...love lamp?
Hm. Dude weathered the Gnomes pretty well.
I'm looking forward to seeing how you react to the rest. We're just getting warmed up.
(Place your bets for purple, everyone! My money's on just about a dozen hits, total)
(Remember, no spoilers!)
The true bet will be... SPOILERS AHEAD DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU DON'T WANT ANY SPOILERS. (YOU'VE BEEN WARNED).
What will Dan choose to do on the seccond half... last thirdish of the game. People in the know, will understand what I mean. My bet is on him making a character very epicly angry
Well this seems like a trip. Definitely getting a Yume Nikki vibe, not that I've played it, but I was reminded of what little I'd seen of it.
Yeah this game just throws in you in it and becomes a trip real fast!
But it's a very good trip!!
the music is my jam. the game…at least has a difficultly level for me. am baby with reflexes.
Just so you know, hard is the recommended difficulty (I could have sworn it said in the difficulty selection, but in your video it oddly didn't).
It heavily implied it by talking about "faster" regen on normal. Which implies "faster than default."
this game is just full of Undertale-Eastereggs and references, I kinda like that xD Also geez that game is trippy xD
i generally watch someone play 30 mins of a game before i decide to buy, and this was a wild 30 mins. i cant imagine a less accessible mode, though, lol??
MC has strong Geno vibes
what in the world did i just watch
for the record ive never seen or heard of this game but i feel like 1 of 2 things are the case
1. the incinerator just doesn't end and it's a scripted thing you have to die to
2. if you last long enough in the incinerator you get a special scene or something
(this is entirely a guess don't tell me if im right or not)
I wondered that myself...
Is this in anyway connected to the old Neverhhod game? I assume not?
Five minutes into the video, Ireeeeally don't think so ;D
Yeah this game is something...
My main problem with it is that it's story tries to be grand emotional and everything, but kind of ends up being pretty substanceless and the characters don't really do much for the whole game.
Still definitely fun to play though. The main battle system is really cool. The accessibility mode makes them look less cool though since it basically removes all background effect. This game can go hard on flashing stuff
I haven't played the game or seen a playthrough, but from what I've seen in this video it seems like the game is trying too hard to be weird and creepy, I don't know feels like the devs wanted to specifically make a better undertale or tried to