The Best "Bad Ending" in a Game
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.พ. 2025
- Void Stranger's Voided Ending is kind of incredible. Talking about this game once wasn't enough, so I'm talking about it again!
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Release Trailer - Void Stranger
Greedy Groove - Void Stranger
Buzzing Boogie - Void Stranger
Voided - Void Stranger
Tail - Void Stranger
TUHOAJA - Void Stranger
also in case the youtube algorithm cares, hey it's me, yakkocmn! y'know, the indie games and sonic guy?
if enough people enjoy this maybe i will talk about void stranger again... or a different game... who knows...
Please do, Void Stranger is a genuine masterpiece and deserves all the love
i will never stop praising void stranger, please talk more about void stranger
i could literally listen to you talk about this game for hours, please do
I speak on behalf of most of your subscriber base; please talk about anything ever, whether that's Void Stranger, Rumbleverse, or what have you. Like for real, it'll probably be both entertaining, insightful, and just really good vibes all around!
Dew it purty plz
Great video I really like the short quick to the point style of video
It’s just like a “here’s something cool I found” rather than a abundance of cool details wrapped together
It makes the video easy to watch even without being familiar with the source material and is something that people who are familiar with it can find vindicating great work
Lovely to hear your thoughts on Void Stranger again. This ending is very special to me... So special that it's made its own space in my head for the last two years. This game is very good at telling you how it should be played, and then rewarding you for trusting its unconventional design choices. This "bad ending" being so beautiful is a perfect example of that. Cheers!
System Erasure are so incredible, man. Only two games and they're both filled with immaculate things like this.
i don't even particularly like sokoban games but void strangers story and presentation made it one of my favorite games i've ever played, thank you for recommending it.
Unfortunately, the gameplay looks like it would make my smash my head through a wall, but the sequence itself and the story behind it I fuck with HARD. Your video did a great job of conveying how heavy it is. Always love your vids Yacc.
I played void stranger because of your indie games video and I'm so happy I did, such a beautiful and unique experience! The dev message at the end genuinely made me cry and has inspired me in my creative endeavors ever since.
Great video, I loved this ending and you put well what makes it so great and effective, would love to hear you talk more about the game!
This is a wonderful video.
Breaking down my favourite moment of void stranger perfectly.
The song just. Oooh.
The chaos visually being matched perfectly audibly.
Good show.
To be honest this could've been a main channel video with how awesome it is.
also, ur original recommendation of this game hadn't really convinced me to play something so out of the range of games I usually play, but holy shit I HAVE to play this now
NO VOID STRANGER, EVERYONE ALWAYS PULL ME BACK IN
You know. I ended up bouncing off of Void Stranger back in the initial outpouring of love for it, not for any true fault of the game itself (at least, nothing intentional), but because I’d been, quite ironically, poisoned by knowing the orange leads to the “bad ending”. I went farther than I should have, drank deep of the spoilers, and after successfully beating the game without getting voided and then burning myself out trying to reach everything, the fire inside me to keep going died out, then the embers, and then the faintly glowing coals. The blackened remains of Void Stranger sat there, dormant in the Steam Library, until my laptop breathed its last.
It’s a new day, a new rig, and a greater love of life. Thank you for lighting the coals. Onward and downward, to actually rediscovering everything I looked up before.
I hope you find what you're searching for.
That song still gives me chills
I love you yapping about video games. Like ur one of the reasons that inspired me to become a game dev. Definitely enjoyed this one
Watched your indie game recommendations and had this on my wishlist for quite a while before taking the plunge a few weeks ago. I went in blind and while not being a game I'd typically play, it has consumed my brain. I have a notepad dedicated to the game, I'm taking screenshots, and I picked up Zeroranger because I want more from this developer. Insane experience, thanks for putting it on my radar!
VOID STRANGER MENTIONED IN 2025 YESSIR
This ending has stuck with me for over a year now. Everything about it is absolute perfection.
Really, really glad to see more people talk about it!
Yes! More Void Stranger exposure! Keep reviving my love for the game! 🙏
The musicality at 9:19 is utterly haunting. The music and level both descending into complete madness.
I found out about void stranger from you then decided to try it out. And got the voided ending and that just set my desire to finish and experience almost everything in this game into complete and total overdrive. Its so good if i could mind wipe myself to play it again i would
Once again amazing video. this further reassures ill love this game once i win against struggle needing to have time.
the shorter style video worked well, feels like a good way for you to share this cool thing you want to share. i would love to see more of those, feels like a great balance while still having the more lengthy ones in the main channel as i really appreciate your in depth thoughts on media.
thanks again for your amazing work.
and if you allow me to snuck a little game recommendation... Enigma of Fear, that game was a big highlight of my last year.
Thank you for making a video on this. It’s my #1 game of all time (previously Shadow of The Colossus but it’s very close to a tie)
Wish I had'nt a'voided' this ending my first play through...
I never ended up getting this ending, either.
I initially refunded Void Stranger due to my frustrations with sokoban (?) puzzles as this was my first experience with them, but having learned of the rabbit hole that is this game…I think I’m gonna dive back in
WOOO VOID STRANGER MENTIONED!!!
I got punished for being smart!!! Nooooooo :(
I intentionally avoided eating the fruit for so long because I knew it was a trap, and because I thought that I would be able to put in the very same brand that you see in the video at the start of the game because you see it on an early floor. If you put it in early though, it just doesn't allow you too.
Finally, he's posting again.
I love when videogames can do so much with so little,no big graphics and almost no color and still this shit hits
Thank you
ready for the 5 hour void stranger lore dump
Void Stranger is unironically the coolest game I have ever played
I love this game so fucking much.
maybe not void stranger, but something that still can be played multiple times with information is thought to the player
Man i love steven sausage roll so glad to hear you talk about it. What a game!! (Pls note that this comment is a joke and is kinda just for me because i see some things in common with both games i love void stranger and love this video goodbye)
Welp, I've got the game but I haven't played it yet, so I'll be back in a month when I have! Thanks for the heads-up!
me avoiding strangers
Wow void stranger time
Oh he's gonna talk about killing the president in broforce. Never knew he played actual good games
Your making me more tempted to buy void stranger even though I don’t think I’ll be a fan
GO PLAY VOID STRANGER (There is nothing else like it and it's dope)
This was one of my favorite parts of this game and solidified it as an all timer for me
Damn I finished the game and never knew about this. I got the wings and on B235 went down and got sent back to the beginning. Wish I saw this in game.
Imma let you finish but, Sekiro had the best bad ending of all time.
Live A Live comes to mind first for me
peak mentioned !!!!!
Void stranger! :D
Ok how many people thought this was actually about “slay the princess” before watching because I don’t want to be the only one
You showed Baba at the beginning of the video as a comparison for the redo. Is this game as hard as Baba? Because that game broke my brain and I did not have the patience to continue 10 hours into it. Are those games comparable enough or do I just need to try Void Strangers
Void Stranger is definitely tough on the first playthrough, but the VOID state means you can technically make infinite mistakes, and then the game gets both easier and harder as you move forward. It requires some out of the box thinking at certain points and I got stumped for hours / days at a time but it was very satisfying beating it over the course of a month or so (did a lot of theorizing with friends who were also playing it). If we're purely talking about the sokoban puzzles, though, I think Baba is You is a lot harder.
that's not live a live : P
Does anyone have a good explanation video because this game is SO interesting to me but i can't play it myself and the streamer i watched was just in it for the puzzles so story was an after afterthought
@@Designated_loser Lorgon111 has made story summary videos among other analysis type stuff, check him out!
Yakko what's your high score on 0stRanger I'll buy the game just to beat you
Disgaea 2 has the best bad ending ever. Fe Engage has a really good one too, the type that gives you goosebumps.
how am i this early
I know I'm not to much of a 'puzzle' guy in my games, so actively playing this game is something that had zero interest to me. But even saying that, I can't say anything other than how much of a masterpiece it is. It's kinda incredible how much depth this game has, all the different cool things you can do, and how all the story beats spiral and spiral and spiral together.
For anyone like me who wants to at least get 'a pretty good taste' of this game but knows they would NOT have the patience for it, I suggest a video by CDawgVA (ConnerDawg). It is quite literally hours long, detailing his 'decent' into this game rather masterfully (along with the challenges that went into creating such a video for such an insane game), and even with that I'm not sure if it touches on EVERYThing you can possibly do within it.
But it does do an impeccable job showcasing the story of getting 'immersed' in this game, and I strongly recommend it. th-cam.com/video/PHR6jiSSVRw/w-d-xo.htmlsi=0spbS_9SYjUGgtgN
Though that being said, if you do think you'd even have a little bit of stamina for this game, from all I can see buy it/give it a shot. If the gameplay itself doesn't turn you away from it, you WILL get into the game, and lose grand swaths of your life to it's secrets. I can very much tell that much, if this fantastic video (the one above not the one linked, though that one too XD) isn't enough of an indication of that already.