YIIK : A Post Modern RPG - aka the 90's RPG, Manly Let's Play [ 1 ]
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ม.ค. 2019
- YIIK : A Post Modern RPG is a surreal rpg involving the 90's, and hipsters, and maybe aliens and plot twists, and the internet and spooky things, and a bunch of other stuff... let's just say it's something alright.
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me: huh, i wonder what all the bad press is about
alex: [monologue]
me: oh
Rated M for Monologues
Everything about Alex makes me want to just punch him in the face. I can't tell if the developer was trying to make him an antihero or if he genuinely thought the shit he has Alex spouts sounds profound and deep but either way he's a god awful character.
honestly that's exactly when i knew i liked it
Wish the game would gone for more of a "show, don't tell" approach
I can think of another one: K.I.S.S., or "Keep It Simple, Stupid".
I got to keep reminding myself of that in my writing, or I'll just keep rambling on and on and on for entire pages.
... kinda like what's happening here.
It doesn’t help that some of the things he says while narrating are readily apparent to the player. The redundancy makes the narration feel like such a slog.
@@michaelk9279 The worst part to me is not only does he constantly talk about things readily apparent to the player, but he also then repeats it multiple times with different phrasings in the same breath. It's figuratively painful to listen to.
@Ross Kuehl-Martin nah dude even books have to show don't tell. eg. "she feels cold. her hands are shaking, tears streaming down her face." instead of "she's sad".
the first 1 never explicitly Tells u she's sad, but u still understand from the "visual" (imagined visual) queues. it's more interesting 2 read that way.
also, writing a game like a book is only okay with visual novels and games where you can't see what's happening 4 urself. if the player can clearly see what's happening in a scene then of course u won't need 2 tell them, that's just redundant. also it messes up the pacing, making the game feel waaay slower/heavier than it really is.
"In the future we will listen and watch people playing video games anymore but not play them."
Hey buddy, I listen to TH-camrs while I play video games so I don't feel so terribly alone. Don't break the illusion.
You'll never be alone, I am in your soul and mind. Through the veil of existence will they arrive and when they do you will kneel and be humbled for the end has come, but first that'll be 15.99 + Tip.
@@ManlyBadassHero but that's gay
@@nirconad But it won't be gay if you say "No homo"
Just read Manly's comment in the voice of Dan Green.
Love you Manly! No homo.
Marlene sure expects me to have a lot of friends.
The fact that Marlene expects me to have friends annoys me.
The fact that he has a girl's name despite being male annoys me.
@@psychopianist630 ok boomer
@@wildfire9280 I'm a zoomer you heretic
@@psychopianist630Ok boomer
I'm kinda angry this art style is being wasted on this writing.
Jessica Yeah! agree!
100% facts
It's a hideous art style, it deserved to be wasted on even worse writing
Its fine. I'll play the world's smallest violin for you though
Same!
Like what the heck is this?
I think I realize why games like earthbound and undertale are so well loved even if many games similar also have a deeper meaning, those two games unlike this one are simple dialog. No exposition, no monologues, no complicated way to tell a story or how a character feels. It just doesn't need all this extra fancy talk to get the point across.
As they always say: Show, don't tell. Postmodern rpg? My ass... Postmodernism is about piquing our imagination through subtle imagery. Not telling us what it means
Agreed.
Same with Yumi Nikki and Lisa
Yeah! With Undertale, Flowey took about 5 minutes to set himself up as the bad guy, with actions and dialogue. The YIIK designer would have had 20 minutes of dialogue: Where the villain would repeat themselves in (at least) five different ways; and then you'd be stuck in a half-hour boss fight you can't win (But God forbid it would be designed so you would know this and not waste time and resources trying to win)
I don't think thats quite all there is to it. Mother 3 maintains the same charm, but utilizes a lot of these same devices effectively.
Panda nagged him about the wrong thing. Go buy the groceries! Your mom works herself to the bone, the least you could do is buy the groceries...!
Hey, here from the Banban videos, a comment about games Manly got really annoyed at while playing. Well I'm already annoyed 4 minutes in at how many friends I supposedly need to play this game.
Thank you for taking this sacrifice for us.
I see what you meant now, I agree with sentiments. It's so cringy, tumbler-esque game. I guess I'm a "normal" person, but I wouldn't have acted the way this protag does. Like "I pray to the mechanical god" jesus h christ man.
Edit: The whole forest adventure could've been avoided if he calls/texts the mom and ask for the grocery list once more. Cellphones existed in the 90s... But then again it won't be as much of a game anymore.
Alvin Cast The one that made me visibly crige was the "Thats OUR word!" Line
Oh mayonnaise. Shut the fuck up. 😂
This is not the 1990's RPG. It's the "What Young College Kids Born in 1998 Think the 1990's Were Like RPG".
I guess im an exception cus I haven't gone to college... yet. But I'd also tack on liberal arts degrees and soyboys
Concentric Octagons woah dude i was born 1998 and i have to say that this game is very 90s
I feel extremely called out right now 🤣
@Ross Kuehl-Martin no one is dressed like it's the 90s though
It’s the “Only 90’s kids will remember this RPG”
for every scene it's like they took its freakin storyboard/description and read it as dialogue. I don't need to mention how off-putting it is when half the damn screen is taken by subtitles for what is essentially a blind man's audio-captions.
I'm saying what other people have been saying, but there might have been charm had it not been for the excessive monologues and exposition in place of openings for player reactions.
I literally thought it was pronounced "yick" when I first read the title.
You know a game is bad when even its title expresses disappointment.
No, that's exactly how you pronounce disappointment
I still pronounce it yick
When the guy spoke his thoughts, it kinda made me wanna die inside
Im already died inside so hang in there i have been through that feeling no-one is perfect we all make mistakes its what makes us relatable and human
@@cripplinganxiety1941 To err is human, and to quote that fish from Courage the Cowardly Dog, our faults are what make us who we are.
From what I read, it’s the same guy who did the English voice for Lancer of Red in Fate/Apocrypha.
Earthbound: Charmless edition
please take off the nostalgia glasses -.- This game is good, so is Earthbound, Earthbound is not the greatest
Cyrus Nagisa I get that, but this game isnt doing a lot to impress so far. The writing could use some work and you dont have to monologue in between every sequence.
Mother has just as much flaws than YIIK tho
@@-king-1230 then explain them boi
@@PersonaSimon shopping is annoying how you have to buy one at a time even bringing back dead allies, takes to long to even do that depending on the location and if you die. Random photo guy and dad calls comes out of nowhere and will get tedious. Teleporting is hard to pull off when your If your new to the game. The unique gameplay and weird characters of earthbound is what redeem itself from those flaws. I belive YIIK is doing the same thing while being its own thing.
YIIK, more like YIKES
*yeek*
YIIKES
More like YUCK!
Profile picture. Man. Culture. Nice.
I mean the developer was Ackk Studios, so it’s both YiKkes and Ack
With that title, I was expecting a frantic business drama where middle aged programmers furiously pound keyboards to stave off the enormous Y2K bug with... the power of COBOL!
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... he went to college, and he doesn't have any skills? ... commentary!
Oh lord, he's playing the meme
Yiikes
Thank you for your service
There a gold mine of 90's puns in this game. Of course manly would dig in!
"HEY KIDS DID YOU LIKE EARTHBOUND? WELL, THIS ISNT EARTHBOUND BUT IT SURE WISHES IT WAS!"
The Soul Survivors are basically Starmen with a different pose
"What is the name of the coolest girl you know?"
>Reimu
>Marisa
>CHEN.
Manly is amazing.
"Hey, careful with that word. That's OUR word." *Proceeds to rip out my own ears.*
Where did they say that?
50:59-51:02
"gamer to gam-"
manly: eww
lmao you made my day man
The MC's reactions doesn't seem to match up with the situation, imo. He keeps making that pose with his hands in his head and a bewildered expression, but while things are certainly very freaky, the conversations he's having doesn't seem like it should elicit such a response.
"I had no idea what adult life held for me, but I was optimistic."
...
I rarely see manly annoyed holy shit
Y2K went so far that it broke a mostly monotone gamer down. That's how bad this game is.
never heard of this game before, but seeing a mildly cringy self insert persona/katamari rip off get absolutely ROASTED in the comments is hilarious.
@Tri a game you roll balls around to make it bigger
@vabaab This is exactly how I feel, At firs I really like the ost of the city, but the self -insert cringy guy made me dislike it. As someone else also said when he spoke the inner dialogue it felt so cringy.
I thought the guy wasnt a self insert and people just blew up some guys tweets about the protag looking like him
Next time you get a chance to see the t-shirt Alex is wearing, you'll see a reference to the videogame "Two Brothers". Look up the developer for "Two Brothers", then see what OTHER games they've done.
Hard to argue this wasn't a self-insert character by someone on the production team.
No, Manly, please, there's so much to live for!
Mister Boomer Lol true
@Mister Boomer Top kjeh m8
Every time I saw this title I read it as Yeek. Then Manly said the title and I almost choked on my juice. It made me laugh cause I remember people freaking out over Y2K. 😂
35:57 "I cringed with anxiety as the lights flickered" I cringed with the desire to punch the MC in the face for his monologue that sounded like it came straight from a crappy fanfic.
Surely the scariest game Manly has ever played
isnt this the game where the developer romantisized/fetishized an actual girl's suicide into the story? :////
Yes.
Brittany Luna can someone give me the short version? I get the feeling that trying to google the necessary keywords would put me on some sort of list. Plus, I'm lazy.
@@powpowouchy5 Basically there was a widespread/viral video of a girl riding on an elevator and getting off at a rooftop. She later killed herself by drowning in the water tower. The girl in the video is standing in the same place and in the same way that Semi does in the ONSIM pictures. The game also insinuates that Semi killed herself by drowning in Windtown's water tower. The creator has been telling people to get over it and it's not a big deal. He also follows the girl's twitter and Alex (his self insert btw) is in love with Semi and wishes he could have stopped her disappearance. It seems to insinuate that the creator had a weird obsession with the girl, and wished he could be her white knight or something.
@@DoctorWaffleDinosaur oh yeah I remember watching a couple videos on that story. It's really creepy the level of fixation he seems to have on the incident. it's also really hacky writing to include in his game. like, you couldn't have come up with a fictional story that was equally spooky? It would make a little more sense if the dates lined up and like, it was a big thing from the 90s. But no, Elisa was found in 2013. It's just a strange and distasteful reference.
Dr. Waffledino holy shit wtf
You may have good graphics
You may have an interesting battle mechanics
You may have beautiful art direction
But it's just at the end, a polished turd if your the story, the delivery and characters are pisspoor
You are wrong. Not about this game tho.
Not every game needs good story or character . The issue here is that it's evident that this game was supposed to rely heavily on its writing , but it turns out the writing sucks ass. You can kinda see what they are going for, but it's written like a gaming-website article. It's pedantic and pretentious at the same time it is soulless and corporate-like.
You have this bastardization of the millennial stereotype, that feels as if either the writers where incompetent or as if it was written by marketing executives trying to target millennials.
Also, i don't know anything about this game, but this main character sets off a detector inside me, like a sense of smell for something specific; and although i'm too lazy to both confirm this or elaborate further , I'm very confident the mc is a self-insert .
@@nicolaslanzoni9385 Agreed. MC feels like a self-insert, and there's a general all-around... performative wokeness around it. "You can't say 'ginger'! That's OUR word!" -> "Sorry, that was a joke in bad taste." Gag. If the joke was actually bad, the author should have removed it. If he actually thinks it's clever, then why is he walking it back? It's like he wants the character to come across as socially awkward - but that isn't jiving with this handsome-looking outward-going badass with a black belt who fights with the power of music.
This is one of those games where you can just _know_ the beliefs of the creator within 10-15 minutes (and not just because they beat you over the head with them - "NOT ALL PEOPLE WITH FACIAL HAIR ARE MALES EITHER!!!"), solely because of the underlying smug better-than-you pretense.
Also, it's so painfully clear that the self-insert MC didn't actually grow up in the 90s. If they did, this character would be calling stuff "gay" or "retarded" every few minutes. This is like the 90s reimagined by someone who is, as their MC calls them out - a liberal arts major.
I kinda got bored and started to check out the comments and apparently people know about this game. The game's got cool design and I can see they put great efforts into this, but it's completely soulless...
Eh, I'd say it's not soulless. It seems to be, but after a while, when you get more people in team, you start seeing some essence to it.
I had an opportunity to review it before it's original release I must say that it is quite repelling at first glance... but it doesn't really deserve the hate. It's a child of passion and not so bad as a recall to the past era of early PS games.
And I disagree that all about this game is hipster. Sure, you see liberal arts accretions, like this "what you identify as", later complains on mistreatment of blacks or overall presentation, but it's aiming to recreate the 90ies, where people like Alex are considered nerds, not hipster soyboys. Self-insertion seems a factor here.
Game has a lot of repelling stuff at start, like badly made dialogues, mundane leveling system and the oldschool jrpg tropes, but it seems to get better after Wind town episode. More characters come in, more colourful the thing gets with different attacks and stories. All that monologue stuff seems to be aalex telling it to player, not just thinking to himself; and it sure seems like it was written by one person and never proofread by another, hence a lot of unnecessary parts that could be easily snipped out without loss to the plot.
And the thing is that while from the start we see Alex like this, the game actually adresses it. He IS a spoiled useless liberal arts major with no plan for future, living of mommy's pocket, with a plushie panda mascot to keep away the dark; having no idea about the world around, no urge to have a job and no experience with troubles of adulthood. And they adress it. His friends at least try to do something with their life, even if put in less fortunate spot than he is. The game literally points it out, downgrading him even by making his attacks quite weak compared to others, and tbh it makes it hit quite close to home.
I see this game as callback to the past. Not only it bring back ALL parts of old gaming - together with those that we rather prefer to leave in the past, like lenghty saving system or illogical tropes - but also creators own past: joys of college youth freedom but also fear of the future that sticks around at that age. Fear of the new age. Fear of the year-two-thousand.
@@JannetFenix If it's really a bad start, it's not gonna do well for the marketing. And if an hour of the gameplay is still not "a while" and I can't start seeing some essence to it, that's a big mistake.
@@JannetFenix gameplay and story is awful, battles become a pain to do and stories go no subtlety. Dialogue is drawn out and repeats things tediously. It deserves every ounce of hate it gets. There's more but it's spoilers or because of things unrelated to the game itself like the creator himself
I like the art direction and graphics, however, the game suffers from a shitty game mechanic and pretentious, repetitive, and just down right dreadful dialogue.
@@JannetFenix wow. Couldn't of said ir better myself
Reverse Pokémon: you can’t go into people’s houses and you actually find stuff in trash cans.
Edit: huh. Manly knows about Gravity Falls. Interesting.
god, he shouldve written a book or something, that essentia part was torture
The video of Sammy in the elevator, it's referencing that viral video of Elisa Lam right? You know, the one found dead inside a water tower of a hotel. Yeah the one with her looking paranoid inside an elevator.
OMG NO WONDER THE VIDEO REMINDED ME OF THAT INCIDENT!!
yeah this game was criticized for trivializing Elisa's death like that, the creator said "her [referring to Elisa] suffering was integral to the plot", just another messed-up thing about this game
That's in pretty poor taste. The least they could have done was make a better game around that but of real-world inspiration, but of course they didn't lol
Internal monologuing the game. Seriously when is the main character not reading his internal monologue aloud???
the game design is cool but the dialogue..... please just shut up. in some instances showing and not telling is the best way to go. don't make the panda rant about how you abandoned the girl. make it girl you disappointing looks. staring mournfully in the direction you last saw the girl. refusing to listen to you. running away to the elevator. that all shows how it doesn't approve and wants to look for her. and it is much more emotionally driven and immersive than 10 minutes of ranting. it could even have been made into an ark before we started looking for the girl.
It's almost like he has no emotion in that elevator scene when sammy is pulled away. No "HOLY SHIT" or "WHAT JUST HAPPENED" nah we get a "IM deep uUHUHUHHHUH"
So far, the cat is my favorite character because she thankfully doesn't talk
Jeez. How did they even make it so bad? It's like, so many layers, I can't put a finger on any single specific thing.
Like a Tulpa of awfulness.
It only gets worse when you learn that the game makers explicitly downgraded all aspects of the game from the trailer. Leftover game files contain a vastly superior ending.
@@Dan-gs3kg i... WHY???
@@vibevizier6512 Long story short, they didn't see the ending as "fitting for the ending of this game and "wanted a more humane angle".
Im brazilian and we love to enjoy things burgerlandians dont but even i struggled to enjoy this game
"Burgerlandians" 🤣 hello from Teatopia
As a person from Kimchi Kountry, I also can't find anything good about this game.
I'm only liking this for Manly. The game itself is shite that deserves never getting played again.
_"I could be pizza on weekends" ~MBH_
Now that's a man that would satisfy everyone's dreams. No wonder you have such loyal fans. :D
I like this game so far, except some pronunciation is weird - case in point, "sol-EM-ness". That's a good guess, but a nope, probably mispronounced because the word most often used is solemnity, not solemness. The writing is a little bit like a college English major got their hands on a thesaurus & decided to get the most they could from their 5.99 purchase. But I'm still intrigued. I like MBH's commentary better tho, like "Gimme a break Panda - I'm only level 1".
+NaturalFlirtGamer
I'm not too bothered by "wondering" instead of "wandering," but I don't think I can forget "Sparkingly Entity." You cross homophones with similar spelling when you don't speak English very well. You get "Sparkingly Entity" when you try something like you described. You can't even _say_ it without it feeling there's something wrong with it. There's no way an English major would've let that get published.
MBH has a unique position in that he can make meta commentary without it reflecting the writing. He uses it well.
+Thelothuo There's a lot of dialogue & exposition in this game & considering the sheer volume of it, the mistakes are relatively few. And agree completely - MBH has a gift for witty commentary. :)
Omg ouch my parents named me Marlene too
That hurts
I'd like to know what happens if you name yourself Marlene, will the raven say: "Wow what a col name! I wish my parents had named me like that!" ?
I enjoy the aesthetic a lot.
That's about it, so far.
Now that you have Panda with you, make sure to use it as librally as Alex's major. Panda will completely block all damages for you, as well as make you avoid the defense minigame while he is active. It's incredibly useful for speeding up battles.
#1 Chen
#2 Marisa
#3 Reimu
It is written
Touhou reference?
Good lord, it's like someone chugged a gallon of LSD while playing Earthbound and made a video game with the vomit.
Please keep playing for us, Manly, you're doing us all a service by being our meat shield.
i got bored and no motivation to do my homework, so imma hurt myself by watching this playthrough all over again
Didja get your homework done?
I wonder why this game i-
*Speil about donations that is basically just 1999 Kickstarter*
OOoooohh they where THAT far stuck up their own arses.
This game seems weird and hip for the sake of being weird and hip. So far at least. Like it has crossed the boundary between what would be deemed as a fun little reference and made a whole game out of that.
The whole thought-commentary process could have been omitted entirely, as it would probably be more useful in a VN than an rpg game. Sure, it wants to establish a bond between player and protagonist but it could have been handled better.
The whole thought-commentary thing could probably be done well if executed masterfully and by someone with better writing skills than the author, who thinks that a self-insert liberal arts zoomer has an idea of what the 90s were like.
I lived in the 90s, and I can tell you for certain, NOBODY was loudly proclaiming about how "non-males" can have facial hair or making "sly" references to reclaimed slurs. In fact, you were far more likely to tell your friend that you took some singing lessons and be immediately called "gay" for it. And not even in a mean way, just as a joke. High Boi has more in common with the 90s than this game.
Isn't this the game written by the guy who hasn't ever interacted with women before?
Lol what?
That means he'll be terrible at writing... he would just assume ALOT
@@cherrydragon3120 well it was an exaggeration for obviously a not effective joke, if you do some research on the game the main character (who is literally just the developer) gets very weird with women in the game.
@@skyrimlover777 I knew nothing about this game apart from watching the trailer on steam and I had him pegged as an awkward male feminist.
No you’re thinking of Persona.
@@SuperGreenSmartie Don't taint that lovely franchise by saying its name here
apparently this game is based of the irl death of Elisa Lam, a woman with multiple mental illnesses that was found dead in a water tower. The last recorded footage of her was in an elevator, much like Semi. BIG YIKES
Elisa Lam's mysterious death is a magnet for fans of the paranormal since she seemed to be playing an elevator game and all the mysteries surrounding the whole situation. Don't see what's wrong with that.
i feel bad for anyone named marlene playing this n having the crow go “yuck” about it
ah YIIK the time the new year didnt end the world
I am interested in this game. But the whole "hipster" theme is kinda turning me off. Just wondering Manly, in your honest opinion, what do you think of the game?
As I had an opportunity to review it before it's original release I must say that it is quite repelling at first glance... but it doesn't really deserve the hate. It's a child of passion and not so bad as a recall to the past era of early PS games.
And I disagree that all about this game is hipster. Sure, you see liberal arts accretions, like this "what you identify as", later complains on mistreatment of blacks or overall presentation, but it's aiming to recreate the 90ies, where people like Alex are considered nerds, not hipster soyboys. Self-insertion seems a factor here.
Game has a lot of repelling stuff at start, like badly made dialogues, mundane leveling system and the oldschool jrpg tropes, but it seems to get better after Wind town episode. More characters come in, more colourful the thing gets with different attacks and stories.
And the thing is that while from the start we see Alex like this, the game actually adresses it. He IS a spoiled useless liberal arts major with no plan for future, living of mommy's pocket, with a plushie panda mascot to keep away the dark; having no idea about the world around, no urge to have a job and no experience with troubles of adulthood. And they adress it. His friends at least try to do something with their life, even if put in less fortunate spot than he is. I see this game as callback to the past. Not only it bring back ALL parts of old gaming - together with those that we rather prefer to leave in the past, like lenghty saving system or illogical tropes - but also creators own past: joys of college youth freedom but also fear of the future that sticks around at that age.
It's fucking shit
@@JannetFenix "it's aiming to recreate the 90ies, where people like Alex are considered nerds, not hipster soyboys." Y'know, people who still unironically use the word "soyboy" are much, much cringier than Yiik ever is, and that's fucking saying something.
@@doyleharken3477 You need help opening that Soylent bottle, lad?
@@doyleharken3477 You can always spot a soyboy. They're the ones complaining about people using the word "soyboy."
"what is the name your parents gave you?" hmmm, that question gives me bad vibes
edit: after skipping around i came to the conclusion that... this is a game, that exists, i guess
can't really bring myself to like it
"Which of these do you identify with?" -shows pictures of 2 different bodies :T
@@somedaythewave "yes..." (Manly says disappointedly at the idea of being a man)
Must really suck for anyone who was never named by their parents. Can't say I can relate but these are harder times.
Imagine being called Dick....
You'll be called a dick at every moment somone talks to you
@@somedaythewave i am offended that there wasn't an attack helicopter in it
As a partialy colorblind person, *my fucking eyes.*
I was about to comment about how I just bought this game myself, and that I was excited to play ahead and watch how Manly reacts- until I saw the comments saying it’s pretentious and awful.
Oh well. I got it cheap anyway. Let’s see how this goes.
Edit: I’ve now played through the first chapter of the game, and I don’t hate it yet. However, I can see the minigames getting old really fast for most people, especially with how long harder fights can go on for. But so far, I still like the environments, even if they are a little bland, and though the dialogue(especially the narration) gets a little too uppity at points, it’s not scaring me off.
Sooo how was it? Did you finish playing it?
@@azulizachan7595 probably died in the process
Looks like you quit it. Hah.
You're playing THIS game huh? This is going to be really interesting lol...
Edit: So far the writing is pretty bad but Manly's commentary are waaay more funnier than the actual game
It looked promising
But the protagonist is super annoying with all his monologueing and the random times these monologues came in 🙄
Suddenly finding out MBH did a playthrough of Yiik sends my heart vibrating with motion.
2:58
"CHEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNNN!!!! "
-Certain youkai fox
poor manly. we'll always be here for ya
Imagine being named Marlene and playing this game
Imagine if Ness had monologues like this.
"I met this girl. She was blond and had a ribbon. Her name was Paula it seems. I'm not sure about that name. I thought she would be named something like Charlena or Gabriella or something like that."
So is there an actual point to the protagonist's internal monologue, or is it just being used to pad out the game's length?
*Yes*
Alex's living room is the set of the television show Full House.
My girlfriend reviewed this game, when the game was 2 weeks away from release she complained the key bindings was shit and starting the game is long an obnoxious. I see they were trying to make a game inspired by Earthbound. I also told her that Y2K meant Year 2000, she just facepalmed for not realising it sooner
Aside from the obvious EarthBound influence (Frankton is pretty much Onett, and the front guy at 1:01:22 looks like a Starman), I can also see a bit of Wild Arms (with Dali having the same function as Hanpan in the first Wild Arms game).
If I wanted a game that had a unique puzzle-solving tool system, interdementional demons, and a possible robot protag, I would just play Wild Arms. Hanpan > Dali.
But low key would watch a Manly playthrough... for the memes.
Hey, Manly! I've been using up all of my internetz lately binge-watching your videos! So....thanks I guess XD
Heh. Sounds like me
Never heard of this game, but...ugh. It started out kinda interesting, but the bland environments are headache-inducing, graphics are awful, dialogue atrocious, and just watching that small snippets of gameplay I can tell how tedious and boring it is... I don't think I can get into this one. :/
Wow you must really hate early 2000s games then
@@dreamhubproductions753 On the contrary, I've played early 2000s games that are loads better than this. I'm glad you're getting something out of this, but it's just mind-numbingly bland for me.
@@2-drogue556 clearly that's BULLSHIT lmfaoooo
Huh, a very interesting game. I'm intrigued what it has to offer. The style and soundtrack are very cool; almost relaxing. Looking forward to what this brings. Thanks for playing, Manly. God bless yours and you! :)
I feel bad for dogpiling on this game, since I'm sure a lot of hard work was poured into it, but...There's so many little things that bug me from a game design standpoint!
a) I'm sure the giant SAVE over the save points is supposed to be part of the aesthetic, but wouldn't the player guess you use the phones to save if they've played Earthbound? Or at least know they're save points after the first time they use one? Same with the water fountains. With how much the protag talks, he could've just said he was thirsty when the fountains were introduced. (The exclamation mark that pops up when you can examine something is fine though.)
b) So there's a plate of cookies you can examine but you don't pick them up? Seems like a super obvious spot for a healing item pick up...
c) The Dali mechanic is explained both with dialogue and text box?? Seems redundant.
I'm not an expert in game design by any means but I feel like the little details are what make indie games like this work. Not to mention the obvious violation of "show, don't tell" but y'know... It's too bad this game is such a mess, because it actually has cool graphics and music.
more like a "let's pain"
I kinda wondered why the girl was bleeding Danganronpa blood and if that's the way they bleed or she was an alien?
Actually that's way too dark to be Danganronpa blood Danganronpa blood is neon magenta
Do you not know what pink looks like?
@@eevee1583 yeah, but dangan blood is almost fluorescent, unlike the blood in this i guess
2:10 - this is how you can tell it's not 90s
Oh no.
Even with Manlys soothing voice... I am afraid that i'm going to be getting *very frustrated* watching this playthrough.
This game is beyond stanky.
Still waiting for that other 80s/90s lookin rpg 😢
I'm not the only one who used to read this as "yeek"?
TF did I just watch? It makes no sense yet it captivates me like a moth to a moth zapper.
I had it on my steam wishlist, boy do I regret buying it. The only redeeming thing is the fun combat, outside of that it's actually pretentious garbage lmao
Even then the combat could be better, it's extremely similar to Undertale's in some ways (except for sparing of course).
That being said, from what I've heard it's really hard to level up? I obviously haven't played the game myself...
I hear it's fine at first but can get really repetitive at some points
My real issue with the game was the dialogue, it's tedious and you're sitting there listening to the most insufferable characters rabble about nothing for ages.
I heard people saying that too, and I don't blame them... Like holy shit is the main characters inner monologue annoying!
@@skulllatte3352 Luckily he doesn't do that very often later on. If you drag yourself past first hours, it seems to get better. You also get hang of the qte combat so the encounters get swifter, as well as you can use the goddamn cat to avoid combat whatsoever.
"Reminds me of Mega man legends, a game I will never play cause its sequels been cancelled"
Its been 8 years and it still hurts...
Also I feel like the bedroom scene basically explains why this games story and narration is bad.
Using Eliza Lam’s death as fodder for a self-aggrandizing and up-its-own-ass video game is disgusting.
Despite my issues with the game, I'm still gonna watch many play it~ just more enjoyable that way~
Looking at the thumbnail this game is going to be trippy as hell.
OM MY GOD I'M YIIKING OUT
IT'S YIIKING TIME
Hey! I was playing this game since it came out and I thought about you since it's almost one of those rpg maker games, I hope you enjoy it as much as I do when I play it!
FINALLY A PLAYTHROUGH WITH COMMENTARY!
I like how items are written with the number in square brackets after the name. It’s similar to how arrays are declared in some programming languages.
"Large Pizza[8]"
Does that mean I have a i?
when i saw manly and yiik in the same video title i knew shit was gonna go down
29:47 That's the sound the Zora King makes when he's moving his giant butt in Ocarina of Time!
Did anyone notice that the house is the identical replication of the "full house" house layout? Lmao
ylnam is the evi manly clone
Picks Touhou name - doesn't pick Momiji, HERETIC !
You mean Sanae.
Combat makes me think of Shadow Hearts...well I should say the way the MC fights does
Anyone notice that the inside of Alex's house looks just like the house in full house oooooor is that just me??
BRO I THOUGHT THE SAME THING I THOUGHT I WAS WILDIN
Pain is the ultimate technology...Manly knows.
I saw a lot of people saying this game is trying to be Earthbound and I could kind of see that, but seeing that freaking intro screen with naming every character...come on like really that's just Earthbound.