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Tunic revived my love for video games, I wish I could play it again for the first time

Would love to hear your take on 3D Dot Heros. A similar game that got the "it's Zelda but..." comparisons.

Hey, Tunic is gonna be on next month's PSPplus, and I blame this video! (Totally a good thing I promise!

Great essay and presentation! You should have more subs! (says the guy who's been doing YT for 12 years and just barely cracked 40k)

Zelda growing up with it's audience is called The Adventure of Alundra.

13:50 ""ts almost like the music is trying to speak to me" ...hmmm indeed...

Hell yea, love the messenger.

It's a brilliant game. Unfortunately, I'm not a brilliant player - and after failing to find the frog boss, I just kinda set it down, the secrets undiacovered.

Great video! As an editor I want to point out that I specifically enjoyed your use of four screens and making them flicker between colour and black and white in the intro worked very well! Don't know if anyone pointed it out yet!

One thing I forgot to mention that I found funny: the physical version of the game from Fangamer. It comes with... the manual. Just the straight-up manual that you collect in the game, all together in a physical booklet. I am so glad I didn't realize it until I'd beaten the game. It's such a spoiler to even be there in the game case lol I would have found out things way too early if I'd actually thumbed through it.

I adored this game. Adored it. I haven't gotten that sense of whimsy and mystery playing a game since I played Fez so many years ago. This looming sense that beyond the cutesy look, something so much bigger and possibly sinister was going on. Even the soundtracks are kind of similar. The gimmick with the game manual was brilliant. It made figuring things out so much more fulfilling. I AM ashamed of how long it took me to even realize you could upgrade your stats. I spent a massive chunk of time just thinking it was an incredibly hard game. Took me way too long to find the manual page explaining it. (I didn't even discover the color changing room until the second playthrough. I happily replayed the game with a white fox wearing a black tunic.)

Dude I cannot BELIEVE how good your production quality is!!!! Just found your channel and I hope you keep making more of these excellent breakdowns!!!!

This and Outer Wilds are the only games that made me feel like a genius when solving their mysteries. Very different games with very similar feelings. Some of the best ever made

Tunic is definitely one of those games that I file under "Games I wish I could play for the first time again".

One of my favourite jokes in the community is that you can tell how long someone has played it by what they compare it to "Oh it's like Zelda", "Oh it's like Dark Souls", "Oh it's like Outer Wilds" and finally "Oh it's like Fez"

this game is probably the only thing in my life, I wish I could forget the experience to really go through it a second time fresh. absolutely amazing game. never loved a thing so much that I wish I could also forget. that's wild to me.

I WANT to play Tunic... but bills are more important...

Only game that manages to make opening a door with a passcode the hypest experience possible. I was physically shaking when that thing opened

Oh, hey! Someone else who loved Sea of Stars and played the Messenger after because of it! I find the connection between the two wild on a surface level, they seem so different, but there's a lot of good lore, I'm all about that shit

I don't know if I'll ever experience anything more mind-bendingly euphoric as the golden path. If ever I find a more satisfying puzzle, it would be an insane feat

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Dude your content is really great. I’m glad I came across your channel and excited to see more of your stuff in the future! Thank you

Making the music loud doesn't hide any flaws there might be in ur recorded voice it just makes u even harder to hear dawg

"The right game, in the right hands, or at the right time can be a treasure more valuable that can be expressed with money or words." Rogue Legacy 2 is that for me.

Oh how I wish I liked this game. I love some aspects of it, but I bounced off of it after a few hours. It's interesting that you note that combat drops off after a while, because that was probably my biggest issue with it (and no, not because it's "too hard"). Side note: I'm surprised you didn't compare it to Fez, which it shares some aspects. For me personally, I think action RPGs need to balance out the focus between action, puzzles, and exploration. Some games hyperfocus on one, some balance two, but I feel like Tunic focuses on all three to its detriment. As I played, I really enjoyed the intricately-designed world and figuring out what everything means, but I found the combat to be an increasingly grating interruption to that. Eventually, I started tuning up the accessibility options bit by bit, but even when I couldn't die, I found it a bother. I think I would have pushed through were it not also for the tone. One the one hand, there's a ton of charm in a lot of the art, especially the in-game instruction booklet. On the other hand-while I don't doubt that the story would have justified this-the cold, dead-feeling world and really dour music just didn't inspire me to push forward. All of this, obviously, is purely subjective, but I really dislike this style of soundtrack, at least for this kind of game. Anyway, I'm not sure why this video was recommended to me, but man, I wish this game appealed to me more, because the high points are really great and clever. I still consider picking it back up now and then.

A great video. I don't really know what else to say, so I am just making this comment in hopes that it feeds the Eldritch horror that is the RUclips algorithm and convinces it to show the video to more people.

I think what saddens me is how TUNIC gets so muddied into the Zelda and Dark Souls comparisons when they are so largely superficial, specifically in regards to the gameplay and visuals. This really misses out on TUNIC's most truthful and respectable comparison: FEZ. To be fair, FEZ is fairly open about its idiosyncrasies and cryptic qualities from the get-go while TUNIC is a mysterious puzzle game masquerading as an action game, but I really don't think that takes away from how much the two share ideal and inventive DNA. I didn't know I needed a game to invoke that sense of wonder and absolutely mind-boggling intrigue like FEZ had done for me, but TUNIC's puzzles and obtuseness scratched a very particular itch for me. The absolute euphoria I felt solving some of those end-game puzzles (especially the final door) on my own is really unmatched, and was something I didn't realize I missed so much. This is a fantastic little retrospective, thanks for adding onto the much-needed TUNIC content.

This is a phenomenally well put together video. The kind of quality one typically expects of much larger channels. I feel lucky to have stumbled across this absolute gem. And it has 100% convinced me to come down from the fence and play Tunic.

24:43 I don't think that to be true at all. My first time playing the game was literal hell and a chaotic mess of knowing absolutely nothing, I didn't even KNOW what ability cards were, I saw them in my inventory but NEVER used one because I was afraid they were 1 time use and I didn't know what they did so I saved em in case I needed them... However, my second play through was GREAT. I was still pretty confused and figuring out puzzles, but I felt like I actually got to play the game. The first time 90% of the game was me walking around the map 200 times until I finally found where I was supposed to go, and thr whole "the game has vague clues hints and patterns to point you in the right direction" I just.. I just don't see that part AT ALL. The game, while good; I feel is WAY too vague... I think, at minimum- they should have provided a Cypher so we could translate the language. It think my biggest problem is literally have no idea what any of the items do, or what any signs read. While I don't want it to just tell me, I also don't want to be left scratching my head with literally no way to translate gibberish.

LMAO I ran away from the shopkeeper the first time too 😂😂

The way I pitch Tunic to my friends is "It feels like playing a video game for the first time a second time."

probably the best video analysis I've seen on Tunic, great work!

I found the dress-up room entirely on accident after I had already beaten the game 😂

The way Tunic feel is like to me when i was playing is was like one of my childhood games that was in a different language, so i could understand only some words that were very basic I used the booklet of those games a lot to see if i missed a mechanic i didn’t know about (which was also in a different language) Tunic is a good game that have that nostalgia of playing a game in another language with only a booklet and the memo section to try and piece the game together

My biggest criticism of the game: the secret language still is English in some way, but all the writing stays the same when you change the language of the menu. Not only does this exclude anyone who never learned English from 100% the game, but it also makes any attempt at deciphering the language impossible if you don't realize this. And even if you do see that the symbols don't change if you switch languages, the most obvious thing to conclude from that is that it's its own language, not based on anything. This ruins... a number of secrets with no other purpose but to find them, which is fair as far as I'm concerned. Sitting down and deciphering a conlang should be rewarded with this kind of stuff. But understanding the language is also required for 1 collectible/achievement. I wouldn't have deciphered the language in any case (probably), but to learn that I never even had a chance bc of my mother tongue is a bad feeling. In a series of 12 things where 11 can be solved by anyone, hiding 1 thing behind an ARG is kinda lame. This drops my opinion to: "OMG it's so good, go and play it, I love manuals"

Yet another quality video games channel. Sigh, subscribed.

Wait where in blazes is the folding screen room?

Amazing video. I hope you blow up after this.

So I just finished death's door and felt this horrible void you feel after finishing good game and the same day Tunic was released. My first thought was that I might as well try this but nothing will compare now to the last experience. Oh boy Tunic ended up been even better than deaths door and obviously they're both zelda-likes but to me that is a positive.

Great video! We can only hope for some kind of 'selective amnesia induction' technology to replay Tunic like the first time.

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If I could summarise the world of Tunic in two words, these would be: "Beautiful Ruin"

Tunic was one of those magical experiences I wish I could experience for the first time again.

Hahaha i love the way you avoid naming the inspiration. Mighty man vs mega guy, now thats a battle I would love to see.

Choose the violent ending if you want more combat. There is plenty more fighting to do if you fight back instead of taking the sword

It's a perfectly fine game but the puzzle to unlock the 'true' ending made me almost snap my controller in half out of rage.

I love this game but the comment "It doesn't take a genius to solve this" made me laugh thinking back to me figuring out the language, as well as the one puzzle in the game I think is bullshit(involving a random, unmarked wall in the church, to avoid spoilers). It wasn't until much later when you said you quit at having to figure out the language that I remembered that the second ending was before all that.

I learned *most* of the language, but there is 1 very large puzzle left that I tapped out at. I'm actually terrible at ciphers, and learning this objectively simple one *really* challenged me. The final puzzle required I *knew* that language in and out, and I only have a passing ability to read it, with a mightily furrowed brow. Easily one of the best games I've played. Right up there with Dark Souls 1, Ocarina of Time, and Portal.

I recently finished cracking the last few secrets of TUNIC last month. This game is an absolute masterpiece and an incredible gem of an indie. I absolutely adore the cleverness of this video being full of secrets and tips for potential new players that they may not understand without proper context, much like how the game presents such things. I hope your channel hits the big time if you keep making videos like this.

tunic mention - i click good video - i comment for engagement also i love that the footage includes you getting the "it uses stamina" achievement, perfectly reminds me how random getting that achievement feels in my playthrough.