THE LIST - docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_K3ziSxT9zcUUGCddS4sF1uNJTWHSbOwB1CQX2Rx4Uo Paratopic on Itch (it's on Steam too) - arbitrarymetric.itch.io/paratopic Paratopic Album (if you just liked the music) - beauchaotica.bandcamp.com/releases I was gonna wait til Friday to upload this, but it's real October hours and there'll be some more games to come.
@@johnratz2878 it's also in a song I like by Prince Daddy and the Hyena, except it's "I always wanna go home when I'm already home".. maybe it's just a common saying in emo songs.
My friends and I have played this game at least 3 times, carefully putting things in chronological order. Weeks after playing and replaying, we were still talking about the story and how everything fits together. I haven't felt that way since Lost Highway.
No Mandalore you're supposed to upload one video here, then to the sseth channel, and THEN back to this channel in order to keep up your alter alter ego.
@@tehfoxxy9630 I imagine it means someone is watching over him for now, making sure he takes his pills, so we won't see Sseth for a while, only Mandalore.
Well depends which one. In my country you can file your taxes yourself in half an hour without much hassle, can register a new company in a day without leaving your house, and you are rarely required to present much paperwork because all the relevant information is already stored online
I think some of the most potent scares are the ones never addressed, but always threatening to come back.When I was younger I really liked the matrix so my parents got me a copy of matrix: path of Neo. and that game is NOT a horror game. But there was a glitch, a pretty common glitch in most third person games, where the camera clipped inside an enemy's head. I saw a frame of a lipless face expressing breathless screaming pain and blank eyeballs with no rendered eyelids to convey expression. That was the first time I'd ever seen anything like that and it happened so quickly I wasn't even sure if it was real. But what really bothered me was, I kept expecting something in the game to make sense of it. It never did, it was a glitch, as far as the game was concerned it never happened. But I didn't know that. I played the rest of that game in fear of whatever this face was, that the story didn't care about. Obviously later in life I learned about 3D models and what I had actually seen but for a while, I was a kid. I beat that game, and when I never got the answers I wanted... I didn't even want to touch that game again, let alone play it. I've yet to ever play or watch horror that could properly catch that feeling again. Just a brief, passing moment in media. Something unexplained, shocking or upsetting to look at, and then never addressed in their world. I feel like that's always ruined horror for me if that makes sense? If the character acknowledges it, then it's just fiction. If there's interaction, there are rules. Even in unknowable Lovecraft horror there's still people addressing the problem. But I've yet to encounter any horror media that makes me question myself.
It’s actually a lot like one of Yoko Taro’s games do to the fact that you have to Replay the game multiple times before you can give an accurate assessment
@@Legomaster-nj4oo Not quite. In Yoko Taro's games, you don't really "replay" the game, the game just sorta gives you a different perspective, or an alternate reality of what could've happened, or just a straight up continuation (like we see in Automata's 3rd "replay") after the credits roll for the first time. This game is different, in which the things that"ll shock or intrigue you in the second playthrough have always been there, you'll have to use context of the previous playthrough to figure it out on your own. Yoko Taru usually just slams it into your face with new content (like what 9S learns about the humans in the second "replay").
Interactive David Lynch-esque anti-walking sim probably is the best description for this game Really happy you covered it, and it's nice if you do these shorter videos every now and then too
The " thump thump" during the end credits theme is such a great nod to John Carpenters The Thing. Love that you did that, by far my favorite movie of all time
That video opening is the closest thing a game has come to eliciting the sheer “ this is fundamentally off. I do not want” horror of my sleep paralysis. Thanks Mandalore, I hate it!
"Be professional. Liars aren't professional unless you're a professional liar, and I have a different job for you." "..." "We knew, of course, but we expected you to be professional with us. You must be completely open." "Don't you know another word?" "That's not very professional."
Sounds so much like institutions and corporations now these days. My response is do you know what the oldest profession is? Prostitution, so when they are telling you to be more professional they are telling you to be more like a prostitute. TL:DR, Professionals are Whores
Having reviewed this and No One Lives Under The Lighthouse, it'd be really interesting to see you cover David Szymanski's Iron Lung. I don't know how much video you could get out of it, the entire game taking place in a single room and all, but the game did get a lore-expanding update a couple days ago, so there's a bit more to talk about.
@@lukaslefevre8007 Speak for yourself. I didn't watch any streams of it. I played it blind, which is really the only way to view it. It's just a very stripped down almost textbook example of building tension and release.
@Abraham Johnathan yea you could say the same for pathologic but fact of the matter is that its a bad game with little to no substance available in a normal playthrough
@@ManOutofTime913 yea since when did stripped down become a positive with you redditors? building tension is all it does, there isnt any release, there isnt anything other than building tension, an tension can only carry a game so much
@@lukaslefevre8007 I never said I use reddit. Stripped down is good because there's not a lot of gameplay mechanics reminding you of the artificiality of what you're playing, thus allowing tension to be built much easier and distracted from less. The ending of the game is objectively a release of the tension. Tension is literally the root of horror. If you're not in suspense as to what's going to happen next, then no piece of media is ever going to scare you. If you want fun horror go play a Resident Evil or something.
I asked my 63 year old Mother to play this game. Her review: "That was the weirdest game I've ever played. I had a gun for a long time before I ever used it. One part scared a poot out of me. I feel like there was a lot more to the game than I was able to figure out. The game felt like a demo."
because when you felt.. sick in this way when something just shifted your frame of reference so much, like often confronting death or violence but not the big massive one.. like when that happened and you were away, at home you'd still feel safe, because you grew up, because you know it.. but you have to grow up and.. like for example move out and get really really physically ill so not that you die but you feel you could.. during your time as kid home was safe, a parent likly there, soothing. now you are alone and may recognize you can and will die alone.. and you are home but there's no comfort
I really like the atmosphere this game had, but agree that it feels like it was setting the stage for more right when it ended. Would be nice to see a sequel of sorts expand upon it someday.
I like the idea that people trapped in a time loop become addicted to linear media. they're trapped in a loop that repeats with only slight differences and some people are able to cross into other people's loops and bring the tapes with them
Oh my god when you made the comparison to sitting in the car listening to your dad listen to political talk radio and then the clip of the in game radio plays, it gave me instant flashbacks. That is undoubtedly the best comparison to anything ive ever heard and it made me laugh so hard. I love you, Mandy.
A week ago I didn't know you existed. You are now by far my favorite game reviewer on youtube. Every game you've covered makes me badly wanna try it and every one you've covered that I have played before is a favorite game of mine. Super excited to see this increased upload rate as I've become a big fan of yours.
@@adenowirus more like "bored russian guy that decided to make a steam game on a weekend" instead of Cronenberg or Lynch or anyone else respectable. yes, yes, I know the game is not russian. I have the game too (unfortunately)
The more I watch your videos the more I realise just how many fascinating games there are out there. Thanks for making such great content. I actually bought the first Pathologic after watching your video and I’m 2/3rds of the way through the Batchelor’s story. Loving it so far.
Videos like this are why I love this channel. Am I ever going to play these obscure games? Probably not, but I like that there is one madman out there playing and covering them so that these often intensely fascinating games don't just get lost in time.
Dude, a reference to Brick _and_ Enemy? You're awesome Mandalore, You've got good taste in film! Brick really is a minor classic of neo noir cinema. I'd recommend it to absolutely anyone. It's easily in my top 50 all-time favorite films. 👍
Great demonstration of why PS1 era was the peak of horror games. Just something unsettling about a low poly version of reality where you can only kind of recognize what everything is supposed to be.
I do actually appreciate you attempting to break down what you think is happening, I feel like too many people wouldn't go that far or brush it off as "well we just don't know" I really feel like this medium isn't mature enough for games like this yet, it's ahead of it's time
I watched your review, bought the game and finnished it 6 times. Now car driving setcions are my favourite thing to do when I want to chill. Thank you for showing me game I would never find by myself. You are the Best :* Love ya
Heh, i thought this was another Pathologic video Listen mandy, ever heard of a game called "return of the Obra Dinn"? Its a ship-based, puzzle game, created by the same guy behind "papers please"
I fucking love Lynch and dream imagery, this game seems perfect for inserting myself into a Twin Peaks-y nightmare, thanks. Speaking of Twin Peaks, Deadly Premonition when?
I have opened the mayor. When the power drops, go in and go in and go in and go in and go in like the US marshall and his three daughters and we lose the vaccine
Man i absolutely love your videos, some of your nonchalant comments about things damn near make me spit out my drinks. But for real you have no clue how much your videos have helped me everyday after work to unwind have a laugh and relax! keep doing what you do man!
3:09 Y'know what the talk-radio reminds me of? How I heard and understood English before I actually spoke it. It's definitively a structured language, and you can even recognize certain recurring sounds and even words, but you have no fucking clue what it all means. It's very familiar in an unsettling way.
That eel stuck with me too. That part of the stage felt to deep as a kid because of slow swim speed and air running out. Then that massive eel peeking out from its cave or swimming around... felt insurmountable yet I was also drawn to it like being transfixed upon some sort of psychological hook of mortality.
yeah the atmosphere is absolutely nightmarish, and not because it feels horrible but because it feels so empty and uncomfortable for a reason I don't understand.
Never really got this game after my play through. I thought it looked really nice and the atmosphere was great, but didn't understand the greater complexities like you did. Thanks for a different perspective. I always enjoy you videos.
Oh my god, another?! So soon?! I must check the month! No, not December. And I'm excited that I've never heard of this! Mandalore videos are almost always either games I have almost no knowledge of, or games I love dearly. I'm thrilled to see both videos, but more the latter. They tend to be so weird and fascinating.
Anyone else so surprised by having a new Mandalore video so soon that you thought it was a Sseth upload and had to double take when it didn't begin with a 'hey hey people'?
Welp, I stopped the review before spoilers and played it twice. Very intriguing. I have no idea why the smugglers box changes into a gun periodically. I wish there was more to see while driving. I never found the thing behind the mirror or the dialogue about rich people, and I didn't notice any trains, just tracks. I didn't consider that metal bending meant anything, I just chalked that up to age. I wish I could've gone in the hole with the bunker. I'm still upset I couldn't catch that pink bird. I wonder what happened to the assassin after seeing the tapes, but I did notice that watching a couple tapes made more and more appear in the room somehow, as if the assassin had watched far more than I got to see between time skips. I chalked up the bird watchers strange limbs after her death to the graphics, not transforming. Strange game. Look forward to seeing what they do next with a bigger budget and team.
Over a year ago you told me to go play the game, so I went and got the game. I played it today, it's really heckin good, looking forward to the second half of the video!
Is this made by the same people who made a very similar looking demo and focused on walking down a linear path only to run in to a giant megaphone creature that was very SCP-esque? The graphics are near identical to my memory and the character in that demo could be tied to the birdwatcher perhaps
played this yesterday and had never heard of it before. i was kind of floored with how much i enjoyed it. a little slow at times but the style, story, and gameplay was great
It feels more like playable Cronenberg than Lynch. I get some serious Videodrome/Existenz vibes from this game. But yeah, it's definitely a shame that it's so short. I'm a fan of short games, but only when they present a satisfying complete experience, and don't leave the player desperate for more.
Man, what a fucking week. You and Civvie come out with a video today and couple days ago Thorhighheels comes out with a nice hour-long metal gear retrospective. Good to be a alive
It's a shame the dev let the popularity of this game go into his head, and now thinks himself to be some amazing writer, while actually seems like he was just a one-trick-pony, but it doesn't stop him from having really stupid takes about other games, and leveraging his "great writing skill"...
the music concept sort of reminds me of Alien versus Predator 2 where I am not sure the theme is part of the ambience or not, it makes me unsettled and I love it as a result
THE LIST - docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_K3ziSxT9zcUUGCddS4sF1uNJTWHSbOwB1CQX2Rx4Uo
Paratopic on Itch (it's on Steam too) - arbitrarymetric.itch.io/paratopic
Paratopic Album (if you just liked the music) - beauchaotica.bandcamp.com/releases
I was gonna wait til Friday to upload this, but it's real October hours and there'll be some more games to come.
Thanks for the vids, m8, chillax broski
What kind of cocaine binge are you on to release two videos within a week... and why aren't you sharing?!
The only thing I wanna know is if you and Sseth Tzeentach have ever been in the same room at the same time?
Spooktober is upon us. Can't wait to see what's hiding behind the veil this year.
Just noticed Dishonored is on that list, Mandy. You'd better not criticise my favorite game of all time, or I'm making you play Pathologic 1 again.
"I wanna go home but I am home" is a surprisingly potent line.
Made me sad
It's a mountain goats lyric (not sure if it's an intentional reference or not).
@@johnratz2878 it's also in a song I like by Prince Daddy and the Hyena, except it's "I always wanna go home when I'm already home".. maybe it's just a common saying in emo songs.
If you are 13.
Home, is where I want to be
But I guess I'm already there
"elevator moving at the speed of government" - you have a way with words, Mandalore.
@B S I can't speak for the others, but it was my first time hearing - at least that I can remember, hah.
Applies to everything but the military
"I want to go home... but I *am* home..."
“I like your funny words armored clad man.”
0:57 1:08 0:57 0:57
Game before Mandalore reviewed it :
Game after Mandalore reviewed it : Game sales up to 300%
Hey, that’s Sseth’s job.
I hope to fuck so, I want more discussion on this game so badly.
@@90maducc And who do you think the person behind both of these channels is?
It's Raylight!
For most of these games that represents about a total of 3 sales.
My friends and I have played this game at least 3 times, carefully putting things in chronological order. Weeks after playing and replaying, we were still talking about the story and how everything fits together. I haven't felt that way since Lost Highway.
No Mandalore you're supposed to upload one video here, then to the sseth channel, and THEN back to this channel in order to keep up your alter alter ego.
wait
Sseth did say he would be gone for a while
Didn't sseth say he's currently in vacation or something?
@@tehfoxxy9630 I imagine it means someone is watching over him for now, making sure he takes his pills, so we won't see Sseth for a while, only Mandalore.
Sseth not uploading has led to Mandalore uploading more. I wonder why?
I can't wait to see what you whip out for Halloween
CreepsMcPasta think you’ll ever dive into Paratopic?
It's the Creeps!
Haha this diyuck
Right in the middle of binge-watching your reviews, you upload a new one. I call it Fate.
oh shit, the mandog itself is here. who would'a thought.
Okay, "at the the speed of government" is my new favorite line from anything ever.
It"s one of the "it's so fuuny cuz it's true" jokes.
Germany == dead slow
I lost it when he said that.
Well depends which one. In my country you can file your taxes yourself in half an hour without much hassle, can register a new company in a day without leaving your house, and you are rarely required to present much paperwork because all the relevant information is already stored online
@@Shajirr_
Where do you live?
Mandalore died of his backpain and is now a transcendent being, at least thats the only explanation I have for him uplouding more
He has to catch up with Sseth or he'll take over their shared body.
@@DSFARGEG00 That's called schizophrenia. Aso that means that we won't have any more Sseth streams and *we can't have that now can we?*
@@andrewstewart1464 no, schizophrenia doesn't have anything with that.
I think some of the most potent scares are the ones never addressed, but always threatening to come back.When I was younger I really liked the matrix so my parents got me a copy of matrix: path of Neo. and that game is NOT a horror game. But there was a glitch, a pretty common glitch in most third person games, where the camera clipped inside an enemy's head. I saw a frame of a lipless face expressing breathless screaming pain and blank eyeballs with no rendered eyelids to convey expression. That was the first time I'd ever seen anything like that and it happened so quickly I wasn't even sure if it was real. But what really bothered me was, I kept expecting something in the game to make sense of it. It never did, it was a glitch, as far as the game was concerned it never happened. But I didn't know that. I played the rest of that game in fear of whatever this face was, that the story didn't care about. Obviously later in life I learned about 3D models and what I had actually seen but for a while, I was a kid. I beat that game, and when I never got the answers I wanted... I didn't even want to touch that game again, let alone play it.
I've yet to ever play or watch horror that could properly catch that feeling again. Just a brief, passing moment in media. Something unexplained, shocking or upsetting to look at, and then never addressed in their world. I feel like that's always ruined horror for me if that makes sense? If the character acknowledges it, then it's just fiction. If there's interaction, there are rules. Even in unknowable Lovecraft horror there's still people addressing the problem. But I've yet to encounter any horror media that makes me question myself.
Glimpses into the unknown even though the media conveying it being made by a Human like us is spooky.
Mandalore, it’s almost 5 in the morning, why would you do this to me
Now you know how people in europe usually feel when they follow american youtubers.
here is actually 5:50, so theres that. neverbeen so earty
He's still on his meds that's why
For me it just turned 6 a.m. I have yet to sleep. x.x
This isn't real. You need to wake up.
"It definitely reminds me of a few things"
Yeah anything that bears any resemblance to EYE is going to be absolutely golden
Literally, its got a yellow tinge all over.
It’s actually a lot like one of Yoko Taro’s games do to the fact that you have to
Replay the game multiple times before you can give an accurate assessment
@@Legomaster-nj4oo Not quite. In Yoko Taro's games, you don't really "replay" the game, the game just sorta gives you a different perspective, or an alternate reality of what could've happened, or just a straight up continuation (like we see in Automata's 3rd "replay") after the credits roll for the first time.
This game is different, in which the things that"ll shock or intrigue you in the second playthrough have always been there, you'll have to use context of the previous playthrough to figure it out on your own. Yoko Taru usually just slams it into your face with new content (like what 9S learns about the humans in the second "replay").
There's no escaping the cycles of guilt
"We'll talk about trains next time." Can't wait.
I doubt it will be, but I hope it’s metro exodus!
Could be The Final Station
Doesn't that Icy survival management game feature trains? Frostpunk or something
Probably gonna be Sunless Skies since it's one of three videos on list marked as recording.
Sunless Skies is probably my favorite game released this year.
"The company tried to tap into some sort of other dimension for a power source"
Doom Guy: Ah shit, here we go again.
Don't forget Gordon Freeman
@@Ar1AnX1x daaamn that’s crazy
@@Ar1AnX1x So was doom guy originally
@@Ar1AnX1x it been a year daddy
WE SEND SIGNALS TO OURSELVES
THRU THEIR DOMAIN
DID WE REALLY BELIEVE
THEY WOULDNT ADD THEIR OWN
Is that fucking local58, in my mandalore video comment section
@@ClankykingSumireko HIS THRONE
REJOICE
Interactive David Lynch-esque anti-walking sim probably is the best description for this game
Really happy you covered it, and it's nice if you do these shorter videos every now and then too
'One minute the game can sound like Blade Runner. Then it becomes unsettling electronic noise'
So Blade Runner 2049 then?
I like it, too.
@@Locksley108 this better be a copypasta. Edit: google says it is THANK FUCK
@@Locksley108 no one cares. lay off the carbs.
@@Locksley108 Someone has been spending too much time being a contrarian on /tv/
@@Locksley108 LOL! Good to know they show BR2049 at the asylum, but you really shouldn't forget to take your pills.
Furor Teutonicus ᛟ this sounds like something armond white would write
The " thump thump" during the end credits theme is such a great nod to John Carpenters The Thing. Love that you did that, by far my favorite movie of all time
That video opening is the closest thing a game has come to eliciting the sheer “ this is fundamentally off. I do not want” horror of my sleep paralysis. Thanks Mandalore, I hate it!
That intro made me gain brouzouf internally.
"Be professional. Liars aren't professional unless you're a professional liar, and I have a different job for you."
"..."
"We knew, of course, but we expected you to be professional with us. You must be completely open."
"Don't you know another word?"
"That's not very professional."
Sounds so much like institutions and corporations now these days. My response is do you know what the oldest profession is? Prostitution, so when they are telling you to be more professional they are telling you to be more like a prostitute.
TL:DR, Professionals are Whores
@@Marinealver Corporations owned epic style with facts and logic.
@@trentn1127 despite what liberals say, you fool you fell for it!
ThunderCross split attack!
@@FreakyFriday4Phaggs
Pls don't ever respond to me with jojo references again ty.
@@trentn1127 something something Yare Yare Daze.
Having reviewed this and No One Lives Under The Lighthouse, it'd be really interesting to see you cover David Szymanski's Iron Lung. I don't know how much video you could get out of it, the entire game taking place in a single room and all, but the game did get a lore-expanding update a couple days ago, so there's a bit more to talk about.
God that game is so insanely overrated and I can’t comprehend the hype that happened within the streaming community it’s truly not that interesting
@@lukaslefevre8007 Speak for yourself. I didn't watch any streams of it. I played it blind, which is really the only way to view it. It's just a very stripped down almost textbook example of building tension and release.
@Abraham Johnathan yea you could say the same for pathologic but fact of the matter is that its a bad game with little to no substance available in a normal playthrough
@@ManOutofTime913 yea since when did stripped down become a positive with you redditors? building tension is all it does, there isnt any release, there isnt anything other than building tension, an tension can only carry a game so much
@@lukaslefevre8007 I never said I use reddit. Stripped down is good because there's not a lot of gameplay mechanics reminding you of the artificiality of what you're playing, thus allowing tension to be built much easier and distracted from less. The ending of the game is objectively a release of the tension. Tension is literally the root of horror. If you're not in suspense as to what's going to happen next, then no piece of media is ever going to scare you. If you want fun horror go play a Resident Evil or something.
I asked my 63 year old Mother to play this game. Her review: "That was the weirdest game I've ever played. I had a gun for a long time before I ever used it. One part scared a poot out of me. I feel like there was a lot more to the game than I was able to figure out. The game felt like a demo."
Your mom sounds dope
Seems like a cool mom.
It hasn't been a week and you've posted another review. You're spoiling us Mandalore.
Also that's a pretty cool intro too.
Since you seem to play a variety of games, what is your preferred genre?
"I want to go home but I am home"
I felt that lol
C Mm It’s like being in the military.
yeah, i am not sure why that pulls on my heartstrings, i've felt like that before, i still dont understand what it means or how to fix it though
because when you felt.. sick in this way when something just shifted your frame of reference so much, like often confronting death or violence but not the big massive one..
like when that happened and you were away, at home you'd still feel safe, because you grew up, because you know it..
but you have to grow up and..
like for example move out and get
really really physically ill so not that you die but you feel you could..
during your time as kid home was safe, a parent likly there, soothing.
now you are alone and may recognize you can and will die alone..
and you are home but there's no comfort
A lethe ia cringe overdose
@@GreenEyedDazzler if that makes you happy?
I don't judge, you do you
I really like the atmosphere this game had, but agree that it feels like it was setting the stage for more right when it ended. Would be nice to see a sequel of sorts expand upon it someday.
I haven't seen a Seth episode since Underrail and we already have Mandalore once more.
This is Sseth on meds
@Aleksa Petrovic yes
@Aleksa Petrovic boat bomber is between the two
I don't like Sseth.
mandalore is the hobbit that lives in sseths ceiling tiles
I like the idea that people trapped in a time loop become addicted to linear media. they're trapped in a loop that repeats with only slight differences and some people are able to cross into other people's loops and bring the tapes with them
Mandalore, thanks for this video. Now my Steam library has something new.
Oh my god when you made the comparison to sitting in the car listening to your dad listen to political talk radio and then the clip of the in game radio plays, it gave me instant flashbacks. That is undoubtedly the best comparison to anything ive ever heard and it made me laugh so hard. I love you, Mandy.
A week ago I didn't know you existed. You are now by far my favorite game reviewer on youtube. Every game you've covered makes me badly wanna try it and every one you've covered that I have played before is a favorite game of mine. Super excited to see this increased upload rate as I've become a big fan of yours.
-Mandalore
-Releasing 2 review in a very short span of time
*A surprise to be sure, but a welcomed one.*
So Half-life if Freeman was fired a day before the accident?
Playable David Lynch? Well damn, I'm gonna have to play this now.
It's more Cronenberg than Lynch.
@@1r0zz Seems like a bit of both.
I was just about to say that, holy shit the vibe is on point.
This feels like an open world black lodge.
@@adenowirus more like "bored russian guy that decided to make a steam game on a weekend" instead of Cronenberg or Lynch or anyone else respectable.
yes, yes, I know the game is not russian. I have the game too (unfortunately)
You should consider putting the Samorost series into the review list. They're point and click puzzle games with a really interesting art style.
Or Machinarium, from the save devs. It's amazing.
Amanita is one of the better Czech dev teams to be sure. I even went to their art exposition when they were releasing Machinarium
oh man, its beautiful to see channels you watch delve into the horror subgenres you do - weird feeling hahaha
The more I watch your videos the more I realise just how many fascinating games there are out there. Thanks for making such great content. I actually bought the first Pathologic after watching your video and I’m 2/3rds of the way through the Batchelor’s story. Loving it so far.
The characters sound like Ithorians from Knights of the Old Republic
*Video starts*
Oh good, the LSD is starting to kick in
Reddit moment
Critical Nobody Wait... I know you!
Videos like this are why I love this channel. Am I ever going to play these obscure games? Probably not, but I like that there is one madman out there playing and covering them so that these often intensely fascinating games don't just get lost in time.
Hell, some of these games are impossible to run anyways... for non-madmen.
just got diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart disease and the first thing i see is a new mandalore video to take my mind off it. thank you!
hope you pull through it man, don't get too spooked during october
i really hope this is a troll...
chin up dude it's "potentially" after all
BOO
Hey man, I hope you get better
Dude, a reference to Brick _and_ Enemy? You're awesome Mandalore, You've got good taste in film!
Brick really is a minor classic of neo noir cinema. I'd recommend it to absolutely anyone. It's easily in my top 50 all-time favorite films. 👍
“You’ve got an enemy, friendo”
Dang, CV-11 _and_ Mandalore uploading on the same morning. I have shit to do but ... I guess it can wait!!
"K-mart of reality"
Good lord that took me out of it a bit. Since even K-mart isn't around anymore. xD
Even reality didn't like K-mart.
Nah here in Australia there's plenty of 'em.
@@orderofdusk2382 Fake news, Australia isn't real
@@Imeggscelent true im a paid actor
Great demonstration of why PS1 era was the peak of horror games. Just something unsettling about a low poly version of reality where you can only kind of recognize what everything is supposed to be.
I do actually appreciate you attempting to break down what you think is happening, I feel like too many people wouldn't go that far or brush it off as "well we just don't know"
I really feel like this medium isn't mature enough for games like this yet, it's ahead of it's time
I watched your review, bought the game and finnished it 6 times. Now car driving setcions are my favourite thing to do when I want to chill. Thank you for showing me game I would never find by myself. You are the Best :*
Love ya
Heh, i thought this was another Pathologic video
Listen mandy, ever heard of a game called "return of the Obra Dinn"?
Its a ship-based, puzzle game, created by the same guy
behind "papers please"
I’ve never been this early to a Mandalore video. Oh my god? I love your work, man. My friends and I talk about your content often.
I fucking love Lynch and dream imagery, this game seems perfect for inserting myself into a Twin Peaks-y nightmare, thanks. Speaking of Twin Peaks, Deadly Premonition when?
Two videos in one week? I'm calling it the Mandalorian Renaissance.
Don't trust this guy, he blew up a sbarro's in 2007, my 3 sons were killed in the explosion.
What's the origin of this inside joke.
yag sbarro?
@@dango2917 It's from his "youtube guide", the section where he talks about dealing with purely negative comments
I have opened the mayor. When the power drops, go in and go in and go in and go in and go in like the US marshall and his three daughters and we lose the vaccine
@@Skeletroller the one video I skipped because I thought it was about RUclips guide to being a RUclipsr or something. gonna watch now
3:10
“It’s coom”
"the speed of goverment" is my new favorite phrase
Thank you for correctly using the adverb "sickly" to modify the verb "feel."
“In the ‘great value’ brand of reality”
That’s my favourite sentence
Can't wait for all the spooky game coverage!
I love this new release schedule.
God damn, I never expected Paratopic...
"there's a part where the elevator's moving at the speed of government"
- mandalore gaming 2019
Lord Mandalore is a gift which just keeps on giving. Another video in a Month!
A beautiful Lynchian nightmare. Glad you’re covering it
Man i absolutely love your videos, some of your nonchalant comments about things damn near make me spit out my drinks. But for real you have no clue how much your videos have helped me everyday after work to unwind have a laugh and relax! keep doing what you do man!
I highly recommend playing Jalopy or My Summer Car for that broken, dysoptic cold war era feel
My Summer Car is cozy tho
Wow these reviews are getting more and more frequent! Great work.
8:41 nice Dexter's Lab reference.
3:09 Y'know what the talk-radio reminds me of? How I heard and understood English before I actually spoke it. It's definitively a structured language, and you can even recognize certain recurring sounds and even words, but you have no fucking clue what it all means. It's very familiar in an unsettling way.
9:23 i heard that story before... *grabs doomguy's helmet*
That eel stuck with me too.
That part of the stage felt to deep as a kid because of slow swim speed and air running out. Then that massive eel peeking out from its cave or swimming around... felt insurmountable yet I was also drawn to it like being transfixed upon some sort of psychological hook of mortality.
"It definitely reminds me of a few things" Haha holy shit the whole intro I was thinking "wow this sounds EXACTLY like the NPCs in E.Y.E."
passed by this on steam several times, now im going to buy it. DAMN YOU MANDALORE ME WALLET CANT TAKE THESE VIDEOS, keep up the good work
My God, what kind of nightmare fuel is this, I literally just woke up from one, and this is what I see ;d
yeah the atmosphere is absolutely nightmarish, and not because it feels horrible but because it feels so empty and uncomfortable for a reason I don't understand.
The one thing that was constantly in my head when I played Paratopic was "I want to leave, but I need to know more.."
Oh those voices remind me of smile for me. I love that sorta "almost talking" style of voice acting.
smile?
@@Goozeeeee smile for me is a kinda point and click adventure game
Never really got this game after my play through. I thought it looked really nice and the atmosphere was great, but didn't understand the greater complexities like you did. Thanks for a different perspective. I always enjoy you videos.
I don't think I'll ever get tired of synthwave based soundtracks
Good videos, I find that yours is one of those few channels im always checking for new content! Thank you, keep on man
sounds a lot like Cronenberg's Vidiodrome mixed with Roadside Picnic. Cool!
Oh my god, another?! So soon?! I must check the month! No, not December. And I'm excited that I've never heard of this! Mandalore videos are almost always either games I have almost no knowledge of, or games I love dearly. I'm thrilled to see both videos, but more the latter. They tend to be so weird and fascinating.
Well, I'm sick, I'm tired because I can't sleep thanks to sickness, yada yada. At the very least, new Mandalore video
And it's a fever in a video form.
Anyone else so surprised by having a new Mandalore video so soon that you thought it was a Sseth upload and had to double take when it didn't begin with a 'hey hey people'?
ITS BEEN 4 DAYS I CAN ACTUALLY HEAR YOUR SPINE CRYING YOU MADMAN
Welp, I stopped the review before spoilers and played it twice. Very intriguing. I have no idea why the smugglers box changes into a gun periodically. I wish there was more to see while driving. I never found the thing behind the mirror or the dialogue about rich people, and I didn't notice any trains, just tracks. I didn't consider that metal bending meant anything, I just chalked that up to age. I wish I could've gone in the hole with the bunker. I'm still upset I couldn't catch that pink bird. I wonder what happened to the assassin after seeing the tapes, but I did notice that watching a couple tapes made more and more appear in the room somehow, as if the assassin had watched far more than I got to see between time skips. I chalked up the bird watchers strange limbs after her death to the graphics, not transforming.
Strange game. Look forward to seeing what they do next with a bigger budget and team.
I misread your twitter handle as “Michael Lore” for a second and had to do a double take
Thank you for uploading at merely 8pm down here.
Wait, when did this game came out? Looks genuinely like something from 1997. Like David Lynch made it alongside Lost Highway.
March 2018
@Mel Gibsokarton
1/ Nice pic.
2/ Great album.
Over a year ago you told me to go play the game, so I went and got the game.
I played it today, it's really heckin good, looking forward to the second half of the video!
Is this made by the same people who made a very similar looking demo and focused on walking down a linear path only to run in to a giant megaphone creature that was very SCP-esque? The graphics are near identical to my memory and the character in that demo could be tied to the birdwatcher perhaps
played this yesterday and had never heard of it before. i was kind of floored with how much i enjoyed it. a little slow at times but the style, story, and gameplay was great
It feels more like playable Cronenberg than Lynch. I get some serious Videodrome/Existenz vibes from this game.
But yeah, it's definitely a shame that it's so short. I'm a fan of short games, but only when they present a satisfying complete experience, and don't leave the player desperate for more.
Man, what a fucking week. You and Civvie come out with a video today and couple days ago Thorhighheels comes out with a nice hour-long metal gear retrospective. Good to be a alive
It's a shame the dev let the popularity of this game go into his head, and now thinks himself to be some amazing writer, while actually seems like he was just a one-trick-pony, but it doesn't stop him from having really stupid takes about other games, and leveraging his "great writing skill"...
This game is dogshit. He has nothing to brag about
the music concept sort of reminds me of Alien versus Predator 2 where I am not sure the theme is part of the ambience or not, it makes me unsettled and I love it as a result
This looks like the game with the giant siren head guy that chases you around..
My vacation begins today and God Bless you Mandalor for starting it of with a BANG.
Had a feeling you'd make a video on this right 5 minutes into me playing it
Just came home, reheated my lasagna, turned on my PC and there is a FUCKING NEW MANDALORE VIDEO. You just made my day better