The story of cruelty squad is one which leads you down a dark rabbit hole, the main character kills a fake god, gets depression, becomes a succesful man, kills his own boss, twice, then accepts life for what it is and overcomes depression to then become a god, destroys the universe and rebuilds it to be a better place, this game genuinely changed my perception on so many things man, easily my favorite game of all time.
You mentioning fever dreams in the intro IMMEDIATELY reminded me of that one time I've been sick (I'm talking a really bad week long flu) and binge watched a whole bunch of Silent Hill Video Essays and Reviews. I've had some nasty fever dreams afterwards to the point that I even wasn't sure if I'm actually awake for like 5 minutes straight. Needless to say, I was scared shitless
i need a video on games and video like this but the ones with all the religious symboling scattered everywhere for some reason that was glued into my 2 year old brain that has stuck ever since
I was kinda hoping for Hylics or Middens, but those seem more like lucid dreams or psychedelic trances but not necessarily fever dreams. Still, I love if you talked about one or the other.
If I ever do another video like this, Hylics (or Hylics 2) is definitely going to be in it! I tried Middens a little while ago while making my RPG Maker video and honestly, I don't think it was my thing. It really hasn't aged well, but it definitely is unique!
@@takune Middens is a classic. Its sequel game, Gingiva is better in many ways imo. (My pfp has been Gingiva's protag for many years, thats how much I enjoy its aesthetic lol)
just finished the video and omg is f perfect, the music and the footage usage in combination with your chill voice, just perfect idk why just have 2k of views, deserves more attention fr
I was once sick and I had a dream where I was in a multicolored 4 dimensional non-euclidean maze and was chased by a skinless monster. Each time he would catch me I woke up and couldn't move at all. I was awake but couldn't move. The only choice for me was to try and sleep again. But the catch is, everytime I slept again I was once again brought up in the same dream. He caught me 10 times.
Wait, wait, wait Cruelty Squad just went on sale, I might just buy it now. I was so curious about it, thanks Takune! For your elaborate and interesting videos :3
I used to have fever dreams after surgery, when I was 13 or 14. I would dream an alley close to my house, it was dark and everything was dark and blue like an Alien movie (but I hadn't watched Alien yet). There were industrial noises and metal grates and a huge electric fan that sucked air in, and was pulling me in, and I would wake up just before the fan devoured me. Oh, and Silent Hill wasn't invented yet. It was '94, there was only the SNES. I also have deliriums when the heat is high. I can talk to you and suddenly I start talking nonsense and if you don't stop me, I will talk weirder and weirder stuff. Heat causes me fever, and fever brings deliriums.
I think, warm environment around you likes a hot room where you are sleeping, which might causes bizzare or fever dream. My theory says, when we sleep in a heaty room, which causes dehydration in our body, the concentration of brain chemicals gots high(specially when you take tea before sleep) and eventually leads to increased BP and decrease of imagination of thoughts where less and less details comes in our imagination because of limited brain activity to handle the condition of our body.
My dream was, when I saw a thing behind my tall shelf, with a crt on top of it. My second generation of my dreams, added rendering. (It would render setting scenes air density, people sound, reflections. The first flash of the render was it used a basic 3D render of the room, or Then it based on logic renders the setting and textures. (Still is rendering deciding more) It now renders static/vibe space, via radius. Now this different radius, sends emotions/sensory stimulation around me, all around in all directions. (In rapid) And the closes walls around me render bigger to me. So that also tends to rendering of people. Now the other whole step again is where eatch people have their own personality and logic og being their, Whenever the timeline doesn’t match my brain says oh this happened, nobody in that dream ever can get deleted. Now back to my childhood dream, it was easy going without logic, and an easy story plot function. Where I dreamed I was a kid at my farm, and it was different shaped, but referenced similar, I was in a dream, where my room inside the farmhouse. Had a tall self where there was a black crt vhs combo on top of it, After 2 dream-days, inside that particular dream, I met someone behind the shelf, I tried to move it, even though slightly, I got out a blowing green, ball with a smile on it. In the dream I took care of it, cared for it… but I had to leave due to some thing outside the world, The whole farm country, personal had to be evacuated, due to something in the air, You can die… The dream was something about some “gas” coincidently similar to covid. (This dream was when I was 6) Each generation, is full of versions. Like a chapter and each page is the slightest small updates. The chapters are the hugest noticeable changes. The rendered dreams existed since 2014? The dream hated things that didn’t follow logic, and would explain something for that something that wasn’t.
i really like the way yume nikki and other things with the psychedelic aesthetics that feel like early 2000s (which i never experienced) make me feel. it feels so nostalgic even though it is (as i said) psychedelic and feels like an era i never lived through. it probably has something to do with experiencing yume nikki at a very young age and having a thing with loneliness which made the game stick wiith me to this day haha
cruelty squad does have an interesting story its just like a dark souls story, it doesn't have cutscenes and it uses the envirement and characters to tell you it
What about the backrooms from dangours wierd streets, a cult worshiping a bird, a none ending staircase, a forest with roots merged with the ground to confusing streets the backrooms are like a collection of wierd dreams
What about Middens or Gingiva? When I think of fever dreams, those games come to my mind first and foremost. I do agree on the choices you did make though. Might have to take a look at Cruelty Squad now.
Very nice video. Was very surprised to find this while randomly searching. As for your question in the comments, I'll list some games in order of how feverish I think they are. There's Middens and Gingiva, two games set in the same universe that have just bizzare looking sprites and environments. Space Funeral is another one, but literally everything is wacky and hard on the eyes, intentionally so. Yume Nikki in particular has a bunch of fangames that would be fever dreamish, but I'll stick with Yume 2kki and Uneven Dream for this comment. Both are made by sizable communities, and as such range from relaxing to downright terrifying at points. Farethere City and Endroll are kinda like Omori in that they save the fever dream aspect for certain really offputting parts of the game that work really well with their story. There is of course Earthbound, the game that is kinda at the heart of the weird game community, though it's less fever dreamy (unless you count the battle backgrounds) and more just weird. Lastly, there's OFF, which I guess I'm only including due to my love for the game, but there's also there is some pretty bizarre points.
Welp isn't that unfortunate I never experienced a fever dream or at least I don't remember. Can never have one again because I was lucky on the gene pool lottery and have a buff ass immune system. Haven't been sick in years. Weird flex I know but I swear it was unintentional. But technically were always sick every single second we just don't show symptoms. Update: I'm finally sick after years and oh boy do I regret my wish. Also this makes me look like I'm eating my words since it's only been 2 months but I swear I have not been sick for years up until now!
You can try something similar, though. It's safe and easy: When you are tired and wanna go to sleep, don't lie down, instead sit in a not very comfortable position. When you almost fall asleep you will nod or shake because you are not in the right position, and that will make it impossible to sleep. Try it a few times and you will suddenly experience visions. This is called "hipnagogic state", and it's how some of the Surrealists found the landscapes they painted.
Check this craziness out....ok, ima skeptic about EVERYTHING....BUT. I had a recurring dream when I was a young child (5 at the oldest because of the place I was living in sure of it) and I was in a strange place where this woman who was totally gorgeous and felt like the most magnetic thing ever was comforting me and telling me different things that were like "just hold on, be patient. It doesn't matter if life is hard keep going" OK..that's super weird to wanna hear as a 5 year old, despair isn't a common issue, and also this very hourglass voluptuous woman was basically fully naked but my imagination I guess had light and warmth coming from places I wouldn't have been aware of. I also had no concern for these things at all, just legos I was 5 lol. But I could Never Forget her face and form and everything about her. And I kid you not, I met a girl 5 years ago at 33 and it is 100% her. Still together to this day. Idk if she just looks like her but she's the only person I've ever been into enough to be ready to commit from day one. Didnt tell her that but yea. So im engaged to the woman who was a goddess in my one recurring dream as a child. Super weird stuff.
One time I got a bad cold and one night when I was sick and I had a dream where there were these neon outlines of monsters outside my house and they were barfing out other monsters and each one was a different color so me and my mom went outside to investigate then one was running up to jump scare us but then the door handle turned to jelly but then out of no where mom apparently knew how to make door Knobs so we got inside and I went back to bed hoping that I will wake up then the walls were melting and little lights started popping up that were the colors of the monster outlines. AND THEN I WAKE UP WITH A HEGGIN RUNNY NOSE AND I LOOKED ATMY (real) BED AND IT WAS COVERED WITH SNOT :P
In 10 years, this video will feel like a fever dream
If I still make videos 10 years from now, I’ll do a fever dreams part 2 😴
2/10 years
Weird seeing you here
The story of cruelty squad is one which leads you down a dark rabbit hole, the main character kills a fake god, gets depression, becomes a succesful man, kills his own boss, twice, then accepts life for what it is and overcomes depression to then become a god, destroys the universe and rebuilds it to be a better place, this game genuinely changed my perception on so many things man, easily my favorite game of all time.
You mentioning fever dreams in the intro IMMEDIATELY reminded me of that one time I've been sick (I'm talking a really bad week long flu) and binge watched a whole bunch of Silent Hill Video Essays and Reviews. I've had some nasty fever dreams afterwards to the point that I even wasn't sure if I'm actually awake for like 5 minutes straight. Needless to say, I was scared shitless
bowling alley screen when you get a strike:
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i need a video on games and video like this but the ones with all the religious symboling scattered everywhere for some reason that was glued into my 2 year old brain that has stuck ever since
Anybody have suggestions on other fever dream-ish stuff? Love these types of games and definitely wanna play more of em!
Isn’t hylics a thing?
Never mind it was at the end :)
Pony Island :3
Did you try Fatum Betula? It's by Bryce Bucher who is one of the lead devs of the haunted PS1 Demo Discs?
@@bourbonbobo no but I just looked it up and it looks REALLY cool. Definitely going to pick it up. Thanks Breogán!
Fever dream games ?
Oh no. *LSD DREAM EMULATOR*
Edit : you literally added that to video. I feel stupid. Whatever, its a weird "game" I still follow.
In 10-20years somebody will have a business good at stock market all because of this game
You have no right to be this interesting and high quality. Good job.
I was kinda hoping for Hylics or Middens, but those seem more like lucid dreams or psychedelic trances but not necessarily fever dreams. Still, I love if you talked about one or the other.
If I ever do another video like this, Hylics (or Hylics 2) is definitely going to be in it! I tried Middens a little while ago while making my RPG Maker video and honestly, I don't think it was my thing. It really hasn't aged well, but it definitely is unique!
@@takune Middens is a classic. Its sequel game, Gingiva is better in many ways imo. (My pfp has been Gingiva's protag for many years, thats how much I enjoy its aesthetic lol)
Glad to see somebody else mention Middens. Love the series.
just finished the video and omg is f perfect, the music and the footage usage in combination with your chill voice, just perfect idk why just have 2k of views, deserves more attention fr
I was once sick and I had a dream where I was in a multicolored 4 dimensional non-euclidean maze and was chased by a skinless monster. Each time he would catch me I woke up and couldn't move at all. I was awake but couldn't move. The only choice for me was to try and sleep again. But the catch is, everytime I slept again I was once again brought up in the same dream. He caught me 10 times.
I'm glad I found this channel. I love this content.
Wait, wait, wait Cruelty Squad just went on sale, I might just buy it now. I was so curious about it, thanks Takune! For your elaborate and interesting videos :3
This was a very cool video, easy to understand as well as entertaining! Keep up the great work! :D
Cruelty Squads default controls are like.. How I try to make all the shooters I play now, it's so awesome
I'd seen a few videos on cruelty squad before but this video made me actually want to try it, keep up the great work
I used to have fever dreams after surgery, when I was 13 or 14. I would dream an alley close to my house, it was dark and everything was dark and blue like an Alien movie (but I hadn't watched Alien yet). There were industrial noises and metal grates and a huge electric fan that sucked air in, and was pulling me in, and I would wake up just before the fan devoured me. Oh, and Silent Hill wasn't invented yet. It was '94, there was only the SNES.
I also have deliriums when the heat is high. I can talk to you and suddenly I start talking nonsense and if you don't stop me, I will talk weirder and weirder stuff. Heat causes me fever, and fever brings deliriums.
I think, warm environment around you likes a hot room where you are sleeping, which might causes bizzare or fever dream.
My theory says, when we sleep in a heaty room, which causes dehydration in our body, the concentration of brain chemicals gots high(specially when you take tea before sleep) and eventually leads to increased BP and decrease of imagination of thoughts where less and less details comes in our imagination because of limited brain activity to handle the condition of our body.
My dream was, when I saw a thing behind my tall shelf, with a crt on top of it.
My second generation of my dreams, added rendering.
(It would render setting scenes air density, people sound, reflections.
The first flash of the render was it used a basic 3D render of the room, or
Then it based on logic renders the setting and textures.
(Still is rendering deciding more)
It now renders static/vibe space, via radius.
Now this different radius, sends emotions/sensory stimulation around me, all around in all directions.
(In rapid)
And the closes walls around me render bigger to me.
So that also tends to rendering of people.
Now the other whole step again is where eatch people have their own personality and logic og being their,
Whenever the timeline doesn’t match my brain says oh this happened, nobody in that dream ever can get deleted.
Now back to my childhood dream, it was easy going without logic, and an easy story plot function.
Where I dreamed I was a kid at my farm, and it was different shaped, but referenced similar,
I was in a dream, where my room inside the farmhouse.
Had a tall self where there was a black crt vhs combo on top of it,
After 2 dream-days, inside that particular dream, I met someone behind the shelf,
I tried to move it, even though slightly, I got out a blowing green, ball with a smile on it.
In the dream I took care of it, cared for it… but I had to leave due to some thing outside the world,
The whole farm country, personal had to be evacuated, due to something in the air,
You can die…
The dream was something about some “gas” coincidently similar to covid.
(This dream was when I was 6)
Each generation, is full of versions. Like a chapter and each page is the slightest small updates. The chapters are the hugest noticeable changes.
The rendered dreams existed since 2014?
The dream hated things that didn’t follow logic, and would explain something for that something that wasn’t.
I've played Cruelty Squad with the default controls since I started playing it like a year & a half ago.
I think the UI meme analogy was actually very apt and made perfect sense!
Imo yume 2kki is peak fever dream-ish video game design. It's almost endless with how much you can explore.
i really like the way yume nikki and other things with the psychedelic aesthetics that feel like early 2000s (which i never experienced) make me feel. it feels so nostalgic even though it is (as i said) psychedelic and feels like an era i never lived through. it probably has something to do with experiencing yume nikki at a very young age and having a thing with loneliness which made the game stick wiith me to this day haha
anemonia
it's pretty swag
There's a game called Illusion Lock with a webseries that's really fever-dreamy
I guess im kind of rare as every single night I experience a fever dream. Absolute madness of head i guess
cruelty squad does have an interesting story its just like a dark souls story, it doesn't have cutscenes and it uses the envirement and characters to tell you it
What about the backrooms from dangours wierd streets, a cult worshiping a bird, a none ending staircase, a forest with roots merged with the ground to confusing streets the backrooms are like a collection of wierd dreams
The world was ending and I woke up ever two hours
Slamscape for the PS1 kind of reminds me of a fever dream type game. It's pretty tripped out.
my favorite fever dream games: cruelty squad, hylics, babdhi, lavender island
What about Middens or Gingiva? When I think of fever dreams, those games come to my mind first and foremost.
I do agree on the choices you did make though. Might have to take a look at Cruelty Squad now.
Very nice video. Was very surprised to find this while randomly searching. As for your question in the comments, I'll list some games in order of how feverish I think they are.
There's Middens and Gingiva, two games set in the same universe that have just bizzare looking sprites and environments.
Space Funeral is another one, but literally everything is wacky and hard on the eyes, intentionally so.
Yume Nikki in particular has a bunch of fangames that would be fever dreamish, but I'll stick with Yume 2kki and Uneven Dream for this comment. Both are made by sizable communities, and as such range from relaxing to downright terrifying at points.
Farethere City and Endroll are kinda like Omori in that they save the fever dream aspect for certain really offputting parts of the game that work really well with their story.
There is of course Earthbound, the game that is kinda at the heart of the weird game community, though it's less fever dreamy (unless you count the battle backgrounds) and more just weird.
Lastly, there's OFF, which I guess I'm only including due to my love for the game, but there's also there is some pretty bizarre points.
Just found your channel. Love your content!! New sub ❤
Geez I Wish more people create fever dreams games
you are a real one
Welp isn't that unfortunate I never experienced a fever dream or at least I don't remember. Can never have one again because I was lucky on the gene pool lottery and have a buff ass immune system. Haven't been sick in years. Weird flex I know but I swear it was unintentional. But technically were always sick every single second we just don't show symptoms.
Update: I'm finally sick after years and oh boy do I regret my wish. Also this makes me look like I'm eating my words since it's only been 2 months but I swear I have not been sick for years up until now!
You can try something similar, though. It's safe and easy: When you are tired and wanna go to sleep, don't lie down, instead sit in a not very comfortable position. When you almost fall asleep you will nod or shake because you are not in the right position, and that will make it impossible to sleep. Try it a few times and you will suddenly experience visions.
This is called "hipnagogic state", and it's how some of the Surrealists found the landscapes they painted.
A similar game I've been playing recently is Juice Galaxy, it's on Steam
y so underrated dady
talking about video game fever dream you need to look up The Indigo Parallel
Check this craziness out....ok, ima skeptic about EVERYTHING....BUT. I had a recurring dream when I was a young child (5 at the oldest because of the place I was living in sure of it) and I was in a strange place where this woman who was totally gorgeous and felt like the most magnetic thing ever was comforting me and telling me different things that were like "just hold on, be patient. It doesn't matter if life is hard keep going" OK..that's super weird to wanna hear as a 5 year old, despair isn't a common issue, and also this very hourglass voluptuous woman was basically fully naked but my imagination I guess had light and warmth coming from places I wouldn't have been aware of. I also had no concern for these things at all, just legos I was 5 lol. But I could Never Forget her face and form and everything about her. And I kid you not, I met a girl 5 years ago at 33 and it is 100% her. Still together to this day. Idk if she just looks like her but she's the only person I've ever been into enough to be ready to commit from day one. Didnt tell her that but yea. So im engaged to the woman who was a goddess in my one recurring dream as a child. Super weird stuff.
One time I got a bad cold and one night when I was sick and I had a dream where there were these neon outlines of monsters outside my house and they were barfing out other monsters and each one was a different color so me and my mom went outside to investigate then one was running up to jump scare us but then the door handle turned to jelly but then out of no where mom apparently knew how to make door Knobs so we got inside and I went back to bed hoping that I will wake up then the walls were melting and little lights started popping up that were the colors of the monster outlines. AND THEN I WAKE UP WITH A HEGGIN RUNNY NOSE AND I LOOKED ATMY (real) BED AND IT WAS COVERED WITH SNOT :P
Ever touched yume nikki fangames? They look really high quality
Great video
Just woah
yey new takune vid
Cool
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you killed mewo didn't you
Peak
Are you sure this video is just another reason to talk about Omori?
I'm not complaining but...
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