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The Polar Express For PS2 Broke Me
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It's weird how the Ebenezer Scrooge marionette appears in the movie for only one scene but here it's the primary antagonist and it has an entire army of evil toys.
Honestly it should have been like that from the start.
Wait hold up shouldn't the army of evil toys be the homeless guys since he's the one puppetting the scrooge puppet
It’s like the one incredibles game but I doesn’t make sense
@knuckallixyoboi9324 He just wanted to have a little fun. (At least we got the hilarious “no” noise)
Oh yeah and then in a later level he becomes giant and you have to hurl snowballs into his exposed heart while he tries to murder you.
I shit you not that actually happens a few levels down the line.
Penny’s absolute joy when someone sent her the sound file for the NAAARRR made my fucking holiday
nar*
being a fan of snapcube is like making a reference nobody else will understand
I can't wait to instinctively make the NOOOO joke with irl people and then have none of them understand it
@adrianoctavio ME TOO
I’m constantly referencing the sonic dubs but no one I know has ever seen them or wants to 😔😔
@adrianoctavio SAME
@illyachan5901 i know people who would want to but they dont speak english :(
If MY teachers dressed up as the joker and played me in tennis when I was a kid I would've never gotten disillusioned by the education system
What if that game of Joker tennis was 51% of your grade and you had to beat them to pass though?
@MrxstGrssmnstMttckstPhlNelThot I would've happily accepted utter humiliation and a 30% avg
My biology teacher dressed as a bee and ran around our class sticking sticky notes to his butt to try and show us how pollination worked. It wasn't a one time thing either, it was basically an annual event.
@Vitenoxi fair enough
I’d just like you to know that this is the first comment that popped up when I loaded into the video. So thank you for the utter confusion and amusement.
There are plenty of games with hilarious voice acting, but this one must truly be special for Penny to laugh herself into hysterics at basically _every single voice clip_
Scrooge yelling *"Noooooarr!"* absolutely took me out. I didn't think the dramatic puppet proclamations of "no" could get better but I was proven wrong.
Timestamp?
@t@twist_ending7545:09 is probably what you want, or 12:26
26:37 was a very metal part that genuinely had me blown away by the voice acting and the heavy dialogue made up on the spot.
It sounds like something that would be in NieR Automata, which is where the background music is from.
@salasddwhat the fuck does this mean
That second "I SAYY!!" genuinely got me
@nik_9889NAUR automata
interesting artistic decision of the Polar Express game to include a soulslike segment, very avant-garde
the ending had me SOBBING during this stream,, the editing of this video does not fully capture just how surprising and hilarious that moment was when it happened in real time
Oh trust me it's still fucking hilarious, especially if you watch it in that state of tired that makes you all giggly. I just did and was laughing my ass off
@PrinceEomer0801 fr it was like 3am for me when I watched this stream live so I think that made it even more HYSTERICAL 😭
“Like having a bad nightmare about the movie”
This is so succinct and such a perfect description of games like this.
25:11
"have you done this before?"
"NOOOOOOO"
The Movie: "All the toys you see here were lost and neglected, and we transport them to Santa's workshop to restore each toy and give them to new, loving children."
The game like: "ScroogeMcPuppet evil. Y E E T the bear"
Can’t forget that ScroogeMcPuppet has an army of misfit toys 😂
I had this game as a kid. Never got too far into it because I was a dumb kid and the game never saved because my memory card was full and i just kept replaying the first level over and over again
Gonna go out on a limb and resolve you of any responsibility for not finishing the polar express shovel ware game
I remember when I first got a GameCube, the only two games I had on it at first where the Avatar the Last Airbender game (which is actually pretty fun from what I remember) and Shadow the Hedgehog. I would leave the GameCube on for days at a time in an attempt to beat the game without saving, but eventually my mom came in my room one day while I was at school and turned it off when I was on the second to last level of the game. It was that day I got home and broke into 8 year old hysterics, my mom finally understood the importance of a memory card. All that to say; Memory cards, am I right???
modern day sisyphus
Kafkaesque
That skiing section when Penny hit a tree and the camera continues to follow them as they slowly & unceremoniously slide down the mountain fucking sends me.
penny imitating the weird puppet sounds and then laughing wildly brings me so much joy
Nothing like Penny having a Christmas Joker moment to bring the holiday cheer!
I always wanted an Infinity Train game. Now I finally found it
merry Christmas yall
Merry Christmas
merry two days after christmas
Nauuuur
And a happy new year
penny saying that movie tie in games are like nightmares about the movies they're based on is probably the most accurate description i've ever heard
NGL, the train format is actually kind of great for chaining random minigames together if they'd have pulled it off.
It's also made me think that maybe the best way to bring back Infinity Train is as a game series.
Absolutely yeah
or a gimmick for the newest Warioware game
Yeah snow piercer needs to become a rabbits collection
That would be GOAT
Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it, and Happy Holidays to those who don’t!
“go the fuck home.” *slams door*
~ Julian Marcel
Merry Christmas to those who don't celebrate it! If you're too self-centred to accept my traditions, then fuck yours!
@KopperNeoman what
Merry Chrysler, happy Hondadays, and have a good Toyotathon
@incognitoburrito6020 toyotathon?
Do No Harm foreshadowing at 11:58
I like how this started as The Polar Express but penny made it into The Subway Midnight
Is that what the epic music from the end of the ski chase segment is from?
This entire game is Scrooge saying "he will never ballin" and then spitting out his cereal
"he will never play tennis"
The one thing I vividly remember from the movie is the hot choclate sequence
Same
HERE WE'VE ONLY GOT ONE RULE
NEVER EVER LET IT COOL
@squ1nz WE GOT IT!
There is something absolutely hilarious about the fact that the sound settings samples are BOTH music related, but the Sound Effects sample is clear as day while the Music sample is muffled and barely audible. The PERFECT way to determine the differences in the sound.
Penny's character acting is so powerful, she inspires people to write stories. I should know, *I'm writing something based on that skiing segment with the Nier Automata music playing.*
All I could think of after reading this was the fact that track 1 of NieR Gestalt/Replicant's OST is Snow in Summer.
hows that going? im intruiged
I plan on referencing the “goodbye, bucket” segment of the Penny Parable video in one of my stories (it’s funny, but the character saying it is also named Penny)
I swear if its a Nier fanfic im losing my goddamn mind. I need an update so bad.
You have nothing remaining.
I must have missed the part in the Christmas Carol where Scrooge gets bludgeoned to death by a little boy with kickballs. I think maybe the Ghost of Christmas Future left that out.
The Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come probably would've convinced Scrooge sooner that he was going to die if they showed him that.
Penny’s energy never fails to make gameplays 1000 times better ☠️
“It’s like Skinamarink” 💀
The full VOD of this one is so good too, the *buildup* to the Naur Automata segment was impeccable
When she got sent that Narr file, I don't think i've ever heard Penny so delighted.
1:16
She 101% says "use the arrows to train tracks" right or is my dyslexia getting to me
Every time i rewatch that segment i have to do a double take, she totally says "use the arrows to train the tracks"
I just fucking love how funny Penny finds everything, it’s a good day when I get to hear her laugh at the dumbest shit like it’s the best joke in the world.
Her laugh is so contagious the sound of it alone could convince me that literally anything is funny
That Skyrim bit had me dying for what felt like a whole minute lol, especially the part where the no sound effect replies to the guy's question
4:31 can't believe we're getting some Blue Lock footage on this train.
they're blink and you'll miss it moments but my favorite thing all throughout this game was how the textures and models would just completely freak out and fill up the screen for like a split second. I think 11:37 has a pretty good example
i had a garbage Christmas, coming back tot his actually helped, fortune smile upon you
They turned the Polar Express into fucking Snowpiercer
8:14 I’d like to thank you for this bit because it took me tf out
yeah!
as soon as i saw the thumbnail for this i said out loud "THIS FUCKING GAAAAAAAAAME"
I had this game on GCN as a kid. I could barely understand the game, and could never get past the train chase thing, but I still have nostalgia for this
Y O U H A V E D E F E A T E D S C R O O G E
" You look like a good sport. *me at tennis* " THAT DESTROYED ME!
"Have you done this before?"
"NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!"
I have died.
I mod for one of my friends on twitch and they played this game the day before Christmas eve. Here's essentially the rest of the game;
- Scrooge actually has a boss fight. He's a fucking giant and you have to throw shit at him to defeat him (there's also a "Christmas isn't about gifts" moral but that's irrelevant).
- The game actually becomes a ddr style rhythm game at certain points. I am not kidding. We had to sit through restarting the train engine and a knock off, trying-to-be-jazz, royalty free hot chocolate song (I was incredibly mad about the lack of hot chocolate song. Justice for hot chocolate song).
- First person shooter but you don't shoot anything you have to turn switches to match different colors
- Confusing ass gift maze (I can't explain this one but it made my friend actually start to go crazy)
- Try not to drop Santa's sack
- Abrupt ass ending. They make it to meet Santa and then boom. Ending.
So yeah. I think if Penny went further she would've gone full Joker.
Oh my god you predicted it
@novameowww I am big genius brain
You were not kidding about the abrupt ass ending omfg.
@marvmarv5629 i knowwww 😭 I actually yelled when I saw it lmao
The soundscape is just "No way! I can't believe this!"
12:55 - "Where we're going, we don't need tickets for admission!" *Sam Neill advances menacingly on the children, eyeless face glowering*
I was miserable today, but Penny always seems to cheer me up uwu
This was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen live. Merry Christmas to Penny and all!!!
honestly you could make an entire highlight reel on the skiing segment alone that brought me to tears
7:04 the iconic origin
I watched this when it was live. I was in hysterics when the kid went "this is awesome! WOAAAHHH-"! It's still hilarious now! I had to rewind it like 5 times because I couldn't stop laughing at that part
I love that your FF14 shortcut is named "Catgirl Pictures". Very real.
Can't believe we got a legit 100% real Penny Parker Tim Robinson crossover event, I was waiting for this all my life
3:37 - my favorite part of The Godfather was when the guy woke up in his bed and saw the message "Congratulations! You've found part of a horse!"
i had the MOST fun watching this stream, the whole hot chocolate sequence was SO HILARIOUS and your energy was incredible. Pebby really is the greatest gamer girl of all time and i hope you had a beautiful christmas
You did not have to go that hard with the villain monologue at the end there but you did. thank you
the frame at 22:55 with the conductor pointing at the ticket is really funny to me idk why
The Boy is immune to man-made metal constructions but gets folded by a few toys being thrown at him.
The powerscaling of The Polar Express is confusing XD
I was not prepared for the nostalgia tsunami I just experienced looking at that thumbnail.
And also MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE ❄⛄💕🎉❄
We all used to be whole until The Fire Nation attacked
I remember playing this game as a kid. I don't think I ever got past that hammer section and I can see why now.
The real time fan dubs are funny and all, but Penny’s other content is why I really subscribed. 💖 Anyways, Merry Christmas to everyone, and to those who don’t celebrate it, I hope you have a good day anyways. ✨
0:17 why does she laugh like a goblin
Because every single gamer exudes goblin energy in some way
That sounded like goofy, wdym?
11:00 That kid won't be seeing anything before long if he does that
Penny's laugh can cure holiday depression confirmed!
Hey, just started watching your stuff because of the Prime playthrough, and I wanted to say you're legit one of the funniest game commentators in my living memory. Keep up the good stuff!
Love the different songs at the end. Putting "A Beautiful Song" to an incredibly mundane skiing minigame with terrible controls is incredibly underrated
7:29 Penny “who is this”?
It’s Woody Allen
The coins disappearing too quick during tennis was a Special kind of hell
I was there for the entirety of the stream, and I was very much not sober- lemme tell yeah it was an experience
That entire Skyrim intro bit made me lose my mind LMFAO-
Tangentially related, but I find it amusing that the train level in Uncharted 2 is simultaneously used as an indictment of cinematic action game design, and one of key points of the series and its gameplay. Like some people get really pedantic about a game being a corridor, about it limiting player options and making the gameplay a solved sequence where nothing matters, but also people really love trains and cover shooting with occasional wacky platforming and explosions and turret sections. But the most amusing thing is that so many games have had train levels before and after, to the point that when Penny asked, "where have I played this before" my mind raced to so many goddamn games that have a "Run to the front of the train while dodging the station signs" segment. Mirrors edge and Ratchet and Clank... fuck, even Metal Gear Rising ends its first mission on the top of a moving train.
26:36 man I love Yakuza 5
Oh my god. Discovering this two years later- i had this game as a child and absolutely thought it was a fever dream.
well, you got further than I ever did as a kid.
Resi Zero is a lot different than I remember.
rewatching to start a christmas tradition LETS GOOOOO
I am very glad this is the first 1440p upload on this channel.
The fact there’s a game for my favorite childhood movie baffles me.
Penny's laugh is literally one of my top ten favorites what a treat
That ending speech you gave was tear jerking.. thank you and merry Christmas 😤🫡
Not even 20 seconds in and she's already giggling like an insane person, this is gonna be a good vid :)
I also have a rudimentary understanding of the bluey cast but you would definitely be the main girl herself, Bluey. Muffin is a typical three year old and I think Socks is one
Just bought this for PS2 wish me goodluck!
What are These constant laughs there killing me
The opening to Jinglebells on the pause menu sounds like barking, like when you hear someone’s dog midvideo/stream.
I spent several minutes wondering if SHSHDHEHDHEHDWH was an actual acronym.
This is exactly what I wanted for Christmas, thank you Penny!
How I managed to beat this game on a dinky PC when I was only 10, I will never know.
Edit: Actually, I can’t remember what age I was, but I recall being young enough that I shouldn’t have been able to beat the game at my current skill level
“No! No! No! No! No! No! No! Not even close!”
What-a JOLLY lil' video to enjoy the lack of decorations at home.
WOULD YOU SEE THE HEAT DEATH OF THE UNIVERSE AND THINK IT 'AWESOME'???? I SAY *NAUUUURE*
Time for the yearly watching of this video
this is one of those videos that hits different post-littlespace arc
herpleshimers HERPLESHIMERS
I hope Penny someday plays The Monster House game, maybe next halloween
Genuinely one of the most haunting videos I’ve watched in my life. Spectacular