@@exitsexaminedit’s more than a fair comparison! Redwall is such a huge fixture in my childhood and Berzerk of my adulthood, after watching this I’m definitely checking out Mouse Guard!
I feel like this, to me at least, is a reminder that there is more kinds of content that you like and might even love even more, you just have to look for it. I had no idea this existed until this video and it’s world is almost perfect for me
Mouse Guard is rather unique, if given the proper looking. It may one day come back to deserving enjoyment. Next to RedWall, it is another under rated classic.
When im was in my school's library during my elementary school, i've found one of these. I was like 9yo. The artstyle and violence got me like a mix of fascination and fear. I left that school like 12 years ago and never found it again, i didnt even knew the name. So i just have to say, Thank you
18:57 There actually is an Indie Game on Steam called "Tails of Iron" where You play a Mouse Prince that has to fight a Frog Invasion into His Kingdom in a 2-D Style. Obviously not related to Mouse Guard or Redwall, but still in a Similar Niche.
@@exitsexamined Ah Cool to know! I really adore the Artstyle and Soundscape of that Game even though I am not very good at playing it (I hate You Mozi Queen) Hahaha.
I got lucky a couple years ago and found the collector series for Legends of the Guard (Volumes 1-3) for a Toonie ($2CAD) at a tiny book fair in mint condition. I didn't know anything about this or Redwall but I had just finished playing Ghost of a Tale and The Night of the Rabbit which is what persuaded me to buy it as I've always been charmed by what I termed the "mouse with a backpack" genre. Weirdly enough, just yesterday I saw a Redwall book for the first time at my local value village but didn't buy it because it wasn't book 1 and I didn't know anything about the series, now I wish I purchased it. I don't know why I got recommended your videos (I didn't even search the books), but I'm happy I found them. I'm sad that the kid me in the 90s-00s didn't know about Redwall as I know I'd have loved it. I've always been attracted to the cozy but dark, usually english coded folksy/tolkienesque watercolour stories about anthropomorphised animals (from Frog and Toad and Peter Rabbit to The Great Mouse Detective and Rescuers). I might have to try and collect them to read now or to any kids I might have in the future.
I love Mouse Guard! I have a copy of Swords and Strongholds and it's a ton of fun, plus the pieces are little "carved" plastic mice and very cute. Very excited for the Weasel Wars, they've been referenced so many times throughout the series.
Oh that's so cool you have Swords and Strongholds! I would have loved to play or get my hands on it, sadly I couldn't even find it on their site anymore. How do you like playing it? Excited for Weasel Wars too!
My buddy and I played Swords and Strongholds a good chunk, we eventually hit a point where we had found moves that were basically auto-wins to the point where he absolutely hated it. I almost won a copy in a silent auction but I totally blanked and forgot to check my bid and it went to someone else
Yeah I think if you liked the more gritty and nuanced Redwall books like Taggerung and Martin the Warrior you'd 100% be into the Mouse Guard series! Were those your favorite redwall books?
Netflix has it bow. Nimona is a shape-shifting creature that befriends a fugitive and leans on being a bit homicidal / mischievous muchbto her new friends horror. It's pretty wholesome. Has Nothing to do with anthromorphic animals per say. Sci fi @exitsexamined
I grew up reading Redwall and i LOVE Mouse Guard. Its so evocative. The tabletop RPG is also INCREDIBLE The neat thing about the scale is the potential to make EVERY story a kaiju story, a your Mice are suddenly Cloverfielding around a Moose or something
I keep wanting to find an actual-play of the mouse guard rpg - I have the book, and I'd like to run it someday, but I always like to see a system played by other folks before I run it, and in this case, that's pretty difficult to find!
Holy shit Mouseguard content!!! I had the Tales from the Mouseguard book as a kid and didn’t know till now that there’s a whole damn series!!! I got some shopping to do!
@@exitsexamined I think it has more of the childlike whimsy while going into less of the gritty realism. But another thing it does differently is it goes more into obscure metaphysics with a bit of cosmic horror. With mousguard the main characters are all citizens of the world who are intimately familiar with it and how it works whereas in bone the main characters are outsiders to the world of the valley and are learning of the events that took place before their time and during. I would highly suggest bone it has many memorable characters and events as well as some things that truly unsettled me as a kid.
I second this, Bone is to this day one of the greatest comic series I’ve ever enjoyed. The ultimate villain is terrifying, the characters are lovable and go through their own growth and journeys, and you WILL NOT predict exactly how the end turns out.
i found bloomburrow the other day and fell in love with the set and then watched this video fell in love with mouse guard then my mouth dropped when the connection was made
@@exitsexamined Bloomburrow is honestly fantastic. It's oozing with character and the cross tribal mechanics are extremely flavorful. I've been pretty disappointed with MtG for a few years now, but Bloomburrow is definitely a surprisingly high point.
@@exitsexamined actually i love it i stopped playing and i just collect sets i like it a lot it’s very mouse guard-esc especially in the white creatures
Redwall was my childhood! I own most of the books to this day and will introduce them to my children as they grow. I read the first two volumes of this series and now I will have to track down the rest.
Hey thank you so much for saying that, I think with so much new media being pushed out it's always interesting to stop for a second and look at series like these!
Haha, I'm one of those who got himself had with Redwall meets Berserk. Thank you very much for featuring this series. I just ordered first volume and can't wait to get it!
I actually clicked on the video because the thumbnail remained me so much of mtg Bloomburrow, which is so far one of my top 3 mtg sets! 😅 If anyone was wondering, the other two are Universes Beyond Doctor Who and Lord of the Rings, mostly because I’m a huge Doctor Who fan and Tolkien’s The Hobbit is my all time favourite book! And I love Bloomburrow, because I can finally kill dragons and demons with an army of cute otters (my favourite animals)! 🦦
I grew up on Mouse Guard and had never heard of Redwall until recently! This series is my absolute favorite thing ever, I hope more people go read it and join the fandom after watching your video
@@exitsexamined not yet, but I might pick it up after my current read as it seems right up my alley! Thanks for bringing the series to my attention again with the comparison :)
I think a Darkest Dungeon 1 style game would be perfect for this setting. You would get all of the beautiful artwork and have a custom squad of mouse guards.
Fall 1152 had been read and gosh I really adored this. I can see this becoming a new all time favorite series and will be gently bullying my friends to read it. Saxon was also easily my favorite. I love when worlds are so fleshed out and real that they have so much going on that you may not be privy to, but it’s blatantly there. Neverwhere is another example of that for me. Thank you so much for the video and recommendation!!
This is very surreal to see pop up right after I decided to pick up the first book on a whim. I hope it all picks up again soon, it’s such a cool world that I can’t wait to learn more about
19:00 for everyone wishing there was a video game set in this universe, A VERY close contender that I think will very much scratch that itch is ‘Tails of Iron’ and it’s actually narrated by Doug Cockle, the the voice of Geralt of Rivia from the Witcher games. Maybe this comment will get a pin so everyone can see and give that indie gem a shot 🫶🏻 great video!!
Redwall Meets Berserk: That's basically the Art-style of the Official Red-wall Graphic novel! It also felt a tad darker too. (I wish we had more of that.) 18:57 Actually there is a Video game that looks like this Series. Its called Tails of Iron, and this thing really is Red-Wall if it was styled like Berserk's tone. It's GRIM!!
I actually covered Tails of Iron in another channel I have! The devs were 100% inspired by Mouse Guard, they mentioned it a few times in interviews! That's interesting the redwall graphic novel was dark, do you have a copy? I'd love to see some images for a video I'm doing on it!
I picked up mouse guard issue #1 at a comic shop when it first came out. I liked it, but I love mice, they are such intersting, complex and adorable little creatures.
I’ve never heard of this series. But growing up, I loved bones, along with fantasy books like the last apprentice and rangers apprentice. I’m def gonna read mouse guard to some tavern music haha
I first heard of this series as an adult last year. I bought the first three books and loved them! Any kids I'll have in the future will definitely grow up with them. I really should get the rest of the series, rpg, and maybe the game, too.
Do a series on The Mists of Avalon please. The book series is amazing and deserves so much more praise, I think it's some type of "lost to time" series due to the author's actions (crimes actually)
You know I don't think that's the first time someone's mentioned that, how would you compare the series itself to Mouse Guard? I'll check it out and i added it to the list!
Ah, perfect timing, this series crossed my mind a few days ago. You have given me much-needed hope. Oh, and the little board game is good fun, a simple yet wonderful addition to any board game collection.
Great overview. Have the TTRPG and almost all of the comics. The only one i am missing is one that came out in 2021 called "The Owlhen Caregiver & Other Tales." It looks great and need to find a way to get it in print. RPG is amazimg for world building. So much thought was put into the history and setting it definitely gave me LOTR vibes. Im converting everything into EZD6 rules but atill use all of the RPG box set stuff as an awesome reference. The game Swords & Strongholds is great. We collect board games and it is very well designed. Tons of fun. There is another card game referenced in the comic too - wondering if we will ever see that game sometime. Overall you can just tell this man loves this world. You hit it spot on that while the setting is cool, it's the characters that make it so great.
Hey super cool you got your hands on swords and strongholds! I really wanted to play it for this video but on the official site I couldn't find it listed anymore. How did you like playing it? Does it hold up after awhile?
I'm mildly curious why you'd want to convert a mechanically simple and well designed game, into another rules system that both functionally operate in very similar ways? Did you try playing it RAW?
@@exitsexamined ive only read the first two books recently actually and I quite enjoyed them. Theres many more books as well but overall theres a lot of fans of the series and from what ive heard it has an interesting history especially as you can see how it couldve been the inspiration for a lot of other stories such as superman. It also had the disney movie which i thought was really good but the online consensus of why it failed in the box office was due to disney not marketing it correctly.
So lucky I had the whole series in my school library back in the day. Read them front to back a few times. The table top game is really good for anyone into them as well.
what an amazing video, thanks for showing me this incredible serie, it's really interesting to see the contrast between such lovely creatures and this fantasy-dark world.
I have never heard of this series before, but this popped up on my recommended and the art looked familiar after seeing some of the new MTG cards. Very cool concept, definitely heavily inspired aspects of that Bloomburrow set MTG released and it's cool they brought the author on board for some gorgeous illustrations to boot!
Mouse Guard, such a great comic book, I also drifted away from it so thank you for the update all these years later. Also remember Mouse Templar (?) around the same time as Mouser Guard dropped got published.
Listening to you talk about this fantasy graphic novel reminded me of the fantasy graphic novel from years ago, Bone. I haven't thought about it in years but definitely will revisit it now haha Thanks!
Burning wheel (the engine the game uses) has some pretty bad heads, here's hoping the Mouse Guard writers didn't have their works too terribly corrupted by them.
Great video! Very cool series and the card game is good fun! For anyone that likes Mouse Guard, I would also recommend the comic series "Squarriors". It's a short run, only 9 comics but it's really well done and the art is phenomenal. Really awesome, brutal medieval style warfare between the animals after humans have disappeared. Stuff people left behind like scalpels and knives and tools become their spears and weapons. It also has a card game, but I've never tried it.
that test footage that came out a couple years ago broke was some of the coolest stuff I’ve ever seen. Still hoping someday it gets a great animated adaptation
I want a classic style cartoon/drawn animation not a cgi movie. Treasure Planet style. I cant understand why the studios dont produce cartoons in that style anymore.
Discovered this channel about a week ago, subscribed, binged all your videos, then forgot about it and was just reminded of you again with this video in my recommended, thank you youtube 🙏 also redwall goes so hard
Whoa thanks so much! I hope you didn't binge watch them all the way to the first ones haha. But glad RUclips brought you back and hopefully this series seemed interesting to you? Had you heard of Mouse Guard before?
@@exitsexamined I hadnt, but I love watching your breakdowns of these series since I am pretty much always interested in them, and I love Redwall and Berserk so I was sure I'd enjoy the vid. I think the Eragon vid was the first one I had recommended to me and I just went down the line watching all of them lol
@@exitsexaminedSimilar and different. You have sword fighting animals, a dedicated royal guard serving the people, and the first book also has this feeling of creeping darkness all through out it. However, the series does have a touch of magic involved and the tone can vary from book to book. It’s also kind of like Redwall where the size of the animals is not made entirely clear and it lacks the harsh survival theme of Mouse Guard.
Thank you for reminding me redwall exists, I think at least the first trilogy in the series deserves a re-read. This could be an incredible animated cartoon.
MOUSE GUARD MENTIONED!!! YEAAHH!!!!! Really though this series is a beautiful piece of art and it's kinda crazy how rarely I hear people talking about it.
I remeber my aunt got me the first of these when I was like 11 or something. I looked at the front thinking oh okay some generic adventure book for kids with some stylish art. I didn't plan on reading it at first but got bored one day while on a long road trip and just so happened to have this in the car. I picked up and finished it twice. It was so good I thought to myself there must be dozens of these maybe hundreds this must be either a really large series or going to be one. I was dissapionted to learn there was only two at the time and picked up the second one. For ten long years now I probably haven't thought of this series but now I need to go find the other books.
Yeah it is a short and sweet series, but the side books and standalone comics are well worth the reads if you can find them! Also the black ax is excellent and I think don't quote me, feels longer than the rest
For anyone looking for similar books, Mouse heart is a book series I used to read when I was younger and I honestly think it should be talked about more. I definitely recommend it
I reamber reading one of the books when I was quite young and i never new the name, I read the one with the owl in winter and love the vibe of the main charecters bieng stalk by some kind of unstoppable force where they soon choose to face it in the end.
Really loving this video. It might be the thing that makes me start collecting books again. I was wondering if you have done or could do a deep dive into "The Dragon Lance" series, my dad has a few of the old books and I never got deep into reading it.
This had me when it mentioned the series being like Attack on Titan. I checked out and binged Fall 1152, Winter 1152, and The Black Axe in 2 days. This video basically made me a Mouse Guard fan
Whoa thank you so much for giving the video and then the series a shot! Super cool you got the books, what did you think? Did you have any favorite moments?
@@exitsexamined Basically Celanawe's entire character arc was the peak for me. He was my favorite character like OMG 😭 (also I wish I could get the books)
I can't believe I never picked this up until just now. I was an avid reader of the Redwall books throughout my preteen years and early teens, but by the time this first came out I was about 17 and too cool for talking animal stories. I was such an idiot! Glad I'm mature enough to enjoy talking animals again 😅
I have the mouse scale replica of the black axe😂 my dad saw me reading an issue and asked why i was reading a baby comic, showed him the inside with the battle with the fox. 😅
I definitely want to check this series out, despite the hiatus. I do think this fantasy subgenre is called "Animal Xenofiction", which can come in two versions: Naturalistic (Duncton Wood, Watership Down) and Anthro (Redwall, Mouseguard). Xenofiction in general is very broad, as it can mean just about any non-human things (so Toy Story, for example, is Xenofiction). I personally prefer to call it "Animal Fantasy" to differentiate from the broader spectrum of XF, as I don't like to imagine WD exists in the same niche as Cars.
A long time ago I was at at thrift store and I picked up my first graphic novel called "The Autumnlands". I've been meaning to check out for about 6 years. The art looked cool. No idea what it's about.
Medieval fantasy with small animals is probably one of the best genres.
Is that genre called like Redwall esqe? I'm just wondering what it is haha
@@exitsexamined haha maybe, i don't really know if there's a name for it.
Redwall-core?
Jacques-core?
@@exitsexamined Mousepunk?
Mousevil
Had me a Redwall meets Beserk
A combination of words I never thought I'd say again haha. But it is a pretty awesome mix
@@exitsexaminedit’s more than a fair comparison! Redwall is such a huge fixture in my childhood and Berzerk of my adulthood, after watching this I’m definitely checking out Mouse Guard!
@@exitsexaminedhonestly you totally butt-throttled the algorithm with this title. You nailed it. I wouldn’t have clicked otherwise, I am sorry to say.
I feel like this, to me at least, is a reminder that there is more kinds of content that you like and might even love even more, you just have to look for it. I had no idea this existed until this video and it’s world is almost perfect for me
Yuuuup. Saw the thumbnail, immediately clicked. Love both series.
A Mouse Guard souls like game would be so hype not gonna lie
Honestly would kind of fit with the lore of the Black Ax as well
Dude that would be so dope
Closest one is Tails of Iron, its 2d metroidvania with souls like elements and difficulty
TALES OF IRON, as someone else mentioned. It's was very obviously inspired by Mouse Guard
Thirding Tails of Iron, very much that vibe.
Mouse Guard is rather unique, if given the proper looking. It may one day come back to deserving enjoyment. Next to RedWall, it is another under rated classic.
Totally agree, it deserves more recognition, but at least as it is it enjoys a pretty decent size following!
Who is underrating Redwall?
Sound like the same genre as “Welkin Weasels”. Have to check them out.
When im was in my school's library during my elementary school, i've found one of these. I was like 9yo. The artstyle and violence got me like a mix of fascination and fear. I left that school like 12 years ago and never found it again, i didnt even knew the name. So i just have to say, Thank you
You have a unique colloquial way of writing.
@@alexandermendez4653 well, thanks. Im not a native english speaker
Thanks for mentioning my fanfic stories. I very much appreciate that.
Wait wait, are you one of the authors legends or do you mean you wrote the mainline series?
@@exitsexamined No, I'm talking about the fanfic with the crossover between Mouse Guard and Redwall. I wrote that.
Hell yeah dude, that's sick 💪🤘🤘
@@seththesupernaut5503 Thanks.
@@BrendynRobertson OOOOOO
18:57 There actually is an Indie Game on Steam called "Tails of Iron" where You play a Mouse Prince that has to fight a Frog Invasion into His Kingdom in a 2-D Style.
Obviously not related to Mouse Guard or Redwall, but still in a Similar Niche.
I actually covered tails of iron in depth on another channel called JadedInu, and yep the devs were 100% inspired by Mouse Guard
@@exitsexamined Ah Cool to know! I really adore the Artstyle and Soundscape of that Game even though I am not very good at playing it (I hate You Mozi Queen) Hahaha.
There’s another called Small Saga which is literally inspired by redwall and berserk. It’s on steam as well.
@@jacobislucasI feel like it was much more inspired by current politics than anything else lol.
I LOVE Tails of Iron!
I got lucky a couple years ago and found the collector series for Legends of the Guard (Volumes 1-3) for a Toonie ($2CAD) at a tiny book fair in mint condition. I didn't know anything about this or Redwall but I had just finished playing Ghost of a Tale and The Night of the Rabbit which is what persuaded me to buy it as I've always been charmed by what I termed the "mouse with a backpack" genre.
Weirdly enough, just yesterday I saw a Redwall book for the first time at my local value village but didn't buy it because it wasn't book 1 and I didn't know anything about the series, now I wish I purchased it. I don't know why I got recommended your videos (I didn't even search the books), but I'm happy I found them.
I'm sad that the kid me in the 90s-00s didn't know about Redwall as I know I'd have loved it. I've always been attracted to the cozy but dark, usually english coded folksy/tolkienesque watercolour stories about anthropomorphised animals (from Frog and Toad and Peter Rabbit to The Great Mouse Detective and Rescuers). I might have to try and collect them to read now or to any kids I might have in the future.
I love Mouse Guard! I have a copy of Swords and Strongholds and it's a ton of fun, plus the pieces are little "carved" plastic mice and very cute. Very excited for the Weasel Wars, they've been referenced so many times throughout the series.
Oh that's so cool you have Swords and Strongholds! I would have loved to play or get my hands on it, sadly I couldn't even find it on their site anymore. How do you like playing it? Excited for Weasel Wars too!
My buddy and I played Swords and Strongholds a good chunk, we eventually hit a point where we had found moves that were basically auto-wins to the point where he absolutely hated it. I almost won a copy in a silent auction but I totally blanked and forgot to check my bid and it went to someone else
Never thought that I'd get to see a Mouse Guard video pop up on my RUclips. It's a sign that I have to reread it.
Honestly it's my pleasure, and that's awesome this inspired you to reread them!
Okay, this is incredible. I’m reading asap. I grew up reading Redwall (Taggerung, Marlfox, Martin The Warrior, etc) this seems even more gritty.
Yeah I think if you liked the more gritty and nuanced Redwall books like Taggerung and Martin the Warrior you'd 100% be into the Mouse Guard series! Were those your favorite redwall books?
Ever since Nimona managed to come out, I've held out hope that the Mouse Guard movie could escape cancelation too
Oh I hadn't heard of Nimona, how does it compare to Mouse Guard? Hopefully we'll get the movie one day
Netflix has it bow. Nimona is a shape-shifting creature that befriends a fugitive and leans on being a bit homicidal / mischievous muchbto her new friends horror. It's pretty wholesome. Has
Nothing to do with anthromorphic animals per say. Sci fi @exitsexamined
@@MadSpaceWolfDiary It's less about similar genres and more about escaping cancellation and development hell
I grew up reading Redwall and i LOVE Mouse Guard. Its so evocative. The tabletop RPG is also INCREDIBLE
The neat thing about the scale is the potential to make EVERY story a kaiju story, a your Mice are suddenly Cloverfielding around a Moose or something
If you like Redwall stay tuned to the channel, i'm going to be doing a deep dive on it in the upcoming weeks!
I keep wanting to find an actual-play of the mouse guard rpg - I have the book, and I'd like to run it someday, but I always like to see a system played by other folks before I run it, and in this case, that's pretty difficult to find!
Yes been waiting for you to cover this! This series is criminally underrated
Holy shit Mouseguard content!!! I had the Tales from the Mouseguard book as a kid and didn’t know till now that there’s a whole damn series!!! I got some shopping to do!
good luck, some books are pretty hard to find. but they are worth all the effort.
I loved Redwall and The Tale of Despereaux as a kid, so this looks super cool
Oh what's the tales of despereaux? I haven't heard of it yet but I'll add it to the list!
Please do a video on "Bone". Really solid graphic novel series kind of like The Hobbit meets an old Disney cartoon.
Hey after this I was actually looking for more graphic novels to cover, I'll check it out! How do you think it compares to mouse Guard?
@@exitsexamined I think it has more of the childlike whimsy while going into less of the gritty realism. But another thing it does differently is it goes more into obscure metaphysics with a bit of cosmic horror. With mousguard the main characters are all citizens of the world who are intimately familiar with it and how it works whereas in bone the main characters are outsiders to the world of the valley and are learning of the events that took place before their time and during. I would highly suggest bone it has many memorable characters and events as well as some things that truly unsettled me as a kid.
I second this, Bone is to this day one of the greatest comic series I’ve ever enjoyed. The ultimate villain is terrifying, the characters are lovable and go through their own growth and journeys, and you WILL NOT predict exactly how the end turns out.
third this, Bone is amazing. i loved the rat creatures and the dragon so much as a kid.
BONE!!! OMG yess
i found bloomburrow the other day and fell in love with the set and then watched this video fell in love with mouse guard then my mouth dropped when the connection was made
haha no way! How do you like bloomburrow? I fell off Magic but it made me curious to try!
@@exitsexaminedit’s been their best set in a long, long time. Can highly recommend.
@@exitsexamined Bloomburrow is honestly fantastic. It's oozing with character and the cross tribal mechanics are extremely flavorful. I've been pretty disappointed with MtG for a few years now, but Bloomburrow is definitely a surprisingly high point.
David Petersen being asked to do Bloomburrow art was how I knew the set was gonna be a hit
@@exitsexamined actually i love it i stopped playing and i just collect sets i like it a lot it’s very mouse guard-esc especially in the white creatures
Redwall was my childhood! I own most of the books to this day and will introduce them to my children as they grow.
I read the first two volumes of this series and now I will have to track down the rest.
Oh same with Redwall! Pretty soon I'll cover that series more in depth too, so awesome you're introducing them to your children
What a great channel. Thanks for remembering and restoring in our world of always-on and instant gratification
Hey thank you so much for saying that, I think with so much new media being pushed out it's always interesting to stop for a second and look at series like these!
Haha, I'm one of those who got himself had with Redwall meets Berserk.
Thank you very much for featuring this series.
I just ordered first volume and can't wait to get it!
Whoa super cool you ordered it after watching the video! I hope you like it, let me know what you think!
The video isn’t even half over and you’ve convinced me to read it. I actually don’t want to watch more, so I can still go in as blind as possible lol
I am in love with the idea of mice riding hares like horsies.
It's pretty awesome! They also ride other animals in the series as well but I think the hares are by far the most sass.y of the bunch
The ttrpg mausritter captures this theme so well. It's me and my friends most played game this year
Mausritter looks SO good, I've always wanted to give it a go!
The art at 3:21 has the Millenium Falcon hidden in the bone pile in the lower left corner.
I saw that on the reddit, such a fun detail! I think there are some more references throughout the series
Mouse Guard is so freaking good! I ended up picking it up all because of Danny from GameGrumps after he mentioned it in one of their playthroughs.
That’s so cool! Do you remember which playthrough?
I take ANY recommendations from Dan Avidan. One of the coolest dudes for real
So Bloomborrow is being made with Mouseguard Staff. That is really Cool to know. Had no idea 😊
Still, I don’t play MTG. But that is nice.
Yeah by Petersen hmself! I don't play it either but it's definitely got me interested to play eventually
I actually clicked on the video because the thumbnail remained me so much of mtg Bloomburrow, which is so far one of my top 3 mtg sets! 😅
If anyone was wondering, the other two are Universes Beyond Doctor Who and Lord of the Rings, mostly because I’m a huge Doctor Who fan and Tolkien’s The Hobbit is my all time favourite book! And I love Bloomburrow, because I can finally kill dragons and demons with an army of cute otters (my favourite animals)! 🦦
Did you watch until the end? Bloomburrow is connected to Mouse Guard!
@@exitsexamined I did, that’s why I commented!
I grew up on Mouse Guard and had never heard of Redwall until recently! This series is my absolute favorite thing ever, I hope more people go read it and join the fandom after watching your video
Hey thanks so much! Did you read Redwall? What did you think?
@@exitsexamined not yet, but I might pick it up after my current read as it seems right up my alley! Thanks for bringing the series to my attention again with the comparison :)
I think a Darkest Dungeon 1 style game would be perfect for this setting. You would get all of the beautiful artwork and have a custom squad of mouse guards.
You know that actually would be a great fit now you mention it, although slightly less difficult would be great haha.
Literally didn’t even make it all the way through the video before I went online to find a copy. Thank you!
Aw please let me know what you think once you get it! Hopefully it doesn't disappoint!
Fall 1152 had been read and gosh I really adored this. I can see this becoming a new all time favorite series and will be gently bullying my friends to read it. Saxon was also easily my favorite. I love when worlds are so fleshed out and real that they have so much going on that you may not be privy to, but it’s blatantly there. Neverwhere is another example of that for me. Thank you so much for the video and recommendation!!
I LOVED the first mouse guard book. I really need to get the rest of the series as an adult
Great video! Definitely gonna check out Mouse Guard.
For a future video, I grew up reading the Dark is Rising series. A video on that would be cool!
Dark Rising is 100% on the list, hopefully going to get to it over the winter!
This is very surreal to see pop up right after I decided to pick up the first book on a whim. I hope it all picks up again soon, it’s such a cool world that I can’t wait to learn more about
Whoa cool! Did you end up reading the other ones? I think they only get better and better!
@@exitsexamined i haven’t yet, but I hope to soon, it’s a great series that I can’t wait to experience more of
How tf have I not heard of this???
I’m buying these books rn
Let me know what you think!!
@@exitsexamined Will do!
19:00 for everyone wishing there was a video game set in this universe, A VERY close contender that I think will very much scratch that itch is ‘Tails of Iron’ and it’s actually narrated by Doug Cockle, the the voice of Geralt of Rivia from the Witcher games. Maybe this comment will get a pin so everyone can see and give that indie gem a shot 🫶🏻 great video!!
If I scrolled further down I found someone else brought it up too haha!
Honestly I should have just mentioned it in the video! But thank you so much!
You're consistently putting out some really HQ content covering some of my favorite franchises. Bravo!
Hey thank you so much for the kind words!
Redwall Meets Berserk: That's basically the Art-style of the Official Red-wall Graphic novel! It also felt a tad darker too. (I wish we had more of that.)
18:57 Actually there is a Video game that looks like this Series. Its called Tails of Iron, and this thing really is Red-Wall if it was styled like Berserk's tone. It's GRIM!!
I actually covered Tails of Iron in another channel I have! The devs were 100% inspired by Mouse Guard, they mentioned it a few times in interviews!
That's interesting the redwall graphic novel was dark, do you have a copy? I'd love to see some images for a video I'm doing on it!
Glad I found your channel. Its cool to see someone covering so many books and stories from my childhood.
Thanks so much for checking out my channel, honestly just so cool to find other people into the same series I loved growing up too!
I've had my eye on this series for awhile now, and I have wondered if it's a good series to pick up. So i am so glad you're covering it
One of my favorite series, great video.
Hey my pleasure, this series deserves more love!
I picked up mouse guard issue #1 at a comic shop when it first came out. I liked it, but I love mice, they are such intersting, complex and adorable little creatures.
Oh nice did you ever check out the other issues or did you stop at #1?
I’ve never heard of this series. But growing up, I loved bones, along with fantasy books like the last apprentice and rangers apprentice. I’m def gonna read mouse guard to some tavern music haha
I first heard of this series as an adult last year. I bought the first three books and loved them! Any kids I'll have in the future will definitely grow up with them. I really should get the rest of the series, rpg, and maybe the game, too.
Do a series on The Mists of Avalon please. The book series is amazing and deserves so much more praise, I think it's some type of "lost to time" series due to the author's actions (crimes actually)
You know I don't think that's the first time someone's mentioned that, how would you compare the series itself to Mouse Guard? I'll check it out and i added it to the list!
Ah, perfect timing, this series crossed my mind a few days ago. You have given me much-needed hope. Oh, and the little board game is good fun, a simple yet wonderful addition to any board game collection.
Great overview. Have the TTRPG and almost all of the comics. The only one i am missing is one that came out in 2021 called "The Owlhen Caregiver & Other Tales." It looks great and need to find a way to get it in print.
RPG is amazimg for world building. So much thought was put into the history and setting it definitely gave me LOTR vibes. Im converting everything into EZD6 rules but atill use all of the RPG box set stuff as an awesome reference.
The game Swords & Strongholds is great. We collect board games and it is very well designed. Tons of fun. There is another card game referenced in the comic too - wondering if we will ever see that game sometime.
Overall you can just tell this man loves this world. You hit it spot on that while the setting is cool, it's the characters that make it so great.
Hey super cool you got your hands on swords and strongholds! I really wanted to play it for this video but on the official site I couldn't find it listed anymore. How did you like playing it? Does it hold up after awhile?
I'm mildly curious why you'd want to convert a mechanically simple and well designed game, into another rules system that both functionally operate in very similar ways? Did you try playing it RAW?
Another great video! If you’re interested in more series for potential videos then the Belgariad, Shannara, and John Carter of Mars/Barsoom are a few.
Belgariad is 100% going to happen probably in winter, the rest of those I'll have to check out! How is John Carter / Barsoom in your opinion?
@@exitsexamined ive only read the first two books recently actually and I quite enjoyed them. Theres many more books as well but overall theres a lot of fans of the series and from what ive heard it has an interesting history especially as you can see how it couldve been the inspiration for a lot of other stories such as superman. It also had the disney movie which i thought was really good but the online consensus of why it failed in the box office was due to disney not marketing it correctly.
So lucky I had the whole series in my school library back in the day. Read them front to back a few times. The table top game is really good for anyone into them as well.
what an amazing video, thanks for showing me this incredible serie, it's really interesting to see the contrast between such lovely creatures and this fantasy-dark world.
Hey it's my pleasure! So you never heard of it before? Do you usually read graphic novels?
I have never heard of this series before, but this popped up on my recommended and the art looked familiar after seeing some of the new MTG cards. Very cool concept, definitely heavily inspired aspects of that Bloomburrow set MTG released and it's cool they brought the author on board for some gorgeous illustrations to boot!
IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS FOR SO LONG!!! I read this series at my local library when I was a kid! I’m going to reread the entire thing now lol
The genre you're referring to at the beginning is called Xenofiction.
Interesting! I guess that's a broad category too encompassing basically anything not human, dragons, aliens, not medieval animals! Good to know!
"Flesh Queens of Venus" is a good series.
Oh I'll have to check it out - how does it compare to mouse guard you think?
Gah damn the art style is so good
We’re due for another mouse movie
Mouse Guard, such a great comic book, I also drifted away from it so thank you for the update all these years later. Also remember Mouse Templar (?) around the same time as Mouser Guard dropped got published.
Listening to you talk about this fantasy graphic novel reminded me of the fantasy graphic novel from years ago, Bone. I haven't thought about it in years but definitely will revisit it now haha Thanks!
Burning wheel (the engine the game uses) has some pretty bad heads, here's hoping the Mouse Guard writers didn't have their works too terribly corrupted by them.
Oh interesting! What do you mean by bad heads? Sorry if that's a TTRPG term I might not be familiar with
Great video! Very cool series and the card game is good fun! For anyone that likes Mouse Guard, I would also recommend the comic series "Squarriors". It's a short run, only 9 comics but it's really well done and the art is phenomenal. Really awesome, brutal medieval style warfare between the animals after humans have disappeared. Stuff people left behind like scalpels and knives and tools become their spears and weapons. It also has a card game, but I've never tried it.
huh, I saw this guy promote his books in a library in michigan over 10 years ago it feels like, glad I get an update on the guy
that test footage that came out a couple years ago broke was some of the coolest stuff I’ve ever seen. Still hoping someday it gets a great animated adaptation
I used to watch animals of farthing wood after school back in the day. loved the secret of nimh and watership down. So this is right up my alley 👍
totally forgot about this series!! thank you!
what a wild series of events in a SINGLE video
I want a classic style cartoon/drawn animation not a cgi movie. Treasure Planet style. I cant understand why the studios dont produce cartoons in that style anymore.
Actually now you mention it I do think that would probably be a better match for this series compared to CGI
Great video, subscribed!
Met te artist at comic con. Nice guy, gave me some great advice.
I’m so happy to have seen this. I pulled this from the library of my new school in the 3rd grade. I’m 22 now and never forgot that memory
Whoa super cool your library had this, wish mine did!
Discovered this channel about a week ago, subscribed, binged all your videos, then forgot about it and was just reminded of you again with this video in my recommended, thank you youtube 🙏
also redwall goes so hard
Whoa thanks so much! I hope you didn't binge watch them all the way to the first ones haha. But glad RUclips brought you back and hopefully this series seemed interesting to you? Had you heard of Mouse Guard before?
@@exitsexamined I hadnt, but I love watching your breakdowns of these series since I am pretty much always interested in them, and I love Redwall and Berserk so I was sure I'd enjoy the vid. I think the Eragon vid was the first one I had recommended to me and I just went down the line watching all of them lol
Please take a look at the Mistmantle series next!
Hey thanks so much for the suggestion! How would you compare Mistmantle to Mouse Guard? Similar vibe or totally different? I added it to the list!
@@exitsexaminedSimilar and different. You have sword fighting animals, a dedicated royal guard serving the people, and the first book also has this feeling of creeping darkness all through out it. However, the series does have a touch of magic involved and the tone can vary from book to book. It’s also kind of like Redwall where the size of the animals is not made entirely clear and it lacks the harsh survival theme of Mouse Guard.
MOUSE GUARD MENTIONED!!! THIS WAS PART OF MY CHILDHOOD!!!
Thank you for reminding me redwall exists, I think at least the first trilogy in the series deserves a re-read. This could be an incredible animated cartoon.
If you like Redwall stay tuned to the channel in the next few days or next week!
I really like the idea behind this channel.
Thanks for saying that! Is there anything in particular you'd want me to cover?
@@exitsexamined I watch alot of anime and read lots of manga. So I'd be interested in that.
Or the owl book series.
MOUSE GUARD MENTIONED!!! YEAAHH!!!!!
Really though this series is a beautiful piece of art and it's kinda crazy how rarely I hear people talking about it.
Honestly it's been my pleasure talking about it! Do you other graphic novels like it? I'd love to cover more under appreciated stuff on the channel!
I read this SOOOOOOO many times I love this series
I remeber my aunt got me the first of these when I was like 11 or something. I looked at the front thinking oh okay some generic adventure book for kids with some stylish art. I didn't plan on reading it at first but got bored one day while on a long road trip and just so happened to have this in the car. I picked up and finished it twice. It was so good I thought to myself there must be dozens of these maybe hundreds this must be either a really large series or going to be one. I was dissapionted to learn there was only two at the time and picked up the second one. For ten long years now I probably haven't thought of this series but now I need to go find the other books.
Yeah it is a short and sweet series, but the side books and standalone comics are well worth the reads if you can find them! Also the black ax is excellent and I think don't quote me, feels longer than the rest
Love mouse guard, I got all the books and can’t wait for the next one
For anyone looking for similar books, Mouse heart is a book series I used to read when I was younger and I honestly think it should be talked about more. I definitely recommend it
I hadn't heard of it before this! Is it a single book or a series? Maybe I'll check it out sometime!
@@exitsexamined it’s a series, about three books if I remember it right
Met Petersen last month at an event at one of my LGSs. Super cool guy to talk to and really down to earth.
I watched as many interviews as I could with him and yeah he seemed great, especially with younger fans
Cute lil mouse hope he livin his best life
Every show terrified of being depicted on this channel
I reamber reading one of the books when I was quite young and i never new the name, I read the one with the owl in winter and love the vibe of the main charecters bieng stalk by some kind of unstoppable force where they soon choose to face it in the end.
Really loving this video. It might be the thing that makes me start collecting books again.
I was wondering if you have done or could do a deep dive into "The Dragon Lance" series, my dad has a few of the old books and I never got deep into reading it.
Hey thanks so much for checking it out! I'm happy to say I have already done a video on Dragonlance, it's on the channel!
Not disappointed
Might become a fan just on the theme
Would highly recommend checking it out!
3:22 Anyone else catch the Millennium Falcon in the bones?
Omg! That's hilarious! Great catch
Small saga, Leo is literally the thumbnail!
I remember seeing the tabletop game for Mouseguard at a winery in Michigane in a stack with basic games like checkers.
Never heard of this! Just bought the Fall 1152 hardcover and I look forward to reading this during the fall, in bed, after dinner!
Let me know what you think! That sounds super cozy though!
This had me when it mentioned the series being like Attack on Titan. I checked out and binged Fall 1152, Winter 1152, and The Black Axe in 2 days. This video basically made me a Mouse Guard fan
Whoa thank you so much for giving the video and then the series a shot! Super cool you got the books, what did you think? Did you have any favorite moments?
@@exitsexamined Basically Celanawe's entire character arc was the peak for me. He was my favorite character like OMG 😭 (also I wish I could get the books)
I can't believe I never picked this up until just now. I was an avid reader of the Redwall books throughout my preteen years and early teens, but by the time this first came out I was about 17 and too cool for talking animal stories. I was such an idiot! Glad I'm mature enough to enjoy talking animals again 😅
Bro RedWall back in the day dope ass story
Great video!
David is still doing art, he is on Twitch streaming the rework one of his older books currently. He has been very slowly working on a new book.
Yeah I think I covered weasel war in the video! Cool to know about the reworks though!
Damn, you made me want to re-read the series.
Thank you for introducing me to this
Hey it's my pleasure! Did you get one of the books? Hope you like it!
@@exitsexamined Reading it now actually. Loving it so far. Thanks again
I have the mouse scale replica of the black axe😂 my dad saw me reading an issue and asked why i was reading a baby comic, showed him the inside with the battle with the fox. 😅
I used to read redwall to my little sisters and they loved it
I definitely want to check this series out, despite the hiatus. I do think this fantasy subgenre is called "Animal Xenofiction", which can come in two versions: Naturalistic (Duncton Wood, Watership Down) and Anthro (Redwall, Mouseguard). Xenofiction in general is very broad, as it can mean just about any non-human things (so Toy Story, for example, is Xenofiction). I personally prefer to call it "Animal Fantasy" to differentiate from the broader spectrum of XF, as I don't like to imagine WD exists in the same niche as Cars.
This would be a cool video game setting. It could be like Dark Souls or Elden Ring only you fight snakes and owls. That would be really cool.
A long time ago I was at at thrift store and I picked up my first graphic novel called "The Autumnlands". I've been meaning to check out for about 6 years. The art looked cool. No idea what it's about.