I think the implication with the chessboard was that the two tomato's in the cages next to it would pass the time by playing chess between their cells, that being said, I think this game could have been pretty good if the execution were just bit better, the voice acting like Jim said, a save function, less motion blur and more clear visual during combat and the game might have actually been decent, creepy at times even.
I got a bit of a Bioshock vibe from it, actually. Just walking around the 'dungeon' and seeing all those 'juiced tomatoes' reminds me of the Medical Pavilion or Fort Frolic. Perhaps they could've added something like audio diaries to tell the lore and do a bit of world-building.
jim kinda explained about how you can do really fucked up shit with "humanoid" veggies and its still creepy but not as horrific as it would be with people. That or "i'm going to make a wild-west-inspired-game featuring uncanny valley vegetables" haha
KA HE, what is this? Why are people replying with just someone's username? I'm guessing it's a meme I'm not aware of or something. But I have to be that square who asks what the deal is.
This game sort of has the stink of "student project." It feels like the developer is genuinely trying to learn game design, what with the surprising amount of competence in it.
This is the kinda game that you call the B-movie equivalent of a game: yeah, it's kinda shitty-looking and not good, but you can tell it was made with love and there is some glimmer of genuine goodness to be had in the game. I could see a game like this getting kind of a cult following, if I'm going to be completely honest.
Ass and Arse are two different spelling variations of the same bodily region so of course there's no R in Ass just like there's only one S in Arse. Kappa
Superiodity Does it matter? Whatever way you spell it, the meaning stays the same. It is pointless arguing which way is correct, since the US and England are 2 separate countries, with separate beliefs and separate ways of spelling and pronouncing words.
U is the bastardised French way of spelling colour. the Latin root is color. the Americans did it for the wrong reasons but, for the pedantically inclined, ended up with the right spelling
Honestly, this seems like it could be really fun. Mash up the visual and narrative tropes of Samurai westerns with Silent Hill-style horror to create an absurd comedy? That sounds kinda cool. But the execution is so poor, it seems borderline unplayable. A shame, really.
I feel like this game is wrestling with itself whether it wants to be truly unique and gripping, or like the other broken, poorly translated games on Steam. If they cleaned up the gameplay, made it less difficult to gauge what's going on and improved the writing and voice acting, this might be something actually kinda interesting?
Never before has a game won (the style), lost (the Russian, horrible animation, and general low quality everything), won (the monster design and general creep factor), and finally lost (the gameplay) me so quickly in such a short span of time. That was a wild ride. Thanks, Jim.
I feel like this game still has potential if the devs are willing to work on it. The grey cement walls don't make any sense to me though; there should have been more of a kitchen, fridge, or other food storage-related design and color to the environment.
Honestly, I think a lot of the ideas are good and the early sequences played out pretty well. I'd recommend they ditched the steam greenlight horror game lighting, diversified their areas, and focused less on combat. This could be something in a years time.
Same reason people live in america, same reason trump is president. Because life happens, life can suck, life can be great.. People makes choices. Life.
This is one of the few games that I look at and feel genuinely bad about it. Conceptually its a pretty good game. The developer really just needs to refine the gameplay (and motion blur) and this could be a pretty interesting game. Sadly I doubt that will happen.
this strange thing appeal to me. am i sick doctor Jim ? or is it the "love of bad games" that you trescend that infuse inside every cells of my body and brain ?!?!
I mean, the vegetable people models are actually pretty interesting designs. Some of the cutscenes, especially the pickle one, were actually kinda cool too. This is something that could actually be done right, possibly by some of the same people, it just needs _a lot_ more work
Yeah I have no idea what it is about the pickle scene but that was so entertaining and intriguing for me. The carrot scene, though, that was amazing on every level.
The chess board between the cages I actually liked. It was a bit of visual story telling showing that the imprisoned tomatoes would while away the hours playing chess together.
Wow! This game was... actually pretty interesting! It's pretty bad when a recently-made, 90's-looking shooter, is better than most of the shit, you see on Steam, these days! =P
I feel this isn’t that bad, short of the motion blur, flashing lights, lack of a save system, and just the darkness this is great. I mean it was genuinely creepy at points, it had a clear direction and it knew what it was going for. Kudos to you developers, a little bit of after care and you have a good game.
I was eating baked chicken with a great seasoning on it. Started the video, pulled some of the skin off and started eating it when I was suddenly met with that greeting... Thank you, Jim >_< lol
Literally the first thirty seconds, "I still get grief about not putting a "U" in Color, to be honest the "U" doesn't even belong there." , That line got you an instant like from me Sterling, keep it up. Also Glitch in the system, GOD I want that game back.. or something, such a fucking shame that game died..
I wouldn't go as far as to say "It's shit" or anything. Yes, the dev is an amateur, but seriously: it's much to expect for every indie dev to make the next Limbo, specially when they're very likely working completely alone with no experience and in 3D. You have to give him some credit, despite this not being a game that should be exactly "sold" imo. At least you can say that he gave it quite some effort, compared to some other stuff on Greenlight.
Jim, as someone who is currently living in Louisiana, who moved here from the UK, I know exactly where you're coming from. My family hate that I say words differently now. You definitely kept your British accent though! I was not so lucky.
I don't know if it's cause my desktop gamma is set slightly lower than the monitor default, how youtube renders videos or what but how the hell do you play these games; half of them are utterly imperceptively dark.
I think the game looks nice. And, there's not much detail. But I've noticed, and realised. That the detail that's there, is pretty nice. Those two cherries in the prison, they played chess / checkers. That's why the board was positioned between their cells. And, the developer's russian. Rest in peace, english.
This makes me think of the type of shit that I found hilarious for some inexplicable reason back in my early college days when being sober wasn't exactly on the menu. This seriously makes me think of those old Brian Trepaning mods for Doom 3...
Ugh. People are so *whiny* when it comes to the whole UK vs US spelling/pronunciation thing. So long as I can understand what you're saying it really shouldn't matter.
true, except when very similar sounding, but totally different words are used interchangeably. A sort vs sought confusion is one I just encountered earlier this week.
If the meaning and use of words is so important to you, then why use ''autism'' as a neologism for stupidity when there's already hundred of expressions for that. I'm all for new ways to express new things but as far as I'm concerned it's totally useless... Oh, and it's also a very annoying trend as literally everyone misuse it!
+Jim Sterling - You'd be surprised at how many crying onion jars there are out there. Did a Google search and the one your grandparents had may be vintage now.
I think the implication with the chessboard was that the two tomato's in the cages next to it would pass the time by playing chess between their cells, that being said, I think this game could have been pretty good if the execution were just bit better, the voice acting like Jim said, a save function, less motion blur and more clear visual during combat and the game might have actually been decent, creepy at times even.
I completely agree, but at the same time.... it's just so ugly.... that blur XP
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I got a bit of a Bioshock vibe from it, actually.
Just walking around the 'dungeon' and seeing all those 'juiced tomatoes' reminds me of the Medical Pavilion or Fort Frolic. Perhaps they could've added something like audio diaries to tell the lore and do a bit of world-building.
I'd say it's a good start for a (presumably) first time dev.
ive seen in lots of videos that jim just turns on all the check boxes on the video options, i guess he could make it look better if he wanted to
This looks like something that came from courage the cowardly dog.
Ik this comment was a year ago but that show gave me nightmares as a kid and can burn in hell.
so someone sat down one day and thought _"i'm going to make a wild-west-inspired-game featuring uncanny valley vegetables"_
Mustache Power ...i don't think a cutesy artstyle would work for a game where you fight vegetables turned into eldritch abominations
LazyTomato vegitale au
Well, it worked in the game Maize (except on a farm and with corn).
jim kinda explained about how you can do really fucked up shit with "humanoid" veggies and its still creepy but not as horrific as it would be with people. That or "i'm going to make a wild-west-inspired-game featuring uncanny valley vegetables" haha
I think it would, actually - the shift from cute to horrific monster would probably work much better if the vegetables weren't already monstrous.
I know this old as hell, but for anyone curious, the song that plays during the opening scene and menu is The Fiery Red Sarilang by Wulan Tuoya
I love you Jim, from my head ...
Tomatoes
should have left out the "to my" but i still laughed
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KA HE, what is this? Why are people replying with just someone's username?
I'm guessing it's a meme I'm not aware of or something. But I have to be that square who asks what the deal is.
Me Auntie Nora
Ba dum tsh!
The checkerboard been the tomato cells didn't seem random. Seems like the tomatoes are playing each other while jailed.
This game sort of has the stink of "student project." It feels like the developer is genuinely trying to learn game design, what with the surprising amount of competence in it.
Yup, this is pretty much how every kid sees vegetables.
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Zanon "Revolver Ocelot."
This is the kinda game that you call the B-movie equivalent of a game: yeah, it's kinda shitty-looking and not good, but you can tell it was made with love and there is some glimmer of genuine goodness to be had in the game.
I could see a game like this getting kind of a cult following, if I'm going to be completely honest.
If you didn't notice, you gain health by eating the corpse of your fallen foes.
I was going to say that! Somehow the fork seems to be involved. He healed faster when using it.
What are you talking about? I eat food with a Hammer or a Machine.
Just like in real life.
Ukrainian voice-over, nice. Proud for my fellow countrymen.
The U does belong in colour.
Ass and Arse are two different spelling variations of the same bodily region so of course there's no R in Ass just like there's only one S in Arse. Kappa
Superiodity
Does it matter? Whatever way you spell it, the meaning stays the same. It is pointless arguing which way is correct, since the US and England are 2 separate countries, with separate beliefs and separate ways of spelling and pronouncing words.
FireFox Gameplay! It's easy to say it doesn't matter when your language isn't the one being cocked up.
U is the bastardised French way of spelling colour. the Latin root is color. the Americans did it for the wrong reasons but, for the pedantically inclined, ended up with the right spelling
There will always be an 's' in maths too.
I know it isn't super well designed, but I kinda love this. The tone is delightfully weird and fucked up.
Pro tip don't fall asleep while watching this, the nightmare will haunt you for the rest of your life.
Honestly, this seems like it could be really fun. Mash up the visual and narrative tropes of Samurai westerns with Silent Hill-style horror to create an absurd comedy? That sounds kinda cool. But the execution is so poor, it seems borderline unplayable. A shame, really.
I agree, I loved the intro even though the scene was laughable, it was kinda bad ass
There are two more of these games. T W O M O R E. Christ.
I feel like this game is wrestling with itself whether it wants to be truly unique and gripping, or like the other broken, poorly translated games on Steam.
If they cleaned up the gameplay, made it less difficult to gauge what's going on and improved the writing and voice acting, this might be something actually kinda interesting?
Is this a sequel to that Potato game?
or a prequel to Veggie Tales?
Never before has a game won (the style), lost (the Russian, horrible animation, and general low quality everything), won (the monster design and general creep factor), and finally lost (the gameplay) me so quickly in such a short span of time. That was a wild ride. Thanks, Jim.
"The 'u' doesn't belong." Thank you Jim, you are officially my favourite British person.
Some of the things in this game look good, like they at least put some effort in it. I'm genuinly interested in a part two of this.
Yeah, I think the only major issues are the checkpoints and the blurring - as Jim said, when he was meleeing them it was a bit headache inducing.
I feel like this game still has potential if the devs are willing to work on it. The grey cement walls don't make any sense to me though; there should have been more of a kitchen, fridge, or other food storage-related design and color to the environment.
Damn it Hollywood, why did the reboot of Vegetales have to be dark and gritty?!
SilentPony and slightly disturbing...
Those tv's in the game look and sound like the one in Silent Hill 2 in the hotel...
The gritty reboot of Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom is coming along nicely.
Honestly, I think a lot of the ideas are good and the early sequences played out pretty well. I'd recommend they ditched the steam greenlight horror game lighting, diversified their areas, and focused less on combat. This could be something in a years time.
Curious why you would CHOOSE to live in Mississippi lol
Same reason people live in america, same reason trump is president.
Because life happens, life can suck, life can be great.. People makes choices. Life.
It's their well-known tolerance for all people and lifestyles.
His wife lives there.
Because the summers are great? (which is the opposite of the issue we have in Texas)
Come off it, Mississippi is awesome.
This is one of the few games that I look at and feel genuinely bad about it. Conceptually its a pretty good game. The developer really just needs to refine the gameplay (and motion blur) and this could be a pretty interesting game. Sadly I doubt that will happen.
Man, the Veggie Tales Reboot: The Videogame, sucks big time.
this strange thing appeal to me. am i sick doctor Jim ? or is it the "love of bad games" that you trescend that infuse inside every cells of my body and brain ?!?!
this is art
Jim! You're an all powerful god. Bring back Metal Arms!
This is Ukrainian and, as a Ukrainian myself I don't know if I should feel proud or ashamed.
Славик Одессит ah yes, the country where S.T.A.L.K.E.R originated from has the pride and joy to be home to this... thing
ive learnt not to go to jail un ukraine
I want a full length film made from this premise with the exact same budget. Then I want IHE to review it.
Someone, please, do it.
I can't wait for Tomato Way VR Edition.
Someone must have been forced to watch a whole lot of those Veggie Tales movies
Best opening insult line so far!!
I mean, the vegetable people models are actually pretty interesting designs. Some of the cutscenes, especially the pickle one, were actually kinda cool too. This is something that could actually be done right, possibly by some of the same people, it just needs _a lot_ more work
Yeah I have no idea what it is about the pickle scene but that was so entertaining and intriguing for me. The carrot scene, though, that was amazing on every level.
The bar-fight music... That's Auf Und Auf Voll Lebenslust by Franzl Lang.
Dunno if I should be ashamed to know that.
11:37 isnt a random object i think the 2 cherrys where playing checkers
You say tomato and I say tomato. It doesn't matter.
Juan Martinez let's call the whole thing off
Sad thing about games like this is they could be good if more effort or skill were put towards the ideas.
that's literally every bad game though?
Besides bad zombie/survival games. Those are always tragic no matter what.
The chess board between the cages I actually liked. It was a bit of visual story telling showing that the imprisoned tomatoes would while away the hours playing chess together.
I love how the bar has fallen so low that it's praise to say "they actually tried harder than not at all" or "they aren't straight up scam artists"
Fallout with added tomatoes, 10/9 👍
It's like Veggie Tales by David Cronenberg.
Has a bit of a David Firth feeling. Y'know, if he had made Salad Fingers in very crude 3D. Only significantly less warped.
My word you find the weirdest shit Steam has to offer.
This is not what I should have watched before going to bed.
the first veg is beetroot
I am fascinated by this game.
Wow! This game was... actually pretty interesting!
It's pretty bad when a recently-made, 90's-looking shooter, is better than most of the shit, you see on Steam, these days! =P
VeggieTales: SATANIC EDITION!!!
I would have chosen "Red Dead onions" as the title.
when the creators of VeggieTales completely lost their shit, this is what happened.
Its like a cross between a Clint Eastwood film, veggie tales and someone tripping major balls.
I feel this isn’t that bad, short of the motion blur, flashing lights, lack of a save system, and just the darkness this is great. I mean it was genuinely creepy at points, it had a clear direction and it knew what it was going for. Kudos to you developers, a little bit of after care and you have a good game.
Great video, Jim. Loved the ending
worst
no idea why i thumbed this up..
pc has the best exclusives
Truly this is the Dark Souls of Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom.
lol. is this death stranding?
I was eating baked chicken with a great seasoning on it. Started the video, pulled some of the skin off and started eating it when I was suddenly met with that greeting... Thank you, Jim >_< lol
"I'm only seeing Echoes of things that have happened." I feel like you read my mind!
Literally the first thirty seconds, "I still get grief about not putting a "U" in Color, to be honest the "U" doesn't even belong there." , That line got you an instant like from me Sterling, keep it up.
Also Glitch in the system, GOD I want that game back.. or something, such a fucking shame that game died..
It's so refreshing to hear an actual British person admit that the U doesn't belong in colour.
A survival horror game with produce is a cool idea
The tomato can move a fork so fast, you only saw one slash when it was really two.
I wasn't even alive during the 90s and IM remembering those CGI stuff. That's what I "grew up" with.
Jim is so sneaky searched up Metal Arms Glitch in the System, found an article written by Jim Sterling.
"Now I have a machine, ho-ho-ho." ~John McClane
My grandparents had a pretty sweet ceramic owl cookie jar.
It's a betrayal of you tomato roots!
That 90s joke... I remember Beast Wars and Reboot, which had GREAT animation for being 90s CGI, still love ya jim
I wouldn't go as far as to say "It's shit" or anything. Yes, the dev is an amateur, but seriously: it's much to expect for every indie dev to make the next Limbo, specially when they're very likely working completely alone with no experience and in 3D. You have to give him some credit, despite this not being a game that should be exactly "sold" imo.
At least you can say that he gave it quite some effort, compared to some other stuff on Greenlight.
@Jim Sterling, tell me how you feel about the word "aluminum" and how it''s pronounced in the UK...
how about "methane"? does he say meth-ane or me-Thane?
blood seems to fill your health.
Så anyone knows if Jim have heard of a certain Company releasing day one dlc for 84€ for Yu-Gi-Oh Legacy of the Duelist?
I can't believe you didn't call this "Silent Dill"
A jimpressions for my birthday?! amazing present Jim
A. Cruz Happy Birthday yo.
thanks c:
Just your friendly neighborhood tomato saying hi.
Jim, as someone who is currently living in Louisiana, who moved here from the UK, I know exactly where you're coming from. My family hate that I say words differently now. You definitely kept your British accent though! I was not so lucky.
I wonder if any of those crates were breakable.
VeggieTales: The Video Game
21:22 Okay with that scene the game just redeemed itself.
I don't know if it's cause my desktop gamma is set slightly lower than the monitor default, how youtube renders videos or what but how the hell do you play these games; half of them are utterly imperceptively dark.
This is the most fucked up Dire Straits music video I have ever seen
Hey Jim, I'm pretty sure stepping in the juice of the fallen enemies healed you.
I think the game looks nice. And, there's not much detail. But I've noticed, and realised. That the detail that's there, is pretty nice. Those two cherries in the prison, they played chess / checkers. That's why the board was positioned between their cells. And, the developer's russian. Rest in peace, english.
Hello is where you sell the shooms
I had an ad for 'blue tomato' infront of this…
Jim, I'm guessing the board was there to imply that they play through the bars
This makes me think of the type of shit that I found hilarious for some inexplicable reason back in my early college days when being sober wasn't exactly on the menu. This seriously makes me think of those old Brian Trepaning mods for Doom 3...
Those things are supposed to be Colorado potato beetles, I believe.
All downhill after the, relatively, decent snail-on-tomato opening scene.
Ah good ole' Jim, one of the good ones.
*Dropped a mushroom* Jim you're so pure
Potato Thriller?
Ugh. People are so *whiny* when it comes to the whole UK vs US spelling/pronunciation thing.
So long as I can understand what you're saying it really shouldn't matter.
true, except when very similar sounding, but totally different words are used interchangeably. A sort vs sought confusion is one I just encountered earlier this week.
If the meaning and use of words is so important to you, then why use ''autism'' as a neologism for stupidity when there's already hundred of expressions for that. I'm all for new ways to express new things but as far as I'm concerned it's totally useless... Oh, and it's also a very annoying trend as literally everyone misuse it!
+Jim Sterling - You'd be surprised at how many crying onion jars there are out there. Did a Google search and the one your grandparents had may be vintage now.
Getting some Serious Sam vibes. The bongos when combat happens is more reminiscent of that series than anything else I can think of.