Romanian here from Transylvania So from what mythology and folklore I know, Saint George is a really big deal in this story because it was he who slayed the big bad dragon ("balaur" in Romanian), and Dracula having connections with dragons (Vlad the Impailer coming from the Order of Dragons) it was natural that they'd place the events in Saint George's Eve, which is basically a Halloween when evil spirits such as strigoi (undead) roam the earth and villagers need to use herbs to keep them away from stealing their cow milk (I'm not kidding). Not sure if this is also the time when holy werewolves sent from God would battle these evil strigoi or if that is a completely another story. Also while "dracul" meant firstly "the son of the dragon" it now means literally "the Devil" which really didn't help Vlad the Impailer's reputation (later generations would percieve him as Vlad the Devil instead of Vlad the son of the Dragon, however teachers nowadays make sure to highlight the difference).
"big *BAD DRAGON*" Alright Ssethzeentach please stop possessing @Horner this instant. Seriously though your folklore is a really nice billboard for a hardcore symphonic metal festival !
I heard two things about Vlad and now I wonder if they are true. The first is that he didn't really spend that much time ruling over the territory. The second is that he was beloved by a lot of the people for keeping peace and order. Mostly out of fear of torture and execution.
He does get kind of edgy in the latter parts of the novel. When the party is chasing the coffin across Europe, he mostly spends his time sitting quietly and sharpening a kukri in preparation to fuck Dracula's shit up. Jonathan is kind of a wimp until any point when Mina is put in danger. Then all bets are off.
I like how he emphasized that he would kill the monster with the help of God, even though he straight up killed more villagers that Dracula did in this game
Dude really had no reason to kill anyone either. Lured a guard away from the bridge? Forget just sneaking by, gotta murder 'em. Dracula hardly even put up a fight in the beginning. Maybe *we're* the bad guys...
To be fair to Johnathan, he was on a bit of a time limit to save his wife. Probably just going for what seemed like it would be most effective, with the morality of the actions coming in a distant second.
..after the recent resident evil 5 episode i literally watched all the old ones again for the like sixth time hahaha..it's like RLMs best of the worst, even if you've seen them a lot over the years it's still hilarious and doesn't get old
@@TreeLobsterGuy I'd be legitimately surprised if someone is on the secret channels and didn't come here from the main channel hahaha..I'd say like 1% of people found this separately from the main channel haha, same with incognito mode
19:15 his wife he just spent ALL THIS TIME saving is unsecured, haphazardly laying unconscious in the back, and this man does a barrel roll out of the cave. The story does end here, because his wife plummeted hundreds of feet to the ground
How did your ear fall off, was it the Colorado Coors and Red Sovine? "I said was it the Coors and." Oh Hell he can't hear me, here's a beer fella. (If you get it, you get it.)
They've actually done this before with the Dune video game, the very first one, they had some of the actors from the movie lend their appearance to their in game counterparts. Others...Not so much.
Five minutes in and the main character is absolutely a bad guy. He goes to some town, robs the graves, kills a guy so he can rob his cabin. Are we sure Dracula is the bad guy here
I couldn't finish the N word with VPN because RUclips autodeleted it assuming it was advertiser spam. They must be one of those miserable piles I keep hearing about.
What dark magic caused Storymode to rise from the grave once more!? 7:45 This is a rather interesting character of the Sponsor mythos! Sponsor Sock still holds a special place in my heart.
But this time he hasn't just 3 brides, but a thousand and they are all as powerful as a Death Moon. Also, turns out Jonathan is his granddaughter. Also also, Quincy is back, but he has to do some important research, so he can't come to Transylvania.
HA! YES! I'M SO GLAD YOU COVERED THIS! When I was a kid (watching fearfully over the shoulder of my aunt who played the game) that maid in the inn really freaked me out for some reason ... but the lady in the dungeon with the glowing eyes? Yeah, caught a glimpse of her, and I wasn't able to fall asleep easy for quite a few months afterwards! Even here in the past year when I played the game myself (because I'm not embarrassed to admit pnc adventures are a guilty pleasure and I *adore* these style of pre-rendered graphics) the lady with the glowing eyes was STILL uncomfortable for me to look at. That speaks a lot to how well her character was designed (even if it's hard to tell with the change-in-mood this video casts over the story). I hope you cover the next game, which I believe is when they featured *shooting mechanics* ... in a point-n-click adventure where you teleport from place to place. Never played it so I don't know how it worked, but it sounds equal- parts frustratingly janky yet also a bit terrifying in a Silent Hill "I can barely protect myself" kind of way. Thanks for bringing back the memories!!
my favorite part about these point & clicks was that near the end of the game there was always some fantastical extended cutscene where the budget got put, of the protagonist going through multiple biomes/contraptions just so they could get the screengrabs for the boxart & make it seem high production, like johnathan literally was in a cave to a minecart to a pully boat thing using one mechanic the whole time, just as buffer to get to the area to finish the game
What you described is how I feel about zombies. Especially the one that started it: the first one you encounter in Resident Evil 1. I was 10 years old then and had nightmares for weeks. Now they still make me feel uneasy and I have the obsessive compulsion to kill each one I encounter.
I feel bad for Quincy. He gets tossed out of so many adaptations of Dracula that most people don’t know he even exists. The dude put a Bowie knife in Dracula’s chest, was instrumental in his death, and was so well-regarded that Jonathan and Mina named their firstborn Quincy after him. If he’s been called ‘Nathan Morris’ instead of ‘Quincy Morris,’ bro would have gotten his own movie in that wave of action flicks inspired by Dracula/Frankenstein/etc.
It's because they literally made Quincy a 'just there's character. Out of all the characters in Dracula, Quincy is the least fleshed out and most forgetful and his death is like, SO inconsequential.
@@electricbayonet2 Yes. Out of all the characters he was the least fleshed out and honestly, felt literally nothing when he died as opposed to ANYONE else.
Yeah, Quincy Morris was the badass of the party. Next to him is Arthur Holmwood (who was a soldier) and Van Helsing (who was skilled with a rifle and dual swords). Seward the doctor helped out too, and he was not too bad in it, but Jonathan Harker, man...I remember reading one of the novel by Dacre Stoker (the sequel, Dracula The Un-Dead), that during the fight from the first book, every shot Jonathan took with his gun was a miss 😂Although yeah, he found his strength to stab Dracula at the end but he wasn't quite a fighter. Not like in this game, anyway.
Especially at the end when they can't stop laughing! In the future looking back, this is easily going to be seen as one of the best videos of the channel
The Castlevania references are apreciated. The beggining was so similar to the book's ending i was surprised they made it a sequel, but this definitely went in a direction i didn't expected
I love that story mode gets regular updates while the main channel which has 10x as many subs and I'm sure could be pulling in a lot more money per video has remained dry for like a year Really shows that you just enjoy doing this and it's less about the money. Never change.
Everyone's talking about the restraint from making Morbius references, but I'm over here marveling at the restraint regarding Jojo references. My man is literally named Jonathan and he's fighting a vampire.
These are the times in which we need more things expleened. I also wish there were some sort of internet historian out there, who could tell us about pools and chans.
i don't know how i missed this channel, i love all of your content but this style/genre really hits home for me, please keep making these videos this made my day discovering this :)
Romanian here from Transylvania
So from what mythology and folklore I know, Saint George is a really big deal in this story because it was he who slayed the big bad dragon ("balaur" in Romanian), and Dracula having connections with dragons (Vlad the Impailer coming from the Order of Dragons) it was natural that they'd place the events in Saint George's Eve, which is basically a Halloween when evil spirits such as strigoi (undead) roam the earth and villagers need to use herbs to keep them away from stealing their cow milk (I'm not kidding). Not sure if this is also the time when holy werewolves sent from God would battle these evil strigoi or if that is a completely another story. Also while "dracul" meant firstly "the son of the dragon" it now means literally "the Devil" which really didn't help Vlad the Impailer's reputation (later generations would percieve him as Vlad the Devil instead of Vlad the son of the Dragon, however teachers nowadays make sure to highlight the difference).
You know too much. Lemme see your neck
Dragons are demons, so being ‘son of the dragon’ isn’t much better.
"big *BAD DRAGON*" Alright Ssethzeentach please stop possessing @Horner this instant. Seriously though your folklore is a really nice billboard for a hardcore symphonic metal festival !
St George really gets around both england and Romania.
I heard two things about Vlad and now I wonder if they are true. The first is that he didn't really spend that much time ruling over the territory. The second is that he was beloved by a lot of the people for keeping peace and order. Mostly out of fear of torture and execution.
"I'm too busy doing storymode to die." -The queen's last words.
If only storymode uploaded more often.....
Guess that one didn't age well.
@@burnininhell I blame storymodes slow update schedule.
@@nonya1366 ever heard of "good things take time"? just the production value on these explains how long it takes.
That aged like.... it aged.
Jonathan is more of a threat to Transylvania than Dracula ever was.
Ruined an entire country in 20 minutes
based pfp
He does get kind of edgy in the latter parts of the novel. When the party is chasing the coffin across Europe, he mostly spends his time sitting quietly and sharpening a kukri in preparation to fuck Dracula's shit up. Jonathan is kind of a wimp until any point when Mina is put in danger. Then all bets are off.
Typical English Liberal.
@@plasticold2167 Why did you read the novel
I like how he emphasized that he would kill the monster with the help of God, even though he straight up killed more villagers that Dracula did in this game
Dude really had no reason to kill anyone either. Lured a guard away from the bridge? Forget just sneaking by, gotta murder 'em.
Dracula hardly even put up a fight in the beginning. Maybe *we're* the bad guys...
@@bugjams he didn't like that the guard got upset when he was trying to break into his house
Dude is harnessing his inner Brent Halligan with that many kill count
To be fair to Johnathan, he was on a bit of a time limit to save his wife. Probably just going for what seemed like it would be most effective, with the morality of the actions coming in a distant second.
@@aLukepop he flipped Dracula's DaVinci plane while she was unconscious on it
Mfw he killed the guard stopping people from crossing the bridge when it turns out he was doing it for their safety due to its instability
i'm literally addicted to this channel. The way they expleen with a sarcastic and funny way gets to me every time...
You’ll love internet historian (since it’s his main channel)
@@TreeLobsterGuy what do you mean, this is zuckerberg's channel
..after the recent resident evil 5 episode i literally watched all the old ones again for the like sixth time hahaha..it's like RLMs best of the worst, even if you've seen them a lot over the years it's still hilarious and doesn't get old
@@TreeLobsterGuy I'd be legitimately surprised if someone is on the secret channels and didn't come here from the main channel hahaha..I'd say like 1% of people found this separately from the main channel haha, same with incognito mode
I have perhaps watched the every video channel of this channel 7 times through.
19:15 his wife he just spent ALL THIS TIME saving is unsecured, haphazardly laying unconscious in the back, and this man does a barrel roll out of the cave. The story does end here, because his wife plummeted hundreds of feet to the ground
nah, nah, centrifugal force, she's fine
How did your ear fall off, was it the Colorado Coors and Red Sovine? "I said was it the Coors and." Oh Hell he can't hear me, here's a beer fella. (If you get it, you get it.)
Never mind there's no way that machine could execute that maneuver, much less the airframe maintaining its integrity through it
I liked when Dracula said “It’s morbin time”
Then Morbed all over the place
"Becareful, I'm going to Morb!"
What is this meme?
noooooooo
@@vadandrumist1670 clearly you arent morbing it up on a daily basis
I'm always happy for more storytime with McQueen.
I actually like how this is taking the canon original dracula story and expanding on the ending, like Helsing g
This is shockingly similar to Castlevania season 2 haha..dracula dead, but now there's a portal to hell below a seemingly normal building..
Keechaow
@MetalNG Jon Snow? from internet historian's remake of the final episode of Game of Thrones? Is that you? 😱
That can be arranged, m'dear
"for all the men of this earth" except the ones he killed
Honestly, Dracula writing you a letter that says your wife thinks he's cute is actually pretty powerful motivation.
I’m surprised nobody mentioned how Keanu Reeves is supposed to be the main character as shown by the movie this game is based on.
Really? And he's playing a character called Jonathan no less
So many places where he plays someone called John/Johnny/Jonathan 😊
This movie follows the book, it's not a movie tie in
It's sad they had to settle for Jared Leto as Dramorbius.
Mina doesn't look anything like Winona Ryder.
They've actually done this before with the Dune video game, the very first one, they had some of the actors from the movie lend their appearance to their in game counterparts. Others...Not so much.
Five minutes in and the main character is absolutely a bad guy.
He goes to some town, robs the graves, kills a guy so he can rob his cabin.
Are we sure Dracula is the bad guy here
What is a man? A miserable pile of secrets...but enough talk! Have...Nord, and block all those secrets from miserable piles.
I couldn't finish the N word with VPN because RUclips autodeleted it assuming it was advertiser spam. They must be one of those miserable piles I keep hearing about.
What is a man? A Morbhead.
What dark magic caused Storymode to rise from the grave once more!?
7:45 This is a rather interesting character of the Sponsor mythos! Sponsor Sock still holds a special place in my heart.
Somehow, Dracula returned.
But this time he hasn't just 3 brides, but a thousand and they are all as powerful as a Death Moon. Also, turns out Jonathan is his granddaughter. Also also, Quincy is back, but he has to do some important research, so he can't come to Transylvania.
Rey:
👁👄👁
12:51
He flies now?!
@@AJPwny He flies now.
"im too busy doing storymode to die"
oh thats why the queen died, they never brought her back
HA! YES! I'M SO GLAD YOU COVERED THIS!
When I was a kid (watching fearfully over the shoulder of my aunt who played the game) that maid in the inn really freaked me out for some reason ... but the lady in the dungeon with the glowing eyes? Yeah, caught a glimpse of her, and I wasn't able to fall asleep easy for quite a few months afterwards! Even here in the past year when I played the game myself (because I'm not embarrassed to admit pnc adventures are a guilty pleasure and I *adore* these style of pre-rendered graphics) the lady with the glowing eyes was STILL uncomfortable for me to look at. That speaks a lot to how well her character was designed (even if it's hard to tell with the change-in-mood this video casts over the story).
I hope you cover the next game, which I believe is when they featured *shooting mechanics* ... in a point-n-click adventure where you teleport from place to place. Never played it so I don't know how it worked, but it sounds equal- parts frustratingly janky yet also a bit terrifying in a Silent Hill "I can barely protect myself" kind of way.
Thanks for bringing back the memories!!
i'm also addicted to this style of graphics its so fun
my favorite part about these point & clicks was that near the end of the game there was always some fantastical extended cutscene where the budget got put, of the protagonist going through multiple biomes/contraptions just so they could get the screengrabs for the boxart & make it seem high production, like johnathan literally was in a cave to a minecart to a pully boat thing using one mechanic the whole time, just as buffer to get to the area to finish the game
What you described is how I feel about zombies. Especially the one that started it: the first one you encounter in Resident Evil 1. I was 10 years old then and had nightmares for weeks. Now they still make me feel uneasy and I have the obsessive compulsion to kill each one I encounter.
@@Svoorhout85 I am terrified of the first screen on RE Zero forever
I like how he asked “when will you die” to the queen, these jokes are so common but hit so different now
Remember seeing this at GameStop back in like 2001. Almost purchased it, but luckily Tenchu 2 was literally next to it and had cooler box art lol
Tenchu 2 was so good
Tenchu is gold!!
Fuck yeah ! Ninjas !
Back in the days when we would make our video game choices based purely off of how cool the box art was. Good times
@@DisDatK9 Then realize the game looked NOTHING like the box art.
prayers that the queen lives long enough for part two
I have a bad feeling about this comment...
It would be so unfortunate if she died on the 27th of June from suspicious circumstances.
Isn't she immortal?
no she sucks the souls from the populace, if no-one lived in England, she'd perish in the sunlight.
She's got the Holy Grail, isn't that like the fountain of youth or something like that?
Bring in the Queen to explain eternal vampires. I see what you did there.
You know, the queen is related to vlad tepes aka dracula
Ehhhhhhh, the joke was so funny until last month. :(
Really glad you got Mark out of his hallow human shell and made him do a sponsor using his real form.
"I'm here joined by The Queen."
"Yes. It's me, dear."
"When are you dying, by the way? So soon?"
Bruuuh.... If he knew.
I feel bad for Quincy. He gets tossed out of so many adaptations of Dracula that most people don’t know he even exists.
The dude put a Bowie knife in Dracula’s chest, was instrumental in his death, and was so well-regarded that Jonathan and Mina named their firstborn Quincy after him.
If he’s been called ‘Nathan Morris’ instead of ‘Quincy Morris,’ bro would have gotten his own movie in that wave of action flicks inspired by Dracula/Frankenstein/etc.
Canonically a Belmont.
It's because they literally made Quincy a 'just there's character. Out of all the characters in Dracula, Quincy is the least fleshed out and most forgetful and his death is like, SO inconsequential.
@@LyricalMastermind2 Just to be clear, do you mean to call Quincy Morris a "just [kinda] there" character within the original 'Dracula'?
@@electricbayonet2 Yes. Out of all the characters he was the least fleshed out and honestly, felt literally nothing when he died as opposed to ANYONE else.
Yeah, Quincy Morris was the badass of the party. Next to him is Arthur Holmwood (who was a soldier) and Van Helsing (who was skilled with a rifle and dual swords). Seward the doctor helped out too, and he was not too bad in it, but Jonathan Harker, man...I remember reading one of the novel by Dacre Stoker (the sequel, Dracula The Un-Dead), that during the fight from the first book, every shot Jonathan took with his gun was a miss 😂Although yeah, he found his strength to stab Dracula at the end but he wasn't quite a fighter. Not like in this game, anyway.
Queen shouldn't have stopped doing Storytime. It would have saved her.
The editing in this video is actually amazing! Probably my favorite Story Mode yet
Soon I won't ever have to even play video game ever again
Play video games ? I just watch longplays so when people ask me I can say I have beaten the game.
Especially at the end when they can't stop laughing!
In the future looking back, this is easily going to be seen as one of the best videos of the channel
When IH asked,"hey Queen,"when ya dyin'?" Hits a weeee bit different now lol
"I`m here with THE QUEEN. When are you dying, byw?"
Well, do I have some news...
RIP the queen. I’ll miss you. Glad we have story mode to remember you.
"when are you dying?is it soon?" ohhh that shit was basicity predicting it to happen this year
The first fifteen seconds have become very funny.
This started with Dr. Acula and I immediately knew this was gonna be good
The Castlevania references are apreciated.
The beggining was so similar to the book's ending i was surprised they made it a sequel, but this definitely went in a direction i didn't expected
Castlevania Bloodlines is also a sequel to the book.
I'm impressed by your sheer restraint to not make one morbius meme reference during the Dracula story telling
Why would he? He's a purveyor of good memes, not normie shit.
@@baronvonbeandip fuckin normies am i right gee whiz i am such an individual. not showering is a personality trait
@@baronvonbeandip all hail the ‘purveyor’😂
Dam the queen must have not been busy with story mode anymore
That queen death prediction tho
I like these because most are games I wouldn't normally play so I get to learn about their story from the queen of england and a robot
One opening joke in particular aged like fine fine milk
Ominous foreshadowing there at the beginning
21:50 "any last words, majesty"
Uuuh.... Well....
Suppose the queen ain't doing story modes anymore 💀
I love that story mode gets regular updates while the main channel which has 10x as many subs and I'm sure could be pulling in a lot more money per video has remained dry for like a year
Really shows that you just enjoy doing this and it's less about the money. Never change.
That queen comment really seems to have sped up her majesty's demise
The queen stopped doing story mode and then died. 🤔
Coincidence? I think not!
Zuckerberg took her out. Ever play cyberpunk? he used soulkiller on her. Her mind is stuck in the metaverse
Anyone else watching this after the queen died and a bit spooked by the intro?
Yep...
0:08 The start of this video hits differently now
0:08 Hits different.
"I am too busy with storymode to die" Well that aged like milk
made some fine cheese?
"but behind the stones is a skeleton, but thank god it's dead" killed me.... getit?
Get thee to thy grave, and take your dreadful puns with you, foul undead beastie!
booo
Opening joke aged well …😮
Like fine milk
@huscarl0 it aged like fine wine because she died only a few months afterward, meaning it was an accurate assumption.
Thank you Storymode for buying the Queen more time
'I'm too busy with Storymode to die' said the queen. Welp. I think she hasn't been busy anymore.
John Harker: Professional kleptomaniac. I just love how these adventure games incentivize the player to pick up anything not bolted down.
The Jonathan Harker vs Jonathan Dracula arc goes hard.
Love these guys cover games no one ever talks about anymore. I used to love click and point adventures when I was a wee one
This just popped up in my recommendations minutes after hearing the queen has died.
Ok, I snorted when you said "So he goes on the biggest puzzle solving spree of his life".
Jonathan: I have to kill Dracula, oh, he's so evil!
Also Jonathan: * _murdering every other villager he meets_ *
Monocolor low-res sponsor man is my new favourite ad character.
That intro with the Queen aged well...
Omg im so surprised you got the queen on! Quite amazing pull this channel has!
edit:
i gave them back a heart and they took mine away :( never reciprocate it just hurts
@@AbsolutelyPlasmadic you lost your heart because editing removes it
@@Xanthopathy it was worth it, they deserve the heart more than i :))))
You knew the queen was on her way out. Good intro!
Everyone's talking about the restraint from making Morbius references, but I'm over here marveling at the restraint regarding Jojo references. My man is literally named Jonathan and he's fighting a vampire.
the intro aged like fine wine
Just like the Queen.
@@YukoValis well the queen aged like milk tbf
"When are you dying btw, is it soon?"
Oof - This either aged great or terrible.
These videos keep getting more and more gooder, editing and commentary alike
These are the times in which we need more things expleened. I also wish there were some sort of internet historian out there, who could tell us about pools and chans.
if only we can dream and hope and maybe one day a funny man with an accent will rise to the occasion
The part where the main morb man Morbius himself appeared and said "It's Morbin time" gave me chills dang
shit meme bro
Queen not longer to busy
I love how Jonathan is just killing people.
Editor: How many thumbnails do you want?
IH: Yes
Takes the greatest of vampires to talk about vampire games.
I think Jonathan is more under the influence of Dracula than Mina if he's killing villagers lmao
So glad The Queen could make this last bit of content for us before she died last week.
"When are you dying by the way, is it soon?" Boy do I have some news for you Mr.Historian
just watching this one for the first time and those first 15 secs hit different now 😂
Same.
Curiously the queen died months later.
The use of all the Symphony of the Night music is killing me. 14/10 review.
😂😂😂😂 well I guess you can no longer ask the Queen when she is going to die.
I guess the queen... Is no longer doing storymode..
i don't know how i missed this channel, i love all of your content but this style/genre really hits home for me, please keep making these videos this made my day discovering this :)
Guess the queen got her fill of story mode, rip queenie
0:10 that aged well. Just like the queen.
Welp reckon the Queen finally found an opening in here busy schedule of recording story mode.
We have vampires and nordvpn. Honestly, a missed opportunity to say "IT'S NORDING TIME" dissapoints.
LOVE that you used music from the best Castlevania game!
0:08 Ooof. Here rewatching after September 8th. R.I.P the queen. She will forever live on thru her collab with Mark Zuckerberg in this video.
Does that mean... The queen won't be in anymore videos 😱
0:09 little did we know that the queen is a speedrunner
No, that's what she'd be if she'd died as a baby.
The sudden Hitman line sold it for me. I love you guys
The “symphony of the night” was the chef’s kiss.
Speaking of classic vampire games, would love your take on Masquerade Bloodlines. It's beautiful and buggy and wonderfully wacky.
man the intro to this video didnt age well lol, love it.
yeap
It's the only way I can connect with her now, so glad to have these archived from right before the end
I like the part where he asks the Queen when she’ll die and then 4 months later she dies, very realistic.
That intro aged beautifully
"Btw, I'm here with the queen! When are you dying?" That aged quite well
Yay! I am so happy to see you expleened a game I played when I was a kid.
Can’t believe this is one of the last pieces of media with the queen 😭