I'd like to see a game about the mind-altering entity that compels side characters in horror games to write down their internal monologue at really inopportune times. Or... maybe it's just super normal to beg for help in your diary while being eaten alive, I don't know.
Actually, I'd say it's rather common. A great part of history we know from journals/diaries and letters, because when people has no one to speak to, they speak to themselves. And sometimes the best way to speak to oneself is by writting down things, because that way you won't forget. Anne Frank's diary is one of the most well known diaries, but there's also Robert Falcon Scott's, Viriginia Woolf's, Leonardo Da Vinci's notebooks... to a big degree, writting things down during duress is part of human nature.
@@starrymomo the original comment had me laughing as I pictured someone being actively murdered by an eldrich monster scribbling in their diary, but then your comment just made me sad… I recently watched a video where a woman lost and dying out in the wilderness wrote in her diary something along the lines of “when you find my body, give this diary to my family so I can connect them one more time,” dark stuff
i don't know, i always thought this trope was somehow inspired by lovecraft's writing, for example dagon? just that idea of 'begging for your life' in writing lol, i have been reading his work and realized this
@@a.m.j797 This is not a trope he invented, though. He simply took something that happened in real life, and gave it a cosmic horror twist. Many tropes in literature are born out of real things, and this is one of them.
@@starrymomo yeah, but Lovecraft was an early adapter of it in horror media. A lot of his writing is the time's equivalent of found footage, there's often a framing narrative and then the narrator goes "I found this notebook" or "I talked to this crazy guy" and relays the story told therein That's why I also maintain this is how Lovecraft should be adapted in modern times, as found footage. Plus points because you could portray the "indescribable" horrors as actually glitching out the camera or something
Thanks so much for playing our game, and for the kind words! I was in charge of graphics and music and it means so much to see such a positive reception for our first big(ish) project.
At first I thought this was by the same person who did "From Next Door", but no, just similar look. The close up portraits of all the characters are so well done!
I honestly love the game boy color inspired games, I remember owning an actual game boy, but it only had Tetris. So to see other game boy games, (or game boy color inspired games) I am just drawn in by them.
Oh man, manlybadasshero talking about Waxworks at the end there. It was a game by HorrorSoft and was part of a trilogy of first person adventure game RPGs with a focus on gruesome and gory death screens. The other 2 games were licensed Elvira games and Waxworks was about you being part of a family that has cursed twins. You had to travel through time and space via a magical wax sculpture museum to inhabit the bodies of the good twin so you could defeat the bad twin, through a scifi mine with lots of killer plants controlled by a mutant evil twin, a pyramid where the evil twin is an Egyptian priest or something like that, a haunted graveyard where the evil twin is a necromancer, and dodging cops and mobs in the streets of London where your evil twin is Jack the Ripper. Neat games, nice to be reminded of them.
manly, thanks for your videos. was literally binge watching you yesterday, and this morning as well. i had a bad day and seeing you post new content made me feel more better 🫶🏾i know im just a simple fan, but thank you for doing all that you do ❤
_Addressed to Kill_ Very cool giallo plot. I really enjoyed the extreme creepy people and faces. Great art, cool story line, and pretty satisfying endings. I think it was a perfect length for a short story but I could see this being nicely expanded to a longer story with the other tenants, different detectives investigating related cases. Good job!
Junji Ito horror is so good, I love seeing people adapt the style to games. We need even more of these, really. Edited to add that I also find it super cool that the game can be downloaded as an actual .GB file.
This kind of reminds me of one of those old horror episodic shows. I think it was night gallery. Where this man gets an apartment in an abnormally cheap hotel, but the hotel is actually a living thing and was eating bad tenants.
Interesting art style. I like the use of colors in this game. Also, I can't put my finger on exactly why, but it reminds me a bit of the Sweet Home manhwa.
@@nightwing4701 I'm sure it's probably the mix of body horror, it taking place in an apartment, and the use of color (though Sweet Home was in a different color palette), but at the same time I've watched a lot of stuff that utilizes all three and still didn't give such strong Sweet Home vibes. It's cool though how something that looks so different can capture the same general tone and concept.
Manly alone is carrying the rpg/gameboy/pixel horror games community and I'm here for it, love these gems. I really hope once the gameboy museum game is out you'll play it too as a whole!
Short and nice. I do like the fact that we get to talk to the tenants. And now, overthinking time! I guess the tenants were kept as food...? In a slowly drained sense. Although if they can open the door, why not step outside? ... I suppose it's due to the mind control thing, where they suddenly backpedal and say it's good there. I guess Helen was kill because she resisted, and tried to break the apartment wall? (Or maybe door. Wasn't too clear to me.) Although... why was the death reported then? I guess the obvious answer is "more food", but if the manager isn't immune to guns... it just seemed like a bad idea to call someone with a gun here then. But maybe the detective was expected to be trapped in the apartment room? Or maybe the manager wasn't quite sane anyway, so "any human = food" and he wasn't doing any threat/risk assessment anymore.
This was extremely well made for a made from scratch gameboy game! I'd like to see more retro titles like this, such as '𝘵𝘩𝘦, a Super Mario World romhack.
I was working on an RPGMaker game where you're a detective figuring out what seems to be an obvious murder case. You could actually throw your weapon as a last resort to damage enemies, but would permanently lose it, including your gun you have with you at the start of the game.
Welcome to the That's Normal Club how That's Normal are ya?
very That's Normal
Hey manly 👋🏻 I love your horror videos 😁
Ilysm
Ofcourse its very 'normal' manly, what do you mean?
very That's Normal. I no longer question why the spider in the corner of my room is obsessed with my book on nuclear fission.
I don't care if that flesh in my walls is alive or dead it needs to chip in on the rent ASAP man I pay too much for this apartment already!
And maybe go halfsies on food too.
@@ReleasedHollowand gas.
It can pay in... _other ways_
@@alastor8091like venmo!
@@alastor8091NO DONT SEXUALIZE THE FLESH! BAD
The way he said “NO” after he had to put the painting back got me
I'd like to see a game about the mind-altering entity that compels side characters in horror games to write down their internal monologue at really inopportune times. Or... maybe it's just super normal to beg for help in your diary while being eaten alive, I don't know.
Actually, I'd say it's rather common. A great part of history we know from journals/diaries and letters, because when people has no one to speak to, they speak to themselves. And sometimes the best way to speak to oneself is by writting down things, because that way you won't forget. Anne Frank's diary is one of the most well known diaries, but there's also Robert Falcon Scott's, Viriginia Woolf's, Leonardo Da Vinci's notebooks... to a big degree, writting things down during duress is part of human nature.
@@starrymomo the original comment had me laughing as I pictured someone being actively murdered by an eldrich monster scribbling in their diary, but then your comment just made me sad…
I recently watched a video where a woman lost and dying out in the wilderness wrote in her diary something along the lines of “when you find my body, give this diary to my family so I can connect them one more time,” dark stuff
i don't know, i always thought this trope was somehow inspired by lovecraft's writing, for example dagon? just that idea of 'begging for your life' in writing lol, i have been reading his work and realized this
@@a.m.j797 This is not a trope he invented, though. He simply took something that happened in real life, and gave it a cosmic horror twist. Many tropes in literature are born out of real things, and this is one of them.
@@starrymomo yeah, but Lovecraft was an early adapter of it in horror media. A lot of his writing is the time's equivalent of found footage, there's often a framing narrative and then the narrator goes "I found this notebook" or "I talked to this crazy guy" and relays the story told therein
That's why I also maintain this is how Lovecraft should be adapted in modern times, as found footage. Plus points because you could portray the "indescribable" horrors as actually glitching out the camera or something
“Every step you take feels wrong”
I resonate with that. On a Weapon-Meister level
based soul eater reference
Weapon meister level indeed
When in Soul Eater is this said?
@@Mugsi
The quote is from the video
The comment is just a general reference
@@Mugsi yeah where?
Thanks so much for playing our game, and for the kind words! I was in charge of graphics and music and it means so much to see such a positive reception for our first big(ish) project.
Nice work! I really liked the graphics and the music was quite fitting. =)
At first I thought this was by the same person who did "From Next Door", but no, just similar look. The close up portraits of all the characters are so well done!
Looks the same as Opposum Country, also very good game
I honestly love the way you voice each character with diffrent tones
Manly is really pretty good at that.
Me too it’s charming
Anything Junji Ito inspired is great
Ngl it's boring 💤
@@limitless1810Bro is onto nothing 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥
The Netflix series:
eHHHH a certain anime says differently
Lets pretend that didn’t happen.. however the new adaptation of Uzumaki which will be on Adult Swim looks promising @zacmayes2802 @ScrapeGoatt
If I had a quarter for every creepy landlord/lady, I'd be swimming in cash
It's not creepy to like Anime D:
@@notdesmondesmond Right?
Oh, they meant the eating corpses thing.. Isn't that completely normal?
I honestly love the game boy color inspired games, I remember owning an actual game boy, but it only had Tetris. So to see other game boy games, (or game boy color inspired games) I am just drawn in by them.
Funny thing is thats not inspired. Thats a actual gameboy game you can play on the console.
Man, the pixel art in this game is of insane quality. They truly nailed that art style.
Oh man, manlybadasshero talking about Waxworks at the end there. It was a game by HorrorSoft and was part of a trilogy of first person adventure game RPGs with a focus on gruesome and gory death screens. The other 2 games were licensed Elvira games and Waxworks was about you being part of a family that has cursed twins. You had to travel through time and space via a magical wax sculpture museum to inhabit the bodies of the good twin so you could defeat the bad twin, through a scifi mine with lots of killer plants controlled by a mutant evil twin, a pyramid where the evil twin is an Egyptian priest or something like that, a haunted graveyard where the evil twin is a necromancer, and dodging cops and mobs in the streets of London where your evil twin is Jack the Ripper. Neat games, nice to be reminded of them.
Thank you, I was looking for the title of that game!
still one of the goriest games ever somehow
Horror is such an interesting genre, since subtly and simplicity actually makes it even scarier.
its truely the worst when there's living flesh hiding in my walls :(
nah, it's great insulation
@@sergeyromanov5560 if its just hiding then sure. I just dont want to sense it at all nor do I want it to interact with anything I own except my walls
Hug the wall
I'm not sure the parents are going to accept that their daughter was killed by her apartment though.
You could say it was the manager who killed her and you'd still be right
manly, thanks for your videos. was literally binge watching you yesterday, and this morning as well. i had a bad day and seeing you post new content made me feel more better 🫶🏾i know im just a simple fan, but thank you for doing all that you do ❤
_Addressed to Kill_
Very cool giallo plot. I really enjoyed the extreme creepy people and faces. Great art, cool story line, and pretty satisfying endings.
I think it was a perfect length for a short story but I could see this being nicely expanded to a longer story with the other tenants, different detectives investigating related cases. Good job!
Junji Ito horror is so good, I love seeing people adapt the style to games. We need even more of these, really. Edited to add that I also find it super cool that the game can be downloaded as an actual .GB file.
Only thing I wonder about is if there were...
an ending with not escaping while the house was ablaze.
Or taking the heart with you
This kind of reminds me of one of those old horror episodic shows. I think it was night gallery. Where this man gets an apartment in an abnormally cheap hotel, but the hotel is actually a living thing and was eating bad tenants.
Interesting art style. I like the use of colors in this game.
Also, I can't put my finger on exactly why, but it reminds me a bit of the Sweet Home manhwa.
Maybe the body horror aspect? I feel the same
@@nightwing4701 I'm sure it's probably the mix of body horror, it taking place in an apartment, and the use of color (though Sweet Home was in a different color palette), but at the same time I've watched a lot of stuff that utilizes all three and still didn't give such strong Sweet Home vibes. It's cool though how something that looks so different can capture the same general tone and concept.
I wish this was just a little bit longer. Music was VERY atmospheric and the work put into the graphics was great.
This kind of art in games always have a charm in it. Love it!
man i love pixelated, bitcrushed horror games so much. even before things like Faith came out. glad games like this are being made!
Honestly nice to see a short horror game with a complete story that makes some amount of sense. It even has some game play!
It’s wild how many opportunities Manly gets to use the Deus Ex “You’re Gonna Burn Alright.” quote
I love this kind of art style and theme for a horror game. It has that creepy and most retro bit of touch to it. Keep playing these types of games !
Watching manly while eating a laye night meal with a cool breeze coming from the window just hits differently 😮💨❤️.
laye 😂
He just axed the right questions to solve the case.
Love a good detective game, love a good Junji Ito inspired game. This was fun! They absolutely nailed the feel they were after.
Manly alone is carrying the rpg/gameboy/pixel horror games community and I'm here for it, love these gems. I really hope once the gameboy museum game is out you'll play it too as a whole!
Meting Classroom is a horror classic. Its amazing someone made a game like this.
That woman who asked you to save her baby. 😭
Short and nice. I do like the fact that we get to talk to the tenants.
And now, overthinking time!
I guess the tenants were kept as food...? In a slowly drained sense. Although if they can open the door, why not step outside? ... I suppose it's due to the mind control thing, where they suddenly backpedal and say it's good there. I guess Helen was kill because she resisted, and tried to break the apartment wall? (Or maybe door. Wasn't too clear to me.)
Although... why was the death reported then? I guess the obvious answer is "more food", but if the manager isn't immune to guns... it just seemed like a bad idea to call someone with a gun here then. But maybe the detective was expected to be trapped in the apartment room? Or maybe the manager wasn't quite sane anyway, so "any human = food" and he wasn't doing any threat/risk assessment anymore.
Right when I was about to go to sleep, Time for some nightmares because im not skipping your content
This was extremely well made for a made from scratch gameboy game! I'd like to see more retro titles like this, such as '𝘵𝘩𝘦, a Super Mario World romhack.
Something about Gameboy theme graphics makes certain types of horror games way more terrifying than it should be, these games are always awesome!
I enjoy so much watching your videos, doesn't matter the game. Bingewatching some old videos at the moment, been following you since Ib.
i love games with this oldschool style, its one of the reasons i liked lilys well so much
Lily's Well was _really_ well made!
@@aquablast3155 ikr
I really enjoyed the music in this game. It was simple, but very fitting.
I haven't even watched this yet, but it's always a pleasure when manly post! Great way to spend the night with dinner on the side. ✨
Manly playing a junji ito inspired game? Sign me up!
“There’s flesh inside your walls” I’m not the only one right?
Waxwork is the game you are trying to recall at 13:24 Pretty good for its times.
"You leave without solving the case. Is it better this way?" YES!
The soundtrack and graphics remind me so much of Uninvited. I freaking loved that game!
Uninvited was honestly one of our biggest influences on the project, glad you noticed!
Wow! The fact it can run on game boy is so cool
Man I love this style
The apartment layout is similar to that of Silent Hill 4: The Room.
The insurance payout of this place must be insane
this man inspired me to create a youtube channel and play a game since that's what i do everyday.
Truly magnificent, absolutely stunning. I'd definitely beat to this.
Manlys videos hit different when youre in the first 200 people to watch it
Manly...it's 1am but...-kicks up computer to watch it before bed-
_"Was that something behind you?"_
How to create a big replay bump in the scrollbar with just one line.
This type of 8-bit music is always hella spooky
Damn I gotta try this one
I'd be honored! (composer and artist for the game here) Your work was absolutely an inspiration for me!
Dang house mimics, always evovling.
THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I PLAYED A HORROR GAME BEFORE WATCHING MANLY PLAY IT ISJSMSHZHQHSG
Junji ito + gameboy style games just feels natural
Can’t wait to watch!
Magnificent video manly.
YESSS a game inspired by one of my personal favorite Junji Ito sagas
The soundtrack seems odly nostalgic like I've heard it somewhere
Just in time to lay down for the night
I like that they actually tried to make it feel something like a game boy game, unlike so many games
NEW MANLY VID:DD
thank you for the upload always c: i go sleep now
“I put my heart in the fire…” is a jem and the holograms lyric
YOOOO I LOVE JUNJI STUFF
Waxworks was the game you were thinking off in your post game analysis.
wait....what happens if you take the heart and leave? O.o
Or kill the boss but dont burn the heart...?
Or kill the boss and never take the heart..?
I feel like the pixel art works so well because it lets your brain fill in more of the blanks, leaving more to your imagination
You should try the forgotten hill games, similar to cube escape with some puzzles being a bit tougher and more time consuming. I think you'd enjoy it.
I got 99 problems, and manly playing a junji ito inspired horror game solves them all 😩
amazing artwork
Wow, that's one serious case of heartburn.
I love living house stories
I loved the vibe of this one
I’m confused that he didn’t show the “stay” ending, normally, he goes for all possibilities
I have to wake up in 3 hours but I think I have time for this
Manly, you should be a voice actor.
Yoooo is that first screen an homage to Uninvited? At least you can't die on the first screen in this one tho ahaha
Ay I’m early for a video nice 😌👌🏽
I was working on an RPGMaker game where you're a detective figuring out what seems to be an obvious murder case. You could actually throw your weapon as a last resort to damage enemies, but would permanently lose it, including your gun you have with you at the start of the game.
me when there's living flesh in my walls in a junji ito inspired game boy game (wooooo game boy)
Waxworks mentioned. That game is great.
Junji ito is amazingthis game is already great
I clicked so fast when i saw junji ito, I love it
Yaaay I was waiting!
The game you were thinking of in the end is Waxworks.
Too scary for junji ito styled games
The coolest games last the shortest.
"You're gonna melt, alright."
If they can put this on a cart, I'd buy a copy.
Watch out for the undead in the jungle manly
lets go junji ito inspired horror game also i'm very early to lets goooo
I thought of movie monster House when you read the landlord letter.
Ah thought you could burn to death in the building when you try escaping