PS1 Horror in the First-Person | Hellnight (Dark Messiah)
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Hellnight (or Dark Messiah in Japan) is one of the more overlooked titles on the PS1. It's a title way ahead of its time.
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I've covered several oddball horror titles on this channel. Hellnight, or known as Dark Messiah in Japan, is another one to add to that collection.
It's one of the strangest, most engrossing games I've played in some time. It's a title that makes the most out of its modest budget and the technological constraints of the PS1. The first person perspective, combined with low polygon count and draw distance, gives the player plenty of room to fill in the blanks.
With a constant pursuer throughout with little means of defense, it's a title well ahead of its time. A horror game a decade before titles like Amnesia: The Dark Descent made this kind of horror popular.
The plot throws you into terrifying scenarios from a wide variety of influences. Yet, it never loses a sense of cohesion with what Hellnight throws your way.
While released in Japan and Europe, it never saw a North American release. Sales were low with a wide range of review scores. It's a game well worth your time.
Much of Hellnight's DNA you can find in games to this day.
00:00 - Prelude
01:10 - Hellnight Intro
04:08 - Hellnight Presentation
06:35 - Hellnight Gameplay
14:19 - Plot & Highlights of Hellnight
27:25 - On deSPIRIA & Conclusion
Additional Footage:
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Despiria
Silent Hill
Silent Hill 3
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I saw Dark Messiah in the thumbnail, and at first was wondering if this’d be a return to the wonderful absent-father kicking simulator.
Same
If only Arkane had the chance to make a sequel 😢
@@iap7597 Arkane has no talent left, they would make a garbage sequel.
@@aweigh1010 Arkane Lyon is still talented afaik
@@chucklebutt4470 Only crazy leftoids left over there.
I know it's silly to say when modern games can be so incredible and groundbreaking in many ways - but I miss when limitations made games more clever
Its not silly at all. Limitations forced devs to think and be creative with what they were given which is something they dont have to do as much of now.
Great thing about small developers is that they can put those restraints on themselves to mimic a time era of development. Due to budget restraints and a small team.
I think about how many really novel games used to come out vs. now even with how many more people are making games all the time.
It's why I love fantasy consoles like pico-8. Following the forum really shows new developers growing in skill and veteran devs getting clever with the software.
This goes for movies also.
The hybrid kinda looks like a weirder Yoshimitsu design lol
This looks so fucking sick
Indeed.
Give it a shot.
Surprised you didn't mention that a number of people from the studio would later official join Atlus and would be a major contribution to Shin Megami Tensei 3
I really like it when people discover this game, it really is like nothing else on the PSONE, playing it on a CRT TV at home is such a nice vibe. While I think Hellnight is a really awesome horror game, the second to third half is where the game completely drops the ball and puts you in unfair situations where you're going to die over and over, and the ending was an afterthought, very unsatisfying.
Oh hey by the way, if you ever want some more weird obscure games to check out, mind I suggest ''Gregory's Horror Show?'' That's on the PS2.
Based CRT enjoyer
Oh man, Gregory Horror Show was such a bizarre game to play as a kid in Europe who didn't learn about the animated show until years later
@@alr68 Must've been wild. I only got to know about it as I was looking for horror titles on the console, came across it and was genuinely surprised. The game has a weird charm to it, even for a kids game, it was all around fun, especially when you could watch the hotel guests perform their daily routines when they're not actively trying to kill you, lol.
The only thing I could think of whenever the hybrid was on the screen was, "we have Frieza at home."
Dont know if you've covered them, but if you like this i recommend "Juggernaut" (PS1), "Kowloon's Gate" (PS1), "Shadow Tower," "Baroque" (PS1, SS, PS2, Wii), "D" (PS1, SS, 3DO), "Enemy Zero" (SS, PC), "LSD: Dream Emulator" (PS1), "Germs Nerawareta Machi" (PS1), and the "Echonight" series" (PS1, PS2).
opps wanted initiative. Blew out their entire quadrant
I honestly LOVE the Hybrid's design, first and second form especially
This game was way ahead of its time.
this looks so well done from the music to the cutscense to the color palet of the levels its a bit eerie .i just wish there was more to do gameplay wise
I love 32-bit console adventures like this, especially from Japan. They always feel kind of like OVAs, where there's a smaller budget and the devs aren't really required to work within strict genre expectations, so there's this room for experimentation and innovation.
Nice to see more people talk about this. My first exposure was a guy called MikeNnemonic do a playthrough
Oh man, his playthroughs really showed me the light to all of the crazy games that were out there. Neftelia for instance. Such a trippy and creepy game. I even ended up playing Neftelia 2 because he never got around to playing that one, and that one was awesome because you got to fly around in that lil UFO.
@@DonnyKirkMusic Loved his playthroughs. Martian Gothic was another really good one. That's how I discovered him.
18:59 is 10000% bong sounds lmaooooooooo
lighter and everything
You find the most bizarre PlayStation era games and do a fantastic job of walking through them. That’s why I love this channel.
Out walking the dog at night, listen-watching, as you do, when the chanting at around 18 minutes in started. Scared the crap out of me...
Games were so much more creative back then. You can feel the passion in games like this.
Review P.N.03 next, please!!
Thanks for showing this game, never heard about it before but looks amazing 🤩
what WERE they doing in the terran academy...
Holy shit, I thought I had hallucinated this game
Oh boy, this game, and to anyone who works the night shift, the title is apt.
Been watching a lot of old games I've never got to play a lot of them I never seen in PSM and Nintendopower, GI... These are great TY!
YESSSS
i absolutely loved HellNight, it was such a fun game, im so glad seeing more ppl talk about!! :D
Wow.. This one looks pretty dope, actually.
Thanks, man!
danm, spooky month already AYO!?!
I remember supergreatfriend doing a playthrough of this game! Delightfully weird.
Heeyyy fellow s(treaming) g(ames) f(or you) fan
Oh yes, back with another banger of a game. Waiting for more unique games that we will never see ever again.
The hybrid looks like a power rangers villain
I knew it was a atlus title the smt vibes go hard
I've been digging Obscure Horror games for years and there are many interesting games that deserve a fan translation but DESPIRIA is definitely that truly deserves it the most.
Its the most aesthetically pleasing Horror game ever, mixing elements of Cyberpunk and Occultism.
Lots of Gruesome and Taboo themes, Conspiracies and fucked up characters.
The most similar game that comes in mind is Hell Cyberpunk adventure, a point clicker from the 90s
ruclips.net/p/PLNWIo8BxEFzYPOp2jkPlwOrT1MoDREDCq&si=mda-ti7HXDRa88Fy complete translation of despiria made as fan project
Playing this game felt like a fever dream.
Along this year's ,I really thought the japanese market didn't like FPS games.
Its..complicated. So, basically, Japan actually loves first person games, just they love first person ADVENTURE games. Big difference, in terms of action involved. That is the thing: I want to say they get motion sick a lot easier for some reason, or its just more of a concern to Japanese game developers that a part of their playerbase won't be able to really play if they get motion sick, and they try to prevent that, so the Japanese version of Spyro for instance is really slow to compensate for that because Japanese playtesters complained about the speed of the camera and stuff.
So yeah, they really have a very small market for actual shooty FPS but they like Myst clones and, if you really want to be pedantic, all of those VNs are basically in the first person because you see through the character's eyes, and they have been that way since the beginning (look at Portopia for instance: all first-person, but its an ADV game).
So they like first person for the immersion, but otherwise they don't like it for actual combat or gameplay.
Is the channel name a reference to Resident Evil 5?
yes
Hell= being forced to drop acid on a shitty day and playing this game 17:40
Please cover a scifi/horror ps1 game called Overblood and thank me later
woa
LFG.
I saw the thumbnail and thought it was a video about ai art