So this ended up a bit longer than I’d like but I feel like it’s important. Sandman is at least implied to mentally be an adult. He’s clearly physically one (physically not based on the years he’s lived but rather that he has the physical characteristics of an adult. In fact it’s clear to see he’s a hunched over little old man) Meanwhile Sophie is both mentally and physically a child. And it’s weird for someone who’s at least mentally an adult to be into someone who’s mentally and/or physically a kid. Maybe he isn’t familiar with pedophilia and age of consent, as there doesn’t seem to be any reason he’d need to know about that in the fairy world and it’s not like it’s something he’d learn or need to for his job. But that doesn’t mean we can’t accept that it’s weird. And as for Richard making a comment about Sophie’s chest, I don’t think he’s got an excuse for that. He seems to be well aware she’s a minor. But at the end of the day it’s the dev who put all this in, so he’s the one who’s weird for it.
Ikr?? His comment about the chest as well like, duuude you've got a wife and a life, I get livin' dangerously and making sick burns but that's a yikes moment dude!
I mean, fairy tales and fantasies aren't exactly things a detective should believe in. Plus, Keith isn't the nicest with words, as you can clearly tell.
I'll never be able to take say Boogie like it's something scary seriously. Boogie is one of the silliest words. "And look out for his secret evil brother, the Bust It Down Man!!!!"
Knowing the boogie man lives in your closet makes the "sleep with one eye open" ending of the sandman game even more terrifying, because the one that opened the closet was the boogie man.
I kind of love that the explanation for anything supernatural is just that Keith is Not Okay. Like, we've established that demons and ghosts and fairies exist in this world, but they legitimately had nothing to do with Boogie's game. There were no monsters or randomly-appearing graffiti, Keith is just not a stable person.
Technically, it WAS the Boogie. It's just that supernatural schrodingers cat: The Boogie, as we see, exists, but his nature and definition means he exists by proxy inside of each person's head.
I'm sorry, but if a serial killer ever started quoting Blame It On The Boogie in front of me, I would lose all ability to take him seriously ever again. Doesn't even matter what he did, I wouldn't be able to stop thinking "Oh what, you're gonna tell me to beat it now? Am I fighting for my life inside a killer thriller tonight?" _"Maybe your enemy doesn't exist... maybe it's all in your head..."_ "Oh, so you're saying I'm starting with the man in the mirror?"
I got sucked out hard when he started quoting Insanity by Oingo Boingo. "Do you want to kill me or befriend me" "Straighten out this crooked tongue". It's really goofy, but it's all fun.
As much as the voice acting and plot is decent enough, these "comedic breaks" done by the killer are just so dumb, so out of character, that it downgrades the game entirely
@@TheBlafmanit's missing a single comma, it should not have thrown you for that long unless you were just completely incapable of using a third grade skill.
Spent half of my playthrough picturing him going "Hee-hee~" as he chased Helena around and him just boogieing it out in the tunnels, thinking he's pretty slick
I really like how these games are all connected to eachother. It’s nice to see the previous protagonists doing well, and Sandman still watching out for Sophie is sweet.
“Maybe instead of filling your head with stupid fantasies, fill in that chest a little. It’s so pathetic I can’t even look at it.” Did… did Kieth just say what I think he said?
What the fuck is it with this series and having older guys creeping on teenagers, its genuinely rubbing me the wrong way. First the sandman gets a crush on a minor, and now keith comments on teenager's boob size.
in bad end 4 when boogie says "looks like you did things out of order, detective. but still, not bad." it sounds like he's talking straight to the player. like, imagine you're playing this game for the first time, going in blind, and you happen to miss a few of the secret scenes just on accident. and then the boogie basically tells you "oops, so close! but you're still missing something! :^)" like that would be so frustrating but at the same time it hints to the player that they need to find more information in order to get the true ending? which is pretty clever
@Tide the Deepwing To be fair, he's always had the voice for it. He's just got the knack for deep, soft voices, but I never thought he'd actually voice anyone either. XD
Two things: i love that these characters in each game get a happy ending. Too many horror games nowadays doom them Secondly: the fact that you can only see sandman's eyes in the bonus scene makes me laugh
Ok but seriously Keith what the hell why you got to make fun of Sophie’s chest, she’s a teenager and you’re married! People these days But sandman do be a massive troll for giving Keith insomnia as punishment
@@JetstreamTheSexSamshe’s probably of age in this game but that’s still weird to say to a girl who’s like 19 or 20 when you’re middle aged Edit: Nevermind, she’s still in high school he has no excuse
Love the parallel in all the games when it comes to David. The Crooked Man, then Shirley commenting he looked crooked because he slept weird and strained his neck, then him saying his neck is gonna break with Keith on top of him. Man cannot catch a break!
I love how the characters match their "monster" and their setting perfectly. David was a man who thought he was worth nothing and had nothing to lose, and the crooked man worked hard to show david that there he has so much to lose and when the time finally came, David gets shown that people care, and he decides to live his life to the fullest. Sophie was a girl with insomnia who was bullied with so many repressed desires (as shown by Lullaby), so the Sandman's world was the perfect area for her to gain some confidence while still being wrapped in a somewhat safe atmosphere. And now there's Keith. A dark castle and a mystery for a stone-faced detective. He protects as many as he can. I havent finished the video and its been a while since I watched the other videos, so sorry if I got anything wrong.
I love in the last ending Sandy just hit him with “Fuck your sleep schedule, good luck recovering from that stab wound bitch!” Petty I love him 🤣🤣 Would love another game where Sophie gets that love jewel back.
As soon as you mentioned the stairs issue I immediately got flash backs to fear and hunger, that stuff kills the flow a lot cause I'm too busy shufflin for my life
the fact that the boogie man hides in closets and encounters Sophie in a closet the sandman's home, it means that during the "sleep with one eye open" ending the thing that was making her paranoid was in fact the boogie man
It's also the only ending where the perspective switches to face Keith- showing Boogie has lost control and is no longer the antagonist of this situation.
1:22:06 *_Don’t blame it on the sunshine…_* *_Don’t blame it on the moonlight…_* *_Don’t blame it on the good times…_* Blame it on weird-ass serial killers and happenstance (NOT YOURSELF AGAIN KEITH FUCK) I love the insanely jarring boogie puns sprinkled in. Some absurd horror-comedy boogie is a nice break from the sad horror-horror boogie
Not to zero in on one little detail… but yes, Sophie’s pink jewel is _literally_ her ability to fall in love. The part of the game where you get it hints at that pretty hard - and the ending supports it.
I think the thing with "Items that are important but you cant pick up" is a 50/50 thing, right? Cause from a player point of view, it's just convenient. From an in world point of view, you're just pulling out bloody corkscrews from the faces of people for no reason!
YEAH that's so true lol, with zero context keith is just ripping cork screws out of a dead person's head for no reason....it makes sense for a more "realistic" story even if it doesn't work towards an easier game play
I plan on making my own Strange Men fan games and I thought of how it cod be both so like you know to take this into account later but you don't pick it up right away. My solution is a sorta notes mechanic, so if you interact with something you can't use or do anything with but will later on, something in a menu will be added so it's like. "Door with red knob is cracked" so that way if your lost you could use the notes to act as a sort of guideline.
I think it's really interesting how, if you dont count Sandman, this is the only game that doesnt involve supernatural entities. I guess you could argue that Keith is being haunted, but it seems more like psychological issues to me
Yes, but I do believe op meant the main story and how the Boogie (literally the silliest villain name, who's next, his brother Disco?) Is a serial killer with a gimmic and not a ghost or fey creature, and that, discounting the small Sophie related sandman stuff, its the least supernatural game with a normie as the main antagonist/driving force, and the ghosts are in the characters head because he's haunted more by memories than actual spirits.
not really how did brendon comeback to life and who is the boogie man that ''killed'' brendon since they both were in the same spot, who is the man that shot keith in ending 1 ,and what the hell happened in ending 2?
@@ajiprnk4821 Brendon never died at all. They explained this outright in the true ending. He sliced off the head of a doll done up to _look_ like him in the dim lighting. The person who shot Keith in ending one appears to be Keith himself - "the Boogie in your head" - which implies that Keith takes his own life while hallucinating. Ending 2 is... uh... really unclear, but from the looks of it, Keith returns to the safe room, finds everyone gone (killed?), and then hallucinates being at home with his son as he bleeds out - like Helena's "happy dream" from ending 4.
Keith’s talk with Helena in the true ending grave scene really got to me. He was speaking as if he was talking about my life. Sure I’m definitely happy and can express myself, his personality matches mine. Hiding your true emotions is something I have been doing for years! Anyways, I’m fine currently, but that speech sort of reached me on a personal level that most things can’t.
Hopefully, things go smoother for you and you get the chance to open up more. The few moments of clarity that I had without a constant fog of worry looming over me were the happiest moments of my life.
One the things i love the most about this game most people don’t notice the first time they watch/play the game me included, is the fact that the real boogie man enters the fray and messes with keith multiple times and even attacks sophie out of bitterness towards her, even leading towards keith’s demise in one of the bad endings. What makes it fun is that if you realize it and study certain scenes as well as the true ending you can go back and know which one is going after him at different points and i really enjoy that aspect of the game.
WHAT IN [Jesus Christ, our lord and savior] ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? YOUR [Megamind] MUST BE IN A WORSE [John Gutter] THAN MINE! YOU NEED SOME [[Help! It burns! It burns!!!]] YOU [low low low low low low low low] LIF3!!!
Keith: teases the person specifically under the Sandmans protection, suffers insomnia as a consequenze xD God I love this series of games and how they tie in to each other! :3
Hey Ben if you’ve heard of fear and hunger and haven’t looked into it I highly recommend it. Fair warning that video definitely wouldn’t make anything tho cause it’s got some serious gore and “exposure” issues
@@meatballmustard7658yeah 100% agree. even though im so brain poisoned that when he mentioned a wheelchair and a gun i went "yoo olivia haas reference" it's SO much different from everything else here.
I may be late to the party with this, but the Boogie Man's lines at 17:13 are directly from the song "Insanity" by Oingo Boingo, a song that fits the themes of this game very well.
1:01:17 The muffled dialogue here with Lance calling David a "babyface" cracked me up 😂 Loved this video and the format as always! Also was not expecting to see that Manlybadasshero had a voice role in this, but it was awesome to hear!
2 hours was not what I expected, but the videos are always quality so it’s certainly welcome. Must’ve been one hell of a workload, hope you’re proud of it! :D
One thing I really like about this series is that every installment is a very distinct subgenre of horror. Crooked Man is the epitome of dark, self reflective horror akin to Silent Hill. Even "David Hoover" is like, the most SH name I've ever heard. Sandman has a few of those dark fairytale vibes, closer to something like Pan's Labyrinth with a bit of Yume Nikki mixed in. Boogieman is straight up something like the first season of True Detective, plus maybe a few original Alone in The Dark vibes with the mansion and an investigator. Hanged Man... Idfk what it was going for, but it was a strong vibe.
Some info from an RPG Maker dev about that issue with moving up the stairs: You absolutely can script the game to move the player diagonally without introducing any new code to the engine. There's really no reason those stairs should be so awkward to navigate.
I really like lance's voice work, he's the best out of everyone. And David has a pleasant voice. I just wish there was a more consisent voice work from everyone else! Shirley's voice is pretty good too. :)
YOOO, 2 WHOLE HOURS? TIME TO GET THE SNACKS! I loved this game as well, I remember trying my best to stick to the vgperson walkthrough as closely as I could in fear of letting ANYONE die. I was also just as surprised to find out MBH voiced D!ck(typing it so my comment doesn't get sent to the shadow realm /lh). I am so hyped to see your upcoming video on The H@nged Man!
im pretty sure you didnt mention this in the video but if i remember correctly there's an option where you can turn off the voice acting, so if people dont like it they can just turn it off. i love options like that tbh. though for me i like the voice acting. (especially sophie's i think she does the best out of all of them. they're all good though) the direction of some lines arent the best but still lmao
@@tatltails3923am I the only one who disliked Helena’s VA? It felt way too breathy and off putting for me. I don’t know… It sounds like someone trying to make a “cute defenseless anime girl” other than some scream lines she did . I don’t know maaan
I love how the Boogie Man is your favorite, the death game premise is very entertaining. You are a great reviewer and your coverage of this series is something special. I hope you cover more RPG Horror games after the Hanged Man.
THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I HEARD KEITH'S COMMENT ABOUT SOPHIE!!!! I'm so glad Sandman cursed him 🤣🤣 That was not an appropriate thing to say to a highschooler!!!
you dont KNOW how much ive been waiting for this, like dude i saw your channel when i was just scrolling through youtube,and your voice really hooked me, i really hope you grow much much MUCH more
to be fair i don't think he was a "mad man" I think the boogie man invaded Branden to play his game on real people because " Fighting the whole world is too hard" So he chose a group of people and played with them which is why he had no problem when his original victims changed on him getting replaced with keith and his wife, Its also why keith saw things others didn't because he was the most vulnerable to the boogieman trying to hide his worst nightmares under the rug.
the one frustrating thing about the voice acting is that you can tell they're all amateur in the way that they talk like there's someone in the other room that they don't want to disturb. the one exception to this is shirley, whose gotta be my favorite VA out of any of them
Good video. Very well made, to the point I didn't realize it was almost 2 hours long until I read a comment saying it was. I'll be honest, I cackled when they used the word rump. (Spoilers for bonus Scene) I fucking called Sandman not letting Keith sleep after making fun of Sophie. Like, Sandman saved her ass and she was telling him she appreciated his help in protecting her.
The bonus ending is so baffling lol I love getting to experience this series through your eyes. Your reviews are super enjoyable and I love the way you lay things out.
So excited, I love rpg horror games and long videos, tried playing myself and kinda gave up because I was confused. Thanks for continuing making videos! :)
I genuinely feel like David should become a therapist it just fits his character so well. Dunno if he does or plans to in the fourth game but I’m making it my personal head cannon at this point
I never thought I would find a channel that made me this excited when they upload, but here I am just waiting in anticipation for your next videos, you do such a good job talking about these games and I find myself waiting for the next one. keep it up!😆
My Grandfather smoked his whole life. I was about 10 years old when my mother said to him, 'If you ever want to see your grandchildren graduate, you have to stop immediately.'. Tears welled up in his eyes when he realized what exactly was at stake. He gave it up immediately. Three years later he died of lung cancer. It was really sad and destroyed me. My mother said to me- 'Don't ever smoke. Please don't put your family through what your Grandfather put us through." I agreed. At 28, I have never touched a cigarette. I must say, I feel a very slight sense of regret for never having done it, because your comment gave me cancer anyway.
THANK YOU SO SO MUCH FOR COVERING THE STRANGE MEN SERIES! looking forward to your next videos (no pressure tho) Your channel is like a blessing and the way you cover the plot/gameplay aspects is seriously entertaining, thanks for sharing your thoughts on great RPG games! great content and remember to take your time!!
Lets GOOO. I can’t wait for the Hanged Man review. It’s my favorite of the games. (Also my lord the voice acting in Boogie Man was just….. yeah. Not my favorite. But they got better though!)
Hearing the blue bird lullaby from Virtue’s last reward in the good ending when they Keith is admitting that he needs help really opens up some old wounds
Something I really like about these games is that the characters just sorta... meet. There's no super big moment of them coming together or anything, they just met like normal people (kinda) and they interact like normal people.
"A boy who breaks the rules can't join the force." Here in the US, "breaking the rules" is almost a guarantee in the current state of our police force.
I’d like to bring up that the incident at the beginning of the game that results in Keith being in hot water with the press, was because he shot and killed a murder suspect in front of a civilian without any form of confrontation. When the news article describes the civilian as “innocent”, Dick responds that the civilian was actually a prostitute, which… was somehow supposed to justify the detective shooting and killing someone in front of her?
the voice acting really ruins this game for me. it's not even that they sound bad, it just completely takes away from the atmosphere somehow. i guess it's handy if you're watching a playthrough though?? i think the only character out of the entire cast that really benefitted from having a voice was the boogie man, his voice work was really effective and actually enhanced every scene he was in
After the gruesome scene of the actual story, that bonus scene got a good laugh out of me, especially seeing sandmans eyes get angry and immediately cutting to Keith being unable to sleep.
Absolutely LOVE the way you narrate games and find it really interesting, it keeps me focused on the video regardless of the lenght, something not a lot of videos manage to do (no, I don't have ADHD, as far as I know at least) Also amazing how I ended up liking Keith despite him being an ABSOLUTE ASSHOLE SPOILERS: Gotta love how Sandman gave him a lesson for laughing at Sophie like that, very creepy for me how he's "in love" with her but hey at least he protects her
I'm glad it isn't just me who finds it a tad creepy that the sandman is "in love" with a school-aged girl 😭 It rubbed me the wrong way. I'm hopeful it was just conveyed wrong or something lmao.
@@waffleauflauf4213 honestly?... Pretty sure it isn't, I wouldn't have much faith in developers who made a grown-ass man comment on a school-aged girl's chest
@@artCharles no, Grooming would be slowly training her to love him until she was old enough. Sandman is staying away, letting her live her life. Then she’ll give her back her Jewel
Wanted to say that I can't take the villain seriously when he speaks in Oingo Boingo quotes, but for someone literally named the Boogie man that makes sense
19:35 or maybe, she's an aromantic queen. (I haven't finished the video yet, but so far it's really good and I always enjoy seeing the effort you put into these!)
I love the way you explain these games’s stories. From little points where you chime in to explain certain scenes, to you just talking about how certain parts feel (how creepy or underwhelming they are.) it all has this certain feel to it.
I didn't see a comment mentioning, so I thought I'd do it: From 17:14 until the end of that dialogue, The Crooked Man is quoting a song: "Insanity", by Oingo Boingo. It's a pretty good song, if not a bit disturbing. Edit: With the bad endings name also being songs, I wonder if Uri slipped way more song references in the games that I just never noticed.
I lost my mom a long time ago. I'd felt exactly like Keith had ever since, I'd rarely expressed myself after- I couldn't even cry when I heard about it. But I found people I truly care about. I'd started to begin to truly laugh again, and cry. Thank you, for making this video.
Keith thwacking Tod's head off the door frame in the flashback made me laugh because I have done the same thing with my kid before. You forget how big they are sometimes
I was OBSESSED with this game when it first came out, I still love it now! But I simped SO hard for Brendon / the Boogie Man. I tried recreating the map on Minecraft, and wrote days worth of roleplays with my closest friends. Ah, gotta love Neurodivergent obsessions!
I love love love how david makes comments about his neck. In the Sandman he was complaining that his neck had a crook in it because he slept on shirlys couch, and right here when he was helping keith climb he said “My necks gonna break!” And I just think its a fun callback
helena's like "im weak and pathetic all i can do is run!!!" meanwhile she runs for hours just to keep her husband safe... girls strong as hell
Best girl, hands-down. She's amazing. 😤
She must work out, because that endurance is insane
She did it in high heels too
@@ExoterminallyOh fuck……. Don’t get on her bad side
Girly ready to throw HANDS FRFR
Keith: makes fun of Sophie for believing in the sandman and her chest
Sandman: BING BONG YOUR SLEEP IS GONE
Sandman ain't letting his girl take any shit while he's around >:D
*then they both forget that Sophie is underaged*
@Doc K ha as lived for decades
YES!
So this ended up a bit longer than I’d like but I feel like it’s important.
Sandman is at least implied to mentally be an adult. He’s clearly physically one (physically not based on the years he’s lived but rather that he has the physical characteristics of an adult. In fact it’s clear to see he’s a hunched over little old man)
Meanwhile Sophie is both mentally and physically a child. And it’s weird for someone who’s at least mentally an adult to be into someone who’s mentally and/or physically a kid.
Maybe he isn’t familiar with pedophilia and age of consent, as there doesn’t seem to be any reason he’d need to know about that in the fairy world and it’s not like it’s something he’d learn or need to for his job. But that doesn’t mean we can’t accept that it’s weird. And as for Richard making a comment about Sophie’s chest, I don’t think he’s got an excuse for that. He seems to be well aware she’s a minor.
But at the end of the day it’s the dev who put all this in, so he’s the one who’s weird for it.
I love Kieth just being an asshole for no reason in the bonus scene, like wtf dude why are you so mean to that child
Ikr?? His comment about the chest as well like, duuude you've got a wife and a life, I get livin' dangerously and making sick burns but that's a yikes moment dude!
Sandman just goes AWW HELL NAW
I mean, fairy tales and fantasies aren't exactly things a detective should believe in. Plus, Keith isn't the nicest with words, as you can clearly tell.
Yeah for real, and why is he commenting on a girl's chest? Like that feels so out of pocket for him. XD
How old is Sophie anyway
I'll never be able to take say Boogie like it's something scary seriously. Boogie is one of the silliest words.
"And look out for his secret evil brother, the Bust It Down Man!!!!"
Can we turn the Bust It Down Man into a real thing please? I love this!
It's all fun ands games till Bust It Down Man crawls out of the dark hallway outside your door
and it also makes him even funnier when you find out his literally just some dip shit.
its busting it down time
The hustle man
Knowing the boogie man lives in your closet makes the "sleep with one eye open" ending of the sandman game even more terrifying, because the one that opened the closet was the boogie man.
Honestly makes it a lot less scary, boogie ain’t that scary.
@johnnyjohnsonjohn2593 man legit calls himself the boogie its funny as fuck
I kind of love that the explanation for anything supernatural is just that Keith is Not Okay. Like, we've established that demons and ghosts and fairies exist in this world, but they legitimately had nothing to do with Boogie's game. There were no monsters or randomly-appearing graffiti, Keith is just not a stable person.
Technically, it WAS the Boogie. It's just that supernatural schrodingers cat: The Boogie, as we see, exists, but his nature and definition means he exists by proxy inside of each person's head.
@@drago3036 Schrodingers Nightmare, if you will
I'm sorry, but if a serial killer ever started quoting Blame It On The Boogie in front of me, I would lose all ability to take him seriously ever again. Doesn't even matter what he did, I wouldn't be able to stop thinking "Oh what, you're gonna tell me to beat it now? Am I fighting for my life inside a killer thriller tonight?"
_"Maybe your enemy doesn't exist... maybe it's all in your head..."_
"Oh, so you're saying I'm starting with the man in the mirror?"
i am wheezing
This is a thing of beauty. You'd probably get murdered but he better appreciate the puns
1:22:03
Just putting this here... for ease of access
I got sucked out hard when he started quoting Insanity by Oingo Boingo. "Do you want to kill me or befriend me" "Straighten out this crooked tongue". It's really goofy, but it's all fun.
As much as the voice acting and plot is decent enough, these "comedic breaks" done by the killer are just so dumb, so out of character, that it downgrades the game entirely
Girls don't want boys girls want hours long video essays on obscure RPGmaker horror games
minus the part at 1:51:15
Based smt fan
1:40:35 that's a familiar looking couch 👀
It took me like 15 minutes to try and read this.
@@TheBlafmanit's missing a single comma, it should not have thrown you for that long unless you were just completely incapable of using a third grade skill.
im sorry but every time the boogie man refers to himself as "the boogie" i die laughing lmao
"I am The Boogie In Your Head" had me dying
@@RushWheeler NAW FR, LMAO i was on the floor when i heard that shit
Spent half of my playthrough picturing him going "Hee-hee~" as he chased Helena around and him just boogieing it out in the tunnels, thinking he's pretty slick
My favorite part is when he said "I'm gonna boogie" and then boogied all over the place
1:22:06 almost made me cry
The Sandman trolling Keith is gold.
True tha kkkk
I really like how these games are all connected to eachother. It’s nice to see the previous protagonists doing well, and Sandman still watching out for Sophie is sweet.
Yeah.
I also like how the games are going in the direction of ultra found family, where every character becomes friend with the ones from the earlier games.
@@younesgeek1313 david is rolling through these games collecting friends and family figures katamari damacy-style
“Maybe instead of filling your head with stupid fantasies, fill in that chest a little. It’s so pathetic I can’t even look at it.”
Did… did Kieth just say what I think he said?
yes yes he did
What the fuck is it with this series and having older guys creeping on teenagers, its genuinely rubbing me the wrong way. First the sandman gets a crush on a minor, and now keith comments on teenager's boob size.
Woah
And then Sandman gave him the proper punishment: Insomnia.
@@icetide9411DING DONG YOUR SLEEP IS GONE
in bad end 4 when boogie says "looks like you did things out of order, detective. but still, not bad." it sounds like he's talking straight to the player. like, imagine you're playing this game for the first time, going in blind, and you happen to miss a few of the secret scenes just on accident. and then the boogie basically tells you "oops, so close! but you're still missing something! :^)" like that would be so frustrating but at the same time it hints to the player that they need to find more information in order to get the true ending? which is pretty clever
The Sandman really said "Fuck you, get insomnia"
To quote someone else in the comments... BING BONG YOUR SLEEP IS GONE! 🤣
Manlybadasshero is the place to go if you want full horror gameplays with silly commentary.
I was not expecting him to be involved in this game
I watch his videos regularly
Love to see a fellow fan of him!
@Tide the Deepwing To be fair, he's always had the voice for it. He's just got the knack for deep, soft voices, but I never thought he'd actually voice anyone either. XD
Oh Manly-senpai! My favorite youtuber!
150 likes!Thanks yall,Didnt expect this to blow up,I enjoy reading your reply’s too
Two things: i love that these characters in each game get a happy ending. Too many horror games nowadays doom them
Secondly: the fact that you can only see sandman's eyes in the bonus scene makes me laugh
"We cut to Keith getting a talk with his boss Dick" This thing got me good.
Ok but seriously Keith what the hell why you got to make fun of Sophie’s chest, she’s a teenager and you’re married! People these days
But sandman do be a massive troll for giving Keith insomnia as punishment
She's of age lmao, not a teen
@@JetstreamTheSexSamshe’s probably of age in this game but that’s still weird to say to a girl who’s like 19 or 20 when you’re middle aged
Edit: Nevermind, she’s still in high school he has no excuse
@@anxiousreaperess4548 high schoolers can be 18 lmao, and she's not real so who cares
@@JetstreamTheSexSam You do, obviously. You’ve been in the comments spamming the same thing. Do you have something you wanna tell the class?
@@anxiousreaperess4548¿Vas a llorar?
Love the parallel in all the games when it comes to David. The Crooked Man, then Shirley commenting he looked crooked because he slept weird and strained his neck, then him saying his neck is gonna break with Keith on top of him.
Man cannot catch a break!
Great catch
But how good is he on the dance floor?
He got everyone in the Boogie trance
I love how the characters match their "monster" and their setting perfectly. David was a man who thought he was worth nothing and had nothing to lose, and the crooked man worked hard to show david that there he has so much to lose and when the time finally came, David gets shown that people care, and he decides to live his life to the fullest.
Sophie was a girl with insomnia who was bullied with so many repressed desires (as shown by Lullaby), so the Sandman's world was the perfect area for her to gain some confidence while still being wrapped in a somewhat safe atmosphere.
And now there's Keith. A dark castle and a mystery for a stone-faced detective. He protects as many as he can.
I havent finished the video and its been a while since I watched the other videos, so sorry if I got anything wrong.
now i wanna hear your analysis of the hanged man
I love in the last ending Sandy just hit him with “Fuck your sleep schedule, good luck recovering from that stab wound bitch!”
Petty I love him 🤣🤣
Would love another game where Sophie gets that love jewel back.
As soon as you mentioned the stairs issue I immediately got flash backs to fear and hunger, that stuff kills the flow a lot cause I'm too busy shufflin for my life
It's like that with a lot of games, actually. I've been on a bit of a Yume Nikki fangame binge, and it's a reoccurring issue for me.
At the very least in Funger it adds to the horror because of the clunkiness, in a sort of intentional way
Its so iconic they made it a feature in Termina
@@Crowmind. even my personal faves like ENDROLL.. i hate the stairs ingame badly.
@@ChildrenofthecltyBut there are no games where stairs are more antagonistic than OMORI.
the fact that the boogie man hides in closets and encounters Sophie in a closet the sandman's home, it means that during the "sleep with one eye open" ending the thing that was making her paranoid was in fact the boogie man
"Because I'm not chasing you...
You just keep running from me."
I wasn't expecting a line this raw.
It's also the only ending where the perspective switches to face Keith- showing Boogie has lost control and is no longer the antagonist of this situation.
The shock I felt after Hearing that Manly voice acted in this im glad for him though love his content
I'm happy that Manly voice acted in this game.
It's a good thing this comment is here because Manly had a game of his own where, I think he's the killer?
I know! I actually started clapping like a giddy little child when i heard it!!
OH GOD IT IS HIM I JUST REALISED-
His voice is as empty as a trashcan. Guess you could say he's put his entire soul into this gig.
1:22:06
*_Don’t blame it on the sunshine…_*
*_Don’t blame it on the moonlight…_*
*_Don’t blame it on the good times…_*
Blame it on weird-ass serial killers and happenstance (NOT YOURSELF AGAIN KEITH FUCK)
I love the insanely jarring boogie puns sprinkled in. Some absurd horror-comedy boogie is a nice break from the sad horror-horror boogie
David just can’t get a break. Poor guy keeps getting caught up with shit
Not to zero in on one little detail… but yes, Sophie’s pink jewel is _literally_ her ability to fall in love. The part of the game where you get it hints at that pretty hard - and the ending supports it.
it is very distracting how almost every character pronounces "Helena" differently
RIGHT
To be honest I lake when there isn’t voice acting so I can just think of the voice that would make the most sense to me
Like not lake
this is why a voice director’s so important, kids
@@JohnHamilton-fp5gg If you go and mouse over your comment 3 dots will appear on the right if you click on them it will let you edit your comment
I think the thing with "Items that are important but you cant pick up" is a 50/50 thing, right? Cause from a player point of view, it's just convenient. From an in world point of view, you're just pulling out bloody corkscrews from the faces of people for no reason!
YEAH that's so true lol, with zero context keith is just ripping cork screws out of a dead person's head for no reason....it makes sense for a more "realistic" story even if it doesn't work towards an easier game play
The towel later on is less fair
I plan on making my own Strange Men fan games and I thought of how it cod be both so like you know to take this into account later but you don't pick it up right away. My solution is a sorta notes mechanic, so if you interact with something you can't use or do anything with but will later on, something in a menu will be added so it's like. "Door with red knob is cracked" so that way if your lost you could use the notes to act as a sort of guideline.
@@jessecrafts2630 You could give the players a notepad and have them write down things they think are important.
@jawz9455 ooo that could work!
I think it's really interesting how, if you dont count Sandman, this is the only game that doesnt involve supernatural entities. I guess you could argue that Keith is being haunted, but it seems more like psychological issues to me
The fae technically count as supernatural creatures
Yes, but I do believe op meant the main story and how the Boogie (literally the silliest villain name, who's next, his brother Disco?) Is a serial killer with a gimmic and not a ghost or fey creature, and that, discounting the small Sophie related sandman stuff, its the least supernatural game with a normie as the main antagonist/driving force, and the ghosts are in the characters head because he's haunted more by memories than actual spirits.
not really how did brendon comeback to life and who is the boogie man that ''killed'' brendon since they both were in the same spot, who is the man that shot keith in ending 1 ,and what the hell happened in ending 2?
@@ajiprnk4821 Brendon never died at all. They explained this outright in the true ending. He sliced off the head of a doll done up to _look_ like him in the dim lighting.
The person who shot Keith in ending one appears to be Keith himself - "the Boogie in your head" - which implies that Keith takes his own life while hallucinating. Ending 2 is... uh... really unclear, but from the looks of it, Keith returns to the safe room, finds everyone gone (killed?), and then hallucinates being at home with his son as he bleeds out - like Helena's "happy dream" from ending 4.
@@kiraina25 if so how did the doll Brendon have a voice? And actually how did the Boogie man even know Keith was there
Keith’s talk with Helena in the true ending grave scene really got to me. He was speaking as if he was talking about my life. Sure I’m definitely happy and can express myself, his personality matches mine. Hiding your true emotions is something I have been doing for years! Anyways, I’m fine currently, but that speech sort of reached me on a personal level that most things can’t.
Hopefully, things go smoother for you and you get the chance to open up more. The few moments of clarity that I had without a constant fog of worry looming over me were the happiest moments of my life.
One the things i love the most about this game most people don’t notice the first time they watch/play the game me included, is the fact that the real boogie man enters the fray and messes with keith multiple times and even attacks sophie out of bitterness towards her, even leading towards keith’s demise in one of the bad endings. What makes it fun is that if you realize it and study certain scenes as well as the true ending you can go back and know which one is going after him at different points and i really enjoy that aspect of the game.
Shirley: what about your memories with me?~
David: we could always use more~
Me, giggling like a dumbass: they had se-[PASSIONATE HUGGING]
✨Crotch hugging✨
HELL YEA! DUMBASS GANG!!
Also, I can only read [PASSIONATE HUGGING] I'm such a monotone voice, it's great.
WHAT IN [Jesus Christ, our lord and savior] ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? YOUR [Megamind] MUST BE IN A WORSE [John Gutter] THAN MINE! YOU NEED SOME [[Help! It burns! It burns!!!]] YOU [low low low low low low low low] LIF3!!!
I just can't take the boogie man seriously when he tries to incorporate the word "boogie" into any sort of menacing monologue 😂
Tbf
How do u make the name boogie man menacing?
@@gabigote1439by saying the full name
Saying the boogie doesnt make me think of the boogie man
Im think of either a booger or a dance from the 80s
I think he is 100% going for dissonance when he does that.
Like his own version of the "Nursery Rhyme" cliche.
this possibly worked a bit better in japanese
Keith: teases the person specifically under the Sandmans protection, suffers insomnia as a consequenze xD
God I love this series of games and how they tie in to each other! :3
Sandman: that's what happens if you dare tease her under my protection, my good but dark sir
I wanna make a fan game of this series and it has Keith meet the fairies like Nixie and the Sandman. I wonder how he'd react.
@@jessecrafts2630 oh, if you do, and remember this comment section in the future, please drop a link to it! I would love to play it! :D
@@jessecrafts2630 I wonder how he thinks about Sophie after that
@@crystallation4249 I think he'd apologize to her.
Hey Ben if you’ve heard of fear and hunger and haven’t looked into it I highly recommend it. Fair warning that video definitely wouldn’t make anything tho cause it’s got some serious gore and “exposure” issues
There is a mod that removes most of it
Fear and hungers good and all but I dont really think its ben's type of game.
There's a lot of SA as well.
@@meatballmustard7658yeah 100% agree. even though im so brain poisoned that when he mentioned a wheelchair and a gun i went "yoo olivia haas reference" it's SO much different from everything else here.
@@ThatGreenMach1ne oh yeah it’s got tons, rough game but it is fascinating. It’s design has something so enthralling to me in it
I may be late to the party with this, but the Boogie Man's lines at 17:13 are directly from the song "Insanity" by Oingo Boingo, a song that fits the themes of this game very well.
1:01:17 The muffled dialogue here with Lance calling David a "babyface" cracked me up 😂
Loved this video and the format as always! Also was not expecting to see that Manlybadasshero had a voice role in this, but it was awesome to hear!
Lance's "Shuuuddup!" was also top tier.
41:20 I know it's supposed to be all serious and what not but "I am the boogie" just reminds me of the life series and it makes me giggle
Can we just give props to Shirley's voice actor? That voice acting in the bad ending with Helena on the window was top notch.
2 hours was not what I expected, but the videos are always quality so it’s certainly welcome. Must’ve been one hell of a workload, hope you’re proud of it! :D
"I am... the boogie"
My brain: 💃💃💃
🕺💃🕺💃🕺💃🕺💃
One thing I really like about this series is that every installment is a very distinct subgenre of horror.
Crooked Man is the epitome of dark, self reflective horror akin to Silent Hill. Even "David Hoover" is like, the most SH name I've ever heard.
Sandman has a few of those dark fairytale vibes, closer to something like Pan's Labyrinth with a bit of Yume Nikki mixed in.
Boogieman is straight up something like the first season of True Detective, plus maybe a few original Alone in The Dark vibes with the mansion and an investigator.
Hanged Man... Idfk what it was going for, but it was a strong vibe.
2:16 I genuinely gasp at this comment, I had no idea Manly was part of this anthology, more reason to love it
Some info from an RPG Maker dev about that issue with moving up the stairs:
You absolutely can script the game to move the player diagonally without introducing any new code to the engine. There's really no reason those stairs should be so awkward to navigate.
I really like lance's voice work, he's the best out of everyone. And David has a pleasant voice. I just wish there was a more consisent voice work from everyone else! Shirley's voice is pretty good too. :)
I especially enjoyed the voices for Dick, Helena, Tod, and Lance.
I really love that we were able to get the Half Life scientists to voice Richard at 1:29:56
"Keith doesn't need to hear all this he's a highly trained professional."
YOOO, 2 WHOLE HOURS? TIME TO GET THE SNACKS! I loved this game as well, I remember trying my best to stick to the vgperson walkthrough as closely as I could in fear of letting ANYONE die. I was also just as surprised to find out MBH voiced D!ck(typing it so my comment doesn't get sent to the shadow realm /lh). I am so hyped to see your upcoming video on The H@nged Man!
im pretty sure you didnt mention this in the video but if i remember correctly there's an option where you can turn off the voice acting, so if people dont like it they can just turn it off. i love options like that tbh. though for me i like the voice acting. (especially sophie's i think she does the best out of all of them. they're all good though) the direction of some lines arent the best but still lmao
Not related to rpg games but I’ve played some otome that lets you turn off/on voices for specific characters
Sophie and Helena, tbh. Some of Helena's monologues near the end were SHOCKINGLY good!
@@tatltails3923 true lmao
I love the voice acting too.
@@tatltails3923am I the only one who disliked Helena’s VA? It felt way too breathy and off putting for me. I don’t know… It sounds like someone trying to make a “cute defenseless anime girl” other than some scream lines she did . I don’t know maaan
Yo! Ben is back! I can't get enough of your content. Thank You for making these groovy videos.
23:20 "My neck is gonna break". God, that's so funny but so low. I love that authors humor
It felt like the voice actors didnt had a lot of direction for some lines, I wonder why they didnt re record
I love how the Boogie Man is your favorite, the death game premise is very entertaining. You are a great reviewer and your coverage of this series is something special. I hope you cover more RPG Horror games after the Hanged Man.
THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I HEARD KEITH'S COMMENT ABOUT SOPHIE!!!! I'm so glad Sandman cursed him 🤣🤣 That was not an appropriate thing to say to a highschooler!!!
Snarky asshole Keith is my favorite. I love the art from Hanged man when Sophie and William are grabbing onto him and he looks 100% done.
you dont KNOW how much ive been waiting for this, like dude i saw your channel when i was just scrolling through youtube,and your voice really hooked me, i really hope you grow much much MUCH more
to be fair i don't think he was a "mad man" I think the boogie man invaded Branden to play his game on real people because " Fighting the whole world is too hard" So he chose a group of people and played with them which is why he had no problem when his original victims changed on him getting replaced with keith and his wife, Its also why keith saw things others didn't because he was the most vulnerable to the boogieman trying to hide his worst nightmares under the rug.
the one frustrating thing about the voice acting is that you can tell they're all amateur in the way that they talk like there's someone in the other room that they don't want to disturb. the one exception to this is shirley, whose gotta be my favorite VA out of any of them
It's a crime that RUclips will not allow ya having any income from such a massive and well crafted work!!
Two hour video and all top notch quality!!
i really like that David relates to Keith seeing stuff nobody else did, cool detail
Good video. Very well made, to the point I didn't realize it was almost 2 hours long until I read a comment saying it was. I'll be honest, I cackled when they used the word rump.
(Spoilers for bonus Scene) I fucking called Sandman not letting Keith sleep after making fun of Sophie. Like, Sandman saved her ass and she was telling him she appreciated his help in protecting her.
"Everyone has one leg in a coffin" is.. a rather ingenious way of putting "death is inevitable". I quite like that line.
Random creep comment by Keith in the bonus scene was a flashbang to my emotions like wtf lol
The bonus ending is so baffling lol
I love getting to experience this series through your eyes. Your reviews are super enjoyable and I love the way you lay things out.
So excited, I love rpg horror games and long videos, tried playing myself and kinda gave up because I was confused. Thanks for continuing making videos! :)
I feel so bad for laughing at 23:05 .... just the tone and delivery of that line......... I can't-
I genuinely feel like David should become a therapist it just fits his character so well. Dunno if he does or plans to in the fourth game but I’m making it my personal head cannon at this point
I never thought I would find a channel that made me this excited when they upload, but here I am just waiting in anticipation for your next videos, you do such a good job talking about these games and I find myself waiting for the next one. keep it up!😆
Let's go another video
Yeah!
Omg, Keith really said Sophie was part if the Itty Bitty Titty Committee 😭😭
My Grandfather smoked his whole life. I was about 10 years old when my mother said to him, 'If you ever want to see your grandchildren graduate, you have to stop immediately.'. Tears welled up in his eyes when he realized what exactly was at stake. He gave it up immediately. Three years later he died of lung cancer. It was really sad and destroyed me. My mother said to me- 'Don't ever smoke. Please don't put your family through what your Grandfather put us through." I agreed. At 28, I have never touched a cigarette. I must say, I feel a very slight sense of regret for never having done it, because your comment gave me cancer anyway.
@@WuhHuh
Dude, no one cares
@@willowthelyxrait’s a joke, read the last 2 sentences.
@@retronoodles_but_cooler
Stfu racist..
@@WuhHuhGODDAMN
THANK YOU SO SO MUCH FOR COVERING THE STRANGE MEN SERIES! looking forward to your next videos (no pressure tho)
Your channel is like a blessing and the way you cover the plot/gameplay aspects is seriously entertaining, thanks for sharing your thoughts on great RPG games! great content and remember to take your time!!
The name of keiths son quite the dark joke
Tod is german for death
Lets GOOO. I can’t wait for the Hanged Man review. It’s my favorite of the games.
(Also my lord the voice acting in Boogie Man was just….. yeah. Not my favorite. But they got better though!)
Hearing the blue bird lullaby from Virtue’s last reward in the good ending when they Keith is admitting that he needs help really opens up some old wounds
Something I really like about these games is that the characters just sorta... meet. There's no super big moment of them coming together or anything, they just met like normal people (kinda) and they interact like normal people.
"A boy who breaks the rules can't join the force."
Here in the US, "breaking the rules" is almost a guarantee in the current state of our police force.
Man Keith has auditory hallucination from the trauma of hearing his son's death
1:22:07
Did he just pull a Michael Jackson?
Just imagine: you walk in to see the horrible bagged boogie man of terror, just to see him moonwalking.
I’d like to bring up that the incident at the beginning of the game that results in Keith being in hot water with the press, was because he shot and killed a murder suspect in front of a civilian without any form of confrontation. When the news article describes the civilian as “innocent”, Dick responds that the civilian was actually a prostitute, which… was somehow supposed to justify the detective shooting and killing someone in front of her?
Yeah that is low-key sexist
the voice acting really ruins this game for me. it's not even that they sound bad, it just completely takes away from the atmosphere somehow. i guess it's handy if you're watching a playthrough though?? i think the only character out of the entire cast that really benefitted from having a voice was the boogie man, his voice work was really effective and actually enhanced every scene he was in
gotta love ol sandy being like "ight fuck you no sleep for a week"
After the gruesome scene of the actual story, that bonus scene got a good laugh out of me, especially seeing sandmans eyes get angry and immediately cutting to Keith being unable to sleep.
Absolutely LOVE the way you narrate games and find it really interesting, it keeps me focused on the video regardless of the lenght, something not a lot of videos manage to do (no, I don't have ADHD, as far as I know at least)
Also amazing how I ended up liking Keith despite him being an ABSOLUTE ASSHOLE
SPOILERS: Gotta love how Sandman gave him a lesson for laughing at Sophie like that, very creepy for me how he's "in love" with her but hey at least he protects her
I'm glad it isn't just me who finds it a tad creepy that the sandman is "in love" with a school-aged girl 😭 It rubbed me the wrong way. I'm hopeful it was just conveyed wrong or something lmao.
@@waffleauflauf4213 honestly?... Pretty sure it isn't, I wouldn't have much faith in developers who made a grown-ass man comment on a school-aged girl's chest
@@waffleauflauf4213eh, at least he’s not forcing himself onto her. He’s waiting till she’s ready
@@ntfoperative9432 That's called grooming
@@artCharles no, Grooming would be slowly training her to love him until she was old enough. Sandman is staying away, letting her live her life. Then she’ll give her back her Jewel
57:16 Lance just moving at lightspeed got me cackling
Wanted to say that I can't take the villain seriously when he speaks in Oingo Boingo quotes, but for someone literally named the Boogie man that makes sense
Thanks!
Thank you so much!!!!
Honestly glad I randomly found you because I love this kind of stuff and I had no idea this game series existed
Lol, my boy David can’t catch a break 💀
19:35 or maybe, she's an aromantic queen.
(I haven't finished the video yet, but so far it's really good and I always enjoy seeing the effort you put into these!)
I think that would be interesting to play out. However, I don't think that would be possible for her as she was attracted to David in the Sandman.
@@hellolithy yeah I know, a girl can dream.
@@banananananananananananana. A girl can dream.
I like to think she is aro, but specifically because of losing the jewel. People's sexualities can change even without supernatural means :P
@@mell0w87 So there's a chance?
I love the way you explain these games’s stories. From little points where you chime in to explain certain scenes, to you just talking about how certain parts feel (how creepy or underwhelming they are.) it all has this certain feel to it.
I didn't see a comment mentioning, so I thought I'd do it: From 17:14 until the end of that dialogue, The Crooked Man is quoting a song: "Insanity", by Oingo Boingo.
It's a pretty good song, if not a bit disturbing.
Edit: With the bad endings name also being songs, I wonder if Uri slipped way more song references in the games that I just never noticed.
The “Don’t blame it on the sunshine” comment is lifted directly from The Jackson’s song “Blame It on the Boogie”!
@@ego_orb Oooh, nice catch, thanks!
1:50:32 keith just casually calling his coworker gay
I lost my mom a long time ago. I'd felt exactly like Keith had ever since, I'd rarely expressed myself after- I couldn't even cry when I heard about it. But I found people I truly care about. I'd started to begin to truly laugh again, and cry. Thank you, for making this video.
Dude should be WAY more popular
Keith thwacking Tod's head off the door frame in the flashback made me laugh because I have done the same thing with my kid before. You forget how big they are sometimes
I was OBSESSED with this game when it first came out, I still love it now! But I simped SO hard for Brendon / the Boogie Man. I tried recreating the map on Minecraft, and wrote days worth of roleplays with my closest friends. Ah, gotta love Neurodivergent obsessions!
Lance and Shirley voice actors are pretty good and their voice quality is also good they were the best imo
I love love love how david makes comments about his neck. In the Sandman he was complaining that his neck had a crook in it because he slept on shirlys couch, and right here when he was helping keith climb he said “My necks gonna break!” And I just think its a fun callback