One subtle thing I like about the game is the fact that, because ghosts and skeletons and such exist, it's actually possible that your player character might be your own ghost possessing just your chopped off hand.
There is a spell that summons a coffin. You can then cast the spell to give it life. You can then create a room full of screaming coffins. Game of the Year.
Well I mean, we can only use one weapon at a time, but we cant drink potions that way unless we pull an ethan winters on Our chopped off hand amd with certain weapons expose its STILL cut off.
i remember each new area i was actually kinda spooked from the unknown and atmosphere but as soon as i got to the next area i'd metaphorically BLJ around the map like mario in previous areas
IMO calling it "comfy" is a stretch because the spooky areas go REALLY hard, you can really feel that this is made by a person that's made two horror games previously and no amount of bonking sticks or spells are gonna make you feel SAFE descending into a place like the prison underground. (Having the skeleton dogs show up the SECOND time you go through the prison hub got me real good, thinking I'd be fine since I'd memorized the enemy spawns... and then suddenly not only does a new enemy appear with no warning but it's just in your face IMMEDIATELY). I main the fairy companion spell... not because of its pitiful extra damage, but because having that "btw something is within attack range" alert makes me feel slightly more comfortable delving into the unknown.
WDYM pitful damage? I've destroyed bosses using this spell! Here's my pro gamer strat (patent pending): 1. Spam as many fairies as you can have out at one time (I think it's 3) 2. Run around the arena screaming like a little girl to avoid the boss. 2b. If any of the fairies run out, re-cast the spell. 3. Profit Works beautifully on Cirall, Abyssal Demons, and whatever the thing under the castle bridge was.
Yeahhhh calling it "comfy" is honestly a biiiiitttt of a stretch because some of these areas are fucking TERRIFYING. They're a bit easier to handle on your second run through but GOD some areas like the Forsaken Tomb on my first run were TERRIFYING
I would like to say i really appreciate the fact that you go out of your way to encourage people to and show them how to prep their meals. As someone who really likes cooking, it warms my heart to see someone teaching others how to cook and seemingly enjoying it immensely. I hope you keep making these videos for as long as you want and that you have a great halloween.
Lunacid is genuinely one my favorite games in recent years, it being made by Kira only made that easier to say. Really looking forward to whatever project they work on next.
I've actually been thinking about playing Lunacid for a loooong while now. Being a diehard Fromsoft fan, I've always been fascinated with the King's Field and Shadow Tower series, and seeing streamers play this game for at least a few minutes before I had to get back to doing house things was pretty cool! Thanks for making this vid, Charls! Once I get some cash rolling in, I'm definitely buying this, and Dread Delusion.
Its wonderful fun, Ive played to hell and back over its dev period, and recently a few good endings finally came in and some hidden REALLY fun fights! Kira/Akira has a nack for giving some trippy experiences. And if ya dont mind browsing itchio he has his own itch with some fun smaler experiences to hold ya over.
Charlatan, you have one of the most absolutely commendable channels on this platform. Besides Grimbeard and ThorHighHeels I can't think of any other review/essay channel that brings the level of consistency, positivity, and authenticity that you do
when people say gaming is dying they mean legacy AAA blockbusters as we know them, that aspect of the industry is slowly going extinct. gaming in of itself can't really die as long as people can just download a text editor and print hello world in a command shell.
really been enjoying dread delusion so far, looking forward to trying this out afterwards. I was really impressed with the different ways to play dread delusion.
Wow really cool video! As someone who’s working on game similar to Lunacid I love to watch all different ppl taking about it bsc it’s give me o lot of cool ideas for my game! Also I love meal prep section, awesome idea!
Please create playlists for Indieween! Would love to easily see each year's picks without having to ig through either All Videos or the Spooky Games playlist. Great picks this year as always Charl!
Im not going to spoil it, but find the room in the castle. Probably the strongest feels ive ever gotten in a game, ever. Don't look it up, it's not the same.
THANK YOU!!!!! this game has been criminally undercovered. This should be the one game that all the souls nerds check out when they cover Kings Field and it's clones but it never gets covered!!!
My only real complaint about Lunacid is that there were slightly too many labyrinthine levels for my taste, the way I progressed through the game on my first playthrough meant I ended up tackling most of them in a row. I also happened to play the game during a new moon on my first playthrough and didn't get to use the lunacy mechanic at all, which might be something that could be tweaked a little so that the mechanic is always somewhat relevant but I thought it was really funny when my next playthrough had a moon on the HUD that wasn't there before.
My build was 80 STR, 10 DEF, 118 SPD, 4 DEX, 4 INT, 8 RES (knight). Idk, while you were playing King's Field, I was playing Quake. The game felt way too easy, but it might be because I haven't touched the difficulty slider at all. From what I heard, it doesn't really make the game harder though, just slower.
Okay, I KNEW I wasn't crazy. I recognized a bunch of talking points and bits, but with totally different clips from this review and I couldn't figure out HOW could've I seen a video with so many similar parts until it HIT me... I only JUST recently watched one of your 2 years old compilation indieween vids and THAT one had Lunacid in it as well. 😂 The recipe looks great so I'll give that one a try at some point. Much obliged as always! 👌
Char I know that it was unintended to run Halloween in July through from July to the start of Indieween, but I have been HERE FOR IT Please run long every year buddy, I want my 4+ months of halloweeb games
Regarding the cooking segment, Mr. Wonder. What if you're one of those people who taste soap when they eat cilantro? Can we omit the cilantro entirely?
Yeaaaah, Lunacid is such a great game an amazing vibe, played it whole at the beginning of the year. (Had to use a guide for de DDR ending), one of the greatest games played this year, getting to understand the map, spell synergies. Or just using the same spell over and over because some are broken af.
Lunacid was fun, the extra enemies on full moon has an extremely mean debuff. :) - I didn't know there was an escape ending unless it got added since I last played, thought I was checking the patch notes enough.
Something really nice to keep in mind, if you reach certain Levels in your Int Stat, you start to regen your Mana Passively without having to use up MP Potions, which makes a pure caster build a lot more viable. You can eventually get it to the point where you cannot run out of Magic.
everything charles said is 100% true, Lunacid has been my goto fun dungeon crawler since I nabbed it 2 years ago roughly, no regrets ever and hundreds of hours of fun and dozens of saves.
It's a personal policy of mine to only use stuff I know is royalty free: just because a composer for a game's music isn't claiming it now doesn't mean that they never will. I learned that lesson the hard way with Pathologic 2.
Charl, did you play Voices of the Void already? Sounds like its right up your alley. Was almost surprised when it wasnt on this channel already. Its still Alpha but free and theres lots to see.
You put as much salt in one meal as I put in 2 months. I'm always baffeled that USA citzens say "a little salt" or "just a bit of sugar" and proceeds do put 200g of salt or sugar into ONE MEAL.
This video and the message behind it hits harder after watching videogamedunkey's Black Ops 6 video, which is just him having to install, reinstall, reboot, relaunch, and retry updates without ever actually playing the game due to how unoptimized and poor CoD's optimization is. Great content as per usual. Shame I already owned all these games prior to this month haha. Keep it up!
I wouldn't call it an immersive sim, especially by Charles standards. There's very few times where the game allows you to approach a situation however you want, instead the game shoves your nose in the dirt until you figure out how the game wants you to handle situations. And it does NOT encourage player freedom.
Every review I see points that you lost a hand... But I think we lost a body in this game. The cutscene shows the right hand being cut, and by default you play as a right hand. No arms, no armor to equip, just one weapon and rings, nobody refers to you as a "human". We are just a hand carrying an inventory with telekinesis or some other misterious way
7:10 shit, that happened to me too. I think I never played the game again after that sadly. The section to reach it was so goddamn long I lost the will to redo it.
You needed a game to figure that out, as someone who does not enjoy dark souls the influences i saw in the video made me realize its worse than i thought, Dodged a bulet.
@terribleivan1475 Well, the things I like are: - You cast spells by drawing runes with your mouse. - The world is very interactive. Anything can be opened or circumvented in some way, and oh boy, you can even physically cook. - It has THE BEST catacomb descent in every game ever. There are a lot of other things, Mandalore did great review of the game if you want to know more
In hindsight there were probably better games to spotlight, but I did them as a part of trying those new techniques and I ended up learning quite a bit about my own video making process through them (even if it was at the cost of a lackluster video), and thanks to that I don't necessarily regret doing them this year.
game kinda has the subnautica effect goin for it where id love to talk about it but just talking about locations can ruin the effect to someone who hasnt played the game yet lol
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Here's that full recipe 100% FREE FOR EVERYONE!
the banana shirt adds 100% flavour, 10/10 i approve
One subtle thing I like about the game is the fact that, because ghosts and skeletons and such exist, it's actually possible that your player character might be your own ghost possessing just your chopped off hand.
@@williamjones4117 ... Did I miss something?
ive been guessing thats why you hold a shield in your main hand
@@noxer5589you hold it with your main hand because you only have one hand
There is a spell that summons a coffin. You can then cast the spell to give it life. You can then create a room full of screaming coffins.
Game of the Year.
Well I mean, we can only use one weapon at a time, but we cant drink potions that way unless we pull an ethan winters on Our chopped off hand amd with certain weapons expose its STILL cut off.
You can use them to jump too
Tying game mechanics to the actual moon is lunacy
i remember each new area i was actually kinda spooked from the unknown and atmosphere but as soon as i got to the next area i'd metaphorically BLJ around the map like mario in previous areas
IMO calling it "comfy" is a stretch because the spooky areas go REALLY hard, you can really feel that this is made by a person that's made two horror games previously and no amount of bonking sticks or spells are gonna make you feel SAFE descending into a place like the prison underground. (Having the skeleton dogs show up the SECOND time you go through the prison hub got me real good, thinking I'd be fine since I'd memorized the enemy spawns... and then suddenly not only does a new enemy appear with no warning but it's just in your face IMMEDIATELY). I main the fairy companion spell... not because of its pitiful extra damage, but because having that "btw something is within attack range" alert makes me feel slightly more comfortable delving into the unknown.
WDYM pitful damage? I've destroyed bosses using this spell!
Here's my pro gamer strat (patent pending):
1. Spam as many fairies as you can have out at one time (I think it's 3)
2. Run around the arena screaming like a little girl to avoid the boss.
2b. If any of the fairies run out, re-cast the spell.
3. Profit
Works beautifully on Cirall, Abyssal Demons, and whatever the thing under the castle bridge was.
@@marcindzamroga8945 not everything is weak to light, so i don't blame 'em
Yeah I can imagine the forest spirits laughing at the fave of any vampires or faires there
Yeahhhh calling it "comfy" is honestly a biiiiitttt of a stretch because some of these areas are fucking TERRIFYING. They're a bit easier to handle on your second run through but GOD some areas like the Forsaken Tomb on my first run were TERRIFYING
Also yes those undead dogs can fuck RIGHT off they're AGONY
I would like to say i really appreciate the fact that you go out of your way to encourage people to and show them how to prep their meals. As someone who really likes cooking, it warms my heart to see someone teaching others how to cook and seemingly enjoying it immensely. I hope you keep making these videos for as long as you want and that you have a great halloween.
YES, I WAS WAITING THE FULL REVIEW OF LUNACID FOR ALMOST A YEAR!!!
Lunacid is genuinely one my favorite games in recent years, it being made by Kira only made that easier to say.
Really looking forward to whatever project they work on next.
Thanks for another year of Indieween! I’ve played this game. It’s good but I found myself getting frequently lost
I've actually been thinking about playing Lunacid for a loooong while now. Being a diehard Fromsoft fan, I've always been fascinated with the King's Field and Shadow Tower series, and seeing streamers play this game for at least a few minutes before I had to get back to doing house things was pretty cool!
Thanks for making this vid, Charls! Once I get some cash rolling in, I'm definitely buying this, and Dread Delusion.
Its wonderful fun, Ive played to hell and back over its dev period, and recently a few good endings finally came in and some hidden REALLY fun fights! Kira/Akira has a nack for giving some trippy experiences. And if ya dont mind browsing itchio he has his own itch with some fun smaler experiences to hold ya over.
The recipe in the middle of the vid is CRAZY. love it!
I just made your roast after last weeks video and I STILL have left overs in the freezer. Truly came for the game reviews and stayed for the good eats
Charlatan, you have one of the most absolutely commendable channels on this platform. Besides Grimbeard and ThorHighHeels I can't think of any other review/essay channel that brings the level of consistency, positivity, and authenticity that you do
Wait ThorHighHeels? As in one of the music contributors in this game?? 😮
Informative game breakdowns, cats, helpful meal prep tips? What doesn't this video have? You're absolutely killin' it
New to the channel but why does the meal prep in the middle feel so wholesome/ comforting and remind me of Mr Rodgers for some reason. take my sub.
I love your passion man! Watching your videos that have recently popped up in my feed has been awesome
when people say gaming is dying they mean legacy AAA blockbusters as we know them, that aspect of the industry is slowly going extinct. gaming in of itself can't really die as long as people can just download a text editor and print hello world in a command shell.
“The pit, oh I fell in it, the pit.”
i love LUNACID one of the best games to come out recently, so chill.
Yay! I love this game! and Charlatan wonder too!
I think you really did Lunacid justice with this one. Heres to another kick ass year of indies.
really been enjoying dread delusion so far, looking forward to trying this out afterwards. I was really impressed with the different ways to play dread delusion.
Wow really cool video! As someone who’s working on game similar to Lunacid I love to watch all different ppl taking about it bsc it’s give me o lot of cool ideas for my game! Also I love meal prep section, awesome idea!
I saw a review of this game somewhere, but I forgot where. glad to see my favorite review channel picked up on it!
Please create playlists for Indieween! Would love to easily see each year's picks without having to ig through either All Videos or the Spooky Games playlist.
Great picks this year as always Charl!
Actually that's a really good idea. I'll try to do that some time this week while also renaming the older videos to designate what year they're from.
Im not going to spoil it, but find the room in the castle. Probably the strongest feels ive ever gotten in a game, ever. Don't look it up, it's not the same.
Neat, ive already played this one and like it
Love the recipes in these videos, very unique
THANK YOU!!!!! this game has been criminally undercovered. This should be the one game that all the souls nerds check out when they cover Kings Field and it's clones but it never gets covered!!!
I came for the lunacid review left with a new recipe to try wasnt expecting that, but plesently surprised none the less
Indiween is such a lovely yearly segment and I look forward to next years
This game is amazing, searching for secrets with my friends was so fun
Another golden indieween Charl. My 9month old son is being forced to watch each upload since birth so he may join the horde
My only real complaint about Lunacid is that there were slightly too many labyrinthine levels for my taste, the way I progressed through the game on my first playthrough meant I ended up tackling most of them in a row.
I also happened to play the game during a new moon on my first playthrough and didn't get to use the lunacy mechanic at all, which might be something that could be tweaked a little so that the mechanic is always somewhat relevant but I thought it was really funny when my next playthrough had a moon on the HUD that wasn't there before.
My build was 80 STR, 10 DEF, 118 SPD, 4 DEX, 4 INT, 8 RES (knight).
Idk, while you were playing King's Field, I was playing Quake.
The game felt way too easy, but it might be because I haven't touched the difficulty slider at all. From what I heard, it doesn't really make the game harder though, just slower.
Okay, I KNEW I wasn't crazy. I recognized a bunch of talking points and bits, but with totally different clips from this review and I couldn't figure out HOW could've I seen a video with so many similar parts until it HIT me... I only JUST recently watched one of your 2 years old compilation indieween vids and THAT one had Lunacid in it as well. 😂
The recipe looks great so I'll give that one a try at some point. Much obliged as always! 👌
This game seems like a work of passion.
Char I know that it was unintended to run Halloween in July through from July to the start of Indieween, but I have been HERE FOR IT
Please run long every year buddy, I want my 4+ months of halloweeb games
Absolutely loved the chill dungeon gaming Lunacid provided, perhaps I shall give Dread Delusion a try seeing they're bundled together.
They perfectly complement eachother, they both are a joy to explore
SHADOW TOWER IS BACK.
A rice and chicken recipe in the middle of a game review?? That was unexpected. But okay. Looks good, and easy. Might try that, and the game.
the catacombs and the tunnels are bar none one of the scariest parts of a game in that year
Regarding the cooking segment, Mr. Wonder. What if you're one of those people who taste soap when they eat cilantro? Can we omit the cilantro entirely?
Oh yeah just sub it for Italian parsley or maybe some chopped spinach so that you still get your greens.
Thanks. And thank you for the recipes and the videos. I hope you and your chunky kitty stay safe and warm as temperatures drop.
I knew I liked this game the second I booted it up and saw the skeleton character portrait. That day, Wretch the undead creature was born...
I love that this game has a legally distinct Alucard voiced by Robert Belgrade.
Yeaaaah, Lunacid is such a great game an amazing vibe, played it whole at the beginning of the year. (Had to use a guide for de DDR ending), one of the greatest games played this year, getting to understand the map, spell synergies. Or just using the same spell over and over because some are broken af.
Lunacid was fun, the extra enemies on full moon has an extremely mean debuff. :) - I didn't know there was an escape ending unless it got added since I last played, thought I was checking the patch notes enough.
Had this game in my library for about a year now... thinkin it's time :D
Ah yeah. Here we go. I loved this game.
Charlatan reviewing my indie game of the year 2023???? No way!!!
This is my all time favorite game im so excited :3
Something really nice to keep in mind, if you reach certain Levels in your Int Stat, you start to regen your Mana Passively without having to use up MP Potions, which makes a pure caster build a lot more viable. You can eventually get it to the point where you cannot run out of Magic.
Don't want to be that guy, but I think you are referring to the Resistance stat. At 100 points, it provides mana regen.
FYI - the cilantro stems are just as delicious and tender as the leaves. Chop them up and add them!
Ngl Cheryl the crow might just be the best character name in any souls-like or souls adjacent game
Normally I hate meal prep but just because it's Charlatan I feel inclined to try these recipes...damn you cat em-sim guy making me eat healthier
oh hey, an indieween game i already own
Lunacid is _premium_ vibes.
A fellow left hander. I see you bro.
everything charles said is 100% true, Lunacid has been my goto fun dungeon crawler since I nabbed it 2 years ago roughly, no regrets ever and hundreds of hours of fun and dozens of saves.
17:54 Good ol' Health Viai
I WAITED FOR THSI, YEAH, YESSSS I LOVE THIS GAME
Omg sheryl the crow! Is just like music artist
This game is fantastic, great recommend
I just found this channel, does he always have a cooking section in the middle of his videos? I'm loving, I'm just asking.
This channel is actualy a stealth cooking show designed to lure Gamers(TM) into watching before we hit em with that Mise en Place.
Lunacy kinda sounds like a mechanic from Darkest Dungeon
Even though i known about this game for a while, i never thought about it
genuinly a hate crime to not use the lunacid OST for the video.
It's a personal policy of mine to only use stuff I know is royalty free: just because a composer for a game's music isn't claiming it now doesn't mean that they never will. I learned that lesson the hard way with Pathologic 2.
@@CharlatanWonder yeah ok that makes sense
I played this game it's actually so good
Great video!
YESSSSSS THIS GOATED GAME
Charl, did you play Voices of the Void already? Sounds like its right up your alley. Was almost surprised when it wasnt on this channel already. Its still Alpha but free and theres lots to see.
I've been watching it for a long time and I'm waiting for the steam release.
Got all the achievements for this one, it's a cool game (though farming rare drops sucks).
Ive 100% the game but ive never seen that halloween boss you showed how did you get to it?
There's something new in fetid mire right by the entrance to the tombs. You'll know it when you see it.
Now I wish i had a crock pot... and grocery money. Damn, I'm so broke right now. 😭
So Mr. Wonder how are you liking your new kitchen?
You put as much salt in one meal as I put in 2 months. I'm always baffeled that USA citzens say "a little salt" or "just a bit of sugar" and proceeds do put 200g of salt or sugar into ONE MEAL.
Hey! You should check out Enigma of Fear for the next Halloween in July!
This video and the message behind it hits harder after watching videogamedunkey's Black Ops 6 video, which is just him having to install, reinstall, reboot, relaunch, and retry updates without ever actually playing the game due to how unoptimized and poor CoD's optimization is.
Great content as per usual. Shame I already owned all these games prior to this month haha. Keep it up!
Such a comfy vibes
Love your videos and cat and cooking segment and my art is not a content
Thank you
Would love to see u do all vegan recipes for veganuary
> the game has MGLSword
I'm sold.
moon great light sword
uh.... ri... rinse your rice 😔
No.
@@CharlatanWonder you hurt me to my asian blood 😭
So you cook 1 plate for yourself and 7 for the cat?, damn.
2:13 Correction: You are your hand.
Love lunacid and love your banana top
"Kings Field"?
Oh Charl please please you have to try Rain World. It's the only 2d immersive sim that I know of!
I wouldn't call it an immersive sim, especially by Charles standards. There's very few times where the game allows you to approach a situation however you want, instead the game shoves your nose in the dirt until you figure out how the game wants you to handle situations. And it does NOT encourage player freedom.
Is the game controller friendly??
yup.
@@CharlatanWonder thank you. That's great news. Gonna buy this game, lol.
Every review I see points that you lost a hand... But I think we lost a body in this game. The cutscene shows the right hand being cut, and by default you play as a right hand. No arms, no armor to equip, just one weapon and rings, nobody refers to you as a "human". We are just a hand carrying an inventory with telekinesis or some other misterious way
7:10 shit, that happened to me too. I think I never played the game again after that sadly. The section to reach it was so goddamn long I lost the will to redo it.
Nice
Unfathomably based vid, as usual
king's field if it was made by zoomers
Love this game so much
So many best girls.
Plus, so many secrets, including some only available during an IRL full moon.
dude, why cook a chicken breast for 6 hours 😢 but lunacid is great tho, keep it up!
Shoutout to lunacid for making me realize I do not enjoy kingsfield-likes
You needed a game to figure that out, as someone who does not enjoy dark souls the influences i saw in the video made me realize its worse than i thought, Dodged a bulet.
BUT, if you like the idea of exploring sprawling dungeons maybe Arx Fatalis is for you
@@manigoldo8736 I’ve learned that the “idea” of the game being intriguing isn’t quite enough for me to enjoy it. Is the gameplay itself fun in Arx?
@terribleivan1475 Well, the things I like are:
- You cast spells by drawing runes with your mouse.
- The world is very interactive. Anything can be opened or circumvented in some way, and oh boy, you can even physically cook.
- It has THE BEST catacomb descent in every game ever.
There are a lot of other things, Mandalore did great review of the game if you want to know more
@@manigoldo8736 Ok, that sounds deeper than I expected, I’ll check it out. Thanks for the recommendation!
Really dont think FtF was a good choice. I cant recommend anything thats barely 3 hours for friggin 25 dorru.
In hindsight there were probably better games to spotlight, but I did them as a part of trying those new techniques and I ended up learning quite a bit about my own video making process through them (even if it was at the cost of a lackluster video), and thanks to that I don't necessarily regret doing them this year.
kings field but mid
I fucking love this channel
game kinda has the subnautica effect goin for it where id love to talk about it but just talking about locations can ruin the effect to someone who hasnt played the game yet lol