3 Mysterious Remakes 

PATRONE: bit.ly/3LIDh9C as always thanks for watching : ) and like i said in the viddy new album out soon !

"You're unlikely going to get the game you love with a new coat of paint, because that paint was likely the part of what you liked." That has to be up there as one of the best line you've wrote

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I’ve only been subscribed to Thor for a few months and he’s quickly become one of my favorite RU-vidrs of all time. Every time a new Thor video comes out I get so excited to watch it, and this video was no exception

Bruh i think white day is the horror game I've been looking for since i was a kid. This was on our families shiny ass vista laptop. I once saw this game running on it when my dad walked away from the laptop. Played it for a couple of minutes, but i could never find it in the past 10 years. That lighter in the dark hallway with the heart monitor in the corner was seared into my brain for years. I finally know now. This truly is the only channel that i could find a game like this.

I’m surprised you didn’t mention the spooky as heck anatomical model in the science room that comes alive after a certain amount of time, and then chases you

The only thing I hate about remake culture is that devs almost never include the original game(s) when they update it for modern audiences. It always came across to me as kind of odd, because outside of special cases like FF7R it's not like playing the original alongside the remake will 'ruin' the experience for anyone. At best it helps contextualize what jank and skung the remake ironed out, and at worst it's a pseudo-tacit admission that the remake's team missed the mark in some places ("soul" as the cool kids are wont to imply)

I still think games that had development hell issues should get remakes instead of games that are already good but y'know, that's a money risk and no company's gonna do that.

You only mentioned it once briefly, but now I am really missing the vibe of Fable. Those games, especially the first two, had this kind of weird British Humor vibe that you just don't see anywhere else. I'm not even sure I actually 'enjoy' it. It's more that I just miss it existing. Does that make any sense?

1:56 My problem with the idea that something can "age poorly/well" it that it takes for granted the assumption that art, as a rule, tends to get better over time and that it was on average worse before than now, which I don't think is true in any medium, games included.

Seeing a remake as "MORE of the thing, not just the thing AGAIN" is actually pretty wise, Thor. I like that perspective. Feels true to me.

The credits and transitions in all your vids are so good.

No matter what I will always appreciate your juxtaposition of visuals against bg music. The deep cuts feel like Easter eggs when I recognize them, lol. Fuckin’ love ya. Never stop doing you Also your way of expressing yourself through language is what I wish society would do because you’re way easier to understand than 90% of people I interact with so thank you for being yourself I really appreciate you

you can turn the blood in oneechanbara origins white you can turn the blood in oneechanbara origins *white* *you can turn the blood in oneechanbara origins white*

Originals are cool, remakes are cool, re-imaginings are cool, remasters are cool, spiritual successors are cool. If the underlying experience is good - it's essential. Whether or not the fact of a game (or any other media) being a "re-something" adds to your experience is a matter of personal preference and circumstance, but no work of art cancels out another work of art. As was fairly pointed out in the video. Remakes might be naturally capitizing on nostalgia, however, as a gamer, you can benefit from everything. In moderation that is. What makes a gamer (or rather a person overall) a "boomer" is not being a target demographic for nostalgia-fueled products but rather losing curiosity, being afraid of changing things, and accumulating a thousand little paranoyas about everyting. In other words, closing off makes you a "boomer", and no remake will make you happy. Being curious of both old and new, accepting of both old and new, enjoying both old and new, is a cure. We all need to apply this cure as we move on through times. And enjoy ourselves to the fullest.

Evil ThorHighHeels be like: "Huh... I think I'll make a video about popular remakes!"

Taking a moment before the 1:00 mark to say I adore your unhinged editing

Love catching up with yr vids, always makes my days feel so much better

Thorhighheels is such a vibe, no other content feels like this. Keep up the good work, I love the lane your in 🖤🔥

One topic that would be interesting is talking about weird and obscure first-person dungeon crawlers, It's a genre that a lot of people tend to not like but I like a lot. I've been playing "Kowloon's Curse: Lost Report" which is a demo for Kowloon's Curse and it's got some cool lo-fi funky vibes. one of my fav games is "Shin Megami Tensei: strange journey" which is a cool sci-fi dungeon crawler about morality and human existence and there a bunch of other cool first-person dungeon crawlers both new and old like "Potato flowers in full bloom", the OG "Baroque", "they speak from the abyss", "The Dark Spire" Ray Gigant", "Undernauts: Labyrinth of Yomi", "Disillusion" and "Zanki Zero: last beginning" that could be cool to talk about.

i’ve been having a really hard time recently, thank you for uploading today. it helps me get away for a bit :)

I was lowkey you were going to mention the OTHER horror remake released in April this year: Sherlock Holmes The Awakened. Snobbish British detective vs Cthulhu? Hell yeah.

I love the new format of suprising us halfway through a video with the "so I've been playing" intro Great way to refresh the style. Little mini reviews inside slightly less mini videos. Like the bubble gum center of a lolipop Excellent

thanks awefully!!! your soft tones have helped me through some tough times! Xx

Yume Nikki and White Day are honestly two of my favorite horror games so I'm always glad to see more vids covering both the originals and remakes!!! Tho regardless of the content I always enjoy all your vids! Both you and Hazel make such cozy vids that are perfect to watch while unwinding from a stressful work day!

Just found your channel, loving it. The next dunkey right here

If I may be annoying for a minute, White Day isn’t Valentines Day it’s basically Valentines Part 2. On Valentines Day the boy types give chocolates to the girl types and on White Day the gifts giving is reversed

Dude your channel is great for late night snacks and water on a rainy Saturday, I love your videos

Man, I wish you would have covered Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse. I never played the original but I really enjoyed the remake and I would have loved to see you cover it in your own style.

That Ihadulca moment, lolllll!!! Awesome video, as always

Sometimes I like remakes and sometimes I don't. A lot of the time I like the vibes or graphics or music of the original better but sometimes a game is just nicer redone. And then there's stuff like Lunar which is just all over the place.

As someone who played Yume Nikki: Dream Diary last December and finished it on New Years Eye, I had fun with it on my Switch! Quite an enjoyable experience in my book!

I wish someone out there would make a remake of galerians!

Just wanted to say your music is amazing, love the new album. Been a long time fan of the vids, just getting into your tunes and rlly blown away. Keep it up man, your killing it!

I've been binging your videos and I just found out why I like the way you talk, it reminds me of Xavier: renegade Angel ❤ also love the vibes

Personally I believe the best type of remakes are indeed those that are trying to be much like the original, but that also have as a priority to bring its vision to its fullest in ways the devs couldn't do at the time, best examples would be *Metroid: Zero Mission* (the original was more of an experiment rather than an actually fun exploration game, with repetitive map design and dreadful grinding for pickups _after every reload)_ and *Pokémon HeartGold&SoulSilver* (which added back all of the cut Kanto areas and even added some more of its own). Take a flawed game and make it what it was always meant to be. The problem I think is that publishers will only care to remake games that were already excellent back in the day because it makes the easy buzz and money, even if a remake is completely redundant or might shit on the legacy of the original *(Silent Hill 2 remake* comes to mind). Sadly it's very hard to see, say, *Formation Z* (the most basic shoot'em-up ever on every single Famiclone) getting a remake, because taking the ideas and the _potential_ of the original into something actually good is the easy task since it's a game no one is fond of, but precisely because there's no nostalgia for it they can't get anyone hyped up about it and make lots of money.

I was surprised when I saw that Yume nikki was free on steam. God damn White day... If it wasn't for the janitor, I would totally play the game. I hate chase sequences that are integral to the gameplay.

finally somebody talks about yume nikki: dream diary!!! I was so hyped and got it when it dropped and I felt mixed on it tbh 😭😭😭

Sweet! I cant wait to hear your music. Since you appreciate Akira Yamaoka's work & know all the samples he uses, I'll bet your album will be dope. So excited. I hope it's in my feed. Should be, since all your videos are. Ff16 this year, & armored core, & a thor high heels album!!! What a time to be alive!!! Lol!

White Day frustrated me to no end because in order to encounter all the ghosts you need to play on Hard but by doing so the Janitors are relentlessly annoying.

I love 1:1 remakes, and you can't take that away from me. i want more

Happy you don't outright hate the Yume Nikki reimagining either, it's a different experience but there was a lot I liked about it. For the White Day Remake, as someone who has played both pretty extensively, the Janitor behavior was most certainly NOT wholly unchanged. The remake does some things better, but tunfortunately the two most consistant enemies (the Janitor & the Floating Head ghost) are both done a lot worse in the Remake. The Remakes did update multiple times to change the AI & functions of both due to feedback, but unfortunately they still pale to the original. The three things that both functionally get worse is presence, sound design & darkness. Presence is the easiest to describe, despite knowing the original WhiteDay pretty well I have probably run into the Janitor and been in "chase mode" more often in the Remake by, no joke, something like 500% more often than the original. I honestly don't know what's going on under the hood to make this occur, if its the pathing or if the AI in the remake homes in on your location more often, but he pops up a lot more in the remake than he did in the original. The sound design also hurts them I feel, in the original the Janitor didn't have a "chase theme", he'd just make his jingling key noises & his grunts as the ambience of the game happened. In the remake whenever he's in a radius of you, his theme starts playing, which at least imo takes a lot of listening out for him and the tension of him away. The Floating Head Ghost suffers a LOT in these two departments as well, she spawns FAR more often in the remake than she ever did in the original, and they changed her sound effect to the sound of paper tearing to this kinda' ghastly wind sound. The worst thing is what happens when she catches you though. In the original you'd hear the sound get closer and closer, then suddenly you'd take damage and hear a slight giggle, which combined with how rare she was would throw you off to think what the Hell was even happening. In the remake, she does a FNaF style jumpscare where her whole face takes up the screen and she shrieks at you. Startling the first time, but gets annoying (similar problem to the locker ghosts in the remake, which I like at first but are far too consistant and basically just a jumpscare). The darkness aspect hurts the Janitor a lot especially though. In the original they used hard darks and bright lights for dark/light areas, which is an aesthetic I overall prefered, but additionally the Janitor actually usually couldn't see you in the dark as long as you were being quiet/didn't have a light source out. For whatever reason in the remake this function was removed, so now he usually will see you in the dark and start chasing you, and you can't run into a dark room to hide, you usually have to go to one of the set hiding spots (like toilet stalls usually, which also weren't automated hiding spots in the original). I'm already rambling, but its a case I can see someone who passively watched the original game being like, "Yeah, I see, Janitor chases you just like the original", but a lot of the details changed between the original & remake to make the actual gameplay experience quite different, and imo for the worse which makes him more annoying than anything. There are changes the remake does which are much better than the original, such as the boss fights as you mentioned, but also I tend to think the story was improved (both the cutscenes and the new secret story route in the remake with the new secret second playable protagonist is nice too in what it adds). It's not a case the remake is worse than the original, and in many ways its way more accessible than the original, I love some of the new ghosts and hidden content, story additions, changes. But one area the remake 100% suffered in was with its two most consistent enemies, & in my opinion in atmosphere and lighting. But is what it is, I like both ultimately.

i didn't realize the game you were talking about before that you did some music for was lunacid until i played it and looked at the manual and saw you in the credits. i finally got to the forbidden archives and the music is pretty good, very skrungy or whatever you call it. i had the game recommended to me as a modern king's field-like and i haven't been disappointed by it, it's pretty cool, definitely scratches that firat person sword and sorcery enveloped in weird japanese mysteriousness and gameplay (aka king's field-like) itch

I also think that “materializing” a monster takes away most of the fear and tension. I remember watching the movie “Signs”, afraid and fully stressed until they show the petty alien, they even beat it with a BAT, just water and a a fricking baseball bat!! 😅

You are a genius man, no seriously I love your videos so much, keep it the good work Thor. Greetings from Belgium in Europe.

Every time I check in to see a new video, it feels like I'm watching one of the best segments from G4TV from way back in the day.

love the content❤

Reminder that human beings are responsible for making video games, and human beings tend to die like a lot, or otherwise don't want to be chained to one creative output for their entire life, and that remakes are used as a way to train up new generations of developers and creative leads for future projects while retaining the magic of what made something good in the first place all those years ago

I appreciate the Lego Island soundtrack. Good vid as always.

Thanks for putting that ffviii tune from meeting the timber owls in here

quite literally what i was waiting for

Percs on the intro song going crazy! Can't wait for the new album

The amount of time I've been awakened by the Cowboy Bebop sting at the end is obscene.

Thank you, ThorHighHeels. Very true.

your creative writing has always been top tier man

I absolutely love your fucking strange way of saying stuff. I subscribed cause it's just so cool to listen to you talk about stuff. Love you bud keep killing it.

Thank you for the Blursed Evil Zone reference!

bro all your videos are tight. love having them on while I make music

I'm really curious about what Sir Thor thinks about the ".Hack" series

thank you for talking about the positives of dream diary. i love that scrunk

I still entertain the thought that Kadokawa only claimed they got permission from Kikiyama for the remake. As far as I know his site still remains as it was 15 years ago. I sure hope I'm wrong, though.

Onechambara it's one wonderful saga it's my favorite and i'have the versión's for PS2, PS3 and PS4 it's awesome all's, greetings from mexico 😃👍🇲🇽

I love the Super Mario remake in the beginning

The little head bop i do when i hear the drums of the "Ive been playing" theme 😊

Late to the video but lemme tell you this Mr. Thor, you are what I love about videogames and RU-vid made flesh and/or weird drawn avatar.

That Colonel x Ihadulca codec is one of the best things I've ever seen

U telling me just discovered this old ass channel with 10000 hours of Quality content? Nice

It's kind of touching finding other game channels which have been strongly influenced by ThorHighHeels. The telltale sign seems to usually be heavy use of the word "defo."

I slightly disagree with the idea that saying a game "aged poorly" is silly because I believe games (and art in general) changes with the context surrounding it, what the player has experienced and is experiencing will likely have bearings on what they currently desire from a game in the time since they first or last played. I think video games especially fall victim to this idea of "aging poorly" because they are an interactive medium, which means video games have to exhibit a certain degree of tactility, and the way we interface with games is kind of ever changing, so I feel like it makes sense for a player to look at something old and feel like it has certain decisions that hinder the tactile experience compared to a newer game. I guess my argument is just that I use "aged poorly" in a different sense than most people because I basically agree with you otherwise.

Thank you for reminding me to play Yume Nikki finally

The Ashley fangame is called RE4: The Otome, and it is a work of art. Peak fiction.

34:12 my man still editing in sony vegas in 2023, mad respect and sincerest condolences 👌👌👌

I enjoyed that mini vacation to the tropics with that kicking soundtrack.

Do you by any chance share a list of tracks used in the video? I vividly recognize some of them but can't remember which game are they pulled from

Can't wait for that song, that was a jam❤

Never disappointed in a video that has an El Sonidito reference in the first minute, let's goooo

9:18 Those thumbnails game be flashbacks on gaming YT 10 years ago.

12:04 Woah I don't remember doing THAT in Yume Nikki

Also remakes are normally garbage money grabs and i hate that. Terrible companies using your nostalgia to keep their soulless and creatively bankrupt projects afloat. Also games that would actually be cool to have remade they wont even look at... Like Panzer Dragoon Saga 😑

I really enjoy the way you use English. I feel like you _get it_ in a way even many native speakers don't.

21:31 what’s the song playing here? It sounds like an FM chiptune.

white day, detention and dreadout all sit at the same table for me... i think the school settings plus the fact that i was exposed to those games in high school makes them feel extra nostalgic

thor NOT making a vid on silent hill 2 remake when that disaster drops will be the ultimate troll

Whiteday and onechanbara were really remakes I was not expecting but I fucking love them

Ihadulca shoutout made my day

White Day just looks like it's trying to cosplay ...Iru!

I just watched your old White Day video yesterday. The new version is indeed a good remake.

TY THH!

This guy sounds so tired. I hope one day he can get a really good nap.

That intro was sweet

Bratz music interlude popped off.

In white day, the ghost events you get on Hard or above are legitimately terrifying. Sad you didnt get to experience them

What's the background track at 0:11? It sounds so familiar, but I can't pin down what it is.

Yeah song is lit; was moving pelvis to it without realizing.

My 30 year hobby just doesn't do it for me anymore. The last "new" game I bought was cyberpunk. I just trawl charity shops for old games now. Still play some indies, Dredge was cathartic and gave me nice feels. I don't really do remakes, resi1 gamecube was the only remake I've ever bought.

I played the mess out of riptos rage, brother broke the disc on accident, figured id have to pay collectors whatever to play it again. Found the remake on steam, cant lose it without a court case at this point, and all i gotta do different is jump in the spot the hippo gets stuck in on shady oasis

2:39 - Or as the inimitable Tim Rogers put it, "the Final Fantasy VII remake is more 'Final Fantasy VII' than Final Fantasy VII".

They call them remakes but really they are just fan fiction with updated mechanics and graphics.

BROOOOO WITH THE EVIL ZONE REFERENCE 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

Another certified hood classic vid