Well, think about it. There's a hero, traveling across the world, encountering weird monsters, and swapping between various kinda-sorta love interests. Did I describe Odysseus, or Ash Ketchum?
Top 3 things to do while stuck at home; 1: binge watch anime 2: get good at darts 3: ponder about why there are so much scary hand eye monsters in games
I mean, if it's a thing to ward off evil, maybe whoever put the boss there just thinks you're evil. I wouldn't be surprised to find ancient sorcerer-kings putting giant hamsa-monsters here and there to protect their treasure or tomb.
I know an uncomfortable amount about this strange man, including his living condition and several members of his family... Which is weird because he's not even a vlogger
But BDG thinks so... You should send him a hand written letter on the topic. It would be a lot cooler than an email, but then scary when he realizes a stranger knows where he lives
Was this entire video an elaborate set up for the “hand-eye coordination” one-liner at the end? bc if so this is the type of content the internet deserves.
if anyone else made this video I'd think that's all there is to it but you underestimate his passion for researching niche and obscure topics in startling depth
3:24 '...considering it's a symbol for warding off evil, instead of a symbol for crushing Mario.' Brian David Gilbert, April 1, 2020. 'Mario is a war criminal.' Brian David Gilbert, February 17, 2019. Only a year has passed, and yet the evil has been forgotten, and its defences mocked instead of respected. Mario must be crushed.
its also a universal feeling of "eye poked, it hurts" that gives these characters this weird human quality and vulnerability that they share with the player while also looking like a crazy monster
Design-wise, every experienced player knows these two things: 1) Hands deal damage 2) Eyes are weak points So of course designers will slap those two together and add nothing else, thus creating the most barebones yet iconic video game monster. But you should still watch the video because it's cool.
See, what you've done is answer the question simply and concisely. This is what we come to the comments for after we've listened to our favourite fella go way to deep into it for 7 minutes.
"Being stuck at home leads to one of two things: watching a full season of an anime or getting really really into a weird topic" Does polygon keep bryan on house arrest all year for the unraveleds?
Pistachio Muffin I managed to watch all of Code Geass (50 episodes) in just 2 days. I watched each season in a day. 25 episodes each. It’s like my proudest accomplishment. That, and the fact that I binged all of Charlotte in a single night. Started at 8:30 one night and finished at like 4 am or something. Both of these shows are fantastic by the way. If you enjoyed death note, watch Code Geass. It’s on Netflix, I believe.
@@yttis3257 well, considering where the author got his inspiration. you uh...might want to look into that since it's, um...he's a nazi sympathiser and it's a metaphor for...well...let's just say he drew some awful antisemitic imagery.
Here’s the real question: will bdg ever show us his island on animal crossing? Will we ever get an unraveled about the animal crossing villagers? Will we ever be free of debt from Tom Nook?
Me, the entire video: how is this April Fool's stuff? this just makes complete sense and is very on brand for Brian Me, 25 seconds before the video ends: ah
I usually hate puns, but all aspects of this very impressive three way pun are justifiable and good. Although it's really more of a portmanteau, but that's irrelevant.
“What I’m saying, is that the best ones have good hand-eye co-ordination” *groans* -It was all leading up to that. That pun was the whole meaning behind the video. I approve
It gives you 55gold, not dollars. The buying power of a single gold seems quite low considering how stuff at the bar are all 100g or more. The exchange rate is probably more 1g=1cent so 100g would equal 1 dollar, putting blueberries at around 55cents per bushel.
@@xxgirl101xx presumably gold is a lot more plentiful in the stardew valley world. It might see use as currency more for its unreactive properties than for its value, maybe the stardew currency is backed by some other commodity. Kinda lile how coins today are made of pretty worthless but tough cupronickel alloys
i love that zuko isn’t even brian’s cat and he probably has just as many, if not more fans as brian. it’s okay bdg, i love you the slightest bit more than your freeloading cat roommate
I feel like Brian could use this for a drunk PowerPoint party. For those who don’t know what that is, you get drunk and dress up in professional business attire and then give a presentation on something you are passionate about in five minutes. Your friends all do it too and there are prizes for most creative, best presentation, least coherent, etc.
@@nahometesfay1112 Spotted hyenas are massively social and they have a frontal cortex more similar to humans than any other non-primate mammal! In fact they've been shown to solve cooperative puzzles faster than primates, often the primates had to be trained to work together for food! But hyenas hunt cooperatively they're success rate in hunts is higher than lions! Lions are more likely to scavenge off of a hyena's kill than the other way around! They live in clans of varying sizes based on the prey near them, smaller clans around nomadic prey and larger ones around prey that doesn't move, the not nomadic clans have more hierarchy than the other ones! In all spotted hyena clans the dominate is always female with the least dominate female still ranking above any male. I know even more but!! I just love spotted hyenas!
Fun fact, the name for a long story that exists solely for the terrible pun at the end is called a feghoot. I'm trying to figure out a way to recommend this video when my friends and family know that a feghoot is my favorite type of joke, but without them catching on to the fact that this is one.
I don't know if you're still looking for a reason to show them, but if any of them have an interest in video games, you could tell them this an interesting video in regards to game design. Maybe show them some vids by Design Doc or Razbuten's "What gaming is like for a non-gamer" series, or even a few of Gaijin Goomba's Yokai Hunters videos to get them in the mood, then hit them with this when they least expect it.
I don't know if you're still looking for a reason to show them, but I recommend making a 2 story, self propelling, steel hand eye monster and send it to demolish your house. Then tell them that the only way to stop the terrifying monster is to watch the entirety of this video. I would also recommend adding a massive thermite bomb inside the monster that detonates after 7 and a half minutes.
i absolutely HIGHLY recommend episode 96 of Gintama. you really don't need to watch anything else, the episode is a one off, all but one character doesn't even recur outside the episode, and it's a massive feghoot.
is anyone else getting strong twilight zone energy from the idea of having a stranger show up at your housewarming party with an amulet that he tells you to hang by your door
Good start, but we need the Twilight Zone Twist. How about the amulet protects you from one home invasion by forcing the would-be burglar to take it to a new home and give it to another complete stranger? The recipient wakes up to find a bunch of valuables in the middle of their living room, but the only thing missing is the amulet. Cut to the burglar slipping into a house warming party, and reenacting the opening scene with the new recipients, then stepping out of the party and slowly realizing the spell is broken.
PyromaniacDelta i had been thinking more along the lines of something terrible happening because they end up accidentally breaking the amulet, or maybe intentionally disposing of it, but this is very good too. we should join forces as a writing team
@@hhffaa I can't believe that you're actually correct. Had no idea Terraria had gotten so popular. I've known it since before it even came out, never thought it'd get 1/6th the sales of Minecraft.
oh also psychology when a human being fights something/someone without any weapons it's first instinct is usually to watch the other's hands and either dodge them, move them, or mimic them depending on the person. it makes sense that, intentionally or not, the design of something invented to fight you and to be fought would mimic what we first think of when fighting an equal in real life. just thought this would be fitting ig
Y’know, when I watch most Unraveled videos, I think, “oh no, that polygon twink is having another mental breakdown” but with this one, I can finally think “wow, the polygon twink has finally relaxed a bit” and I am happy for him
Nah it’s pretty odd though it was definitely made for second time readers since reading it a second time you can see homer was showing how jarring the arc will be once you read the other arcs where horrible things happened. IMO the arc seemed like homer just wanted to do another version of the calypso arc.
I can imagine that either Brian or someone he knows made the hands eye coordination joke, he laughed about it for like 10 minutes and then fell down the rabbit hole
"Stuck at home which usually leads to one of two things: either watching a full season of anime in one sitting or getting reallh really into a weird topic" Jokes on you I did both
"Zuko I LOVE YOU ZUKO YOU ARE MY FAVORITE" Recently finished watching atla and had a moment of ?????? what?????? before i remembered his roommate's cat was named Zuko
There is a poetic simplicity and honesty to a good hand-eye boss. Ever since I played Windwaker, I've always been like "this is both cool and OH GOD HERE COMES THE FIST."
When is the Iliad: ヘレン戦争, anime adaptation coming out? I'm really hoping they don't censor Achilles and Patroclus's relationship like they did in the 90s English dub where they made them cousins.
fuck you In all seriousness, check out the game Hades- they’re explicitly lovers in that game, and everyone is a hot anime character. In terms of eye bosses, I feel like they show up at least once a game when it comes to Zelda or Kirby (Kracko, I’m looking at you). I don’t have a phobia of eye trauma, but I imagine someone who does would have a problem with a lot of Nintendo games.
There hasn't been any mention of Patroclus from when Achilles & Chiron were introduced in Fate/Apocrypha, but in FGO apparently the Trojan War was really one big mecha anime, what with Hector having a goddamn rocket arm, Paris armed with an oversized crossbow sniper, and the trojan horse itself being Odysseus's mecha. I couldn't make this up if I tried.
@@tairneanaich tbh, that's not even forbidden by law I think, so it's fine ^^ Edit: not that the law can't be wrong, I meant that's even fine by modern standards, apparently
He does have an eye that you shoot, but they're not in his hands. That might be the confusion here. they are hidden and only visible with the lens of truth
Summer Azure also bongo bongo’s main eye weakspot is part of a weird lumpy body thing that connects to the ceiling? I swore I remembered him just having the one floating eyeball
"...I’ve been stuck at home, and that usually leads to one of two things: either watching a full season of anime in one sitting, or getting really really into a weird topic." This is a scarily accurate description of what I'm doing.
Eye'd like to hear more about this Homer/Cyclops/Calypso anime that totally isn't the Odyssey or whatever Greek story Brian took a trip down when researching.
I absolutely love how this was posted in April Fools The video's topic is really dumb, which would be the reason to be posted in April Fools, but them you remember you're watching BDG, and that this is his normal content
_siblings siblings siblings siblings_ _this is my brother, this is my sister we are siblings and we care bout each other_ _everything we have we always share_ _because we're siblings and we have the same hair_
I think if you say this without context, it would be perceived to be insulting to the sister. But since we know him so well, no one will bad an eye hand
I also wonder how much it has to do with "expected tradition" at this point (im sure its called something else.) but like, a boss with eyes on its hands everyone knows how to fight nowadays. theres no question; and you can design that fight extremely well because the player will need no instruction. sorta like seeing a red barrel in a shooter, or a trail of collectables in a platformer, or a save point and a full heal after a large chunk of gameplay. players dont need to be told what those are there for; because they've experienced them dozens of times.
For the most part. We still have a pretty big problem with basic video game literacy in terms of *everyone* knowing things, such as a jump cut generally denoting time passing in movies. That's something anyone passingly familiar with visual media knows. The same can't be said for those video game tropes.
The disembodied boss hands have eyes SO OFTEN that it's weird when Bongo Bongo's don't.... even though there's a bunch of OTHER disembodied hand monsters in Ocarina of Time, and none of THEM have hand eyes either! So the precedent wasn't even there in the game!
Necrodius from Kirby mass attack only opens up his weak point when he’s right about to attack, and you have to throw enough kirbys on his hand before he smashes them all. I think that’s cool
Aww damn, I started scrolling through the comments as the video was winding down, and read this one just in time to ruin the joke for myself before he said it.
honestly, the moment he said that and stared straight into the camera... my brain rose a metaphorical trembling fist to the metaphorical raining sky and thought “BRIIIAAAAAANN!!!!!!!!”
