I played YET ANOTHER 9 Souls-Like games you've never heard of (AGAIN) 

Exactly what I was thinking, and the parrying reminds me of Metal Gear Rising which is also developed by Platinum.

The original NieR is my favorite Souls-like

​@hopediedlast7230perfect dodge is basically parry

​@hopediedlast7230 Yes, you need to equip a specific chip and then you can do Bayonetta style parries

And the fight at 5:55 reminds me of the fights between *V1* and *V2* in *ULTRAKILL.* And the fight immediately afterward of the fight between *V1* and the *Corpse of King Minos* (also from *ULTRAKILL).*

This case is the evil twin sibling of ULTRAKILL's Projectile Boosting

Not a bug but a surprise feature.

Feels like a game that is janky for being unexperienced but not because the dev didn't try. Fun mechanics and nice animations, but super rough as a game.

Lmao I've done the exact same thing as a novice game dev once. Fixing the infinite jump climbing glitch can be way harder than just changing up your level design, haha

@@HappyBeezerStudios Agreed, watching the footage it seems like a game that is six months of polish from being something special. Or at the very least, six months of polish from being a hidden gem for the Xbox 360.

I really like what i seen~

It was an insane game hope he get the credit he deserve

Exactly my thoughts

Especially the grippers

I'm interested in this one tbh

It looks like so much fun tho!!

@@knife0party💀💀💀

Thanks friend

We are so back

merry chrismas for you also

Gaymers*

Merry Christmas, Metal fruit

Absolutely agree. It’s a really refreshing take.

Same here. I only played a bit of elden ring I don't care for the gameplay all that much (not that it's bad I just don't like it), but I love these thorough positive reviews of completely random games. Glad to see the definition of souls like is being stretched a bit more for this series just cuz I want to see what else is out there and there's no one out there who does these kind of play through and reviews with the same sincerity

I loved it when he accidentally set the weapon rack on fire just because he dropped the torch right beside it. I love that kind of environmental stuff.

Yes, something I wanted to add into Morbid is: the most positive and interesting thing Pineapple seemed to be excited about was the combat mechanic of heavy attacks flinching enraged enemies... From a design point of view, I've seen so many games have the flaw of passing an information only by HUD. I'd like to feel or just see the enemies get this so called "rage", not just a symbol getting orange, I'm not fighting a symbol or a green bar. Be it just some dragon ball like flames around the enemy head to actually convey he's angry and pumped and no light attacks would stop it (or, for the boss case, like in souls series, making him do a flurry of apparently 'unstoppable' attacks would satisfy both the 'rage' shown and the repetitive moveset). It breaks the magic a little bit for me, the main character wouldn't be able to tell apart and decide to use a heavy attack by itself, I'm not playing a music rhythm game where white = right trigger, orange = left trigger. Worth mentioning this concept is apropriately applied to the posture system, while the posture is only shown by HUD, when you break it the enemy seems physically stunned and open to a finishing blow. Having a mechanic actually happening in the game adds importance and weight to the combat.

As someone who has been interested since seeing the nuke parry clip months ago on Twitter, it looks pretty badass. I hope they're able to reach their full vision with this game. I look forward to playing it when it's more polished

The environment and art style looks unique and beautiful in it own way. Cant wait to get my hands on the final product

What a great project to attach your name too!

Even though it looks like a remake of Nier:Automata at certain points, it doesn't mean that it doesn't look badass as hell. Will be waiting for the release.

Oh shit, I didn't realize he was holding steak 😂

that and the him accidentally sending people on a rocket ride had no dying laughing. (should I actually play Fortnite?)

@@JDEdwards2331 yeah lego fortnight is basically a different game in the same engine

@@JDEdwards2331 *Lego* Fortnite. Fortnite itself is a trainwreck.

@@swordzanderson5352Is it, though?

Dude fr 😂😂😂😂

I was thinking the exact same thing. I was also reminded of another game that mixes metroidvanis with pinball. The mixing of these completely erratic genres that shouldn't be combined and yet they come together in such beautiful harmony is amazing.

@@trigs7127 The game with pinball is Yoku's Island Express for those wondering, there was also interesting game with pinball combat called Creature In The Well but felt short for me because of nonexistent story.

Line Rider: Thunderdome

@@trigs7127 The Creature in the Well?

​@@trigs7127Yoku's Island Express was a blast and really creative game.

Getting your souls like to appear in one of these videos is the dark souls of game devs

bro the devs and stuff on those games have maaad talent

they really knew how to add fun to mechanics

I loved the boss theme

You made this ost and a cover of one of my favorite game themes ever, Theme of Laura? Man i want to see more of your work

legit agree

are

​@@amp4105No, is. It's a single person.

100% agree. Those games look sick.

​@@skeletonwar4445so say him. This fucking they them bullshit when the gender of the person in question is known is fucking dumb. Dude even called the fucking guy, "guy".

Brb, tagging my game as a souls-like

It's credible

@@TrepidFaceHuggerthrow in a stamina bar and a dodge/roll and you’re 90% there lol

I'm interested in becoming a game dev, and I have a few different ideas for Souls-likes. Would definitely feel great to get one of my projects featured here. Just need to stop being lazy and get started. Though I probably won't do a Souls-like as my first game.

The bigger they are the harder they fall

Nothing a Souls vet fears more than an unremarkable pale woman wielding a long, bladed weapon.

lmfao

The regular guy boss is insane because almost none of his attacks are parryable, but then you can parry the building-sized sword of the giant robot. It's cool as hell but it feels counterintuitive lol

It also helped that those 20 tries were really good practice. Pineapple had to level up from lvl5 -> lvl 60 in order to beat that first boss 😭

IT really does feel like that, like it's something you'd find on a Playstation Demo Disk.

​@@SevnessThose were the days

Togedaaa

I really hope it turns out good. My main worry is the difficulty. The weapons and tools showed in the demo look fun to use, but ridiculously overpowered. I don't even know how you would balance that shit.

@@EllaKarhu definitely a valid worry. Adding into it, I’d say maybe increased cooldowns/ decreased durability to weapons/skills could be applied, but then the game would run into a BOTW/TOTK problem. It’s definitely tricky to fix it without falling into other problems.

Or works indie would be even cooler. Not like he’d get to do anything of value working for a big studio

i would rather he stay independent.

I just hope they keep making more games

Definitely let them keep working indie, we probably wouldn't get as much of that beautiful creativity otherwise.

M

@@DrClownPhD Because we needed 23 mainline Call of Duty games. They're just so full of innovation. Being more serious, I agree that Indie Games aren't the only source of out of the box brilliance, but it's a lot easier for them to chase than a AAA studio only worried about money and pleasing investors. They tend to stick to tried and true genres/mechanics/themes. So while Indie Games might not be the only source, they are the vast majority, which makes sense why someone might say they've 'only really seen indie games' do it.

​@@DrClownPhDDr.VeryFunatParties

@@DrClownPhD Independant. Without a large scale publisher, and therefore without a lot of the expectations that come with that-- such as deadlines, audience demographic, financial targets. All of which can be constraints on artistic vision and expression that indie games tends to need to succeed in the market, to stand out from the sea of other indie games. For indie games, doing something different is bonus, or a goal. To large scale publishers, being different can be an unnecessary risk.

@@DrClownPhD Indie has never been about budget and you know it. You're being ridiculous. It means independent for fucks sake. It's in the name. Also they never said AAA games don't do this or can't. They said they've only seen it from indie games which is different. Saying only indies do this and I've only seen it from indies is a big difference. They probably only play indies as do a lot of people myself included. I'm not paying attention to big companies and could care less what they're doing so no I can't see their innovation compared to the indie devs I follow.

It really reminded me of the scrappy kinda cobbled together look of something like Kenshi, it’s hard to describe but I love it. Can’t wait to see more.

@@metroid3802I get that, like a risk of rain kenshi lmao

@@metroid3802even a little bit of Phantom Dust and NieR

If you liked V.A Proxy you should play Nier Automata, its very clearly based off it. Still a pretty good game tho.

@@PoorEdward literally this. all i was thinking was like kenshi risk of rain dark souls. excited to follow the development of that game

No one ever thought of it

Steam dumpster diving is better

⁠@@resurgamviridisnitor7734not when some games are only on itchio or gog or whatever. and it doesn’t imply that he’s playing souls-like games

@@Mr_Spaghetti I think the dumpster aspect adds a lot because we don't want this to be a pure highlight series. Showing bad along with the good helps those devs improve, helps the better games get recognized and boosts ideas that might inspire someone to make a new unique great.

@@resurgamviridisnitor7734 it's got a ring to it

I mean... I've played both Automata and Replicant, and there were some things I just DID not understand about VA Proxy. Like the lack of telegraph attacks from the first boss, and the absolutely brutal difficulty spike. As well as limited combo options.. you need to be able to tell the difference between blockable/Parryable attacks and "don't touch me or it will hurt" attacks, especially in a game like this.

​@@ItsTickingTimeit looks like it's also inspired by metal gear rising, which iirc, all attacks in that are parryable, and it's probably the same here.

I was losing my mind that he went the whole review without mentioning Nier once.

@@nickelakon5369 Definitely not all. The "golden" charged attacks go right through the parry

@@caav56 oh, I must have been misremebering them. I know all attacks are parriable is true for something though.

I wanna know what drugs were consumed when someone came up with the idea "what if Trials but Metroidvania?" Because that's gotta some good good. What a brilliant idea!

@@srsgoblin the full game really edges the definition of metroidvania, there are 2 movement upgrades total and there isn't much of unlocking new areas with them. It's still a great game but imo it's closer to a standard rpg

Its sad Dark Messiah was the only game of its kind for years. Some games had similar mechanics but nothing close to the pure physics chaos and kicking of Dark Messiah.

They are called Immersive Sim. But they are rare

Dark Messiah is such an underrated gem, even if it hasn't totally aged well over the years. It was my favorite game when I was a kid.

@@shodanargie1574 Nope. Most imsims are not at all like Dark Messiah. Dark Messiah-like refers to a very specific kind of imsim, with heavy focus on melee combat with a lot of magic and a strong af kick.

it feel soo similar to Ori and the blind forest for some reason.

@@portarul96 except it's not gory at all

Word

Seriously, the only disappointing part is he can't realistically release them more often

Facts! And every video I mention how much I love this Series but it often goes unnoticed which is fine...I'm just glad to be alove during the makings of these awesome videos. 💯

Same!

And parrying a nuke or gravity is something that i would expect seeing in a Nier game

And MGR:R.

It's like Nier and this VR game Jet Island mixed together imo

the world also gives me Bleak Faith Forsaken vibes

The "ghost" bosses reminded me of the enemies in the first Nier game, I'd wager it's a huge inspiration

Funny seeing you here bass man, my two interests colliding

Anyone can make a game. There's no barrier to entry. You don't see that for many products. There's also one source you can go to for most games - Steam. So, for example, while it's not hard for someone to make a movie or short film, it's hard for them to find an audience, but almost every game can be on Steam. I guess my point is - we take the ability to make good products for granted because we rarely see the less good attempts. With games you can see those other products, although - to your point - most people do not.

Yo parry that gravity and stop falling to death

Now I'm thinking back to a funny youtube edit (by Izumi ch I think?) where Godzilla cuts a nuke in half with a giant katana.

Didn't Pineapple say not every attack is parryable

​@@timpeterson175 Unironically yes, the dev even shared a video of parrying gravity

Got sunburn? Should've parried the sunlight. Skill Issue.

Reminiscient of the Metal Gear Excelsus boss QTE.

this game is very much inspired by Nier Automata

@@zix7988 Nier's combat is pretty similar to Rising as well, and the combat was developed by Platinum. The world and everything else definitely look heavily Nier inspired.

why does it remind me so much of Bollywood action heroes

Rygar, PS2.

Dude when the parry caught the spear and threw it back. That's genuinely so cool.

@@killer12480also NES :)

If only the developer could spare time to polish the mechanics and animations instead of making long levels.

Yeah, i felt bad for that one. Hope they keep making stuff

totally. it seems like they don't know how to make games yet but they know how they *should* make games, ...if that makes sense

@@aurens. a lot of talent but unrefined

it is a case of a dev that just keeps adding new cool shit they like but not spending enough time refining things that need to tuned up, guaranteed@@aurens.

Reminded me of a lot of mid 2000s PS2 action games. Like a time capsule transported to today.

The designs are very 2010s and it even starts in 4:3 ratio I think.

Dude I instantly felt like I was watching Draken: The ancient gates almost again, that clang noise was so old school

What are you talking about ? Jank ? Don't you know that every PS2 game was great ? That was back in the day when video games were good, weren't political, weren't rushed, broken or unfinished and had no microtransactions. It was the golden age ! Modern games are trash, there's no good modern games. Have fun with your modern 'non jank' games like Redfall or Rise of Kong !

​@@Gatorade69Haha good one, that's a really funny parody of insufferable nostalgia addicted gamers. It was a parody, right?

@Gatorade69 They were still figuring stuff out and experimenting a lot.

You are not alone.

Same :D

yeah it looked like it had a ton of potential there, hope the dev/devs take their experience from this game and make something with all the cool stuff this games does but with less jank and better enemy balancing

Honestly it seems like they went for scale instead of polish, and while I can respect the effort, I feel like it's the wrong choice for a tiny indie team. always tightly designed smaller games over sprawling buggy messes

a love letter to immersive sims

Gonna be honest, I probably would have found Fly Knight to be incredibly slow and tedious. I don't mind slower games, but Fly Knight was looking like the main character was practically crawling. Don't get me wrong, it's impressive as heck for a 2 week game jam, but I would not enjoy playing it at all. Sorceress on the other hand is sick af, I can def get behind that.

​@@webbowser8834i personally loved how slow it was. Really slow and deliberate, you have to comit to each attack and the game becomes much more about positioning since even if you know the enemy has long punish windows, your movement isnt fast enough to just stay out of range. I understand why some might not like it, but personally i love how tactical it makes games feel instead of just being twitch reflex testers

@@bye1551 I often times feel the same way. Hollow Knight is among my favorite action games of all time, and it is by no means a fast paced game. This crosses the line as "too slow" for me, but there's obviously effort put into the game and I'm glad it found an audience.

Triple a games are just as good. Spend a little more time looking for them instead of assuming every major game is fortnite or diablo. Explore, there is plenty to love about triple a games including the depths that some go. People always neglect the fact that indie games have just as many shitty, cash grabby, scammy games as triple a.

same here, I tried it and it’s cool!

misread this as a demo of an Italian Soda based on chess pieces and I was like “damn somebody is cooking in a way I can’t even comprehend”

I thought "Itch of an Italian" was the name of the Souls like.

@@alexgac1801 obviously someone must now merge our two mistaken ideas together into the perfect video game, make millions, and then give us half

The dev himself said it's a Sekiro like not Souls like.

Merry christmas and thanks for the positive vibes.

Merry Christmas, bud.

Actually true one of the best series on youtube and its fun to watch. Also Iron is good at games and his feedback is top notch. Merry Christmas m8.

Merry Christmas! Wish you the best, Brother 🤗🤗🤗

Steam has a search function, I easily added a few games from this video to my Wishlist just by using the search function.

Agreed, I went to the description expecting to find the links :(

to be fair the names of the projects are there

You can like… go backwards in the video and type into Steam. Try that emergent gameplay.

Takes like 4 seconds to look up the game on steam, dude...

Also gives me some BLAME! feelings even if you're outside too!

@@BlacklandsI was looking for this comment, have always wanted a game that with a BLAME! Kind of vibe, any other recommendations welcome

@@_hegs_ Signalis and Echo have some BLAME! vibes and flavour :)

I was thinking the same thing when it came to risk of rain. But you can definitely see where they took inspiration and added a bit of a twist to it.

​@@_hegs_ NaissanceE is the quintessential Tsutomu Nihei game

I ended up using mouse and keyboard, and was much much happier that way.