The irrevocable disintegration of a society, a city's degeneration into feral savagery, the triumph of evil, and the extinguishing of hope: successfully captured in one song, one area, and its cinematic introduction. This game fills me with dread and anxiety as Lisa the First did and, when you pick fights against the endless hordes of fanatics, the odds are stacked against you and you are very likely ill-equipped to take them all on so I suppose this game would truly count as a survival-horror.
@@InternetDrone They're pretty dumb though. Honestly you'd technically be able to defeat all the members of the Infinity crowd but of course plot must happen so they jumped off to make Joel break his beautiful bones which won't heal over time like actual bones but can be instantly repaired using a shitty ass civillian-grade first aid kit which would better be used on later when Alex gets stabbed 6 times with a special knife unlike all the other ones you got stabbed with over the course of the game which can make the victim bleed endlessly so that Alex can stop bleeding endlessly and will be able to be useful again
@@brasilballs But Alex isn't as munch of a superhuman as Brad or Rodriguez and his gang are. Even fighting a single member can be difficult in pointless, so litteraly all of them at once? I really don't think that Alex would be able to power trough all of that at once, and alone since Joel can barely fight back.
Entering downtown and seeing only a couple of weak jerseyheads, while everyone else is pretty much normal, and then progressing further and further to find more jerseyheads, some of them being NPCs I've already met, and some of them being incredibly tough, makes me realize that Olathe's inevitable fate will be the Franchise taking over _everyone._
I love this version of Land even more than Arnold’s variant, especially the intro. That violin riff at the beginning sounds exactly like the sort of audio cue you would hear upon realizing that you came to the wrong neighborhood and there’s no way out.
@@nathanielhanlon1083 Me when i'm about to reach arnold for the first time: *God i know this is gonna be a tough fight but atleast i'm all prepared and all stocked up on food with plenty of sp to spare.* Infinity Mobile Crew that i totally forgot about: *Allow us to introduce ourselves*
@@sirsoup9314 im just angry how people sometimes just can’t fucking decide if its a demo or not, i mean this is chapter 1 of 3, i don’t think it counts as a demo, what counts as a demo!
It's so sinister to imagine when you first enter you just see the silhouette of hundreds, likely thousands of people just mercilessly killing one another at random, not for any particular reason, nor overall purpose. Truly the franchise is possibly the best conceived "Gangs" in the LISA mythos.
In real one of the shadows make me think a little bit of Joel or Joel's granddad The one near the guy that says " I become more tender with every fight "
@@yoloman8534 in MU Joel Miller faces Moel Jiller in a battle against eachother The bottle throwing one-shot wonder against the pistolero with a cheap gun and one bottle that can and will kill whatever it hits
Not me though. I'd prefer wandering over a sea of blood and angery peples than wandering over a sea of trash. Don't want to get dysentery from that filthy place, and I'm sure Alex agrees very much
I'm pretty sure something through the course of the game implies the Franchise, or at least some of the Infinity Jerseys, had left for Garbage Island. You wouldn't have been too better off.
This area is my favorite part of pointless, I love the atmosphere seeing the masses getting into a murder death rave just being in the background. How easy you get jumped and even if people are not in fighting shape or experienced at all, and even kill the person you are fighting. Just to get their folds completed.
Funny thing, the only Joy pills in the game come from the one joy mutant, the one on the hill way above Downtown Olathe and the dealer in House Dust before the Downtown section. Not once do you find drugs on these crazy ass blood-ripping, stab-happy people. They're all sober. And you find a bunch of sane people before this who end up joining the madness too. There isn't a single explanation for any of this, and the main drug that caused all the conflict isn't involved. Hell your own guy starts hallucinating for no real reason. The gang has no leader or power behind it. That's what makes it so unnerving, the effect is clear but the cause is missing. The only thing you have to go on is a bunch of red and green jerseys, that you can't equip, have no value and are not acknowledged.
@@theequalizer694 Nah, after all we still have Lester which seems to have been there for quite some time already, not only that but he also seems to hate the Franchise
@@brasilballs it's clear that individuals like Lester and most of the Central Powers have strong enough wills to resist the franchise. I wonder what it is that makes some men vulnerable and other men immune...
isn't it ironic how folds are just like levels in any other game? people like ross and Tido do it for just the thrive of it and for being powerful, it feels good, it makes their blood pump it's like the player has been a member before they even knew about it, Alex and Joel themselves can gain folds if they want to not even us behind the screens are safe of the jersey nowhere to go.... but infinity
Pretty sure that's an actual theme in the game - the only supernatural Infinity entity you meet is even called Daniel Grind, as in grinding (levels in any RPG).
That explains why people with higher folds have certain "powers" they're literally leveling up and unlocking skills... i feel so stupid for not realizing before
@@juanignaciomora5746 Beat the shit outta yourself = get some cool lazers Stick your peepee in a dead rat and get kicked out from the choir boys = double fire hands and the ability to steal men's souls Generally beat the shite out of anything in your way including horribly mutated abominations = Split into a three-headed monster yourself Hold two posters and get a fat man to hit you with a bat = *Unlimited p o w e r*
I've yet to hear a song in a game to fill me with the vibe of complete dread, suppression and unease, hopefully Monster Update will further this feeling ingame.
I kinda miss my first reaction to finding out what the franchise was all about... strangement. The world is rotting, humanity is giving its last breath... and, people just, start frantically murdering each other without any kind of hold back or remorse? Without any reason? It was horrible, I was so fascinated because it simply seemed like the most utterly irrational course of action possible in their situation, like throwing rocks to a dying fire. I miss that lack of understanding, that rejection. It made it feel ominous, tragic. Now? It just, kinda clicked with me. Now it just seems like... acceptance. Perhaps, even more. Some distorted, twisted nirvana born from the remnants of a broken civilization. It's gross, it's inhumane. But what else is there? What else does Olathe have to offer? Death, sorrow. Trash, violence. If anything, the franchise just seems to me like a reflection of that, the loss of all individuality, of hope, of mercy, of love. Of humanity. Because either way, one day every single one will be forced to face infinity. And there is no feeling more desolate than that.
Achieving godhood through pointless violence. Is it a subjective concept? Or one that we are physically unable to comprehend? It may be an empty promise, but as Joel memtioned in the house of dust, the apocalypse opened the door for countless opportunities for countless people. Most members aren't truly in it for unfathomable power, it's more to vent their frustrations, as pointless as it may be.
Digital Toaster Just the idea of a gang that rules over a land where everone is pretty much insane is scary. They kill each other. There is little to no leadership. They are impossible to reason with.
That's probably because of just how much more "fresh" LISA's world is to the devastation. It's only been a few years with civilizations being only that of hamlets, loose outposts and stuff like randos army. Though, even that's gone.
i wish we will get to see the "blanked out" franchise members, honestly. considering how this whole franchise thing works, it could be that they have ascended to a fold of infinity high enough to make them in someway transcendent or whatnot
Apparently in the wiki it says those blanked out guys are the reflection of souls of high-ranked folders. I don't know what does "high-ranked" fit into though. It could very well be around where Arnold was and it could also be a lot further in, we don't know.
@@nathanielhanlon1083 i used to think that too, but the city is actually not the franchise and belongs to a RELATIVELY organized society, but theres two main gangs, the extreme prejudice society, and neon flamingos, and they both hate the franchise. the extreme prejudice socitey actually is like a law enforcement and they destroy any franchise influence immediately and burn all the jersy's
@@brasilballs actually, Infinity shadows are actually shadows of new franchise members flowing into yhe city in the background. If you kill thousands of franchisers, there's still gonna be more.
This is the best song in the whole game. On an atmospheric element, it captures downtown Olathe in its entirety: a corrupt, bloodlust land with no harmony or peace in sight. Oh wait. That’s -America- Detroit.
I've never understood what the silhouettes are for in the background? Are they there to indicate that these people were there and that they're busy fighting? I always thought after killing enough people that the silhouette people would start appearing, but I was wrong.
For as long as I live within these lands, I hope to never see this much red ever again. Nothing is truly Infinite, no matter what sort of magics these freaks have under and on their belts. You've met that weird man in that bloody lake place, I'm sure? He tried to tempt me to join them. He had a really good deal, too. But what would you rather have... infinite power but no control over it, or full control of yourself no matter what happens? Yeah, that's what I thought. Hey Lester, get these two one of those Special Blends, on me! They've deserved it!
They're sprites placed to represent the "infinite masses" of jerseyheads. It's a simpler way to give a bunch of unimportant jerseyheads sprites without having to fully detail them/
I can honestly believe that people who get to a high enough fold end up appearing after death as shades, other Jerseyheads/murderers the only ones who can see them. Just headcanon tho :V
@@mihajlomarjanovic3435 Oh I see. Then perhaps you might find something you like from this playlist - open.spotify.com/playlist/7xX39dxkBMhN0nJ2KFafuF It's got tracks on music like "Instrumental Dark Folk"/"Neo Folk""/"Pagan Folk".
