Most Anxiety-Inducing Horror JRPG 

Read this comment before the video. And oh boy. That's a good first impression.

Got to the actual part of the video, huge probs to the Devs for pretty much mentioning Operation Paperclip as well. Ballsy!

the only mistake on the dragon tank is that if the man genuinely repented he is supposed to have been frogiven, and should not be in yomi anymore.

I don't think you can be forgiven for flaying people alive @@pensador6953

Oh fuck wait a minute

The thing is that transceiver means transmitter + receiver. So it actually should be able to communicate both ways.

I gotta ask, was OSHA a thing in the 70's? Cuz that's when the game takes place.

@@Green-Raccoon777 It was signed into law at the 29th of December, 1970

@@PikaPenny17 Oh, okay then.

@@PikaPenny17 Except we have a problem. OSHA doesn't extend to Japan. They have their own called JNIOSH, and it was formed in the late 40's from what I could find.

I never knew about this now I’m curious…

Yeah, was about to say myself that it seems to be the reference, especially considering all that "sinner" premise and whatnot. I am surprised to see Japanese themselves mention it, though, seeing as you often hear about Japanese people being unaware of all sorts of war crimes that Japan committed in the past.

@@Kougaon Basically a fked up imperial Japanese human experimentation camp that tortured and experimented on POWs in the name of "science". The POWs were raped, blown by granades when naked, fed poisoned food, freezing a baby to see the effects on hypothermia, and a ton of sadistic "experiments" with questionable motives. IIRC there was an interview with a soldier witnessing the scientists raping and torturing POWs for fun. All Imperial Japanese and German concentration camps had POWs survivors, Unit 731 is the ONLY camp with 0 survivors. The most fked up part is that the US gave the scientists immunity and money for their research. Most of these scientists proceed to live long fulling lives in positions of power in academia after the war. Poeple also suspect that the US government refusal to make the unit 731 research public is that those research papers were just glorified torture porn manuals with little to no scientific value, and that the US is embarrassed by the fact that they knowingly let a bunch of psychopaths walk free with a bag of their money.

​@@KaedevirusA lot of Japanese indie horror devs use Unit 731 references for insane scientists. Where in the West it's mad Nazis, in Japan it's insane Imperials of Unit 731.

@@Kougaon Your in for something disgusting and genuinely horrible. By the time your done reading up on Unit 731 there will be a part of your brain asking if two nukes were enough. It was horrible.

Yes thank you! I actually have to leave that and many other details out unfortunately but thank you for commenting it for others!

The thing that I can’t stop thinning about the radios is how Red Luci had one and was listening to the commands of her “father” and even tried talking to him through it, but her cries fall on deaf ears, same as they do all throughout the game

Fellow doctor o7

Dokutah, okaeri-

I rolled my eyes the moment I heard "Texas" and "Amiya" Because I know in a way, I would've done the same

bruh same, lmao

Based strange for playing Strange Journey o7

strange journey patricians unite

I think Atlus will get back to that. For right now though, they're riding that Persona 5 success train. But I highly doubt they'll ignore how successful their P3 and SMT: Nocturne remakes have been. P3 is where they started deviating from the older Megaten games, but still held closer to the same themes on a different formula. Nocturne however is more of a graphical upgrade of the same old theme. SMT V was criticized for moving away from the formula, and rightly so despite it actually being a pretty good game in it's own right, just not so much as an SMT game. And then there's Soul Hackers 2... Their big mistake of trying to adopt what works for Persona into something thematically very different. That's the reason I think they'll go back a bit to their roots and give us some more dark RPGs again like the old Megaten games, it's just likely going to be with the upgraded visuals.

Oh these people made death mark and spirit hunter too? No wonder I thought the artstyle was familiar

i think you are going to keep waiting.@@Orphim

​@@takimi_nada was just thinking the same thing lol. the way the boss sprites are positioned on the screen as well as the textbox Really screamed spirit hunter

I mean, you litterally had a school massacre in smt 5

Right right I felt 'horror' was awarded to games that really scared people (Silent Hill, Outlast) but I guess I'm wrong! haha

@@Kougaon I got what you meant but I feel like horror is mood first then gameplay, like Resident Evil and FNAF are both horror games but vastly different. Being on edge is just a different way, some would say genuine, to scare people. Spooky's House of Jumpscares really points out the problem with jumpscares when a cartoon blob can startle you just as hard as any other horror game in existence.

@@KougaonRE:5 despite being a walking shitpost of a game is still classified as a horror game.

It depends. I don't consider Digital Devil Saga horror and that game opens up by telling you that the only way to survive is to devour your enemy & eat them whole, lol. I guess it's different when you're playing as a demon avatar.

Nothing supernatural about that

I saw! Will give that one a try sometime soon!

You're correct about the developer, Experience Inc., making the spirit hunter series. While I'm not fond of the limited save system the unique death scenes in NG are what really sold me on the game.

i knew it the art looks similiar

Why do you draw animal prn

It reminds me more of fear and hunger

writing these down thank you!

​@Kougaon to add to that, there are references to Experience's older games in Yomi. I recommend SOSC immediately and maybe dabble into Demon's Gaze and Saviours, they're all loosely tied to one another. Also Experience tends to recycle a few tracks in these games, even in their most recent game Mon-Yu, see if you can spot it.

Really hope those games get a switch port, i was a dumbass that didnt get them while on the Vita

Operation Abyss/Babel feels a bit too generic (story wise) and has one of the worst mechanics to exist (permadeath), though when it happens is very situational so if you don't save often of has a doctor with the specific skill/item to fix it before leaving the dungeon, you're screwed. Stranger in Sword City is pretty good though, but I only played the original version.

Someone who gets it and I agree 100%

Yeah I totally get you. It's why I said it's very much a JRPG at it's heart. Fear and Hunger is a whole beast on it's own with it even being banned in a country I believe

@@Kougaon yeah but I mean their NG games had a lot of pretty brutal body horror and shock so I thought they’d follow through on this one seeing as it’s marketed as a horror rpg

@@Scott_Inksmith a lot of people seem to directly equate edgy bullshit and body horror with absolute terror but if I'm being real all of the lame ass over the top body horror and SA that happens in funger isn't scary or thematic or cool. it’s edgy and childish and takes me out of the experience every single time it comes up. it’s legitimately an incredible fantastic experience and then one every once in a while the developer wants to remind you that he’s like an eighth grade school shooter. more games need to take the good parts of fear and hunger, and leave all the creepy edge lord sexual assault limb removal shit in the past because I would love to love that game, but I don’t really want to support a game that use a sexual assault as a punchline and has zero respect for its own subject matter.

@@wearecoterminous I love how you told on your own zero sum undercooked mentality more than anything else with this rant. Damn I guess Berserk is just anti-art then. I'll tell the entire dark souls development team that they took bad inspiration then. Edit: Forgot about alien too.

​@@InvadeNormandyHe is not saying that gore is bad. He is saying that making fucked up stuff just for shock value, when you are more than 13yo, is a cheap trick. Berserk's fucked up stuff works because it has actual meaning, it chills your blood. Fear and Hunger has an incredible atmosphere, but its more extreme stuff is just there to say "look at me, I'm so WILD" and it actually ruins the mood. It's childish and exhibitionist, just that.

:D Glad you enjoyed it!

​@@KougaonI agree 💯 percent, thanks to your video, I found this game. Been playing it for a little bit more than a week and reached the point where we "part ways" with the w******rl and meet a certain radio man. I'm leaving half-censored spoilers here, so please don't read further if you haven't reached that point yet. The plot twist after that has blown me away. This was a highly depressing experience for our MC, wow (and as a healer MC, I was scared like crazy during the solo gameplay part after the cutscenes). This is perfect material for a horror anime imo. I hope this game becomes more popular.

They also have ties to the game Demon Gaze, though it's a little more subdued. It's actually a tradition for villains and the likes named "Luci" (Lucy, Lucifer, Lucifelle, etc) ... and Merlin is-

They may have featured different Earths but the otherworld is definitely the same. The player characters from Stranger of Sword City are from a different Earth than the player characters of this game

Ohh, so that's why the art style felt a bit familiar to me. It's probably the same artist.

@@revaryk6868 It is the same multiverse! There's subtle things too, like the Yomi kept alive with miomechanics. Members of the Medell clan (a vampire like race) suffer horrible disease since Almadell's death and have to be kept alive through machines.

I think it's the same dev for the spirit hunter series.

I hope this video brings them more attention!

Haha I doubt it. SuperEyepatchWolf is leagues better than me at making content entertaining but I appreciate the thought !

​@Kougaon the popularity of fear and hunger started from smaller channels until it hit eyepatchwolf. It took about 3 months

Probably not with this title that nobody will ever find

Who honestly gives a shit jesus

I think he means it just being sent to different eyes. For F&E type games, if hidden enough I personally wouldn't care for the his opinion as much as the gameplay I'm seeing since tastes differ.​@@Kougaon

Thank you thank you ;w;

Ayy glad to hear! It's always nice to hear this game get more love!

wow someone who actually came back, thank you! I hope you've been enjoying the game!

@@Kougaon yeah its pretty solid overall. A couple of things to mention in your vid: Luci is mostly a pushover if you choose to fight her for every encounter like what I did, especially since her power level doesnt scale with your party, she kinda turns into a piniata after some progress - she seems to have a really high chance of dropping a skill boost so its always worth imo. I encountered her first power up when luring her with hajuuji. For a game that is overall on the easy side (imo) buffed luci is easily one of the hardest bosses in the game. Her damage is underwhelming for a boss but shes got a lot of ways to inflict status forcing you to fight slower and has respawning giant jellyfish which dont threaten your team a whole lot but are annoyingly tanky. Her healthpool is totally absurd like I swear its 10k or something ridiculous at that stage of the game and evasion so high your forced to use bradykenises to lower the evasion enough for your party to reliabley hit her over the first few turns of the fight. Its a bit of a dps race too because she heals a whole third of hp every few turns; you also cant go at it too slowly either because she will eventually high roll and land an armor pierce attack which is practically guaranteed to kill a party member with any following hit, and losing any one of your members will mean that you wont out dps your healing as your whole squad gets slowly choked out. Defo one of the few fights in the game which really forces you to hunker down and think - took me nearly an hour to figure out a strat to beat her. Its defo one of those fights where you can tell its beatable if you use brain over stats. You can also trigger another fight with luci if you choose to see her at district 0 first before going to other areas. I didnt know you can actually skip luci's second boss fight if you see her on district 0 last. Its the exact same fight with the only difference being her self heal is 4000. I personally seem to find that fights go by noticeably faster if you swap out the bulwark with comp fighter. Turns out fighter has a ton of defensive bulwark skills and regen that makes him tanky enough to be a front liner for the frontliners. And offense skills like helm split and costly strike means that he can easily output very respectable damage numbers. Am really digging playing the game without that class - i swear other than being an insta kill sponge mostly does nothing other than output poor damage numbers (or worse, not hit anything in the first place) or spam guard moves that may or may not go your way with the rng

@@socialelitist4256 gotcha! Thanks for letting me know! I was just a big baby then haha

I wish you luck with your hello kitty grind o7

Pretty sure it's categorized as a horror jrpg everywhere.

You're welcome :) now get on the dailies

I hope you finish up the game! It does drag but I didn't want to leave anything behind myself haha. Good catch on the names :)

@@Kougaon after watching this up to where i left off, im definitely gunna try finishing it, iirc its like 2 whole dungeons and a retread through an old dungeon? my only problem is i last played it back in march of 2023... comin on a full year since playing it, and im afraid i wont remember the mechanics or how my team works well enough to deal with the hard dungeons haha similar issue im havin with another game like yomi, another dungeon crawler called Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk. GREAT game with a surprising and dark story, and that story made me want to get the true/good ending! problem is to do so u have to fight 6 superbosses and then go through a GRUELING dungeon gauntlet to fight the final boss, and man i just cant deal with the repetition of farming a team to max level. sorry for the ramble lol just love these types of dungeon crawlers and wish it was easier to find more haha

AHH I’m honored you chose to watch my video while you do art 🥺! Thank you and always looking forward to your work 🥺!!

Thanks for the rec’s! I’ll add these to my list and LOL I remembered seeing Mon-Yu and debated on getting that for a video

Koudelka was a goated game. Glad to see others know about it !

oh ok

@@sethimothy oh good to hear! I was fearing I didn’t do it Justice! Congrats on reaching post game!

Thank you :3

Never played so maybe!

No problem! I'm glad others enjoy their game too!

I got many other games planned to talk about :D

@@raenhie :)

I'm glad to find someone else who appreciates it too :,)

I felt the same way I was confused and thought MAYBE there was something else after to prep me? But sadly no... ^^'

I gotta look into more of these types of games

I plan to one day get thru some of their other games but yes! So happy to see other Undernaut fans !

It's a great game I enjoyed the ambience of it so much. Will try Etrian Odyssey one day!