Haha, you're welcome! It's a fantastic game. Glad to do my part helping spread highlight of the importance of PYLON safety. They're the number 3 cause of death in my local town (just behind littering and smoking at gas stations) They really are a menace! :)
Also, thank you for reminding me of how underground cables are well worth the extra expense to install and maintain. It's utterly appalling that in our advanced society, we still allow PYLONS and other exposed electrical infrastructure to exist. We might as well be using lead pipes!
0:10 The pylons are pretty much normal, although somewhat menacing 3:25 The pylons have moved closer to the proximity of the house 7:15 A third pylon comes from somewhere, and they are now surrounding the house
I had an irrational fear of sentient pylons as a kid. Walking around and whatnot. Although this is well beyond anything I imagined. Pretty original and creative!
Just a heads-up. RU-vid seems to be deleting perfectly good comments for some reason. Not sure why and they aren't showing up in my spam folder. So if your comment disappears feel free to write it in again. The only comments I ever delete are from the bots that link to spam websites.
@@mmmayocide RU-vid's comment sweepers are AI that are known to accidentally delete comments even if they aren't spam or hate content. This is because AI are unable to fully grasp the nuance of human language and so are given general guidelines as to what is to be considered spam. It isn't because of some secret plot against you. Although if *your* comments are being deleted then it's probably because you're an openly racist trash-person.
i love these ms dos style games! its all the "unintentionally scary graphical limitations used to purposefully scary effect" of the playstation style games but in 2d :) it really lets you focus on the art even moreso than the gameplay. im somebody who plays games like these for the narratives and cutscenes so thats my jam :D
I feel like this game is a reference to the unnecessarily frightening videos a lot of people were traumatised by at school. I don't know how it is in the other countries, but almost everyone in the UK under the age of 35 has horrible memories from Social Education videos on either: - Pylons / Sub-stations - Alcohol - Solvent abuse - Fires - Heroin
@@prisuners6275 My experience was that the videos terrified the wits out of all the kids who were too sensible to do it in the first place (and often made them temporarily phobic of, say, the smell of strong glue or their mum having a glass of wine with dinner) and all the kids who were at risk didn't pay attention or just found it funny.
Kid's logic: I woke up in the middle of the night and can't find my parents, i think i'll go to a creepy forest where people make human sacrifices for pylons.
To this day this game makes me think. *Why* is letting the Pylon Man capture you/failure not an option? Is it that you are meant for the Mettel Mother herself, and the Man & Hermit are unworthy? The newspaper implies the mayor is either oblivious or in on the pylon cult.
When I was a boy a police officer took my class to a local substation where you could see various items like balls and bags strewn around And he asked us who could count them all first, any child that pointed to an object but let their hand go beyond the fence was suddenly scared shitless when he let off a capgun near their ear What I'm trying to say is British people have an instinctive fear of pylons and associated infrastructure that is drilled into them at an early age
We always had a guy from the nearby power company come out to teach us the dangers of electricity and specifically power lines. He even brought a small model with working power lines along with him
I think it's based on surprisingly grim 70's pylon safety PSA's like this one: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KryOYburlFI.html and this one: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uT_wwkCoBL8.html
Dude says "hey, if you see something wrong with a Pylon, tell me immediately!", a bit later, main character sees a bad Pylon, and says "remember to tell an adult if you see a bad pylon!"....then decides to ignore all that advice and go home for some dinner.
really cool, I really like the pylon monster's designs. my only critisism would be theres too much dialogue. I think it would hit the 'unintentionaly scary' vibe more if things were shown instead of told more. Like I feel the Hermit's talk in the cave could have been cut in half or removed, with the frequency scrambler being found instead of given so theres not a moment to rest/not feel alone. Just an idea.
you see a decapitated body, what do you do? a. call the ambulance b. call the police Boy: "oh no, I gotta call the pylon repair man" Biggest *BRUH* Moment
Wait..... That last line at the end is totally a reference right? (20 minutes of not remembering the games name later) Yes it is! System Shock 1's SHODAN has a line almost identical to that one at the end of the video "Thank you, human. You have saved my cyborgs the effort by initiating the destruction of Earths faulty civilization yourself. Please wait where you are and a cortex reaver will be along shortly to escort you to the celebration."
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I find this game really cool, kinda remembers me of siren head in nature. A personal note: Here on Brazil we have this pylons everywhere including inside our cities etc... I don't remember of they making any sounds whatsoever.
seeing the dozens if not hundreds of pylons come barreling over the mountaintop in short pursuit of the Mettle Mother herself was terrifying but also cool asf
@@salvadorelastname9095 yeah but he wasn't infected when he told him the instructions. Or maybe he was the whole time and just pretended to get infected. But if he still kills the boy anyway why didnt he want to kill him when he was right infront of him when he was telling the instructions?
@@buzzlightyearpfp7641 Maybe he was only partly possessed when he gave the scrambler or something. Like it hadn't progressed to full "do as the mettel mother says" yet.
I currently live in the corn states area of the Midwest and where I live it’s mostly wooden poles carrying them and also only go along the road. But then say two or three miles out you begin to see the metal ones stretch on for miles in the grass. Well, they WERE in the grass.
At first I was going to say as much as I dig the style, it felt a little too obvious it was trying to be a "scary game" but now that I think about it, this exact premise would of made a really really cool late 70s or early 80s horror movie. Standard slasher mystery but takes a twist into cosmic horror. Imagine all the late 70s practical effect electrocution gore deaths in the film.
10:36 who will win: kid who has pants pulled down over his shoes or pylon man who walks sideways like a crab. 11:18 hermit: it is dangerous to go alone, take this to defend yourself against the danger Also hermit: *is the danger*
