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Honestly, they just jelly they couldn't pull-off high sock like Enki does, or the big... guns guard have.

I still remember a quote from a movie that really stuck with me when playing this game. "YOU MISSED? HOW COULD YOU MISS? HE WAS THREE FEET IN FRONT OF YOU!!"

The guys complaining about the hounds are probably the same guys who would die in DnD on their first encounter because the DM made the match specifically to illustrate that you both can and should run from fights sometimes and they couldn't take the hint

Scrubs will be scrubs, has been the same since ancient times. I love this game even if my first run literally ended after entering after fighting off the dogs, finding a necronomicon on the very first bookshelf and going insane on the coin flip.

funger is actually really similar to rain world, it’s an extremely hostile environment with very fragile characters and very obtuse tools, the main difference is that rain world isn’t quite as dependent on rng for resource distribution as it is map size to spread tools apart one of the really big similarities tho is that cuz it doesn’t tell you much on the meta layer, you have to infer and infer fast, or just die to various shit you meet along the way

Thank you,the mouse cursor screwed me over with the mother boss fight for my first attempt at her. LOL

Oh god the targetting bug, bro actually just sent be back a few weeks to when I didn't know to move the mouse

I've spent thoudands of hours in Ancient Domain of Mystery, where for example your 10hours OP character will get instakilled at some point if you don't have Death Ray resistance... I think the biggest problem is that those people see F&H as a JRPG, while it makes more sense to see it as a survival horror game; if you fight something you could have avoided you were wrong in the first place. Also RNGesus takes as much as he gives; sometime you'll miss a guard's arm 5 times in a row, some other times the girl is gonna headshot the Crowmauler first try

6:30, there's a point with the popularity these games have, dark souls isn't really that hard, but the expectation people have through the popularity of these games is "I'm not doing something wrong, it's just that I have to do this insane shit"

It's almost like... you are supposed to use your brain to.... get this... figure things out??

Been playing this game for a week now and i just discovered there was a fullscreen? Thanks man also now i know there is a game reset because i fat fingered the key beside it

"I was playing on the easiest setting". Yeah just because that setting is the easiest out of the possible options doesnt mean it is ACTUALLY easy 😅 and ppl saying theyve played hard games like dark souls, like okay, but that is an entirely different game??? Some of these are hilarious, half of these reviews could of been prevented if they watched a couple videos on the game to see if it is for them or not 😅

These people are just mentally impaired, a friend came over and i showed him the game the other day. Besides guiding him on the very basics i let him figure out the rest, and he loves the game and has never once said that its "bad game design" or cried that its unfair lmao

For the first review: Very nice review from a personal perspective but it really always gets to me. A 6 out of 10 is now a negative review. We have all been spoiled so much, I feel.

No way i just know that fear & hunger have full screen mode ( i been playing for 20 hours)

Reviewing the bad reviews, analyzing them and explain the game at the same time. Grazie di esistere!

To be fair, I finish Termina 4 times and I didn’t know how to put the game in full screen until now….

Generally I think the fairest criticisms of this game are: 1. The game is buggy to hell and back 2. The character abilities aren't that well balanced with some characters being downright better than others 3. Some items are geniuently useless due to absolutely bizarre and esoteric game mechanics and afformentioned bugs 4. The weird FPS drops in Ma'habre (how the fuck is it possible for FPS to drop in an RPG maker game?) 5. The coin flip mechanic for loot is geniuently a really stupid mechanic that doesn't make the gameplay experience better.

Yo fra black souls dove lo scarico?

So...basically, you are telling me that I had to reset SO MANY TIMES bc I could not attack to the parts I wanted, BECAUSE OF MY MOUSE? GOD DAMMIT

Bro why in your intro you have given the girl to Pocketcat? 😢

"Your mouse cursor can target limbs." Congratulations Frapollo, you may have just enlightened all the speedrunners to new tech. XD

There are some valid complaints here. I love it when the conclusion to a review of a game that doesn't suit someone is, "not for me" rather than "bad gaem". I mean, I bounced off of this game quite hard, just because I discovered it at a time when I was busy with IRL stuff. I still think that this is a pretty good game, I just don't have the time to dedicate to learning it...anyway, some of the arguments in those reviews are quite funny. I dunno about the one with keybindings. From what I remember, I thought that everything related to controls was pretty standard for rpgmaker-style games. Though, I do have to admit, I do love seeing mah boy Squee represented in the review(don't mind me, this is a Magic The Gathering reference).

After playing Fear and Hunger for a while, you'll discover that the true horrors that lurks inside the dungeon is the frame drops because my god the frame drops caused me much more stress than dealing with crow mauler or what not because as sooner or later, you'll get the hang of dealing with them. The frame rate though? Nope, you can only try to press everything hoping your character don't done goof cause of the lag.

I love the way you pronounce "two" As a Brazilian i'm also a member of the "tchoo" gang

Kudos to you for making the game better Edit: also the dude not trying anything other than fighting the dogs is not the kind of dude who this game is made for. If you don't have the mindset/imagination this kind of game takes you are going to have a horrible time.

Some people are not open minded enough for this game. They see it's an RPG game, they'll think the difficult stuff is enemies with powerful skills and ton of hp. Fear & Hunger is not interested in that, it does not want you to fight every fight, it does not want you to explore every area, it does not want you to think you are in for another generic RPG game. One part of the difficulty comes in with the dilemmas you'll have to go through, but some people simply don't understand that. Keep it up 🙌

I love how perfect guards are in design gameplay wise. I love how fucked it is that guards still atrack after dying, showing that one must always be careful even if op.

I went into the game completely blind and immediately got that there wasn't a point in fighting the dogs at the start, like assumed the barking was a warning meant to force the player into the dungeon as soon as possible. Idk why someone would think otherwise

Reviewing fear and hunger when you’ve played less than an hour is just kinda sad. It took me a good hour or so to start having fun with it but now it’s my favorite game ever. Those guys are missing out

"i hate fronger because there are a lot of sausages" -69/10

Fear & Hunger is the definition of an acquired tasted. The pure black coffee of video games. It's painful, unforgiving, and cruel to your senses. But, after a few sips and attempts, can't get enough of them.

Hi Frapollo, I would enjoy seeing some Termina streams, I think seeing people discover new things is the best for this type of game especially, and Termina has lots of hidden little things like the first game.

Give the Casuals a break, they cant cope xD Edit: i dont really see the "This game is hard" as a valid opinion, the tags literally says (Difficult) and (Roguelike). if the player didn't see this one coming, then they probably really need to GitGud.

This honestly feels more like a survival puzzle game than a standard RPG. That's the mindset I have with it and it's made the game a lot more enjoyable.

Glad to see part 2

Based on my experience, Fear and Hunger(at least Termina) can be usually beaten on the normal difficulity even with garbage rng. Rng only becomes a problem on the Maso mode/hard mode, in Maso mode a single miss can ruin your entire run, as example: i got something really good from a chest, then i attacked a sickle villager, i missed his arm, he attacked me, then placed a bear trap, forcing me to guard, stabs and slams me and now i have almost died to the WEAKEST mob in the game, being left with ONLY 25 hp and an infection. Or more commonly, me using mischief of rats only for it to not stun or for the enemy to straight up ignore the fact they are stunned, or ignoring the fact that i was guarding and either dealing the same damage(Karin) or dealing MORE(Caligura). Not to mention that i once got softlocked in Maso mode because Caligura's corpse fell on me and i couldn't move, and if i didn't get lucky with the GoFaH skin bible and saved earlier, i would have had to restart my entire run because the game said "no, fuck you". And then there is yet another run that was ruined because a random Half-cocooned mallet guy that decided to spawn at the orphanage and then killed me, i could go on and on about how rng and bugs ruined my runs but then the comment would be too long. It doesn't help either that enemies destroy half your hp bar in 1 turn with the best gear. So basically, if you know what you are doing - you will usually succeed, just not in Maso mode.

I read some of these reviews myself, it's entertaining af. Hope for more 😂

I'm dead ass not believing that guy who said he played DD and DS titles actually did it lmao, part of the learning on those games is adapting, having patience, and of course, being stubborn enough to play said games an unholy amount of time... stinky poo poo

I risk having an epileptic attack every time someone uses the fact that he played """"hard games like dark souls"""" to describe himself as a good gamer... dark souls is a game and as such it is designed to have you learn how to beat it, and it works that way perfectly. If you completed it you're not a badass player you're a person that has the patience of playing it a bit more, it is sad that there are people not able to play a game in which you can't win every battle not cool that someone can...

Mfs really do compare every hard game to Dark Souls

5:18 "Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is?"

Some coments make me want to send a get gud scrub letter to their mail Also after searching the music you put at the beginning of the stream called battle of the wonderland i started playing black souls and liked the game so far, also the enemy desing is very cool and the boss battle music slaps

0:10 Dear God i love the intro you made for your fear and hunger videos, that music is so familiar were is it from?

Oh I never knew about that mouse cursor thing for selecting enemy body parts. I thought it was just a bug.

Wow, I tought the "not being able to select different body parts" was a feature of fighting without a torch on- or because my character was hurt... wow... Game became easier now.

One thing I don’t understand is why make a negative review when you’re admitting that it’s not the game but it’s not your cup of tea???

the unfairness of the game is a feature imo. it just lends a hand to the storytelling - the dungeons of Fear and Hunger are not a place where fairness or morality get any oxygen. That’s the point, it’s meant to be suffocatingly depraved. There’s no facade of righteousness or of player omnipotence, which affects the way you make decisions, which affects the way you receive the story, etc. Even w all of Frappolo’s guidance, you have to actually wrestle with this game to the bitter end and i love it so much for that

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Here’s the complaint I have about fear and hunger I played fear and hunger and fear and hunger Termina The first game has too many enemies that chop off limbs considering how hard it is to get your limbs back I like that in fear and hunger Termina you can write the rule of Silvin on a ritual circle to get your limbs back that mechanic should be in fear and hunger one it would make the game feel a lot more fair but I liked both games

I think poeple are just mad that they can't just button mash the shit out of this game or kill everything they can find. People are used to getting rewards for fights, but fear and hunger choses to do something different and it forces you to change your aproach and to think is it worth to fight or not. I personally like it, but it might be just the thing that is offputing to some people

I think a good part of unluck (like coinflips) at games is the relief you get when you overcome and win in spite of them.

2:45 ok, After more than 100 hours between fear and hunger 1 and termina I just have realised you can fullscrean the game

Honestly after playing darkest dungeon for a long time I'd say that game is much more unfair than Fear and Hunger since Fear and Hunger has some certainties you can rely on when you have bad luck while Darkest Dungeon is pretty much entirely made up of RNG

I hope you enjoy doing this series enough to keep it going for a while. I assumed the last one was a one-off, but I was happy to see another one of these! I've enjoyed your Funger videos a lot since I finally decided to give the game a try years after I initially didn't think it would be for me, and your videos have been very helpful for tips. Please keep up the great work!

i believe most of these reviews are probably caused due to people being accostomed to games were actions you must take are usually obvious and there is a rare need to think of different approaches or analization. though i could be wrong

To be fair, the game doesnt tell u ANYTHING. Without watching guides or reading the wiki at some points its pretty hard to get started. But once u know the basic, its actually pretty easy. 30 minutes to legarde is super doable while taking almost no fights. Personally, I do think the game should give out more hints at least, because the learning curve is incredibly steep otherwise. I enjoyed the game after watching a video essay on it so i know the basics and was able to explore the rest, but for someone who just picked it off the shelf unaware, they might just think its bad game design.

There's to main things I don't like about Fear and Hunger The bugs And gatekeeping lore behind a gacha system despite it being one of the main things in the game 😭 Other than that I love Fear and Hunger

There could be a lot of different complaints like how obscure the fighting mechanics, enemy patterns, how the guard works and how it evades the one shot coinflip. The coinflip itself could be a topic of discussion since one guy had a good point that this game is so luck reliant that you can’t win without being lucky and how the game shows you the coin mechanic to make you think you did the difference there. I know the game well enough to see the patterns and beat it without relying on luck too much but without that knowledge, the whole game seems to be random as the coin flips, one shot attacks, misses and many others Like with the hounds it will be obvious at some point that you just need to hide, a one or two attempts, nothing too out of proportion but with the guard. One thing you can always certainly know is that cleaver can chop your arm off, however, how many attempts will it take for you to see the pattern of one shot attack? How many attempts it would take for you to see how to evade it? And I’m not even talking about trial and error, I mean even if you won but just because the coin flip was in your favour, will you think there was a pattern? I mean he had a dick with random chance of hitting you really hard, he had a coinflip attack why wouldn’t it be random? The problem with the game is that it doesn’t really show you that it has patterns and doesn’t give you ways of noticing these. There is so much randomness that every pattern seems like a random thing. I’m not saying it needs handholding, it just needs to make it a bit more obvious to find out like with sharp things cutting your limbs or importance of always moving

wwoooooooow I didnt know about the mouse aiming parts of the body, It happened to me a few times during fights that I got stuck to one part of the body, but I thought it was part of the fight and I didn't understand that "mechanic" haha.

Oh my god, I legitimately believed you just couldn't select certain body parts in certain specific turns this entire time.

I wonder if you bug fixed the frame rate problem cause i wanna use your mod if so

YOU KILLED MOONLESS?! YOU HORRIBLE PERSON!😭😭

I don't know if I should be laughing or crying while looking at some reviews you've shown. Anyways, good vid as always, Frap. Congrats on 21k!

I'm not fan of super hard, unforgiving games like this tbh, but I'm interested on getting it and the sequel just so I can see the story, which I've been hooked on, by myself (wish there was a casual where you get to experience the story and not be worried of losing all your progress because of some mistake), I'll probably be using mods since I really don't like doing things over and over and it'd be nice to manually save anytime.

Well yeh the game is hard but the more you play it the more you understand the mechanics of the game but still there will always be the chance of missing an attack and that is just unlucky. Ps : learn to play + get good

Thank you so much, I was having that problem with not being able to select limbs properly and just figured that it was something screwy with how my pc ran the game but now I should be golden with that mouse cursor tip. thank you.

The fullscreen thing could have to do with the graphics drivers needing an update

The mouse cursor bug was fucking annoying, when i found out on my own i felt dumb

11:29 The final sentence in this review is referring to Fear & Hunger on a coneptual level, Fear & Hunger could easily go beyond being a video game and has a lot of potential in other forms of media, the only thing it needs is decent adaptations instead of the usual messy adaptations we get.

You know, these videos make me feel better. At least when I suck at a game, I go to look up if there's something I'm missing instead of assuming I'm god's gift to the steam review page and posting a rant that only really shows how I got noob-baited.

Good point about the dogs, couldn't have said it better there's alot of subtle messages the game is trying to get across, but not by outright telling you to do something. Does everything have to be spelled out on the screen in big letters for them? To hold their hand through the darkness? What fun would that be? It would ruin the replay value in the beginning of the game, it feels fresh every game the way it is.

To be fair, all of the years of gaming have taught me (and probably not only me) that going for the head is always the best decision. You damage head of your enemy - he is defeated. Also head usually gets more damage because it's... well... a head. So it's only natural to assume that in FnH you have to only go for the head of every enemy. Unfortunately, this game is not your typical RPG, and every fight is a puzzle rather than a DPS/HPS check.

Oh btw 'squee' is an onomatopoeia that would kinda be like "yippee!" It basically means you're fawning over something. Hope that helps!

If you treat this game like a typical rpg, you’re gonna have a very bad time. This game isn’t like those jrpgs. You have to learn to be creative and embrace trial and error. Every time you get a gameover, sure its frustrating. But at least you learn from it… usually at least 😅 For example when I tried saving on the same floor as that torturer guy and I failed the coin toss, he came by and tortured mercenary to death. So when I returned to that point of my run I killed that torturer bastard mainly to get my revenge. But also so that he would no longer be an obstacle. I think if you have enough patience and give the game a chance you will improve over time and the improvement can feel very rewarding. But I understand that it isn’t for everyone. At least the bad reviews about bugs and technical issues seemed pretty fair. I have been having issues with selecting body parts on enemies as well.

he attack every mob heads except maneba in which case he tried to run

1:14 "fear & dunger"

Reading "reviews" like these always reminds me of darkest dungeon. "Too much RNG", "hard for the sake of hard", "bullshit everywhere" GIT GUD scrubs. Il tuo accento è meraviglioso comunque.

Honestly after watching a bunch of VOD's and guides you make for the game, its like downloading cheat codes into my brain (but they don't always work). And that what I love about the game, you can know almost all the mechanics in the game and the game can still crap in your oatmeal.

At least one of them admit it's not their cup of tea. But it still kinda dumb nonetheless.

another Fear and Dunger video 👍

Imagine someone leaving a bad review because they can't defeat Gro Goroth. Nono, it's aways the dogs... i wonder why...

All reviews in nutshell: THIS GAME IS HILARIOUSLY HARD AND UNFAIR! SQUEEE!

11:30 I watch people play games like this because I'm not a fan of turn-based mechanics but I often like the stories these RPGs have to offer... And this also applies to horror games, I'm a coward so I'll much rather laugh at someone else getting scared (and only get a little bit of second hand scared instead of trying to play it myself where I would likely just stop at some point) :P

jokes on you, My hobby is watching game playthrought and never play the actual game... except for black souls and school of lust

Bro, most of those guys have so little survival instincts and common sense wtf. How do you die 5 times in a row against the fucking dogs and still think is a combat tutorial😭

Honestly itsn ot like there isn't a fix for this funger was designed in one day but if u dont like that way u can just get a mod that gives u free enlightenment books gg no more stress of failed rng you'll be right back there within a minute maximum

I think my only complain is that lore wise at least Darce and Garangararg should fight better and not lose limbs, dudes have been in many battles against seasoned soldiers, how did they never lose any limb if they are so bad!

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The mouse one about selecting torso was a game changer oh my thank you!!

The biggest problem of this game for me, which makes me orefer Termina even if i find it harder (even on easier difficulty!) is how prone to crashing it is. I don't know if it's just because it runs badly on Linux (i play on steam deck) or it just Does That Because, but i have given up on doing hard mode legitimately (only completed them thabks to funny glitches and exploits) because the idea of losing hours of playing because of a random crash is legitimately the only thing that scares me in this horror game.

also the guy thinking the beginning was a tutorial like....wh...............whhhaAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTT!?????

"Why would you be interested if you dont even want to play the game?" Hi. Im someone with no means or even desire to play this (my patience is awful enough as is) yet it fascinates me. I just like hearing people talk about it. Both games. We exist. As a minority but still. lol

I want more termina stuff tooo please

I have a complaint! Play time: About 2 months. Complaint: I never knew you could use Necromancy on Alll-Mer. That's...quite disturbing. Review: Doesn't give me a rise.

I think people don't want to run from fights because we are subconsciously programmed that running is shameful. Also in a lot of RPGs it makes sense to kill everything because every enemy gives you exp whereas you don't level up like that in F&H

I hate it when people call stuff that's different bad. Fear & Hunger isn't unfair, it's just a different kind of game. People back then also hated Demon Souls for being different because it wasn't like the other "spam combos to win" games. And then Dark Souls came out and people finally realized that it's an incredible game formula. It's the same with Fear & Hunger. People call it unfair because it actually uses the RPG formula to it's fullest potential. The items matter, the story matters, the movement matters, the combat matters, the strategising matters.. All these things matter because that's what makes an RPG an RPG, and other RPGs aren't using all of these at once. Most of them focus on just one or two. Demon Souls is the same. Other action games were focused on one or two between attacking, dodging, blocking, character building and traversal, but Demon Souls did it all, just like Fear & Hunger and it created a cohesive experience where nothing feels like it was placed in the world for no reason for both Funger and Demon Souls. History is repeating itself and if it keeps repeating itself then soon enough people will stop saying "nuh-huh, too much thinking required. too unfair" and will start actually playing the game and realizing that it's masterfully designed, just like how they did when Dark Souls came out.

I disagree with this game looking bad, i find this style of graphics very beautiful, especially on termina

I don't want to assume or judge much but I feel like people give up too easy, way too easy, even if it's the thing you don't like, don't people feel like "no matter what happen I will never give up" I have played dead by daylight as a killer and got bullied so many many time, I've played dark souls 1-2-3 and Elden ring and die more than hundred of times and other games.(+f&h1/2) People may say that, they don't want to waste their time on games but I feel like this is not about improving your skill in the game only anymore but your mental toughness aswell, to become unstoppable and never give up. (my friend always hate me when we play online game together and we are on the losing side and I refuse to surrender, even we lose at the end, I know that I try the best of my power to win) Nonetheless I understand the bad reviews that maybe they truly think that this game got a bad design because they don't know what hidden in this dungeon, to be honest when I first play f&h I don't even know that it has this much content... This game didn't reveal much anyway(too much would make things less interesting and too less would make some people don't want to waste/risk their time) I understand it could be frustrated so I hope they can find the gem that hidden in this game and can truly enjoy this game...

Oh holy cow! I didn't even know you could use the mouse lol. I'm so used to playing RPG Maker games with keyboard only I really didn't even think to use my mouse XD