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Just to make things super clear: the opening cinematic quip is a quote from H.P. Lovecraft's "The Festival." It's a direct quote - he wrote "are digged," and it's an artistic liberty to keep it as it was written. The reading goes beyond just the game, Mayo. You have to read... IN REAL LIFE. 😏
Yup! I didn't know the quote at all. Went ahead and clipped that section out. And I do read ;) I just read non fiction. I mainly stick to history, science, etc when I'm reading.
The thing about the fakeout ending is that to me it seems pretty obvious that it's not the end. If it sends you back to the main menu and everything looks different, then that's the sort of signal (haha) that things have changed and you should check them out. Other than that I'm really happy you loved this game and like another commenter said I think the title/thumbnail implies that you disliked more than you did. Survival horror is alive in 2022 and it's goddamn amazing.
This is my 1st fake out ending I've gotten very upset bout, but nevertheless I love this game to death it's something I've never experienced before a dream within a game an ideal
Many games change the menu when you finish them. It happens a lot more than fake endings. In fact I can't even remember games that did this. So I undersrand why people find it to be a problem.
Thanks dawg! Yeah, anything with a lot of fine details messes up YT's compression method. That's why screens of tv static always seem to show crazy bad compression artifacts.
I'm very glad you enjoyed it and that you also got hooked by the story. It was such a great time for me, made me use my brain a lot like no other game had recently.
@@thesquirtof8759 probably budget. the game was made 2 people. It definitely would have been cool, if we got some audio diaries, but I can see why 2-man game studio might not be able to afford to voice stuff.
Somehow, while playing, I knew you would (of course) review this, and I felt like you would talk about the story (even though you usually don't) - it's amazing. I've been thinking about the story for weeks.
Just so yknow, the title and thumbnail imply the game is not good, which is obviously not your opinion. Might wanna change it. Cheers! 18:52 It says digged 'cause that sentence is a direct quote from H. P. Lovecraft's The Festival.
In terms of item management, I think Signalis should’ve borrowed from RE1R a little bit more and have the items that are used for the secondary equip slot not take up inventory, but make the consumables weaker to compensate. I hardly ever used the consumables because of how little space I have for them, and the modules just feel like they should be a permanent upgrade for Elster. The photo module specifically is a neat idea, but if it’s gonna take up space, I’m just gonna use my phone.
Alisa was cool, but a bit rough around the edges. Signalis is a fucking masterpiece. It's like someone played the original PS1 Resident Evil games and understood everything that made these games great all the while being able to create a nice sci-fi variation of this classic RE template. More of this :D
12:45 I know this video has been out for a while so you probably know by now. But the reason for all the health is so that you can get one of the endings in the game which requires you to heal a lot among other things.
I liked Signalis but the little things you mentioned prevent it from being perfect in my eyes. The doors not opening is one of the worst. I took damage several times because of this. I agree 100% with your suggestion about the flashlight as well. Using the inspect option, I kept pushing the button to see if there was something on the object and it only made me exit the menu and select another item. It's a shame it's such a useless feature...
I just finished Silent Hill 1. a few days ago on my PSP and it Quickly became one of my Top 5 favourite games of all time. I really like the classic Resident Evil games but the DREAD in the first Silent Hill is sooo strong and the puzzles are so great I was blown away! Can't wait to play SH 2 but after the first one I have to play more lighthearted games for a week because SH 1 was so hard for me to get through because of it's effective Horror. I had nightmares in 2022 from a game it was made when I was 5 years old. I became a Silent Hill fan. 😊
@@shinbakihanma2749 My friend has a Vita and honestly... In my hands it's not that comfortable because of it has a rounded shape. And I'm not a tech guy and it looks like that the Vita is hard to put custom firmware on it and I don't want to break one because of it. The PSP is waaaay cheaper here in Hungary and it was really easy for me to put custom firmware on it. And I'm not interested to play Dreamcast or higher demanding consoles on the go. The older system's (nes, snes, gba, genesis) are my jam but the PS1 was a welcome surprise for sure.
@@tomlion0116 If you can put custom firmware on a PSP, then you can do it for a PSV. Also, you can buy an inexpensive grip cover for a VITA for a better fit for your hands. Let's not make excuses.
I think it takes aspects of both RE and SH and improves on both of them. The narrative had me engaged throughout my 3 or so playthroughs. One thing it objectively does better is that the tense feeling is never lost while playing the game. RE has voice lines that can ruin the atmosphere and this applies to SH with some of its characters.
if anyone's still confused about the story, there's a great video called "making sense of Signalis: Story, Inspirations.." by Wave Cicada. He did a great job with lots of additional information like "The King in Yellow"
Signalis, oh Signalis.... Great game, classic survival horror with a few flaws here and there but overall still good. The notes are very much needed to understand a bulk of the story but much of it can be cut down. Gotta say though, among all the notes thus far, the ones in the ending were the best. To anyone who is playing the game, I recommend you read them.
yeah, the notes definitely are... a lot. I loved the story, but I wish maybe a few more cutscenes or maybe even more environmental storytelling. it really relies to heavily on notes and diaries. I hope if they make a signalis 2 (god, please, I need more of that world) I hope the cut down the bulk of notes.
About the Fake Ending. I too was also initially mislead by that. However, i didn't choose the Begin option, i selected Quit. because it was late at night and i had to go to work the next day. It still, however, brought me back into the game. i haven't tried the other two, but i would assume the same outcome happens. choosing quit, but having the game put you directly back in would make anyone curious. especially with a different title background. Needless to say i was really tired at work the next day.
I think giving you 7 inventory slots would be a decent compromise. 6 didn’t make the game hard. It just meant a lot more backtracking than was necessary.
For the fake ending, (I could be wrong), but I remember hitting quit because I thought the game was over and it started the game anyway, so I was confused and walked around, noticing the starting ship was different, then it hit me. So I think alot more people are going to figure out the fake ending (thankfully)
Currently playing through this and having a blast. Been so so good to find games inspired by classic survival horror. Cannot tell you how much I’m enjoying this and how much I enjoyed Tormented Souls. Wish Resident Evil would go back to its roots and release a game like this.
Thank you Mayo for this video. Without it maybe I would have not played Signalis and never experienced this gem I definitely needed in these dry and boring gaming times. Thank you!
@@gilgamesh310 yeah I see where your coming from, the reason why I say that is because you can cheese the enemies with running out the door then running back in. It takes me out of the experience.
Thank you for bringing my attention to this game, more people need to play it. Just beat it recently and it is easily one of the best survival horror games I’ve ever played! Appreciate the content Mayo!
dude Mayo...I can't thank you enough for continuing to mention Signalis in other videos after this one. I'm not sure why, but I passed this video up when you released it, but slowly, through hearing about it in your other videos, you got me to buy it. I'm not a survival horror player, but Signalis is singlehandedly making me fall in love with the genre. I just started a second file to see if there was anything I missed on my first time though (I'm in Chapter 3 in my main file), and I noticed the photo in the cockpit is different...I love this game.
Discovered it through your latest stream Mayo, I'm definitely gonna give it a go ! Great video again, you really have a great way to present and introduce games to newcomers and I love that so much !
Signalis is a fantastic survival horror game imo. I absolutely love the game. 🔥 If any game deserves to be talked this about this year it's definitely this one. Thanks for the great review mayo.
I bought a Japanese copy of the game back in, what was it, 1996? Loved the game. Had no clue what was going on due to the language barrier, though. Found out about the mirror castle about a year later. Was a welcome surprise.
The bane of g4merz, reading the equivalent of 20 actual pages over the course of a 12 hour game, how could the developers expect so much of us? In all seriousness, notes aren't that many, at most there should be the equivalent of 20 life sized pages, including dialogue, taking into account it's an isometric game, there really isn't much they could have done with environmental storytelling. Besides, dark souls does this too, with 10x the amount of reading.
@@zeibozcozz5067 On that note i hate how it basically gentrified my fave genre (Metroidvanias). Its harder to find Metroid and Castlevania inspired games these days because it seems every indie dev is busy dickriding Miyazaki. Blasphemous is great but tahts the exception most Soulvanias suck ass. And Hollow Knight is nothing like Dark Souls.
@@halowillneverbegoodagain1868 I mean to each his own, but it's not the fault of the franchise that everyone's copying them, that's also what happened with RE4 and it doesn't take anything away from the masterpieces they are.
"reading simulator" ? Bru It was my first survival Horror and it was never an issue. They are never too long or anything, and they are pretty interesting and useful. Hell, English isn't even my first language and i still got pretty hooked ! It's really not as much a big deal as you make it to be in my opinion
IT IS as big of a deal as he makes it TO HIM!! Not everyone wants to read a whole lot of shit in a game. Most of us want to PLAY a game. It we wanted to do a whole lot of reading, we'd go to a fucking library.
@@shinbakihanma2749 well turns out in this game you have things called "guns" and things called "ennemies" and if you don't want to read, you can place "bullets" into "enemies" and go on with your life without having to look at the notes
I kid you not. I keep the photograph with me throughout the game, limiting my inventory to only 5 and it didn't pay off. I'm kinda disappointed not gonna lie but still a great game and I didn't have that much problem with having only 5 slots since I never took ammo or health with me unless I'm sure which room I want to take a fight like bosses or hallways that I take often. The problem I really have is like you mentioned. I, too, have took bunch of cheap hits at the door because it wouldn't simply open a lot of times especially in Sierpinski and Apartment area. There's also a lot of times the enemies are too close to the door that I got hit right after entering the room without any time to parry as well. I avoid combat for the most part for the first half of the game but fed up with it and turn into doomguy by the Nowhere area with tons of ammo I stocked up even in survival difficulty. (somehow, I still got the promise ending) Stun gun is the most broken item because you can multi-hit enemies which saved a lot of ammo. And being able to parry most hit(when it works) definitely helps, too. Btw, new updates put in the option to have more inventory slots or another option to have modules use separate slot but keep the 6 slots the same. This would help new players a lot. The only thing I think I would want is melee weapon to prevent getting soft-locked or forced to die in boss encounter.
Excellent video. I completed this game yesterday. Loved it! I did the exact same thing you did with the fake ending. Came back another day and saw the continue and was mega confused 😂 other then all the quality of life stuff you mentioned like door positioning/ inventory space for a flashlight etc. probs an unpopular opinion , but the only problem i had with the game was.. i wish not every enemy got up like a crimson head from re1 remake. I would rather the enemies be a little harder to kill.. and alot but not all eventually got up. Maybe some more enemy types too
I’m glad you pointed out the bullshit with interacting with doors that you just unlocked, it drove me insane. Especially since I was playing on Survival and on tank controls. And OH BOY, those tank controls are even wonkier than in RE and Silent Hill games.
I low-key love the fake out ending, because it means out there somewhere are people who had no idea, have a craving to play the game again, go through it, and get fucking GASLIT into insanity as they try to decipher if they're remembering things wrong.
Wow. Can't wait to play this game now. I really share most of your opinions when it comes to Survival Horror so it sounds promising. Still very curious about your opinion on Tormented Souls. I really enjoyed that game!
Hey Mayo, I really love your content but I wanted to give you "my opinion" about your way of expressing yourself. You are good at deconstructing every aspect of games/movies and providing deep analysis on subject, but your general style of staying in the middle ground, being "respectful" to all points of view is what's keeping you from being truly entertaining to watch. As the comment below said, sometimes you force your criticism, maybe to seem like a professional critic, but the truth is - you're a youtuber and it would've been much more pleasing to hear it seamless through your "story" about a subject, not just splitting it on "that I like, that I don't like". Like I understand why you took down your original video on TAG2, being the face of youtube Doom community and in contact with the developers, but that video was the most honest and powerful than any, even tho I agree it was not made with clear head, but that is what many of us felt deep down, and your re-upload was soooo dull and bland in comparison, but more "professional", of course. And at the same time you make it very personal and passive-agressive when your expectations about Sifu were ruined. So, decide who you really want to be, cause you can't catch two birds. You have an amazing voice with a strong knowledge on how to deliver yourself (aside from humor, but that's also imo), but the actual delivery is not for the first group of people, neither it for the second. Also, sorry for my mistakes and thanks for everything you're doing!
Thanks. All I can do is write scripts the way I want to write them. This video was written exactly how I wanted. I can't always be emotional because I don't always feel that way. If you want some raw emotion, wait for ragnarok. But I personally very much enjoy the analytical side of things and that's what I like to focus on.
Hearing "Achtung..." on the radio was creepy. Does anyone think full voice acting would hurt the game? I honestly don't know. I want to see a sequel to this as much as Resident Evil.
Full voice acting would hurt the game super hard. The atmosphere was very much built with the lack of voice acting in minds. Everytime i hear character in modern "horror" game talking to themselves, half of the tension disappear because... THAT'S HOW HUMAN ALLEVIATE TENSION: BY MAKING SOUND. It also make the game more personal since you assign voice to each characters yourselves. The game is meant to be visual poetry to capture specific emotions, not a plot so this level of personal engagement work so much better.
@@mdd4296 I absolutely agree with you about tension - I would rather the atmosphere be uninterrupted by spoken dialogue. You can "hear" the characters without voice acting. My Elster sounds different from your Elster, and it distracts neither of us.
I'm glad you gave a spoiler warning. I just got to the Mines today. Great review. Seeing the word "digged" was a bit odd. There's another classic style survival horror game coming out on steam soon. It's called the Hotel. Only problem is that there is another horror game called the hotel that looks like your basic cheap first person horror game. If you search it on RU-vid a vid by ultimate gamerz on the classic survival horror game should come up first. It does for me.
Yo under the mayo u should play this game called “in sound mind” it’s a psychological horror game but it’s not that scary. The gameplay is super unique and it has some really good and fun explanation Imo. It supposed to feel like the old games like half life and it’s severely underrated. It’s a game that went under the radar sadly.
Just beat it, awesome game. The same thing happened to me with the fake out ending. Not sure where you played it but the Switch version had some control issues...
11:01 Yo that enemy looks like one of the zombie cages from DE learned how to walk, with whatever limbs were poking out through the mesh. Awesome stuff. New demon for DE2? The "Scuttler", which is immune to precision shots and explosives, but the legs are a weakpoint that slows them down. Blood Punch shatters the cage and kills them outright.
Hey Mayo if you wanna play another great indie survival horror game, check out Darkwood. It’s not really a “traditional” survival horror game, it does it’s own thing compared to Signalis. But it’s definitely both survival and horror.
@@underthemayo Fair criticism, there is a lot of crafting. It takes some getting used to. IMO it makes the game feel exactly how scavenging through a wasteland should feel. But I can see how some would be put off by it. I feel a similar way about Signalis’s puzzles. I thought they were great, but I can see how it could be too much for some. Great review though. I agreed with most of the points you made.
Mayo, are you planning on trying out the Evil Within? Have you ever considered it? I really think you should, because I'm interested in hearing your opinion on that game. It's a perfect balance between Resident Evil, Silent Hill and even Dead Space (to an extent). That game clearly took a ton of inspiration from those games, and I think you'd quite enjoy it. Anyway, that's my recommendation. I hope you see this.
My biggest criticism with the game is that while it's good it doesn't feel special because most of the mechanics you interact with are just from re1make. It would have been a lot more interesting if more enemies could be affected by the radio or the inventory would use grids like re4. Still a good game but there was potential for so much more.
I finished signalis in survivor a few days after it came out and... I had some mixed feelings on it. I think the game is really solid, but I didn't get hooked on the story the same way you did. The game requires too much reading for my taste and some of its long exposition really hampers the pace. I am also not a fan of the very limited inventory space. I am usually a hoarder in these types of game and by the halfway point I was usually carrying only a single loaded weapon and a stack of healing items (plus any required puzzle item needed for specific areas) and I was constantly having to make mutiple trips to get all the loot. I eventually dropped the health item to make more room and still needed multiple trips, while avoiding enemies whenever possible and burning tough enemies in main paths. Ended up with massive stacks of unused ammo and healing by the end game. So I guess the game doesn't want you to pick everything up? Or engage more in combat? But that's kinda dumb because resources are limited... I don't know, the balanced seemed off to me, while incentivizing tedious backtracking to get all the items in each area.
I remember the first time I played TLoU. My friend who lent me it said I had to be careful with my ammo etc. At the end of the game I had enough flamethrower ammo to BBQ 90% of the Fireflies. Guess there were big differences between how we played. Were you playing on Survival mode?
Jared did convince me to buy it, even if it's overpriced as fuck in Russia. I tried it a bit, and it seems fascinating, but I was replaying Dead Space 1-2 in the anticipation of both the remake and Callisto Protocol. Now that I'm done with it, it's time to focus my full attention on Signalis
****×*Spoilers*&*** That room with the one hexagonal plate and the razor wire would've been straight up nightmare fuel + a gank if I hadn't lucked out and brought my shotgun with me 😱😱😱 that room was very rude
Signalis is great. My game of the year. Honestly the notes weren't a problem for me because it's in my muscle memory to just skip through notes really quickly. (that came back to bight me in the apartments lol) I also want to ask what happened to the Signalis stream vod? There's a clip of it but not the vod. It looks like a fun watch.
Pretty cool that you got joseph anderson to help with the intro conversation bit. I dunno how you booked him during his production of the Witcher 3 review. Very busy man and smart to boot. He's a good egg. You are neat too.
I'm playing the game currently and I'm not sure if the game would give me more resources, so do you guys think it's worth it to go full gun blazing or I should manage my resources more, because I find no fun clatching my ass cheeks just to not get hit or fire my guns to clear a path and catch a breath.
I absolutely dislike these fake out credit rolls, one of my most disliked tropes in narrative fiction. That was the moment I lost interest in the story and stopped putting any effort into figuring it all out. I love the gameplay and enjoyed my time with it but I doubt I'll be going back to it.
Guess if you didn't pick up on the various references to other media you wouldn't see it coming, but the bloody eye is a dead give away that something isn't right, the game shouldn't blatantly tell you to try again.
@@melancholyman369 My problem wasn't that I didn't figure out that the game continues (I immediately pressed Begin because I didn't believe for a second an ending to a game could be this bad) , I just think it's a lame fourth wall breaking trope that has never added anything to any story.
Under the mayo i think u ahould try out Gunfire Reborn. That game goes deep , and is alot of fun to play. Dont let the toony artstyle put u off. It is a proper shooter!
I didn't cover Marty's letter either. And I'm not covering bethesda's statement. If there's an investigation that lays out the facts, maybe. Till then I'm not jumping into the drama. You can go to over channels for that. I have better things to do.
@@underthemayo It’s an interesting take from someone who really blew up his channel on Doom eternal. But I guess making content for the the mindless consumption of product is easier to tackle than having to deal with sides of a fight you don’t care about. Well hopefully Mick gets paid for the music iD stole and Marty get to abuse the next contract artist so everyone can be happy.
@@ComicFanMan love how under the mayo will make an unnecessary video shiting on doom eternal haters but he won't make a video on the messed up things going on id software so shiting on doom eternal haters is more important to him than the abuse that Mick Gordon had to take from id software also did you see how mad he got when ancient gods 2 was so easy but he doesn't seem to care at all about the abuse and lies id has done
Mayo idk if you have said anything about it already. But what the your thoughts on the whole mick Gordon letter? Marty seems like a see you next Tuesday.
