The Closing Shift - Freaky Japanese Horror Game Where You Serve Coffee & Get Stalked! (Chilla's Art) The Closing Shift is available now on Steam: store.steampow... #IndieGames #Gaming #TheClosingShift
Note: The video features three endings. After the first few coffees I've trimmed out most of the coffee making as it takes up quite a lot of time (the video would have been twice as long). I've kept all the conversations with the customers though. They're pretty weird! :)
It makes sense though as the antagonist is not a person, but a personification of Japan's societal problem with harassing women. You can't kill him, because you can't kill a societal problem. There will be always another creep in his place.
The real nightmare starts at around 3 minutes when you realize you work a customer service job and your boss is a dickhead. Everything else is just an average shift.
42:00 Having a bunch of ghosts ordering late-night lattes and then going 'HAW HAW HAW' at you is more pleasant than the average shift at any retail place, if I'm being honest.
@@SeymourDisapproves I guess you've never heard the saying "No good deed goes unpunished" Bad people thrive, good people usually get the short end of the stick. Basic life knowledge.
@@nznebzjjbd How old are you? Only kids use the word "EdGy" There's nothing "eDgY" about stating that people who perform acts of kindness usually have it backfired on them. As can be seen in this videogame. On a personal note my brother got beat up once (black and blue) for returning a wallet. Some guy left it on the bar, my brother saw and went outside after him and when he tried to give it to him the guy and his friends slapped him around. No idea why. Think twice before you go out on limb for a random stranger.
ABG and ManlyBadassHero are two of my favorite lets player channels. Right now both even posted the same game. Manly provides his snarky deadpan commentary ABG provides silent but expressive, skillful gameplay What a treat.
I do respect the amount of detail they put into making the drinks as a barista so everyone can understand the feeling of a herd of people coming in when your on solo bar.
Aw, man. The endings made me sad. But it was weird when she didn't realize he was inside the car at one point since we all heard the door's opening lol Probably could do without the "ghosts" sequence though, since the whole game was already creepy enough and even felt like actual nightmare in real life.
I feel like the ghost thing was supposed to be a red herring of sorts, as the developer's other game (convenience store) is about a ghost, so maybe they tried to trick the player into thinking that this game was going for the same thing?
It kinda drives up the sense of opressiin. That there is no relief, thatbyou are nowhere safe. First there is the creepy work where you are stuck alone. Then there is the unsafe house. And even the dream and the afterlife is no solace, because you spend it working this creepy job for ghosts, with no end in sight as the ghost world doesn't know shifts or clocking out. Sure you wake up after eight hours but time flows differently there. Your soul transported into the ghost realm during sleep could have spent years on a single shift.
Actually, it's because in Japan, they have a very deep-rooted fear in ghosts. So every country has that popular horror theme, like US it's murderers and such, Japan has spirits and ghosts. It's why they have things like yōkai and their stories often feature someone dying but is restless in the afterlife, making them Earthbound (The Pale Man, for example). So for something like ghosts to appear would be very different if played in its native country with its native audience.
my thoughts exactly. I know this is Japan and all, but i'm sure our boss wouldn't be happy if he knew somebody was squatting in the back, not to mention possibly stalking our customers.
another banger of a horror game from Chilla's Art and i really loved the nightmare sequence where the tediousness and strees of the job was combined with the fear and horror of being stalked i really wish we could have gotten a happier ending but that's a minor detail
Nowadays with housing prices borked everywhere, I'll take it in a heartbeat if the price is reasonable. It looks pretty good tbh, there's charm in small apartments too.
@@andrada9506 it costs pretty much like a normal house in suburban area near any main city, and only could house 1 person comfortably. Cuz it already exists for years in Japan and they just accepted it. Still looks like hell tho
Janitor, busser, dishwasher, server, store clerk, barista, cashier shoot I better be paid for each of those individually per hour if was to work there alone.
I really appreciate how Chills has started breathing more life and movement into characters while still holding onto that stiff uncanniness. It's a really delicate balance that they keep striking really well
Mhmmm, late night coffee! I still can't believe my father drinks coffee at 9pm.... He also wakes up at noon and often goes to bed at 4am. Surely it's a coincidence. XD
>customer complains to employee about prices Oh you're right sir, let me just break the law by giving you my boss' property for less than what they want for it. Would you like me to give you all the money in the register as well? How about we knock open the walls next so you can strip the copper wiring for scrap money? I'm so glad I don't work retail anymore. The things that even grown adults will do to save 3 dollars is amazing.
But now that you mention it I do remember working in an abusive family owned grocery store. The family would obsessively sit in front of screens showing security cam footage. The owner's son would routinely lift cash frommthe registers then try to blame it onnme. Once a guy was one penny short and was asking if he could pay this penny back another time. Immediately the shop owning mother came running and gave me a lengthy tirade about how I'm causing them losses and ruining their business by not making the customer hand over that single penny. I lasted a month there and ended up with severe trauma. The son was later arrested for growing and dealing weed from a locked backroom in the shop. He lifted from the register to pay bribes to local cops.
14:16 *half empty milk carton lying around in an unrefrigerated storage on the floor for god knows how long* ABG: "good enough for consumption" You know this game was made during the covid epidemic, because customers just belly slam the doors open, hands-free. 20:46 "take trash out" The trash just took itself out. "Have you seen any ghosts?" *watches customers phase through chairs and teleport to bus seats* "No".
22:34 Honestly I wasn't startled by the mother because the dev gave her such huge bobadongas that they kind of precede the woman. I mean, the te tonas first slid into view and then the rest of the woman.
35:50 ABG: *Shakes head disapprovingly at staring guy* *guy immediately leaves watching his a ss all the way to the door* "I don't care if you regret it" I have a feeling she also wouldn't care if she starved herself or got abused at work by the agency or fashion designers. 42:23 ABG: *takes order, immediately tries to leave work* Me too, ABG. Me too. 57:48 *sees the investigator murdered right next to the creepy guy* Protag: Guy I killed could have been innocent, I don't know.
I really enjoy Chilla's Art games. P.S. Just finished watching, it felt like one of those made for TV J-horrors. Excellent atmosphere. Biggest jump scare was the mother with child. And stalker looks like Henry from Kingdom Come lol. I still don't understand was that a dream sequence with shadows?
man, the only thing I'd change is the text on the dialogue boxes moving as they type into the screen, it's hard to read before they are finished because it constantly moves to remain centered
