The actual explanations of the comic covers are possibly even funnier than how bad the art is. That cover with 'two sonics' but one of them has brown human hair on top of his blue hedgehog quills? That's *sonic's dad.* The cover where Sonic is coming out of the TV? Those two kids? *THE ARTIST'S REAL LIFE FAMILY.* He drew a story about Sonic coming into the real world and meeting his own kids. This artist later sued Sega for ownership of his comic characters *and won,* resulting in the entire comic canon being reset and *nearly 200* characters (mostly echidnas that look almost exactly like Knuckles) being wiped from existence. The character Arin thought was Tikal was actually Ken Penders' Original The Character Lara-Su, who he is now publishing his own cursed comic books of whilst continuing to be angry at Sega for existing to this day. The sonic comics are a dark pandora's box
The Hubris of Ken Penders will always be mind blowing. I only have passing knowledge of the Sonic Comics and the stories he destroyed due to his actions will live on forever in my head because I liked a lot of characters he took with him.
“You must die” will never get old for me, they really explored the possibilities with that one line. 😂 I’ll never forget watching that episode for the first time and nearly having an asthma attack from laughter.
Honestly, few play throughs had me laughing so often like Kitty Love did. Well executed (if that’s what you wanna call it) bad grammar is so indescribably funny
Wow, I've watched the Tungulus video probably 10+ times and never realized that it was trying to copy Amnesia. It's super blatant now that I think about it lol
My favorite clip is Arin casting the lure so perfectly that the frog literally runs into it and gets caught on it… but the AI still doesn’t register the lure being close enough to attract the frogs attention.
I read this as Dan said it and I inhaled while drinking water and choked cuz I started laughing. I had to replay it a couple times cuz I couldn't stop laughing
im certain that tungulus was a middle school kids project who didnt know that the "create a video game" class was way more boring than they anticipated.
1:52:35 The trigger words. You know he is hiding something whenever he says that. Can we have a compilation of Arin saying that before he knows eerie shit is about to happen?
Kitty Love was the only livestream I’ve ever managed to catch (I live in Australia so the time difference makes it tricky) and I still had to keep pausing it so I could fucking breathe for a second.
The only thing about Michigan Report, I hate that the game's audio was so quiet, most of the time I had no idea what Dan and Arin were making fun of/laughing at.
list of all the games names 0:06 Tungulus 5:48 Sonic Unleashed pt. 6 7:15 Sonic Comic Covers Are The BEST 16:35 Kitty Love pt. 1 36:14 Link: The Faces Of Evil pt. 1 37:32 Link: The Faces Of Evil pt. 5 38:28 Link: The Faces Of Evil pt. 12 39:15 Link: The Faces Of Evil pt. 15 41:43 Link: The Faces Of Evil pt. 17 45:05 Link: The Faces Of Evil pt. 18 47:55 Episode: Michigan: Report From Heck pt. 1 (adding as I watch this video)
"I'M UP HERE NOW!", Arin shouts as he only just realises, at 1:00:26, that he has landed on top of the loop, only to fall to his demise two seconds later.
Y'know, honestly, props to the cat game's translators. Languages are hard, and the creator obviously didn't hire a trained translator, so what they got was actually really good. Way more legible than Does Bruno Mars is Gay, anyway.
For me it was Baron Humbert von Gikkingen in The Cat Returns. To be fair, in English he was voiced by Cary Elwes who was a big heart throb at the time.
For me is was trying to transition from drawing dogs to humans instead of literally anything else and the result looked like… exactly what you think it looked like.
19:05 I think I know what Hell is. It's a realm in which you're trapped inside a poorly translated Japanese visual novel as the blank slated protagonist. Conversation is a chore because the writing is so generic. None of the characters actually speak, you have to read their subtitles, which is really hard since every other sentence has a either misspelled words and/or grammatical errors. Everything is at a snail's pace, not just because the dialogue is bloated and verbose, but also because the story is convoluted and full of holes. The worst part is you can't even have sex with the characters because contrivances appear out of nowhere to keep romantic and sexual tension at an all time high.
I like to annoy my coworkers sometimes. When a call comes in, I quietly announce to them. "Phooone..." We work in an inbound call center. Thank you for phone, Arin. I am truly glad to be surrounded by phone.
1:48:13 When Arin yells "NO!!!" to "You didn't do anything different to catch him that time?" He was actually wrong, lol. That was the only time Arin didn't reel in while Froggy was nibbling the lure, every other time, Arin reeled in before the 'hit.' I think Arin thought you had to set the hook, but this game seems like it just wants you to wait for Froggy to do his thing.
One of the best/worst things about game grumps is when Arin fails to read instructions and does something that makes it super difficult for him. It's so funny but can be frustrating when he blames the game for it.
Arins laugh at 10:17 will always be one of my favorite game grumps moments. It seems so genuine, like he's actually having a good time looking at the extras with Dan 🥹
47:06 After slowing it down and rewatching, it doesn’t go under. They actually just didn’t even animate it moving past the mustache, so it jumps from one side of it to the other and appears like it went under it when played at normal speed 😂🤣👍
Lovelies comes from all the way back in the Jontron era. If I remember right, Arin suggested calling the viewers Lovelies, and Jon suggested Cumf****ts.
1:00:30 that "I'm up HERE now!" really got me. Never watched that playthrough, but now I'm considering it... Also, Michigan just sounded like the actors recorded normal VO lines, but somehow it all got slowed in post by like 30%! EDIT: okay, it also could be that they're using an emulator and the framerate is just low... or something? That just CAN'T be how those voices were supposed to sound!
@@rajaniwolf9466 in my dealings with emulators, audio gets wonky along framerate. The game was sluggishly slow, and the audio seemed to get even worse the longer they played, which also happened to me
Just here to remind everyone, the pink Echidna, Julie Su, was both Knuckles' girlfriend, and cousin in one of the spin off comic series, and the had a kid in two timelines! The more you know!...
I think their brains were turning to mush while playing that game, maybe they couldn't take it anymore 🤣🤣🤣 Sincerely believe they lost at least 2 IQ points or whatever
35:11 Arin beginning this line normally then ending with incredulity and stifled laughter is such a journey for such a short sentence. It's really quite impressive.
Okay, I think I have a theory on Kitty Love. I think what happened was whoever translated it from Japanese to English just put the Japanese text in Google Translate and didn't have an English speaker proofread it afterward to make sure the grammar was right.
It’s amazing to me that after all these years, they can still never get any Sonic game right😂 it’s beautifully flawed every time, and I love how much the Grumps shit on it with still being respectful at the same time lol
@@tntsonic7482 I’m not dogging on the sonic games, to be clear. I used to play them all the time and loved them. I’m saying the grumps have had some rough glitches or in general bad luck with the games lol
This has probably been answered already, but the "little guy" who Tails is holding at around 10:38 is from the Saturn game 'Astal'. I think I might be like one of three people who ever played that game. Why he's in that comic, I could only guess, but I assume the game released around the same time that comic came out, and they were doing some kind of cross-promotion or something.
The problem with No Players Online is that it’s honestly a very spooky concept but it’s bogged down by silly writing. That initial feeling like you’re being watched is so eerie but then it’s traded for the most cliche “My WiFe’s SoUl Is iN tHiS gAmE” bullshit
I gotta say, not that I'm the first to think this, say this, or even believe this is an original idea, but their wheel house really is terrible games. Playing good games is kinda boring, but when the game tosses comedy fodder at them, HOOBOY!
Sometimes I wonder if Kitty Love is like.... AMAZING in Japanese. Like it has deep and in depth character interactions, and a naturally flowing plot with heavy story beats, that was just _slaughtered_ by the translation..... but then I remember that the only clear thing to be found through this localization is that the game is about dating cats(???) and I try not to think about it too hard.
Seeing those old sonic comics, and the fact that I remember all the older character models, makes me feel old now. I do prefer the personality of Sonic in the comics compared to now. Like Mickey Mouse, he has a more developed personality in comics rather than the more "blank-slate" that's going on now. It's easy for merchandise, but a lot of effort has to be put in to bring out a compelling character.
Not sure what year this was but I miss that year of Ghoul Grumps. Dan was right, Arin just found the shittiest games on Steam. Tungulus was the best game they’ve ever played. By far.
I should know better at this point, but I was drinking during the "the cat came near my foot" part and oh god, I think I inhaled some of my soda, and my laptop is gonna smell like vanilla creme for weeks
