spoilers?

I swear to dog I kept hearing "spyro" instead of "spiral".

Cool to see you highlight smaller games like that even if it's sponsored

This is likely just a coincidence, but the mention of a ''Permanent solution'' as one of the NPCs puts it reminded me of ''The Final Solution''. The Final Solution or ''the Jewish Question'' was the code name for the Holocaust. I sincerely hope they weren't intentionally alluding to this by using such similar terminology. I feel it'd be very bizarre if they did? Even given the game's setting. Fantastic video btw! It's really unfortunate how... not good this game is. I remember looking forward to it when it was first announced. It sucks things turned out this way, but at least I have something to complain about.

OMG I cannot understand your words, it's like you talk inside your mouth.

I haven't played the game so I can't really say much about the mechanics, but the story was one of the reasons I never got the game. Its not funny enough to be lighthearted and whimsical, but its also not heavy enough for the darker moments to hit as hard as they should. It sits in this weird middle area for me. I can tell what they were going for, but it just doesn't work for me. I think the main theme of trauma and fitting in would have worked better if, funnily enough, the game took more of a risk and wasn't procedural generated. That mechanic was popular at the time and it really doesn't add much to the game. They could have just focused on making the social aspect of the game as polished as possible. Find a way to make that interesting because it blends so much into the story, and make sure the story fits that as well. I think the synergy is there if they would have been willing to go for it.

Very, very honest review. I LOVE this game, but your criticisms are on point. I have been more than willing to overlook certain issues, but I could see how some would not. It’s dirt cheap most days, and well worth a spin if hit-and-run combat is your bag. It’s mine.

You must be playing some pretty good games then bro, cuz We Happy Few is pretty decent.

You need to play more games if *this* is the worst you've played *this year.*

Im all for psychological horror like Little Nightmare, Blair Witch, or Yamowari but this looks just bad. Thr first part is almost like the beginning of RE7 without any real payoff. Then we get The Shining and looks like it to lead to Nicole being the killer while glossing over a 50 yo grooming a child.

September 15th? I remember September 15th was the day Pryo said the darkwood video would come out. Darkwood? Pyro is working hard to get us the video on September 15th. September 15th? I remember September 15th was the day Pryo said the darkwood video would come out. Darkwood? Pyro is working hard to get us the video on September 15th. September 15th? I remember September 15th was the day Pryo said the darkwood video would come out. Darkwood? Pyro is working hard to get us the video on September 15th. September 15th? I remember September 15th was the day Pryo said the darkwood video would come out. Darkwood? Pyro is working hard to get us the video on September 15th. September 15th? I remember September 15th was the day Pryo said the darkwood video would come out. Darkwood? Pyro is working hard to get us the video on September 15th.....

00:46:23 Lol

I like the beginning but honestly I got to the game show part and I never picked it up again

wow, every time you showed a genuinely impactful cutscene, it made me even sadder that there was such a shit game leading up to each one maybe this should've been a movie, or they should've even just made it a lot more linear? weird thing to say but like, imagine how much harder the story might hit if you werent faffing about the procedural generated bullshit in service of such a direct story

I never saw aiden as a good/ likeable guy, i thought that it was like breaking bad, that watching a character get worse and worse was the point of the story. He goes deeper and deeper into anger, losing more of "aiden peirce" and fully becoming "the vigilante", an identity that feels like the embodiment of his revenge, and even the end credits playing a cheerful song and pointless choice of maurice's fate at the end made me feel like "congrats, you sacrificed everything you had for revenge. you did it. now what?". I liked that aiden was a piece of sh, feels like a rotten guy in a rotten world story. the gruff tough asshole part always felt to me like it was on purpose, an overcompensation to lie to himself

Oh man, it's Saints Row 3 all over again.

I feel as if Abbsynthe did a good job making a video delving into the story of We Happy Few, the story is personally one of my favorites, the gameplay was borderline nonexistent but I would say it was well worth it for the story.

I watched this whole video in one go. I love this analysis. Really well done

I really wanted to love we happy few, but it was just so incredibly hard to play... I made it through Arthur's story and the twist was heavy. I liked the story, really! All the bugs made it borderline unplayable at times though and when I got to the next chapter and was constantly depressed I just gave up. that mechanic was clever in theory, but ffs I could not handle it one bit. I felt a bit of emotional connection to Arthur but Sally none at all. and reading up on the third chapter I'm glad I didn't make it, diabetes apparently making it even harder than the depression. this could've been so good, I really think so, but well... 🫠

It took me till 2024 to finally play this one. And tbh, I really enjoyed it. Despite the bugs, the experience was pleasing; the graphics were beautiful, the sound design while hit-and-miss with some of the dialog, was on point (punchy guns, ost, and ambients), and the gameplay just kept me in the game.

As someone whos loved We Happy Few to the point of playing it twice, all i gotta say is that the game can be summed as this: An amazing game concept with amazing story writing, blinded by terrible gameplay and business practices. From what i remember, the game started off from an indie team- but then got involved with gearbox who wanted to make it triple A. Gearbox pushed the creators to release the game at an unreasonable deadline, and the game got released for 75$, it went downhill. The game was buggy, gameplay was just trash, and yeah... And it sucks cause the game had so much potential to explore different themes and concepts at a deeper level, such as trauma and repressing things. But i feel like because of how things turned out, the game never really got a chance to do that. Anyways i could be wrong, i wrote this at 3am so my brain is completely fried. Anyways great vid! Edit: also to mention, the DLCs actually do manage to kind of delve into the themes of the joy pills, and world building! Espically the light bringer and down they fall one! They fix a lot of the issues the first game had such as the eating mechanic and story pacing.

This video is about 8 years too late. You must have been living under a rock. Or stuck in some internet Explorer simulation.

I remember being so hyped for this game. When i died and respawned in a whole new island, i started losing intreast. This game needed a consistant map imo, maybe have loot containers change contents and such.

This game mechanically wants to be Pathologic 2 so bad

Arthur sounds like Chris Chan when he sighs

If you get it for free its a fine game. I enjoyed it wirh my Xbox pass

I love this game it holds a special place in my heart

I love this game I don't understand what people don't like about it

This game was screwed as soon as it was bought by Gearbox

1:26:05 I think it was the other way around? They were both young enough for Germany (because the deal was to give Germany all of the children UNDER a certain age) and Arthur impersonated Percy by taking his ID and saying his birthday was incorrect by a few days, putting him right over the threshold for the age of being sent away.

great video!

13:35 sweat-heart 😂

You can very clearly see when gearbox bought out the company and started rushing the devs, its like the game takes a complete turn into something else that didnt even make sense. Gearbox did it again with risk of rain 2, they bought out risk of rain company, rushed a dlc, it was nuked, the risk of rain devs already quit and closed the company and are going to work for valve on deadlock. Everything gearbox touches will completely be destroyed

get out of here stalker

I watched someone play it, first chapter was pretty decent, but second and third completely lost me

Oh yeah, and if you go around the enemy while they’re blocking, you can actually hit them It’s stupid. 😂 35:50

Did you even pay attention to the skill tree I’m not trying to be a a##hole or anything, but you can unlock a skill that lets you run jump and I don’t know why you would talk about that. I mean go ahead I don’t care, but there is a skill that lets you do those things. 😐 31:37

You can clearly tell this person has no idea how it feels to be suicidal

bobbies comes from Robert Peel who invented the British police force. He invented it to rid the UK of the rapist and pedos and send them to Australia.

59:00 well indeed that is not why, as your screenshot shows. It is because ofviolence and use of drug, joy is closer to MDMA that SSRI antidepressants, as antidepressants don’t actually make you happy unlike MDMA giving you euphoria and increased sensory perception which might explain the saturated color. LSD too is a potential candidate because of the hallucinations caused by joy.

Youre underrated as hell, been checking out your videos after the we happy few video. Hope you get the attention you deserve man

in america, the vast majority of states don’t allow you to just go buy a gun. you need to take classes, get a license, and there are limitations to the types of guns you can use. so an unregistered firearm is actually something pretty big

This could have actually been a thriller with light combat elements like a horror movie and detective setting. Or even better a movie. I enjoyed every cutscene and acting moment. But the gameplay is ruined by that survival and procedural generation bullshit hype.

I loved We happy few when I played it

wait I thought this video had 1.3m views, not 1.3k. Way underrated

There was a time where every game wanted to include procedural generation because it was the cool new thing (like AI is currently). The problem with that is that by nature procedural generation cannot be customized to the extent a handcrafted world can be and so it will always be hollow and empty. And that's why these days you rarely see procedurally generated games anymore, devs kind of realized that it worsened the experience rather than improved it.

I still like uncle jack

i remember absolutely loving playing this game in 2019-20 during lockdown, but i could never finish the story as my game pass ran out and i couldnt renew it. then i played it again on pc a couple years later and while it was still pretty okay, but i only got past arthurs section and then just gave up on the base game and played the dlcs which were actually quite fun. might try and play it again and see if i can actually complete the game this time lol