6:35 Ant Bully (2006) is cosmic horror

Ok now do Termina! ❤

I mean that picture of a Helsinki afternoon doesn't look that bad? At least there's snow on the ground and the metal park fixtures aren't visibly rusted due to the rain being more carbolic acid than water due to being downwind of an industrial center of a different country. (Most of the actual rust in the US' Rust Belt is from Canadian CO2 emissions because the US has spent the last 30+ years outsourcing it's industry to countries that give even less of a shit about the environmental than we do and Canada's version of the EPA only cares about the environmental impact of its industry if Canada is downwind of the factories. So if the prevailing winds are headed south they get a free pass on pollution).

For me, the Artifact Ending has a bit more of a supernatural or metaphysical lens to it. The 6 stones which Elster places the lily onto mirrors what Isa did to bring back her sister Erika, but unlike Isa we see the artifact which represents the entire game by its nature of being the logo. I think Elster and Ariane dancing into the credits is the game showing us that in her bid to fulfill her promise through the neverending cycle, Elster managed to bring Ariane back to healthy life, such that the two can actually live with one another happily. I might be reading too much into it though, and your more melancholic reading is a bit more in line with what the rest of the game shows us, but I like to think my robot girl can live with her wife into their old years.

This is a good video, but I'm baffled by your statement at the end about the S endings. I would argue they only add to the cosmic dread element, and they're not feel-good at all? They're called "happy" endings with the quotation marks for a reason.

aight, the combination of "you can't just slap a sanity meter on the game" over footage of the goddamn FlexSeal commerical, with Mind: 69 on it, and THEN Classic Brit "NOICE" that was a real rapid-fire of charm and I am *in*. looking forward to seeing what else you have on here!

Dude, i love the content so far, stoked for more

the boss designs could've been amazing with a little more forethought. Those tanks in the surgery room are most likely o2 tanks, which are EXTREMELY dangerous due to their combustible nature. The devs could've structured the fight around getting the boss to cause an explosion with the o2 tank, which requires the player to think and be strategic rather than use the boss as a pincushion for their limited bullets. As for the caged flesh boss, it would've benefited from more npc interaction. Have the player or npc act as bait, as the other aims at the legs to immobilize the creature before finishing it off. 40:07- (writing this before I finish the video) those red grates match up with the drawings and words in Falke's diary. They (Falke) said they went down into the mines and that the "white haired girl" was the one who "cursed" them. The curse refers to having memories not their own transposed into their head. My assumption or guess is that the mine holds an alternate warped reality of a collective of humanity's lost sense of self superposed onto one entity, the white haired girl. 49:52- (writing this before I finish the video) I don't think you need to watch or play the inspiration material in order to grasp the "meaning." There's no explicit answer, this isn't a math test, it's a physiological horror video game with synthetic human lesbians. I've never played silent hill, only watched videos about it. I've never watched avengelion, only seen snippets of it. This ending to me means a return to self, regaining one's memories and humanity at the brink of death, just like Star, and Beo. We can't stop trying to find out the mystery of unknowing, who is the woman we're looking for, who is she to us, where did she go, who are we? Going beyond the brink of what is safe to find the answer, the thing driving us. To give up would make us like Adler. I see this ending as happy in a way, she finds a part of her answer, she died aiming for her goal, her deaths isn't meaningless because she's made something of her life.

54:45 there is Falke in Elster’s line too. Poor Falke took memories that doesn’t belong to her

wroooong. Le Gard wasn't dead, he ascended to Yellow King, as a human.

Ya, i got to point this out. This guy has no idea how the mythos gods work. In fact many of the mythos gods Hate human it with a passion. nyarlathotep is a Great example of this. Then again he is one of the worst beings in existance. So it is not actual unexpected. Cuthlu has also been depicted as having a deep deep sense of hatred for humanity. That said many not all are hostile. For example shub niggurath, actual Saved humanity from one of her own grand children. This isn't even talking about the gods who Actively interact with humanity. Such as dagon, as the deep one are not really out to rule the world. They just want to be left alone. The gods are not ignorant of humanity. They plot and scheme against one and another threw humanity. Meanwhile other mythos creatures Just kinda get thrown into this entire mess. As their are plenty of stories where Someone says something they shouldn't have by accident. And accidentally summons a portal or a creature. Regardless thou, mythos gods are not ignorant of humanity nor do they have no value in it. if that was the case then why would they even bother to interact with humanity to begin with? When their is an entire universe to explore filled with alien races more advance then a bunch of apes.

I thought I was a masochist, but then I saw the people who play fear and hunger willingly, I have been enlightened that I cannot be farther than what that term means.

Super interisting video! You did great!

I think part of the cycles are that everyone she comes back she becomes a little more of 512 which is why in the first cycle she can’t bring herself to do it, in the second she isn’t recognized because she isn’t the android analine fell in love with. This is suggested by elsters focus on the room more then on her, contrary to when 2301 is synchronized with her gesalt consciousness and 512 becoming the android that alaine fell in love with to start with, which is where she fulfills her promise.

14:30 enemy has a bigger stinger than you? HACK IT OFF!

i would say a good version of cosmic horror in the sense of the perspective of the in game characters is cassette beasts, as to the players the bosses look normal but to the in game peoples they are impossible

at 4:50 he turns into wambu lmao

dude come on i get it was a joke but why would you drop unannounced silent hill 2 spoilers in there

18:39 Who did this? 😂

i havent played fear and hunger but i've been really interested in it since it came out. the blood meridian call out at the end got me fucked up

I was like "What is he cencoring on the guard?" So I looked it up and HOLY SHIT?!?!

Great video new subscriber from me well done

The only thing more embarrassing than not watching Evangelion is watching Evangelion.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.🎉❤😊

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.🎉😊😊😊

Jesus is King of kings and Lord of lords. Believe in Jesus, his blood sacrifice on the cross for you to be forgiven of your sins. Do it today 😊!!! Romans 3: 23 1 Corinthians 15: 1-4

I’m in love with long form video game related essays, someone recommend more channels like this to me please!!!! I watch sphere hunter and act man a lot. Also bluelad and boofcan

The most horrible thing about the Penrose Program is how they had *_no_* shot at all. The ships were supposedly launched via mass driver, but wherever they were launched from it took 1500 cycles for them to get to the far side of the Oort Cloud. Then at cycle 3000, they get the "jk you're dead lol" fax. Assuming Vineta is Earth, the ships had only 1500 days-that is to say, _about four years_-after leaving the Solar System to find and land on a habitable planet. Meanwhile Proxima Centauri is 4.24 years away _at light speed._ The Penrose ships were simply much too slow, and probably not even pointed in the right direction. It's like having a bomb implanted in your head and the only way to defuse it is to run the length of the US East Coast before time runs out, then getting told that time's halfway up before you leave your front yard. They may be the worst, cruelest PR stunt ever conceived.

Awesome game....just refuse to do all the fun shit

Good stuff i want more please do the same thing to oder games

saying chonky , spoopy and hungy as a grown man in 2024 is rlly something

Yuri and Barbara (the two people that are Rose-Engine) really made a masterpiece here. Two random people crafting this beautiful, sad, wonderful, game.

real

Chivalry and the Chivalric code of conduct were far deeper than we learn about on history. I have an old book titled something like: 'An Introduction to Age of Chivalry.' Key word here is 'introduction' because the book is more voluminous than the KJV Bible. Shows how tremebdous the age was it, despite our historical ignorance. What amazed me is how Japan, separated from England by a months-long sea voyage and total isolation, developed a mirror-image of our Chivalric code. Even the belief in a God-King and the knights/samurai serving them is shared.

Picked this game up thanks to you. First room gave me more anxiety than majority of my 20+ years of gaming. Gonna be a wild ride.

Take Allen wake 2 off that list. That game ruined everything that was great about the first game and it's dlc

The intermittent deadpan humor of just calling it how it is makes me so happy 😂

Pls come back

16:45 what game is this????

can anyone tell me what game is shown in the very first second of the video ?

You didn't get to see sylvians final form where the human dingy takes full shape resembling one of the party members at random

Every time the crow mauler massacres my party I can feel my irl mind gauge draining. It's hovering somewhere around 30 rn

You're interpretation of the Artifact ending might be my favorite one that I've heard so far. Like you said, in might be cope, and personally I would like them to be happy and alive, but yours is really satisfying in a bitter but hopeful way that I really enjoy,

I've been falling down a huge King in Yellow rabbit hole, and this game and your video are just fueling my fire. I know you said "at risk of becoming the Cosmic Horror guy" like its a bad thing, but you're one of the best I've seen on the subject. Looking forward to whatever comes next!

7:47 IS THAT MR BEAST

Great video, I enjoyed it a lot.

Thank the gods I’m not the only one who thought Ragnvaldr looked like Ayami Kojima’s version of Simon Belmont. It’s also funny since Rag’s story is rather reminiscent of Simon Belmonts from Lords of Shadows. Both want revenge for the death of a loved one: Rag wanting revenge for his wife, and Simon wanting revenge for his mother. And they both want revenge for the destruction of their homes: Rag wanting revenge for his tribe, while Simon’s home town was destroyed which caused Sypha to die which in turn caused him to run to and be taken in by the Northern mountain tribesmen and women to be raised into a warrior. All Rag needed was a whip made. They’re both essentially dressed the same, they got the red hair, the scar on the face and everything, all Rag needed was to start off with a whip of several different monster/beast skins and he’d be set lol.

Almost every new video I watch on signalis, I learn something new. In my mind, there are 4 types of media: - Ones that seemed good when you consumed them, but get worse the more you think about them and sit on what you actually experienced (and discuss with others). - The ones that seemed good when you consumed them and don't really enter your thoughts afterwards - Ones that seemed bad or mediocre and only get worse the more you think about them - Ones that never leave your thoughts and every subsequent mental or revisit of that media introduces a new piece of information or makes you think about it in a different way. Needless to say I am sure I made it clear where Signalis falls, it is a monumental magnum opus, it's amazing to think it was made by 2 people for whom this was (to my knowledge) their first game.

20:18 This edit is so perfect I'm shocked I haven't seen anyone do it before, lmao

what is the song name at 56:25 can someone please tell me.