Someone else probably explained this already, but the primary difference maker between a polycule and a harem is basically direction. In a triangular situation, a harem is like a V; two points love the one point, and that one point may also love those two points, but those two individual points don't have a thing for each other. A polycule would be an actual triangle. Every point directly connects to every other point. Or, with four people. A harem is one dot in the middle with three dots around it, with connections to each of those dots, but they don't have connections to each other. A polycule, in that case, is a square with an X through it. Every person is connected to every other person.
@igorzharenikov1812 Жыл бұрын
The only requirement for a polycule is that tree or more people are in a romantic relationship. Polycule is still a polycule if relationships connect only through one person. So the difference between a polycule and a harem lies more in the approach rather than the structure. Polycule is nothing more than a relationship structure, while what is commonly referred to as "harem" is more of a male power fantasy of "all girls around me are into me and are okay with me dating all of them at the same time"
@Zpixi099 ай бұрын
So if you wanna understand how polycules are graphed look at your miitopia friendship graph
@AlextheLynx1 Жыл бұрын
One thing worth knowing is that most harems in media are not able to be called polycules, since none of the girls have any romantic feelings toward each other. Also, would love to see you watch either the Dogs in Love videos or Jello's Lemonade Review videos.
@RaLiChu Жыл бұрын
Harams also tend to be less about having a well developed romantic story between multiple people and more giving a MC a bunch of trophies to flant.
@willw6504 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, Airier, I wouldn't compare harems to polycules. It's pretty insulting to actual poly individuals. With rare exceptions like this game, media typically does not do a good job portraying poly individuals or relationships.
@theirishviking9278 Жыл бұрын
@@willw6504 and to be honest i think this game did it by accident
@altarudragonspirit4016 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, this is what the format is for Jello's "Dogs in Love" and "Miles is on Fire/Miles is a Robot" series. I'm pretty sure Jello has gone on record saying that he only does these highlights for games that weren't very good because they ended up making way more improv jokes during those streams, but I think based on what he said at the end of this video that this series was a bit of an exception? There are a few other games they played that probably aren't going to get this highlight treatment because they were actually invested in the games, but the channel andYetNoBananas has made some animatics about some of the moments in those streams that don't have highlight videos. also, if you do do "Dogs in Love", you should definitely do his videos on Making a Sound Type and Ranking the Hottest Pokemon Characters, because those are like isolated highlights from those streams
@Ymryrth Жыл бұрын
Dogs in love is great
@patdav56 Жыл бұрын
Hottest characters was part of the Colosseum streams, but I thought Sound Type was it's own stream?
@nightstar61799 ай бұрын
If i remember correctly, one of the criteria for is he makes it into a video is if their commentary add a substantial amount to the game.
@andyetnobananas7 ай бұрын
Oh shoot, epic me reference!
@coffeeadaykeepsthesleepaway Жыл бұрын
yes watch dogs in love its great
@HelloItsMikkan Жыл бұрын
Both dogs in love.
@peacemaker636048 ай бұрын
Part 3 hasn't released yet.
@fenn74377 ай бұрын
This!
@saltygibus57464 ай бұрын
@@peacemaker63604Now it has
@piecheese1214 Жыл бұрын
Harems and polycules are not the same thing. Members of a harem all love one person, but not necessarily each other. In a polycule, all participants love each other equally.
@AutumnWoodham Жыл бұрын
"She's wearing clown shoes" They're not. She's got normal shoes that have metal talons attached to them. And no, a harem is not a polycule. A ploycule is an actual relationship developed between all participating parties. A harem is just a fantasy fulfillment that lacks actual development, where it's all focused around one person because it's mainly catered to single men. What they are asking for is actual effort made where you don't want anyone of the characters to be left out because the game makes you care for them and the relationship.
@eris90223 күн бұрын
Oh yah, on that ending cutscene: Pairs of doves (Traditionally white ones) are often seen as symbolic of loves and especially marriage. So seeing a set of three of fly fly off the ending is just even more thruple fuel.
@SnowWizard174 Жыл бұрын
As someone who watched all of Jello’s playthrough/stream/abridges, yes you should definitely get around to watching Dogs in Love and Dogs in Love 2 because they’re extremely worth it, even if you don’t know much about Pokémon. And if you still want more after that, you should check out his videos for Ace Attorney Investigations and Investigations II called “Miles is on Fire” (First Investigation Game) and “Miles is a Robot” (Investigations II). They’re a little longer than Dogs in Love or Sky Pirate Girlfriends, but they’re separated into different parts by Jello himself, so it should be easier to watch in bursts.
@chrisdiokno56004 ай бұрын
TBF, polycules tend to be more open communication and everyone being with everyone rather than just all being for one
@DgShadowChocolate8 ай бұрын
bUT W hO ArE THe mEn FrOM tHE EaST?!?!?
@BarlioneManobolge Жыл бұрын
"Dogs in love" and the "Miles is a robot" series are great.
@Fangria Жыл бұрын
the british cant impersonate texans. as someone who grew up in texas with a british neighbor i can tell you that what happens is the british accent overpowers the texas accent and assimilates it if you spend too much time with her
@CaedmonOS Жыл бұрын
So what you're saying is British accents are all consuming.
@Fangria Жыл бұрын
@@CaedmonOS unfortunately. i went to her house after school when my parents were busy working and for years afterword people would ask if i was british. took so long to escape it
@TheArcSet Жыл бұрын
Which though, there's like 40 main British accents and a lot of very local variations.
@Fangria Жыл бұрын
@@TheArcSet shut up
@thesunwillneverset Жыл бұрын
@@CaedmonOS It'll start out ironic, but once you start it's really hard to stop :)
@luxrayever Жыл бұрын
*yes* , this is exactly what dogs in love is like
@SlyHikari039 ай бұрын
Damn, this stuff is interesting. Ps. My favorite moment in the Live Dub series was the bit during Ixa’Taka Kingdom: “This music Fucks!” “Well it is the island of fertility after all”. Gotta love it.
@skyknight0408 Жыл бұрын
I just realised this game is over 20 years old. I feel really old now!
@kiraina255 ай бұрын
Skies of Arcadia was originally released on the Dreamcast. The version that Jello and friends played is Skies of Arcadia: Legends, an upgraded Gamecube port. Beyond that I don't know of any other releases. If you've got a Wii laying around you could play Legends that way.
@CallMeTama Жыл бұрын
Always remember We are thousands of feet in the air
@JinzoMask656 Жыл бұрын
Skies of Arcadia is still my favorite JRPG. Its the one that got me into steampunk and JRPGs in general. Id hope someday they remake it, but doubt it since its sega and the only thing they can make is Sonic
@TheKenchanx3 ай бұрын
About all they've done with it is Vyse is in one of the Sonic & All-Star Racing games, and Vyse, Aika, and Fina make cameos as units in Valkyria Chronicles I think they appear in the Valkyria Chronicles anime too iirc
@TheArcSet Жыл бұрын
A harem is like the opposite of a polycule, in most cases. I think? It would be an improvement for most.
@Missiletainn Жыл бұрын
A Harem isn't a polycule. Polycule is everyone dating each other. A harem is polyamourous, and is just one person dating a bunch of people.
@Shalakor Жыл бұрын
Play Skies of Arcadia. Doesn't matter if it's privately on your own time or doing it for your audience, just play Skies of Arcadia. Don't just put it in your backlog, put it at the top of your backlog. The game is full of sincere charm and an unbridled sense of adventure. The characters are incredibly expressive and lovable (or hateable in the case of those meant to be detestable), oozing personality. It's like reading that one book that you love even when you're not a big reader otherwise. It possesses the whimsy and freedom of a child's drawing but as if it were painted by a master traditional artist in their prime. And not in the sense of a modern artist putting more effort into being subversive than into making good art, but the kind of artist that makes works that can speak to any type of person, unifying vast expanses instead of burning bridges. It's a truly special game that has aged wonderfully while still being criminally left behind by the gaming market. Talk to whatever friends or acquaintances you can about finding a way you're comfortable with getting to play the game. Play Skies of Arcadia. But, yeah, I'm not joking, it's a fun and neat game.
@TheArcSet Жыл бұрын
Hmm, I was sure there was a steam or GoG version, but looks like that was just for Tales. I'll only make the statement that, as I own the GC remaster disk, I could legally play it on Dolphin with no issues. It'll be more fun the less you look up, but the Captain rank is linked to making proper noble pirate decisions and there are some super rare drops.
@Lightheartednecromancer Жыл бұрын
ah yes Enriques awakening two, electric boogaloo
@TheArcSet Жыл бұрын
:) Thanks for this. Hoping the Pokémon ones will follow, though the 2nd is far more polished. The Colosseum games are weird enough to be rich pickings.
@Fangria Жыл бұрын
dont forget miles is one fire/miles is a robot
@genostellar Жыл бұрын
Play this game now! A thousand times, yes! And remember... we are THOUSANDS of feet in the air!
@cerberus0225 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, Dogs in Love is this but done for Pokemon Colosseum, and the follow-up video covers the first half of its sequel, Pokemon XD: Gales of Darkness. Sadly they never did a video for the second half, though I'm pretty sure they did play through the game on their streams. They said it'd be coming, but then released this vid instead, so who knows.
@daniellewis856111 ай бұрын
The second XD video will arrive eventually probably but Jello usually is working on so many projects at once (these vids, One piece book club on patreon though that's just finished streams, epithet erased content and a bunch more) that it takes a long time for them to be finished. The long waits are frustrating but do allow Jello to put out the high quality vids we see at least
@ForemostCrab711 ай бұрын
While his abridged version of their playthrough Is absolutely hilarious...you're missing a lot of the jokes unless you watched the whole VOD.
@immortalpride3099 Жыл бұрын
Dogs in love is fantastic and you should definitely check it out
@FubukiTheIcyKing Жыл бұрын
I recommend the dogs in love series as well. Also Internet Historian like the Cost of Concordia.
@colt1903 Жыл бұрын
I can't hear the guy with the deep voice speak without thinking back to "Ike gets trolled" and "Ike trolls back", which are two animatics of his fire emblem streams you should DEFINITELY watch. Also dogs in love 1&2. Whichever order ya want, there's no rush.
@TrueHitoareАй бұрын
I'm sure you got the idea from all the other comments, but I'm amused by the description that came to mind for me, so I'm gonna say it anyway. 😆 Harem is competitive multiplayer, polycule is cooperative multiplayer.
@bubbee9382 Жыл бұрын
It was first on the Sega Dreamcast then ported to GameCube with the director's cut, but maybe it's on Steam but probably on emulator.
@Bunni8911 ай бұрын
As far as I know, the difference between a harem and a polycule is that a harem is one guy with a bunch of girls who love him but don't also love each other. And a polycule is just three or more people who all mutually love each other, or love different people in different combinations but its not like only one person is the one being loved. Also harems tend to be often treated as only ever a dude with a lot of wives, with it being called a reverse harem if its a girl with many husbands. And there's a bunch of difference between the actual historical concept of harems in other cultures, and the fandom concept started by anime, aaaand the western idea of arabic harems as misinterpreted in a lot of racist fetishizey romance novels of the 1900s. Polycule is just a universal term that can be used for any gender or any amount of people, and has no negative stereotypes or fandom baggage. And throuple is just a funny way to say it, so some people prefer it, but cos its only for groups of three thats why we also have the word polycule, haha
@Bunni8911 ай бұрын
So the relationship in the game is definitely a polycule not a harem and that's why people are so pleasantly surprised about it. It's not uncommon to find a game that has all the female party members love the protag, but it's refreshing to have them also in love with each other and everyone is just fine with being together instead of a cliche cat fight love triangle sorta thing.
@pictrableАй бұрын
baby cishet boy learns what a polycule is 😭
@neaosmt1562 Жыл бұрын
World is mine is a vocaloid/hatsune miku song
@coffeeadaykeepsthesleepaway Жыл бұрын
its one gamecube and dreamcast, and its uber expensive
@RaLiChu Жыл бұрын
Yep. Both versions run for a fair bit. Unfortunately the game didn't sell too well so it's a fairly rare game.
@RaLiChu Жыл бұрын
Emulator is also an option if you don't want to shell out $100+ for a used copy
@TheArcSet Жыл бұрын
@@RaLiChuRemembering when the Game shops were full of 3.00 GC boxes, so many duplicates too.
@evilted Жыл бұрын
Do dogs in love it really good
@SPEEDY4004 Жыл бұрын
27:40 worked for one piece for how many episodes. so why not for this game too^^ mfg Olli
@zefellowbud5970 Жыл бұрын
i disagree harems are not polycules cause the members fight over one character. polycules have the characters love the other members of the polycules.
@protosaber3633 ай бұрын
Harem =/= Polycule, in any definition.
@John-lz2bs Жыл бұрын
Please do dogs in love 1 and 2
@CGomm-le7gv Жыл бұрын
8:28 giga was in first part ,cheek out snap cube they dub video game cutscenes without seeing them first the sonic lot very funny
@TheArcSet Жыл бұрын
Oh, that sounds fun. I know Dawn used to do that in his let's plays, so as to not spoil them for blind views, those were a lot of fun.
@johnjohn2570 Жыл бұрын
I will also say watch Dogs in love
@jeremiahowens9999 Жыл бұрын
Ight chief Underverse next
@detective-mothman2 ай бұрын
Please watch dogs in love, PLEASE!
@nathaniellasnetske613 Жыл бұрын
I don't understand the maga sphere joke. Can someone explain it?
@jamesfirecat6652 Жыл бұрын
Maga sphere, MAGA is shorthand for Make America Great Again, they had already given this group Deep Southern Accents, so having them reference Donald Trump’s campaign slogan fits in perfectly.
@nathaniellasnetske613 Жыл бұрын
@@jamesfirecat6652 OOOOOHHHHHH! That makes so much sense. Thank you.
@maximusharbour3463 Жыл бұрын
Go watch Dogs In Love!
@zyncxln87115 ай бұрын
Please react to their pokemon and ace attorney gameplay series
@davisranger Жыл бұрын
Emulators exist
@SPEEDY4004 Жыл бұрын
The game is skies of arcadiq right? Wasnt it a dreamcast game? mfg Olli
@SPEEDY4004 Жыл бұрын
seeing this makes me for some reason play grandia2 again such q good old game... mfg Olli
@Airier Жыл бұрын
I never beat that game. I had the old PS1 copy, and it's still in my room, but my system wasn't backwards compatible after the PS2 broke. 😅
@JinzoMask656 Жыл бұрын
@Airier whoops thought you meant skies but for Grandia 2 it's a good game you should finish it, sorry lol
@TheArcSet Жыл бұрын
Yep, but I think this was the expanded GC remastered version. I'm not sure if the Moonfish were in the original.
@JinzoMask656 Жыл бұрын
@@TheArcSet they were the only change was the assassin bounty hunter girl and her story. I don't think there was anything else added sadly.
@mediafire3167 Жыл бұрын
Watch underverse
@CallMeTama Жыл бұрын
Always remember We are thousands of feet in the air