Corpus EDAX: Kick Doors off their Hinges to Defeat the Illuminati

[@CharlatanWonder]

www.kickstarter.com/projects/aysasha/athanasia-dinosaur-immersive-sim?ref=project_build let's make immersive sims with dinosaurs happen!

[@northerntoe]

Hey man, this might be a lot to ask, but could you review? “ fortunes run” it’s another immersive Sim like game made by a team of two people just recently. They had some medical complications and I just wish that people could realize how much work was put into this very well made game

[@CharlatanWonder]

@@northerntoe I've been following fortune's run and the events of team fortune for a few years now. I'll be honest with you: when EA released I really didn't like what I played and opted to give them a year or so to improve the game. I really don't know what to do with the game now in the wake of recent announcements.

[@sirbill_greebi3811]

Don't feel bad about struggling to finish your book. That's me too. Just know it took 11 years for Tolkien to write Lord of the Rings. (The trilogy was supposed to be a single book, but it was too big/paper shortages or something...)

[@northerntoe]

@@CharlatanWonder I understand man , thank you for hearing me out . I only recently discovered the game and just assumed it was one of those completely unknown gems Love your videos man good luck

[@GameDevYal]

I love how the regular doors you can't hack are labelled as "analog door" in the GUI. Nice bit of worldbuilding.

[@lordfriedrick7911]

Give the dev more time and money He deserves and needs it for developing more quality He clearly has a vision, and i want to see it full, but more time and money are needed

[@BerlinChild]

Over a year ago I saw the dev making a "Which of these two textures look better" post on reddit. Ever since that day I was hyped for this game. Its right up my alley. Very excited to see you review it!

[@Archer_A99]

Oh wow, a crowd funded indie immersive sim that actually released some time this century. (early access doesn't count.) Maybe there is hope for the indie imsim scene after all. :p

[@robertnomok9750]

116 mostly positive revies after 2 weeks. No there isnt. Game only saving grace its being imsim. All othe aspect of it are below average. Its really not a good game. Cruel squad achives much more whie havign same core.

[@Archer_A99]

@@robertnomok9750 It's called "damning with faint praise." Of course this isn't an achievement but for this subgenre and its fanbase it is, and they completely fail to see how utterly pathetic that is. And when you got imsimps saying genuine imsim successors like Blood West and Ctrl Alt Ego don't count cause "muh fuckin' boxes" or some other arbitrary BS then sure. Let this be their milestone victory instead of actually finished/complete games.

[@robertnomok9750]

@@Archer_A99 Honestly whole imsim elitism is worse than metroivanian. Imsim is not a genre its a loose set of design decisions. Like at some point people considered Graven an imsim just because you can move boxes. Or how thief is sudenly an imsim but metal gear solid series isnt. While both are just stealth action games.

[@joanboring26]

I've beaten the game, it's a 6/10 at best. The combat feels weird and I never really clicked with it I guess? It just doesn't feel very fluid. The stealth systems are okay but very basic. Story is pretty bad, and none of the characters stood out for me at all. The last minute plot twist didn't seem to have much foreshadowing either. The imsim part didn't really seem to be that present, you can just kind of unga bunga through all encounters without having to engage with the few imsim mechanics there are (stacking objects, hacking doors and smacking an enemy's face on a scanner to open it)​@@Archer_A99

[@joanboring26]

​@@robertnomok9750 To add on, the game pretty much shows off it's entire hand and mechanics by the second-third hour of play. You've pretty much seen all items/mechanics once you reach that point and no new innovative way of using them shows either. The game's idea is cool but it needs more content. The big open area before you head into the final boss building is super guilty of this.

[@lordfriedrick7911]

The Chonker meowed I repeat: The Chonker meowed

[@cyberbeep5187]

I showed my daughter the chonk meowing and she is THRILLED. thank you so much Charl, you made our day today when i picked her up :) thank you again for the quality content

[@brutosmomentos7355]

13:21 The three companions that come to the final fight bugged for me and didnt enter the room, so they all "survived" the fight. Yes jacqiue does wake you up from the hypnosis and you basically "save the world" together.

[@owensowders5329]

Charlatan Wonder making me drop everything to watch a video on a game I'd never play without it

[@mastergame1311]

Looks awesome. Also, it's funny hearing Dark Souls being used not as a difficulty icon, but rather as rushed product. Hopefully the dev will be able to rest soon.

[@TheWilldrick]

Been on a Civvie binge and I was truly waiting the electric discharge noise after that intro!

[@ServantOfBoron]

Shockathon sound like something I would love to watch

[@anomalocaris7238]

ngl i kinda just imagined frisk as having ur voice cus u always use him like a face in the starts of ur videos lmao

[@volpa7408]

Have been playing since day one, and honestly, even with all the jank and unfinished edges, I had a lot of fun

[@faythesk8r]

It's so weird to hear Frisk meow cuz I associate your voice with seeing him LMAO

[@913Haise]

one of your best titles for a video.

[@sirbill_greebi3811]

What the health kit giveith, the health kit taketh away.

[@g_mixesajl293]

My brain went so confused when the Kevin McLeod music started playing because in my head, that’s the creepy pasta music that’s on every single Mr. Creepypasta storytime

[@bubbadoo10]

Kevin is a godsend of content creators needing good royalty free music fr

[@CharlatanWonder]

Kevin Macleod is the patron saint of all KZbinrs.

[@MidnyaDaCow]

Even with the game feeling unfinished, i'm looking forward to picking it up at some point with the demo already interesting me very much. Long as i can continue to mess around and climb things i'm happy with another immersive sim being released.

[@thesidneychan]

15:10 this cut area is being planned for future content update, according to the steam forums. I'll consider getting this game once it's more finished.

[@squeethemog213]

Shockathon sounds cool! Thank you for making this vid man. Please don't forget to take care of yourself. Much love to ya :D

[@Skuttie]

This does seem jank, but the fun kind of jank.

[@source22]

It is

[@miklyk]

yessirrrr! been waiting for this one

[@chrisdiokno5600]

After the demo, I awaited this game

[@enadopato]

really hope this games later updates lean into the jank, its the perfect storm of setbacks that deus ex, system shock and many games with great emergent gameplay have, wishing him the best

[@NickiRusin]

0:02 ACTIONABLE PUN DETECTED

[@Craft2299]

I often buy games that you feature, this is one of them. didnt wanna finish the video until after the first playtrhough. It was alright... Fun time, have gotten 3 different endings with different styles of play. First, normal. Second, athletics only (speedrun), Third, Strength and kill everyone only. Second and third were done within like maybe 2 or 3 hours of gameplay. Fourth will be pacifist, old man hacker. In the "Indie revolution" section of the main menu, one game to blow me away right now is Aquametsis and honestly recommend you and everyone to check it out.

[@Mint-Lynx]

Gotta give respect to a dev who puts out two or three patches a day to fix up his game when there's some who'll pass up on bug squashing in favor of making DLC.

[@hailmarycake62]

Not only have I gotten the game because of this video, I also somehow beat it the same day. Fun game!

[@Virvioo]

I am simple. I see a cat, i smile

[@DrinkGameRepeat]

Was honestly not ready for the kick animation. It's clear there's some *force* behind that thing. No wonder you send people flying!

[@wiiinnnttteeerrr]

Both the Souls & -shock marathons sound great, I'll be looking forward to them!

[@deathrod11]

21:10 I'd absolutely love to see you play through the souls games

[@gaiusfulmen]

That kick is monstrous

[@jasonscarborough94]

7:50 This needs to be a feature in more games.

[@alexandreturcotte6411]

[Reads the tagline on the thumbnail] [Neuron activated]

[@Dr.Agent.420]

Was here

[@benjaminthacktacker4219]

Got here in the first hour baybeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[@valentine12]

That was the sassiest meow I've ever seen

[@mrcheesemunch]

I normally watch all of these because I end up not getting the games but I actually skipped the story segment after a bit because this game looks real cool, I think I'll give it maybe a few months in the hopes some of that jank is ironed out but it's definitely getting wishlisted

[@formam1022]

They can't learn my patterns if even I don't know them!

[@thehoodedteddy1335]

You should get one of those soundboard mats for your cat to communicate with them

[@CharlatanWonder]

I really don't want to hear "Snack!" "Snack!" "Snack!" "Snack!" "Snack!" "Snack!" "Snack!" "Snack!" "Snack!" "Snack!" "Snack!" "Snack!" "Snack!" "Dinner!" "Dinner!" "Dinner!" "Dinner!" "Dinner!" "Dinner!" "Dinner!" "Dinner!" "Dinner!" "Dinner!" "Dinner!" "Dinner!" "Dinner!" "Dinner!" "Dinner!" "Dinner!" "Dinner!" "Dinner!" "Dinner!" every night at 3 in the morning.

[@thehoodedteddy1335]

@@CharlatanWonder i saw a video of after a conversation about the cat’s ‘dad’ not being back for a while, it seemed like the cat thought ‘mom’ should be out looking for him, then just kind of looked her dead in the eye and pressed “mad”

[@countphil1]

Its a decent experience some areas are too large and bereft of items in the backhalf.

[@Masterhitman935]

7:39 home alone, flashback.

[@Pbmarron]

The combat seems to land somewhere between The Chronicles of Riddick and Dark Messiah of Might & Magic.

[@reddie1705]

the fact that side-content hunting nowadays is Insym Mindset makes me physically ache 😭 valid

[@Shanewayne9]

holy shit I didnt know that 9:00

[@luclin92]

dam one guy made this? dam. this looks pretty good for a one man show. hopefully the guy manages to realise most of his vision once the game has been properly patched

[@TheAlison1456]

that's dope

[@robertdemarco5209]

would love to see shockathon

[@DukeofNukem98]

Came for the game review, stayed for kitty

[@ManBung]

Woah, that draw me like one of your French girls pose Frisk...

[@NickAndWolf]

GRIMBEEEEAAAAARD CLUB MUSIC

[@blackm4niac]

Is it wrong that when you said that we'd get a "kick" out of this game, my mind went straight to Dark Messiah of Might and Magic?

[@TheMC1102]

Frisk is somehow adorable and terrifying at the same time.

[@LordLiquidBaconII]

The Final Thoughts timestamp in the description has a typo.

[@Stevil935]

I may come back to it, but I was not impressed so far. I couldn't join the sharks instead of the saviors. I couldn't do much in terms of stealth gameplay other than "crouch and stay behind people". I was told I should be able to throw items to distract enemies but when playing the game I couldn't find even one enemy who investigated an item that I threw. When sneaking around I can't run up to the items fast enough before the enemies spot me anyways so they end up attacking me long before I can find a melee weapon to attack them with. If I do have a melee weapon already it breaks after 2 hits on one person so the other guys usually kill me anyways. And worst of all - I can't stop getting lost in this game. The game is hard, janky, frustrating, and has a horrible mission waypoint system. I want to like it, but currently there's not much for me to enjoy here. I ended up getting bored and going back to Cruelty Squad. Hopefully after some time I can come back to it and there will be enough fixes where I'll enjoy it again. That said, I do love that enemies get attacked by static objects. All they have to do is walk over to an object in order to take damage from it.

[@RainMakeR_Workshop]

No guns, but lots of improvised weapons... Soooo, its sci-fi future UK!

[@CoperliteConsumer]

Gud kitty

[@MrChainsawAardvark]

A good project would be to look at "Vampire Survivors" style games, since those seem to have had a bit of a renaissance. It seems they have adopted the name "Bullet Heavens" though I think "Smash Like" might have been a better term, since I think your could argue the old arcade titme "Smash TV" is a good predecessor. (Though it admittedly didn't have the synergies these later games would show). Still - it seems to be a genre that that rose to prominence fairly recently, and they're designed to not require dozens of hours per attempt - saving your sanity compared to trying every "Shock" or every Fromme Soft.

[@thesidneychan]

Smash-like has been overtaken by Super Smash Brothers.

[@sayftysayfty4228]

What does immersive sim even mean?

[@rokorok3]

Nonlinear action-adventure where you can approach encounters in different manner

[@CharlatanWonder]

It means you can stack boxes in a video game.

[@clemvidtube]

Doesn't really work for me. Played the demo, it's really broken, I'm sorry if the guy is great and patching it and whatever, not gonna spend my money in its current stare. Some of us only have a few hours a month to spend on games. Not all of us game for a living...

[@redclone100]

Lol those where'd yah go yawls

[@JZStudiosonline]

As much as I credit the guy for doing it solo... I kind of don't care. The game is too rough and inherently flawed. He would have to entirely remake every level past the first area, on top of actually fleshing out and finishing the first area. I can't believe the intentional way of going through the mine is actually to just literally sprint at enemies and kick them off the catwalks. It's clear that he had a bunch of ideas he wanted to implement, but didn't think them out all the way. Even if the faction system actually did anything, the game is only like 6 hours long and outside some speech checks that ultimately give the same result, there's no way to gain favor with antagonist factions. The only thing the game really has is the unique but clunky combat system. Stealth kind of sucks and a bunch of places it doesn't work. Hacking only gets you useless money or items, not even alternative routes. Anything outside combat skills just isn't useful enough to matter. It's also really cool to know that he rushed it out of early access because he ran out of money and needed more, and the only reason I bought it was because it left early access, only to now basically be told it's still early access masquerading as finished release.

[@johnmiller7637]

cat

[@CecilioSprayetti]

I definitely would not call this a good game, its an action game with combat that isn't well fleshed out disguised as an RPG as it essentially has 0 RPG elements that actually function. I also wouldn't call it an immersive sim, it has bare minimum immersive sim elements like being able to pick up world objects. Get it if it has an enormous discount, or when the developer adds a ton of new content (and I mean a TON, it barely has anything at the moment)

[@superhetoric]

there are people who don't skip the cooking segments??

[@kellik7931]

Dawg skip Infinite that game is so fucking sloppy. Just tell people to watch the Always Bet On Dunc video about it

[@zaddyzeeseburgnutz]

Ngl the game is so fucking unplayable and badly designed.