BRUTAL ORCHESTRA - Enter this Putrid Purgatory from the Creator of Perfect Vermin & Swallow the Sea!

BRUTAL ORCHESTRA - Enter this Putrid Purgatory from the Creator of Perfect Vermin & Swallow the Sea!
BRUTAL ORCHESTRA is available now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/17...

[@girlmeat-beth]

didnt realize perfect vermin and swallow the sea were by the same person, sweet

[@AlphaBetaGamer]

Yeah, he made Pit of Babel too. Love his games! There are quite a few Easter eggs and returning characters from his previous games in this one too - such as the giant sea worm boss (from Swallow the Sea).

[@hypermelon_8654]

@@AlphaBetaGamer this one was a bit different tho no ? This was more... wholesome and sweet ?

[@Rurush7]

@@AlphaBetaGamer Thanks for mentioning that too, Pit of babel was nice too. But this one is by far my favorite it has a more developped story line and the sounds of characters and skill animation choices are just AWESOME. I love this channel for the choice of so many nice games. I couldn't afford the time to play all of this. But I can still enjoy them somehow.

[@gremlinman9724]

man, i always loved that guy. he's like, one of the main indie horror fellas rn along with kittyhorrorshow and yames.

[@smilemore7431]

I know who kittyhorrorshow is, if I’m correct they made the game about the scary living house, but who is yames.

[@gremlinman9724]

@@smilemore7431 yames is the creator of Explore My Body and Water Womb World. also, the scary living house game is called anatomy.

[@bigtimefucko1732]

im not exaggerating when i say perfect vermin absolutely haunts me

[@gremlinman9724]

@@bigtimefucko1732 eh, i think it woulda been spookier if it was this story about lovecraftian creatures that infested buildings through their furniture instead of being an allegory for cancer

[@yuyu-ot2vk]

I suggest if you like indie horror game and don't mind some commentaries ManlyBadassHero is pretty good too. I love watching his video

[@thomstevens1238]

So the creature in Swallow the Sea is clearly the ouroboros, and nowak mentions he worked cutting fish with his dad. We see at the end of swallow the sea the head of the ouroboros at a fish processing plant with the main creature. If this place is a subconscious world he created then it’s safe to say Nowak was working at that same processing plant.

[@Ashelybee]

I mean that's explains the fish

[@certifieddumbass5266]

bruh what if swallow the sea is nowak’s intrusive thought

[@NeostormXLMAX]

​@@certifieddumbass5266 i mean one of the final bosses of the game has a move that literally just "separates fiction from reality" and thus killing whatever character it attacks in one move erasing them from reality, showing that all the people you play as are just nowaks imaginary friend just like borsck or whatever. its all a hallucination after his head injury from suicide.

[@RacoonySkaloonyOfficial]

Te creature ITSELF is orro, borrus is the orange fella

[@Gurtrock12Grillion]

​@@Ashelybeeand the orro

[@clivah1499]

I loved the moment where the warning that "the game will get a lot harder" was followed by more than a million damage to the main character! Seemed funny, and something I haven't seen before.

[@hyperinvox9129]

funny fact about that scene: the numbers aren't just random. they're all the ages of different things. the first one is the age of the universe then the age of the earth then the age of life on earth then the age of humanity as a species then the age of nowak himself (source: maceo himself on the brutal orchestra discord)

[@FuriousMaximum]

Age of the universe: 13,770,000,000 Years Age of the earth: 4,593,000,000 Years Age of life on earth: 3,500,000,000 Years Age of humanity as a species: 2,400,000 Years Age of Nowak: 23 Years

[@hrothgarnogar]

I mean the millions of damage happens BEFORE it says that too.

[@apollyonnoctis1291]

Epilogue: News Report: *A Dead Man’s Masterpiece* A week ago, Paramedics were called to the scene after multiple witnesses reported seeing a man jump off a building in a possible attempt at suicide. Sadly, they were too late to save this man, who has been posthumously identified as Nowak Bosch, a worker at the nearby Ouroboros fishing industry. But what they found above his corpse was nothing short of both awe inspiring, gruesome, and beautiful. The work of art, which was able to be photographed before the rainstorm washed it away 2 hours later, was painted with the man’s own blood and brain matter. It is believed to have been painted over the course of 30 minutes, and was more than likely Nowak’s final act. There is a small shrine in the alley that has since erected by his coworkers in order to pay their respects to Nowak. There have also been requests made to recreate the painting Nowak painted in the Alleyway, with many titling it “Death’s Embrace”.

[@the_ceo_of_funny1014]

So I think the story goes like this: Nowak was an artist in life, is art actually didn't reach to anyone in particular, but is was more a thing he did for himself as an hobby, creating these big worlds full of goofy creatures. One day he died or did he? We don't know how he died, at the start of the game we see a guy falling off a cliff so mabye it was suicide, but is pretty irrelevant at this point. In the game we play wile Nowak is slowly dying probably from an head trauma concidering how he look in game and all the game is playing inside his head as we slowly get more and more confused from blood loss. So we are basically trapped in this coma/purgatory until we die. Bosch in this game is just another part of Nowak (at the start of the game he look pretty pissed when Nowak say his name so I think the name Bosch is just a made up name to not reveal the fact that he's Nowak), anyway "Bosch" just want all of this to end and to do that Nowak, the real one in real life, as to die. Bosch during the first run is fooling Nowak to basically end his life once for all. In the second ending Nowak refuse to do that, going back to purgatory. At this point Nowak find more about himself talking to the guitar old man skeleton and decide to get back to the point he was going to kill himself to instead make one last thing: make a painting, the thing he loved to do his all life and the most touching part is that the painting will not last, the rain will wash it away and nobody will see it, but it's ok because it's making it for himself and that's what matters in the end (also cool thing: in the game you get pigments from the blood of your enemyes and in real life you use blood to paint your final painting, SO COOL!!). To be honest I was a fool to quit this game after the first ending, this game is so damn touching and is kinda true in a way. I'm an artist too and sometimes I realize that the best things I made are the ones that I do to comunicate with myself because I feel I need the need of expressing myself. I think this game is a true piece of art in a way

[@scriggle3564]

Nowak was actually a kid

[@Crowborn]

Dude's games were already incredible and he keeps getting better and better with each new release, I really hope this one goes well for him, looks amazing and he deserves the commercial release to pick up a lot more steam after making such gorgeous games for free before :)

[@goryn5761]

This game feels like hylics, but more coherent, the animations, the attacks, there's even an enemy with similar head shape on 11:00 (on the left), the game was definitely inspired by it

[@kingbee5025]

Yeah I thought that enemy reminded me a little of hylics

[@frds_skce]

Yep, definitely Hylics. The sand dune really affects that similarity, alongside the RPG system

[@thecandlemaker1329]

"More coherent" sounds like a bad thing in the context of Hylics.

[@neoqwerty]

@@thecandlemaker1329 "Less prog rock concept album", then.

[@MoogMonster554]

Great to see that monster from Swallow the Sea again. Also, love part just after the midway ending 29:00 where the demon dude keeps instantly murdering you each time you start the game!

[@1.618_Murphy]

2:20 The Angel of Death guy looks visibly disappointed when he heard the dead guy's name *“Nowak”* 🤣

[@Xizilqou]

I can see the swallow the sea resemblance, even one of the best monsters from that game is in here.

[@bluemooninthedaylight8073]

First thing I thought when I saw that purple slug-man

[@arthurbarros5189]

Yeah, El Orro, I think it was his name. I'm here just to see him.

[@lassenker07]

@@arthurbarros5189 Her, it had an embryo

[@arthurbarros5189]

@@lassenker07 I think the "El" is a male article in Spanish. It'll check tomorrow

[@naomiorogun3416]

This game is giving me big binding of Isaac vibes

[@AlphaBetaGamer]

Yeah, it's a little like a turn-based tactical take on Binding of Isaac. It's just as addictive too! :)

[@KameradeKitten]

This game is absolutely beautiful, from the story to the designs, to the game play style and the music- it's just,, wow,, 😮

[@davidmartin9225]

I can't discern a meaning, but I don't need to, this is beautiful.

[@aRandomFox00]

"Bosch" was the manifestation of a repressed part of Nowak's personality. The body of Nowak's "killer" was actually himself, his body in the real world, because Nowak died from suicide. By killing his real body, Nowak/Bosch would embrace death. By refusing, they decide to live instead. But choosing to live means you have to deal with all the other brutal challenges that life throws at you for no reason.

[@lachlanmccormick3486]

@@aRandomFox00 I don't think "Bosch" is a repressed part of his personality _exactly,_ I think he might actually be the left hemisphere of Nowak's brain. I'm no expert on the subject but the "silent companion" things Bosch says reminds me of a video *CGP Grey* did called *You are Two.*

[@QuantumWaltz]

@@lachlanmccormick3486 I'd agree with that assessment; it would mean Bosch is telling the truth (mostly) when he tells Nowak that they're both adults capable of having competent conversation. Technically speaking, they ARE each imagining the other, and each DOES represent the other's traumas, because they are two sides of the same coin, the two men/brains/psyches that cooperate to pilot Nowak's living body, and when everything is working as intended, they are locked in constant competent conversation with one another anyway. It's only forceful division that causes the brain to truly consist of two individuals, after all, rather than a near-symmetrical unit of redundant functionality. I'm going on a tangent here, but I do think it's important to remember that the data we have concerning the binary nature of the human brain comes from cases where the corpus callosum has been severed, forcing the brain hemispheres to adapt to their newly-isolated state. In a healthy, unaltered brain, the evidence seems to point to us being both one AND two at the same time, communication happening faster than thought so that the right hand can literally know what the left is doing. At that point, the concept of being "two" is so blurred that it may not actually apply. Separating the hemispheres may lead to two people residing in the same skull, but it only comes from the hemispheres being physically unable to share data directly. The more each half knows that it can't tell the other, the more different they become as people. That said, it is possible for the two halves of your brain to have different favorite colors (My left prefers blue, but my right gravitates to yellow, for example,) so the potential to be two is ever-present.

[@yahoo3388]

@@aRandomFox00 this makes a lot of sense!!!!!!

[@darialomurno05]

My interpretation is rather simple and shallow but here it is This game is a love letter to its author, himself, with him representing its imaginary world onto it's art, but at the same, knowing when to "cut off" from it to live in the real world

[@acrj-alfasaus4825]

made a 10+ hour video into one tenth of the time, that’s mad skillz

[@crucifiedhughneutron7764]

Second time commenting here, just thought I’d let you know that Brutal Orchestra has now been updated! There’s plenty of new enemies, a few more characters, and a new quest to do.

[@afakename9647]

The victory music at 4:47 is actually a secret message hidden in a Hieronymus Bosch painting. In the painting the sheet music for the tune was tattooed on the butt of some guy being tortured. The track used in this game starts at 0:28 in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZ_VenavaKeWaLc

[@FortuneHatter]

Now this, this game is a Gem.

[@LoreGunjurer]

13:43 Trigger Fingers 21:52 SmoothSkin 38:25 Hickory 41:28 Ouroboros 48:53 Osman Sinnok

[@crucifiedhughneutron7764]

Fun fact: the sepulchre enemy is based off the pink bagpipe in hieronymus bosch’s artistic definition of hell. This also applies for the skinning homunculus, which was that thing that looked like a pair of ears with a knife blade in the middle.

[@PossessedGlitch]

Thank you for sacrificing your time for our enjoyment.

[@tenebroso5967]

At first I thought that Orro is pretty small in reality comparing it to the other creatures from swallow the sea, but then I saw it here...

[@localpieceofcheese]

Fun :D

[@greysonsnow8809]

the creature swallow the sea took place in had to have been the size of a freaking leviathan if the orro was that big...

[@RujiTheRockBoi]

41:29 AH it's back!

[@AlphaBetaGamer]

Haha, yeah! Was great to see the seaward from Swallow the Sea again! He puts up a big fight in this game. Took me about 15 minutes to beat him and he has a very nasty attack that can insta-kill your characters. :)

[@RujiTheRockBoi]

@@AlphaBetaGamer lol nice XD

[@greysonsnow8809]

@@AlphaBetaGamer why she so big tho?? Makes me scared for whatever leviathan swallow the sea took place in.

[@northernalpine4350]

Such a unique Style its so enchantingly horrifying

[@faustodaniel5716]

Honestly i loved the enemy designs and how the main character probably added things from his memory which warped the world he had imagined like the first boss

[@colorphone5154]

I love the dialogue in this already, and im only 8 minutes in.

[@TheJared38]

What happened to the rotting guy that you first pick up? In between edit cuts, it's him, then a purple worm thing? Edit: Didn't realize until later that all the allies are interchangeable, and are just warm bodies(so to speak)

[@firebobert9546]

The edit isn’t the thing, the “character” you speak to is actually a rotting corpse and the purple thing (longliver if I remember correctly) is a worm inside of it

[@greysonsnow8809]

@@firebobert9546 the purple worm is ouroborus (or orro in swallow the sea)

[@pepozuniga6495]

Some of the attack animations and stuff remind me a lot of LISA: The Painful and The Joyful, god I want to play it so bad.

[@sloft-70]

Yeah I also thought the same

[@lilsmolcrow]

I love the battle system! Since ABG edited some parts out, I got a bit confused lol The grotesque style is a bit off-putting, it reminds me of "OFF" by Mortis Ghost

[@AntipaladinPedigri]

44:02 ah yes, my archnemesis - the bagpipe ba llsack

[@chrisg5219]

This guy is a genius

[@adonisthedrifter]

Babe wake up new ABG video just dropped

[@the_ceo_of_funny1014]

The monster at 43:57 is also present in a painting by Hieronymus Bosch

[@HettesKvek]

Pokemon sure has changed a lot since I was a kid.

[@ultra-rex7648]

I love 42:00, I love how they did Orro

[@greysonsnow8809]

if she's that big then the creature swallow the sea took place in must have been an entire leviathan, thats freaky bro

[@Rurush7]

43:46 so after seeing there was a talk with a character about that painter Bosch I went to check and he has a piece where we can see those human ears with the blade in between.

[@Nyax50Lopez]

40:00 Sounds like a cool Pokemon gym leader theme song

[@Kollapse]

I like the mood of the boss fight at 39:00. The flames in the background, the hectic music, the way people who die during the boss fight get ignited and can be seen and heard running and screaming. It's perfect.

[@DragonMaiden77]

This game is beautiful but it hurts my heart

[@lapisliozuli4861]

It reminds me of Hylics, even though I've never watched or played it

[@isekaiexpress9450]

The combat system sure looks like Hylics, but Hylics has better music.

[@morallybankrupt1461]

I’ve been a big fan of this developer since he created perfect vermin. Everything he makes is amazing.

[@kennym249]

Hylics meets lisa

[@adorabomber123]

From what I can see, the game is about depression and other topics I have yet to dig out from this. Throughout the game there are signs that your murderer was only yourself, and Borsch was trying to put an end to it all. That probably isn’t it, but I’d like to have other people’s views on this.

[@certifieddumbass5266]

i’d like to engage if u don’t mind,, many thanks for sharing ur thoughts and inviting discussion on this beautiful game, and apologies in advance for the following dump something i found interesting out of the way first, someone pointed out that nowak and bosch could represent the two hemispheres of the brain, referencing the split brain syndrome that arises from severing the corpus callosum. since silent companion / dominant side, communication, and art are touched upon, it would be fitting, especially as nowak’s yellow occupies their right eye and bosch’s purple occupies their left. though then again i could be reading too deeply into “two selves” and it could merely be the symbolic notion of confronting and conciliating with one’s shadow / demons as for your comment, i wouldn’t exactly say the game itself is about depression specifically, though i wouldn’t necessarily disagree with the notion. it’s heavily implied that he suffered from many psychological pains, but it’s ultimately kinda peripheral-the struggle of depression is not really relevant to the story, only the aftermath is. while the catalyst certainly seems to be nowak / bosch / the pitiful corpse’s suicide, this game isn’t really a narrative about depression that deals with finding a reason to live; it seems more akin to a journey of closure that focuses on making peace with death. i think it’s a common trope…a subconscious soujourn exploring one’s psyche depicted through a surreal and symbolic plane. kinda like the divine comedy sorta on the note of esoteric symbolism though, the sombrero skeleton with the guitar by the campfire…in his post-cutscene extra dialogue, he mentions the most beautiful name only having three letters, and hinted that they’d have the opportunity to talk again, even with nowak being unquestionably mere moments from death. the ambiguity is intriguing…i may be missing something, but the only words i could think up to plausibly fit within that context are either “You” “One” or “God”, though some folk argue little difference between the three anyway. anyway, i don’t think it’s too uncommon for God in media to be represented as a simple albeit enigmatic, strange yet familiar sage or bard of sorts who acts somewhat as a mirror to spur self-reflection and invite insights through abstruse metaphors and thought-provoking, hard-hitting big questions. as far as meaning and themes go…music is a biggie. it’s often philosophically used as a metaphor to depict life and attempts to find meaning / art in the patterns / illusions, generally more so than visual art due to its intangible and temporal yet evocative nature. it’s highlighted through the game’s title “hieronymus bosch’s brutal orchestra” and that bridging dialogue, which concludes with the revelation that differentiating between chaos and clarity is a matter of shifting one’s perspective / consciousness-the only thing that separates noise from music is understanding it as such, and the only thing that separates nowak from bosch is recognizing his reflection and reconciling with it. what makes this game interesting is that regardless of the ending, nowak, bosch, and the corpse that housed them both still die in the end-the only difference in whether or not everyone gets that satisfying closure and beautiful ending is whether or not nowak makes peace with his fractured self. in the true ending, the two aspects of nowak fight through dreamlike purgatory and defy death, or delay it at least, just to make a work of art depicting their journey and reconciliation - an image that i think is also seen when nowak takes his first step towards self-forgiveness by disobeying bosch and acknowledging that he didn’t deserve such a death. imperfect, ephemeral, and obscure as it may be, it’s still undeniably real and immeasurably meaningful to its artist / audience, which nowak poignantly emphasizes, are both conveniently present and the only ones it matters to. there’s a lot of metaphysical / philosophical / ontological / epistemological / spiritual / what have you discussion that portrays life as a whole much like that painting, but at this point i really have to apologize for the length and spare the tangent lmao endless thanks for offering this opportunity for me to spill my rambles

[@adorabomber123]

@@certifieddumbass5266 Honestly you don't have to apologize, it was wonderful seeing your side on this. I gotta ask though, what do you make of the final boss of the game, ie. that grey guy that said he would parade Nowak's corpse?

[@danieljaworski7239]

​@@certifieddumbass5266 thank you for this exhausting take! I will have food for thought for some time... It is fascinating how people are able to translate their inner realms into reality

[@Enzwurm]

The way this tragic story crawls into your shoes and grabs you by the neck is so beatiful. Something modern games can take a leaf out of your book.

[@Ra-gv6lx]

Meet Nowak, fate will not be your rest 👻

[@MeBeCreepy]

I thought this more content for Swallow the sea, would like more from that game, it this one is also just as interesting

[@Sebastianmaz615]

Very cool gameplay. Creepy. 👍🏻😊

[@chara8718]

There is horror in it

[@F-E-A-R]

Hylics, LISA and binding of Isaac all coalesce into this neato fever dream

[@Radi_vvanker]

Loved the story of the other 2 games im gonna love this probably

[@trollgegaming6562]

41:29 Return of the king.

[@danielkilworth1076]

.....wow.....this game, is morbid....Yet beautiful...

[@rainond.cooper2971]

I wonder if someone would consider making an actual language out of this, cause it sounds like you could

[@ivorymantis1026]

What a delightful lil cast of monsters.

[@ikramderokas]

I think the game is talking about the creator of itself, after all, the protagonist, Nowak created creatures and places don't exist and he wanted feel those were real even for a moment, so maybe the game is a way to make them real.

[@florentbty6933]

This reminds me of Lisa in some ways. Def buying this.

[@ariamohebi1]

This game is amazing!!!

[@kenon2414]

Huge Hylics vibes

[@frds_skce]

Hot damn, another great indie RPG to support!

[@oscarraymond5737]

I love you, guitar guy ❤️ 🎸

[@user-bv5cg8hb1w]

I really love this game! The Brutal Orchestra has amazing music!

[@dean107]

music is fire

[@johngezon1220]

Fever dream Pokémon, I love it

[@burstingolem8023]

48:50 I couldn't piece together just who this dude is in the story, but I feel like I've been him a few times

[@dean107]

loved that😃😃😃😃😃😃😃

[@supergoron1]

Saw Meat from Vinesauce in the thumbnail, that peaked my interest.

[@MaythemCoffery]

Ngl Trigger Fingers theme is a banger

[@c0bbo]

very cool

[@creditsunknown7974]

Not sure if its a reference or conicidense but Borsch name may be related to the painter by the same name, known for drawing almost feverish depictions of hell.

[@nullstudios2989]

I thought I recognized that creature in the thumbnail

[@snek8907]

This game looks good

[@Gurtrock12Grillion]

I'm happy the orro from swallow the sea came back

[@nobodyimportant4778]

Never before have i seen the twist of splitting into two seperate spirits when you die

[@justinisorange]

perfect vermin was brilliant

[@alissonaxl]

Phantasy Star 4 feelings.

[@nethergollum4219]

oh jesus the feels

[@Dawn._]

캐릭터들이 끔찍하게 귀여운 게 아이작이 떠오르네

[@billnbeard3258]

Main character is a Polish soldier who hallucinate after exectuion shooting, dying after drawing on the wall

[@RetoskiCat]

the artstyle is very reminiscent of edmund mcmillen's early works

[@siggymilfordjigutzpilgrid]

What a trip

[@maf6768]

Recently played and it good

[@isekaiexpress9450]

It really has some inspiration from Hylics.

[@btkeller93]

honestly dude man group whatever you are, ABG, you could do a raw channel that doesn't condense or edit as much. A few of these games I know people would be interested in seeing in the full. Don't get me wrong. you're editing and timing is A+, just sometimes the game warrents seeing it in full, flaws in play and all. A separate channel sort of thing. I love what you do on here and wouldn't change a thing.

[@AntipaladinPedigri]

23:15 these nativity scenes are getting ever weirder...

[@timmycu]

god this game is too good to be real (pun intended)

[@longpete9917]

44:54 i think that middle creature with all the limbs is a reference to the ending of “inside”

[@TripleA332]

I remember that purple worm fella...

[@soy_jacks]

mad binding of isaac vibes im getting here

[@burgerman72.]

Lisa the pointless reference!!1!!!

[@user-dy9ml6bq8p]

WHY WAS THE ENDING SO SAD TO ME!!?!?!??!!😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@Po0PYBLOX]

This game is like the Tim Burton version of happy game

[@Scoutman4296]

Isn’t the purple thing in the thumbnail Orro from Swallow the Sea?

[@TaliabobMair]

Yep, that game was also developed by us.

[@sloft-70]

The attack's visual remids me of Lisa: The Painfull

[@fordva1002]

How did you get so subs likes, i have known you since 2012 or something, but your content is like really good, so why did you got less subs than i thought you've have had, but still keep up the work my man.

[@thje_mop]

how do you even die in purgatory when youre already dead

[@lucasgamer25112]

the fact the purple worm boss is from swallow the sea means that he's probally alive or there's other of thems

[@Chiavaccio]

👏👏👍👍👍

[@togeluga_the_cat]

3:29 when i see this animation i cant stop thinking about LISA:the painful

[@SoreLoserKishkiXD]

Same

[@nobodyimportant4778]

Imagine if the afterlife were a big desert full of predatory land fish, and everyone becomes a random monster and mopes around for eternity. Oh and also some people become particularly bad monsters and kill you, sending you back to where you started if they see you.

[@shibadogthing9997]

My man, you should defo read Hellper

[@misschuckito1311]

Bosch kinda sounds like Bill cipher