Creepy Moments # 24

[@MudFan]

Just when I happened to be lamenting that there hasn't been a new Creepy Moments video in over a year

[@ezekielbaskerville2710]

I wanna add something Git didn't get around to mention: Part of the reason Ronan is much less deserving of pity than Giles despite both being Melzas' pawns is that Ronan isn't mind controlled. Not only that, but what Git said about Alundra getting framed for Sybil's death? Ronan snapped her neck. What *also* went unsaid and is worth mentioning is that Sybil's a kid. Ages 6 and up here in Germany, because you can't teach your child too soon that someone may kill them! =)

[@knightofarkronia9968]

My headcanon is that Ronan secretly knows that Melzas is a heartless demon only pretending to be a god, but he goes along with it anyways because Melzas allows him to indulge his darkest impulses.

[@mauricesteel4995]

Very funny how Link eventually adopts Alundra's design as his own, Blue outfit and ponytail.

[@josheldon19]

The scene of the fire on Inoa Village reminds me of another PS1 game called Wild Arms. Soon after meeting the three main characters, there's a festival on the town of Adlehyde, and one of the partygoers will ask you to look for their missing son. As soon as you find him, the sky suddenly breaks and the whole town is invaded by monsters. The town suffers tons of damage, and lots of people die, including the king (whose daughter is one of the main characters). I consider this one of my personal creepy gaming moments

[@whoisthisgit]

I've actually had that game, that moment and a few others in consideration for this series. That whole era of gaming was the darkest and hardest-hitting for me.

[@luizfernandoribeiro8564]

Let's not forget that this missing son, the red baloon kid, is the first victim of the monsters...😶

[@davestew5135]

@@luizfernandoribeiro8564 Too soon man...

[@WhiteFangofWar]

The PS1 must be home to the cruelest games overall, perhaps relishing in being free from whatever censorship codes Nintendo operated on back then. Alundra 2 doesn't hold back either, seeing many villagers and animals forcibly transformed into mindless mechanical servants by enchanted keys. Then there's Arc the Lad 2 which saw literally every city and town in the game wiped out before the Dark One could be stopped, leaving it to the handful of survivors to rebuild a nearly ruined planet. Legend of Legaia, Vagrant Story and Final Fantasy Tactics as well.

[@megavolt67]

Git mentioned Breath of Fire 2 and the whole thing with Melzas sounds incredibly similar to what Deathevan was doing except that his church was worldwide. And Final Fantasy Tactics isn't more cruel than Tactics Ogre before it. I'd say that darker stories in RPGs had become more the norm than the exception by '94 or so which was a few years before PS1 RPGs really took off. Of course, we didn't get many of those darker Super Famicom RPGs out west (like every freaking Shin Megami Tensei game) because RPGs were seen as more risky games to invest in for localization until FF7's breakthrough success and because Nintendo was concerned with maintaining the NES era family-friendly image they had cultivated with westerners.

[@WhiteFangofWar]

@@megavolt67Good analysis. I was going to say 'either SNES or PS1 had the cruelest games' but I was only going off the SNES games that were localized. Tactics Ogre is indeed cruel to its cast, same for Final Fantasy 6 with its whole World of Ruin thing.

[@guidofedeli851]

I would LOVE for you to do a complete deep dive into the story of Alundra. Legitimately one of my favourite games of all time and a serious competitor against the classic 2d Zelda games.

[@Justsomeguy-sg8xf]

0:31 Thankfully I went ahead and finished the game when you first featured it in the boss analysis series. 4:52 It haunts me too. I was dreading hearing it again when I saw this was an Alundra video. 13:34 I guess that means no Buffy the Vampire Slayer then. 21:33 I relate. 24:05 A Happy Edition is something I would play too, honestly. Perfect video for the Halloween week, Git.

[@nikoladedic6623]

I had no idea that THIS is Alundra's story. Damn, they should have kept the series going as dark counterpart to Zelda.

[@blockeontheleafeon]

7:18 A worm made out of corpses. Where have I heard that one before?

[@ArcadeStriker]

Can't believe that after so long since you alluded to an episode with Alundra, it finally arrived 🎉

[@napoleoncomplex2712]

I believe the accumulation of enough 'rip offs' is how one ends up with these things we call 'genres'.

[@ivortering7120]

Err... Not really? I mean, "genre" unites all games which share one specific "idea", like, say, all metroidvanias involve connected modular map structure. Even if they are in the same group, you can't say that Symphony of the Night ripped-off Metroid. For that mater neither Wonder Boy in Monster World ripped-off Simon's Quest, even if they have similar map structure. It's similarities in "design", which make people call games as "look-alikes", "clones", or flat "rip-offs". It's kind of perspective thing, with a hint of elitism, honestly.

[@borger4505]

10:08 you mentioning goddamn James Pond in a video really caught me off guard, but maybe i shouldn't be surpreised with the variety of old games you've played

[@theinsanegamer1024]

The only thing I know about Alundra is that Legend of Legaia used the "Requiem" theme for Cara's theme. Will be interesting to find out what it's like.

[@schlamuffenimperator9460]

I played Legend of Legaia first and was befuddled when it appeared in Alundra.

[@jackmoon824]

You knowledge about games is amazing. You've played a lot of games, I would like too

[@YuubiTimberwolf]

You forgot the fact that you get a new piece of equipment from Yuri each time someone dies. Yuri did not make the Silver Armour in a Inspuration struck night, but the wishes of all villagers killed innthe fire embody said armour.

[@whoisthisgit]

Jess makes new weapons whenever someones dies, not Yuri. The Silver Armor is there the whole game before anyone has died.

[@taiyorenai7690]

11:48 I love the thought of Alundra just hopping into bed and sleeping at this point like nothing is wrong

[@Talamino]

Always banging on about Alundra to my friend that never got to play it. Amazing game

[@neoanimefreak_7606]

24:12 It all comes down to this, while games in the here and now may still have love poured into them, it doesn't really feel like it, at least NOTHING compared to games of back in the day.

[@GeflGabe]

Ahhh this game! An obscure gem it is!

[@mrnobody2683]

4:35 wait a minute That's Caras theme from Legaia That's odd

[@mrnobody2683]

5:10 Oh Why yes it is

[@michaelfitzsimmons8393]

I just looked it up. Not only was Alundra released first (1/98 US vs. Legend of Legaia 3/99 US), Legaia had a different music composer. This mean's LoL ripped off (more like plagerized) Requiem from Alundra, not the other way around.

[@obpalomino]

04:35 Yup, that song is Legend of Legaia's "Cara's theme".

[@chrissmith963]

Belter of a game. Indeed very dark. I remember being stuck on the desert temple for ages with one of the riddle puzzles. Tbh it never clicked that the premonition of the murgg foretold the fate of the town until now! 😮

[@01MrBLA]

I was gonna say it feels more like “landstalker”, but it feels like a mix of landstalker, beyond oasis, and shining wisdom

[@ivortering7120]

That's because same people that made landstalker, worked on this game (part of them, at least). And some of them were also involed in shining wisdom. Beyond oasis is just similar though.

[@carltonleboss]

You've mentioned this before, so I've been waitingfor you to talk more about this.

[@madgenta]

Wow this game is surprisingly dark. Good, but dark, I won't sleep well tonight

[@neoanimefreak_7606]

22:04 Sorry but no, that Title goes to the anime movie X. EVERY good guy and bad guy dies in the movie except the main character, who had to kill his best friend in the end, WHO had earlier killed the third friend amongst them.

[@IzanamisBurden]

Odd that you didnt finish the game itself in this video, I'm more used to your creepy bad ending series where you go over the entire game to get to the ending in question, but focusing on the story up until the moment you focus on in the video also makes sense

[@Blueflag04]

10:53 i know some things must be going wrong you said its a short journey back

[@pixelpuppy]

I loved this game so much. It's definitely one of my treasured PS1 games! So glad Working Designs localized it (though could have done without their extra intro lol) Did you know? The composer for this game also did another gem, Gravity Rush! Listen to the intro music for Gravity Rush 2! It sounds a lot like Alundra's!

[@ridermalak3291]

20:15 this give me Breath of Fire 2 vibes

[@galvanizeddreamer2051]

I'm not exactly sure whether it would be up your alley, but have you ever played any of Scumhead's games? I've only played Angel's Gear, but if the general "dark-yet-hopeful" concepts carry other to his other games, you may want to check them out.

[@OhCrapI_He]

For some reason, I find this comment section empty, despite this being a Whoisthisgit Creepy Moments video posted 3 weeks ago with almost 10,000 views. I find this hard to believe

[@OhCrapI_He]

And now I see only my own comment and "No comments yet, say something to start the conversation." KZbin is weird

[@Bensor999]

it is creepy, no one else around@@OhCrapI_He

[@ridermalak3291]

24:26 I recommended Golden Sun series for you (didn't I've told you before???). Its another underrated RPG with 3 series; 2 on GBA and the last one on NDS. All have connected timeline. Based on your what you're saying that I see from your contents, I believe you would like this kind of RPG. And of course it'll give you more idea to make contents like Strongest characters, Creepy moments, etc, from Golden Sun

[@AClockworkHellcat]

Alundra was brilliant, I need to finish it someday. ...RIP Bonaire, first they made his name a dick joke and then they killed him off. Good night, sweet prince, and may a flight of angels sing thee to thy rest.

[@marcst3199]

I got Alundra out of the bargain bin box back then, it was a (un)pleasent suprise

[@chapmaniax5195]

It's funny because I have a similar view with the emotion a game can give me: One of my first shock as a kid is with Dragon Quest V, the remake on DS. I was just a kid but merde, I had some big tears just thinking about it

[@whoisthisgit]

Well, I only played V a few years ago and it has that effect on me, as well as some moments in XI.

[@breakfastatepiphanies]

I love this game! My absolute favorite Zelda clone. I love it more than a few of the Zelda games!

[@mateusgreenwood1096]

Alundra stuff in 2023, nice

[@shadowraith10]

Many modern games fail to evoke these same feelings with their stories. A lot the time, more budget goes into story development for older games due to a lower budget for graphical fidelity. Not saying its impossible though... Tales of Xillia 2 for example sits in a sad pit in my heart that makes me pity the MC so... So much... Git, I wonder if you ever gave that game a play... If not, and you like the tales of: series, try it.

[@DiegoG2004]

Zelda, but even creepier than usual!

[@kiminowak8295]

I think it's for the best that I never heard of this game......

[@jonathanhenriquerodrigues7262]

Love the vid

[@shadowcast9973]

This game remind me of landstalker

[@megavolt67]

I see this game as more of an evolution of the Landstalker formula than a straight up Zelda clone. Now if it's something like Crusader of Centy, sure, that's a blatant Zelda clone, lol (which isn't to say it's a bad game).

[@RenoKyrie]

I also used to not like clone games, but nowadays i have respect on clone games MOSTLY on ones where they end up deviating too much from the original and actually RESPECT them Nioh 2 is a Souls Clone but its soo far away speed pace wise it end up being more a DMClike with Souls RPG mechanic Punishing Gray Raven is just a love letter to many media UNLIKE Hoyoverse games, same goes to Library of Ruina(HIGHLY reccomend this Masterpiece) + Limbus Company But when you have trash "Realistic" games like Forspoken you instantly know how bad it is because the people behind them doesnt want to make a game for a game, just for money Dishonorable mention to Daemon X Machina being a bad Armored Core wannabe While Project Wingman is THE BEST Ace Combat period

[@Mr.Jim248]

There needs to be an Alundra 2

[@ElKofmaster]

There is alundra 2, but it sucks.

[@Soshiplayz]

Poor Nava dies as well.

[@dashbrown344]

First And I LOVE this game!

[@Plide]

First? Watch out for Blue Shells!

[@dashbrown344]

@@Plide 🤣🤣🤣

[@ridermalak3291]

3:39 its a copy of Darkrai then

[@Mecceldorf]

Ah yes, you can always count on a retroesque (like one step above the NES) RPG to do all in its power to brutalize a player's emotions into a scarred, troubled soul. For me it was Drawn to Life. I've said in the past "that game ruined my fucking life." Melodramatic but that about sums it up.

[@Filmonaut]

The best 2d Zelda game: Alundra!

[@ElKofmaster]

I tend to like more this little game thab the major part of zelda ones. Damn, alundra made me feel miserable, you are the hero, but at the same time you feel useless.