Discovering NOCTURNE

[@joekojima1251]

Was disappointed it wasn't Nocturne but glad it was Nocturne

[@boldone66]

[visible confusion] Edit: it's just a meme, no need to explain the joke guys.

[@Fullmoonat9am]

Bold One He’s sad it wasn’t a video on Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne but he’s happy it was a video on Nocturne.

[@shadestrider1033]

One More God Rejected!

[@LocalHolehead]

@@boldone66 [confused screaming]

[@TheFloodFourm]

@@Fullmoonat9am Not all heroes wear capes.

[@TheMegaMario3]

I'm convinced that TheGamingBritShow finds what games to play by going to the DMC wiki page and clicking three random links so he can connect it to DMC in some way.

[@DeepWeeb]

This game is so scary that everyone's clothes are shivering.

[@KingDaveth]

Just, very windy....either that or everyone is the villain.

[@vrubay_nasos]

Lock your fps or get a slower hardware

[@MirageMiM]

>Post DMCV era >When TGB talks about Nocturne, it doesn't feature Dante from Devil May Cry U_U

[@MirageMiM]

I made this comment before watching. TGB saw me coming. Damn.

[@ogueyratogeyrat7448]

One more god rejected

[@HybridAngelZero]

So wait This means Nocturne, Shin Megami Tensei, Devil May Cry, Blair Witch and Bloodrayne are all only a few degrees of seperation from each other?! My mind is kind of explode

[@francie3169]

I thought this was about SMT: Nocturne But I'll still watch the vid

[@francie3169]

Remind me to watch the video before commenting for next time

[@spaghettoboi]

Bruh same 😔

[@Morrigan101]

Kingdom Hearts 2 has screwed us again

[@Petabik]

Same

[@raffleslovecraftfriends8375]

Same breaks my heart it wasn't to some degree tbh lol

[@pseudogiant6504]

I don't think that extreme fall damage is caused by bad game design, you are playing at a high FPS, probably something that exceeds the intended one the engine is tied to. That also explains those weird twitches on jigglebones such as Strangers coat.

[@benhillman8384]

You're probably right about the fall damage, but stranger's coat always looked like he was hiding a bag of angry ferrets under there.

[@samz8691]

Yes Stranger does take ALOT of fall damage but even in my experience (Where I DID limit the FPS, which fixes the coat.) he didn't take THAT much fall damage.Granted the different is not much but it is more.Also sure it's responsible for jumping moving that fast since I don't recall it being that fast?

[@CYON4D]

I played all of these games back when they were first released and the cloth physics were always glitchy while running on PCs from their time. I don't remember dying this often from falls though.

[@JanPospisilArt]

"He called it Frankenstein's Mobster" lol

[@Rufus2k2]

4:50 "what makes you think the Grail is a myth?" that line alone makes me want to play this, there are characters where you learn things alongside them both of you as a neophyte, but then there's ones like the Stranger who come along with an air of mystery surrounding them that gives them character and makes you want to learn more about them specifically.

[@jamesc-zd8pz]

ONE MORE GOD REJECTED!!! Oh...

[@huismands]

I'm three minutes in, and it seems all coats are haunted in Nocturne's world. I'm curious to hear the lore behind this.

[@SpectreOfTheWired]

I was scrolling through comments and saw this at exactly the three minute mark, looked up and laughed. Waking up my wife. Thanks for that 😂

[@gabagoolingeverywhere]

i think it's because they didn't limit the game's framerate

[@gabagoolingeverywhere]

been a while since i've played this but i don't remember the cloth physics being that crazy

[@gabby3036]

Damn you. Now I can't take this video seriously. He's just havin' a genuine go describing the game's premise and I'm over here like "LAWL HER LAB COAT THO!"

[@gabby3036]

No joke, I'm 5 minutes in like, "How has he not acknowledged it yet?!"

[@bitzovhadez7214]

The box art and main menu look really good for something from the 90s.

[@mariokarter13]

KINGDOM HEARTS II HAS SCREWED US AGAIN!!

[@friedpk37]

mariokarter13 Then why not vote for Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne?

[@Renbuscus]

Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne would never take advantage of our innate gullibility.

[@Comkill117]

I love that skit.

[@SurvivalHorror100]

Grim Beard Diaries brought my attention to this little gem. I had a blast with it.

[@5000Seabass]

Inside My Strange Place unappreciated youtuber

[@ThatDjinn]

One thing I love about the characters in this game is they are played naturally. Like in the first story writers could easily make Stranger constantly talk about how he doesn't trust Svetlana. Instead Stranger deals with working with her in a professional manner and plays it cool. I feel like there is a lot of potential for a game set in a world filled with many different dangers like demons, ghosts, eldrich horrors and aliens, instead we get zombie/mutant games all the time with a focus on one type of monster throughout whole story.

[@Mak10z]

RIP Lynn Mathis: Voice of the Stranger. I wish he was still kickin

[@UrLeingod]

Am I the only one who at no point even considered that this was going to be about SMT: Nocturne?

[@burtbiggum499]

UrLeingod I have no fucking idea what shin megami is

[@nietzschean3138]

Not the only one mate.

[@Melkac]

That's clearlu what he was going for, he even talks about it in the video lol

[@souffle-d-eclair]

BloodRayne is a spiritual successor to Nocturne and the titular Rayne is voiced by Laura Bailey. Video makes mention that it took until RE6 to feature waist-down nudity while Nocturne accomplished this in 1999. Nude character shown is Deborah, the younger sister of Helena, who is voiced by Laura Bailey. It's all connected.

[@shadestrider1033]

I saw the SMT Nocturne/Featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry series joke coming from a mile away.

[@NotOrdinaryInGames]

Nocturne needs to be remade. No, not with modern grafix, but made less ASS. No stupid bugs, models with proper animations, controls that are enjoyable. Keep the story, just polish the game. Perhaps Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare could have an episode. Did you even play it?

[@lameme32]

I mean, nocturne is getting a switch remaster soon... in a sense

[@stuffedsheepshead]

@@lameme32 Source?

[@sourcherrycrunch]

finally a 1440p video that fits perfectly on my crt tv. thank you GB

[@wesleybcrowen]

I thought this is a video about Demon Castle Dracula X: Nocturne in the Moonlight for the Sega Saturn.

[@Comkill117]

RIP OP Maria, and those exclusive areas and songs.

[@MD_Chaos]

Damn can't believe brit is covering one of terminal reality's first games. I discovered nocturne this year due to getting into bloodrayne and it seems pretty neat, though I'm not surprised it would have some jank in some form.

[@Sullenify]

Now imagine a Nocturne remake that played like the Resident Evil 2 remake.

[@prismaticbeetle3194]

Dont give me hope

[@Raveningly]

This is basically my childhood, and the first horror game I ever played. It'll always have a special place in my heart.

[@ZogDaMegnivizint]

I didn't know Noah Caldwell Gervais existed in the GamingBrit universe. How did he get the license for his character from Neil Gaiman?

[@teratoma.]

grimbeard is a much bigger surprise t b h

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

Very interesting, I haven’t heard of this game until now

[@supercyc10]

I’m loving those clothes physics

[@Xbob42]

Man, something about a classic horror game running at a high framerate with some decent physics (for the time) just looks really cool. Now I want to play this. Watching monsters on fire gib into 50 pieces without the slow FPS I'm used to in old horror games just looks neat. Reminds me of DMC in a way, and not just the guns akimbo.

[@MAYOFORCE]

It's pretty evident how skewed on the Japanese side of things you are when the majority of your fanbase including me assumed Nocturne meant Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne. It _does_ seem up your alley.

[@Lesquille]

I played the demo of this ages ago and loved the crap out of it. It oozes atmosphere and the graphics were really mind blowing for its time with the real time shadows.

[@aceofhearts573]

Great video. The cover of the game box always mesmerized me as a kid. What a great game even with all the jank. Those insta deaths made my brother and I laugh back in the day. Good times

[@rrm1903]

I played Nocturne as a 9 years old child and this had a big influence on my taste in movies, fashion and even my character, I can see it now, it took me months to beat the game, one hour a day or three on weekends. I was so excited to see some video on it on internet and what a great video this turned out to be. I'm not a gamer anymore but the thought that this may be a continuation of the original excited me beyond words, again cant put into words how the nostalgia and your descriptions made this half an hour a surreal experience. Thank you 🖤

[@ulysses498]

RIP Terminal Reality. Hope someone picks up bloodrayne and nocturne again someday.

[@jamianobsolete334]

They did it...

[@michapruchnik5187]

I knew from beginning it is about Nocturne, not SMT:Nocturne and i'm not disappointed

[@ParabolaTool]

I played this game as a kid. I remember getting hard stuck when I accidentally saved right before I was gonna die. I don't think I ever got very far into it.

[@petwisk2012]

This is the combination of RE câmera angles, the original alone in the Dark traps, with DOOM game Design for combat and enemie traps, (with Blood Character Design) i got you

[@kaat1]

Blair Witch vol 1 is one of the best surival horror games I played. Shame it's almost completely forgotten right now :(

[@thatoneteengamer4829]

Am I the only one who thought he was going to talk about Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne Edit: Nevermind Just started watching

[@theqreem8587]

.............. yes

[@musicwalls]

@@theqreem8587 No they're not. Look at the comments. There are tons of people who thought this was about SMT: Nocturne. It's no secret to anyone either that Brit is a big Shin Megami Tensei fan.

[@theqreem8587]

@@musicwalls this is true, but I feel like you missed the joke

[@oberstul1941]

Just the other days I was thinking about this game; it's been quite a few years since I've heard anybody mentioning it, so it's pretty nice to see it getting some recognition that it truly deserves. At least at the nostalgia level. Cheers, man - excellent put together video.

[@alangonzalezmartinez8189]

I truly enjoyed this one.

[@AguilasNest]

16:39 Ah, yes. Classic Nocturne..

[@wakesake]

this old gem needs a remake , with all the violence and nudity

[@howchildish]

10:38 Had the video in the background and thought it was weird to hear Grim's voice all of a sudden XD. He recently remade the review for the game too.

[@jozh911]

So Charlie, are we gonna get a Bloodrayne video? I know I'd appreciate it.

[@Omar-ok7gd]

I love the fact you mentioned this games coverbox art ... it just was so mesmerising that I got it immediately

[@mathewgodfrey1517]

Even at the age of 28, this game still gives me the chills. Just recently downloaded it and it still creeps me out at a few moments. I never played it as a kid, my father and brother played it more. I’m more familiar with the first two acts, a bit familiar with act three, but I dont think they ever got to the forth act or far into it. The first act is probably the best, as it features everything classic horror movie fans would enjoy, from the settings to the monsters. The second act has a great start with the werewolves on the train and the zombies in the western town, but I feel like bug creatures just makes the game go from horror to sci-fi. The last two I have very little understand of, other than three taking place in Chicago and having to reanimating corpses and four having to do with some psychopath locking Stranger up in a house with monsters.

[@DanielSantosAnalysis]

Holy shit, I played this back in the day and totally forgot about it, thanks for the nostalgia trip!

[@samz8691]

This series really needs a digital re-release.I liked how you could manually aim up/down to target legs/heads.

[@gotd4m]

Stoked to see a clip from Noah. Been trying to get people to check him out. You get my sub just because you know who it is.

[@mitchelazevedo8363]

I hate that gory ripped up bodies is worse than a naked one

[@SpecShadow]

I remember that game from some thread on forgotten forum about games lost in time. They also included other titles like The Devil Inside, From Dusk Till Dawn and else...

[@LuisMercadoorg]

Played this at release date when a teenager. It was wildly inconsistent but the Texas inspired Red Eye chapter is creepily memorable to me to this day.

[@leborder6945]

Thank you so much for this video ! I'm always looking for old school survival horror game with this fixed camera thing, and Nocturne and the blair witch trilogy games are just what I'm looking for :)

[@ianbowden2524]

90s pc games are sick.

[@Gamexpertvids]

I still enjoy going to play this from time to time, such a classic.

[@dragonphoreal]

It disturbs me that I don't recall getting a notification of this video

[@TokenCast]

If you make enough noise there may be some online programmers who might be willing to go and mod some fixes into the game or redo the textures at a bare minimum.

[@IsaacG97]

Got excited because I thought this was SMT lmao

[@bergonath8851]

Same. Almost pissed myself.

[@ogueyratogeyrat7448]

It based on tht

[@Dukefazon]

It's funny that people are discovering Nocturne these days :D I remember when it was new and played the Windy City Massacre demo.

[@MrBenjarming]

So glad Grimbeard and Noah get shoutouts on your channel

[@3KiwisInABucket]

Loved the aspect ratio for this

[@Goldman200]

This game and BloodRayne are awesome

[@0Enigmatic0]

Yo, glad to see you also watch Noah Caldwell-Gervais. Love both of you guys stuff.

[@thestigsdutchcousin]

I still own the CD's to this game. Rumor has it that Nightdive Studios might remaster this at one point, but that is only a rumor. Still, I hope to see this game again someday. I still love it.

[@Gruntvc]

I hope they can remaster it for both consoles and pc. I only found out about this this year and I don't own a CD copy. I liked Bloodrayne, well the 1st one as you got to fight Nazis.

[@valence_drive]

Speaking of weird and unexpected connections, Noah Caldwell-Gervais getting a shoutout by Gaming Brit. Guess I got to know the right reviewers, eh?

[@Fedor_Kisliakov]

Speaking of japanese horror games... "cough" Road to the Rocket Launcher "cough")

[@mikeokeeffe7608]

The biggest tragedy is that the nocturne legal acknowledgment on Smt nocturne is taken out in the hd remaster

[@Mr.Faust3]

Probably because terminal reality isn’t a company anymore

[@nmercenary]

4:11 what David Bowie movie is that? Is that “the man who fell to earth”?

[@luckyfox2997]

I wish the devs of Nocturne were still around making these kinds of games. I remember seeing it when I was little, the church being a refuge for a zombie outbreak in some dark, dreary village. No. Instead there was a sequel in the works and the higher ups shifted it from being about the Stranger main protagonist to being about the sexy sidekick vampire character...Rayne, effectively starting the Bloodrayne games.

[@WarlockX4]

No way really??? That's crazy. Thanks for the interesting information. Too bad they went with Rayne instead of expanding on Stranger.

[@luckyfox2997]

@@WarlockX4 well, it's like Gamingbrit said in the vid: Svetlana served as a base for Rayne in the new Bloodrayne games that followed because sex appeal. And we all know how that trend in games went.

[@Gruntvc]

I like Bloodrayne 1, but yeah, Nocturne deserves a sequel or at least a good remaster. Too bad what happened to the dev, that Walking Dead game was terrible.

[@MrDorkbot]

why did the guy in the dojo turn into a goat demon? why was he fighting a black guy? guess ill never know. Also the main character kinda reminds me of Kaleb from Blood.

[@zofdig]

I played it when it first came out and loved it!.......well expect for the last chapter and the excess of instant death puzzle. It had some glitches like all games of the era but it was no where near as bad as it appears if you play it on a modern system. I tried playing it again years later on vista I think and the glitching was insane and i honestly think it somehow made ladders in some areas unusable. Great video and makes me miss the idea of a sequel but no desire to try to boot it up again. I actually forgot it had that first person view i never used it in game. Oh and the cloth physics had less of a possessed feel.........though i recall the gradma from the texas level siting in a church pew with her skirt kept inching up higher and higher on its own......true horror that for my young mind lol

[@Torvinoid]

My boy Noah spawning all kinds of creativity

[@IronyNinja]

lol literally every comment is SMT3 when

[@D.u.d.e.r]

Excellent review, thank you!

[@mikemidwood9661]

I love any video that references Noah Caldwell-Gervais. Very underrated critic.

[@Sentay0]

Pretty cool stuff hearing more people calling out the classic work of Noah Caldwell Gervais, especially when it brings light to unknown stuff like this

[@NineWhile9]

I'd love to see this Remade tbh

[@_Ikelos]

X-files featuring Dante from Devil May Cry.

[@mashakos1]

I noticed you were running the game at 144fps. That pretty much explains all the crazy glitches and clipping and screwy cloth physics.

[@caradinegeorge]

In my opinion, making a comparison between Silent Hill and Nocturne makes no sense. It's like comparing apples with oranges. First of all, Nocturne is no survival horror, no matter what some may claim. It's an action-adventure game with a horror theme. Just like Bloodrayne. Both games share the same DNA, even though Bloodrayne has more frantic action than Nocturne. Nocturne's combat mechanics weren't janky on purpose, like it's done sometimes in survival-horror. The whole game is janky, not only the combat. They tried a lot of revolutionary ideas with Nocturne, unfortunately didn't come out as the developer wanted. It was quite impossible to achieve all their goals in 1998-1999. They improved that once Bloodrayne came out in 2002. Silent Hill, on the other hand, is a survival-horror game, is slow paced and it's all about terrifying the player on a psychological level, with very little action/combat involved. That's why Silent Hill's combat is so slow, you're supposed to be terrified by what you can't see and not what you see. And when you do see something, you should run for dear life, survive not fight, unless you have no other choice. So, you can't compare Silent Hill with Nocturne, even if they're both horror games. I love them both, and I'm glad to see when someone gives some love to Nocturne in particular, and PC games in general. And for that, thank you and congrats for the video.

[@khester824]

I remember Funhaus played a demo disk of the updated Nocturne, maybe you could get your hands on a copy.

[@shanelogan630]

I’ve actually started writing a story inspired by Nocturne, Bloodrayne, house of the dead, resident evil, nightmare creatures and other 90’s and early 2000’s horror movies and games. It follows the experiences of several agents working for a monster hunting organization and the very horrible creatures and nightmarish scenarios they find themselves in ranging from natural monster conflicts, missing people, man made and caused monsters and anomalies, government experimentations gone wild, mutations and various other horror scenarios. Several agents themselves are monsters ranging from vampires, werewolves, changelings, lizard people and various others.

[@shanelogan630]

If anybody wants or knows game developers I haven’t finished each story but I know the direction each goes in. I’ve also got a range of characters and ideas as well as several monster scenarios ranging from parasites reawakened accidentally by vampires in the swamps of New Orleans, a military laboratory working on genetic weoponry of human insect hybrids gone wrong from a mad scientist, a facility overrun with mutated plants and insects, a situation where a cult finds real monsters known as wytches and in exchange for their ability to cure diseases and issues they require human sacrifices which the town provides, an incident in Ireland featuring insect like creatures that fall under the fae category of monsters wearing people’s skins, a situation with rat people in the sewers of L.A. devouring people turns out to be an issue related to lizard men, a string of bizarre murders caused by large giant like creatures, an incident in Hollywood where pornographic snuff films featuring bizarre vampiric like creatures require a dhampir’s and female vampires touch in stopping the films, as well as many more.

[@jackwithahat8601]

The boxart for this game looks like 90% of all black metal albums hahah

[@optimuscries9869]

I remember playing this game as a kid but for the life of me, I couldn't remember the name. Thanks for reviewing this game more people need to know about it!

[@jacktwelve1710]

Oh I thought for a second he was going to talk about shin megami tensei 3

[@Asyerith]

I see TGBS, I click.

[@schibleh531]

Don't take this the wrong way, but I am really sick of youtubers making comparisons to Silent Hill and the old Resi games. We get it, they were good, but that doesn't mean that Resi and Silent are the only 2 designs that work as horror nor does it mean that every shitty horror game need to have crappy controls, little to no combat or rusty fleshy environments. This game looks really interesting and it seems tense in the atmosphere department, but I rolled my eyes as soon as you started comparing it to Silent hill. Again, I don't mean this as an insult or anything. I am just frustrated by good youtubers who complain about these things (like score pn and avalanche). It's like the horror genre isn't allowed to develop or try new things beyond stiff controls and no combat.

[@leinadlink]

You've mentioned bloodrayne. I remember my cousin used to play that game in a gamecube when I was a kid, it was pretty cool for the time. It would be great if you did a vid about them since I find those games pretty unique. Man, this makes me miss when games were more unique and varied, we need to bring back AA gaming.

[@Maggerama]

I'm still a bit mad at the game. My PC was too slow for all the Nocturne's glamour, and it had already lost it all by the time I could afford a new one. I don't remember much, but I think that a lot of them glitches, including flipping clothes, come from physics being directly tied to CPU perfomance or something like that.

[@ShadowsWrath4]

9:52 Sadly not the first time I have seen this diner. It involved nudity and odd heads.

[@hectorwhoz]

What's with the explosions edited in? Like at 12:07

[@homerit]

Was bored as hell, but got notification from your video. Am happy now

[@InTheMindOfDavid]

So because “Stranger” can’t shoot ghosts the organization he works for decided to use Necromancy to revive the flamboyant Tuberculosis riddled Doc Holiday played by Val Kilmer in Tomb Stone? Got it.

[@DenonuDoesGaming]

I loved this game when I first played it back in the late 90s.

[@redrum623az]

Once you said the character's name is Stranger I instantly noticed the DC Comics reference to the Phantom Stranger, especially with the get up

[@scrustle]

It must be really windy in the Nocturne universe.

[@RaineMan213]

[Grim Beard Intensifies]

[@Mr.Rotmound]

I was super happy to see that gamingbrit watches Noah Gervais

[@vac59]

The game soundtrack was great, inspired music in this genre for years to come.