Should Your Boyfriend Play Heavy Rain?

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I finally convinced my boyfriend to play one of my favorite games: Heavy Rain! It's not a good game. It's an incredible game. That's terrible. I love how much I hate to love hating it.
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[@GirlfriendReviews]

What song will you have on repeat? “It Didn’t Matter” by M@rT ft. GFriend or “Man, I Feel Like a Woman (in a David Cage game) by Shelbia Twain?

[@johnkoprivsek8317]

Shanelby Twang is the greatest sanger ever!

[@NashidAshraf]

Shelby, “Man, I Feel Like a Woman (in a David Cage game)" is a bonafide masterpiece. Kudos

[@CGDW2]

'Man, I Feel Like a Woman (in a David Cage game) ' is so good it makes me want a full version in a standalone vid, like Bass Guy.

[@HowGoodGames]

Shelbia Twain has delivered the best song yet on the channel. Honestly just, so well done

[@alexterieur8813]

Love shelbia twain. She would be honoured that her song was featured in this video

[@kallekoivisto5103]

The story goes that there wasn't a traditional 80's action movie sex scene in Commando, because Arnold Schwarzenegger argued that getting it on, while he has to save his child from dying in less than 24 hours would be an insanely bad look for his character. David Cage went and proved he was absolutely right.

[@stuffstuff7711]

What they didn't show us in the movie: Arnie still made it to his gym workout, getting it on for himself by PUMPING!

[@gownerjones]

Holy shit my man Arnold cares more about the integrity of a story than 95% of Hollywood.

[@ebitoro4590]

*Shelby singing a eulogy for Jason Me: This can't get any better *Matt starts rapping

[@14shyuga14]

"It didn't matter" lmao

[@alex0589]

"It didnt matter"

[@emikotagahushi941]

Shelby’s singing there was actually so good though! :O

[@Uwhwvwgwh]

​@@emikotagahushi941tru

[@ChristopherBlakePerformance]

I took a motion capture class recently with the guy who plays Ethan in Heavy Rain and even he was having a laugh about it. He was like how did the bastard lose his kid two times

[@Horatio787]

I'll give him one compliment, I couldn't tell he was french even if his delivery was so weird.

[@onetrickponysona2613]

its easy when you have two kids

[@princessthyemis]

wow!

[@Nutsaur]

Pascal?! I'd love to grab a beer with that guy.

[@Horatio787]

@power meat Oh snap. I always assumed he was French because Quantic Dream is.

[@SteelBallRun1890]

The best part about this game is that it presents to you a core mechanic of knowing what your character thinks. Only to then have it's main twist hinge upon betraying that said concept for unexplained reasons. It's like David Cage heard the term "unreliable narrator" but didn't actually know what it was or how to execute it good. Pretty much how when he was asked about Ethan Mars' unexplained blackouts, where instead of admitting that it was a cut storyline because Ethan and the killer was supposed to be psychically linked, he just said it was a Mcguffin and didn't understand what a Mcguffin is supposed to be.

[@GabrielTorres-fl2xo]

EXACTLY! The twist is broken because they have this thought mechanic and David Cage just straight out altered events of the story without any sign at all, it's good for the shock value but once you start thinking about it, then you seen the problems

[@HeyitsTom999]

I could write essays about David Cage's narrative fuckups. Don't tempt me. I need to sleep.

[@KazeNoTaniFarmHakuba]

@@HeyitsTom999 Doooo iiiiiiiittt… .. an intricate web of dumb as dogsh.t forced choices delicately interconnected by plot holes big enough to drive trucks through..

[@chronicallychic]

Exactly that. The twist has never made any sort of sense to me. I am all for unreliable narrators, but he didn't really do that.

[@lc9245]

He also has some vague idea about how to use video games as a medium, but half way through he got confused and mess things up. Case in point, quick time events. QTE was used to make "cool" cutscenes less tedious and boring for the audience. Cage grabbed that idea and adopt it to a narrative, mood setting tool. Making characters do QTE for mundane task in helps the audience getting through the "boring parts" of movies where the mood is set is probably what he was thinking. Imagine in Blade Runner when Deckard was looking through the tape, there's QTE to zoom in, observe, collect etc... This sounds, good on paper, but as we know in gameplay it looks ridiculous because Cage also thinks that failing QTE should not end the game and QTE itself is gameplay, or even engaging. The failing QTE not ending the game is a good idea, but it missed the point of QTE as a tool, which is why it seems boring. The ideal usage that he had, was to use QTE failing and completing to replace "dialogue choice" of the usual narrative games, is not bad at all, but he puts QTE everywhere which ruins the experience. QTE ended up not setting the mood but ruin it or turns it upside down to comedy more like. Mundane tasks should have just been done with one button, or as he did occasionally, completely optional as "side quests" to know more about the background, or let the player stumble into secrets that they otherwise might not discover that changes the course of the game. Related to this, as I have mentioned is the idea of choices. QTE replacing choices are good, or as I've mentioned above, small interactions that might have consequences down the line without it being an obvious "choice". In Detroit, Cage found a fun way narrative device about decisions by putting up the android breaking the "choices", represented as their "programming". Had he went further by no longer giving us options on the menu and the android simply make decisions with us merely controlling what and how they interact with the environment, it would have seemed a bit clever. Of course, all it did in term of gameplay is fuckall. Cage has good ideas, but his executions are abysmal. I wouldn't even go into his writing such as Fahrenheit being a pile of shit because of asspull, Heavy Rain mystery breaking down at the end, Detroit's asinine comparison between androids and civil right, comically missing the point of the entire movement. His games are sad because he has such huge support, budget and sales, yet all of his projects have huge unfulfilled potential, almost as if Cage is a director wanna be but he couldn't so he had to resort to video games without thoroughly examine or enjoying the medium. It's as Clancy Brown said. If someone competent takes over directive control from Cage and he serves as producer, it could be great.

[@seangdovic4967]

David Cage inspires me as a narrative driven game creator because he proves that even gameplay and story this terrible can still be successful.

[@Middcore]

The best part is that Cage has said things which make it pretty clear he ACTUALLY BELIEVES he's, like, the only one who makes games with stories in them and thinks of himself as a serious auteur.

[@Username-wh2ij]

I don't like to call someone pretentious, but David Cage is the exception.

[@soulscyther666]

I actually liked those games but i do think that they aren't peak storytelling like some people make it out to be. It has promising themes that's somehow he fell short of delving properly through.

[@AleksandrStrizhevskiy]

All these people talking shit about David Cage and his writing but will never come within 1/1000th of his audience. I really loved Heavy Rain. (Beyond Two Souls was disappointing though).

[@anakedviking6737]

@@AleksandrStrizhevskiy Wtf does 'coming within 1/1000th of his audience' means? You need to understand the challenge before doing it.

[@michaelschwartz8730]

My favorite part of Heavy Rain is that the European dev team's knowledge of life in America was clearly limited to movies and tv shows. The police chief fires the FBI officer, room 102 is on the second floor, and EVERYONE has a gun, just to name a few choice examples. 😆

[@DerMoerpler]

"Yeah well research is for [slur] and we don't make games for those!" David Cage, probably

[@steelbear2063]

I mean it's not universally bad. Every Japanese game that takes place in America is basically like that and people love them. Though really love comes first. If you like something, you will praise it for the same things that you criticize in the games you dislike. Kinda like people criticize some superhero movies for not being comic-book accurate, yet they absolutely love Hugh Jackman's Wolverine

[@Ph33rTheDens]

@@steelbear2063 I actually enjoy that the MCU is basically its own continuity and doesn't have to be completely accurate 100% of the time. It only needs to fit in with itself.

[@4thofEleven]

Wait, are you saying that American supermarkets don't normally have live chickens in them?!

[@drakashrakenburgproduction5369]

@@4thofEleven Prepared to be disappointed, my friend.

[@nathand265]

God I love Clancy Brown, and that interview clip of him roasting David Cage made me love him even more!

[@LastRenegade]

Do you know where they got that from?

[@van6946]

@@LastRenegade yes! i wanna hear it tooooo!!!

[@chavarlison]

Can you imagine his frustration filming it? What is this garbage and why did I say yes to this lol

[@CappyK]

I lost my eyebrows from the heat of that roast.

[@TheSpartanBoot]

Dude, Mr. Krabs told him he was incompetent in storytelling. David Cage should just give up after that.

[@Numberer1]

I truly hope this sparks more Shania Twain parodies.

[@Gzilla313]

I got this game for my wife for Christmas, and we had to look up a game guide in the first level to find the dishes. You were supposed to set the table and we couldn't find the dishes in their house lol

[@GirlfriendReviews]

I had the same problem!!!! Could not find those dumb things.

[@Dustyinc]

JASON

[@Windupchronic]

I think that's further than I got. If I remember right, I had to take a shower at the beginning, and a few minutes of, "Wait, this is what the controls are?" made me quit. I just was not doing that for an entire game.

[@miliano]

You didn't use his keys like Matt did to find his car?

[@WidowmakersAss]

it’s been years since I’ve played this and I’m curious if I remember correctly. is it next to the dining room table in the cabinet?

[@SonicHaXD]

Every time the Heavy Rain theme started playing it felt like a punch line XD

[@communistcomputergod6449]

You mean the gattaca theme lol

[@franciscogarciadamiani979]

oh i know you, you are that reptile fetish guy right?

[@diginixy]

This "episode" was absolutely hilarious. The parody song had me in tears.

[@Camothor10]

Why tf you put quotes on episode

[@kgldude]

David Cage is the human embodiment of the concept of failing upwards.

[@adavies425]

My favorite part about Heavy Rain is the father will occasionally black out and ended up in the middle of the street for NO reason, and it’s never explained or even the slightest bit relevant. I think this was due to early drafts there being some sort of super natural element that was cut, but for some reason those scenes remained.

[@gbdeck200]

Yup

[@krank23]

What I've only played up until the first of those blackouts, and was pretty much ready to write the game off until that scene. It made me place it in the "should probably give it another go at some point"-pile pretty much because of the promise of that scene, because that actually seemed kind of interesting. So you're telling me it's never explained nor relevant? Alright, thanks for saving me a couple of hours of playing the game I guess =)

[@adavies425]

@@krank23 like the story is an interesting concept. Serial killer kidnaps kid, and the father has to go on a jigsaw like scavenger hunt to rescue him. Like Shelby said when it first came out I was blown back by how this game told the story though it was less of a game and more of a choose your own adventure, and I do have a soft spot for these games. Looking back though, yeah David Cage has to have something against women because in this game the female character is put in so many situations where she is brutally assaulted sexually and otherwise. Whether it’s her “being sexy” to get info from the club owner who the tried to R*pe her or a mad man who thinks violating her with a drill is a good idea. Like, just wow. I mean the child targeting serial killer was more likable than 90% of the people she interacted with.

[@thirdeye9698]

@@adavies425 Remember that scene in Beyond 2 Souls where Aiden kills everyone that sleazy bar that was about to rape Elliot Page’s character? Did you know that there was a plan to give the scene a fail state where she *does* get raped? And that he recorded all of the audio, including Jodie begging her ghost pal on why he didn’t stop the rape?

[@steelbear2063]

@@thirdeye9698 What? Rape? In a game where you can burn teenagers alive? Wow, would've been too far, right?

[@ananananabop]

Lol! The interview clip at the end was brutal. I can just picture Cage's face when Clancy brown was telling him that, it doesn't seem like enough people around him give him criticism. Good luck on the wedding planning and life stuff!

[@Harl3inger]

My friend showed this game to our group, and we each played a different character. It truly was the height of comedy. It's so funny that you had the same reaction. Also, yes we did indeed spam the ever living heck out of the shout Jason and Shaun button.

[@NicholasRodriguezN7]

My friend group got stuck at the orange juice.

[@TheAwesomeDarkNinja]

This is honestly the best way to play Heavy Rain and Detroit. Assign characters. Tons of fun.

[@SuperhotdogZz]

wait, this game has multiplay feature?

[@guy6074]

@@SuperhotdogZz no they mean that each of them took turns using the controller whenever their assigned character was playable

[@SuperhotdogZz]

@@guy6074 man, that is just so old school lol

[@snowenn]

10 Years ago I walked into my local gamestore and asked the employee: "I like RPGs like Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts. Do you have any recommendations for me?". They replied: "Yes, you should try Heavy Rain, a new and super awesome RPG.". So I bought it. Man, I hated that garbage so much. Who thought that making a game with only quick-time events was a good idea?

[@ryanbarham8464]

What the hell did this guy see in Heavy Rain that was in any way reminiscent of Final Fantasy or Kingdom Hearts?

[@Kris-wo4pj]

@@ryanbarham8464 he obviously was one of the employees that either didnt play games or didnt play rpgs cuz no one viewed heavy rain as an rpg when it came out. thats why i never listened to the gamestore employees growing up.

[@peanutbutterpanda19]

"After playing David Cage games, there's one thing I truly crave and that is a shower." The sickest of burns, perfectly transitioning into their sponsorship. You guys write a better script just for advertising than David Cage writes for his actual games...

[@the_scotch]

"Judge me by my work" Guilty.

[@KillahMate]

OK, this was fun and funny the whole way through, but that Clancy Brown quote at the end there was just _murder_ in cold blood. Just an entire video of lightly poking at Cage, concluded with an axe to the head. I'm here for it!

[@koklusz89]

It was more brutal than anything he did in that new season of Dexter.

[@zumabbar]

mr krab just committed a murder

[@jdavidwebb]

Phenomenal, start to finish! I had trouble not laughing throughout. The Twain cover might be my new favorite.

[@stephenallen4625]

I had a 360 at the time, and my close friend in school had a ps3. The day after he finished the game, he told me the entire plot with details on gameplay too for most plot points. After he finished explaining it, all I could say was "well, that sounds kinda cool", and he solemnly said "Not really, it wasn't a very good game."

[@YouTubeCensors]

Lol, basically Cage games are the biggest reason Sony exclusive memes exist. Pretentious games which some clowns think are deep and interesting but in reality it's 🐴 💩

[@dragonrabbit7410]

lol i love stories like that. like having a friend tell you the plot points to something and thinking "wow they're really hyped about this" then at some point in the story "oh wait they kind of hate this". and for what it's worth i still really love this game. i guess the stilted writing and the qte just don't bother me that much. the branching narrative and the slick presentation (not just talking about the graphics) really account for a lot in my book.

[@WegePLUS]

I think it's a fun mess of a game. It's really cool the story continues if one of the characters die. You can even get an ending where the killer doesn't get caught. I liked it!

[@TheJadedJames]

The concept of what a David Cage came is can sound pretty cool. But the execution is always a mess. Detroit Become Human is far and away his best crack at it, and how many tries did he did to get to just being decent

[@Dudae_]

Damn, GFR's really upping the production value of their musical numbers, that was great!

[@JoseGarcia-of3uw]

I was wondering why it's such a banger if a song ha

[@kevinbarry6428]

Girlfriend Reviews, you two are a national treasure.

[@realkingofantarctica]

Get yourself a significant other who will put up with you yelling "SHAAUUN!" at random intervals throughout the day because you think it's the peak of comedy.

[@senatorsparky]

My wife would never allow this. "JASON!" on the other hand...

[@Danycrumble]

"Man I feel like a woman" hit me by surprise after watching your whole hilarious stream of this game. That was awesome!

[@crowing3886]

The best thing about the game is the shaun glitch that is literally him screaming Shaun for every input you press. 11/10 game. Women love this game by the way!! The best thing that happened to feminism!

[@zhenagamera]

The best experience is when you split the characters with your boyfriend- he plays for two of them and you play for two others. Then you realise that your characters have opposite interests and this is a new kind of game 😁

[@lazeppelini123]

Love that idea 👍

[@callumdonington2227]

The channel Super Best Friends Play play Detroit Become Human by each of the channel members play one of the playable characters, which gets interesting in certain points.

[@zhenagamera]

@@callumdonington2227 we payed it the same way - it’s aaaaawesome

[@merchkerns]

“Gamer’s Wife,” really? You straight up tried to rip off this channel, I’m happy it’s not working out.

[@PixaXCVI]

@@merchkerns Don't judge too harsh. Many things get ripped off nowadays, and in this case it's not even hurting anybody. They only target russian people who maybe don't know english so well. So calm down and let them have it.

[@alex0589]

Was trying to do the dishes while watching this and the “it didnt matter” song made me laugh so hard when matt started early-2000’s rapping over it that i dropped everything in the sink and almost hit my head on the cupboard

[@cassynedelisky796]

That spoof of Man I Feel Like A Woman was just magical

[@krank23]

Here's the nicest thing I can say about David Cage and his games: I appreciate the attempts. I appreciate the idea of making these types of games - not all games need to be made the same; there should be room for movie-like interactive experiences focused on drama and story. I just wish his games were… good. And also, that he wasn't a terrible creep. (That said, I enjoyed most of Fahrenheit back in the day. Not sure it holds up, but I remember it as enjoyable up until the last, extremely rushed part)

[@varsoonhks3211]

I'm in the same boat. With each new game I think, "Maybe, maybe this time David Cage will finally actualize the vision he's been chasing and make a good game version of that." There are parts of all of the games that I like; Omikron's body-stealing, Farenheit's you-are-the-murderer-and-the-investigator approach where you can change how things play out, Heavy Rain's focus on how much Ethan's mundane life falls apart, everything with Connor in Detroit, the idea of a co-op experience in Two Souls. It's just that none of those great conceits have quite carried over to being great games. Maybe one day. Maybe the next Quantic Dreams game will.

[@krank23]

@@varsoonhks3211 Yeah. I'm done giving him chances, I'm going to wait for some other dev to get inspired by the good parts of Cage's envelope-pushing stuff. I'm not done because of the bad games; I could always get them for next to nothing a few years down the line if I felt they just weren't worth the cost of entry. No, I'm 100% done because of the "creep" part. From what came out around Two Souls and his creepiness around Elliot Page, his bragging etc… not to mention the stuff that's come out about working conditions at Quantic, homophobia etc… Nah, I'm out. Maybe the next game will be good maybe not, either way I'm out.

[@chronicallychic]

I think part of the problem is he is so arrogant in believing his vision is the only right vision, that he doesn't outsource any of the writing and directing to anyone else around him. Frankly, he isn't a good enough writer, and would benefit greatly from allowing someone else to have input.

[@varsoonhks3211]

@@chronicallychic Absolutely. I do not know that he has grown as a writer very much through the decades, either.

[@Clifonha586]

That Shania Twain cover was your best work Shelby LOL that was amazing

[@davidguthriemusic]

this is one of the best GF Reviews episodes ever i cannot believe how good that song at the end is (also sheeeeesh the satirical spice levels are so high i love it LOL)!

[@shadow0416]

Okay we NEED a full version of Man! I Feel Like a David Cage Woman

[@dragontoaster6637]

Just about every single video you make blows my mind with the level of production and humor throughout. You guys really elevate this platform. Awesome video!

[@Wruce_Bayne]

Clancy Brown shitting on David Cage was something I didn't know I needed in life

[@joshschwarzbauer8155]

Looking for your car was seriously one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Bravo you guys.

[@GreyRush]

"huh, wonder who left those flowers there?" YOU DID SHELBY WHY IS THE KILLER WONDERING THAT TO HIMSELF!?

[@DMindGaming]

Wasn't it the father of the copycat killer that left the flowers?

[@GreyRush]

@@DMindGaming that catches a lot of people, but Kramer actually leaves the flowers *after* Scott wonders this out loud to himself. As a note; he leaves those flowers there because Shelby’s brother died on a construction site he owned; and he always felt guilty about it. Not because of anything relating to the origami killer plot.

[@DMindGaming]

​@@GreyRush Maybe Kramer regularly leaves flowers on the grave and those were the flowers that he left the last time he visited. Or maybe Shelby was just being sarcastic in his head cause they're trying to find the one who left the flowers cause they (Lauren) believes that it's the Origami Killer but Shelby obviously already knows this so he's like "oh gee I wonder who left those flowers there?". He does also make other snide thoughts like "This girl just doesn't know when to give up" when Lauren was following his trail while Shelby was trying to follow the copycat killer's trail so it's not out of the picture (cause usually Shelby's inner thoughts doesn't contradict that he knows he's the killer).

[@yarpen26]

I want everyone to take a moment and ponder just why 12 years after it first hit the stores, people continue to dissect the plot and seem to remember absolutely every tiny detail from it. No matter what you think of it in terms of art quality, this is without a doubt an _extremely_ memorable game. And there is something strangely attractive about it, you just can't stop thinking about it. Even Honest Trailers admitted that.

[@GreyRush]

@@yarpen26 Oh absolutely. The lizard trial remains, even with all my complaints about the story; one of the most captivating and attention grabbing sequences of any game in this style. I just wish it had more consequence if you did it poorly, considering all the different ways you could go about it.

[@YNGKING01]

I think Heavy Rain was just one of those "you had to be there" games. I think it was the first game I had ever played that tried alot of things within stories and gameplay that hadn't been seen before. True ALOT of those things were rudimentary at best and have been vastly improved in later games in other genres. Like Shelby said if you played it back in the late 00s, you probably have really fond memories of it but if you played it objectively today those probably wouldn't hold up well lol. Kind of like 90s sitcoms and sketch shows

[@gman7497]

For sure, it was praised for "just trying" to do some of these dramatic things that games at that time never really attempted. Looking back on it though it was like 'wow in my head this seemed way better than it actually was' lol

[@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive]

7:25 Last place I’d expect to hear the new Evanescence single drop.

[@stuartdrummond]

For those that want more, the 12 hour stream where they played the entire game is still available on Twitch and its HILARIOUS :D

[@clarissakrigger4599]

The edits as usual are *chef's kiss* but on a serious note I played up to the abduction, started laughing and never took it seriously again 😂 and Matt rapping?!?!?!

[@girardspeed]

I lost my sh!t at “…mess up my hair, hit with a chair.” Well done.

[@jamess2832]

“Man I feel like a woman” will go down as one of the classic girlfriend reviews parody songs

[@vmp916]

Damn it was honestly what most parodies should be. Excellent rhythm and rhyming that invoked the original song

[@Taima]

Best song since Bonk My Head

[@Dunkle0steus]

@@vmp916 evoked. Invoked would be like a ritual summoning a demon.

[@otherbarry19]

"mess up my hair - hit with a chair" LMAO 🤣

[@vmp916]

@@Dunkle0steus did I st-stutter

[@GenesisAUT]

I remember when the game came out there was a demo of the first Scene with Scott and we played it for over 2 hours I think, just finding out all the ways he can get beaten up or refusing to use his asthma inhalator. We were crying tears back them 😂😂 But overall I played HR back then and it really got me.

[@Ethan-nl2wg]

This is one of you guys best videos by far, the editing and the parody songs were peak, 11:42 also Clancy Brown is a legend lol can someone please tell me where I can find this interview

[@nocandoslurms433]

Check the video description.

[@libertarianvoter]

I think they put the link in the video description.

[@Ethan-nl2wg]

@@nocandoslurms433 thanks

[@caseyoung1527]

Even Ethan agrees

[@SniperFreak77]

It's around the 53 minute mark

[@stutter4064]

8:41 for the feal like a woman parody

[@VED34]

this is exactly the game i picture to be the perfect “should your boyfriend play” game for shelby.

[@Nomadic813]

That Shania Twain cover alone has justified your excellence for all time.

[@RavenWindrunner]

Man I loved this game when I first played it. I genuinely found it tense to go through the quick time events and thought it was nuts that characters could die in the game and you would just cease playing their story. That being said, looking at it now, the controls sound truly nuts and I imagine I might not find it so impactful now that I've played many very well written games.

[@Jojje94]

🎵 Suddenly there's a crowd in this mall, I don't see Jason, he's so small. Oh hey, I see a red balloon, oh no, that's not my kid at all. Then I walk outside to see Jason crossing the street, How could he have walked that far? Then Jason is killed by a car. 🎶

[@PacketOfCereal]

Please make a part 2 of this. This whole game is comedy gold

[@jwm1444]

9:27 Ay someone get Kara in a boxing ring that slip was clean

[@JudgementNutter]

Remember how they cut out the psychic killer storyline for Ethan but kept in his random blackouts for "mysterious reasons"? David Cage is a hack.

[@varsoonhks3211]

*laughs in Fahrenheit*

[@Mitcheck315]

I like that the car that hits Jason actually teleports forward because they didn't time out the animation right or something

[@feliciaalmeida461]

I love how much Shelby love-hates David Cage games lol

[@DragonAge87]

I think we all have a love-hate with David Cage games

[@steelbear2063]

I platinumed DBH and I advice against playing it

[@noahrgmartin]

I love the Brady Bunch insert. That edit brought a smile to my face. After I finished the video I went back to watch that part and I laughed out loud.

[@Username-wh2ij]

David "At Quantic Dream, we do not make games for (homophobic slur)" Cage is one of the greatest writers of all time.

[@LeoJay]

David Based Cage

[@arthuredington6171]

Oh yeah he is homophobic

[@thorsday121]

David "Two Nukes Weren't Enough" Cage

[@johnf.r6658]

@@arthuredington6171 cry louder, oh snowflake, the real world is going to hit you SO hard one day ...

[@arthuredington6171]

David " creates a nude model of Elliot Page" Cage

[@mr.dr.daxter4049]

The "SHAUN!" at 2:22 got me 😂

[@golfrguy04]

I was one of those confused gamers! Not that I played this game myself, but had friends who played it and absolutely raved about it, claiming it was the most interactive, story-driven, most beautiful game they’ve ever played. Thanks for making this, and keep up the awesome work!

[@openshores4288]

show this to them!!! haha

[@calsas]

This is hilarious, guys! Also, that parody song was so incredibly well made.

[@LoveFromIzumi]

Just convinced my boyfriend to play this game with me, I've only watched lets plays so I'm excited to play this game with dumb controls together

[@jasonmercredi7576]

you guys NEVER fail to entertain. We need to see real time recordings of the songs you remake i frickin died at the shelbia twain mix

[@Renizzle]

You absolutely hit the nail on the head when you said that it was a pretty incredible game… when it first came out. Any other play throughs I saw afterwards- I was like.. wait. Why is this so dumb? 😅

[@MasDouc]

Shenmue Syndrome

[@maepmeowmeow]

My boyfriend and I started watching you this week, and we passed by this video and OH MY GOD, THE SONG IS SO GOOD!!! Mama u need to put this stuff on iTunes and spotify. Btw we love ur editing and movie references. You're amazing!!!

[@chrisb8154]

The Shania parody was so on point. Man! I feel like a wombat.

[@dwaynezilla]

"Juggling is _definitely_ one of the quicktime events ever made." Perfect description, hahaha

[@michaelmcclelland9876]

This game is an absolute treasure trove of memes... "JASON!" 🤣

[@DeFuZeRO]

That ASMR part from 11:14 gave me more tingles than some professional ASMR videos. Please more of these :D

[@donq4483]

When the world needed them most, GFR returned!

[@Aesthics]

7:46 Matt playing the game like it's a Seinfeld episode lol

[@TheDaringPastry1313]

He wasn't parked in a handicapped space though :) ... IYKYK

[@qmighty54]

Oh my GOD this is the funniest video I have seen all year. I actually could not stop laughing through every single moment of the video including the sponsorship. Well done.

[@DustyAunt]

The reference to the Kyle Mooney SNL sketch was amazing, especially since this past season was his last. He was awesome on that show. Also, fantastic video as always you guys are awesome.

[@DerbidTheGinger]

Love this game and channel It's been so fun growing with you

[@jackschmitz3233]

"Let's take a stinky piss" is high comedy and nobody can tell me otherwise

[@xtranathor8143]

This was hilarious to watch and listen to! I had no idea that the game could be interpreted so comically (but I've not played it yet). The song at the end was amazing!

[@_elevenofspades]

This video just randomly showed up on my YT feed and I am so happy it did 😂

[@stevelikeafox]

My god Girlfriend reviews put out another brilliant video. They must be so greatfull for David Cage comedy ideas for years!

[@Crootcovitz]

6:30 This is what goes through my head every time I work with JSON files.

[@SSmotzer]

Haha, remember how the first half of the game had psychic origami ghosts possessing the main character and then it just is never brought up.

[@floydbanks7]

That has to be one of the greatest parody songs I've ever heard...incredible.

[@PlaidCladBrad]

The song was amazing and watching both of these playthroughs on Twitch was so much fun. Even though I will never forgive Matt for killing the best character.

[@kenk4158]

My favorite memory from this game was racing through on-coming traffic to search a warehouse for my kid, then getting the option to just leave and taking it. This game is bad in every decade. Jason!

[@duh_vinchy]

You really FEEL how excited shelbs is for this game

[@greyfox4838]

this may be saying a lot, but I think this was the best Girlfriend Reviews video ever, the song at the end was just icing on top, I'd love to see you two top this

[@kingkringle]

I've been the "girlfriend" for many of these QuickTime event soap opera games and it's the best way to play them: cheering on and ridiculing missed button presses. Please do The Quarry when it comes out!

[@str8apem88]

I still don't understand why there are some people who think David Cage is a genius writer, and are excited for his new Star Wars game.

[@steelbear2063]

As they say : if it's stupid, but it works, then it's not that stupid. This is what David Cage is. He probably laughs at negative reviews when he takes a break from admiring the fortune that he's making

[@YouTubeCensors]

Proving the great Forest Gump correct with every game he makes. "Stupid is as stupid does" and the world isn't lacking in stupid

[@dissimilar5]

"his new Star Wars game." Wait, what...?

[@str8apem88]

@@dissimilar5 Star Wars Eclipse.

[@dissimilar5]

@@str8apem88 Well I don't care for that at all...

[@labdG]

In an older David Cage game named Indigo Prophecy (btw, that game is completely crazy), there is a bonus scene where a bunch of characters from the game are dancing and at one time it just happens to be a character model of David Cage himself dancing with one of the female characters in her underwear.

[@drakashrakenburgproduction5369]

Someone needs to stop that guy.

[@keith4456]

The Kyle mooney shout-out was terrific. One of the greatest, most underappreciated SNL skits

[@BlondeManNoName]

Honestly I loved this game like no other back in 2010, I still think that it's good.

[@rhysm8476]

Plz put your cover on Spotify that slapped harder than I was ready for

[@HellaBeed]

Been playing Cage's stupid stories since Indigo Prophecy, can't wait to laugh my ass off at this Star Wars game Quantic Dream is making. Also love that Clancy Brown sound bite, never heard it before!

[@MayDayEXE]

That Shania Twain parody was the shit! Well done! This was hilarious.

[@WickedRibbon]

I had a great time with Heavy Rain back in 2010 because there was literally nothing like it on consoles. Sure, we had point & click games which emphasized story, but none of them even approached its lavish production values and true branching story. I would even argue that the quicktime actions were a cool novelty if you happened to play with a PlayStation Move controller 😅 For context, it would be a further 2 years until Telltale released The Walking Dead: Season 1 - arguably the next big hit in the 'Interactive Fiction' genre. However looking back, I definitely agree with your conclusions here. Heavy Rain has aged like milk and is best enjoyed in 2022 with a 'so bad its good' mindset. You know, if you can stomach about 10 hours of David Cage's writing and direction😩

[@FrightfulFailures]

At this point, no joke, I need a video complication of all of your song parodies. Because they're great.

[@lameboyprime5962]

Been waiting to see if you guys would do Heavy Rain and it did not disappoint. Also A+ parody song

[@shazmodeus2795]

Alright alright! Your Shania Twain montage at the end has convinced me to play some David Cage games.

[@chinohormann]

Man. I remember thinking the demo for this game was _so cool_ , so I bought the game. and... after playing it more than 15 minutes, didn't think it was all that good, lol.

[@guy6074]

4:00 it’s funny that you make the gas pedal joke about the movement, because I was playing this game with friends and I made that exact joke as we were riffing on it