Golden Compass for PS2 is truly AWFUL

[@LedgerB]

Golden compASS

[@dutchvanderlinde5126]

AVGN is still relevant today

[@mohanad-kenany]

I was watching AVGN and then found this video where the nerd is mentioned. It's a small world, isn't it?

[@FrenchFryCheese04]

How about.. *GOLDEN ASS!*

[@spicybeantofu]

Yup saw the same video as you

[@thepeanutgallery6100]

Nice

[@theflickchick9850]

The image of a little girl wandering around an English college with a sloth around her shoulders is so surreal and hilarious.

[@calebgoodman3028]

That girl also happens to be the reincarnation of Eve from the Bible and the animal is literally her soul separated from her body. Yep...

[@cameronclark3418]

I paid money and saw this movie 3 times at the cinemas upon release. Spent most of my life since wondering where the sequel is/was but now I know that no one else vibed as much as I did

[@Furby-luv3r]

Sameee. I LOVED this movie as a kid 😂

[@jacoblofthus7908]

No kidding? I saw Hellboy 2019 the day it came out. And we all know how that went...

[@calebgoodman3028]

@@moxxy3565 Not a sequel but an adaptation of the entire series.

[@valletas]

Yeah i found out with this video that people disliked the movie I never read the books so it may be a dogshit adaptation from all i know but i remember watching it everytime it played on tv as a kid Absolutely love the visuals and its magic system

[@calebgoodman3028]

@@valletas I liked it but the biggest problem I saw was the censorship of religious imagery. Which is weird since that’s a key part of the story. The main villains work for a corrupt church government trying to extract “sin” from children in Lyra’s world. Lyra even works with angels throughout the series (in fact it’s how the alethiometer works) and later we learn she and future protagonist Will are to become the “new” Adam and Eve with a researcher from Will’s world named Mary playing the role of the serpent. In hindsight it’s probably a good thing they cut out the ending because what happened to Roger was a real downer.

[@Theonionofthedisneyjuniorlore]

It's hard to believe people hated this movie, made it bomb at the box office and somehow it won Best Visual Effects at the Oscars beating Transformers and Pirates of the Caribbean At World's End

[@Saulbreadman]

just shows awards don't equal quality lol

[@Theonionofthedisneyjuniorlore]

@@Saulbreadman And the worst part is, Dwayne Johnson presented the award

[@umbrellacorp.]

I don't hate the movie and I didn't like it either. But... I didn't understand it, and it was incredibly long. And didn't the movie end in a cliff hanger?.

[@spicybeantofu]

@@umbrellacorp. it's all about god no joke it's more on the head than Narnia

[@deen7530]

@@umbrellacorp. Its based on a book and the executives cut out the books ending which would have made everything make sense, or so I've heard.

[@Equus21]

The show "His Dark Materials" is really what "The Golden Compass" was. An epic, three-season story about religion and violence in the name of it. It's actually brilliant.

[@gracekim1998]

Ooo my kind of show 😜

[@its_myo]

the series is really good!!

[@-.-.11]

Yikes. That show is just as awful an adaptation.

[@PongoDaMan]

​@@-.-.11 finally someone with a brain

[@lobstrosity7163]

The movie has superior casting and art direction. The show was ok for the first season but became worse and worse. Well always have the books!

[@MillyKKitty]

This game was very confusing for someone who did not speak English as their first language. It took me like ten years to finally get past the boat level because you had to win minigames around the boat to win (If you lost, you had to reopen the save, since you had limited tries) Then I accidentally deleted that save file. Absolutely devastated because the later half was not fun at all.

[@thecrazytheorist4756]

I got this game when I was a kid and thought it was fun at first, when I reached the school area I felt tricked and gave up out of boredom.

[@MindPulp]

Sounds right lol

[@the98themperoroftheholybri33]

This movie is the equivalent to making a Harry Potter movie but based entirely around Harry's chocolate frog

[@robsabey5190]

A chocolate frog that makes chocolate Harry potters

[@PongoDaMan]

This might be the best description/review of a movie I've ever read. Thank-you for the laugh. Also couldn't be more true lol

[@phelovepokemon]

I love frogs 🐸 😂

[@joke1able]

Oh God, I remember playing this game as a kid. I couldn't get past the area where you're suppose to get the armor for the polar bear from the village and gave up.

[@stennor4370]

Funnily enough, i think i remember being stuck on that same part also lol

[@SquisheeDog]

I was stuck around there too!

[@MillyKKitty]

That one after the boat level? It was infested with bugs that you had to fight against with minigames, though I never got to find out if I could find the armor since I accidentally deleted the save file while trying to save. (And for context I had gotten to this area the same day I finally got past the boat area after a decade, since it was really unclear what I was supposed to do over there.)

[@joke1able]

@@MillyKKitty Yea, it kept directing me to an area where you're told not to go and the compass and the people didn't have any direction to give. I finally after hours of trying to figure it out, gave up. Ruined the game for me.

[@tygra2886]

@@stennor4370 OMG, we probably got stuck in this same exact part - because i remember the part, in which as an Iorek, you supposed to fight some boss (I don't remember what it was, some machine or something), and I couldn't pass this level, and basically quitted the game.

[@WalkableBuffalo]

The goddamn counting had me weeping The mechanics in this game are something else

[@DissonantSynth]

This movie's revival, "His Dark Materials" , is super good. There's 3 seasons, I think

[@Vykandar]

It's really not

[@ManateeMaiden]

The scoliosis butler is a very relatable character

[@Terran994]

I just want to see an interview with the developer, like in the meeting where they're talking about game mechanics, who the hell went "you know what kids want in a game? Playing hide and go seek on a roof top."

[@theoneperson3996]

My favourite thing about the movie is how upbeat the movie ends with our protagonist saving her friend and them flying to her father. Only problem is that in book right after her Father kills him.

[@teaz3139]

Oddly enough, the real ending exists in cut footage, and is in the game.

[@runningcommentary2125]

Not only that, he kills him by ripping his soul out as part of a human sacrifice.

[@calebgoodman3028]

As a His Dark Materials fan this game was actually a guilty pleasure. I am well aware of the faults but I would play it over and over again even if I know that Will and the upcoming war against heaven Asriel was planning was never going to get a game. Funnily enough it had scenes that were taken straight from the cut ending. Outside of the books everything else from the franchise was rather mediocre. The HBO adaptation is the only one I would call a faithful adaptation and even then they messed it up at points but at least they didn’t censor key plot points on religious grounds and is actually completing the trilogy. 😂 Love this game, but very flawed I totally admit that.

[@tampabaybuccaneer10]

I feel the same way! I used to play this a lot as a kid. Loved the first book, read it probably half a dozen times.

[@darure]

I actually really appreciated a lot of things that they did with this game. There was a lot of opportunities for reading the compass, and you could learn many of the symbol meanings... That's more detail than you'd expect from this sort of game, there were clearly some people in the staff who were passionate about the source material. How you could make use of the different daemon forms, and climb on the rooftops and tell people lies just like Lyra would... YES I do enjoy the catch game with the kids :D It was little things like these that really made me immersed with Lyra's character. The game could have been much better if they fixed the controls, camera etc. so the gameplay wouldn't have to be unnecessarily frustrating... But as a kid that didn't bother me either, I simply accepted it as a challenge to my gaming skills. Also, the soundtrack was fire!

[@pauliewalnuts2593]

🤓

[@francis19972011]

Same. I loved finding the symbols in the world. And the OST! It's one of my favourite videogame OST out there!

[@flufflewarrior]

I'm a simple person. I see Mind Pulp uploaded, I click. I never watched the movie, so the game seems like a masterpiece 👌

[@EduardoTorelly]

i distinctly remember the fight between good guy polar bear and boss polar bear that ended with good polar bear ripping boss polar bear's jaw.

[@vagelismihalis7426]

I actually believe that the game is unique Imagine how good would will be if was released now days. Is a relaxing game and i miss those platform adventure games from Ps2 era

[@valletas]

It would probably just be some bad mobile game that would be unplayable after 9 months This is the modern day equivalent to shovel ware... Even stuff like golum took a lot of money and time to make it just failed at everything but it isnt shovel ware like this is

[@jaguar-s9t]

The tv show was WAY better than the movie. All the actors was stunning and the visual effects was well made

[@lone_333]

It's mixed for me , I loved the 2007 one even though it kinda fell flat on why the overall reason of saving the children. They went too fast, I wish Daniel or Nicole make a cameo.

[@bewilderbeastie8899]

It's weird but I was super annoyed they changed Serafina Pekkala's daemon from a book-accurate snow goose to some bird of prey. Like why?

[@jaguar-s9t]

@@lone_333 Yeah, at least Season 2 and 3 was pretty mixed. Season 1 was awesome If you ask me

[@lunarmoontea4247]

Oh dang, I wasn't expecting someone to talk about this game! I grew up with it and while I recognize now that it's certainly awful, I will say it's soundtrack is one of my all-time favorite video game OSTs.

[@DarkBanks3]

I remember this game explicitly because i beat it all in one night, staying up overnight to do it

[@dakotajones6980]

Can you look me in the eyes when we make love?

[@SquisheeDog]

I knew one girl that refused to watch the movie because in later books "they try to kill God!". It was so many years ago and I have no idea if that's true but I still find that hilarious.

[@skapokonroll]

I haven't read the books but I've watched the HBO show which is generally very faithful She does kill God

[@carrotman]

Never summon the power of your ancestors. Why would you ask some old dead person for fighting advice? Ask a bear or something.

[@Superibis.]

I used to love this game as a kid but this whole riddle things with the compass… I never got to understand how it worked 😂

[@senritsujumpsuit6021]

This game can easily be really cool the whole sleuthing/puzzle thing while exploring characters is dope idea

[@Inuzumi]

"It was boring..." Finally, a game loyal to its source material.

[@MrUzminiNu]

😂

[@morbiusofletoverse456]

I loved this game as a kid and finished it too many times to count. You guys should’ve played the psp version, it’s the exact same thing but in a smaller screen so it’s a real game changer.

[@clarkehamza]

i had the psp version as a kid, but i didn't know that you could save or load games. i also didn't know you could google walkthroughs and solutions for games. so every single day, i would start a fresh save of this game and play up til the exact same point where i would get stuck again, and then wander around that area until my mom would take my psp away for the day. i wasn't the smartest kid. kinda wanna go back home and find my psp and see if i can finally beat it

[@joetie7516]

Please always continue these videos guys. You guys are one of the last youtubers I try to keep updated with

[@number1fen]

I still own a Golden Compass board game that has never been opened. My parents bought it a very long time ago because it was on sale, but none of us actually knew what the hell The Golden Compass actually was, so we just...stored it away and never played it. I didn't know that it was a book (and later a movie) until way later when i read about it on the internet, as neither of them have ever been mentioned in my country 😂

[@chrissycurtis4152]

Honestly I played this game as a kid and loved it, I preferred it to the actual movie, I remember it being so much fun

[@edgynightmare9959]

I grew up with the movie and game so seeing you guys do a video on it really triggered heavy nostalgia

[@SchlubbyTomHanks]

14:01 there's something oddly hilarious about video game characters confidently plummeting to their death like they're diving into a pool.

[@coolbrotherf127]

"it can't be that bad" *Sees Comic Sans in the first menu they click on* "Oh, yeah, that's not a good sign."

[@coletrainhetrick]

The bigger reason people banned the movie and the book is because they are genuinely anti Christian and anti religion. It isn't like pokemon or dnd, it ACTUALLY is anti religion.

[@nft_mac4592]

13:20 apparently in the world of conspiracies, that kind of facial appearance being displayed, is called “Panda Eyes”, search it on KZbin

[@alma3884052]

I love the Golden cum pass and its remake His dark stools

[@MindPulp]

His dark stools. A truly magical experience.

[@Pterosauria]

"gobblers" is like a telephone game'd name the kids made up, it turns out it's actually the catholic church lol

[@pasqualethelate5625]

Don’t get taken by the gobblers

[@avocatobobble]

YO! The books and story is absolutely incredible! The daemons are actually the humans souls in a physical manifestation. I personally loved the show from beginning to end. It was spectacular but it did change things or miss certain parts but overall it was a decent adaptation. This game doesn’t look great and I never watched the film, I just got in to the books when the show was coming out and then finished the other books before season 2 & 3 were released.

[@franciscopenajr3909]

17:14 Why does it look like a werewolf gingerbread man?

[@410Noodlez]

First time watching this channel and I haven't stopped laughing yet these 2 are golden comedy

[@gracekim1998]

Welcome 😊

[@410Noodlez]

@@gracekim1998 Ecstatic to join the community

[@Aupsic-hh5sy]

13:20 Well of course he looks sick, he has to clean every chimney in the city and get paid with a moldy bread. Bring back child labor.

[@kalenwtf]

What’s that song playing at 0:34 🤔

[@rubeng370]

It's baffling how Golden Compass even won an Oscar for best CGI in 2007 and not Transformers 1 🙄 Glad His Dark Materials CGI and story is much better than the movie

[@izaakfarrington7751]

What's the music at 3:25

[@K9arcade]

Man I remember HATING this movie when it came out. I also wanted to punch Nicole Kidman's character so hard

[@señor.savi56]

(NSFW warning) I remember in one scene of the movie I think where one of the polar bears just fucking claws the other one’s jaw off and kills him, shit was insane

[@Yuh.MP4]

As a kid this game just hit different but as an adult it’s trash

[@deadpoolgames1]

9:00 that always get me when its something purple and they start singing lol :D thanks to them now i would start to sing whenever i see something purple in games lol :D

[@elixexo4011]

You know, I hated boarding school. Having gameplay or story centered around it just brings up Vietnam war flashbacks.

[@annieapple8974]

I remember my class being brought to see this in the cinema. I legit didn’t remember a thing about it after.

[@cmoney163]

Just found this gem of a channel, and now I can’t stop binge watching lol

[@mesousagaby740]

To be fair, the movie got completely screwed up due to it's distributor and producer, New Line Cinema, wanting to make the movie shorter, and as a result, it sort of messed up the pacing with MANY scenes deleted. It actually did way better overseas and they almost greenlit a sequel for that reason...except New Line made it so that only it's domestic box office numbers could regain back it's budget, but it bombed pretty badly in the US.

[@SeriviusR]

16:26 is like one of those creepy statues in Elden Ring.

[@GoatzombieBubba]

Budget $180 million Box office $372.2 million

[@Reverend_Revenant]

I remember playing this, the whole game... You guys did the right thing stopping so early on.

[@VaderTheWhite]

I remember my mom found a stack of strategy guides for this game at Best Buy, each only costing a penny. She bought them, against my Sage advice, thinking she could resell them on eBay. Yes, we still own the damn things.

[@drewc8414]

I never saw this movie and played the game on Xbox 360 when I was hunting achievements. It’s by far the worst and stupidest game ever. Like there was a mini game you had to play just to lie to an adult and it was the most basic mini game. Not needed just to converse with an NPC. Straight Trassh

[@gboratto2739]

I'm still hoping you guys will do the where the wild things are game it's basically just zelda

[@MindPulp]

Don’t have that one, but if we can find a copy we could check it out!

[@gboratto2739]

@@MindPulp k cool

[@AcdraStation]

BABE, GET THE CAMERA, NEW MIND PULP!

[@lachaineakeli4682]

To think the books were so poetic and deep, and they made it into a dull kids movie with little to no soul to it, it's quite depressing.

[@ItIsMePotpourri]

I rented this game from the library as a child and all I remember is the mission where you clean up all the seagull S@*! off the boat. Fitting.

[@jacoblofthus7908]

*Watch a small child plummet to their death more than once* "Rated E10+"

[@scottycoops]

the fact that you included a random clip if arthur and baxter made me sub.

[@alexsheperd2060]

My favorite bit of this video is learning that my friend’s favorite game in elementary school was dogwater. Never got to play it but I can see why he wouldn’t wanna show all of us

[@wtr3059]

3:11 Like ants! With an ant queen! Oh wait...

[@jenniferdunstan5065]

His dark materials is fucking goated (both the book and the show)

[@skootergirl22]

Wasn't the golden compass written by the same author as the nania series? Also i remember having a golden compass game on DS

[@DR3ADER1]

No. Because Phillip Pullman (The Golden Compass author) is an Atheist and the His Dark Materials Trilogy is very TJ Kirk in terms of its subtlety. C S Lewis wrote Narnia and was a Unitarian Christian before converting to Catholicism in later years after several debates with Tolkein.

[@charlottestone6011]

I'm literally crying laughing at the tag scene😂

[@JustTrying87]

1....20.

[@ManateeMaiden]

The way the polar bear runs is so disturbing. Like a gorilla Yeti

[@SonySteals]

What the f is going on with this bear's moves??? Us that normal for this IP? This looks hillarious, was that in this movie?

[@Georgevazy]

Yea I remember my mom freaking out and my school as well “the movie was evil” lol still have never seen it😂

[@SethWuffer]

As a child, honestly, this was one of the worst games I'd ever played.

[@KingStr0ng]

5:43 Missed opportunity to use *"NICE THROW!"*

[@damigamermx-us8291]

I have this game and still have it after decades of owning it. I remember playing it as a kid and only getting to the boat level, and puzzles were hard for my little 6 year old brain. And I played this game not knowing it was a movie based videogame lol. Until I saw the movie years ago and it was bad. I barely remember that movie

[@sirevidsalot7199]

are we not gonna talk about the dog clipping through the ceiling at 16:08?

[@SalmonOfK84]

My favourite piece of trivia about this game is that forcing yourself to finish is the only way to see the actual ending of the movie- which was fully shot, edited and included in the last mission of the game, but *bafflingly* didn't end up making the final cut for the theatrical release.

[@natthevilone]

The only thing I remember from the movie to this day is Ewic biting off another polar bear's throat, that shi stuck to me

[@fiddelydee4423]

Yall gotta try King Kong 2005 for ps2 it's actually got a decent metacritic rating and is actually a decent movie tie in game.

[@aviumcaravan]

the clip of Daniel Craig with the 007 theme playing just made me think "what came out around this time, Casino Royale or Quantum of Solace?" for a second, but the 2007 sealed it, not to mention that i lost it when the theme played.

[@dianslabbert504]

Played through this game a few times on my PSP. The game isn't good, but it was my favourtite "rainy day" game for some reason. My rainy day games are the games I play when it rains and I feel like playing something, but I am not in the mood for something intense or requires my full concentration underneath a warm blanket while i listen to the rain. It's nice stress relief. When you play as Lyra it is relatively fine, but the segments playing as the armoured bear were boring.

[@Natasha6090]

I remember the film. It wasn’t very good . The tv series was much better more like it from the books

[@TheCosmicFireStar]

Would a coverage of the Eragon movie video game tie in be possible? It’s a neat book series with such potential squandered by the film.

[@kahleeb624]

Ah yeah! The good ol'days of my childhood. Climbing buildings and making literal death-defying jumps on rooftops and playing tag in areas where one slip and i'd die. Yeah, those were the days. 😎

[@jacoblofthus7908]

Isn't this the movie that did so poorly, Warner Bros. ended up buying New Line Cinema?

[@Dukedogdog]

I got the golden compass as a Christmas gift one year and i loved the idea of it but god the movie drags on and nothing ever happens that you can remember 4 seconds.

[@LucasHopkins2006]

12:19 Reminds of me of Home Alone with the movie Kevin watches, “One, two, ten!” Edit: 13:21 Also is that Goob from Meet the Robinsons or something, what in the world

[@compassrose1466]

I remember my parents told me I couldn’t watch this movie because it was about being atheist?? But then we could watch Narnia which is just barely “religious” and the third one had so little budget it was supposed to be a straight to tv movie because Disney dropped the rights at that point lmfao

[@Zade1536]

His Dark Materials Book series and the follow up book of Dust are by far my favourite Fantasy world - even companies to ASOIAF (which is close). Both obviously this adaptation is trash... even the BBC//HBO one is average. The books are phenomenal.

[@John-or7pr]

Lol the film failed because it was bad. Some people tried to blame the Catholic Church because they said the film was anti-Catholic, the Church isn't what made this movie be a flop.

[@lobstercortex]

I remember back when I was in Sunday school, they *deadass* handed out sheets of paper in class that basically read: “The author of the book wants to bash Christianity and promote atheism to kids. DO NOT SEE THIS MOVIE!” ...Yeah.

[@MindPulp]

I remember that.. catholic kids on my block were all like “we can’t see that movie because the church says it’s bad”

[@annemignano]

You guys should check out Peter Jackson’s King Kong. That was my all time favorite growing up. Played it nonstop and replayed my favorite levels

[@MindPulp]

We will at some point!

[@Stoazyy]

Mind Pulp you should play Sonic 06 and put yourself through torture

[@soursweet4258]

🎶"I've got a golden compass!"🎶

[@biggoofy1745]

Yk the movie was so bad when you being HEALTHY SNACKS TO THE MOVIES sliced up cucumbers 😭

[@tommypines1039]

The golden compass didn't exist in the universe until I watched this video and it will only ever exist in context to this video

[@LAVENDERP]

i pray to the gods for a barnyard part 2 also oh my GOD THE POLAR BEAR LOOKS SO BAD..........

[@J05H241]

Icl eating sliced cucumber while watching the golden compass is a vibe

[@warchild4974]

1:22 Probably because Spider-Man 3 came out around that time