I beat KONG so no one else ever has to

Kong is truly the king of the jungle.
Full vod: • King Kong: The Whole Kong
This video was recorded live at / oboeshoesgames
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[@tendiesoffmyplate9085]

The most disturbing idea to take note of is that someone will almost assuredly watch the full vod. True psychopaths.

[@hiidenkiuas]

i watched the full vod for amy i can't imagine that this will be much worse

[@maximedelice6691]

I like long form content.

[@Gledster]

Loves me some KZbin 1.75 speed! :D

[@Yellowtoad6]

I watched the full golem vod

[@Shiestey]

Hey man don’t hate on us masochists 🤣 there’s nothing like watching a youtuber you enjoy painfully slog through one of the worst games of all time

[@coneyisland428]

You know a game is truly awful when he can't find a single opportunity to insert a Bionicle reference while playing it

[@soundwave2481]

or Mass Effect lol

[@Bullboy_Adventures]

Wheres lewa when you need the toa of JUNGLE?!?

[@jettlucashayes8508]

​@Bullboy_Adventures he's air not the greeen/jungle

[@zenithtv9870]

This game looks like it was made as a 4th grade art project

[@Gattaii]

in 2010

[@rjmeeker89]

Just think of it as a 2002 PS2 throwback game.

[@CatNigga]

nah, the PS2 King Kong was actually good

[@rjmeeker89]

@@CatNigga Yeah but that was a 2005 game. This one is more like 01 or 02.

[@meatbicycle2273]

War of the monsters is a better kaiju game.

[@TheShadowfaxOne]

We thank you for your holy sacrifice, Oboe.

[@TheSpeep]

If this were some indie dev's first game, this'd actually be kinda endearing. It's not, of course, but y'know, wouldve been cute.

[@dfghj241]

no it would not, it would be garbage. doesn't matter who made it.

[@Jormyyy]

​@dfghj241 of one person made this in their free time and with the budget of a ham sandwich and sold it for it like 5 bucks then it genuinely wouldn't be so bad. The fact it is being sold for 40 bucks from a legit gaming company is why this game is so awful.

[@JcDent]

Iron Pineappale reviews basically any game tagged "souls-like" and it's full of student projects that look better than this.

[@MilkANDMagic]

Its the publishers fault not the devs, publishers only gave them one year to work on it and gave them no assets they could work with. Literally had to build everything from the ground up in one year as well as bad working conditions

[@christiancinnabars1402]

@Jormyyy 5 bucks is kind of pushing it. At least in 2023. If this was a free proof of concept game with the more noticeable cutscene jank instead being tongue-in-cheek jokes thrown throughout, then I'd say it would be a pretty good starting point for a solo dev or a small dev team. For it to really be worth selling past the very early 2000s, then it would need more polish that, granted, even a solo game dev could be capable of given several more months. Streamlining/crunching down the levels so it isn't such a confusing walkfest, making the combat more enjoyable (AND rewarding; giving a single skill point for beating very specific groups of enemies isn't enough), and especially getting the movement of the player Kongs down. Just nailing down those three aspects alone would make it an easy $5 sell, even _with_ the graphics being as crusty as they are (but _please_ still fix the cutscene .jpgs).

[@edesbalazs]

Some developers work exclusively to be featured on the Oboe Gaming channel.

[@Impenetrable_Walls_of_Heaven]

The combat of Knack + the climbing of Gollum = GOTY

[@Zazymandias]

Nathan Drake can climb faster than King Kong

[@GilCAnjos]

This one game doesn't even feel good to mock, it's clear that this studio was not at all prepared to develop something on par with what people expect from a popular IP. If this game didn't have the Kong name on it, it would've just been forgotten on the depths of Steam shovelware and no one would ever care. But because it has the Kong name, it instantly becomes just mainstream enough to become the worst game of the year

[@ORLY911]

and to this day nothing comes close to the budget tie in game for Peter Jacksons King Kong

[@pajamapantsjack5874]

Expand Kong

[@notcalebboodhoo]

You’re living my dream rn. I can’t play the game until they release it on PlayStation.

[@ethanisfancy]

There are many impressive things about this masterpiece, but the one that stands out the most is that the game somehow makes Kong look... like a regular sized ape. Nothing around him makes him look like a gigantic beast.

[@amirhb7531]

We will never forget your sacrifice oboe

[@ScoutBostonAnonStuds]

I salute all these heroes that beat KONG so that we, the people, don't have to.

[@way2tehdawn]

Dr. Tito Aureliano was the scientist who discovered that dinosaurs had hollow bones like birds. Then someone else said haha maybe they had feathers lol.

[@MasterGamer-zl7hq]

I remember reading a review about this game on my Xbox on the Microsoft store and one review said a cutscene literally had a placeholder left in it.

[@Theover4000]

Do you think the developers of this game saw Gollum and went “yes, that’s exactly what we want!” and then proceeded to keep their game on its initial release date? Because it just makes no sense that they did this otherwise

[@maninthecamohat2735]

This is like a desaturated version of Peter Jackson's King Kong game.

[@Mustafa_9628]

Gollum: finally a worthy opponent Our battle shall be legendary

[@fabzter]

Am I the only one that thinks that feathered dinosaurs look badass?

[@FG-ww8rc]

I LOVED the original Peter jacksons King Kong game for the og Xbox. Unfortunately it's essentially inaccessible with modern consoles. An actually good king kong game would have been such a blessing

[@Verminator4]

Is King Kong in the public domain now or something? I can't think of another explanation why the IP holders would give this the green light otherwise

[@Jormyyy]

Yea this isn't tied to Warner bros or Legendary's Monsterverse thankfully

[@H3rry118]

At 7:56 you can see how rustled Kong's' jimmies are

[@Juco1808]

Missed opportunity: when leveling up, change the C in Conquered to K.

[@marcusaaronliaogo9158]

On the dino feathers part, nuh uh

[@Grasslehoff]

Thank you for your service, instrument footwear man

[@erickschusterdeoliveira2662]

YES THE BABY KING KONG IS LITERALY GOLLUM LMFAO

[@marshmallowsgamer9405]

Holy i wasn't looking and thought it switched to a borderlands video for a moment

[@shrekenthusiast8703]

if they had gone full-cartoony, no one would complain about graphics.

[@samholdsworth420]

Long live the trumpet socks!

[@samholdsworth420]

Death from above is always 1 hit kill

[@sporeham1674]

0:56 bro has never seen an angry cassowary.

[@sporeham1674]

Also only some had feathers, and they were very rarely fully covered

[@AburamyShi1]

Imagine you being a dev and you have this pile of king kong shit in you resume😂

[@The_Kentuckian]

1:37 I'm guessing Oboe hasn't played the new RPG Assassin's Creed games.

[@jaymason4069]

Great, now I'm longing for oboe to play to game based on the Peter Jackson movie. That one kicks ass.

[@mephistopheles2508]

This is actually game of the year 😂

[@Toon_Lucario]

He forgot the PNG cutscene

[@Mario_bland]

Yunno im actually suprised the refund vote was close

[@OmegaCorsair]

Gollum but you play as King kong:

[@mattj3387]

You should play Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie. It's awesome.

[@Gooner333333333]

1:10 It looks like the virtual boy

[@vulpinitemplar5036]

Not only is Kong supposed to tower over 1940s New York but even Skull Island itself looks pretty small in comparison to Kong and he's not even the biggest thing on the island! I'm not comfortable with the idea that those ankle biting spiders are about a skyscraper each however :v

[@successrebirthmahle5155]

Short Kong

[@KindaMad958]

FEATHERED DINOS ARE COOL SHUSH

[@vicace]

DOING GODS WORK!

[@nicolasmcgarrahan4371]

crab battle

[@deltavagen9796]

and you gave the company money...

[@Holyduck777]

Ngl I forgot this game existed half way through this video. Even typing this I forgot what the game is. What it is it Madden? Cool Madden Video Oboeshoes

[@hazukichanx408]

And people used to say license games are usually bad... This one is clearly _terrible!_

[@Slashwowftwftw]

A true hero of the generation

[@Atlan3]

I can proudly say... that this game... looks worse than some ps1 games. What a masterpiece.

[@Andriej69]

I sure hope you were fast enough to get a refund, damn

[@IdontknowIthink]

You should play knack

[@infragablecrunk]

Maybe the crabs and spiders aren’t gigantic in this game, but instead Kong has been shrunken to micro size

[@Sileff]

Is this game good? Should I play this game?

[@Squigglyline52]

I've been getting almost the same video from another guy. Did the algorythem suggest something? Because it's the same title but I think with a different monkey game.

[@youtubearepussys7530]

When special ed gets into game development

[@TheMC1102]

If you think about it, this game is very immersive because it really looks, runs and plays like it was programmed by apes.

[@Alexalicious]

Funny, cause all games are XD

[@subaiya]

Thats overly mean to apes

[@helo9316]

All humans are apes

[@ben_rez08]

​@@subaiya🤓

[@fakealizer8280]

@@ben_rez08 you are an ape

[@whiskeyecho3523]

You would've known he had a tail whip if you paid attention more closely. You see, in the beginning of the game, when your parent dies, they first go down by tail whip. Chekov's Tail, if you will. See the lore is actually quite deep and intimate...

[@drphalanges1520]

I wouldn't expect a common pleb to understand the deep lore here. It's beyond their comprehension.

[@Moth_Dust]

You are a sociopath

[@gigiesparza396]

I think we’re all just fucking dumb and can’t understand how amazing these developers are.

[@trianglemoebius]

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Skull Island...

[@TironaBloodspiller]

@@trianglemoebius It's called Skull Island because Kong has a skull

[@Invidente7]

Comparing this to PS2 games is an insult to PS2 games.

[@ironduke5058]

Genuinely lol I remember playing the original kong and it was awesome kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y6XLf4dvr8Sdhbssi=3onBOkEmQwmjnzKM This is like 5 minutes from the original and the difference is insane, makes me laugh a little everytime I think about it lol

[@pauloa.7609]

Kong game in the ps2 looked better.

[@grekygrek]

Usually when people use that comparison it is indeed an insult to ps2 games lol. The ps2 king kong game was crazy good.

[@tochka832]

PS2 had real, real lot of releases, and huge chunk of them were really like this in quality. it was also the time when 3d platformers were still really popular, so, a lot of them landed here

[@irishboy_pa]

​@@tochka832that was I about to say. There were a lot more little and bigger studios making these kind if shovel game.

[@faceless2302]

If you're ever feeling upset, just remember that somehow they licensed this game instead of remastering the Peter Jackson's King Kong game and porting it to digital store fronts. Now you have something actually worth being upset about.

[@unlucky1353]

That game is a masterpiece.

[@creed8712]

I could imagine that would be a lot. You’d have to repay all those actors most likely so it’s cheaper to just make a new game

[@collinmclaren6608]

TWO MAGAZINES ON BACKUP

[@korblborp]

i like how the game about king kong, a giant ape, fighting other giant animals, has no scale reference to make you feel that big, and in fact has landscapes that make you look absolutely miniscule in a way that games where you play a normal sized ape (human) do not.

[@guilhermehank4938]

Skull Island was normal sized, making Kong look extra massive. In here, the island is scaled to his size and thus makes him look minuscule

[@realdragon]

The only thing big in that game was spider

[@handsomezack1075]

I think the biggest crime in this game is how nothing is scaled to make King Kong look big. Everyone needs to remember though that it was the publishers that forced the devs to make this game in only one year.

[@Dobaspl]

Devs accepted these terms so...

[@Ikanamable]

"do this in one year or go bankrupt" is a very compelling argument to "accept those terms". As it is often the case for tye development of shovelware like this.

[@Dobaspl]

@@Ikanamable Saying it's the bad publisher's fault and not mine isn't fair either. They knew they couldn't make a good game, and now they have a bad publisher.

[@dease-mo9zg]

Plenty of devs could make that in one month, dont even start

[@marreco6347]

Unreal Engine 5 and Unity are free and chatgpt can just code for you. This shouldn't take more than 3 days.

[@MarkoUntitled]

I'm fighting a bunch of crabs irl so i can relate.

[@lmno567]

You are either in an all-you-can-eat crab buffet or experiencing the aftermath of a night of regret.

[@Silverfirefly1]

Just form a deep emotional attachment to them. Inevitably they will leave you.

[@genericname2747]

Did you win

[@gloomboy1639]

The pun achievements are the only redeeming quality of this game.

[@itsdokko2990]

i KONGpletely agree

[@genericname2747]

Puns are not monkey buisness, they are art.

[@hauntedhoody2976]

They’re not even good puns!

[@stefanosiclari]

​@@hauntedhoody2976that's the best part

[@jaybones8457]

The Dark Souls of disappointingly small giant gorilla games has landed.

[@biscuitboi9478]

This feels like a 2006 movie tie-in for the Wii that they dug up and released. Good lord

[@gogousa6661]

Hahahaha it really is Nintendo level gaming

[@scattysafari7742]

"He's small." Yes! That was my first thought when I initially saw footage of this terrible game. ❤No other reviewer has mentioned this, so thank you!😅If you're going to make a Kong game, have him scale a building or grab a plane!

[@jeremiahjohnson2784]

A very average sized Kong actually

[@andrewmeyer3599]

Kong was originally only, like, 20 feet tall. He was never a tall monster until they did Godzilla vs Kong back in the 60s

[@guilhermehank4938]

​@@andrewmeyer359927 ft actually

[@hazukichanx408]

@@andrewmeyer3599 Still plenty tall enough to be towering over lots of things. The feeling of scale in video games has to be created, you can't just make a thing wide and expect it to feel _big._ Take the mech in Lost Planet 3, it actually feels like a giant clunky mess of outdated mining equipment or something. Which is awesome. Or the protagonist in Unreal, who is strangely short compared to most shooter protagonists, but probably by design, to make the alien world seem ominous and looming.

[@genericname2747]

​@@andrewmeyer3599Yeah but this monkey looks TINY

[@2ndeaster]

Joke aside, it was commendable that the dev could churned out this game with an incredibly tight deadline which is just about a year. If we want someone to blame it's the publisher.

[@sleeper6548]

Just 1 fucking year?

[@just_matt214]

​@@sleeper6548Yup, 1!

[@Astral_thee_God]

@@sleeper6548Yup. The publishers basically pitched this idea last June I think and they wanted it done by the end of this June. So with that, this game isn’t _that_ bad. The developers did all they could. It’s definitely the publishers fault, as usual

[@weamxplays9228]

@@Astral_thee_God buddy I can make something like this but ten times better with no budget and only working on it when I get home from work, and do it under 6 months. These guys had a team and funding, an already established IP, and I’m sure this game used a lot of older code from an older scrapped game

[@pugasaurusrex8253]

@@weamxplays9228 Make monkey game and meet me back here in 1 year

[@Soul93Taker]

Love how everything in the island is gigantic enough to make you forget this is supposed to be Kong. Even the goddamn BUSHES are the size of skyscrapers.

[@chinemapictures]

Love that the cutscenes don’t account for any fur color changes you did

[@capnphuktard5445]

😂🦍🦧

[@aidencgg]

"The first game to charge for rose-tinted glasses that don't work" is an incredible line 1:12

[@incorrectbeans]

More like "Kong live the Queen" amiright

[@TheMC1102]

Redfall: I'm the worst game of 2023. Gollum: No! I'm the worst game of 2023! Kong: Amateurs. Redfall and Gollum: What was that, punk?! Kong: AMATEURS!

[@jackfruit420]

Thanks for the gold kind stranger! (528x)

[@gogousa6661]

We have reached peak Cringe

[@hazukichanx408]

It sure is a great year for terrible games! Though also some pretty cool ones, if we count indie ones anyway. Mainstream triple-A and license games be a barren wasteland, though. A barren wasteland they charge you $70-100 for.

[@footballrestored171]

I showed this game to my young daughter. She then grabbed a suitcase and started packing. I asked her what she was doing and she responded, "Since they are now hiring four year olds to design games, I figure being six, I can fly to the headquarters and become the company president." It's been a few days and I'm sad to report she only made Vice President. Still an okay accomplishment though.

[@dirtyhank5330]

You’re like the fourth vid I’ve seen of “I beat Kong so no one else has to” I don’t say that to be disparaging, I’ve watched them all just to get everyone’s take on it, and you’re the first one to suggest that they added the “clear area” objective in order to prevent people from running through the game in 2 hours and getting a refund. 100% agree with you on that…

[@MistahFox]

"If you just keep throwing rocks at him, he can't counter!" -prehistoric man

[@haley746]

The moment that red filter was turned on I actually yelled out in agony. MY EYES

[@grahamdavies8986]

If all the other creatures only attack Kong and leave each other alone, then maybe Kong is the problem. Kong take a hint and leave Skull Island.

[@ernstblofeld3396]

Imagine making a King Kong game and Kong wouldn't even tear dinosaur's jaws open...

[@guilhermehank4938]

I know right? You would think they were saving the classic move to the final boss but no, just a basic neck snap. I hate this game, especially as a King Kong fan

[@Morty143]

Glad to see they still make games for N64

[@expendableindigo9639]

I swear those filters are still worse than the average game’s photo mode.

[@lorpuz4664]

You know is Bad when oboe plays a Game set on a tropical island and he makes 0 bionicle references

[@TheTygre]

"Well, the players got him." "Oh no, it wasn't the players. It was bit rate killed the Beast."

[@brunettebird57]

this game is the DOLMEN of Gollum games

[@RamielTheThunder]

And dolmen is the dolmen of the most games

[@WhoeverNevermind]

But only DOLMEN is the Gollum of all games

[@superbtrilogy5049]

Oh man this must have been such a cool game to play. Can't wait for this on Gamepass

[@0smundSaddler]

This actually makes Gollum look like a masterpiece in comparison, I can't believe it

[@abbey5899]

this was brave, because i haven't seen the spider levels yet. most streamers must have given up and gotten that refund. but because of this noble sacrifice, i got to see the spider level.

[@zacharyraut151]

I wise man once said… “never go full Kong”

[@AD3SPG]

Amazing you kongpleted this game but at least you earned some very rare achievements.

[@RamielTheThunder]

That red filter should be considered as a mean of torture

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

Okay, you know what's really, really, REALLY weird about this? Maybe about five years ago there was a new King King cartoon on Netflix. The oddest choice they had with the series was including 'accomplishments' that would appear on screen whenever Kong learned a new move or had an upgrade to his handling tech. It was this weird videogame references that really played no part in the overall story but they put it in anyway..... The weirdness of that combined with this clusterfuck of a game feels like they just retooled the show to be an actual game but still fucked up.

[@meffeli]

Someone really saw the Gollum game and went: "Challenge accepted!"

[@EugenijusKrenis]

I once again come back asking you to play Command & Conquer: Renegade

[@leviticusprime4904]

You know if they wanted to make a game about Kong, wouldn’t make more sense to create like a fighting game with various other kaiju from the monster verse?

[@infamous6283]

This game is based off a book that is public domain they can't use the monster verse as it's owned by WB

[@smilingbanditfaf8734]

War of the monsters on ps2

[@Jormyyy]

​@@smilingbanditfaf8734peak gaming right there

[@leviticusprime4904]

@@infamous6283 so this game is basically an asylum style rip off game?

[@reanukeeves2k77]

I liked the part where he had to fight an army of mudcrabs, and then punched to death the worm from Dune 10/10

[@M4R4T1N4]

This started happening during UE 2 or maybe UE 3 times. The further we proceed in time, the more Unreal Engine games look alike.

[@Sledgehammeh]

It feels like a ps1 game that I had fun with when I was little.

[@lordedmundblackadder9321]

Never seen King Kong, so they might be from the movies, but I think the boss designs go pretty hard actually

[@Zogger568]

fun fact, the devs were given a timeline of 6 months to make this game