Signalis Wears Its References On Its Sleeves | Castle Super Beast Clips

[@wuzzems2850]

For those interested. Pat said Woolie is twenty minutes away from the ending. Woolie continued to play for another 4 hours. CRAZY TALK ACTIVATED.

[@moroseloki1912]

I did that for Breath of the Wild 🤣 I believe I spent 80 hours plus Playing that game just Chilling

[@ZioIV1]

"Androids... don't need to look at themselves in the mirror." _EULE would like to know your location._

[@acceptablecasualty5319]

The final Boss of Signalis ist David Cage attempting to turn you into a racial allegory

[@raccoonofmotivation20]

In a shower arena

[@riddlemethat5597]

Press F to reflect his own Fat Evil Pervert archetype back at him

[@XxTheTomahawkGodxX]

I hate that nobody remembers The Big O. Its just Batman with a mech. Like if Bruce's Parents took him to see Pacific Rim instead of Zoro.

[@flamesbaldwin108]

Best analogy for Big O ever. Don’t worry dude. I remember. Ye Not Guilty, Domineuce of Megadeus

[@1wayroad935]

Big O is overrated aside from some very memorable moments

[@miguelnewmexico8641]

@@1wayroad935 almost like things get that way for a reason.

[@attackofthecopyrightbots]

@@1wayroad935 i mean season two was just "adult swim wanted another season" so yeah kinda goes off the deep end

[@szeltovivarsydroxan9944]

The fake ending is actually genius. On my first run I was just flabbergasted and wanted to see if they're for real, so I started the game again, immediately noticing something's different. On my second run though, I wanted to exit the game after the fake ending, but the game doesn't let you. It doesn't matter what you click, it goes straight to the game again, and continues with the Penrose memory.

[@FunkyFjord]

The super duper secret ending isn't even really there for any one single person. It's there, very specifically, for a community to figure out.

[@sethlanceto2200]

The cool thing about some of it's references is that they can be taken in pretty interesting ways. The King In Yellow wasn't just horror stories, one of them was an outright alternate history fiction where America became a fascist dystopia with suicide booths. The King In Yellow showing up doesn't just mean "Hey look at this cool reference" it can also mean "This story is set in the same universe as The King In Yellow, which in-universe is a play that gives people insane insight into reality"

[@michaelmtv]

Note that the fascist dystopia America portrayed in the book is entirely in the perspective of a person who is absolutely mentally unwell from a brain injury and should not be trusted in the slightest.

[@matthewschoen9827]

It feels like what pat is trying to say at the end is what I've experienced a lot when working on art. Some time's you can see the completed picture in your head right from the start and you can complete the piece in no time at all. That's what signalis or hollow knight feel like. The devs had a very clear idea of what they wanted to make and executed on it.

[@sialiasialis.]

There's something that I missed out on as a kid that Signalis has managed to retroactively instill in me today. Remember Silent Hill? 1, 2, 3, 4, take your pick. Remember when you were younger and you found that game to be petrifyingly scary? How it riddled you with a sense of anxiety and foreboding just by walking around and looking at things? Signalis did that to me in its very first moments of play. Having only experienced Silent Hill when I was older, and hearing from people like Pat during the SBFP run of how its horror held up, I was sad that I didn't get any of that--I mostly found playing a game like SH2 extremely comforting. Initially, I was pretty confident that a lower poly, pixelated game like this would not be very scary, despite how beautifully rendered it is. Doing the point-and-click first person POV parts of Signalis are some of the most nerve-wracking things I've played, because absolutely nothing is going to happen to you, but you will NEVER not _FEEL_ like something will happen. And in that moment I feel like I understood the childhood you that played Silent Hill.

[@RavenCloak13]

No. I remember the arcade machines smelling that was actually causing me pain to be around.

[@riddlemethat5597]

Honestly the aesthetics of these graphical generations were edged out the door far too soon. The Indie crew have been making legendary pixel games for over a decade now, and games like Hollow Knight that have a contemporary look for a classic formula still fit that Super Nintendo era vibe. I'm glad to see folks moving into the PS1 era of low poly oozing with soul. Art being forced into a certain aesthetic style of perfect photo-realism by Paul Marketing has been driving the industry into the dirt.

[@ALookIntoTheEulenspiegel]

Signalis can be somewhat scary, but then I see the "hot anime girl" faces and every single time, I have to snicker at how super they don't fit the tone of the game and the scare factor goes back down to zero 🤣 Not to mention all the stuff stolen from other games and anime, which is so ridiculously blatant, that I have to roll my eyes every time I see another one. And they are EVERYWHERE. This game could have been a lot scarier if it had done more of its own thing and hadn't chosen "hot anime girls" as their art direction.

[@extantcadence2707]

​@@ALookIntoTheEulenspiegelThis comment has a very strong "I only watch hentai or very trashy anime" energy

[@ALookIntoTheEulenspiegel]

@@extantcadence2707 That certainly would explain how I know Ghost in the Shell :P

[@09KEVO09]

The robot aren't really robots. Like they are more like cyborgs or biomechanical androids. The game states that the security units even like taking showers.

[@slaps9402]

one other weird detail is that the replicants and gestalts both don't have feet but robotic stubs for some reason. which blurs who's human and not even more.

[@riddlemethat5597]

@@slaps9402 I'm left genuinely wondering if the Isa you meet over the course of the game is even the same Isa Ariane knew, or if there isn't just an Isa Itou series Gestalt unit in production behind the scenes, and there's just an Ayanami Rei tank full of Isas somewhere. No one uses the term "Human" at any point to describe anyone.

[@ajch22]

​@@riddlemethat5597 9 months late, but I'm pretty sure it is implied that Isa was already dead from the start of the game. The Isa we see is not a Gestalt either, my understanding is that Ariane, in an attempt to find someone that could save her, brought Isa into her world, the problem being that Ariane seems to get Isa and Erika confused most of the time and brought the wrong sister.

[@whatahero2337]

If we're talking about small amount of developers with a really good game, Stardew Valley was created by a single person named Eric Barone. The man was a fan of the Harvest Moon series, until he found the games were getting "progressively worse". The only rational solution in the mind of Eric Barone: Make your own Harvest Moon-like game. As sole developer he made literally everything: the game's pixel art, music and sound effects, and story and dialogue. First game he ever developed, and it is just fucking fantastic.

[@melancholyman369]

I won't lie, the first 30mins got me with it's atmosphere and them hearing the enemy cry for the first time made me jump out of skin. After that I was just hunting for references and lore but that first hour was great.

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

SIGNALIS is a gem that deserves even more recognition!!

[@Abyss3223]

Isla being Lisa is great.

[@09KEVO09]

If they did do voices for the cutscenes then I'd like to see them get German voice actors speaking German.

[@rootzparty3053]

Thinking about the talk of the game being iterated on, and I can't help but think about the fact that the eye and flashlights are inventory items, but not the radio. Which makes me think there was a version of this game where you had to lug around a radio alongside your flashlight and weapons

[@Tsunamidusher]

Anime Robots being sad. Me: ...Radiohead?

[@theqreem8587]

SWERY is feeling real validated now

[@themissinggene]

Kikaider is my favorite sad robot.

[@Upsetkiller456]

The limited inventory is a gem, fight me. It does it's exact job in forcing you to leave behind safety in ammo/health in order to progress.

[@Valkyon230]

Agreed, the only change I'd propose would be that the item in your Tech slot isn't taking space in your inventory. By the time the Flashlight rolls around everything else that can go there feels awful to use, and that one extra slot I feel would help to incentivize running around with spare thermite or stun prods more without really giving you a true seventh slot.

[@melancholyman369]

Square up numb 🥜, that shit was tedious asf. If there was optional upgrade for the inventory that was difficult to get or things would change like PT but nah that run around shit is time padding

[@piotr78]

You have my stunrod

[@Upsetkiller456]

@@Valkyon230 I will say while I still think items like stun rods ad thermite should still take up space, the flashlight maybe could have been perma unlocked but regardless, the whole game was designed with 6 slots in mind.

[@Upsetkiller456]

@@melancholyman369 It's inherent to the genre, get good. I kid. Being real, the optimal solution here is to give multiple difficulty sliders, one for combat and the other for exploration, affecting inv space

[@1wayroad935]

Signalis doesn't need voice acting. There is too much risk to it becoming really bad.

[@yukiminsan]

then it'll be exactly like a PS1 survival horror

[@HeyItsHeavenly]

Or becoming a disco elysium style upgrade

[@just_matt214]

Signalis needs voice acting in german *only*

[@fifthfan]

Signalis Wears It Is References On It Is Sleeves

[@Matthew-zx8cs]

You’re*

[@bluegrasscreek5663]

Woolie has died a few a times at this point

[@attackofthecopyrightbots]

and pat somehow didnt mention the "looking for" from silent hill 1 too obviously

[@srcocomad]

I tried to open the first safe with The Code, and didnt work. Then when i got to the manual i was ooooooooh

[@blackdragoncyrus]

It should be "Its".

[@Matthew-zx8cs]

Your*

[@attackofthecopyrightbots]

The monsters make sounds really similar to the ones in silent hill 1 i believe

[@TheMetalMenace]

its*

[@gktravels4335]

Do you want Wet Books Pat!?

[@blackdragoncyrus]

Like.

[@music79075]

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