The Backrooms (R18+ Apparently) - RadicalSoda

[@MaskedHeroLucky]

Feels like the people who added monsters to the backrooms missed the entire point of the liminal spaces being the spooky part.

[@Evnyofdeath]

The idea that there could be something threatening in the Back Rooms is actually pretty cool. But we should never see it or see any direct evidence of it.

[@geovani60624]

@@Evnyofdeath nah, it's more the feeling of being stuck in an infinite place with no escape

[@guillermostreiger2307]

A backrooms game could absolutely work but definitely not as a survival game. It would have to be narrative centric, maybe a visual novel.

[@guillermostreiger2307]

Since the point of the backrooms is its inescapability, its hard to apply that when someone can just close the game. Thats where a protagonist comes in. We need someone on the same level of reality as the environment (basically, cant escape as easy as us) to get us invested, and a taste of the previous life theyre trying to get back to so we dont devolve into apathy instead of despair.

[@calemr]

@@guillermostreiger2307 Something more like The Longing, rather than Slender.

[@beaksters]

Jesus Christ the Miniladd joke was unexpected but hilarious. 3:34

[@mageofvoid4282]

oh thats why i recognized it. couldnt remember why that sounded familier at first lol

[@jonahbrown5669]

Unfortunately there's a large amount of children who still like him 😬

[@JoshTheWoz]

​@@jonahbrown5669 ouchy pouchy

[@snakekingblues3017]

@@jonahbrown5669 who RadicalSoda? 🤪

[@Yipper64]

1:12 its a concept that can be scary but could also be made to not be scary. I like the idea that you find some kind of abandoned office, you walk in, surprised to see the lights are still on. You turn the corner, and look around, you see nothing so you try to leave. But thats when you realize... there is no longer an exit.

[@PlatinumAltaria]

Ok so I die of thirst in an office building. That isn't really... scary. More annoying as you have to wait. But you can SKIP THE GRIND by purchasing Backrooms Platinum Edition to get a boost on how fast you die!

[@thedeadpoolwhochuckles.6852]

that's called a "career."

[@sleeplessknight173]

@@thedeadpoolwhochuckles.6852 that caught me off guard.

[@martinhodges572]

Rad's transformation into Scott the Woz is almost complete

[@piranhalettuce]

Rad the Soda

[@_-Lx-_]

Funny, both have been compared to Jontron and have gags relating to it.

[@RegalPixelKing]

@@_-Lx-_ I mean jokes aside I'm pretty postitive that both of them were partially inspired by JonTron.

[@greenhowie]

He's closer to Caddicarus but the random screams are very Wozian.

[@capt.bellamy]

Now he needs the upload schedule

[@HawkTeevs]

As someone who is making a Backrooms game myself, here are some key points I picked up along the way: - Keep entity encounters to a minimum - Survival mechanics are cool - Must have emptiness to give maximum Backrooms spooks - Giraffes

[@cadettrev762]

I big one I don’t see often is a lack of linearity. Every game has the floors go in order, but the actual backrooms has a lot more randomness to them. It’d also add replayability, but those are just my 2 cents

[@iconofthicc6086]

You should add a fifth and sixth one, -Giraffes -Girrafes

[@HawkTeevs]

@@cadettrev762 That’s actually a thing I’m implementing in my game. Procedural generation and random events are going to be a thing. For example: level 0 has a small chance of taking you to levels 2 or 3 when you escape it instead of level 1. Randomness is a very key factor in replayability when it comes to a Backrooms game.

[@cadettrev762]

@@HawkTeevs Nice to hear, consider me interested. Keep me updated

[@SquaulDuNeant]

Yeah but no

[@MasterEth]

THANK YOU FOR FINALLY ADDING THE "IT'S LIKE A ROLLERCOASTER" BACK GOD BLESS YA

[@TopFloorByrne]

When did it leave?

[@Brain_With_Glasses]

The giraffe backrooms game feels like a parent made game for their backrooms obsessed child.

[@BillClinton228]

If you think a bunch of yellow rooms are scary, you have bigger problems that you should address.

[@piranhalettuce]

Fun Fact: Twerking in the backrooms is actually a really good survival strategy against the monsters, the rapid motion of both cheeks going up and down intimidates the monsters to the point were it scares them away.

[@TheRealBlazingDiamond]

"Oh hi! Didn't see you there! I'm Ted Bear, and I'm going to teach you... how to survive! Thanks, Shakey-Snake!"

[@iconofthicc6086]

Be careful, or else your cheeks may noclip into each other!

[@theman6422]

@@iconofthicc6086 happened to me. I cannot no longer shit

[@gamingmoyai3950]

@@iconofthicc6086 I no-clipped myself so hard I escaped the backrooms by meeting god

[@Derpixied]

​@@TheRealBlazingDiamond ah classic cyanide and happiness

[@Irish_Enderman]

I hate how getting to the backrooms is described as "no clipping" It's not the correct term, no clip is when you use cheats in a game to turn off your collision and fly through shit, but what happens in the backrooms is just a regular clip, when you _glitch_ yourself through an object ONCE usual by mistake

[@averagechannelname9969]

I honestly didn't even realize it was the wrong term you're right!

[@elstrumva5783]

Ah, Rad as finally rejoined his family outside of reality itself as the incomprehensible being he is

[@anguset]

New Zealand already was outside of reality

[@nateharvey1300]

That’s what I’m saying man, the backrooms are scary cause of the fact that they’re endless and empty and you’re trapped there forever. Adding a big scary horror monster completely misses the point!

[@cadettrev762]

@M.T. Ray wish it was less of an omnipresent threat. An occasional occurrence that won’t happen very often would make it much better. Especially if the game didn’t mention it whatsoever

[@SquaulDuNeant]

Yes but no

[@demongamer_IX]

I did not expect a Family Guy cutaway joke featuring Vanoss.

[@SlimyTheNekoslime]

0:02 And here we have a group of wild RadicalSoda's. They march onwards to another Sonic Unleashed review while creating a Pokemon ROM hack for the subspecies the Radsodas to enjoy. Half of them will not survive the journey due to them glitching through the map of the road like Sonic in Colors Ultimate.

[@RachelTension]

Poppy looking even cuter than usual today

[@skeletonking27]

Fr fr 😌

[@JoshTheWoz]

Is that even Poppy holy shit

[@jr637-1]

Can’t wait for Bear Grylls tips and tricks on how to survive in the back rooms. I’m guessing part of it will be about not letting moisture go to waste

[@Rodolphin]

I was not expecting a Miniladd joke 😂

[@kempolar9768]

Yeah that part caught me off guard not gonna lie.

[@SlimyTheNekoslime]

I laughed out HARD when he made that joke. I didn't expect RadicalSoda of all people to make a joke like that😹

[@koruton9925]

That definitely made me whoop and wallop

[@cup-o-joe4679]

There's a few problems with the "expanded lore" I have is that while I do like it. It ruins several points of the original idea like how the idea there's no food or water there but in the expanded lore there is or how no other humans seem to be there with you but in the lore in all the other levels you can meet humans

[@calemr]

The expanded Backrooms stuff is good Entirely Separate from why the original Backrooms was good. The expanded stuff is pretty blatantly just knock off SCPs, and, well, SCPs can be very enjoyable.

[@VaniRoyal]

Gotta love how everyone almost immediately intertwined the backrooms with stupid scp crap and “levels” that are less like floors in a building and more like entirely new realities with a sky and everything, completely negating everything that made the backrooms unique or interesting

[@LMAO_And_Forever]

Man, Rad’s filming locations have been getting really strange and secluded recently

[@vanilla7981]

The first game you mention, the complex, is an example of the original concept of backgrounds. Simply being subliminal spaces, no entities or threats. The spaces could be anything! A room, a forest, a house, anything. Just the terrifying OR comforting space of the unknown. Backrooms and subliminal spaces are two different concepts but have the same base.

[@achiinrst1628]

The backrooms reminds me of a shitty SCP clone each level is just an SCP just restricted to only liminal spaces instead of just any old anomaly

[@PlatinumAltaria]

SCP: A guy gets randomly teleported to another dimension full of horrors that want to torture him Backrooms: infinite office

[@PancakemonsterFO4]

or a Ikea like jesus christ this is something a kid that got lost in a megastore can come up with

[@greenhowie]

I mean SCP was just ripping off other stuff for the overall concept as well - it just stuck better because it had the biggest community.

[@cadettrev762]

The issue with the backrooms is that there’s no real canon. Everyone wants to make the most popular interpretation of it, unlike the very tidy and uniform SCP site.

[@AnonyBoiii]

At this point Radicalsoda uploads are like Christmas They don’t come very often, but each one is a gem

[@JargonMadjin]

He perfectly summed up the Backrooms when he addressed how stupid the "no clip out of reality" part sounded

[@wumpus976]

To be fair, I couldn’t see any other way of explaining how you get there. Phasing into another reality is really the only plausible way to get there. Still doesn’t change the fact that it’s stupid.

[@lazula]

@@wumpus976 A door in an alley that you walk into, and the only thing that traps you is your own curiosity. Always thought it should've leaned into that aspect of being an uncaring void instead of some overdone bag of threats.

[@KlutzyNinjaKitty]

I don’t think it’s stupid. It’s a neat concept for horror. The idea of jarringly being thrown into another realty through no real fault of your own is spooky and gives me weird, existential thoughts. It’s almost Matrix-y in a way.

[@JargonMadjin]

@@KlutzyNinjaKitty To be fair, the Matrix was a simulation, it was meant to be weird. It's just the wording "no clip out of reality" just sounds dumb to me. Assuming it's a possibility, if you literally "no clip'd" out of reality it's more likely that there would be nothing there at all because you'll be outside reality, at least that's what I've gathered from how it's worded

[@KlutzyNinjaKitty]

@@JargonMadjin - I know it’s a simulation. That’s what I was referring to. The idea that we, currently, could be in a program with all of the flaws that comes with it. There are a lot of game bugs and glitches that are annoying/amusing from the perspective of someone playing the game. But it would then be terrifying if you saw that happen to someone in-person. I see what you mean about the reality part, though, since reality is defined by what actually exists. Maybe “no-clipping out of our known world” is a better way to phrase it. Because, in some games, you can no-clip to get to areas you normally can’t reach or even find things the developers left behind. It’s still a part of that game’s reality. It’s just hidden from view. Idk if that makes sense.

[@Nightout88]

i love the constant miniladdd disses like how he got giraffes constantly and the joke @3:30

[@bandicootsauce4569]

"You, too, can experience the fantasy of being murdered over a parking spot!" Lmao!

[@1nk_Ma1D3N]

never thought I'd see Rad twerking but here we are

[@hondaaccord1399]

I like to imagine that more than one person has dropped into the Backrooms by twerking when they aren't supposed to

[@Fr1ckFrack]

despite the topic being very over rated/used and just dumb you've made it extremely entertaining i love this Radical ty :3

[@soulsearcher9620]

I actually respect you so much for the release of both the KZbin overlord satiating cut, and the uncensored version where KZbin loses their mind like you broke the Geneva convention.

[@justaninkling]

I was not expecting the vanoss crew reference then died at the miniladd jab

[@CannedH8]

Honestly, the backrooms are far more interesting and disturbing if it has nothing in it, just you, alone in a strange place that you don't know. Sure you can add monsters but make it interesting, like imply that they're from another reality or something and no-clipped into the backrooms.

[@blargofallblargs3939]

0:01 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse when the fourth seal is broken:

[@SuperSonic68]

Posting this when the new sonic game just came out. No stream, no nothing. What a power move.

[@mr.lowlife]

Radical throwing it back is the best part of this video

[@Skull_E_Duggery]

Favorite part is when radicalsoda said "it's backrooms time" then shitted on the floor

[@shadowsnake5133]

I didn't know about this episode l, and as an ex mini ladd fan, HOLY SHIT BRO, YOU FUCKING KILLED HIM, GOD DAMN! SERIOUSLY, SPOT IN IMPRESSION, KID DIDDLING AND ALL!

[@NocturnusGame]

I just wanna say, love this man. Always glad to see more from you Radicalsoda!

[@ThePaulper]

Hearing somebody shout "Among Us" at the top of their lungs into a static-y mic shows that my humor hasn't changed a bit over the past several years...

[@chrisfratz]

In my opinion the best game based on the back rooms is not even a standalone game, it's a VR chat world called the VRC backrooms by Montails. That's pretty fun to go explore in and it gets the creepy atmosphere right, and also has a pretty good soundtrack if I remember correctly.

[@dannylopez5976]

My most hated part of the expanded Backroom lore are the self insert characters like the Knight or Muscisian, who are just edgy or "sensitive" characters. The Musician being hurt but understanding if you think he's ugly or the Knight "Never losing a battle just injured" is especially cliched.

[@monolophosaurus]

Back rooms for PS2 was a classic.

[@greenhowie]

My favourite character was Columbo

[@jickboi308]

When it comes to the back rooms, I honestly don’t mind monsters existing since the og description kind of had it mentioned in it. I just dislike them adding like government stuff and like extra levels. It started feeling like diet scp that lacked some semblance of quality control.

[@RikuVA]

_Was not expecting ol' Rad to make a MiniLadd joke, but then again: _*_should've expected it_* haha

[@GMDTheOnyxGuyEizzX]

3:08 Now that's quite old-school, my guy, good job

[@anasevi9456]

1:10 Radical soda at church, finally we know how it goes. 🤣 Great vid as always mate!

[@prokiller4860]

I would like review of Lobotomy Corporation Rob sanity going down with his employees

[@cutiefrooty4546]

Sonic Frontiers: comes out and gets good reviews Radicalsoda:gets stuck in the backrooms

[@Lysvsyl]

I 100% agree that empty backrooms that are all the same is the most interesting form of horror. All that other shit is just children trying to be scary.

[@box2122]

Never thought I’d see such a radiated drink of sodium carbonate get lost in the infinite catacombs of mundane wallpaper before going on a quest to obtain giraffes, yet here I am viewing it. This is truly the Radical Soda experience.

[@BIGBOYGAMING03]

I gotta disagree, I think the extra rooms makes it way scarier as you don't know where your going and how you can end up deeper and deeper with no escape being possible. Also almond water is a pre established price of lore for the backrooms. It's not entirely from the original creepypasta but it has its association now

[@knarf802]

We might not see it in the current moment, but this is a pivotal content change point for radical soda, one that will only be recognized much later. Its the overall V I B E.

[@Keeb_the_mof]

Did not expect the mini lad joke

[@Keeb_the_mof]

Oh, so rad has bots going after him now too.

[@ajflink]

The Complex is an acceptable walking sim that is so extremely detailed that it looks like actual footage.

[@redreploid1713]

Ah how could i forget my favorite member of the vanoss crew? RadicalSoda

[@scoaktree9575]

1:28 this is read so well

[@WhatTheCheick]

It's far from ruined, but the whole concept of the backrooms and even it's initial "design" is kind of bogged down and tossed aside by adding all these spooky spaghetti men and homunculus dogs The whole thing was meant to represent how liminal spaces can make you feel strangely uneasy because of your own personal experiences Like, yeah, big monster make me poopy pant big time, but it's just what everything that came before did, just now the background is the shade of rancid mustard

[@imsirnootnoot]

The sexiest poppy design so far

[@Dasquapy]

Bro I first saw you from your DDLC Vid, Back then you made me laugh a few times but nothing too crazy, in the end I ended up binging your stuff for a bit then ended up forgetting! Until this vid, bro you became so fucking funny lmaooo that miniladd joke caught me so off guard

[@ProjectOccasus]

You're funny with everything you do. Love your videos

[@JerzyStMac]

I thought you get trapped there by being sucked in your own dream. But no-clip? It truly is a gmod horror map.

[@mimlo]

i don't know if you noticed but the scary flailing tube man is the trollface with the spindly arms

[@Albi6335]

I do appreciate the Mini Ladd joke, nice one RadicalSoda 😂👍🏻

[@N_JustWannaDraw]

Bruh even radicalsoda is in the miniladd banter, I'm fuckin dead

[@killerduck9022]

This is nice, as always

[@RadicalSoda]

Thanks mister killing duck

[@tastelesssodawastaken]

HOW THE HELL YOU RPLIED A DAY AGO!?

[@SausRelics]

bro what

[@biggoofy]

@@RadicalSoda holy guacamole it’s Mr soda

[@orbboom6119]

@@RadicalSoda nice ass Mr. Radical

[@campbellsonic]

I feel like RadicalSoda is slowly losing his mind

[@shadrok163]

Radical soda makes me happy I'm not the only one who doesn't get how backrooms is scary.

[@ThePariahDark]

We have gone creatively bankrupt if people today consider some empty office rooms true horror.

[@yeetyeeterson5444]

3:46 hah, Mini Ladd likes Mini Ladds

[@ragos0587]

Im glad rad is beginning to put himself back in thumbnails

[@Tribow]

this is like Spooky's House of Jumpscares but dumb and silly and possibly even stupid

[@a_ninja2376]

Really enjoying your content a lot this past year or two. Keep up the great work man

[@PotatoVoid255]

The point of it is there is your trapped, alone with no food or water not monsters that has some weird powers or other levels that feels like a kick in the balls

[@PotatoVoid255]

@M.T. Ray really? Huh well I haven’t see the og post just seen the newer levels like 11.3

[@origTacoking]

0:17 he was throwing it around the house 🏠

[@WeenieExaminer]

Jesus crist I haven't seen this channel since it was a weird sonic fan page

[@ledestroyerofworlds9366]

It’s really cool that the first game actually looks like you’re holding a camera

[@casualjacob776]

Using Ty2 music near the end made me smile

[@tmo8859]

1:02 gee, wonder why the video got age restricted

[@CodeKirby]

7:31 the cat in the hat

[@kai_lopez9855]

7:05 that joke gets me everytime xD

[@Drogaidon]

I wonder how epic it would be if RadicalSoda was playing Gmod with Vanoss and his crew.

[@wdp1a73r]

that would be horrible. also fuck mini ladd ( not in that way )

[@jacohbruh9466]

8:29 Bear Grills simulator

[@Ryzard]

I hate what the "backrooms community" has done to the entire concept of liminal spaces and the backrooms.

[@Joshuazx]

Hey Radical Soda, is there going to be a Scarlet / Violet review? I enjoyed your Sword / Shield review massively.

[@dabeltgiver]

0:51 damn... just called out all the 12 year olds like that?

[@Pensive_Scarlet]

Backroom Poppy is my new favorite.

[@Thegamenerd28]

Am I the only one who loves the new intro music?

[@Tha2442]

3:47 Mini ladd:

[@RadioballZ129]

We need to give you a swear jar. One dollar per swear.

[@gogetyourmilk1459]

I find it amusing that i started reading backrooms lore like 1 week ago... So HQHAHA i get it !

[@ProfSir1]

This man has the coolest voice on the platform.

[@Madpotator]

11:27 Hey, I recognize that song, you freaking weeb! - a weeb

[@slateoffate9812]

Watching this I just get reminded of Destiny of the Doctors. Never played it, but I've seen walkthroughs and had no idea what I was looking at.

[@Shadyguy111]

I have to say these all still look better than every Slenderman game.

[@Sonybara]

Please make more videos like this, they feel like the sonic horror games series but more fun

[@BiGGMiXX340]

That thumbnail is everything I think of when I watched Kiss me(kill me)

[@IncorporationXII]

Loving the gamersupps shirt rad!

[@BatsOnSaturn]

was surprised to see this but I'm into it

[@Buhhhdy]

Welp since we're going to the backrooms might as well bring VHS Sonic, Sonic.exe the application, and last bur certainly not least Cartoon Cat Star

[@Buhhhdy]

VHS Sonic: *INTERESTING ENOUGH WE USE THE BACKROOMS WHEN WE NEED TO TEST SOMETHING*

[@dannydanggang1675]

I kid you not I got the notification and went through 4 different emotions. Joy seeing it's radicalsoda, fear after seeing the art (but man it's good art), and then confusion into hysterics after seeing what was to the left of the art

[@kibbywitz]

Always nice to see you upload! At this point I'm just here for your personality regardless if I know what you're talking about lol.