The Forgive Me Father Experience

[@DameonRaye]

Icarus, I'm pretty sure that relic of the Journalists is not a "fat blunt," it's a bundle of sage, which is often used as a cleansing ward against evil spirits.

[@arutzuki2491]

that's hilarious

[@ICARUSLIV3S]

@@arutzuki2491 ITS A BLUNT

[@AnnieC.1993]

Sage, tobacco or weed, fat blunt it shall be

[@BrotherVoidBomber]

Honestly I thought it was both. A wonderful cleansing technique. Oh wait that's one thing

[@DameonRaye]

@@ICARUSLIV3S Well, apparently according to the game itself (and now it's Wiki), the Reporter's relic is supposedly just a cigarette, so now I don't know what to believe...

[@battlion507]

Priest: My Lord, I need healing! Journalist: *insert snoop dogg song*

[@livingcorpse5664]

I love that enemy that replaces her head with the one she's carrying if you destroy her head.

[@muttproductions2536]

I feel like that might be a reference to "Herbert West - Reanimator." For anyone who doesn't know, near the end of the story, the titular character, drafted into the medical corps during the First World War, has a British Major for a commander who actually shares West's beliefs that it is possible to bring someone back to life after death. Well said commander ends up getting decapitated during a plane crash, and West and his assistant decide to bring the Major back to life using the procedure they had been developing throughout the story. Unlike their previous attempts, however, it actually did seem to work: the major's severed head actually began to bark the last orders he gave to the pilot before he was decapitated while his body was writhing and moving as it did when the plane went down. However, before West and his assistant could reattach the major's head to his body and get him back up to speed, their makeshift lab was destroyed in a German artillery attack, leaving a distraught West to believe the Major was again dead, destroying his last chance to redeem his work and his name. About ten years later, Arkham, Massachusetts would find itself dealing with a mysterious group calling itself "the Tomb Legion," who were comprised of all of West's previous test subjects, lead by a man "with a wax head." This was obviously West's former C.O., and they had apparently sent something to West in a black box that West would burn in his fireplace before they broke through and captured him, possibly the major's actual head. TL;DR this enemy is likely based off of the one story H.P. Lovecraft hated as much as his fans did.

[@BrazenScull]

I loved this one. It’s marketed as a ‘retro’ shooter but it’s not in the way people expect. If anything, it reminded me of the PS2 / Xbox era of console shooters, and it was nice to go back to an often-forgotten era.

[@SpecShadow]

@Tendies Offmyplate not the first time someone talks about old classic (and quite popular too) then slap them with "forgotten" tag randomly

[@BrazenScull]

@Tendies Offmyplate developers, arguably.

[@BrazenScull]

@@SpecShadow chill your boots. It’s a throwaway comment. You might remember the genre, when was the last time a developer did?

[@arnantphongsatha7906]

I think it's just not its time yet. Give it half a decade and, if nukes haven't flown by then, I'll bet we're going to start seeing Timesplitter-esque retro fps hit the scene.

[@planescaped]

@Tendies Offmyplate I've literally not thought about those games once since the late 00's.

[@melancholygeek]

s'alright indeed. Also, very impressed with your alliteration skills!

[@CyKo74]

"The ghoulish gallery of gangrenous goons" -IcarusLIVES 2022

[@flippedoutkyrii]

Considering the name of the game, the Journalist should have been a Nun. Missed opportunity if you ask me!

[@mugwump7049]

What would be the point of having two characters just to make them similar? _That_ would be a missed opportunity.

[@TheWhoamaters]

There's already a priest

[@Blurgleflargle]

Love how the portrait of Stephen King has a little crown on its head, as if to put extra emphasis on the inherent punniness of his name.

[@Sharahdogmeat]

"slow descent into insanity" so a lovecraft mythos themed submod for hideous destructor sometime in the future?

[@zachgoodrich6100]

I 100%ed Forgive Me Father's achievements three nights prior to me writing this comment making it my newest game on Steam to set foot on my Perfect Games list out of the 16 Perfect Games on my Steam book that I'm currently rocking! Forgive Me Father is one of 2022's most underrated shooters as well as 2022's most underappreciated boomer shooters. Great video btw.

[@livingcorpse5664]

"Its Lovecraften, I don't need to explain shit." Pretty much Lovecraft mythos in a nutshell.

[@jamesbriggs9014]

Old drunken sailor as the save point? That'd be Zadok Allen from Innsmouth. He's a long way from home

[@w1984t]

Bro, shes burning sage, you dont want to hit that blunt.

[@rorysimpson8716]

Seems pretty good, but Ill wait to see if they finish animating it in a future patch.

[@SpecShadow]

Magic stone reminds me Clive Barker's Undying Guess it's time for another playthrough

[@Sharahdogmeat]

overall this game reminds me of the zdoom wad "cold as hell" that had a similar problem of having a slower horror game build up only to quickly discard it in favor of slaughtermap gameplay that flies in the face of it's more slow horror game mechanics

[@einfachmax9559]

Thank you for hours of entertainment!!!

[@SetnaktSpears]

What a crazy game. I like to scream "forgive me father!" as I blast fiends in the face with my shotgun, lol. Forgive me father! Bam!

[@montlejohnbojangles8937]

Well this seems like a banger. Might have to dig up a copy.

[@Bluehawk2008]

Confused this with Fallen Aces for a hot minute.

[@quasarulas3968]

The art style and obviously lovecraftian aesthetics are giving me a real darkest dungeon vibe

[@colemclain3563]

Thanks for the video, dude. Have you checked out Nightmare Reaper yet? It's an fps with roguelite (roguelike? I can't remember the difference...) elements set in an asylum where you play through some woman's dreams and shoot things and earn coins and level up through mini-games, yada yada. It's a pretty good time.

[@Player-10]

I think my biggest gripes with this game is that it doesn't bring anything particularly new to the table to keep me playing. Like, it isn't Dusk, where it takes all these different elements from other classics, pushes the limits and finds its own thing to make it just mind blowing. And for that reason, as the game keeps going and going I find myself more than a little bored that it seems to be overstaying its welcome. The gameplay is good, don't get me wrong. But there's just something more needed. There are literally so many enemies, most of which I can hardly get a good look at because they're constantly on the move or hurting me. I feel that really doesn't help me appreciate the art style, and the game has started to feel a little bloated because that's really the only thing that changes up what is otherwise actually pretty fun gameplay. The characters aren't interesting either. I think everyone can agree that the voice acting for the journalist isn't good, but the priest's isn't stellar either. There's nothing interesting about anything they say, no character moments or worthwhile lines. Its all throwaway cringe stuff that you'd expect some tough FPS character to say or whatever. Like, literally one of the lines is "First aid!" O.K. And? There's no character to either as far as I can tell, aside from generic FPS protag with a depressed priest flavor and a cringeworthy ditzy journalist from a dating sim. I think it odd that there's a narrator, who gives a stellar performance and has interesting things to say that are basically from the perspective of the main character, but the protagonist is far from silent. Instead you say totally worthless lines. On top of this, outside of the narrated bits of cutscene/story, I can't super follow what's supposed to be going on with the "story bits" you pick up in-game. They're usually scraps that don't really make me feel one way or another. Ordinarily in some games, readable lore can sometimes bog down an experience either because there's too much or it isn't clear/getting to the point, but for this I just don't understand what I'm supposed to be piecing together here with these scraps. I think I just picked up a locket, with a woman's name and portrait in it, and I think the Priest said something about it, like he thought he'd left it somewhere, but I have no clue what any of it meant. I'm not even sure what the Priest said had anything to do with the locket. If that was a character moment, it flew over my head. The point system just hardly registered for me. I got the first like, three upgrades to increase experience accumulation right off the bat, but it barely seemed to get me much of anything. Since I started, I see they've tweaked the point balancing, but I'm hardly able to upgrade at all. The pacing in terms of upgrading and getting new weapons or improved abilities is not helping me limp along through this. Now, these are my biggest criticisms. There's a lot I like about the game, I'd say the boss fights are probably the highlight. But I don't really see anyone talking specifically about what really needs improvement in this exceptionally passable, hardcore, fps experience.

[@zomby138]

Your comment is the best review of the game that I've found. It mirrors my own experience very closely.

[@Player-10]

@@zomby138 not a bad game, but not a great one either

[@lordfriedrick7911]

I feel like the game needs more characters Like a madman with berserker like abilities that uses madness In short more classes to vary the gameplay and maybe even the weapons could be different from character to character

[@RoshiGaming]

almost seems odd to have 2 characters with the same sequence of maps without making co-op an option... is there any MP whatsoever? I'm assuming not

[@incorruptiblemikeadams6947]

2:18 Is that picture supposed to be Stephen King? Looks similar...

[@tarekmoneimsaid]

That art style reminds me quite a bit of Darkest Dungeon, it looks really good. It's weird that the madness is actually good for you, does it do any debuffs whatsoever?

[@damodharan6118]

how to access the skill tree, iam playing it in pc

[@everinghall8622]

Tab

[@cherubcorps5854]

Pretty cool art style. It's lame that the enemies don't have rotations though Also, that endless section looks like the slaughtering grounds.

[@Minalkra]

Lovecraftian window dressing indeed.

[@deathsyth8888]

Every time the title is said, 'Forgive Me Father', I'm always waiting for the other half of the saying to be said. Damn you Catholic upbringing!

[@jimkuhns8354]

Knife upgradeds are awesome

[@josedorsaith5261]

Headshots in this game feel so good

[@_ImJstJake]

Need more games likes this on the consoles 💯

[@christopherthibeault7502]

"FUCK COSMIC HORROR!", the game.

[@Aikisbest]

This game looks like if the creators of Borderlands and Darkest Dungeon did the XIII game

[@SuperLlama42]

We need both more Lovecraftian FPSes and ones where you kill weird cultists out in the sticks.

[@everinghall8622]

Dusk is good, atm cultic is completely unrivaled in this regard

[@-neurasthenie-]

The sound of that shotgun is godly

[@John_Souls]

Journalist voice acting is so god damn awful, I literally could not play this character, and that did not happen since Borderlands 3. Holy shit. In other note, Priest voice actor did fantastic job, and I'm sure I heard him on other games too.

[@planescaped]

She sounds like a character outta Clueless.

[@AelfricBlack]

Same

[@Galkatokk]

You can turn the voiceover volume down, which I did immediately even for priest. I actually don't like being taken out of the experience by a chatty protagonist as that tends to kill the atmosphere for me.

[@andreasottohansen7338]

Honestly, in BL3's case, i found all the voice acting to be solid, it was the writing that made me want to slit my wrists. Though there was that boomer shooter with the "oh i am so quirky. Look at me go, I am so craaaazy" chick you play as that managed both things for me personally.

[@andreasottohansen7338]

@@chainsoar oh no, Kelly is fine. She was some alien chick.

[@BucketPls]

I am wondering something about the game. It reminds me a lot of Project Warlock, and that game had a rather unfortunate final boss that I really didn't like and felt super underpowered to. Will this game have similar issues or will upgrading the weapons help you a lot more in that department?

[@barnebyoconnell8176]

So doom classic gameplay underneath a 2d comic book style with a with a skill system to unlock new weapons and abilities? Interesting.

[@bmanjones]

GMANLIVES, ICARUSLIVES & CIVIE11 Charity deathmatch marathon

[@haerfgvbag7050]

Maybe not gman

[@silentj624]

Interesting game

[@matthew-epurnell1610]

Does this game have "infighting" similar to Doom?

[@miroslavzima8856]

Thinking about getting this one, but it seems the game is tad...short (maybe it´s good thing, though!) and the second half is a bit rushed. Everything other appeals to me and the game isn´t terribly expensive. They are balancing it, so after some time I will get it. Thanks for awesome review (as always :) )

[@josedorsaith5261]

It is very short, but I loved every bit of it

[@miroslavzima8856]

@@josedorsaith5261 That´s awesome! :) It´s true that long/very long games tend to be tedious to play, if they aren´t properly made. So in this case it seems like good thing :)

[@planescaped]

I stopped caring about the length of games when my catalogue of games I own but haven't even played got around 20... They're so cheap and abundant these days that a shorter, concise experience is often nice. The notion that every game needs to provide 20h of playtime is a notion of the 00's open world craze and earlier rental/coin op ages than still persists.

[@elkaki123]

Really liked this review, I only disagree with the length of campaign being bad, it lasted about a day playing for me and that is a pretty good length for this kind of shooter, any shorter and I would probably have complained.

[@TheBobes]

I love the visuals. Reminds me of XIII (the original, not the shit remake).

[@mugwump7049]

Not a fan of the half-assed cardboard cutout aesthetics. It could work if the constantly player-facing sprites had views from all sides like Doom, or if the game went full meta like Delver by treating sprites as actual flat objects within the 3D world, but this lazy compromise shatters any sense of immersion. Similarly, the on-screen words that indicate headshots, explosions and collectable items are a very unfortunate anachronism. They could be viewed as either HUD elements or comic book stylization. The problem is that the font used fails at feeling comic-booky, and AR and actual HUDs are a modern thing that clashes with the era the game is set in. It could work if it used either a comic-book-style font or speech bubbles like the interactive objects. Also, the animation leaves a lot to be desired.

[@TheRealTHD]

Why do you have the option between a tonally consistent priest and a weird meme-spouting shitpost journalist?

[@GetsugaTensho85]

RipNTear

[@Grandmastergav86]

Shouldn't the journalist come equipped with a soapbox by default?

[@surobyk]

With urinal

[@fg09403]

honestly, this is an alright game but not a $20 game. feels comparable to a good quality zdoom total conversion mod.

[@SpecShadow]

Polish shooter about armed priest is quite poetic. Pretty sure it was inspired by certain meme picture...

[@Blurgleflargle]

What, you haven't played Priest Simulator yet?

[@007bistromath]

this is such aesthetically discordant garbage I feel like "I don't have to explain shit" is just what it has instead of "this knowledge cannot be held by the human mind"

[@aziztcf]

Beautiful sprites, beat Fallen Aces to it too! Suck it New Blood!

[@ArtoPekkanen]

This game needed to be made. And thus it came to be. Ia ia! :3

[@javier9310]

I am the 10.000

[@karlhnedkovsky5214]

That is a big: 👌 from me!

[@alfredohaynes5752]

p͎r͎o͎m͎o͎s͎m͎

[@vealck]

Maps in this game are flatter and simpler than in Doom1. Zero AI, enemies often can't find you around a corner and just stand idle while taking damage. Nice comic book graphics style is offset and spoiled by ridiculous amount of bloom and reflective surfaces. Purchasable weapon upgrades actually make them weaker most of the time. Gameplay gets boring very fast. "Story" is as barebones and incoherent as they come. There was a bit of potential in this game, but ultimately it's mediocre at most.

[@UndyingZombie]

Forgive me father.. For I have sinned.. I have stopped trying to hold my tentacles in check.. Letting them do what ever it is they want to do.. and they have impregnated over 4,000 females.. Most of them are human.. Also somehow they managed to impregnate a few males too and I am not sure what to think of that.. Oh and.. Azathoth is.. Also pregnant.. That.. Might not have been my tentacles doing... I uhh.. Yea... It.. Might have been me on that one...

[@Shator59]

Awful upgrade system. You can upgrade your smg to a grenade launcher which makes it just a useless version of the rocket launcher that uses the same ammo. Same with turning your tommygun into a laser rifle that turns out to be a weaker version of the plasma gun wasting the same ammo. If you do both on expert difficulty you will probably softlock yourself in the second half of the game since you basically threw away two guns and there is not enough energy and explosive ammo leaving you with using a pistol 80% of the time.

[@TheMikirog]

Ammo changes depending on what upgrades you take, so if you take the laser upgrade, tommy gun ammo will change to energy ammo. On top of that grenade launcher is clearly intended to be the rocket launcher early game, but late game the second upgrade changes its purpose from crowd control to single target elimination thanks to increased damage, fire rate and decreased explosion radius.

[@rbenne6]

First 50 comments. Woot woot!

[@Austinuztantine]

Sorry for not watching all the way through Icarus! I stopped watching to go buy the game :D

[@Felsmukk]

Wolfenstein 3D has better combat mechanics than this game.

[@avoo6069]

Trying to play this and its poorly designed. Didnt like it much.

[@fyiicheckforspies]

I was interested in this from the previews but it seems all they did was stretch a vertical slice out for the whole game length. Kinda disappointing how something as stylish as this is mechanically just another dumb faux boomer shooter/DOOM 2016 knockoff.