the mall in dead rising is weird | dead rising world tour

[@PretzelYT]

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[@wesss9353]

Thanks for the headsup on new worthless item

[@InfraredScale]

I really like it when an entire game takes place in a particular building and they put a staggering amount of detail to place that would normally be a simple backdrop in another game. Like, there are thousands of video game malls out there, but this one gets to be extremely fleshed out and detailed because it is the *_entire_* game

[@PretzelYT]

That's a good point. I know the later Dead Rising games take place in much bigger worlds, I wonder how they compare to this game in terms of density and quality 🤔

[@InfraredScale]

@@PretzelYT if only there was a guy around here that regularly explores video game worlds, I bet he would make a pretty epic video about this topic

[@PretzelYT]

there's probably nobody around like that. if there was, i would report them

[@thelittlesagg2]

Check out Prey (2017) if you haven't. The setting is a fully-fledged space station.

[@ThommyofThenn]

Great comment

[@Chill-Quil]

I love the implication that in the dead rising universe instead of being a popular game series, Megaman is a popular movie franchise loosely based on his old uncanny humanoid artwork

[@SnaabbeamSneebers]

This is barely comprehensible. Learn how to structure a sentence.

[@Outcast89R]

Not really, Katy Greene played megaman oh her portable console in dr2

[@nekogamer2508]

​@@Outcast89Rcould be a videogame adaptation version

[@Fungo4]

​@@nekogamer2508 I can't believe they turned the gritty future drama film series MegaMan into such a goofy cartoony game!

[@AkitaSyn]

@@SnaabbeamSneebersbro it was legible enough for 118 people to read it, others can’t understand things for you lmao

[@StinkySkunk100]

I always thought the mall was so big as a way to bring people into an otherwise small and unremarkable town. Something along the lines that the town had a bunch of land and the city government gave it away to a developer for free if they built something that would attract visitors… I know they’ve done that with amusement parks in smaller cities

[@moniquesantrifcer1447]

The remake adds some announcements where they say how it's for the "greater area" and were going to do a 3 year celebration

[@JpStryder]

My favorite reference is the zombie genocide achievement, where you literally have to kill as many zombies as the towns population . 53,594

[@bradye21playsIndieHorror]

That literally happens in a lot of cases. Part of why we have so many dead malls. Well, many of them are already demolished now.

[@DRourkey]

I honestly just thought that it was a boom town and when they finished mining whatever they were mining the mall was all that was left. Everyone worked there and it was kept alive by tourism. I say this because I grew up in a former boom town that is now smaller than the one in this game and this mall is smaller than the old college there

[@MrBeanTroll]

There used to be a store called Childern's Palace. So they made a Children's Castle. Other examples: JF Nichols > JC Penny's Men's Storehouse > Men's Warehouse Special Gifts > Spencer's Gifts (maybe?)

[@Anon-lu6ct]

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[@JusticeGamingNetwork]

In terms of the scale of this game's mall, I once did a trip to do volunteer work in a town with a failing economy. They had closed fast food places, the town square was practically empty, homeless people were everywhere, but they had a huge sprawling mall up on a hill with a walmart right next to it. It wasn’t quite to Willamette levels, but it was bigger than most towns of that size would realistically have. I found out that in general, a lot of towns of that size have some sort of rich family or company funding the town in the background.

[@BraveLittlePixel]

Fun fact: if you see portraits or photos of faces, like the baseball team around 12:30, it's most likely the dev team putting their faces over photos, or actually doing a photoshoot. Lots of games do this, and it's usually the art team having some fun really, and avoids some copyright stuff easily

[@Wyrmknave]

I like how Homerunners is such a tiny store, where it would be very difficult to not notice you were passing the register on your way in, and practically impossible to not locate it if you just looked around, and also you'd never be further than like fifteen feet from the single employee staffing the register, yet nevertheless there is a gigantic custom "CASHIER" sign hanging above the counter. Just in case you got confused.

[@adrianllamas6487]

Just to let you know that giant cashier sign won't help me find the cashier when I need one.

[@23bcx]

There's no way "I married my own pants" isn't the title of a slop amazon erotica novel

[@PickleJello]

Sounds like a PG Chuck Tingle novel.

[@MrPikaGammer]

We did used to have a bunch of decently large, well decorated Malls out here in Colorado they've mostly gone away by now. BUT a small Colorado town having a massive well maintained mall isn't unrealistic, it drives up tourism and gives the people in town something to do while providing a warm place they can find all of their needs.

[@zNightmxre]

I love Willamette’s mall design. Only one entrance to enter or leave, or how there's a parking lot and an underground tunnel for vehicles with no entrance.

[@mr.pavone9719]

7:30 ish...My favorite memory of this game is watching my son go into Jill's Sandwiches, mix orange juice and vegetable oil, make his PC drink it and then watching the PC barf all over the floor. Every now and then I offer to make him a veg oil & OJ cocktail.

[@lipzxnfvcx]

Is this "Red Door" in the room with us right now?

[@pgg-i4c]

lmao

[@scragar]

The moving floor/travelator was originally conceived as a way to get people quickly to their destination in airports/train stations/similar where you have a central hub, but the stuff you want to get to is always a bit of a walk. The floor is supposed to move at about half of a normal walking speed, as that's just fast enough to make a significant difference while not being so fast as to encourage stopping(thereby making it take longer rather than less time). A lot of places now run them even slower, since most people using them have bags or suitcases and they'd rather stand on it for three minutes than walk for one minute.

[@martillo_]

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[@seff6533]

My dream game is something like dead rising, but you can actually deplete the zombie population over time

[@WebstersYouTube]

I really enjoyed this. The Willamette Mall has always had a unique charm to it that no other setting in the franchise has quite been able to match. I was really annoyed when Dead Rising 4 said we were going back, only to reveal that it was a new Memorial Megaplex we would be exploring, not the original mall.

[@crash2262]

The survivor inside the Jill's Sandwiches *despawns* the foods for the rest of the game when he's available for rescue

[@Fungo4]

Just like that friend who despawns the food in your fridge.

[@Izunundara]

Can you save the food by not entering that map until his associated scoop ends?

[@crash2262]

@@Izunundara no

[@Zirunos]

The FYE Store mention sent me back. We had one in our tiny little town and it really was the coolest spot while it was there. Great video as well

[@NativeMamba26]

This video is awesome. I really did LMFAO 🤣 when he said “there’s a sub machine gun in the fountain, someone must’ve really wanted their wish to come true”. That part made me laugh so hard that I teared up laughing 😂

[@dougrattmann3554]

I feel like you could make a good collab with AnyAustin. He kinda looks at games in a similar way I think. Like he enjoys looking at the finer details that people don't normally notice, like if the power lines in GTA go anywhere, or where rivers flow in Skyrim, that kinda thing.

[@ilovedevinj]

I love you for this collab idea

[@karldi7648]

My goodness, I was thinking the same. That'd be a super in-depth tour to Willamete Mall

[@eyeballjay]

ANY AUSTIN MENTION

[@kozkiroify]

I always get their videos recommended together

[@oxymoron02]

"It's like the whole town crammed in here" That's why there's an achievement to kill... Shit, it's been like two decades since I played this... 25,000 zombies? 40,000? I forget. It's supposed to be the whole population of the town.

[@PretzelYT]

I remember hearing horror stories about people driving up and down the tunnels underground trying to get that achievement. I didn't know it was that many zombies though hahaha.

[@johnclay2716]

It's 55,000 or so

[@OfficialHoDawg]

It's 53,594.

[@ReverendTed]

@@OfficialHoDawg Heh, yeah. In fact, it's right here in this video at 0:29 .

[@Articinvolved]

This video hit me in the gut with nostalgia. Dead rising was the second game i ever played behind Silent Hill 2 and i learned the layout like the back of my hand. Its so cool to see you in the places i used to go to.

[@groove4528]

Silent hill 2 and dead rising as your first video games is an insane bar to set for every other video game lol

[@girlywolfpup1588]

I've lived in Colorado for a year now and the Mall close to my apartment building is actually built kinda like the mall in Dead Rising

[@soremuss]

Man, i do stuff like this all the time while playing video games. I love feeling the environment. Currently replaying Watch Dogs 2 and i can't stop going to all the nooks in the world. The Warriors on PS2 had some nice atmosspheric areas.

[@Shoxic666]

The Warriors is dripping with style, probably the most immersive Ps2 game.

[@realbobsaget]

the color coordinated rooms at the start of the game almost seems like something for multiplayer

[@donoteatmikezila]

I can confirm that all malls in Colorado are exactly like this. Zombies included.

[@Kaptain_Scout]

14:55 there’s a survivor in that store that’s why there’s zombies surrounding it

[@MoskHotel]

Bill

[@Purity_of_Essence]

There was a time when malls like this were specifically built in areas where the real estate was cheap. Hard to believe it today but people would be willing to travel up to an hour away to go to a mega mall in a rural area. Developers would also sell the idea of building a mall in these communities by offering jobs and economic growth as incentives for the local community. Of course, Amazon and other forms of e-commmerce have since changed that and now these types of malls are just big empty buildings.

[@sifayun6336]

It's refreshing to hear someone's innocent and new take on this game.

[@planescaped]

One of the parody books is actually called Love Thunder, beating that Thor movie to the punch by over a decade.

[@THarSul]

"i married my own pants" didn't know chuck tingle got a direct to dvd deal

[@killergrooves2438]

I wish this game had a mode where you clear the mall of zombies section by section, gather up survivors, and use supplies in the mall to seal it up like a fortress. Kind of like State of Decay, but localized to the mall. I’ve always wanted a base/community-building action game with zombies ever since I played Resident Evil 2 as a kid when it came out and I saw the windows boarded up and read the memos about how the cops were using it as a fortress against the zombies.

[@hiynastrike]

Maybe the Mall is like a SUPERCENTER. Where sure the town is small, but people live INSIDE THE MALL, it also has a mass transit platform inside it and a public park.

[@JohnQ5]

"I Married My Own Pants" sounds like a wholesome Chuck Tingle story. Also, my favorite parts of the mall are the under construction area and the utility corridors and backrooms.

[@TheJofurr]

There was also a real-life toy store chain called Child World that had castle facades on its exteriors.

[@eyeballjay]

In regards to the excessively big mall for a small town i kind of just thought America was just like that lol

[@TORO2036]

Pretzel, you're the only creator whose videos I favorite before I've watched it, and I'm always grateful as I'm watching every time. I loved Dead Rising, and playing survival mode, hunting for food and water. I personally would like to eventually see you do a Mario Odyssey video, but every new video you make puts a nostalgic smile deep in me soul!

[@eatmoregames5026]

Honestly, I was playing this game a month ago, and I was thinking, "Man, I wish Pretzel would cover this!" It has such a vibe. I kinda wish there was some sort of "no zombie" mode where you could just explore and take in the sights.

[@TheBaconKing32]

The only part of this mall that never made sense was the park in the middle. But i never thought about it being a small town. In my area, we have a few bigger malls and one super fancy one, but im in a metro area.

[@fook123]

One of the books in the book store was called "fighting street" which is a clever reference to the original name of street fighter.

[@deconyus3412]

11:33 I’m just startin’ to sense that I’m a rap nut, rap nut

[@InsanityPrevails]

I LOVE this mall. I love exploring it in both VRChat and Insurgency Sandstorm :D

[@linkthastink]

Whoa i never thought about exploring it in vr chat that’s a good idea

[@groove4528]

do they just port the exact map from the game? If so that’s a real cool way to explore

[@InsanityPrevails]

@@groove4528 I believe so, yeah ^-^

[@TailorBlaze]

Just finished the whole playlist, I quite enjoyed and liked this, hopefully if I can make a recommendation I'd love to see a NieR + NieR Automata tours as the two games have and share a lot of cozy and hidden places with lots of absolute vibe places like the fountain in NieR (Gestalt/ the new Replicant remake but with the papa NieR mods if you ask me) but I'm curious what hidden spots you'd find and what you think of the cozy spots tho playing through them and recording and editing a vid takes a lot of time so maybe in a few weeks or months if you have a spot open I'd recommend those two because you can find some of the same spots thousands of years later and compare their vibes too :3

[@Xegethra]

I dunno how Malls/Shopping centres work in America so much, but here in the UK they can be as small as the Grosvenor in Northfield and as large as the Bullring. Both in Birmingham. And the near by Merry Hill is also pretty large.

[@FUJIIDEW]

I am the Willamette Mall and I can confirm other malls are not like me

[@theshenpartei]

Stipo even brought up the inconsistencies with in the mall design. For example seon’s food and stuff and how is a person to get there food from there to the car since there is one entrance.

[@bugjams]

Cars in malls are pretty common, to get them in they can fully open the doorways at the entrances. They usually have a hidden mechanism that allows them to open like one big door. You'll often see RVs and boats in malls too.

[@TwixtheFox]

14:55 thats such a neat detail! There's actually survivors in there later. It's such a neat detail to put zombies there as a hint or foreshadowing later.

[@elitef40]

8:10 I can still hear the song playing in my head

[@UndertaleFan-cx2mc]

Thanks to your video, I found 2 more secret submachine guns that I didn't know existed before

[@verseludes]

no one: Minecraft villager: 5:39

[@brandawgz]

I’ve been hoping you’d cover this, love this game and know this map like the back of my hand! The mall is definitely strange tho which is honestly part of the charm!

[@BioHzrd0010]

11:27 I like the little detail of one copy of "Dudes" being in the wrong spot.

[@ruthmcnally310]

If you go to the Maintainance Tunnels Warehouse right after finishing case 6, there's a special cutscene for it.

[@girthymcfatkid3870]

9:30 That's an access hallway used for staff, stock, and evacuation. It's missing about 10 doors lol but it leads to a store that's under construction. What seemed strangest to me as a kid was how "open" the construction areas were. I've always seen that sort of thing be "hidden" well away from pedestrians.

[@Axoltolion]

Fun fact FYE is still around where I live however it’s become a 2nd hotopic, they have recently brought back cds and vynil though due to it being trendy now

[@Souppous]

Being in a bigger city this mall definitely feels like the malls I grew up going to including the outside courtyard area (but not those weird flat escalators I’ve only seen in airports), but the fact they show the size of the town it really makes the scale confusing in context. (My childhood memories may be faulty but the valley view mall that Kane pixel’s uses for the oldest view series reminds me of this mall, had a more dated but similar feel)

[@rickytickybobbywobbin055]

I would bet the blue and green doors are swapped bc some Japanese dude is colorblind and doesn’t know it

[@Cuestrupaster]

I just think is a joke on the AO thng.

[@JediMasterYoda66]

you can return to where the spoiler takes place to get another cutscene

[@blulllue4716]

I genuinely mean this as a compliment, but this video gave me nostalgia for some of Accursed Farm's earlier Game Dungeon Videos. I just woke up in the middle of the night and this was just on and it's just a seriously well put video. really refreshing to see an attitude like yours in the genre.

[@dipstrip]

The name Willamette comes from Oregon, idgaf how they pronounce it in game we say will-lam-it

[@Lucas-Fair]

I really love the attention to tiny details that nobody would normally notice during their playthroughs, but it really adds a lot to the world, making it feel much more interesting.

[@tslodemi]

Absolutely love this series. You are great, please keep doing this. I wish you and yours all the love and happiness in the whole universe.

[@ctdaniels7049]

13:20 Huh. I have the same thought with some of the Pokemon Center designs. Sometimes there's a door behind the counter, sometimes not. Also, nice, I look forward to seeing your other map/location observations! :D

[@KristijanDimovski]

Always a blessing to see a new odd locations video exploration video from Pretzel.

[@SwaggyG_2102]

Even after 18 years, Dead Rising still remains one of my most favorite zombie games of all time.

[@burningphoneix]

Towns very close to big cities usually build these huge malls because land prices are cheaper and they can attract shoppers from the big city. An example is the King of Prussia Mall in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. Which is about a half hours drive from Philly

[@jeremyacicale]

what a lighthearted, fun video :) loved dead rising back in the day, gonna have to check out the remaster

[@marsrevolutionary]

Balzac is a hamlet in Alberta. Across the adjacent highway: behold Crossiron Mills.

[@andrewpreece6051]

I've had this game for years, and I did not know about that submachine gun on the blue awning

[@DigitalPsyche]

Manta Sleep masks are legit. I was an original Kickstarter supporter. Even though I’ve. bought updated ones, I still have my original mask which is mottled black with smooth material and not grey.

[@PretzelYT]

I genuinely do love mine lol. It's perfect for a midday nap.

[@RimRimTim]

Another great video. I love this game, makes me want to replay it! So glad I subscribed, your content is fire. You deserve more recognition!!!!

[@AustinH7]

This is like watching an alien discover earth for the first time 😂

[@skiptoacceptancemdarlin]

I recognize many of those posters in the baseball card store as lightly edited actual baseball cards from various eras

[@Nevriix64]

A Pretzel video on Dead rising ? It's liek a dream come true.

[@Bildobearable]

One of the books in the bookstore is called "Fighting Street", referencing the Street Fighter series in general, but is also just the name of the first game

[@andrewcasias2676]

FYE still exists at the mall I go to occasionally. I’ve never bought anything there, but my brother loves it! I’ll have to pick up an album there the next time I visit.

[@SlumpDrunko]

This is just speculation on my part, but from what I know, historically in Japan green was considered a shade of blue. That could be an explanation for the blue/green safe rooms.

[@bigfoottamer]

Even in colorados bigger malls (the mills, flat irons, pearl street and westminister) they were never this extravagantly large.

[@ctdaniels7049]

I appreciate the thoroughness of this review, since it appreciates the thoroughness of funny stuff in the background. "Dudes" and "Guys" magazine indeed!

[@ModernEphemera]

It is common for outlet malls to be in otherwise out-of-the-way towns, so there’s that.

[@carbq5280]

This game still looks insanly good, for its time it looked INSANE

[@rubles3143]

I think you might be color blind, that "red room" in the security room is purple, specifically a shade close to lavender. Also the floor in the green door room is a desaturated cobalt blue.

[@linkthastink]

you are one of my favorite KZbinrs and Dead Rising is one of my favorite games so this is a beautiful match

[@liamnehren1054]

I noticed that submachine gun and stuffed animal above the door the first time I played and left the owner of the game flabbergasted. Apparently a lot of people miss it.

[@brittondaye2529]

Walking pass Brad and Carlito saying play nice you two 😂

[@greenhowie]

Small town mall owners might get sold on stuff like travelators by slick marketing - tell them that it's going to be busier than it probably will be and insist that they need to ensure consistent throughflow, that kind of thing.

[@Sangu799]

5:20 story of my life 😮‍💨

[@TORO2036]

You're more special than you know, Pretzel! :D Great video!

[@thenorseguy2495]

It’s Halloween🎃 Time for a treat. Todays treat are a new video from Pretzel. Here’s a little treat back

[@PretzelYT]

no tricks in today's video 🦇 thank you 🙏

[@KryptCeeper969]

Considering you never found the underground room, you either never got the real mega buster or you did it the hard way. Those tunnels are by far the fastest way to get 53000 some odd kills.

[@jackcoleman1784]

So for the record I've spent half my life living in Lynchburg VA and the other half in Tampa FL. As opposed to Willamettes population of approx 53,000 people Lynchburg has a population of about 150,000 people and Tampa has a metro of something ridiculous like 3,000,000 people. I haven't seen a mall the size of the one in Dead Rising in either of them.

[@chaosweapon1]

someone else probably mentioned it but you also get xp for running on the treadmills if you do it for long enough

[@Darek_B52]

10:00 yes. From personal experience malls do have those

[@shenanitims4006]

To be fair, the game was developed by Capcom; a Japanese company. And Japan does not have much in way of “malls.” So they were likely just running off of pictures and what they’ve heard.

[@phoxal]

Im surprised you didnt mention the whole ass grocery store inside the mall. Thats probably the most unrealistic part of it lol. Its what really caught my attention my first time playing it. It really drove home the scale of the mall. Not just how big it is, but how much it has to offer.

[@arthurjeannin3357]

Oh yeah, these flat excalators absolutely exist! And it's just as you say, they're here to cover long distances a bit more easily. Actually quite useful in airports and between big subway stations where you're doing a ton of walking, I think

[@CaptainFalcon92]

No one ever said they don't exist. Only that they are unlikely to be within the budget of a small lonely town. Thanks for being confused.

[@Strideo1]

This is a fun video. I really like the chill commentary.

[@realbobsaget]

i am so glad you did the og version and not the ai deluxe remaster

[@derkatwork33]

Based on the size of the town from the aerial shot, it reminds me of the smallest mall I’ve been to. The La Crosse, WI mall has a single ‘wing’. There is no way this mall exists in this town.