Trains In Games 【ThorHighHeels】

[@thorhighheels]

Gonna have to skip releasing a video next week. I've developed this flow where I work on multiple videos at a time, and I haven't quite finished the next batch yet. Quite happy with what I have lined up though! Got a big JRPG, a spooky game, an obscure PS2 game, and a game that has been requested a bunch of times. I dunno something about cats and gravity or whatever.

[@beat-man5167]

ily thor ❤❤❤

[@omarfejzic2981]

ThorHighHeels you're amazing and keep working at your own pace Thor

[@aambbc9241]

Have you play let it die for ps4?

[@JLKJUNKLIVE]

ThorHighHeels Ik zie dat je een Haarlemmer ben ik heb je door maat! Groeten van de JLK

[@acosmicyoutubechannel4160]

when I was in Japan I would spend 100yen (1 dollar pretty much) and just ride the trains around for hours and hours watching the landscape/reading and enjoying the ride. As long as you stayed within the stations and didnt leave you could travel most of Japan on a few bucks (which was amazing)...Trains are dope

[@Jesse__H]

That's fucking awesome, I wish the US had a comprehensive mass transit system like that 😔

[@Nov-5062]

that sounds magical

[@yeoldeseawitch]

@@Jesse__HThe US decided that cars were the way forward. they were wrong lmao.

[@professordetective807]

Another pretty good Mystery Train would have to be The Molentary Express from "Professor Layton & The Diabolical Box". It acts as the main throughline of the plot as you travel along the luxury rail line tracking the origins of a cursed artifact. Similarly, "Horror on the Orient Express", a campaign for the "Call of Cthulhu" Tabletop RPG does both mystery and horror as you try to collect the fragments of an ancient idol as cultists and various monsters try to stop you.

[@Poodleinacan]

You missed the most important train of them all! The train from the game "The Town With No Name". The ending sequence is the best.

[@mikeoxlong1395]

"My name's not Shane, kid."

[@rompetito11]

The legend of heroes: Trails of Cold steel also uses trains in their story to develop the world and characters, also taking you to the next zone you will be explore until the end of the chapter. Every chapter the game uses trains, literally the title is a clue there's trains in the game. The opening has trains, the game is a train of feels. Everything is a train.

[@wallacyryan8211]

I love the train in AC: Syndicate that is basically the protagonists home. It's always moving around the map, you get some missions there, buy items, and the gifts you get from historical figures on the side quests are displayed there too.

[@SammEater]

I love trains, heck, my favorite Kamen Rider is Den-O and the main vehicle of that show is a timetravelling bullet train that flies! How cool is that? Extremely cool.

[@ShrimpinAintEasy]

A Hat in Time had a really cool train segment involving movie making birds and a murder mystery.

[@gruntingskunk2237]

Good profile photo

[@dedecoVGMDJ]

Oh I wish that switch port wasn't so awful

[@OzzyOscy]

*SPECIAL MENTIONS* *_Subsurface Circular_*_ - The cosiest train game ever. You sit and talk with other robots, uncover a plot or talk about philosophy._ *_Chase The Express (Covert Ops: Nuclear Dawn)_*_ - Creepy MGS-meets-RE shooter set on a hijacked train._

[@lukesguywalker]

there's this dnd podcast i listen to, the adventure zone (balance), that has a really interesting chapter that takes place almost entirely on a train. the mechanics of the arc really reminded me of a video game. there was a mystery, clues the players had to suss out using magic and other means, and a set amount of characters to interact with. it was one of my favorite arcs in the podcast mainly because everything that is mentioned ends up being pivotal to solving the mystery, even something as innocuous as some goofy npc's career goals.

[@QuetzalOvejasElectricas]

The Lasdt Express is among my favourite games. I beseech you to try it. BE-SEECH YOU.

[@thorhighheels]

beseech all over me baby

[@loplopthebird1860]

Otra vez tú, G4T0FL4UT4S

[@NintendoComplete]

Have you ever tried Gadget: Invention, Travel, and Adventure? With your tastes, it seems like it'd be right up your alley. It's a mid 90s Japanese PC game that got an official English release, and the whole thing centers around trains. And a guy named Horselover. That alone should tell you how eccentric it is in personality. It was a fantastic game.

[@RadioactiveMoth]

I really like train settings for some reason, especially in video games. Nancy Drew: Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon is set primarily on a train and it's a fantastic adventure game.

[@alteregoreview]

I love the FF6 train scene. It tied in perfectly with the Doma Castle tragedy.

[@thorhighheels]

I love FF6 for that in general. The way that they tie all of those short little stories together to build up the characters only to then break them down later is really cool.

[@frds_skce]

Also you could suplex a train

[@maxkur67]

9:18 actually, The Last Express is a bit more than just detective mystery. And all because of one but important feature... The game plays in real-time, the environment is not static (like in mentioned Paper Mario and S&M), each person on a train has it's own sequence of events (including interactions with other passengers) and it's own story with secrets, not always related to main case. Thus your involment (or non-involvement) creates a lot of branches in time. Also the game narrative is never taken out of main protag, Robert Cath, so you have to rely only on your observation - reading notes, hearing conversations & etc. And obviously, you can miss it by yourself (considering not important) or don't even have a chance to get an info in one playthrough. This all makes The Last Express a weird mutation of genres, one of the kind - never topped and never replicated. P.S. And yeah, I'm a bit biased :P P.P.S. And yeah, about TRAINS part. Jordan Mechner with a team were a bunch of maniacs - they recreated the atmosphere of 1914 in every single bit. From titled Orient Express to multiculturalism of the passengers (French speaking proper French, Russians - in fluent Russian & etc. They HIRED actors who were native speakers! That detail still astonish me in 2018!)

[@thorhighheels]

I never knew. Like I said, I haven't played it yet, but I've always wanted to. I LOVE the art style.

[@maxkur67]

Just give it a try, it goes on sale for $3.5 every time. If possible, grab DOS version from GOG - DotEmu broke some small things in their mobile port on Steam.

[@ThePreciseClimber]

Well, it's hard to top something if no one ever tried it again. :P

[@kjhansonkjhanson6643]

One of my favorite games is Dark Cloud 2. And the train serves as an important place to do things in it

[@hemangchauhan2864]

Nice video, Nakey Jacky But the way, in India, trains are way, way bigger here than in west, despite the technology being brought about by westerners. That is mainly because Indian Railways is the biggest employer in the world. And I can definitely agree to a lot of stuff about trains, about how it brings people closer and makes for more intimate situations.

[@SwedishEmpire1700]

Well in India they ride the trains hanging off the sides and sitting up on the roof, and even in some cases by tying a homemade cart behind the train.

[@ZappasMudshark]

Bigger for public transportation but the US dwarfs most other countries in freight and commercial train use.

[@viniciusbarreiros1258]

Nice video man! I really enjoyed the train segment in resident evil 0. I belive that besides ff8 train hacking stuff(because it felt cool when i was younger) Re0 is probably my favorite, most of the time cause of how visually stunning it was. I remember the first time when you had to get outside of the train to walk over it, me and my brothers were like "no way!!!" we wasnt used to that level of design in video games, we got so amazed that we paused the game and went to a friends house to invite him to see as well hahaha good memories.

[@thorhighheels]

I remember one of my friends calling me up on the phone to get over to his place RIGHT NOW because he had found the prettiest game ever made. it was REmake and he wasn't lying. I don't think we ever made it very far but we were still in awe at how good it looked, It's crazy how good it, and RE0, still look today.

[@viniciusbarreiros1258]

Totally agree! I catch myself often replaying them, in fact for several reasons, but one of the biggest without any doubt its to enjoy all those spectacularly designed areas again and again. At least to me them feel a little bit like animated comic book pages haha.

[@RC-pi8wn]

nice video, I thought you're gonna mention the PS1 game "Covert Ops: Nuclear Dawn" a.k.a. "Chase the Express" (PAL & NTSC-J) but oh well...

[@thorhighheels]

Never heard of it, but it looks really really cool. Just when you think you know about all of the weird MGS x Resi rip off games you get hit with a brand new one lol.

[@DebrayArte]

I'm working on a video about trains and found this. I friggin' love it - love your style and your writing. Subbed immediately - and thank you!

[@VolatileViolet]

*ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS FOLLOW THE DAMN TRAIN, CJ.*

[@timsickler5125]

Can we hurry this up? I wanna go to Freckle Bitches

[@hazzaeatsshorts]

Sat in my garage having a smoke before bed watchin this. Heard a train gently goin by at the end

[@flyingsquid6062]

I actually really fell in love with the train from metro exodus. Also trains are really easy for symbolism in storytelling so it's no suprise that they're used so often

[@valletas]

Also they can be really cool

[@TK-_-421]

I think you missed an entire section called "trains as giant multistage bosses". Two examples I can think of are Star Fox 64 and Zone of the Enders 2. Propably there are some shootemups with armored train bosses as well.

[@lankyGigantic]

What an oddly specific topic to have a video on. I love it.

[@naldinhoostman7535]

I Love trains Thank you Thor

[@egoborder3203]

awesome work dude! I don't know where you come up with topics, but your spin on them are great

[@jobosno]

surprised to see so few mentions of subsurface circular in the comments. one of my favorite games, takes place entirely on a train

[@CeschiArt]

"Chase the express" is a resident evil like game all played inside a train Instead of zombos you got terrorists but you still got the classic resi puzzles to do

[@thorhighheels]

Yeah I picked up a copy a little while ago. Excited to check it out!

[@TheWeeraphat]

Honestly you keep raising the bar on the quality of your videos, but still not so many subscribers yet... I mean you got the whole package, good script and structure, awesome editing skills, shooting voice, high quality content and good looks as well. Seriously you deserve more exposure and fame 😭

[@thorhighheels]

Thank you!

[@vlastimir77]

One of the best train levels is in Syphon Filter 2 on ps1 It's still amazing to this day! Very tense and hard.

[@Xegethra]

I like the trains in GTA 1, you could hijack them and crash them long before San Andreas did it. There's also a few horror train games on Steam as well as simulators. And while you never went on any trains, in the Warriors you could throw enemies into the path of oncoming trains in some levels, off from above or from the platform. They would also ambiently pass by in the background. One level had you tagging them with your gang logo in rival turf in which a fight ensues. Trains were a part of the story too as the gang had to train hop to get home after being framed by another gang of murder while the other gangs try to stop them.

[@Safersephiroth777]

My favorite train level is the starting level on Resident Evil 0. You are in a moving train with Zombies. Seriously you can't even escape there!

[@ricksandstorm]

The train in a late game dungeon in Secret of Mana all of a sudden turned it from a fantasy medieval setting in the past turning it into a post-apocalyptic adventure set on Earth

[@MacMan2152]

What's the name of the lowpoly first person locked-in-a-subway-train game?

[@otchim_666]

Great video, as always! I knew you had an elder god tier taste, but man, those are some awesome trains. FF8 train scenes specifically are to good to exist and proof that we indeed live in the best timeline. On a side note... Have you played Steambot Chronicles on PS2? If no, then please try it. It's basicaly Shenmue, but with robots, lots of customization, zelda-ish combat and branching story. Edit: Also SC is max comfy.

[@thorhighheels]

I haven't but I just picked it up off ebay because it looks EXTREMELY like my type of game. Thanks for recommending it!

[@MidnightSt]

Hijacking a train seems like a really silly, and really, not viable idea. Like, yeah, let me "commandeer" this vehicle which moves on rails and the decision about where it goes on junctions is controlled from outside of the train and all I actually control is the speed.

[@gtPacheko]

I like trains.

[@yehuda8589]

Hey what's the name of the game that appears at 11:30?

[@supermahmoud]

11:09 Oh Shit, A Rat !

[@jamesbrincefield9879]

I love the whole train sequence in FFXV, I just wish the pace of it would slow down. If they weren’t sprinting towards the finish line I would have loved to spend 40+ hours riding around on a train to different locations. I’ll never forget how excited I was when I first played that chapter of the game just to be extremely let down not even an hour later. I had just spent approximately 50 hours on the main continent, and then suddenly we board a train and we’re in a whole new biome on a whole new continent. When I opened the map and saw a whole new world map I thought the game was about to double in size and we would have just as much content in the desert place as the rest of the game. And then like 30 minutes later it was over and we were funneled into the worst chapter in the game followed immediately by the apocalypse and basically the end of the game. I was crushed. It hurt so bad that I stopped going into games blind moving forward.

[@AlterFunKtion]

1:00 sector 7 was an inside job.

[@lobzikbogdan]

So Persona 5, trains is pretty important there. You go thru map on them (duh) you listen to news then, read books (some times) and actual Dungeons and final boss have many connections to train sistem.

[@thorhighheels]

I never knew. I've always wanted to include something like that in the game I want to make one day. Where you can use your phone on train to read the news, get some world lore & stuff, and see some conversations between other characters who aren't around, stuff like that.

[@Hakumen_Gaming]

Not even a single wild west game with trains, I am greatly dissapointed Either way great vid

[@beat-man5167]

I used to go to school by train. The ambience in subways would influence my settings. What do you think of airplanes and airport terminals as settings? I kinda like the aesthetics of airports, but i doubt you'll find wacky characters like in trains unless it's D4. I also remember Ridge Racer PSP had airport ambience in the menu music for World Tour mode which made trips kinda comfy and grand.

[@thorhighheels]

Same. Going to school by train regularly had a weird influence on the types of music I would listen to as well. I like airport settings too. That MindJack game I covered in the Japan's Dark Age video used it in a really cool way. And of course there's D4. I guess planes can be used in a similar fashion as trains. RE6 does the plane horror, Rule of Rose has an airship which is kinda similar, and Spy Fiction and D4 do the adventure mystery on a plane. Boats can be kinda similar too, only they tend to be much bigger giving them their own spin.

[@graynoita]

Honorable non-game mention, Train to Busan Though theres rumors about a VR game

[@melon3109]

Remember that episode of Hey Arnold with the ghost train?

[@chroma7901]

oooh~ you covered Resi 0! That's my favorite Resident Evil :')

[@rodentRoundup]

The Silent Hill 3 train scene is overshadowed by the Minmo cat-food posters in the metro station itself.

[@NLperso]

I hope this video includes the final station and lone sails

[@andrewwong200]

5:28 leg day: skipped

[@areallyboredindividual8766]

Trains as Filler: Blood 2: The Chosen

[@sotirisvog1367]

Oh my. I was just about to write for the train level in Blood and how awesome it was, in comparison to the frustrating, raw, unfinished mess that is Blood 2... Nice.

[@rwjfan5000]

0:25 "Can't help but deny", huh?

[@thorhighheels]

yeah?

[@rwjfan5000]

ThorHighHeels So you have no option but to go against what you are saying?

[@goatbone]

Can somebody tell me the name of the game that is shown first in the Spooky section?

[@goatbone]

...the one on the train...

[@beat-man5167]

Nanashi no game for the ds

[@goatbone]

Thank you. I was intrigued/confused by the two cameras but I’ve looked it up and I get it now.

[@goatbone]

Now I have to figure out how to play an English patched ROM on my DS :-/

[@RuYevon]

I have no recollection of a train in FFXV. In my game there was a boat?

[@madcat4563]

"Super mario and the old ass door" 😆😂🤣

[@GuyOnAChair]

You covered quite a few trains! It's not possible to cover every train in every game but you should check out Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow's train level. Not many if any other stealth games have been on a train. (Honorable mention to Red Dead Redemption's and pretty much any other Rockstar game with a train that I've forgotten to mention)

[@thorhighheels]

All we had to do was follow the damn train CJ!!

[@GuyOnAChair]

ThorHighHeels Damn straight.

[@Seandeclanpatrick]

Dude if you like trains in your JRPGs play Wild Arms 3. Opens with a big train section and trains are all over the place.

[@lucasdellamaggiore]

Trains as action: Uncharted 2 That level is amazing

[@SpaghettyLuvsU]

17:26 FFCC:TCB = Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers

[@fergusmd]

what about Chase the Express from ps1?

[@Ioselash]

The best train in games is DENSHA de D: Lightning Stage

[@thorhighheels]

dude I'm going to review the fuck outta Densha De Go once I get back to the Simple 2000 series.

[@Simaog999]

@@thorhighheels please bb its so good

[@Simaog999]

@@thorhighheels do densha de go final, it's easy to run in modern windows i think and it's the easiest one to get into while still being deep + pretty

[@hajime_87]

The first FMA game starts on a train, also the Lupin the 3rd ps2 game.

[@Zeroantagonist88]

I love your videos man! keep it up! and by the way, have you played Orphen: Scion of Sorcery? if not, look into it. I would like to see what you have to say about that game lol.

[@Mygrandpaspodcast]

It’s not a train but the plane in mgs4 reminds me of the train in ff8 I love the fuckin plane in mgs4 and pretty much all the character “development” happens there

[@speedymonkey1]

Is your background in film or literature studies? :-) Reckognize the way of your analysis from my past literature studies, whodunnit-genre etc. Cool videos and interesting viewpoints!

[@Krommeniedijk]

Catch catch the horror train... Why does that sound so damned familiar? ;)

[@ThePreciseClimber]

Wait a minute, who exactly recorded Sameth & Maximus' adventures in S&M3.2? There was nobody! :P

[@thorhighheels]

It's fine don't worry about it.

[@sunnohh]

Donoteat01 probably approves

[@ItalianoMobzter7]

And I was just playing Resident Evil 0.

[@TheFedeGamer99]

4:26 looks like snowpiercer

[@RENZEENO]

Come on man how you not gonna mention goldeneye! That level was a nightmare

[@orateusdijin6557]

a lo-fi machine.

[@MoonSpiritChannel]

Somewhere, someone is triggered b/c there was no mention of Uncharted 2's train section.

[@thorhighheels]

I thought he only hung from a train near the start? (i havent actually played uncharted)

[@MoonSpiritChannel]

He did, but he also fought on the train beforehand. (Play Uncharted 2. It's a great.)

[@NikolaBg35]

Best train action scene in gaming history. Period.

[@superbro6413]

11:30 What game is this? Did you review before? Will you?

[@ShoyuChannel]

Superbro64 nanashi no game

[@superbro6413]

Thank you kind sir

[@thorhighheels]

I have reviewed it yeah. A lot of people refer to it as The Nameless Game as well, which is what I call it in my review as well. It's a cool little game.

[@superbro6413]

@@thorhighheels Cool beans dude. Have a good day, and I'm looking forward to your next upload.

[@frds_skce]

Reason to play FF6: -You can suplex a train

[@julioromanlopez8311]

Un vídeo dedicado a Potemkill, magnífico 👌

[@kuma977]

Tu tambien estas aqui porque Quetzal recomendo el canal?

[@julioromanlopez8311]

Vile Beggar Es posible 😂

[@DiddlyDiPotatoes]

Yeah, trains are neat.

[@deadbears8461]

BRO I LIKE REALLY LIKE FF8 THANKS FOR TALKING ABOUT IT EVERYONEHATES IT I WISH THREY DDIDINT AH GOD WHY IS THIS HAPPENING AGAIN

[@goatbone]

Sorry if this will be a double post but I can’t see a comment I made. I was saying you should have included Trains as a mode of Racing and covered X-Treme Express for PS2

[@thorhighheels]

lol wat. There's train racing games??

[@DarkActionAMVS2010]

Get it

[@dasaggropop1244]

dude, densha de go???

[@gafferman3256]

0:38 What the game is this!?

[@RadioactiveMoth]

Echonight for the PS1.

[@johnnyt9884]

Didnt even mention Doomtrain

[@Nekucloud]

I had a feeling you were gonna mention Resident Evil 0, and for that I thank you!😊

[@darksepheroth4627]

Good vid but no mention of dark cloud 2 :(

[@thorhighheels]

I haven't played it, srry.

[@dracomundo1498]

Trains in video games Or How ff8 became resi 0 for a boss fight

[@omarfejzic2981]

Wait no intro! That's what's missing! But it's seriously botheree me the entire time during the video.

[@yeetleslaw8529]

tfw I spent more time on virtual trains than seeing them in real life. America is a strange place. Our history is built on the railroad being built. But we said fuck those, and developed highways because better for tanks. Trains are very euro imo. They got culture surrounding it. America just has train tropes.

[@deathdealer036]

3:26 why does Zel have such little skinny legs and huge pants

[@ThatOldSchoolMagic]

Persona 3 has a decent train part of the early game.

[@HybridAngelZero]

Something something something Tales of Xillia 2?

[@attackofthecopyrightbots]

cant wait for that star ocean and wild arms review bro

[@allhailthelegs]

Evil Zone it is then.

[@TheKpa11]

Rank10ygo and Selphie from FF8 like

[@TheFedeGamer99]

0:20 gta 3 soundtrack

[@dainiergarcia5076]

Best train is in teenage mutant ninja turtles 4 turtles in time for the snes.

[@gex581990]

Snakes on a Train

[@samvimes9510]

You're gonna mention FF8 but not bring up Doomtrain? For shame. I mean I know it's not a setpiece but man it was fucking cool to summon a demonic train.

[@thorhighheels]

It is yeah, but it didn't really fit in anywhere. I guess I could've included a "trains as abilities" or a "trains as mechanics" segment, but I wouldn't really know what else to mention there. Doomtrain is cool though. Especially with how the game leads up through it by reading about it in magazines.

[@samvimes9510]

I really wish Doomtrain was a recurring summon, like Ice Boobies and Bahamut and whatnot. I also just realized Half-Life 2 opens with a train sequence. It's surprisingly difficult to remember games that had trains when you actually start thinking about it.

[@darksidebluez5966]

Evolution 1 and 2