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Video essays, facts and fun from the wonderful world of gaming.
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My Complicated Relationship with Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Retrospective Review)
My Complicated Relationship with Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Retrospective Review)
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How Princess Peach Became a Gaming Hero (and Feminist Icon!)
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The Truth About Gaming and Environmental Sustainability
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The Scandinavian Folklore of Bramble: The Mountain King
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How Resident Evil 4 Remake Reinvents Classic Characters
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Stardew Valley - Forest Farm Tour - 100% Perfection, Year 12, Minor Mods
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How Stardew Valley Makes You Care for Its Characters (Retrospective Review)
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How the Original Paper Mario Made the Mushroom Kingdom Real (Retrospective Review)
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The Making of the ORIGINAL Super Mario Bros Movie
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How Super Mario 64 Revolutionized Gaming (Retrospective Review)
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The Excavation of Hob's Barrow - True English Folk Horror [No Spoilers]
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How Sonic Frontiers (Almost) Saved the Series | Retrospective Review [No Spoilers]
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Ecco the Dolphin - The Scariest Game Ever (Retrospective Review)
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How Resident Evil 8 Village Uses Horror Movie References (Retrospective Review)
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Pokémon's Health and Fitness History (Pokémon Go Retrospective)
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The Tragic Tale of Mother 3 (Retrospective Review)
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How Pokémon Red and Blue Changed the World (Retrospective Review)
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Chrono Trigger - The Greatest Game of All Time (Retrospective Review)
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Sonic's Musical History - Michael Jackson to Metal
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Maiden of Black Water and Aokigahara Suicide Forest
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Where Do Nintendo Characters Get Their Names?
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Part of its horror is because it's a thalassophia simulator
Oh that music. Brings me right back to that haunting loneliness.
you take hypersensitivity to a new level... i would say your level should be called just hypersensitivity, and people who have normal senses should be called just sensitive.... btw i only hear NPC's from Moria speaking in the video
Scary is subjective for sure. Life experience often dictates what is and what is not scary . For me it was first Friday the 13th the game ,as a very little kid (4-5 y/o ish)but parasite eve was the concept that was frightening to me. Cellular mitochondria turning against us and either slowly burning us alive from the inside out or mutating us and any other multicellular life is purely horrifying in concept.
I was NOT ready for the Jon C Lilly part😂😂
Something about the Genesis sound chip made the music in this and so many other games so haunting.
Tides of Time was also quite uncomfortable. Just look up the title theme.
I passed the game.
He called the squid chtulu’s lol
It was...
I dont think i could ever get past the 2nd level lol
Uhh not scary whatsoever?
I played this game when I was like 4 years old, my sister and I played around with random cheats to get to the end level and let me tell you WE WERE TERRIFIED!
A few commenters have said the same thing! The same thing might have happened to me at one point. A seemingly innocent game about a dolphin, enter a random password and you're suddenly trapped in a room with some alien hellspawn with no context... Nightmare fuel!
>he blew air directly into the lens< :) !
It’s the game music. Scary af
This is a good game to use my game genie on and enjoy the story.
There's also an invincibility option in the debug cheat that really takes the edge off.
This was my mama's favorite. She loved dolphins, lol.
This game was never scary
You look like a woman in your PFP
Its interesting that often the things that impact you the most, and are the scariest to you when you're a kid, are the things that aren't necessarily made to be all that frightening. Its all your imagination filling in the blanks that its so much more horrifying than the actual thing. This was why watching actual horror films as an adult doesn't scare you ever in the same way that something like a furby talking in your closet at night as a kid could lol
Yep, and you often don't have the same logic or reasoning in terms of what's real and what's imaginary as a child. I found Child's Play pretty terrifying as a kid, scared Chucky was in the room with me at night, but now it's just campy comedy-horror. Glad I didn't have a Furby!
Fun fact, random pockets of air will probably just kill you.
Yeah, there's at least one where you think it's an air pocket but it's just a tunnel with spikes at the end, and another where you need to fight through a current to dive out of the water for air... but there are spikes on the ceiling if you jump too high.
I remember the comic strip from STC. It was always one of my favourites.
I used to love Sonic the Comic, read it religiously as a kid. I know of the Ecco strip but somehow missed it, maybe it was before I started reading. I think I learned about Decap Attack from its STC strip before I got the game itself.
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This game scared me so much as kid 😢
Aye it is a favourite of mine. I even have the iOS version for my iPhone. The touch controls are terrible but it’s great for the coach journey when go to visit my sister(I live in Birmingham and she lives in Brighton). The other most memorable JRPG from my childhood was Grandia 2 on the Dreamcast. Which I play at least once a year same as Chrono Trigger.
I have the DS version so I've also spent a few long journeys deep in Chrono Trigger! I'm aware of the Grandia series but haven't played it - I think there are still a few classic JRPGs I need to dip a toe into.
@ I think you will enjoy Grandia 2. A bit like Chrono Trigger no random encounters you see foes and can avoid them. But if you do fight most of them you will be a nice lv to have a challenge. ( or if you’re like me grind early areas and over level. But as long as you hit lv 50+ by the finish you should be fine. There is one really hard fight near the end that will test your patience if you not ready for it.) Its ’Hero’s Journey’ tale is not anything special or unique but it is really well done and your companions all have good stories of their own. It will take about 30 hours to get through it but if you talk to everyone you can, Always stay over at inns even after you complete stuff stay at the inn before leaving a town you will get SO much skipable dialogue you can probably add another 10 hours. Talk to people multiple times most npcs in towns etc will have at least 3 different things to say before they start repeating themselves. The Eng Voice acting is actually quite good if a tad cheesy at times but hey it’s a Fantasy romp it going to be cheesy regardless;) I won’t say much about the combat system except that is solid and allows for some great close call moments when you timing of your moves just right. To the point I would actually recommend NOT maxing out any Characters Special move that has the Cancel Effect to 5 stars until at the very very end of the game. As at max it activates after a single tick. I find having the greater delay between Com input to Action taken at 4 starts gives more flexibility in battles. Anyway enough rambling. I hope I see your opinion on Grandia 2 one day (Dreamcast version is the OG one the PS2 port has issues, the port on Steam is based on the Dreamcast version but they added a Hard mode for it. If you played plenty of JRPGs Hard mode is not all that hard to be honest)
@ oh and be careful with the Special combat zone accessible near the end of the game. It has some of the most powerful mana eggs in the game in there. But some very powerful enemies protecting them that can one shot a whole lv 50 party if you’re not careful.
Just hurry up and get to the game.
Seems like an E.V.O. clone gone wrong
Someone else mentioned EVO a while ago and I can see the comparison. They came out at the same time though (within days of each other it seems) so any similarities are a coincidence!
I had this game and cant say i ever got past the first stage of the game and just got frustrated and never touched it since. But here i am watching the whole video to see what this game really had to offer
Yeah, you and many others - it was so frustrating that a lot of players didn't make it very far. You might have saved yourself some trauma! Thanks for watching.
This game always gave me a feeling of unease and panic. felt...so alone.
1:38 An Ecco chamber, if you will.
Good one, but someone else beat you to it! 😁
I had this as a child and I'm now 42. Don't remember completing it 🤔. "It was special.." That's what my mom used to say about me.
Spent hours on this game and got no where
Me and my friend who didn’t play together at the time both got stuck on ecco at a large wall that was un-jumpable, and as a young kid at that time, that was that. Haha
People got past thr first level?
Found a new cool rad channel ♡ Subbed
Thank you, I really appreciate it!
hahahhaa I thought it was just me. so great to know soooo many people had the same experience. I used to play it on mute as a kid.
You're not alone! 😁
Ecco and haunting starring Polterguy some my fav sega genesis games.
Only Zelda game I played once! Game felt tedious.
Yeah, I can appreciate that. It had some really ingenious and spellbinding moments, but it was bogged down by a lot of repetitive, tacked-on filler that took the shine off it at times. Thanks for watching!
@ replaying now and I got bored. The thought of collecting things to lever up my armor feels brutal
@@Andysantiago7 Yeah, that can be a mindless, thankless task, as can cooking dishes to improve your horse. I'd probably only max out the climbing gear if I played through again.
I never got through the ice level didn't even know it went that deep
Kudos for even making it to the ice levels, so many people didn't get past the first few!
I get the same chills and shortness of breathe now watching this as I did then, especially when you come across that whale. It terrified me, perhaps more than everything ever has since. The only thing that has ever come close is the bag lady from David Lynch's Mulholland Dr.
I had no idea, I played ecco as a kid but my child mind was entirely stumped with those early levels so never managed to get into the weirder stuff
I definitely feel that the soundtrack plays heavily on the mood the game is. The Sega CD version made the game seem so atmospheric, like an open world aquatic exploration adventure with ecco having determination to save his pod. Meanwhile, the Genesis soundtracks is so somber and mellow, like youre alone in such a vast, hostile world, something happened that took your family away, and you don't understand why. I think a specific text from one of the dolphins at the start really captures the setting this game is going for, where they say "if we cant breath underwater, why do we live in it?"
Thank you groundskeeper willy.
Willie hears ya. Willie don't care.
I could never make it past the first couple of levels as a kid. I spent more time getting lost and dying because I’d somehow managed to trap myself.
Oh my God, this just unlocked forgottwn memories for me!! Yeah, the game was creepy.
Hope the trip down memory lane wasn't too traumatising! Thanks for watching.
Ugh Vice.
Bro you need to talk slower
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This game was Finding Nemo meets Alien
😆 Spot on!
My aunt and I woulda beat this game, but it always bugged and crashed on the last level with the aliens. Making it unbeatable 😡
actually in terms of controls the things that most remind me of Ecco the Dolphin are the old phone game snake and Genital Jousting :O
😆 He can move a bit more freely than the Nokia snake but I definitely see the Genital Jousting similarity!