i imagine the game could've easily been marketed in north america as like a parody of a children's game for teens and young adults. in other words, The Average Adult Swim Viewer
Maybe about 10 years ago, but not in today's cynical world, where they think anything colorful is STRICTLY for kids, and that adults should only like gritty realistic stuff.
yeah the fact that it has a full-fledged English option makes me think that may have been the intention initially, but for whatever reason it never happened
@@vanessaashford9203 I wonder if it was because the game was "Too Japanese" to be localized, or they weren't sure who the target audience would be once released in the west.
To be fair, the only reason why they got away with swearing is because Japanese doesn't have any "swear words" so Japanese media treats English in the same way if it's not a translation. That's why the original version of Sonic X has Sonic swearing in English
no matter how weird this game is, you have to agree, it's definitely some eye candy. stylization always ages better. I'm really sad that Sony just releases generic human character in dark moody third person game mostly now
@@KaminoKatieAstro's Playroom was great, but it was a tech demo first and foremost and Sony only lets Team Asobi do Astro games now, as much as I love the games and Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart was made by an American studio. I think OP is talking about how Sony is afraid to take risks now and their library has to be safe and vanilla.
The west got some too during that time. Not many but they're just as obscure, most of them were US market's exclusive, even Europe had a few exclusives too. Go Go Hypergrind comes to mind, seems like many people have been discovering it for the first time in the last couple years.
Ambitious Japanese games don't really come to the West much anymore because they could be considered money holes. They wouldn't make enough money back in the West to justify localizing it. It was easier to do that in the PS1 and PS2 era because games cost less money to make back then, but nowadays they'd lose more money than they'd make.
@@beatziegraham6928It IS Japanese. If the question was a matter of exclusivity rather than origin, Katamari is still a terrible example. Namco had no plans to even release it in America because of how Japanese it is, and only ever did because the IGDA brought it to GDC, causing it to get tons of western media attention and pressure on Namco for an international release.
The ps1/ps2 is an era so unique. Even nowadays with an these indie games you can't get a game like this. This can only exist when big companies are willing to throw money at unproven ideas for the sake of building a legacy. No concerns with immediate profit would allow for something like that.
@@tacitgamingfanREAL Yeah it looks unique, but it seems to just be like Hollow Knight and other games like it, a tried and true formula. Sure, there *could* be something unique that *is* made by indie devs, but I assume they're only just a small little game that's pretty niche.
@@VicerimusMortem i feel like one of the most significant 'unique' indie games was the first fnaf game and even that turned into a formula in of itself
@@VicerimusMortem Pizza Tower is indeed "kinda" unique, It's a mix of old warioland and sonic games and the wacky transformations make It even more unique
I think we need to go back to 20 to 40 dollar experiences alongside the 60 to free to play experiences. I suppose the indie crowd is doing that, but there needs to be games where the game is just the fucking game, no $70 bullshit price point, no battle passes and microtransactions, no online only for single player dogshit, just make a good fucking game.
i remember emplemon mentioned something about this in his video about the state of the video game industry while indie games do exist it's just not the same as when companies didn't need every game to be some big bombastic AAA 60 bucks MMORPG open world live service game
I'm starting to realize why it asks for your age. After all, this game is definitely something they would market to kids. So if your age is under a certain amount, it'll have more kid-friendly dialogue. That way they would still get a kids rating.
This is an absolute gem of a find. Thank you for sharing this game in detail that it deserved. It's the kind of thing that fits this channel perfectly, too. If this video doesn't get pushed out there, it is another war crime of the algo.
I have nothing but mad respect for this game now. Everything about it is just so absurd and absolutely hilarious, sad it flopped, def deserves a following which it seems to be gaining nowadays thanks to Vinny exposing us to it. Great vid.
One of my favorite “weird” series is katamari that game is so colorful and chill you can’t be in a bad mood playing it and it’s so cool growing and seeing the environment change
Wattam(another game by the same creator, which has the Prince from Katamari in it as a playable postgame character) is also so bizarre yet so charming and happy. It only takes around 3 hours to beat unfortunately and it does have some major glitches, but I like to turn it on occasionally just to mess around with it since it does have a bit of a sandboxy dollhouse quality to it post-credits wise. It's iconic and it's a shame that it's so obscure, and people basically only know it because of the creator's other games and Vinny playing through it on a non-streamed full recording
Aside from Cartman Duck, The character art style reminds me a lot of the classic 90’s anime “Samurai Pizza Cats” A.K.A. “Kyatto Ninden Teyandee/Legendary Ninja Cats”, as a matter of fact, Lilin and Lolo absolutely give me Lucille and Princess Vi vibes to their designs.
If you like that game, you should try a game called “The Munchables” While it’s no where as weird as Poinie’s Poin, there’s no mistaking just how diverse and weird The Munchables’ World is. There even is a moment where they pull of some interesting lore! The music is fantastic and the characters are a lot of fun! I hope you can check it out sometime!
I really do miss when Sony and the like were putting out weird titles like this. For every mega blockbuster they put out now we could instead have so many weird experimental games and I would take that instead any day. At least companies are still doing that on some level with indie titles like ori being funded by microsoft.
It shouldn't all be done by just 3 or 4 AAA studios now. There used to be so many AA studios around with decent capital that were willing to put big amounts into these types of experimental titles, some of them even growing into beloved series. But the biggest publishers ate up those studios with acquisitions and then dropped them completely when they didn't meet their unrealistic sales expectations or shafted them to putting out average crap that can make quick profits.
@@islandboy9381 it's a miserable wasteland now. there isn't any thought put in by the AAA corporations, and anything that deviates from their expectations is buried and hidden.
The thing is that the studios under PlayStation are all based in North America and Europe while only having one studio in their home country(Team Asobi)
I can easily imagine this taking off if done by an indie dev today, because I want fucked up kid's games to stop being obvious cash grabs of horror games like Poppy Playtime or Garten of Bambam and more like this being an *actual* fucked up kid's game
18:40 you actually don't need to get hit by the hair. get then out of her way, wait for her to fall then throw the poin at the hair. there are also alot of eclairs incase you are low on health
From what I've researched, Christian Storms, Poin's VA, did a lot of television work in Japan. According to Storm's IMDbreen bio he was the translation supervisor for the Japanese dub of South Park. That's also where he got into acting.
@@DMMDestroyer i dont think so he has a very entertaining personality and very funny there are good channels that are popular degenarocity is a very funny youtuber to me
It really sucks that sony has essentially betrayed its honor and roots. They had so much variety even during 3 and kinda early ps4. But nowadays it feels like a eclipse for them to make cool games even if they are non japan. Nintendo may leave some series in stasis or dead atleast they still celebrate them alongside the big ones.
The thing is that the studios under Sony's PlayStation devision are all based in North America and Europe while only having one studio that was actually in their home country
2:25 Well, Sony (the corporation) is STILL a Japanese company technically, but in terms of PlayStation the past couple years, their studios have mostly been based out of America and Europe (I.E. Insomniac, Naughty Dog, Guerilla Games) with currently one PlayStation Studio being based out of Japan (Team Asobi).
I feel like we Vinesauce viewers are in the very small minority of people who knew about this game before this video. Also if you are looking for weird obscure video games might I suggest “Weekend Warrior”? It was a game published by Bungie for Mac OS in 1996 and involves participating in a game show where you beat up other contestants and go through random themed stages (like exploring an Aztec temple to fight an elephant sized piñata). If you lose you get conciliation prizes like acid based laundry detergent. At least that’s what I remember from playing it a quarter century ago.
@@Amphibian42 Bungie. Yes the same Bungie that went on to make Halo, though I think they were only the publisher for Weekend Warrior. Another company (Pangea I think) were the primary game devs.
I once went on a research binge investigating all things PS2, so I was aware of this game even before it appeared on Vinesauce. I couldn't wrap my head around it back then, and I still can barely do so now - HOW did this game happen? WHO MADE THIS? It was clearly made in Japan, had all the leanings of a Japanese absurdist comedy in a cutsey super-deformed style, something along the lines Super Milk-Chan, and yet the ENTIRE game is in English with only subtitles for Japanese speakers. On top of that, the script itself is perfectly adequate when it comes to the fluency of the English, which tells me that at least one of the people in charge of directing this entire thing HAD to be a native English speaker living in Japan. I would so love for somebody who was at the heart of this game's conception to come forward and explain just what the HELL was going on at the studio at the time, it would be such a fascinating topic.
I don't really get the impression that Alvion had a native speaking writer on their team, the dialogues may seem clean and grammatically sound but they still feel like something a Japanese mind would wright, it's bordering on Engrish without actually being Engrish. To be fair, plenty of Japanese people know fluent English, it's easy to forget but some of the biggest game series with fully English scripts like Resident Evil and MGS were written entirely by Japanese developers.
I absolutely enjoy the games Sony currently outs out as Ghost of Tsushima’s quickly become one of my favorite games of all time. But I also wish they’d balance and vary their first party output by beating, weird, experimental and creative like they were with this game. They have many diverse dormant ip like Gravity Rush, Sly Cooper, and LoD but they only focus on AAA cinematic games. We can have BOTH. AAA games take forever to make too so while we wait for those, release the smaller scale games in between
I'm getting Earthbound vibes of all things. Like this feels like an elaborate game of pretend by a bunch of children slamming their stuff toys around and trying to create a plot.
It's crazy how many references this game tried to fit in (especially to popular songs), that it is reaaally surprising to think it was never released officially in English.
Man i feel you too i enjoy the First the last of us (only the First one) but i miss games like Little Big Planet that exsperimeted with a lot of things 😢
I adore Poinie's Poin and how much it basks in the silliness. Its silly. Its stupid. It's nigh incomprehensible, but i LOVE it. One of the bosses, Tom, has a catchphrase. "Check it to the genius!" I have no goddamn idea what that means but its so..catchy? I quote it randomly. Same with "Hey, Green! Either pee or get off the pot." This is Alice in Wonderland if Wonderland was made of candy and plastic rubber DollarStore toys.
Poinie's Poin is truly an adorable but weird masterpiece from the PS2 era; there are companies to create experimental games that become beloved, and the PS2 is no stranger to having the most bizarre games avaliable to the point where I had to list them down next to some other strange projects made for the PS1 and Nintendo consoles.
Regarding the Eric Cartman voice in Japan, I don't think that guy had anything to do with it. Cartman is actually played by Lilico, a Swedish-Japanese TV personality. In the movie Cartman is played by some guy called Tetsuya Yanagihara (he's from Osaka. They made the bizarre choice of dubbing the movie in Kansai dialect)
Yup, people blinded by how good the graphics and gameplay are in TLoU2 seem to forget the story is an unfocused, mean spirited mess. Maybe Neil shouldn't have fired all the good writers at Naughty Dog; he's clearly not good enough to carry head writing duties.
Im no gamer so it was interesting hearing about the run down of this company and how its changed so much. That opening scene reminded me so much of that Who Framed Roger Rabbit scene with Eddie driving into toontown now i wanna see some character like Nathan Drake go thru Poinhell
I played through this to completion recently; I can't believe how absolutely fucking bizarre this game is, but man, does this game have some banger songs. Also the difference in voice acting is staggering, which is made weirder by this being an 'in house' translation. Like, Lolo is so much less annoying in japanese, I'm curious about the choices... But oh well. Yippie yo.
Kinda reminds me of the initial release of Puyo Pop Fever on Dreamcast. Only released in Japan but features fully english text and dub from the options menu.
even though it's arguably obnoxious as shit visually and auditorily, I can't help but appreciate the sheer audacity and uniqueness of Poinie's Poin, and it's definitely on my bucket list of obscure games I need to play before I die. Also, I'm not going to deny a lot of it makes me laugh too, like Poinie is just such an absurdly stupid character that it's hilarious.
been trying to look for this game forever now on the internet and NOW you tell me their ain't no wiki for it? I just like the wild art direction so I wanted to know more about it but couldn't remember the name, so for my final attempt I searched "obscure playstation game" and out popped this video. thanks.
been obsessed with this game ever since hazel name-dropped it in her vampire yuri video. Beat the whole game in a chill week. I say yippie yo you can't touch this every chance i get. so glad to see someone making a video essay about it.
Man ps2 games where so much nicer and fun to play! They where actual games! Where we also got full games, and actually polished instead of the 30% of a game we get now that is also broken
I miss the times with Legend of Dragoon, Twisted Metal, Dark Cloud, Gravity Rush, ICO, Shadow of the Collosus games i miss the AA games. They where cheaper experimental, original and pallet cleansers. But with gaming going mainstream, CEO's having the dollar signs in their eyes and the worst thing gamers going for the same shit over and over I think we are screwed.
I remember a UA-cam I used to watch reviewed this game like 7 years ago, he was pretty obscure though and don’t think he ever got past 10 thousand subscribers. He might’ve also deleted his account his I can’t find it anywhere.
I had Ape Escape 3 as a kid, it was my favorite game. It was the first game I ever tried to 100% but sucked too much. I've never heard anyone else bring it up until now!
You know what other game lacks a Wikipedia entry? Hi Hi Puffy Amiyumi - Kazznaped for the GBA. Although, It has a short paragraph in the band's article.
Despite how strange the game looks the PS2 era of graphics really emanated the creativeness that Sony went with for the console, truly an aesthetic
I agree
I remember seeing Vinesauce stream this game and watching him lose it when a duck started speaking like Eric Cartman.
I remember this, wish I could find the clip
A babe in need is a babe indeed.
"CAN YOU PLEASE STOP CALLING ME BABE"
okay *honey*
@@siralexander3359 i think your referring to weird ps2 games #1, that game was Poine's Poin, a japan exclusive game for the PS2
@@siralexander3359 ua-cam.com/video/T2z6u3n4AfE/v-deo.html
i imagine the game could've easily been marketed in north america as like a parody of a children's game for teens and young adults. in other words, The Average Adult Swim Viewer
Maybe about 10 years ago, but not in today's cynical world, where they think anything colorful is STRICTLY for kids, and that adults should only like gritty realistic stuff.
yeah the fact that it has a full-fledged English option makes me think that may have been the intention initially, but for whatever reason it never happened
@@vanessaashford9203 I wonder if it was because the game was "Too Japanese" to be localized, or they weren't sure who the target audience would be once released in the west.
To be fair, the only reason why they got away with swearing is because Japanese doesn't have any "swear words" so Japanese media treats English in the same way if it's not a translation. That's why the original version of Sonic X has Sonic swearing in English
@@Masterge77I think that’s almost always been a problem
no matter how weird this game is, you have to agree, it's definitely some eye candy. stylization always ages better. I'm really sad that Sony just releases generic human character in dark moody third person game mostly now
Astro's Playroom and Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart: Are we a joke to you?
@@KaminoKatieAstro's Playroom was great, but it was a tech demo first and foremost and Sony only lets Team Asobi do Astro games now, as much as I love the games and Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart was made by an American studio. I think OP is talking about how Sony is afraid to take risks now and their library has to be safe and vanilla.
@@AluminumFusion22 what does it being made by an american studio have to do with anything
@@yarni00 Yeaaaah, re-reading my old comment, I don't get what point I was making.
Haha love this wholesome conversation
Man, how come Japan gets to have all the weird and wacky games all to themselves?
The west got some too during that time. Not many but they're just as obscure, most of them were US market's exclusive, even Europe had a few exclusives too. Go Go Hypergrind comes to mind, seems like many people have been discovering it for the first time in the last couple years.
Not all the times. We got karamari and that’s weirdly Japanese.
@@beatziegraham6928 Also God Hand, Muscle March and several others.
Ambitious Japanese games don't really come to the West much anymore because they could be considered money holes. They wouldn't make enough money back in the West to justify localizing it. It was easier to do that in the PS1 and PS2 era because games cost less money to make back then, but nowadays they'd lose more money than they'd make.
@@beatziegraham6928It IS Japanese. If the question was a matter of exclusivity rather than origin, Katamari is still a terrible example. Namco had no plans to even release it in America because of how Japanese it is, and only ever did because the IGDA brought it to GDC, causing it to get tons of western media attention and pressure on Namco for an international release.
The ps1/ps2 is an era so unique. Even nowadays with an these indie games you can't get a game like this.
This can only exist when big companies are willing to throw money at unproven ideas for the sake of building a legacy. No concerns with immediate profit would allow for something like that.
kid named Pizza Tower featuring Mort the Chicken from hit PS1 game Mort the Chicken:
@@tacitgamingfanREAL this is getting obnoxious
@@tacitgamingfanREAL Yeah it looks unique, but it seems to just be like Hollow Knight and other games like it, a tried and true formula. Sure, there *could* be something unique that *is* made by indie devs, but I assume they're only just a small little game that's pretty niche.
@@VicerimusMortem i feel like one of the most significant 'unique' indie games was the first fnaf game and even that turned into a formula in of itself
@@VicerimusMortem Pizza Tower is indeed "kinda" unique, It's a mix of old warioland and sonic games and the wacky transformations make It even more unique
I think we need to go back to 20 to 40 dollar experiences alongside the 60 to free to play experiences. I suppose the indie crowd is doing that, but there needs to be games where the game is just the fucking game, no $70 bullshit price point, no battle passes and microtransactions, no online only for single player dogshit, just make a good fucking game.
i remember emplemon mentioned something about this in his video about the state of the video game industry
while indie games do exist it's just not the same as when companies didn't need every game to be some big bombastic AAA 60 bucks MMORPG open world live service game
Well Hi Fi Rush just released!
people on the internet saying the exact same thing 800 times
@@maverickREAL maybe they wouldn't have to if things actually changed for the better instead of becoming even worse
Pizza tower is like 20 rn
as someone who specializes in, and aspires to make weird absurd nonsensical games, I'm glad to have discovered this.
It's also a little cute in Its own way.
I'm starting to realize why it asks for your age. After all, this game is definitely something they would market to kids.
So if your age is under a certain amount, it'll have more kid-friendly dialogue.
That way they would still get a kids rating.
I tested it. Dialogue doesnt seem to change.
@@mistertagomago7974the word “wetass” stays in?
@@CarterShaw yup
This is an absolute gem of a find. Thank you for sharing this game in detail that it deserved. It's the kind of thing that fits this channel perfectly, too. If this video doesn't get pushed out there, it is another war crime of the algo.
Well I don’t know about deserved…
No no, they're right. This game deserved it.
I hear what you're saying, and as I understand it, every AAA game would be improved if we put the Eric Cartman duckball into them as a companion
Facts
Erick Duckman: "KICK THE BABY!!!"
I have nothing but mad respect for this game now.
Everything about it is just so absurd and absolutely hilarious, sad it flopped, def deserves a following which it seems to be gaining nowadays thanks to Vinny exposing us to it.
Great vid.
An obscure game with a complete identity crisis?! Oh boy, count me in! I need another one of those to add to my collection!
One of my favorite “weird” series is katamari that game is so colorful and chill you can’t be in a bad mood playing it and it’s so cool growing and seeing the environment change
Plus the music for the first game, Damacy, is absolutely incredible. One of the best video game soundtracks ever.
Wattam(another game by the same creator, which has the Prince from Katamari in it as a playable postgame character) is also so bizarre yet so charming and happy. It only takes around 3 hours to beat unfortunately and it does have some major glitches, but I like to turn it on occasionally just to mess around with it since it does have a bit of a sandboxy dollhouse quality to it post-credits wise. It's iconic and it's a shame that it's so obscure, and people basically only know it because of the creator's other games and Vinny playing through it on a non-streamed full recording
>3D collectathon platformer about curing peoples emotions well known for it's wackyness and unique npcs
This is Japanese Psychonauts
Aside from Cartman Duck, The character art style reminds me a lot of the classic 90’s anime
“Samurai Pizza Cats” A.K.A. “Kyatto Ninden Teyandee/Legendary Ninja Cats”, as a matter of fact, Lilin and Lolo absolutely give me Lucille and Princess Vi vibes to their designs.
And now for a medal of honor just because you mentioned Samurai Pizza Cats
The thumbnail looks like a fake playstation all stars 2 leak
If you like that game, you should try a game called “The Munchables”
While it’s no where as weird as Poinie’s Poin, there’s no mistaking just how diverse and weird The Munchables’ World is.
There even is a moment where they pull of some interesting lore! The music is fantastic and the characters are a lot of fun!
I hope you can check it out sometime!
I really do miss when Sony and the like were putting out weird titles like this. For every mega blockbuster they put out now we could instead have so many weird experimental games and I would take that instead any day. At least companies are still doing that on some level with indie titles like ori being funded by microsoft.
It shouldn't all be done by just 3 or 4 AAA studios now. There used to be so many AA studios around with decent capital that were willing to put big amounts into these types of experimental titles, some of them even growing into beloved series. But the biggest publishers ate up those studios with acquisitions and then dropped them completely when they didn't meet their unrealistic sales expectations or shafted them to putting out average crap that can make quick profits.
@@islandboy9381 it's a miserable wasteland now. there isn't any thought put in by the AAA corporations, and anything that deviates from their expectations is buried and hidden.
The thing is that the studios under PlayStation are all based in North America and Europe while only having one studio in their home country(Team Asobi)
@@KaminoKatieso?
I can easily imagine this taking off if done by an indie dev today, because I want fucked up kid's games to stop being obvious cash grabs of horror games like Poppy Playtime or Garten of Bambam and more like this being an *actual* fucked up kid's game
18:40 you actually don't need to get hit by the hair. get then out of her way, wait for her to fall then throw the poin at the hair. there are also alot of eclairs incase you are low on health
Thanks for the information
From what I've researched, Christian Storms, Poin's VA, did a lot of television work in Japan. According to Storm's IMDbreen bio he was the translation supervisor for the Japanese dub of South Park. That's also where he got into acting.
Cool
this game sounds like in another universe it would be a cult classic with a huge fanbase
You've got a lot going for you. Keep it up, I can definitely see your channel reaching that 1 million mark one day
100k of legit Gamers. Not normie and soulless to get 1 million+. It's ok, though - the best channels rarely break 125k and stay under 50k for years.
@@DMMDestroyer i dont think so he has a very entertaining personality and very funny there are good channels that are popular degenarocity is a very funny youtuber to me
It really sucks that sony has essentially betrayed its honor and roots. They had so much variety even during 3 and kinda early ps4. But nowadays it feels like a eclipse for them to make cool games even if they are non japan. Nintendo may leave some series in stasis or dead atleast they still celebrate them alongside the big ones.
The thing is that the studios under Sony's PlayStation devision are all based in North America and Europe while only having one studio that was actually in their home country
2:25 Well, Sony (the corporation) is STILL a Japanese company technically, but in terms of PlayStation the past couple years, their studios have mostly been based out of America and Europe (I.E. Insomniac, Naughty Dog, Guerilla Games) with currently one PlayStation Studio being based out of Japan (Team Asobi).
Kojima Productions is a Japanese studio too.
This game is legit alternate reality south park where you play as Ike. Even the mom is sheila
The CEO of Sony was probably high and was like: “heheh yeah let’s do that lol” and they did.
I feel like we Vinesauce viewers are in the very small minority of people who knew about this game before this video.
Also if you are looking for weird obscure video games might I suggest “Weekend Warrior”? It was a game published by Bungie for Mac OS in 1996 and involves participating in a game show where you beat up other contestants and go through random themed stages (like exploring an Aztec temple to fight an elephant sized piñata). If you lose you get conciliation prizes like acid based laundry detergent. At least that’s what I remember from playing it a quarter century ago.
god i thought you were talking about that mdickie game
Published by who now
@@Amphibian42 Bungie. Yes the same Bungie that went on to make Halo, though I think they were only the publisher for Weekend Warrior. Another company (Pangea I think) were the primary game devs.
@@zobblewobble1770 wtf that's so weird, i even own a physical copy of myth 2 but always forget that they used to be a nobody company
Thank you for satiating my obsession with old obscure bizarre video games, and good job on documenting a game that hasn’t gotten much attention
I once went on a research binge investigating all things PS2, so I was aware of this game even before it appeared on Vinesauce. I couldn't wrap my head around it back then, and I still can barely do so now - HOW did this game happen? WHO MADE THIS? It was clearly made in Japan, had all the leanings of a Japanese absurdist comedy in a cutsey super-deformed style, something along the lines Super Milk-Chan, and yet the ENTIRE game is in English with only subtitles for Japanese speakers. On top of that, the script itself is perfectly adequate when it comes to the fluency of the English, which tells me that at least one of the people in charge of directing this entire thing HAD to be a native English speaker living in Japan. I would so love for somebody who was at the heart of this game's conception to come forward and explain just what the HELL was going on at the studio at the time, it would be such a fascinating topic.
I don't really get the impression that Alvion had a native speaking writer on their team, the dialogues may seem clean and grammatically sound but they still feel like something a Japanese mind would wright, it's bordering on Engrish without actually being Engrish. To be fair, plenty of Japanese people know fluent English, it's easy to forget but some of the biggest game series with fully English scripts like Resident Evil and MGS were written entirely by Japanese developers.
@@Diwasho Lines like "you were almost a Jill sandwich!" give the game away for Resi though.
The "How bad do I smell?" part made me legitimately laugh out loud. Bless you, MagicMush.
I can feel the Tezuka inspiration radiating from this game.
Looks more like a really expensive GameCube game than a PS2 game in my opinion. Just gives off those kinda vibes, y'know.
I absolutely enjoy the games Sony currently outs out as Ghost of Tsushima’s quickly become one of my favorite games of all time. But I also wish they’d balance and vary their first party output by beating, weird, experimental and creative like they were with this game. They have many diverse dormant ip like Gravity Rush, Sly Cooper, and LoD but they only focus on AAA cinematic games. We can have BOTH. AAA games take forever to make too so while we wait for those, release the smaller scale games in between
I'm getting Earthbound vibes of all things. Like this feels like an elaborate game of pretend by a bunch of children slamming their stuff toys around and trying to create a plot.
That would fit the outta pocket cussing
So smash bros
It's crazy how many references this game tried to fit in (especially to popular songs), that it is reaaally surprising to think it was never released officially in English.
This game is nothing but the definition of charming
I miss the old era of Sony, it just feels the same now, Ps1 and Ps2 era was the best
Man i feel you too i enjoy the First the last of us (only the First one) but i miss games like Little Big Planet that exsperimeted with a lot of things 😢
I adore Poinie's Poin and how much it basks in the silliness. Its silly. Its stupid. It's nigh incomprehensible, but i LOVE it.
One of the bosses, Tom, has a catchphrase. "Check it to the genius!" I have no goddamn idea what that means but its so..catchy? I quote it randomly. Same with "Hey, Green! Either pee or get off the pot."
This is Alice in Wonderland if Wonderland was made of candy and plastic rubber DollarStore toys.
Dude, I remember seeing this game a while back and had a killer final boss theme, but I could never remember the name to see it again. Thanks!
Agreed and good for you
"did you know"
>shows image of Vaporeon
goodness gracious
Oh no, did I miss some lore?
@@TheVengefulEagle nay it's referencing the start of "the vaporeon copypasta", look it up
@@OrangeKRUSH001a
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“I thought we passed a law that banned French people” 💀😭😭 why did that make me laugh so hard….
Poinie's Poin is truly an adorable but weird masterpiece from the PS2 era; there are companies to create experimental games that become beloved, and the PS2 is no stranger to having the most bizarre games avaliable to the point where I had to list them down next to some other strange projects made for the PS1 and Nintendo consoles.
Highly experimental, Japanese PlayStation games are an aesthetic.
Found you through that Chris Pratt video, but gotta say, I love your energy, presentation and the topics you talk about, keep going, man!
"You are close to beating your mom, but you've run out of points."
~ MagicMush 2023
Looks like an awesome game, such an atrocity it never left Japan. It begs a remaster and a rerelease.
this is what FLCL was trynna tap into
Regarding the Eric Cartman voice in Japan, I don't think that guy had anything to do with it. Cartman is actually played by Lilico, a Swedish-Japanese TV personality. In the movie Cartman is played by some guy called Tetsuya Yanagihara (he's from Osaka. They made the bizarre choice of dubbing the movie in Kansai dialect)
Thanks for the information
Fascinating find, great jokes (and in-jokes), comfy vibe, you're rapidly becoming one of my favourite youtubers my man
That “Did you know” with Vaporeon on screen was out of pocket 😐
I totally heard Jerry Seinfeld when you said "it really was trying to groom me!"
I heard it when he said "B-B-Bon Jovie?!?"
Still makes more sense than "The Last of Us: Part 2"
"revenge good for abby, but not ellie"
Yup, people blinded by how good the graphics and gameplay are in TLoU2 seem to forget the story is an unfocused, mean spirited mess. Maybe Neil shouldn't have fired all the good writers at Naughty Dog; he's clearly not good enough to carry head writing duties.
Seems like the character designer from Dotto Koni-chan worked on this.
Im no gamer so it was interesting hearing about the run down of this company and how its changed so much. That opening scene reminded me so much of that Who Framed Roger Rabbit scene with Eddie driving into toontown now i wanna see some character like Nathan Drake go thru Poinhell
This just proves my point that ps1-ps2 Era Japanese games are fucking wierd lmao
I fucking love these whimsical random topics, this guy is in my top ten favorite creators for sure
This is the game we need, but don't deserve.
You got that range man. You definitely should be a voice actor.
This is the type of rare game that just feels like I'm on drugs
This looks so aesthetically bizarre and I am EATING IT UP!! love stuff like this
God I hope you become a voice actor. You just have the voice and chops for it!!!
This feels like what would happen if the 4Kids Dubbing crew made a video game.
i like that vin playing this made everyone know this game exists, despite him hating it, as usual
Thank goodness for holy son Astrobot that prove that Sony still can make other genres of video games
I played through this to completion recently; I can't believe how absolutely fucking bizarre this game is, but man, does this game have some banger songs. Also the difference in voice acting is staggering, which is made weirder by this being an 'in house' translation. Like, Lolo is so much less annoying in japanese, I'm curious about the choices... But oh well. Yippie yo.
Thank you Vinny for making me aware of this insane game
How do I always find you lol
PS1/2/3 and PSP were truly a experimental time
Great video. Also, one year later and still no Wikipedia entry (in English anyway, there's a Japanese one for ポイニーポイン).
LSD emulator would make more sense than this my god...
Kinda reminds me of the initial release of Puyo Pop Fever on Dreamcast. Only released in Japan but features fully english text and dub from the options menu.
even though it's arguably obnoxious as shit visually and auditorily, I can't help but appreciate the sheer audacity and uniqueness of Poinie's Poin, and it's definitely on my bucket list of obscure games I need to play before I die. Also, I'm not going to deny a lot of it makes me laugh too, like Poinie is just such an absurdly stupid character that it's hilarious.
Poinie's Poin is the dark souls of poin-type games
It looks like if a unicorn projectile vomited everywere
Seriously I’m gonna get a seizure
These games. It looks like gamedevs hired/educating students by saying "Just do something!".
been trying to look for this game forever now on the internet and NOW you tell me their ain't no wiki for it? I just like the wild art direction so I wanted to know more about it but couldn't remember the name, so for my final attempt I searched "obscure playstation game" and out popped this video. thanks.
this game is so exquisite I think even indies are never this crazy
Love the dimitri theme in the background. Sly 2 is a masterpiece.
been obsessed with this game ever since hazel name-dropped it in her vampire yuri video. Beat the whole game in a chill week. I say yippie yo you can't touch this every chance i get. so glad to see someone making a video essay about it.
Man ps2 games where so much nicer and fun to play! They where actual games! Where we also got full games, and actually polished instead of the 30% of a game we get now that is also broken
"eat your ass- i mean heart out midna"
damn...
he just like me fr fr
This is even funnier to watch after Concord.
I can't help feeling this is a spiritual sequel to Pu-Li-Ru-La
My favorite part of Poinie's Poin is when Poinie said "it's Poining time!" and Poined all over those guys!
My favorite part is the… spirals shhstgxbxhsuwydnm
“YOURE FUCKIN SLACKIN” killed me XD
The "you're slacking" parts are funny
How do videos like this talking about the game just suddenly come out after I literally just learned about the games existence a month ago?
I miss the times with Legend of Dragoon, Twisted Metal, Dark Cloud, Gravity Rush, ICO, Shadow of the Collosus games i miss the AA games. They where cheaper experimental, original and pallet cleansers. But with gaming going mainstream, CEO's having the dollar signs in their eyes and the worst thing gamers going for the same shit over and over I think we are screwed.
I remember a UA-cam I used to watch reviewed this game like 7 years ago, he was pretty obscure though and don’t think he ever got past 10 thousand subscribers. He might’ve also deleted his account his I can’t find it anywhere.
A remaster of this game would save the ps5
Another MagicMush banger keep making these videos they're all good
The opening made me think a Playstation ad was about to play.
my brain melted trying to understand this
These videos are great to just zone out and learn about some weird shit you never fathomed would exist
I only knew this from a Vinesauce video. It looks pretty cute honestly! Especiallly the creature designs, like the eclairs. I'm a fan.
Not only is Strawberry Mama someone with a dead son, she’s actually 24.
I had Ape Escape 3 as a kid, it was my favorite game. It was the first game I ever tried to 100% but sucked too much. I've never heard anyone else bring it up until now!
this is one of the best channels on youtube m8 - thanks from scotland UK 👍👍
You know what other game lacks a Wikipedia entry? Hi Hi Puffy Amiyumi - Kazznaped for the GBA. Although, It has a short paragraph in the band's article.