Worst Game On Steam? - Spider Queen Cave
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The latest game on Worst Game On Steam is Spider Queen Cave... This is probably the best game in the series. The story is a bit weird but it's a nice mix of scary moments, unique gameplay and comedy. It's clear that these guys put some effort in and no matter how jank an indie game might be, if there's clear effort then it's worth some appreciation.
The dark souls or souls like gameplay at the end confirms that this is basically a game about Quelaag stealing your girlfriend or "senior sister"
This is definitely not the worst game on steam but I'm sure we'll find another gem in this series.
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I'm WickedWiz from the What Went Wrong series coming at you with some of the most cursed indie games on Steam. This new series is for games that are so bad, that they're actually good. Worst Game On Steam, is a question that hopefully turns out to be false each time. These are games that won't fit the longer form What Went Wrong videos. - Ігри
Plot summary: You got catfished by an ancient spider spirit lady, and ended up sword-fighting her after a bunch of horror sequences.
And you win, and she offered to become your senpai???
Sounds like a fun first date to me.
I mean, tbf, that does sound like a kick ass date
not gonna lie that's an interesting first date
@@ryszakowy yep love to sword fight on the first date
The way she winked with both eyes like she was a fucking chameleon had me hollering
Hey. It's difficult pretending to be human. Blinking is hard.
@XCuteCakeFoX FoxThegamer163 You have _ZERO_ proof that Donnie's comment was ever at 666 likes . You are a conspiracy theorist and spreading dangerous dis and misinformation on the internets . How _dare_ you Cute Cake , .. think about the damage you are causing . That caused at least like thirteen climate changes . Tsktsk
But in all seriousness this game does seem slightly haunted .
@@SabbaticusRex damn got deleted with facts
Cringe
@XCuteCakeFoX FoxThegamer163 it was a joke lol
When he grabs her leg and just throws her has got to be the funniest thing I've ever seen
Yeah, random dude casually throwing evil goddess
The fact the main dude jumped like 12 feet in the air and cut through a metal chain with a sword had me going "WHY THE FUCK YOU BEEN RUNNING FROM MONSTERS MY GUY"
BECAUSE NOW GIRLS ARE WATCHING
He didn't have the sword yet
"Tonight, my sister suddenly called and asked me to go to an abandoned villa in the suburbs. I have no choice but to prepare for departure."
Very unrealistic, real siblings would say no and hang up
Well he did ignore the call at first because he was playing video games.
It’s a Chinese game bro they call everyone their sister or brother
Nono, he has a point
@@MIAsuxdonkey Calling people you're close to sister/brother is a thing, if a bit old fashioned/formal.
Everyone is an exaggeration.
@@MIAsuxdonkey Yeah? You have a lot of experience living in China and being called brother/sister by everyone?
It cracks me up the way localization was done. "Senior Sister" is more so a direct translation to the term "Senior". The girl is likely to be a senior in uni that you have a crush on instead of being an actual sister.
Edit: It blows my mind they integrated the Eight Triagrams into a puzzle which is wholly obscure and can be incredibly difficult to solve without the guide or prior knowledge
Edit2: The story is so insane. You as the main character are the descendant of a taoist sect. The spider spirit is some sort of mutated/fallen fairy spirit who was eaten by Sun Wukong.
Chinese Myth is crazy shit...shame that the only one consistently used outside its homeland is Sun Wukong.
Amazing game
for any westerners who are still confused,
its supposed to be the word for "female senpai" in your(western) language.
could be just older sister... but botched direct translate would just say 'sister' or 'sistersister'. Gendered words for senpai(lol) are more common in china(and chinese-speaking places), so its probably that.
@@ChazDragoon Western myths are crazy shit too, you're just more familiar with those, so they don't seem as crazy.
@@ChazDragoon to be fair Sun Wukong is the most famous out of all of em, maybe because he has around a million iterations and most of them in the limelight but with different origins (League's Wukong and Dota 2's Monkey King comes to mind)
No wonder spider lady has been trapped for so long. Her whole plan relies on people randomly deciding to jump down a well.
"I was originally the 7 fairies in the sky. I was sent to heaven to destroy the task of the team. As a result I was badly beaten by the monkey".
Best plot reveal ever.
LOL underrated comment
If I use my chinese comic time wasting knowledge, I'm guessing there was a team of 7 immortal ladies that were tasked by the great Dao to destroy Son Wukong, but got beaten badly because of skill issue and now became a fallen immortal or something.
Hello. It is I! The monkey. 🐒
Have you seen the old show about a Chinese legend of a monkey and a god in heaven
@DumbAss-jm3lv
Do you mean Journey to the West?
Yeah, but hes referred to as The Monkey King or Sun Wukong in English.
"The monkey" doesnt refer to Sun Wukong. It only means the animal or in some idioms, an addiction to a drug or male genitals. So, this line comes off as really funny to an English speaker.
they really managed to encapsulate the horror of being in a chinese lift
Escalators and lifts are the Apex predators of the Chinese.
why?@@JohnZombi88
Just the lift? More like the entire house, the street, highways, bridges... Everything can be tofu.
Modern Chinese infrastructure
They mostly use German lifts, ThyssenKrupp
While this game seemed to rely primarily on asset packs, they still managed to correctly script things and got fairly decent audio for the main character. I think if this developer was able to get an artist and 3D designer to work with them and make assets for a game instead of needing to use premade ones, they have a good shot at making some really nice and creative games.
Yeah, honestly it's decent. Sure the guy can't make assets, but hey not everybody needs to make some in order to create games.
Honestly, kinda surprised how far assets have gotten
Like these are some really good quality assets used!
Far cry from the shit Digital Homicide would churn out with flipped assets lmao
That's not what an asset flip is. A flip is buying a bunch of stuff and using it to cram together barely functional shovelware.
I know that wasn't your intention, but calling it a flip and thereby implying that someone's genuine creative effort is worth less because they couldn't hire a team of graphic designers is honestly quite an insult
This isn't an asset flip. It's clear this game was designed with intention rather than being bullshit slapped together to make a profit.
And assets bought from the market isn't "stolen", so you shouldn't imply that they are without proof.
@@yeyeande There was at least one asset I don't think they got permission to use, the detector from STALKER. Unless they got approval from GSC, they most likely took it from one of the numerous asset compilations floating around online of rips from the game files, which yes, is "stealing" if they aren't giving any credit and didn't get permission.
I doubt they meant it as stealing, and being completely fair, it's entirely possible it was thrown into an asset pack that seemed legit and they had no clue it was taken from a game.
Fair point, though. Thank you!
The house at 11:08 is a complete asset, unfortunately. I've ran from Michael Myers in that house, as well as arrested a bunch of people in a Ready or Not mod.
the house looks so fucking familiar lol
@@iicustodianlawit’s the Gmod realism house
The fireplace is the immediate giveaway
22:57 "floating bug looks like shit" I died at that part🤣💀
44:27 "You can make a part of your body bigger or smaller at will."
I was very scared as to what direction this was about to go, and the music did not help.
was waiting for this comment
My guess for that weird elevator, is that it's an anti-frustration tool. If you happen to not be able to get to the bottom within the timer, it lets you just use it to skip the section. It seems like this game has A LOT of pretty decent accessibility features, and it doesn't seem to fault the player for using them!
Yeah, that's what I think they are for too. You can see on the second elevator at the start of the spinny platforming section it has big wheelchair accessible symbol on the sides.
It's pretty insane how as much as janky as the game was, there seemed to be genuine thought put into it's elements, like the dev wasn't great but genuinely did try to make something fun
@@Jenner_IIC thing is, I think the Dev is great. From the disclaimer, this is their first game, so likely don't have much in the way of experience. In saying that, instead of a huge, buggy, mess that's barely comprehensible, they made a legitimately interesting game, with a lot of heart and hard work. Clearly a LOT of thought went into the work, the story, the characters, the game play loop, and even the more minor things. Yes, the game still needs a lot of work to polish it up, maybe a few tweaks to make it really shine, but for a first game, it's genuinely good from what I can see.
The fact that it gives the password if you keep spamming is a good thing imo, I hate LPs where thirty minutes of the gameplay is the person searching for a scrap of paper
To me those "protections" felt a bit too easy. I understand lowering the difficulty, giving hints, etc when the player gets stuck. But to outright solve the puzzles for them takes away the actual gameplay aspect of it. The one where the tables start to glow seemed better. It takes away tedious search, but still requires the play to go and get the things.
This game is one giant fever dream with an insane amount of effort and talent put into it
I love how the MC’s death noise sounds like he’s a giant man-baby who’s mad because he couldn’t go to the toy store today.
The part where the MC went 'cocky' is a reference to Romance of the Three Kingdoms, where after Cao Cao had his crushing defeat at ChiBi, started laughing at the lack of ambush to actually kill him. And the joke is every time he starts laughing (or as you put it, act cocky), an ambush immediately found him.
if that ending image was your steam profile pic thats just the biggest compliment any MC has given the player in any game.
"ohh you can change anything, well ive survived an elder god, zombies, being trapped in cyber space and iver been given the ability to breathe under water. but i wanna be this person, they are way cooler"
freaking glorious XD
I didn’t even notice that in the same way. It’s actually really cool that they did that.
Imagine having a furry as your profile pic
That’s such a cute idea. I could see it in a much better game haha
@@ScoTEven imagine not having one at all quit the furry hate its 2023
@@jakeoff7885 it's 2023 and furries are still disgusting, that doesn't change
It's a game I would have wanted to make as a kid "and it will have everything in it!". I have to admire the ambition and the weirdness
>Ignores booty call
>Keeps playing mini game
Have my sub and my respect sir.
17:02 **picks up bolt cutters**
"A wrench? Or a clipper, or something."
Game: vice
"A vice, that's what it's called."
This section is a mess lol
Yup.
Yeah. I can't believe nobody knows what a screwdriver looks like.
Clearly he have never played Resident Evil 2 Remake. Well who needs RE series if he could play games like this, anyway?
@@ChimeraMK or scissors for that matter. It's clearly a blowtorch.
@@DarrenC_1024 Bruh, RE is for the normies, this is the real game.
That "tracking device" is actually a Bear Detector from STALKER. Its textures don't seem too happy being taken out of that game though.
Glad I’m not the only one who caught that, lmao. Was the last thing I expected to see.
Cheeki breeki
i knew i've seen that model and texture once!
As soon as he whips that out, I was half-expecting artifacts to pop up out of the blue. Also, because it's right next to a skeleton, it could've been a nice homage to STALKER if they added a worn out gas mask next to it or something like that.
@@spooky6703 IV DAMKE
7:22 As a child, I had this constant recurring dream where I come home from school, get on the elevator and press my home floor, but the elevator never stops and constantly goes up higher and higher. The elevators in my apartment were also quite claustrophobic, so it was a terrifying experience that kind of traumatizes me to this day. That part reminded me of that and I was spooked for real haha
I also recall having lots of faulty elevator nightmares as a child back then. They really did also haunt me.
By “Senior sister” they mean she is his older classmate/coworker/work colleague. The languages of china are pretty hard to translate to other languages because of how many phrases are based in common historical/cultural knowledge. It’s like younger boys calling older women "noona", and girls "unni” in Korea. Both of which mean big sister. It’s also common for older women to say “listen to this unni(big sister)” and the like at times.
I did some digging, and most of the negative reviews are from chinese gamers, many who don't like the game and others that claim they stole assets without buying them and used them to make the game. Most of the store assets in the game have no commercial/resale license, so it was illegal for the devs to actually repackage them and sold them as is. I think the game in early access/early versions did not have the support system so people got really frustrated at the puzzles.
So it's a kind of Chinese Limbo of the Lost then?
So there are two things; illegal assets and too hard to enjoy?
@@zarrg5611 Well, in my mind, the dev should be crowned the king of Limbo
The senior sister house look like a map in gmod tho
This game looked interesting, so I was trying to find out more about the dev(s).
Their name is in simplified Chinese (帅宅快乐屋工作室 = Handsome House Happy House Studio), so one would assume they are from China. But everything about the flat, and the cars, and all the general environments are more like Taiwan or Singapore than China.
Simplest explanation is that yes, it's a Chinese game, and that the devs have used assets that are not local to China. Perfectly understandable!
Not the sort of game I'd ever play, but perfect for channels like this - very enjoyable to watch.
Alright. So this story is a bit confusing, but I'm pretty sure the gist of it is that a powerful spider spirit (effectively the queen of the spiders), was sent by heaven to fight Sun Wukong, but was defeated. The spider spirit, drained of her power, was found and imprisoned by Mohist monks in the cave that the player goes through. The spider spirit was able to appear as a beautiful woman, and seduced generations, forming a powerful and rich bloodline. Eventually, in the form of the Senior Sister, she met the main character, and recognized him as the descendant of the Mohist monks. Seducing the main character, she led him to the house of her bloodline, and tried to kill him. however, he survived. Recognizing the main character's power, she makes an offer to become her servant, but he refuses, defeats her, and makes her transform into... Someone. However, I don't understand why the Mohist monks would imprison her, why the Senior Sister disappeared, what the deal with the monsters in the beginning was, and who the player makes her transform into.
I am guessing that the monsters are the guardians to stop people trying to free the Spider Queen
An attempt to answer your
1. Spider demon are basically like succubus, assumed to be evil in most circumstance
2. The Spider demon shapeshifted into the Senior Sis to lure the player
3. Being around a Spider Demon is an easy way to bring bad luck
4. I'm 50% sure it's a d*ck joke
I think they player character tells her to turn into whatever the player has as their steam profile picture, likely under the assumption that it is an anime girl.
She can drain me to create her blood line.... if you catch my drift.
At the same time it has to be a horror game so certain parts are not gonna fit 100% into the lore bc they just wanna be spooky. Like why did the monks build a fucking parkour in the spider dungeon? I don't know.
😅 the most replayed moment was the elevator jumpscare, honestly I had to do a double take when that happened but I am surprised that the chest stomp scene wasn't most replayed.
That was genuinely pretty damn cool. I REALLY want a whole game based on the first part of this game, a horror game with that much depth to how you interact with things.
The negative reviews are because you can't let her dominate you in the end like we all know we would let her do
Are Chinese people even into that because that's all I'm seeing there.
Press F to kiss the feet
@@darkoshadowfury Excuse me...what?
I thought steam is where people went in their leisure time and play games, not a platform with a bunch of weirdos that can make a critism that impedes on someones hard work 🗿🗿🗿
@@darkoshadowfury F
please never stop doing these they're gold
I was about to say something similar.
I was going to say: I enjoy these even more than the "What Went Wrong" series. Keep 'em coming, Wiz.
Cheers! See you next week with another one
I agree full heartedly! These should get like 1 mil views in an hour, I swear
@@WickedWiz heck yeah.
I like how the bolt cutters were not only misnamed by Wiz but the game itself
"Senior sister is so beutiful"
*catfished* "lol i was just a demon spider lady, you simp, i was just using you for my advantage"
"I ready to fight god or died trying, bring it on"
I feel like the dev team for had different ideas for their first game and then one of them went like "what if we do them all?!"
Started with you examining a house key in a basic spoopy game, ended with you playing anime-cutscene darksouls. Quality
The tracking device from the skeleton is literally the artifact detector from S.T.A.L.K.E.R. called bear detector (no bear detecting function)
"I laugh at the cave owner's incompetence and the spider's lack of wisdom" Hands down the best video game line of all time
It originates from Chinese classic novel "the Romance of Three Kingdoms" where the legendary warlord Cao Cao laughed at traps being poorly designed & gets karma immediately. Also used ancient Chinese instead of modern Chinese grammar.
This game feels like a demo to show potential investors. "Look we can do 2d side scrollers, here's action platforming, now it's a 3d hardcore combat game, now it's a puzzle, now it's horror" There are some pretty good game foundations in parts of this, and I kind of want to try that side scroller, but when you just start jamming mechanics together like this you get the game equivalent of The Homer car. I think it's qualified as 'good' here because all the mechanics were competent and the visuals weren't bad. Which for this series is rare.
I feel like it's an end of year class project at a game developer college, with each section being done by a different team.
It also feels like a fever dream when you play it, and it has to count for something.
This genuinely seems like one of the best games you've reviewed in this segment! Very cool concepts even if the execution wasn't 100%.
I feel like inhuman was a bit better, it had a strange charm to it. This feels like lots of potentially good ideas put together disparately, none of which succeed. You have a horror game, a fantasy adventure and even a platformer all mushed together.
@@zarrg5611 forgot to reply but i could see that too, this game definitely isn't as cohesive as inhuman.
You could say that the design is very human 😂
Unrelated, how do you like your mask in your pfp? I'm thinking of getting the hyena ones but want to know how comfy they are.
I'm so impressed it mentioned Mohist. Mohism is a dead religion from an ancient chinese philosopher who did science. You should google and be surprised, the philosopher called Mo Zi actually found the first camera obscura. His teaching is about loving people unconditionally. His war strategy is all about defense, there are stories about how 5 of his students are dispatched to help defend a helpless city from invaders. Then his most awesome thing is his advancement of science for that era.
19:52 I swear that is the bear detector from the OG stalker games.
Only in this game could you go from that scene to "I won't disappoint my ancestors"
*Proceeds to foot fetish*
“What? My ancestors were pervy...”:
I'm a game developer and I work with Unreal, and there are SOOO MANY store assets in this lmao. That 2D game is actually a plugin to create 2D games in Unreal called Pixel2D or something. This is hilarious, but props to those guys for putting this much effort in it as well.
Maybe a dumb question, but do ya know of any games out there like that? Gives me Skul vibes, and I would love more games like that to play.
On another note, do you know if UE5 is good for beginners?
@@Pandamaxx I'm not aware of any games like that, but you can probably find some by looking up indie 2D platformers in your platform of choice.
Regarding Unreal, I wouldn't recommend it for absolute beginners. Try using something like Construct 3 first, so you can get a hang of how game development works before going into engines where you need to create most of the systems.
I'm like 30% sure I've seen that lady's outfit on the Skyrum Nexus.
I don't get why this is "hilarious". The "plugin" you mention is a 2d game engine inside Unreal. It's a bit like saying that it is hilarious that they didn't create their own 2d engine from scratch.
@@remka2000you don't get it because you're not a dev. Don't worry about it.
video title: worst game on steam?
video: guys this is the best game on steam
1:21 Gotta love the "suicide" key binding. Very innovative.
11:58
"This game is quite intuitive."
You picked up a wooden plank and a key, so I expected a moment where you enter the bathroom and preceed to beat the crap out of your sister/monster with said wooden plank.
You should be concerned if this is what you call intuitive
@@eliasroflchopper3006
This is a horror game, so everything you can pick is either for progression, story, healing or *proceeding to beat the crap out of the monster* .
@@mateuszbanaszak4671 not out of sister tho
@@eliasroflchopper3006
Every house works on his own rules. XD
@@mateuszbanaszak4671 xDDD
I'm fairly certain that platformer game is just someone's asset pack or "Starter Platformer RPG" transplanted wholesale; the discrepancy between art styles and the level of polish is just too great.
Thats actualy why this game is so badly rated. There is a lot... Borrowed and straight-from-the-shelf things
@@olenhol2przez4 I get that taking some enjoyment away from a game for someone, but I don't think rating a game so poorly for that is fair.
Not everyone can be a competent designer, coder, artist, animator, and marketer all in one, among other hats to wear. That's an unreasonable time sink expectation for someone who probably still has to balance it against their job and personal life, in an oversaturated market where even just breaking even is an uncommon accomplishment.
@@ledumpsterfire6474 I feel like if you're not a competent designer, coder, artist, animator OR marketer, you should probably focus on developing your craft before attempting to sell a product for actual money.
I think the fact that this game functions at all at a functional frame rate means there's something there, this guy's skills just need more time in the oven.
@@ledumpsterfire6474 i agree.
But they just stole someone's game.
That person too wanted to have some fame ....
@@flow185 My guy, if you put an asset pack or foundation pack up for people to use, you can't really turn around and claim it's stolen. Unless you know something we don't about this case in particular.
Damn, that scare with the ghost following you with the light was pretty original and actually creepy. Usually the light in horror games is your friend, while in that section it was against you, props on the devs.
37:05 "she's just hanging out" 💀💀💀💀
So lemmie get this straight:
The game is about a young man who got played the long con by a spider goddess that successfully thirst trapped him to try and fucking kill him all because of his ancestors who trapped her.
What
Spirits have a longass time hold grudges.
@@Jokoko2828 And goddesses.
It’s like never crossing the fae, except I don’t know of any spider goddesses among the fae, but either way you just don’t do it
I mean, I'm pretty sure the devs are Chinese and Chinese mythology is wild
What a shocker you don't understand Chinese mythos and references
i can really see what they intended with the lady melting into spiders. it would be a really cool visual where she screams and then melts into a thousand little spiders that scurry away. +2 for vision
That minigame reminds me of the Demon Tower minigame in Night in the Woods and how they casually just slipped in a full mini roguelike that even had a secret ending.
I love how she keeps disappearing and reappearing in order to stay in frame during the pre-fight cutscene where she explains her lore.
I was expecting her to have some teleportation ability during the fight
That minigame is a demo map that comes with an Unreal Engine Addon called "Pixel2D"
Makes sense
At 19:39 the "Tracking Device" is literally an Artifact Detector ripped straight out of STALKER, specifically the "Bear detector" from Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat.
I also realized that the moment i see it
I was wondering if someone else would notice that
My eyes immediately lit up and almost bulged out of my head first when I saw the detector in the video and second when I noticed this comment and realized you had already made it.
Where did stalker get that from
@@quarreneverett4767 The STALKER devs made it, what do you mean
This reminded me of that one indie survival horror where a guy is supposed to meet his girlfriend on x-mas eve, but gets lost in the snowstorm and ends up in an abandoned house, and is chased by a monstrous woman, who turns out to be his obsessive ex, who's apparently sold her soul to the devil and thus became a monster. Pretty cool game, and the dev actually speaks English. :D
I had no idea you had more than one channel this is amazing
"senior sister" probably is a form of honorific address just meaning "girl/woman older than me"; I've seen big sister/nuna used in Korean comics sometimes so it's not far fetched that Mandarin has similar forms of address.
Can confirm, that is what they were going with.
I think it's like Senpai/Noona of mandarin
39:20
"Yeah, sure. Pretend to crawl at her feet and then sweep her off them.
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WAIT HE ACTUALLY DID IT"
Surprise attack, Kevin Macleod music plays, boss fight begins. The devs of this game may be beginners, but they're also absolute madlads.
Excuse me... do you know what the song at that segment is called? I think it's quite good, and I would appreciate it!
@@alphafroggymc3323 Sure, it's called "Killers".
ua-cam.com/video/kpfXA-leJIQ/v-deo.html
a literal mommy long legs catfishes you into a nightmare night and offers you a position under her feet so you swordfight her and end this duel of the fates by supplexing her
and asking her to turn into your steam avatar...
helluva first date
The backup camera thing was really really cool and unique!!
These videos make me forget that this guy is criminally underrated, it feels like quality you'd see in a channel with around ten times the subs he has.
Word, he's standing on top of his video quality, chief level content.
I mean, he kinda does have 10x the subs funnily enough on his other channel, WickedWiz
Same
This developer has a lot of potential, if they can get some assets of their own. It'd be interesting to see them try a fully fledged Souls-like, or another horror game with some lessons learned. All in all, not bad.
....制作组已经倒闭了，在2月份，也就是游戏发布的第二个月。他们6个人制作游戏，做这个游戏大概用了6个月，但是最后收入，缴税之后只有3300美元
其实还好，他们在评论区有交流，心态挺平和的
@@CCheng-bw4iqThey had great ideas. Only lack budgets
@@CCheng-bw4iqAsian Urban Horrors are always spookier than typical cheap American horrors
@@CCheng-bw4iqglad they are alright
39:46 Bro just got vergil motivation..NO SIMP!!!!
impressed by this, i thought this was the vid series for bad games - this is a banger
For people who are concerned about the sister thing, in many asian countries and that includes china
Sister can also just mean Young women. And brother can mean young man
So senior sister, is a google translation error of the young girl who is older then me.
This is Chinese but if you watch anime its the same as the characters saying senpai.
China has the same thing but it is gendered shīxiōng male and shījiě is for women.
As a Filipino, we have a word for older brother and older sister (kuya and ate, pronounced a-teh). But many use those words to people who aren't even related. I've been called kuya many times from total strangers just for being nice.
It's basically like Japanese "onee-san" where a younger guy can call a slightly older girl "older sister" but everyone knows it just means "older than me female". Same with "onii-san" for older males. It's something you might even use to call someone on the street if you don't know them, it's fairly polite and neutral in tone.
As a malaysian we call women older than us as “kakak” which means sister and “abang” = brother. So i can vouch for the asian thing
If this was explained earlier maybe it would have more positive votes and not only from Alabama.
@cat6th it probably wasn't explained because calling someone older a brother or sister is a cultural norm from where the game was made. And the game is being told through the guy's perspective google translated which means he wouldn't go
"Big sister is calling. But she's not really my sister. I just call her that because it is term of endearment in this southeast Asian country."
Holy shit, when he says "I wonder if this is one bought asset pack" at 11:13 there is literally a vrchat killer game "ghost haunted mansion" with this exact pack. That is so surreal haha.
Wait why is it surreal? That he managed to guess it was probably a prebuilt asset pack? Or that you realized the same was true about the VRChat map at the same time that he mentioned it?
Pretty sure that’s HQ Residential House. It shows up in a ton of cheap horror games.
@@DaimyoD0 Yeah, he mentionned it like a mere fraction of a second after my realization haha.
Thank you I was looking for a comment like this I'm glad I wasn't the only one who went wait... I recognize this place!
BRO THE WAY HE THREW HER LMAO
Holy crap, I didn't expect him to actually Batista Bomb her at the end.
Hilarious that the "help you move along thing" is called novice protection mechanism
Honestly, it doesn't look like a bad game. It's not good, but we've seen wayyy worse than that.
about the senior sister bit: what the devs meant was probably "older sister", the word for "sister" in chinese is different depending on if you are referring to an older or a younger one
That was a hell of a ride. Holy moly. The translation was something else.
Why didn't they just finish the 2D platformer?
I have two things to say
First that I think senior sister must have been a mistranslation
And second that that ending was so cool like that spider lady just puts him on the ground and he spins her and slams her to the wall and summons his ancestral sword or some shit
more of too literal.
Most Asian languages have a default to refer to people by their societal positions to the speaker.
in this case, it's likely meant to mean *"my female, close friend that is a little bit older than me"*.
It's a language trait that always introduces some level of clunkiness when localized; it's an increasing trend to just use the literal translation as westerners are beginning to clue into this quirk of the language.
Note: that all Chinese-influenced Asian languages are largely the same in literal translation in very formal speech, but become increasingly divergent as they approach the informal/casual side of the scale.
he says 学姐 which is directly translated to senior sister, but in a more english sense it's more like calling someone a respected older close friend
@@Pantology_Enthusiast to be fair, it's just retarded to call people like that.
for yall weaboos out there it just means senpai
I like the idea of "Novice Protection" aka "Noob pity win"
Good video! 6:29 is a Chinese meme, ‘4 major human nature' (in a self-deprecating way):
Recorder refers to keep repeating/following what everyone else is saying;
Pigeon refers to not wanting to show up for appointment/date (those you are asked to have, but do not really want to have);
Lemons refers to jealousy;
The fourth one is another Chinese meme, roughly means 'you ultimately will enjoy something you originally refused, if it is too attractive'.
I love your videos Mr. Wizard. You're like Pyrocynical but you don't insult everything all the time. You give credit where it's due and have realistic expectations.
Pyro but he's actually enjoyable to watch
@@aisladov Pyro but he doesnt have a inflation furry fetish
@@SpringDavidSo in this regard its pyro but worse?
@@SpringDavid Which led him to inappropriate interaction with a minor.
I believe him that he genuinely didn't mean to, but that's the risk you take in those kinds of anonymous online fetish spaces. Especially since a lot of them intentionally don't vet their members because their mods/admins are pedos/hebes
Pyro but he isn't a degenerate.
Your videos are pretty fun, you should start a series where you talk about shady and derailed games/developers
I assume this is self aware
@@BrentStarling ye its a joke
They used 'senior sister' as the translation of 姐姐 which in literal translation really does just mean 'older sister' BUT it is also used to refere to any woman that are slightly older than you (and that you are presumably respectful towards) - they don't have to be related to you in any way.
Yup, just like Jackie Chan's characters being called big brother in his older movies by their younger friends.
Yo this is Weirdly well made with a lot of accessibility!!! Kudos to the creators!!!!
39:45 Protagonist really said "I ain't no simp."
I, on the otherhand, would have at least attempted the evil spider-goddess dominatrix girlfriend route.
That mini game on the computer no joke looks like it could be a high quality indie game. I would play a full fleshed out version of that honestly, the pixel art looked really good too
Yeah, it looked similar to Celeste, at least it reminded me of that.
@@nuno-cunha I got celeste and dead cells vibes from it, idk why dead cells maybe the way loot and weapons looked but yeah for a mini game inside another game super surprising
I'm not sure, I read on another comment that it was a free unity asset, like an example type thing.
@@smallfryproductions319 that honestly makes more sense than anything else, I saw comment say the mansion map was an entire ripped asset so that could most likely be the case. Whoever originally made it has some talent that's for sure
i always wanted to know the spider evolution line, how did spiders come to be spiders. always love your videos, as someone how hyperfixations on spiders, these videos are the BEST to watch! especially when i’m drawing
Guy goes to his Senior Sister's house, gets catfished by a Spider Lady and burns her eggs, goes through many Mazes and platforming just to Dual her to the death to honor his Ancestors and gets Spider Lady as eternal wife...
Who drugged me while watching this?
This guy is truly a main character of all time
So this is Subnautica, Silent Hill, granny, dark souls and a bit of a dating sim all at once?
To be fair there are quite a lot of cultural and chinese culture references in the game that most foreigners won't get, which definitely takes away some fun and surprises out of your gameplay. The attention to details in this game is really beyond expectation lol. Not that much of a bad game at all.
This game is so bad in a good way that it's actually amazing😂
And the shitty machine translated subtitle is just hilarious lmao
0:14 bro got the Ведмідь artifact detector 💀💀💀💀
I kept waiting for this game to really go downhill, but it never did. What a subversion of expectations, god damn.
I actually liked the part where the beginning was inside a really nice house but when you leave said room you enter kinda sketchy hallway filled with graffiti. I also like the fact that you leave your door wide open for anybody enter.
The attention to detail is actually excellent in this one. Even if it was assets, they're used really well.
12:05 The way the characters moved in the cutscene looked like this was made in dreams 💀
Eventually, one of these chinese indie horror games will be unambiguously good and become a hit.
statisticaly yes
@@Otochiro1 I mean... statistically a room full of monkeys could reproduce Shakespeares greatest plays
@@patchmoulton5438 are chinese people monkeys ?^^
@@Otochiro1 yes but actually no
This game is really well done, but I'm convinced they're stitched together store bought assets, but so well done. I would go as far as to say sewn together assets.
A good sign of one's skill is not in what assets are made/used...but HOW they are used.
Just like cooking...you can have the finest ingredients, but it's worthless if you can't cook for shit.
Meanwhile the other guy makes a simple turkey w/mayo sandwich on white bread...and it's the best goddamn thing you ever ate. (true story)
@@ChazDragoon agreed. But then it helps if you love eating turkey mayo sandwiches. They're awesome😁
@@averagegilo indeed..very under-rated. Try eating one after about 48 hours of not eating anything...my god.. (again, true story)
@@ChazDragoon Your story gains a lot of depth with every comment you make.
At the end of every year you should do a tier list of the games, I'd love to see a ranking of everything you've played
This feels like more of a show case of what the developers can do. This game is first person, third person, horror, platforming and action. And it wasn’t terrible.
Best tip for dealing with almost any maze is to keep the wall to your left at all times. Don't take random directions and hope you'll get there; keeping the wall to one side at all times ensures that even if you navigate into dead ends, you'll still navigate out of them and continue on toward the exit. The only mazes this doesn't work with are ones designed not to be solved so easily, those will often have bridges, or sections which circle back around to a section you've already visited.
As a fellow chinese, and i have watched my fair share of chinese stuffs, "senior sister" is by no means a "biological" sister but a way to refer to their seniors in their school.
I was hella confused to why she was winking in the call, thanks for clearing up
Odd but ok at least Senpai in Japanese just translates to Senior which can't be confused by us westerners we hear senpai and see a character clearly in love and understand "oh ok that's an older classmate (or a co worker that has been at the job longer)" we hear the term senior sister and see clear signs of the MC being into them and are like "what the fuuuuuck" so not translating it to "my senior" or "senior classmate" and just giving the Google translate translation seems a bit either lazy or unprofessional and gives this entire plot point a weird undertone to us
oh no i hated that elevator scene so much. whenever there's an elevator in my dreams, it either just goes down and down, really speeds up, or just fucking flies through the roof and hurls through the air. always a nightmare. i have no problem with elevators irl so i don't know where this comes from lmao. i think i would've just quit the game after the elevator went down further than should be possible.
I feel you, they never go well in my dreams, stairwells too. At least they break the fourth wall for me and I know I'm in for a wild ride.
in china, peeking on your sister spawns a weird sadomaso lady with spider mask and alot of ketchup