A Surreal Dreamcast Inspired Japanese Crime RPG in a City Full of Weird Creatures! - Kowloon's Curse

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  • Опубліковано 18 сер 2024
  • Kowloon's Curse: Lost Report - A Surreal Dreamcast Inspired Japanese Crime RPG in a City Full of Weird Creatures!
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    00:00 Kowloon's Curse: Lost Report Start
    02:54 The Smoking Cat & The Phone Call
    05:56 The Drunk
    08:42 Chillin' With Sergio
    14:02 The Nightclub
    25:06 Lunch with a Psycho
    31:21 TV & Weird Dreams
    37:30 The Next Job
    47:57 The Mahjong Parlor
    55:02 Meeting "The Inspector" (Ending)
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  • @simonwhittlebone9983
    @simonwhittlebone9983 Рік тому +39

    The game actually let you tell your friend his mixtape sucks, the dev is real asf for that.

  • @meliasnahtony2951
    @meliasnahtony2951 Рік тому +60

    See if you can befriend that monster by setting out a second marshmallow for him.
    And on the topic of the video, I love that the Dreamcast is getting more recognition

  • @MoogMonster554
    @MoogMonster554 Рік тому +73

    The soundtrack to this game is fire.

  • @fgjjdgb3949
    @fgjjdgb3949 Рік тому +37

    Office, fog and a strange guy looking like a typical boss...really like a bad dream.

  • @_Majoras
    @_Majoras Рік тому +5

    3:00 this is the best thing i've ever seen in a video game 🤣

  • @PaulC-Drums
    @PaulC-Drums Рік тому +34

    Dude there are so many influences at play here. A game that's ALMOST called "Kowloon's Gate." The Dreamcast style, which by the way I'm pretty excited to see sort of take over for the PSX revival era (hybrid Dreamcast/PS2 aesthetic worship incoming?). And then at 9:00 straight up David Lynch worship with a track that sounds like "A Real Indication" from Fire Walk With Me. I want to play this right now.

  • @Eisenwulf666
    @Eisenwulf666 Рік тому +12

    I wonder if there are different endings. Sergio is getting on my nerves from the start, i knew he would get us in trouble!

  • @V3RTIGO222
    @V3RTIGO222 Рік тому +42

    The main menu really goes hard, I miss fully animated menus that have you flying through parts of the environment

  • @DustTheOtter
    @DustTheOtter Рік тому +3

    I was not mentally prepared for the cuteness of a monster eating Bobbert's marshmallow. 😭

  • @fauxsito
    @fauxsito Рік тому +5

    I love that that one dude's name is Hostage Situation
    Also looove Kowloon. This is so atmospheric

  • @darkjapan
    @darkjapan Рік тому +33

    Kowloon is an area in Hong Kong not Japan. Kowloon's Gate on PS1 and Kowloon Walled City are clearly the main inspirations for this game.

    • @zsewqthewolf1194
      @zsewqthewolf1194 Рік тому +4

      it was something that was like nightcity in cyberpunk but everyone there known each other or a part of the area, it was as free as one can get and the UK and china hated it

    • @25thVictor
      @25thVictor Рік тому

      @@zsewqthewolf1194 was?

    • @zsewqthewolf1194
      @zsewqthewolf1194 Рік тому +3

      @@25thVictor they knocked it down in 1993, a real shame too because during to the late 60s to the 90s it was truly a place of chaos and freedom.

    • @25thVictor
      @25thVictor Рік тому +1

      @@zsewqthewolf1194 Shame, wish it was left alone and blossomed into it's own culture. Would've wanted to visit it presently :( thanks for telling me man

    • @zsewqthewolf1194
      @zsewqthewolf1194 Рік тому +3

      @@25thVictor you can see its DNA in a lot of cyberpunk stories because it was truly a cyberpunk like city, but the thing was turn out if you give people untold freedom they infact become better people, that's why the Kowloon city was onces in a life time thing, so far nothing have come close to it yet.
      the only one that have is slab city, but the problem is there nothing out there to make money to help it grow bigger and bigger over time, and unsure if building a muiltfloor building would be allow to stand or be left alone.

  • @dr.velious5411
    @dr.velious5411 Рік тому +5

    OK! Right off the bat, John C Lilly reference, this is gonna be a banger

  • @asterlofts1565
    @asterlofts1565 Рік тому +2

    The ambience of this games is amazing.

  • @PoggoMcDawggo
    @PoggoMcDawggo Рік тому +7

    I love the funny intros in every video. It's a nice touch.

  • @naido6628
    @naido6628 Рік тому +6

    Oh that intro animation was adorable 🥺

  • @zsewqthewolf1194
    @zsewqthewolf1194 Рік тому +13

    i hope this become a full game one day

  • @SaltyCrabOfficial
    @SaltyCrabOfficial Рік тому +2

    the fact that thanks to digimon i know that kowloon exists is something pretty weird

  • @st.edstatue2700
    @st.edstatue2700 Рік тому +1

    This game oozes atmosphere. I feel like I just watched a videogame lovechild of William Gibson and Lynch. Brilliant

  • @bpansky
    @bpansky 10 місяців тому

    love the music and menu sounds, veryy throwback. also, lol, grid-based movement and 90 degree turns

  • @AntipaladinPedigri
    @AntipaladinPedigri Рік тому +25

    8:17 Tony looks more like the type playing with Mahgina
    10:21 goddamn bastard spoiled the new episode of People Getting Ran Over By Trucks for me
    This game is like [Body Part] of the Killer was fully 3D and BB Wwas a contract killer
    28:04 taking the same as him would be an a-hole move towards the waitress. Glad you dodged that, @Alpha Beta Gamer. Sergio doesn't look like a tipper.
    52:08 can't believe Samsung and Realme is still around to produce those exploding phones

    • @AlphaBetaGamer
      @AlphaBetaGamer  Рік тому +11

      Haha, sorry People Getting Ran Over By Trucks got spoiled for you! I don't really watch the show myself, but I watch the TRAILERS! :)

    • @AntipaladinPedigri
      @AntipaladinPedigri Рік тому +2

      @@AlphaBetaGamer Don't get me started! They ruined it for me by changing the main tractors! The chemistry, the spark, the attrucktion is gone! I think I'm gonna go out and committ some battery!

  • @pablieto-veganson
    @pablieto-veganson Рік тому +4

    i can't wait for all these crunchy ps1 graphics games to come out!

  • @harleyx7332
    @harleyx7332 Рік тому +4

    5:46 i wonder if that's a reference to the Highwayman from Over The Garden Wall. "I'm the highwayman, i make ends meet..."

  • @batattitude
    @batattitude Рік тому +10

    I like that UA-cam has decided this is SMT3: Nocturne. TBH I would play the hell out of an indie game inspired by that one

  • @amanchoosesaslaveobeys6510
    @amanchoosesaslaveobeys6510 Рік тому +1

    This looks awesome can't believe i haven't heard of this game

  • @harleyx7332
    @harleyx7332 Рік тому +4

    The penguing is spittin straight facts

  • @KvisTwig
    @KvisTwig Рік тому +2

    NEW INTRO MONSTER? :D

  • @TheRealNormanBates
    @TheRealNormanBates Рік тому +6

    I really dig the music for this one. Are there track listings on UA-cam by any chance?

  • @reezevlog
    @reezevlog Рік тому +7

    a Japanese crime game , but sets in Kowloon..Hong Kong..🫢🤔🤔🤔… im already confused… (or maybe the developers are too)

  • @massi2224
    @massi2224 Рік тому +3

    "That's right. I'm an alcoholic!"
    no way bro 😮

  • @ThatOldSchoolMagic
    @ThatOldSchoolMagic Рік тому +3

    Hard to say dreamcast since the games used higher quality models with AA most of the time.
    Unless you compares this to Nightmare Creatures 2. Graphically.

  • @yg156
    @yg156 Рік тому +3

    The final boss' OST goes hard.

  • @Mighty_Anima
    @Mighty_Anima Рік тому +1

    That's where Arakune came from

  • @adamdewolfe
    @adamdewolfe Рік тому +3

    Pretty cool, except for that ending.

    • @michaelhaydenbell
      @michaelhaydenbell Рік тому

      And pretty cool profile pic. It was cool back then, and it's especially cool now.

  • @ledraco4820
    @ledraco4820 Рік тому +1

    Nom that marshmallow

  • @xnoolin5521
    @xnoolin5521 Рік тому +1

    Each time a scene changes, specially the Subway scene and the music kicks on */does the most INTENSE OG pop-n-lock head ass shit ever SEEN/*

  • @Highzen
    @Highzen Рік тому +1

    the turning and music reminds me of shin megami tensei (apparently youtube thinks so too)

  • @nguyntn9026
    @nguyntn9026 Рік тому

    35:57 yoooo Chainsaw Man reference

  • @ignaciomartinoli3881
    @ignaciomartinoli3881 Рік тому +1

    35:58 loved the Chainsaw Man reference

  • @dowlotistap
    @dowlotistap Рік тому +2

    this is amazing!

  • @jackyu5883
    @jackyu5883 Рік тому +8

    There's a mistake in the title, this is a game set in Hong Kong, not Japan, as Kowloon is one of the territories in Hong Kong

  • @OzWizard.
    @OzWizard. Рік тому +3

    Does this mean the B is the front of the face?

  • @sebs-shenanigans
    @sebs-shenanigans Рік тому +1

    With the movement and spirte based characters with whacky designs, i am also getting some proper BAROQUE vibes

  • @nickvanhell209
    @nickvanhell209 Рік тому +3

    Are there such cool games for the Nintendo Switch or Android?

    • @MstreEnsin
      @MstreEnsin Рік тому +1

      Kowloon Highschool/The Silver Case/Fatum Betula/Persona 3/4/5

  • @kescaremon2531
    @kescaremon2531 Рік тому +2

    Anyone else got the "let me do this for you" vibes from the intro?

  • @Piratefoxyfox
    @Piratefoxyfox Рік тому +4

    yeah that smoking cat is totally normal...

  • @blumiu2426
    @blumiu2426 Рік тому

    I've no idea what to say to this lol! Music is pretty good, though.

  • @noahjester8471
    @noahjester8471 Рік тому +1

    Sergio woke up and chose violence lol

  • @snek8907
    @snek8907 Рік тому +1

    The boss in the beginning looks like Walter White tho and it caught me off guard lol

  • @TheFoxHound626
    @TheFoxHound626 Рік тому

    Are there multiple endings to this?

  • @Mazgid
    @Mazgid Рік тому +1

    I;'ve been waiting fir Dreamcast era games to rise up, yet this is not Dreamcast-esque aesthetic at all sadly. It uses normal maps and modern lighting - yes, nobody was telling that is prohibited, yet to catch Dreamcast lighting you can take any Pentium 2 area PC game, say Gloomwood doing it great ; it has a lot of effects, pixelated ps1 like textures instead of the blurred and overall strange genre to pick - overall it's Echo Night/King's Field type of game with everything that Suda51 was offering with his Killing the Past series -music, cozy atmosphere and even detective work itself. Not saying this game is bad, just a little out of place this time.

  • @nidhoggstrike
    @nidhoggstrike Рік тому

    Who is down for dreamcastcore becoming a thing?

  • @ThePinkMan
    @ThePinkMan Рік тому +1

    Seems annoying that the cell-phone upgrade made the attack less useful.

  • @radicalfishstickstm8563
    @radicalfishstickstm8563 Рік тому +2

    It’s a bit rough around the edges but it’s really grasping for something and it’s got it, somewhat.

  • @fanfaretloudest
    @fanfaretloudest Рік тому +3

    3:18 Alan Rickman is that you?

  • @indigowendigo8165
    @indigowendigo8165 Рік тому

    Speaking of Kowloon, there's this one weird manga ironically named "Kowloon Generic Romance". :p That's the only Kowloon related thing I can think of. :?

  • @gon9684
    @gon9684 Рік тому +1

    This is absolutely inspired by dds and smt, you can feel it

  • @AntipaladinPedigri
    @AntipaladinPedigri Рік тому +5

    0:30 tell me Mavis Dracula had a botched plastic surgery without telling me she had a botched plastic surgery
    0:35 nobody:
    The mascara girls fell asleep in:
    1:45 I perform spiritual healing to heal his confusion via laying on hands. Laying them on his face.
    2:12 ...are made of clips, who'd ever mind to be John Constantine?
    2:13 I'm no doctor, but it was definitely the prostate
    2:49 wow, even Michael Myers isn't safe from the pitfalls of capitalism and working a measly elevator attendant job to make ends meet
    5:30 I am guessing lots of drug dealers had their apartments raided by cops at that moment...
    6:34 alcoholic pretending to be a novelist sounds about right. Most writers are.

    • @TheRealNormanBates
      @TheRealNormanBates Рік тому +1

      2:49 HA! Frankly, I thought it was a mask of Mao myself.

  • @unethicallyvoid2888
    @unethicallyvoid2888 Рік тому +4

    Kowloon is really awsome ngl a shame they tore it down

  • @georgelin8498
    @georgelin8498 Рік тому +1

    Smocaine aka crack rock

  • @me1ne
    @me1ne Рік тому +1

    Love the music. Would lower the volume on the text blips, that's currently on obnoxious territory.

  • @thejack5952
    @thejack5952 Рік тому +2

    This is giving off SMT vibes

  • @RaboFrangalStream
    @RaboFrangalStream Рік тому +1

    3:00 because its japan babe.

  • @lambbonesdev
    @lambbonesdev Рік тому

    Just finished playing this, it kicks ass

  • @sotirisvog1367
    @sotirisvog1367 Рік тому +1

    Ah yes, the Sphere Hunter on the video's thumbnail. Excellent.

  • @Doomroar
    @Doomroar Рік тому +1

    The alcoholic had more money than us! 🤣

  • @dvdbox360
    @dvdbox360 Рік тому

    it's funny when sergio smoke that exploding cig he really love smocaine

  • @peterjacobo743
    @peterjacobo743 Рік тому

  • @TheWaterdog6
    @TheWaterdog6 Рік тому +1

    I dont know. The plot isnt really special (seen it before and done better), the only other actual character is a terrible person anyone in Food service has to deal with every week, it ends on a depressing note and there is no real winning move. Not what I would call a great game.

    • @AlphaBetaGamer
      @AlphaBetaGamer  Рік тому

      Hi! yeah, I guess the ending is a bit of a bummer, but it's prequel to an upcoming game, which I'm sure will have a little more of an upbeat ending. :)

  • @redrum0127
    @redrum0127 Рік тому

    big silver case vibes from this

  • @Abarax
    @Abarax Рік тому +1

    kinda has bernband vibes, I like it

  • @planescaped
    @planescaped Рік тому +2

    That no game has been set in the Kowloon Walled City is such a wasted opportunity.

    • @darkjapan
      @darkjapan Рік тому +1

      Kowloon's Gate. PS1. It was a cult hit in Japan.

  • @CactusMushroom
    @CactusMushroom Рік тому +1

    Mmmm pixels

  • @-neurasthenie-
    @-neurasthenie- Рік тому +8

    I don't see what is "dreamcast" about this...
    Maybe the soundtrack, but then again, most Japanese games from that era have that distinct sound

    • @MoogMonster554
      @MoogMonster554 Рік тому +1

      "Inspired" does not mean "exactly the same as"

    • @-neurasthenie-
      @-neurasthenie- Рік тому +2

      @@MoogMonster554 I don't see "exactly the same as" written anywhere in my comment
      I still failing to see what's "Dreamcast-y" about it.
      Is it a specific game? Graphic tech? "Vibe"?
      It has SMT written all over it, don't recall anything like that on Dreamcast.

    • @kalezuki9231
      @kalezuki9231 Рік тому +1

      The graphics reminds me of some dream cast games , also Nintendo 64...

  • @EMAngel2718
    @EMAngel2718 Рік тому +1

    Kind of a shame you can't just get rid of Sergio to start with

  • @shayoko6
    @shayoko6 Рік тому +2

    game should just have been a normal first person experience. this weird control style just made it unnecessarily tedious. i can't think of any reason to do this.
    smoking cat and sergios death were the best parts of this.
    i'm glad sergio got killed. he was a bastard.
    a shame the ending happened. stupid really. twice in this game someone blames you for things you didn't do....

  • @loopernoodling
    @loopernoodling Рік тому +1

    Still got ten minutes to watch, but I'm really hoping Sergio get's some sort of payback.
    He is such a dick!
    Really enjoying the game - been to Kowloon, but never came across any of these lovely people - everybody seemed to be too busy trying to sell me a shirt or a suit or a watch or god knows what. Walking the streets is exhausting!

  • @kinghrath
    @kinghrath Рік тому

    I'm so sorry an iann dior ad played on your video.

  • @rolen47
    @rolen47 Рік тому

    The text sound is really annoying.

  • @KR555FAIZ
    @KR555FAIZ Рік тому +1

    Wtf is this game? 😮

  • @amanda_bynes226
    @amanda_bynes226 Рік тому

    k hi

  • @dvdbox360
    @dvdbox360 Рік тому

    i never own one but i always thought dreamcast graphics looks way better than this, this looks like ps1

  • @japonckiricardo.9366
    @japonckiricardo.9366 Рік тому

    Yuh

  • @crispymeatskin
    @crispymeatskin Рік тому +5

    How many dreamcast games do you actually know that look like this?
    The answer is zero.

    • @matrixlone
      @matrixlone Рік тому +1

      Maken X??

    • @richroberts7512
      @richroberts7512 Рік тому +1

      sonic adventure

    • @crispymeatskin
      @crispymeatskin Рік тому

      @@matrixlone
      Maken X looks better that this poop

    • @MoogMonster554
      @MoogMonster554 Рік тому +3

      "Inspired" does not mean "exactly the same as"

    • @crispymeatskin
      @crispymeatskin Рік тому +1

      @@MoogMonster554 FINE. Sonic is inspired by Mario. Star Wars is inspired by Dune. Timespinner is inspired by old Nintendo and Sega games.
      In my opinion If developers makes low-poly graphic it's not PS1 or DREAMCAST style game it's just hype on popular theme.

  • @yeeyeejuice5747
    @yeeyeejuice5747 Рік тому

    This is Chinese Alpha 🤦🏾‍♀️

  • @friendformationbot
    @friendformationbot Рік тому +1

    although i enjoyed the video as usual and the game is phenomenal, it's below ABG's usual level of quality and respect to call a game based on Chinese culture "Japanese". this could be perceived as extremely offensive considering the history of the two countries and I would ask that ABG consider changing the title of the video.

  • @zenmichelinband
    @zenmichelinband Рік тому

    first

  • @isolatedd
    @isolatedd Рік тому +1

    kownloon isnt japanese

  • @GregoryTheGr8ster
    @GregoryTheGr8ster Рік тому +1

    Hey everyone, this game depicts drinking, drugs, and smoking. It could be very harmful to children.