As a conservationist I didnt, anyone that works at the countryside knows either conciously or unconciously that the best answer to the tragedy of the commons is private property, and governments are inefficient at best, and detrimental at worst, the "greta thunberg" mentality in my country only serves to replace burned down forests with windmills for the green lobby, as they are the only ones that can legally do something with them
@@Mrlighthouse1000yeah, they basically up and said capitalism was behind all the pollution and corruption. Ironic because one of the main polluters nowadays is a communist country. Such a tunnel visioned way of thinking. The problem is not capitalism, it would end up being the exact same in any other system just with different people getting power and thus corrupted just like the capitalist billionaire. The problem is human nature. We are not blank slates. We are naturally selfish creatures that under the right conditions can all become monsters. Tyrants will always form if you give anyone too much power, and in this case, its the billionaires. Before we had modern capitalism it was the tyrant king. And in the big government alternatives, communism and socialism, it is the government.
@@Mrlighthouse1000 So "as a conservationist" you dislike the message of "we need to stop polluting the ocean" .....why exactly?? Did the game tell us to follow Greta Thunberg somewhere? Wtf man.
@@oskarikarkkainen5606 i didnt like the anticapitalist themes, ive seen green lobbyists and leftist activists destroying the enviroment before under the pretext of protecting it my country is filled with windmill fields built over burned down forests, and this is because they are the only ones that can legally build in that terrain, and local people cant legally mantain patches of land because of regulations promoted by those lobbyists and subsidized activists
I love how in the end, even though Kril got his shell back he realizes that he can never go back to the life he once lived because he's not that person anymore, so he leaves his shell to the shelless hermit crab, and continues to adventure without it.
Something I like a lot about the game is krill’s loss of innocence and growing anger. It’s a character arc that’s very unique, and is quite fitting for a souls game.
I'm kinda disappointed it didn't unlock some sort of new mode where the snail constantly chases you throughout all the levels and if it touches you you instantly die.
Me when i started it: oh its just a cartoony cute crab game ^^ Me by the end: having an existential crisis "oh my god this is the deepest game i have played IN A WHILE"
As someone whose loved marine biology ever since I was young, got scuba certified, and dived and seen the death and destruction of our beautiful ocean world first hand (and also a fan of souls-likes)... THIS. GAME. HITS. DIFFERENT.
Every inch of this game is filled with some clever joke or a pun. I just noticed that Firth's boss title is most likely a reference to David Bowie's "The Man Who Sold The World"
Given how Aggro Crab’s last game, Going Under, also had such heavy and obvious anti capitalist themes in it, I shouldn’t be shocked One Crab’s Treasure should also be heavily anti capitalist.
I think the theme is just anti greed in general tbh, not all the villains are capitalists, but they are all very greedy. Magista is a tyrant who just kept taxing people to oblivion and expanding her fortress regardless of the people's wellbeing. Camstcha is a king who couldn't let go of power. He couldn't use the Perfect Whorl as its hermits only so he eliminated the hermits and kept the shell himself so no one could use it and he could stay king. Pollution isn't exclusive to capitalism, as communist China is one of the largest sources of pollution in the world. It'll occur as long as people don't stop it, regardless if it's from a big corporation or the government
I finished this game a few days ago, and I was impressed. The ending was really touching to me; how when Kril asks Nemma if everything was pointless, she tells him that as bad as things are, they never need to give up as long as they help other people. How Kril kills Prawnathan, but the story doesn’t end there, because we see him then going back and saving Chitan. How we see the crabs cleaning up their city, Chitan continuing her training, Nemma using her restaurant to support others, and Kril becoming an adventurer who fights evil and protects the weak while having given his shell to a shell-less hermit crab. It’s not a happy ending, but it’s a hopeful ending, and I really appreciated that. The world is broken and there are no easy fixes, but as long as we stand up for what is right and help other people we can still have hope.
I had to take a break in the middle of the Unfathom to cry. Not because of the game itself, but because I was being slapped in the face with the cold hard fact that all the garbage I've ever made in my entire life still probably exists somewhere else, and will continue to exist until after I'm dead. I love love love this game, but it really made me feel so guilty at the same time. Honestly such a cool thing having so many conflicting feelings over a game though.
What sucks is we can make movies we can make games. We can talk about it but knowing how humanity is they’re not gonna change….. I’m not saying it’s a lost cause….. but it’s annoying that when you try to change something that’s when greedy people want to stop you
I got recommended game this by my teacher who said he would give me 100% on my coursework if i beat the game before him. It was my first soulslike so needless to say, i didn’t, but it’s become my absolute favourite game at the moment!
Fun fact! You can actually take an alternate route through the Old Grove and fight “The Consortium” and gain access to Flotsam Vail without encountering Inkerton! …how do I know this? I did it myself :)
Cool, I assume that’s where the line leads to that’s kind of on the west side of Floatsam! Consortorium and maxing out my fork are my last two achievements I need for 100%
fun fact! at the end of the game you dont even have to talk to the prawn, you can just run up to him and smack him, just wish you could do it earlier in the game for a secret ending
This is already one of my favourite games this year. I’m up to Roland and played up to their without spoilers, but decided to see what was left. Jesus do I just feel like pulling the gun on him at this point because he’s incredibly difficult to learn as a boss fight. Either way, I can’t wait to keep going, Inkerton looks like a phenomenal boss that I’d enjoy the hell out of
I found most of the bosses are actually incredibly easy if you get the counter attack skill from the moon snail. The entire counter gives you invincibility frames for it's entire duration as far as I could tell. So you just need to stand there until they attack and only press dodge and you will chip them down. Hoping you have gotten past him by now since you commented 3 months ago but maybe this will help others.
I notice that scanning that code leads me to the video that You Get Coconut Malled. I thought that it would lead you to get rick rolled but you get Coconut Malled instead. Also I did beat the game and I didn't find that QR Code so thank you for that
I mean you can also just equip the Rubber Band stowaway which makes you immune to electric attacks, and that basically negates all of Voltai’s long range attacks And fun fact, it turns out Pagurus has a banana allergy. If you trick him into eating a banana shell, it’ll take away 60% of his health
There is a stowaway called rubberband that you can find in the factory which makes you immune to electric attacks. Making voltai's hairdryer, adapter and the attack where she bursts from the wall do literally nothing, making her the easiest boss in the game. I personally am guilty of using the glock though, i didn't know storywise i have to come back to the cannibal crab later so i tried to beat him straight away and i got angry
@@drake637 I have no shuckin' clue. I tried it on against the big crabs with the battery hammer. Still died. Thought it doesn't really work and never tried it on again after this.
a little note about voltai - the reason krill gets depressed after killing her in particular is that she 1. obviously has no idea what’s going on, and 2. might legitimately be a small child. every other boss that kril has previously fought has done so because they straight up wanted to murder him, but voltai says in her opening cutscene that she’s lonely and wants to play. killing voltai is a major turning point for kril since there’s absolutely no malice being leveled towards him in the fight, and by killing her he’s briefly become just like roland - destroying the life of an innocent bystander for the sake of an easier, faster way to get to his goals. of course there are major differences in their circumstances and you could definitely argue that with kril’s knowledge of the treasure and the race that was going on killing voltai was justified (although I personally don’t think so. if the treasure were a dangerous weapon then maybe, but kril is fully under the impression that it’s just money) but ultimately that doesn’t matter because an innocent person is dead either way. kril recognizes this almost immediately after doing it and that’s why there’s such a drastic shift in his character for the second half of the game . it’s a bit hard to pick up on if you’re distracted from struggling with the fight but kril’s subtle turn here is my favorite bit of writing in the entire game
I came to the same realization after beating Voltai. I actually stopped playing for that day. Just dropped the controller and thought, "My god, I just killed a child."
WHAT!? i thought the enemy crabs were homeless or overworked shells of themselves. That were desperate to rob you and they were looking for micro plastics. Made sense with when you meet a LOAN shark in the beginning 😅
Great game, great themes, great summary! I'm so happy I just discovered this channel. I loved how you did a little bit more of an analysis with the ending here more so than you typically do with your other videos.
Voltai can be hooked to remove her electricity except for the toaster, just something that might help someone if they're struggling with her, and so you don't need to use the accessibility mode (maybe)
“YOUR DESTINED FOR THE DRAIN!!” -Nephro Captain of the guards of kingdom Tyrant “AND MAY YOUR B****** BE YOUR LAST” -Gabriel the Apostle “DONT do that again..” -Sebastian The fish shop keeper
I really hope there's a dlc for this sometime in the future. I feel like there's a lot more that they can do in this world. We never really get to the bottom of the gunk. If I remember correctly there's this crab that you meet near the beginning who says something like "I'm worthless" & then instantly turns into a normal enemy crab. My theory was always that as soon as one of the creatures in the ocean truly believes themselves to be worthless they become just like an animal in real life with no personality, & it's cool commentary on how we see humans sea animals as worthless.
You’re supposed to use the toast as platforms to hit the electric eel. And use the rubber band to make sure immune to electricity. The gun is not needed 😭
Oh I got the toast thing, I just had no idea about the rubber band or being able to unplug the appliances 😂 I’ve since gone through and beaten the game again without using the accessibility menu so we’re good!
This game is twisted, I have never played something so unrelentingly dark. Kril is just a avatar of destruction and despite all the talk of making a change he just kills and endangers everyone then leaves his victims to clean up as he moves on to undoubtedly cause more chaos without ever growing or changing as a person.
Thanks for summing up the plot and making the messages the game wanted to convey relatively easy to understand. It was clear from the get-go that environmentalism and critique on capitalism were the main themes of this game's story, but what really stuck out for me personally was its take on violence. When that snail at the beginning started attacking me, I immediately reacted by swinging back only to realize a few seconds later that I could have just decided to run away. Instead, I killed a non-zombified being with human-like (or, in this case, crab-like) intelligence, and to rub in the meaninglessness of my impulsive behavior, the shell it left was too small for me to wear, meaning that I didn't even benefit from my brutal action. I just sat there for a whole minute and then decided not to let this death go to waste by promising to the dead snail that from this point on until the end of the game I would be very careful about where I'd swing my fork at and avoid violence wherever possible, a promise I was reminded of by Nemma when she pointed out the horrific nature of fighting against other sea-creatures when talking to her in the Expired Grove. I just finished the game for the first time, but technically speaking, I didn't finish it at all. When the prompt for attacking the pawn owner appeared, I was awestruck. I was instantly reminded of my promise, searched the whole city area for another way of ending the game, of just leaving the shell behind and letting it be. You could argue I did exactly what the game's credit scene said was the worst thing to do: nothing. But at least from my point of view, I did something: I decided against violence. I sat there for another minute, took a last look at the pawn owner and my shell, said "Fuck it!" ... and turned off my console. I honestly couldn't have wished for a more phenomenal ending to my already overly-phenomenal experience with this game. Thank you so much, Aggro Crab 🦀
There’s so much nuance to this game and Kril is such a flawed and impulsive protagonist that it really makes Another Crab’s Treasure a gem of a game. Easily my favorite of 2024 so far. Thanks for your comment!
I agree for the most part of your arguments except the last section:''Prawnathon deserved it''.Prawnathon deserved it cause unlike Firth who is naive,good-natured,oblivious to stuff around him and looks through blinders Prawnathon was evil,greedy,a bootlicker and knew what his actions does.He doesn't care about anyone but himself,a merciless bastard who will side with anyone who holds power for his benefits.By striking Prawnathon we do the right thing:Prevent him from becoming another Roland.
Honestly the message could have been better handled with the ending. Making Firth understand how the pollution is affecting the ocean and redeem him instead of killing him mercilessly, polluting all the city, and then for some reason making Kril look like the hero.
@@oggolbat7932 but the thing is, the story wants to point out tha krill was wrong in the last second, he got too angry, he got the perfect whorl and instead of using to save new carcinia chitan, he focused his anger on firth and only firth, his choice to be more violente than he should have was what caused the tragic ending, if just got the whorl, undid what firth did and went on to push his own plans then krill xould have either saved the ocean or maybe in a more tragic way develop a god complex e rule with an iron fist of a god. in the end the whorl being destroyed was kind of necessary since it would be cheap for such powerful macguffin exist and solve everything. the ending we got is a solid neutral ending with a good message.
don’t know if this is just purely for editing purposes but, when you killed prawnatahn at the end it looks like you still had a low level fork, you can use the stainless relics (keys) found in the game to upgrade your fork at the blacksmith in new carcinia at the under area
I think I had upgraded it 3 times before this point? Maybe only twice. I put this video out the day after the game released so towards the end I just kinda rushed it with parry windows increased to make it a little easier. Then I went back and played it legit and 100%d it :)
Hearing other people's experience with this is interesting. I honestly struggled the most with Pagurus out of any other boss while I considered Voltai the easiest out of them all
Well done, fantastic video! The game surpassed my expectations. Yet another indie game proving why indie games are truly superior to AAA. I couldn’t put the controller down.
2:05 oh wow a going under reference, wait is this game made by the same devs? oh shi- agro crab actually showed up it totally is made by the same devs also inkerton is a reference to the pinkertons who are known for union busting and magic the gathering cards
Remember, never talk about how ancient nomads, like the aboriginals in Australia, destroyed the lush forest of their homeland because they decided the best way to hunt was mass fires. That is to say, every system has greed and destruction in it. That said, the overall message of how you, PERSONALLY have to act for the world to change is accurate. So that's nice at least.
Its funny cause Firth promised that he would never be like roland and never be SHELLFISH and also said he would share the treasure yet the second he got it he immediately went back on his word not even caring about Chitan's life
On the note of colorful (kind of) soulslike games with strange creatures instead of humans, have you by any chance checked out Clash: Artifacts of Chaos? Like AC'sT it's very colorful, creative, has solid gameplay and more to the story & characters than one may expect. It's not fully Soulslike though there are recognizable elements. More focused around melee and martial arts than weaponry, and a prequel to the Zeno Clash series. It's become one of my favourite games in recent years and can warmly recommend it. Clash: AoC is also a prequel to the Zeno Clash series, so there is more to look into beyond the game alone.
@@NotFrickingNick nice, I literally finished the game like an hour ago it's so fun, I might replay it to see if other bosses have similar gimmicks that I missed out on.
“The absolute worst thing you can do is nothing” except that runs entirely counter to the actions of Krill in this game. At two points in this game Krill acts on anger and makes things significantly worse for those around him. The second of which has literal apocalyptic implications for the residents of New Carcinia. Surely “doing nothing” is better than spurring a literal apocalyptic event.
@@zGoldenHawk he did something and not only is the city buried under trash island anyway, he also destroyed the only immediate fix to the problem in a fit of childish rage.
Yeah, I didn't really like the ending. It undervalues Chitan's last words about using anger as fuel responsibly, and it honestly makes Kril look more like a villain than Firth, whose antagonization comes from misunderstanding.
@@oggolbat7932 i does undervalue chitans words because kril always embraced them subconsciously, dude was always angry and even he acknowledges it (and that he was angry but didnt know) chitan was always in the wrong not because her intentions were bad but because what kril did at the end was exactly the path that chitan would follow, using the whorl to destroy the bad people but then we see what happens when you use power to only violence but no betterment, he makes things worse due to being overly emotional. chitan is the radical revolutionare which is even why she was vulnerable to praya, its why she said that while praya used her body, chitans own anger was still being used.
Hearing someone say that voltai is a difficult fight surprised me tbh when I was playing it I was at the edge of my seat thinking it was gonna stop being easy suddenly but it never did, easiest fight in the game
I thought “Capitalism has its flaws and can’t exist without exploitation of people and the planet” was like a pretty universally-acceptable statement but here we are lol
I know you said the themes are subtle as a brick but your video just made me realize the acronym for the game is literally ACT like someone shouting at you to get your shit together Kinda wished there was more hidden more in the video but thanks anyway
I will leave a like and sub for now. Then come back after I beat the game 😂 Edit: Just wow, just wow. This games ending was insane. Vibrator eel was the funniest thing. And the writing during the abyss. 👌
You've mastered the skill of the one sided arguments, congratulations. Democracy isn't perfect either. That doesn't mean we should give all our freedoms to a nominal benign dictatorship.
I am simply echoing the message of the game. I agree they offer a simplistic take on it and I agree that any socioeconomic system is going to have major issues because people are shitty, but I also agree with the game’s final thesis that there is literally nothing that will fundamentally change with our current systems, so I didn’t deem it necessary to spend 5 minutes delivering a soliloquy on how communism only works in a vacuum or whatever. Hope this helps!
No no you’re good I was just very stupid and also dumb during this part. I’ve since gone back and beaten this boss legitimately after learning more about her 🙂
you could also try an endurance build with a valve; you will get a practically invincible shell, and an unbreakable hammer. Combine that with an Isopod stowaway, and you will zoom around the battlefield blocking everything; just avoid aggro attacks.
I struggled until I beat Gravekeeper Topoda. Afterwards my build was busted and I first tried almost every boss. So I was kinda dissapointed of the middle/ endgame. I struggled a lot more with the souls games. But that's only my experience. 😵💫
There would have to be something higher than Firth incentivising him to pollute. Countries that are more capitalist (economically free) actually have higher environmental scores and better air quality.
As an environmental science major, absolutely LOVED the messaging of this game. Really glad it’s making some headlines, people need a wake up call.
As a conservationist I didnt, anyone that works at the countryside knows either conciously or unconciously that the best answer to the tragedy of the commons is private property, and governments are inefficient at best, and detrimental at worst, the "greta thunberg" mentality in my country only serves to replace burned down forests with windmills for the green lobby, as they are the only ones that can legally do something with them
@@Mrlighthouse1000yeah, they basically up and said capitalism was behind all the pollution and corruption. Ironic because one of the main polluters nowadays is a communist country. Such a tunnel visioned way of thinking. The problem is not capitalism, it would end up being the exact same in any other system just with different people getting power and thus corrupted just like the capitalist billionaire.
The problem is human nature. We are not blank slates. We are naturally selfish creatures that under the right conditions can all become monsters.
Tyrants will always form if you give anyone too much power, and in this case, its the billionaires. Before we had modern capitalism it was the tyrant king. And in the big government alternatives, communism and socialism, it is the government.
@@Mrlighthouse1000 Cringe.
@@Mrlighthouse1000 So "as a conservationist" you dislike the message of "we need to stop polluting the ocean" .....why exactly?? Did the game tell us to follow Greta Thunberg somewhere? Wtf man.
@@oskarikarkkainen5606 i didnt like the anticapitalist themes, ive seen green lobbyists and leftist activists destroying the enviroment before under the pretext of protecting it
my country is filled with windmill fields built over burned down forests, and this is because they are the only ones that can legally build in that terrain, and local people cant legally mantain patches of land because of regulations promoted by those lobbyists and subsidized activists
I love how in the end, even though Kril got his shell back he realizes that he can never go back to the life he once lived because he's not that person anymore, so he leaves his shell to the shelless hermit crab, and continues to adventure without it.
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Something I like a lot about the game is krill’s loss of innocence and growing anger. It’s a character arc that’s very unique, and is quite fitting for a souls game.
Far cry 3 did it right.
Imagine if there was an achievement for not killing the snail and letting him follow you through out the game, like the immoral snail riddle
Oh man I need this as a mod. Make it so he insta-kills you if he gets you 😂
The somehow still alive snail
Its sadly probably to late
I'm kinda disappointed it didn't unlock some sort of new mode where the snail constantly chases you throughout all the levels and if it touches you you instantly die.
@@trevorweisberg8470HES A GENIUS
"It's the small acts of thankless kindness that make the world worth fighting for." Is such an extremely powerful line, had me tearing up a little.
Me when i started it: oh its just a cartoony cute crab game ^^
Me by the end: having an existential crisis "oh my god this is the deepest game i have played IN A WHILE"
Pun intended?
As someone whose loved marine biology ever since I was young, got scuba certified, and dived and seen the death and destruction of our beautiful ocean world first hand (and also a fan of souls-likes)...
THIS. GAME. HITS. DIFFERENT.
Every inch of this game is filled with some clever joke or a pun. I just noticed that Firth's boss title is most likely a reference to David Bowie's "The Man Who Sold The World"
The Snail at the beginning reminds me of a disgruntled gas station employee on a quick cigarette break
Given how Aggro Crab’s last game, Going Under, also had such heavy and obvious anti capitalist themes in it, I shouldn’t be shocked One Crab’s Treasure should also be heavily anti capitalist.
Haven’t played Going Under! So this is my first Aggro Crab experience.
I mean, one of the main antagonists in Roland has the title of “Venture Crabitalist”, so by all means take that as you will
@@loafofgodlybread9225 alley ooh- aw shit
I think the theme is just anti greed in general tbh, not all the villains are capitalists, but they are all very greedy.
Magista is a tyrant who just kept taxing people to oblivion and expanding her fortress regardless of the people's wellbeing.
Camstcha is a king who couldn't let go of power. He couldn't use the Perfect Whorl as its hermits only so he eliminated the hermits and kept the shell himself so no one could use it and he could stay king.
Pollution isn't exclusive to capitalism, as communist China is one of the largest sources of pollution in the world. It'll occur as long as people don't stop it, regardless if it's from a big corporation or the government
I think the Loan Shark was really Prawnathan and it is not talked enough.
Yeah that’s definitely the implication because when he sees you he’s like “oh crap not this guy again”
You can also see the loanshark half buried in the back of Prawnathans shop, I just noticed him before beating the final boss lol
Yeah he has the same theme play when you enter his shop
Taking Kril behind his shop, he sees the shark toy there. It's completely obvious the entire time.
@@AllyMind5Star damn it I missed all that. I really liked thinking it was Firth all along x)
I finished this game a few days ago, and I was impressed. The ending was really touching to me; how when Kril asks Nemma if everything was pointless, she tells him that as bad as things are, they never need to give up as long as they help other people. How Kril kills Prawnathan, but the story doesn’t end there, because we see him then going back and saving Chitan. How we see the crabs cleaning up their city, Chitan continuing her training, Nemma using her restaurant to support others, and Kril becoming an adventurer who fights evil and protects the weak while having given his shell to a shell-less hermit crab. It’s not a happy ending, but it’s a hopeful ending, and I really appreciated that. The world is broken and there are no easy fixes, but as long as we stand up for what is right and help other people we can still have hope.
I had to take a break in the middle of the Unfathom to cry. Not because of the game itself, but because I was being slapped in the face with the cold hard fact that all the garbage I've ever made in my entire life still probably exists somewhere else, and will continue to exist until after I'm dead. I love love love this game, but it really made me feel so guilty at the same time. Honestly such a cool thing having so many conflicting feelings over a game though.
Same here. As much as I love this game, it sits heavy in my heart. There were so many points in which I just had to stop and collect myself.
Something I noticed is that it seems firths weapon during the final boss is a literal silver spoon…
So uh…. Yeah.
Just watched it back and holy crap you’re right 😂
I honestly thought that it was just an opposite to kril's fork
I think firth is basically like a second krill that fights you to test your skills
I got so hyped when he pulled it to him like thors hammer knowing it was gonna be a fire mirror match
Its an allegory for the term, "Born with a silver spoon in your mouth'. "
What sucks is we can make movies we can make games. We can talk about it but knowing how humanity is they’re not gonna change….. I’m not saying it’s a lost cause….. but it’s annoying that when you try to change something that’s when greedy people want to stop you
I got recommended game this by my teacher who said he would give me 100% on my coursework if i beat the game before him. It was my first soulslike so needless to say, i didn’t, but it’s become my absolute favourite game at the moment!
Kinda bummed to learn I won't be the first teacher to use this game in class 😂
Fun fact! You can actually take an alternate route through the Old Grove and fight “The Consortium” and gain access to Flotsam Vail without encountering Inkerton!
…how do I know this? I did it myself :)
Cool, I assume that’s where the line leads to that’s kind of on the west side of Floatsam! Consortorium and maxing out my fork are my last two achievements I need for 100%
i did that by accident....but i ended up encountering inkerton anyways...
I cheesed my way to the consortium before I got the map pieces, that fight sucked with how under leveled I was 😂
fun fact! at the end of the game you dont even have to talk to the prawn, you can just run up to him and smack him, just wish you could do it earlier in the game for a secret ending
This is already one of my favourite games this year. I’m up to Roland and played up to their without spoilers, but decided to see what was left. Jesus do I just feel like pulling the gun on him at this point because he’s incredibly difficult to learn as a boss fight. Either way, I can’t wait to keep going, Inkerton looks like a phenomenal boss that I’d enjoy the hell out of
Roland was tough! I just spammed parry and got lucky 😂 Inkerton, Heikea, and Topoda were probably my favorites.
Use lil red cup self repair and parry the most u can and concentrate on res and atk
I found most of the bosses are actually incredibly easy if you get the counter attack skill from the moon snail. The entire counter gives you invincibility frames for it's entire duration as far as I could tell. So you just need to stand there until they attack and only press dodge and you will chip them down. Hoping you have gotten past him by now since you commented 3 months ago but maybe this will help others.
I wish they had elaborated on the Moon Snail a bit more.
Watching this back I love how my run of Another Crab's Treasure involves me putting on increasingly dumber outfits.
Lol btw Voltai is easily beaten with a rubber band (it negates electrical damage or effects)
@@Pkhemi WHAT
Why did you coconut mall me
@@NotFrickingNick yea i found that out after beating her normally
You can use rubber ducky shell too and it works the same as a rubber band
I notice that scanning that code leads me to the video that You Get Coconut Malled. I thought that it would lead you to get rick rolled but you get Coconut Malled instead. Also I did beat the game and I didn't find that QR Code so thank you for that
Anytime, I got Coconut Malled so I was legally obligated to do so to you through this video 😊
@@NotFrickingNick should have told us it was an entry to a giveaway
I mean you can also just equip the Rubber Band stowaway which makes you immune to electric attacks, and that basically negates all of Voltai’s long range attacks
And fun fact, it turns out Pagurus has a banana allergy. If you trick him into eating a banana shell, it’ll take away 60% of his health
You don't even need the band, just equip the Rubber Duck shell, and you are immune when you block
Bruh what?? 😂 Also back in a previous patch, you could feed Pagurus to sand worms
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There is a stowaway called rubberband that you can find in the factory which makes you immune to electric attacks. Making voltai's hairdryer, adapter and the attack where she bursts from the wall do literally nothing, making her the easiest boss in the game. I personally am guilty of using the glock though, i didn't know storywise i have to come back to the cannibal crab later so i tried to beat him straight away and i got angry
You can use the rubber duck shell to nullify her attacks, if you didn't get the rubber band
I tried the rubberband, but still died to electric attacks.
@@multiverserifthow in the world did you manage to do that
@@drake637 I have no shuckin' clue.
I tried it on against the big crabs with the battery hammer.
Still died.
Thought it doesn't really work and never tried it on again after this.
@@multiverseriftI'm two weeks late, but I'm pretty sure it disables the extended hitstun from electric attacks, not the damage.
a little note about voltai - the reason krill gets depressed after killing her in particular is that she 1. obviously has no idea what’s going on, and 2. might legitimately be a small child. every other boss that kril has previously fought has done so because they straight up wanted to murder him, but voltai says in her opening cutscene that she’s lonely and wants to play. killing voltai is a major turning point for kril since there’s absolutely no malice being leveled towards him in the fight, and by killing her he’s briefly become just like roland - destroying the life of an innocent bystander for the sake of an easier, faster way to get to his goals. of course there are major differences in their circumstances and you could definitely argue that with kril’s knowledge of the treasure and the race that was going on killing voltai was justified (although I personally don’t think so. if the treasure were a dangerous weapon then maybe, but kril is fully under the impression that it’s just money) but ultimately that doesn’t matter because an innocent person is dead either way. kril recognizes this almost immediately after doing it and that’s why there’s such a drastic shift in his character for the second half of the game . it’s a bit hard to pick up on if you’re distracted from struggling with the fight but kril’s subtle turn here is my favorite bit of writing in the entire game
I came to the same realization after beating Voltai. I actually stopped playing for that day. Just dropped the controller and thought, "My god, I just killed a child."
WHAT!? i thought the enemy crabs were homeless or overworked shells of themselves. That were desperate to rob you and they were looking for micro plastics.
Made sense with when you meet a LOAN shark in the beginning 😅
fun fact about voltal you can fish the power plugs off her body turning off the weapons making it a much fairer fight
I just used a maxed out version of topodas ability and knocked her out so hard it deactivated the weapons for one cycle
Fun fact: you can use your grappling hook to yank the cords out of voltai stopping her from using the gadget and leaving her open to attack
Voltal is easy if you have rubber band. It just negates All electricity based attacks.
"Why should we own land? Isn't it just like there?"
To quote Squidward, "GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!"
5:28 The sands between.
I see what they did there
Added to my library! Thank you!
Happy to help!
I love the child like design and the gulliton dude
9:08 the magic wand is crazy 💀
I about died laughing when she whipped it out and giddily exclaimed "I don't even know what this does!"
@NotFrickingNick for some reason, I doubt that she doesn't know 😂
It's a massage machine (I think)
@@SebastianMelendez-p8w Well, you can call it that
Krill looks like mrcrabs
This game is Mr. Krabs Origin Story
Great game, great themes, great summary!
I'm so happy I just discovered this channel. I loved how you did a little bit more of an analysis with the ending here more so than you typically do with your other videos.
Thank you! Glad you enjoy the channel 🙂
What is the chance that I was watching someone playing this game and I got this video in my recommendation? Anyways great vid!
Thanks!
Voltai can be hooked to remove her electricity except for the toaster, just something that might help someone if they're struggling with her, and so you don't need to use the accessibility mode (maybe)
Great video! Loved plaything through this one and adding it to my 100% list 👍
Nice! I have 2 more bosses to hunt down then I gotta find every shell. After that I’m going to go back and do Voltai and Firth without a gun 😂
“YOUR DESTINED FOR THE DRAIN!!”
-Nephro Captain of the guards of kingdom Tyrant
“AND MAY YOUR B****** BE YOUR LAST”
-Gabriel the Apostle
“DONT do that again..”
-Sebastian The fish shop keeper
You can unplug the eels weapons.
end game music was tranquil
I really hope there's a dlc for this sometime in the future. I feel like there's a lot more that they can do in this world. We never really get to the bottom of the gunk. If I remember correctly there's this crab that you meet near the beginning who says something like "I'm worthless" & then instantly turns into a normal enemy crab. My theory was always that as soon as one of the creatures in the ocean truly believes themselves to be worthless they become just like an animal in real life with no personality, & it's cool commentary on how we see humans sea animals as worthless.
dude the key to beating volta is that there is a rubber band in the power plant that makes you immune to elctric attacks
You’re supposed to use the toast as platforms to hit the electric eel. And use the rubber band to make sure immune to electricity. The gun is not needed 😭
Oh I got the toast thing, I just had no idea about the rubber band or being able to unplug the appliances 😂 I’ve since gone through and beaten the game again without using the accessibility menu so we’re good!
I'm kinda mad that one of my fav streamers flushed this game before finishing it
Thank you 🙏🏻.. really like the way you present the story.. what a nice game 👌🏻
9:00 Nani tf also ty for making this video I was wondering what the story for this would be
No problem! It’s a fun game and an interesting story. And yeah when Voltai whips it out she’s like “I don’t even know what this is!” 😂
This game is twisted, I have never played something so unrelentingly dark.
Kril is just a avatar of destruction and despite all the talk of making a change he just kills and endangers everyone then leaves his victims to clean up as he moves on to undoubtedly cause more chaos without ever growing or changing as a person.
Voltai fight Just get esier wen you get Rubber band, and "navalha" The blade item, and a Love her design, this game was awesome
Thanks for summing up the plot and making the messages the game wanted to convey relatively easy to understand. It was clear from the get-go that environmentalism and critique on capitalism were the main themes of this game's story, but what really stuck out for me personally was its take on violence.
When that snail at the beginning started attacking me, I immediately reacted by swinging back only to realize a few seconds later that I could have just decided to run away. Instead, I killed a non-zombified being with human-like (or, in this case, crab-like) intelligence, and to rub in the meaninglessness of my impulsive behavior, the shell it left was too small for me to wear, meaning that I didn't even benefit from my brutal action. I just sat there for a whole minute and then decided not to let this death go to waste by promising to the dead snail that from this point on until the end of the game I would be very careful about where I'd swing my fork at and avoid violence wherever possible, a promise I was reminded of by Nemma when she pointed out the horrific nature of fighting against other sea-creatures when talking to her in the Expired Grove.
I just finished the game for the first time, but technically speaking, I didn't finish it at all. When the prompt for attacking the pawn owner appeared, I was awestruck. I was instantly reminded of my promise, searched the whole city area for another way of ending the game, of just leaving the shell behind and letting it be. You could argue I did exactly what the game's credit scene said was the worst thing to do: nothing. But at least from my point of view, I did something: I decided against violence. I sat there for another minute, took a last look at the pawn owner and my shell, said "Fuck it!" ... and turned off my console.
I honestly couldn't have wished for a more phenomenal ending to my already overly-phenomenal experience with this game. Thank you so much, Aggro Crab 🦀
There’s so much nuance to this game and Kril is such a flawed and impulsive protagonist that it really makes Another Crab’s Treasure a gem of a game. Easily my favorite of 2024 so far. Thanks for your comment!
I agree for the most part of your arguments except the last section:''Prawnathon deserved it''.Prawnathon deserved it cause unlike Firth who is naive,good-natured,oblivious to stuff around him and looks through blinders Prawnathon was evil,greedy,a bootlicker and knew what his actions does.He doesn't care about anyone but himself,a merciless bastard who will side with anyone who holds power for his benefits.By striking Prawnathon we do the right thing:Prevent him from becoming another Roland.
Honestly the message could have been better handled with the ending. Making Firth understand how the pollution is affecting the ocean and redeem him instead of killing him mercilessly, polluting all the city, and then for some reason making Kril look like the hero.
@@oggolbat7932 but the thing is, the story wants to point out tha krill was wrong in the last second, he got too angry, he got the perfect whorl and instead of using to save new carcinia chitan, he focused his anger on firth and only firth, his choice to be more violente than he should have was what caused the tragic ending, if just got the whorl, undid what firth did and went on to push his own plans then krill xould have either saved the ocean or maybe in a more tragic way develop a god complex e rule with an iron fist of a god.
in the end the whorl being destroyed was kind of necessary since it would be cheap for such powerful macguffin exist and solve everything.
the ending we got is a solid neutral ending with a good message.
This game story was amazing.After the boss fight on the pinball machine with Krill just losing it is just ...different you know?
The video made my day thank you and you definitely deserve a follow❤
Thank you and welcome aboard 😊
Fun fact! If you play another crabs treasure than Maneater than biomutant it feels like you just played a trilogy
How is the eel boss hard just grab lil red cup and a few puffer qwils and beat the shuck out of the eel
don’t know if this is just purely for editing purposes but, when you killed prawnatahn at the end it looks like you still had a low level fork, you can use the stainless relics (keys) found in the game to upgrade your fork at the blacksmith in new carcinia at the under area
I think I had upgraded it 3 times before this point? Maybe only twice. I put this video out the day after the game released so towards the end I just kinda rushed it with parry windows increased to make it a little easier. Then I went back and played it legit and 100%d it :)
Hearing other people's experience with this is interesting. I honestly struggled the most with Pagurus out of any other boss while I considered Voltai the easiest out of them all
This, and Mortal shell are two good starting points to souls games
Well done, fantastic video!
The game surpassed my expectations. Yet another indie game proving why indie games are truly superior to AAA. I couldn’t put the controller down.
Just ELEVEN PEOPLE made this, it’s insane
@NotFrickingNick, WOW
2:05 oh wow a going under reference, wait is this game made by the same devs?
oh shi- agro crab actually showed up it totally is made by the same devs
also inkerton is a reference to the pinkertons who are known for union busting and magic the gathering cards
Remember, never talk about how ancient nomads, like the aboriginals in Australia, destroyed the lush forest of their homeland because they decided the best way to hunt was mass fires.
That is to say, every system has greed and destruction in it.
That said, the overall message of how you, PERSONALLY have to act for the world to change is accurate. So that's nice at least.
Its funny cause Firth promised that he would never be like roland and never be SHELLFISH and also said he would share the treasure yet the second he got it he immediately went back on his word not even caring about Chitan's life
i wish there was a sequel of this game or dlc
It came out like 6 weeks ago give it time ❤️ hopefully Aggro Crab is cooking something
hey, your're a cool and good guy
thanks for making this video, it's awesome
Thanks! Glad you liked it!
when firth dies its a reference to the original spongebob movie ergo bigger boot
On the note of colorful (kind of) soulslike games with strange creatures instead of humans, have you by any chance checked out Clash: Artifacts of Chaos? Like AC'sT it's very colorful, creative, has solid gameplay and more to the story & characters than one may expect.
It's not fully Soulslike though there are recognizable elements. More focused around melee and martial arts than weaponry, and a prequel to the Zeno Clash series. It's become one of my favourite games in recent years and can warmly recommend it.
Clash: AoC is also a prequel to the Zeno Clash series, so there is more to look into beyond the game alone.
I'm not sure if anyone's said this about the eel boss but I found out if you shoot a grapple at it you can disarm it momentarily.
Oh yeah I’ve learned all sorts of strats from these comments and I went back and re-played the game since I rushed this to get the video out 😊
@@NotFrickingNick nice, I literally finished the game like an hour ago it's so fun, I might replay it to see if other bosses have similar gimmicks that I missed out on.
@@joshuac-b8204try getting Pagarus to accidentally eat a banana peel
Why is this game funny
Wait what, you're telling me i wasn't supposed to fight Pagurus, the Ravenous the moment I saw him? Well fuck.
“The absolute worst thing you can do is nothing” except that runs entirely counter to the actions of Krill in this game. At two points in this game Krill acts on anger and makes things significantly worse for those around him. The second of which has literal apocalyptic implications for the residents of New Carcinia. Surely “doing nothing” is better than spurring a literal apocalyptic event.
if he did nothing the entire trash island would completely bury new carcinia
@@zGoldenHawk he did something and not only is the city buried under trash island anyway, he also destroyed the only immediate fix to the problem in a fit of childish rage.
@thricecreamcone yeah but the island was blown into chunks imagine how much more damage the trash island would do if it weren't in chunks
Yeah, I didn't really like the ending. It undervalues Chitan's last words about using anger as fuel responsibly, and it honestly makes Kril look more like a villain than Firth, whose antagonization comes from misunderstanding.
@@oggolbat7932 i does undervalue chitans words because kril always embraced them subconsciously, dude was always angry and even he acknowledges it (and that he was angry but didnt know) chitan was always in the wrong not because her intentions were bad but because what kril did at the end was exactly the path that chitan would follow, using the whorl to destroy the bad people but then we see what happens when you use power to only violence but no betterment, he makes things worse due to being overly emotional.
chitan is the radical revolutionare which is even why she was vulnerable to praya, its why she said that while praya used her body, chitans own anger was still being used.
Hearing someone say that voltai is a difficult fight surprised me tbh when I was playing it I was at the edge of my seat thinking it was gonna stop being easy suddenly but it never did, easiest fight in the game
3:48 you just got coconut malled
Wow, I need to play this game
It’s funny how many angry reaganomics-loving bootlickers are coming out of the woodwork here
I thought “Capitalism has its flaws and can’t exist without exploitation of people and the planet” was like a pretty universally-acceptable statement but here we are lol
Should I watch this video now. or should I get this game and after I beat it I then watch the video?
Up to you! It’s a really good story so if you want to go into it unspoiled this video will still be here :)
for the electric eel you can be immune to the electric attacks by using the rubber band or a rubber duck
I know you said the themes are subtle as a brick but your video just made me realize the acronym for the game is literally ACT like someone shouting at you to get your shit together
Kinda wished there was more hidden more in the video but thanks anyway
Welp.
[inhales]
*casually screaming infestation from terraria calamity*
Learned that the perfect whole got no ability
Fucking coconut mold by the QR code
Game looks cool but holy that "Le capitalism bad" message is so on the nose.
Why did you have a shell that’s a red among
us
You buy it at Shellfish Desires and it actually came in clutch cuz it can drop a smokescreen and I used it to avoid giant laser-shooting crabs.
2:26 Fun Fact: Thats gianni matragrano, aka Gabriel Ultrakill.
4:43 do NOT scan it i swear 🤣🤣
Nice story about capitalism and pollution
1:27 THE OUTSKIRTS????
There’s stowaway item called rubber band that makes you immune o electric
am I the only one who thinks the "guitar" voltai used was a scrubber?
I will leave a like and sub for now. Then come back after I beat the game 😂
Edit: Just wow, just wow. This games ending was insane. Vibrator eel was the funniest thing. And the writing during the abyss. 👌
Going from this game to Little Kitty Big City is a trip ngl
Before the game even prompted me to kill prawnathan I was already charging up with R1. Made the homicide even more satisfying
How dare you make quality and thoughtful content while only having a small following, just for that im subscribing
Thanks! I’m trying not to have a small following!
You've mastered the skill of the one sided arguments, congratulations.
Democracy isn't perfect either. That doesn't mean we should give all our freedoms to a nominal benign dictatorship.
I am simply echoing the message of the game. I agree they offer a simplistic take on it and I agree that any socioeconomic system is going to have major issues because people are shitty, but I also agree with the game’s final thesis that there is literally nothing that will fundamentally change with our current systems, so I didn’t deem it necessary to spend 5 minutes delivering a soliloquy on how communism only works in a vacuum or whatever. Hope this helps!
Bro's over here shadowboxing
9:02 im not trying to that your wrong about that but you know you can unplug the items she's using by hooking them right?
No no you’re good I was just very stupid and also dumb during this part. I’ve since gone back and beaten this boss legitimately after learning more about her 🙂
Love the game and I would reccomend the other game by the Devs called Going Under !
09:18 ...or Megaman, THE boss weapon absorber ;j
I've beaten most of the souls games but this one was too hard for me😢
Really! That’s interesting. You could probably up the parry and dodge invincibility windows and if that doesn’t help go for a more drastic option.
you could also try an endurance build with a valve; you will get a practically invincible shell, and an unbreakable hammer. Combine that with an Isopod stowaway, and you will zoom around the battlefield blocking everything; just avoid aggro attacks.
I struggled until I beat Gravekeeper Topoda. Afterwards my build was busted and I first tried almost every boss. So I was kinda dissapointed of the middle/ endgame.
I struggled a lot more with the souls games. But that's only my experience. 😵💫
There would have to be something higher than Firth incentivising him to pollute. Countries that are more capitalist (economically free) actually have higher environmental scores and better air quality.
Kind of reminds me of Hollow Knight
There’s a reference to Hollow Knight! You can find The Knight’s nail and it increases your attack power
I don't think this is a metaphor even. We literally produce trash everyday and feel doomed for not owning enough trash.