18:01 John: "The question is: How long can a duck maintain altitude in free flight" Me: " Listen. In order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings forty-three times every second, right?"
Guys, why are so little people talking about"the mole" actually has a fantastic name! It's called a "pink fairy armadillo", they are cute as hell and have possibly one of the must whimsical and silly names out there. I love the game and I love Jon:)
Jon I just want to say thank you. If it wasn’t for you playing these sorts of games I would have no idea about these beautiful games and would never get to try them. Thanks buddy.
I'm struggling to understand why she should seek out forgiveness or redemption. Sure, her choice of response was much more violent than necessary, but... I mean, she had solid reasons for her actions. The game paints it as if the only possible path for her is to seek redemption, but I honestly find myself more on the side of agreeing with her actions than thinking they were wrong.
@@fuzzymurdermittens It's interesting. I personally don't like a game that show's the character do something bad and throughout the rest tries to rationalize and justify it in a "look, he wasn't bad after all" sort of way. In this game things such as her anger is justified but goes her methods and actions led to the significant damage of their society.
Sorrow you could say the exact same thing about terrorists groups like Islamic State or the Taliban. The West has been pillaging and stealing from their lands out of greed for a century, and thus they retaliate. Do you think they need to apologise, or not?
@@tejshah6083 I find IS and the Taliban abhorrent. It's important for you to remember that the wolf is a fictional character in a video game. I am able to separate reality from a video game. Jon murders thousands - millions - of people in Fallout, Stellaris, Crusader Kings 2, etc. Never once would I suggest his joy in such murder reflects on his views of murder in reality. It's all just inside a fictional setting in a video game. Do you think Jon needs to stop murdering video game characters or not?
First of all, haven't played it, haven't watched or read anything about this game except this video right here, but I'm pretty sure I can spoil the end. Don't want spoilers, don't click read more. The spirit is either the father or the emperor, probably the emperor. It was he who was banished, their religion was an inversion of their spiritual reality with reincarnation as animals the true heaven and the "city of lights" their true hell. The patriarch, whatever of the 2 options for that role he might have been, as the most guilty has been the last banished light remaining after all less guilty ones already reincarnated as the animals of the game, with the special glowing specimens ALL from the rebel faction, probably not a single male among them. The end will be the confession of the patriarch to be responsible for literally every bad thing that happened to anyone with everyone else absolved of any kind of sin, he just gave them no other choice so nothing is their fault. Let me know how much I got wrong. I hope for this games and its devs sake pretty much everything, but that's not how it's gonna be in these depressingly predictable times where every narrative is just a variation of _the one narrative_ and nothing else.
@@vmonk722 i just figured the spirit-thing was the emperor, but couldn't reach the afterlife because he had no medallion, because fox guy stole it and chucked it. so i guess they both get punished until they help each other. fox-guy must return stolen medallion and spirit-guy must help fox guy get to heaven-place, and they enter together (or not at all).
@Jarrad Scarborough Yeah, playing it straight is always a possibility, but something about it smells like it wouldn't consider itself clever enough if it didn't throw a curveball into the mix.
@@clockworkrex7914 I wonder how the hard of hearing and deaf manage with that because when I have had that on by accident it has generate complete gibberish and I have just been wondering 'what the hell'.
To be fair.... these look and act much more like moles. Maybe moles wearing an armored cape... but armadillos don't look like that... at all. Not the ones around here anyways.
I bet you the twist ending to this is that every animal you encounter is actually the reincarnation of every person and that there is no City of Light, and your companion, who might be the emperor, is the Lost Ember that needs to realise what he'd done wrong and become reincarnated, instead of beleiving in the falsehood of the City.
One neat thing about this game is that it's one of a handful that narrates in second person, sort of. The scavenger hunt seems like it would be fun if the gameplay mechanics were a bit deeper and fun to use. However, in its current form, it's a bit tedious seeing as how there are several hundred things to collect to reach 100%.
The game reminds me a lot of Aporia: Beyond the Valley, which Jon also caused me to buy and play, and then I found out that HIS video had ended just before the scary stuff started...
I think that they were both banished. One for clearly being implied to be the Emperor, the other for the whole, ya know, burning down a city and killing a ton of innocent people thing. However, the wolf is supposed to be the guide to the City of Light, not the ember. The weird spirit version of Kalani was clearly meant to be talking to the wolf, but the ember took it to be to him. What's redeeming Kalani is guiding the ember to the City of Light, what's redeeming the ember is being forced to look at the horrible crimes he committed throughout his reign, as well be forced to talk to someone directly hurt by them.
AmberAmbitions - I was coming to the same conclusion, given both the Ember’s memories, and the really loaded accusations leveled against the Wolf. And of course “Lost Ember” as a title.
I've heard that more outwardly courteous cultures are more also violent (all other things being equal) due to rudeness enabling one to air grievances and such. Could be true.
@00:20:40 Oh no! I have a horrible feeling the main character you are controlling will have murdered the spirit you are helping. It's all a tale of redemption! "This is gonna be tight. Aim for the bush, aim for the bush, AIM FOR THE BUSH, AIM FOR THE BUSH!!!" Hello demonitisation my old friend...
a city of light with blackjack, hookers, and not much starvation? you know what jon, that does sound like an acceptable afterlife, I'll have a ticket for that, please.
The Wombat rolling almost feels like a cute little homage to 'Everything' since they share a central mechanic and ambiance when exploring. Well... in 'Everything' I suppose it's the only mechanic
Aww, there used to be loads of hummingbirds where i grew up. But the place urbanized, and i've never seen one since i was a child. They're one of my favourite birds.
Personally I don't really like if you leave games like these unfinished... mainly because I don't like playing these kinds of games myself but do enjoy watching you do so
Armadillo....Mole...Armadillo....mole, they are not the same animal, Moles are from the Talpidae family while Armadillo have an odd classification with two families, which are Chlamyphoridae Dasypodidae, probably due to the convergence in genetics.
Ugh, that forgiveness came too easily! There should've been a chapter without the commentator running his mouth, but no, they just had to get back into the railroaded narrative instead of letting us explore on our own and come up with our own ideas.
Can you please play this through if not for your videos I'll have the biggest cliffhanger ever but hey if you don't well its a game I might buy sometime in the future anyway love your vids thanks for making us happy🙃
ok, it was a bad idea to start watching this, got 10 min in before I bought it and now Im stuck wanting to watch the rest while it downloads while not watching to watch it because I want to play it
Plot Twist: The Soul Narrator Guy Is Actually The Emperor! EDIT: Darnit! Now I Need To Find Some Money So I Can Get The Game So I Can Find Out If I'm Right!
Game: has armadillos
Jon: "Look at these cute moles!"
Game: alerts Jon that he's found the legendary armadillo
Jon: "I'm a legendary mole!"
Jon rolled perception skill
Jon rolled perception -10
Jon failed the skill roll.
"I'm a rock and roll baby wombat!" - Jon 2019
18:01
John: "The question is: How long can a duck maintain altitude in free flight"
Me: " Listen. In order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings forty-three times every second, right?"
Is that an African or a European swallow?
I sure hope they can. Winter is coming.
I... I don't know that!
I absolutely adore how much Jon loves those animals. This is the wholesome content we came for!
I've seen his zoo builder video, I lay even odds we get a video where he makes all the fish flop out on dry land and leave them there.
I came for the blackjack and hookers.
Bandits chasing people away but clearly not attacking. Jon: I"M A MURDERER!
Guys, why are so little people talking about"the mole" actually has a fantastic name!
It's called a "pink fairy armadillo", they are cute as hell and have possibly one of the must whimsical and silly names out there. I love the game and I love Jon:)
'The revolution you started led to it happening'. Or, maybe, the 'starving the people so the emperor can have a party' led to it happening.
Both culpable. One person's action's doesn't excuse the other.
*I've had my eye on for a while* Intensifies
"This is gonna be tight! Aim for the bush." So, yeah... Family friendly much?
Jon I just want to say thank you. If it wasn’t for you playing these sorts of games I would have no idea about these beautiful games and would never get to try them. Thanks buddy.
I can appreciate a game about indigenous lesbian revolutionaries overthrowing a theocratic monarchy.
Commie
I'm struggling to understand why she should seek out forgiveness or redemption. Sure, her choice of response was much more violent than necessary, but... I mean, she had solid reasons for her actions. The game paints it as if the only possible path for her is to seek redemption, but I honestly find myself more on the side of agreeing with her actions than thinking they were wrong.
@@fuzzymurdermittens It's interesting. I personally don't like a game that show's the character do something bad and throughout the rest tries to rationalize and justify it in a "look, he wasn't bad after all" sort of way. In this game things such as her anger is justified but goes her methods and actions led to the significant damage of their society.
Sorrow you could say the exact same thing about terrorists groups like Islamic State or the Taliban. The West has been pillaging and stealing from their lands out of greed for a century, and thus they retaliate. Do you think they need to apologise, or not?
@@tejshah6083 I find IS and the Taliban abhorrent. It's important for you to remember that the wolf is a fictional character in a video game. I am able to separate reality from a video game.
Jon murders thousands - millions - of people in Fallout, Stellaris, Crusader Kings 2, etc. Never once would I suggest his joy in such murder reflects on his views of murder in reality. It's all just inside a fictional setting in a video game. Do you think Jon needs to stop murdering video game characters or not?
52:20 SECRET TUNNEL! SECRET TUNNEL! THROUGH THE MOUNTAIN! SECRET SECRET SECRET SECRET TUNNEL!
Noooo keep going! This is so lovely and I’m so invested.
It's like Everything and Shelter together with a storyline.
No we dont get the point! Finish it! Please.
Revolution - bad, dying of hunger equals haven, got it.
Also: Wombots! Transform and roll out!
Is it just me or is it heavily implied that the soul friend is the Emperor himself?
It seemed pretty obvious to me too.
First of all, haven't played it, haven't watched or read anything about this game except this video right here, but I'm pretty sure I can spoil the end. Don't want spoilers, don't click read more.
The spirit is either the father or the emperor, probably the emperor. It was he who was banished, their religion was an inversion of their spiritual reality with reincarnation as animals the true heaven and the "city of lights" their true hell. The patriarch, whatever of the 2 options for that role he might have been, as the most guilty has been the last banished light remaining after all less guilty ones already reincarnated as the animals of the game, with the special glowing specimens ALL from the rebel faction, probably not a single male among them. The end will be the confession of the patriarch to be responsible for literally every bad thing that happened to anyone with everyone else absolved of any kind of sin, he just gave them no other choice so nothing is their fault.
Let me know how much I got wrong. I hope for this games and its devs sake pretty much everything, but that's not how it's gonna be in these depressingly predictable times where every narrative is just a variation of _the one narrative_ and nothing else.
Ostap Komaryanskyy FOR THE GOD EMPEROR
@@vmonk722 i just figured the spirit-thing was the emperor, but couldn't reach the afterlife because he had no medallion, because fox guy stole it and chucked it. so i guess they both get punished until they help each other. fox-guy must return stolen medallion and spirit-guy must help fox guy get to heaven-place, and they enter together (or not at all).
@Jarrad Scarborough
Yeah, playing it straight is always a possibility, but something about it smells like it wouldn't consider itself clever enough if it didn't throw a curveball into the mix.
So basically The Journey but with a flying British voice-bee.
I love that there's no HUD, no compass, no map markers, so clean. (%
Jon, if he wasn't a true Yanren spirit, he'd be an animal.
That was established 20 seconds into the game.
i mean he still hasnt busted into the kingdom of light so he cant be all holy and perfect either.
@@castielsbitch1 My theory is that it is the emperor and he can't get in without his amulet. I may be very wrong.
@@richardurwin4432 I like this theory. Dude lost his heavenly passport so he has to stay. I find it funny.
@@blarg2429 *papers please*
@@theomeletteguy I'd be 100% down for reskins of Papers, Please that place it in other games' settings if that were a thing.
Why even have an option for auto closed captioning when it reads like Jon is trying to summon Cthulhu?
You just answered your own question.
Sacha Daenens 😮
Because, for those of us who are deaf, it's better than fucking nothing.
@@clockworkrex7914 I wonder how the hard of hearing and deaf manage with that because when I have had that on by accident it has generate complete gibberish and I have just been wondering 'what the hell'.
The game states that those are armadillos but Jon just keeps on saying they are moles.
To be fair.... these look and act much more like moles. Maybe moles wearing an armored cape... but armadillos don't look like that... at all. Not the ones around here anyways.
@@ducklingwarrior You're right!
I bet you the twist ending to this is that every animal you encounter is actually the reincarnation of every person and that there is no City of Light, and your companion, who might be the emperor, is the Lost Ember that needs to realise what he'd done wrong and become reincarnated, instead of beleiving in the falsehood of the City.
One neat thing about this game is that it's one of a handful that narrates in second person, sort of.
The scavenger hunt seems like it would be fun if the gameplay mechanics were a bit deeper and fun to use. However, in its current form, it's a bit tedious seeing as how there are several hundred things to collect to reach 100%.
Of how you phrased it in the title I thought it was a mix of a Wargame and Untitled Goose game
This is the most Jon video title ever.
What a sweet and charming game!
The "moles" are actually pink fairy armadillos, I think.
Wow, this was the most relaxing video I've seen for quite some time.
The title honestly sounds like a god-tier shitpost. 11/10
You call him discount Shaun Bean, but I think given his narrative purpose he's like a discount Wheatley from Portal 2
Pretty sure the guards burnt down the city, just like they did in her village
The game reminds me a lot of Aporia: Beyond the Valley, which Jon also caused me to buy and play, and then I found out that HIS video had ended just before the scary stuff started...
Imagine if the spirit was the one who was banished from the city of light and not the wolf.
I think that they were both banished. One for clearly being implied to be the Emperor, the other for the whole, ya know, burning down a city and killing a ton of innocent people thing. However, the wolf is supposed to be the guide to the City of Light, not the ember. The weird spirit version of Kalani was clearly meant to be talking to the wolf, but the ember took it to be to him. What's redeeming Kalani is guiding the ember to the City of Light, what's redeeming the ember is being forced to look at the horrible crimes he committed throughout his reign, as well be forced to talk to someone directly hurt by them.
AmberAmbitions - I was coming to the same conclusion, given both the Ember’s memories, and the really loaded accusations leveled against the Wolf. And of course “Lost Ember” as a title.
5:30 Wait, Amaterasu? What are you doing in the Incan Empire?
Globalization, man...
British People: Act timid and apologetic.
Also British People: Conquered a quarter of the world in empire.
?
Yeah, but losing it all humbled them.
I've heard that more outwardly courteous cultures are more also violent (all other things being equal) due to rudeness enabling one to air grievances and such. Could be true.
@00:20:40 Oh no! I have a horrible feeling the main character you are controlling will have murdered the spirit you are helping. It's all a tale of redemption!
"This is gonna be tight. Aim for the bush, aim for the bush, AIM FOR THE BUSH, AIM FOR THE BUSH!!!" Hello demonitisation my old friend...
This is the second game this year to feature an adorable early-game creature that rolls.
The other is Wooloo from the new Pokemon game/s.
a city of light with blackjack, hookers, and not much starvation? you know what jon, that does sound like an acceptable afterlife, I'll have a ticket for that, please.
The Wombat rolling almost feels like a cute little homage to 'Everything' since they share a central mechanic and ambiance when exploring.
Well... in 'Everything' I suppose it's the only mechanic
Reminds me of Okami and Firewatch... An interesting blend.
Jon if you don’t do a full Jedi fallen order series I’m going to lose my mind.
"And now I've got a thing." CLASSIC MATN comment 🤣
You need the mushrooms to keep seeing the little light thingy
Legendary Wombat! Use Rollout!
Thank you for not spoiling it completely. :)
"Yes Discount Sean Bean. I know" - Jon 2k19
Tickled me more than it should have😂
I *knew* I wasn't the only one and there'd be a comment somewhere
Rollin', rollin' rollin' down the hillside.
"Discount Sean Bean"? I wonder if (I suspect) John Bradley would take that as a complement or an insult.
A very interesting and enjoyable video! Well done!
Aww, there used to be loads of hummingbirds where i grew up. But the place urbanized, and i've never seen one since i was a child. They're one of my favourite birds.
Nooooo, Jon! You can't just not show me the end now. I don't play these kind of games myself but I find the stories really good....
Damn you and bless you Jon for adding yet another game to my wish list
i laughed SO HARD at you getting blown away as a hummingbird! top tier content
Band name: Legendary Wombats
Live your best fish life. 😂
You had me at a wolf and the most British ghost ever XD
Personally I don't really like if you leave games like these unfinished... mainly because I don't like playing these kinds of games myself but do enjoy watching you do so
This is what happens when you title a goose game
Ah finally early. Comrade Jon will be pleased!
"Lost Ember" more like "Lost(no nut Nov)Ember"
Reminds me that Jon still hasn't played Okami yet.... You don't get more style than that.
Armadillo....Mole...Armadillo....mole, they are not the same animal, Moles are from the Talpidae family while Armadillo have an odd classification with two families, which are Chlamyphoridae Dasypodidae, probably due to the convergence in genetics.
Also called pink fairy armadillo:)which is a graat name
I really like the way you play games.
More more more!!!
Why should she seek redemption? What have we been shown to suggest she was in the wrong?
I would love to see you finish this
What a touching game/story.
thats a heron, jon
please keep it going
Jon! YOU PROMISED RIMWORLD!
Ugh, that forgiveness came too easily! There should've been a chapter without the commentator running his mouth, but no, they just had to get back into the railroaded narrative instead of letting us explore on our own and come up with our own ideas.
It felt like a forced third act conflict, except even more rushed.
Can you please play this through if not for your videos I'll have the biggest cliffhanger ever but hey if you don't well its a game I might buy sometime in the future anyway love your vids thanks for making us happy🙃
Play as a wombat? Best game ever
A bloke and his dog
28:10 There was a collectable in plain sight and Jon didn't get it. >_
52:16
Secret tunnel.
Which eye?
The one that functions. He's blind in one eye, though I forget where he says this.
36:16 John possesses a Baby Wombat and the first thing he does is smash it's head though pottery, Did i Subscribe for baby abuse, well i guess i did.
Wait until he starts his Crusader Kings II Byzantine playthrough that he's been promising us for ages.
Birds can only fly from higher places to lower places.
That is not how birds work.
Noo! Don't be a game merchant. Play the game to the end!
I've watched 10 minutes of this, and I cant watch any more because this game looks amazing and I've gotta play it for myself. Sorry Jon, I'll be back!
so this what it look like when spain showed up in the new would
Is peyote legal in London?
If you want a chill walking simulator with narrative and a little more complexity, I don't believe that you've played Lifeless Planet yet.
Looks like a Firewatch-type of game.
Are you gonna continue this or is this a one and done
29:55 you're the best ☺️
**whimpers**
ok, it was a bad idea to start watching this, got 10 min in before I bought it and now Im stuck wanting to watch the rest while it downloads while not watching to watch it because I want to play it
In this video jon stone a baby wombat and abandons it far from the babys home :'(
Jon, please finish this
Where is rome total war?????
This is cool different game
Play kenshi please jon, please
Anyone else holding out for more Pokémon?
sigh i watched to the end to find out the end dammit XD
I think the wisp is his farther
Plot Twist: The Soul Narrator Guy Is Actually The Emperor!
EDIT: Darnit! Now I Need To Find Some Money So I Can Get The Game So I Can Find Out If I'm Right!
the recommendation sidebar is giving me fascist talking heads and bullfights. what the fauck is going on?